skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I don't think so. NNs have millions of parameters, and making a quantum computer that large, and with that many complex interactions, would be very difficult.

Optimization of NNs isn't really that bad. Stochastic gradient descent is extremely powerful and roughly linear with the number of parameters, possibly better.
I need to order a lot more pods, but I will probably do a quick taste and measurement of each one they offer. Even the ones that will utterly disgust me. (I don't like Monsooned Malabar even a little bit.)
So what is the correct pattern? When you know it's going to happen to predict it to show the idiocy? Or to say post later looking sore?

I think predicting it on the back of a reasonable post when you know what is going to happen despite it's reasonable nature kind of highlights the problem that exists here. I think I have a pretty good sense of when a post is going to get slammed in downvotes rather than responded to sensibly, so testing it with a proper demonstration seems to be the right thing. YMMV. I have tried the other way too by the way.

I didn't bait nor invite, I predicted. And did so correctly. But I don't believe in calling people names like "conspiracy theorist" I think that is intellectually lightweight. I wonder if you do too?
Not that I love the gold-plated set, but:

"Your suspicion is likely wrong though - I have no science to back this up but am 100% sure in blind tests people with normally developed ears would pick the gold cables from the copper one. The difference in sound is just too big to ignore (or at least the difference between the gold vs copper I have here at home is). Unlike the improvements you compare them to, which can usually not even be measured with devices, let alone described."

Either you measure it and do a double-blind or it's just another subjective perception. See those tests that suggest people can't tell expensive wine from cheap wine without context.
This is my deep learning enlightenment moment. 22/05/15
Look for a used X230, it supports 16GB and an ExpressCard slot.
Broadwell-U supports up to 2 channels with an 8GB DIMM per channel.[1] For configurations up to 8GB, you only need to run traces for one channel. Supporting 16GB requires more design work (need to run twice as many traces) and wastes logic board space on lower-RAM configs. Apparently, Lenovo decided the trade-off wasn't worth it.

1. http://ark.intel.com/products/85212

Edit: If the 2015 X1 Carbon is dual-channel, I'm not sure why Lenovo would lack a 16GB option. I guess mounting twice as many RAM chips could hit space constraints.
Noted - will fix once the site is back up.
Same here on Firefox 31 on Windows 8.1. 25% used on my dual-core i5 with HT. This just sucks.

Years ago I added a 'snow' animation JS libary to a custom website which let little snow flakes drop during winter time. All just for fun.
It turned out to be fun only for a few days until I got the first complaints about users not being able to use their computers anymore and mobile devices being barely able to scroll anything.

I also believe that there must be a better way for simple animations.
Perhaps Nespresso means "Not Espresso"
perfect.

Tastes good, is cheap, takes a short satisfying routine to make the espresso (instead of being told by a machine to empty this or refill that). The hot stove can also heat the milk. The whole procedure takes a few minutes, just long enough to prepare breakfast or clean up a few things in the kitchen.
Ambient weather display for your home
Turbo button suddenly has a real meaning.
This is for Chakra, IE's JS JIT. Of course the browser's C++ code is likely compiled with SIMD support, but that doesn't help the codegen in the JIT compiler for JS.
Don't know if there are good, but I think it's a better options than Macs: http://www.metabox.com.au/

Just found them because I want a laptop without a webcam...
This is not surprising to anyone, because the no free lunch theorem assumes that all datasets are randomly generated. In reality real world problems are probably drawn from some distribution, and datasets are not totally random.
Ah thanks, that makes sense actually.
The things that people would most likely vote on are not really relevant. "I successfully made a simple chart based on the examples with this library" -> 5/5. If you need more than the examples, most people will have different backgrounds and requirements. What library they can best use depends on that.
I did the same thing recently :-) .

I bought a Jura F9. Additionally, it can prepare some specialities like Latte Macchiato or flat white. It is not equivalent to a preparation made manually but IMO it tastes pretty good. YMMV, but I think its espresso is significantly better than what a Nespresso machine can produce.

