skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I can relate at all to your argument when you are arguing against basic math education. Standardize testing is not testing physics or law or medicine. It is testing bog standard basics. If we cannot get our youth up to that standard then something is very wrong, and blaming it on a test is a huge mistake.

>The taxi-driver is probably better off not having taken a mathematics course (under the current curriculum) at school, if that subject did not appeal to him, and not thinking of learning the subject as an act of suffering, or operating under the impression that he cannot learn it based on failing a number of tests on the subject some time ago.

This is not maths fault or the curriculum. It is the fault of a very poor teacher who can probably never be fired. Even then, doing things that you don't want to do, but they are good for you is part of growing up and becoming an adult. Is your opinion really that we should keep churning out young adults who have no concept of the basics. I have a few more title/payday loan shops I need to go open up.
For me, running their sample script using the PyPy JIT resulted in a 12x speedup compared to cpython.

Though that still wasn't as fast as gcc on my system (core i5 3.4ghz; using 1e8 rounds):

* cpython 2.7.4 - 1.131s

* pypy 2.6.0 - 0.090s

* gcc w/ "-O2" - 0.050s
It's not simply that you can find Philosophy from any page. It's that if you blindly click the first link on the page repeatedly, you nearly always reach Philoshophy at some point.
I think it's /his/ company..
Magnesia also lacks nipples.
He should get his head of R&D (Dr. Eliseo Salinas ) to do a kickstarter to raise money for research into a better toxoplasmosis drug. Either it would be successful and he could do what he says he wants to do, or he would make the point he's trying to make about the fact that fundraising to get a drug all the way through clinical trials to market is expensive and it falls on the backs of sick patients in basically every other case.

Or he would be forced to reveal that he actually is just in this as a common rent-seeker.
I'd give up all my karma and ability to upvote if it meant that half the HN users with downvoting ability had it taken away. Especially the ones that downvote before replying.
Given that the US incarcerates more than any other nation (however you measure that), and assuming you're correct[1] would you then say that more prison is needed? Or would you say that prison clearly isn't working, and maybe we should try something that is cheaper, provides better justice to the victims of crime, reduces recidivism, and doesn't destroy the lives of criminals or their relatives?

[1] that you see many criminals, and that the US has a shockingly massive crime problem
I was kinda stunned when I found out how much my computer can actually do. I've been playing with Halide[0] and I wrote a simple bilinear demosaic implementation in it and when I started I could process ~80 Megapixels/s.

After optimising the scheduling a bit (which thanks to Halide is only 6 lines of code), I got that up to 640MP/s.

When I scheduled it for my Iris 6100 (integrated) GPU through Metal (replace the 6 lines of CPU schedule with 6 lines of GPU schedule), I got that up to ~800MP/s.

Compare this to naïvely written C and the difference is massive.

I think it's amazing that my laptop can process nearly a gigapixel worth of data in under a second. Meanwhile it takes ~7s to load and render The Verge.

[0]: http://halide-lang.org/
I am unwilling to accept an actual manifestation of a hamster wheel as the solution to my problem.

Variety of physicality is as important as its execution
This Startup Tracks America’s Murder Houses
To believe that associating philosophy with science is pie-in-the-sky ridiculous is to profess ignorance of the foundations and history of science. Science is a descendant of philosophy and the decisions made on how we practice it and interpret its results are guided by different philosophies throughout the centuries. A book or course on the philosophy of science, which is offered by most major universities, is recommended.
>+ mousewheel can be "nudged" left-right

What does that do? Is it related to the middle button functionality or something else?
Forget keto (or any other diet for that matter). Just maintain a calorie deficit if you want to lose weight.

The easiest way to do that is to lower carbs and compensate with higher protein/fat intake. Treat carbs as fuel - if you exercise a lot and/or have a lot of stress on a particular day, then you want them. If you are a couch potato on that day, you want to limit them. If you start craving comfort food, drink some water/have a scoop of peanut butter. Then wait half an hour - most probably the cravings will be gone.

