skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was an important observation. Fighting noise is one of the primary reasons the first digital computers were invented.

To give a bit of a dramatic illustration, if you circuit has on the order of 1 nV of thermal noise and you wanted to do the linear analog equivalent of 64bit integer arithmetic, you would need a signal on the order of 10,000,000,000 V to have enough precision. In fact, in terms of power consumption it's even worse. If the 1 nV signal consumes something like 1 pW, you would need something like the total power output of the Sun (on the order of 10^26 W) -- a bit of an expensive multiplication, no :) ? That's how crazy it is!

Again, if you can get away with less than 8 bits of precision and imperfect linearity the picture changes, but I wouldn't declare it superior a priori without looking at the numbers.
North Carolina. Black people. Got it
A Datom in datomic is not a person, its a 5 value entry: [entity, attribute, value, transaction, added]

Just to clarify since you appear to be linking the 'onetom' to the project, but I can't see any evidence she is in any way related.
'Groundbreaking' Crypto Platform Unveiled at Global Money Summit
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogeraitken/2015/09/16/bitcoin-exchange-ccedk-set-to-unveil-groundbreaking-crypto-platform-at-global-money-summit/

more in depth info here: https://bitscan.com/articles/openledger-the-most-powerful-crypto-financial-platform-in-the-world

presentation scans here: http://slides.com/openledger/london
Monster War Hack Tool (Androi/iOS)
A former colleague has written something quite similar[0] few years ago, which we used to backup encrypted disks (actually snapshots of encrypted disks to be precise).

[0] http://chunksync.florz.de/
"So when the Republicans take control over the executive branch... are we going to keep hearing such great boosterism?"

WHy are you asking him? I don't think anyone knows the answer to this. Obviously the major factor would be whether the next president (be they Republican or Democrat) decide to continue support for these kinds of teams, both in terms of funding and autonomy to do their job. This seems like something we should be asking the candidates and their parties about.
One thing to consider, is that given rate of change approaches zero as velocity approaches c, what does motion mean when there is no time for it to happen in, either as things moving or bumping?
Please see this handy table: https://xkcd.com/678/
I hope no one answers this.
Nice tutorial, beautifully illustrated and presented.
Linking to stories that are paywall blocked is rude.
Memspector: Inspect memory usage of Python functions
War is a racket, and we consent to it. We peons as a whole are ignorant and easily misled, consent is easily manufactured. Consent of the governed is not matter of belief, it's simply a fact they operate with our consent for our consent is the source of their power. Smedely Butler is correct, but his statement does not support your argument in any way.
I wonder, why so many alignments (or, why such small blocks)? Is this the most efficient size?
Direct link to Homo sapiens: http://tree.opentreeoflife.org/opentree/opentree3.0@776755/H...
(loads even slower than the home page)
But this sub-thread is about searching for help.

How is a new user supposed to search for help with Files? Including the distro name doesn't help. And if the rename is complete then no-one should be calling it nautilus in the forums either, so knowing that it used to be called something else doesn't help.

Call it something like Nautilus File Manager or Gnome File Manager or Fedora File Manager.

But "files" on its own is a useless name.
As a doctor, wouldn't you be in a really good position to work on a medical startup? I don't know that field at all, but I understand that lots of the work of a doctor can be automatized with machine learning, for example, writing an app that performs basic health checking.
Because the topic of this thread is the large scale system of project delivery and changes to it. The poster made some sweeping statements about how the article was not accurate and provided great reference material to what he considered more relevant material.

Given the topic of how these large systems operate and could be improved, and given the poster's claims to have special insight, seemed reasonable to me to continue the dialog. After all, this was an example of behavior associated with the topic at hand.

And my question was about enthusiasm and public support. Why would presidential candidates have anything to do with this? If it is partisan, then my question has been answered.
I converted the code to compile with Visual Studio and ran it. PaperBack was able to input a text file, create a "BMP", and read it back in. The destination file was the same as the source.

However the BMP files that PaperBack generates are not recognized and cannot be read by other programs. PaperBack can't read BMP files created by other applications.

I didn't try scanning the printed page directly with PaperBack. I used a separate computer to scan the page and create a BMP.
It's not that great intelligence (be it "humans with amplified intelligence" or AI) is that powerful.

It's only because we overestimate intelligence we think of that, probably as part of the "Great Man" fallacy.

Science is not advanced merely by people with "amplified intelligence" -- it's advanced through thousands of scientists working independently and in co-operation and tons of hard "manual" work of testing, verification, experimentation etc.

Not just some sage coming in with his insights, a la Newton and Einstein (though that did happen with more frequence in the previous centuries when more "low hanging fruit" discoveries were available).

