skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you really can’t figure out how to avoid polling then be smart about it. Waking up every second may seem very conservative, but if every long running program does it then your CPU may get woken up dozens of times per second.

My understanding was that this shouldn't be true since Windows 7 (and on Mac, since Mavericks): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timer_coalescing
When to use a machine learned vs. score-based search ranker
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You read the article, most people only read the headline.
"I have a special set of skills and if you violate these rules then I will hunt down your process and kill it."
Great writing
Of course, the analysis is nonsense. More money will make you happier. However, when people look at these observational data sets, they fail to take into account that more money is usually correlated with more effort or more opportunity cost.

As a side note, the appeals to cardinal utility and interpersonal utility comparisons set us back by more than a century and are embarrassing.
That sounds like a recipe for chilling effects to me.
> The First World War as practically fought as a classic European war initially. And it was assumed by everyone that it would be just that; another quick decisive war.

Europe has historically had long, drawn out wars that wiped out huge swathes of the civilian population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War
Should Scrum Roles Ever Be Merged?
With the way Curry has been playing some of these charts are going to need to be re-scaled to include beyond the half court line. 35/57 from 28 feet and farther currently (61.4%).
According to my mother, that's "The hard drive".
Plenty of downsides of gender inequality in tech for dudes beyond just that.
For most programming jobs, high school algebra (and then really only for the concept of variables).

Add trigonometry and potentially calculus for 3D graphics, game development, and high finance quant stuff.
Revolution+of+Technology+and+Cooking+is+Now+Mainstream
Obviously, I shouldn't have posted that comment. Thanks.
Visual programming excels at data wrangling (parsing structured data in an input/output pipeline that spits the same filtered data in a new format and structure).

You're right that until now its usage has been limited to domain-specific languages for automating applications. But with the emergence of functional programming in the mainstream and visual tools that follow that paradigm, I predict that soon there will be visual tools that allow quite general programming. (I've already seen working prototypes, and they deliver on most of the promises).
De Grey is most certainly not arguing that it is happening, he is arguing that it can happen with sufficient investment in the right lines of research. A digest of his position is that the science is way ahead of the will and interest to develop that science into therapies. What he is doing, via advocacy, fundraising, and personally funding research with most of his net worth, is to move the needle on getting therapies towards the clinic.

So things like the senescent cell clearance approaches presently under development at Oisin Biotechnologies and UNITY Biotechnology could have been built (with greater cost and slightly different components) ten or fifteen years ago, to pick one example. It was known that senescent cells were an issue, with a great deal of evidence to support that position.

The same goes for glucosepane cross-link clearance. That could have been picked up by any part of Big Pharama a decade ago, had anyone bothered to follow the lines of research that pointed in that direction.

And so on.
After a few goes my best score is 2. Considering I just wrote a program yesterday to calculate primes this is pretty embarrassing.
That refers more to individual behavior. What I mean is that, simply, if the world runs out of food, people will die until the population reaches a level that can be supported by the available resources. I don't see how any other outcome is possible. This happens on a smaller scale in areas where food distribution is problematic.

The only way around this is advances in technology that improve food production/distribution, but if this were to occur, then population would no longer outstrip resources and a new balance would be reached.
I think you're missing my distinction here. Yes, bower will clone from GitHub, but of course only the packages you actually use; in the same sense that Go can import source from GitHub repos. These repos are storing code and using GitHub as intended.

But CocoaPods/Specs is the equivalent of someone collecting all possible packages you could ever use in Bower in one big GitHub repo.
The Magic vs Boilerplate Trade-Off
Have you paid attention to the change in behaviors that have come about due to mobile devices? Web services are huge in helping to store user data and keep it in sync across the diverse set of computer people use.

Right now, I can't think of any vendor that forces a lock into their platform for development purposes. Even Apple made Swift free and cross platform. Lock in on Visual Studio and C# makes no sense. C# is a nice language, but there's a wide variety of alternatives that are just as good. Visual Studio is really nice, but people have been building stuff with Eclipse, Sublime, and Emacs for quite some time.

They are making a long-term push to subscription oriented services.
If you're on Linux and jealous: a similar (but different in a lot of ways too) tool for doing an analysis like this is called "powertop".
It's more like 6:1, though I don't have a good citation handy.

However, some people seem to have a strong reluctance to defecate in public bathrooms, so the ratio in an office bathroom might be much higher.
Please, kill your darlings
So one advantage of visual programming languages, spaghetti code literally looks like a plate of spaghetti!
Just make them all unisex. What's wrong with unisex bathrooms, so long as they have partitions and not troughs or heads out in the open and have the urinals sectioned off at one end.
The symmetries between DNSSEC and LetsEncrypt are striking. Your account key is your KSK. Your cert is your ZSK... but instead of your webserver (in DNSSEC, your DNS server) doing rollover for you, you're depending on a pile of scripts, leaning on an already insecure DNS, and setting it up is still, comparatively, a pita.

