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Would it be possible for the server to simply return a queue position to the contending clients? For instance, "There are 37 clients ahead of you. Try again in 37ms." (assuming each write is averaging 1ms)

I suspect if the client and server worked together in this fashion you could get much closer to the linear completion time seen with no backoff and also closer to linear work (since each client would try exactly twice in an ideal world where the server accurately predicted when it should try again).
The paper by Lyness and Moler is nice, but if it's really "about the idea in this post" then the fact is somewhat hidden. It's mostly about using the Cauchy integral formula to turn derivatives into integrals, using the Poisson summation formula to relate those to finite sums, and using the Moebius inversion formula to get those relations into a form from which you can extract the derivatives.

Maybe taking a very short partial sum of one of the series in Theorem 2 gives you the result in the blog post here, but that seems rather sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut-ish when (as the blog post says) all you need is the Cauchy-Riemann equations.

I think it's true that the Lyness-Moler idea of "numerical differentiation by numerical complex integration" was, historically, part of the chain of ideas that led to the very simple "complex-step approximation" discussed in the blog post. But that's a far cry from saying that their paper is "about the idea in this post"!

There's some discussion of the history here: http://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2013/10/14/complex-step-dif... where Moler (as in "Lyness and Moler") says "The complex step algorithm that I'm about to describe is much simpler than anything described in that 1967 paper. So, although we have some claim of precedence for the idea of using complex arithmetic on real functions, we certainly cannot claim to have invented today's algorithm."

And yes, Chebfun is very nice.
Check this video running in another thread. This a known Alan Kay talk, he did it already a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSD07U5uBs

As an example of the type of research being done, you must be willing to build something that will be considered commodity in 15 years time at today's price.

You won't get there with basic income.
This looks awesome. Something I always liked in Twitter and missed in GitHub.

Next item on my wish list - StackOverflow style notification dropdown.
If you ever read The Glass Bead Game(Das Glasperlenspiel) by Hermann Hesse, you'll see that Hesse was able to get a lot out of this overlap of terms.
The other devices (preferably more then one) should be on other boats to be effective out on the oceans. So there is bit of a chicken en egg problem: not very useful if you are the only user.

It would be a project to discuss with a big freight company. One that has already many boats out there anyway. Maybe to get it started and financed.
You're right, and I misunderstood. I'm a computer programmer trying to rapidly learn enough about probability theory to be able to communicate with some theoretical statisticians regarding causality, confounding, and longitudinal data analysis. I have a decent intuitive grasp of what's happening, but no ability to convey anything with proper terminology. I could certainly use a better grasp of the basics, and I'm trying to figure out where to start. Thanks for the links.
I can't imagine Larry Ellison letting anything out of Oracle Labs unless they invent a new way to permanently tie customers into existing legacy software.
Guess how many court cases has been about developers tainted from reading code.

1000? 1? 0?

Zero. You are about as likely to be tainted from reading GPL code as to be tainted by reading HN, the news paper, or driving around in silicon valley and looking at building with programmers in them.
That's a lot of imagining you're doing right there. The US is not Austria. It has ~310m more people. The China example is just lol worthy.
” When you want something else, you Alt-Tab, which no one does, or rely on some hacky workaround. “Now,” he says, “you can push things back... .... Things will change.”

I use Alt-Tab, it works on Linux Mint and Windows, I like hacky workarounds, I don't like when things change.

That said, 3D Touch is the best thing since Multitouch? Well except zooming nobody of my non-technical friends here ,could give me any usecase for using more than one finger. If anything with touch, I would need a keyboard that I actually can use.
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>really intuitive

>the biggest interface innovation since multitouch.

Seriously ? I don't get the interest around 3d Touch. As long as the action is not immediately discoverable, it is not going to be used by most of your users. long press or nav drawers perform pretty badly, how is 3d touch any different ?
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That's not a valid sample size. Gross.
I've read to my kid since forever, my wife as well. We have a library that rivals most school's and we read to him 2-3 books (at least) a day. He is 3.5 years old and can't read at all (heck, I think he recognises some words but I'm not even sure of that).

At 3 I was able to do math (addition, subtraction and basic multiplication) quite easily but basic reading only came to me at around 5 years old.