Eat lots of salad/celery/veggies just because they are good for you.

If you start having stool problems, add a couple of table spoons of wheat bran to your daily food intake. Make sure to take it with lots of water - e.g. soak the bran in hot water before eating it.

For further weight loss, consider intermittent fasting. I like this protocol:

http://www.leangains.com/2010/04/leangains-guide.html

But that should come later, once you are more or less lean.

Good luck! Weight loss is really easier than it seems to be. All you need is to get into the routine and from there on it's just a question of time before you become lean.
Sitting all day + commute + stress is terrible. A 20 year old body can take this sort of damage and recover, but at 30 the "warranty" runs out and you're likely to find yourself facing medical problems, unless you compensate with regular exercise.

Metabolic syndrome is very real---if you eat a big breakfast and then a big lunch and you did no physical activity in between, guess what your blood glucose level will be after lunch? [Hint: not good]

One hack I'd like to share with y'all: use the Mac OS text-to-speech tool to make the computer read HN stories for you while you do exercise in the morning. ('System Preferences --> Dictation and Speech --> Speak selected text when key is pressed') A few push ups + situ ps + 1min of plank can make a big difference. Also, the more HN you read the more in shape you'll become :)
In 1998 I was looking for bigger office space for the company and we looked at the offices that had previously been ParcPlace Systems. In Adele Goldberg's office was a white board with a zombie drawn on it sliding over to a cloud labelled SmallTalk, the Zombie was a wearing a name badge that said "Java" :-)

But as accurate as your last statement is, I think we might be talking past each other. I was writing from the context of someone who is trying to achieve a development objective, and instead of making progress on that objective they have become embroiled in the hatred of the tools they have to use or the opportunities in the past that were lost. They have become "stuck".

It would be like me giving up on programming because I had to use Audio cassettes to load programs. I looked past the crap tools because I was seeing a better vision of what things could be. And that still works today, if you let it. But I cringe when I see someone stuck there.
It's to protect the privacy of drivers as much as as passengers.
I don't think you can get far in determining what people "should" do with various facts without diving into normative ethics and in turn philosophy. The question of what should be done can hinge entirely on what kind of philosophy people adopt.
The problem with healthcare in America is insurance. When you are insured and insurance is paying for everything patients don't care how much anything costs. (See Tragedy of the Commons).

And the drug companies charge $250 to $750 a pill or $14,000 for a years worth of drugs (recent cholesterol drugs Repatha and Praluent) to $250,000 (cancer drugs) and the drug companies justify it by saying insurance pays for it anyway. Drug companies are charging Americans 26,000% higher than in other countries (eg: Cuprimine, for which Valeant charges $260 per pill is available for $1 in other countries.)

The net result is that insurance rates are rising rapidly, and even if you have insurance you may not be able to make the copay.

As much as I hate socialism, the only solution appears to be Single Payer.
Why is Perl 6 considered to be a disaster?
Lack of trial doesn't bother me too much for $10, but I dislike buying things via the Mac App Store as it can't be automated via HomeBrew Cask.
what a loser, how exactly do people like this end up as CEOs
I wish wikipedia was indexed by subject, so that you could download smaller parts of it for online use.
From the judge's ruling:

"For example, one trillion dollars are of enormous value, whereas one trillion grains of sand are but a small patch of beach."

Not so small actually. The mass of a grain of sand (which I was able to look up on Wikipedia, of course) is about 10^-9 kg, so a trillion grains of sand is about a ton of sand.

I am reminded of John McCarthy's famous quote: he who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
It complete depends on country.

If you are in India. NDA(exists), but it's worth as much as a paper. NCA doesn't exist, Until you are using the existing companies properties(software, hardware) which literally means stealing from one company and giving to others. Until then it's not a crime.

It's good for India, because it's promoting the trade to the country and in India we support good competition.

