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Haven: Shielding applications from an untrusted cloud
Only if it gets paid like an employee.
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Loving the haskell to javascript thingy. On my i7 4770 animations are still fast.

Although, I thought that animations were done completely in haskell but it seems that necessary functions were exported and data used in d3js.
Are the downvotes coming from people who don't have black friends?
I had typed out a long reply explaining potential differences between your experience and the results of the study... then I reread your final parenthetical statement...
Unless we're talking about optimizing stuff that actually takes 100% of the CPU's or graphics card's power, it'd have more impact if just one person started not owning a car. Or even merely used it a bit less.

Appreciate the sentiment but it's not going to achieve anything. "Tut-tut" attitude is a lot less efficient than simply showing people why it's worth optimizing for their own sake. If it's worth optimizing at all, that is - GP's point is that it's not always worth it. Optimization has a cost. Development cost and maintenance cost. What's the point of making a program faster if nobody can ever really work on that piece of the code again?

By the way, the hour the programmer stays in the office overtime to optimize that code, using computers and lights and other machines, probably damages the environment more than your example before...
Of course. Everyone has an agenda. Examples in this field are: (1) minimise the tax burden for their donors (2) minimise poverty (3) to grab as much funding as possible. There are many more.

What is interesting about the results (which include peer reviewed studies - the one in mentioned by the NYT doesn't seem to be peer reviewed) suggesting that cash handouts are more efficient than than more complicated welfare programs is that the cash handouts would eliminate the middle man and maximise the bang for buck of helping people in poverty. I.E. minimising the size of the charity or the government bureaucracy.
That's the elephant no one is talking about Uber is obviously going to be attractive to those in the black economy.

I wonder if Uber realizes in the uk they will be on the hook if they employ those with out the right to work.
The author of this paper, Pedro Domingos[1], just wrote a book on machine learning titled The Master Algorithm[2]. In the book, he talks at length about the various elements that may serve as (part of) the basis for a "master algorithm" - a generalized learning algorithm capable of learning anything. Rule induction is one of the things he talks about in the book, so at least one expert seems to think this stuff is still relevant.

Of course, it might just be that this is his pet "thing" and for all I know he could be totally wrong, but it struck me as interesting enough to start doing some reading on. And hence this post.

[1]: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~pedrod/

[2]: http://www.amazon.com/The-Master-Algorithm-Ultimate-Learning...
Yes, depending on my mood I have a trance/techno playlist, an old-school punk playlist (Fear, Bad Religion, NOFX, etc.), and a metal playlist (Slayer, Slipknot, U.D.O., etc). Once in a while the retro disco as in Donna Summer, Kool & The Gang, and the Village People will be played also. One thing I really must have is variety.
Mitch Wainer of Digital Ocean Explains Early Days
This shows the gaming of the US Welfare system and the inherent disincentives to work. http://www.salon.com/2010/03/16/hipsters_food_stamps_pinched...
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Interesting article. It is also possible to resolve constraints probabilistically (i.e. without gradient descent), which is a good approach for functions which are very "unsmooth." I wonder if it is possible to replicate this article using a probabilistic solver (e.g. http://poincare.github.io/DCFL/ - a Haskell probabilistic constraint solving lib. written by me).
Nothing posted in that article is factual. The moon is a planar disc, not globular, and it's much closer to us than we are told. The moon is self luminous. It is most likely an old sun.
Introduction to Matrix – Free and Open Source Messenger with Audio/Video Calls
sex outside marriage isn't so much taboo as explicitly ruled out by definition

You're using different definitions. By "sex outside of marriage," the previous commenter means "two unmarried people having sex," i.e., what's sometimes called "premarital sex." This indeed is no longer taboo in much, probably most, of the West.
Contract employees are supposed to be able to determine the tools they will use to complete their tasks, by law.
We have that. It's called the earned income tax credit.
Completely off-topic, but i wanted to applaud the patient and thorough response to the gender-is-not-a-thing comment. I can only aspire to your patience and erudition :)
It sounds like you're taking "sex outside marriage" to mean "sex with outside partners, while married."

I think the intended meaning here is "sex without being married" (or at least that's how I interpret it).
Now we just need dibbsonline to clarify.
Calling people out for dramatizing their First World Problems into the collapse of society isn't allowed?
A short primer on AT-cut quartz crystals
I'm the CTO of an organization that has been delivering cheap tablets with educational content to rural areas for several years: http://www.rumie.org/

Some of the challenges:
1) Making sure the tablets actually make it to the people that need them and aren't repurposed/resold
2) Lack of internet so all content and apps need to be offline-friendly
3) Loading the tablets with content appropriate to the region (language, cultural)
Some may argue that the US military is a big provider of welfare, handing out "fictitious" jobs to almost anybody in a "socialist" way.
I made this point upthread but contractors are free to use whatever tools they like to accomplish their tasks, by law.

