skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the internet plan, not the physicality of the link; I have an (absolutely awesome for the US, still shit in my opinion) 35/10 plan from Frontier in the suburbs of Seattle, but the physical link is 100M, they throttle it at the switch.
Thanks very much, Jim.
The "copper" is the graphics coprocessor. The "copper list" is the machine code executed by this processor. On the Atari 800 this was called the display list.

When you made a game for these systems, you wrote two programs in two different assembly languages: one for the CPU and one for the graphics processor.

The two chips would sort of run in parallel, interleaving their access to main memory. Programming them was a lot fun.
It means it feels ridiculously fast for websites inside the GFW.

speedtest.net results just run now (I'm in Shanghai, it's saturday morning, no VPN):

Shanghai-based server: ping 27ms, down 15.33Mbps, up 0.54Mbps

Beijing-based server: ping 31ms, down 17.49Mbps, up 0.55Mbps

London (UK)-based server: ping 270ms, down 6.17Mbps, up 0.56Mbps

I live in an older compound, my building has 12 floors, most of the others have 6, so this is not a new compound by any means, but we already have fiber, they're rolling it out gradually throughout the city.
I have a similar document, that I use to plan pretty much everything from personal projects, to shopping lists, to restaurants I want to try out, etc. I found google docs to be pretty unmaintainable, and have settled on using https://workflowy.com/ for this as a hierarchical bullet point style TODO/Notes lists. I'd highly recommend it to anyone else like myself who have tried 20 different TODO list applications but have never settled on a good solution
seems pretty good, but my first test found a potted plant in the aeroplane demo picture -- a 100 story potted plant :P very cool idea, super hard problem so mad respect regardless!
God damn. What a downfall for Java in the browser.
To modders out there: Do you find my observation offensive in some way? Why is it modded down?
They do for VA hospitals, and improve care:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0501.longman....
If you're outside the US, try here for Objectified: http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/stream/
Is it only me that thought of the conjecture/theorem abc?
One of the best Beer Gardens you'll find in the Bay Area: www.gourmethausstaudt.com

...among a downtown movie theater, several great restaurants, a college and more.
From the RAND report [1]:

"Some exceptions prove this rule. One of most successful health IT systems in use today is the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, which actively engaged clinicians in its development process.25 Health IT is widely credited with helping transform the Department of Veterans Affairs into one of our nation’s highest-performing health care systems.26–28"

Something like 8 million people are managed by the VA records system [2]. Perhaps a solution would be to expand this existing system, with a demonstrated track-record, to the broader population.

1. http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/32/1/63.abstract

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA
Yeah I'm not expecting anything bad to happen, even from the larger chunk I just pasted to Facebook. I just think "No derivatives" is one of the most counter productive of the creative commons licenses.
We're looking forward to it!
I have suggested to the Kindle team that they trim the margins off of the pdf files, which will make for a big improvement in pdf readability. But, nobody listens to me :-( Perhaps if more of you guys made the same suggestion, it will bubble up in priority.

P.S. I will check out the briss app. Looks like a great idea.
I tried to watch the first video but I cannot use netflix in my country. No problem, let's watch the youtube playlist"The uploader has not made this video available in your country." Ok, I will rent it on youtube: "This movie is not available in your country."

And then they ask why the people use the pirate bay...
Maybe it's just me, but I absolute loathe the format and language style of "proper" papers. The column view heavy on text and weak on media feels highly outdated. They come across as a wall of words that almost purposefully seem difficult to read. It can't possibly be the best way to convey complicated information. I'll take a slightly less formal, media content rich blog post every day of the week.
Try OpenCV: http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/
I haven't done anything real with map reduce graph algorithms. Real, in the sense that someone has paid me to do it.
I missed the part where they said how the savings were expected to be realized and weren't. I got that a complex system might cost $1000 per patient, but that isn't even one month's "health care" fee for a family of four, much less the cost of healthcare for the patient over the 5, 10, maybe 30 years they are visiting the doctor. I also missed the point where creating new structured documents out of existing structured documents was harder to do than constructing structured documents out of unstructured documents. And I missed the part where the quality of care in terms of unnecessary tests or procedures was compared at hospitals with such systems and those without. Other than that it seemed pretty reasonable, and that Bill Gates was commenting was interesting.
I don't know why everyone is so obsessed with being able to wad up the display, but glass-subtrate e-ink displays are incredibly fragile.

