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This is the worst kind of comment and what is wrong with Hacker News.

No one cares about your intellectual superiority, or the fact this might be a special interest for you. This article wasn't written for you, you already know and understand its content. There is literally nothing you could have got from it.

I on the other hand enjoyed the article. This isn't a field I'm familiar, so in general my knowledge was increased. That some concepts are misrepresented and dumbed down is obvious, but this is far out weighed by the general knowledge that was imparted.

Writing is all about picking an audience and conveying it effectively to the audience. It's fine to point out inaccuracy or build on the finer points, but don't be aggressive about it and don't insult the article because it offended your superior intellect.
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Now that Boston Dynamics is part of Google they will finish their existing military contracts and then no longer take on military customers.

"Google told the Times it will honor Boston Dynamics’ existing contracts, including a $10.8 million deal with DARPA to develop its Atlas prototype for potential humanitarian use in disasters like the Fukushima meltdown. But Google added that it does not plan to become a military contractor itself."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/12/16/google_ac...
Thanks! I didn't have any hope of getting them all!
This is the first explanation of neural nets that has really clicked for me. That's because it's written in the same explanatory tone that I would use in person while trying to convey the concepts. I wish more people would write like this.

I think of these things like lectures in college. Assuming that a) you have all the context up to that point, b) you grok every step, and c) it doesn't run beyond the length of you attention span - call it an hour - then you can learn astonishing things in a matter of a few sessions. But if you miss a step, and don't raise your hand because you think your question is stupid, then you might as well pack up and go home.

I find that even though the time element of articles is removed, I still trip over certain sections because the author was too lazy to anticipate my thinking process, which forces me to search other sites for the answers, and before you know it the impact of the writing has been completely diluted.
very interesting issues, but indeed the wapo article is garbage..

for those asking:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_modeling
That reminds me: It would be nice if you could open several different incognito windows, each with their own session. That way one can debug user interactions without needing as many browsers as users in the interaction (or half of it because each browser has it's own incognito session in addition to the normal session).
It's a combination of a list of articles on Clojure usage I have stashed away + conference talks + job ads + some of the companies Cognitect has worked with (there are others we're not allowed to mention). I plan to put up a list like this on clojure.org soon.
Great line from the "Tom's Marriage Advice" segement: "I have my own law of marriage, which is that it is more important to be happy than to be right."
> You're wrong.

Well. One of us is wrong.

I created the C4 algorithm. And I wrote the paper. I'm pretty sure I know what it does.

:-)

You raise another "I think this is how it works and therefore it must be slow" point in this posting that you didn't raise before, so let me address it to avoid confusion:

> "...Page remapping is insanely expensive at the micro-granularity needed."

If you actually read the paper (e.g. Table 2), you would have realize that C4 uses a page remapping mechanism that (in 2011) could sustain >700TB/sec of page remapping speed. Using my recommendation that remapping rate needs to be able to handle 100x the allocation rate, that's enough to keep up with 7TB/sec of allocation. So I think we have some headroom. The number have only gotten better since with Zing's loadable module.
I have a ThinkPad. Mine is five years old, so it isn't Office Depot junk.

I keep reading that the new ones are borderline.
I suppose this would be pretty difficult with "live" recorded sound. Stereo microphone arrays are a complex business already, AFAIK there's no audio equivalent of the 360 degree cameras they use for recording VR. Microphones simply cannot be made as directional as speakers.

However with a multichannel surround sound recording, panning/fading the tracks dynamically according to head movements is trivial, all games do this. So I guess you would want a file format that placed all the channels in 3D space over time. That's the kind of thing the spat software I linked in the above post does, except it's also doing cutting edge acoustic modelling and so forth. It needs a hefty computer.
And, if you frequently use IE virtual machines, you can use the ievms[1] script to manage the downloads, expiration times, etc. Saves a ton of bandwidth and disk space over the modern.ie downloads, too (it uses the modern.ie images as base installs).

[1] https://github.com/xdissent/ievms
Blockbuster had the nostalgia thing going for it. They could have built on that.
> It's one of the most accurate clocks on the planet: an atomic clock that uses oscillations in the element cesium to count out 0.0000000000000001 second at a time

For comparison, Planck time = 5.39106×10^-44 sec

We're pretty far from measuring time precisely.
> > What's the problem? The users can just download the same browser if they're really interested in the additional functionality.

> Instead of working to ensure that my parents' computer running Windows 3.1 shipped with a C compiler by default a few decades ago, people inside Microsoft and Borland were probably thinking the same thing.

Er, no, they weren't. For Microsoft, they were not thinking users could just download top quality dev tools, in fact that would have been directly contrary to their interests -- they had a profit-based motive for assuring that quality dev tools were a separate purchase. Bundling them into the OS would have required them to sacrifice the additional cost that people making money developing software would be willing to pay for a dev tools .

And Borland was also trying to sell dev tools, but was really irrelevant to what Windows was going to be bundled with.
I think calling IE's development tools high-quality is a stretch. They got nice recently, but by far not as good as those of Chrome or even Firefox. Also it does not help that the development tools in the most recent IE are ok, I still have to maintain/debug older IEs. I think we can probably bin IE8 support, but it think only in recent IE11 the tools got good enough to not be a pain.
Redbox seems to get new movies long before Netflix, so that's one thing I'd use it for if they didn't come to Comcast's VOD thing earlier.
34 linux users upvoted this article.

