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Bell's theorem has not proven anything because it assumes free will.[1] This has not been shown to exist.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism
I have recently moved my sites to PHP 7 from PHP 5.6 on Debian 8. A great jump in performance. Its better than HHVM. Fortunately, my hosting provider Cloudways helped me in the transition to maintain compatibility and it worked well.
We have a 2016 Legacy with the eyesight system and I actually use it a lot in traffic.

It's really useful in "stop" and go traffic where you're barely moving. I just set the adaptive cruise control and it makes driving feel a lot more relaxed. I'm not sitting there alternating between the gas and brake every 15 seconds.
It's a great system, I can't imagine having another car without this kind of system in place.
Sane perception of value of electronics
The criteria of success for me is simplicity and generality. The part of OOP I am interested in is first-class modules, being able to package up types and functions acting on those types into records.
Dotty is not the core of the current version of Scala. It does look interesting, but personally I would prefer an approach that does not use subtyping. My point is only that Scala does not represent the last word in FP+OOP.
If they don't know how to email, they probably don't know how to security.
Typo: `seamlessly` not `seemlessly`.
Might not be a popular opinion but i think the US is always at its best when its divided. Given current political situation, nothing getting passed is preferable to all alternatives.
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Right, but the result in original article is clearly not in this category.
I would agree with this if guns were mostly used to protect people from threats less capable than the military. In practice, they're not: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-thre...
How is this in any way a reply to the parent comment?
I've found caffein to be far nicer on my body than my ADHD medication. Unless I am really in a bind, I go to coffee when I need to focus. I'm careful to take a day or two off a week if I can so that my overall consumption never needs to be more than 1 cup/day.

Coupled with L-theanine caffeine has really been a useful tool for me.
I'm not sure how much of this is on John Oliver's show and how much of this is due to his followers, but the sentiment to pick on Trump because his last name used to be different when his father immigrated. Imagine if conservatives found that Sanders originally had a more ethnic sounding name and made fun of that... would that have been treated the same? I don't think so.
Further, very often we write code that isn't the code we need to write. I have wasted countless hours on needlessly efficient implementations of the wrong interface, or, on the other end of the spectrum, coming up with the perfect interface for code that will never be used again. Because I like puzzles and optimizing is fun and wiring up business processes is not very fun at all.

But that doesn't mean it's a good way to write software. Accept that most of what devs do is fairly mundane, and focus your mental effort where it's actually needed and you'll be a better developer than anyone who obsesses over the performance/elegance/extensibility of every line they write. Obviously it's a spectrum, and it takes balance, but I know which side I'm currently on!
I'm pretty sure that the majority of people on the planet do not consider this their null hypothesis.
I wrote a program to count the pairs of adjacent last-digit occurrences in all bases up to 30, for the first 100 million primes, and found this property nearly always holds.

Quite interestingly, in all of the few cases where this doesn't hold, primes ending in the digit D are least-frequently succeeded by a prime ending in the digit D-2.
Can i have multiple integrations?, cuz ive been trying a LOT of Saas services with api integrations but they just allow 1 integration per app, and that REALLY sucks :/
I wouldn't say it is proven yet, but I think the possibility that our whole consciousness might be a based on biology is loaded with a lot more fear that is justified.

For the sake of the argument, let's assume it is true - there is no metaphysical soul, and all aspects of the self we asdociate with it - memories, character, consciousness, etc... - are the product of electrochemical reactions inside the body. In other words, we are "deterministic" and whatever we do could be perfectly predicted by following the laws of physics.

I think this wouldn't actually devalue the consciousness very much. "Cogito ergo sum" still applies. There still exists a phenomenon called "consciousness" and there still exist entities who can choose an action, given their memories and the impressions of the world they experience.

Technically, yes, humans would be reduced to "mere machines", however machines which are incredibly more complex and nuanced than everything we are capable to build or understand as of now. Also machines who are thinking about themself and have performed all the accomplishments of human history. And I don't think any of this would be going.

The need to consider subjective experiences and well-being wouldn't go either, btw. The need to have a solid ethical foundation and sound morals would be as strong as ever. If anything it could become broader and give more justification for e.g. animal rights. But I can't see anything bad with that.
Why would they keep it secret?

I understand that they need to keep the low level details
of their CPU secret, but a memory model? All it says is when/how reads and write commute. If a CPU manufacturer were to
provide a nice, high-level memory model, this would make the CPU more sellable. Why? Because compiler writers could more aggressively optimise when compiling for the CPU.

I suspect that the reason they don't give out memory models is that
they don't know how to do it. That's also the vibe I've been getting
when I talked to people who would know.
For those interested in more details, a paper using this system is here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/alekha/arxiv_g...
a) and b) can be so cheap relative to the total cost of the application and / or the value that application produces that they might as well be unlimited.

