skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While you are right that standard arithmetic operators are typically polymorphic, but that doesn't mean there is another use case. Another example I had in my head was little and big endian integers, or binary and decimal integers. A language where arithmetic operators are not polymorphic is for example assembler.

What I would say perhaps is that #2 and #3 are in a way complementary. In 2, we describe a common operation with a more abstract type, while in 3, we describe the specific representation with a more concrete type. So both #2 and #3 address issues of naming things on different levels of abstraction, which aren't directly related to the program specification or its correctness (use #1).
Funny, China seems to be on the list too... Or am I interpreting that list incorrectly?
"Every third number is a multiple of three; yet no power of ten, no matter how high one multiplies, is ever also a multiple of three. Similarly, every fourth number is a multiple of four; but one must get to 102 before the fourth becomes an even divisor. Every power of ten also misses six as an even factor, and one must wait until 103 (1000) before eight divides in evenly. All told, ten simply skips many of the most important fractions, and those it does catch it generally catches imperfectly. Ten is certainly a poor base from this perspective."

and

"This shows that all bases have irregular wholenumber fractions; for example, the reciprocal of the base less one is always 0.1. However, it also shows that one base stands out in the regularity of the most common and important fractions (1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, 1/8): that is the base of twelve."
Go scheduling and context switching with Goroutines
Only if you have basic needs covered already. If you don't, then those are pretty much useless. Read the lengthy comment written by veddox.

And weather forecasts seem laughable idea for Africa. It's either deserts,
when weather forecasts only help once in few months, or tropical climate, when
you know exactly how it will be for next few months without any forecasts.
Business owners can/should be hiring ex-offenders
Nice, but I don't think the escape wheel animation is correct. The explanation says it pushes something but I don't see it.
The wonderful world of vintage robots
Yes! That's a great site. Thanks for reminding me.
Congress is stupid and wants to fine wrong dudes. It should fine car producers $100,000 for every hack on a car.
It's all based on growth. You can't value it like an established company.

"When Twitter went public in 2013, it was valued at $24B — 12 times higher than Times market cap. Twitter was losing money while the Times earned $133M the same year. Why do startups have such big valuations?
The answer is: cash flow. It is different between high-growth startups and low-growth businesses. Startups would usually be profitable in the future. Startup’s main metric is growth."[1]

[1] https://medium.com/@paulmillr/zero-to-one-summary-8dbda22e15...
The number of Governments using the FinFisher Spyware is increased
It bothers me that this entire thread is about technology. This is anticompetitive behavior by a small group of oligopolists, plain and simple.

The big providers need to build an accessible system for entering the email market or face tremendous fines from worldwide governments. There are plenty ways imaginable to do this, especially if you allow the process to involve real people and paperwork.

It shouldn't matter whether this is simple negligence or conscious work to keep out competition. The end result is that it's made nigh on impossible by a few market leaders to enter said market.
A Note on Two Problems in Connexion with Graphs (1959) [pdf]
Moto X Style vs OnePlus 2 Comparison – AnsMachine.Net
See also: https://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/
Parents stimulating their children does probably more to the brain structure than a check in the mail. And educated parents tend to better stimulate their kids. I remember a French statistics from the 90s showing that about 25-30% of the kids going to the Ecole Polytechnique (top engineering school in the country) come from families which do not own a television. Not sure there is a direct effect between watching TV and success but there is a direct effect between good parenting and success. This is why a good education system is fundamental to make up for what sometimes the parenting does not provide.

The other possibility, though not a politically correct one is genes. Rationally I find it hard to believe that genes play no role in our intellectual capacity, and they would mechanically self perpetuate poverty.

Without any hard science to back it, my intuition is that a brain is like a muscle, people are born with different muscle structure, largely driven by genes (but with a certain degree of randomness). So not everyone can make it to the olympics. But going to the olympics also requires hard work and training. If all one does is eat burgers and watch TV, the only outcome is to become obese irrespective of the muscle structure.
It's really simple. Each queue is a separate leveldb database on disk. Messages are stored as key/value using incremental ids. Head and tail of the queue are kept in memory and get initialized on startup via db scan.
It's neat that this is possible. It was demonstrated in the 1960s, but nobody could afford the CPU time back then.

