skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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So far this is only shown on TIMIT and MNIST, which are pretty trivial datasets, so it may be dataset dependent.

One of the authors is giving a talk at INRIA in France this month, and the abstract mentioned CIFAR10 (possibly unpublished results). If they have manged to compress a CIFAR10 network, that is a strong indicator that ImageNet networks could be compressed in the same way... but no one has published any results in this regard to my knowledge.

However this is an active area of research for me, and I hope to explore it more soon. I think there are better ways to approximate than this, but this work at least shows that it may be possible.
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Because it's Apple.

When Swift was released every hipster and his cat jumped the wagon on how great it is. I even saw someone trying to make webstack out of it.
I think it's because he was hated at the time for taking his investors' money and going to the South Pole rather than the North (basically Kickstarter rage), especially when he knew about the British expedition, then announcing it by sending the British expedition a sniggering telegram. Another reason, is that Scott and his four died carrying his joke letter back (the both one rubbing in and proving that Amundsen arrived first.) Lastly, I'd say that it's influenced by Amundsen taking almost the exact same route as Scott had previously announced.

At the time, I think he was seen as a heel that pretty effortlessly ended up as champion. The British with their bizarre obsession with manhauling definitely saw the usage of dogs as less manly. Also: Amundsen was not photogenic. More evidence that he was a cartoon villain.
Apple is a hardware company. Google just releases as much software as they can and sees what catches on since any additional user spending additional time being tracked is a win for them. Apple writes software to make their hardware more appealing.

Bad android sales doesn't affect Google. Bad iPhone sales would tank Apple.
In my eyes MS did it with their Live domains, while Google Apps is still going well.
I gave a talk at EuroScipy 2014, in the back part there are a ton of references and resources to get started. See [1]

[1] https://speakerdeck.com/kastnerkyle/euroscipy2014
I remember being out in the isle of Skye for a couple of nights during the summer and thats honestly when I thought, man there a lot of stars in the sky..
Somethings you can't notice in a city..
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I found this one quite helpful: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C2VMO7pcWhg
Can somebody tell me why in 6-7 years I will be rewriting Swift apps ?
In some countries there have been periods where the only way to make an iTunes account (and thus get access to app store) was through registering a credit card or buying an itunes gift card.

Google Play does not ask for a credit card unless you actually make a purchase.
My email is on there, but the password is not the one I'm currently using. Though I wonder which site or sites I've been using this password on. Has anyone figured it out? I'm going to crosscheck with my saved passwords list in Firefox when I get home.
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I guess what I'm asking though is can the reader differentiate between the two? My understanding is that Apple sends a one-time use card number to the reader, so maybe it's possible for the software could run some variation of a Luhn check or whatever to figure out if it's an Apple generated number, but failing that, isn't the communication protocol between the phone and the payment terminal standardized?

In other words, can a merchant reasonably accept Apple Pay without accepting Google Wallet? I'd be surprised if they could, but I don't really know -- I'm legitimately asking.

A quick bit of Google indicates ISO14443 and EMV as the relevant protocols, but I'm not 100% sure there's not some incompatible extension thing going on that would preclude treating different companies' implementations the same.
Or you just edit your posts to clarify/fix somethings

Of course, you can also stand by your original post, which is something I've done sometimes.
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Microsoft said to be buying the maker of 'Minecraft' for $2B
Wow, how long have you guys existed? I am shocked I didn't know about this product. That is IMHO, EXACTLY the product that has needed to be built for awhile. Get all those eccentricities into one library that provides a clean interface.
This is a thing of the past, see pycharm 3.4 Pro: http://i.imgur.com/HSUKxDo.png

Running on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with this JVM:

$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_55"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.4.7) (7u55-2.4.7-1ubuntu1~0.12.04.2)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode)
There is a thing called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_mortgage that can help old owners go on with their life without losing their shelter.
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I've seen many cases, at both large and small companies, where fundamental questions about product value and vision were being asked well into the development cycle. It's what prompted me to sign up for this Coursera course (Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship - https://www.coursera.org/course/innovativeideas).

Just wondering if anyone's had experience with the course or subject matter.
It's a real pity that the resistance to improving (or even fixing!) these shortcomings is mostly economic in nature, I can't imagine that the pilots would object to having these issues solved once and for all.

