skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It would be nice to have a way to protect the "little guy" when they figured out a break through, showed it to the "big guy" and was then ripped off.

It was the "big guys" that lobbied for increased IP protections in the 1990's, for a pretty good reason: protection from foreign competitors. I worked with a big router company once, who told me that a Chinese company had ripped off their router designs down to the English silk-screened assembly instructions on the PCBs. All of the little-company versus big-company stuff is small potatoes compared to that overarching concern.

That's why a lot of big technology companies are still strong supporters of patents. They don't want Chinese companies copying their chips down to bugs in the firmware and undercutting them on the market because they don't have any need to recoup R&D costs.
Actual stats:

General aviation: 11.2 fatal accidents and 19.7 fatalities per million hours

Commercial aviation: 0.2 fatal accidents and 6.5 fatalities per million hours

Driving: .528 fatal accidents and .588 fatalities per million hours [1]

That's per hour. Accident rates per mile look much better for aviation, because planes are faster. Commercial aviation has more fatalities per accident because the planes are bigger. Note the 50x difference between fatal incidents in GA and commercial aviation.

[1] http://www.meretrix.com/~harry/flying/notes/safetyvsdriving....
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The FAQ[1] has this:

> How is it licensed?

> The Wolfram Language has multiple licensing models depending on usage scenario. It is available free for certain casual use in the cloud, in CDF Player, and on systems such as Raspberry Pi. It is available through site licenses at educational institutions. It is also available in a variety of subscription and paid-up product offerings. The Wolfram Language is also licensed for OEM use, embedded in hardware or software systems.

The "casual use in the cloud" may be referring to this: http://programming.wolframcloud.com/ (requires sign-up, haven't tried it), and I'm not sure how you'd go about grabbing the Raspberry Pi edition.

[1] http://www.wolfram.com/language/faq/
In Germany, it’s simple:

1. If your parents earn enough to finance you studying, you won’t get a loan

2. The loan is limited to 800$ a month

3. If you fail too many courses, the loan is cancelled.

But:

4. You only have to pay back in months in which you earn over 30k€ per year

This allows the loans to be a lot less risky.

I’d argue this is a much better system than what I read about the US tuition system, especially for the students.

(Obviously, the large supply of free governmentally paid universities help drive the price down, too.)
Very neat. Static site generators are hard to get right (I've been hacking away at a hybrid solution at http://sushy.no-bolso.com / http://blog.carmo.io - same engine, different themes).

I do have two questions, though. Why the new file extension (.lr) and the field separator?

Jekyll's front matter format is easier for most people - and my engine uses a plain newline to separate front matter from text, and supports multiple file extensions to make it easier for desktop editors.
That's not correct it pretty much excluded all Asperger related symptoms that are predominantly expressed in Autism cases and mandated that all previous Asperger diagnosis should be reevaluated:

"Individuals with a well-established DSM-IV diagnosis of autistic disorder, Asperger’s disorder, or pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified should be given the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. Individuals who have marked deficits in social communication, but whose symptoms do not otherwise meet criteria for autism spectrum disorder, should be evaluated for social (pragmatic) communication disorder."

SPCD itself is not considered part of the Autism spectrum and has quite stringent requirements to ensure that only really edge cases that are neither autism nor a classic referral to a therapist get caught by it.
I questioned that part but could not get a concrete answer how they established that. I just mentioned it because that's what the report states. However, the location and setup did not look very kid friendly and my little one didn't like it one bit so she refused to cooperate with the folks doing the evaluation.

I think part of the problem was the main entrance had a big swimming pool right past the main doors, and all my little one wanted to do was to go swimming.
That's Footnote #3 in the article:

> "There are lots of variations on these rules, such as capping the number of times a gift can be stolen or letting the person who went first take another turn at the end."
This is a little off topic, but I was watching Seinfeld last night and Jerry was cleaning up his apt for a girl and he said he needed to clean the bathroom. George said, "No! You think rockstars have clean bathrooms when girls come over?"
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I would certainly hope not - they may call it a continuum but that does only really muddy the water. While there are a lot of similarities in what can help high functioning and low functioning people cope the amount of day-to-day help can be black and white. I much preferred when high functioning people had "aspergers", because even within the high functioning moniker there's a huge range. HF folks don't like to be treated as if they have a fundamental disability (which is disempowering) just as caretakers of LF people need a lot more of the recognition and assistance that a serious disability requires.
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Not if they document it. But if you write a program that relies on those behaviors, you don't have C anymore, you have "GCC-C" or "MSVC-C".

I'm also not saying that's inherently a bad thing.
> I worry that as more and more fully functioning people are added to the spectrum that it will result in less help out there for people like my daughter that really need it.

Do you actually see this happening?

