skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading over this, I see a few basic things. First, you want to become smarter and better, seem to be comparing yourself to others, and are a bit too self aware ("... basic questions ... without looking out of place").

The thing is... you can't really become better at things without doing the basic work. I started drawing before I could read - I'm in my late 30's now. I still watch tutorials, very basic ones, to broaden my art skills. Even if it is meant for children or Bob Ross. Valid techniques are hidden in those. These sorts of habits are aslo ones i find in very intelligent people. It is hard to feel new sometimes, but that is a habit like anything else, and after a while, you get used to it and it isn't so uncomfortable anymore.

Comparing yourself to others isn't really bad, per se, but you still have to do the base work and know yourself well enough to know when you need to diverge from the other person and just do it your own way. I really admire those who sculpt or paint in different styles than I do and wish I could do it, but I know my own limitations and it doesn't discount any of my own work at all.

The last piece of information is a few traits I notice in the most intelligent people i've met: They have a broad general knowledge base, and tend to find interests both in "hard" subjects (science, math, etc) and "soft" ones (music, art, philosophy). They find patterns that scope between subjects and draw lines between things.
What's GDT?
They've had... 7+ years to think about it and come up with a plan. Part of the plan was let everyone abuse the branding and give every manufacturer the ability to say "Android!" while giving 0 assurance of current version of upgradability. And we got years of cheap android devices that were, by design, legacy and non-upgradeable.

Perhaps, maybe, in a few years, policies will change enough to say "if you use this brand, you have to adhere to these policies" and maintenance and upgradability will be a required policy. But... the effects of that will be years in to the future - there's no real change in the near term.

Google seemed to intentionally ignore that aspect of licensing, and... somehow we're all collectively dismayed that hardware manufacturers chose their own short term profits over the impact to the Android brand?
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>"The mere existence of the "police state" anywhere is the sure sign of old arrangements being propped up by newer forms that have already rendered the older forms irrelevant."

-Take Today: The Executive as Dropout, Marshall McLuhan
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It seems less about shaders, and more about the hardware that runs them.
Wrote it at 2am so not the best example yes.

But how about giving up your job because you want to be fair? Or not accepting a job opening because you want to be fair?
Yeah, that's another bad smell, when you google for "<name of pyramid> scam" and you get zillions of links asking "Is X a scam?" and they all try to convince you -- again, using the same or similar language -- that no, seriously, it's totally legit. This is how Scientology tried to google-bomb itself to counter the effects of Operation Clambake, et al.
You and I have tremendously different definitions of robbery. Every legitimate payday loan outfit I've looked at is pretty much above board with what they charge and how they work.

Borrow X, repay X + Y on Z date, usually no more than a month in the future.

So sure, if you feel fully informed consent is exploitative in any way.
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Which, to be clear, would still have been a disaster for Lavabit! It's not my suggestion that he should have gone along with the FBI and then continued to run the service.

But had he complied, as he was legally obligated to do, with the FBI, he could have immediately and gracefully shuttered the service without having given up the TLS keys that unlocked all communications to the site.
>The NSA is there to protect us, in theory.

who is "us"?
GTD = Getting Things Done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done
Probably meant GTD (Getting Things Done)
"Getting Things Done" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done
I have never really used Scala, but by reading its documentation it feels like that the designers are cramming all sorts of features into the language without carefully considering what concrete problems they are going to solve.
AAM was one of those things that made me say, "wow this is really cool" the first time I saw it. Luckily, I got to see this presented by Van Horn in class at UMD.

Link to the PDF of the associated paper http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2014/cmsc631/papers/vanhorn-...
I watched one or two seasons of 24. It was a lot more entertaining after I started thinking of Jack Bauer as the bad guy.
Most of the consumer stuff is crap… only system I'd suggest is with openephys, but at this point youd have to buy the cap/electrodes separately putting you at a $3-5k range for 32 electrode setup, which I have to say is a lot better than the $100k+ systems researchers are used to and like to use for a reason.
Getting Things Done, I presume?
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Here's a link [1] to the full text of the new paper in Nature, discusses in this article. http://rdcu.be/fZHC

[1] ReadCube is a service provided by Nature to allow full-text sharing of their articles by subscribers.
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Trying to figure out a best practice here. My REST API is working well, but there is one small piece of data (other than the authenticated user) that I need to just persist for the life of a client session. I figured since the client is passing an auth header with every request anyway, it would be a good idea to associate this information with the respective auth token. Are there any design considerations I should contemplate before implementing this?
Oh no, film its self doesn't, sorry.

Depth of field is a function of the sensor size, the size of the aperture and focal length.