Unfortunately pilots don't have a whole lot of options to exert meaningful pressure on aircraft manufacturers.
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I'm no scientist, but I'm skeptical. The claims in the article are:

1) All of the Ashkenazi Jews alive today can trace their roots to a group of about 330 people who lived 600 to 800 years ago

2) These people lived 25 to 32 generations ago, and their descendants grew at a rate of 16% to 53% per generation

3) Today there are more than 10 million Ashkenazi Jews around the world, including 2.8 million in Israel

I just can't believe the growth rate. It's astronomical. Especially in times before modern medicine, with wars, plagues, pestilence. Especially considering that the Nazis alone killed millions of Jews before/during WWII.

Also Jews were/are relatively widespread in Europe. Even before WWII there were populations that were separated by thousands of miles. Until recently it wasn't easy to migrate thousands of miles. There were already people in most places, it was hard to travel, it was often dangerous to travel.

I dunno. I'm just going by intuition here, and as we know that is something that is often (usually?) wrong when it comes to things outside of our normal experience. But I believe that there were considerably more than 330 Ashkenazi Jews in the middle ages.
Minecraft is not ideal for VR in the near future because it's a game where you run around which causes simulator sickness for a significant percentage of the population.

VR is better suited for other types of games, especially those were you are inside a cockpit and your avatar is sitting just like you are in real life.
this reeks of scare-tactics

Yes, but avoiding risk is a valid argument for avoiding anything new. Avoidance of risk is why many people like Debian, so hearing that some users and developers of Debian are not in favor of systemd, even if only due to the fact that it's something very new and very different, seems quite reasonable.

Systemd does provide a sufficient amount benefits
you would be out of your mind to think they are putting in this effort to migrate to systemd if they hadn't done a technical consideration and decided it was a worthwhile thing doing

To some people and some workloads, very much yes, systemd is a very good thing. To other people and workloads and system configurations, systemd doesn't help and sometimes even hurts. Really, to each their own.

But this really is the whole point of FOSS, there are other init systems besides systemd and other OS than Linux where the use of systemd has not been deemed to be worthwhile. If you feel similarly, use one of those distributions/OS and contribute to it so that it doesn't go away.

I'm not a fan of systemd. I run Debian stable. I'm not sure what I will do once Jessie becomes the stable release.
'Are weights of a trained network based on ImageNet a derived work, a cesspool of million of copyright claims?'

I'd argue not. The success of deep learning in vision seems to be in acquiring allocentric representations of objects. Copyright protects the expression and not the concept. Parameter weights describe the concept, not particular instantiations of it.
The 3rd party launchers are a generation or two ahead of the stock launcher, historically the risk is about zero, and the gain is immense.

Technically, CPM 2.2 is much more secure than windows 8.1 but its not sweeping the market.
It's a trainwreck on Mac too. I use my iPod only when I go on holidays, say 3 - 4 times per year. I dread the moment I have to use iTunes to fill my iPod with songs. It causes me nothing but stress, which is exactly the opposite of what Apple is about.
Systemd adds complexity and functionality. The question is, does the price of complexity outweigh the gain in functionality. I got really annoyed at systemd initially but that was because I knew a bit about upstart and init. My systemd knowledge was zero - it is still pretty low. Now that I've seen it in action, it doesn't seem as offending. In time, there will likely be docs on the Internet. I do hope this isn't a harbinger of bad things in Linux. I think the original commenter in the article alluded to the same philosophical point.
He's made public comments to that effect as well, just not quite as bluntly.. But close.
No DRM
I'll check it out. I never use the flash on any camera (even my DSLR) simply because it never looks good, but it sounds like the iPhone's might be worth a go.
Going with your suggestion, the amount of DBs must be huge.
The most prominent additions after the + sign (ignoring just single numbers) are:

- Bioware (54)

- Bravenet (19)

- Bryce/daz3d/daz (244)

- Eharmony (64)

- Filedropper/fd/etc. (113)

- Freebie/Freebiejeebies (64)

- Friendster (65)

- Hon (42)

- Policeauctions (28)

- Savage/Savage2 (116)

- Xtube/porn (200ish)
Better than my getting surprised by the dumb things I wrote five years ago, I guess.
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Its being downvoted because of the derogatory naming of Apple users.
Mojang is doing a pretty good job of screwing up the Minecraft modding community on their own with this EULA business and Bukkit.
How do you know it's safe to install 7zip on your computer?
Maybe he wants to get into angel investing?

He briefly though about investing into Psychonauts 2, but dropped out when he realized how much money was involved ($18m). [1] With a couple of hundred million dollars on his bank account he could get interesting and novel AAA games that would never get funding from traditional publishers made.

He even mentions this in [1]: "Perhaps in some distant future when I’m no longer trying to make games, I could get into angel investing."

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/04/exclusive-minecrafts-notch...
> I would say that it is primarily a piece of jewelery.

