skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is about In http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.01019 which has a long list of references.
In Firefox it's as simple as going to Edit, Preferences, Content, Fonts & Colors, Advanced..., and disabling "Allow pages to choose their own fonts". Whoever was responsible for setting up fonts in your OS already picked sane defaults so there's no need to change anything else there.
Thankfully there has been a shift recently by the funding bodies to increase the stipend beyond the required minimum. Many in biomedical programmes are offering £18-20k a year.
Mobile app developers are suffering
Must be a big chicken, per

http://www.wavelengthcalculator.com/

the wavelength in water (brain matter) of a 7 Hz tone is somewhat over 200 meters. So probably not the skull cavity unless its some kind of chicken themed Godzilla movie.

The problem is likely not the skull but the neck and tendons and stuff oscillating like a bridge.
Sounds (and even feels!) pretty impressive on my active speakers.
One thing you lose is history across filename changes. Git can track renaming, but if in the same commit you also change the contents of the file, git has no way to figure that out. Separate it over two changes, and git knows what happened.

For that reason I also try to spread big refactorings over a couple of commits (always with the code working after each commit, of course).

I also like to have formatting changes in a separate commit. Mixing functional changes with formatting changes means every line in the file has changed, and the functional changes become invisible. (Though commit hooks that demand an (Jira) issue nr in the commit message make this hard.)
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Very strange woman candle
The suffering is from hearing about the greatness of a non-usable, maybe non-existent thing. Someone put a list together called (paraphrasing) "All the things that have happened since Duke Nukem Forever was announced." I could do a similar list of CPU's or CPU mods that have been prototypee in academia or brought to market since I first heard of The Mill.

And so I hear about The Mill again. All we do is hear about it. I can't wait to benchmark its performance, reliability, and security against the others once it's perfected and released. ;)
> Unless of course he sees an error and runs `git push --no-verify`.

Yes, but then you know he's someone you need to fire. That's also useful knowledge.
A $15 USB3-SATA external interface will do this just as well, and you don't even have to plug it into a computer. As a bonus, it's a good thing to have lying around a workshop where you might want to temporarily plug in a drive to investigate it.

(Edit: wow, somehow I missed the line you had about that in your post. My apologies.)
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More usable and open-source is JX Operating System. Similar concept. Google that one. For Microsoft, VerveOS was verified down to assembly. Not OSS but paper is fun read.
Even on 8cm speakers you typically have a -3dB point between 100 and 150Hz. For the tiny speakers in notebooks and smartphones it should be even higher. That means they maybe could reproduce 100Hz, but at an extremely low volume. And 50Hz is well out of scope.
But isn't this just radix sort, effectively? That's linear-time, no problem. There's no fundamental rule saying that sorting has to be O(n lg n), it's only sorting-by-comparison that needs O(N lg n) comparisons.

Though I guess one might point out that, without direct (and infinitely precise!) comparisons, eventually you'll have enough sticks that you won't really be able to tell which is the largest.
That's actually meaningless without context. Reason is tags are used to fo all kinds of things in tagged CPU's. Some have almost no safety while some support arbitrary security policies. So, we have to wait and see for each individual implementation.

Far as safe/secure, look at crash-safe.org for best in class of those. SAFE architecture isn't just tagged: it's holistic in addressing security & SW dev issues at each layer. Actually, they might be trying to do too much haha. Told people they should've just ported Oberon or Java to the CPU to give us interim solution.
The metric is interesting, but it would be helpful to choose a friendlier name (or an euphemism).

Perhaps this is related to how difficult is to install the tool.

It looks like most tools used by programmers have a <30% coefficient. The strange part is that git has almost a 50%.

PS: MariaDB is sorted in the wrong place.
The description suggests it was fault-tolerant, but then I read about all writes and queries going through a single leader, which is an obvious SPOF. Even if temporary, SPOF is still a SPOF.
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It uses a stack [1]. Therefore, I like it <3

[1] The stack is used in place of an explicit fitness function. I have nothing against fitness functions. But the bit about using a short stack instead, is really cool.

Edit: Woa. Hang on. New organisms are pushed to the back of the structure while dying ones are popped off the front- so that's a queue. My bad. But I still like it.
Ah yes, I forgot about that catch. Its not always just simple copy-paste.
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> It might be more "economically efficient" whatever that means

It means it has smaller [deadweight loss from taxation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss) than most other common taxes (which are mainly based on income or transactions).
well i wanted to be a professor so getting a phd seemed like the most direct route.
BoingBoing had good coverage about her http://boingboing.net/2016/02/24/obamas-new-librarian-of-con...

