skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who Owns Employer Branding?
SETI will start scanning planets near Red Dwarfs
Project author here. Your first claim is true, and you can verify it here: https://github.com/willcrichton/terracuda/blob/master/matrix...

However, I would dispute that it makes the benchmark meaningless. I agree that no one will write the hand-optimized matrix multiply routine in Terra, but I think that misunderstands the use case of the language. Terracuda is intended to make everyday GPGPU computations super easy, so you can speed up simple scripting code that would otherwise be order of magnitudes slower. Look at the other examples in the repo: if you wanted to write a simple hash function, Mandelbrot generator, or renderer, Terracuda makes it simple to accelerate Lua code.

There will always be room for super optimized kernels for common functions like matrix multiplication, but I believe there's a strong need for a language that handles everything else.
You are right. I overstated the position, which would be better stated as "Other things being equal, you are usually a little better of with a little more money".

Large differences in money kind of eliminate the possibility that other things remain equal.
For Harvard Women in Computer Science, parity is their purpose
I found myself doing something similar to this in Java more than any other language.

Usually because some insane abstraction was built over a concept and some of the implementations could throw something like IOException and some could not but of course the API throws IOException as a checked exception.
Security of a country: Portugal
That isn't the claim they are making, because that would be a huge claim. I think the author knows that the occurrence of mutations aren't present because they are eating veggies. Instead, they mean they are being selected because they are eating veggies.
"Drexler and Staton have both pleaded not guilty to capital murder, aggravated robbery and other charges in the deaths of the c, who were both 66."

Is it just acceptable at this point to publish AP content with typos?
nobody answered your question because there is no difference.
When interviewing at Google, I also skipped the phone interview and went straight onsite because of where my degree was from. Or at least, that's what the recruiter said.

Google claims to have a lot of data backing up its hiring decisions, so maybe they have internal stats showing phone screens aren't a useful further signal for certain alma maters?
Tata Steel Plans to Sell British Plants, Threatening 15000 Jobs
if materialism is true, the united states is probably conscious

http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconsci...
Speed isn't a problem if everyone else at your scale are equally slow.

If you are at the size of a galaxy you aren't being affected by humans ability to be faster just as little as individual cells mostly aren't affecting humans even though their ability to deal quickly with things at the cellular level react way faster than your entire body do.

In fact most studies about the human mind seems to suggest that we are actually more like tourists than captains on our own ship.

So the update frequency of the whole system can vary. The most important part is that it's a pattern-recognizing feedback loop which can store past cycles.
If you work in the Netherlands you have to register your car (and pay the road tax and it can be tens of thousands of euros based on CO2 and list price) within 6 months I believe.
90% is really generous
Absolutely. Even more if you think that life isn't but a slow transfer of the Suns energy between organisms. Even our thoughts are just energy.
I'd say this is mainly financial news, where the ownership and stock market representation is actually relevant. But it's a very weak piece to learn much about Cellebrite, and makes it sound like they build pinball machines and games before hacking iPhones.
>If the code is commutative, then this that statement is true.

Actually my statement is true whether code is commutative or not -- since my statement wasn't that "pure functions can run at any order" but rather "people has been claiming often that pure functions can run at any order".

What they claiming can be right or wrong (depending on the commutative nature of the functions in their code), but that people indeed claim it is true (and can be quantifiably verified)...
I'm curious how you define "organism", and what it means to be a "meaningful organism"?
It also makes a dangerous assumption : that all forms of life is designed according to our idea of what life is. But life may very well exists outside of the concept of thoughts, or may not be constrained by space, time or causality. Or maybe span on severeal spaces/times.

For what we know anything could be alive, we just have now way to be verify it. Our concept of "life" is very limited, because it's limited to what we can perceive or imagine.
That's what I get for reading too quickly :)

I focused on performance because that's one example I've had brought up several times. And it's probably the easiest one.

I've seen privacy stories too. The style I like is to create a malicious user and deny them.

As a Malicious User
I want to steal credit card numbers
So that I can sell them on the black market

Given I have access to the web app
When I supply malformed URLs
I am ignored

A/C
Pentest tool with decent corpus

Another approach, also used, is exploratory testing. Security and privacy are tricky because you're dealing with humans who can react creatively; so the best test is humans who react creatively.
I've been struggling with this issue for months. I really want to be hired by Microsoft, Amazon or Google, but I feel like the time required to prepare for the inevitable "hazing" would be better served exploring new technologies and creating new software.
Agility requires prior knowledge and any action that puts that knowledge at risk of catastrophic lose is questionable. That said, agents taking on risks that are expendable without major loss of knowledge or unreasonable expenditures of resources will outperform competing systems that avoid loss at all costs.
Title is misleading. This is across an entire population over generations. Should be changed to something similar to that. This sounds like it happens to an individual if they eat a vegetarian diet for a long period of time.
After recently finishing The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, the sci-fi trope of life at different magnitudes is fascinating to think about. Without spoiling too much, there's a chapter where an entire universe rich with intelligent life is discovered as scientists "unfold" a single proton.
Totally valid complaint. I've updated it to something that's hopefully more readable.
Ottoman? Janissaries, for a time, were so active in deciding who would be the sultan that, they were abolished by, IIRC, sultan Mahmud II. Erdogan has subjugated the police and the army, which were in the past very active in the political scene (frequent coups d'état, many parliamenters from veterans).

