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> When we say JVM code is not efficient in terms of FLOPs we're talking about a factor of 2 or so though, not really the same as the factor of 20+

Not so in my experience. Write a matrix multiply in pure Java, and pure C, C++, Fortran. The difference would easily be north of 5X, typically more.

Regarding JNI, please see the root of the comment tree. Rarely have I seen more stinky garbage. Its hopeless if you have to go back and forth across the bridge. If that be so I might as well be on the other side of the bridge.

JVM is fantastic, but if you are doing number crunching and performance matters, then JVM is a wrong choice.
Some animals (and people) with eyes are blind and so probably don't react when you shine a light at them.
ignore me.
same conclusions below it seems
The summary box at the very top of your link says "children learn better and more efficiently from play and interaction
in the “real,” three-dimensional (3-D) world with parents, caregivers, and peers" and that there is "no research showing that when children younger than 2 years old use these devices independently it enhances
their development" and implies that the only reason for having > 0 screentime is simply because there's so many screens you might as well give up.

Sounds pretty much the same as the AAP advice, just more cynical.

It looks from elsewhere in this thread you're taking this as a criticism of your parenting skills. Yes, it is easier just to turn the TV on to distract your kids for 15 minutes. When all is said and done we don't know what the effects are and even if they aren't great, there's millions of other kids doing the same thing so it'll probably be OK. But that doesn't mean that other people might find it in their interests to find a way to eliminate that tool for distraction. Maybe you can too - suppose the kids helped you with dinner? Even very young children can be taught to contribute with basic tasks.
The language in itself is mildly interesting, since it's based on term rewriting.

The closest language implementation in open source is "Pure" (http://purelang.bitbucket.org/), which I personally find superior in many respects.

Term rewriting is an interesting topic, but it's not a deal-breaker as wolfram is trying to convey. We have many alternatives nowdays.

The perhaps non-obvious limit is that the ordering of the rules plays a central role in term rewriting (as it does in it's close cousin: pattern matching), which makes it "cumbersome" (or quirky) to extend in a truly modular way.
I am certainly an outlier and am not sure what the probability of it occurring really is. I think there are systemic issues in how homelessness is treated that I was lucky enough to get past - what concerns me is the lack of support and aide that people in that situation actually receive. Addiction and mental illness barely gets the attention it deserves, and getting people back on their feet is extremely tough regardless of their determination, or skills. I don't want to make it seem easy, because it certainly wasn't - and maybe I did have a one-up in terms of resourcefulness - but without changes in the way homelessness is treated, from government as well as how it can be stigmatized, it's an additional blocker for those trying to re-enter society and make a difference in their lives.
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I'm wondering why they didn't opt for a purely functional language. That would make much more sense in a mathematical context, since the program text would then be much easier to reason about mathematically, and it would be much easier to treat programming constructs as first-class objects.
Well, according to one of the leaked e-mails, Wright originally wanted Kleiman's help in concealing his identity, but it's possible he could've changed his mind over time.
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It reminds me of "rebol". Although rebol never actually had a large market to begin with.

Mathematica might have a chance if open-sourced, but it's not the language which is interesting from a technical perspective, but the entire ecosystem of base libraries which is quite well done and which probably has much deeper copyright issues.
Unless Australian tax law considers Bitcoin a currency.
Reputation damage control. Same with telling the wife to stay with him even though neither of them saw any benefit in it, the children were already cared for by their aunt and Dickens was apparently "cared for" by a lover.
Fully escaped?

I've spoken openly of my 30 months sleeping rough on the streets of the UK. I may have "escaped" homelessness, but the mental scars accumulated whilst on the street do still haunt me. I feel it, the sense of worthlessness, the self-doubt. There's a feeling that I shouldn't be alive let alone here in this workplace or surrounded by good people, a feeling that I don't quite belong.

One can put a roof over one's head, get a job, that leads to a career, obtain an income that is above-average... but can one truly escape something as traumatic as being homeless for any sustained period of time (covering 1 Winter at least)?

I'm less sure on that. I live in the hope that I'm wrong.

And of course, Christmas comes around and people return to family and those who don't are the waifs and strays, an annual reminder that we're not the same.
> ... because they simply don't grok how "business growth" and "software ecosystems" work in the 21st century...

Well, to be fair, Wolfram is one of the few scientists actually making money from scientific software. I've seen software companies doing much worse, to the point that I actually doubt there is any serious money to be made from most scientific/engineering software.
There's a site somewhere that shows the front page of HN when you joined. You should try it.

HN has never been limited to tech news; that thing in the guidelines has been there for at least 7 years.

The political stuff is annoying, and I've started to flag it and I'm making more effort to not post in those threads.

