skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original motivation for GetProgramBinary was to bypass the driver compiler passes, but in order to prevent the unpredictable (by the game) compilations that would happen mid-game, causing CPU spikes.

As far as Vulkan, this is not the same use case. Vulkan is using the DX model of compile high level to intermediate representation, and then let driver compile to maybe. One idea of SPIR-V is that any compiler can generate the bytecode, whereas on DX, it currently is that only fxc is allowed to (this didn't used to be the requirement...I speculate it changed when the IL started to drift away from HW ISA , making it so that targeting IL was a bad idea).

As far as GetProgramBinary on Vulkan, that doesn't jive with how it's supposed to work. DX12/Vulkan have precompiled pipeline state objects that include compiled shader binaries as part of the state. Ideally, you build (and serialize) these at installation/startup so you don't have to worry about those during runtime.
FWIW: Jordi Quoidbach is another researcher (from Harvard), he worked with Dan Gilbert now that I think about it, who heavily relies on the power pose and other outstanding claims from positive psychology experiments to promote... positive psychology (and some self-help books).
They shouldn't "stop signing up". They should unionize. Many adjuncts are already doing that and it's helping.
I work from home in an area that gets high amounts of fog, and I frequently go days without seeing the sun. I can confirm that I seemed to need about 10k lumens before making an noticeable change in mood.

I used three (1 warm, 2 cold) relatively inexpensive 36W LED bulbs from ebay locally - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/121704759594

(Note they are LARGE and require a free-standing light fixture without any type of lampshade)
Can you give some links of model #s? I've been thinking of this for a while, but never knew where to start. Thanks!
fwiw the Death Wish series with Charles Bronson was soooooooo much worse.
I would :).
Interesting to see that Microsoft is on top of the best-paper award list with 43 points, and MIT is third on the list with 30 points. IBM and Google are way further down the list, just to name a couple.

This is why Microsoft deserves much more credit than it gets. Especially compared to Apple, which isn't even to be found on this list.
I bet if the same investigation happened at every public water plants across the country that they would not be the only ones to have major issues...
"is there any such thing as a more productive adjunct professor"

The text starting with the example of "Mary Grabar, who worked as an adjunct for many years" gives several examples of how an adjunct professor can be more productive: 1) having a lockable desk rather than having to lug a cart each time to a hot-desking bullpen, 2) remove the need to work additional jobs outside of teaching, which can lead to 'stress and exhaustion', and keep the teacher from mentoring students, writing letters of recommendation, or answering students who simply had questions, and 3) reduce isolation between teachers, because it:

> allows us to improve ourselves academically as well as our working environment,” she says, and it “facilitates better teaching to have others who are in the same circumstances to talk through problems, share experiences, and strategize how to solve them.”

The essay also suggests that a reason for the "ratcheting up costs" is that administration has been taking over most universities and the money has been going to "ensure higher pay for a burgeoning legion of bureaucrats." The article mentions Benjamin Ginsberg, who goes into more depth on this topic in "Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters".
Show HN: Scripts to Build Your Own IPsec/L2TP VPN Server
WRT obesity, there is a big drive to recognize that this is not a really controllable impulse (appetite and metabolism differences are strongly biologically determined) and a lot if the effort (diets, for example, or low-calorie substitutes) goes into figuring out how to fulfill the impulse while reducing the harm - similar to STD protection and birth control.

WRT socializing, we definitely have norms about controlling the drive to socialize, but I don't know many people who advocate complete isolation.

Similarly with sex. What you characterize as a "you can't control biological impulses" position usually specifically targets abstinence - that is not a fight you can win. But those same people are often totally in favor of more limited control of the sex drive. Laws against rape (statutory or otherwise), norms against romances on the workplace or military service where a power imbalance exists, norms against just plain moving too fast with someone new - these are all very broadly supported.
Ginseng is supposed to enhance the effect of whatever it is taken with. So, make sure to take some with your placebo.
Good reference. This is a sign that the power consumed by instruction decoding and OoO processing is much greater than the arithmetic done by each instruction in general-purpose processors.
Distorted Mandlebox
Why should it?
#BeLikeQodos Is Afghanistan’s Version of #BeLikeBill
"The problem is, 9999 times out of 10000 support requests are legitimate, agents get trained to assume they’re legitimate. But in the 1 case they’re not, you can completely fuck someone over."

