skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I salute you. Have installed it and it works perfectly. I will recommend this to anyone who needs such a thing.

Thank you for your efforts.
When I heard about spiking neurons, I assumed that IBM tries to speed up Blue Brain project or cognitive research in general.

But it seems like SyNAPTIC group tries to push this chip into common machine learning applications.

http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/brain-chip.shtml
Fixed the commas in https://github.com/stevekrouse/hs.js/commit/d087de3c6dee2827... :-)
Rereading it it does sound a bit unfair in tone, but it is not wisdom in hindsight to think of a heartbeat that provides affirmative notification that notifications are working, especially in a system that's got a lot of other data acquisition that could be provided on a heartbeat.

He shouldn't blindly trust that SMS will work for for his application, using his setup, either. What if he forgets to top up the account for the device sending out SMS? That would not be the fault of the SMS system.
I did a bit of work at NASA a couple years back, they wanted everything in millimeters (possibly to deal with the aftermath of that incident). Everything. Even antenna lengths.
Does someone really dislike Donnerjack and not want it mentioned, really like Donnerjack and think I should be praising it more highly, think it doesn't fit in the genre at all, or was it just fat-fingered?
Identical link submissions count as votes for the original post instead. It's likely that as your post gained traction elsewhere, other users submitted the same link to HN.
> 48 inches is the same as 4-feet but that it is also 3-stud-distances long (studs in walls are often placed 16 inches apart).

To some extent that's an artifact of the units we use. We could just as easily put studs 40cm apart, which is approximately the same distance, or 50cm (0.5m) apart, which would be particularly convenient.

From Wikipedia: "In the United States [...] typically placed 16 inches (406 mm) from each other's center, but sometimes also at 12 inches (305 mm) or 24 inches (610 mm)." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_stud)

A quick search suggests that 400mm is common in metric-using countries.
In some fields (cinematography) it gets broken into 29.9 pieces...
On one level I agree with you however I think that the barn door is open and the horses are heading for the treeline.

I trained as an industrial electrician before becoming a professional programmer (I programmed long before either) so I have an incredibly healthy respect for electricity and machinery.

That said I also think the benefits of putting hardware and software into the hands of talented new users is well worth the (potential) downsides, I broke many many things to learn how to not break things, that is how you progress in the early days.
left_container = toga.OptionContainer()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'OptionContainer'

Frustrating when things that are supposed to work out of the box, don't. Initial search yields no help.
No, it's saying that people who claim to be able to identify which wines are "better" than others (and how they differ) can't reliably do that.

Wine recommended to you by trusted experts is not better than just blindly picking a bottle. Or at least, that is not something you can "say with certainty" if you haven't tested it. (And if you do test it, the results are likely to surprise you.) An awful lot of the experience of wine turns out to be the result of your expectations of it.
It's unclear how the 'wait multiple cycles' is such a deal-breaker. Even when using a GPU (in the standard way) there are cycles that get used in processing the different stages of a computation. But, more significantly, the Spiking Neuron thing doesn't (necessarily) have to work at a low clock rate, or any clock rate, since the same integration-through-time approach could even work asynchronously, or with jitter, etc. It's a pretty robust & low-power design (and evolution found it, who would have guessed?)
We're experimenting with ways to salvage posts that would otherwise fall through the cracks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8134682

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8122403
Ask HN: Has the HN front-page ranking algorithm changed?
It seems the ranking algorithm for HN has changed. I've been noticing submissions with as little as 8-9pts (~2 comments) submitted over _24 hours ago_ often showing up in top 10. In the past age of submission definitely had a much larger effect on the rank of a submission.

Note: As of now (3:20pm EST) the current #1/2 submission (Yann LeCun on the IBM neural net chip) was submitted over 24 hours ago with only 15 pts.
We were also accepted with our project (https://dockerize.it).

The extra $500 for Google Cloud are really nice, but we are expectant for other cool things from Google.

Do you have any idea about how much projects are being accepted? The most powerful thing in this incubators are the relationships with other startups.

In this G+ page (https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/10729681536514869184...) some teams are presenting their projects.
You know, there's about 25 millimeters to the inch, and I've never seen anyone measure anything with more than 16th-inch precision for any construction job - maybe for very high-end cabinetmaking people use 32nds, but generally millimeters will give you more precision than you need, certainly if you're using a carpenter's pencil, which makes marks thicker than the smallest scale on a ruler.