The intensity range of the image limits how much deblurring you can do. If the range of intensities is small, after blurring, round-off error will lose information. Also, if the sensor is nonlinear or the image is from photographic film, gamma correction needs to be performed before deblurring.
Is it really possible to start collecting art on zero budget?
Order of magnitude is defined as power of 10 precisely because we work with base 10 system. The same would stand for base 12, only the order of magnitude would be defined as a power of 12.
I wish you were not insulting me couple of times and being arrogant. Anyhow lets focus on more VC side of things and alternatives like who are the best known VCs/angels who belives in coexist?
Gmail has Postmaster tools that let domains with moderately large mail flow be able to monitor their spam reputation scores, email authentication e.g DKIM / SPF, DMARC rejection rates, etc. This tool can help address a number issues folks here have mentioned wrt Gmail. In particular please look at the "Delivery Errors Dashboard" description in the help center article.

help center post: https://goo.gl/7QHoqc
Postmaster tool: https://gmail.com/postmaster/

(disclosure I work in Gmail)
"I went to Novell under the mistaken goal of being a CEO. I didn’t do the due diligence, and if I had, I wouldn’t have gone. Our basic goal was to get out with our professional reputations intact and not end up in jail. The books were cooked, and people were frauds. But it turns out you can overcome that, and the skills I developed helped at Google."

I'm quite surprised that he would say something like that in public. I understand that this is a transcript
made in a class in which Eric Schmidt was being interviewed.
I know the chances are slim, but can anyone confirm that he really said this?
Law enforcement have large libraries of images of child sexual abuse. Sometimes the abusers appear in the photo but blur their faces. There's probably some work happening to identify those abusers.

Here's one famous example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Paul_Neil

There's a bunch of other image processing stuff that can be done. Identifying location from sparse clues is important. Identifying wall paper patterns, or coca-cola bottle labels gives clues.
Somebody buy this person a beer
If there is just a tiny bit of truth in the stories about the Hartz IV system from Germany, it's actually the means tested welfare system and its case workers (who don't have much time per case) that strip people of their dignity. Up to the point that you think the whole system is designed to punish rather than to help.

Just getting some extra cash with no strings attached certainly doesn't strip you of your dignity, and if it does, you can always refuse and demand food stamps instead. In Germany, getting food stamps is what strips you of your dignity. You hold up the queue at checkout while they figure if they can accept those and if they are allowed to give you change, etc.
I think you're assuming bad faith here. Of course some people who don't want to be convinced. But I think there are many people who engage in debates and are open to be convinced by counterarguments. Or they just joined the topic and just have naive questions. After all, it's in our interest to understand reality.
Is this a thing than only happens in countries that doesn't use the SI?

I don't know of anyone that has a problem using m, cm or mm in different circunstances
Nikita, this is brilliant. I've been doing some experiments with creating 3D models for How a Car Works using threeJS (there's a very basic alpha proof-of-concept at http://www.howacarworks.com/3D/charging-a-car-battery ). I'd love to commission you to create some moving models of car components - drop me an email if you're interested me@alexmuir.com
What I'm hearing you say is this (correct me if I'm wrong):

You are resistant to early, empirical results that poverty causes negative outcomes for children, and you will require stronger evidence to overcome this resistance.

Fair I suppose, but it says a lot about your politics. And I'll leave it there.
OpenBSD: It was twenty years ago you see
>Without any hard science to back it

I think this is the problem. Here's research that's trying to find some quantitative data about this issue, trying to cut through our received wisdom and intuition. And the response is... rooted in received wisdom and intuition.

(I don't mean to dispute your proposed model -- merely to suggest that us sitting here and speculating about models is precisely the wrong way to understand these issues.)

Frankly, I'm a little disappointed with the tenor of the discussion on this site; it seems the collective will to libertarianism is stronger than the belief in empiricism. I'm happy to be proven wrong, though.
instagram is a completely different dynamic than pinterist. Besides, if they do compete, it's not zero sum. People use both (and use them differently).
simple checksum computation and/or verification, indeed most cards can do (sometimes with restrictions: not for IPv6, not for VLAN...)

the other kind of offloading that the kernel can use is TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO), which is much more complex to implement in hardware, and you won't find it on cheap NIC (like Realtek)
Goldman Sachs: welcome to the third wave of the financial crisis
A more charitable interpretation would be that while poverty is one thing that harms children (and that can be fixed by giving them cash) there's a bunch of other stuff that harms children, and these don't seem to be fixable with cash. EG parents with addiction to alcohol doesn't seem to be something that's fixed with cash hand outs.
The underlying issue, IMHO, is that the AppStore has been designed in such a way that what Marco is doing is probably the sensible thing for him to do, as it only supports "hit-based" business models. Well, and scam-based ones.

Except that with software, such a hit-based model is even more skewed towards winner-takes-all than music is. So let's put the blame where the blame belongs: the ones creating the incentive structure, not the ones doing their best within that structure.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4679801.
I've used Marziliano's[1] blur metric to reject images with motion blur recently. It is very fast and quite accurate in distinguishing blurred and non-blurred images.

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.7.9...
It's a story about a guy who runs a Twitter account. I think you're taking this way too seriously.
> Apple didn’t sell me this software. They still own it, in fact. I’m just borrowing it.

