skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And Bezos and Jobs invested in the Segway, I'm not saying that it's pure hype, just that all they've shown is hype.
I need a browser plugin that replaces guns with teddy bears. Because outside of hunting, sport, policing or warfare I don't know that guns have much of a role in society. On campus they would seem to replace a thumb in the mouth or a plush toy in the hand of someone with major insecurities.
To solve the matrix equation A × X = B we need to find the inverse A^-1

Huh? Isn't Gaussian elimination more straightforward?
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The issue with TSMC/GF "16/14 nm" is that not all important features have been brought down to that level, so the actual shrink is less pronounced than usual. Furthermore, Intel's FinFET's are likely to be more mature than the competition, so I'd be wary of calling the two nodes equivalent. Close, certainly closer than the past, but Intel might retain its lead a bit longer.
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upvoted this, big N
I know very few people who a) have functional OBDII setups in their race cars and b) if they do, they've got more important things plugged into the port than a consumer targeted device. Further, it's pretty common when statements are made such as that to include a disclaimer along the lines of "(* keep racing to the track, not the street)."
Yeah, that screenshot is from a very old version of iOS. It's now under Privacy > Advertising, which is right where I'd expect it.
Think PayPal. The bank pays Apple Pay, Apple Pay pays the vendor. Google Wallet worked sort of like this through the dummy MasterCard card (MasterCard knew about the payment and the vendor, but not sure if it knew who you were).

But as Sophistifunk says, this would be an incredibly hard sell for an industry already extremely reluctant to team up with anyone or anything new.
The question should also be asked, "Or is it a Keynesian beauty contest?"

Or my preferred theory, which is that you have to put up with a lot of bullshit in order to get a degree, and you also want to hire employees that can put up with a lot of bullshit in order to get necessary work done. The kind of smooth-talking folks who can convince you to hire them without a degree might be naturally suited to sales... which is one of the few fields where you don't need the degree anyway.
Because cmd.exe, or command.com, has been around for over 30 years, and lots of people have learned it. PowerShell is nice but a couple of decades overdue.
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I agree.
Don't mean to be cynical but every public speech given by Tim Cook (and everyone else of high profile) is about setting the stage for something. Aka posturing. They have too much money, control, brand, power at stake.

And this isn't much different from Google blasting Apple for selling products assembled in sweatshops (not that google does that)...
Sure, they aren't equivalent, but at least it's closer than 28nm :) Also, while TSMC/GF are fudging the whole "14nm" thing, I would bet Intel is too. Node names are all marketing, and Intel is not above marketing.
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I like the idea that doing the right thing can be profitable, and don't see why a business should be criticized for aligning interests with its customers. It's a better way to enforce privacy than laws.
Yes, they even had a slogan "Windows NT is a better UNIX than UNIX".

Which never rang really true, but NT had promise.
Right, there is probably no machine learning at all behind Siri.
I wonder what would happen when the process shrinks stop in say 5 to 10 years.
I understand the sentiment. As a long time Mac user it just gets tiring to hear again and again that Macs are overpriced junk from people who have never used a Mac before.

But I also didn't understand the god germans line.
>It's funny how Google advocates always "bash" apple for being "closed source" when this company ships the most popular Unix in the world... and all of their products, even the watch, are based on it.

Android ships far more units than OS X/iOS and their derivatives do.
The Jeeves test
Honestly, do you really think majority of the users would pay for these services?
Congress turns away from post-9/11 law, retooling U.S. surveillance powers
The phrase makes literal sense. Radio is a physical connection. Computers can be built without the wireless transceivers in order to avoid that physical connection.
There are other search engines than google. Yes it is true that I don't get accurate data about google referrals but even so I have a pretty good idea as to what queries are getting referrals in general.
It's true! The reasoning is fairly simple, though.

In such a language, types classify terms and types correspond to theorems. The type/theorem for a fixed point is

fix : forall a . (a -> a) -> a

which as a theorem reads: "for any proposition A, if we can prove 'if A, then A' then we can prove A". Hopefully it's now clear why having 'fix' in your prover language won't work!
I think this makes sense. At least in my own experience attending a university in a high crime area, there were a number of students who legally owned firearms (off campus storage), had obtained a concealed carry permit from the state, and practiced often but were not allowed to protect themselves on campus. Several times my students were robbed or even kidnapped on campus. The criminals loved having so many soft targets with new electronics.

A student group petitioned the school president and the state legislature to allow licensed guns on campus. They were told to instead walk in groups at night. As a result several enterprising robbers started carrying flex-ties so they could rob large groups and leave them face down and bereft of their belongings and dignity.
AMD has to stop naming their products like this.

I mean look at Intel, i3,i5,i7. I can at-least guess which one's better.

