skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Taking the square root of the data de-emphasizes the densest areas, helping fix this. Actually, I’ll tell you a secret: I showed the 2.25th root of density, not the square root, because I’m way too detail obsessive.

This is an important detail. I used something similar before. Never assume that the best conversion from data to color is linear. The monitor is not linear, the eye is not linear, who knows if the printer is linear.
> I think the EE team make sense to be created "on demand" and not as a permanent solution

For the size and intensity of effort going on at Twitter, I respectfully disagree.

Once the team gets large enough, NMP ("Not My Problem" mindset) comes into play, and unless you have the culture from the beginning to always be making the development process better, and acquisitions and new management has never changed that, which is highly unlikely, then having a dedicated person or team to help make other developers jobs easier is a great idea- after the team gets to a certain size. What that size is depends on what is being done, though.
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Into eternity is a documentary on a long term nuclear waste storage facility in Finland. It is fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)
Breeder reactors burn up >90% of what we call "waste" now, leaving behind only relatively short-lived isotopes. They're not more expensive than normal nuclear power plants, but because they can be used to breed weapons grade plutonium we don't build them.
As we have seen in most milestones, Kotlin is gradually moving closer and closer to Scala, because even they realize that "a slightly better Java" won't cut it in the mid-/long-term.
See my MC in a post below. I think I understand what they are on about. It's biased against repeating in short runs.
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I enumerated the sequences that the article mentioned, and counted how often a tail filled a head, and vice versa, and got 12 instances where a head follows a head, and 10 where a tail followed a head. So there is a difference for just counting up all the possible 4 flip sequences where at least one of the first three is a head.
However, doing a randomised test where I generated a random 4 length sequence, rejecting it if none of the first three was a head, then doing the same test showed no real difference.

Code here https://github.com/gregryork/Flips/tree/master/src/flips
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The plural of "bordello" is "bordelli", so there's that. (And that's all the Italian I know.)
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I hope you keep use without servo in mind at least somewhat - with the right kind of license this kind of library could be a nice foundation for a GUI framework.
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I don't think it's a bad example. I remember John Carmack saying Doom 3 was their first C++ project and they weren't very familiar with the language and did some poor decisions on that.
It seems that Scala has much more uptake on Android than Kotlin will ever have.
Have any of them released their source code?

Not a snarky comment, just wondering if it would be possible to peak at the code.
You created an anonymous HN user specifically to attack someone's motives instead of discussing the issue of people using the Apache Software Foundation as a cover to hide their effective ownership of some open source software built at other people's time and expense. That's been a common theme from the very people I mentioned.
Pumpkin Experiment
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Ignorance is important
My mind fused title "Your DI framework" into "DIY framework"
In other words, not only the article sucks, it also teaches others not to care about quality. :(.
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Take a look at the updated gist. There's an asymptote for P(H|H) when trials grow approaching p.

EDIT: Graph is empirical H|H against run length (output of the last function in a linear graph)
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You're right that you can't get someone his life back: you can't give back someone the empty years he spent in prison; you can't remove the pain and agony of years removed from polite society; you can't remove the cruelty and abuse he experienced from other prisoners.

Punishment's unpleasant (that's its nature); death and imprisonment are unpleasant.

And yet, there are crimes which deserve death. Not to execute vicious murderers, rapists & traitors is a profound miscarriage of justice.
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Argument #1 does not really make sense, since by repeatedly applying the same logic it implies that engineers will work an infinite number of minutes each day. A variant of this argument that I've often heard is this:

"My decision to take the plane does not negatively impact the environment, since the plane would fly with or without me in it."
IANAL and this is not legal advice. There is no risk in any event as the work was published under specific copyright terms and conditions.
I'll take your money.

First, a change because the optimizer will pre-compute the sum:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
long a, bound=10000000;
long sum = 0;
if (argc > 1) {
bound = atoi(argv[1]);
}
/* for loop execution */
for( a = 0; a < bound; a++ ) {
sum += a;
}
printf("sum: %lu\n", sum);
return 0;
}

I'll time the performance across a range of values.