As the Caddy server linked in another comment shows, nothing in LE requires you to depend on a "pile of scripts" to do roll-over for you, it's just early days.
Seems like this is right for a parody:

Every had your credit cards stolen by a hacker from Siberia?

Ever pay a phone bill that was bigger than a car payment?

Ever talk on a phone on which you couldn't hear what people were saying?

YOU WILL.
Japanese bird species provides the first example of non-human syntax
C++ used properly will be always faster than Go or Java used properly.

In many applications the point is not to be "fast" but "as fast as possible".
Population growth has been declining since the 60s.

UN estimates are that we'll peak at 10 billion.

Besides that it's already happening, reducing population growth isn't necessarily a good thing, in econimic terms of aggregate "utility." Is there a difference between preventing birth and causing death?
Piloting Life in the Fastlane
Even better is the Beggar's in Spain Trilogy.
If that is how you calculate probabilities, what happens between 4,000 and 9000 years? Are you undead for 5,000 years?
They were saying that 30 years ago
Nice game. Reminds me of Infinite Certainty:
http://www.spaceandgames.com/?p=27

(now, granted there's a catch: question like 'is 89 prime' is harder than 'is 5 prime'; so it makes sense to have very high confidence of the latter (99.99% sounds reasonable) while much lower of the former)

p.s. Game over

117 = 32×13

You correctly sorted 20 numbers.
Feel I did pretty well.
Womens rooms have sanitary napkin dispensers etc. In the old sexist days only womens rooms had a baby changing table.

There are also social issues, is a one stall / one urinal a single occupancy or not? Technically there's two holes.

Also you'd be surprised architecturally how many are precisely arranged such that a strategically located adjacent closet could be sacrificed to double or triple the bathroom size at a later date, if it because necessary.

(edited to add, if you assume the massively dominant cis, the labeling is to prevent office romance trysts, along the lines of joining the mile high club on a plane but without the plane)
"decrease in reaction times"

I seem to find that playing online games does wonders for this...

Only thing that really annoys me at the moment is my eyesight - I'm quite shortsighted and wear contacts to do things like skiing. Trying to navigate a new ski area (just back from the vast Portes de Soleil) with a map is now getting quite tricky as I can't read stuff up close with my contacts in....

Also I seemed to develop the rare blue/black colour blindness which my wife wasn't happy about.
That is grossly out of code [0]. With only two urinals, there should be a minimum of six full toilets.

Management should be alerted to the violation ASAP so that they can take immediate corrective action, followed up by a complaint to OSHA.

[0] https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_tab...
Distaste for the GPL aside, the second part of GP's comment is on-point.

Not sure if you've actually looked at Microsoft's CLA or tried to contribute to any of their projects. The CLA signals that, despite having chosen how their projects are licensed themselves, they don't hold those licenses in high regard. And like most CLAs, it creates a needless barrier to entry and turns away real contributors. (Not that this is actually seen as a big concern within MS—at least it doesn't seem to be. Based on the projects I've been watching, development is very cabalistic [read: top-down] and that they might get some outside contributions because they're open source seems more like a nice also-have rather than an outright goal.)

And since you brought up the .NET patent grant, it's hardly comprehensive. It severely limits the practical chances of anybody doing anything with it outside of Microsoft's own .NET Core project and Mono—which is more or less another project under Microsoft control, now that they've acquired Xamarin.

All signs point to the .NET patent grant being specifically written to enable Microsoft's very own version of Sun/Oracle's "don't fragment Java" lawsuits. (Especially ironic given that the whole reason C#/.NET came about in the first place is because, in addition to Google being a target because of Android, the only other big target of such a suit was Microsoft themselves because of Visual J++.)
I imagine that someday we'll see the rise of a programming metaphor that works as a hybrid of code and visual.

You're going to enjoy the Eve language...[1][2] :-)

[1] http://eve-lang.com/

[2] http://incidentalcomplexity.com/
Make sure you blend it. If you don't blend it, it will not taste good. No amount of hand stirring will cause the oil and water to mix well.

I use one of these gadgets [1] for this task.

1: http://www.amazon.com/Ikea-Milk-Frother-303-011-67-Black/dp/...
>Why is this a thing in the US? I legitimately don't understand it.

People are less ashamed of such mundane things. US being a new country is not bound to the same social taboos that you see everywhere else.

Also practical reasons like, easier to see when its empty, ease of cleaning, ventilation ect.
"more money is usually correlated with more effort or more opportunity cost."

Both of these are discussed.