A reader that can bend a few degrees without shattering, and survive getting poked with sharp things and hard impacts, and can generally be abused the way a paperback book can would be really handy.
Female Valour
http://rumors.automobilemag.com/files/2012/11/2013-VW-Eos-fr...

detected 3 planes... there is only 1 plane and a car
Rainbow Tables. (or the new ones but I can't remember their name).

Sorry if it's not as sexy as you thought, but I think this could make a pretty big impact in the security community.
Well it was a dedicated coprocessor which was synched with the "VBL" (vertical blank line).

So you could do all kind of nifty tricks, like changing the colors of your 5-bitplanes (32 colors) between lines, creating an image with much more than 32 colors.

Using 32 colors per line was easy : you could even change in the middle of a line but that was getting complicated.

One easy trick with the copper was to change the background color at each vertical line. Because the background color did extend to the far left and the far right of the screen, you could create a "copper line" and several copper lines (typically containing a gradient) would create a "copper list".

People don't realize just how smooth these 2D games running at 50 or 60 frames per second and synched with the vertical blank lines were.... 25 years ago!

The Atari ST was quite a beast too but it didn't have these great coprocessors the Amiga had.
Suckering more local businesses out of money, I'd assume.

Edit: Hurts cause its true.
> down 15.33Mbps, up 0.54Mbps

That doesn't seem that fast to me. I get better speeds out in the Midwest in America, where internet is supposed to be super shitty.

Particularly, I was expecting a symmetric connection.
"Actually, this bug was discovered precisely because people began to perform a more in depth analysis."

From Wikipedia: Ruby on Rails - Initial release	July 2004

Eight-and-a-half years later, in depth analysis has come about to find this? (The exploit is present through 3.2, meaning it's been around all that time).
detected 2 planes, there are 7 http://iskin.co.uk/wallpapers/imagecache/1280x800/jet_plane_...

seems too buggy to pay just yet
Good for you. It's cool, but horrific to read.
>>If it weren't for the iPad I believe we would have gotten so much further with eink devices.

No. EInk had more than a decade before the iPad was announced, but nothing happened.

I've been waiting for an A4 eInk reader that could switch pages faster (so I could browse documentation) since 1998. Now I use a retina iPad -- and for the first time in my life, I easily read books and documents off a screen. I used to print everything.
What OS will drop packets while tcpdump is running?
Bitcoin. Pay off your student loans one Merkle tree at a time.
I tried to search for a cow into a horse's image, but it failed
Putting plaintext passwords in a cookie doesn't sound anything like incrementing an integer in a URL.
That's an interesting idea. Although, ideally, I'll want a project that requires a supercomputer. Rainbow tables can be created through distributed computing.

(I also had the evil idea of seeing how many bitcoin I could generate on Titan, but I don't think the ORNL staff would even find that funny.)
Where can I insert insults? In the first minute of my interaction with this site, I had to face it, there is no easy way to express my negative thoughts, even thought there were many. If this is the future, I should change career...
If you're looking for more examples and information about using simple algorithms with lots of data, I recommend Peter Norvig's "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvDCzhbjYWs
oh man the memories.

Amazingly cool game... But from a "technological" standpoint it wasn't anywhere near Shadow of the Beast or Agony.

But Firepower was quite arguably much better from the gameplay standpoint : )
[2] I can remember enough of this paragraph from the '80s to google it in one go, but I can't remember my wife's cell phone number. I should have words with this brain.

