skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The IEEE 754 floating-point standard even includes decimal- instead of binary-based floating-point types, i.e. which can represent e.g. 0.1 accurately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point#Basic_and_...
I think this is what IBM's POWER CPUs implement.

And there's even a proposal to add it to the C++ standard: http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n3871.ht...
And the C standard: http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1312.pdf
I have heard this (or something very close to it) preached in a 21st-century church.
This isn't a small company with a new idea that doesn't want to be bought out, this is an university.
SI and metric are actually subtly different. Do any countries actually use SI rather than metric?
Or in the case of military applications, proof against EMP.
Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979
Virginia Hall and the CIA (2013)
How does this compare to Falcor? Can they be used together or ar they competing technologies?
>In knowledge industries it's probably much more efficient to have fewer numbers of high performing individuals that are leveraging experience and domain knowledge as a productivity multiplier.

Then you would think they could receive larger amounts of vacation time than three weeks per year. Or that they could collect such fat fees as contractors that they'd only have to work part of the year.
Many people go hiking/camping to enjoy a little bit of wildness. We shouldn't kill all the bears just to make the occasional hiker safer. When going to a desert, you need to bring water. When going somewhere with a large population of bears, you need to not tempt them with leaving your food around. If it's going to rain, you need to bring a rain-proof jacket.

I'm always a bit sad when I go hiking in Austria, knowing that all the bears there have been killed.
Old fashion. :-)

But, more seriously, as a counter, I've spent most of my adult life trying to be less 'manly' and more male (xy-chromosomer ). The western traditions of what it means to be 'a man' have not made my life better. Instead, they've given me anxiety, panic attacks, and caused a lot of feigned aggression, defensiveness, self medication, and regret.

I'm not against tradition, and I have a lot of respect for people who try to keep traditions alive. This one's just not for me.
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> And other entries from the same guy can be posted without any problems.

Well, other entries don't bad-mouth Facebook.
I can't imagine the result of the different methods will always be the same even if they are getting "close enough" now? It's an advance in measurements, as far as I understand, but measurements always have some range, and how can they know the ranges for different methods won't change as the experiments advance?
Java's decision to privilege "primitive" types was a failure of imagination. They decided they didn't want operator overloading but didn't make any way to replace it.

They should retrofit it as follows:

interface Addable<T> {
T add(T other);
}

And then make the + apply to any Addable, which can be defined for the boxed primitives. And so on for the other operators.
I had to look this up to check, but FYI the names of seasons are conventionally not capitalised.
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> Edit: A cynical me would also say that interpretation depends on agenda.

Replace 'agenda' with 'cognitive bias' and you have the entirety of human thought.
We're also talking about one of the largest companies in the world, so it's really not that shocking.
Before I was disturbed by the change in apparent mass without explanation.

Now I'm disturbed that the people working in these laboratories were exposed to mercury themselves. Nasty stuff.
They never would've had this problem if they'd just stuck with the pound.
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The 440-pound bear that drank, smoked, and carried weapons during World War II
Petit-déjeuner “BRAND PROTECTION” le 3 Novembre 2015
It would be sexist to assume an obligation of obedience.
Knowing the direction of the sun to within a few degrees is unlikely to help much. For one thing, you have no other "fix", and for another, an error factor of a few degrees probably represents an error of a few hundred (nautical) miles. You should probably read a bit more about celestial navigation to understand the problem.
Natural gas releases half as much CO2 as coal, and in practice also results in a lot of methane release which according to some researchers makes its warming impact as bad as coal's, at least over the next few decades.
Apathy
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It's pretty clear from even a cursory look – the patent covers a second level of branch prediction, where the processor determines whether or not it should bother speculatively executing an instruction based on the previous outcome of that speculative execution.

Whether or not there was a prior implementation of this, I don't know – but it's also obviously more than a simple saturating counter branch predictor or whatever.
Nice. It supports lua and mail alerts on changing servers now...
Probably 30, but you dont need existing transistors needed to divide 60hz down to 1hz, so the change in parts count might be smaller.

Edit: Previously said 30, but it looks like its 60. Each JK flip flop takes 4 transistors.

Edit: Back to 30, the bistable circuit in the clock uses two transistors each.
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Even more exaggerated than that. Many families don't earn that across several generations. That's about 17,000 years at $50,000/year. At 40 years of working life, you'd need over 400 people.
> Persistence of time series and event type data does not (usually) require the kind of storage solution that mnesia offers

Indeed. That's precisely my point (just stated better than me). Erlang looks like being a very good fit for a large class of applications of this form. mnesia, on the other hand, is not well suited as the persistent storage for them. It would follow then that it could make sense for the "next gen" storage for Erlang to be more in line with this sort of thinking in the way you describe.