I think it's the failure to do interpersonal utility comparisons that were a huge ridiculous diversion in economics and I'm glad that mistake is falling out of fashion in favour of pragmatism.
Trust me, I'm sure I can improve my Python skills by reading the current version. I don't get a chance to use Python enough to shed the baggage of other languages to write Pythonic code, if that makes sense.

I haven't used Peewee in a project yet, but I've poked around with it. It's really nice, so thank you.
On (recent) Macs, they have the Energy Impact numbers on the Activity Monitor. It can give a metric on which applications are taking up the most energy. However it doesn't show many of the system processes...
"But it would be interesting if companies starting doing a "private bathroom" as a perk again"

Given decent wifi coverage, that bathroom would then have better working conditions than the stylish but low productivity open office, raising lots of questions, so its not possible until after open offices are no longer trendy.
There is no easy way to tell multiples of 13. 91 is particularly hard because it's a multiple of 7 and 13.

Obviously 5 * 13 is too easy. There's a test for division by 3, so 9 * 13 is too easy.

So basically you should only miss 91.
The benchmarks would be a lot more useful if the context around them were more obvious. In particular, it would be nice to know if the benchmarks are for a single input, or for a batch of inputs. If for a batch, then the batch size is important too. Maybe this stuff is somewhere on their site, but it shouldn't require digging.

Without this information it's hard to make a useful comparison at all.
> there is absolutely no way they can maintain any form of lockin.

They still have a very strong lock-in in graphics though. Why didn't MS join the Vulkan working group? And that's their attitude in general - they didn't become any better than before. They just drop lock-in under pressure by competition. Other than that, they pursue lock-in all the same.
Fun game - it would be great to have an achievement if your score is a prime number too
Expect a $300,000 tab if you’re a woman in the tech industry
I am an active participant on an exchange that functions in this way.

As others have mentioned, this structure does not negate the benefits of speed.

Someone else already asked what you would do if there are more buyers than sellers (or vice-versa) in auction. If you're going to allocate randomly instead of using time-priority this is equivalent to pro-rata allocation in expectation. There are already pro-rata markets in the US and elsewhere.

This structure does increase transaction costs because I am less willing to make a tight market if I have to hold risk for such a long period of time.

> Most of the HFT industry will be redundant. Instead of allocating super smart people on made up problem, they can solve more important social problems (e.g. robotics, curing cancer, aging, space exploration, high growth tech companies).

It seems to me that you are overestimating the profits generated by HFT and the number of people employed in this industry.

The above is just my probably incorrect opinion.
"1 is non-prime by definition."

dammit!
The rules on timer coalescing are complex and they depend on the details of the timers. So, the timers may get coalesced, but it's hardly guaranteed, especially if the different wakeup frequencies are slightly different.

I suspect very few programs are using SetCoalescableTimer, but I'll add that as a suggestion.
Got 15 right. Also get caught up on multiples of 13
"You will," but we won't build it because we can't bring ourselves to cannibalize existing long distance and toll based business models nor allow permission-free innovation within our organization. -AT&T
I would be interested to know what are the other top GitHub repositories.
Afaik the Nix package manager uses a similar model (using a GitHub repo as a database), however they periodically release snapshots and the default configuration uses those instead of git.
Germany attempts to ban neo-Nazi party amid fears over rising racist attacks
It's been a few years since I read it - probably about time I gave it another go.

On a side note, I just found out today that Netflix is apparently making it into a series. Neat!
Those dispensers cost ~$10. Cheap to have them in every bathroom. The guys are not going to have a conniption fit if they see them. So there's no longer a good reason to mark individual bathrooms as far as I can see.
RubyGems.org has their own web server and web services for publishing library versions and to allow the clients to fetch libraries and query the universal registry.
Cheatsheet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisibility_rule
You have a point. But I also like fast, snappy websites :P
For me it's 17, 17*3= 51 which at a first quick glance looks like a prime, up until you add the digits and it's clear of course.
brew update is being called over and over again in most use cases - if only to check for example, if the latest openssl release patching a critical exploit is out yet. (of course on the mac openssl is packaged with the system, but if you are using the brew version, or are compiling other software against openssl from brew, you'll need to check for updates diligently)

It is also being used in scripts, etc. Since from the user's point of view it's a no-op if there are no updates, there is no reason not to do it on a schedule.
This is awesome, I've long had the same thought.

Another approach to consider would be reverse engineering the mobile apps to gain access to the private API.

Also, be careful not to commit any files with your username and password in them while testing! :O
At school we did exercises to memorize from 1x1 up to 12x12, so even now I can remember all of them (and powers of two, of course :-))
Many Lisp programmers think different.
In fact, they are maxing out five CPUs - not five nodes, big difference.
Forgot PNG is lossless :P
Why People Check Their Phones at the Wrong Times and a Simple Trick to Stop It
My mistake conflating DeGrey's arguments with Kurzweil's.