Government was against google when they were trying to dominate the virtual advertisement by acquiring a small startups from India.
Are you sure it was an recruiter? Uber doesn't hire them afaik. Probably a driver wanting to claim the $500 referral bonus. I've had plenty of Lyft drivers doing the same and my response is always "cool, give me your card!"
And current designers and product managers build crippled products.

“Star had many fewer commands than today's systems, and it didn't do it by having fewer functions; it just had fewer commands.” — Dave Smith, Xerox Star human factors designer, in the ‘Final Demo’ https://youtu.be/_OwG_rQ_Hqw
I can't tell for sure, but it doesn't seem like this analysis normalizes for total submissions in each category. For example, if there are very few Ask HN submissions, but all of them make the top 3%, then his charts would say that Ask HN is not very popular.

What you really want to know is whether posts with a particular attribute reach the top out of proportion with their representation in the total population.
not if electricity was sporadic and there was no signal and when it was on, most of the stuff was in a language you didn't understand
It's always been unclear to me why the fines in these cases are so laughable. Trader produces several millions of dollars of gains with purportedly bad faith spoofing, fine is $275,000. Of course nobody would stop, the fines are lower than income or even sales tax...
Past Behavior Does Not Determine Future Purchases
The most interesting thing that occurred was my now intolerance to sweet drinks. Every so often I'll treat (barf) myself to nostalgic trip down high school lane, which consists of a mexican pizza and mountain dew from Taco Bell. I take one sip of the mountain dew (my drink all through my childhood) and throw it out as soon as I get to a trash can. I can't even drink zoke ceros or anything along those lines because they make me feel so bloated.

It's awesome.

There's a bowl of starbursts in my office that I'm currently fighting against. It's new. It's refilled every Monday. It's evil. I actually grabbed a handful on Friday to sneak home, luckily karma kicked in and all of the bags were missing the pink flavor so I didn't eat any.
It's much slower because you are checking the first character in all zeros string, but checking multiple characters in the case that the first ones match using Boyer-Moore.
So are you arguing that regulations do not exist to address market failures?
Here's ESR's comment on ntimed (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6863&cpage=1#comment-1635375):

esr on 2015-10-09 at 09:22:05 said:

>Eric, what do you think of ntimed and their goal of replacing ntpd?

PHK is a bright guy with many clues. I respect him a lot, and I say this despite the fact that he’s hostile to me because he thinks my open-source advocacy has encouraged crappy programming. I have not looked closely at ntimed but I have little doubt it is high-quality work, probably as good as anything I am capable of producing, possibly better.

That said, I think ntimed is going nowhere. A clean-sheet design was the right thing from a technical point of view, but it’s not what the time-service userbase wants. Large time-service users are intensely conservative and risk-averse; what they want, and what NTPsec will deliver, is not radical innovation but a cleaned-up and hardened version of what they know.

The only active GitHub ntimed fork is for the Amiga/AROS version, and phk's GitHub visible work as of late seems to be mostly on Varnish Cache.
What does this have to do with socialism? How does drug companies charging for an arm and a leg or insurance companies paying for it and raising premiums relate to socialism?
Here is a contemporary example: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542626/why-self-driving...
I sort-of agree with the judge, that "1 trillion" alone doesn't mean much. They should have put it in context: Wikipedia accounts of X% of overall Internet traffic, or that Wikipedia is ranked in the top-10 of all sites on the Internet, or that Wikipedia serves X% of all users on the Internet.
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Having gone through a "reboot" myself, I've run into quite a few people in the tech industry seeking some kind of change in life. I don't see the same trend with friends and acquaintances working in other industries. I think this is very telling. Hell, I did a Crater Lake circumnavigation trip early this year with a group of 7. Coincidentally, all-in-all we had 4 software engineers and 1 mechanical engineer in the group and all confessed that they felt like they got off course somewhere. (2 of the 5 were prepping to through-hike the PCT!)