Does this also apply to older versions of OS X that are actually paid for (such as Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion)? Or is this only for the "free" versions like Yosemite and El Capitan?
Only science can really close this debate, but we don't really understand how the brain works, what drives intellectual capacity, character, sexual preferences, etc. So I don't see how we can do anything else than invoke what each of us think is our common sense to form an opinion until science tells us what really happens.
Why is Sudan of all places singled out and not like North Korea or Iran?

Or was that just reduced for brevity.
i always want to have free time just to break that and test how the old-apple "sosumi" bravado affects now-apple in court.
It applies to pretty much all software: you're licensing it, not buying.
I would say, based on the number of supporters of the existing arguments, it is not really a good example of weakness..

But yeah, the debate here lacks some good arguments. For example, one of the main reasons why we know global warming is not caused by the sun (aside from direct observation) is the fact that nights/winters/poles are getting warmer than days/summers/tropics, and that stratosphere is cooling.

Perhaps the weakness of the platform is that it doesn't distinguish between rational (thoughts) and empirical (facts) arguments?
In other words, in addition to a basic guaranteed income, we should consider universal health care and public education.

I agree with that collection of policies, based on my understanding of current economic thinking and research.
"Prisons are the largest form of welfare in the US. "

No, they are not. Prisons and welfare are for totally different purposes.
Microsoft Toolkit 2.5.7 Ez-Activator 2016 for Windows and Office
Legal here. I think that's because of the continental legal system model.

Prison in many EU countries is avoided for a lot of reasons, including statistics, which state that crime rate doesn't correlate with punishment as much as social/economy factors.

Similar to these Norway has a life-sentence limit of 20 years ( I think ).

The idea behind prison in continental legal systems is to serve 2 purposes :

1a. To educate the person that committed the crime that it's actually bad
1b. To frighten the same person before the crime is committed
1c. To prevent the same person to commit a crime before he's re-educated.
2. To educate other potential crime committers what will happen if they do the same.

1a,1b,1c are individual prevention and 2 is general prevention.

So ... If one of those can't be met by the punishment then punishment for that crime is not considered.
> There is this misconception today that you can argue everything, including the laws of nature.

I just wrote a comment about this, responding to global warming debate. Perhaps what this platform needs to address that is an ability to separate facts (that is, sources) and opinions (that is, synthesis or analysis of the sources).
The authors mention the problem of capacity increases in storage outpacing bandwidth growth.

This is mathematical inevitability at least for spinning disks, as long as capacity increases come from density increases. When density increases by a factor n, capacity increases by n^2, because the disk surface is two-dimensional. OTOH, the tracks under the head are linear, so the same density improvement of factor n only causes a corresponding bandwidth increase of factor n.

And seek times are governed by physics and haven't really improved much at all. Accelerating and decelerating a mass just takes a certain amount of time, and the faster you do it the more noise you generate.

A Winchester drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5MB and a transfer rate at the interface of 5MBit/second. With that it could transfer its contents in 8 seconds, not that the Apple II could accept it at that speed. Even assuming that the real disk transfer speed was 1/10th of that would still allow the whole contents of the drive to be transferred in a little over a minute.

A current 3 Terabyte drive with a generous 200MB/s interface takes 4 hours.
I think there’s a lot to be said for a license that’s so simple it doesn’t need a summary. For example, take the ISC license:

“Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

“The software is provided ‘as is’ and the author disclaims all warranties with regard to this software including all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. In no event shall the author be liable for any special, direct, indirect, or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of this software.”

Yes, there are a lot of things it doesn’t cover. There’s no copyleft in this license, and no restriction on commercial use, and so on. Some will argue the problems with that, but it’s also a strength—because the license does less, explaining these concepts is unnecessary, and the resulting license text is much simpler.

There aren’t that many licenses like that. Even Creative Commons summary pages state: “This is a human-readable summary of (and not a substitute for) the license. This deed highlights only some of the key features and terms of the actual license. It is not a license and has no legal value. You should carefully review all of the terms and conditions of the actual license before using the licensed material.” Who actually does that? But it seems dangerous not to.

$ wc -w * | sort -n
60 wtfpl
118 isc
140 zlib
167 mit
190 unlicense
207 bsd
1055 cc0
1234 lgpl3
2487 gpl2
2699 cc-by
3111 cc-by-sa
4025 lgpl2.1
5174 agpl3
5209 gpl3
25876 total
Expanding on SixSigma's point:

Drug users sometimes engage in acquisitive crime to get money to buy drugs. Or they become sex workers. The public health burden of (unregulated) sex work is considerable.

So giving these people cash reduces the crime they commit, and reduces the need for them to become sex-workers. Often just giving them the cash is far cheaper than the legal system alternatives - the police investigation and the trial is likely to be expensive. (I accept your point that some people just don't care about saving that tax money, they want "tough on crime" policies)

> Public policy needs to be informed both by the available interventions, (i.e. give cash, give cash only after a drug test, give treatment after a failed drug test, then cash after completion, etc.)