It's horrible she will never be approved by the Senate.

There has to be a better way to get people properly appointed.
Why cant they just improve what they have instead of re-writting it every X years and introducing new bugs?
The character assassination of the outgoing librarian (which is the bulk of this article) is pretty tasteless. The substance of the criticism is (a) the WaPo doesn't think that a fundraising programme he ran wasn as successful as it might have been (but still raised millions), compared to nothing, based entirely on a listing of scary-sounding expense reports, which includes, shockingly, Acela tickets, (b) he wasn't great on tech, which is a legitimate criticism, but hardly unique among senior government figures born in 1929, and (c) unnamed employee sources, and a single named 10-years retired employee, were happy he's retiring.

Wikipedia doesn't usually mince words around this, and in the five months since his retirement, nobody has thought to add a "Criticism" section.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Billington
The FB approach: we will pay for some small amount of data that anyone can use, but we will determine what you can reach. We will make money by getting fees from the content providers we allow into this walled garden.

The Steve Song approach: some of the profits of wireless providers will be mandated to go to a very low speed service that anyone can use for any purpose. The wireless providers may or may not make the money back from increased utilization by new and existing fee-paying subscribers who see increased value in the network. If it doesn't make money, it's not a problem: the social benefits outweigh the very small cost.
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It would also put an undue burden on those who still live off their own land. While their acre of vegetables & poultry may feed their family, they are not wealthy in the same way as an owner of 1 acre in a city.
To me it doesn't make a good replacement. It is replicated, but not scalable. All the hard work is thrown at the leader.
We should all be so lucky as to write legacy code because the alternative is worse: code that is never deployed, or deployed only for a short time. A project and website I worked on for about 10 years was recently shuttered, and I am extremely proud of what that code did for the business which paid me.
That's correct. It is a queue
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Great pictures and a really interesting place.

However, it starts off saying it was discovered in the 90s by a British aviator but later talks about a local legend. So either the locals made up a legend recently or it wasn't really "discovered" in the 90s.

I tried to look up some information about the site but couldn't find anything definitive about how long it has been known about (a couple sites mentioned an archeological dig in the late 70s but it wasn't clear if it was at this site or nearby and one mention was on a conspiracy site so not exactly a credible source).
"High-end SLC drives are no more reliable that MLC drives."

"None of the drives in the study came anywhere near their write limits"

I thought a major difference between MLC and SLC is the number of write cycles?
Not the user you asked, but I took 800-1200mg a day for a while. Then I finally went to the doc to find out I was having a depression. So I unconsciously tried to
treat my depression, which obviously didn't work out. The caffeine enabled me to get out of bed at all though. Without it I was just sleeping/staying in bed all day.
And coming down from a lot of caffeine really makes you feel a lot worse than not taking any at all, just like the comedown of other stimulants.
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Just as web pages are adapted according to browser capabilities and existing mobile/desktop standards, sites can be adapted to very low bandwidth users. Not all of them, but many.

There's no point in Google Maps trying to send a VLB continuously updated set of map tiles, but an interface for the travel directions system can fit in a 4KB page - about 4 seconds of 9600bps usage. Get the weather, read the news, read and write blogs stripped of JavaScript and images, send and receive enough email to run your errands -- all these things are very high value for people who don't otherwise have connectivity, and very cheap to provide for them.
In fact SSDs are not designed to retain data over very long periods while powered down.... particilarly when exposed to higher temperatures, and if they have seen lots of writes.

The interesting note from this abstract is I guess they saw that number of writes didn't seem to play as much of an effect. I don't known if they tested temperature as an independent variable.

I suspect higher temps played a role in influencing Google's results. Higher temps while powered on will increase write endurance. If they were ever powering off drives for efficiency purposes this would also have an effect on read errors, which also gets worse with higher temperature.

I'll quote heavily from AnandTech's article on the topic;

"As always, there is a technical explanation to the data retention scaling. The conductivity of a semiconductor scales with temperature, which is bad news for NAND because when it's unpowered the electrons are not supposed to move as that would change the charge of the cell. In other words, as the temperature increases, the electrons escape the floating gate faster that ultimately changes the voltage state of the cell and renders data unreadable (i.e. the drive no longer retains data).

