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>For whatever reason, instead of the succinct description I gave, the author chose a long winded piece, added some charts with questional data, and slapped on a link bait title.

That's because their post this way got much more illuminating than the "succinct description" which does not even cover the same ground.
Check out The True Beleiver by Eric Hoffer or Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich for some explanations for this long observed effect.

Schooling trained myself and my best friends to expect to be able to use what we learned, even though there were no roles in society for us. We are national merit finalists, calculus users, programmers, 99th percentile GRE scorers... one friend is nearly homeless. Another bags groceries. The best off has a programming job only because his father was higher up in the company. I spray herbicides and pesticides and feed cattle and do whatever I am asked and more at our family veterinary clinic and on our family farm. I am extremely lucky. But I feel intensely guilty that I am not using anything I learned at university. No one owes me anything. But I sacrificed and suffered so much for academic success, debating championships, math team and programming victories, and it has never paid me back with a livelihood and now I am emotionally and energetically burnt out before ever landing an entry-level programming job. I can do all the Cracking the Coding Interview questions. I've never ran into anything in CS I couldn't understand. I'm just very emotionally fragile when it comes to interviews due to being on the autism spectrum and feeling so abjectified. If I had not been so successful in school I would not feel so terribly guilty about my failure at life. I would like a romantic relationship and a family. But I would feel guilty and to ashamed starting one without a career to provide for at least private schooling or more likely homeschooling for my kids. But I am unable to escape my social bankruptcy or move out of my parent's basement. Life seems to complicated and I feel so far behind in non-school skills I feel trapped. I feel I will never gain the prestige to feel desirable enough to make friends much less a wife. I come up with software ideas but I get so depressed at the likelihood of their failure that I feel guilty working on them (and yet guilty not working on them). Education causes higher expectations. Needing more people at university for social reasons has made them so easy that they no longer discipline people enough for success. More importantly, there simply aren't enough role slots people trained to expect those roles. Please give me counsel if you can. I want a mentor or someone to apprentice with so badly. My parents love me but they are very dysfunctional. They have no friends either. I had a genius uncle who got top marks in school, made all sorts of interesting gadgets, could solve a Rubik's cube in seconds... he ended up a derelict and I am so worried I will end up like him even though it might be a self-fulfilling fear... I think he is too. He wanted to see a game I made but I've never gotten one polished to the point I felt I could share it. My closest friends are all failing to launch, too, so I have no role models. And I am down to three people from undergrad that I can still talk to (through infrequent texting). I want to be able to spend real time with someone who has things figured out about a bit so that my mirror neurons might hurt me rather than harm me.
While this article is a good exception... In writing a book on Vice media I had the idea to see which american media outlets issue more corrections and updates. Vice scored the absolute worst. Much worse than Time, Gawker and Fox News. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MQ6IiQcorsN_pnY6oX1h...

Motherboard scored the best among the Vice verticals but not well in the grand scheme of things.
Bribing Chinese miners to prevent themselves from using Bitcoin to circumvent capital controls? Sure, why not?
A family friend's Mercedes E500 brakes stopped working on 280, and he had to shift the gears down and pull over to the side (this is back in the early 2000s). He brought it to the dealer, and something along the lines of the dealer claiming they couldn't see a record of electronic failure in the logs, then refusing to give the car back to our friend.

He only got the car back when he engaged a lawyer to sue the dealer. The lawyer was happy to work on a contingency since "we have no chance of losing this one in court".
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Yeah, the weather in Seattle is horrid.. I wish I didn't live here.
The point could have been delivered more clearly then. Instead it came off as an odd non sequitur that seemed to be about an entirely different article.
What happens if your webhost is hacked and someone installs a malicious install.sh? Without a published signature to verify against, there's no way to detect it.
As usual, it's a list of features instead of their levels of correctness assurance. Also, the microkernel or hypervisor-based methods are some of the strongest for legacy, x86 systems but not available here. The usual counters to "secure by default." Truth is it just has some security features that are better some other software with similar issues affecting real-world security. Mainstream "INFOSEC"....
Getting rid of 80-90% of them won't do, they reproduce in such large numbers that they'll rebound in a generation or two. You really do have to aim for wiping them out completely.
My father definitely saw lab study fraud while getting his doctorate in the 70s. Academia in the US has resembled the game of thrones since at least the 60s campus revolutions.
I'll tell you how. Species-specific virus, like the one we developed in 1974 for controlling populations of gypsy moth.
He's not driving a '55 mack truck. The Tesla has power steering. You don't need two hands to turn the wheel. As long as he's willing to not screw around with the touch screen for the duration of the drive it's barely less safe than driving a manual and resting your hand on the shifter.
Doors and windows have opening and closing problems...such is life when you swap a 460 into a foxbody or jump your XJ a lot...
They actually are pulling in boost. System thread and filesystem but not asio, according to the cmake file.