Disagree. I've been too lazy to replace the battery of my 12EUR retro Casio watch for a couple weeks now and my girlfriend's getting sick of me asking all the time "what time is it". When I'm walking around outside or when on my bicycle, pulling my phone out of my pocket to check the time is a pain. When I'm in the shower I really want to know the time to the minute cause I know I have to leave the house at exactly 7:30.
> I know that the plugin API is still in flux, but I really wish it was documented anyway

I've been avoiding to write documentation because the rpc infrastructure was still alpha, though that will probably change after #1130 is merged(I will write at least one comprehensive wiki entry)

> I'm not even sure how anyone was even able to start coding something like this without a design doc existing first.

This is just how I work: Instead of writing design docs, I start with an idea and the design is shaped while implementing the initial prototypes. Only after it's solid the docs will be created.
I came across this article that suggests warnings sounded when the two sticks were significantly different to each other, but in the stressful situation the warnings were probably ignored...

"The investigation was unable to determine whether the copilot was aware of the pilot in command’s dual sidestick inputs, even though they resulted in aural ‘DUAL INPUT’ synthetic voice messages…The copilot’s focus on correcting the aircraft’s attitude and trajectory, together with the numerous FWS synthetic voice messages, may have resulted in the copilot not comprehending the significance of the aural ‘DUAL INPUT’ warnings…"

From: http://criticaluncertainties.com/2011/09/16/pilots-in-the-lo...
You will not follow the logic until you remove emotion.

As an thinking exercise, view age as cumulative chances for catastrophic failure instead of cumulative time for success.

For single income families, all failures affect the only income stream.

Examples of failure should include injury, sickness, obsolescence, folly, and greed.
I recently saw a billboard here in Melbourne for an Asus tablet with an Intel CPU: https://twitter.com/john_e_barham/status/492146297416077312.

What struck me as bizarre was although the billboard had the "Intel Inside" slogan repeated at least 3 times, nowhere did it mention what OS the tablet ran, and the screenshots were basically generic stock photos with no apps in sight. As it happens the tablet runs Android but I can imagine that some of the people suckered into buying it will be annoyed that it can't play many of the games on Google Play since they'd be developed with the ARM NDK.

The whole thing struck me more as an effort to extract money from Intel's marketing budget than as a sincere effort to sell the actual tablet.
I'm referencing the "cyberpunk universe" mentioned, not reality. I agree with you: there is nothing about cyberpunk nor mind-control going on in SF.
How is the middle man going to get his cut?
Well, yes. That's how book promotion works. You pluck a few juicy tidbits out, shop them around to the press, line up a few profile pieces and interviews and off you go.
Same with iTV (ITV in the UK) and iPhone back in the day etc.

I think we are seeing a move to Apple <Product Name>, partly because of this and partly because the Apple brand is so strong.
Article says: The antenna had to be small, one-tenth the size of a Wi-Fi antenna, and operate at the incredibly fast rate of 24 billion cycles per second.

Sounds like 24 GHz. But all your critiques are still very valid.

But if you can blanket the world with these kinds of radios and mesh them, think 10s or 100s of trillions of radios, then the range issues are less of a concern but you have a chicken and egg problem which needs many many billions of dollars of investment to kickstart. Great reason for IPv6, though :)
I believe product tying is the phrase you're looking for.

No more mojang/mc accounts all auth will be thru live.microsoft.com.

No more java, next version will be dotnet only.

No more ingame chat but skype will be integrated.

Pocket edition works great on my android phone, that'll be the first thing to be "fixed", although the 0.5% of the population with windows phones will now be able to run minecraft.

I've only run it on my linux desktop, although I'm told it runs on Windows I don't have 64 bit windows set up so it runs out of memory. Whatever it'll never run again on linux and possibly macs.

As you imply the UI will have keyboard/mouse removed and you'll only be able to use kinect.
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Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense.
The power scavenging circuit looks to not be the same frequency as the communications radio circuit due to antenna size differences. Likely it's harvesting power from 2.4 GHz or similar frequency and then using the higher (24 GHz-ish) band for comms. With a decent meshing protocol this would be quite interesting, although latency with many many short hops will be horrid.
Historically, there was nothing extraordinary about having 3-5 (or more) children. 5 children gives you a high rate of population growth even if you have quite some early mortality.

Also, it is a case of exponential growth, so you get a multiplier of up to 25,000 (from 1.5^25). Or 400,000 from 1.5^32. I guess it isn't really that simple, but that explanation is at least useful for enhancing intuition.
Well I think that if the length of the fragment is larger than the repeated fragment, you can get a good idea of the number of repetitions.

