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Node.js is also single thread and has been doing fine on servers.

Do you really need to share mutable state between threads in your server? If yes, what's your story when you'll need to scale to multiple servers?

If not because you can keep shared mutable state in a separate service (DB or similar), you can deal with one-machine scaling very similarly to scaling across machines - just start/fork a process per CPU. You get simplicity, avoid the whole thread-safety can of bugs, and all the administration benefits of stateless servers.
You are likely to be contractually obligated to purchasing a specific about of gas per month. Over that, I'd imagine nobody would mind you using another payment method. Though... You would pay the loan of faster by sticking with the special card.
Well, I don't agree. I don't find those useful. If it's what I am searching for, it should be the top search result, otherwise I don't want to see it.

And for the record, I would pay for a search engine without ads (probably DuckDuckGo).
> Instead, we should earmark all the money that would've gone into reducing carbon emissions (a carbon tax could be useful for this) into developing comprehensive evacuation plans for every major city, as well as a fund for rebuilding.

What does earmarking money into a rebuilding fund mean? Hoarding U.S. dollars in some account? There is no way to save in current U.S. dollars, ie green pieces of paper, in order to help deal with civilization level catastrophes in the future. You would have to save in terms of real goods. Saving in terms of dollars simply would result in deflation in the near term as you hoard, and inflation in the long-term when you dishoard in order to deal with the catastrophe. When the catastrophe comes, there is no difference between the government dishoarding dollars and the government printing dollars. The government has a printing press, there is no difference between taking the money (metaphorically) out of a hidden vault and between printing new dollars.

Now saving now in terms of hoarding real goods, or in building physical infrastructure, could work. But it's hard to imagine what kind of real goods would be useful in case of massive catastrophe. Most likely the wrong things would be built or hoarded. We're just too far away from the problem, and the government isn't good at making those kinds of calculations. Also, it may not be that necessary. People underestimate how much more valuable flows are than stocks. When cities have been destroyed by fire or bombing, they get rebuilt remarkably quickly, as long as the human capital is still there.
I know that iOS 9 is allowing ad-blocking, but a majority of the articles I've seen on HN and elsewhere aren't saying anything new. Yes, we know what an IP address can reveal, and we also have heard all the arguments behind blocking ads or not. But nothing has really changed since iOS 9, besides the fact that even more people are doing it.
> And you'd let the company you sourced know, of course, what kind of person they're dealing with.

You realize, of course, that most nerds will be kinda bitter that you get a cut of their money just 'cause you know a guy and they don't. Most nerds would see this as a sign that the VC in question was ruthless in a good way, cutting out the middlemen.

Business people, on the other hand, well, they are nothing but money and relationships... so they probably would think getting a commission for a lead is completely normal and okay.

Jumping this values divide is really one of the harder things about being a nerd and moving into business. I imagine it's difficult the other way, too, for business people understanding how to motivate nerds.
puppies are basicly ads, you wouldnt brutally slaughter puppies would you????
On iOS, using a PAC file (for wifi configurations) works quite well I've found.
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Also, the Lupo won't murder you.

This thing though - in line with other "cars" like the REVAi or the Renault Twizy - cannot be made to even pass NHTSA or Euro NCAP crash tests, so they're technically registered as four-wheel motorbikes.
There’s a good reason why doctors have difficulties with rare diseases—which is, of course, the rarity itself.

> In medical school, aspiring doctors spend a few minutes at most on these relatively unusual conditions.

It would be unethical to spend a lot of time studying these conditions while many more people suffer from the more frequent ones.

Sooner than later, we’ll be able to solve, say, depression reliably via pills or vaccines or whatever, and then more rare diseases will be studied much better (likewise, there was little point in spending much time on depression when smallpox was around).
There’s a good reason why doctors have difficulties with rare diseases—which is, of course, the rarity itself.
> In medical school, aspiring doctors spend a few minutes at most on these relatively unusual conditions.
It would be unethical to spend a lot of time studying these conditions while many more people suffer from the more frequent ones.
Sooner than later, we’ll be able to solve, say, depression reliably via pills or vaccines or whatever, and then more rare diseases will be studied much better (likewise, there was little point in spending much time on depression when smallpox was around).
But it DID resemble a weapon. According to zero tolerance policies, a chicken finger can resemble a weapon: http://articles.latimes.com/2001/feb/01/news/mn-19819

This was made very clear to me when I went to high school (from 2004-2009). If you had a gun, or a toy gun, or two pieces of wood nailed at a right angle and held like a gun, and you so much as brought it onto the school grounds, you would be handed over to the police and recommended for expulsion.

