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I'm only kidding of course :)
Multithreaded (Intel TBB) version of par2cmdline (archive.org link):

http://web.archive.org/web/20150607135928/http://chuchusoft....

(Apologies for not directly answering the question.)
People throw around the word sociopath. I have know a few sociopaths. I have been told, I have sociopathic tendencies.

That said, I would never take advantage of the poor, weak, or helpless.

If you have sociopathic tendencies--work on them! Whatever you do, don't cross that line where you think it's ok to take advantage of the aforementioned.

I live among a lot of wealthy sociopaths. They are in complete denial, and actually believe, "Hay it's legal! I did nothing wrong? I'll even go to church, or synagogue!".

I look at them with utter disgust. The sociopaths, I know, haven't done the damage to society like this little puke.

I don't care about his SEC violations. Every trader--strike that--successful traders; cheated on order to get their wad.
They all use inside information. Yes, there's some of you who got luckey on this momentum trading these last few years--great. I'm talking about the series 7 boys who always seen to make money.

Raising the price on a drug, a drug that he knew sick patients would be paying "out of pocket" for--that's a true scumbag. The word sociopath is too nice.
At least something positive? "In return, Republicans are dropping their opposition to lengthy extensions of the solar and wind tax credits that will give huge boosts to renewable energy projects."
I am having an epiphany. Maybe this "Alzheimer protein" is supposed to be the brain's defenses to something much worse. Maybe this protein is a "reaction" similar to skin rashes when it absorbs poison ivy's urisol.

If Alzheimer was simply a deficiency of nutrients, I wouldn't think this way, but if it really is a protein that "can be cleared", why did it get there in the first place?
In the 00s, we had multi-IM clients like Trillian, Gaim/Pidgin/libpurple, Kopete, Telepathy, etc.

Now, there's so little work done in reverse-engineering IM protocols. It's really sad. Part of this is because Sean Egan got hired by Google to work on Hangouts, so he's out of the reverse-engineering game for good, and it's sad that nobody took up the mantle from him.
I have to disagree with this claim. Leverage matters immensely. The truth about "merit" is that no one knows how to assess it, so people judge based on external leverage and status, and having an MBA from a top-5 school gives a person a huge advantage.

If you're a walk-on for a $250,000-per-year sinecure, then they're going to give you a real tech job, and not some lowly code-the-stories position.
"Because I had to use up my leftover grant money, and my students already had new office chairs."

Edit: downvoters have clearly never worked in a university research environment.
It depends on what kind of science it is. Mice are very very similar to humans at a chemical level. They have a similar genome, their bodies are basically the same as ours, they have the same organs, the same blood, the same cells, and the same chemical processes happen in those cells. They are just a bit smaller and arranged in a different way. That explains why scientists use mice as models for humans at all. However, with diseases that happen mostly in the elderly like Alzheimer's and cancer it's not so clear. Mice die at a young age, before those diseases really happen. Mice have to be genetically manipulated to develop those diseases. The development of those artificially caused diseases may not be the same as the development of those diseases in humans. The mice also still have a young body despite having the disease. This makes healing them a lot easier.
Learning about autotools is an amazing source of fremdscham. The whole compilation/packaging stuff is hard to get right but autotools looks like someone completely gave up on producing a good, decent or even bad solution and just tried whatever didn't completely and utterly fail at the task. That everyone else just kind of seemed to go with it... there are just no words to describe how embarrassing that looks.
Same (137.50€) from Italy
Edit: Ok, ok, I totally screwed that up. Damnit. Sorry, everyone. Grams aren't kilograms. The freaking base unit shouldn't have a prefix.

2000mg/kg = 2, right?

Like 2kg of medicine for every one kg of body mass? That seems impossible to consume. Even 0.1 kg/kg seems really, really high.

Or is mg here used for micrograms rather than milligrams? So it's actually 2000 μg/kg.
And end up in jail.

I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me the difference between a limited-oversight hands-off free market and a competitive criminal oligarchy.

Because variations on the criminal/sociopath thing keep happening so often when you get limited regulation and religious regard for profit at any social cost that they seem to be an inevitable outcome - a kind of moral Gresham's Law, where the crazy assholes always drive out more reasonable actors.
> Are any of his shows based somewhat around this topic

Not that I know. It wouldn't be appropriate for a general audience he targets. Anyway, there's a pattern, as soon as almost every stand up comedian becomes reasonably successful he starts to travel a lot by plane and the gags start to revolve about that. We just got lucky with his take to make it meta enough, recognizable and hilarious at the same time.
Could you write more about living in a trailer? Sounds very interesting, especially considering that you have a lot of tech. If not a problem, couple pics would be nice too.