Film tends to have bigger image area, which means longer focal length, which gives shallower depth of field. (the bigger the film, the more resolution you have also)

This image sorta explains it: http://blog.berniesumption.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/do... and http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/illustration-how-aperture-works-2...

Because large CMOS/CCD sensors are expensive most digital sensors are smaller than film. most dSLRs are APS-C sized, which is notable smaller than 35mm or "full frame" which is again smaller than medium format or 120mm those digital cameras are still notably expensive ($45k+) and less sensitive compared to film. 35mm DSLRs destroy their film counterparts now. Especially the nikon d800/600 and the canon equivalents.
Until the 1990s, companies didn’t have “business models”
A partnership with NewEra or some other cap manufacturer would be awesome, allowing the tech to be woven into everyday life.
>The advice for people will be to abstain.

Which is a well-proven failed strategy.
Have you considered using pcmpistrm in Ranges mode with bit 6 of imm8 set to avoid the pcmpgtb/pcmpgtb/pand sequence? I think that would save 6 instructions in your main loop (though pcmpxstrx are slow).

Reference: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Assembly/SSE#The_Four_Inst...
I really like these chip-level teardowns. It's fantastic to see how the code you write actually executes.

On the Newton we were short of code space, and with a 4MB ROM it was expensive (in bytes) to do "long" branches.

The ARM 610 we were using would fault on a "never" condition code (0xF....). So we replaced thousands of fat function calls each with a single 0xFxxxxxxx instruction that was dispatched by a simple fault handler; it was fast enough -- the ARM's exception handling is really good -- and even though ARM Ltd. wasn't willing to sanction what we were doing with their "undefined behavior" grey area, they weren't going to change the handling of "NV" on the 610, and this worked well enough to ship the first few versions of the Newt.

(The 68000 had a similar thing going on; all instructions starting with 0xAxxx or 0xFxxx would trap, so we used them to compress calls in the ROM on the Atari ST).

Fortunately memory is a lot less dear these days. (One recent project I was writing firmware for, I had a conversation that went like:

H/W engineer: "Sorry, but we're going to have to change the amount of memory the system has."

Me (apprehensive and internally ready to fight): "Okay..."

H/W: "Yeah, to save materials cost, we'll have to double it."

Me: "W00t?")
They are a mirror.

Maybe, if mirrors could reach back out and change what they are reflecting. Like a fun house mirror.
>Important food source for fish and birds for quite a few species.

This is not true, and it's irresponsible to repeat it as fact.
"It seems a huge part of this problem is some are treating these jobs as real, life supporting careers. They aren't meant that way."

The problem is that the universities do not advertise it that way. They don't take thousands of dollars from parents and tell them "thanks, hopefully we will find a volunteer to teach your kid by the time class starts next week".
Yeah and if you look here[1] it's also one of the listed regions.

[1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/14164
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Use gloves, If I remember correctly part of the substrate is cadmium bromide.
Heliocentricism is not a religious belief.
"hey, that money in your bank account, we can just automatically take our taxes from it, because we're not really taking it from you, we're just taking it from the bank."

>> You are clearly not familiar with how IRS functions. IRS can and often times does automatically freeze bank accounts if they suspect tax evasion.[1]

The reality is that when it comes to user data the analogy is even weaker, since most user data is transactional in nature. Hence both parties can assert their rights. This is particularly of importance in medical data. Where there are no laws that assure patients of his ownership of his own data.[2]

In reality when it comes to information/data the ownership argument is on a shaky legal grounds. And in some cases data ownership might be counterproductive.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8509500
[2] http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v25/25HarvJLTech69....
> When someone says "I have nothing to hide" it's generally short for "I have committed no crimes and I trust law enforcement officials....

Dont Talk to Police: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

The "Short Lobster" law is fascinating.
Does anyone know whether this functionality is expected in Vulkan? Will it be covered by uploading SPIR-V binaries instead of native code? My understanding is that the main motivation for glProgramBinary() is to bypass a bunch of higher-level compiler passes, and getting back native code is just a result of vendors doing The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work rather than a deliberate feature. Is that right, or is there more to it that I'm missing?
It's hard to retrofit this to C++.

This proposal has no object invariants, which are one of the most useful kinds of assertions. Especially since you write them once for the object, and they apply to all the public function members. But then you have to clarify when control enters and leaves an object. If you can call a public function member from another function member of the same object, you've re-entered the object. Does the object invariant have to be true when you do that? Spec# addressed that, but this doesn't.

Function calls in assertions are a problem. You'd like to require that such functions not have side effects, so that turning off assertion checking doesn't change program behavior. They don't seem to require this.