I have no problem dividing things by 3 in metric. Rounding up to the next millimeter is going to result in an error equivalent to a couple of human hairs. If I'm working with wood and I need a perfect fit I'm going to be using sandpaper long before that.

Seriously, do you imagine that construction workers and craftsmen in Europe, Japan and the rest of the world spend their days ina state of helpless anxiety because of their inability to divide things with sufficient precision, or do you think they just get on with it and make buildings and furniture as good as any you can find in the US? The construction industry didn't collapse in the UK, Ireland, or Australia when they adopted the metric system.
Doubt it would have applied in 1985, when Microsoft was nowhere near a monopoly.
But I am talking about a monopoly in a specific market.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Why on earth would you rely on something like Twitter to get critical messages delivered?
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If we think of the pragmatic and plausible theoretical model probability space for possible models that graph the change over time of the mean biological biogenesis pattern of homo Sapiens, we will find mathematical utility in using the functions in Branching Theory and Lexographic Fractal Permutation (Collation) Algorithms... Which essentially modularize and computationally compress the process of evaluating the distinct (clustered) networks in the lexograph...thus providing the capability to evaluate, compare, and communicate... The logically referenced data in the hypothetical, theoretical, and observational/proven possibility space...in a more efficient, albeit, approximate methodology.
From where I live, in C:

50 Summer time

40 Average hot day

30 Average cool day

20 WTF is going on? Did hell freeze over?

It never goes below twenty.
The first paragraph on the FCC's Open Internet brief and what you wrote are very different. You claim that net neutrality allows discrimination. The FCC's first paragraph says it doesn't.
Just because the brain does it one way, doesn't mean it's the best way. Birds versus jets, nature versus artificial.

That being said, the brain is basically the only working example of true intelligence we have, so perhaps trying to emulate it isn't a bad idea.

But I have this sci-fi notion that eventually the AI community will produce some sort of intelligence that is unimaginably different from our current notion of a brain.
If I were to throw a js one together, I would use these as a starting point:

[0]: http://web-apprentice-demo.craic.com/tutorials?tutorial=33&d...

[1]: https://webaudiodemos.appspot.com/input/index.html
For cs people the more important would be property testing, since often we are interested in finding out if something holds with high probability without read everything. A common possibility is mapping a subset of set of vertices of a graph to a boolean. say, is the subset of vertices a independent set.

The simplest example would be testing how close f is to a linear function.

We consider f:{0,1}^n->{0,1}. f is linear if f(x+y)=f(x)+f(y), and there are different ways to measure almost linearity. Either the probability that randomly picking x and y, we have f(x+y)=f(x)+f(y), the other would be how far away the function is from a linear function in hamming distance.

Using the tools in analysis of boolean functions, we can show these two measures are basically the same.

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~ryanod/?p=279
To raise revenue, it might be useful simply to charge all ships a "US Navy" tax if they will be protected from pirates/other threats. Ships desiring this protection can buy it, those wanting to protect themselves can forgoe it.

Unlike land-based police protection, I think naval battles are slow enough and ships identifiable enough that the service could be made excludible (and being rivalrous as well, it would then become a private good).
Bullet Journal, a framework for note-nerds
Here I take it "blatantly obvious" is code for "thing I know" or, less charitably, "thing I can claim to know so I can sound superior, now that it's obvious in hindsight". If you want to persuade me that it's really obvious, that only a fool would make this mistake, you'd have to show me where in the Twitter developer docs they say, "Hey, this is unreliable, so don't think we're going to actually deliver your messages". And then that a reasonable person would have had to see that page, read it, and ignore it before proceeding.

Half of people are below average. Everybody is ignorant about most things, and they're always learning. I have no reason to think that this guy didn't make a reasonable novice mistake. I'd rather encourage novices to try things. Telling them after the fact, "Fool, you should have known!" only discourages them and other novices.

Personally, I appreciate him producing an interesting article that will help other novices avoid his mistake.
I don't believe anti-trust gets as specific as "BASIC interpreters for the Apple II" for markets.
That definitely goes towards the "good reason not to use XML" part of what I said, imo ;)
My understanding is that TrueNorth is a product of DARPA SyNAPSE program, and spiking neuron is a program requirement, so IBM delivered what it was asked to deliver.
And half a health insurance that only covers odd days, half dental that covers odd teeth?
The carbon dioxide trapped in your meeting is making you think more slowly
Thank you. Yes they are. The doctors were on the ball and pulled baby out as late as they could. Baby is at home fine now and developing normally. She was born at 32 weeks. Because of prenatal steroids her lungs were fully developed.
How Math Got Its ‘Nobel’
Speaking as a US taxpayer, I think that's a great use of my tax money. Ship owners getting taxed less is better for expanding the economy than whatever the government would do with it.
The number of professional engineers we have is vastly too small to make good use of the enormous power that computers have handed us in the last 20 years.