% cc tmp.c && time ./a.out 1000000
sum: 499999500000
0.005u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0%	0+0k 0+0io 1pf+0w
% cc tmp.c && time ./a.out 10000000
sum: 49999995000000
0.030u 0.000s 0:00.03 100.0%	0+0k 0+0io 1pf+0w
% cc tmp.c && time ./a.out 100000000
sum: 4999999950000000
0.303u 0.000s 0:00.33 90.9%	0+0k 0+0io 1pf+0w

You'll notice that my timings for 10000000, at 0.03 seconds, was comparable to the timings in the essay.

If the printf overhead were the dominate cost then we would expect to see less variance in the timing. Instead, we see there's a linear increase, which is exactly what we expect if the loop is the primary cost.

So no, most of the time is not spent in printing the result.

I'll also test with optimizations enabled:

% cc -O3 tmp.c && time ./a.out 1000000
sum: 499999500000
0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0%	0+0k 0+0io 1pf+0w
% cc -O3 tmp.c && time ./a.out 10000000
sum: 49999995000000
0.000u 0.001s 0:00.00 0.0%	0+0k 0+0io 1pf+0w
% cc -O3 tmp.c && time ./a.out 100000000
sum: 4999999950000000
0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0%	0+0k 0+0io 1pf+0w
% cc -O3 tmp.c && time ./a.out 1000000000
sum: 499999999500000000
0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0%	0+0k 0+0io 1pf+0w

The optimizer does pretty well on this code.
Oil cartels can exist without government intervention, the free market does not guard against collusion.
RDP doesn't have any issue doing remote DirectX rendering.

Just as mentioned in the sibling post, X11 isn't up the task for modern graphics.

EDIT: lots of typos
The problem is that people do change. I was an outright terrible employee for years and mediocre in engineering skills and am now fine as an employee but despite knowing the general means to not be a bad engineer am probably just middling or below for various reasons not related to capability as much as personal circumstances. The job market changes over time as well.
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Ah, Geometry, the great divider. I was fiddling with game development in late high school and the most natural approach to geometric problems for me was to just think in terms of coordinates and disregard the geometric primitives per se. A friend of mine was the same way - just plop a coordinate system, express every point as an algebraic equation and away we do with all these pesky lines on our pages, just nice algebra is left. Then you show it to the teacher and he makes the observation you filled two pages with calculations that can be replaced with one geometric property and the addition of one line to the diagram. Fun times :) .
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Thanks. Looks very interesting, and I've just bought a copy from Amazon.

The trailer is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmWadizC8AQ.
I don;t know because I cannot read the article

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You don't have permission to access /store/10.1111/j.1467-3010.2012.01960.x/asset/j.1467-3010.2012.01960.x.pdf on this server.
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As a non-Chinese, I would love if you could expand on that comment :-)

Does it change the general point?
Bring your big camera. If it's too obtrusive for someone you want to photograph on the street, you have your iPhone in your pocket anyway.
Alright, in that case Kotlin has that other sense of first class functions as well. You can get a function typed object that supports the invoke operator, amongst other things.
Make no mistake, this is more than distant science fiction. Similar devices and experiments were made by Yale researcher Jose Delgado back in the 50s and 60s [1]. He also wrote a book with a rather interesting title: 'Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society'.

[1] http://io9.com/5871598/the-scientist-who-controlled-peoples-...
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Which features do you have in mind?
I don't have enough information to know whether he was monetising the Nintendo videos - can you point at a URL or something to clarify this?
I'm not really sure what I am looking at there. Is the X axis the number of trials run, or the length of the run?
>First, the United States and its Western allies are responsible for the sad state of world affairs owing to their foolhardy interventions on behalf of democratic revolutions. Democratic revolutions are the dreams of those who have unrealistic views of the world.