I'm 100% sure that next week, at least one high school kid will be expelled for something like this. It won't make the news, because there won't be a fleet of outraged tumblr users to champion the kid, because he won't have a name like Ahmed Mohammed. Probably he'll be black, because hey, school to prison pipeline has to pump, but he could just as easily be white.

It's not like the school administrators have any leeway in enforcing district policy. The principal would get fired if he just went "Well, you brought something that we have to expel you for, but you're a good kid, don't do it again." That's how you get favoritism and corruption and it's not something we should try to encourage.

Instead, we should attack the actual problem here, which is the zero tolerance policy. You can't get Donald Trump soundbytes about zero tolerance policies, but that's the actual problem.
Amongst those four arguments, I again don't see mine:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10241380

I don't want ads because I don't want to be manipulated into buying things I don't need. I especially don't want to allow this manipulation while I'm in the middle of something else.

Even if ads were presented with speed, privacy, and safety, I still don't want them.
Here's the UK implementation: https://www.food.gov.uk/business-industry/fish-shellfish/fre...

I'm not sure if this archived page is still accurate: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20150624093026/htt...
The notation "B3/S1237" means a dead cell becomes alive (is "born") if it has 3 live neighbors, and a live cell survives if the number of live neighbors is 1, 2, 3 or 7.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-like_cellular_automaton
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This needs to be a course. I'd pay for it.
Funny that I just finished initial implementation of the code that uses the techniques from the paper (Vanhoucke et al.) mentioned in the post.

https://github.com/ahmetaa/fast-dnn
I know some of those words...
Not if you want to sell your product in the US...
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"The reason is a mixture of widespread ignorance about floating-point arithmetic and the desire to get maximum performance."

Hopefully developers don't misinterpret this to mean that it is idiotic or overly obsessive about performance to use floating point types in calculations. That's not true.

As an example, I once decided to use double-precision floating-point in calculations that would accumulate enough accuracy error that I had to do approximate equality conditions throughout the parts of the code that determined these solutions. This not involve monetary amounts, and we needed solutions in a few seconds, not 20-30 seconds. Each step in the solution built on the former, so I could not break it up any more to solve in parallel than it already was. Throwing faster hardware at it wasn't an option available at the time. I still think I did the right thing, and it's still an integral part of production. Just going with the standard "just use BigDecimal because it's accurate" approach would have been a mistake.
I don't think that the title or the content claimed that "presenting mathematics in an understandable way" is a hack. "Statistics for Hackers" sounds to me like hackers are the intended audience.

This method of presentation makes sense to me. Most statistics classes that I've experienced were taught from the point of view of abstract math. That's certainly one way to do it, but I knew a lot of people for whom that wasn't the optimal presentation strategy. Now that computing is cheap and there is a large audience of people with programming knowledge, I think that teaching statistics through examples of simulation, bootstrapping shuffling and cross validation is a great way to learn things.
1024 levels = 10 bits. The article mentions 8 bits, which is 256 levels. Now I get what you mean with 4x.
MD, PhD such as developmental or occupational psychiatrists or psychologists whom specialize in the particular spectrum of autism behaviors/impairments help most with coping skills, because there is no "magic cure" for autism at this point. I think some supporting caregivers get frustrated and take that out on others or blame the doctors when they're barking up the wrong trees, when they're just looking in the wrong places because they don't seek out support groups or more information.

For example, what's sinister about one part of the spectrum , high-functioning autism, is that it isn't even looked at, much less labeled, and it's impossible to get SSIDI even if someone is unable to hold either a job or relationships.

Finally, the author shouldn't feel terrible... I had Marfan Syndrome my entire life and am looking (not) forward to a valve replacement. I diagnosed it correctly myself after every doctor over (at the time) 35 years missed it entirely. Doctors are too busy, don't have time to get to know their patients or catch life-threatening, so you have to know your own body and become an MD yourself because few of them are actually any good.
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Actually the example code is pretty close to the code you would use for more formal analysis. (naturally, real-world data needs more cleaning)
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Waiting too long to quit a particular job and start contracting. I was in a job I didn't enjoy, working for people I didn't click with. I work in game development and took this unrelated job on after the first games company I worked for years ago went down. Being in game dev then and now I know all about long hours, stressful deadlines, and high pressure situations. That one non-game-dev job wasn't even as demanding in terms of those things than others I've been in, but it drained me so much simply because I wasn't passionate about the work and felt like I was walking on eggshells all day around management. I regret not going freelance sooner - I think it could have saved me a few trips to the doctor with what turned out to be stress induced chest pains.
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This is a very poor article. It doesn't explain what it was that happened except at the end where it says Science added a disclaimer note. The reporter didn't get a quote from the Forrest Service about the issue. It's sensationalistic more than informative.
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> (Pay no attention to the potential 5% of non-organic ingredients behind the curtain)

To be fair, this 5% is limited to the specific ingredients listed in subpart G, which is pretty restrictive.
That was Omnisharp-Server, they only switched over to the Omnisharp-Roslyn[1] implementation a few months ago.