I would gladly give up my catalog of lyrics to songs from the 1970's in exchange for additional memory capacity! :-) I just wish someone had told me in my youth "Don't memorize that stuff, you'll need those neurons later, trust me."
I don't know where the author of the article got their data from, but I wouldn't rely on it.

$100 million? You're kidding, right? I guarantee it won't cost that much. Try 1/10th to 1/100th of that. Yes, I work for a large healthcare services company.
(this says the average is around 2.5 million http://www.leadingage.org/uploadedFiles/Content/About/CAST/R...)

>(assuming they have first hired 10 lawyers to address patient-privacy issues!)

Sorry, but this is just plain ignorant of the author. You don't need 10 lawyers just to collect aggregate data. Aggregate de-identified data is exempted from HIPAA. (see case 2 here: http://rockhealth.com/2012/02/hipaa-highlights/)

>But where is the value to the patient?

How about not having your PCP not know anything about your recent hospital visit? Most EMR systems will automatically fax or send in a secure email updates to your health record.
Well, not quite (when the messages are signed and the key is not stored on rails.org). However, as was pointed out, said attacker could indeed collect the ip-addresses of the polling servers - hence the idea to use twitter for the broadcast (a few comments down).

Of course Twitter is not exactly the most reliable platform but the likelihood of a twitter-downtime to coincide with a critical vulnerability seems relatively low.
Calculate the trajectory of every photon hitting the planet Earth.
Really Glassmap should be paying all of us now, am I right?
Interesting. I wanted to make "Yet Another Todo List" that was really only about the most important things you had to do today, picked from a "backlog" of all the different things you could do, in no particular order.

The point being that a long task list is useless, but the few most important things to do today is helpful.
Indeed. But it wasn't that difficult. Actually I found it way easier with the "fake 3D" and rotating sprite and even "full screen rotating" (but it's only vertical columns of 8-pixels wide that are slightly shifted up and down) than doing "real" 3D using OpenGL or DirectX ; )

Applied on the PC in the nineties, in "World Rally Fever", published by Team 17:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avurGEuocqo
The funding was closed well before the posting of that article. Also, $1M is more than enough to launch more than a 3 "stock" razors bought from China which what Dollar Shave is doing.
Ask HN: Help to solve this problem
My wife and me always argue about alarm clocks. She must wake up 30 minutes later than me, so my phone alarm, makes she crazy, because I wake up after 3-5 minutes ringing alarm. I asked my friends, most of them have the same problem. They say they would buy a product that wakes only selected person and doesnt disturb others. I thought about different ideas about that but non of them are perfect. ( wirelessly effecting to brain cells of a particular person, vibrating clocks on body etc.) what do you think, how could this problem be solved?
Just as a quick remark: change your e-mail subscription input field to type="email". This ensures (HTML5) e-mail validation in modern browsers.
I think someone has, but they ran off with the money of their users.
Grace Hopper to Programmers: Mind Your Nanoseconds
With a view and a set of rules, you can do such things in Postgres, without your application noticing:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/rules-update.html
You got me there! The larger trend I'm trying to point out though is the steady move away from intuition based companies and into companies nearly completely driven by data.

The shift that we are seeing in lean startups reflects this - it is not a guru based process but a data driven one to start a company. Obviously, execution counts as well, but given two otherwise equal companies: One with a guru based approach (ala Steve Jobs) and one with a data driven process, I believe the inflection point has been reached where the data driven company wins consistently.
http://www.dauntless-soft.com/products/freebies/airbus380/a3... detected 0 planes, there should be at least 5

when used http://www.airbus.com/fileadmin/media_gallery/aircraft_pages... it detected 2 planes, there was 1 only

but hope with additional training images, it would improve.
In other news, going to college isn't for everyone.

Getting married isn't for everyone.

Working freelance isn't for everyone.

Having a kid isn't for everyone.

