skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not the image the Angular team has shown to the world.

What is the business value to use Dart instead of any other language that transpiles into JavaScript?
I don't know enough robotics to follow the paper[1] entirely, but this seems the relevant part for your question:

We evaluated our method by training policies for hanging a
coat hanger on a clothes rack, inserting a block into a shape
sorting cube, fitting the claw of a toy hammer under a nail
with various grasps, and screwing on a bottle cap. The cost
function for these tasks encourages low distance between three
points on the end-effector and corresponding target points,
low torques, and, for the bottle task, spinning the wrist. The
equations for these cost functions follow prior work.[23]

The reference 23 points at S. Levine, N. Wagener, and P. Abbeel. Learning contactrich manipulation skills with guided policy search. In
International Conference on Robotics and Automation(ICRA), 2015.

I haven't read that paper yet.

Interestingly, they initialise the visual learning model using the ImageNet images. Was it 3 years ago that was considered a pretty much intractable problem, and now the fact a CNN can work on it well enough to be useful isn't even worth a complete sentence.

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.00702v1.pdf
Thanks. I have always enjoyed writing and feel like this could be a good avenue.

Would you recommend that I write as a guest on larger sites, or run my own blog?
Launch it. Launch launch launch.

Let customers tell you what features they need.
I refuse to buy any laptop with less than 16GB of RAM.
Spent almost 1 year searching for a laptop to buy. Had to buy a 14" ASUS-RoG G46VW[0] and replace the screen for a 1920x1080 one.

[0] http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/G46VW/
This is the kind of response I was looking for. Though I have to ask, is this specific to Cassowary.js or to Cassowary constraint solver in general?

Because from what I've seen/heard, the Cassowary constraint solver is used extensively in Mac OS X/iOS for UI layout, which AFAIK isn't really referred to as slow.

Plus the constraint solver does operate on a matrix of constraint, which should make it easier to work on GPU.
Maybe someone can set up adultfriendfinderfinder.com that cross references this data with accounts on the site so that you can find actual people in your area instead of fake accounts.
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I really wish more people and companies would host things on Tor's hidden services, avoiding the entire notion of exit nodes and the cleartext network.
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it's not something that is easy to generate mathematically, so it's an illogical thing to solve for on a cpu, which wants to follow instructions. randomness shouldnt have a "rule" to follow, that ends up being pseudorandom.

See here for a simpler explanation of building a random sequence generator using avalanche effect (sort of the precursor to this device I'd guess):
http://holdenc.altervista.org/avalanche/
Sometimes. Measure, don't assume. For example, we ran across a bug recently with docker and AUFS which caused multiple instances of Dockerized node to all wait on a single mutex, resulting in no improvement in speed over a single instance.
Burglary is theft of valuables. What was stolen? Data was copied, not erased. The moral ownership of that data is by the many authors who were never reimbursed. JSTOR is a scam.
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That's true. There is both a CSPRNG and a TRNG: https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/11/17/the-differ...
True, symlinks complicate things.

We have to be careful about doing too much (adding edge cases and complexity), though in this case how about:

canon_src = canonicalize(src);
canon_dst = canonicalize(dst);
int ret = rename(src, dst);
if (ret == EXDEV) {
/* Note if there are symlinks being recreated
between the canonicalize() and rename() above,
then it's better to not fall back to a
cross device copy anyway. */
if (common_prefix(canon_src, canon_dst))
ret = EINVAL; /* Treat like "copy into self" */
}
All details are in link, but tl;dr is "Not in browsers yet".
Nice post. I also homebrew. What types of styles are you talking about that you can find in a store? I'd love to try making them :)
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Very smart, it's nice to see you are inviting people to submit workarounds and descriptions of problems in different browser, instead of just asking for bug reports.

This makes feel the project more interesting, because if I hit one of the already covered problems, I already know where I can (probably) find the solution.
My thought is that always the network is the bigger bottleneck. But I guess it depends on the data / OS etc.
Exactly, I think the telling question to any corporate IT team (not the head of all corporate IT) should be "When did you last identify, trial, and then make available to users a software package / process / cloud service without first receiving a request from management that you do so?"

In my experience, the answer is usually never.

Corporate IT exists to fulfill requirements from above, not to explore how things can be done better.
I probably made a career direction error in the early 1990s. I had been on DARPA'S neural network tools advisory panel and written the SAIC Ansim product, but moved on because of a stronger interest in natural language processing. Now, I think deep learning is getting very interesting for NLP.

This UCB project looks awesome!

BTW, I took Hinton's Coursera neural network class a few years ago, and it was excellent. Take it if that course is still online.
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2 years ago...
http://learningthreejs.com/blog/2013/04/30/closing-the-gap-b...
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> If you want both the host and the VM to have a coherent view of the filesystem, the VM can't really do efficient caching.

