skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Question: do you/will you plan to support converting GPU nets to CPU, perhaps by keeping weights and architecture definition separate from PyCUDA dependent structures during serialization?

I have found that using a trained net for preprocessing can be accomplished using very limited resources (read: Core 2 Duo laptop). This is one of the very nice features of DeCAF, which could allow for some interesting applications on embedded devices.

Great work by the way - I look forward to testing it out soon!
Link: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Donald_E_Knuth_A...

edit: apparently this isn't the correct version, my mistake!
You've completely missed the point on multiple counts. Discussion isn't a zero-sum game, you don't have to do battle with every comment.
Yes, you can't come up with a hard number, but a 10x speedup is really the baseline. 50x and more are not out of the question.
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Sssh, we've got to keep the children safe by recording all the minutia of your online life. Because terrorism.
See the reply from bwillard above: it has only been rolled out to 1% of accounts and will be ramped up to 100% over the next few weeks (assuming all goes well)
I'm with you re: push notifications. They are off for every app except a few, which magnifies their impact when they do come through (for me, this is the point).

Generally, the stated description of Broadcasts reminds me of Twitter: subscribe to what you want. I suppose I could see room for innovation around programmatic selection of what I might actually want to get push notifications about.
The linked article does not support your assertion that "immigrants with children tend to be a net drain". it simply says that the majority of this population uses at least one welfare program. it highlights low levels of education as the main driver of this, with the benefits usually going to the american-born children.

I suspect programs like Head Start and the school reduced/free lunch program account for a significant portion of the reported welfare use. Do you think that a poor immigrant family with working parents that uses these programs is a "net drain" on society?
I'm with you - but here's something that you may be overlooking:

1. New banks and new kinds of banks are forming every day with full rights and accreditations
2. You may not be a bank, but banks have APIs and methods of partnering with them so that you can act like a bank. Sure, you're still to some extent at their behest, but that can be mitigated all sorts of ways.

So maybe if you think banks as a whole won't be where we house our money in 50 years, then yeah, let's look at ways that cut those ties. I'm not of that opinion, at all actually, but it is one I can understand. My focus is how to empower individuals and businesses to have the same money transfer power that banks have - and I think I'm getting there.
Without getting into a semantics argument about whether your example is even really a freedom or not (just like I could say "clearly my freedom to read minds isn't respected because it doesn't even work!!!!"), I think there is a huge, ridiculous, and obvious difference between physically assaulting someone and giving you data about your genome.

I am an adult, I paid for 23andme with my money, and I understand the limitations of their data. If I'm worried about something in particular I'll go to the doctor, since they spell it out all over the place that none of this stuff is final (not to mention the fact that the only thing they even ever tell you is like "1% elevated risk"). I don't need mama government stepping in and making sure I'm not being mislead (which is hilarious because it is on the other hand 100% legal to be a fortune teller and tell someone not to worry since that pesky cancer won't be terminal according to these tarot cards).
> Go 1.2 produces a binary that performs on the order of 10%-15% faster than the numbers above, which might mean equivalent performance to the Erlang implementation.

Huh, impressive for Erlang, beating a newer, statically compiled language, while being interpreted and with dynamic types.
I would do it cause I'm curious.

Edit:
Now looking at the dataset, I wouldn't be able to use the model I developed personally.
I'll risk even more downvotes -- but -- Palantir may be the creepiest company in the valley.

The relationship they have with the DOD/NSA is simply unreal. their offices on the east coast are full of high-ranking officials, generals, etc -- all the time.

Palantir powers a lot of the retina-database insurgent tracking software in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I've personally heard from US Army Special Operations forces that the imaging software they use to plan "missions" is powered by Palantir (but is frequently slow and buggy, so they resort to Google maps)

I noticed that an Operator featured in Sanjay Gupthas CNN documentary on Marajuana had a Palantir patch next to his US Flag patch on his carrier chest rig.

Creepy stuff.
What about IPC embedding API? It already separates the UI from the heavy Gecko processing: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Embedding/IPCLiteAPI

I just hope Mozilla won't go extreme, and won't use a separate process for each tab like Chrome does. It produces memory bloat if you have many tabs open. While they say they'll mitigate memory issues, this should be balanced.
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Yes, it is. It's called the "singular 'they'", but some native English speakers were taught that it's incorrect. The controversy over it seems to be an American thing, that at some point in the 19th century someone wrote in a style guide that it's improper grammar, and the meme stuck.

