skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anyone got something more technical?

Well I found this little sound-byte from a link in the original article. I didn't find it particularly original.

From [0] > “Programs” are written using special blueprints called corelets. Each corelet specifies the basic functioning of a network of neurosynaptic cores. Individual corelets can be linked into more and more complex structures—nested, Modha says, “like Russian dolls.”

The term 'Russian doll' evoked recursion (and distant memories of my late grandfather), very common even 50 odd years ago.

[0] http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517876/ibm-scientists-s...
Related, and quite old:

http://www.zillions-of-games.com/
I've got a few bones to pick with this post.

1. Its main message, "build things you love" and "let the haters hate" seems to be pretty well-worn at this point. There was no value added in the way it was conveyed (no personal story, no anecdotes, no real insights). In fact, there was value subtracted by the jarring, undeveloped thoughts and the use of profanity that was censored in the original story on Businessweek.

2. I don't think anyone dismissed the internet or the iPhone as "incremental" or "trivial" when they first came out. Especially not in the way we often wonder about services like Snapchat and Secret. This seems like quite a silly comparison to me.

3. I don't agree with the idea that the value of a service is solely defined by its user base. User acquisition is only one part of a complex equation. "Hyperexponential growth" is worthless in the long run without a system that can capture and monetize user interest over time. Plenty of fads come and go:

-Planking

-Swag, #YOLO

-Pet Rocks

-Livestrong Bracelets

-Pets.com (symptom of the .com investing fad)

My opinion is that these fads add very little value relative to advances in healthcare, infrastructure, education, and technology that have made quantifiable progress towards a better quality of life for billions of people all over the world. Fads are like tumors that grow off of cultural and psychological excess.
Sure, I wasn't disputing that Go has more interior allocation features than Java does.
We'll be adding some cool new features to our paid plans at the same time, so I hope you'll decide to continue paying us the $20.
You can even just set them equal to Infinity. Win!
Is it a sort of general purpose neural-network hardware ?
Just saw that the telegraph did a piece on the issue:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11015672/Wikipedi...

They also put a poll there for people to vote on who owns the copyright and the monkey is currently leading, but it's close.
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You can also buy a new Moto G (no contract) for about $50 on the Internet, and it's a much better phone.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

What are you supposed to tell her? That having a defeatist attitude is the best way to go through life? I sincerely doubt that's how those 33/800 children moved from the low income bracket to the high income bracket.

edit: unless you meant that she can be whatever she wants to be without working hard. Then you should have her aim a little higher. :)
>One of my facebook friends is a D-1 college basketball from the 80s.

Raising kids at all seems like a huge success for a basketball.

On topic, I agree - my parents were very frugal and it sure has rubbed off on me.
In this abstract it's not clear that the LB1 had Down syndrome, but the companion article has more details: "Evolved developmental homeostasis disturbed in LB1 from Flores, Indonesia, denotes Down syndrome and not diagnostic traits of the invalid species Homo floresiensis" http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/07/31/1407382111.abst...
I fixed the attribution. It was being covered up by the footer. Thanks for checking it out.

http://iswordfight.com/
I totally agree. Neural networks, and neuromorphic computing/hardware neural networks are fascinating topics, and it's great to see a new interest in them. However, the big issue is that overhype is what caused the lull in neural network research until back propagation (~1986), and then again after that until deep learning (2006).

Thus, while the topics are fascinating and these appear to be impressive strides, journalists need to be careful not to hyperbolize.
It's a BS marketing spin that keeps changing alright.

Neither design played a huge role, nor "meeting their customers face to face". The world is filled with failed startups with great design.

The simple explanation is: they simply offered a product people needed for it's value + some luck.

But I guess the product having a use value (as opposed to nice design or soapy stories about "connecting" with their customers) does not cut it as an offering anymore.
There are a ton of interesting datasets at InfoChimps, but many are almost completely unstructured. They require a lot of preprocessing and natural language work to ready them for analysis. It's usually worth it, though, and the ETL coding has really helped me grow with Python.

http://www.infochimps.com/datasets

What other historical analyses have you worked on?
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What type of things were found via this api?
In the financial space the Zing JVM from Azul is very popular, at least it is among the London developers.

http://www.azulsystems.com/

It has a pauseless generational collector called C4 (which is detailed in the Garbage Collection Handbook). Gil Tene, the CTO and founder of Azul, appeared on the Go mailing list a while back and outlined the steps towards implementing the C4 collector in Go.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/GvA0DaCI2...

