skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming personal projects... Use cheap and simple PAAS integrations. Don't write documentation on a personal project. Only test the complex stuff that touches a lot of your app, and enjoy the new ways it challenges you to conceptualize. 100% test coverage is foolish. Don't "test like the TSA." Actually, don't even write tests if your app is simple.

Code however you want. Don't let programmers who pose as authorities fool you into thinking you're 'doing it wrong', that kills all the joy in programming. As long as you're thinking through things and it works, and especially if you're actually enjoying it, you're most certainly doing it right.
Tonight on ABC and NBC evening news, there was a video clip of a French dad explaining his son about the Paris attack. I thought Dad did terrific job. The video was on home page few minutes ago when I checked.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/explaining-paris-tragedy-chi...
Cooking meat has much more to do with breaking down some of the less digestible parts of the food.

For example, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17827047 says "For meat, cooking compromises the structural integrity of the tissue by gelatinizing the collagen. Hence, cooked meat should take less effort to digest compared to raw meat. Likewise, less energy would be expended digesting ground meat compared to intact meat. We tested these hypotheses by assessing how the cooking and/or grinding of meat influences the energy expended on its digestion, absorption, and assimilation (i.e., specific dynamic action, SDA) using the Burmese python, Python molurus."

That abstract concludes "We found cooking to decrease SDA by 12.7%, grinding to decrease SDA by 12.4%, and the combination of the two (cooking and grinding) to have an additive effect, decreasing SDA by 23.4%. These results support the hypothesis that the consumption of cooked meat provides an energetic benefit over the consumption of raw meat."

For another example, see http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2011/12/08/why-calori... :

> Half the time the sweet potato or meat was presented raw, and half the time cooked; half the time it was also pounded and half the time unpounded. ... For both meat and sweet potato, Rachel found that when the food was cooked the mice gained more weight (or lost less weight) than when it was raw. Pounding had very little effect.

> We suspect that there are two major reasons for cooked beef providing more calories than raw beef. In cooked beef, the muscle proteins, like the sugars in cooked starch, have opened up and allowed digestive enzymes to attack their amino acid chains. Cooking also does this for collagen, a protein that makes meat difficult to chew because it forms the connective tissue wrapped around muscle fibers. However, we do not know the exact mechanisms.

Neither mention killing off bacteria, which makes sense as 1) meat doesn't enter the bloodstream but only its digestive products, and 2) stomach acids kill most of the bacteria.

That second paper is http://www.pnas.org/content/108/48/19199.abstract .

> The positive energetic effects of cooking were found to be superior to the effects of pounding in both meat and starch-rich tubers, a conclusion further supported by food preferences in fasted animals. Our results indicate significant contributions from cooking to both modern and ancestral human energy budgets. They also illuminate a weakness in current food labeling practices, which systematically overestimate the caloric potential of poorly processed foods.
In the lab

http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.03189
At it's core, creativity is play. Play is how we first learned to be creative, and that's the only state we can be in that achieves it.
Thanks to such UX guidelines we don't have tools anymore, we have only toys and fluff. One of the most important characteristics of a tool is that you need to learn how to use it. Today's design is focused on making everything effortless from the get-go. But there's only one way to achieve this - and that is to dumb the thing down and cut out features until what you get is a very limited / pretty useless trinket.

BRU is an extreme case, but it's clear that it is a tool. Spend 5 minutes looking at it / reading a manual, and you'll be infinitely more productive with it than with whatever the beautiful UX artpiece du jour is.

And honestly, I'm tired of this dumbing down (= making useless) of everything. General-purpose computing is a very powerful technology and we're absolutely underutilizing it.
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And they said the same thing about TV just a decade ago. I'm pretty sure it's still bullshit, just like it was wrt. TV.
Deployment scripts, documentation, and unit tests can be fun too - the problem is that our attention is usually (rightly) on the problem we're solving, and so all the boring stuff feels like a distraction. If you really delved deeply into how to make deployment & testing as elegant as possible, there's ample room for creativity there.
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If you're just testing apps to see if they'll run acceptably on low-end hardware, you don't need the phone part at all.
Not to mention open-source is kind of an alien concept to most of the community. People are really anal about usage rights. At least with texture packs it got to the point where they had to start forcing everyone to choose a license. I think there were even "unions" that popped up to help prevent people from being ripped off.
There isn't much that is subjective about paying the appropriate amount for the services and programs you benefit from.

Again, you used a subjective term "Appropriate".

You are attempting to present subjective opinions as objective facts. They are not.

If you disagree that you should pay $5 for a cup of coffee that costs $5, then we have some very fundamental differences and can't come to any agreements in this debate.