But it's perfectly correct: English writers have been using both the singular 'they' continuously for hundreds of years (14th century?). It also has equivalents in other west European languages (e.g. the German neuter gender and the French ils for a group of people of indeterminate gender), so it's not an English invention either.
Imagine someone invented a pill to cure cancer, but kept the details secret and then died; we would lose his invention (a silly example, but it illustrates the point).

This is not only a silly example, but a bad one. If society never learns that it existed before it was lost, society didn't lose anything because it never had it to begin with.

If you can't remember the dream you don't know you had, did you actually forget it?
"For developers, that means integrating with individual schools on a one-to-one basis, and that just doesn’t scale"

sadly, it still means this exact thing for Clever's devs. good luck to them - it's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it.
> Now I work in video games, not curing cancer, but in my search I was looking for a company that at least did no harm.

Ironically, one of the reasons I left EA was that I saw my CTO and half of the programmers around me assigned to the task of figuring out how to outsource more development. That didn't seem like a winning proposition to me.
It is a "bailout" because the government originally claimed that Social Security would be a self-sustaining investment system, as far as I understand it. But I'm not dead set on arguing for calling it a "bailout." It is what it is, the terminology here is not that important.

You are right---I am not being conned. Just forced. I will eventually go to a country that better allows me to pursue my values if I can find one.
Additionally - their logo, while they sheepishly claim is inspired by The Lord of the Rings (along with their name and product names) -- honestly looks like something supporting the earth.
Sorry, tough period, I'm very bitchy lately, I hate winter holidays.
Likewise, I just go to sleep early and wake up naturally at 7.
I've recently been strangely interested in DPRK. I watched as many youtube videos as I could find and you're right nearly every tour is the same.

If North Korea interests you, I highly recommend the documentary: Camp 14: Total Control Zone. You can find it on Netflix and Youtube. In short, it's about a man born in a labor camp with no exposure to the outside world who managed to escape to China and later South Korea.
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But in cases of needless virtual calls (doesn't Java default to virtual for some strange reason?) it may be a quick and easy win.

Additionally, it's not always so easy to drop to a low-level language. If your architecture is enormous and complicated, it might be totally unfeasible to change languages for hot parts.
And if we're going to be honest the best parts of Android aren't OSS anyway.
This is true of any market. By the time it hits newsstands, the change has happened. That's why you read charts, not headlines, when trading (if you want to make money, that is).
Tesla Model S purchased with Bitcoin
Team creates brand associations by mining millions of images from social media
I believe that GPUs are very good at video processing. Obviously they're also good for a lot of math-heavy tasks, like fluid simulation, light simulation, etc.
It's very difficult to design domestic policies optimized for a foreign population. Evaluation of the american welfare state need only consider the impact on the american population.
And as an alternative, would you suggest laboriously using low level counters to verify that every measurement you think is correct is indeed correct? Given finite resources, what's a better approach than concentrating on the apparent anomalous measurements? I'm not sure I see the parallel.
I absolutely agree. I think that it's important to first establish interest and weed out candidates that are obviously unqualified. You can figure a lot of that out in a short amount of time. While some of your best candidates may already be employed and thus only casually interested initially, at least for someone like myself that interest could increase significantly after sitting down and chatting about the company and projects for a bit. If I were to then become really interested it could be worth spending a lot more time in an interview process.

Personally I don't think that a company will learn much more from 8 hours or more than they could learn in 3-4 hours tops though. I think it's overkill in most situations.
It's not TSA approved either. Or NSA. Or EPA. None of these agencies, FDA included, have anything to do with meat inspections.

Meat inspections are under the purview of the USDA thanks to the Federal Meat Inspection Act.
> How to be a responsible engineer who doesn't get people killed.

Actually, the above oath will maximize the number of people killed if the sworn engineer happens to be working on a weapon. There is absolutely nothing in that oath about not doing harm.
This sounds pretty interesting. I'm a bit confused by your business model though. It sounds like you aren't selling to schools but instead you are charging developers of education applications.

Who pays the the developers? Is the school expected to pay the developers?
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Incredibly informative article.. But the second I closed this, I saw the article about how BitTorrent is growing at a faster rate than Dropbox did. [1]

It made me wonder how Drew/Dropbox is going to respond to such a competitor

[1] - http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/12/05/bittorrent-doubles-...
> Engineers are behind government spying tools and military weapons. We should be conscious of how our designs are used

Except that it's not always clear whether something is ethically good/bad. If you're working on a system for tracking cell phone calls, this can be used to protect against terrorism for public safety (good) or discovering mob or child porn networks (good) or for targeted blackmail (bad) or a surveillance state (bad) -- and the engineer working on it not only has no guarantees on what it is being planned for, but also has no crystal ball to know how its use might change in the future.

