skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dont know about c++, but matlab/octave comparison would be nice.
> it is basically a definition of diagnostable situation when reasoning machinery doesn't function well (i'm not a doctor of course)

Sure, but this condition is called "stupidity", and there's a whole section of society that takes offense at the concept.
I stand by my previous comment, and, further harming your argument:

* It appears (and obviously so in retrospect) that 1001 applies only to agents of the federal government; lying to a plainclothes police officer can't violate 18 USC 1001.

* Convictions on 18 USC 1001 have been overturned simply because the agent eliciting the statement was "unfair", for instance by concealing that they already knew the answer.

* US v Stark says held that mere denial of a fact absent a legal duty to speak didn't create a material breach of 1001 (your example was a simple denial).

* US v. Schnaiderman held that "willfulness" for 1001 requires an affirmative act calculated to confound a function of the state. Which also breaks your example, and refutes several of the points you've made.

It is apparently so difficult to win 1001 cases that US Attorneys are required to get special permission before bringing them against defendants who have simply lied to investigators during criminal investigations.

I was sick at home with a head cold today and had time to do some research. :)

I conclude that you are not just wrong, but comprehensively wrong. But I'm grateful to have a wild goose to chase!
It's public. Every woman knows this. Every female startup founder is painfully aware of what this study confirms. They experience this all the time.
Can you point to a problem where a GPU actually outperforms a CPU by 250x and the CPU is not being criminally underused? I have tried to find such examples, and never did.

Unless, maybe, you mean the communication costs are the real bottleneck in such cases? In which case I don't see the relevance of the GPU angle.
I ran 9 browser windows in parallel and 2 of them won the others failed.
Someone told him this would happen before he bought the property.
Sure. Because reactionary lawmaking is the solution to all problems.
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As there is zero real use for these TLDs, I'd be very pleased if Google and other software makers penalize them. If we're just going to do away with TLDs, might as well do it right and just open up a simple global registry so anyone can register ".<whatever>" -- versus blessing a few silly strings (.christmas, .bargains... .museum .aero).
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Does that mean you can go in, look at and test drive a car but not purchase one, then you go home and order one online?
The article is a bit misleading. It makes it sound like direct sales were legal in NJ (and so presumably the only reason Ford and Chevy and Toyota and the rest did not do them is that they did not want to), and the politicians are now stepping in to make a new law to stop Tesla.

In fact, it looks like direct sales have been illegal for a long time, but the law is poorly worded, and can be read in a way that bans direct sales for Ford, Chevy, Toyota, and most other major car manufacturers, but does not apply to manufacturers like Tesla, who only sell direct.

What the new law is doing is saying that the old law is meant to apply to all car manufacturers, not just Ford, Chevy, and so on.
Guys. I dont need the AI anymore.
I have created my own patterns and methods.

Tada! I got my 2048 tile :) So happy

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz9_OO8kXRkfY0RWdzZ6cDA4RDQ...
Guys. I win :P
I have created my own patterns and methods.

Tada! I got my 2048 tile :) So happy

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz9_OO8kXRkfY0RWdzZ6cDA4RDQ...
everyone who posts in this thread is a total nerd. ohwait...
Er, that Tesla sells electric cars is not the point at all. The point is that they have a different--and more attractive--distribution model. Any reason for creating a new car company would create another company that chooses not to build a dealer network.
Barack Obama jokes about NSA surveillance
I actually want to run for Congress (House, not Senate) in WA in a decade or so. Indifferent which party, and in central WA (a few districts, might change in the interim); would generally be running on a pro-local-business platform with libertarian national policy. Ending the drug war would be a bit more key in my mind than NSA, but you could count on my vote for NSA issues too :)
I can't find it but there's a $10k prize around for anyone able to recover data from a drive overwritten once with all zeros.

Use something like DBAN [1] and forget about it.

(Happy to be corrected)

[1]: http://www.dban.org/
If you want to find a clear and mostly reasonable definition of the boundary between commercial driving private driving,
you could look to the definitions of things a commercial pilot can do, that a private pilot cannot.

Not that I expect city taxi commissions to apply the same standards.
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In theory, won't the time in this and the original occur more than once in different timezones? (Thus I should open up an issue to add the timezone)
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Do we really need to make things harder for self-employed folks? That insurance is in any way linked to your employer is already complete folly. The car insurance, single-payer, and exchange-based models are all fundamentally better than the "no one knows how much anything costs" model of employer-sponsored health care.
Define "hard".

