skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The allegations in the Telegraph article seem pretty dubious. It's based on one odd looking bloke saying he could do it. No other evidence. If it was real I presume some security guy would offer to take reports on a plane and demo it or similar but no. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/19/hacker-chr...
It indeed is amazing, the site loaded in under 0.5s for me from cold cache. Compared to virtually any other blog or news site with some particular nasty examples taking >20s.
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Nothing lives for long in this acursed land
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This study is ... not very useful. Dr Bredesen already has a treatment and in a small study with 10 patients showed that his treatment reversed Alzheimer in 9 patients. A wonderful achievement. Currently Dr Bredesen is doing a new study with 35 patients.

Dr Bredesen published an article about the first study: http://www.impactaging.com/papers/v6/n9/full/100690.html
If you look at the treatment, one can understand the cause and why Alzheimer can be reversed.
learnxinyminutes.com solves your problem about how the language works, but doesn't give you problems to work with.
Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions (2013)
just delay going to school until age of 7

Delaying the start of formal school attendance (which my family achieves up to the age of fourteen or so by homeschooling) is very helpful indeed, but it is not a complete preventive measure for attention problems. I know lots of homeschooled children who have plenty of attention-regulation difficulties, and on the other hand I know children who have attended school since preschool age who do just fine in focusing their attention. (I am a teacher and regularly meet young people in my math classes who began school attendance early.)

In most of these matters, family history makes a big difference.[1] Sure enough, the children I know who have the most trouble regulating their attention have parents who have difficulties with the same issue, although perhaps not so severe by adult age. The suggestion of the press release you kindly shared that not going to school as soon as is typical recently is a good idea is an idea that is plausible to me, but it will not entirely prevent ADHD.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/genomics/famhistory/

http://www.healthline.com/health/adhd/genetic#Causes2
TypeScript's safety is limited: its type annotations do not exist at runtime, so if it interacts with dynamic code, its type safety is violated.
Interest rates almost everywhere are set by central banks, not markets, as you imply ("there is a surplus of savings in the world, hence low interest rates").

What you are talking about (money chasing already-overpriced assets) is caused by near-zero interest rates, with an elite having access to low-cost leverage looking to invest that money.

There is a huge problem of _debt_ in the world, government debt, private debt (if you include the student loan debt), etc. Not only is it huge, it is also
growing quickly [1].

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikepatton/2014/09/29/the-seven-...
It's an interesting idea. Apparently exercise is also extremely effective at ADHD treatment. There is a whole chart of different treatments that have been tested here: http://curetogether.com/blog/2011/02/22/what-patients-say-wo...

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20141126155350/http://curetogeth...
Exactly.
The reason Newtonian physics is so successful is because almost anything can be described by a second order differential equation. The world behaves as simple as that and it would be quite weird if it required a larger order to describe it.
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They are. The guy is a poser, pure and simple. But that poser was able to access some systems by plugging in to a box under his chair that should have been tamper proof, he was able to get a lot further than he should have once he gained access to the socket underneath. And further digging revealed that there are in fact some (presumably one-way) connections between those systems and the more important bits of the aircraft. All in all, in spite of the dubious source and the questionable character of the guy that did this fairly surprising (to me).

If he had not made these stupid claims it would not have made me feel any better about all this.
As others have noted, the ST came out several years after the 68000, so the price had dropped some. It still was a non-trivial amount, though.

The comparable Apple machine (monochrome, 68000 processor, 512K RAM) was selling for $2,800.

Even given Apple's famously high margins and Jack Tramiel's equally famous "deal-making ability" (which some would call "gouging" :-)), it's clear that the ST retail pricing was pretty close to the bone.
A downside with Ricochet is that it reveals when you are online to anyone who knows your id.

> Anyone with the onion address can still estimate availability by watching descriptors

https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/issues/155
The 68010 and the 68020 both had (external) MMUs available. In those days, the MMU and FPU were almost always separate chips (I can't think of any exceptions, though there might have been some).

Granted, the one for the 68010 sucked pretty bad.
I am fine with the new method of calculating GDP, _if_ all the past GDP numbers are adjusted to make comparisons meaningful (the same way you adjust stock prices after splits).

Oh, and careful with name-calling. I used to be like you and call some people "conspiracy theorists" - until Snowden.
I have always supposed that the Republican establishment remembers the USFL. However, I imagine that Trump has a few more weeks to make noise and trouble.
[minor syntax/markup edits]

One that has caught my fancy are various uses of the "Whatever Star". This appears as a * in a few contexts. In many it is really a shortcut for the "Whatever" class, so you can use it in function signatures to enter sort of "automatic mode".