And different peoples' ethics are different. So while saying we should consider the ethical implications of our work sounds nice... it sounds awfully simplistic.
However, as always there are externalities. So far, BRCA gene screening was only done for women with a family history of breast cancer. One fears that now everyone with a 23andme positive test result will consult their physician, and if their test yields too many false positives this will be a plain waste of money. I don't want to pay for someone else's unvalidated test.

The strategy of 23andme is to collect genomic data and correlate it with phenotypic data to get a handle on variations. They will sell the data, either to pharmcos or themselves; if they do it themselves they will need to do trialing to ensure that their test does measure what they say it measures.

This stunt serves to hollow out the FDA and get an end-run around clinical trials.
To me (software engineer working genetic research) the biggest issue is that 23andme is being represented as a cutting edge genomic tech while offering a test on an simplistic, outdated tech (a genotype array).

Even intelligent, technically minded people get taken in thinking they have "had there genome sequenced" when they are getting tested for a small number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).

The scientific reality is that, while there are some well established correlations between SNPs and disease, the explanatory power of such simple tests and validity of studies based on them is in question [1].

Getting a genotype for 99 bucks is a cool service but I worry that the marketing that goes along with it is doing more to misinform than educate. I wish they had pushed more towards offering actual sequencing to consumers as prices fall.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome-wide_association_study#L...
Really looked forward to this, but super disappointed by the inconclusive conclusion.

"Diff & merge apps are amongst the most underestimated
tools. But a good one can be really helpful in a lot of
situations. Try one of the above and see for yourself!"

People like to read these articles to save time. After spending time with all of them, if there was one that was the best overall, say so. If it was a tie between two, say so. If the best one was paid, but a free one was also excellent and therefore a better value, say so. But don't cop out of giving a comparative review at the end.
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How long before they use those tablets to enable "at the table ordering" and then reduce their wait staff accordingly, effectively increasing the unemployment rate in this country. Then..... other restaurants will more than likely follow if they see it work for Applebee's.
Not that I don't think the idea is cool and interesting, but I am seeing the evil part of it.
>The FDA has been asking 23andMe for specific studies on the reliability and efficacy

Who has time for reliability and efficacy, there are markets to disrupt!
2 very similar investments - skyrocketing, then dropping, then back up again. Confusing and defying the analysts.
Many people don't know the difference. That's what makes it the shocking truth about McDonald's you need to learn!
Link to the deck mentioned: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e0z1pT9JuEh8G5DOtib6...

And the talk itself (recommended):
http://youtu.be/7ecsYtRiD5Q?t=56m36s
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> Freeing it is a bit of pain of course, but you could build a freelist out of the chunks that are free.

If you want a much longer explanation of this technique, I wrote a chapter about object pools[1] that discusses exactly this[2].

[1] http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/object-pool.html
[2] http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/object-pool.html#faster-particle-creation
I was thinking a similar thing... what kind of apps would I develop?

Sick day trackers, maybe some kind of grade statistics apps... there's a lot of value in these kinds of apps, but i'm not sure there's enough to support the infrastructure needed to sell things to thousands of different schools.
To be fair, Houston had already dropped out of school from a year to start an SAT prep company, so he's not entirely a first time founder. [0]

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewhouston
I feel like you didn't read anything I've written. You haven't even addressed my main point, you just came in here and spewed FUD about this solution without really discussing anything.
> 502 Bad Gateway

Really insightful commentary
Ask HN: Only 19 days until Christmas - so where is the "new" Mac Pro?
How the music industry hears what you (will) love
So what if my biggest problem is determining a valid problem to solve?
All that complexity, and he completely omitted entire feedback stack. Browser > OS Kernel > Video card > DVI > Monitor. This is simple version without sub pixel rendering and dozen of other technologies that are likely there. Throughout something that seems so simple - type a character and see it on screen, 20+ incredibly complex microchips and at least 4 different high performance communication links were utilized.

I am not trying to harp on him, the article is excellent. I am just pointing out that there is entire another stack of technologies that he chose to gloss over in order to make article readable.
Gmail has supported POP and IMAP for years, and it's been possible to back up your email using that, e.g. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/backup-gmail-in-linux-with-get... but I'm really glad that it's much easier now.
This kind of thinking only works if all intelligent people end up sharing and following your same ideals. Since that's just not going to happen, is it better to leave your country in the weak position?

