skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the use of GPL license which means that this code cannot be contributed upstream to PostgreSQL itself because it uses a more liberal license: http://opensource.org/licenses/postgresql.
>> The solution is providing a social safety net that enables that bulk of the population to pursue their dream.

> I don't think that will make most people into successful businesspeople (let alone "entrepreneurs" in any non-facile sense of the word), and I don't think that was entirely the point the article was trying to make.

I fully agree! While financial safety is by no means sufficient as a base for successfully starting a business, I do think the article makes a good point of it being necessary, though.

(And I think its important to emphasize that most businesses are not of the venture-backed startup type mostly discussed on this site.)
The dictionary I've used comes up for 'unfair' as

1. Contrary to justice or a sense of fairness
2. Contrary to laws or conventions, especially in commerce; unethical: unfair dealing and
3. Not kind or considerate.

Which one do you mean?
Alternatively "Oculus Rift SDK gets tied to proprietary windows-only APIs".
indeed. "Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked." - Steve Jobs
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> "and get the same (correct) response of 1/3"

Are you sure it's the correct response?

The way I see it, the correct response is 'neither', i.e. neither 1/3 or 1/2. Without having any indication about how many times you have played the game, there is no way of determining between the two odds, it could be your first go, or it could be your 1 millionth go.

Without any knowledge of time spent, there is no correct answer other than 'neither'.
I only meant it as a possible explanation for why it wouldn't be unreasonable to think phi appears often in nature. I don't really have enough knowledge of nature to say if it's the case.

Distribute the seeds of a sunflower radially, placing one seed every 360*x degrees, gradually increasing radius. If x=a/b, after placing b seeds, you will be back to the initial position and the next b seeds will be (radially) shaded from the first b seeds (which I admit, might not be how shading works in practice). If x is irrational, but closely approximated by a/b, the seeds won't line up perfectly, but still enough to shade quite a bit. If x is phi, then they will shade as little as theoretically possible (I think.. This is by no means a proof, just some thoughts). IIRC, the "sunflower seed pattern" is actually achieved only if you simulate such a seed placing with x close to phi.
> twitter shame mob

For that I do have a very clear definition and know exactly what the author is talking about. What I've determined from this debate is that the "Hunt shame mob" is incredibly subjective. Hunt is the type of discussion about this matter which won't come to a conclusion, possibly because his opponents acted in a mature and humane way - it's possibly completely irrelevant to this discussion.

This[1] shame mob is very clear cut: if you are on that list you will have problems being employed in certain industries (read: your rights are now limited). Being placed on to that list is easy: question the common moral compass or fall into demographics that fall within the maintainers' personal bigotry (e.g. religion).

> So if I read this correctly, it's arguing for more protections for those making sexist and racist comments.

Correct. Here's a thing: some years ago (let's say 500) we lived in a world where certain demographics had no rights: up to and including being able to hold a job. This included women, homosexuals and certain races. Freedom of speech was introduced in order to liberate these people: they were given a voice in order to contest the system that was discriminating against them. Specific examples, especially homosexuality, were deemed immoral by the mainstream moral compass. Yet, thanks to freedom of speech, modern people find it hard to believe how people were ever discriminated against like that.

The price of freedom of speech is that you simply can't tie a moral compass to it: because if that had been done, homosexuality would still be immoral today. Who's to say what primitive beliefs our moral compass has? Who's to say what moral battles we'll be fighting in another 500 years time? Will we ever fight those moral battles and enlighten ourselves if we take steps to discriminate against ugly beliefs (such as racism)? Most definitely not. We'd be the same pathetic race who makes pathetic little block lists that affect people's livelihoods; and because of that, the same pathetic race which spreads misery instead of happiness.

To have rights for homosexuals we had to have rights for racists. No human is sufficiently advanced enough to conjure up the perfect moral compass: we prove that day after day. The only solution is, for now, to have no standard moral compass. The mainstream moral compass is not right because it is, itself, still rife with bigotry.