Kids are different, some learn to read earlier, others later, same with math, same with diapers, same with everything really. My 3.5 year old can climb trees like a 7 year old (better even if the kids around here are any indication). Do basic math (he has the concept of multiplication and can do most numbers times 2 or times 10). Recognises flowers and various different birds. He knows most traffic signs. He can almost cook his breakfast with just a bit of help with the oven. He does physics experiments (with our help). Are we worried that his peers at school know more letters? No. Kids develop at different speeds, but unfortunately, schools/kindergartens/parents expect their little treasures to be the smartest, brightest unique snowflakes and push them to it.
It's imagining I talked about but its reality I'm portraying. Let the story telling begin, blumkvist!
Created for whom, and... did it, really, all by itself? I think it's kinda overblown, to put it mildly.
Give them food and support? Like the rest of the modern world does when their citizens are out of work.
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Yeah, but Larry is really imaginative at finding ways to use awesome technologies to do that.

(haha only serious ...)
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I dunno. The staff when I did internal customer IT treated me like royalty. It helped that I could solve just about anything within minutes rather than hours like the previous guy. It also helped that I enjoyed learning the ins and outs of the software they used. Most of the IT staff did not like to RTFM. But that's IT. It's probably much different for sysadmins though I did a bit of that too.
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It's not (just) the hardware, it's the software implementation. Certainly such a thing could have existed previously, but no one appears to have made it work as well as it does on iPhone just now, although that will likely change.

Marketing terms are used constantly for referring to specific flavours of technology. For example, Google Now, Cortana and Siri. Language and people are flexible enough to cope with multiple terms for a technology. Also, it's faster to type than "microphone which samples and uploads to an external voice processing server which returns system commands".
Do you have any evidence to support your story or is it pure fiction?
I would be worried about one of the processes having a database password or something like that as a parameter...
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Long term focused thought. I've been running a consultancy for ten years, my current research project that I believe will shortly become a product has been around over ten. We mostly make our money by open source users finding us. But that sort of invention is time consuming and hard; I'm only working on said project because shadow.cat is capable of letting me.
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For those not interested in watching a long video:

The C code: https://github.com/SamSaffron/fast_blank/blob/master/ext/fas...

The Rust code which is slightly faster: https://gist.github.com/robinsonstrategy/794164e992bec9ca9b8...
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You can survive by using a cryptocurrency as long as you're poor, or as long as you exist on the margins.

If you have a job, the government will mandate that you get paid in "real money" and it will demand its not-inconsiderable cut in taxes. You want to buy some food? Ok, buy it in bitcoin, but give us our 8% sales tax in "real money". Property tax on your house? That's 3% of assessed value, "real money" only. Etc.

As one pundit tweeted: "You know what's cooler than a million dollars? Virtual currency backed by nothing and nobody."
No computer interfaces are intuitively obvious without prior training, whether that's through direct teaching or indirectly from culture or advertising. This is painfully apparent if you ever have helped someone who has never used a computer to use a computer.

I've found the popup previews surprisingly useful across applications after expecting it to purely be a gimmick. It's especially useful on HN and other text heavy sites with links. I'm interested to see if web designers start designing for such previews - at the moment a lot sites previews are their banner adverts or other non-content related fluff. It'd be quite useful if you could make Safari popup previews in its reader mode to remove non-content items.
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To be fair: Using hallucinogens has been one of the most positive life experiences I've done. While you say things about mental health, the previous poster is correct: It merely can make symptoms more clear, but the cause isn't linked and is often reversed. Hallucinogens also tend to have the opposite effect on depression. One strand of pot isn't nice to anxiety, but if we are honest and open about stuff, affected people can avoid it (or use minimal amounts to test, or try it in the company of a trusted friend)... you know, using information and self-knowledge to try to make wise choices.

And that was Thompson's experience with pot - in which case, he should have learned thereafter not to do pot and expect good work from himself: Others find that pot makes them more productive, and yet others find that it is good for some portions of the work, but not others. Simply because his words seem to uphold the stereotype doesn't make it any more true.
> The US has the world's richest corporations, its richest citizens, the world's largest middle class

For the richest corporations, citizens and the rest I agree but I'm not sure the middle class is as good as it was before, the american middle class has been quite destroyed recently. It's more that the richest got richer, the poor got poorer and the middle class sort of disapeared in the middle.

But I have an impression that it's a trend with a lot of things in the US. Sure the top US universities are the best in the world but if you pick one school at random, I'm pretty sure that it's not as good as its european counterpart. (But this does not affect your argument anyway).
Sounds like copious amounts of MBAs were involved.
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> This is a common view amongst people who have never studied philosophy

I really should take offence here with this statement ;).

>You may say whatever a decision a scientist makes on concepts such as these is obviously the best - but then history would show you totally incorrect.