As for politics, it's usually "sociopaths" and/or good manipulators and liars that go far ahead, not people with high IQ specifically -- and those traits are even conflicting sometimes (e.g. people with high IQ but Aspergers).
Ernst and Young drops degree classification threshold for graduate recruitment
I'm pretty sure the value of Bitcoin is circumventing regulations. Similarly, I'm guessing the Bitcoin community doesn't care very much about whether a government agency classifies it as a currency, a commodity, or a potato. Note that most of the quoted people rarely if ever engage in commerce with Bitcoin - so I'm not sure why their opinion on regulation is terribly relevant.
I've clearly failed in my attempt to be humorous (while making a point I hope) ... Sorry for the confusion!
QGIS Server Plugin to Add OGC Web Processing Service Capabilities
Maggie Stilwell, EY’s managing partner for talent, said the changes would “open up opportunities for talented individuals regardless of their background and provide greater access to the profession”.
> Actually, it turned out not to be that good a decision. The generated code is far less compact than x86

That isn't true with x86-64. I've measured the average instruction size of x86-64 in the wild and it ends up being almost exactly 4 bytes. REX prefixes add up fast.
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Nobody can imagine tolerance to bombing... but you can imagine tolerance to sexting.

These cases are radically different. In the case of the clock, the "Justice" was not involved, there was no accusation.
There is almost no syntax.

Though dozens of special forms and hundreds of macros implementing syntax.

A lot to remember. A lot syntax.
The Sardex factor
This example will take a lot of work to pull off.

Suppose I'm dropping $3000/month on a spacious 2 bedroom east village flat. If I'm spending $1000/month on clothing, I'll very quickly run out of space to store it in my second bedroom. $50/day on food is quite a feat even eating eggs and kale on artisanal toast 3x/day. Maybe if you are eating bodybuilder type meals at only the finest restaurants?

I'm trying to imagine how to do $500/month on entertainment. Fri/Sat/Sun bars with a $25 cover charge, plus 42 $10 cocktails every week? With that kind of a drinking problem, money is the least of one's worries.

Spending both $3k/month on a flat in NYC and $1.5k/month on a car makes no sense (the whole point of the flat is to never drive).
Offline-plugin for webpack (ServiceWorker and AppCache auto generation)
Battery packs at the end of a link are not a bad plan though, as they bring down the peak required on the link and so can actually be cheaper than a fatter cable.
Both of those domains work OK for me.
Rather than just digging a deeper hole, we should maybe also figure out how to deal with the people who are where they are now, regardless of how they got there.
> The problem is that a simpler decoder doesn't compensate for the extra instruction cache needed to achieve the same hit rates/levels of performance

Except this isn't true for x86-64, because x86-64 instructions are just as large as ARM instructions in practice.
I imagine someone in a post apocalyptic world carrying around a single sheet like this without anyway to replay it but taking solace in knowing it exists somewhere in there.
If I recall, stealing anything worth more than a few shillings in value was a capital offence in Georgian Britain. The aristocracy, gentry, and merchants took property rights very seriously...

Georgia was also briefly a penal colony
I want to edit the title for clarity. Thanks.
> It's quite possible the specification of all the legislation is actually logically unsolveable

The specification was made by people as part of the project, it's not a law of physics. The teenager wouldn't create so much complexity.
While you're reviewing these, you should probably take a look at your original post which got you in this thread of poo-flinging to begin with. It doesn't address the article at all. It just says 'grumble grumble, those Java people!'. It's content-free flame bait that produced predictable responses such as 'And those PHP people!' and 'I'm a Java person and you, Sir, are an ass'.
>a) The key used for (en|de)cryption in version 1.00 provides at most an effective key strength of less than 50 bits (and likely far less, perhaps on the order of 15-25 bits, depending on password quality) instead of the expected 256 bits. Version 1.10 derives the encryption key from the password via key stretching, significantly improving key strength. This change causes a small delay in the encryption step.

>b) PaperBack version 1.0 implements ECB mode symmetric encryption. This mode is subject to a watermark attack and leaks information about the encrypted data. Version 1.00 changes the encryption mode to CBC, which mitigates this attack.

These are classic newb mistakes, and great reasons to not trust any encryption on any product unless it has been vetted by others.
But a person who's had such an event can empty their own accounts to survive.
nadam said 10 seconds, not minutes.

we are using the starter version combined with dynamodb in production and we found the payment structure very clear; no obfuscation whatsoever, unlike a microsoft or adobe pricing matrix ;)
(it's made by the same guy who made the very open source clojure programming language, btw, and he is very much against obfuscation)

anyway, it's a competitive advantage for those guys' who are building a bank on top of it in brazil (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lm3K8zVOdY).
we feel we can avoid writing a lot of authorization and audit log code by using datomic, maybe u can save such work too.
Indian here, yes, we save a lot of money. This is because most of us born and raised in difficult financial circumstances. You are right, getting used to a way of life and then going back and cutting down on most of things can be very painful, and in many cases impossible. It's also very humiliating and can come down very hard emotionally on a person. Trust me when I say this, this happens very frequently in India too. I can give you endless examples of this kind of thing in India. So don't think its an US thing only. It happens in India too.