That's why nothing will change if these estimates are even in the right universe. Nobody wants to inconvenience the vast majority of customers to prevent a minuscule number of issues.
Some technical details about this weekend project:
-It is based on the firebase api(https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/)
-Frontend is Angularjs
-uses social login from firebase, so you can save your favorites
-has a thin nodejs layer
-hosed on heroku and using cloudflare for cdn caching
-see the code on https://github.com/valentinvieriu/visual-hacker-news

Please consider this is as a weekend project
Doesn't seem to work on Chrome for Android. It just counts down to zero then triggers the next video over and over again.
Sounds like this is a configuration issue. There should be two sets of data available, both of them are valuable.
Wow that's a great indication of the composite cable reducing quality, I've never really seen an example of that before
I would prefer that my bank, if it detects fraudsters trying to pull some sort of trick involving my account, to freeze things until I show up and present ID. That's inconvenient, but clearly better than the alternative.
The reference provided by nkurz measured clearly that it is a net win in most cases. However, that fact isn't inherantly obvious. CPU's aggressively use clock gating to shut down idle parts of the processor at a fine-grained level. So avoiding the use of several entire compute units does have some savings as well. The difference is that I was assuming something more like 2x power usage, where the actual difference is in the small single digits.
GoQt
I can't stand 24, the script is so transparently cheap. It's just one little plot device looped over and over and over each episode. I couldn't stomach more than two seasons.
I have no idea why you are talking about selling email addresses, making money, or linking to a github account that contains no email and, fyi, is not even mine.

You sound less and less legit the more you post.
> Presenting things that are not peer reviewed is generally considered bad science, is it not?

Not really. Most conference presentations present stuff that's not (yet) peer reviewed. A Master's thesis is not peer reviewed. Etc.

> This kind of "science" happens here on HN every day and nobody bats an eye.

Sure. And bad cooking happens every day in the kitchens of many homes in the US. But when bad cooking happens in the kitchen of a Michelin star restaurant, and the cook still serves it up as gourmet food, it's a really big problem.
Disposable Email API
Three things colleges care about:

1. Enrollment
2. Retention
3. Graduation with a job.

Enrollment is priority one, so they need nice campuses to get you in the door, good facilities to entice you to come. They'll advertise small class sizes with individualized attention because the current generation loves to hear that. (Of course this means they need more faculty to be there in the room.)

Graduation with a job is second because they need to show that people come out of the school. This of course becomes marketing material for #1.

Retention is the one they leave up to the departments and faculty.
I think this feature is ridiculously poorly thought out. Why would you ever want to destroy / reduce the entropy of data? Apps can snap to the nearest road themselves.
If you intern as a CS major, you will probably be paid somewhere between $10-$25/hr. If you intern in Hollywood, you will make a nominal amount.

Does anyone find this surprising? There is a practically unlimited amount of programming work to be done and not enough programmers to do it all. On the other hand, there is a finite demand for movies and a very large number of people who would like to do it.

Many people would like to be professors. Unsurprisingly, this depresses the wage. What else is to be expected?

Adjunct salaries will rise and/or more tenured professorships will be offered when either consumer demand rises or supply falls. Anything else is just wishful thinking.
It really isn't. Food service jobs don't require that you spend years and lots of money in order to qualify for them. Academia has really become a sort of pyramid scheme: lots of people going to grad school to support a few faculty who educate them to do faculty jobs that are increasingly scarce. A couple of decades ago, the deal was that you might have to adjunct for a year or two after grad school, but if you stuck it out, you'd have a decent chance of getting a proper job. Those days are gone, but somehow the folks going into grad school haven't gotten the message yet. The only way the situation will improve is if people insist on being paid what they're worth and otherwise withhold their labor.

Basically, don't go to grad school unless you have a plan to do something other than becoming college faculty with it. And don't take adjunct jobs unless you're doing it for fun as a side gig.
Interview with Jason Ekstrand (Intel) about Vulkan API
Where I'm from an adjunct is an assistant professor. That is somebody who already has a PhD. Does adjunct mean something different in the US?
In the strange economy that this simulation proposes, every economic interaction is a zero-sum game. Some or all of the participants' money is placed in a pot and then randomly redistributed. This economy looks a lot like a poker tournament! As the game assumes that each economic interaction produces a winner and a loser, it is no surprise that simulation sorts the population into winners and losers.
That depends on how strong the business is -- blekko didn't lay off any engineers when we were purchased by IBM Watson. We did lay off marketing/biz dev folks related to the business we were no longer in. It all made good sense.
I've wanted to put together a website that highlights bad science

Have you taken a look at PubPeer?[1] I guess I don't have the right touch in submitting articles to Hacker News. I've submitted a few that mention this problem of checking and exposing bad science publications, linking to PubPeer, but the articles I submit[2] don't usually enjoy as much discussion from you and other Hacker News participants as I would expect, based on the frequent statements I see here that people would like to help clean up scientific research. There is already a site for that, and it's called PubPeer.

[1] https://pubpeer.com/

http://retractionwatch.com/2015/08/31/pubpeer-founders-revea...

