skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some of us, that 5% is incredibly valuable. Really, any HPC application is going to either be written in C/C++ or Fortran.

It goes without saying that modern fortran is a hideous language (even though it's still better than Fortran 77). C is nice and simple but without things like namespaces and classes you're going to end up with huge function names. Not to mention a high risk of memory leaks.

C++ was awful years ago. Honestly C++11 allows you to write fairly nice code. By no means a guarantee you'll write clean-ish code, but it definitely gives you the tools to do so. Plus modern C++ compilers produce really fast code (that leverages SIMD/vectorization, etc.).

I'm a huge fan of Go and Rust but the former is often dogmatically minimalist to the point of not including things like templates, operator overloading, etc. Not to mention garbage collection/runtime which is a big no-no for numerical computing use. The latter is still not mature enough to fully commit to (and is nowhere near the speed of optimized C/C++).
That's awesome!
Kudos for this work.

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What did you use to draw the graphics in the blog post?
Go to the Southwestern US or Northern Mexico and you will see millions of ethnic Latinos eating burritos. Not sure where you get the idea that they're just for Whites.

Random example: https://www.google.com/maps/search/burros/@29.0885469,-110.9...
there's a phycological effect (I don't remember if there's a name for it) where we tend to value or rank more favourably things that are popular or familiar. Tests have been done with groups classifying newly heard songs with and without knowing a fake ranking and the group exposed to the ranking tended to follow it.
Well, compared to Mailbox and Paper, Carousel is simple. Dropbox is not as simple as Carousel itself. There are much more complex apps developed by single developers than Carousel, for example, and many are not even developed for profit. There's very little investment that Dropbox has to do to keep Carousel running, but they decided not to and compromise a lot more than they expect!
Its only a myth if you accept Kantian epistemology and its implied ideal of consciousness as an observerless observation.
Hi paul, good game with I am a smoothie lover on the rorchach test. I wrote it (was hard for me though, I'm a beer lover, fancy or not) but still stopped at the beer price question. Good idea, do it right. Hugzz, Ena P.
This is all changing. There's substantial devolution of transport power to integrated metropolitan authorities in Birmingham, Manchester, and other cities, and also TFL's subsidy is being eliminated. From this point onwards, the only thing which remains to mark out London from other cities is Crossrail, really.
How does the author know these are spam accounts and not simply individuals who have chosen to lock down the publicity of their Facebook profiles? My profile looks pretty barren if you're not my friend, too.
I love looking at MicroSD cards and imagining how, in your example there are 1,600,000,000,000 individual storage units inside it.

That's 200 x a billion x eight.
You can look me up. My claims are outlined under the post adjacent to this one. Ethereum is a very dubious project, and if you don't understand my claims - I'm guessing you're new, or at the center of the hype machine.
Budgets change. As soon as the ISS gets deorbited, NASA's budget will be reduced to match, and they won't be able to afford to build a new one.
I'd really appreciate Ra values. And some info about heat affected zone aka HAZ.
Oh you absolutely can, but there are a mix of problems some of which makes spam filtering better on the server (knowing bad sources of email, like infected desktop machines), some of which makes filtering better on the client (like knowing your users' preferences for what they consider spam).

There's a huge long history of very smart people (not even including myself in that list - I've worked with some people MUCH smarter than myself on this) working on this problem, including the very creator of this site, pg himself, and even he doesn't consider this a solved problem. People are still paid well to combat spam every day on behalf of demanding customers (and I'm grateful I'm not one of them any more) and it will always require new techniques and new input. Hopefully you will contribute too.
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That's fair. I just find myself begging for an alternative. No other service I use ships with as many huge bugs. Feels like the only customer they care about are recruiters.
I made no such claim in my original comment. To clarify, I mean that these dishes were invented in America, for an American audience. Whether anyone else can enjoy them is besides the point.
My pet guess would be that the VPN provider is anonymizing cookies for you in some way to provide more secure browsing, and it's causing Google to be a bit leery that you might be trying to automate searches through them. Whether this is feasibly possible or not also depends on your VPN config, given Google's use of HTTPS everywhere.
Fractal Gears
That page doesn't say anything about Vista or later (or I'm missing it)

Edit: I was looking at one of the sources of the Wikipedia article and mistook the tab for that post. My bad.
I was present and unfortunately didn't understand the lecture till I looked up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding halfway through. It was very interesting after that point though!
Ask HN: What business/tech inspires you? what excites you?
Oh and in terms of the other question: how many people get enough SMS messages that they want to filter them? Filtering is uniquely suited to a non realtime messaging system. Like email. I don't want to filter Slack/IRC messages either. I just ignore what I didn't read.
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My anecdotal doesn't follow your statement. My daughter is one of the intelligent students, and is severely challenged socially. She hasn't figured out the difference between "leader" and "dictator" yet. As a lone wolf myself, I can see how this helps prepare children for careers where they do more than just max out the number of hours they can bill.
I think the main reason most /useful/ projects fails have to do with the initial user experience:

1- Is it easy to get started and installed?