Yes I do understand that Intel too has many different names that caters to different markets, yet somehow Intel’s names are far more easier for me to understand, they are far more shorter, and if I want more details about the processor I can read what’s after the "Intel-i7-xxxx" and figure what it is.

I really want to see AMD succeed, I want to have more options when I want to buy a processor.
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openvpn, which is just ssl, was vulnerable to heartbleed.

Like the GP said - you're trading VPN bugs for SSH bugs - and experience shows that betting on SSH is generally wiser.

If you only need TCP/DNS and not a full-blown VPN, a program called sshuttle uses ssh+python to provide excellent seamless poor man's VPN. It's not perfect - e.g., you lose the ip src address on the forwarded connections - but it works amazingly well, much better than e.g. openvpn and most other vpn products I've used.
Waiting for the hottest stuff to go away is part of the recycling process. It's just a very slow part.
South Korea’s Internet speeds, multi-feature apps and businesses turning profits
New Zealand seems to be similar, with the added bonus that we only have a handful of universities so there is no distinction between 'good universities' and 'the rest'.
While there is obviously plenty of eye-rolling at the obvious digs at Google, I'm pleased to see such strong push-back against the government arguments for weakening or punching holes in encryption.

I think that in the long run, this will matter way more than which giant tech company makes a bit more money than the other.
The solution to "my key is easily factorable" is not "hide the key", it's "get a new key".

Factually you haven't said anything I know to be wrong.
Yes, that's true.

However, Crucial explicitly marketed their SSDs as having, quote, "power loss protection", pointing out the array of capacitors on the drive's PCB, and strongly implying that this feature included in-flight writes surviving a power loss (i.e., that the caps had enough capacity to enable flushing the DRAM buffer to the NAND media, much like the non Sandforce-based Intel SSDs — e.g., the 320 series from a few years back, or the current DC-3500 and -3700 drives).

That, it turns out, isn't true.

And that's a problem, because I and many others bought these drives on the basis of Crucial's implying they were power-loss durable. When enough people started reporting to Crucial support that their drives didn't, in point of actual fact, offer this feature, their marketing literature changed so as not to imply they did, and forum posts and reviews, like my previously-linked Anand Tech article, started pointing out that they didn't.
>That's precisely the point of the article

The article is talking about standards raising, but not to ridiculous things like like "nobody makes less than anyone else". The standards shunned by the article are possible.

>Poor people living in the states have greater quality of life than lower middle class in Venezuela.

Poor perhaps, but the really impoverished have trouble keeping a home or getting food every day, and that is worse than "middle class" anywhere.
No it's absolutely NOT the tech they are using.

They are using this tech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UF9fJtZHAY

It's like a reversed type of piezo-endoscope that projects the image on the eye itself.

The patent can be seen here:
https://encrypted.google.com/patents/WO2014113506A1?cl=en

The full term for this tech is: scanning fiber display with piezoelectric actuator
This. I had one at work fail on me after 10 months of usage; got almost everything back from backups, but the timing was incredibly bad and I had to work some really late nights to pull through. Got a free replacement, but I'm pretty distrusting of it so now it's in Raid1 with a WD drive. That may've been a decent one though, because it's been working for two years now.
Gotta disagree with you there. IMO Limbo was mostly polish with little substance (and don't get me wrong, I think it does a great job at that, it has amazing aesthetics).

FWIW I've revisited Braid multiple times, but don't think I'd get anything new out of Limbo if I played through it again.
Laws named after victims are often pretty bad as well. I assume that anything named (e.g.) "Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel's Law" is probably a bad law until otherwise proven, and for much the same reason. It's an appeal to emotion, not rationality, and the usual tactic is painting any opponent as being pro-terrorism or pro-(whatever genuinely terrible thing happened to Tarquin).
No, college isn't boring. Lectures are boring. And they're boring because they can't rely on students to read the textbook so they have to tell you what's in the textbook.

The best teachers don't lecture. They facilitate discussion or present a problem and give you feedback while you work through it. You watch some videos outside of class and you come to class to be assessed.

But that's hard work. Lecturing for an hour 3 times a week and giving a bubble-sheet test is easy for the teacher, and easy for the student.
>Also, I think you are delusional in thinking all programmers deliver >$300k of value (which is needed for a $200k salary, all things considered - don't forget payroll taxes, healthcare, and other expenses, as well as minimal profit). Some only deliver $50k in value, and are well paid at the $80k they earn.

You're the one that's delusional. 50k? that's a loaded number. A more realistic number is at least half a million per head, and that's the LEAST. Many times it can be much MORE. Take the annual revenues of google and divide it by the number of their engineering employees, then come back to me.

>but the last 80 years of politics in the US indicate it will take a miracle or catastrophy for the US to do the right thing. I bet on the latter.