That makes sense, though it's surprising then that it's not possible to explicitly enable caching if that's the bottleneck and a coherent view from the host side is not a necessity for a given workload.
There is a niche in the market. Some people have tried to fill that niche, and they've posted their sites to HN.

The main problems seem to be:

1) The sites only work once you have enough users to make them work, but you can't get more users until the site works.

2) People use them for sex, which is off-putting to large numbers of users.

OKC should probably set up some kind of meet-friends-in-groups thing.
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a) Chip designers prefer to keep analog and digital very separate. Analog takes up comparatively much more space. Putting it on the same die may make side-channel attacks easier.

b) How do you verify that it's really random and not a CSPRNG with a key known to the NSA?
Hi,

We just built our MVP and would love to hear what you guys think.

Cheers!
Refill cartridges for an inkjet printer are, per liter of ink, also horribly expensive. Many other things are equally expensive when compared to the bulk price of the main ingredient. So what?

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." (Oscar Wilde)
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OKC at least has a "Looking for friends/Activity partners" option, whether it ever works is questionable. maybe people will message you, if not what have you lost? 10 mins to fill in a profile!
that american flag on the label makes the whole device suspect to me.
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Here is an example if you don't feel like doing it yourself: http://i.gyazo.com/bf87e7b7fd98cab95f654459b4945643.png
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/11599989/The-ma...

Althought it sounds a bit sparse at the moment.
> REBOL had a lot of time to grow beyond where it seems to be now.

I'm following Red development, hoping for it to become a free (in both senses) modernized REBOL:

http://www.red-lang.org/

It's not there yet, obviously, but it looks promising.
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Go to a sports bar. Offer to buy beer (should not be very expensive) for those who get one other member to sign up with them. Pay for 50 beers, get 100 members. Plus, you might get feedback related to the site instantly (in person). That's hustling, in my opinion.
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absolutely hilarious :-)
he wants to make peoples live better with a sincere and kind idea. In return gets showered with millions of porn money.

I guess it's the universe rewarding him for his good intentions.
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"A real espresso pulled by a professional will run you €0.90 in Europe"

Where?
I disagree: Highlighting the fact that it's not perfect is terribly useful. Be careful what you use things like this for.
As I recall,

kill -SIGQUIT process_id

will force a core dump (with the various caveats etc), at which point you can use GBD to run around the various thread stacks at that point.
Angular 2 exists in 3 forms: TypeScript, Dart and ES5. And a lot of ideas came to ng2 from AngularDart.

> What is the business value to use Dart instead of any other language that transpiles into JavaScript?

It's the question of preferences. Dart gives great tooling (IDE, debugging, testing) and more advantaged language, but universe of Dart is much smaller, so there are pros and cons, as always. There is no one ideal size of shoes.
for what joy?
If you're using PostgreSQL you can just use a trigram index for these kinds of searches.

- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/pgtrgm.ht...

- https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html
to expensive for only random number generator for $50
If you go that route, the state in which the company is situated is even more interesting.

The site of the producers, though:

http://ubld.it/

Looks like somebody who actually honestly likes to make his own hardware, and not only RNGs.
i second that
I wonder if something like this can be piggy backed off Facebook would work. You kill many birds with that stone: you can use the degrees of separation to verify people ("Oh, that's Joe's friend"), you already have an audience, and people are less likely to flood it with casual sex proposals.
https://scotch.io/tutorials/a-visual-guide-to-css3-flexbox-p...
The evolution of the Erlang VM (2011) [pdf]
A very nice realtime flexbox simulation.
http://flexboxin5.com/
http://podroulette.com
I'm not sure India is the best example either.

Sure, at the National political level, it's a democracy.

But there are several issue that allow citizens of some lesser democratic states enjoys more freedom in some cases... (it's very un-even though)