It seems to me just as likely that greater awareness of the entire spectrum will bring more acceptance and more resources.

Anyway, for my wife, learning that she has Asperger syndrome has been a great relief. It's hard for me to see that as a bad thing. Your story is heart-wrenching, and I hope your daughter gets the help she needs. I just don't see why my wife's experience and yours need to be in conflict.
You are confusing unsafe behavior with undefined behavior. He is not suggesting that a C compiler should prevent the above mistakes. He's suggesting that it should document what code the compiler will emit in such cases. For example,

- reading past the end of an array will always segfault the program immediately. or reading past the end of an array will return (arrayType)0

- signed integer types must overflow according to two's complement. A compiler may not assume that, for instance, (int)x < (int)x + 1 is always true.

- uninitialized variables are zeroed out. That is, `int *x;` always produces a null pointer, `char y` always produces '0'

- A compiler may not remove any statements where it determines such an optimization would not change the behavior of the program. See http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-09-04-how-to-zero-a-buf...

Such a compiler would accept and compile any C program, and the programmer (and any static analysis tools) would have a better idea of the behavior of the output program.
I never suggested you were incompetent or a hypochondriac. I see the vagus nerve mentioned as the main cause of Gastroparesis, and stress results in decreased vagus nerve activation. And as I said, I've been there myself, having severely reduced gastric emptying etc. due to stress.

What was the cause of your gastroparesis?
your attitude is common... and I don't really understand it. I mean, yes, psychology, as a science, and psychiatry as a medical discipline, is young and not nearly as systematized and objective as many other sciences. Psychiatry is less so than the rest of medicine, really, and medicine is less so than, say, civil engineering.

But, that doesn't mean that it's without value. Sure, there's a lot less value in psychiatry now than there will be once it becomes more like civil engineering, but that's not a reason to ignore what we've got.

>The Autism spectrum at this point is so overblown that I'm not sure if it's even correct anymore at some point this looks like it's becoming the new ADHD everyone has it just in a different flavor.

Why do you think ADHD is not a useful or "correct" diagnosis? Unlike Autism, there is a spectrum of drugs available which seem to help people who are diagnosed with ADHD quite a lot.

Personally, I think that treating these sorts of things is a "social good" to the extent that being productive and able to support oneself is a social good. if you take someone's ADHD and properly treat it, you can take a person who is not capable of contributing positively to the economy, and you can put them in a position where they can hold down an upper-middle class job.

I think that for Autism, the workplace is changing some in ways that allow some people who could not previously have held down jobs to do so, which is great, but attacking the problem from the other side; developing medical treatments that allow some percentage of the population to function in society is, in my mind, unalloyed good.

edit: more correct psychology/psychiatry usage, I believe.
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i just got cable after 5 years of just netflix, amazon prime & hulu. thought I'd never go back.

But it's nice having random channels to flip through and find something.

In the end, I've found that I like the additional viewing options and it's now my go to for immediate random watching.

Too often with netflix, amazon prime & hulu it was a pain to figure out what to watch.

However, I only got cable again after getting a better job. No better job, cable would be gone.
I'll call out the really interesting bit in the benchmarking: more than 10x NodeJS.
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Programming in Mathematica is weird. I've done a whole course in machine learning using only mathematica (as opposed to more obvious choices, like matlab or python) and while writing small functions was very easy (and functional programming fun), compounding those functions without using global variables was very hard. I kept using the Module construct where each local variable has to be declared, and it ended up being a mess. I always have a running session of Mathematica running for quick calculation or plotting (easier imo than matlab+nupy / matlab), but I would never consider it for larger projects. But I've never seen a larger codebase so maybe there's some kind of design pattern essential for this language.
Perhaps for Android, but I'm hesitant about using Clang for Win64 due to some recent bugs (such as tellg not working correctly).
You do not have to wait 5 years, I am working on an MVP to directly compete with private, public, and degree mill schools. Expect dramatically lower costs in the short term as we landgrab.
How is increasing the price going to attract the best and brightest?
I expect this level of technology cluelessness and obliviousness to unintended consequence from Diane Feinstein. Now that Hilary is exhibiting it, that's another strong point in favor of Bernie Sanders for me.
I actually think those are going to get faster as well.
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You speak a language with three to six thousand "common" words and over one million total words. English speakers utilize no such hierarchical naming scheme, only practice.

Typical Mathematica notebooks (I won't say "programs") use a fair bit less than one hundred of the common functions, plus a handful of domain-specific functions from that the greater set of five thousand. At any time, you can enter ?FunctionName to access documentation far more comprehensive than most languages offer.