That wasn't what I meant at all. I meant it is normal for scientific evidence to be part of answer for philosophical question, and there is no conflict to be found with that. In fact, up until the middle of last century when science becomes too specialized, it's fairly normal for scientist and mathematicians to also be engaging in lot of philosophy (Bertrand Russell and Hilbert comes to mind). Several branches of logics are also intertwined with philosophy development. The seemingly separation of science and philosophy nowadays is more a matter of specialization than anything (there is a quote on this).

"Vital force" was an incorrect scientific hypothesis, but the philosophical question of "is there anything fundamentally difference between life and non-life objects" is answered by scientific advancement. And I said that specific philosophical questions can be made obsolete, just as scientific questions can be made obsolete and irrelevant. That is no indictment on either philosophy or the scientific method.

From my understanding, science is more the concern of facts, and philosophy is the framework for study and interpretation of those facts ("truths", if you will).
This is the one opportunity for people who have labour but not capital to influence the process, so of course you want the "loophole" closed and politics turned firmly over to money?
Well, it's an aspirational headline. I'm working on making it come true, and I appreciate whatever suggestions HN readers have for helping me reach that goal.

Would it be more accurate to say "How HN can help increase the odds of saving a guy from life in prison"? Yes, it certainly would be.

But I also think that it would decrease the odds of people paying enough attention to help me get Ray Jennings out of prison. I feel comfortable skirting the rules about headlines if that's what it takes to help reunite Ray with his kids. Because at this very moment, while you and I are free to go about our lives and pursue our interests, he is locked inside a cage like an animal.

I'm sorry if my comment comes across as standoffish. It wasn't the tone I was going for. Your point is valid, and it's one that occurred to me. I just feel like this is the one thread where there are much bigger things at stake.
I only commented on the aspect of this bug that benefits crappy hardware. That is bad. Because your comment seemed to imply that the benefits for crappy hardware is the only reason for why this is good.

Which, depending on your viewpoint, can be seen as: the only reason this bug fix is good is because some company can still sell crappy hardware and get away with it.

Then we have the user perspective of course, which is "hey, my device doesn't crash as often" - which is awesome. But given the context the hardware is still buggy and it will still crash, albeit not as often. Which really isn't much comfort in the long run.
Rare hiccups are worse than daily hiccups. Because daily hiccups you learn how to handle, a rare hiccup can really bite you. So you really haven't gained that much anyway, and in the long run the rare hiccup is rare enough for you not knowing who to attribute it to so you might buy the exact same thing next time which of course is very, very, unfortunate.
It's an irrational reaction to a traumatic situation. Although we theoretically have better tools to reason with, humans sometimes react in the same way to these situations. Ambulance crews and emergency workers in general could probably fill books with these events.
Historically, as the second term of a US Presidency winds down, the actors scurry around trying to create a "legacy".

The current administration wanted a deal. Any deal at all. That's all the recent agreement with Iran is.
Your comment is exactly what Cidan is criticising. The authenticity of the story is not interesting but instead how an old platform was used in a novel way.
I think the biggest reason that 3D Touch will take some years to get adopted by the users is, that it's not visible whether or not there are any 3D Touch actions available. It's simply not intuitive as of now, until apps get updated to take advantage of it.

Sure, I can preview a link in Safari or Mail, but what about when someone posts a link on Facebook or Messenger, I can't deep press on it to preview that link. So right now, everything is pretty fragmented. Do I want to try to deep press on something to see if it supports it? If not, I have to lift the finger and just tap it again.

Until everything supports it, I just won't find it natural. Right now it's pretty much hit or miss.
Long press is a better alternative for that, and that's available on iOS (UILongPressGestureRecognizer) and Android (android.view.ContextMenu). The fact it's rarely used despite having been an available option for years might indicate it's not actually very useful.
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I am sorry, but thats all you have to say? Camillo is absolutely right on that subject. This person killed hundreds (if not more) of beings, realised his guilt, subsequently wanted to choose the "noble" path of taking the consequences (even though, realistically, it wouldnt have changed a single thing for those he bombed) and suddenly forgot everything the moment he met a pretty girl.

Fake or not, if you are saying people are only fun if they admire such a bunch of a wannabe-romantic story and go "aaaaaawwwww", then I am really sorry.
I think that too is wrong way of looking at it.

What he basically says is, you need an organizational framework that works 10 years at a time in order to get a result in 7 years. The people working in this framework, needs 5 years windows and you need to hire absolute geniuses and have the trust that they'll do the right thing.

If you do that, you will get long term, world changing inventions relatively cheap.

I don't think anyone is being a moron for utilizing a staff of less than stellar geniuses to get work done in a time frame less than 7-10 years.
That could work both for and against companies, though.

