skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IEEE floating point with a specified rounding mode should be deterministic. Unfortunately the C and C++ standards allow calculations to have excess precision, removing this determinism. Other languages, notably JavaScript, do guarantee this determinism in the spec.
It is exhausting and frustrating. We need to store copy pasta for these conversation. Maybe I will compile a list.
The Chronology of Googles Algorithm
"Instead, a new venture that we’ve been working on as a side project has recently gained traction. Given the potential of the opportunity, it makes far more sense for us to shift our limited resources away from Harborly to focus on this new project."

Wow.
What to See in Paris
Many aircraft equipped with Wi-Fi could easily connect to any number of ground-based weather sources and display it on a mobile device such as an iPad. Regulatory restrictions currently make such devices difficult to approve for inflight use.

SiriusXM has been broadcasting NEXRAD and other weather information over their satellites for nearly a decade now. And they sell aviation-approved receivers through Garmin and others. Won't this work on a commercial craft? Or would rain fade in the SDARS band (~2.3 GHz) be the issue here?

https://www.siriusxm.com/sxmaviation
ROS: An Open-Source Robot Operating System [pdf]
A quote from the article:

"It's probably not possible for the brain to both clean itself and at the same time [be] aware of the surroundings and talk and move and so on,"

So it would be the equivalent of a forced sleep, since you can't be conscious at the same time, but that might still be useful.
> and one I found interesting was a model for summarizing text, including chapters, books, and other writing.

Do you have a cite for that?
You didn't identify yourself, any of the bugs you fixed, or even had any identifying comment history here in Hacker News. You did, however, identify the open source community you worked in. Because someone in that particular community has a long history of anonymously spreading puff around the internet, this raises my suspicions.

By the way, you made a significant grammar mistake in "I have fixed few bugs" which should be, and has the opposite meaning to, "I have fixed a few bugs", an error which you got correct in "Just a few line of code changes". That person I mentioned above often poses as non-native English speakers, so your inconsistent grammar mistakes further raises my suspicions.

Of course if you're a genuine poster, I'm sure you'll use the username you've chosen to continue posting comments here on Hacker News.
I think the article is trying to point out the things being done right, while also acknowledging the problems that still exist. You can only operate at a loss for so long before you need to fold up shop, no matter the ways you minimize that loss.
EU doubles down on TTIP secrecy as public resistance grows
Why doesn't the government allocate more funding to pay skilled technical workers at least close-to-market wages for the crucial work they are doing in bringing government organizations and systems into the 21st century?
It looks like the TI sensortag in a different case and three times as expensive.
The argument that HFTs would likely make is that they improve the efficiency of the marketplace, making for smaller spreads and for more liquidity, making it easier for all trades. The counter to both is that HFTs tend to disappear when market stress occurs, thus they fail to provide liquidity when the market needs it the most. I have no dog in the fight - HFTs do seem to have helped lower the cost of trading (along with the internet in general).

Whether or not we consider what the article describes as "frontrunning" - I'm not sure. Surely all these firms have bought access to the same Nasdaq direct feed, and have co-located their boxes as close to the Nasdaq servers as possible. I'm guessing the buy side and the sell side are both doing this at this point - either directly or through 3rd parties. My point is that yes, the advantage exists - but is probably getting reduced by the day. Is the retail trader going on SIP getting prayed upon? Probably, but retail traders also make up a small portion of total trades. That's not to say it isn't a problem - but they aren't the major market participants. Mutual funds are probably the biggest losers here - and they are, in turn, owned by individual investors. So there's an argument there that they are hurting individual investors that way.

To me the real question the idea that these firms are essentially riskless. I'd agree that has been the case in the past - I've seen reports of HFT firms having something like 300+ winning days. But what happens when the entire market is made of competing bots - will the efficiency the competition essentially take away any advantage that any one player might have, thus making their profit disappear?
>The continuous start-stop wears out the engine faster, so it won't last as long as an identical model with the same engine that hasn't that feature.

Yes, that too. Although I imagine it would wear out certain components of the engine (such as starter-motor, and crankshaft?) and battery rather than the engine as a whole.

Total-Cost-of-Ownership-wise, a stop-start might save more in fuel than it would cost in increased repairs (Or it may not, depending on make and model among other things).
I think the county/city buying it and operating as a nonprofit helps them meet affordable housing requirements. Now the question is could you get 180 families elsewhere in Palo Alto in new developments that have an affordable housing component.

It is the same as groups or governments buying open space to preserve it.
I'm not sure that's the solution

int8 x = 12;
int8 y = 84;
int16 z = x + y; // ERROR: compiler is stupid
Men make up 75% of the IT workforce and 82% of computer science graduates. If women aren't even studying the field it makes it a tad harder to hire them don't you think?