I can't speak to what should have been researched and wasn't, but I know DeGrey has an uphill battle getting attention, for whatever reason. http://www2.technologyreview.com/sens/docs/estepetal.pdf
I guess programming ruined this sort of games for me.
Because abusing that resource makes sure you (or anyone else) won't be able to take it in the future. I thought that's pretty obvious?
When a package manager monopolizes that much resources from Github at the expense of others there is no reason to "commit" all resources to this one project. Thus cocoapods getting rate limited because of the obvious bandwidth abuse going on here. mhagger answer is pretty straight forward.

EDIT: the upside is that cocoapods will have to either rethink there architecture in order to eat less resources or move to their own paid infrastructure because their package manager will soon be less than functional given the aggressive rate limiting github is performing.
D'oh! Didn't see that.
Git is not just textual diff. Branching, tagging, commit history are still useful without diff.
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Mobile Onboarding: Interact, Don’t Tell
Let's Encrypt renews certificates after 60 days by default, giving you a 30-day grace period for outages, etc. Use a daily cronjob and monitor your certificates. Setup alerts if your certificates are closer than, say, 25 days to expiration. This should cover temporary outages, bugs, etc. - and the monitoring bit is no different from what you should already have even with manual renewal.
Does an increase in longevity by itself imply an increase in reproductive years?
Nice game. 530 correct, first try
Crushing Codeand Expectations of Women in Tech
Simple but effective - I like that it provides an explanation when you get one wrong.
I could say something, but my boss (the company owner) isn't the most receptive to suggestions like this.

It took nearly three years of my complaining to finally get an End User License Agreement for our product, for example.
I work with blockchain technologies and sometimes I would like to say that the king is naked
That appears to be the best option for my use cases. Although I'm not sure if that makes pricing worse or better. :P
I found the solution humorous. Ironically shallow clones are causing the problems, so fetch the max :)

$ git fetch --depth=2147483647
EV is what CA's was supposed to do but initially never did; a trusted third-party validation that checks if a online identity really match the real world identity. Its similar to PGP key-signing, but on a government/industry level.

The question I wonder is if CA's can actually survive on only doing their intended job, and if the green bar can sustain enough trust to be worth paying for.
A ketogenic diet can't be high protein. A ketogenic diet is one where the body enters nutritional ketosis, and to do that it has to be somewhere around 60% fat, or more.
When the other choice is bad (as you eluded that they chose the good option) then they got not much of a choice isn't it?

Treat the non .net platform as a second class citizen and their potential customers will smell that from far away...
143 and 169 come to mind as well. Got 65 as highest score btw, was always a good calculator.
This article is a good example of just how bonkers the 'modern web' is.

In a reasonable world my browser would instantaneously load the content (text fits in a couple of TCP packets) and I'd have an option to choose Shiny Mode (or a bar to toggle it on permanently with).

Instead, half of the 'articles' I come across on the web don't work without animated full page transitions, pop-ups within the page, blah blah. I preferred the MARQUEE tag, quite frankly.
60 employees, weekly cleanings?! Should be every night.
I've been on computers for lots of time since I was 12 years old. My rule of thumb has always been, keep the screen at least an arm length away from my face. I have 20/20 vision. (Knock on wood... I've definitely increased screen time the past year.)
It seems particularly galling that their response to GitHub was to essentially throw their hands up and say "We don't want to change anything, fix it for us". I think GitHub had a near perfect response to this, they analyzed the problem, came up with a set of changes that could be made to help fix it (both short and long term), and pointed to steps they've taken to help out. CocoaPods on the other hand (or at least one of their developers) did not handle this particularly well. When presented with the evidence of why they were seeing slow responses and long queues and suggestions of how to fix it, they complained that they didn't want to fix it and didn't have the time or resources to do so.

Honestly if I was GitHub, I'd be tempted to just increase the throttling on CocoaPods and call it done, it isn't their problem if the users of that project have a bad experience. GitHub has provided solutions to the problem, it's CocoaPods that's resisting implementing those solutions.
No mention of the Deutsch limit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch_limit
Wow. The Greeks did well to invent runes that hold six numbers in a tiny square box. I can't imagine the precision hammers and chisels they would need for that.
I think the point about "phone stacking" is interesting. There doesn't need to be explicitly punitive measures to discourage people using their personal tech since the social conventions are already there.
> Maybe they're just another empire, and not so evil.

They are just another empire. Enter the new world! This is the smartphone and cloud era!
Because it is not engineered to industrial levels. It lacks encapsulation and packaging, but those can be added.

Have you seen the tools by Chris Granger (Light Table, Eve)? Although they are not as spectacular as Victor's, those show a lot of promise to become practical tools.