The other commenters are probably right that they wanted to integrate with folly's existing async infrastructure.
Really? To me it says they were right.
But both speculative optimisation/specialisation and escape analysis can recover some of the benefits of those features, can they not?

And I don't know if it is possible yet, but for Java 9 Graal is an extension onto of the JVM and can run unmanaged C code alongside normal code, so it should be possible.
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It depends on the guy. My father had me on his lap at 5 years old, smoking a cigarette, and yes--taking a sip on Mickey's Malt while driving.

I sound like I'm bragging, but my father was a great, natural driver. Never had an accident, and it wasent just luck; he was a very coordinated person. Oh yea, seat belts were optional, but his right arm protecting my body from accelerating foreward was just an automatic response. Even as a senior citizen, he was just a great driver.

I always felt he would have been a great race car driver.
"Study suggests we don't yet know how to design meaningful cognitive tests. Ravens score just as high as big-brained chimps."
Er... those are orthogonal concepts. Itanium had a simple instruction set with primarily register-register operations. The explicit ILP part has nothing to do with that.
Except an IoT saddle could actually be useful because it could record horse riding related metrics that could contribute to improving the health, fitness and comfort of both horse and rider.
For music, it seems like the rt-linux patch ought to be enough. They claim sub-100 microsecond timing jitter for process wakeup (https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RT_PREEMPT_HOWTO#Benchm...). That ought to be tiny, if you're talking about audio latency in the range of milliseconds.

For UAVs, you're typically talking to ESCs that want PWM signals in 1-2ms ranges, so 10s of microseconds of jitter would certainly matter for PWM generation, but that's why you'd probably offload that to an external PWM chip, and handle the code that will tolerate 20ms processing times with 100us jitter (like the flight-control loop) on the CPU.

Bare-metal can't be beat for tiny (easily-auditable) code size, and general lack of "what if the timing goes wrong somehow" situations, of course. Plus, who knows if the rt-linux patches would actually perform to that level on a Pi-zero.
> why Intel gave up on XScale

The gist of the Digital Semiconductor acquisition was that DEC had kicked Intel's ass in circuit design but turned out to have insufficient volume to be profitable, so Intel and DEC agreed to move DEC onto the upcoming Itanium and DEC could get rid of their bleeding edge but money losing semi business. Alphas and XScales were both remarkable feats - on high performance and low power end, respectively. DEC agreed to kill Alpha and move to Intel's Itanium - but Intel had no existing ARM style product at the time.
This assumption fails in the network connected world where a program can download custom instructions after installation.
You've probably already checked this, but there's a switch in the glove compartment of BMWs that will lock the trunk and prevent it from being opened. Try flipping the switch and see if your trunk opens.
Do you have some links to these performance comparisons for apps?
Ah, okay, I missed that part!
The script downloads a binary onto your system. How would you inspect that?
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Even more cores?
You do realize that the term meritocracy is literally a joke, right? I mean, it was actually invented as a joke by a sociologist, who's apparently not very observant because he'd assumed everyone would get it. Obviously, every 'cracy believes that it's a meritocracy; the only defining characteristic of one that actually calls itself meritocracy is a lack of self awareness. The word meritocracy sounds to me exactly the same way "positive energies" sounds to me and you; it makes me laugh because it is a word that expresses absolutely nothing but the cluelessness of those who may use it with a straight face (the only difference is that "positive energies" wasn't originally invented by a physicist as a joke, while meritocracy was).

I mean, a noble family really did have a greater relative contribution to the economy and to society than a common family (or, at least, could have been said to have a greater contribution by the norms of the time) -- until it didn't, and that's when things changed. It's not like previous societies realized that they're not meritocracies; they utterly and truly believed that their system was the best possible one (and they could prove it!) and that there are people who are less represented in positions of power is just bad luck. No society (that lasted long) has ever said, let's put all the people with real talent at the bottom. It's only when resources were allocated differently due to political action (or natural disaster, like the black death) talent "suddenly" grew where everyone had until then known little talent could be found (and they were right: there was little talent because talent requires cultivation to become effective).
So?

Physics is just emergent properties of ... (math?).
Chemistry is just emergent properties of physics.
Biology is just emergent properties of chemistry.

It's turtles, all the way.
If there is simultaneously released artificial retrovirus, carried with Plasmodium, that will transfer gene to human blood from now sterile mosquito, than we are doomed. And from what I know about the US and current state of pharma research, that is entirely technically possible and application only depends from a certain political will.