Being an engineer myself, I've always loved what i do, but I found that I felt infinitely better when i was disconnected from the tech. It's almost like being blindly in love with someone who hurts you. So for my "reboot" i quit my job, sold everything and started doing things that are completely out of my comfort zone like long distance backpacking trips, going into the nature, camping, paragliding, kayaking. As a consequence, I've dropped weight and become healthier by simply being outside more. Things like healthy diet and exercise didn't seem like impossible chores but very natural habits to transitions to.

So take this with a grain of salt, but when someone who tries to change their life is telling me that they want to sit in 4 walls and watch Netflix more, or get an android app that monitors their sleep, or that they want to try and do more daily coding, i realize that they have no idea what they're doing.
Having worked to help engineers design better, I think it would be more accurate to say "non-designers build ugly products." It's just that the engineers are building products, and in the process, they're designing them. Since they're usually not trained as designers, they don't turn out looking so nice sometimes.

Engineers are every bit as capable – if not more capable – as learning design as any other person who wasn't "born with it" (which I haven't seen to be a requirement). But, since most of their energy is going towards one type of thinking, it diverts cognitive resources from doing another type of thinking.

Engineering requires logical thinking, whereas design requires that you be able to let your brain go quiet and let your unconscious take over for a little bit. From what I've seen, once engineers have seen a logical way of understanding what makes a good design, they have a framework on which to bind logical thinking to their experiences with design, and iteratively progress.

(P.S. I think this article could just as easily be called "designers make unusable products.")
Sounds like he might like this: http://thewikigame.com/6-degrees-of-wikipedia
Same thing happened to me. Every time I try a Sprite (used to be my favorite), I feel physically bad after drinking it.
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You stopped mathing too soon. A ton of sand is a little over a cubic meter. So a small patch of beach.
I added some more benchmarks including packing with 200M small 64 byte messages (20Gb) and consumption of that queue. There is no slowdown because of mass delete. https://github.com/bogdanovich/siberite/blob/master/docs/ben...
I use a Evoluent VerticalMouse 4 Right Wireless at work, Nice feel to it, comfortable for prolonged use.

At home, I use a Logitech M570 Wireless Trackball, I used it at work until I got the Evoluent. I surprisingly game with the trackball.

Other than that I have use the Logitech Performance MX and/or the Logitech MX Anywhere with my laptop.
> And, if you’re an iOS programmer, please write a good email app for me, OK? I could really use one.

Only to be scooped by Apple, who will subsequently strong-arm me out of the App store? No thanks.
Maybe Wikipedia's "Portals" are what you want? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/Portals
Remember folks, the police can still search your house in violation of the 4th amendment. The only thing the legal system (EDIT: er, the criminal justice system)
currently does is let your defense attorney keep them from using that evidence against you. Assuming you have an attorney who is being paid enough to go to suppression hearings.

http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=1588

If you don't have charges filed against you, then you don't have an opportunity to challenge the validity* of the FISA court warrant and jurisprudence around how warrants are issued makes it into the public record to be debated by law students, legislators, much less an appeals court or SCOTUS.

All you can hope to do is file a civil suit under a statute like 42 USC 1983 (see https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1983 and thank you mikecb) It seems, looking through the civil complaint (https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/wikimedia_v2c_nsa_-_compla...) that in this case, wikimedia actually only filed for an injunction to stop collection and pay attorney's fees on the basis of 28 USC 2412.