[1] https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-roslyn
I'm going to read more about Transcendental Meditation. I keep meaning to start meditating, but never have the time (or rather don't prioritize it highly enough to make the time).
Moore's Law w/r to clock frequency ran out over a decade ago. And that sucks, because it's trivial to make single-threaded code reproducible.

But parallel code is how one continues to benefit from Moore's law w/r to multiple cores and ever-increasing SIMD width and SIMD units. And it happened at exactly the same time as the migration to mostly single-threaded weakly-typed languages began.

For if your results aren't reproducible, there's no way to detect if your code has a race condition that is reducing the efficacy of your methods.

For an application like molecular dynamics, it's important to conserve overall energy. Any such inconsistency is the equivalent of setting off tiny little hand grenades in the simulation. Inconsistent summation obscures this without a great deal of work to sample many independent simulations. Compare and contrast to running things twice to sniff this out in deterministic code.

For machine learning, it can amount to anything from a harmless implicit regularizer to the AI equivalent of Gary Busey taking the wheel and driving you straight to crazy town.

I speak from experience in both cases. And speaking from experience, as long as your reductions are associative, you'll be fine. That can be achieved with fixed point atomics, or if you don't have them, reduction buffers, or finally, a deterministic reduction algorithm if you have neither. I've used all of the above and they have at most cost 2-3% more than the non-deterministic alternatives (usually much less).

Finally, I inject randomness like crazy, but I do so in a reproducible manner. Confusing determinism and randomness reminds me of people who don't understand the difference between precision and accuracy (TLDR: precision is easy, accuracy is tough).
Google owns duck.com, but that acquisition has nothing to do with DuckDuckGo. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3524336 for details.
> A country should be able to defend itself and the strongest defense, is a powerful and potent offense.

Ugh. Thousands of Americans died in September 11, which is the obvious result of American military action in the Middle East, and thousands more died in the following wars.

You can't just go around killing people and assume that they're not going to attack you back. The best defense is a good foreign policy that avoids conflict in the first place.
I enjoy Unix and the Unix philosophy, but I'm legitimately interested: what would a better system look like to you?
It's called 'disruption.'
Of course, you must wait for implementation. As I said in another post, you must still test in the browsers to make sure they work but to only use a property available in one browser, or to write code and test in only one browser (the subject of this thread), is a fault of the developer and an error of omission.
Fair enough. So, you just have to not use websites that live off ads.
I like this better.

http://www.twike.com

Not the ugly one but the modern stylized concept. It has to be beautiful to sell because if you look like a dork it will be a flop. Cue the segway.
Your testimonials seem to be mostly people offering to promote your product.
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I'm with you Jorgigh althought I'm probbably pretty resistant, I have a 2 and a 3 year old who are already being bombarded with ads on youtube.
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I am wondering about the safety of the cars if you get hit by another (regular size) vehicle? Will the paramedics have to pull your body chunks out with a giant butter knife?
No, that's the beauty it. When you tuck for aerodynamic efficiency your knees come very close to your mouth.
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There's a nifty disclaimer in the main text: "The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the USFS."

In any case, here are few of the more interesting citations from the full text.

"Globally, wildfire size, severity, and frequency have been increasing, as have related fatalities and taxpayer-funded firefighting costs" CITATION: http://nature.berkeley.edu/stephenslab/wp-content/uploads/20...

"But the 2% of wildfires that escape containment often burn under extreme weather conditions in fuel-loaded forests and account for 97% of fire-fighting costs and total area burned" CITATION: http://www.wildfire-economics.org/Library/Calkin_et_al_2005....

Bonus: Malcolm North on Climate Change and Wildfires - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9buMJNu6v4
> Measuring the total number of violent break-ins is way easier than measuring humanity's impact on global temperatures

That's a false comparison. Counting the number of violent break-ins is harder than measuring the increase in global temperatures, which is the fair metric to compare against. Instead of just setting up a bunch of thermometers and averaging the results, you have to settle on a definition of violent and comb through police statistics (to get the number of reported break-ins) and surveys (to get the number of unreported break-ins).