Does it mean, you need greater knowledge? (communication models, deadlock/livelock, etc)

Does it mean, you need greater attention to detail? (mistakes that wouldn't matter become serious)

Does it mean, you need greater working memory? (remembering what needs locks, and what already has locks; in addition to more ordinary side effects and possible exceptions etc)

Does it mean, you need greater fluid intelligence? (reasoning about which locks can be safely composed, or which memory transactions will have too much contention)
Someone in Vietnam released software to the world, therefore this is a story about American culture. That's just how Americans think. It's also necessarily about modern American culture, even if you know absolutely nothing about the past.
Some of us do live a 10-15min transit ride away, but during busy times that can easily become an hour or more.

News Flash: people in those other communities have similar worries, transit should have been expanded/extended at least ten years ago - it would have been a lot easier when the bay wasn't in a boom - but that still wouldn't solve everything. The entire bay area doesn't want SF to sprawl all over it. Part of the beauty of the bay has always been the diverse types of areas to live in, and their distinct personalities.

People are worried that SF's personality is changing, and though this story has been told before, they're right to be.

On the one hand, noone should expect a rental arrangement to last forever, but the bay area has spent decades developing a culture that is renter-heavy, and whatever the laws say, our hearts need to understand that these buildings largely owned by speculators who benefit from our infighting have been occupied by lots of people who made them homes, who opened businesses and threw street festivals and painted murals that made us all feel like more of who we are from the first minute we stepped into SF.

And we should be careful not to leave it an empty husk if our industry faces a downturn again, if nothing else.
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Its not the fictionalized ascention that hits so close to home: its the (seemingly) completely believable connoving and inter-personal backstabing that makes me wonder if any government worker at that level are actually human.

Its like watching a horrific massive car crash at national scale.
Here we have a new industry everyone wants, a US product people want that gets high awards, innovative, inspirational and lawmakers go and block easier ways to sell it. Is this how we are going to compete on new industries and alternatives?

This is the same middle man battle going on in other industries, years of legacy middle men. Dealerships will still exist and Tesla won't kill them, let them play.
1. Coordinating threads on a GPU means using shared memory effectively, which is required to get decent performance on most any application. With many cores and hardware threads sharing cache on CPUs, it is also important for many applications if you insist on getting the best performance. For example it is mandatory to get 90% efficiency on HPL using Blue Gene/Q. Of course, not content with merely doing clever things to make their machines look good, IBM had John patent his cooperative prefetch: http://www.google.com/patents/US8490071

2. GPUs have less "close" memory (registers/shared memory/cache) per vector lane than current CPUs. This means that to get high efficiency, you have to find fine-grained parallelism without additional overhead. This is hard and it is common to see GPU algorithms make more round-trips to global memory than analogous CPU algorithms, eating into any benefits in raw bandwidth.

3. GPUs have a relatively narrow range of problem sizes in which they perform well. You typically have to use a significant fraction of device memory to expose enough parallelism to keep all the cores busy, and yet the device has limited memory compared to the CPU. On a GPU-heavy configuration, you have placed 90% of your compute next to 10% of your memory, connected by a straw (PCI bus) to the rest of the memory and the network. That is not a recipe for a versatile machine. CPUs give you vastly more flexibility in turn-around time (e.g., strong scale at >50% efficiency over a factor of 1000 as compared to 10). GPU performance results usually choose a problem size that fills device memory, but science/engineering is often not that convenient.

4. Even for problems in which GPUs perform optimally (like DGEMM or HPL), the ratio in energy efficiency is only 2x. See http://green500.org for example. Note that Blue Gene/Q is a CPU architecture that delivers the same energy efficiency as the GPU-heavy Titan. Also note that Haswell improves Intel efficiency by 2x over Sandy Bridge. The 1000x myth needs to die.

5. Enterprise GPUs (those with ECC) and Xeon Phi (MIC) are expensive ($3k-4k MSRP) relative to CPUs, and still need a host in almost all configurations. In performance tests, normalize-by-shrinkwrap needs to die. Normalize by total acquisition cost or by total energy consumption (always include the host, memory, network as applicable).
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I'd just keep short term capital gains as normal income rate, which is what they are now. 50% isn't actually that punitive compared to 39.4 + state + local today. The majority of the "tax" on a long term capital gain position isn't the 23.8% capital gains tax, it's inflation -- a 50 year position which 4x in nominal turn is a loss.

What I would do on capital gains is end the favored treatment of carried interest; that's income, and should be taxed as such.

Ending jerrymandering, sure. (I'm not sure of the technically best way to do that, but you could make an argument based on territory or some deterministic population metric. The problem is there enough plausible fair deterministic methods which turn out in various ways that the question of which one we use could be a debate. I'd actually like to see an evaluation of sortition instead of election for many roles.