Essentially, if you are running into electricity / resource constraints on, say, an e-commerce website, then unless your design choices were absolutely hideous, then you are having a Very Good Problem.

Many programmers can spend their entire careers on building and maintaining such apps. The infrastructure costs are outclassed by their salary by several orders of magnitude. A decent website costs millions to develop in total and hundreds monthly to host. It can bring in several million in revenue every year.

All this and it's still a sideshow to the main business. A site I maintain does $3 million in business every year, whereas our retail partners do 7.
> It seems one of the least developer friendly languages possible on a large project.

It's only unfriendly to those who don't actually know the language.
No opinion about the rest of the argument, but a 300ms animated transition is looooooong. It will be noticed by basically everybody and annoy a good number of them.

The only good reason I can think of is that you're somehow stuck with 300ms+ delay anyway, so you provide an animation so that the users don't think "WTF? I just clicked on it and why is nothing happening?" But if you can shave off 0.2 seconds then you can probably get rid of the animation altogether!
TL;DR:

1) "Acoustic Kitty"[0] - not really a conspiracy theory. To be a conspiracy theory you need two things, at least - a conspiracy, and theorists. This was just a failed attempt to weaponize a cat.

2) That the government poisoned alcohol during the Prohibition. I've heard that this was confirmed, and debunked, so I don't know. Half points I guess.

3) MKUltra[1]. Yeah, but that's like the one conspiracy theory just about everyone who knows about conspiracy theory knows about.

4) "Is Area 51 fact or fiction?"... also not a conspiracy theory. No one doubted the existence of the facility (other than the government of course) so much as its official purpose.

So - not four conspiracy theories, and certainly not four proven conspiracy theories. You can do better, Hacker News.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
I'm pointing out that a compiler & language designer probably has a different concept of inefficiencies than a webapp dev.
A lot of confusion could be saved by reframing the discussion. Instead, talk about whether the performance characteristics of a particular choice are understood or not. If not, then don't optimize until it is either understood to be a problem through measurement or some other form of discovery.
Action vs. indecision
Growing a system – How I do code
"The idea that databases are a bottleneck in web-projects is an all-too-common misconception. A well designed system is balanced: when the input load increases, all parts of the system take the hit. Likewise, when a certain threshold is reached, all components – not just the hard disk database, but the processor and the network part – are hit. Given this reality, the processing power of the application cluster is arguably the most important factor"

Oh my. Where do we begin? I guess, using this logic, the language that is just the exact amount of slow to match whatever database workload you have is the optimal language.

Because, as we all know, all parts must be equally balanced, otherwise it's not optimized. So if you need to use 100 mysql servers, you better darned use 100 computing servers of equal computing power, because if you only use 50 you're not balanced.
The point about the military split being unknown is fair. However, I think police state abuse is a red herring, since people don't actually use guns to combat that: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-thre...

I also disagree, conceptually, with the idea of fundamental rights: http://sonyaellenmann.com/2015/11/human-rights-are-not-innat...
Lots of cars have had these features for a while, but it's really only been in the higher end models. What's interesting is that it's becoming available in cheaper cars now, and is a step towards it becoming a standard featured in all cars.
How to learn Machine Learning?
In datacenters space is cheap in comparison to power so often it's simply not economical to cram more in less space.
(I'm not with CommonSearch. I have my own project that crawls extensively though.)

You do realize that you are talking about potentially a LOT of data?

To give you an example: The word "work" occurs on about 4% of all web-pages. So even if there were only about 2bn pages in an index, that would mean 80 million matching pages. Even if you only need their URLs that would be about 2.4gb of data assuming an average URL length of 30 bytes. Ok, compression can make that smaller, but still...

It would also mean that the server would need to make 80 million random reads to get the URLs. Even with SSDs that would take some time. Hmm, actually in this case it may be faster to just read all URL-data sequentially, than doing random reads. But in both cases we would be talking about minutes needed to get all that data from disk.

I currently have a search-index with about 1.2bn pages - I expect to reach 2bn pages by mid-May - that could be used to get the kind of data you need. But not in a realtime API. Not that amount of result-data.
IIRC meetcleo.com (e.f. 5) were presenting at DPMB a little while ago.
from another post above a trip from SF to Vegas is 569 miles and 8 hours. The standard reimbursement (gas + wear and tear) is $0.50/mile. So that is $260 in gas + wear and tear. a quick search finds taxi drivers are $13/hr - $20/hr. that is an additional $104 - $160.

The slower your drive, the higher a percentage the taxi driver will account for.