People should aspire to hire the best people in their field not the "right" gender, color, sexual orientation etc. Anything else is bigotry under the flag of diversity.

Also if you can do a little basic math you should be able to see that the average company will be no more diverse than the labor pool. For every company that is 50/50 other companies will have even less than the average.
Will test against smaz for our internal JSON compressed protocol. smaz compressed fine but was too slow. The ability to train the model sounds convincing.
> But many believe (including myself) that women face many more challenges by virtue of being women, than men do by virtue of being men.

That's absolutely a position you can only take because of your own privilege. Lower income men face arguably the worst discrimination available in the US since they are way over represented in our prisons.

I don't think trying to determine which of the sexes has it "worse" is in anyway a winning proposition or something anyone should be doing.
His argument was that it should be not his decision whether releasing a document is in the public interest, but rather something journalists should take care of (although he did select those journalists himself, so it's not fair to say it's a completely independent process).

Still better than a full dump à la WkiLeaks, but the big question is whether the journalists have the OpSec skills to avoid leaking the documents to other governments.
Slight correction, but humans have been making books for over half a millennium. We've got way more experience making them than tablets.

I use my kindle for everything though, I like that it doesn't give strangers any starting point for a conversation, regardless of what I'm reading.
Unfortunately for them, CNN and CBC happened to steal exactly the wrong person's video - the guy who made the video is an IP lawyer. The caption under the video says:

"A time-lapse view of Lake Erie during the lake-effect snow storm of November 18, 2014. This was taken from my office window in the Guaranty Building where I work as an intellectual property attorney at Hodgson Russ."

Interesting video, by the way.
I'm no genius. But when I say I'm a full stack engineer. It means I can create all parts of a technical product from design, mockup, mobile programming, web dev, backend programming, devops, scaling, payment systems, api integrations etc.

Edit: A lot of devs are the same. I know at least 10 without giving it too much thought.
"The team discovered that this increased flow was possible in part because when mice went to sleep, their brain cells actually shrank, making it easier for fluid to circulate. When an animal woke up, the brain cells enlarged again and the flow between cells slowed to a trickle." So no, probably not.
Nice work Nicole! :-)

I work on a similar library for C# (Symbolism [1]).

Consider allowing for variable elimination in sets of equations. (See this problem for an example: https://gist.github.com/dharmatech/a14d1a29a7d4c0728d37)

[1] https://github.com/dharmatech/Symbolism/
right, and this is just one example.
> I'm pretty sure that the range of platforms for which Go does cross compilation "very well" is quite small

Given that the number of popular platforms is approximately 2 (Intel and ARM), I don't see that as a huge problem.
I'm willing to bet a large amount that non UTF-8 encoding were broken and nobody cared enough to bother fixing them.

OpenBSD does not hesitate to nuke legacy stuff that gets broken. Which i feel is ultimately for the best, because half-assed support that barely functions is worse than no support at all many times.
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Has anyone played with Anomalyzer yet? I'd like to get the anomaly probability for every data instance of a CSV but it's unclear to me if this is possible. I want to run it on the Numenta Anomaly Benchmark dataset (https://github.com/numenta/NAB) to see how it compares to other anomaly detection algorithms.
IIRC, you usually claim that the majority of the compilation time is actually LLVM optimizations, not Rust typechecking. If that's true, it should be trivial to simply turn off LLVM optimization passes for DEV builds.
But your suggestion still reads fine! Let's insert it:

> Today’s "less than mediocre at a lot of different things" engineers have replaced yesterday’s sysadmins, DBAs, and webdevs altogether.

The OP's point still stands! So I don't see what you're on about :-P
Pretty sure the parent poster's point is that it's a very common rhetorical tactic amongst some proponents of postmodern social justice to expect perfect equilibrium between nation-wide population demographics and particular company staffs, then criticize the company for not following this unrealistic expectation.

They were mocking it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_tVT0dhEMU

Is this a positive story? Is it supposed to be? Is this a story from GitHub? I'm confused about this.
There's plenty of funding, but salaries are capped by law:
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/pay-admi...

So Congress would have to pass a law to fix that particular problem.
My point is that those aren't the only three options.

4. Have the browser executable perform some sort of integrity check on the settings file to detect if it's been tampered with by something that isn't the browser (which admittedly isn't robust, but it's a start and eliminates at least the more simplistic malware).

5. Implement encryption on the settings file so that it can only be read or modified if unlocked with a user-configured passphrase (such as that used for Firefox Sync).

