skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For an example of some great code that is both to the point and expressive, see the original code version for the "Expensive Planetarium" by Peter Samson (PDP-1 Macro-assembler, 1962). – The Expensive Planetarium is a piece of autonomous code inside Spacewar!, the first digital video game, displaying a slowly moving realistic background starfield.

[1] http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside/insidespacewar-pt1-ep...
Is this the discovery of the Indo-European homeland at long last?
Who charges more for Win10 when 7/8 gives you 10 for free? Doesn't the free upgrade apply if you buy 7 today?

Also: I have seen zero things I like less in Win10 than Win8.1 (save maybe for the privacy things). Can't imagine what they would be? Win7 was great, Win10 is (almost) what Win8 should have been if they had finished it before shipping.
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There's a meaningful difference, it the question of whether your whole timing system is based on a lie. Is midnight in the middle of the night? Is midday in the middle of the day?
Not only was that a good outcome because 5m-8m isn't "big", there's even a more performant way to do real text search within Postgres that would let you scale far beyond that number before outgrowing it.
Sure. My comment is different. "Homeless" humans managed pretty well against lions, tigers, and bears. I think it's the defenseless you're concerned about. A house is one sort of defense. So is a car. So is a homeless encampment. So are guns and dogs. Few homeless are defenseless in the way you mean. While some people with homes are still defenseless against the threats you are worried about.

If you are concerned about plague, I think you should look more at domestic cats than homeless humans. Cats kill and eat infected rodents and pass the disease to humans. There have been 16 in the US because of that transmission mechanism. For that matter, there have bee 64 cases as a result of someone butchering or skinning an animal.

And while traditionally linked with poor sanitation leading to rat infestation, "plague in New Mexico has increasingly occurred in more affluent areas, a result of continued suburban and exurban development in enzootic plague foci." It's rich people who are helping to spread the plague these days, not the poor!

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/1/14-0564_article goes into more detail, and points to "performing common outdoor peridomestic work (e.g., cutting brush or chopping wood)" and "a result of contact with infected fleas that were brought into the home by indoor/outdoor pets" as the two largest vectors.

This isn't to say you shouldn't worry, only that more information might bring more focus into what you should worry about, and homelessness leading to plague should not be one of them.

(P.S. I'm an inveterate researcher. I tracked down these details in part because I enjoy it. I can totally understand how this style is outside the usual cocktail style discussion, which is all this topic really deserves, and don't expect or demand a comparable response.)
I'm talking about a cold boot here. As in: (1) the OS downloads and installs patches (2) at some point I turn off my computer for the night (3) I turn it on again in the morning and have to wait for this finalization before I can use my system.
If all the world population lived in a area as densely populated as Tokyo, they could all live inside Texas.

And given we have great fission engineering, improving solar and wind power generation, and most of the world could easily improve land productivity, we aren't even close to a population cap.
As a programmer, this seems like this is almost entirely Clemans fault. Good grief: you can't just walk into a mission-critical, production environment and start deploying crap, even if the dispatchers like it.

Yelling at your boss who rightly pulled the plug on that stunt is hardly justified. Whether or not it's a firing offense depends on a lot of things the article doesn't tell us, but..

This is really not the "idealistic and pure-hearted lowly programmer" vs "corrupt and overly political, turf-controlling police culture" it makes it out to be.
NXP processor manuals and datasheets are on NXP's website. Just google for "13xx User Manual". Here's a link to 13xx series user manual[1]

(I've just finished a year working on an embedded project using NXP 13xx series processors, and NXP's documentation is top notch.)

[1] http://www.nxp.com/documents/user_manual/UM10375.pdf
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Not the PDF I'm thinking of, but just googling the numbers I remembered, here one example:

https://www.floridahospital.com/sites/default/files/finance_...

> In 2012, beneficiaries of Medicare and Medicaid received nearly 60% of the clinical services provided by
Florida Hospital (as measured by charges)vi. However, payments from these government programs
represented just 40% of Florida Hospital’s total net revenuevi
. In comparison, private payers received 30% of
the care provided by Florida Hospital and represented 56% of its total net revenuevi

And the next paragraph:

> hospitals such as Florida Hospital have no ability to negotiate the payments from the public payers –
Medicare and Medicaid – that pay for the majority of the clinical services provided. This poses a tremendous
financial challenge for hospitals because these payments do not cover costs. In order to overcome these
shortfalls, hospitals negotiate higher rates from private insurance groups. For this reason, continuing cuts to
Medicare and Medicaid payments create an unsustainable business environment and put undue financial
pressure on private payers

(The common response to this is that we need to increase funding to Medicare. While it's true that Medicare happens to be underfunded, that doesn't actually address the structural problem. Because Medicare has the ability to change their reimbursement unilaterally[0] while it has to request additional funding from Congress, these two will always be out of sync).

