skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My impression is that the collection is so routine and automatic that most parents don't even notice it's happening, and would need to assert themselves in advance in writing to exercise their religious opt-out.

This site suggests Pennsylvania's policies for sample retention (8 months) and use of results (by subject and their medical provider only) are more restrictive than "save indefinitely" states like California:

http://www.babysfirsttest.org/newborn-screening/states/penns...
It seems to be public domain now, so links:

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/bernprop.html - HTML version

https://wikispooks.com/w/images/1/1f/Propaganda.pdf - PDF version

The introduction quote by Noam Chomsky in the fist link is... chilling.

Anyway, thanks HN for recommending a free book this time (my Amazon spendings start to feel like HN tax lately).
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I call BS. You can still pass custom parsing directives in an initial "meta" section or out-of-band.

Heck, you can even pass custom parsing directives in comments inside the JSON document (the very thing Douglas wanted to avoid), since your receiver knows to expect them, read them, and then continue parsing accordingly.

The only people this annoys is people actually wanting legitimate comments in a JSON document for documentation (and not for passing parsing options).
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It's really freedom, friend. git is the API you'll be expected to speak for the next 20 years or more. Given some time you'll learn the advantage of having commit and push being two commands (and how to combine them if desired).

If you would edit stuff online, you would be forced to use whatever tool the developers of that web interface have chosen for you. And everything being text you can also test stuff yourself before pushing it.

More flexibility requires more power, but it's a game, right? What better opportunity to learn?
Every institution, over time, seems to morph so that the perpetuation of that institution becomes its top priority, even at the expense of the mission it was founded to serve.
Not to mention that it's infuriating if the you're wearing headphones and the sound is loud or you have your volume inadvertently cranked up.
Hence why they call it "best value" which was my point. What this person did is called "LPTA" or, essentially, lowest bidder. Not sure if you want every lowest bidder making your mission critical applications.
Even in this country, women were not allowed to vote in political elections until the 20th century, and the case was similar in countries around the world.

How does your argument that "all issues which feminists (make no mistake, feminists of the 1920's were "radical") seek to fix are a result of empirical reality" fit with that? Women couldn't vote, and that was just the natural outcome of "empirical reality", now they can, and that is, what exactly? Did "empirical reality" change? Or is the fact that women now vote in virtually all countries a terrible crime against biology?
What could be a better charity than putting the work in the public domain?
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Sure, and we probably needed to make the mistakes we made to realize how dangerous it is. Hopefully her father would have made a different decision these days. Public domain is extremely powerful.
As a husband-wife co-founder team, I totally can relate. Having my wife's female intuition ( yes it really exists.. it's like a heat-sensing radar and magic 8ball all-in-one )

see her in action: https://www.instagram.com/p/zA41aSKM9C/?taken-by=juicycanvas

The challenge is that 99% of my time is spent on so many righ-brain tasks..i practically become a 'vulcan' so when a customer email or PR challenge or new biz dev opp comes flying in.. its very easy to just mis-read it or reply in a curt almost cold way. Luckily she QA's all our communication with a filters yet undiscovered by scientists. Deb i love you darlin! Where would we be without you!
>even though if read in in a certain light, he can sound anything from quaint to prejudicial (not so much in this article).

Perhaps because he's actually being prejudicial?

It's odd how we somehow think that someone being honest about their prejudices somehow minimises the prejudice.
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Mathematician actually, though I have a degree in nuclear engineering as well.

I'm familiar with the terminology, but thanks for the lesson. I spend the vast majority of my time as a developer, actually.
> What I am not looking forward to now is actually firing this person

So give him a fair severance and get it over with quickly. It's the best you can do. Chalk it up as a learning experience and a good reason to hold onto top performers :)
The preferred workflow that you've described seems to be a (more considered) form of the standard Cython workflow that I see described:

(1) Write Python.
(2) Compile with Cython.
(3) Run compiled Cython, profile & review.
(4) Consider what Cython annotations to make to code; make code changes.
(5) Goto 2.

The emphasis is always on iteration & incremental additions.

Of course I practice iterative & incremental development, and of course I'll prototype a quick proof-of-concept implementation first (often in Python+Numpy) before profiling & algorithmic optimization. But the Cython workflow seems to me to add more iteration (of incremental Cython syntax additions) than is really necessary. When I'm working to implement some algorithm, I don't really want to iteratively learn how Cython or CPython implement various Python functions; I'd rather write my "proper version" code just once, properly the first time.