Discl. a good friend of mine developed biological weapons in late 80-ies. In 40 years there has been significant progress in the field.
What I meant is I think that Intel is focused on producing high-profit margin chips, so it is missing the boat on IoT because its chips cost too much, and ARM is dominant. But I'm not an expert in this area, so I might be wrong.
Yes, his channel is wonderful. I love his low-key delivery; he's kind of the anti-Dave Jones (eevblog - also excellent).
Two problem with this idea. If you don’t have some sort of barrier to entry then anyone can apply for a grant. This funding is made available on the basis that it will be used for science. I know this sounds elitist (it is), but science is really hard and it takes many years of learning to reach the forefront of knowledge where you can actually make a contribution. You only want to give funding to those that can actually use the money to do science. It would be a good idea to have another pool open to everyone to see if this barrier is really required - it might actually not be.

The second problem is if you split the money too much then you won’t actually be able to do any research. To see an experiment through to completion requires a not insignificant amount of money (in most cases). If you start to hand out amounts of only a few thousand dollars at a time then nobody would be able to get any done.
LinkedIn, the website for old people?
I'd buy "quarter of SV rent for a nice apartment" or "a quarter of SV rent for an apartment with a walking commute" but I can't see the walking+1/4+nice all together. But that's splitting hairs, I assume.

Having grown up in Seattle and now working SV, I think the issue is the combination of being too close to SV, and not having the funding.

Obviously NYC has all the money you could need for a startup scene. Whether enough of it is being sent to startups can be argued, but the money is there. That, and it's a massive city near other massive population centers, and nowhere near the Valley. I think proximity to one big "scene" can hurt others.
It may happen, but it is not acceptable.
Bringing up some of these questions is valuable, but I don't see this article as being a particularly notable one. For starters, the major premise seems a bit inaccurate.

From a libertarianish/ancap perspective, I don't see the point about "libertarians believe in the fundamental good of individuals" as a particularly strong one as you can logically arrive at the same conclusion about wanting small (or no) government based on believing that humans are both fundamentally good or evil.

If humans were mostly good, you wouldn't need a strong government (or any government really).

And if people are not mostly good, why the hell would you want to give the biggest manipulative assholes and liars (politicians, in case you didn't guess) a big monopoly of power that's ripe for the best liars to try and capture and abuse?

You can arrive at the same conclusion regardless of where you fall on this question.

From a socialist's perspective, I believe you can arrive at the same conclusion about wanting a more interventionist government from both sides of this question as well. If humans are mostly good, a socialist could argue that having the power for the majority to help people is good. And if humans aren't mostly good, then a socialist would argue that having the power is necessary to help everybody make the right choices for their own good.
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I want to eliminate harmful mosquitoes to benefit humanity.

I place more value on the well being of humanity than I do on that of the rest of the world. In general, I value the well being of the world as a whole, but mostly because it's beneficial to humanity. If we eliminate ourselves, there can be no benefit to humanity--so no, I am not up for that as well.

In this specific case, I don't place any intrinsic value in the life of a mosquito. To me, the only factor in whether it lives or dies should be how much harm or benefit it brings to humanity.
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Can you elaborate on the types of expressions you want a bit more, and how they should match?
Thanks and thanks. To further bloviate, Tcl is my not-so-secret weapon. I first used it when doing exploratory work with some embedded one-off instruments and it made an impression because those doohickies are still running strong to this day, well beyond the design goal. They had sensors that were communicating over a serial console: Tcl made interfacing quick and painless, and a control GUI in Tk practically built itself. It's robust and a known quantity (flaws and all). There's also some level of je ne sais quoi where, like Lisp, I don't feel like I will paint myself into a corner: need more performance? drop down to C. language is limiting? make a better DSL. So I guess I'm either a fan or delusional (likely, both).

I don't personally know of anyone in medical using it, but your comment about no OS does prod me to say that I have wondered if running Forth on bare metal for medical is viable and/or desirable on a greenfield project. I'm not saying I would do it, but I would happily cheer on someone else. (OP, don't do this, I'm delusional)

And OP, I really hope that my wall of text won't be discouraging in any way. Personally, I found that documentation is (a la Homer Simpson) the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems in a regulated environment. If you master that, document honestly and eagerly, it's downhill from there and life will be good.
i am currently trying to implement a larger version of this in the Linux environment with better question an answering mechanisms.....although ill admit i have never gotten the memory function to work yet...hmm
I don't disagree with the thesis of the article, but the creators of the ENIAC were given no mention and they skipped right to the 'computer girls' as if they were fully responsible for it's genesis.
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i have that pdf and the scan of the original ELIZA paper somewhere
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Can something this obvious be brilliant?
It's common, though, for people to feel guilty about not working out enough even if they do it quite a bit (perhaps even more likely). That can lead to less happiness. The endorphins are great... but I feel there is still a hedonic treadmill effect there with that.
Made while writing a book on Vice media. My attempt to quantify low editorial standards in 'new media'.