Thanks! I'm interested because I'm considering doing the same.
The price of new quality furniture has also gone down a lot IMO. I bought a solid oak 8 people dinning table recently, beautifully made for £800 -- It's likely to have been made in China etc, but it is very well made, and will last a long time; it's also of a 'modern' style and not the 'brown/mahogany' you would get with an antique.

Of course there are ranges that are very very expensive, but not all are.
I agree with the essence of what you say. Rx trades off simple semantics for a simple implementation. Given the issues such as the above I think it is generally the wrong tradeoff. Simpler semantics do not require a great deal more work, as demonstrated by numerous other systems that have implemented them.
Can you A/B test a team? We are looking for feedback and experiment ideas
> I can agree with the distinction of 'fixed' versus 'growth' mindsets (although... .. how do you measure that?), but that success is guaranteed if you believe and try... Not necessarily.

where does Dr. Dweck make that implication anywhere? in fact, her research is more about how the growth mindset gets more exposure to failure, while the fixed mindset tends to avoid failure in the first place, which is just a different type of failure. so in that sense, her work is all about failure, not about "success being guaranteed if you believe and try".
It's amazing to me that people are willing to experiment with an unapproved chemical that provides no proven benefit in humans, yet aren't willing to use human-proven therapies with known benefits such as statins.
I had long ago predicted this day would come and it's quite nice to see. Will be happier when he's convicted and sentenced

Maybe. If he hires Gerald L. Shargel, he will be out on bail and it will be a very long battle.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Shargel
Wow. Merry Christmas indeed.
We Are Creatures That Should Not Exist
The Autotools are better than every other supposedly better solution. I do a lot of distro packaging work, and I can say, without a doubt, that the most problematic software to package are the ones that don't use the autotools.
> 2000mg/kg = 2, right?

No, 2000mg/kg = 0.002

> Like 2kg of medicine for every one kg of body mass?

No, 2g for every kg of body. And that's some safe limit, not therapeutic dose.

> Or is mg here used for micrograms rather than milligrams?

No, it's milligrams.
Developers, meet your HoloLens:
Yeah, I'd assume the point would have been not to be found in the first place (otherwise, why hide the entrance?) and to be able to defend against attackers if they do find you but didn't think of just letting you suffocate in there or smoke you out. In that case, you'd probably have a better chance of survival in an Erdstall than pretty much anywhere else, right? The scenario might be a bit contrived though (wouldn't attackers pick up on the "just let them suffocate" tactic rather quickly?), but then again if the explanation were on hand then there wouldn't be a mystery to debate :)
2g of drug per kilogram of body mass. That's not the therapeutic dose, that's the safety limit.
2000 mg is 2g (a kg is 1000g, or 1 x 10^6mg)

Have you worked on software for NASA Mars probes in the past?
How to Get Traction for Your SaaS Startup
A few minor changes and this could be boilerplate grammar Nazi rebuttal.
This article[0] hints that Microsoft's Edge browser might also being using MWC1616, or something else that has a lot of the same limitations. Hopefully they jump on the xorshift128+ ship.

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/666407/
My understanding is that Unity3d integrates well with asm.js and Mozilla sort of has a head start in that.
Shkreli is indeed referring to the Clan's RZA. Shkreli recently bought the single existing copy of their newest album.
Apple Names Jeff Williams COO
2000mg = 2 grams not 2 kilograms. So it would be 2 grams per kilogram.

2kg = 20000000mg.

Hope that clears that up.
The clause is a hoax. A pretty hilarious one though! http://nymag.com/following/2015/12/wu-tang-wont-actually-ste...
Linux GRUB2 password Vulnerability with bootloader hack
Ketamine’s effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness
I'm not sure if you're trying to imply something negative about this project or not, but there are many many research MRI's around and it's not completely unreasonable to spare 15 min of MRI time for something like this.
There is one incredibly simple solution to solve the 'multi-device-problem' with security:

1. Allow the user to copy their keys to another device themselves.

To further improve security, you'd want a transfer mechanism that cannot be copied as text / emailed / IM'd / whatever just so the user is discouraged from sending it in their gmail. One suitable candidate is QR codes, but without a camera "Type 1 letter at a time" would also work.
The cost of research and development per approved drug comes out to around $1-2 billion, while the cost of developing a single drug if it's successful is about $300 million. The vast disparity in prices here is the cost of pursuing failed drugs.

It's really not clear that government could develop drugs more cheaply. If you want to bring down the price of drug development, the primary thing you need to do is to discover which of your candidates is not promising and kill them much earlier in the pipeline. This sort of task is not one of government's core competencies (particularly if the legislature decides it wants a say in things).
This Is Quite Simply the Best Christmas iPad Demo Ever
Show HN: Jeopractice – A Jeopardy flashcard game using 200k past clues
hi lord krishna i am a fan

> To action alone hast thou a right and never at all to its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motive; neither let there be in thee any attachment to inaction
Carrying the analogy further, the value of getting a CS degree is relative to how you learn. If you're good at learning a lot of stuff in a classroom (as I was in my college majors, math and physics), then getting a degree makes sense. If you're good at learning stuff at home (as I was with computer programming), then getting a degree might be less useful. A person could adopt the strategy of using college for learning the stuff that's hard for them to learn at home.