Religious rights, women's rights...
Or the amount of power that some have at the local level (cast issues, landowners, etc..).
The Java packaging is only the first of your nightmares to work through with Java. Troubleshooting problems with OSS tools is a veritable nightmare.
for the truth
Pretty much the same thing happened to me and I'm still quite conflicted over it.
Could you be more specific about the particular aspects of the "way they decided to do this" that you are objecting to? As a privacy advocate, I can't see anything particuarly objectionable in their methodology.
Why is this even being upvoted? it confuses important concepts and what isn't wrong is irrelevant.
Russian programmers are the best!
Burglary isn't theft. Burglary is breaking into a place you don't have permission to enter, with the intent to commit a crime. If you then commit that crime (whether it's theft, vandalism, destruction of property, etc.) you are usually charged with that other crime alongside the burglary charge.
A random number generator with US flag on it. Yes, it is kind of silly, it is just a sticker, but it subconsciously evokes negative associations, at least for me.
City of birth? Why password questions are a terrible idea
The landing page isn't janky this time around--that's an improvement. I was hoodwinked by the last media blitz, so I'm very shy to play with Famo.us a second time around. Elephant in the room: What has been learned and improved from the previous false-start(s)? For me, a "Hey, look at me!" is insufficient this time around, but I would find a list of improvements convincing (bonus points for some interleaved JS wisdom).
Not true unfortunately. I've looked into it quite a bit.
Neuroscience suggests that the brain has many fixed-purpose computational units, some neural nets and others not. While doing everything in a single network is indeed impressive, I am concerned about whether this is the most efficient approach.

EDIT: Downvoter, care to explain the reason for downvoting?
wow, too lame
Thank you, thank you a million times.

I've recently looked into flexbox for a project I started, but all the examples and stuff out there seem very ambiguous (compared to the amount of time I'm willing to invest. I just want things TO WORK). But looking at those docs again with this will help my understanding heaps.
Here's a highly interactive flexbox demo, done using re-com, a Clojurescript library that uses react.

http://re-demo.s3-website-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/#/h-b...

Definitely try out the Show me: on the bottom. Also try checking out the checkboxes in the gray box, as well as changing the values.
Nicely documented. I wanted to be reminded of what a bitmap picture for a PRNG bitstream looks like, and found this example: https://www.random.org/analysis/randbitmap-wamp.png

(bad due to visible patterns, compared to the shown picture for their hardware generator: http://ubld.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/random_bitmap.png )

Curiously, the shop shows sales data:

376 orders / 22 reviews
Since Mar 04, 2014

(as of about 14h WEST, 2015.05.22, let's see if it budges ;-)
What sticker would make you feel better? China? Hungary? Designed in USA, made in China?
The problem is getting Tor itself as per Snowden docs they capture your identifiers for later surveillance so need to Jason Bourne around the city to anonymously fetch Tor.
Here is the thing with "sharing" economy - the moment money exchange hands, this is no longer sharing but commercial activity. So you must abide to the regulations. You cannot cherry pick only the rules that suit you.
You are interpreting him too literally. What he meant was simply that it is obvious that Mozilla cares about income from their ads, not about the state of digital advertising.
In all the examples on the page, the RNN is first trained and then used to generate the text. Is there a way to use RNNs for something interactive? For instance, can one train an RNN to mimic Paul Graham in a discussion, and not only in writing an essay?
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If you are interested in Rebol, have a look at http://www.red-lang.org/ which is more modern (and not just interpreted but also compilable) language very close to Rebol. And it's OSS of course. It's still alpha version in development, but with good backing and very dedicated team.
People here are comparing vanilla MySQL to vanilla Postgres. Both are row-oriented, general purpose relational databases. Citus is specifically optimised for analytics, and is not a drop-in replacement for either MySQL or Postgres. From their FAQ:

"it is a great fit for ad-hoc, real-time analytics on timeseries data, but not ideal as the transactional backbone of your credit card processing system"

I've no experience with Citus, but on the MySQL side I have a lot of experience with Infobright. It might be a better application to compare against Citus. It's single-server, massively faster than MySQL for analytics work, but also comes with a number of caveats that make it unsuitable to be a general purpose database. Great for analytics, though.
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[As a non American] Why?
Normally I'd have to pay a few grand to to go the Caymans and then leave in a week or two....and you're going to pay me to stay there....and it's tax free? Seriously, programming jobs in the tropics are pretty rare, well at lest ones paying anything even remotely approaching first world salaries. Maybe I just don't know where to look, but I've looked in the past and found hardly anything. Sure, a lot of people might be too settled to relocate(true wherever you are), but I'm sure there are plenty like myself who would absolutely jump at the chance to move to the Caymans.
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It doesn't matter what the law says, in my opinion. Discrimination is discrimination. You wouldn't stop an African-American from getting into your car, right?
No flag whatsoever, really.

Though exploring that tangent a little, I wonder if there is a any sort of study on flags\countries and their association with quality (specifically engineering\tech). Off the top of my head I'd guess people associate places like Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Austria - I'm not sure why.
Thank you for this. I was just wondering how I should approach a full-height column next to a center-aligned image (http://images.apple.com/osx/photos/images/powerful_editing_t...). Flexbox seems to be the answer
A more trustworth statement would be "Click here to turn these ads off. These ads help support Firefox development, if you would like to support development by donating click here".
The one that drew me in the first place was mild. As an example, they recently covered it on BrewinWith Style and were unable to find any commercial examples locally. Things like altbier can be difficult to find, at the time some of the Belgian styles were very underrepresented. These days for me it's a lot of the more regional British variations but that's also because that's what I've grown to like in general.