I contemplated buying a semi-manual machine for several years, but I knew that I would not take the time to operate it every morning. An automatic machine is a good answer to this issue.

The only real downside I can see is the initial investment compared to a Nespresso machine.
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Isn't the point that unlike high-end manufacturing or online marketplace technology, real estate is a commodity business with competition based on location and fit rather than brand, and owning the assets is where the safest profit is? ($5bn worth of real estate certainly holds its value better than $50bn worth of latest generation Teslas.)

I'd think comparing WeWork - a mid-sized player in a highly competitive workspace space - with the dominance of Apple and Uber is a little fanciful too. As the article points out, Regus (and the Workspace Group, and others) have been doing the same thing successfully on a larger scale for much longer, actually own many of their assets and yet still have smaller market caps. I'm not sure that beer on tap is that much of a defensible business model differentiator for WeWork...
>> feels like a no-brainer to me

Except it creates incentives that perpetuate the publish or perish model. For example, journals no longer need to worry about if published work is interesting or has an audiance and therefore it becomes easier to publish papers of dubious value.

During your annual review, you need to explain why you only published 1 paper (perhaps in the pay-walled journal of your proffesional society) when your colleague published 3 papers in some Open-Acess journal that nobody reads.
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> In other words the "rename("/mnt", "/mnt/foo")" should have failed with EINVAL, not EXDEV

I thought about that one, too. But I guess there is 2 kinds of subdirectory-of: In the mount hierarchy possibly across devices, and on a single device in terms of inode-reachability.

Absence of the first condition does not preclude the second condition: Many filesystems can be mounted at multiple places.

I think the point of EINVAL is to prevent screwing up the intra-device inode links. For this case, the check can't be made in the mount hierarchy. So it seems natural to me that the EXDEV check comes first.
I'd guess he means that it's easier to find a girl who writes less elegant code than you outside of the Bay Area ;)
I'd be genuinely astounded if they manage to build that machine and it works, let alone works well.
Basically that technology might allow us to extrapolate way more information than we are able to today. Maybe ALL information? Based on where every atom (in a limited space) is placed we might be able to guess where they were a picosecond ago, what about a second ago? What about a year ago?

The Total Perspective Vortex sort of work by that mechanic.
Carrefour. Lavazza Espresso Italiano two packs (2 x 250g) cost a little less than five euro here in France. Illy in its aluminum can on the top shelf works out to a little less than double that per kg.

It was cheaper in Spain, I recall. More like €1.80 for a 250g bag (cheaper still for Bonka, which you need to buy at least once just for the awesome name).
You seem to be imagining a case where you only allocate a small fixed thread-pool and when it runs out you just stop and wait. I think the slide deck is advocating that you just keep allocating more threads.
Here's how I've achieved that cheesy 90s spinning effect in the past:

@keyframes spin {
0% { transform: scaleX(1); }
50% { transform: scaleX(-1); }
100% { transform: scaleX(1); }
}
.spin {
animation: spin ease-in-out 6s infinite;
}

All done on the GPU as far as I can tell...

The only satisfactory way to do web animation I've found is to do it 100% in css by toggling classes. As soon as the JS interpreter gets involved in any way, things go south.
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They list Intel's contribution extensively in the post. I'm not sure why you'd assume they are trying to deceive anyone.

> Intel has been contributing to Chakra, the JavaScript engine for Microsoft Edge

> Some examples of Intel’s direct contributions to Chakra’s JIT compiler include better instruction selection and scheduling.

> [they] also helped us identify opportunities of missed redundant instruction elimination, and inline overhead reduction.