How would the cold war have played out if only one side had nuclear capabilities?

I'm also not sure the NSA intelligence is on the same difficulty as the Manhattan Project. As I understand, most if it is general information retrieval techniques. The same tool I wrote to help troubleshoot our VoIP networks is literally the same thing I'd do if I was writing a mass-spying tool. (Collect and index every single packet, store indefinitely, provide fast on-demand access on any selection criteria.)

Edit: Parent comment was equating NSA surveillance in difficulty to the Manhattan Project, and making the case that if no one like Feynman had worked on it, there wouldn't be nukes.
newer, statically compiled language with a minimalist, unoptimized compiler

versus an interpreter that got decades to mature (and HiPE to speed things up some more)
Ok, let's make this more interesting. I'll pay $50 to the first person to de-anonymize their training set.
the description paragraphs wrap mid-word in IE and FF. fascinating.
He starts at the beginning with math and works his way up. Your average IT/programmer guy will probably not have read this book, but it covers all the basics. Think of it as a replacement for a CS degree or at least the lower division courses.
Doesn't yield anything particularly useful for:
[[ -f /tmp/foo ]] && echo yes
This must be red herring day on HN.

USD may be the most ubiquitous currency on the planet. However, go visit a country like Japan. Once you're out of reach of any currency exchange, you won't have much luck using your USD. Ironically, you'll have better luck using a Visa/Mastercard (which, btw, are not used anywhere other than perhaps ATMs). Those credit cards require a network to be used.

I've been to Internet cafes in Japan. But I never bought a single thing with USD. I don't see Bitcoin having any issues here. Internet is more widely available than places that take whatever your paper currency is.

You can easily take Bitcoin with you. You take your credit card with you. Both require electronic communication to work. There is no difference here.
There’s nothing new under the sun, including Bitcoin
The linked article estimates tax liability for immigrant families and shows this is less than welfare consumed. Like I said, not great data, but I don't have anything better. If you do I'd love to see it.

Given that Head Start doesn't even have any measurable benefits, I definitely think those consuming it are a drain (if they pay less in taxes than Head Start costs).
That was always the core of their model. The idea was to monetize a Twitter-ish network by monetizing app development and API usage, a model which was allegedly on the table at Twitter itself at one point. They've just communicated really poorly about the whole thing.
Ah, neato. I spent a lot of time staring at the Inmarsat signal strength down there!
Nope, I definitely don't think that.
He is talking about the insurance AirBnb offers to host in case a guest messes up the place.

A well publicized incident happened where someone trashed a person's place. The insurance AirBnb offers makes you try to use your existing policy first.
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Whether or not it was a reasonable debate at one point, I've still seen it personally between people who were quite aware that vibrations and auditory sensations were different things that could each be measured.
I want to point out that that there is no difference between a basic income and a negative income tax. Suppose you have a negative income tax rate of 30% up to $50,000, then an income tax rate of 30% thereafter. Compare this to having a $15,000 annual basic income and a flat 30% income tax rate starting from $0. They are the same thing using different words.

But the words matter, which is why I don't like calling it a negative income tax. Because if you call it that, people start asking questions like why should someone making up to $50,000 be getting the "subsidy"? And then people want to do something silly like make the negative income tax be something like 60% up to $25,000, then 0% to $50,000 and 30% thereafter, which is obviously very stupid if you stop to do the math on who gets screwed by that and what incentives to work it creates at the bottom: It's equivalent to a $15,000 basic income with the same tax brackets, and it makes no damn sense whatsoever for someone making $25,000/year to be paying a 60% marginal tax rate. But calling it "negative income tax" encourages people to think that way and expect high marginal rates on the poor to be Good when they are really quite Bad.
You can automate gmvault to snag everything and then just do daily/weekly syncs instead of manually having to remember to go to a website every once in a while and download everything each time.
The free tier's existed for months but has had wonky requirements at times (like only being able to get to it via a third-party app), and they continue to communicate really poorly about it.
I find these pictures to be very misleading. Did the author have his camera 'checked' and all the not so great pictures deleted when crossing back into China?

Because when I went there what's shown in the pictures represents only what they want you to see. You can see a lot of poverty, undernourishment, and lack of basic infrastructure even if you follow the approved tour route to the letter. He managed to snap a lot of pictures from his bus, so why not show the less impressive shots as well? It's impossible to not see any this when you traverse the whole country from north to south.
Save to Google Drive please.
New theory may revolutionize superconductors