And I guess if we preserved the ruling house like the Brits and the spaniards did, and also some form of the Caliphate that acted like Vatican, maybe the things would be easier (I'm a secular agnostic, and I'm completely anti-nationalist). Nowadays there is no entity that is respected as a unifier of the Muslim world.

And further, maybe the Empire was better for middle-east. Here, the nation failed, for the bindings among people are mostly based on kinship, belonging to the same mahalle and memleket, and ultimately religion. But in Turkey you'll find many adjacent mosques and churches, for, AFAIK, it wasn't until nationalism took on that the major conflicts started. Under the Ottomans, yes, the muslim were a bit more advantageous, but not less subject to the sultanate than the christian subjects.
It seems to be an implementation of a subset of the Linux kernel ABI (binary interface to applications) on top of the NT kernel. It's most likely written from scratch, similar to WINE or FreeBSD's Linux ABI, and in that case there shouldn't be any copyright issues.
We do call Trump "America's Erdogan".
Three month bug fixes is distinctly un-IE-like. IE preserved broken behavior for years, as a matter of policy.
> or may not be constrained by space, time or causality

If something isn't constrained by causality, can we even classify it in the same "life" bucket that we define ourselves to be in? Can we even reason about it?
> A team of sharp developers at Microsoft has been hard at work adapting some Microsoft research technology to basically perform real time translation of Linux syscalls into Windows OS syscalls.

We've actually even seen this before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

(EDIT: To nitpick, I think the MS POSIX subsystem actually implemented the POSIXy standards as native code, as opposed to the translation layer that's mentioned here).
React vs. Angular2: The fight rages on
Those who know don't say, those who say don't know.
Well, it's not necessarily negative, but the scope of the feature delivered is much smaller if what the team says they've done is integrated ssh/scp/gdb into VC++.

When I read the headline after having read the bit about native linux binaries, I thought "wowsers MS went full linux support!" Still, it's an excellent achievement and it seems clear that they wanted to announce this at the same time. They right-sized the scope of the VC++ work to match what could be accomplished in the time allowed.

I would be thrilled if Microsoft's next move would be to transition to an LLVM/clang based engine underneath VC++. IMO their distinguishing feature for VC++ is not the compiler engine. This would be the kind of lean maneuver that they're trying to steer towards these days.
Yup, Apple's only move at this point is to get a lot of 3rd party auditing going and hope they can find the exploit the feds are using...

This is a ridiculous game - the government is refusing to disclose exploits they found in our devices with our tax dollars. I can't see this ending well.
> * Larger animals can exist, but they can't run, they must walk or swim slowly. Or the neural pathways would need to evolve into something faster.*

Or the head-brain could farm out the running to a different control point - a second brain that controls running.

It seems like we may have already done this, ourselves: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-second-brain/
Actually they at least need to know about a RuntimeException then.

So that would've worked, too:

throw new RuntimeException("This should never happen!");

There would've been a difference between a Exception and a RuntimeException.

Also sometimes this kind of RuntimeException happens when you convert one type into another and want to explictly call all cases something like that:

interface A
class AA implements A
class AB implements A

if (x instanceof AA) {}
else if (x instanceof AB) {}
else { throw new IllegalStateException; }

It's sometimes better to explicitly call all states instead of using the last else for the AB branch, since sometimes this will be extended later or the compiler would've throw an error since you have a return inside the if or else if.
Btw. Kotlin and Scala won't have this problem due to pattern matching.
Saclability is what I look for in these frameworks.

Spray seems like a better option than this. If you want first-class async capability on the JVM, that's what Akka is for anyways, might as well just use it.