> Intel engineers are collaborating with us closely to implement Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) [1], a future ECMAScript proposal, in Chakra

> Intel recently contributed an optimization to improve navigation (load) time for pages containing several inline elements, optimizations to reduce DOM parse times for text-area elements, and participated in investigations and root cause analysis to improve page load/response times

[1]: https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd
[2]: https://github.com/tc39/ecma262
I think the penetration of Nespresso in the French market might also be related to the consistently bad quality of espresso in cafés. I really don't understand how that has come to be, given that most of the other souther European countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal, most of former Yugoslavia…) usually have pretty good espresso and largely use the same kind of equipment and coffee blends.
The low brightness of the x1 carbon bothers me also, I have it on full brightness all the time and often wonder wether I've turned the brightness up.

The machine is really solid, and for a 14 inch screen it is really tiny. It's just a bit bigger then my 13 inch macbook pro but features a larger screen. Using ubuntu 15.04 on it also is really pleasent experience, nearly everything works, except the 3/4 finger gestures on the touchpad and audio. But since my worklaod typically exists of running virtual machines, ssh and chrome the sound doesn't bother me.
Ask HN: What is the state of the art set of tools for front end Web developers?
Libraries, Frameworks, Testing tools, Continuous Integration tools, Automation tools, Compilers, Debuggers, Profilers, Collaboration tools...
With Thinkpad X250 you can select 16GB RAM option.
I expect there is a decent amount of back and forth. Graphics demos of different tech in an era always tend to look similar for a number of reasons (tackling similar problems, wanting to outshine a competing similar demo, culture of the time etc.)

I know MrDoob was inspired to duplicate the Famo'us periodic table demo in Three.js/CSS and in the other direction, well its goddam MrDoob, you can't work in web graphics and not be inspired by him.
The united states actually is one of the less populated places on earth.
Great work!

Just what I needed (a while ago, but again soon I'm sure). There are so many options with JS graphing now, it can be a bit overwhelming just assessing the options and their capabilities.
Famo.us is really fast, but the minimal snabbt.js does most of the same animations tricks and is very easy to use. It includes a minmal physics engine. https://github.com/daniel-lundin/snabbt.js
Interesting! Similar sort of case happened to me at Apple App store in March 2011. I just bought my first macbook with eagerness to learn iOS programming. I had around $3 in a virtual debit card. That time you would have to buy Xcode for $5. After activating my iTunes account, and payment system verification with that card, I thought to give it a try by pressing buy button. And then it worked! The Xcode4 was downloaded from app store. I couldn't believe that! Just to find out if it was mistaken, I press "buy" on another two apps totaling around $10 in bill. And all those apps were working. So, I emailed apple support regarding that situation. After 4/5 emails back and forth, they understood what I was trying to say. A guy from the support thanked me and said that he would submit that complaint to the respective division.

None of the corporate IT systems is immune to vulnerability. And the best way to resolve issues is by leaving bureaucracy, accepting the fact "to err is human", and appreciating good intentions.
Neural networks tend to overfit very easily, which is the main reason other methods usually outperform them. They are mainly successful where they can exploit the structure of a problem, in ways other methods can't.

E.g. convolutional neural networks take advantage of local structure within images and the fact nearby pixels are related to each other.

However I'd really like to see the reemergence of Bayesian neural networks, which can solve the overfitting problem. Also methods like dropout are relatively new, and alleviate overfitting a lot more than was possible in the past.
What do you mean by limiting my framework?

Yeah, true, I don’t create any objects in that animation actually. I just do opacity animations (from 0 to 1 and vice versa) and some transforms sometimes (which are supposed to be 'cheap' according to some resources on the internet).
Learning motor torques directly from vision is a very important result.

https://youtu.be/EtMyH_--vnU

This talk by Sergey Levine, Pieter Abbeel's PostDoc outlines Berkley's end-to-end deep-training visuomotor control in detail.

Here is the paper :

End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies,
Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Trevor Darrell, Pieter Abbeel.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00702
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http://hackinghealth.camp/fr/
I believe health related hackathons are the best. Because in the end you know you are participating for the Greater Good
The Cyrus IMAP server has a "split metadata" mode which supports this configuration. Very nice if you are running a mail server of any significant size.
Don't praise the keyboard, please! I have a 2014 Thinkpad and the weak screen, low capacity battery, the fact that it wakes out of sleep only when it feels like (at other times I have to remove and plug the battery back in to get it started), and the crappy wifi is not even close to being as annoying as grouping the arrow keys with PageUp & PageDown. Take a look at the screenshots, they're even tighter than the other screens.