It's certainly possible to provide a site in the native language of a country without having a presence in that country, especially if the language in the target country is similar (ie., US and UK).

Authority might try to block the site, but that is pretty difficult without building a Great Wall of some sort.
How would you define a startup as complete? Take Uber as an example: When they cover your city? When they cover your country? When they cover the world?
Let me guess - you are an idealist turned cynic?

Lighten up. Just see the human animal as it is - warts and all - without judging it.
Naive blood transfusion has a low success rate, but it is surely higher than with placebo blood transfusion (whatever that would look like).
Yeah, he is really selling his new research division hard.
How does this feature impact users with disabilities? Long presses already seem a little iffy in this area - especially in applications where the long press needs to be nearly still for it to register (I've seen this pretty often). I'm also not sure how blind users would be able to make use of verbs that are only accessible via 3D touch. At least with press/long press you're just performing that verb on a particular screen region (that could be identified by a name).

It seems like carefully controlling the strength of your touch - or for that matter, pressing hard at all - could be outside of the capabilities of some disabled users. I've got slightly poor control over my hands and that already makes it rather difficult to use some mobile apps and games.
It is reality. There is a gap in morality here wide enough to oppress the poor, but small enough so that those with family lawyers and savings don't need to worry very much.

Investigate the people who feel they have been abused by the credit bureau, the evidence will be everywhere. It is only obvious.

It's also worth noting that it is in the interest of those with a high credit score to defend the system even though it enables criminal behavior towards the poor. Shame.
The Reddit thread and the users.r-l.o thread have insightful posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3nauhy/experiences_bu... https://users.rust-lang.org/t/rfc-and-paper-experiences-buil...
My favorite tidbit about this site is that Netscape was hard coded to randomly hit a subdomain of that site, in order to distribute load on the servers.
The system you described would be beneficial for all but USA :)

The last two people that wanted to challenge US dollar dominance in the world financial markets were Saddam Hussein (wanted to trade oil for Euros instead of USD) and Muammar Kadafi (wanted to trade oil for gold). We all know how that ended for both of them - their countries were invaded in under 6 months after they announced their plans.

Now, the only country powerful enough to force switch from USD to currency basket is China, and their recent initiatives, like creating AIIB bank, or devaluating juan are aimed at exactly that.
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Can you present data to back up your claims or can you not? You keep making assertions stating this is the reality. It should be easy enough to show some proof.
$2.9Bn

They were one of the last technology companies to produce, y'know, actual technology, a product, with a revenue model (originally the browser was a paid-for product for corporate use, free for personal use, then they pivoted to give away the browser to create a market for web servers - yes people used to pay for web servers+). Nowadays there's no actual technology being developed by the so-called "unicorns", just ways to trick you into viewing ads or side-step regulation.

+ I maintain to this day, having been in this business 20 years, that Netscape Enterprise Server 2.1 is the best web server ever written
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The problem I have with this kind of research are the intrinsic ambiguities regarding "depression" and its treatment. Depression is notably heterogeneous in its characteristics and origins. Even when careful diagnosis declares two people to have the same illness, it can't be assumed their conditions are actually identical.

Furthermore, we know drug treatments can affect recipients unpredictably, depending on physiological factors. Similarly, psychotherapies, which are harder to administer in a consistent way, are subject to even greater variability in delivery and effect vs. medications.

The bottom line is estimating the real-world effectiveness of any therapy is at best hazardous, and the results of research (or meta-analysis of studies) are likely only tangentially applicable to individual treatment situations.

From many years on the front lines, I'm convinced depression and other disorders can be effectively treated and suffering reduced. What's important to remember is treatment is as much art as science, it can't be bottled or reduced to formulas. Outcome mileage varies, but it's largely dependent on the quality of the treatment team, the power of the partnership between patient and practitioner can't be overemphasized.
While I'm a proponent, research has made a fairly solid case for THC's ability to trigger latent psychological illness. As you stated, making informed choices relative to your medical history is both critical and necessary to avoid unintended permanent consequences.

It's interesting how vastly different everyone's qualitative experiences are when the physiological states are fairly uniform... I think observing those altered processes with next-gen EEG tech may offer some illumination in our current, limited model of neuroplasticity.
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Ah yes. Land. Until it's confiscated. Or taxed (window tax? Second home tax? Landlord tax?). Do you own the land? Or do you own a piece of paper from the government that says you own the land? A piece of paper whose credibility depends on the credibilty of the issuing powers, just like fiat currency.