Yeah, those hopeless western romantics. It's all about "helping bring democracy". Controlling the area, putting friendly lackeys in power, ensuring cheap resources, and showing the world who's "cop" obviously doesn't have anything to do with those interventions. Or that dictators are welcome and nourished when they are doing their work for them, from the Sakh and Pinochet to the more hardcore arab regimes.

Oh, and that those interventions repeatedly end in nightmarish non-democratic destroyed societies (but that still serve their purpose in destabilizing the area) must be a total accident.
> Vagrant can't talk to the mothership, it doesn't work right

I'm going to assume this is about not being able to detect/handle version upgrades of base boxes if they're not in Atlas (or if you're offline).

This is my issue with this ecosystem too - Atlas is a "free" service but to use/run an alternative "Atlas" would mean reverse engineering it (if there is a spec detailing the endpoints, calls, payloads expected/accepted I'd love to hear about it!).

As for "which package manager works it can't talk to the mothership":

Debian's Apt/Dpkg can work from a purely offline mirror on the local disk if you want. RPM can too. But more likely you'll want to use your own private repo. Possibly just a mirror of the upstream repo. Maybe your own packages. Maybe a mix of both.
Good - more diversity is needed in war criminals.
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Extension methods vs implicits is one of those things that people seem to really like about Kotlin, on the balance of comments I've read. For instance because they are more predictable, higher performance, implicits are apparently a leading source of Scala compiler slowness, because to fix the issues with implicits you end up needing what Scala calls value types (but which have so many restrictions, they're more like type aliases than actual value types), etc.
So something like Jason Weston's state-of-the-art attention-NN based sentence summarizer took ~4 days to train.

You'd easily spend that time doing manual feature engineering just to build a baseline system.
So, Angie's List for non-contracting?
My understanding is that radioactive emissions are readily measurable so what elements/isotopes are involved should be identifiable and therefore the rate at which these will decay will be predictable - this could well be wrong!

One potential other risk is chemical instability of nuclear waste materials - that has caused lots of problems e.g. the Kyshtym disaster:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster

Edit: Modified the first part to make it clear that I should have been asking a question rather than making a statement!
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Linus could have chosen to work on improving SVN instead, but he did not. The decision to write a new version control system in the first place is part of what makes makes him so much more effective, not just pure programming ability.
You are mixing up different actors.

At a given tax, the consumer and producer want the lowest production cost.

At fixed price to the consumer, the government wants the lowest production cost, so that the tax can be higher.
Might be a good job for CERN.
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> cost cutting (avoiding the expense of imprisonment)

I remember reading that the opposite is actually true. All the cost of trials, retrials, etc. is apparently more than housing the inmate for life.
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We use depleted uranium for that. Energy production normally uses enriched uranium.
>Unfortunately most of the people who do this are children.

eric_the_read's comment notwithstanding, people subjected to extreme circumstances in their childhood years are less likely to be rehabilitated, not more.

The argument is that someone willing to shoot up a school for attention is beyond rehabilitation. His age is irrelevant to someone making that claim, and possibly argues in his favor.
Is it possible to precisely identify the composition of a body of mixed waste solely from its emissions? Wouldn't chemical analysis of a sample be necessary?
The Haskell using folks at Standard Chartered Bank have been implementing some of the "Out of the Tarpit" ideas for a few years now. I can confirm, functional relational programming does work really well in practice.
Well, Google still knows your customers, then.
The star at Github won't either.

I highly dislike centralisation, especially if it is centralisation on proprietary services. The more the merrier, people should feel comfortable using different sites and not chastise the underdogs.
Is VeraCrypt a valid alternative for TrueCrypt? Did anybody audited this piece of software?
Same here. I was able to find it at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-3010.2012.... . The short version is "no", where the baseline for "that bad" is a commentary in Nature that sugar is toxic.
Maintenance and when adding more features to it.

Obviously runs and interops fine, but for less paper cuts when they are modifying it or near to it, it makes sense to refactor it to a common base.