The UpperCaseForStandardLibrary and lowerCaseForYourCode convention actually makes a lot of sense in the context of Mathematica's primary use cases vs traditional software engineering projects. When I'm just trying to solve some problem in Mathematica, using my computer as a bicycle for the mind, I appreciate not having to putz with import statements or avoid name collisions.
>'If there's no major reduction in Government loans and grants, we're in good shape,' said Donald Routh, dean for financial aid. 'If there are reductions, then we have some very real problems.'

Yes, if only...
Yep, I will be doing an API rollout soon. Pilot program to launch in the coming weeks.

In terms of fundamental data or certain data, I will not because I want Vince's business (Sharadar) to flourish as well. Maybe down the line Vince and I can figure out bulk pricing but he has a solid platform so I will not bulk redistribute his data unless we figure out a good compensation plan for him :)

His data is $50/month through for a single user license.

My other data; i.e. metrics (comparative and statistical), mutual fund data, dividend data, fund holding data, etc. I plan to release :)
I was looking at IceStick kits the other day and they appear to be backordered > 11 weeks.
> Sadly in the UK it's running out of control, it's also now part of the new benefit package new PIP (DLA replacement) for working adults.

This is bollocks.

1) PIP is not an "in work" benefit. Being in work doesn't exclude a claimant from getting PIP, but it's not a requirement.

2) PIP requires a long term illness or disability - You must have had it for 3 months, and expect it to last for at least 9 months.

3) PIP doesn't use just diagnoses, it also uses an assessment of your ability. Two people could have the same diagnosis and one person could get PIP while the other could be excluded from PIP.

https://www.gov.uk/pip/eligibility

> Daily living difficulties

> You may get the daily living component of PIP if you need help with things like:

> preparing or eating food

> washing, bathing and using the toilet

> dressing and undressing

> reading and communicating

> managing your medicines or treatments

> making decisions about money

> engaging with other people

From that list it's pretty clear that most people with ASD aren't covered, or would get the minimum amount.

And you mention DLA - people with ASD would have been entitled to the care or mobility component of DLA.
The "'I thought of it first' garbage" is part of the U.S. Constitution, and if you don't agree with it, that's fine, but generally speaking reactionary and incendiary (and often libertarian) arguments like yours are part of the problem. Like it or not, the system is run by patent lawyers, both inside and outside of government, who are not receptive to that kind of language (e.g. "extort"). What they are responsive to is carefully constructed, specific reasons why the system needs to be improved.

If you have any of those, I'd encourage you to file a public comment with USPTO, as I have repeatedly. Otherwise, yeah, in this case I thought of it first, and I filed a patent on it, and I added a number of important limitations, and it was granted.
Yep, which makes this all the more fun :)
Inflation-adjusted, $10000 in 1981 translates to $26109 in 2015.
So, folks are talking about efficiency, but seemingly missing the emissions impact of this. The health consequences of cooking with wood and burned waste are a major factor in why something like this is so valuable. The issue is mentioned a number of times in the article, in terms of mentioning visible soot, etc. but even it doesn't really cover how unhealthy it is to cook on a stove like this in an enclosed or semi-enclosed space for decades. Recent studies of stuff like fireplaces and the like indicate wood burning fires and stoves can be (much) worse than smoking cigarettes for your respiratory health. If a $1 upgrade to stoves (plus other innovations like cheap DIY charcoal production which other groups have worked on) can make the air quality vastly better for folks in the poorest regions, it can change outcomes dramatically over decades, and can save money in the long run. Health care, even the abysmal level of health care offered in rural villages in developing nations, costs a lot more than $1 per family to provide.
I'm not aware of any serious published works. Really the only way to choose an allocator is to try them all on your benchmark workload. Any other benchmarks are likely to be irrelevant.

I think tcmalloc vs. jemalloc is basically a wash. One is written by google people and the other is written by facebook people. Facebook is much more forward about their open source project than is Google, so more people have heard of jemalloc.
It can be interesting because you've typically spent the previous couple of hours drinking.
Its because a person may fit all the clinical requirements of a given diagnosis at one point, but may not at another. Getting to the root of a problem can be very difficult - even getting a basic response out of someone who is in a state of major depression or panic-attack inducing anxiety is difficult. You have to find ways to peel the onion. However, when the root cause isn't found and addressed, the treatment for the comorbid conditions can actually mask and obfuscate the underlying ones.
That's inaccurate, according to the page you linked to (and to my memory of the incident).

gcc 1.17 would invoke nethack (or one of several other similar games, if available) if it saw an unrecogized #pragma directive.

According to the C standard, the behavior of a #pragma not followed by STDC is implementation-defined, not undefined -- which means that an implementation is required to document its behavior. (I presume that gcc did so.)

gcc did not play launch Nethack in response to undefined behavior in general, or in response to anything other than an unrecognized #pragma directive.
Maybe you could fix it a bit by making the time semi-random. It's not nearly as fun if it's a static clock and accurate down to the second.
The bugseverywhere web page currently tells you to clone from a broken gitorious URL.. so.. installs?

