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Yes! In fact I've often considered this question in the context of teaching physics - wouldn't it be wonderful if you started with a really hard problem, flailed around for a while, and then learned the thing that could solve it for you? Instead (in basic mechanics) we get "f=ma" and then see how it applies to a bunch of systems, instead of first looking at some idealized systems and challenging a student to ask some really basic questions about it. (Not necessarily the full equations of motion, which might not make sense yet, but basic stuff like "how fast does this weight need to move before it leaves contact with this curved surface").

(Actually, it's a little more involved with "F=ma" because really that's a key to a bunch of other keys - it yields closed form solutions to a bunch of important problems which are characterized by whether "a" is constant (linear motion), proportional to x (a spring), proportional to x^2 (gravity, electrostatics), their rotational analogues, and so on. BTW it still trips me out that Newton saw this connection to so many disparate systems, but I'm deeply grateful that he did.)
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I love this walkthrough! I've been going through it except with the python 3 interpreter.
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> Hyperinflation in Germany was caused by a mix of high economic penalties post WW1 and reckless actions by private banks and investors. It's a common misconception that the hyperinflation was the fault of the government printing too much money, but that doesn't get at the underlying causes.

I agree to some degree. Germany was forced to pay reparations with goods such as coal. However, I've never seen it disputed that money printing causes hyperinflation. Sorry for the Wikipedia quote but I'm doing it...

"Hyperinflations are usually caused by large persistent government deficits financed primarily by money creation (rather than taxation or borrowing)"

In short you can't create value out of thin air. QE is a tool to keep credit flowing, but I guarantee you have never personally touched a dollar printed for the purpose of QE. If you have you were in a bank vault.
"Is there a quality laptop not bound to an ecosystem that doesn't come loaded with shitware?"

Yes - it's called a macbook (pro/air/whatever) running OSX. It is still (thank god) a general purpose computer and you can do whatever you'd like with it.
We may want some way to regulate company and individual actions even though we don't want traditional government. Bitcoin-like technologies could be a starting point.

We do have unwritten and written social contracts and expectations and having a common framework for encouraging/discouraging certain types of behavior might be important.

Another issue is that these companies become so dominant that they are almost the de facto government in certain areas. Technopolies lioe Google and Amazon. Which its nice to decouple modules of (effectively) governance but we probably would be better off with many smaller companies operating on public information technology platforms.
Same. It's not often, even on HN, that I come out of an article with so many lightbulbs lighting up. Beautiful.
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I just watched "Back to 1942" which shows a glimpse of WWII from the Chinese perspective. They had to cope with a famine AND a war, and lost ~20 million people during the struggle. To put it into perspective Russia lost around ~28 million [1].

In my opinion it was an excellent film that left me again pondering how much I've really lost in my education by only getting the "Western" version of history.

Word of warning, the movie has no happy ending. It's also in Chinese with English subtitles. Available on Netflix.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
So your friends have witnessed human sacrifice of children?
Get real. If you dont want to be taken out of context, dont use colorful anectdotes straight out of a 1850s novel.
I suspect the math is easier if you reframe the hypothesis to be about the derivatives: adding one more person from either group should have the same marginal effect on outcomes. As you get more observations you get more in a neighborhood of the cutoff which gives a consistent estimator of the derivative.
Two things:

a) The MINIX 3 developers had an enormous head start from reusing MINIX 2 in its entirety. In fact, that's how the project began: it was a refactoring of MINIX 2. The same cannot be said for the Hurd, which for the first few years was literally one guy (Thomas Bushnell) writing everything from scratch based on the stock CMU Mach 3.0 he was only getting acquainted with (he was much more familiar with 4.4BSD instead), and that the GNU project spent about 3 years procuring due to its proprietary licensing. Further, the MINIX 3 people later imported NetBSD, again heading on from that.

b) I ran GitStats on MINIX 3 and got a lifetime contributor count of 70, with around 13 major developers. Contrast to Hurd's lifetime of 51 with never more than 4-5 major devs, first few years being only 1.

EDIT: The EU grant no doubt helped, too.
Yet he didn't list any or describe any criteria for evaluating them. The "in some circumstances" bit was just a way to weasel out of potential objections.
If the bias reflects a real Bayesian prior, it isn't the kind of bias that's unjust.
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Assuming 3.5G instructions per second, that's approximately 1000 instructions per SYN, which includes parts of the NIC's driver and lower-level processing (e.g. interrupts) too. It would be interesting to see a breakdown of how many instructions are spent in which parts of the stack.
To paraphrase MM: Let's fire all the experts in NN and make room for someone naive enough to reinvent GOFAI.
Hm? It's still there.

http://git.busybox.net/busybox/log/?ofs=49
I haven't evaluated all of the previous attempts since that would consume more time than I have available. Can you provide a comparison or some insights into why they're worse?
>> This is not just a heuristic for detecting bias. It's what bias means.