For active use the temperature has the opposite effect. Because higher temperature makes the silicon more conductive, the flow of current is higher during program/erase operation and causes less stress on the tunnel oxide, improving the endurance of the cell because endurance is practically limited by tunnel oxide's ability to hold the electrons inside the floating gate."

See: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-...
>But in my follow up, I was basically asking if, from the perspective of the view, it makes much of a difference if it's communicating with a Backbone model or a Redux store.

I think it makes a difference. When you work with a Backbone model, you directly modify it:

model.set('completed', true);

When the logic changes, you need to change the call sites to call a model method or several model methods.

On the other hand, with Redux the view specifies what it wants to happen and not how:

dispatch({ type: 'TOGGLE_TODO', id })

When you need to change how the whole state tree responds to that change you don’t need to change the components. This is the difference.
I'm in a robotics course right now and the midterm is to build a simulation of a robot with mecanum wheels, where you can provide paths or shapes and it will execute. It sounded daunting until I realized I should just write a game loop and update the robot each tick.
The article spends a lot of time on a metaphor and vague claims, but IMHO doesn't do anything to convince me that the arguments are good ones, never citing relevant concrete issues. (I mean, really, "tar" doesn't have all the flags that it does on your desktop, that's the most specific criticism you can come up with?)
I think you're right, but what they are saying is that it is irrelevant because the drives/blocks are failing due to age, and not amount of write cycle.
is on the front page already... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11189628
Do it to max out the education attribute on your char build. Plus, school is cool.

In all seriousness, it's a great time to learn how to think and get comfortable thinking. That said, there are likely many other ways to achieve this.
Visited Denmark twice in 2015 and I can testify that using cash was perfectly normal.
> To reduce the performance impact of syscalls without modifying application software, exceptionless/asynchronous syscalls have been demonstrated. With the regular syscall interface, the userspace process requests a syscall by executing a special software interrupt instruction to cause a context switch to the kernel. The arguments for the syscall are put in the general-purpose registers. The exceptionless syscall model requires small modifications to the libc and the kernel: when a syscall is requested from the application program, the libc places the syscall’s arguments in a special page of memory (“syscall page”) and switches to another user-level thread.

It would be great to have standard API for this, let's say fake mux syscall that would queue other syscalls and trigger them all at once after some period of time.
> We miss the palaeolithic.

Speak for yourself. All I see is forced interaction with people that are around you for reasons that have nothing to do with your choice to spend time with them.
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Like I say above (my comment was tongue-in-cheek but) I really like the idea of a FIFO queue rather than an explicit fitness function. I'm thinking of writing a little a-life/learner thingy just for fun at some point and I'll definitely nick your idea. Is it a common approach in genetic algorithms? Is there some research on it?

Also, for some reason I thought you actually used a LIFO stack. So, what if you did? My guess is organisms that put more offspring on the top of the queue would take longer to be popped from it, so that they'd have a better chance to produce more offspring. They would also benefit from organisms almost as successful as themselves (but not more).

Is this also a known approach, and if so, how well does it work?
> I can run a hedge fund from a few floors in a Manhattan sky scaper. It would have the land footprint of perhaps 10 large coffeeshops. Google and Apple have barely any land footprint compared to any factory of any size.

That hedge fund skyscraper is on a prime plot of land in Lower Manhattan. The factory is in an industrial zone in rural South Carolina. The hedge fund gets taxed more – LVT is not regressive.
Escape Velocity: Why the Prospect of Extreme Human Life Extension Matters Now

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC423155/

The escape velocity cusp is closer than you might guess. Since we are already so long lived, even a 30% increase in healthy life span will give the first beneficiaries of rejuvenation therapies another 20 years—an eternity in science—to benefit from second-generation therapies that would give another 30%, and so on ad infinitum. Thus, if first-generation rejuvenation therapies were universally available and this progress in developing rejuvenation therapy could be indefinitely maintained, these advances would put us beyond AEV. Universal availability might be thought economically and sociopolitically implausible (though that conclusion may be premature, as I will summarise below), so it's worth considering the same question in terms of life-span potential (the life span of the luckiest people). Those who get first-generation therapies only just in time will in fact be unlikely to live more than 20–30 years more than their parents, because they will spend many frail years with a short remaining life expectancy (i.e., a high risk of imminent death), whereas those only a little younger will never get that frail and will spend rather few years even in biological middle age. Quantitatively, what this means is that if a 10% per year decline of mortality rates at all ages is achieved and sustained indefinitely, then the first 1000-year-old is probably only 5–10 years younger than the first 150-year-old.
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Actually you don't need to use React.createClass to use mixins, there is https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-mixin which implements them via decorators. Either I wouldn't consider inheritance and mixins interchangeable.
I think venomsnake was onto something a little more than you're giving credit for. I would rephrase it a little:

Diversity and plentifulness of nutrition, social/sexual opportunity, and economic opportunity are strong attractions of cities rooted in our core biological needs.