But I blame the person for it. I'm currently in the US for a short term work assignment, I may stay here for a while. And I will go back to India. A few things that I see here and in India. These are common things I see in both countries.

1. Most people don't seem to even have a concept of saving. This is unacceptable. Basic working knowledge of how money works(Savings and investments) should be important and be known to every person.

2. I've seen people splurging when get money and then struggling when they don't have money. There needs to be a middle ground. You don't have to buy every new phone that launches, every new thing that is there in the super market. Buy what you need, not every thing you want. Also that vacation you take every year, is pointless. Why are you doing that anyway? If you don't own a home, much less don't even have enough money to survive a lay off, or pay for your kids education, why are you spending on pointless stuff. You should be seriously be rationing the way your spend your money.

3. Every person could be helped with improving their skills or learning something new every some period of time. If you are in a low income job. If you are a ware house worker, or a waiter at a restaurant, or any such job for that matter. You should focus on using your free time(Spending time with your dog/cat can wait) in learning a new skill. Learning anything. Repairing cars, plumbing, software do anything but invest in learning skills that pay better.

4. Retirement planning/process begins in the first hour of your first job. It's not something optional or good to do. It's something you should do at any cost, no matter what it takes. It ends when you actually retire. If you are not investing to retire as soon as your start working, you are setting yourself up for failure. And nobody but you are to blame for it. Sorry its not the government, or society's job to help you in situations like these, simply because everybody else is having it equally if not worse than you do.

5. Don't lose your connections with grassroots. Even if you are doing good financially. Make it a point to look at how difficult poor people are having it. This will help you understand why your retirement project is so important.

The only issue I see in the US way of life is at time, mindless consumerism. I see yard sales and garage sales very often. Those are clear indications of people buying stuff they don't need. Lack of a middle ground in consumption.
I've used madlib[1] before and was quite happy with that. Maybe you can do a feature comparison with similar existing solutions as many people don't have the bandwidth to go through your documentations.

[1] http://madlib.net/
This is correct. Thumb-2 is the only actual compact instruction set in wide use. x86-64 doesn't even come close to being as efficient; between ARM and x86-64, it's a wash.

It's certainly possible to design a CISC ISA (or maybe even a RISC one) that's optimized for compactness. x86 isn't that, though. Maybe it was in the 16-bit era, in a hypothetical future where BCD instructions were used a lot.
Great! Almost every takeaway in Dublin has moved to Zuppler for their online ordering... Zuppler is hosted out of AWS.
I want more people working on building The Future. That means we need more people getting STEM training.

This undergrad-level analysis of the labor market is a side show compared to that.
That's a good idea, thanks! What kinds of problems were you solving with madlib?
Was it by any chance a certain ahem iconic piece of artwork from 4chan?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10226196 (and dozens of other posts)
>>One large medical expense can wipe out years of savings.

Your medical expenses should be a part of your retirement savings.
Our ability to change our environment is limited and was even more limited in the past.

• Look at infectious diseases killing those without inborne resistance and you see humans evolving just fine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease

• Also changing your environment, e.g. by starting to herd animals can jumpstart evolution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence
It only wouldn't in an absurd rationalist homo economicus wet dream fantasy universe, where the current price is at a perfect equilibrium and costs have no impact.
For a beginner, skim PEP8, then go through the tutorial on python.org, until you get tired or impatient with it, then proceed with the inevitable branching out and focus on your own projects and concerns.

Read other PEPs when they become relevant to you.
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Or, you could split your 64 bit computation into 8 bit computations, which could be done with analog circuits, and still save a lot of power! :-)

But yes, I understand your point. Both analog and digital implementations have their strengths and weaknesses. If you value power over precision, go with analog. If the opposite - go with digital.
It's kind of paradoxical that people would rather accept unfavorable pleas because they don't want to/can't pay anything.. and the lawyers are still expensive..
That is a really good point. Perhaps one could compare it to creating and driving an car from the 1920's, and trying to satisfy all the regulations around cars nowadays.

On the other hand, I do think that combination of extreme scarcity leading to government regulation is so out of line with how the world is moving, that it reflects flawed thinking. It's almost as if people want some kind of crises to escape the decadence of modern capitalism (and there are as many on the right who think this way). The only thing that could create this kind of scarcity is global warming. But maybe the reference to a farmer on the arctic circle was a reference to this?
is there a browser that still supports these gestures? Firefox did 10 years ago with an addon...
I can certainly imagine tolerance to things that look like bombs or even that simulate bombs in every meaningful way other than explosion.