This looks like progress towards that. But I don't know if C4 is any kind of concrete (or even speculative) goal. I would love it if standard Go was running a C4 GC implementation.
Thank you all so much for the responses. Very much appreciated. I want to take the time to read through each of them and understand them so I may take a while to respond. Thank you so much again! I hope this will also help others :)
This is cool. I want this to be an app.
Phaser.io & Melonjs is a great starting point.
They should call that "baking paper": cookies just slide off you! :)
Yes I am too.
But I think nodejs still misses some things to be a great language, at most the synchronous way. Some people try to make it by implementing the same syntax as in C# (async/await) or by finding others ways (like coffee script try with defer). But finaly we still have with so much spaghetti... And for example, just try to think about how many levels of callback you will need to have to write only the Config model of Magento : it's insame.
So, at this time, I don't think that the language is good enought without a transcompilator like coffeescript (even I don't like the idea) or a strong runtime lib (which one?). And from that will depends the success.
It's too bad the dairy lodge doesn't quite show up so well on google maps, but at least I know what it's assessed value is.

Turns out that if you compare it to the surrounding properties, having a very phallic sign does not increase your property values.

For those of you who don't have family in the area: http://www.interestingideas.com/roadside/signs/dairylodge2s....
And I just realized he's releasing it as one - http://gyrosco.pe/
Design Thinking is the new MBA, but coming from a design background. I'm not that fond of it since I just call it "good business brainstorming" or "good problem solving."
A stone resting on the ground is simply halted at the place where gravity is overpowered by the repulsion between molecules. Both of those forces are applied constantly, and seemingly for "free." But those forces are inherent to all matter.

Two magnetic objects can resist each other, but that is well understood already. And still, those reach equilibrium between gravity (from the levitator) and the strong force (from the support structure). From the way I understand superconductive magnetic levitation, the magnetic field collapses the superconductivity in the places they intersect. That would mean that over time, electrical resistance would drain the [mostly] superconductive material.

Right now, all examples of superconductive levitation involve supercooled superconductors, which means that any examples require massive amounts of energy to sustain.

This hoverboard idea would be like taking the magnetic base away and expecting the levitator to remain where it is with no extra energy supplied.

We've gone from "we can turn energy into motive force through unknown methods" to "we can prime this thing with energy once and have it exert force forever." If that were true, you could dump 1kw into the thing, rotate it 90 degrees and attach it to a rotor. Now you've got this thing that constantly pushes your rotor around and you've got free energy forever. See how I might think we're in crazy town now?
WW3 RUSSYAN TROOPS BUILD UP ON BORDERS
I think work like this is very important. In the 1940s you could fill a football stadium with about 50 ENIAC computers and you wouldn't have 1/1000th the processing power of an Iphone. Your statement gives useful perspective in one direction, but exponential improvement cannot be ignored. There can't be any doubt that neuromorphic chips have a lot of wiggle room to explode in capability in the coming decades.
Really cool concept! I want to try it out, just for the game theory aspects of it.

Has anyone successfully received the items they ordered off of this?
How do you know someone is part of a "secret society"? They'll tell you.
They don't really mention what happened to it but they never said it was misplaced or that it was lost. The mention of the fireplace was during the time where no one had a clue what was written on the stone.
Some refuting instead of down voting ?
Thanks for this insightful analysis.

"It seems to have to come from inside the person somewhere."

That's quite true.

By definition, this has to come from a mix of either nurture (I think research shows that much of a person's future personality/impulsiveness can be predicted accurately be age 6) or/and their specific genetics.
You don't say what country you're in. If it's easy to ship the phone to UK (preferred) or US (I'll get it eventually) then get in touch.

You don't have any contact details in your profile, so it's not possible to message you privately.

(Or if anyone wants to give me a Firefox phone I'd be immensely grateful)
We're not a secret society. We're a society with secrets.
All the same that Wordpress could easily adopt using environmental variables for configuration values to achieve this and simply use a heroku-ified version of config.php. I've used this approach for scaling wordpress sites and its never failed me.
As someone who grew up in a dysfunctional "poor white trash" environment but bootstrapped out of it, I recognized many of the same patterns you did. While luck is always a factor, I've also observed many very lucky people fail at life anyway.

I would distill the success factors down to three things that will usually allow you to be reasonably successful even with quite a poor run of luck:

- discipline i.e. non-impulsive

- hard work i.e. diligence toward a goal

- high functional intelligence i.e. ability and desire to learn

I always observed that if people have at least two of the three in good measure, they will do okay without leaning on luck as a crutch. They may not be in the top income bracket but they can lead a moderately comfortable life.