[1]: http://www.theblockbot.com/sign_up/connect.php
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That's actually the joke. A tourist stops a person on the street in New York City and asks, "pardon me, do you know how to get to Carnegie Hall?" The person replies, "talent."
As someone who battles procrastination and other avoidant behavior, I was under the impression I was.
Basically to become an expert cryptographer you need a math degree and ten years of experience, so this is out of question indeed. What I'm referring to is to get enough information in order to understand the big picture: what is a stream cipher, what a block cipher, a cryptographic hash function and its main properties, how many of those primitives are kinda equivalent sometimes and you can use one to create another, the tradeoff between speed and security (and how number of rounds effect the security of crypto building blocks), analyzing simple algorithms in order to really understand why it is so hard for you to create something secure, secure PRNG generation and weak PRNG generation (and how to break a congruential linear generator), algorithms like DH, RSA, basic knowledge on number theory, and so forth. This will not make you an expert, but will give you enough understanding in order to actually undetstand why a rule or a best practice is used and when it is safe or not to break it.

About starting point, this is incredibly sad but true: there is no Applied Cryptography of 2015. The book is at this point in some way outdated and no replacement exists, however what you can do is to read it, and then to read the documents that there are around to get updated information. Also there are now the online courses on cryptography that really help. This may look like an overkill, but at this point crypto is everywhere and is the foundation of most things secure, so it is a requirement of everybody involved with computer security.
I'm guessing "and are prepared to live in a car/cardboard box". Yes it's do-able but the reality is that a founder does need to be able to have the funds to sprint, fail, and sprint again. It's why people bootstrap.
We're at a crossroads in CPU design. The hardware guys implement heuristics to make ordinary code work "pretty good", with cache lines and multiple layered caches and register calculus and stalling pipelines.

Then compiler folks reverse-engineer all that to get "really good" performance. But they can't make one code for every model of CPU because this stuff changes with each release.

How about, CPU leaves these decisions up to the compiler? Flatten and simplify, and make (allow) compiler writers to know exactly what's going on, and even control it!
In a way, that's the point of chroot/jail/container: isolate the host filesystem from the guest, so the script that creates it should take /dev into account if it is needed
Yer not clear on the concept of an Oracle.

Dumb fuck nigger.
Most on the right would not, IME, support the position that freedom cannot be restricted based on past conviction of a crime.

As someone on the right, one issue here is who is doing the restricting of freedom. One approach that strikes me as reasonable is requiring full disclosure, but the state then can't interfere in the relationship between a business and potential employee, aside from obvious exceptions like crimes of pedophilia and care of children.

In between there can be issues where someone is put in a position of trust over other's lives, like, say, a bus driver. But this sort of meat ax approach ... no, I doubt it's going to find a lot of support on the right. Certainly not from myself.
I went to music conservatories before getting into this industry.

At least for classical music. As a general rule, the people that get steady orchestra jobs that pay around 100k have a lot of natural talent, practice a lot, use practice time well, and have great teachers.

It takes all of these in US because of supply and demand. There are a lot of very good players and relatively very few jobs.

An analogy might be if the only 100k+ programming jobs in US were at Google, and almost all other programmers had to freelance because no other jobs were available.
You went too deep.
I get it now! Duh.
Notice that this is just a short essay. A blog post, maybe. But it's also potentially a reason to search for available domain names; to actually register one (after exploring the compromises around what registrar to choose), to find a host (navigating the truly bewildering options), to decide whether wordpress might be the right way to go, and what theme, and what big header image. Plugins? And what if it really goes viral... surely we'd better have some ads in there to capture a bit of value from that, right?

All of this can be really quite educational. But in the end it's fairly impressive that it was ever done at all... which suggests that in fact it's not done; there are a ton of other plans for what should be here, and only because of those plans was the writer able to get this far.
That's really awful. Glad he's going through he effort to make this public.
I don't think texteditors are supposed to hog a whole core of a quadcore cpu.
I would pay much more if I could have a single place to look for content this is why I sub to 3 providers and also bought a box that aggregates all the streaming content i can access into a single library.

But considering that no matter how much I pay I can't seem to get a reliable library these days and the bang for the buck degrades with every passing day I am more and more reluctant to continue using those services.
I got Netflix with the UltraHD package and it was easier and better to get both Narco's and Daredevil using alternate means that's something shouldn't happen.
Would you consider switching from Netflix to Hulu?

From the article...

"Rival US service Hulu will take on the Epix catalogue. "Our subscribers have been asking us for more, and more recent, big movies," Hulu said.

"We listened. Through this new deal with Epix, we are proud to now be able to offer a huge selection of the biggest blockbusters and premium films.""
BTW the Baking Science and Management degree is for large scale baking. One option for BSaM degree requires the same math/physics as Engineering while I believe both require Organic Chemistry. Easy to make fun of the degree if you don't know the requirements and the goal.