Trying to tighten up C++ is like trying to make a colander leakproof. I've had a go at that myself. I've given up and now take the position that Rust is the future.
> They look at the horrible mess of the prolog structures and say "it's not worth it to learn"

Well good, the community is probably better off without that group of people.
Think of it as capitalism in action.

At least it's a step up from "do you want fries with that?"
It sounds like it would be straight out of a "Silicon Valley" scene.
The way these are described in Seveneves is awesome. I didn't realize there's so much theory behind it!
Anglo and English do in fact mean the same thing. They're the same word, pulled into and out of different languages at different times.
>increased pressure for automation

I doubt this. There's plenty of pressure for automation now, and I don't see wages increasing as being the final straw to accelerate automation research.

The argument I've seen elsewhere is the other way around: that once we develop better automation, the demand for labor will drop enough that BI will be feasible. But until we reach that stage, I'm not convinced that BI will be sustainable.

>Another possibility appears if we consider the following model, which may or may not be related to reality:

I expect the group of workers that have negative marginal productivity (or, less marginal productivity than their salary) is chiefly those people that are good at fooling the system into thinking they're productive, and not necessarily intersecting heavily with the group of people that would leave under BI. But this is very low confidence.

> I can't speak for the parent; I would weakly guess that their response would be that they never specified that they were talking about "traditional measures of production" but were specifically objecting to traditional measures. If that's the case, they should have done so more clearly at the outset.

If that's what they mean, then I'd ask specifically about food and other essentials. How would those be guaranteed production? How much would the cost of those go up in response to higher wages, and how do you protect against a vicious cycle of "inflation->BI increases-> higher wage demand->inflation"?

And if they think that production of those won't go down, then which people are doing "art"? Who's doing their current job, etc?
about shaders, but not about the kind that create pixels you could screenshot.
Rape is a criminal charge and requires the jury to be persuaded beyond all reasonable doubt that he did it. English juries tend not to convict people for rape. These orders protect vulnerable people (usually children or people with learning disability[1]) from harm. They're granted by magistrates, in court, so in theory the police can't just impose them whenever they want. The fact that the law has been in place over two years and this is the first case that's made the news is somewhat reassuring, although we'd probably be better off without laws like this.

Here's the old law, which has been updated: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/part/2/crosshead...

And here's the press release for the tighter controls: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-powers-for-tighter-re...

Here's the discussion document: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
Ironically, these days you find more useful self-help advice by finding similarities between different religions than by reading up on brand new scientific findings.
I was not aware of this and without some sources I find it hard to believe. If condoms do not prevent pregnancy then they don't prevent anything.
"As expected, I've not heard any reply from Apple on the bug report I submitted."

Does anyone ever get a reply on any bug submitted to Apple? With one exception, I get the someone else reported it or it stays open with no comments from Apple.

I have only one bug they ever put the need more information generic text and that has no followup since I followed their instructions, not even a "you did it correctly, thanks".
Thanks, most privacy activists conveniently forget this argument. In most cases, the absolute approach taken by most privacy activists ends up hurting Students/Patients/Customers etc. since Universities/Hospitals & Insurers/Companies cite privacy laws to escape from the burden of accountability. At the same time the entities are free to mine their own data under guise of "Performance enhancement".

Essentially stringent privacy laws often have adverse effect where activities that might be of public benefit Research on Rare diseases/Teacher Accountability/Class action lawsuits are curtailed.
I'd say so. His Death March is still a very relevant read for example. IMHO anyway.
Thank god – with the trend towards usable & mobile-friendly sites, a lot of the beautiful edge cases have disappeared over time.
I'm curious whether any of the standard source code analysis tools would have caught this.
The (software) ownership hierarchy
>> And I rather like Prolog syntax, it simple, concise, consistent and truly homoiconic though with operators.

I first got interested in Erlang because of its Prolog-like syntax. I was a little bit disappointed when I realised it doesn't actually use unification. That would have been a great feature- why was it left out of the language, I wonder?
Actually the real issue is that when people warned them what would happen, they decided it was probably okay to just ignore that.
I once got a leak about a future iTunes release through a reply on Radar.
This definitely resonates with me a lot. I have been on both sides of the fence with regards to needing to be ripped away from my terminal to go do something else.

In addition to just energy and whether or not programming is a good fit for you, I think it really really helps to have passion, i.e. Drink the kool aid, work in something you want to use yourself or can't stop thinking about, or is uniquely challenging to you.

I don't know any developers that are excellent that got there by working a mundane/boring programming job. Having said that I also don't any who have not had to work at several of those before they find one that keeps them awake at night in an excited state.