As to the drop in $/TB, it's been pretty steadily exponential. But the cost of consuming and analysing TB of data has only really been practical for non-specialist houses for 5-10 years. When you're in the low GB range then a static data picture makes sense. When you're able to play with TB of data then a dynamic picture makes sense and Erlang really shines.
People can and do use libclang for AST info in the same manner that you're talking about: https://github.com/Sarcasm/irony-mode
The vagaries of HN submissions :)
I hear you man! It's a shame that there's never been a reasonably priced ATX POWER mainboard available to individuals without a major service contract with IBM.

Even that barebones dev server offer through OpenPower was over priced.
Hum. Would you say that the evident distaste in media's suburbs portrayal is "architectural aesthetics* related?

My perception is that, although there's an architectural critique component when they portray suburb houses as "all the same", most of the disdain arises from a notion of individuals which "settled" for something less their dreams; from a notion of individuals which accepted that that's "all there is", a nice-y house and a family.
Price and value are two completely different things.
If you are able to spot (or predict) high value for a low price the world is in your hands.

By the other hand if you follow the sheep and buy scarce but low value stuff for an high price you're in the rat race..
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>The problem is really simply that Microsoft was never interested, at least until very recently, to have a truly standards compliant compiler.

I think Microsoft neglected C++ over .Net before suddenly changing their minds and deciding to support C++ more.

VS2010 was one of the first compilers (even before gcc/clang) to support parts of the preliminary C++0x standard (e.g. lambda functions). But when the final standard was released they fell behind in implementing it.
Cool, now we can use Device Identification feature to route mobile users to a different backend, also love the HTTP/2 connection sharing.
This is not just interesting for comparison but its interesting for people that know R/Python how to go from one to the other.
If Playboy wants to be a fashion magazine, it will probably not remain one only for men. If it does, well... they won't make much money because women probably make up a large majority of fashion purchasers. I think if Playboy started talking about women business leaders, they could turn some heads. Honestly, I love me a smart business lady with chops, especially when she's not nude and has achieved a lot more than I probably will.
> And an empire with the world's largest military, ruled by a despotic aristocracy which had made most of its money from slavery, drug running, and land + resource grabs in distant countries.

Calling the ruling class of the British Empire a despotic aristocracy is a very big stretch, or better a contradiction. Despotic regimes have non-existent or vestigial aristocracies, e.g. the Ottoman Empire or most Chinese dynasties. The Russian Empire had an aristocracy had what looked kind of like a Western European aristocracy but a service nobility functions very differently from one where the nobility have independent power bases. For much more on this Francis Fukuyuma's "The Origins of Political Order" is excellent. In brief there are three political classes in pre-modern societies, the monarch, the high nobility and the gentry/bourgeoisie. The peasantry are irrelevant because they can't coordinate so their numbers are moot. A strong civil society with rule of law that binds the king/state as well as other actors emerged only in Western Europe. If the law binds the king he's no despot, and it did. In Britain, Scandinavia and the Netherlands the king allied with the gentry, in France and Iberia, with the nobility but their power was constrained.

Imperialism did contribute to the power of these states, more to the noble class than the country as a whole but it was not where that power ultimately came from. It came from growth in economic productivity and the organisational capability it made possible. The British Empire was not planned, it was the product of absurdly huge differences in capability. It was acquired over centuries by men on the spot chasing personal glory and advancement.

This is not to deny the slavery, drug running and land and resource grabs but they are frankly secondary. The Royal Navy was the force behind the destruction of the slave trade. The British parliament abolished slavery within the British Empire over the protests of some very rich and well connected domestic interests. The opium trade and the immiseration of India were enormous crimes but the capability preceded the crimes and was only possible because of it. Britain's wealth was not built on the Empire, it was built on trade, commerce and industry.
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How+You+Can+Earn+Residual+Income+In+Business+-+Secretes+Unleashed
Kind of, but the R code is written a little oddly to my eye.
My last job or my current one? Current: AngelList exclusively because I was new in town and knew no one. Last: I was asked to join by colleagues who left a former company after it was bought out.
> The government will eventually realize that the defaulted loans, together with penalties and fees, can never be paid back - no different than the typical house flippers of 2008 who leveraged themselves to the hilt with multiple properties.

Yes, but the question is if they'll care. Many people believe it morally important to enforce the unenforceable.
Stupider yes, more patronising perhaps not.
why should that be stated in a gendered way?
It's more than double what Apple paid for P.A. Semi and Intrinsity put together, the fabless semiconductor design firms that are the foundation of Apple's processor engineering capabilities.
The U.S. adopted it in the 19th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Act_of_1866
Your statement isn't 100% it seems, the only talk on those links about whether Spanish are budget actually show that "Barcelona’s L9/10, despite still being about average-cost, went over budget by a factor of over 3"
Creating Interactive Crime Maps
I prefer AABB testing because it doesn't take me much time to figure out if the test needs to run longer and you get used to the patterns your conversion rates follow pretty quickly in tools like VWO. I've talked to some large CRO shops who do the same thing, as they are working with several accounts at the same time and need to be able to tell quickly how things are going.