> Under that definition

That's not a definition. It's a claim about what the term "bias" means.
Could just as easily use a table to create an image in an email
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It's a huge design flaw though. The original intention of the blockchain in Bitcoin was to make it so it was decentralized...except the increase in computational difficulty, the winner-takes-all payouts, and the electrical cost, of course means that eventually the only people running the blockchain are large centralized organizations.

At which point one can wonder, why bother being distributed when we're still ultimately invoking trust in several groups? Couldn't we do this a lot more simply and efficiently by just having everyone delegate a private key signing operation to these groups so that it's just based on maintaining consensus, rather then burning CPU time on computationally hard problems?
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Ak-47 was designed in 1949, I think you are missing something, war was over by that time
> The documentation for systemd and its utilities is second to none.

$ man none
No manual entry for none

Sounds about right.
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Those first few paragraphs give off so many crank vibes.
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In AK-47, the 47 comes from the year the design was finished, design work didn't even begin until 1945, so the AK-47 certainly didn't help them win WW2.
Bitcoin manages 7 transactions per second globally. The internet is...somewhat faster then that.
The Facebook Chat XMPP gateway was shut down long ago. Facebook Messenger uses the MQTT protocol, rather than XMPP.
Ask HN: How can students with no work/intership experience stand out?
I'm currently in my third year of computer science (major Canadian university) and I've been applying to internships but haven't been getting any responses.

What do you look for in students with no prior experience? How can I stand out?
Instead of "good at markets", I interpreted it as "good at understanding complex systems". I never assumed the companies they would contact would be entirely financially based, I think the idea is that if someone can figure this out the should essentially be vetted (after a good in-person meeting) as a good candidate for almost any project you want to throw at them.

To me, the stock-market aspect of this seems entirely because it's a large, complex, distributed system that's not entirely theoretical (i.e. has been real-world tested), can be modeled accurately enough in the game, and is complex enough to provide for some real challenging problems. There are likely quite a few candidates that could have been used instead of the stock market, but the stock market might be the ideal one in this case.
I think the point was that it's not necessarily technical skills that land someone in that role; it's vision, execution, ability to get shit done, and politics.
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As others have mentioned, this all occurred before the AK-47 was put into production. I believe the Mosin-Nagant 91/30 was standard issue for Soviets in WW2.
"quite familiar" seems more natural to me. Also, the odd comma spacing immediately jumps out at me.
Well, these are a different species of insect though. Yellow jackets are wasps, fundamentally different from honey bees.

The behavior of honey bees is one driven moreso by an inherited willingness to engage in servitude, than with wasps. Wasps are predatory carnivores, and their nests are smaller, more distributed, and constructed out of found materials, modified and pasted together. Wasps don't construct nests of secreted wax, they use mud and chewed up wood. Most wasps don't make any honey.

In honey bee hives, the manner of reproduction and sex selection is different. The queen really is the window through which the genome passes, and her capacity to produce devoted offspring, hopelessly obedient to her brand of pheremones, is her mark of success as an organism. And if she produced peers and not subjects she'd never have the spare time or the environment in which to gestate her offspring.
In a grandchild comment, you note that how close the min of each group is to the cutoff depends on sample size. This is true, but I think it's deal-breakingly true.

Suppose we have to input groups, A and B. Members of each group are distributed as Exp(1), ie same underlying distribution. Our selection procedure is totally fair as well: we take everyone without question.

However, there are 9x as many people in group A as group B. So the min of group A accepted (= the min of all group A) will be distributed as Exp(9 * |B|) and the min of group B accepted will be distributed as Exp(|B|).

So in expectation the min from group A will be smaller than the min from B, and indeed this happens 90% of the time. (Aren't exponentials nice?)

Of course in this case we can note that this effect is from differences in sample size and exactly correct for it. But normally we will not know how to do this correction properly because we don't know the true underlying distribution or the acceptance criteria.
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From a prior discussion, the idea was supposed to be more of a "why vetted you quite well, and we have contacts, so now we can get you a lunch with a CTO" or some facsimile thereof (I doubt you'll talk to the CTO of a Google or Apple class company, but you might talk to someone with similar power to bypass some of the assessment and hiring policies like the CTO of a smaller company).
I enjoy working with Akka to build reactive applications. Clean, Readable, Testable
He's also outputting his shadow colours in decimal rgb - hex would be a good deal smaller. I don't think small size was a goal.
Since it sounds like your workload is nicely distributed, why not try it one a few nodes and compare?
How is this related to anything, let alone your job?