Nothing is for everyone, dude.
Most families spend less than $1000/month on medical care, on average. Even for those that spend that much, presumably much of that pays physicians and nurses and buys drugs, rather than paying for IT. It would be difficult to sell e.g. Ford Motor Company on the idea that since people pay $25k for the average car, they should be happy to spend about $25k/customer on IT. The other things you "missed" seem oddly beside the point.
Tried detecting Airplanes on this image with 18 airplanes, but it only detected 4 of them.

https://lh3.ggpht.com/-GbPgbhUtmnE/UH0p3VmMWoI/AAAAAAAAApM/u...
Real time zooming within the Mandelbrot set. Can't be done on anything less than a super computer---don't know how many nodes would be needed; the answer to that would be interesting in of itself. Different strokes etc., but that is most assuredly what I'd do.
There are are techniques to create flexible PCBs. The individual ICs/components themselves are still solid but the circuitry around them can be flexible. It is currently only used in military/speciality applications to my knowledge but it has existed for a long time.

You can also make an average IC _much_ smaller than it currently is. The actual IC in most packages is tiny compared to its packaging. Its really just a matter of time and market demand till they become substancially smaller. The only components that are size sensitive are those that dissipate a lot of heat which will improve with manufacturing process improvements and passive components that need volume for their function (10uF capacitor).
Had no idea about that, thanks for the heads up. Fixed.
For games it is mostly taxes ( including protectionist taxes )

A congressman here calculated that a videogame may get taxed 273% on its original import price without shipping costs.
I just threw the word painting in there, so hopefully that'll help clear initial confusion. Good point though, conveying meaning is pretty important.
Tried to detect Cats in a whole room full of cats, and it detected zero cats.

http://englishrussia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/130-cats...
How Verizon's 'Six Strikes' Plan Works
This is actually pretty good for inside the GFW; keep in mind links are typically overloaded to the resource you are accessing, its not just about your final leg speed. So fiber really only fixes one part of the connection, Amdahl's law still applies.

Oddly enough, I actually sometimes find sites outside the GFW are a bit faster compared to some domestic Chinese sites inside the GFW. The internal Chinese internet just has lots of problems that they haven't worked through yet.
If eggs are the only reason for a non-stick pan, you can skip it. I make my eggs (omeletes, scrambled eggs, etc) in a tri-ply calphalon frying pan without much butter or oil (no more than .5 Tbsp) and cleanup is a breeze. The secret is to use room-temperature eggs (this is true of protein in general). If you don't have enough time to let your eggs warm up, just fill a bowl with warm tap water, put the eggs in and by the time you're done the rest of your prep the eggs are the right temp.

+1 on the rest of your recommendations though. A good knife and set of pans (all tri-ply or anodized aluminum) helped improve my cooking skills a lot.
How far?

Real-time zooming on Mandelbrot was already done 20 years ago.

Sure it was using a "trick" in that at each frame only a few vertical and horizontal lines were recomputed, and the others simply re-used from the previous frame but still... (and at every frame each line was guaranteed to be "at most" x frames old).

It looked really nice and it was cool to see a real-time zoom on a Mandelbrot... In the nineties!

It was going for quite a while too...
The question isn't how many correlations are in the files but how many of them are real. Medical records aren't a random sample and have no controls.
What I find incredibly interesting about sports "unions" is that the unions use the threat of disbanding as a labour tactic. In every other industry, if the labour union even hinted at disbanding, the owners would ask "How can we help you along?" In North American sports leagues, the owners fight it.

You have to wonder exactly who is benefiting from Players Associations?
Objectified is okay. The Eames documentary is much more interesting in terms of the design process, as is the Milton Glaser one.
Failed completely for me across a half dozen tries. I wonder how cheaply you could get results via Mechanical Turk. I bet you could get much more accurate results for a very low price but with some added latency.
For anyone interested, a few weeks ago, someone posted a paper on the popular data mining / machine learning algorithms that gives a brief overview of some common algorithms [1]. Someone also posted a few presentations on them if you just want a bullet point summary of the gist of each algorithm [2].