Take a spin through the style guide and ask yourself on each one "how often do I see these" when they list the commercial examples. And then nite that oftentimes those examples are stretching things a bit already
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RDSEED does not let you seed the RDRAND generator. It provides random data intended for seeding a software PRNG.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/11/17/the-differ...
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RDSEED is not for seeding the generator, it also reads a random number. The difference is that RDSEED reads directly from the hardware random bit generator whereas RDRAND reads from a CSPRNG itself seeded by that random source.
I haven't tried ReactOS; I'm not sure if they have all of the threadpool stuff (Vista+) implemented, and I use that exclusively for PyParallel. It'd be an interesting experiment never the less.

I was also curious to see what would happen if I tried to install it on Wine.

> It'd be interesting if running under the VMS/NT thread/fork model could be seen as a reason to deploy some apps on ReactOS rather than Linux/BSD.

I... couldn't imagine trying to use ReactOS instead of Windows for an actual deployment of anything. Why wouldn't you just use Windows? (Serious question.)
I was getting the same thing, but it seems to be working now.
This kind of concerns me. I have a T4/T5 spinal cord injury from a snowboarding accident 4.5Y ago. I have good hand and arm function but that's it no abdominals etc. I drive myself to work everyday and transfer in and out and fold up my wheelchair.

London's black cabs all have ramps. UBER is making big inroads here and I'm worried that eventually it'll be tricky to get a black cab. I can transfer into a regular car but I would need the driver to put my wheelchair in the boot (trunk) and given busy streets, harassed drivers, needing to pull right up to the kerb etc. I've not really had the guts to try it. It's particularly relevant here as the tube is mostly inaccessible and the buses painfully slow.
I don't know what people expected from an organisation set up for the prime purpose of avoiding regulation.
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Tails apparently doesn't even have time to patch grsec/pax so unlikely. It took them almost a year to add macchanger on boot even, they spend all their available time patching the flood of bugs due to cramming their distro full of userland tools like video editing software.
Sorry for my laziness, how does this compare to Bootstrap?
Which is why those laws were created in the first place. Because some people WOULD stop an African-American from getting in their car.
I'm sure I'm not the only curious one who'd love to hear the rest of the story if you care to elaborate :)
I'd love to get Paul Graham's opinion on Shopify. I ran a small business shopping cart software business for a decade and it's really tough market. Small businesses don't want to spend much and are just as demanding as Fortune 500 customers in terms of the features they want. Operating in the red could be fine for a SaaS model if you're growing but the valuation of 1.9B seems high.

I wonder how many years Viaweb operated in the red? I wonder if they were profitable when Yahoo! acquired them?
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I think I understand Uber's stance here. From a business perspective their drivers are all independent contractors. This is an important part of the discussion because if they start telling them what the can and cannot do during their time then they start to look more and more like employees (something they absolutely do not want).

An example of this are the popularly discussed drivers that run jewellery or other businesses out of their car while also driving. The moment Uber says you cannot do this on while a contractor for us the legal waters become murkier.

It may be the case that once someone challenges in court an Uber driver (not Uber itself) and wins on the grounds that not accepting a disabled passenger is illegal then the company will have the grounds (and precedent) to enforce that their contractors do not break the law.

To drive the point home, even if Uber wants to prevent their drivers from doing certain things doing so moves them closer to the realm of employees not contractors.

Edit: To clarify I don't necessarily believe that Uber drivers should be considered contractors, but until a case is brought against them and they lose and all drivers become employees they're going to be as hands off as possible to maintain their ability to defend the position. Also providing instructions to a contractor (provide water) does not make them an employee.
They've been able to do it to the tune of a tens of billions of dollars valuation. So has Airbnb. Why change now? They'll get their IPO before anyone has to answer for anything, so investors & founders will be happy. Keep running the marketing machine with the "sharing" moniker right until the check clears, and after that, it's the shareholders' problem.
Nice idea... This is something that I might try...

Is there an online version of this sort of thing? Like a service that lets you offer free access codes to people who refer 2+ other people?
Igor Sysoev or Antirez won zero show-off competitions.

If it is an attempt to proclaim something like "Russian programmers are the greatest" nationalistic bullshit here - it is just pathetic.
Heh, after reading Show Stoppers and Just For Fun, I actually think Cutler and Linus are actually very similar and would potentially get along in real life if it weren't for the epic technology divide.
Pretty auditable alternative for $35 https://www.tindie.com/products/WaywardGeek/infinite-noise