This seems a bit clunkier, is all.
You are absolutely right. What I meant, and what I should have written was "completely stateless and completely immutable".
Unless they're representing date/time or strings, then immutability is an excellent feature.
Who cares about how long it takes for the thing to think? It seems such large thing would have no predators, therefore it is not in a hurry to decide whether to fight or fly.
in Python, running with `-O`, from .pyo files, or equivalent settings in your webserver will all disable assertions. surprise!
The new gTLD info for Thursday, March 31st
> if Apple really wanted to mess with Microsoft, they could make OS X installable

Microsoft once offered to help Apple to make Mac OS a widely-used industry standard. Apple decided it would rather sell $2,500 PCs than $50 software ;-)

http://scripting.com/specials/gatesLetter/text.html
> (e.g. you're a big open source shop, are they an advocate?).

After reading this a few times I think you meant to say "you're a big open-source advocate; are they an open-source shop?" or something similar.
"Regarding Samba/SMB (...) 79% (1424) has weak or no authentication, which means that anyone could access the files in these servers without any username or password, e.g., critical business information or private financial records."

Companies still miss the basic security configurations, and then they are surprised they were "hacked".
Paper Enigma Machine
Configuring Foreign Key References Using a Laravel Migration
Using LLVM/libClang to write a C/C++ checker, a walkthrough
Hmm, wonder if they're doing this to try to get around captcha solver services... this seems easy enough to construct into a single image with numbers that you could tell someone to enter via a solver service though.
IT pros ignore mobile security at enterprise peril
When you fail to recognize the biases of the culture you communicating to you are failing to communicate. Saying it's just a statement of fact and you aren't interested in using politically correct terminology just means you aren't interested in being understood.

You may wish you could communicate while disregarding how your words will be perceived. But that says more about your willingness to be understood than it says about the other person.
Your post seems quite imprecise about Python's semantics...
It's never "I will never take the job". I am sure if offered 2x current salary (or 3x if work is especially unpleasant), most people will jump.
Karl Jung also said that the keys to happiness were love and work. Both of which, incidentally, can be deeply engaging experiences that can be had even by the poor.
I hope I didn't come across as "thou shalt not" - it's just never going to be high in my priority list.

(And even for your use case I would think you'd be better off keeping the models in a list and saving that. Then other random stuff in your evn won't get carried along for the ride)
Thanks for the article. My gradual transition to MS from Mac became a lot easier when I realized that MS was indicted for things that Apple does routinely in both their OSes these days. MS's very success worked against them.
Well, be that as it may, the challenges of young people were what I meant to allude to with the top comment.
Related: https://github.com/atsepkov/RapydScript
It seriously helps when citing articles like this you actually take the time to read the proposal and the response. The British gov't was proposing to move to only ODF to the exclusion of OOXML.

Here's a quote from the blog post:

"To be very clear, we are not calling for the government to drop its proposal to use ODF. Nor are we calling for it to use only Open XML. What we are saying is that the government include BOTH Open XML and ODF."

I'm not sure how that's considered "anti-open-document lobbying". Especially since every version of Office from 2007 has had support for ODF.
> Erdogan is not an idiot for trying to censor German press

It hurts your country's ability to leverage foreign minds when you begin to censor the outside world. Plus, with the internet, censorship becomes really impractical. China and North Korea don't do this completely successfully and they spend a lot of effort to keep their citizens on some form of lock down. So not only do you end up missing out on the collective conscience of foreigners, but you also lose some portion of your own population's trust and creativity.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world is working together to solve problems in an open, concerted manner. I'm not saying our world is perfect but I think it's fairly obvious that censorship, in the days of the internet, is not the right way to the future.

We need to get over ourselves, stop being so sensitive, and recognize that even when governments make laws to protect people's feelings, people will still say mean and negative things. I don't want to read those garbage comments here on HN because it fills up the thread, but I can tolerate them in the real world because I know I can just walk away. The only time speech should be regulated is when it incites violence, and I'm sorry to all the extremist Muslims, but drawing a picture is not viewed as inciting violence by most of the world, including most of the people who follow similar forms of that faith.
It probably would not be an impossible task to write a UCMA backend for the API - although that would limit you to on-premise deployments of Lync, since they still haven't gotten around to releasing a version of UCMA that could authenticate with Lync Online/Office 365.
Wonderful!

Is it possible, like ubo, to block specific elements on the page that are not considered 'ads' by default? (like those annoying modals asking you to subscribe)
I bet you're a blast at parties
Several points:

* KiCAD has become a great tool for designing boards, even fairly complex ones. And it's completely free, both in terms of freedom and money. Don't get locked into EAGLE, which is becoming increasingly obsolete (development is glacially slow) and will suddenly become quite expensive to use once you want a certain board size or a number of layers.

* There are multiple PCB services in China, itead.cc, seeedstudio (both use the same PCB factory), pcbway.com and more. All offer great prices.

* For small boards, OSHpark.com is actually cheaper. Also, their boards come with ENIG finish by default, which you really want for SMD work.