The main difference is the design. BE keeps a hidden directory where everything is referenced by hash, which means you need to take the time to set up BE and have the client installed to use it. This is based on human readable file and directory names and isn't concerned with title collisions, which means that if you're stuck you can manage your issues with ls and cat (and mkdir, I guess.)

BE is probably more powerful and mature, but this is lighter weight, has no dependencies, and I find easier to use (possibly because I wrote it.)
She suggested that there be a "Manhattan-like project"

This is the sort of pointy-haired-boss thinking that gets parodied in Dilbert. Anything is possible, if you just throw enough money at it. Actual understanding of science and first principles is unnecessary if you understand that!
There seems to be a bunch of projects. Lacking an AI to do the job let me extract what caught my eye and seems to be answering the question.

>The Hammurabi Project is an experiment in converting legal source material to the C# programming language. [...] The idea is to grow a body of source code that mirrors the structure of U.S. federal and state legislation, regulation, and case law. https://mpoulshock.github.io/hammurabi/

>The Stanford Computable Contracts Initiative (SCCI) is working on legal technology that will help move the world from natural language based contracts toward a world of computable contacts.

> The project [Designing and Understanding Forensic Bayesian Networks with Arguments and Scenarios] ’s new approach is to link the successful statistical modelling technique of Bayesian networks to models that effectively dovetail legal argumentation and scenario construction in the legal world. http://www.ai.rug.nl/~verheij/nwofs/

>Instead of automating legal work, I intend to focus on augmenting legal work. Specifically, my project [Computational Linguistics and Effective Legal Drafting] focuses on using advances in computational linguistics technology to help lawyers draft more precise and error-free legal documents like contracts, regulations and statutes.
Happy to see that he mentionned working on a memory pool in his todo list, malloc's mutex will really hinder the multi-threading performance here.

I recommend he uses: "Scalable Lock-Free Dynamic Memory Allocation" by Maged M. Michael

Incidentally, this is one of the guys who came up with the lock-free queue algorithm he uses.
Sixth grader students know all the words third grader students know, but third grade students do not know all the words that sixth grade students know. Are the third and sixth grade students speaking different languages?
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I think they do. I also think they hire maid/butler services.
> which pointers to different data types were of the same size

Member function pointer size varies widely between ABIs.
Then we already have those languages: They exist because they are used.

I'm not sure this is helpful though. We've accepted "literally" also means "not literally" without creating a new language.
and 1981 when the article was written was a period of hyper-inflation

" 'families will still allocate about the same percentage of income in real dollars' because college charges have only paralleled the inflation in the nation's disposable personal income"
"Undefined behavior" means behavior that is not defined by the C standard. Things other than the C standard (secondary standards like POSIX, compiler documentation, hardware specifications, etc.) are free to define the behavior of any construct that's not defined by the language standard.

And an optimizing compiler is free to transform its generated code based on the assumption that the code's behavior is defined.
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I'd personally be fine with being forced to specify what sort of undefined behaviors I want to allow to be "assumed I didn't mean"; it's not a problem for me if some code refuses to compile until I e.g. type-annotate my u32s with "they're not going to overflow, don't worry."

I was about to say that "this would break a ton of other projects"—but actually, it seems like it'd be fine as long as it was an opt-in -W switch.
From my understanding it's a promising path towards a free, verifiable processor.
FPGA:s apparently are simple and repetitive enough that it's feasible to verify their structure by X-ray, and the configuration is under user control.

So while I doubt they would be able to compete on performance in most cases, it could offer access to a real rarity: A CPU that can really be known and trusted.
So... Java? :P
Parent is pretty clearly referring to using solar photovoltaic panels to generate electricity to operate an induction cooktop. Pretty sure parent grossly lacks an understanding of what global poverty is.

I knew a guy who worked in the Peace Corps in Lesotho, trying to get people to use reflective stoves. His experience is that people didn't want to use them because (a) they liked traditional cooking [who doesn't?] and (b) insofar as they had aspirations, it was to buy a propane bottle and a burner, like the middle class people in their area.
A few alternatives....

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http://getcockpit.com/

http://harpjs.com/
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Actual amount paid is very different from sticker price. It's basically sliding-scale ie wealthy students pay full price to and poor students pay very little.
waits for RMS to get mad

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2014-01/msg00247.html
NDK is only for Android (as in a C++ toolchain for Android, the toolchain runs on Windows, Linux and Mac but the resulting executables are meant for Android) ... what do you mean with Win64 in this context ?