This is my story every day: "you wanna go left? No you wanna go PageUp!", "You wanna go right? Here's a PageDown for you!" "AAAAAAAARRRRGH"
Building the mobile version of minesweeper
I want to ask where ember.js stand at?
I tend to always go with FusionCharts[1]. And AFAIK, it offers way more charts and maps than any other library out there. 90+ chart types and 965 maps last time I checked.

It's extremely customisable and has tons of readymade fiddles[2] and business dashboards[3] for inspiration(ready copy). I recently used full code of one of their dashboards for my project. I've never failed to convert my designer's or PM's concept into exact same working code with FusionCharts. Highly recommended.

[1] http://www.fusioncharts.com/

[2] http://www.fusioncharts.com/javascript-chart-fiddles/

[3] http://www.fusioncharts.com/dashboards/
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This question was answered by the Founder Steve at a meetup in London.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkaU2cFbXyg&feature=youtu.be...
I'm talking about hitting OS or resource limits. Let's say a server is configured to time-out requests after 2 minutes. A malicious client could do something like...

Every second:

1. Open 40 connections to the server.

2. For all open connections, send one byte.

Repeat indefinitely.

Steady state would be reached at 4,800 open connections. At 1 byte of actual data per second per connection, data plus TCP overhead would use around 200KB/s of bandwidth. The server would have to run 4,800 threads to handle this load. Depending on memory usage per thread, this could exhaust the server's RAM.

There are ways to mitigate this simple example attack, but the only way to defend against more sophisticated variants is to break the one-thread-per-connection relationship.
Just add a pickle Promises
The article linked up top claims that Lenovo has run two sets of traces - the 8Gb is dual, not single channel.
The economy is growing again, unemployment is down, and most people just voted for the policy to continue.
Well said. I get something of a free pass on this by being American (Edit: In France, in case that wasn't clear).

I can roll out of bed and walk down to said cafe without showering, perfectly coiffing myself, or even wrapping a scarf around my neck (seriously! leaving the house with no scarf!!!) and know that I won't actually lose any more status in anybody's eyes for my shabbiness. When you've got nothin' you've got nothin' to lose, and all that.

I think you're right in this though. Check back with me in a few months and I bet I'll have one of these machines in my house.
Good to see progress in this field.
Also want to remind that you can use SIMD in Dart already now: https://www.dartlang.org/articles/simd/
"Implicit" use that you believe exists isn't actually SIMD. JIT-ers in the browsers can implicitly use SSE instruction set as such, but not in the efficient SIMD way (specifically under the constrains of JIT-ing reasonably fast and not possibly knowing the types). What is here developed is the support for the explicit use of SIMD instructions by the JavaScript programmer:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/SIMD...

var a = SIMD.float32x4(1, 2, 3, 4);
var b = SIMD.float32x4(5, 6, 7, 8);
var c = SIMD.float32x4.add(a,b);

The benefit of such instructions is that they are fully typed and can easily map directly to the machine instructions. And of course, you don't have to write such code unless you actually program something that calculates a lot.

It is a Google/Mozilla/Intel collaboration, started 2013:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbMXkbqQBcQ

The initial proposal was by John McCutchan, who works in the Google's Dart team but the paper

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2568066

is already signed by people from Google, Intel and Mozilla and Intel obviously actively works with the browser vendors.

"This paper introduces an explicit SIMD programming model for Dart and JavaScript, we show that it can be compiled to efficient x86/SSE or ARM/Neon code by both Dart and JavaScript virtual machines achieving a 300%-600% speed increase across a variety of benchmarks. The result of this work is that more sophisticated and performant applications can be built to run in web browsers. The ideas introduced in this paper can also be used in other dynamically typed scripting languages to provide a similarly performant interface to SIMD co-processors."