But if anything HN doesn't need every single post from techcrunch / techradar / venturebeat / pando / etc, which tend to poorly duplicate each others content.

Your point would have been much stronger if the examples of articles you think don't belong here were bad, but those are all interesting.
Engineering - self taught, and I have a GED (for non-U.S., this is a credential that is treated as an equivalent to passing high school).
I meant that even it alone is expensive for a guy who's homeless, not that it's cheap.
A very interesting little experiment! Based off this, the author notes that the orange streets will provide a steady stream of income, and this is useful information.

But the trick in Monopoly is to get hotels on your properties as quickly as possible, because this not only provides you with a revenue stream (and fastest return on investment), but also takes money away from your competitors, who would have used it to buy/upgrade their own properties. An important factor is therefore how quickly you can acquire all the streets in a block so you can start putting up hotels, and p * rent of a single street is only one part of that equation.
Indeed, a relevant comparison. I've counted the visible portion of one of the ships and I've got a length of more than 38Km.
That was supposed to be my point, that just the passport is a lot of money, but apparently I failed.
Couldn't you control for that by showing a shrinking circle on a screen? I'd be amazed if the experiment didn't do something like that.
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Ask Hackernews: a place to publish a FLOSS security oriented article?
I wrote an article explaining how to use afl-fuzz along with a quick introduction to my project that simplifies its use. I'd like to publish it, but pretty much nobody reads my blog and I don't think it would handle being Slashdotted. Is there a popular website that you know that could be interested in publishing my writing? I'm not interested in getting paid, I'd just like to get my message through.
Oh GH. e.g. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master.atom
Not necessarily. I would have thought the company paying directly was preferable, since then they can see invoices, and query costs beforehand.

My employer paid to transport my belongings, all I did was get a few quotes. It was useful for them to be involved, since they knew about necessary insurance etc, but an international move was new to me.

They also offered to transfer my relocation bonus to me as soon as the contract was signed, but I didn't need the cash so I waited until I'd opened a local bank account in the appropriate currency.
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It's just as shitty whether it's true or false. Either way, they're deliberately exposing someone to unwanted public attention to sell magazines and ad impressions.
Still working for Vector 5!

Cheers,
Andrew
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Ask HN: What would happen if everyone was a whistleblower on 1 JAN 2016?
Assuming all the information in the world is available to anyone who is interested,

1. Would the world be doomed into utter-chaos?

2. Would we save decades and reach utopia faster?

3. Would the current "status-quo" soon be regained?
It would be very cool if the government could fine businesses for negligence like this, and even better if they would reward those who report it, which they could pay out of the fined amount of course. That way the reporter doesn't have to deal with the stress of being threatened by a lawsuit, and the company always knows the reported problem is something they have to respond to seriously.

Right now there is only form of pressure on these companies: Selling phones and subscriptions with as little overhead as possible, and they're all struggling to do so.

It also is a bootstrapping problem, right now companies just don't know about security best practices. It was probably some 16yr old store employee who suggested they use google docs to sync their passwords in the first place. If they new of a better way to do it I believe they would have, but there's no incentive to figure that out. If good security practices were more commonplace in all businesses then they wouldn't struggle so much with doing the right thing.
Sure, simulate it if you don't believe me.

x <- rnorm(1000, mean=50, sd=10)
quantile(x, 0.99)
mean(sapply(1:20, function(i) {
i <- i * 50
quantile(x[i-49:i], 0.99)
}))
<insert mandatory pun about blowing whistles at a new year's party here>
I implement workable.com at every single company I work/consult with. It's insanely easy to use, incredibly intuitive and makes life so much easier for everyone involved in the hiring process.

I despise LinkedIn however it's still the largest database of professionals out there so I pay for a 'recruiter lite' account which is quite useful.

connectifier.com/search is great for saving time in trying to extract an individuals contact info.

Gild.com is insanely expensive but a decent investment if you're hiring a significant number of people.

gender-decoder.katmatfield.com is a wonderful (free) resource to help you ensure your job adverts are using universally appealing language.

charliehr.com is a great, lite-HR system that allows you to manage all of your documentation, holidays and payroll details in one place, and it's free.

twiangulate.com/search/ is quite useful for discovering potentially interesting people on twitter.
Last week it was Yahoo
Yep:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22firefox+os%22+billboard+a...
Personally, yes I think I have fully escaped. It's been 16 years since then, and I see my scars as a personal trophy of sorts - a motivator on what I can accomplish if I set my mind to it. It wasn't always like this - but it's what I have conditioned myself to do after the traumas that I have endured related and unrelated to the homelessness.