And that if the project pass the basic test that applies to any project, company or software:

2 - Is it useful and solves a problem?

If it is useful and people can actually get started on it, the project has good chances of doing well.
And immediately follows that with an example where "four hits is no less likely to happen by chance than two hits and two misses or three hits and one miss" (perhaps if he said "two hits followed by two misses", but that would make no sense in the context, so I think he meant exactly what he wrote, i.e. that having 2 hits out of 4 is as likely as having 4 out of 4.)

Honestly, this is just ridiculous.
Yep, just clone the git repo and set up on Debian (like Ubuntu 12.04) and run setup.sh. Most developers run it in a VM.

We don't have "releases" because we are constantly releasing to production. Check out the `production` branch on GitHub for what we're running right now. Usually it's just a handful of hours behind master (at most).
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In Australian supermarkets the cost per unit weight net (typically 100 grams) has to be printed on shelf under / next to the price.

I've proposed the idea that the price of everything in the supermarket be averaged per unit weight, checking out then becomes just a matter of weighing the trolley / basket.

I see complications / gaming the system, fun idea though.

Maybe just knowing how much you spend per average kg of food, or per unit of energy, could be a useful metric for optimizing food expenses.
As someone who occasionally takes sea planes, which have already had close calls with drones in my area, what I want to know is since when did ignorance of the law become a defense from it?

I wouldn't be allowed to murder someone and then hide behind that excuse.

Throw these people in jail until the message gets across that unsafe flying is not tolerated regardless of the aircraft being piloted.
It's certainly an objective truth - it's attested to by the energy spent in producing it. Attesting to alternate truth is often possible (we have orphan blocks all the time) but - the older the truth, the more objective it is.

The intrinsic value of bitcoin is censorship resistant storage. The speculative value of bitcoin is somewhere above 0.

If you don't need censorship resistance - don't use it. But if you think no-one needs censorship resistance, then you are empirically wrong, as demonstrated by the hundreds of thousands of transactions per day in Bitcoin.

As for burning increasing amounts of wealth - well, the network is pretty well calibrated. It's not a chain reaction that will take over the world, it'll scale to precisely the size that the market demands.
Ethnic Mexicans invented it for themselves. Whether they did so in the borders of the U.S. or Mexico is irrelevant, especially since the different ethnicities in the U.S. were much less integrated then than they are now.

I.e. there wasn't some magical discontinuity at the border that means it made more sense to count Mexican-Americans of that era as more closely similar to Anglo-Saxon Americans than to Mexican nationals. It happens that the Burrito was invented near the northern end of where ethnic Mexicans lived but that doesn't seem to say much about the type of palate it was created for.
It's kind of ironic that this article is presented as a PDF version of a journal paper.
Nylas is two things:

1. APIs for developers that replace IMAP/SMTP/Exchange. Use this to build any app that integrates with a user's mailbox, calendar, or address book.

2. A new extensible email app, built on web technologies (Chromium+NodeJS). This is called N1 and was released about 2 months ago.

We sell the APIs as an infrastructure business (like AWS).
Failing to denounce Trump is to implicitly endorse. This may come back to haunt republicans.
There are also some varieties available on Amazon, and elsewhere online.

A lot of good Turkish Delight in the US (including Aplets & Cotlets) is made by Armenians, who aren't in any hurry to credit the Turks for it. They typically call the confection by its Turkish name, "lokum" -- which roughly means "delight."
"I dont't belive..."

Believe, the magic word, makes it a religion basically. I'll take the sceintific consensus. They have evidence.

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
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I didn't detect that overtone at all.
A basic quoting system was pretty quick for me to hack together: a couple weeks or so. However, the tricky part was handling all the subtly different output formats of different software, corner cases, ambiguous geometry, and plain mistakes people make when creating a CAD file.
Your second link states right at the start, "There is, however, a dawning realization among researchers that even these apparently tiny variations can have a significant effect on terrestrial climate." And there's uncertainty and debate between scientists mentioned throughout.