* The companion OSHstencils.com is a fantastic resource: every board I order gets a stencil made.
Galactus must feed.
Elon Musk’s ‘Master Plan’ Relies Heavily on the Success of the Model 3
Idk, in my case I'm just building a modern programming language that can model this stuff properly https://github.com/hopper-lang/hopper

No abstract beans or buns or factories involved. Lots of lambdas though.
have you heard about coffee??? ((:
We need people who are comfortable with the Cslculus. This is nearly non-existent in non-degrees people.
Just order them from OSHstencils. They aren't expensive.
Apple says that 100% of its conflict mineral suppliers are now being audited
In terms of raw computational power, e.g. MFLOPS, there is a plausible case regarding GPU's. The article mentions this in passing as more of a "shiny new" gripe than a "GPU's are the future of computing".

Since more people are more motivated by "shiny new" than are limited by the GPU throughput, I'm not surprised at the author's approach or convinced that from a business standpoint GPU performance is critical for Mac marketing. My only point is that there tends to be a technical difference in regard to GPU computational power at similar price points. I'm not saying that this is necessarily important.
If the government of China really wants to attract tech entrepreneurs, I think the great firewall is going to be a real problem. I wonder if they'll use a model akin to the old "special economic zones" where in certain high tech regions the internet is not filtered.

From talking to my Chinese friends, it seems like the government is less afraid of the elite having access to information than the hoi polloi, so that wouldn't be inconsistent with a "free internet zone".
Looks like a good feature. Anyone here using Opera regularly? How is it on OS X? I use Chrome mainly, but I'm currently in the process of moving to Safari on El Capitan.
While pachinko is huge in Japan, pinball is also very popular. Source: My Uncle worked for Williams pinball, and Japan is where they made most of their money.
Whats really interesting is that despite all its flaws and a million things that could go wrong, the systems designed by humans actually work.

Despite open source is developed by a bunch of hackers who keep delivering buggy code, you can still close your eyes and install Ubuntu and it will usually work in 95% of cases.

Even if you go to the most popular fast food outlet during the busiest of hours, you usually get to eat that tasty pizza even the humans did not all procedures. You see, they are humans, they may err but they have an uncanny judgment that comes from practice which is capable of finding and fixing their errors before they are delivered.
In this case f(a) and f(b) can be called in whatever order, but the . cannot.
I love stuff like this, but I'm wondering whether it's actually useful for solving any real-world GPGPU problems.

My understanding is that the hardest part of moving stuff to the GPU is moving data around to and from the GPU without killing the computational performance gains by data dependencies, and to transform your problem to something that doesn't need a lot of control flow or rich/complex data structures. Does Terracuda address these things?
And this pattern is exactly why I prefer compile time type safety in my languages. This pattern is still sometimes necessary but there is a whole class of error this pattern gets used for that you can many times eliminate.
You can still model state pretty straightforwardly when everything’s immutable. This article shows that different designs have different applications more than anything, and, well, duh.
US racism used to be more variegated like this, but more and more ethnicities got folded into "whiteness" over time (and along with the rise in the fear of blackness.)

White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race by Ian Haney Lopez covers the legal history of whiteness in the US.
Shoutout to borja
I think you misunderstood what the GP is saying. To take your example, given:

fun f(a) = a + 3
fun g(b) = 2b

Then:

val x = f(2)
val y = g(3)

is equivalent to

val y = g(3)
val x = f(2)

And this is true only because both f and g are pure functions.
My point is that while it can sometimes accelerate lua code, it will also (i'd say) decelerate lua code, when the algorithm is not trivially parallelizable (and that is the majority of cases). So, to get the gpu boost, or evento understand how to implement the algorithm properly, I'd have to drop to the GPU specifics. The main question is then: do terracuda helps with that or will it be the obstacle? (it is not a rethorical question; while I suspect it will be the obstacle, I am interested to hear what is your experience with such cases)
You say all those things like other CS degrees skip university-level mathematics and the scientific method. Even if they did (they don't), individuals can certainly take courses, minors, or majors to add those qualifications.

In other words, why fast pass MIT grads but not applicants with MS degrees and published papers?

Maybe Google has some metrics to back up their decision, but I'm skeptical that they can explain why the numbers are what they are.
Airware snatches $30M to sell complete drones to the Fortune 500
Don't try to use functional programming for GUIs, simulations, or games. That's what OO was invented for.

Don't try to use OO for compilers or formal verification. That's what FP was invented for.

Don't try to use OO or FP for operating systems. That's what imperative languages were invented for.

Anyone who insists on a single style for the whole software industry is probably underinformed and overconfident.
> crashes all the time with segmentation faults

We would very much appreciate any bug reports, even if you don't have the time to reduce (if you have filed under another username, thank you!).