OpenBSD is not Linux. The "story" is a non-event in OpenBSD world.
No, We Don’t Need a Law Against Catcalling
Many complaints only some of which come to mind immediately. Presence/status -- can't set it. Will I annoy this other person if I send a message? In busy hangouts requires that I scrollback to new messages, having to remember the last message I read. Can't search. One pile of people, big mistake -- no opt-out of this. Can't segregate people into different attention classes. (Just because I have 1000 people in a g+ circle doesn't mean i want them all to be able to freely message me, or even see my status). These are all UX issues. [Android client. Never looked at the iOS client]
"Never compete on price in enterprise"

That's a pretty blanket statement. I work for a relatively large service company, and we're looking to make a big purchase (a replacement of the core system), and one of the main decision points is price, especially because there are orders of magnitude in difference between several competitors.

In the market we're evaluating there are:

- a dominant, best of breed solution, which is priced out of the budget

- several good systems that can't compete with the dominant one and thus either compete on niches or price

- several decent systems by companies that serve a geographic region

- several small systems for niche companies.

The price differences range from a 22.000 dollar quote to a seven million dollar quote (and both were tossed out).

Between similarly-priced products, yes, price is not a factor.

One point which might be of interest is that we're valuing the user experience a lot - our previous software "ticked all the boxes" feature-wise but is an unusable mess, and the best-rated product among the mid-sized ones also has the same problem (maybe designed to win feature-checkbox government or bigco contract bids).

I only hope the people which will actually make the decision listen to the technical sides' arguments and don't go for the feature-rich but bad-UX solution (I also expect bad UX to be a proxy for yet-to-be-discovered hidden limitations).
Step in the right direction. Money Transfer regulations should happen at the national level instead of state level if innovation has to foster
I have those same concerns about working remotely, but some have made it work.

In any case, good luck to you.
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Thanks for your time (you've made some things clear). What i can't understand from your explanation is: Why isn't backspace a PgUp then?
Finding the winner of Senate using statistical election-forecasting machine.
My guess would be that the ecosystem in their (seed) target set of databases and protocols is written in C. In one case, they're using Twitters twemproxy to provide connection counts for redis/memcached.
I really liked their cameo in Cars. Tom's character was a Dodge Dart, which was problematic car he had owned, and was often a point of discussion on the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6y...
My guess would be that they went with C to make it easier to hook into existing data systems like MySQL or Redis.
>>> Wait until this isn't for parking tickets but rather for Social Security disability determinations or VA mid-term disability determinations or Illinois DOT public right-of-way ingress/egress waivers or...

... or criminal indictments.
To paraphrase, all problems can be solved by another level of indirection.
Notice how imgur hits you immediately with the main attraction, funny pics? If QuickVid is to be funny videos , shouldn't that be more visible? I'd think ppl have to be inspired to upload in the first place. Have the instructions on how to do so is secondary. Actually it doesn't appear that funny vids is your angle, but video hosting/sharing in general. Don't you think you need a slant or else you're just a YouTube clone? Anyway, funny vids on YouTube kind of hit you immediately on going to YouTube anyway, so that might not be a good angle either.
Oh I want to add: I'm a big fan of the Mozilla foundation and the work it does for the free web. I just currently don't use Firefox. I do use Thunderbird and Chatzilla and I'm a fan of Rust. I hope the Phone will be a success, just so it finances Mozilla.
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I agree I should post one, but it usually takes me a lot of time, and I wasn't sure how much interest there would be. I'll start working on one.
I hear you friend, but I knew a few doctors that are getting pretty tired of the all the insurance nonsense they have to deal with.
Thanks a lot for writing this tutorial, Andrej. Super clear, the next Feynman in the making here!

Interesting choice of language, maybe you could add little run buttons to the code snippets to try all the examples in the browser :-)
You've blown my mind. I feel like I was hitting the back button from an event detail and landing on the New Tab page very recently. Thanks for pointing it out.
Ah. I'd never really looked much at imgur. Seems they've got the funny video angle covered, too.
You still need ordering amongst writes. Without that you will get into a situation where there is no majority, all three nodes have different data.
> Two tests. One at the beginning of the year, one at the end.

Is it the same test (same questions) or a different test? I would guess same type of questions.

Also what if the students are already top performing and don't improve but actually get a slightly worse. (As in they all get 95% and then, well a few get sick and skip a few months from school and now the class gets 94%).

I guess I am still confused at how average expected improvement is supposed to work reliably across all those population models.

Do we assume the school-wide population of students is uniform enough to calculate a meanigful average improvment from it which can be applied very classroom individually.

There are a lot of school districts that have very mixed populations (economic, ethnic, cultural) backgrounds.

Same about the state. Some states districts that maybe very rural and undeveloped mixed in with a metropolitan area some place across the state.
Hello from Portland.

Anecdotally, it seems like they are moving out of there and moving in here. (Disclaimer: there's an alarming number of people here that are opposed to that. I'm not one of them.)