6. Use an additional config file with the same permissions as the browser executable (i.e. requiring administrative privileges to modify) for critical security settings like whether or not unsigned extensions may be installed, thus preventing user-level malware from editing it.

7. Don't sync extensions automatically (as a Firefox user with several machines, extension autosyncing is actually more annoying than it is helpful; I'd really like to be able to selectively sync certain extensions - like Tree Style Tabs and Greasemonkey - while keeping others (like themes) local to specific machines). This solves the problem of malicious addon propagation that you mentioned, since said propagation would require user intervention.

5, 6, and 7 would be much more useful in Firefox than Pocket/Hello integration, builtin PDF readers, or any of the other cruft that's started to creep in. In fact, I'm pretty sure 6 is already possible through that enterprise configuration addon (I know firsthand that it's possible to have settings locked down to administrator-only access through that).

Regardless, my other point is that by default, if malware can manipulate Firefox' settings, it can manipulate other things that are just as bad as malicious extensions (like one's stored passwords). It's already possible to mitigate password storage risks by setting a passphrase on one's password cache, so I see little reason why #5 shouldn't be possible, too.
The amount of time and money to shift at this point would be astronomical wouldn't it? It would take a few generations as we would continue to have to teach imperial so people could convert when they ran across any existing media referring to the imperial system measurements.

Hundred years of machines that use imperial, speedometers, odometers, books, tools, software, air conditioning, heating, manufacturing, construction, plumbing, including regulatory codes for each of those.

Not saying its impossible and it's definitely my knee jerk reaction, but at this point I cant imagine it being feasible.
Ad-hominem attacks usually say more about the sender than the receiver. "Coward" in particular has historically been most often employed against conscientious objectors and others who don't want to kill strangers in someone else's war, thus risking their reputations, employment, and freedom. The people making this attack today are appealing to those who grew up with conscription (forced violent labor) who mostly either think it's normal or lack the courage to speak out. And the people/media repeating it either enthusiastically or uncritically are announcing their own positions. So ad-hominem attacks can actually be quite illuminating, though not in the way the attacker intended.
Perhaps we could do a half-brain sleep like Dolphins? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihemispheric_slow-wave_sleep
It seems you may be working under an incorrect (though very common on HN) assumption. The capital allocation component of the markets is not done via the purchase of shares in a company (i.e. if you buy shares you aren't allocating capital to that company) but when you sell them. The cash that comes from that sale (and maybe from dividend payments in the interim) can be used to fund other ventures (such as your retirement).

The funding of new businesses for instance happens on private markets/deals (and commodities futures are even more obviously not about new ventures).

With that lens, its more obvious that there is no more morally superior to "invest on fundamentals" than it is to buy with a dartboard, what is at issue is being able to get cash out of ventures when you know longer want to be in them.

To that end we want a market that brings the most people together on prices they agree on, with the cheapest amount of transaction cost.

Batch auctions (what you are describing) make bridging the gap between buyer and seller more risky (and if you don't outline your tie breaker algorithm, may not even change the speed race) and do not solve the venue arbitrage component at all. This added risk for no gain adds to the transaction costs of the market making it less efficient.

There exist currently, many venues that support batch auctions and they have the reputation of being more gamed than continuous trading, because the complexity of the auction.
One thing that makes it 'worse than nothing' is that it contributes to amplification attacks due to large response packets: http://dnscurve.org/amplification.html
Request noted. :)
Toyota is a bad example, they made the news when their code was reviewed by experts and it was evaluated as really poor quality.

See for yourself: http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nvs/pdf/NASA_FR_Appendix_A_...
I personally have never gotten that sense, but as both of us are too lazy to check, to each their own.

If you bought an $80k Porshe you knowingly bought something you know will be a target for theft, and probably have enough money to have anti-theft insurance and be able to afford the inconvenience which would be your car vanishing. Yes apparently the ease of it being stolen is slightly greater than you thought when you bought it. But if not having your car stolen was a top priority for you then you would not of bought a car which people would want to steal as much.

As they mention in the article this would of been a difficult thing to fix on existing models, they did however change the system so it doesn't apply to new models.
As a French-speaking person, I cannot tell you how much the announcement[0] that after 5.8, basic utilities, including mg(1), will be UTF-8 ready pleases me. I'm a huge Emacs fan, but I like to use mg(1) for quick edits and this is very exciting news for me!