All three of those factors I list are a mixture of inherent characteristics and environment, so there are some individuals that are likely born to fail even if they are lucky enough to be born into a high income family.
I think he uses "unfair", not meaning that he is ashamed, but rather meaning that his daughter won the ovarian lottery. There's no special morality or justice that his daughter will have a relatively easy life, it's just luck.
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It correlates in a way; that's the basic assumption of capitalism and the reason why companies work. But it does not correlate perfectly; many would say it doesn't do it very well, and I'd hazard a guess that profit and value are becoming more and more disconnected from each other.
It's an intriguing result good job. Are there many non-edge cases where you'd prefer this over a cloud service?
We love the Dairy Lodge! The other iconic ice cream place in town is Bardon's Wonder Freeze, and they have Sputnik on their roof.

http://i.imgur.com/XdF5QdE.jpg

So that's awesome, too.
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"One of the things that really messes with my brain is how hard I'm trying to make sure my daughter has an unfair advantage in life. Not just in terms of education, etc, but even in terms of expectations and aspirations. How do you tell your kid to work hard so they can be anything they want to be, when you your own circumstances belie that assertion?"

Make sure, in doing so, you make her aware of the advantages that she has been given, so that she's aware that, as hard as she's worked, it is not merely her hard work that gets her to where she is, and those that don't make it didn't just not make it because they didn't put in the effort.
Google is not "enforcing" anything, people react like if you are not going to show up in the results at all, or Chrome won't work via HTTP. HTTPS is signal, just like having a link from a well ranked website like HN is a signal, and probably dozens other.

The points you mention are in fact indicators that someone has put care and resources to make their site work more securely, which says a good thing about the site, which google rewards with some points in their algorithm. Makes perfect sense to me that this will somewhat improve the quality of their results. Would you also complain about google using fast response times as a signal because that "forces" people to pay for better servers?

About your security point, google can not do that without loosing 50% of its customers, I really don't understand what that has to do with the rewarding HTTPS being good or bad. Looks like a red herring.
He should put some text on that website.
At this point making gecko nicely embeddable is not worth the cost in engineering resources compared to what it would bring in. Servo, the next generation browser is being designed to be easy to reuse and this is what Mozilla is focusing on in this area.
The Parrot AR.Drone runs Linux off the shelf, and its downward-facing camera and optical flow algorithms make it a great (very stable) platform. The main drawback is a lack of payload capacity and non-open flight control firmware. It's probably what you heard of with respect to Node.JS, because https://github.com/felixge/node-ar-drone is very popular. However, that project doesn't run Node.JS on the copter itself but rather on a control node, transmitting commands to the copter over WiFi.

To build "fully programmable," self-contained drones in a more open manner, I've started with an off-the-shelf flight control system (in my case, an ArduPilot knockoff) and then attached an Android phone as payload, wired in to provide some control input via UART. This way the off-the-shelf flight control system can handle the hard real-time PID loops without worry, and the Linux side can run a conventional kernel and userspace with whatever algorithms I need to run, providing me with softer timing requirements.

So far I've had good luck using ArduCopter, an older Nexus phone, and OpenCV via the NDK to implement a basic "follow a shape" quadcopter. My goal is to build a simple "follow me" functionality for recording cool car and sports videos.
>Part of the equation is undoubtedly the financial resources kids have access to but you have to also factor in what the parents teach children.

A problem with this type of discussion is that when people lack financial resources, they often also lack other resources that come with financial resources, such as education or parents who had time to teach them anything that they could either use in raising their children or for teaching to their children.

>If a parent is financially irresponsible and just sits their children in front of the TV to act as a babysitter

I don't see the relation of the first part of the phrase to the last part of this phrase.

>Basic financial responsibility and many other basic life skills are simply not taught in school, it's expected to be taught at home.

I'm not aware of any relationship between financial responsibility and wealth. Plenty of wealthy people are financially irresponsible, and plenty of poor people are not. You're operating under the capitalist-spiritual assumption that everyone is in the place that they belong because of some intrinsic quality in themselves; therefore if someone is poor, then they are obviously more financially irresponsible than people who are not poor.

There are quite a few obvious original sins if you want to consider why a particular family may be poor. Nobody in my family really knew how to read until my grandmothers' generation, and they don't read well now. You could blame that on bad parenting, but it might be more useful to blame that on a society that had no interest in whether they or their parents could read at all, and at one period prevented them from being taught by force of law. Maybe crushing poverty and constant racial discrimination? Anything but 'financial responsibility.'
"The kids who got a better start — because their parents were married and working — ended up better off. Most of the poor kids from single-parent families stayed poor."