[0] the word 'negotiate' is often used here, but since hospitals are essentially legally required to accept Medicare patients, it's no more a fair negotiation than the negotiation you have with Comcast over your bill. You can squeeze a few extra dollars out of them if you fight, but at the end of the day, Comcast has all the power, so they can - and do! - price-gouge.
How long until someone gets wget installed, wgets a binary from some random Russian site, and owns the VM?
Can somebody extract the parts where he is actually talking about technologies, concepts being used and potential technical breakthroughs? (... ''breaktrhough'' ..)
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That is not in their own interest though, the incentives aren't aligned with the stated mission. Consider job security, advancement and cop culture.
Well, if you actually look at the article, they, for example, find a statistically significant 7% drop in robberies (with up to 27% in a specific hour).
Who would get the blame though?
The counterargument is that very large codebases tend to be composed of multiple services. Each service lives in its own process and maybe in its own machine, and communicate with other services through IPC. At that point, you've lost the benefit of functional purity and immutability, because each service can maintain some "hidden" state.

You're right, above some threshold, it becomes hard to reason about imperative code with mutations. Your preferred solution is to adopt functional programming and immutability. Another solution is to decompose your system in multiple communicating services. Google's codebase is a very well known example of the latter approach.
Well, then, it's even more glaringly bad-form to leave out two-year and vocational schools from their approach then, if socioeconomic status is a factor, now isn't it? My perspective is yes, it's bad. It seems we'll just keep talking around each other, but I'll stand by my thumbs up toward the Brookings version and give the hairy eye to The Economist's method.
What version of Firefox is this based on? What modifications are necessary to get Firefox running on this platform?
This is true.

I guess it's a trade off - the more the car does for you the less you have to think about what you're doing, but then again I see people driving in the dark without their lights on all the time.
Though then you're just swapping that for the problem of remembering stuff like "Is 2am GMT a good time to call Japan?"
Hmm, it was closed because it was considered 'out of scope'. Who does the testing on every browser/device combination seems to be the big question. Seems like something Babel should set up internally as it's their tool and thus people will need to trust when they say "on these devices and these browser versions, block scoping 'let' works." Rather than a 3rd party just saying, yeah it works...
What you say is true. I solved the problem by flipping it around.

I'm going to give away the secret sauce I created for our backend.

"Traditional" EMRs imagine an idealized data model and then write ETLs to import to that model. The jargon we used was "adjudicating the single best record (SBR)" or "source of truth".

My system slurped up all data, stored mostly as-is, and then used information retrieval strategies (think Lucene) instead of querying (think SQL).

This solution was wicked fast. We showed our customers data back to them, so validation was simple. And we were super nimble when they changed their minds (what is a "visitation", how to displays scripts, updating lab results).

Sad story short: our group was acquired, my strategy made the reigning CTO's head explode, he attempted a rewrite, failed, then the execs killed the product.
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There are still major libraries that haven't updated their engine requirements in package.json to reflect that "proper" Node.js is now above 4.x (versus 0.10.x or 0.12.x), for example. It is a little bit surprising to me that they are at 5.x already.

You know, it's pretty funny that all the io.js people (myself included) were complaining about how glacial the pace was from Joyent, and now here we are, seeing some grumbling about how quick the pace has picked up. :)
I think opponents of Malthus, really do not pay attention to history or his arguments. He died in 1834. The Irish Potato Famine was in 1845. There were historical political aspects to The Great Famine, but there was also a prior huge population growth.

> "That the increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence,
That population does invariably increase when the means of subsistence increase, and,
That the superior power of population is repressed, and the actual population kept equal to the means of subsistence, by misery and vice."

His postulate hasn't proven true for the entire global population, it has very often proven true for smaller populations.

Fossil fuels are to the world, as the Potato was to mid 19th century Ireland.
Prediction: Seed rounds will get crazy.
Nothing in the first paragraph is true about Cassandra except perhaps that it does allow for some limited nesting of data. The rest of the article is great though. It doesn't even need the first paragraph.
I'm a bit looking too forward.
Found video of Stephen Wolfram himself demonstrating the power of his language.
https://www.livecoding.tv/video/live-with-stephen-wolfram/
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before it was called programming it was called poetical science.
I'm sitting in the office of one right now. Their codebase is sitting in Microsoft Visual SourceSafe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_SourceSafe

Yes, that's right folks - it's last release was exactly 10 years ago. You wouldn't believe some of the systems I've seen.
Ah, but 12pm doesn't mean "twelve hours after the meridian", it means "the hour labelled 'twelve' which happens after the meridian".
Fell in love with this one years ago, and still love it...