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/08/pubpeer-s-secret-out-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=tokenadult
It's common practice amongst professional poker players/gamblers to use beta blockers.

http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/poker-players-take-performance...
I do agree that they essentially endorsed torture but to me ZDT was just boring period. Ironically, the most entertaining/interesting part of the movie were the first 30 minutes when they dealt with torture, it's downhill from there. American Sniper is more entertaining, at least.
I had a chain of correspondence on an OS X Bluetooth bug many versions back
We just cancelled our trip to Guatemala and Belize (planned leaving date was Feb 2nd.)

Just not worth the risk to go down there (Yes, my wife is pregnant)

Horrifying and I hope the impact can be reduced for the people living in the affected countries.
That's probably about as helpful as not doing anything, so a step in the right direction, but how often do addicts want to change and how often does wanting to change actually result in the addicts quitting?
There are some awesome demos, but I think code size is a stupid limit, yet I can not come up with any better restriction.
This is heresy, the sort of stuff they teach MBAs.
I teach in a college math department in the US. A typical adjunct for us would have a Masters degree and teach one or two sections of Elementary Stats. So, no PhD.
azernik already answered regarding the drive. Just wanted to comment regarding:

> At least, when you eat too much, you're only harming yourself.

That's not true, just as "if you smoke / drink you're only harming yourself". Provided you have a family you're putting them at risk of your early death. You're both passing down more likely obesity when pregnant (2015 study, but don't have time to google it now) and teaching kids the behaviour that likely leads to obesity for them too.

So yeah, you're actually harming your family not just yourself.
No, it's akin to "pill to cure pain".
This reminds me of this TED talk.[1]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aH2Ppjpcho
> it's probably because you don't love what you are working on enough.

This is worded, negatively, but I think the positive formulation is more meaningful: If you aren't coding outside of work, it's probably because you love doing something else more.
The rest of the civilized world has known that rehab (and social/mental support) is cheaper and more effective than prison for > 30 years.

But the "tough, not supportive" meme in US policy keeps warring people, time, and money. Vote Republican, everyone, because "tough on crime" is tougher than namby-pamby "science" that can never give a clear answer!
The 11 January 2016 group-edited blog post by Dr. David Gorski, "Is 'harnessing the power of placebo' worthwhile to treat anything?"[1] is a serious discussion of placebo effects and what studies of those effects show about human medical treatment.

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/is-harnessing-the-power...
Another bullshit article. Both strategy and execution depend on people and you are screwed either way if you have the wrong people in either areas.
I grew up in a very conservative environment and even now consider myself libertarian. Even so, a progressive tax plus a universal basic income just seem like the right way to put a floor on income on which people can stand and better themselves. The sim seemed a little abstracted from normal interactions, is there some equivalent simulation which shows what happens as we vary the progressivity of the tax code, and also vary the amount of a basic income?

Other questions: would it make sense to use the level of a basic income to stimulate the economy, rather than the fiscal stimulus to banks? Does a basic income or a progressive tax put a max on the wealthys' income in some non-obvious way, or just reduce it? Is there an economist who has applied control theory (i.e. the Kalman filter) to economics?
I get the opposite feeling from Scala, more that it was "let's make a cool language with a bunch of interesting features" instead of "we've got a problem to solve".

Don't forget Scala started out as a research project to unify functional and object-oriented programming.
Donald Trump and the Media's Lack of Diversity
I am pretty sure that is due to the medium and the target audience. We, in the west, have had a Manichean view of the world for quite a long time. No wonder Hollywood is reusing this common and almost confortable view of the world.
Economy is pretty much a zero-sum game. The non-zero-sum game part (growth) is very small (2-3% even if that) if you consider a country's economy (or world economy) as a whole.

I like to say if your income is consistently growing at ~10% every year, when the economy is growing at 2-3%, you're likely making someone worse off. (Although that someone might be some billionaire in which case have at it).
An assistant professor is a full time position. An adjunct is like the contractor/part time version of an assistant professor. The result is that adjuncts typically teach at multiple institutions, for example an R1 research university, plus a couple of local community colleges because 1 or 2 classes at one school is not enough to pay a livable wage.

In regards to credentials, in the US they can either have a PhD, be pursuing a PhD or have completed their Masters, but it depends on the institution's requirements to teach (and the classes they are teaching). You wouldn't have a Masters grad teaching graduate classes or an ABD teaching PhDs. Most well respected higher education institutions require a PhD to be an assistant professor (full time) but only be pursuing a PhD to be an adjunct/part time assistant professor teaching undergraduates.
relative wealth is a zero sum game.
Thanks for the link! I didn't know that was the context for that famous quote, and it was a nice read. It seems that we so seldom get to experience that kind of perfection in software, which is always tangled up and half nonsense. It really is a wonder that anything works.

To me, the ideal of "abstraction" in software has to do with this search for unity, on a conceptual level. Unix with its files and processes seems to come pretty close to being this kind of dependable, understandable, cohesive abstraction... which is why I love shell scripting so much. Sure, it's not the most beautiful language, but the basic building blocks make sense in some almost timeless way.