[0] http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150722182236
Looking at women's CS graduation rates means nothing if you don't look at overall graduation rates. I have yet to see any proof that women are really being driven out from CS rather than being driven into some other field.
Thank you! For both replies. I don't know many people yet, since I'm new to the Bay Area.. So solo may be a better bet for now.
neurologists at UCLA Alzheimers center have developed a formulation of Curcumin called "Longvida" which appears to reduce the accumulation of this brain plaque: http://alzheimer.neurology.ucla.edu/Curcumin.html

Curcumin and Alzheimer’s disease. Our group has tested curcumin in several models and found that it not only reduces oxidative damage and inflammation (as expected), but also reduces amyloid accumulation and synaptic marker loss while promoting both amyloid phagocytosis and clearance. In in vitro studies, we found curcumin worked to prevent synaptic marker and cognitive deficits caused by amyloid peptide infusion and abeta oligomer toxicity. Our work on curcumin and AD is discussed in detail in our publications

its important to note that it is only the Longvida formulation of Curcumin which effect because it crosses the blood-brain barrier, although other types seem beneficial for other conditions.
how did you and your cofounder meet?
You mean the demographics of the videos match the actual demographics of tech companies shocking
Documents confirm Apple is building self-driving car
These woman made videos to share their experiences as women in tech. Men are free to organize and make their own videos too. No one is stopping anyone.
Yes, people are bitching about the lack of men in childcare. Go seek out child development communities online and see them wrestling with the problem! See men who try to et into childcare complain that they are assumed to be incapable of working in early-years education because they might be a pedophile! It's a huge problem, and one we should get upset about. On teaching and child development forums these exact issues are discussed.

But this is hacker news. A site for people in the tech industry, not the childcare industry. We can and should care about representation and participation and opportunity in our industry. We can do something about it here.
All is one; during sleep the undistracted soul is
absorbed into this unity; in the waking state, being distracted, it distinguishes
diverse beings. (Chuang Tzu)
> But, as it is, the child-care field is not a field that a lot of men would like to get into, it pays fairly poorly, (unfortunately) confers little power or respect, and is largely an anomaly in an economy where most jobs, especially powerful ones are dominated by men.

Its actually not really an anomaly for jobs that pay fairly poorly and confer little power or respect to be dominated by women and/or persistently disadvantaged minorities. (It's really part of the same effect as jobs that pay well and confer power and respect being dominated by white men.)
That is an awful defense. You can't just dump all the documents on a journalist and then blame the journalist for what is being released.

It doesn't matter if it was directly or through an intermediary, everything that Snowden gave to journalists, Snowden leaked to the public.
I really salute your diligent testing and the thought you've put into it, most people won't do that much. Then again, I also don't want to scare you by suggesting that your solution might burn down the house and kill the dog, and personally I might as well do the same if it's urgent and a one-off job for a day or two.

But for what you describe, a semi-permanent solution expected to be put to use a few times a year, I personally would try to find the proper parts, used off eBay if necessary, and make a pretty cable run to the garage with the mobile home/generator, wiring boxes and properly rated sockets on both sides. Makes me sleep better, makes me not hunt for 1 of the 3 cables which I've misplaced because I've used them for mowing the lawn, and in the case of the very unlikely freak accident happening makes the electrician called to clean up the mess not ask stupid questions.
I use sleepyti.me almost every day, thanks for making it available!
It's all relative but I think a lot of us have the problem of puffing ourselves up whilst knocking others down.

I'm multifaceted but folks just assume I'm hiding weakness.

Also, at least in London, full-stack pays a lot less than devops.
I'm sure they'd rather live in the trailer, but you can't always get what you want. They are living on someone else's property.

I fully expect they'd rather live in a cheap apartment in Palo Alto over a wherever the nearest empty lot large enough and cheap enough to host a trailer park. I'd imagine that's pretty far away.

What will actually happen is that they will get evicted and 2 million dollar mini-mcmansions will get built there instead.
> int32 instead of int. In C2 you always specify the size

Have fun porting that, this language is already dead out the gate.

It also seems to ignore low level details on how compilers optimize programs, Rust actually invested into this on the language side and wasn't just some syntastic difference from C.
Is there any information on what caused it yet?
unless you have evidence that a particular activity is harmful in specific ways, the question is irrelevant in a reasonably free society
Unfortunately only with iTerm2 it seems able to play animated gif.
Yes couldn't agree more with that.

Also dates in numeric order I.e. yyyy/mm/dd you know like all the other numbers we deal with not dd/mm/yyyy or the crazy mm/dd/yy.
Agree with you. Government work has not been very popular with programmers. Working for "the man" is not something that is generally sought after. Ideals are strong in this young industry. Dunno if they should try and work as a startup. They are a not a business, nor can they operate like one.