That more general form combines the ideas that the two of you present (I think efficiency is significantly enough intertwined with economic opportunity that it makes sense to treat them as a single factor). Different people may emphasize differing core attractions as reason for wanting to be in a city, but I think all of these factors are core to what attracts significantly large groups of people to cities, and I think you lose a large part of the attractions of cities by leaving out any of these factors.

edit: oops, originally cited the wrong commentor, also fixed a typo
Is this different than regular property taxes?

The general objection is that it's pretty unfair to farmers. And well, all land owners. What's special about land? What's the difference between someone with a million dollars worth of gold and a million dollars worth of land? The first pays no tax.

And maybe they shouldn't, if you aren't earning anything or spending on anything. Income tax fairly taxes everything that is earning money. It distributes taxes over the whole economy rather than specific parts, which is why it's the most politically acceptable solution.
So this attempts to solve the problem of shipping and running desktop applications in a distribution agnostic way.

It cannot actually do this however, because in order for an application to actually run you need to ensure that it's dependencies (in particular shared libraries) are installed on the OS in a version that's compatible with the application, and the documentation is essentially hand-waving the problem away:

Gather suitable binaries of all dependencies that
are not part of the base operating systems you
are targeting. For example, if you are targeting
Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE, then you need to
gather all libraries and other dependencies that
your app requires to run that are not part of
Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE.

So what does an application author do if the application requires OpenSSL, which exists in multiple ABI incompatible versions in different versions of distros?

xdg-app actually solves that problem with its Runtimes - you create an xdg-app application by building it against a SDK that corresponds to a particular Runtime, which won't be updated in ABI breaking ways. Application authors know exactly which libraries they can rely on and which they have to bundle.
RegExp lookbehind assertions
Because the labor of cooking for 100 people isn't 100x the labor needed to cook for one. In grad school I lived in cooperative housing where one day every other week I had to help cook the evening meal for everyone else and just got to eat the other days. It was far more efficient than cooking every day for myself and far cheaper than restaurants.
The website is very raw. Joke #1 has messed up punctuation which hurts its reception. You usually at least make first things good.
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My Response to Sam Harris on the Apple Encryption Debate
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This confuses system calls and context switches. A syscall does not need to switch address spaces and does not have the associated costs.
Interesting new spin on learning code by doing.
>I'd assume laymen think in terms of combinators, ie like map (do this operation to all the things I have), or filter (through out all the widgets that fail the test). Thinking in terms of indices is pretty painful.

We may think "do this operation to all the things I have" for things that involve the totality of some items as an unknown number (e.g. pack all clothes, take all dishes out of the dishwater).

But we also think with indices, and very intuitively, for anything involving a specific number of counts, like the example I gave (run 10 laps, I've run 1...5...7...8...10, done).

>Map and filter on a tree is about as recursive as it gets.

Well, the original comment was "lots of languages have gotten map and filter, and people seem to adapt to them just fine."

And while this might be true for array like collections, I don't think people have adapted 'just fine' to map and filter on trees -- I very much doubt it's commonly used at all.
You can do that in simulation fine but when you're doing planning you're eager to speed things up by moving as much into analytic solutions as feasible.
>There are not 10,000 other WhatsApps, FWIW

No 10,000 other WhatsApps. 10,000 success stories of programs doing what they need to do with a small team behind them and reliability.

It's about the technical/project success aspects, not about the monetary side of the equation -- not even about user count. After all Yahoo (back in the day) and Facebook had a much higher user count while being written in PHP.
Pentagon Research on “Brain Modem”
The hedge fund would still pay less tax then the paper company in the adjacent office. And both would pay less than the coffee shop on the street which has really valuable real estate.
It's easier to read but it also has an aesthetic that reminds me of the children's books I used to learn to read with in primary school.

Comparing the text as-is and in reader mode, you see that the font the author choose is bolder (for lack of a fancy typography term) and the space between the letters seems to be smaller.

If you increase the space between the letters with CSS using the letter-spacing property just a little bit, I think it's just as easy to read as in reader mode.