The American Institute of Baking is close to K-State and it brings in bakers from around the world to learn even more about large scale baking. This includes knowing why the batch went wrong.

Very interesting stuff if you like applied chemistry.
Es: A shell with higher-order functions (1993)
IMO This without the talk is not a very usable read. Maybe it's because I've already knew 95% of the concepts it was showing but I felt that the talk must have been pretty interesting as most of the presentation is just bullets points of complex topics.

Does anyone have the audio of it? Also with memory is becoming less of a problem so people tend to completely ignore it, it's nice to see something like this.
Just as a random counter-example, Openssl does use that method. But it actually seeds from urandom, rather than random... And fails when forking/threading by default. :(

But yes, that's not common. (more info: http://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Random_Numbers)
Will a voluntary liquidation harm my chances of future investment? (UK)
In a nutshell, I have a business idea that I would love to work on, that may require investment (I've had positive initial feedback).

But I have a large outstanding debt to HMRC, which I am struggling to pay (I made mistakes when I started contracting, and didn't put enough money aside. I've since learned my lesson.) A voluntary liquidation looks like a sensible option at this point.

But I am worried that winding up my company in this will this appear as a stain on my character, and put off potential investors?

Is this a legitimate concern? Any help deeply appreciated!
This again proves how the music industry is far and away better at the streaming model, whereas the movie industry is still trying to find its way.
"Easier to be creative"? Of course. However it does not there is a correlation between having this social safety net vs creativity, or increased economic output, or willingness to take risks.
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Here the full Yegge tale (or at least a publicly available copy): https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
HBO GO is available in Romania FWIW
Here are a couple more resources where the lead gives a bit more description:

http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2015/presentation/S5276...

http://www.slideshare.net/kaigai/gpgpu-accelerates-postgresq...

edit:
His slideshare page http://www.slideshare.net/kaigai has even more recent presentations. I've only had time to skim much of slides, but it seems he's flip-flopped a couple of times between OpenCL and CUDA
I feel so sad for people forced to use the legal distribution channels - it must be such a chore to have to be informed which movie or series is available on which channel, have to switch between different apps / recommendation engines and have pay to every single middle men his toll, when their part could very well be free.

Using pirate solutions seems such a great experience in comparison - a global free peer to peer distribution channel with incredible bandwidth, availability and full catalog of most of human produced media, one click away. Services that are so resilient that are actually designed to withstand multiple governments' attempts to shut them down. No censorship of media, but a lot of structure and quality controls baked in, where actual people dynamically help each other police and secure content.

I really can't believe an actual paying customer can't get even close to the comfort, ease and availability of something like this. It really is astonishing.
I'd guess all three of them?
No, quite the opposite. A main feature of the Basic Income is that it is not means tested.
What the what? 10 times faster for one join?

https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/5/50/PGStrom_Fig_MicroBen...

Or am I reading that incorrectly?

How is that possible?
> The solution is providing a social safety net that enables that bulk of the population to pursue their dream.

We have a huge "social safety net" here in France and yet we are way less entrepreneurial than in the US. I moved to Peru for 4 years to save some money and then came back to start a business, the entrepreneurial spirit was way strong stronger there even though the social safety net is inexistent.

Fact is, having a social safety net makes people comfortable in their poor economic situation and does not require them to take risks. Even in the US, the number of new companies created each year has decreased as the welfare state has grown.
I said that it worked well back then. I didn't say anything about the mass market. So I didn't contradict myself. I think that you skim-read my post ;)

But, on the subject of the "mass market"...

What Apple/Jobs did was build an awesome device for media consumption.

Up until then we'd been talking about the PDA - a productivity device. It needed a physical keyboard and stylus input to make it "productive".

The best PDA up until then was the Palm Pilot - it has exceptional writing recognition - if you spent two hours learning their alphabet. It works for email, spreadsheets. Battery life was excellent. Most people I know used it with a fold-out keyboard when traveling.

Apple realized that 99% of the time you'll using your phone to play games, read, listen to music or watch videos. Their touch screen was fantastic - it took just seconds to learn how to use it. Sure, writing emails was a pain (even with the smart keyboards), but you'd only do that rarely.

So yeah, you're kind of right: no-one whose main use-case is content consumption is going to want to use a stylus. For content creators however a well-implemented stylus is a big sell.