If I feel that $5 is too much for a cup of coffee, I am free to not buy it. To adopt the statist's mentality and apply it to commerce, one could argue that since people need jobs and Starbucks pays their employees well, it is a societal good for Starbucks locations to be profitable and therefore, everyone should have to pay for Starbucks coffee, whether they drink it or not.

I reject this notion.

On the contrary. Murder is illegal because we have decided as a society that killing people without just cause is immoral.

The state regulates homicide, not for moral reasons but for reasons of social stability. No prohibition on homicide would lead to mass scale killings and retaliations.

A fire department benefits you even if your house isn't on fire, because they put out fires in neighboring buildings and prevent them from spreading to and burning down yours.

Where I live, fire departments are volunteer organizations that are funded by donations. I donate to them because I believe that the service they provide is worth my money.

You are part of a society, and taxes are required to maintain the proper operation of that society, whether you have asked for it or not.

My obligation to supply those funds is determined by the law and I'm only obliged to pay the minimum required by law.

I pay my taxes, not because I have a moral obligation to do so. I pay my taxes because I have a legal obligation to do so. In other words, if I don't the state will send men with guns to take me away.

All of the homeless shelters, fire departments and police officers in the world are worth less to me than my freedom.
"The service provided by Lyft is not the taxi ride, but the arrangement of the taxi ride."

You are right. I was wrong about how Lyft's customer agreement works. I looked up the Lyft T&Cs[0] and they specifically say:

"In exchange for permitting you to offer your Services through the Lyft Platform and marketplace as a Driver, you agree to pay Lyft (and permit Lyft to retain) a fee of up to 20% (the “Administrative Fee”) of the Ride Fees paid by Riders for such Services."

This makes it clear that Lyft is acting as an agent (like eBay) not as a principal (like Tarsnap).

[0] https://www.lyft.com/terms
326 GFLOPS is with 16 GPU cores. Most likely it has 4 GPU cores which would be ~82 GFLOPS @ 600 MHz.
It annoys me too, but in case of the terminal bouncing this is deliberate so I get back to work ;-). To disable it:

`defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool TRUE && killall Dock`
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"We can argue this one all day :)."

Actually, we don't need to :) It's clear as day in Lyft's T&Cs. You are correct. Lyft is an agent, not a principal to the transaction.
Intel Xeon Phi: general-purpose CPU w/o ridiculous stuff like warps, groups, different memory types, etc.
> But Google+ used to be single column!

...

> but suddenly you needed to scroll up and down to be able to read both columns.

I guess many of us don't read any column in google plus, we just glance them and take a closer look at a few things.

...
> I really wonder why they decided to change it.

I have a couple of reasons why they might have done it:

1.The focus is on lots of short-form (think twitterish).

2. Stacking smaller blocks sideways neatly lets you format posts themselves the same way in multiple screen resolutions.

Twitter is a darling it seems despite wasting most of my screen.

Google plus is hated for everything despite being IMO a better product both technically and design-wise.
Have done so, thanks.
It seems that the actions of the terrorists allow for a fairly easy us vs them categorization. Ie there are millions of people in Europe who are first / 2nd / 3rd generation immigrants - yet the terrorists all come from specific subset. So there is some commonality between them that makes a dude go 'I'm gonna go kill a bunch of people'.

The PC factor is exactly this - Ferguson doesn't shy away from putting light on it while the FB professor is horrified by the construct of the 'other' that's devoid of nuance.
Me personally? Nothing. I'm sticking with Go.
Google is a prime example. Money alone can not buy love, and can not buy success either.
I don't know, did they ever hire an Apple designer? Ah, no, they had a no-poach agreement. Perhaps they had to revert on poaching Pinterest designers, though.
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> And I'm not sure what Fernflower has to do with anything.

> ...

> 1.9 is not out, and work cannot even begin on enabling 1.9 mods until MCP is released. They'd be working with obfuscated code otherwise.

That's where Fernflower comes in; it deobfuscates the minecraft class files for forge and the modders. If the compiled minecraft jar were to "move enough bytecode" to Java 9 (that's a very inaccurate way to put it, but just for the sake of argument), and Fernflower were to be abandoned before then, it would be extremely difficult for forge and MCP to be updated, let alone all the mods themselves.
I was wondering how radically this architecture differs from more conventional x86 cores, and found this: "An Overview of Programming for Intel Xeon processors and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors (2012)" [0]. This paper refers to a slightly older architecture - "Knight's Corner", but it should be roughly the same. Essentially, it has a large number of x86 cores with 4 in-order threads per core. Each core has a 512 KB L2 cache and the entire coprocessor is cache-coherent through a high-speed ring bus. There is also some quantity of GDDR5 (up to 8GB) on said ring bus. The great advantage over Xeon is its scaling to very high levels of parallelism: though threads on the same core will benefit from data locality, the architecture scales uniformly with more cores unlike a NUMA multi-socket setup. There's more information about the sorts of optimisations required to get good performance in the paper, but they're much the same sort of things as for Xeon. Also, according to the paper, any algorithm well suited for a GPU is well suited to the Phi architecture, though the Phi architecture is far more general-purpose in its applications.