Full-time employees are subject to using specified equipment by the employer.
From wikipedia:

>A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia,[1] kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening.

>Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization,[2] totalitarian governments, environmental disaster,[3] or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society.

I'm really wondering what definition you're working from.
I agree - let her decide.
What's bizarre about this?
Giuliani in Rio
What's your definition of evil?
Indeed it does.

However as you move away from owning being an investment, the same homeowner based wealth will deteriorate and you'd likely own where it's convenient rather than trying to make money.

I don't think that's a terrible situation if your goal is to take the teeth out of the property market, rather than trying to destroy wealth in general.
Well, that would make me guilty too then.
The yolk affects taste, color and texture. I'm not sure what more you could demand from an ingredient.

No one has "arbitrarily" picked a single ingredient to define real mayonnaise, you'd have the same reaction if someone tried to replace the vegetable oil with lard, or the vinegar with sulphuric acid. The basic recipe for mayonnaise is pretty uncontroversial.

As for having the same taste, I'll believe that when I taste it. That's what Coca-Cola says about Zero as well. It's just marketing, they're not going to say that the product they're passing off as real mayo doesn't taste like mayo.
show some support guys, what you think about it!
The tampering issue is described in the article.
You're right. The essay is out of date. In fact the "don't break stable contracts" rule has made life much simpler. It took a while for that to work through. I've corrected the text. Thanks for pointing it out.
If you can afford to recover your data over the period of three weeks, you don't put anything, though
Someone ought to make d3 bindings for ghcjs. It does have an ffi for a reason.
That's actually one of the arguments for UBI (unconditional basic income) - it would reduce the problem that welfare can't reach many of the people who are supposed to benefit from it but too proud to ask for help. (UBI would also reduce the welfare trap mentioned in the Cato article.)
I'm very aware of this argument and even agree with it in some cases. I will say that it's still 'work' in a very real sense. In my case, it was the most respectable ways for me to earn my way out of poverty and eventually have enough money for college.
There are quite a few, and it's always the best option when possible. Most of the complications you hear about from "routine surgery" relate to the management of the patient's airway while they are sedated. An awake patient can maintain their airway.

If you're interested in how these sorts of things can wrong, here's a well done reenactment of such a case: http://emcrit.org/misc/the-new-elaine-bromiley-videos/
So yes, you'll want (a) good tests and (b) patches for e.g. the USB3.0 implementation. (I realize that's not how it works for hardware, so it's an analogy). What you don't want is a new release that may change X things because you hit a bug in one specific contract.

The JSR reference is interesting, I wasn't aware of it. How well does it work, and what are the problems with it? I assume it gets complex in cases.
Not just close to native speed, this will get you the exact same C code for the inner loop.
>Do you consider yourself evil?

The subject is very vague. Everyone's definition of evil is different. I am a flawed human being but evil no based on what it means to me.
>is because of IO

Having moved to very fast SSDs and ramdrives in some cases, it amazes me how many applications can't take advantage of them. It's terrible when you have an app that appears to be IO bound on disk and move it to fast drives only to get a 2x speedup, while even a single cpu core isn't maxed out.
Ask HN: Getting Clients That Are Clients of Another Agency
I constantly see websites that are horrendously out of date that I'd love to approach to acquire them as a client. However, I notice that they are clients of another agency via tag at the bottom of the page.

Has anybody ever dealt with this situation and how did you approach them to try and get their business?

Second case: how does this change when the agency is extremely out of date with design? (Sites that were barely passable in the 90's)
Amazon Cloud Drive CLI and SDK
Although it's somehow complicated to define what is the real minimum, as Joe demonstrated, I'd only like to recommend another concept that I've read about and from which I hope you could take good things out of it: The Minimum Lovable Product.

https://medium.com/the-happy-startup-school/beyond-mvp-10-st...
Wish this was a Web app.
The Unix Time Sharing System (1974) [pdf]
Threads aren't considered duplicates until the story has had significant attention on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Nitpick: that creates a list, not an array. It could be faster, but it's not the same benchmark. When you get to the point where the speed of loops matters it's better to reach for Cython, Numba, PyPy, etc.
… and phones with a 1G per month data cap, and no connectivity half the day.
Internet of Broken Things
What? So every app update is a breaking change? That's awful software engineering practice.
They're most likely still running all their transaction processing on a single mainframe (+another one for redundancy) with something like IBM CICS [1, 2]. And they most likely also have a lot more transactions than in the 60s (card payments, internet banking, etc.).