The sun inputs many orders of magnitude more energy as humans into the atmosphere. Even 0.01% variability in solar output should create fluctuations in surface temperatures that we can measure.
But my comment wasn't meant to be a continuation of that discussion, but a digression. A poor choice for one though, as is obvious now.
Well, I'm not sure about other articles, but this one is rather bad (for example, as noted in some comments here, statistical examples are fundamentally wrong, and they are being used to support a substantial part of the argument).
It's important when you're making thin slots or need to know the roundness of inside corners.
Apparently when I'm looking for my next job, I should put Detroit area school districts at the top of my list...
That is a lot of sneakers.
Any way to tell if a particular window (say at a hotel) is using this film?
> His lifetime deal with Nike could eventually become something similar to Michael Jordan’s. Jordan, 52, is officially the chief executive officer of the Jordan Brand, which continues to release new shoes. Sales of Air Jordan brand shoes topped $2.6 billion last year, according to Forbes.

I had to read that last figure twice...the first time, I thought it meant $2.6 billion total, which seems like a reasonable amount of revenue for one line of shoes...but _per year_? Named for an athlete who has long been retired? Half a billion for the next great player (though of course some don't think LeBron will necessarily surpass Jordan's legend) seems like a bargain for Nike.
Consider trying waterjet cutting for aluminum instead.
Go makes you depend on the source code of a library you're depending on, not any build result. Because Go by default does not generate shared libraries to ship, they work around this by having every user of a library recompile it into their project. They avoid compiler mismatch issues by doing this.

So no significant open source Go library provides static libraries to their consumers. They provide source code. I think this list holds up very well, but there are several go projects that have had serious impediments due to things on this list.

The obvious example being the bane of my existence - the $GOPATH. The amount of effort Go projects have to put into getting some half-assed version of `make dist` to ship a tgz is depressing.
A US company is scamming me. What can I do?“
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That is very sad. Carousel was a essential part of my photo editing and backup workflow. Maybe need to investigate switching back to drive. The problem with them was though that photos backed up with "Google Photos" didn't appear inside drive and vice-versa. Did they fix that by now?

Mailbox never worked fine for me and had bugs in every corner.
> " I don't care how big of a genius you are you're not worth that as a developer of an email client, and honestly to write an Email client is not genius level shit. The UI was dope"

But that's the key isn't it? I think you're looking at this from too narrow a point of view.

Yeah, email clients aren't worth much money, so its development isn't worth much either (when's the last time anyone you know paid for an email client?).

The point isn't to acquire a "developer of email clients" it's to acquire a "developer of top-of-class mobile apps", which is considerably valuable. Think of the average quality of a mobile app you use on your phone, the bar is pretty low. Producing truly amazing mobile apps (like you said, the UI was dope) is hard, and requires the flawless, cohesive operation of a lot of facets from engineering to UX design.

Truly excellent mobile teams are very rare, and worth a lot of money. To the tune of $7.6MM over 2 years? Beats me, but it doesn't seem completely out of the question.

Talented developers are worth a lot of money - teams of talented developers, designers, and product people who have a track record of producing stellar work together are worth a multiple of their individual values.

> " and honestly to write an Email client is not genius level shit."

It's not genius level shit, but it's a surprisingly rare skill, and by that I mean writing very, very good frontends. Most people here can write a functional email client if they had to, but how many of them can write a really fucking good one, so good and so easy to use that people - and not just the technorati - sing its praises from the rooftops and get their friends and family to download it?

The Mailbox team was operating at a level well above nearly all mobile app teams, and the quality of their work was easily an order of magnitude better than the industry norm of its time. This may not justify their acquisition price, but I think you're selling them short a bit. They're a team of people known for exceptional quality work, and command a high price for it.
Great list, I think we're following most with GitLab, if anyone has any suggestions of things we should follow but are not please let me know.
No doubt it is going to be a bundle of surprises. Thanks for your input, I'm going to bring up your "[item] download mac" experience at our next technology committee meeting.

BTW the admin account wasn't my idea, and it freaks me out. However, I see what the educators have in mind, they are trying to stretch into new places and prepare children for the real world. I appreciate the bleeding edge ethic of crash and burn and find the solution. So I am trying to play the role of facilitating recovery from problems that will arise. We will have system images on thumb drives. Until someone downloads EFI-based malware, the consequence will typically be the kid loses access to their machine for a day or two while the tech re-images their system. And of course, even though docs are in Google Drive, there is the potential for data loss, which is also a great lesson IMO.
I think you have to compare the "brand" of Jordan vs. Lebron. Jordan has had almost 30 years to mature. Lebron is not even half that.