The probability is in the favor of the rich. There's no doubt about that. I disagree with you in thinking that the probability is so low that it's impossible. In the past decade I've seen entire industries go extinct, literally within a couple years. Taxis and television to name a few. If you asked me in the early 2000s whether TV would be around in 10 years I would've said definitely.

Which one sounds more unrealistic to you? Bringing down the entire television empire or forming one goddamn union for one company that fits my ideal?

If there's one thing that's unpredictable it's the movements of the mob. The status quo was and never is with the people at the top of the power structure. The power is with the 99%, and it's a thin line stopping us from acting on it.

You from canada or something?
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This article focuses a lot on lectures.

And lectures are dying. Modern teaching methods are trying to phase them out, as the Internet is really good at giving you information. The educator's role is now a facilitator.

"Guide on the side, not sage on the stage", or so it's been said.

And that's how it has to be - that's the only way a college can compete. Because the online lectures you see are just captures of regular lectures. You don't need to go somewhere and pay money to watch someone talk.

The value the professor adds is in assessing your work. And if classtime can be used to do that, or classtime can be used to let you practice, then there's the advantage.
Why would we trust people with a concealed handgun license to carry all over town, but force them to go unarmed on campus? And before anyone says "alcohol," carrying drunk is already a separate crime.
Can anybody here point me to some documentation on the Squeak/Cog/Pharo etc image file format? "read the source" is pretty useless when the source is scattered around various Monticello repositories, which never seem to work for me thanks to the Smalltalk community's epic linkrot.
>That's quite a burden, right up there with a mortgage.

That's nowhere near a mortgage at the income levels where it makes sense. If you're stuck in a crappy job making $30k a year and you're single, it's about $100 a month.

If you're making $60k and you're single, you could definitely pay off the average $30k loan in 3 or 4 years (assuming you live somewhere where 60k is a decent income).

And If you're making $60k and you have a family of 3, you're payments are going to be about $250 per month.

Obviously the cost of college has gone up a good bit. Mainly due to an increase in the number and cost of administrators and a decrease in state funding.

However, it hasn't gone up nearly as much as it seems when you realize that most people aren't paying the sticker price after you factor in federal grants, state scholarships, and university scholarships.

>And we went to Stanford

Right now if you go to Stanford and your parents make less than $65k a year, you get a waiver for tuition and room and board. They also waive tuition for students whose parents make less than $125k a year.
I would say you are probably correct, although the college admissions process isn't exactly cheap as it is.

It normally costs ~$50 to take the SAT once, plus ~$12 per college you want to apply to. Then there are the SAT subject tests, which cost less ($30?) but it's not uncommon for a student looking to get into a selective school to take >3 subject tests.
Then, maybe the student needs to retake the SAT, which is pretty standard, so add another ~$50 dollars and now we're looking at several hundred dollars in exams. This isn't counting the $50-100 application fee per school. Having a professor interview applicants would still be impossibly expensive of course. Do you happen to know how well the alumni interviews work? I never had one, but if I understand correctly, they are a part of Ivy League tier applications where a graduate of the school deems if the applicant would be a good fit. I've heard there's not much weight placed on them, however.

I personally think the SATs are better indicators of socio-economic standing than scholastic aptitude, but agree that there's probably nothing better. I kind of wish that the application process was similar to that for graduate school, where there's more weight placed on the relevant subject test and letters of recommendation.
I know you admit that it's a gross oversimplification but this kind of talk still bothers me a lot. It's a lot like when, to use a (honestly shoddy) metaphor, people talk about rankings in a video game like League of Legends. Some times you'll hear talk like "the difference between a bronze and silver player is game sense!" or "objectives control!" or "mechanics!". The truth is it's all of these things and none of them. A silver player is simply better than a bronze player.

I think the same goes here. There's not some magic thing that a senior developer has that a junior developer is missing. They are simply, overall, better.
But you can't improve your machine learning without collecting huge amounts of data right? Google Now wouldn't be possible without their data. If Apple is against collecting data then how would they be able to build a service that relies on data?
What 'repeated public embarrassments' has iCloud had? Don't tell me you're referring to the celebrity photos social engineering attack?
Large Hadron Collider to turn on 'data tap'
> that energy is then converted to electricity at normal steam turbine efficiency, 30% or something

It amazes me that we don't have a better way to use the power generated by nuclear fission or fusion than heating water.
Intel's pushing OpenCL, which seems to me gives most of the advantages of HSA.