The voting age issue is kind of irrelevant IMO, but in general a push to mail-in ballots (to improve voter turnout) would be good.
fwiw Photoshop also has this behavior, it's maybe not as drastic though.
Very interesting article with cool examples. Here are a few more:

* In the "words that begin with an n" category he didn't include the most famous example: orange, the fruit, which has an n in Persian and Arabic from which it was borrowed but lost it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(fruit)#Etymology)

* I used to think that baby was the actual word and babe was a corruption, turns out most probably it was just the reverse (baby < babe + y) (http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/44883/was-baby-or...)

* Somewhat related to the last category: Have you ever wondered why the initial sound in chair and chandelier are pronounced differently in English? There was a sound change in French, chair was borrowed before that change and chandelier, like many other French word that start with ch, after that change.

* According to OED the reason that some animal names have the same singular and plural was that they originally contained a long vowel, e.g. deer, sheep, fish. Turns out, horse was also in this group but after a sound change its vowel shortened, hence the -s plural now.
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> Federal laws always have precedence over state laws

Be careful with the word 'always'. If a federal law were unconstitutional, and an equivalent state law were not, then clearly it would not trump the state law.

Similarly, despite the modern interpretations of the Commerce Clause, there are Constitutionally imposed limits on federal authority, and they're prescribed a very narrow set of privileges by the Constitution. Depending on the law and its execution, we could very well see a state exercising its rights trump the Commerce Clause. Gary Marbut has fairly carefully crafted such a challenge with his "Montana Buckeroo" rifle which is expressly designed, built and sold only within the confines of Montana, specifically to challenge the Commerce Clause's authority of its manufacture.

That said, he's got some 80-odd years of precedent to overcome, but there may be a quorum that much of that precedent is bad precedent, though it's still a gamble as to whether or not that matters.
By that you mean it's obviously NSA or GCHQ.
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I'm coming at this from more of a physics viewpoint than from CPSC. To me, parallel programming is all about dividing a big problem into many little ones. The meat therefore lies in boundary conditions. I don't have time to read this pdf right now, but it contains just two instances of the word "boundary". That sets off alarm bells for me.
Actually it was the media and others showing up at his house, as per the article.
To add to that, some languages use some of the same characters from the English language, but formatted differently in order to fit into that language's rules. For example, Japanese characters are the same width, so in Unicode there are the number and letters with ｆｕｌｌ　ｗｉｄｔｈ in order to fit in when English is mixed in with Japanese.
How was the original Magna Carta signed by the king?

Similarly, how would this bill of rights come to be acknolwedged and enforced by governments?
The best way to go about this is to "zero fill" the drive.

http://gizmodo.com/5494427/leave-no-trace-how-to-completely-...
> These laws are imperfect, but also necessary.

Please excuse the tangent here.

I respect your ability to have an opinion on the positions you personally feel are worth backing by violence (i.e. the nature of law). However, in turn, please respect the fact that nothing is literally "necessary," especially with such conflicted notions, beyond the word's use in hyperbole. Your respect of this point will allow for more respect and tolerance of opinions that differ from your own.

Even 99.9% of the planet agreeing on one issue does not necessarily make that issue necessary. It depends on the actual threat. This is especially the case when that one issue begins to directly impose violence on the 0.1% who disagree and who want to live nonviolently but differently from your own lifestyle.

It's very healthy to focus on solutions that improve awareness in matters where safety is significant. By all means, warn people. By all means, give people more access to the feedback of transparent information: e.g. transmitting knowledge to people about whether or not an entity is regulated by whichever particular system/regulator. But if you advocate the prohibition of a person trying to have a consensual relationship -- such as a person to Uber's service, a person willing to take that "risk" -- then you quickly tread into unethical territory. However small of a law it is in your perspective, it may be a large form of tyranny to the perspective of the people and entities you're directly willing to undermine or criminalize.
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This is madness. Tesla's model of selling is simply better; it is cheaper to the customer and cuts out unnecessary middlemen.
Wrong. Saves time. Gets rid of silly names and allows small businesses to have good tlds. Like Manhattan.bike, which a friend of mine bought for his bike store.
I think what he's getting at is the initial difficulty inherent in the process of building a reputation for your personal brand or business when you don't have any preexisting reputation to leverage. There's a tough issue of gaining the momentum to make Twitter a viable marketing channel. When you're just getting started it's difficult to know who to target and where to begin. I see this bot as a relatively harmless way of getting that ball rolling. I agree with you that no one is entitled to followers, but even people with a lot of value to offer can still have a tough time getting those first followers.
Help me understand. Are you arguing that PG (or anyone) cannot take the position that the federal government subsidizing the EV sector is good, while simultaneously taking the position that a state government caving to incumbent political pressure to pass an anti-consumer ruling is bad?