[1] http://www.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICS - yes, "Initial release: 1968; 47 years ago"
Just because a site was built by an agency doesn't mean that the client still has a relationship with them. Reach out to the website owners and see if they would be interested in talking about a redesign.
Specifically, an interpreter without JIT. I'd reckon that LuaJIT or Javascript could come much closer to C.
Pretty much all passengers have a 5 star rating, at least when I was doing it, Uber had been in my city for less than a year. I can recall maybe 1 out of 100 passengers that had a noticeably low rating and they turned out to be perfectly nice people they even told me their story about how they got their low rating. Swearing in the presence of a driver with sensitive ears, though not at them. I was driving at a time when Uber was aggressively lowering their fairs and giving out a lot of free ride credit. It might have been my imagination but it seemed like every time they cut fairs the average customer behavior got worse.

Drivers are also graded on having a high acceptance rate for ride requests so being picky about who you pick-up is strongly discouraged no matter their rating.
The thing here is that the LO codebase is huge and they don't have enough devs to maintain it.

So they deal with this by (1) turning all the automated code quality tools they can on it (2) getting top-notch open source devs to fix the problems the tools turn up.

Result: a more stable application for the users - remember that most of LO's users are nontechnical people relying on it for real work - and a more maintainable code base for the devs.

The reason this is important is that huge important smelly codebases with too few devs will increasingly be the norm in the future, and LO is developing important tools of attack.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2011/01/hipsters-food-stamps-and-...
The average difference is 8" but with tides it can be up to 12' and it changes constantly. It'd be really tough for the ships to handle in the confined space especially when eddies form along the edges and with currents changing over a period of hours. A lot of these ships only travel at 10-15 knots and they aren't very maneuverable.

I was recently on a sailboat going through Hell Gate on the East River in NYC. It has about a 6' tidal range. We can motor at 6 knots. When the tide was at peak flood into Long Island Sound we were doing about 1/2 knot over the ground. You can time an East River transit to work around the tides, the Panama Canal is too long for that to work.

(I don't recommend transiting Hell Gate under those conditions, the UN closed the river longer than they said they would and we only managed because there wasn't any wind. We should have anchored and waited a few hours, we would have gotten through almost as quickly.)
You don't need any terms, they're all just databases.

Relational is specialized too - in dealing with relational data, foreign keys, normalization, joins, etc.

ACID is just a feature of a product, not tied to relational as there are relational databases that don't offer it or can have it disabled. Tradeoffs and understanding your data apply to every single type of database.
None of these really are a "discussion" (IMHO "previous discussion" links have two purposes: either to show something has recently had active discussion and therefore shouldn't be reposted, or to link to very old discussions that might be of interest. For me, linking empty discussions doesn't add anything useful)
> lacked access to a proper education". How does that explain Washington DC with the highest levels of funding per child in the country? Every kid has access to a well funded school with well paid teachers.

Education funding in the US is wildly uneven. Spend some time visiting inner-city schools. They are not even remotely "well-funded".

Property-tax driven school funding formulas ensure that richer areas have much, much better funded schools than poor areas.
Take a look at MemSQL - a much better distributed relational database with regular mysql protocol access.
If I think I'm going to run into trouble getting basic apps like Netflix, Hulu, Comcast, HBOGo, Skype, Spotify. Pandora, etc. running, I'm out.

But if it ran a reasonable version of Android, with simple Amazon skinning and apps, it would be a no-brainer purchase at $50.
I wonder why they didn't use something like CouchDB for this purpose and instead engineered their own solution? I see the CouchDB replication protocol + conflict detection perfect for their usecase.
You are missing the point. If you are someone who depends on Uber for your income and someone does something in your car that puts it out of commission even if it is only say 5% of people it can have a major effect on your income.
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Follow up....how do you go about finding the proper person to talk to? Do you ask for the owner? Ask for who's responsible for their marketing? What's the process usually look like?

Sorry if this should be obvious. I know there's people on here with a lot of experience and would know the ways that are best received by the potential clients.
>I think it's easier to defend the claim that the kids lacked guidance and support to take advantage of the education provided for them.

That guidance is a critical part of a "good" education. Unfortunately, we leave it up to parents and don't have a way to teach them how to raise a successful kid.
No that's journalists not behaving ethically - just because your a hack doesn't mean you can shout fire in the crowded theatre.

And of course they are now on ISI, SIS and the CIA's watch list.
We have the ability to run special software and they don't give us these features. I'm sure they would if they thought would help.

On the remapping of sectors, that happens very infrequently. Look up smart reallocation count indicators for more info on this. Once a few percentage points of space has been reallocation, smart will assume the drive is failing.
Ask HN: How to market software to Dubai, Qatar, etc?
Hi HackerNews,

I have some online & download software for B2B. It's spreadsheets and it's for intranets. I exist since 2 years, I make about 300 sales per year, total about $60k. 50% in US, 10% UK, 10% Germany, and the rest spread across the world with ranges from $10 to $7000.