I see our options as: a) be condescending dicks every time a novice makes a novice mistake, b) leave enormous amounts of technical value untapped until professionals can get around to it, or c) use our professional engineering smarts to build tools that amateur engineers can succeed with. I favor C.
Sure thanks. You have been of great help!
Published on Facebook? Really?
There's really only one unit for length: the meter. Centimeters aren't a different unit, they're "hundredths of a meter".

You can call your lengths of timber "frobs" if you want, even in public! You could have people order them that way and sell them that way. The only requirement most places have is that you also specify what that is in meters so that people who don't know what a frob is, know what they're buying.

It just makes sense that your frobs should be a useful number of meters so that they can be divided or handled easily and don't require 15 decimal places to express.

Edit: I have a question for you: would you support changing your currency away from 100 cents to the Dollar to something like the old Pound with 240 pennies to the Pound?

After all, if you're talking about measurements everyone uses and need to divide up, it's far more commonly required for cash in people's everyday lives than length or volume or anything else!
I don't know why you're being downvoted, I think this is a valid point.

One of the reasons companies are unwilling to reduce working hours is because of their competitive nature and that others haven't. No one wants to fall behind. But if others did it, then it's much easier to follow suit.
LeCun mentions disadvantages of the chip and then mentions a special purpose chip he has had a hand in producing. It doesn't seem surprising that he likes the idea of special purpose chips.

Aside from the particular criticism he makes toward the IBM algorithm, it seems to me that the approach of jumping from one special chip to another abandons the advantages of a general purpose computer itself. If your algorithm has to be cast in silicon each time, tuning the algorithm would depend on the chip's lifecycle. Also, only those few who have the resources to build a chip would be able to supply algorithms narrowing the number of minds working on this.

That alternative I'd like to see is a general purpose highly parallel chip.

The one I know of is the Micron automaton chip.
http://www.micron.com/about/innovations/automata-processing

Anyone know of anything similar?
Because you are somebody whose expertise is aquaculture, not software development? Because Twitter is the thing you use? Because the docs weren't clear? Because the APIs weren't really thought through for use cases like this?
If you want to estimate it that way, google "estimating wildlife populations", "population estimation methods", or something like it. It will give you, a.o, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_and_recapture.

I think it isn't that hard to exactly compute the number on modern hardware, though.
I wouldn't say no one is pursuing it. I think it just has yet to become considered as a real possibility for many.

I believe there may be a certain point in the development of society where there has to be a shift from the economic/capitalist model into a model based on human betterment or an effort directly focused on increased capability to sustain and improve our quality of living.

Capitalism worked to get us where we are, but I don't believe it will get us to where we want to be. It improved quality of life and was necessary to develop our current resources. Now we may be able to use those resources to directly model our lives and improve upon their quality.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8157788
Base 12 is more useful. We should teach kids to count in binary (and convert it to base 12) then standardize all units around that.

And if some country refuses to go along with the plan, we should bomb them until they capitulate.
IT is insane in a way. Management (who are not technical) make 4-10 times more than technical staff.
When I first searched for the whois listing it was not found, and several registrars showed it as available. It was just registered today.

It also seems like I reported it to the correct place. The FTC complaint assistant pointed me towards where I reported this as part of the do-not-call registry when I worked through their process tree.

I am sure it is no accident that this was all setup and started on a weekend when most of the federal agencies will take at least 48 hours to get a report and act on it.
The "backwards" comp is an interesting consequence of using regular function composition to compose transducers.
This is just the beginning. Connecting things to the Internet is a whole new kettle of fish and there is lots for the novice developer to learn. There will be disasters of all scales. So we need a new school of thought.
>> Car makers call it "contingency anxiety," the urge to buy a mechanically overqualified vehicle because maybe, once in a blue moon—or a hurricane on a high tide—the car buyer might need the extra functionality. The personal-use pickup market is a creature of contingency anxiety. After all, once a year, you need to bring home a Christmas tree.

Source: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732443980...