> I'm not aware of any politically significant faction on the left claiming that violent crimes are not increasing

The point of the paper is that when the proposed solution to a reported increase in violent crimes involved a policy liberals would object to, such a faction began to emerge. Whether violent crimes are actually increasing and whether liberals are currently denying said increase are both irrelevant.

The actual paper is linked to from the article posted. I only did a cursory read and didn't find it to be dripping with bias, but that's just my opinion. Here's a direct link to the paper: http://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/handle/10161/9256
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(accidentally downvoted you, sorry.)
John Gustafson's unums are an effort to introduce a scheme for bitwise reproducible floats.
> clear desire to sabotage implementations to include weaknesses

I understand the sentiment here, but even the NSA has far more to lose from insecure encryption algorithms than they have to gain by having backdoor access to "secure" encryption algorithms.
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No, you can pass the controller states and timestamps to whichever node is acting as its server. You then extrapolate everywhere else until a correction arrives from the server. It worked magnificently and we used to watch efficiency improve up to 4 consoles and then gradually decline due to increasing latency. Never patented any of this, have at it, we have scads of prior art if anyone tries to do so :-)...

In this day and age, I suspect the latency issues would be unnoticeable on a 10 Mb/s or better router (which is to say any LAN party) but this was done in the mid-90s.
-> Quantum computers, once seen as a remote theoretical possibility, are now widely expected to work within five to 30 years.

Not my field of expertise so forgive the ignorance, but am I wrong to think that "five to 30 years" seems like a large spread? How close are we really to quantum computing?
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Well there is overlap but then again, there is overlap in the functionality of a car and a truck too. I see Google as primarily solving the "problem" that they still don't have enough data on their users. I wish they didn't have to solve this problem.

As an aside, theverge has become super annoying to read with their over the top advertising. Did they start doing this recently?

http://i.imgur.com/YFY05gY.jpg
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I'm told that they fly cargo planes with salmon from Norway to Japan, unload salmon then fill the planes with electronics, fly to eastern Europe where the various brands have their continent-wide warehouses, unload electronics and then fly to Norway to load up with salmon again.
Agreed. I'm going working on an 8bit floating point that is optimized for learning algos, and optimized to be easy to soft emulate and also very efficient in hardware. One of the cool things about this float is that transfer functions (like the logistic) basically becomes a lookup table for really good performance.

Also, there is no strong need for "zero".
Again, the word 'timer' could be some variant of 'temporia', a shortcut for the device that isn't descriptive, just like in English?
> the difficulty is that investigating a complex dataset is by definition too complex to really fit into a blog post

It's not complex, but it requires answering scaleability questions. How do you fit the data into memory? How do you even get big data?

I managed to analyze 5.6M Hacker News comments (http://minimaxir.com/2014/10/hn-comments-about-comments/ ) by writing a scraper which dumps everything into a PostgreSQL database (https://github.com/minimaxir/get-all-hacker-news-submissions... ) because it's way too big to fit in memory. Likewise, to visualize the recent NYC taxi data, (http://minimaxir.com/2015/08/nyc-map/ ), I just used BigQuery and saved myself a load of time downloading the data and setting things up.

But in many cases, data is not easily accessible, and not cheap to store and process. I want to switch to an actual big data workflow with Spark, but running the numbers with EC2 storage and processing, it won't be cheap and I may have to set up a Patreon to subsidize things.
This was certainly common enough knowledge that it was taught to me explicitly in Boy Scouts back in 1997. Preventing all forest fires builds up undergrowth so that the severity of eventual fires is much worse and they are less controllable.

At the time, they were doing controlled burns of the Boy Scout camp (Philmont) in Nevada to try to make up for decades of undergrowth buildup before they knew better.
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To add to that, a world without ad supported content very well may be better that the one we currently inhabit.
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I didn't know who Korolev was until I watched a series[1] the BBC did about him and his Western Counterpart, Wernher von Braun. I knew since I was a kid who Gagarin was of course, from being the first man in space, but I don't believe it was ever mentioned in history class while in school (I just happened to read a lot on my own).

Sadly, we barely even touch on NASA astronauts in school in the United States anymore. I just happen to love history and had parents that also did. I live in Neil Armstrong's home state and if you're ever in Ohio, there's a pretty interesting (and free) museum in his home town about his life and the Apollo Missions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race_(TV_series)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Air_and_Space_Museum
how were you able to determine that?