So why not take it to the logical extreme and write it all in Cython-lang from the start? If we're writing for-keeps code in a language with Pythonic syntax & static types, I find Nim-lang a more expressive, more full-featured language (with features such as generics & type-safe Lisp-like macros, in particular; I note that Cython does support pointers & operator overloading) than Cython-lang in general-purpose uses, without being very different at all in simple uses.

For example, there is an example `primes` function in the Cython tutorial: http://docs.cython.org/src/tutorial/cython_tutorial.html#pri...

Here is an equivalent implementation in Nim. As you can see, it's really almost identical in syntax:

proc primes(kmax: int): seq[int] =
var kmax = kmax
var n, k, i: int
var p: array[1000, int]
result = @[]
if kmax > 1000:
kmax = 1000
k = 0
n = 2
while k < kmax:
i = 0
while i < k and n mod p[i] != 0:
i = i + 1
if i == k:
p[k] = n
k = k + 1
result.add(n)
n = n + 1
return result

All of this said, I understand that a great deal of this decision comes down to personal preference: Would you rather start with Python & then iteratively diverge? Would you rather start & stay in Nim? And I can also see the benefit of both approaches in different circumstances. :)
There are a bunch of CSPRNGs built out of hash functions. Are they all doing it wrong?
Maybe we'll get lucky and some curator, fed up with all the copyright nonsense, will just release a bunch of cameraphone snaps.
Two things. First, why is it better than:

String foo;

if (parameter != null) {
foo = ... ;
}
else {
foo = defaultValue;
}

or even this, if you express all your transformations as a single expression:

String foo = parameter != null
? ...
: defaultValue

I don't get it. Your way of doing seem awfully more verbose. Please note that
I'm not against Optional in general (although they are overplayed in my
opinion).

Second thing, I can't shake off the feeling of inefficiency: building these
closures up, calling them. Lots of indirection for something that's probably
very simple. I wouldn't want to call this code in a hot loop. But then maybe
it's not in a hot loop. Before you bring that up, the sufficiently smart (JIT)
compiler doesn't exist. "Sometimes suprisingly dumb" is a better qualifier for
many compilers.

Note that I work with Java, and use the Java 8 features a lot. I just think this isn't a really good example.
Anne's dad re-arranged and censored some parts of it and wrote an introduction. It's pretty much required reading here in schools (or at least, it was when I was a kid).

I guess consistency isn't the Anne Frank Foundation's strong point.
How this is not a standard! It's a shame actually that for various reasons, we don't have more nuclear-powered devices.
I'd host them. Or the torrent if it came to that.
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Nice explanation in the above post... the kind John Merriwether (LTCM) might have given in 1997 or Dick Fuld (Lehman) might have given in 2007. You're certainly right in that there's less than 70T in leverage involved in the swaps, but I think you're also right to call them dangerous.
We went with a broker based in DC, Joshua Lavine, for health insurance, since that's where we [eventually learned that] we needed to base our plans from. Great experience (well, the DC small business health exchange is a separate sad story.) Health insurance is so complicated and state-specific you really want someone knowledgable.

We went with Captain401 (a YC startup) because we needed a fast turnaround and they had amazing service. Too early to render judgement otherwise. OctaveWealth is another seemingly competent YC 401k startup. If you're not in a rush and don't want to trust a startup with your company's 401k plan (though assets are safe regardless), Vanguard is great, and would have been our backup option.
> Anne's dad re-arranged and censored some parts of it and wrote an introduction.

Right, that's what they had said, but now they seem to be saying that that's no longer true. To quote the NYT article:

"But now the Swiss foundation that holds the copyright to 'The Diary of Anne Frank' is alerting publishers that her father is not only the editor but also legally the co-author of the celebrated book. [...] 'If you follow their arguments, it means that they have lied for years about the fact that it was only written by Anne Frank.'"

It would make sense that the father might have some claim to a copyright on the version he edited, but it looks like they are saying that he was the co-author on the supposedly unedited version also.
>"The move has a practical effect: It extends the copyright from Jan. 1, when it is set to expire in most of Europe, to the end of 2050. Copyrights in Europe generally end 70 years after an author’s death. Anne Frank died 70 years ago at Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp, and Otto Frank died in 1980. Extending the copyright would block others from being able to publish the book without paying royalties or receiving permission." (from nytimes article in OP) //

Mr Frank of course has rights over the work he produced, but anything that Anne wrote will be out of copyright. Works representing the output of multiple persons needn't be treated atomically AFAIA.

As a thought experiment: Something I find curious is what law - other than trespass - would prevent someone from getting hold of the original work and publishing it verbatim, it wouldn't be a copyright infringement; I'm not sure it can truly be considered to theft. The criminal liability for entering and taking photos of a work that is out of copyright should rightly be very minor, the tort of trespass seems to be all that could be sued for.