If you aim to improve your skills and work isn't doing it for you, do some side projects or contribute to an open source project. You would be surprised how excitement and passion can beat sleep. Don't get too hooked on it though or you will never have a social life.
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What about if you buy the soup and only put $1 more on it's price and sell it? What value did you add? Your profit, the one where you are already taxed? You still have to add VAT... Call it VAT or sales tax, it's a tax on the poor and should be killed with fire.
For other CS collections, there's:

Matt Might's archive of books grad students should read
http://matt.might.net/articles/books-papers-materials-for-gr...

Jeff Huang's best paper award winners from the last 20 years
http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html
Paying people more doesn't necessarily make cost go up, if productivity makes up for the cost. But I'm at a loss to see how that would work here: is there any such thing as a more productive adjunct professor? Researching professors can bring in grant money, for instance. Teach larger classes? Other parts of the university system may resist that. There's something about a university system that only seems capable of ratcheting up costs.

Maybe one reason is that universities never go bankrupt (and colleges only infrequently go bankrupt). There's no way to dissect the components of the system and reconstruct them in a better or more minimal manner.
Ah yes.

There's a lower point on the cable where you're already in an elliptical orbit with the perigee at the altitude you want.

For a target orbit of 400km, that happens at about 23.8Mm, 57% of the way up the cable. At that point you just have to let go of the cable and you'll only need a circularizing burn when you reach 400km: Δv of ~2,137m/s.

This is not taking into account the further savings from aerobraking as I don't know how to calculate that.
A fair comment.

I think it's important to note that a fear or anxiety reaction may not, as you say, keep us safe. When I'm calm and rational, I make better decisions than when I'm gripped by fear.

As an avid hiker and explorer, occasionally my fear of heights interferes with my enjoyment of my hobby. I try to push past it as much as possible, but when my heart is racing and my legs are shaking, a situation which would otherwise be safe can become dangerous.

Also, unlike you, I do have two friends who suffer from PTSD (it's common enough that one may be surprised to find that a friend one has known for years wrestles with PTSD in some aspect of life but doesn't advertise that fact). One of those friends has gotten off an elevator early because being in an enclosed situation with a stranger gave her a panic attack. Another called me on the phone nearly in tears because she had to stay late at work and walking across the deserted, dark carpark to her car was almost more than she could handle.

I think it would be great if a drug could help people like these two friends of mine go through life without feeling controlled by anxiety in situations like these. I also think it would be great if people like me whose day-to-day lives are unmarred by fear can do more things -- safely; the drug does not impair reason -- through this therapy. The tradeoffs are important to know (and as you say, the article does a great job exploring them), but to me this sounds really promising.
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LED street light units are becoming reasonably priced.[1]

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I didn't downvote them, but I find both comments lacking in substance. We live in a police state? There's an Empircal(sic?) Oligarchy? Americans are indoctrinated from birth? These statements seem completely disconnected from reality. If they were backed-up with some evidence or arguments, I'd be less dismissive.
Yeah, it was more the other way round - the restaurant would sell 100,000 takeaways, using 100,000 boxes, but only pay tax on 50,000. The inspector would see 100,000 boxes and ask, so where are either the extra 50,000 boxes or where is the cash
I find that for me, coding and writing docs during the work day is enough. I used to spend my evenings coding on my ideas also, but now, married, my wife is not technical so we do a lot of other things. I actually really enjoy a lot of the things we do. I am less stressed and I can give a solid days work the next day.

On weekends, I experiment with making music, reading, playing in the snow, etc.
>We are living in a time of technological marvels, with advances like CRISPR gene-editing being used to bring back extinct mammoths; lithium-air batteries that store 10 times more energy than conventional lithium-ion batteries; mitochondrial transfers that create healthy babies who have three genetic parents; Ebola vaccines that are nearly 100 percent effective; and cars that drive themselves.

This line was sort of ironic, since we don't really have those things. Mammoths are still extinct, lithium-air batteries aren't yet practical, three parent babies aren't legally deemed as safe in most countries, and cars can only drive themselves in limited ideal conditions (and those are only research vehicles!). Was that statement was put in as another example of how you can't believe what you read and it went over my head?
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Your logic applies word-for-word to voodoo science of different kinds.

Consider that you could have said the same thing about the anti-vax movement. Sharing autism anecdotes for other people to build upon is not getting you closer to proper assessment of the vaccine safety.

That's why we dislike this stuff so much - it's bad science, and you can't build good science from bad science.

It's a cool engineering project though, nothing wrong with discussing it as such.