Interesting to see how this compares & will play out compared to other deals (Under Armour has equity deals with Brady / Curry) which insinuates longer term deals - even if it's not explicit.
Ask HN: Anyone recommend any _weekly_ news sources?
I'm been getting into weekly news sources lately. Reason being: daily news can be very overwhelming, too much noise to the signal.

What are some of your favorite weekly news sources? (topics such as Tech, World news etc).
Definitely a big number. Jordan Brand - counted separately from Nike's other lines - captured 58% of all basketball shoe sales in the US in 2014 (in dollar terms). Keep in mind there are dozens of Jordan Brand shoes now (whereas once upon a time it was one specific shoe, the Air Jordan), with other major players endorsing under the label (such as Carmelo Anthony).

It's apparently also booming in China:

http://fortune.com/2015/10/23/nike-air-jordans-china/
> Argument from authority is not invalid when it can be backed with fact.

Your line of argumentation doesn't make sense here. We can look for backing up an authority with facts which come from...that same authority, who we then have to believe or not, short of replicating their study. Or we can get someone else to replicate the study, and someone else to replicate that study, and...suddenly we're talking about scientific consensus again.

You do not have time to replicate and verify the work of every scientist. At some point you are going to have to choose to take some authority's word for it.
With the size and capabilities of your laser, I'd strongly advise looking into the jewelry making market. There's a lot we can't do at Big Blue Saw because we're using waterjet or low-powered laser. I'm not sure what materials you can cut, but look into copper, brass, silver, etc.
It will be easier to change our current ecconomic system than the environmental systems.
It makes a lot more sense if you view the goal of leftist governments as paying leftist government workers, rather than actually helping the people allegedly being helped.
Cream colored text on a pixelated, white background. Title is difficult to read! Otherwise nice post.
I've basically tried them all, and the latest Airmail client works the best for me. It's fast, no lag in the animations, does what I want it to do, and even looks decent.
This is a new level of the click bait.
There' no such thing as an "internal API", assuming the API works over HTTP.
The assault on neurosurgeons’ privileges by software and bureaucrats
Is it open source? If not, do you plan to open source it?
I hope Mr. Worsley has read "The Worst Journey in the World" to familiarize himself with the dangers he will face.
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Clearly murder is way way way more widely known to be illegal. That isn't a good example. The article doesn't even mention the laws the RC helicopter pilot could have broken.
Further, I think it would be absurd to suggest that there aren't brilliant engineers working at those companies. They've created awesome things that are only loosely related to their product. But I can hear the whip cracking from outside, and the compromise bleeds through into their products in the form of bugs, poor UX, and failure to iterate or innovate.
It's kind of like if you turned on TV to watch the President's speech, and noticed it was a computer-generated 3D representation. It wouldn't be distracting? He's saying all these things, and I can't receive the message because all I see is a puppet pretending to be a man. I'm wondering about who actually wrote it, how many people it took to animate, whether it's even an authentic message or if it's part of some propagandic theatre.

I think if someone is going to use their personal name on a website, they should actually write it. Otherwise, it's deceptive. If it's going to be a team effort, then call it a different name, and don't show a big picture of your face at the top of the screen.
What about a Phantom 3 makes it "only loosely be considered a drone"? Looks pretty drone-y to me. Fits both the traditional definition of "vehicle with no people on board" and the emerging modern definition of "electric multirotor helicopter."

I don't see why your proposed title/subtitle are better. The most interesting thing here is not the violation of regulations, but the near miss with a manned aircraft.
Docs in the cloud, combined with "Wipe and go" is our chosen disaster plan. I realize of course this is not perfect. When it breaks down however, I feel there are really good lessons to be learned. Like keep prized docs on that thumb drive like we've been telling the kids.
Line endings are a different question than indentation.

Language design decisions do matter. "Figure out how to view it in your editor" doesn't do one lick to address the problems of semantic indentation.
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See e.g. FORTRAN.
Smartcasual meets Francesco Castellana
Oh wow, thanks for the links, will need to go through that!

We've seen gundb [http://gun.js.org/] keeping data distributed between clients. Also, I'm even thinking if it is possible to run ZeroDB on top of SpiderOak's Crypton (which is inspired by ZODB) :-)
> The drone could come through window and take out the pilot, and the helicopter could come down,” he said.

Really? Unless the 'copter was flying at a very high speed, I'd deem this very unlikely. I'm assuming 'copter windscreens can handle hail? I don't think a small drone like a Phantom would pack the power of hail.

I'm not saying that this is OK; but hyperbole bothers me. Drone operator should be prosecuted, but not to the extent that he could have crashed through the window and brought down the helicopter.
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