If this stands the precedent set will surely see editors, typesetters and others claiming co-authorship of works such as out-of-copyright books and causing a further malevolent erosion of the public domain.
> The day I talked to my father for the last time

Was expecting some explaining of this bit, but it's the only time he mentions it. That is indeed a crazy day!
It's interesting that the very security minded disable javascript in their browser for security reasons, which makes most client-side crypto not possible.
>Physics are always tied to framerate. There is not a game physics library in wide use that is independent of update rate. In practice what usually happens is that the physics library has an internal tick rate (say every 1ms or every 2ms) and every frame N physics ticks occur to catch up. Without this, the physics sim would be dangerously unstable (and in practice, it still is).

This is called a fixed timestep, and is not what people mean when they say "physics is tied to the framerate", referring to the rendering framerate and generally instead meaning that you pass the actual delta time elapsed between rendering frames into the physics simulation, which can cause bugs at extremely high or low framerates. I have no idea if FO4 works this way, but many engines do (even if it is usually a bad idea), so it's not completely outside the realm of possibility.
I kind of wrote a lot but didn't summarize very well.

A key principle of UDP is quite the contrary of what you are saying. UDP applications can have guarantees that they don't have to engage in MTU discovery or fragmentation issues. It provides a way to have an abstract, static contract about packets that is agnostic to layer-2.

Because UDP is comparatively simple, it has been abused as a proxy to implement your own protocol on top of IP, and in that context you of course you really have to deal with al those concerns. However, it is a terrible mistake to think that is what UDP is about or how one should use UDP.
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I agree with everything you've said. jitpy is not so much competing in the numeric space (although it's not far from it), since Numba is as you say really good there.

You do need to be able to build an abstraction boundary, such that complex classes never cross it, but nothing prevents you from instantiating a PyPy class and communicating to it though function calls.

You'll probably want some way to share references across them, but that should be as simple as having a global mapping and a `Ref` class that cleans it up on destruction. Should be a few dozen lines of code.
Many engines do exactly that.

http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/fix-your-timestep/
I propose that he openly admits failure to do much about this sort of attack in the little window of time remaining between the activation of some terrorist cell and their actual attack.

The effect of that admission would be that he would be replaced by someone who would claim the opposite, that it is of course possible to do something.

The whole problem lies in the timing and the fact that our societies are extremely easy to attack by a bunch of cowards with machine guns. That there is no simple last minute defense - a silver bullet if you wish - is a harsh reality but one that we're going to have to deal with if we really want to solve this problem.

So my suggestion - also made elsewhere in this thread - is to concentrate on the formative years of these people, rather than on the last two days of their lives. I suspect (but obviously can not prove) that that would be a far more fruitful, if less spectacular and less financially lucrative, avenue. Once someone has made up their mind to harm society it is extremely hard to stop them.
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Yes the Startups and new programmers are sort of like another gold rush, almost everyone is getting into it.

You have to have social radar to sniff out the fakes and bad founders that would be bad investments and not able to finish a project.

PR firms and news media and SJW always try to paint women as victims, but don't talk about female founders like Jessica Livingston as a success who went on to help many founders start many startups and get them successful. It is politics mostly from the left that uses victimhood to sell stories and get ratings and attention. I'd like to read stories about successful female founders and how they got success through hard work and being able to use social radar to detect fakes and bad founders and find ways to advise founders and help people out and give tips for starting up a company.

So often on HN you see a link submitted about sexism in IT or racism or some other social justice cause and it usually gets flagged because it causes a lot of trolling and voting down of comments for disagreeing with them. I'm glad to read one about a female founder that isn't political and talks about her strengths and how she worked on a team to get things done and deserves more credit. I think HN needs more of this positive news about female founders rather than articles about sexism in IT or racism or whatever.

We need real life examples to get females and minorities to study STEM and get into more startup jobs. When they are victimized, they decide not to study STEM because they think they would be discriminated against, and really that isn't the case at YC which has no discrimination and judges based on authenticity and who is a good founder.

Not everyone is given credit, for example Steve Jobs is given credit for fixing Apple but he had a team of people helping out to find out which products cost more to support than they bring in and come up with new ideas for new products to bring in more revenue. The same with Bill Gates and Microsoft he had a team of people as well.