OpenCL 2.0 includes unified CPU & GPU virtual addresses (SVM - shared virtual memory).
What drives me crazy is spreadsheets as a reporting / BI tool. Just because Excel does graphs and charts, and everyone knows how to use Excel, the result is that everyone only knows how to make graphs and charts in Excel.
So what are your thoughts on http://web.mit.edu/mitprc/www/index.html ?
Another way of looking at it is that they've built their business model this way and they're making the case why it's better for their customers and the right thing to do. Volvo likes to advertise the safety engineering of its cars. Is that cynical?
That's a really good point, thank you. I've never really thought about it that way; e.g. the registry is something you should sort of treat as an opaque blob of state (like a smalltalk image?) that you just mutate over time programatically, rather than as a declarative set of configurations to bring the machine to at any time.
Do you use Google's autocratic platform instead?
I don't understand this kind of cynicism. As a financially literate individual, I think this is pretty cool and will probably give it a go at some point. What's more comforting than a locally hosted app in a vm you can tailor however you want? I certainly prefer that over handing all my financial data to some 'cloud' service.
"Sometimes I worry a tiny bit that if we manage to pin down the exact lifetime dollar value of college to $X, the market will happily adjust the price of college to ($X-1)"

That just happened to law schools.
>Self-promotion is suspect in this highly competitive, and not infrequently nasty field.

I'm not sure who's self-promoting; this is a news article about a big discovery.

> But I would caution some skepticism, especially when the discoverer trumpets the extraordinary significance of the discovery.

The linked article is from a news organization.

Further, the data for the article are published in a high-profile journal; these are fairly credible findings.
Many sites have gotten it wrong my doing auto buy. We built Instavest for ourselves. I don't want to give someone else a pile of my hard earned money and let them make investments without my approval. Additionally, I want the option to find investment "gems". That is, one off opportunities that I resonate with for any number of reasons. By sifting through a list of curated investments and choosing whether or not to buy in, I preserve my right to manage my money and do what I think is right for my risk / reward profile. M
His comment didn't imply that other platforms don't have 0-day vulnerabilities.
How, exactly, has Google's collection of personal information contributed to identity theft?

I suppose, on paper, you're more vulnerable to Google employees or contractors using internal access to steal identities, but is that a problem in practice (if so, I'd love pointers)? Or are Google's internal security measures and controls effective in preventing it?

Meanwhile, Google's done more than most companies to protect the information they have from third-party attacks (HTTPS, two-factor authentication, certificate pinning, and so on), probably partly because it is so important to their business model. Apple, on the other hand, has often been slow to implement new security features out of concerns it will compromise the user experience, leading to well-known breaches like this one: http://www.wired.com/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/
See answer from below.

Many sites have gotten it wrong my doing auto buy. We built Instavest for ourselves. I don't want to give someone else a pile of my hard earned money and let them make investments without my approval. Additionally, I want the option to find investment "gems". That is, one off opportunities that I resonate with for any number of reasons. By sifting through a list of curated investments and choosing whether or not to buy in, I preserve my right to manage my money and do what I think is right for my risk / reward profile. M
Neglecting security is not a virtue.
Great article, I wasn't aware of this one of Ballard's works, though it's definitely on the list now. I think in defense of high-rise living, having a comfortable view does give one a deep and unconscious sense of psychological security. Whether severe drops, floor to ceiling glass and high winds assist or hinder with that is quite another question.
And so does CUDA, which usually out-performs OpenCL, plus the tooling for CUDA is just so much better with the Visual Studio integration.
In bc, write

scale=1000

(or however many digits you want) first, and you'll get better results.
They are also going to debut their new 300 series GPUs with HBM in two weeks at E3. https://twitter.com/AMDRadeon/status/605938931448737792
Good point, actually. :)
It's my favorite of his books. And it's a movie coming out soon from director Ben Wheatley, who I think is a perfect match.
1. iMessages is not dead simple. Not sure if you've ever worked on highly concurrent, real time systems but they are never as trivial as it seems to the lay outsider. And whilst I can't comment on it getting messages out of order (never happened to anyone I know) it isn't widespread based on media reports.

2. Not sure why you are comparing App Store with Amazon when Apple has an equivalent: the Apple Online Store. It does have physical products and has to deal with figuring out shipping across multiple regions. It's actually comparable to Amazon since they both use the microtransactions approach to billing.

3. iCloud is free up to 5GB and isn't hugely overpriced compared to Google Drive/Dropbox given that it isn't just a drive. Agreed that it has a checkered past but actually is pretty good given that it has more functionality than what Google or Microsoft provides.

4. Siri was initially a purchase but was completely rebuilt on a pretty impressive Mesos based architecture. It is a world apart from what it was originally and as I've mentioned below the integration of Cue and Spotsetter should make them far more competitive with Google Now.

I am not saying that Apple is the best at services but I think people grossly underestimate the scale at which Apple is operating with some of their services.
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Apple obviously needs PII because they are billing you for purchases.

You don't need to supply any of it.
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