(*Most warrant requests in general get issued, but that is not because judges are rubber stamps, rather because prosecutors try to avoid wasting a judge's time. But I'm not sure we have the info to say that about the FISA court. Judges are human and an institution without the perspective imposed by public discourse will only become more and more susceptible to its biases)
Single-payer is socialized medicine.
Consultants buy you authority. If your in a non technology company and you need an outside technical opinion that a board will believe hire a consultant.
I agree. I actually like this problem. I didn't solve it yet, but I guess that your idea to use binary base will be very useful. I'll give this problem to my daughter.
Drug costs are ~10% of total healthcare costs in the US. Are drug prices a problem? Yes. Are they the main cause of our outrageous healthcare spending? No.
An enthusiastic thumbs up. I don't want to be anything but a programmer. I never have. I've tried starting companies. Rewarding but ultimately not successful. I've been a manager. It was awful. I've only ever been happy when creating software. Not always happy because the industry has major problems but the only time I like my job is when I'm writing software. I've done everything: QA, systems admin, build management and everything needed for successful software engineering but programming is my passion. I'm going to be a programmer until my brain won't let me continue.

I'm 53.
It's good to be the king.
He wants the tax payer to pay for it instead of insurance owners.
This is alot of fun. Would it be really difficult to be able to "blacklist" pages from the UI? I keep trying to come up with really disparate topics to find interesting connections, but everything is linked by "Knowledge".
An hour wait at Magic Mountain nowadays seems to be the norm moreso than the exception. Have you been there in the summer when X2 has had waits in the 2-3 hour range WITHOUT a Flash Pass? This still occurs and the ride is over 12 years old now. I'd argue it is somewhat due to incomes rising enough to allow more people to attend MM. MM has responded by offering Flash Passes but what I've yet to see is even on the busiest day, running multiple cars at a quick enough clip to minimize wait times. With this kind of demand, they really don't have to minimize wait times since as much as people complain about the times, they still go.

Furthermore, the Flash Pass isn't so much a front-of-the-line pass as it is a bypass-most-of-the-line pass. It still deposits you in the loading/unloading area so you could still hypothetically have a 15-20 minute wait depending on how many riders are already in the loading/unloading area.

Edit: Goliath (built in 2000) still routinely has 1-2 hour waits and might even rival Tatsu for most Flash Passed coaster given that X2 was, up until recently, not even able to be added to the standard Flash Pass unless you upgraded to the Gold or Platinum Flash Passes.

Tell me that doesn't smell like an incentive to increase waits to drive sales of Flash Passes in lieu of outright raising prices to control demand.
Yes, "after reading this" referred to the OP.
Python GUI Programming: WxPython vs. Tkinter
>But I must concede that this phenomenon occurring on Wikipedia gives a lot of weight to his argument.

It should give no weight at all to this argument. Arguing from metaphor is flawed to begin with, because the correctness metric is not correspondence with reality, but the degree a human mind will readily pattern-match on the metaphor.

The empirical reason for this effect is that Wikipedia policy mandates that articles begin with a denotational definition of the subject, which moves up the hierarchy of abstraction. Were Wikipedia policy to begin pages with connotational definitions that move down the hierarchy of abstraction, we would not see this effect.
Sony Filed a Copyright Claim Against the Stock Video I Licensed to Them
Netstring format serialization Go library
This seems like a very "fragile" fact. Anyone aware of this could easily break it.
What if there was a single communication platform that everybody used.

The fact that we use so many different communication apps today is absolutely insane.
The question is what happens when you release a product that supports API/contract version 3.2.6 and passes all tests, but then later a bug was found in its implementation of API/contract version 2.3.6 which did not get discovered by testing?

Manufacturers of products that have to perform to some standard will put serial numbers on their products and then may issue a recall based upon the serial number; presumably something analogous should be issued where we currently use a version number (e.g. a build ID or git revision).
Is it autoannotate?
Yea, definitely sucks.

If you are looking for more potential life-style coping strategies, I would highly recommend The Wahls Protocol by Dr Terry Wahls. In a nutshell, she makes the case for adjusting diet as the chemical processes needed by the body can not run if the critical processes can't run due to a nutritional limiting-reagent.

Without purchasing the book, her TED talk pretty much outlines her strategy plus the heavy use of coconut oil & milk for a paleo/keto-ish (aka, targeted keto). Consumption takes place as smoothies, salads, and with a deep variety of produce.