Regarding business, same thing. Some folks can pick it up by reading books, the newspaper, and just soaking it up at work. Others might benefit from learning it in a classroom.
Lets also not forget that if you can't make money off lifesaving drugs,
you also won't bother to invent any new ones.

This is not true.
I don't know Autotools, but I find the CMake workflow to be tolerable. Can someone who knows both provide a comparison?
80+ and Counting – What I’ve Been Reading Recently – My Bookshelf #8
Personally I find this more mind boggling than that it can't be communicated easily. Clearly, a proof of 500 pages will be extremely difficult to verify or even understand.

However... That a concept taking just a paragraph to explain* for people who know math requires a proof of over 500 pages. THAT is what I find mind boggling and I find hard to understand. That it can just balloon in size like that, especially given that mathematics is a language of logic.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abc_conjecture
owning a million dollar home and sitting on beanbags today

In central London, a million dollar home is a one-bedroom flat: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/new-homes-for-sale/property-37648... (540ft^2)

I don't think there's room for things much larger than a beanbag there.
Plant Breeders Are Working with Chefs to Create New Fruits and Vegetables
This optimization guide is a very interesting book.

there is another article "What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory" by Ulrich Drepper http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf ; it has a section on how to optimize memory access / tools that help in the process.

I put up my notes/summary on this article (more like a book with a 100+ pages) http://mosermichael.github.io/cstuff/all/blog/2015/12/11/wep...
Or based on the existence of positive research papers ;)
As an outsider to the field, I really enjoyed reading this paper: http://www.pcg-random.org/paper.html

It's advocating for a particular new kind of PRNG, but it also includes a lot of great explanations and citations for more reading.
Absolutely true. Quoting Justine Musk (Elon's ex-wife, I think):

"...Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become a master of two worlds (say, engineering and business), you can bring them together in a way that will a) introduce hot ideas to each other, so they can have idea sex and make idea babies that no one has seen before and b) create a competitive advantage because you can move between worlds, speak both languages, connect the tribes, mash the elements to spark fresh creative insight until you wake up with the epiphany that changes your life."

https://www.quora.com/Will-I-become-a-billionaire-if-I-am-de...
I think the article is confusing. Loss aversion is a property of human decision making, while diminishing marginal utility is a property of some economic system.

The two may be the same, if you believe in (or talk about) subjective utility. But I think subjective utility is a terrible concept to begin with, so better not to go that route.
Watches, pens, jewelry have appeals for both their function and their form. They're also easily stored and cycled through based on your current attire or preference. It's a bit harder to do that with furniture.

"I feel like sitting on something a bit 1850s Paris this week, let's just slide this other couch to the storage room." Not happening unless you're very wealthy or very in debt.

You can also sell them to support your habit. A coworker does that with watches. He can usually sell them for at least as much as he purchased them for, and uses that money to change out his collection.
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Genuinely curious... does the world actually work like this? I strongly suspect not.
Yes, and if that were a problem, we would not have Uber for iOS. There are whole classes of apps that cannot be made for iOS (it used to be the case of custom keyboards & ad blockers, for example). Because security in general, and privacy in particular, are non-negotiable on iOS.
Wowzers! Talk about being lost in the sauce. Dude is stomping on the broken hamster treadmill in temple of his familiar otherwise known as the wilderness of his mind, currently indistinguishable from the streets or the movies. Presumably, his investors/associates have long known and abided by this as long as he was making them money.
While it's quite popular to bash autotools, how about instead working towards a successor? One that's as easy for the end user to use as autotools, but with less technical debit.

It's a hard problem, as evidenced by the inherent complexity in autotools, but there are a lot of smart folks who could apply their effort towards that goal.
Well, is that really fair? autotools' scope is great, like you concede. But it was designed around 1991, right?

> That everyone else just kind of seemed to go with it

There was nothing else better available, and this was effective -- is effective.

If you haven't seen the effect of momentum in software, then this is nothing. Look at how x86 systems get bootstrapped; look at how we interact with important platform devices like the RTC (I/O ports). Virtually none of this has changed because it doesn't introduce significant limitations in operating systems or hardware but it's downright odd.
cmake is pretty bad, too, though at least it runs on Windows. (And I don't think it's got quite the same goals as Autotools, though their scopes overlap in many respects.)

I've never met anything build-related, scope large or small, that wasn't somewhere between "PHP" (horrid, workable if you're careful, will rot your brain in the long run) and "Cthulhu" (beyond evil, insofar as normal human modes of comprehension can be said to apply).