This is not a case like CNV (copy number variation) where a whole gene can appear a number of times, so I think this is somewhat possible by PCR (though probably not very precise).
There is a huge difference between a sports watch and a sports edition of a watch.
I got so frustrated with the available choices (either really crappy = birt, or really expensive = tableau) so I finally made my own:

https://github.com/gregpinero/django-mr_reports

Feel free to use it or improve it. I think it's great :-)
> My proposal in the tracker was to allow such host-plugins to define the equivalent ex commands and viml functions instead of hardcoding them in neovim itself

Defining methods via msgpack-rpc and calling through vimscript is already possible(send_call will block until the connected plugin returns a response). Here's what Neovim still needs:

- A way to spawn plugins through vimscript. This was fixed [here](https://github.com/tarruda/neovim/commit/acf17dbefef379ecb8e...) and will replace the initpython/initclipboard options. This alone will be enough to implement the golang proposal.

- Modify vimscript to enable definition of lower cased functions and commands, and commands that accept heredocs. This will let us move the knowledge about other languages/interpreters from the C core to vimscript, though it has the disadvantage of introducing incompatibilities with vim in the future
Ah, so the old dot com strategy: we'll lose money on each one, but make up for it in volume!
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That’s probably not a very reliable proxy for age estimation though (for reasons alluded to by sampo, and simply because telomere length varies across individuals regardless of age). It’s probably much easier and more reliable to measure the accumulation of single-base mutations (SNPs): DNA repair is faulty and such mutations accumulate with age. By comparing the genetic material of several cells across a sample this can be estimated.
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I've had both the 310XT and the 910XT, and neither lasts more than 6 hours now. Using the heart rate monitor strap greatly impacts my battery life, for some reason. I wish there was a way to tell how many cycles my batteries have left in them. I think it's time for an upgrade :)
I run and this is fine with me. I don't go anywhere without my phone anyway, and I imagine GPS on the Watch would mean shorter battery life or bigger battery/watch.
> I wish we could ban most of the top active commenters on hacker news.

Assuming I'm on it, let's see the rest of your list of HN'ers you'd like to see banned.
> The standard definition of "featurephone" is not having the ability to install apps.

I disagree with that definition: For example all cheapest Nokia phones since a long time ago supported (roughly when they got color screens, some even before that) installing J2ME applications. Same for cheap Samsungs and LGs of the same time.

And these are definitely not smart phones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3410
""Downloadable personal applications via Java technology""

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Platform,_Micro_Edition
The Apple Lisa had a mouse so if we are looking for inaccuracies that is a better argument to start with..
Also, There have been some contributions to msgpack-c:

- https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-c/pull/84

- https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-c/pull/109

- https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-c/pull/113

- https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-c/pull/118
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Of course I always have my phone!
Minecraft dev culture in 2014 in general feels exactly like microcomputer dev culture in 1985, speaking as a guy who was there. Version control, whats that? Why would I want to open my source code, free software whats that? We don't need standards or APIs we can just hack it into working, one piece at a time. What do you mean a development methodology or strategy, we just start coding? If you find a bug, its your fault, if you don't like seeing bugs then stop finding them. What is all this scalability and O(n) talk I don't understand why that could matter. We don't do documentation (although in minecraft world in 2014 rather than make a one page doc in five minutes, we get unprofessionally produced 45 minute youtube videos as "docs".) What do you mean by a "silo", why would a silo be bad, I just wanna admin my own webforum and only use my forum.

Its a really retro game, and I'm not talking about block graphics. Culturally and technologically its like something out of shareware game programming on a C64 in the 80s.

The crazy thing, is in 2014 there's a lot of people making a lot of money telling us that doesn't work, but just like 80s software development, it really DOES work. Maybe not well, maybe lots of heads pounding on desks in frustration, but it works surprisingly well.

If you're in the modern dev community it does feel like visiting a museum or an Amish community, very deja vous.
I think the concept you're referring to is self-indicating, or in this case the lack thereof. A much more commonplace example that comes to mind is volume control knobs on things like stereo amps; the "old style" had a knob directly connected to the potentiometer controlling the volume, so it was self-indicating and at a glance (or even just by feel if the pointer is tactile) you could see what position it was set to. Now it seems fashionable to use knobs that don't have any markings and will spin continuously, meaning that you have to look at the display to see what the setting is.

To me it sounds like a cost-cutting measure - to have controls that move, there has to be an actuator in them, which makes it more expensive. My stereo which has self-indicating volume knobs actually contains a small motor that rotates them when I use the remote control.