#!/usr/bin/perl

APPEAL:

listen (please, please);

open yourself, wide;
join (you, me),
connect (us,together),

tell me.

do something if distressed;

@dawn, dance;
@evening, sing;
read (books,$poems,stories) until peaceful;
study if able;

write me if-you-please;

sort your feelings, reset goals, seek (friends, family, anyone);

do*not*die (like this)
if sin abounds;

keys (hidden), open (locks, doors), tell secrets;
do not, I-beg-you, close them, yet.

accept (yourself, changes),
bind (grief, despair);

require truth, goodness if-you-will, each moment;

select (always), length(of-days)

# listen (a perl poem)
# Sharon Hopkins
# rev. June 19, 1995
Just like the customers and drivers mentioned in the story, if a restaurant decided to unpredictably charge double for their food due to being busy, I would go eat elsewhere and never come back. (Many restaurants do this predictably by charging less for lunch than for dinner, and attract different crowds)
This reasoning is spurious, I feel. We know that illegal immigration happens; we also know that wealth and happiness, especially education and stability for women, results in lower birth rates. Attempting to stem immigration means that instead of immigrants being happy, stable and educated they will be poor, marginalized and unstable. This will push up birth rates. In addition, preventing immigration only helps if the immigrants use more resources here than they do in their nation of origin - this is not clear. Are those immigrants with high birth rates even burning fuel at the rate of a typical American? Let's know that first before we start banning them.
Your point would be bolstered if you would start speaking in specifics. :)
Exactly. Like holy shit liability if something goes wrong due to this software in the emergency response room.

This article has a huge bias.
Maybe something like this? https://www.patientslikeme.com/
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^D^D should do it
I just find your kneejerk response of "Anything that rates my school poorly is wrong" and pocket dismissal is counterproductive to actually rating school performance. Selection bias is an actual demonstrable problem in school rankings, and coming up with some way of separating the effect of a school's selectivity from it's educational results is critical if we wish to improve the productivity of educated professionals.

I actually don't think that 3 has much explanatory power. Rather, I think the bulk of the variance is beyond 10 years. Yale's strongest suit is likely professional programs like law and medicine. These are high paying professions, but they require additional years of education beyond a 4 year bachelor's, and that subtracts earning years from the 10 year cutoff.

I don't know much about Rice, but I suspect it's particular problem is being a highly selective school in a low cost of living area. If an average Rice CS student randomly selected into other schools with comparable SAT scores, they'd be going to a much more expensive region, and their controlling for location may not sufficiently model how a CS degree differs from community college nursing.
Accompanied by coffe table book 'Greatest screenshots of ruby in Sublime with dark themes'
Or worse (better), physics!
Fairphone isn't a modular cellphone but may be as close as we ever get
That's a very cynical view of police.
I surf frequently (live near a select coast and all that). Waiting in the lineup for waves gives you a lot of time to think.

I often think about the fact that I might spend 2.5 hours in the water, but my total standing time might only be 5min total. And that's on a good day!

Heres the math: ~3.5min paddle out, ~10min waiting for my wave (more time if it's crowded), ~30 seconds setting up and paddling to catch the wave, 30sec wave ride time (assuming a good wave). Rinse and repeat from step 1. Roughly about 15min per 30 second wave (assuming again, a good day). Or about 2min of riding per hour.

Of course there are lots of variables here and lots of ways to be more efficient with time/energy, but I think the gist of it is there.
Medium-quality random binary garbage. randint is an alias for randrange,[1] which produces "slightly uneven distributions" according to the docs before version 3.2.[2]

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html?highlight=rand... (There's no such hint for the 2.x docs, but I'm guessing it was just added later for clarification)

[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html?highlight=rand...
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Whether or not full text search is more scalable than a full table scan depends on the use case - if he's continually inserting and deleting rows from his table while doing relatively few queries, it may very well be more scalable to do the full table scans to avoid the continual overhead of maintaining the full-text index on inserts and deletes.
I think you've overlooked this part of his comment:

"I say this as someone who spent a fair while optimizing the Rust benchmarks to use all of the hacks the other languages use"

Do you think the C, C++, Haskell, etc. implementations "cheat"? :P
I'm getting same result as scardine:

Python 2.7.8 (default, Sep 30 2014, 15:34:38) [GCC] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> π = 3.14
File "<stdin>", line 1
π = 3.14
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>

also:

Python 3.4.1 (default, May 23 2014, 17:48:28) [GCC] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> π = 3.14
>>> print(π)
3.14
Could you please give a few examples of "all the broken, half-designed stuff they are trying to ship"?
Also hooked on clang-format as of a few weeks ago. It does bizarre stuff sometimes, but I have decided to stop caring. IMHO C++ syntax is so byzantine, if you're capable of groking it at all, you're capable of seeing past white space differences. High time it went viral!
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How much daylight does daylight saving time save?
No, bootloader is easy:

# pacman -S syslinux

# syslinux-install_update -i -a -m

# vim /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg # ensure path to kernel etc. is correct.
I strongly agree with you re 'conservation of distributed systems problems'. I'm being vague because I know what they're doing, but I'm limited in what I can comment on.