I hope that you are working to get past any demons that haunt you - you deserve it, everyone does.
I am thinking here is what happened

The guy seeing an opportunity and possibly having some early coins declared himself to tax office as Satoshi, but maybe claimed he lost keys to majority of coins. He then proceeded to have one of his companies claim tax back for R&D of bitcoin. The whole thing probably backfired then.
This is also solves project Euler assignment 84.
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Why not use your server logs for this information?
What? Currently there's an announcement that an immigration lawyer is going to provide advice; this meta thread; a question about safety of contributing to privacy tools like tor; a question about stock options when leaving a company; a question about solving binary challenges in Capture the Flags; a question about recruitment tools used by start ups.

There is a question about books - there are enough questions about books that someone could generate small amounts of passive income by scraping all the threads and listing the books on a nice clean site with affiliate links.

Which questions on AskHN do you think should not be there? Which do you think are poor quality?
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I actually disagree. Having thought that about some stuff he's written in the past, I actually thought he came across as quite humble and just really excited about his book.
"players can go bankrupt" is listed twice at the end.
Going to have to join the, I don't quite get what Wolfram thinks is the big deal crowd:

> The goal of the book is to take people from zero to the point where they know enough about the Wolfram Language that they can routinely use it to create programs for things they want to do. And when I say “zero”, I really mean “zero”. This is a book for everyone.

One of the examples he gives is how to: Make a word cloud from the first letters of all the words:

WordCloud[StringTake[WordList[], 1]]

OK, leaving aside the debate of whether word clouds are the text-analysis equivalent of a 3D rainbow donut chart, this simple example quickly leads to questions about how to express natural variations, such as a word cloud that is more spaced out. Or not shaped like a ball. Or how to render into something I can connect to my Twitter account so I can tweet out a cool viz. The tutorial treats the novice with the promise of doing very visual things in a seemingly more direct way -- what other language could generate a word cloud in so few commands? -- but...so? The power of programming, to me, is the ability to get into the details, to create something that uniqueness expresses something in my mind...and the trade off is that we start by learning syntax and abstract concepts (e.g. Loops and functions). Going past the non-trivial examples gets us quickly into the butting heads against the magic involved, and from first glance, the Wolfram syntax does not look particularly elegant for software design.

Sure, "Times[2,3]" might seem more human friendly than 2 * 3...until I get tired of writing that phrase out and doing an explicit function call just to get 2 numbers. But of course, in most software development, when am I really ever multiplying 2 numbers? Infrequently enough that I imagine I'll have to frequently Google whether the function name is "Times" or "Multiply", proving the first example of the classic adage about the 3 hardest things about computer science.

So there's a lot of things about the language that seem like a disaster to me, but I'm not smart enough to design my own language. Sometimes I'll take the opinions of the masses into account...for example, Python's use of significant white space seemed profoundly annoying but plenty of smart people are able to build profound things elegantly with it, so I took the jump. If Wolfram language is such a step beyond competing languages, where are the examples of things elegantly built with it?

Edit: apparently David Auerbach has said the things I think I want to say, but more eloquently http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/03/ste...
Because by using your website I become your customer I am doing business with you. I don't always want a third party involved.

You never answered what info do you send to the owner of the tracking library that you licence? Or if you send them no info how do they get paid?
"Viral" and "Avian" don't go well together -___-
Matlab / GNU/Octave code:

rand('seed',123);

outer_rounds = 100;
inner_rounds = 100;
items = 500;

q99_mean_vec = [];
q99_complete_vec = [];

for ior = 1:outer_rounds;

q99_vec = [];

x = rand( 1, rounds*items );

for iir = 1:inner_rounds

q99_vec(iir) = quantile( x( (iir-1)*items+(1:items) )', 0.99 );

end

q99_complete_vec(ior) = quantile( x', 0.99 );
q99_mean_vec(ior) = mean( q99_vec' );

end

hist( [ q99_complete_vec; q99_mean_vec ]', [0.988:0.0001:0.991] );
xlim( [0.988, 0.991] );
legend( 'from complete data', 'from means' );

This looks biased to me even though the distribution is uniform. I did not expect that. Maybe the quantile function is broken.

EDIT: I've installed R and run your code. You use a very low number of samples in the mean, so I changed it a bit. 1. I use the uniform distribution, so we know the true value of the 99th percentile is 0.99. 2. I've increased the number of samples:

x <- runif(100000)
quantile(x, 0.99)
mean(sapply(1:2000, function(i) {
i <- i * 50
quantile(x[i-49:i], 0.99)
}))

When run multiple times, I've found that the mean is always lower than the quantile over the full sample.
Instead of hotels, put 4 houses as quickly as possible so there are no houses left for other people to build. Only upgrade to hotels when you can afford to put the houses that will become available onto another of your properties. Other people's sets are worthless to them if you own all the houses.