This is so simplistic it's almost hateful.

It's a failure to understand the complex drivers of a lot of severe drug addiction.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/oct/21/drug-ad...
In the comments of the original article, the author mentions this condition applies to any country on the embargoed list [0] (which includes Sudan).

0: http://www.pmddtc.state.gov/embargoed_countries/
OpenBSD's source tree turns 20 years old
The thing that really struck me is that it has been proven only in 2002 - and it is by now a fundamental idea in (my) CS education about Databases and Distributed Systems: I'm used to considering its implications when thinking about a problem.

So I wonder: how did you did it before then?
Just use your drone as a gun holster and then politicians will be too terrified to make any laws about it.
The sales volume of consumer GPS units, however, is extremely large; if there is any pure software improvement to be made, even if the benefit for those devices is quite low, I'd expect it to be commonplace. Does anyone have a citation for aviation GPS using more sophisticated algorithms than consumer GPS?
China is indeed on that list, however to understand what you may or may not export to China you will have to read all of the relevant laws, which may or may not be the same as those for any other country.
Not sure I understand the Craiglist part correctly, but in my book a business that does something without trying to make as much money as possible is a better than the one that tries to monetize every single thing.
This reminds me of MaxEnt, which could be mentioned, too.
http://www.maxent.co.uk/example_1.htm
Does anyone know if #10 changed in El Capitan? I remember reading that Apple allowed hackintoshes.
Because of the character limit I wrote religion to end of question. Please interprete it as religion/beliefs or anything which describes what makes you you. Did anybody had a similar experience?
No, saying "X is illegal/legal therefore it is immoral/moral" is a logical fallacy. As the above user said: In some places, slavery in some places is legal, and by your logic it is therefore moral; however, we all agree that slavery is immoral (apart from the places it's legal, that is), QED your logic is flawed. Argumentum ad Absurdum.

What the above user is saying, is: Suppose congress passed a law saying "X is illegal". Does that mean that X is immoral? The answer is clearly no, because congress passes all sorts of idiotic/insane laws.
And you can find a fantastic list of questions about queue guarantees/properties here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8709146
> Slideshows made with Photo; same deal, don’t even think about using them for some commercial purpose.

??? Was Apple too cheap to buy the proper license for the default slideshow music? That sounds completely arbitrary and unexpected. (I doubt anyone will ever enforce this rule, but why is it there?)
I think it's pretty well-known that it's an industry-standard practice.

Also another point why I treat big classes of businesses as made of greedy dishonest bastards.

See also: astroturfing, which is commonly accepted way of being a cheat on the Internet.
Refactoring TYPO3 CMS: Neos, Flow and Symfony?
The escape wheel is actually pushed indirectly by the large spring, it pushes against the metal pins that stop it from freely rotating. The smaller spring with the pendulum attached (the balance) then flicks the anchor which allows the escape wheel to advance one tick.
If you refuse to take money from people who have said stupid things or things you disagree with, you'd better be planning on bootstrapping. ;)
This PDF is just an example, showing some of the simplification you could get with a base 12 metric system. I’m not advocating this particular design.

In general I think the “dozenal society” people need better numeral glyphs and better names for things. When reading their materials, try to look past the choices of names.

As for the advantage of base 12, try writing out multiplication and addition tables for both base 12 and base 10. Here are those multiplication tables using modular arithmetic:

multiplication table mod 12 multiplication table mod 10
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 -4 -3 -2 -1
0 2 4 6 -4 -2 0 2 4 6 -4 -2 0 2 4 -4 -2 0 2 4 -4 -2
0 3 6 -3 0 3 6 -3 0 3 6 -3 0 3 -4 -1 2 5 -2 1 4 -3
0 4 -4 0 4 -4 0 4 -4 0 4 -4 0 4 -2 2 -4 0 4 -2 2 -4
0 5 -2 3 -4 1 6 -1 4 -3 2 -5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5
0 6 0 6 0 6 0 6 0 6 0 6 0 -4 2 -2 4 0 -4 2 -2 4
0 -5 2 -3 4 -1 6 1 -4 3 -2 5 0 -3 4 1 -2 5 2 -1 -4 3
0 -4 4 0 -4 4 0 -4 4 0 -4 4 0 -2 -4 4 2 0 -2 -4 4 2
0 -3 6 3 0 -3 6 3 0 -3 6 3 0 -1 -2 -3 -4 5 4 3 2 1
0 -2 -4 6 4 2 0 -2 -4 6 4 2
0 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 6 5 4 3 2 1

Or try converting a list of common fractions to decimal / duodecimal notation.