"Zero tolerance" for bombs and weapons hasn't generally meant that bombs and weapons are not tolerated - that was already the case. Instead, it has meant that things that merely evoke the image of a bomb or weapon are met with intolerance.

For example, I imagine you came across this story:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/08/28/school-allegedly-...
> It's just some people with a libertarian agenda, who don't like banks or government

Sounds like a community to me.
One problem might be that they are not inline like links are on the web. One solution to this would be encoding links inside the printed text somehow, but that would require far very accurate cameras and high quality printers.
I guess it would depend on the activities. Walking down the street and chewing a gum - fine. Driving and listening to Dumas? Not so much, in my opinion.
I guess the people noted in the article are the ones who are either influencing those who engage in commerce with bitcoin, or those who are building tools and platforms to enable such commerce to take place. Either way, I am not sure bitcoins value is derived only from the lack of regulations. Sooner or later all the regulations applicable to existing financial instruments will be applicable to bitcoin as well. I think the value stems from the universality of the currency and the inherent trust enforced enforced through encryption.
>I don't understand how there could really be a community that revolves around a crypto currency.

"I admit to not understanding this thing, yet feel okay spouting off some smug opinions about it."

Ok.
I have previously documented the many, many submissions of this story, and yet still there is almost no discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10239987
"It’s an OK commodity but it’s the equivalent of selling real estate on the moon. There’s no inherent value. I applaud the ability of speculators to make money from selling it to other people, but I don’t think even calling it a commodity is enough. It’s a kind of shadow asset."

I love when people who are in finances say that bitcoin has no vale; when actual money today is so complex in determining its value that you could basically say its a virtual coin as well.
Yes, I agree that the issue is in the toolchain. And more reproducibility in this area is a much more general and important problem. Even without aiming for bitwise reproducibility, it's still very hard to properly package your software and its dependencies. That is one reason why reproduction is so rare: simply installing the dependencies is too hard.

So a sufficient improvement in toolchains/package management etc. would probably enable bitwise reproducibility, but I think a lot of people in this thread, and the original article, were implying that current tools are sufficient and scientists just need to stop being lazy.
The way I view Bitcoin and money is like the OS wars of the past few decades. Up until this point the big OS's (Microsoft == USD, Apple == Yuan) have been copyrighted by the government.

They control the updates, what is allowed on their platform, and the way developers make apps for that platform.

Bitcoin is the Linux of the money system. An Open Source OS for money, where developers can build apps without asking permission, and the community actually has a say in the progress of the OS, whether that's a good or bad thing we'll find out.
Surely you see the difference between helping the poor vs. taking other people's money and using part of it to help the poor.
Most people don't regard "the law" to be merely the collection of statues passed by whatever government claims power at a given moment.

"The law" is subject to incredible debate and scrutiny - this is the reason, for example, for constitutional courts. It is also the basis for revolution.

What if more than one entity claims to be the legitimate government? Then what is 'the law'?

Merely reading the federal register is not sufficient to inform someone about the particulars of the law.

Please - read the essay and see if you are find "the law" to be a matter of fact.
It never occurred to me to look for a spaced repetition tool in org-mode. It looks like a great tool to improve those corner cases you always have to look up.

I agree that there are things you should just google, but it's worth memorizing some thing to speed up your coding, and it's really important to do that for coding interviews, both for the good impression and the speed up.
You didn't get it.

This happens because the US is turning into a police state where everyone thinks they've got the right and duty to destroy someone else's live if they don't like something about them (race, religion, sexual life, ...), and the authorities are not only OK with that but actively encourage it to promote constant fear amidst population. If they can charge you with anything at any time and destroy your life, you're going to be a good sheep.
Awesome! Nice write-up. And thanks for submitting those bugs back to the maintainers.
As you're yourself saying, sages with insights did occur relatively frequently when there were the low hanging fruit in different sciences still available. But there is no reason to believe that there exists just one level of these low hanging fruit that just happens to be at around the level that exceptional human intelligence can grasp. Which means that that this hypothetical "amplified intelligence" could vrey well have it's own, next level of "low hanging fruit" that is simply too complex for current human intelligence to grasp, but is well within the reach of the more powerful intelligence.
The US Digital Service started with healthcare.gov, but nowadays they work across the government on projects that matter to people all over the political spectrum: VA, immigration, department of education, and more.

That said, I have no way to predict who the Republican nominee will be or what they'll do. I think the impact of USDS relative to its budget is huge, and I'd like to believe making the government competent at writing software is a bipartisan issue, so I would hope this initiative crosses over into the next administration, whoever it is.

Right now, I think everybody at USDS is just focused on getting results over the next 18 months.
Genuinely interested in where those figures come from. Do you have any sources I could read?