That's why Microsoft are throwing so much weight behind the Surface Pro, and it's also the main reason people are buying it.
"Deliberate Practice" is a stupid lie. The claims about it are completely unfalsifiable. If practice doesn't show results then you just say it wasn't "deliberate".
VTune is not too dissimilar to JProfiler.

And as pron mentioned plenty of tools exist for lower level access.
I'm confused. You haven't actually written anything about what you want, and what you value in life. We're not going to be able to figure that out for you!

If you have some financial troubles, consider lining up a new job with a hefty salary, and make sure you get at least a few weeks' break before you start there. Perhaps spent a little time not working on anything at all and reflecting on what you want (if you don't know this already!).
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I'm not an accountant/tax adviser, and I would take advice from yours.

Many entrepreneurs fail often. Debts however are another thing. Especially with HMRC, I'd have a chat with a professional about your HMRC debt.

That aside, investors would want assurances their money go into the business and not the paying off your other businesses or any personal debt :)
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Does voluntary liquidation mean personal bankruptcy? Or is this at the corporate level (i.e. your Ltd company)? Who owes the debt - you or the company? HMRC debt might also be harder to get out of.

In general, corporate bankruptcy tends not to be a big problem. Personal bankruptcy, well, you become toxic to banks. It usually doesn't matter much to angel investors, but it can be a problem when trying to secure debt financing through traditional channels. It can however become a problem trying to secure personal stuff like credit cards or mortgages.

It's a good idea to talk to a lawyer about this.
Untrue. How about a definition? Concentration; slow repetition gradually increased in tempo; no distractions and no false moves. Done over time and systematically, results can be compared to the usual "play it wrong 100 times until you accidentally play it right" technique.

This is clearly possible to do well. And easily compared with any other technique. No need to call it stupid.
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On the other hand, GC decouples reclamation from control flow. This means that, for instance, if you drop a reference to an object referencing a million other objects, that reclaiming does not necessarily have to happen instantaneously (i.e., blocking control flow). Instead, a GC can reclaim those objects in the background if desired (and if so designed).
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Good responses; I'm glad to see todo lists have evolved since the old pocket-PC days. They used to all discard checked items, leaving you wondering what you did all day. Its an obvious good move to record accomplishment and give feedback on it!
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>I think, if you are told it's your first awakening, then you still must assume 50% heads or tails: in both cases, you will always have a first awakening, so there is no new info there.

How is this not a direct violation of Bayes theorem? The probability of learning that it is the first awakening differs based on what the coin flip was, so it requires an update.
> How is that possible?

I'll guess:

It's all in-memory, so not I/O-bound. Rows are processed in parallel with PGStrom (in 15MB chunks), while Postgres does it sequentially in one thread. Apparently moving the data around is fast enough not to matter.
OK, fair enough, but there aren’t any other obvious contenders that fit his criteria. Also, ES4 was in development at the time and would have been a major overhaul to the language (something we’re now getting in ES6).

Maybe I am taking it for granted though…
Another instance of Corporate cannibalism.
Do you have any pointers to papers describing how vote auditing techniques extend to liquid democracy? The Google paper doesn't even acknowledge the problem, much less describe a solution, and most of the other papers I've read on the topic are either extremely handwavy on the technical details of privacy or make the same assumption as Google, that its good enough to hide votes from the participants but 'the system' still knows.
Although git-annex is not a backup system, it works for me as one to backup photos, disk images, some documents etc (although I use it with hubiC and self-hosted SFTP storages, not S3). Maybe it could meet your requirements, too.

Files (or chunks, if it's enabled) are gpg-encrypted (to a key or using a symmetric passphrase) and could be stored in nearly anything that could store named blobs. Supports various modes (archival, backup, RAID-like). Performance is fair for me.

Downside is that it's not a "real" filesystem, but a git repo that tracks metadata, plus blob storage. Assistant daemon saves a lot of keystrokes, though. There is also some FUSE-based implementation, but I haven't tried it. Getting started is easy, so I suggest taking a look and toying around for half an hour. Another downside is that it - being a git repo - may have problems with storing another repositories inside. Haven't tried this, though.
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What would be nice is a document which would explain how to convert queries to use the GPU as its best, a document which would not require its reader to be a GPU geek nor a Postgresql expert. A technology can only succeed when the average programmer can use it without doing much errors, or can find quickly a solution using google.