Jessica Livingston needs more recognition, and if I was doing PR I would list her accomplishments, I would write about her social radar and spotting fakes and bad founders, I would write about how she helped startups and got them going. I would never try to make her into a victim, I would focus on her strengths and skills instead.
That is an interesting idea. I'd love to see an experiment to determine if it makes a difference.
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Would be interesting to know how much money is left for charities after paying the swiss based infrastructure. There FAQ sounds more like Disney then Anne Frank.
Why wouldn't publishing the book's contents in full under a different name and title be copyright infringement?
That sounds like a deployment nightmare! Does that mean if you return a pointer from a dynamic library you can't free it in a static library, because they were actually using two allocation systems?
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It's also about having a means for giving a legal smackdown on Holocaust denialists who are itching for the material to come out of copyright so they can chop it up to produce their own material.

That's also why Disney does everything they can to keep copyright on works they explicitly do not allow to be displayed outside their control. For example, "Song of the South" is a huge embarrassment for Disney, and the copyright means they can allow only scholars to exhibit the whole movie.

They're still wrong to do it, but it's not just about the money.
Thanks for your response, though I don't believe my experience matched the symptoms of OCD, as there was no O-C relation, C or D.
Footnote #3 is worth pointing out, I think:

> The existence of people like Jessica is not just something the mainstream media needs to learn to acknowledge, but something feminists need to learn to acknowledge as well. There are successful women who don't like to fight. Which means if the public conversation about women consists of fighting, their voices will be silenced.

> There's a sort of Gresham's Law of conversations. If a conversation reaches a certain level of incivility, the more thoughtful people start to leave.

I imagine that this idea applies to many situations. Replace "feminists" and "[successful] women" with something else.
Their arguments - both past and present - are inconsistent and I'd be more than happy to contribute to a lawsuit testing that assumption. This really should not fly, it makes me very upset.
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A very interesting document. Unfortunately you can't trivially copy-paste text from it, so instead I'll like to direct readers to page 4, to the text that starts below figure 5. It seems that most of the size/weight of the nuclear pacemaker was because of shielding, that was designed to withstand even an airplane crash or getting hit by a bullet - all because plutonium is a substance from hell that will kill you if you let it in your blood or expose to air. OTOH radiation was not a concern, measured levels under normal operation were way below safety limits.
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I wonder if the Xbox One will get the update.
"For example, if lots of students walk on the grass around the MSC, it gets all trampled and torn up. ... In fact, [the students]'ll police each other so that if anybody does walk on the grass, they get a stern reminder."

Several years ago, there was a bit of a squawk when an Aggie cadet drew his (ceremonial) sword on some visitors to campus who were walking on the grass.

The "A" in "A&M" stands for "Agricultural"; it stands to reason that they're proud of their grass.

(Obligatory disclaimer: UTAustin alum here. Come down to Austin! Walk on our grass! We're fine with it! Hell, walk on the grass at Darrell K. Royal Memorial Stadium, for all I care. Just try not to get pooped on by the grackles. They're nasty.)

(Obligatory Aggie joke: Several years ago, they had a fire at the campus library. Several thousand books were lost. The worst part is, some of them hadn't been colored in yet.)
For what it's worth, I evaluated the SC5832 (and another small processor cluster) and just couldn't get performance out of it. A much smaller Xeon cluster of that period was significantly faster for less. Too bad because I liked the SiCortex people and the idea a lot.
Ideally the ad exchange should be an independent and open system like the stock exchange. A user's private information should be carefully federated and controlled access given to various advertisers. This exchange should not be controlled by Google, but should be an open system. Just like you can buy shares for a business, you should be able to buy advertising rights to a user(or set of users). The money paid by advertisers should flow to the user.
It's not as if idiots won't do what idiots do. Holocaust deniers can go f* themselves and they're perfectly capable of chopping up the diary today if they want to, if the law of the land isn't stopping them from being Holocaust deniers then copyright certainly won't mean much. I say let them, it won't do them any good and it will in fact show the world even better what they are made of. If all that stands between people believing them is copyright law then we have much bigger problems.
It's so important to be able to profit from genocide.
Sure. But if you're posting to hacker news, post the article itself. No reason to haul a writer in to muddy it up.

EDIT: And to be clear, the idea of curating arxiv is absurd. But so is the idea that Stanford would have anything interesting to say about their own research.
Because the original "book," by Anne Frank, would be in the public domain.
I think part of his point was that such a drastic effect on physics/framerate as the Bethesda studio allowed is inexcusable.

Honest question: is such a bug excusable/understandable?

My impression is that this is something that could've easily been caught in testing. My guess would be that it WAS found but allowed to pass into production. That I believe, is inexcusable for a studio that large.
It looks like this compiler never actually reports any errors. (It uses the Maybe type, so you just get nothing.)

I appreciate that it's a toy compiler, but I really wish people wouldn't leave that out. The quality of a compiler's user interface almost entirely depends on its error messages, so it's important to demonstrate how that's done.