Full disclosure: I drive my daughter to Montessori school every morning in Jeep Wrangler Rubicon.
I've been monitoring analytics and there's zero significant traffic coming from outside of HN.
I received one of these enormous catalog bundles recently. Only one slim catalog of the entire stack was relevant to me, and the rest went straight to the recycling bin.

With all the information they undoubtedly have about their customers, why not be smarter about what you send?
Where do you see the report button?
UTC time would make it convenient for internet sites and international travel but would suck for things like talking/writing about daily activities, schedules, times of the day. Now "a jog at 5:30am was pleasant experience because there was barely a soul on the streets" wouldn't allow you to imagine what the experience was (was it before sunrise or maybe late evening, or maybe middle of the night?).
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have you worked anything other than menial jobs?
One wolf's migration across Europe
Yeah that's what I thought - unless he actually works for Facebook. But then the comments on his post are actually quite informative, so I guess each to their own and maybe he has a great audience on FB.
Much of the progress came from importing the TIGER roads data.

I don't know it first hand, but the story is that other maps of the US were in pretty good shape and data was relatively available (either the TIGER data, or from states and counties), so interest wasn't very high.
I should note that Blue Brain Project is very critical against the group which produced TrueNorth. The director of Blue Brain Project wrote an open letter titled "IBM's claim is a hoax", and considers the approach completely useless for neuroscience research.

http://technology-report.com/2009/11/neuroscience-expert-dr-...
I agree. Comments like this are stronger when they stay with the specific content of the article. They're weaker when treating it merely as a platform for some generic position ("obsession with the free market").

It isn't that the rhetoric is false, it's that it's impossible for it to be substantive here. Grand claims need grand substance, which there isn't room for in a mere comment post. People compensate for this with ersatz things like getting louder or angrier.

Tangents don't have to be bad. Ira Glass-style "I had an uncle who wore that kind of hat" tangents can be great. But generic tangents go somewhere uninteresting. The gravitational pull of the large, familiar topics has to be resisted because once the discussion gets stuck on one of those planets it is never getting off.
some more observations:

- The branch of industry is important: Games/media are more likely to fire quickly than a shop that does networking gear.

- Background of founders may be very important; if you are on the same wavelength or not with the management team, that's very important while working for a startup.

- most important: the way that conflicts are resolved/kinds of crisis 'management'. To what extend is the company going into dirty politics mode once that things get tough? i guess the problem here is that things like integrity/honesty are impossible to classify; not tangible enough.

Interesting if someone has thought about good questions that could help to get a better picture with regards to the integrity thing while doing interviews; during interviews everyone looks so reasonable ... go figure how things will turn out in the end...
But without a personal incentive, nobody will want to do the stuff that isn't fun, or is very risky. How about that?
Yann LeCun does work for Facebook.
Twitter's terms of service are located here: https://twitter.com/tos

Two choice bits:

"We may suspend or terminate your accounts or cease providing you with all or part of the Services at any time for any reason...."

"The Twitter Entities make no warranty and disclaim all responsibility and liability for: (i) the completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Services or any Content...."

Emphasis added.

Now I guess you'll say that a reasonable person won't read the TOS anyway so it doesn't count. And I say, that's all well and good when you're tweeting about last night's dinner, but when you're building something where you actually care about the consequences when it fails, you have to actually perform some form of research if you want reliability.

I'm rather astonished that you're still acting like Twitter's unreliability is not only non-obvious, but something I wasn't aware of until I read this post, but am pretending that I knew before so I could act superior. Do you just assume that every random internet service out there is reliable until proven otherwise? Because that's the opposite of what's correct. Everything is completely unreliable until proven otherwise. This is, yes, obvious if you've been paying attention to the internet for any reasonable length of time. Twitter hasn't proven otherwise, therefore it is unreliable. I personally think that more than passes the threshold for "blatantly obvious".

I disagree with you on the impact of pointing out that this was a bad decision. The fact that you can't rely on random internet services is an important lesson, and I don't think he learned that lesson. He just switched from one random unreliable internet service to another. When Zapier or Xively go down or change authentication requirements or decide he's a spammer and shut down his account, does he have some way to find out?

I would much rather have someone tell me "that was pretty stupid of you, this was your real mistake here" than hide the truth from me because they're afraid of discouraging me. I want to be wrong for as little time as possible. Apparently this is an unusual sentiment, which I have a hard time coming to terms with.
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And has this been true historically for the banking industry? Or did the workers claw more and more of the compensation over time?
Interesting, but how do they decide which posts to resurface? manually? I hope not, that would introduce bias
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Also, wood is beautiful.
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