The methodology was rather crude. I compared Google search results for the word "the site:example.com" and compared it with "update site:example.com" and "correction site:example.com". Adding a few modifiers to remove 'corrections officers' etc.
Of course it is true. What you've said is the case about literally every study that has ever been done in a huge number scientific fields.

The fact that you have used statistics to lie does not mean that these people have. They published their questionnaire, you can read it. They published a detailed description of their methods, you can read them. That's the best we can do in science.

It is not only malicious but even worse, lazy, to say "I don't like your results, so your methods must be bad", which is literally all I've seen in this thread. That and "country X doesn't have literally the exact same definition of freedom of speech as the U.S., how could they possibly score high on a press freedom [which is only tangentially related to freedom of speech] index?!?!?! LOL"
I made a very specific claim. The parent poster applied a label to that claim as if it somehow refutes the claim - I was merely disagreeing with this.

I can easily provide reasoning for why study of flu (or other disease) is worth studying: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8369801

Can you do the same (or even provide a coherent definition of) systemic bias? If so, you may convince me it is worth studying. Im unconvinced it is even well defined, since I've never seen a definition that advocates of it consistently apply.
My friends in Ft. Lauderdale got a couple of CO2 "puffer" traps[1] and it really cut down the mosquito population and it was "chemical free". (caveat adding CO2 to the air I suppose) I was really impressed at how well they worked, my friend calls them the "fake cows". In the Bay Area I've never really had enough mosquito angst to try to build one. The basic idea is to lure them into range and then using a fan blow them into a bucket of sugar water. Something you could easily implement with an Arduino. That said, killing them with lasers[2] is pretty cool too.

[1] These are some examples, I am not endorsing these guys just found them for folks who were wondering what I was talking about -- https://www.megacatch.com/

[2] http://www.intellectualventures.com/inventions-patents/our-i... -- if only someone other than Intellectual Ventures had built it ...
ElasticSearch is a wrapper around Lucene, and Lucene does a tremendous amount of compression in its indices.
Seconded. There's nothing that even comes close to Beets in terms of metadata management. Thanks to MusicBrainz, not only does it get metadata right most of the time, it keeps it right by syncing from MusicBrainz to the tags when you tell it to (mbsync).

Plus it'll (reliably) find and embed album art and do transcodes if you want it to.

> I yearn for the ability to use a Beets library as a source for streaming

Beets + MadSonic [0] blows everything else out of the water for me. I use DSub on Android and the web UI on desktop (although JamStash and Polysonic are good too).

This doesn't meet your "combine with other sources" requirement though. For that you'd need Tomahawk (which supports Beets and Amazon but not Pandora) [1].

[0]: http://madsonic.org

[1]: https://www.tomahawk-player.org

And EDIT: You can actually use Clementine with Beets through Subsonic/Madsonic as well.
Oh, WeWork. But I think that's the only one.
Been there, done that, found a way out of it. PM me.
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FWIW plenty of people my age (almost 50) dislike it as well (possibly not for the exact same reasons, but still...)
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Not intended, but the first two quotes are directly from the author of the book in the podcast I was referring, not my impression of the book she wrote on the subject. Because of her discussion, I'm now interested in reading in the book.
The benchmarks show that by using another language his code went 8x faster. Perhaps if he optimized his C++ it would go even faster. It's funny that people are saying 10x off the theoretical is high performance. I wonder if these people are living in a Javascript bubble.
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"If you get rich, you have an apartment with an extra bedroom - and then you die." - Arunachalam Muruganantham

:)
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Honestly, comparing the choice of mucking with code signing on OS X and having to deploy, run, and debug my app through Docker, I would just learn to sign code.

I do think it's weird that more debuggers don't come as signed binaries--gdb requires you do similar things and it all goes back to OS X's requirement that processes which take control of other processes have to be running signed binaries.
Yes, that's true. I was being a bit unfair.
I think it's the .NET JIT that turns the self-recursive calls into loops. But yes, this is all covered in the link I included.
This hits home. I'm working on a 2008 macbook that was (I guess) upgraded from 4gb to 8gb RAM when I bought it off of some guy.

It works for me to develop on though. But I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
In terms of acceleration they're certainly impressive, but does any Tesla qualify as a supercar when other indices of performance are considered? They're pretty heavy for one, and while they wear it extremely well, a low CoG can only do so much.

Maybe Teslas aren't supercars, but they're instead super cars?
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Plenty != every. And comparing IntelliJ and Visual studio 201*, there is no chance Java is winning.