And removing the scala plugin from poms will make the project(s) simpler.

Though as a Scala dev, not the direction I would have chosen, ever.
Doesn't work for me. I click the button and I get a blank PNG.

Edit: Oh, you have to edit the field for it to actually render it, okay. That wasn't obvious.
If there are true 10x-ers, they'd be pretty rare, right? Like the chances of being one would be on a par with playing in the NFL.
Oh boy... I would not use France as a counter-example.

Jail time is low in France because our jails are full. Any sentence below two years is automatically deferred to probation, which means that a large number of crimes are de facto not punished.

A quick google search will reveal a disturbing trend of violent crimes that don't result in jail time for this reason.

France has the opposite problem, and it's no better.
Or, more canonically, Francisco Sans.
Anybody who seriously references anything from techrights is so deluded as to be beyond argument. Sorry.
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I'm on and off their subscription for a couple of years now. What I noticed is that they make it extremely challenging to cancel. While that doesn't matter for the first subscription it certainly is something that makes me hesitate to come back to them. In the end their journalism usually wins me over, though :)
> (surprisingly for Springer, not behind a paywall).

OK, that was only true at work.
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> They write better code. They build the right stuff. They promote better team cohesion. And they execute on difficult projects more effective.

Let's put it this way: 10X engineers ship 10X better products. Some places still use the daft metrics you mentioned (LOC, bugs squashed, etc.), sure. I'd assume that a gig such as Twitter would know that a 10x engineer is identified by, essentially, gut feel and can't be quantified. There seems to be two definitions of the meme and I'd assume that most people around here would refer to the more realistic one (10X better products).

More facts of the 10X meme: not every engineer is necessarily 10X on every project you might assign them and, as you mentioned, a 1X hire could end up being a 10X engineer some day.

Back to the article. An EE team isn't the only way to approach this. We've got at least two where I work:

With enough 10Xs around sometimes you just need to let them fly: give them a little freedom to fix shit, take their fixes seriously and trust them. There's a good chance that if something annoys an engineer enough, they will take their own initiative and fix the shit (sometimes in their own time). This is the approach that my team lead takes - he'll give us the time once we can prove the value of our changes.

Another team lead I chat to a lot logs tech debt the very instant that it is created and allocates time every release to remove tech debt. His tech debt backlog is rapidly approaching zero. The advantage here is that his junior engineers learn the cost of tech debt and learn how to make the correct decisions to fix it as they are involved with removing it. An EE team with 10X elites provides no knowledge sharing.

An EE team might not work everywhere (especially for us: our product could be seen as a collection of products), the most important take-away from that article is that tech debt can be solved with a little responsibility and by granting your employees enough autonomy to figure out how to solve it.
I hope in 50 years or so we'll have a law that states that to put your product on the market, you'll be required to disclose all information about what it consists of, software and chemical compositions of all parts included.
Yeah, the kind that results in more efficient mass murder, suffering, and oppression in the world. Hurray!
Terminator 2 trailer :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QXDPzx71jQ
Cobol is interesting, but horrifically impractical in practice. Cobol is my bugbear language... I just couldn't solve problems in it. It somehow separates what should go together and puts together what is unrelated.
Weird. I also learned that -fold is not the same as times. For example, cosmic inflation was 60-fold, not times.

But when I look it up, it says -fold is equivalent to just a multiple.
Advertising in the Netherlands for prescription drugs is illegal in the Netherlands, and for non prescription drugs it is highly regulated. So most pharamacorps target doctors by putting up nice stands during.

Here there is no need for a big marketing budget to get sales done. Not every market behaves like a regular consumer market. I think most markets are more complicated than the idea of spend $X to get $X + $Y. Especially for pharma, this has been a far more complicated relationship with the market.

Profit margins might resemble other markets, but I think that when it comes to healthcare profit is a very complicated concept...
This is very good to hear. Good luck.