Another site mentions that 2/3 of the taxi fare is going towards gas + driver pay: http://work.chron.com/much-fare-taxi-drivers-keep-22871.html

It sounds like self-driving cars could lower costs by 30% - 60% just from labor savings.
Could you suggest a free alternative or, better yet, a self-hosted one?
Kafka makes reliable durable messaging not just possible, but solves all the usual attendant problems you try to design around.

* Durable messages cause a slow-down when publishing, but not with Kafka because it uses the Linux kernel's page cache to write.

* Durable messages are slow to read if they have to come from disk. Kafka is optimized to load sequential blocks into memory an push them out through a socket with very few copies. This makes for very fast reads.

* Slow consumers can bog down the broker. Kafka stores all messages and keeps them on the topic for a time horizon. No back-pressure from slow consumers.

* Disconnected but subscribed consumers cause messages to back up on disk and eventually clog the broker. Kafka stores all messages. There's no clogging or backup, that's just how it works.

* Brokers must track whether a consumer actually received the message, failures can cause missed messages or clogs. Kafka clients may read from a given point on the topic forward. If they fail during a read, they just back up and read again. The messages will be there for hours/days/weeks as configured.

With a rock-steady durable messaging system based on commit logs, all of those problems that arose from attempting to avoid durable messaging go away.

Now you build microservices that emit and respond to events. Microservices that can "rehydrate" their state from private checkpoints and topic replays. And all of this with partition tolerance and simple mirroring.

Although it isn't usually necessary, if you want, you can make all of that elastic with Mesos, too.

Further reading:

[1] https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...

[2] http://mesos.apache.org/
It’s Invade-a-Load all over again!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invade-a-Load
I quit coffee recently, and feel better. But I still have a single cup of tea in the morning.

For those who have quit, am I likely to see any benefits from stopping tea as well?
Sometimes when I read the news these days I shudder with the fear that we are
rapidly approaching the dystopian nightmare many of us who grew up in the
Cold War era came to fear. We were taught that a favorite saying by the Soviet
"subjects" was "The walls have ears."

I read a story in elementary school about a child (my age at the time) preparing
for a State exam. His father was answering questions (quotes are approximate):

"Dad, why are the leaves green?"

"Nobody knows."

"How far away is the sun?"

"1000 miles."

The father was concerned that his kid might get too many questions correct on
the exam. Kids who were too smart disappeared,

Hopefully Mr. Wilson would agree that if this goes through then we need a
serious fucking discussion about these "warrants" that are "required" to get
private information.

One of problems we have now is that the warrants are too easy to get. And they
can be kept secret. There is no harm in trying, so the feds might as well keep
trying. The FISA court contains judges that are hand-picked by the Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court [1], which can leave the FISA court dangerously single-minded.
Perhaps new laws compelling law enforcement to be open and transparent about what
it is trying to acquire would be enough, but I am suspicious.

A second problem centers on the legal justification for the validity of the
National Security Letter- the letter that the FBI can write to get information
from things like libraries. The (legal) legitimacy of the process for aquiring
an NSL (which does not require judicial oversight) rests on the idea that the
target has no expectation of privacy to the information being obtained. If
they put in a back-door to our private communications, then it could be argued
that we now have no expectation of privacy for our phones (etc.). So I'm afraid
that lowering the technological barrier may coincidentally lower the legal barrier.

[1] http://www.fisc.uscourts.gov/about-foreign-intelligence-surv...
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> I have wasted countless hours on needlessly efficient
> implementations of the wrong interface, or, on the other
> end of the spectrum, coming up with the perfect interface
> for code that will never be used again.

SAME HERE
Very cool! Next challenge: shipping without the crunch time and late hours for the team :)
That's... actually simple stuff.

If you have the prerequisite knowledge. Most people don't. And then somehow it always manages to lead to codebases that look like `a \~=>>> b`.

nobody is forcing you to use this wizardry in Scala

Except that sorting out things in open source code absolutely does entail dealing with this. With JS, Python, or Java, I can dive into just about any open-source codebase, and at least get some clue as to what's going on. I think a large part of why Scala's open-source situation is pretty awful is that so many Scala codebases are a bunch of dudes waving their [censored]s around, using libraries that consist of inscrutable squiggles and meaningless terms, just to demonstrate how smart they are.

You can write it in a simple, matter-of-fact better Java style; or you can leverage the power of abstractions to create something advanced.

This is a false dichotomy. When I look at code written by Martin Odersky, I don't see people trying to brag about their grad degrees through their code. And the reason this project makes me so happy is that it really feels like "the good people" of Scala reclaiming the community from the LambdaBros.
My experience as an Orthodox Christian in America is that the Lenten fast is pretty much the same for all Orthodox in being basically vegan. There are also restrictions around the use of oil and wine, but those tend to be not as commonly followed. In addition, for most of the year Orthodox fast similarly on every Wednesday and Friday. Of course, age and medical conditions affect this.