Thing to consider, though. There still isn't nearly the concentration of VCs (and thus networks) here as there are there. Depending on where you're at with your project/startup/company, that's got to be a sizable consideration when thinking about moving to/moving from the valley.
I switch between 30Hz and 60Hz displays, and the 30Hz always feels slow, including when typing. Probably depends on the person as to whether or not they notice it.

The smoothness of 60Hz is not to be underestimated.
If it's true, they probably use a system similar to library ebook loans. They have a certain number of licences that can run out, even though there's no technical reason for it. I don't know why copyright owners would do it with Redbox since they get money for each loan.
This is a lovely dream, but what if you're working on the caching software instead of the web app?
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I'm glad you enjoyed it, but in my opinion the article was misleading. Not just simplified.

I didn't go on and on in detail about systemic and random effects, linking to NIST tech reports on all the corrections they have to do on primary standards (http://tf.boulder.nist.gov/general/pdf/1846.pdf?origin=publi... on the redshift error at NISTs boulder facilities; and http://tf.boulder.nist.gov/general/pdf/2704.pdf on the sources of error in the F2 primary reference, see section 3.2 on relativistic effects), or pointing out people's amateur time keeping experiments where they demonstrate relativistic influence on decades old hardware ( http://leapsecond.com/ptti2006/tvb-project-great-ptti-ppt.pd... (this presentation is long and a ton of fun)), etc. or all the other bits of trash I could have pulled out to demonstrate knowing something here... because that wasn't my goal, the only point I was trying to make is that the article was likely to make many readers _less_ knowledgeable about the subject.

(But I will give those links now, because this argument is boring and time is neat!)

Perhaps you have enough background that you were not thrown off by the seeming claim that improved accuracy somehow makes these experimental references _less useful_, and you already know that relativistic effects aren't unique to optical lattice clocks and already must be compensated for, but I am sure that this is not universally the case.

What I get from the article isn't nothing... Potentially I get community around me which is less informed than they started and all that entails. Perhaps that's compensated for the fun they had reading about an interesting subject? or the additional learning they do after? I don't know, but I think the article could have been just as enjoyable without the bogus mystique that makes it misleading.

But if pointing out an article was, in my opinion, potentially misleading makes me everything that is wrong about Hacker News, I'll wear that proudly.

I, for one, think it's more likely the case that crappy shock headlines like "end time as we know it", constructed drama, and false freshness are a bigger drag on HN (and wider society) than any of my posts are likely to be... but to each his own.
I'm guessing their power of attorney is (despite the name) specifically constructed so that they're acting directly as a proxy for you rather than in the capacity of of a lawyer. It's organized by a company, but the intent seems to be for it be legally identical to you paying a friend who knows city hall really well to go go send in some forms for you.

There's no legal advice involved, too, as far as I can tell. They give you a percentage chance of successfully fighting the ticket (I wonder how they determine that?), but after that it's basically a black box process: they handle everything for you, and you find out at the end if they were successful or not.

There's also "this service is not available in the State of Georgia" in the footer, which is both interesting and suggests they've done their homework on this, since you wouldn't see a disclaimer for a market they're not even in yet if they hadn't. I'm curious why Georgia is unavailable - maybe something to do with power of attorney law there?
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Personally, I can't get into the 'proper' position when sitting at all, my arms are too long. I'm 6'2" ~190lb and when sitting in an ergonomic chair with proper posture, my elbows are within an inch of the top of my quads. Attempting to sit properly at a desk requires my quads to be jammed into the underside of the desk which is horribly uncomfortable. The only thing that is comfortable when sitting is raising the desk up a lot and extending my arms way into the desk to the point where my arms are nearly at shoulder height.
Jesus’s Official Facebook Page Categorizes Him as a Fictional Character
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Thank you!

I'm a huge fan of interactive demos (see e.g. my ConvNetJS demos: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/convnetjs/ ) because they help develop intuitions that solidify the material. And yes, that's partly why I chose Javascript; I'm definitely planning to add little demos of the gradients flowing around the circuit and so on. Coming soon! :)
This discussion reminds me of Nescape Communicator of the old days, where a WYSIWG editor was bundled with everything else. Discovering HTML for the first time I actually used it to build small sites, but it got too heavy while being too limited very fast.

What I am saying is basically that I think we need powerful inspection tools, but Frankensteining editing and compiling tools to the normal browser would result in something way too complex, with lots of modes and settings to adjust, and it doesn't seem like a healthy path for something that is supposed to be user friendly, lightweight and high performance for everyone else.

In a way, I am afraid Chrome is precisely going in this direction, including all the features for the normal users (the Flash plugin for instance) with also progressively more and more power tools only relevant to developers.

> In my view developer modes (in browser or framework) are counterproductive because they create discrepancies between how your users experience your site or app and how you experience it.

I think we agree on this point, and having separate tools for building and testing a site would allow to switch between the two mindsets more easily. The testing would be done exactly on the same app, so on the same footing as the users, and not on an application with some hybrid half editing/half testing state. There would be fewer "it works for me, what's your problem people ?" moments I think.