So we should be encouraging people to get married, stay married, and stay responsible enough to hold down a job if they are going to raise kids. Not a new idea at all, but that's cool to have a study to back it up.
Perhaps not as much of a mystery, but I do think the D. B. Cooper case is fascinating (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper). The Wikipedia article reads like a popular adventure novel.
Please note that using Cloudflare, even with free SSL, is not an increase to the security and privacy of your users. On the contrary, Cloudflare records information about your users (this cannot be disabled) and, by default, blocks users who attempt to view your site through privacy-enhancing software. I would suggest that people looking to install SSL on their website (this should be everybody) instead get their free SSL certificate from gandi.net or StartSSL, who do not spy on or block your users.
It's like Tinder, but for peer review
A technique along similar lines is to run your upfuckery implementation on multiple servers and have each of them publish the results. Then you can take the output of the first server, and discard the rest. This can be effective at weeding out a majority of small pauses.
The wording used indicates that the writers have no understanding of the current state of the field, which is extremely highly correlated with crackpottery in physics. It's not a comment on the experiment, it's a comment on the fact that the hand-wavy theoretical explanation doesn't pass the sniff test to anyone who's taken QFT.
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With a good 2FA system, you can use a junk password because the chances of someone having both factors is next to zero. Using hunter2 as a password instead of gEtRAn8s_dr6Spepe doesn't matter because guessing the password is impossible unless they have your other factor, and even then it's going to slow them down quite a bit. Especially if your other factor is stored on your phone, which itself requires a password or fingerprint or both to get into.
I came up with some similar and wrote a long blog post[1] about it several years ago. I never ended up using it in practice because it felt too syntactically weird, but it was a fun little exercise.

[1]: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2009/05/13/ml-style-patter...
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What university is publishing papers in Word?
Scrapeshield is a CloudFlare feature. If you don't want it, turn it off. Here's the announcement from when we launched the feature:

http://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-scrapeshield-discover...
How likely is it that a valid transaction that is seen by a large part of the network won't be included in the blockchain?

How likely a credit card chargeback?
I hear you, man. But, as we know it, famo.us, is all about matrix3d. And I haven't seen a webGL renderer for it yet. On the other hand, three.js added css3d renderer and it works pretty well with their already established webGL approach.
That will come, when I or someone else has time to finish https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923897

These won't be similar to the old Firefox extensions because that really does not make sense on FirefoxOS, but this is similar to user scripts and user styles.
In NYC, a startup called Bandwagon has been doing this--matching users going the same way--for awhile now, and is pioneering a system for shared rides at the taxi lines of airports and events.

This is what they did at CES: http://blog.bandwagon.io/post/92569728340/meet-the-hop-lane-...
The "download word vectors" links are broken. Actual data is here: http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/data/
100% over-provisioning is roughly what is currently required for performance by all systems that allow arbitrary allocation of arbitrarily sized data. Including most GC implementations and most malloc/free implementations. (You can of course do much better if you can limit the size or timing of allocations.)
Pretty sure all the things on this [1] page that have a checkmark in the "Public" column

[1] http://developer.espn.com/docs
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I'm utterly convinced the famous marshmallow effect is a better measure and predictor than parent's financial status.

I'm pretty sure an adult version of the test would reveal similar patterns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...
Another big downside to pools is that a lot of GC implementations will scan only 'live'objects. Large object pools unnaturally increase the number of objects that need to be scanned during GC, negating a (sometimes) useful GC efficiency tick.
yeah actually can someone verify that this is related to his app? I can't really come to terms with entering my email into a blank third-party website.
>simply being a good parent and using money where possible to better their children is an "unfair" act worthy of shame?

Whatever it is, it's not "simple."

I could describe snatching old ladies' purses as 'simply trying to provide for my children', but that's a deceptive, self-justifying rationalization that begs the question.

If it's "simple", it's not worth thinking about. If it's not, and could possibly be "unfair", then it's shameful to not have thought about it.
Wa-a-ay to expensive. It needs to be in an under-$10 range to be feasible for reasonably practical use.
20% of android devices, but definitely not 20% of any website's android traffic. the amount of web traffic that comes from those android phones is approximately 0 unless maybe you're in africa or china - the people who still have android 2.x phones aren't browsing the internet with them.
> 10 milliseconds is far too long for STP for anything in the financial industry.

Does Java give any guarantees about garbage collection latency?

The LMAX Disruptor inter-thread communication library[1], that is the heart of the high performance[2][3] limit order book used by the LMAX Exchange is written in Java.

Just because a language can't guarantee that the duration of GC stops are below a certain threshold, does not mean that you cannot write programs in this language that offer better latency 99.99% of the time.

[1] https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/

[2] http://www.lmax.com/execution-performance

[3] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/LMAX
The graph you linked shows them already on the uptick before going to do the photos but the article doesn't mention that.