What I don't know is if Intel keeps some patents or some sources. That could explain that Intel must be involved. But maybe they simply like to be involved.
Framerate, sorry. Just make sure it isn't updating constantly. Can you share an example btw?
Maybe this isn't a new idea. But it seems that more Tor exit points would be a big help. Has anyone made a tool that's both and entry and exit point. You could control the amount of bandwidth exiting. This way the exit points would be more transient - like Bittorrent peers.
So all those people that voted for the policy to continue two weeks ago are neo-con disaster capitalists? I never know there were that many of them.
When I was little (5-7 years old) I had quite a few anime videos and magazines in italian sent to me by my parents who were abroad. Where I lived no one knew a single word of italian.
I often watched and rewatched those videos and read those magazines without any other external input. I can tell you that doing that I easily learned the language.
When I was 8 years old I also left for Italy and in two weeks of time I already started speaking fluently, albeit with a few mistakes.

If the child will actually watch the Spanish TV he will learn the language.

EDIT: Even now I often learn new japanese words (and remember them) just by watching animes. The difference is that now I have english subtitles but back then I had no subtitles, only the images to help me understand the meaning.
I would be inclined to argue that their ineffectiveness at achieving their stated purpose combined with their gross violation of the privacy of everyone in the countries affected makes them worthless.
Maybe adding the sub-heading: "Shares in a high-flying firm suffer a mysterious collapse" would give more context.

I can't tell from the story whether these businesses failing is a good sign (viciously competitive market) or a bad sign (a market held back by shady cronyism) for people wanting to see Solar fulfil it's potential to save the human race from itself.
That's what EV certificates are for.

Otherwise https only gurantees that you're actually talking to the domain you see in the URL, not who that domain belongs to.
I have been (many times) to Italy, Spain and Portugal, and while I have been consistently amazed and wowed by the quality of expressos in Italy, I can't say the same for Spain and Portugal...? Coffee in cafés there (to me) tastes very much like the ones we get in Paris?

What I find strange in Paris (or France) is that all expressos in any café taste exactly the same. It's not absolutely bad, it's a little bitter and quite strong; but why is the taste so consistent?

Food products are usually not consistent; nothing can be more different than baguettes or croissants coming from different bakeries for example.

I have zero actual information about this, but would imagine it's because all cafés get their equipment and coffee from the same vendors and never try anything else...?
This is unsuitable for real-world applications, where you will, inevitably, need at least a little mutable shared state. Async handles this reasonably well at a decent performance cost; shared-memory threads (near-certain catastrophic failure) and database-only state (awful performance) do not.

The only real competition is transactional memory but it hasn't become mainstream yet.
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Ask HN: Is this the best way to monetize with annoying our users?
Hi all -

Bit of an open question but here’s a bit more detail… I am experimenting with ways to monetize our start up’s (Riddle.com) free tools to build quizzes, polls, lists and more.

One option we are thinking of offering is to give all features for free, but have users pay a little to remove a small AdSense ad unit at the bottom of the content.

Here’s a mockup: https://www.dropbox.com/s/aozu48jol46gdhe/list-new-edit.png?dl=0

Input needed:
Is the ad unit in the screenshot below too disturbing? Will it hinder our growth and will it keep people from using Riddle?

Our goal is to balance the benefits of wider distribution through a free model (which are working) with the need to start paying for all those servers. I really want to make it so that only large brands who can afford it would ever need to pay to use our tools, while individual bloggers and smaller sites can keep using them for free.

Many thanks for your thoughts!

Mike
> freshly ground coffee

This is actually the single most determining factor for a good coffee.
It's no doubt a great work, but I kind of like this qualitative comparison more:

http://www.fusioncharts.com/javascript-charting-comparison/
But as with other things based on taste: the perception matters most, not a scientific double blind study. If my perception makes me prefer one coffee over the other, I am happy.