As I'm sure you know, systemd grew out of Red Hat, and Debian as most other Linux distributions have adopted it in lack of a better alternative. There is no grand scheme to it other than getting rid of SysV.

In a few years time uselessd, nosh, dmd and the many other systemd-lookalikes in development have matured and there will once again be diversity in init land.
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If I were homeless in Colorado Springs I'd be saving up for a bus ticket to somewhere that I'm not gonna freeze to death when winter comes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10478558
No, I don't work for Ello - just a user. I've watched from the sidelines and observed how those who do work there respond. From their words and actions, it's clear to me that they are pro-privacy and anti-ad tech. I've seen how they've handle product issues with transparency and quick action. I guess it sounds like I work there, but I don't nor do I personally know anyone who actually does.
I wouldn't say "not bad" because compression does nothing but turn bandwidth and storage costs into energy costs on the client. The client still has to decompress, parse, and render all that CSS using a much more elaborated path than the one it uses for images.

It's still a fun hack though - reminds me of a similar technique I've seen before using many rectangular divs of a certain size, colour, and position.
Certainly "quite familiar" is more common.
Why won't the fix this? I'm probably missing something but it seems rather bizarre.
Auto-promotion here :-D Check Spacemacs, it is an Emacs configuration usable by Vim users out of the box. It has the feature you mentioned powered by the which-key package.
Can anyone explain why this took two years? Not trying to say they're slow, I'm just unfamiliar with how something like this goes from inception to patch. I'd like to try contributing myself someday.
I don't want to argue about systemd vs this or that, but re: (2) you are totally misrepresenting linus's objection to systemd (developers).

the well-publicized incident to which you're referring had systemd introduce something that broke userland, then instead of fixing it in systemd code, proposed a kernel change for it. this is, obviously, bad practice.

it would be one thing if the systemd code exposed a vulnerability or inefficiency in the linux kernel. but fixing your bad code by modifying the kernel is like trying to modify a popular compiler because some bad code you wrote isn't doing what you want it to.
That... actually makes sense.

Sadly :(
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I think this is useful for stress-testing purposes; most browsers will (hopefully) never see CSS like this in regular use, but pushing things to the limit is a good strategy for reliability in more normal use-cases.
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Looks like my data is outdated and the US has caught up.

Here's what it looked like the last time I was interested in this material: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.YLD.CREL.KG?page=3&or...
Whatever can you mean? Nothing concrete to offer? Just felt like a personal attack today?
Rationally, employees can get at most at their replacement cost, more or less. As you have built up experience in your present role and made yourself a 'key element', you should be compensated more highly than other companies will offer you for the same sort of work. If that's not the case, then you are right that you are underpaid - just accept one of those offers, or negotiate again on that basis. There are plenty of roles in the Bay Area where technical people can make more than 165k with salary being just a part of total compensation - and you can decide how any opportunities you can find line up with your current levels. If you can't get more elsewhere then you should feel better about it :)

You could try to demonstrate that you were a key value generator by doing a new startup without the other people who have a slice of this one :)

As to whether you deserve it or not, that's a tough one.
What are your sources?
The units of measure there are Euro, even, so after the conversion to USD, we're talking about even larger numbers. Not an order of magnitude in difference, though.
The act of calculating the area surely does mean they are the same rectangle. Because they can be written down in more than one way is a weakness of the notation; the math is independent of that.
I was actually planning on testing a 33% deployment this evening, I guess what I'm really wondering is that because this is a low-level networking adjustment that modifies locking behavior, are there 'gotchas' I should be aware of beforehand?

I'll test and report back regardless; only afraid of the scenario where the test goes well, and the entire network goes down a week later (e.g., a wonderfully-fun time we had previously chasing down rogue epoll queues and zombie processes that only occurred after a threshold of sustained load).
Has "Box" settled down yet? The last time I looked, box syntax and semantics were still in flux.
Being a Chinese growing up in America, what you said is true and often I feel the Western civilization didn't appreciate the war in Asia until the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor, and even then I feel people see America as the sole savior in the pop culture. America's first battle in Africa was a huge casualty (echoes the stuff in the movie Fury). Of course no one is born out to succeed, but the truth is thousands died on the path to victory.

Korean and Chinese had been fighting the Japanese long before Germany declaring war in Europe, way before 1937. For more than a decade, the Chinese had been fighting alone (well with very unpleasant support from the Western civilization like getting weapons at a very expensive rate and siding with the Japanese). Everyone else was still supplying industrial material to Japan, aiding and helping killing millions in Southern-Asia, because the rest of the world wanted to stay neutral. If the Chinese didn't hold back the Japanese, the entire Southern Asia would have fall in the hand of Japan in a few months (what the Japanese generals had promised their emperor). The British and the French armies did not stand a chance in their colonines against the Japanese.