[0] - https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/article/33016...
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Does VISA or AMEX add all the transactions they handle in their networks as revenue? or the fees? Does Apple Pay add all the transactions they do as gross revenue? There you go... pretty misleading.
If any two particles are connected by entanglement, the physicists suggested, then they are effectively joined by a wormhole. And vice versa: the connection that physicists call a wormhole is equivalent to entanglement. They are different ways of describing the same underlying reality.

In other words, there's no such thing as "spooky action at a distance", because with particles joined by a wormhole there is no distance between them?
The choice between locality and realism can be easily summed up as thus:

Either you believe the state exists but is unknown, and
cannot be known until measured,

or, you believe that you know the state does not exist,
and materializes upon measurement.

But what these two concepts drive at, is whether or not a single meaningful, distinctive, isolated history determined the current state of the universe, and whether or not there is only one deterministic way to arrive at the present moment.

If you're satisfied that their might be multiple past states which could all produce the same result, determining the current state, then you can safely ignore these semantic debates, about whether there is a concrete-but-unknown value, or whether the present value remains uninitialized and undefined.
There are other forums too on the net if you want information on the latest RC's, bluelight of course, just googling too. Erowid is still the best for good quality reports and information on well known drugs.
Intel HD graphics is the GPU chipset.
I have a tablet with the same Z8500 CPU with a 2560x1440 screen and it's really smooth.
Supposedly it can handle 4K out of the HDMI-port but this is not something I have tried yet.
It makes sense - As soon as they claim they are a principal the lawsuits from their drivers about employement status become more legitimate.
>I feel like you skimmed the post

Your feelings have lead you astray in this case. I read every word.

I read Humphries' claims of his own expertise in 5th century history, his claims of Ferguson's ignorance and claims and over-simplification of the same and his outright personal attack at the end and I was not impressed with either his critique or his methods. Rather than attacking the person (or even his sources), why not address the actual fallacies in his historical analogies?

What is good for a political talk show blowhard seeking ratings is not the same as what is good for a constructive discussion.
Here's a recent lecture by Erik Verlinde in which he tries to explain both dark energy and dark matter using entropic gravity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSYXt3Xu3xI

I'm not a physicist, but he seems to be invoking similar ideas to Raamsdonk: that spacetime and gravity are emergent properties that boil down to entanglement somehow. But the loop quantum gravity people have been saying something like that for ages. And Stephen Wolfram and Konrad Zuse etc. And we have people like Lubos Motl on the other hand to ridicule all of the above.

Anyone able to give a big picture overview of what's been happening the last few years in this somewhat rarefied world? Who are we, the intelligent lay public, to trust?
While not an exact answer, you can certainly replicate the behavior of complex neurons as a composite of several simpler ones. Check out fig 9 in http://www.research.ibm.com/software/IBMResearch/multimedia/...
AMD will probably have a 32 core CPU by the time (If they are not bankrupt). It would offer a better performance since Xeon Phi CPUs are probably weaker.

http://wccftech.com/amd-exascale-heterogeneous-processor-ehp...
This would be OK if Space-X had fixed their problems with the Falcon 9. Space-X has been very quiet - they haven't issued a news release for almost four months now. There's still no date for the next launch. Spaceflight Now said "early November" in an article back in September[1], but that date has come and gone. There's "TBD" launch date in December, but that's probably not realistic.

The Falcon 9 explosion, Space-X claims, was due to a strut being far under-strength. When they tested their inventory of struts made by a contractor, some failed at 20% of the rated load. Space-X hasn't provided further details. They claim to be "tightening up their supply chain". That probably means requiring 100% traceability of every structural part back to the raw material and much more testing at incoming inspection. This is standard in aviation (which is why structural failure airplane crashes of production aircraft are very rare) but something Space-X wasn't doing.

One wonders what other problems they've found as they put part after part through strength tests. Probably more than they've admitted, or they'd be launching by now.

[1] http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/09/01/falcon-9-rocket-to-be-g...
I don't think there's a data race, given that the whole thing is single-threaded. Multiple processes should be used for parallelism (see step 7 of the tutorial).

As for the default stack size, it's hard (but doable) to work with smaller stack size in C. For example, humble printf() can allocate a buffer several kB long on stack.
I like the design, but why is there a nav bar? I browse reddit a lot in horizontal view and the navbar just takes very important space away.
There are six quintillion gallons of water hiding in the Earth's crust
I think he means that the "entanglement" as understood by general public, i.e. as "I do something to particle A, and suddenly particle B changes" is an invalid way of reading the math; you didn't do anything to B, you merely figured out, by interacting with A, in which world you're in.
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We therefore reject the hypothesis that local realism
governs our experiment.