Their public comments are that they are running their own servers and not reselling other storage.

Personal opinion: no one can do (c) because of (a). That is, any possible (c) must tackle the fundamental hardness in the distributed systems problem, and this is what we agree (a) is doing. Using immutable objects as in S3 just shifts the problem elsewhere, while it reduces it, it doesn't solve it.
"to be a recommended update" so what the hell is it now? It's impossible to get rid of that damn upgrade notification.
Organizational Software is, in essence, bureaucratic automation. And if you try to impose bureaucracy, control, tracking and/or regulaiton inside a deeply "brotherly" organization, you are bound to have issues.
You realize that constant isolation tends to lead to psychological disorders, right? I'm not sure if you meant your post in jest, but I thought I point that one problem out.
I am 36, coding 3h a day in Fortran for the oil and gas industry. I must say, even if I write a lot of Python code too, I really enjoy the way a program is "optimized" by default, that is, if your algorithm is good, you do not need to do crazy things to get good performance out of your hardware.
>> personal bookkeeping, Word, Excel, Publisher, electronic document management, etc etc etc - and it's all 100% back to normal.

Microsoft are turning their back on a group of people who used to pay money upfront for premium products. How many of these users want a subscription service? Maybe they want a finished OS with high quality software pre-installed instead of some crappy app store.
"I'm gonna PDR the shit out of you!" is probably my favorite part of that whole article.
Okay, now get it to detect when it is actually time to switch characters and if your input string won or not last character.
Having no children has big implications when the pension system is not sufficient to ensure retirement.
Please stop using HN comments just to promote links to your site. Users here consider that spam.

HN threads are supposed to be conversations. It's fine to bring up what you're working on if it's naturally related and makes the conversation more interesting. But it's not fine only to do that, or to contrive opportunities for it; that's not conversation, it's commercials.
The methodology feels odd. The results are essentially just errors in their prediction model. They're assuming that the model errors represent the school's contribution to median income. They're also assuming that those contributions are normally distributed around zero with constant variance.

I understand why they made those assumptions but they're almost certainly not true, which isn't exactly ideal. Then again I can't quickly think of a better way to do it without more granular data. Maybe use a mixed effects model with multiple years of data from each school....
It makes no odds. The most egregious intrusion of Windows 10, the wonderful keylogger 'diagtrack.dll' has been backported to 8.1 and 7 and installs under different than advertised Microsoft KB updates.

So it really is time to move to Linux.
To support your point, most of the delays in the JackPair Kickstarter involve tooling for the casing. The recent one admits they should've talked to an expert before they even settled on the prototype because they had no idea how much trouble it would cause at manufacturing time.

Hence, the popularity of the Design for Manufacturing concept these days...
Your argument doesn't hold for Iran today - under the Islamic republic birthrates crashed due to a family planning program and expansion of female higher education, the former which they are now trying to row back a bit.
Not a chance. Human interaction is crucial to rehabilitation - what do you think the recidivism rates would be like for a person who hasn't had a real interaction with someone in months or years? The goal should be to make prison more like the world outside, not less. This sounds more inhumane than the existing model, and that's saying something.
Not to get too tangential, but there was something called the Auburn System[1] which, well, seemed pretty effective from what I've understood. Both in the sense that it was so undesirable to be there, and also that obtaining a working skill would increase a person's utility on the outside. Not that some of the methods used aren't essentially torture, but the silence factor has me very intrigued.

Part of me is pretty interested in this subject and a little familiar because a former associate of mine wrote an incredible - if not authoritative - thesis on the prisons in the Antebellum south before the Civil War. I learned a lot about the subject by proxy, and it's quite apparent to me modern society has pretty much ignored any and all lessons that could be relevant from that part of history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn_system
Clemans' actions can be chalked up to youthful ignorance and exuberance, whereas the captain has no excuse. He is the central source of truth and the ultimate arbiter in the situation, he should know better than to react so aggressively to one of his own staff members.

React aggressively to some aspergers-afflicted kid cavalierly modifying and possibly breaking a public emergency response system with an expected uptime of always?

The captain's response was 100% measured and appropriate given the situation.
Otherwise he will send his greatest warrior, Venomoth, to defeat you.
I've been thinking a lot of "how would it work if it was an Artificial Intelligence".

I don't think any kind of AI would learn to live in society by being all alone, and i have a hard time understanding how any natural intelligence would work differently.
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