Then again, CRO is only a piece of my job and I have lots of other stuff to look at everyday, so anything I don't have to expend too much mental energy on, but can still trust, is a nice convenience. If I was optimizing full-time, I'd be a lot more smart/clever in how I went about it.
I was being sardonic about the "moral backbone," if you failed to pick that up.
The proposal is to define all fundamental physics constants, and derive all the units from them.

The Avogadro number isn't a fundamental physics constant, it's just a unit conversion constant, and thus, didn't get to define any basic unit.
Inertia and the fact that alternatives are "good enough".
It's hardly answers the question, as strictly speaking there's no such thing as "metadata". Everything you can pass to another person can be described as "data", whether it is a color of your coat or the statement that you are describing the color of your coat. Basically, you can think of any attribute of an object as "metadata" as long as it can be only one per object and doesn't have any attributes itself, and both things can change easily and depend on the point of view.

On the contrary, I don't remember one single case when the object was described easily using "node/attribute" separation, but couldn't be described as easily using JSON. In fact, I don't even think it's possible, as you can always make two children for each object: "attributes" and "nodes".

So I guess it actually is unnecessary complication and not the benefit of using XML over JSON.
Oh, I see. No, I am definitely not paying for the experience/environment per se, but I did pay for a podcast app that had features that I wanted. I.e., the most popular free podcast app on Android (Stitcher) didn't have any way to speed up the audio, cut silence, etc, so I paid for an app that did have those features.

Maybe it does now, this was a while ago
How so? As someone familiar with Python but not R, I've always been hesitant to jump in. This code was very readable and made me think that it might be a far more accessible language than I'd previously assumed.
You're on Earth. Short of "extreme poverty" (if you're making more than half the people on the planet, you're not - which applies to practically all Americans), moving is an option.
End-To-End Functional Testing with Kahlan
SAS awarded $80m damages in trial against World Programming Ltd
It is what it is. It's useful to prototype with in Erlang. It may be useful to ship with. If Mnesia turns out not to fit your problem, here in 2015, you've got literally dozens of choices of alternate DB, with all sorts of consistency and distributibility and performance characteristics.

My guess is that if somehow Erlang was where it was in 2015 except it didn't have Mnesia, nobody would really perceive much of a hole there, and nobody would write it, because of the database explosion we've seen in the past 10 years. But it is there, and if it works for you, go for it.

My only slight suggestion is that rather than inlining all your mnesia calls, you ought to isolate them into a separate module or modules or something with an interface. But, that's not really because of Mnesia... I tend to recommend that anyhow. In pattern terms, I pretty much always recommend wrapping a Facade around your data store access, if for no other reason than how easy it makes your testing if you can drop in alternate implementations. And then, if mnesia... no, wait... And then, if $DATABASE turns out to be unsuitable, you're not stuck up a creek without a paddle. With this approach it's not even all that hard to try out multiple alternatives before settling on something.
There are also star trackers in use by spacecrafts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_tracker
Strange to see Planck's constant used that way, defining a kilogram. Planck's constant usually only shows up when you're doing quantum mechanics and the things you're working with are really small.
https://www.quora.com/Is-stupider-a-word-Why-or-why-not
I'm going to risk sounding thick here, but why would you need a strongly-typed data exchange format? I always thought the beauty of JSON was that it forced the sender to organize the data in a generic way, which allowed the receiver to interpret it however needed.
When you see the brutal average that people in the "connectome" does for brain signals/images, you will not believe in this line of research too much ...
The 2011 proposal is to define the kg by the Watt balance, and use the Si sphere to define Avogadro's number.
In our environment of cost cutting and "fiscal conservatism", I don't see any other way to fund a large public works project.

If the first estimate had been $4 billion (assuming we're taking $6.5 billion in 2015 dollars and working back to 1998 dollars), the project never would have gotten off the ground. The government would have said "fuck no" and asked for another bid. It would have been mired in discussions, argument, etc for years before eventually settling on a $1 billion price tag -- that will eventually balloon to $7 billion or so anyway, because the winning bidder intentionally underbid because it was the only way it would get approved.

The only way to build large public projects like this is to take advantage of the sunk cost fallacy (or "bait and switch".) Government contractors will get their cut, and the regulatory tack-ons added by local governments to put their stamp on it (and get some operating budget!) also add money.
Lots of goodness!
I work with biologists. R which seems strange to me they seem to take to. I think some of it is Rstudio the ide, which shows variables in memory on the side bar, you can click to see them. It makes everything really accessible for those that aren't programmers. It seems to replace excel use for generating plots.