Combine this strategy with the fact that the highest ROI on most properties is 3 houses, and you have a winning strategy against most non-experts.

1. Do whatever it takes to get cheap sets (other than risking somebody else getting the red or orange set). This is where blues and purples are very useful.

2. Put as many houses as you can as quickly as possible.

3. Wait for desperate people to trade with you to get the oranges or reds.

4. Spread your houses across the sets you own with 3 on each property, prioritising the reds and oranges.

NB - nobody likes me at Christmas.
Doesn't "best" mostly mean the highest voted content? Just because there are more people voting today, doesn't mean the content is better.
Say these out loud to understand where "would of" comes from:

Would have

Would've

Would of

Thank you for pointing out that people who speak English as a foreign language are sometimes tripped up by things like this.
If you click through to the Seawise Giant, this image is pretty cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawise_Giant#/media/File:Bate...
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previously posted from the Guardian:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10701981
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I don't know about you but in my generation everyone who got into pokemon played them on an emulator and at 2-6x speed. I tried playing it on a 3DS and I would probably go mental if I played that game and watched all those slow animations - the fun from that game is about optimizing "builds" and exploring - but normal game speed has soo much slow walk animations.
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I wonder why they don't nuclear power the tankers, like they do aircraft carriers.
previously posted from the Guardian: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10701981
The UI can be changed on Android and there are a lot of launchers which has a windows phone style:

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=windows+launcher&c=ap...
Already taken:

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I love that people liked Snap - I thought it was brilliant, although at the time it didn't get great reviews.
What I like about W. Language is that the full name is used for many commands. When you want to develop a big library you have to stay away of short cuts like using two or three letters for a name. Long name is a distintive of a language designed to be used in a wide ecosystem. Numpy names are longer than R names, for example for rnorm (random numbers from a normal distribution). One way to connect (pipe things) would be to use a full name version of a language using an option like: use fullnames.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10698834
This is a good read too: http://rosegeorge.com/site/books/ninety-percent-of-everythin...

"Rose George, acclaimed chronicler of what we would rather ignore, sails from Rotterdam through Suez to Singapore on ships the length of football fields and the height of Niagara Falls; she patrols the Indian Ocean with an anti-piracy task force; she joins seafaring chaplains, and investigates the harm that ships are inflicting on on endangered whales.
Sharply informative and entertaining, Ninety Percent of Everything reveals the workings and perils of an unseen world that holds the key to our economy, our environment, and our very civilization."
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A nice distribution diagram is very informative but if you want to track the performance through time and have warnings triggers in place you need to be able to capture what you care about in a handful of numeric metrics.
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This is what 'dang famously described as a Pavlovian hashtable reflex[0].

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9722096
That is very cool. How many years of experience did it take you to get to $160k? That's top of the line if you aren't at a hot tech startup isn't it?
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I think it's supposed to be cheaper to own one powerful device + screen and keyboard, than having to buy two separate powerful device.
> Java provides less of the benefits of static typing than many other statically-typed languages

Don't let Java's type declarations fool you into thinking that Java is
statically typed. It's still dynamic typing, with merely some kind of type
hints slapped on top to be checked at compile time.
For M-Pesa you also need mobile phone coverage, I think if the only way to get to a place is by canoe, then there's probably no cellular coverage either.

I was just thinking how impossible it seems to get internet covered over the green heart of Africa, but perhaps that's just not the solution (right now). Perhaps a cryptographic sneaker net would work.

If the accountants travel with RFID powered 'credit' cards pre-authorized to ID's then they themselves don't have to bear any risks. The only thing you need then is to supply every village with a RFID reading trading platform (could be a phone or a laptop) to enable digital trades.
> 1. Desktop users are tricked in to installing Ask toolbar crapware. Which other language tricks users in to doing that?

.NET requires you to install Windows. I think it's the same category.
Actually, doh, you're right, my bad, turns out sample quantiles are only asymptotically unbiased, and a better estimator would take some sort of weighted average of P99 and P99.5 with the weights depending on the sample size. (You still don't need the full population and you don't have to merge histograms, though.)
The initial CNN article I saw, said: "Malaysia Airports general manager Zainol Mohd Isa told CNN the aircraft have been parked at KLIA for more than a year, having been abandoned at different times."

Which isn't clear. have all three been there more than a year? How long has the longest one been there?
I haven't lived in my car since 92 or so and I still notice nice places to park where the police won't bug me.
While pricing might be similar to loan sharks, they don't cut off your fingers.
Do I understand this correctly.

This is some "on the fly" computation?

Like, people could add computing power to a process just by surfing to a webpage?
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