Are those two beliefs internally inconsistent in some way? Are you basically arguing that you can either believe in no government involvement, or accept government's involvement on the condition that one must abrogate the moral right to complain about its anti-consumer behavior; that there is no other consistent position to take?

Maybe I'm not understanding what exactly you are saying.

The second portion of your argument appears to be an ad hominem claim that we should disclaim PG's statements because of the possibility that he may own Tesla equity. Do you have an actual claim beyond that?
Reads to me like that person's opinion of the law is that systemic inconsistencies have "profound" implications (on the underlying validity etc.)
The "always" comes from the fact that the federal law would have to be challenged, and it would "trump the state law" until the federal law is struck down (or at least until a preliminary injunction against the federal law has been granted).

While I personally agree with Mr. Marbut's interpretation of the commerce clause's limited scope, I think that the deck is stacked squarely against him, especially since Raich.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich
Scientologists buy L. Ron Hubbard books and return them to be sold again and again and again.
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Path 1, Programmers don't usually make good management role. This has evidence in neuroscience. People who become manager earlier in their career usually are the kind of people who are not STEM type but sales type, and their difference usually show in early age and lead to very different life journey. Convert yourself into a role not fit not only bring suffer but potentially a career suicide.

2. Architect or senior specialist, this is probably the most nature and common development as programmers age. However, most of them often become technological dinosaurs when distance self from hands on works and not able to keep up for too long. Analysis turns into paralysis, abstraction turns into distraction. Their value is reflected mostly in legacy system of those business functions slow to evolve. But every ten years or so a major platform revolution usually throw them off the bus.

3. Get into other profession where their long time disciplined training as a programmer can benefit. As stay out of the pressure of fast pace technology evolution, this career could be a winning path if you're never a passionate programmer and ok to settle for a 9 to 5 job waiting the day to retire. But the problem is, most programmers are never the type of person who can settle with these kinds of work to begin with. Admittedly many are, who have programming as a 9 to 5 job, would find this path with ease if money is not a priority.

4. Entrepreneur at an older age. The upside of this path is obvious. Years of experiences go both technology and human will greatly benefit your business operation and market. True, this is another form of management, but different from corporate management, the personal achievement, responsibility, idea, build, essentially a manifestation of programming at its grind level. If programming is toy play, running a small business is the real deal. If you're ever good at programming, it shouldn't very different to create once own business.
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This is actually the first time that I'm posting this, but yeah I don't fault Zuckerberg. That was one of the reasons that I added that he was perhaps less mature then. Thought processes & some beliefs change over time and I'm not saying he is the same person now that he was then.
Well in one case you trust your life when you get into a car provided by a stranger and in the other case oh wait
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For what it's worth, Australia's been a pretty good case study on how significantly increased (+70%) taxes - and therefore, prices - for alcohol did not deter binge drinking [1]. All it did was shift the consumption from one form to another, as well as decrease drinking between binges. In that sense, you could arguably say that you're not materially increasing the prevalence of binge drinking but really just saving the money of those who are inevitably going to do it.

Then again, binge drinking here is baked in to the cultural psyche. It may still be seen as more dangerous and therefore less socially acceptable in the States.

[1]: http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2013/06/alcopops-tax-fails...
Ask HN: Feynman Video Collection?
I've always been inspired by Richard Feynman's talks and lectures. Most of the stuff I come across are small video snippets with no context or 1 class lecture without previous lectures. Is there an organized list (free or paid) or a huge sorted collection?
But make sure they can be circumvented by DRM.
This is basically an overview of what you would learn in a Historical Linguistics course. The reason they focus so much on sounds is because the changes are much more obvious than say, syntactic changes in the language (which can be very subtle).
Recently I've heard several people pronounce the "l" in "salmon" and it actually made me pause to see if I had been saying it wrong all along. General consensus with my Facebook friends was that the "l" should not be pronounced. But now I wonder if it used to be but was lost.
I really love these programming competitions. I just wish they weren't always on weekends.
Hey Jimmy, I'm sorry to hear that was your experience.

I don't know when you found us, but it did take us time to roll out our A/B testing; we never intended to string anyone along.

If you're willing to chat offline about your experience, please get in touch: matt@sendwithus.com
memorizing watching it "play" by it's self

i KNEW the AI would have been coming sooner or later [no this fast though], GREAT JOB!
How do you install it to RaspBMC using the XMBC interface directly?

Also. what port does it use so that I can set the appropriate firewall rules?
Tangentially related, but definitely related:

http://rms.sexy