@shuffled_names = @names.pick(*) # randomly pick... however many you have. whatever.

But I think more interesting and different than that is using whatever-star as an automatic lambda thing.

@nums.map(*/2 + 3) # expression-lambda from context around a whatever-star
@nums.map( -> $n { $n/2 + 3 } ) # equivalent with a real stabby arrow lambda
@nums.map( { $^n/2 + 3 } ) # $^n is a generated alphabetical-positional argument

I suppose this isn't really fundamental... but is definitely different.
I've had 10k concurrent users on a bandwidth-intensive app served statically from 3 $5 digital ocean droplets using nginx. CPU usage and memory usage were not that high. I agree it's not a big deal.
To use an analogy, I suppose you could say that's where the BIOS is.
This post title (currently: "The beginning of the end of Trump's candidacy") is blatant editoralizing. The Reuters article title is "Republican Trump drops 12 percentage points in poll" and sufficiently represents the content of the article.

Furthermore, this article doesn't really feature much in the way of analysis and doesn't really "gratify one's intell
ectual curiosity".

I've flagged it for both these reasons.
Sam Altman and Elon Musk ponder whether we're all living in a simulation, as an explanation to the Fermi Paradox.
Very eerie...!

https://youtu.be/SqEo107j-uw?t=17m3s
Actually, I had to do that very recently. The difference between IBM and Ruby was I called in with my client's license information and within 20 minutes my IBM id had access to a WAS 6.x download. My client upgraded all their hardware (this was from old iSeries AIX to a new POWER setup) and had zero-downtime after completing the transition. The only difference was a significant increase in speed. WAS 6 still is being actively supported and hot-patched for security which is what my clients want.

You're right though - moving up major releases can break things sometimes. I spent another couple of months forward-porting to Liberty so they could run 8.x but honestly most of the breaks I dealt with was dealing with third-party functionality that the old off-shore team decided to throw in. Regardless, during that period of time, my clients business was fully operational on that new hardware with a secure, seamless transition.

I guess you sort of get the same 'future proofing' these days with VMware (the analog is basically: having old hardware, then buying new hardware and vMotioning your production instance to the new VMware ESX cluster), but you certainly didn't have that option 15 years ago, when my client was choosing what environment to run his oil/commodities firm. And that's just support on the hardware stack, rather than the 10+ year support that most businesses want as a guarantee.
Awesome! Omg there's also a particle accelerator. It seems like Lego is encompassing the trend of crowdsourcing with ideas.lego.com, but I'm disappointed it's not a decentralized model where the everyone could sell their own construction and get a margin from it.
Just because there are rules don't expect anyone to actually follow them.
As was the workmanship on some of them. I had to re-solder more than one joint on the ST's passing through one of the stores in Amsterdam (ditto for the C64 by the way).

The ST was a very capable machine built on a very small budget. Compared to that other el-cheapo 68K of the time (the Sinclair QL, a 68008 based machine) it worked wonders and it was the first 32 bit capable machine that I could afford.
Never mind the golden ratio. The discovery of E8 in a physical system is badass.
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Scientists are baffled!

Oh, never mind. They pointed to the obvious landslide.
"Nobody writes code to defend against an exception being raised on literally any line" says the article, but isn't that why we have e.g. Python's context managers and Java's try-with-resources? In Python, KeyboardInterrupt can already be raised anywhere and any object could have any method unexpectedly replaced with one that starts throwing exceptions.

But it's a good point that it creates a greater risk of raising an exception in the cleanup part of the context manager or try/finally, where one might normally try to avoid it by being extra careful:

try:
try:
time.sleep(10) # or some interesting function
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print("Unexpectedly aborted, but that's fine.")
finally:
print("Cleaning up!")
time.sleep(10) # or some important cleanup
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print("Abort was aborted! Now things are all screwed up!")

So one should probably be careful not to press ^C more than once when aborting a Python program, I guess.
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You could simply contact Jason Scott and ask.
Would this be the farthest from Earth JS has been run?
Can you please elaborate more on "this feels really weird in Python"?
Familiar stuff... at the end of the day, I just end up doing the software side on my macbook. Like running a server, or some old console emulator. Media boxes are useful, but it's a bit like buying cakemix and making a cake, it's so trivial at some point you stop caring about the process and just buy a cake.

As for hardware projects... I've never had an idea for one I'd actually want or care for. Things like a lightbulb that flashes when you get a tweet, and that reads it out loud when you wave your hand infront of it... pet feeders... etc I can do without. Would be fun to build but I'm so busy these days I can only motivate myself to make time if I like the end product I'm building, too.
Kids playing with Ubuntu phone
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This couldn't be more wrong. The amount of glitches in BW that allow got micro potential is huge. It's actually one of the biggest complaints from BW players about SC2, the lack of available micro. Check out th video "Depth of Micro" by Lalush for more info on things like muta stacking, patrol micro, carrier leash range, and tons of other hidden micro.