One thing that I don't make is sales in UAE, Qatar and Singapore. I would assume they have a lot of offices, teams, money and IT, so there should be more probability of selling to such booming areas than to Philippines or Chile.

Has any of you succeeded to market your software to such countries? Is it cultural or regulations? Do they sometimes trust 1-man shops or SAAS products? It could simply be the absence of translation in Arabic, or it could be that my statistics aren't significant at 300 sales per year.

We know, for example, Japan would require dedicated marketing because of the specificities that patio11 points out [1].

[1] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/
Processes and files on Windows are heavyweight. I recall once speeding up a script by about 100 times by changing something of the form

a >>$LOG
b >>$LOG
⋮
c >>$LOG

to

{
a
b
⋮
c
} >>$LOG
Why don't Google's Android team integrate grsec into Android, and then from there into upstream? They have the manpower.
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There's a bug somewhere.

Refresh, choose dataset: curved, algorithm: k means clustering. You get this:

http://imageshack.com/a/img633/7110/sfteaE.png

If you play around and select different algorithms before selecting k means clustering you can get very different results. :)
Corroborating this. In Islamabad, it's not uncommon to have people throw food at their servants squatting on the ground.

Or for another famous case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_RWZCCLvdc (NB: the NO FEAR on the T shirts means they're part of the anti-terror squad)
Tesla’s autopilot was too potentially dangerous to be a simple software update
In the broader context, when it comes to math, reading and science, teens in the U.S. rank 36th in the world. Students in Shanghai are rated the best. What are they doing right that we could be doing better here in the US?

http://cnycentral.com/news/local/new-survey-ranks-us-student...
Love seeing U2F gain traction!
Getting average citizens worked up over welfare is a standard way for the extremely wealthy and powerful to distract those same average citizens from noticing where their tax money gets squandered the most - large corporate subsidies, infrastructure projects that benefit the richest neighborhoods, and so on, and so on. The largest welfare programs I know of are unneeded weapons systems, which very intentionally subcontract work out to nearly every congressional district in the land (see the B-2 as an example).
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Except it is not that simple. People have opinions about welfare without even interacting with individuals taking advantage of it.

Have you directly stopped and talked to those people buying rugs? Or at a restaurant? Are you sure they are not just hipster kids wearing second-hand clothes but who might work at Google or have a rich daddy with a trust fund?. Maybe you did, but I doubt it.

So a lot of opinions and "feels" people have about welfare is what they are _told_ to have. By their parents, teacher, media, friends, TV, magazines, movies, etc.

I lived with a conservative family for many years, and I was of firm opionion that welfare queens are everywhere wasting pulblic's money and that's where all out taxes were. It was a very sincere and string opionion. But it was put in not head not my socializing with "welfare queens" but by White Middle Class Americans, who also didn't really socialize much with welfare recipients, but instead listened to Fox News all day every day.

So to make story short, it is about the "feels" but the feels are often easily updated/manipulated/used by whomever you let control your thought processes.
The nice white guy never wins(trust me I know)
Compromised CCTV and NAS Devices Found Participating in DDoS Attacks
And all you'll ever get is anecdote if you look in the U.S. The "welfare professionals" (let's define this term to mean those that know precisely the minimum of effort to maintain the illusion of 'seeking gainful employment' in order to keep their handouts) keep a low-profile and compartmentalize well. Going to the welfare office today? Don't wear new/"in" clothing, don't take the iDevice with. Out and about socially? Maintain the appearance of not actually being on welfare of any sort: wear the nicer clothing, expose the iDevice prominently. And they can't have their children mocked and ridiculed at school for not fitting in as well, so they need their own iDevice as well.

It's anecdote because there's no data. There's no data because who'd admit to cheating the system? There's no cause for investigation due to compartmentalization-- none of their intended social circle knows they're on welfare; any that do are also on welfare and doing the same thing.

How would I, a "technocrat" making about six figures know this? Because a couple times in my life I've had to take advantage of this safety net. And I was always irritated at how people I'd seen entering and leaving the welfare office had so much material crap that I couldn't afford when I'd see them again out in public. There were several occasions where some of these welfare recipients were running businesses and hired me to perform computer repair, then in the offices I'd here them on the phone discussing with others how to game a particular part of the system. Disheartening.

You want /data/ on this? Good luck.
Apple could license most of the software while selling a critical piece that enables privacy.
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Don Stewart has given possibly the best answer to this question on StackOverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6398996/good-haskell-sour...
You don't need to solve the halting problem to push bounds checks to compile time, you need dependent types.
Do+Free+Book+Promotions+Work?+(Part+II)
They really should let you use the N-1 version at the very least. That should prevent these same day/trip issues.
That's probably a bad idea. This falls into the realms of pointless trivia and needlessly-specific experience in a narrow domain. If you're actually worried about optimization, these aren't the questions you would ask anyway.
Sounds like a bad idea to be honest.