Soon May-in, First Lady of Republic China came to the U.S. and begged the U.S. Congress to help China [1]. I quote: "When Japan thrust total war on China in 1937 military experts of every nation did not give China even a ghost of a chance. But when Japan failed to bring China cringing to her knees as she vaunted, the world took solace in this phenomenon by declaring that they had overestimated Japan’s military might."

It wasn't until late in the war did the Chinese receive air support (and many kind volunteers from the U.S. Army such as the Flying Tigers group) to help stabilize the war against Japan in China. But millions, were poured into the battlefield, untrained, uneducated, with little armor, fought against a modernized elite army from Japan.

Oh not to mention the shitty Commander Stilwell who caused a huge causality of the allies in the Southern-Pacific/Burma...don't get me started there. The British hated him. The Chinese hated him (he seized control of an elite Chinese army division and lost 60% of them - that division stayed and fought the Japanese so hard the Japanese had to surrender).

We had lost so many lives in WWII, including tens of thousands of American (some were recruited from U.S. territories that still don't have voting right in the Congress!). We can definitely improve history class by not just always focusing on American's effort. Even the local rebels in Europe helped the Allies to finish missions. Intelligence that the Chinese had provided to the Allies regarding the Japanese had helped Allies in attacking Japanese later in the war.

[1]: http://china.usc.edu/soong-mei-ling-%E2%80%9Caddresses-house...

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For those who can comprehend Mandarin, you can watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30QQtJoJ9Zg (and other episodes).
There is value in the old and they young, and ideally you would have both on a team or faculty. You need youth for innovation and boldness, and you need age for experience and wisdom.
Same here. Here's a picture. https://twitter.com/zlrth/status/660671388693323777

iPhone 5s, iOS 9.1. sorry to all reading my tweet about the snark. But I just find it so sad that I have so much rendering power on desktop (JavaScript on/off, elinks web browser, my rss reader), but if some silly CSS thing borks the mobile page, there's nothing I can do.
For good or bad Apple is very much opposed to maintaining backwards compatibility. Sometimes it's reflected in third party software by necessity, sometimes by practicality. I do think any commercial project worth its salt should have at least N-1 compatibility but I can understand why a one man team might make that a low priority.
Oh I know - I meant more "running L4 kernels", with the seL4 currently looking quite interesting.

At what point do you conclude that you're:

* running everything in hypervisor X, thus hardware support doesn't matter
* running only servers, thus desktops don't matter
* and thusly, may stand more to gain from an environment that never catered to the above two?
It does go against the design grain and established UX principles at times, but that's okay for me in the big picture. A lot of design is subjective anyways and I rather enjoy the font and layout. They're marching to a different drummer but still care about the users. There's quite a bit wrong with the Medium UI. There are pros to each, but I personally support the policies of Ello more. The vibe is positive and homey.
By "consulting", I believe they mean leaving your job and consulting full-time. That way you are in charge of your own schedule and salary.
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I can't tell you all the ways this was a great read for me. Some of it is performance, some of it is politics, some of it crazy history in $company. It's a great read.
the history that I got about WWII was that Germany built wunder-weapons that individually were of far superior quality to anything else, but couldn't be built at any kind of scale. their tanks were initially technologically superior, but not much else about their mechanized infantry stuff was. the bismark was probably better than any individual ship in the british navy (when they finally found the wreck they determined that british main gun shells literally bounced off of the armor), but it wasn't better than all of them and the germans could only build one.
I'm so excited about this game and the tech behind it! This needs more exposure! We need more games made with this kind of tech!
How so? I was able to easily use systemd and the man pages seem decent. Maybe not the best documentation, but it seems reasonable.
Does CCC have an app on Fire TV? On Chromecast (Android)? It bothers me that Apple has this power but is there even another choice in this specific example?
What is most astonishing is when and using what mathematics Newton recognized this. The next "big batch" came some 140 (!) years later: Cauchy's work on calculus, Carnot with the second law of thermodynamics and Bolyai's geometry were all created around 1820-1825. That Newton 140 years earlier could pull this off, and it's not like he had vague ideas which we understand today well and just attribute to him -- no, he got the laws and the maths precisely.

It is a whole another thing that his work is incredibly hard to understand today mostly because we learn calculus as Cauchy and Weierstrass laid it down. There was a course at our univ which teached Newton's calculus it was incredibly hard, I left it early.
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Truly an example of failed architecture.
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Python Numba compiler (fast as julia) has a fair amount of Cuda and AMD HSA capability.
Well I was using systemd-analyze and systemctl {cat,disable, restart} and it seemed similar to Upstart in Ubuntu if not better. (And I was able to use it intuitively without needing to refer to manpages).