I've grown to appreciate R, especially its plotting ability (ggplot).
I think this is more like an ALU simulator (plus registers) than a CPU simulator. There are no jumps, either conditional or unconditional, because it's reading the instruction stream from standard input.

https://github.com/kragen/calculusvaporis/blob/master/cavosi... is a CPU simulator in 70 lines of code, but it's perhaps a bit impractical; you have to synthesize addition from subtraction, for example, and AND and OR from NAND. The design objective of Calculus Vaporis, however, is to use as few logic gates as possible, rather than to be as simple as possible in C.

http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/aspmisc/brainfuck.c is a 66-line BF interpreter, but BF is not a very good CPU design, in that it doesn't support subroutines.
Maybe you don't but Marilyn Monroe and many other women do. It's important to understand it's distinction from forced prostitution (or similarly, prostitution resulting from poverty). These women were modeling, just as they would do with clothes. And men would still jack off. Honestly, men seem like the weaker sex if 1000s are needing to masturbate to a photo. I think the women get a win there and the cost of men.
Brained by a bull
It shouldn't be an issue, but it actually is. There is the exact same problem in bittorrent space: there's a BEP (extension) for discovering peers using Zeroconf (BEP 0026, as can be read in [1]) and "Local Peer Discovery" that doesn't even have a BEP.

The Zeroconf way is kind of cumbersome, especially if you don't have an easy way to do the whole mDNS and DNS-SD. And since Windows doesn't have a native way to do this (you need to use the Apple SDK) and it seems most bittorrent users are Windows users, nobody seriously bothered with that.

LPD on the other hand is the simplest thing you can ever think about (https://forum.utorrent.com/topic/54306-local-peer-discovery-...):

> in short: join the multicast group 239.192.152.143:6771 and listen for SSDP messages. Every 5 minutes, announce yourself to the multicast group by sending this message:

> snprintf(msg, 200,
"BT-SEARCH * HTTP/1.1\r\n"
"Host: 239.192.152.143:6771\r\n"
"Port: %d\r\n"
"Infohash: %s\r\n"
"\r\n\r\n", listen_port, ih_hex);

I'll agree with you that if everyone talked Zeroconf it would be great, but the truth is, it's far too heavy and difficult compared to the alternative of polling a simple UDP socket, which pretty much any language can do easily.

[1] http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0026.html
Everyone will soon be using hardware key signing devices for identification and authorization as these keys are gonna basically be free within a couple of years. We're also moving towards self-authentication with public key crypto.
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You could literally go into debt by using the structured payments as collateral for a loan for something close to the full amount up front.
"I like your music. Would you like to compose something for our movie/game?"

Is this too far fetched?
At what temperature?
And if $250million tags consistently turn into $6billion price tags, eventually we won't believe the $250million estimates either. Those billions aren't coming for free, they're coming out of the social capital of various entities, entities that you'd probably rather weren't blowing billions of dollars worth of social capital like that.

The other way to build large public works is to figure out why they are so expensive and actually fix it, and then build things for less than 24x the original estimate in the first place.

And if that can't be done, maybe it actually shouldn't be built.

(I mean this in general, not about this specific case. But it is always something. And that is indicative of a problem on it's own.)
The mail thing seems like a not healthy growth of functionality.

Most people already have logging infrastructure in place for this.

Unix philosophy and all that.
You bet they do.

Commissioned officers are responsible for the boat and the crew. That doesn't mean that they do all the work, but they are responsible for making sure it's done correctly and getting it done correctly if the crew can't. They are also responsible for training the crew to the highest standards.

Source: spent two years at the Naval Academy and one tour on a nuclear submarine during the summer.
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This is interesting, but not really an R vs. Python comparison. It's an R vs. Pandas/Numpy comparison. For basic (or even advanced) stats, R wins hands down. And it's really hard to beat ggplot. And CRAN is much better for finding other statistical or data analysis packages.

But when you start having to massage the data in the language (database lookups, integrating datasets, more complicated logic), Python is the better "general-purpose" language. It is a pretty steep learning curve to grok the R internal data representations and how things work.

The better part of this comparison, in my opinion, is how to perform similar tasks in each language. It would be more beneficial to have a comparison of here is where Python/Pandas is good, here is where R is better, and how to switch between them. Another way of saying this is figuring out when something is too hard in R and it's time to flip to Python for a while...
There is essentially nothing about COBOL in Sammett's Wikipedia page.

edit: that is not disagreement with your point, but pointing out there may be a deficiency in Wikipedia that needs correcting.