I just finished looking through both. They're both great if you're hoping to get some traction when it comes to learning ML.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4938162

[2] - http://www.cis.hut.fi/Opinnot/T-61.6020/2008/
There was a 5 page limit :) Also, there was nothing to prevent anyone from releasing source code, I'd imagine that a lot of projects are out there if you look carefully on GitHub
Great story, and I'm a huge fan of Coda, that does a little of everything pretty well.
NuGet.org is down
Points for mention the merkle tree. Merklelicious!
"person of interest"?
The browser demo page says "Dextro supports up to 4 objects to be detected concurrently when used via the full API.", I think that's the problem.
Say this to the super computer administrators: "im doing pure compsci research; im attempting to find alternative implementations of one-way trapdoor functions to optimize proof of work validations" then spend the next time tuning your mining bot and pocket the 14.17 USD/BTC you generate. For research!
What makes you think facts aren't data?
Thanks! What's hilarious is that I was literally there today and they didn't mention this extraordinary capability during the entire 8 hours I was there. Talk about missed opportunities!
Dale una oportunidad a tu espiritu emprendedor
I'm not as knowledgeable about the Amiga as I am about other classic systems, but the Copper was (according to Wikipedia) a component of the Amiga's graphics coprocessor that took very simple commands that one could make "programs" out of that would update video registers at times synchronized to the rendering of the display.

Back in the day, most cool graphical effects were done by using the CPU to update video memory at the precisely timed moments during the rendering of a frame. For example, if you changed the "scrolling speed" of a background between the drawing of every line, you could get a nifty "parallax scrolling" effect out of a machine with only 1 background layer. Or, you could change a color palette halfway through the screen to make it look like that part was underwater.

Some systems had interrupts that would fire in-between the drawing of lines to facilitate this. Other, simpler ones, like the NES and the C64, basically required the programmer to write perfectly timed, cycle accurate code that would poke the right values into video registers within a very small timing window.

The Amiga had a number of custom chipsets to make it easier to produce effects like this, and free the CPU from spinning idly and poking registers all the time. Looking at the wikipedia summary of its capabilities, I imagine console game programmers of the time would have killed for the ability to say "please write this value here at this exact moment, thank you."

It reminds me a bit of the SNES's HDMA (horizontal interrupt DMA) function, which allowed programmers to specify tables of data to be copied to certain VRAM registers in between the rendering of scanlines. Pretty much every SNES game with cool "mode 7" effects relied heavily on it.
And yet the Premier League is one of the most successful leagues in the world...
Serious question. How much Bitcoin could you mine on this supercomputer? Given that you don't have to pay for hardware or electricity, I imagine it would be competitive with the fastest GPU, FPGA and ASIC miners.
first I read reviews couple of months ago, I went bonkers
How about a vibrating alarm clock
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/how-to-wake-up-with-vibratin...
Erwin Schrodinger would like a word with you.
Wasn't that the approach of some Cybernetic idealistits in the 50s?

That the world would be such a better place, if we just could ban intuition and let everything get run by machines?

Even if that would be hypothetically be possible, I would neither want to work nor life in a world like that. Predictability kills any excitement.
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Nuestro Bufet está compuesto por Abogados experimentados que han representado a los demandantes y consumidores de todo el pais en muchos asuntos de litigio complejos y de alto perfil.
I think there are a few ways to wake up something without sound. You could do a little machine that poke you until you wake up, or throw a glass of water to your face (although it could miss it you move too much) or something like that.
Anyway, I think it is a good question and could get more answres in Reddit :D
Hey steeve, thanks for the really kind feedback! We're aware of the video pricing issue, and it's something that we're thinking hard to come up with a solution to for makers and developers.

In the meantime, if you want to experiment with Dextro for video, shoot us an email at team@dextrorobotics.com and we will hook you up!

With regard to confidence level, that's something that we provide the enterprise-class service with; if this is a critical feature, we can potentially offer it to everyone as well.