You are also wrong about your last statement, the limiting factor for zerg that's you're talking about it APM which is pretty much unlimited for a bot. Injects can be automated without taking any attention from anything else.
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This is very good advice. However, its often not that easy to really stake it out on your own in other countries with no skills, especially in a labor rich country like China or India. In that context, developing skills that allow you to earn something is the no.1 priority.

It was only after I started a career in Software Engineering that I had the means to explore other directions as well.
Graphene microphone outperforms traditional nickel and offers ultrasonic reach
The dissection of a simple “hello world” ELF file
Hah, I have only once managed to get one hot, but its ability to simultaneously execute code was seriously compromised!
Isn't that sort of a mis-feature that we don't expect to see in code very much? I thought mainly people would be using sigils, and ideally the correct sort of sigil to indicate if it is a single thing, list of things, hash of things, callable thing, etc.
I'd put them in a category of horrible people.
That's mostly due to trimming externally loaded stuff. I did the same for my blog and the results are pretty amazing.
I want to criticize the choice of headline here, which was no doubt the point of having it. It's not about PHP. PHP runs fine on Pis. Not that I would ever advocate running a website with serious traffic on that device, but it could very well serve a 50-100 dynamic requests per second (I just tested this with my Pi B running NginX and my custom home automation software which is web-based, the baseline is 250 static small file requests per second, so not a great starting point for publicly hosting things).

Instead, this should be a critique of Wordpress, which is like almost any other successful software immensely bloated. There is nothing inherent in PHP promoting this verbosity. And even if you are dealing with large code bases, PHP's request-based execution model gives you good tools to just execute the codepaths you need. But in practice, little consideration goes into minimizing execution bloat and overhead. Of course there are reasons why WP is bloated, some of them bad, some good, some subject to debate. Caching and avoiding dynamic code execution will be a big part of optimizing any Wordpress install for the foreseeable future.

We're moving towards more bloat, not less. The best practices of many programming environments actively encourage us to disregard cycles and latencies. This happens in PHP, in Node, even in C++ frameworks.
For anyone who thinks this looks fun but isn't a huge fan of C++ or Java, I made a Clojure API that wraps the Java version. https://github.com/thieman/korhal Previous HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7050325
That's a poor example for the documentation to use. In a case like that, kebab notation leads to visual ambiguity when reading code, especially within an expression performing math operations. It becomes harder, at a glance, to tell if the "-" is the kebab connector or if it's subtraction or negation.

Kebab notation makes sense in other contexts, like DOM IDs and CSS class names. It does not make sense in a case like that.
Date: 1985...perhaps redundant.
Absolutely. One of the most important things I learned from Grad School was that to publish something, you cannot have a single grammatical mistake and must make every effort to be clear in what you're trying to say. I thought my adviser was rather harsh, but then I realized that his harshness now was better than frustrating all the future readers of the paper.
I read this whole thing and couldn't really understand what the author's point was. I'm a scientist, and sure, there are some criticisms in there, but they're ultimately criticisms of human nature, not science in the abstract, or how it is done. Science is done by humans- we try to eliminate our biases, but that's clearly very hard.

If you have a criticism of science, please make a coherent one.
The custom map is called MicroTournament10.6 . If you want to try to focus only on micromanagement, that map is perfect for it.

If you want I can give you my micro bot for that map as a benchmark to compete against.
Well, I'm used to UK regulation where these things actually are enforced.
IMHO this is something that looks like great architecture but is in fact a counter-example. The test is very simple. What is it supposed to do? Support human life within its confines, hopefully provide an inspiring space to live out your days. With what constraints? Maximizing space, aesthetic experience? To that end fundamental things like space, air conditioning, hot water, structural integrity and yes beauty are all essential. In every case this property demonstrates a complete subservience of those elements that are essential to its purpose being subsumed by its "iconic" gimmick. Yes, Frank Lloyd Wright's designs have also been plagued by some such issues, some doorways and ceilings were too low, some roofs leaked, some concrete construction deteriorated. Yes, without taking risks how can you truly innovate? Totally agree with taking risks but for God's sake, when you design a building consider the fact that people will spend a good portion of their lives confined in the space you design. Good God give me a tent any day over that hell hole. Dehumanizing is a word that comes to mind.