I wonder if this is some kind of, like, Heart of Darkness shit.
Good point. Pedigree is and always has been a huge advantage. A disproportionate number of execs' backgrounds I've looked into have Yale/Harvard/Stanford/etc somewhere. I wonder if that will ever change. Having worked with many folks who attended those universities, most do not strike me as being intrinsically more capable than their counterparts who attended other universities, although a few have a high degree of self-assuredness (which, granted, is quite valuable as a career trait).
This is so over-the-top that it could be a Vincent Gigante-style maneuver.
The big problem is that no one did a better solution. All alternatives are missing one or more crucial features of the autotools (most prominent being portability). And that is sad as well.
I don't know the answer to your question, but the authorities arrested Shkreli's lawyer as an accomplice.
We can also make older mice young again:

http://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-make-old-mice-youn...

The real problem with medicine is that there's no easy way to have "agile" and rapid iteration in humans. Drugs, for example, take decades and billions to get to market.
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> No right is absolute, and that includes the right to privacy. Criminals, for example, simply don't have it.

I know nothing of Brazilian law, but in America, criminals have rights, including the right to privacy. Convicted criminals and convicted felons do not, but that is an entirely different category, and your wording seems woefully imprecise.

> Do you guys think that pedophiles, terrorists and drug dealers have the right to privacy ? I don't.

Alleged pedophiles, terrorists and drug dealers have the full panoply of rights available to them as anyone else until such time as enough supporting evidence may be provided that the police can say that a) a crime has been committed, b) the alleged had the means to have committed the crime, c) the alleged had the motive to have committed the crime, d) the alleged had the opportunity to have committed the crime, and often e) the alleged is very likely to have committed the crime.

Only after THAT hurdle is cleared may the rights of the alleged criminal be intruded upon by the state, and without a grand jury, even those intrusions must be minimally invasive.

At least in America, a judge cannot issue a warrant for the wiretaps you described on the mere accusation that "so and so is a {pedophile,terrorist,drug dealer}."
(A great thing about HN is getting to talk with the authors directly)

I didn't recognise that you were talking chiefly about javascript. It is true that my example doesn't apply here.

Ok, then I would make one comment (and edit my first comment).

I would avoid the discussion of simultaneity at the start

'Events in parentheses happen “simultaneously”.
In practice they happen at slightly different times,
but separated by only a couple of nanoseconds, so
people understand them to be simultaneous. Events (c1c2)
are called glitches and sometimes considered a problem
because one would expect only c2 to happen.'

Because you are working in a single threaded simultaneous events just don't exist. The glitches you describe occur completely independently of timing, nanoseconds or otherwise. Drawing up diagrams where events occur at the same time is adding complexity which doesn't exist.

errors ---e1-------e2---------------
userActions -u1------u2------------u3----
analyticsMessages ---e1u1--(e1u2 e2u2)---e2u3--

errors ---e1----e2------------------
userActions -u1----------u2--------u3----
analyticsMessages ---e1u1--(e2u1 e2u2)---e2u3--

Both of these scenarios produce glitches (as I understand it). So we don't need any notion of 'simultaneous events' to create them.

Anyway - that is nitpicking. I enjoyed your article. I agree that the scenario described at top does not apply in javascript.

I too strongly dislike callbacks :)
+1 for weight lifting/training. I'm more on the powerlifting style than Olympic Weightlifting.I go four times a weel and I've been following variations of 5/3/1 for about 5 years now. If anyone wants level up their strength and health I heartily recommend it.
Agreed. This feels like some sort of inverse appeal-to-authority. "You can't be this kind of expert, therefore your assertions are false."
Clinical Genetics Has a Big Problem That's Affecting People's Lives
Growth Hacking LinkedIn
I think you might have missed this part:

> Before the final forced conversion they spent months and months trying to trick people into agreeing to change their account against their will using a bunch of interface design dark patterns.

There was no way for me to say "no, I don't want it, stop asking me". And they kept changing the pop-up locations. And once linked, the accounts couldn't be unlinked.

So no, you weren't "forced", but there was some really shady coersion
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No, he cares at least a little -- he writes that he could care less.
Has she ever had a tick bite, especially from east-coast Australia or central USA? This sounds like Alpha-gal allergy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy

Is she OK with poultry and fish?
Because you'd ultimately have politicians direct research, based on what makes the best photo-ops up to the next election as well as the inevitable old-boys-club/revolving-doors "corruption-light" that quickly infects expensive government programs.

Whatever the aesthetics of people getting rich from treating sick people, on the evidence, it's actually very effective.
FTA:

The greatest virtue of the book is that you can’t help but ask yourself things like, “Which areas have I always looked at through a fixed-mindset lens?” and “In what ways am I sending the wrong message to my children about mindset and effort?” Thanks to Dweck’s skillful coaching, you’re almost guaranteed to approach these tough questions with a growth mindset.