Digressing further, I'd really love to work on a cleaner shell language. Like, Perl is an exploration of what happens if you write your scripts in a souped-up awk, but what I really want is a bash for us new kids, with good support for nested data structures, functional patterns, some more clever ways of representing background processes and FIFOs, modules and packages, etc etc.

I forget how I got from Heidegger to FIFOs, but yeah, a ready-to-hand shell that works well with common tasks like serving HTTP and building JSON and stuff. I love the Unix philosophy but people aren't really learning shell these days... something like it seems like a way forward... composing simple programs... ah!
Be sure to check out a similar simulation, "No need for conspiracy: Self-organizined cartel formation in a modified trust game" (0).

(0) http://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.3798v3
For another, related, account from 1999, see http://www.asktog.com/readerMail/1999-11-PumpReaderMail.html :

> My wife, The Doctor, is a board-certified addictionologist, in addition to being an internist, with a subspecialty in prescription drug addiction and signficant experience in running drug and alcohol treatment centers.

> She has informed me that (1) most “enlightened” doctors are liberal with narcotics for those who have not been previously addicted and stingy with those who have been hooked, and (2) these doctors don’t know what the hell they are doing. ...

> What about the danger of getting people re-hooked? If the medication level, no matter how high, is kept below the threshold of euphoria, the chances for re-hooking the patient are low. And if the patient does become hooked, there are programs and facilities that can handle that problem.

> The worst part about asking the patient if he or she has previously been hooked is that patients not in recovery, who are likely to con you out of all the drug they can, are going to lie, while patients in recovery, who will use the pump responsibly, are going to tell the truth. Therefore, those addicts who are most likely to get in trouble with high doses will receive high doses, while the rest are left in significant pain.

> In my own case, I wrote down on my drug history that I had once had a single methadone tablet. This was prescribed by my oncologist while I was recovering from cancer some 20 years ago. I took one tablet and concluded, based on the side effects, that I’d rather die than take another. Nonetheless, one of the seven anesthesiologists that took turns deciding, a couple months ago, how much narcotic the pump would supply me “today,” took this fleeting mention of methodone to indicate that I was a dangerous heroin addict who had been on methadone maintainance. So he did the only thing reasonable. He reduced my pain medication to almost nothing.

This would suggest that even in 1999 the order was still your #1/#2.
>Why does sex seem to get a pass for "you can't control your biological impulses" when other drives don't?

You probably have ancestors who could control their eating, but you have no ancestors who successfully controlled their sex drive. Most of our DNA probably comes from the most sexually active/driven humans that ever existed. Humans who could control it or were not as sexually driven didn't shape our DNA as much.
Damn, lucky they send out emails after a customer service interaction or you'd have never had any idea this even took place.
As others have been saying, the "prolific programmers" have a passion to program that doesn't get satisfied by coding from just 9 to 5. Personally I tend to have waves of intense programming around the clock followed by a cooling down period with either part of the cycle lasting days to weeks. Sorry for the shameless self plug but you should start small and try making a "One Hour Side Project" http://kolodny.github.io/blog/blog/2015/03/03/the-one-hour-s...
Seshat: Global History Databank
Macbook 12 running Windows 10. Killed the graphics card driver but it restarted fine.
It already is happening. So many graduates see the higher level of skill they have and the joke of a salary that adjuncts make and 'nope-ing' out into industry. Academia is going to starve itself of it's best performers by low pay and horrible standards for adjuncts and tenure track positions alike.
Apparently Strava has complained about it:

http://ilquest.com/2012/11/02/ios-6-is-unusable-for-people-r...

(That blog isn't Strava, but it quotes a Strava customer service person discussing contact with Apple)

I guess if Apple doesn't change the feature when requested by activity tracker companies they aren't going to change the feature.
Off-topic, but "put.as" to a Portuguese is like "hooke.rs" to an American/British. A great domain name for an "escort" service or porn site, I'll give you that :)
So, how do I turn off the sound?
What it's like when Walmart opens in small-town Texas
The Open Syllabus Project
Writing Assembly on OpenBSD (x86) (2012)
Is 85% of health research really “wasted”?
Isn't this essentially the Austrian school of economics in python?
In the current opiate epidemic, a far greater proportion of addicts are white. Whether consciously or unconsciously, it's seems highly likely that those in power are drawing different conclusions about what the right solution to drug abuse is based on the skin color of the victims.
Dirty Harry's influence indentifiably extends beyond film, too. Castle doctrine laws (allowing the use of lethal force against home invaders) in some states used to be colloquially known as "make my day" laws, after an iconic line in one of the sequels. In context, the line heavily implies that Harry is motivated not by a desire to protect people from criminals, but by a desire to kill criminals.