Incidentally the Gimmick is interesting, and maybe if that building were used as some sort of commercial space with lots of little shops or a co-working space it would have been more of a success. The gimmick is not the problem, scale it up, integrate hot water, AC, and more livable space into the original design and perhaps people will want to live in it, so long as it does not fall apart.
The key problem in my mind is the failure of project management in building reactors.

If they said it was going to take 2 years and 1 billion dollars and it stretched out to 3 years and $1.5 billion that is one thing.

Back in the 1970s it was more like 2 years stretches to 9 years and $15 billion and you could blame union workers who never did nuclear work before, the no nukes, high interest rates, etc.

The industry was supposed to come out with standardized reactor types like the EPR, and we have low interest rates, little active opposition to nuclear power, and projects like Olkiluoto-3 are still 9 years late.

Nobody is going to put up billions of dollars unless there is some predictability in terms of cost and schedule. The fear of Fukushima is just icing on that cake.
Thank you Brian! and the roman empire then for Bristmas, the terribly braindead idiotic system yada, yada... argument it's that I can't really see fair throw any useful kind of lens.

So it really surprises me and stuff.
English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
You can find some of that information on Liquidpedia: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Category:Bots
I love his stance on serving his users and to trim the blog to the minimum required to make it work.
I am afraid that the real goal of at least 50% of climate change activists is not clean energy, but the disruption of current elite and wealth redistribution by taxation vs value creation. It is because of these 50% the realistic proposals like Peter's will not fly politically.
Your immune system is a manifestation of good algorithm design, honed by aeons of evolution. It does not follow that it is intelligent.
I could not find a video online, but some may remember the post race press conference when Eddie Irvine (driving for Jaguar) thanked the guy at the factory that wrote the launch control software for his great start.
Speaking of official versus independantly measured inflation data, the CPI is actually matching up with the Billion Prices Project pretty well.

http://bpp.mit.edu/usa/

I'm not sure why you think seasonal adjustment is such a big deal since the pluses and minuses are conserved - it can't have any effect on year over year GDP figures.
Yeah I thought the exact same.

1. have a browser that doesn't store cookies, use that for casual browsing.

2. use an adblocker at all times. user agent faker too.

3. use pgp email with no subject lines with offline mail clients.

4. avoid social networks, centralised services. set up your own for other people you know.

5. keep informed. keep looking for how to give away less information. keep looking for which new information is retained. e.g. karma police revelation.
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Funny fact: in European Union there had been recently passed the law that mandates that estimated value of prostitution and drug dealing (among others) is included in GDP calculations. That came from desperate need of EU to make GDP stats look better.
> a lot has changed..

Care to give us the lowdown?
Think of IP in the same class as a firearm in the United States and suddenly your context falls apart. If a person was to be a digital broker for the sale of firearms, then would they be liable for brokering a stolen firearm? Why should a person's quantifiable, provable IP be treated as some kind of exception? Taking money as a brokerage entails certain levels of fiduciary and ethical parameters in nearly all industries. Craigslist seems to me to have a different mentality - in that not acting as an actual 'compensated via transaction' middle man conveys some safe harbors - which Udemy can't reasonably employ as a defense.
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Can the multiverse explain the course of history?
Yeah, but I wondered what the absolute upper limit would be. Good point about the rise time of the LEDs though.
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but the avionics software would probably be written in C or Assembler.

Neither of those have SloppyDevTypeCheckComfortBlankie either, do they?
What I find interesting is that this class of sequence's ratio converges to the golden ratio as n approaches infinity, but the quantum system produced the golden ratio between its first two values.

This seems to suggest a more straight forward derivation (x + 1 = x^2) than infinite recurrence. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio#Calculation
I'm not sure why you spent two lines of text to say "I disagree."
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Absolutely, but don't discount the FUD. Much as people fear an airplane crash more than a car crash, the prospect of nuclear power is far more terrifying to most than just another coal plant. It's not enough that the coal plant is orders of magnitude more deadly, it's the perception. Even the image the NYT used will convey to many a disregard for life, pumping harmful radiation into our environment, rather than merely a large cooling tower releasing water vapor. Fear is a VERY big deal.

And once you get past fear and perception, there's NIMBYism.
Thank you! Can't believe I couldn't remember that word, although I never really understood why you can put as many bits in each symbol as you like - it seems like that would just mean stuff an infinite number of bits into each one? (Obviously silly, but then why is it defined that way?) - Great, now I have to read about that this morning. :)
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There's barely anyone cheering even for "Lewiz Hamiltononbot". In current F1 the pilot is merely a ballast - the result is basically predetermined by technology.

Also there's no need to use "super fast human lap" - you can compute optimal lap, it's been done. The challenge will be to design AI to beat your opponents - then it gets interesting.