Increased prayer and almsgiving are also part of the Lenten fast; one idea is that the money you would have spent on meat and cheese should instead go towards charity. In my experience, I haven't really found other Orthodox specifically give up a particular thing intentionally, except for incidentally in the sense of spending more time in prayer means less time for video games, for instance. :)

What's most important is achieving self discipline in not being controlled by food. If we fast from meat but "consume" our neighbor through gossip, for instance, then we've missed the whole point.
having probabilistic guarantees on your out of sample results as well as sample complexity, no matter the underlying distribution

What technique are you referring to?
Superscalar Execution
So what is the solution then?
You're right, it's a joke. I was chatting to a colleague about how long his installs took to run and I thought having a game where you shoot all the packages that are installing would poke fun at the fact that you're probably installing way too many packages. I agree, fixing the problem would have been better, though probably harder and definitely less enjoyable.
Sounds like these cars are far from self driving. Just some added safety features that resemble self driving but, are dangerous to use without a foot near the break and hands on the wheel.

I think this sentence pretty much says it all, "For instance, some owners have posted videos of hands- and foot-free driving on YouTube and the car inevitably makes a mistake.".

It sounds like these features are going to end up being abused and probably causing serious fatalities. As we have seen people want to txt and even watch movies while driving. These new features will allow wreck less drivers to pay less attention to driving and more attention to how many Instagram followers they have.

I'll be sure to pay more attention to people driving Honda civics when I'm on the highway.
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Shortest way:

$ false; echo success@$((! $?))
success@0
If you use Arch Linux, you get CMake files and headers for every library you can install, built right into the package, as well as all the dependencies you'll need for those packages.

C/C++ with CMake is honestly a joy. It's really wonderful. The issue is that it's not the most popular thing to use right now. The hype train has wandered off into the realms of JS, Go, and Rust. A lot of money goes into super-convenient tooling for these newly relevant languages. So perhaps I've made it clearer as to why C is less popular now.
Your definition is off by the way, writing fast code and doing optimisation doesn't necessarily mean that the code will be less understandable or become brittle.

OP said

Optimization often involves making code less clear, more brittle

Seems you're arguing against a straw man here.
Are we going to ban metal, drill presses, 3D printers and sulfur?
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How do you measure a personality? What are its constraints?

It appears to me that I am more than my brain. I have a body that I think I can control. If you define "you" as a sequence of states of matter, then the rest of your body should count too.

>So the person you are right now is variable, depending on the state of your brain. So with that has a fundamental fact, who are you really but the state of your brain at the moment?

This feels a bit circular to me.
I really appreciate the link. Currently, Amazon has it available for sale for $20005.56 new or $2904.00 used (no typos there). Seems like the market-making bots have botched again...

It's actually kinda hard to find - at least harder than I'd expect for such a well recommended book. Time to start rummaging through my local book stores :)
PSR on skl is still disabled by default, because there's some corner cases we haven't fixed yet. In case you wonder: more recent platforms shut down more of the chip in PSR, and we haven't yet wired up the power management calls to wake it up again if we need it for those cases. Hopefully addressed in 4.7. Meanwhile you can enable it manually with i915.enable_psr=1 on the kernel cmdline and see whether it works in your case.
Yes, the WSJ is known for its free-market ideology :)

But I think they have a point. The gov't has largely focused on fuel economy for decades now, while tens of thousands of people continued to die or suffer horrible injuries in cars. Sure, seat belts, crumple zones -- a good start. Unleaded? Not sure how that saves you in a crash.
I don't think they have such a cheap car (not in the US anyways). But it is my understanding that they offer it in their lowest end models.
Seat belts were invented by English engineer George Cayley in the mid-19th century,[3] though Edward J. Claghorn of New York, was granted the first patent.

The government did not invent the seatbelt. All it did was monopolize it through the patent system and later criminalize not wearing it. How heroic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt
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Oh that's fantastic! I'm afraid I'm probably too young to have known about that, but it's obvious I was wrong when I thought I was being original!
generating structs at runtime might land for go-1.7:
https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/9251/4
Nash+Operating+System+2016+SP6+Released
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There are still a few gotchas on the low level stuff, especially networking, but also other areas that involve kernel drivers more directly.

The security around the containers still isn't as good as a hardware VM, but I think hardware segregation is on the road map.

It's ideal for running container inside VMs, though, and offers nice management segregation on those larger VMs.
moderator should add (2014) tag to title as article is fully two years old from February 7, 2014.
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Interesting. Why you think SugarCRM is a good example?