They reject a hypothesis. Nothing more.

They did not prove that they changed an existing state.

They merely decided that the state was not present, until measured.

They decided a thing was not visible until looked at, because that makes more sense on paper.
Actually, according to the article the quotes from the parent are recorded on video. They are from the second meeting when "Youssef and Mohamud went to a room at the Embassy Suites, where Hussein was waiting — and where the FBI had installed several hidden cameras." The first meeting is the one that wasn't recorded.
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I don't think this comment contributes all that much.

"Liberal hand-wringing" is I think largely (though, not entirely) an expression of sentiment, not an expression of fact. (similar phrases about other places in the political "spectrum" would be similar in this regard. My comment is about the type of comment, not about the specifics of liberal vs somethingotherthanliberal).

The "liberal" part is contentful enough I guess, but it doesn't really add much to the conversation, because any comment which is disagreeing with a comment that is meant to defend, e.g., muslim immigrants or w/e could be expected to, most of the time, consider the post they are responding to, to be too liberal (again, similarly, this could be reflected partywise. I'm not making a point about specific parties).

The hand-wringing, I think, suggests, I guess, worrying too much about something, or, trying too hard to be seen as being concerned about something?

one part of this is the "too much", and, the phrase is just, generally a disparaging phrase.

But, accusing the comment one is responding to, of being just for posturing, doesn't really seem like something that contributes all that much?

I mean, sure, it could be true, but isn't more important than the motivations of what is said, the accuracy or validity of what is said?

Also, the ambiguity of the meaning of calling something "hand-wringing" I think also reduced the content of it. If someone says "No, that technically isn't liberal-handwringing", what would they be saying?

If it doesn't mean much to dispute a statement, then it doesn't mean much to make the statement.

So, generally, I think your comment that this comment is a reply to, is almost without content.
Not really sure what the point of this link is. Are people really that surprised that typewriters are still in use or still manufactured?

There are still many valid use cases, especially with carbon (or carbonless) copy forms where you need an impact printer.
> This is totally a valid selling point

Respectfully, a selling point is only valid if your customer base care.
The stick only has half the memory bandwidth of the Xbox 360 though.
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To me this says "we make such huge margins on these welders that we can intentionally cripple them and sell them at a lower price. Someone out there could produce our top end model for the low end price." It logically follows that maybe I should start looking into other manufacturers who sell at closer to manufacturing cost, like Everlast.

I realize that big welding shops aren't going to drop the big two (Lincoln and Miller) overnight, but I think practices like this are really going to hasten the rise of Chinese upstarts making high quality IGBT welders. Once they (or a third party) starts offering good support and warranty guarantees it's going to be hard to compete with them when you employ sales practices like this.

For example, the Miller Syncrowave 210 shown in the video is $2,700, base price. I use one weekly, and it's a decent welder. Alternatively, one could get an Everlast PowerTig 250EX for $1,700 that comes with features missing from the Miller at a price that's $1,000 less. The Chinese manufacturers know their price point, and they're not going to leave out features supported by their hardware because they're hungry for the business. I think the way Miller is behaving is a sign of complacency, and it's going to come back to bite them.

I already find myself using the cheaper IGBT welder day to day because we don't have the SD card upgrade for the Miller and I like features like up-slope and down-slope that have been left out for product segmentation reasons.
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From the article:

"Archaeologists think this 14-face die was used to play a game called "bo" that hasn't been played in 1,500 years."
But that's the problem: yes there are a few really crazy ones that are ready to kill, but there are a lot of kids that are fascinated by the killers, that say they understand them, that won't do a minute of silence for the Charlie Hébdo victims, because "they were looking for it".

Imagine if 25% of American kids said they could relate to the Sandy Hook shooter, wouldn't that be worrying? Regardless of whether they'd be out to kill as well.
This can run native x86 code though (although to take advantage of the architecture code might have to be re-written to some extent).

So this means you can run the same code on a desktop Xeon as this one.
This appears to be copied fromhttp://textfiles.com/hamradio/how_phon.wor with some ads stuck on. Maybe the link should be changed to the original.
Microsoft seems to be taking it far more seriously with the release of the Minecraft modding tools for Visual Studio[1].

[1]: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/043ab247-8771...
I like specifying the owner as a OWNER file and using directory structure to express granularity. It's much better than having to dig through your project wiki.

By the way, epictacular domain name!
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I'm not sure how this is really a debate in a place like HN. We have a pretty clear picture of where we stand wrt proprietary DRM software. This doesn't appear any different to me.

why the downvote? Do we not all agree that DRM proprietary software is unethical? Did I miss something here?