skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agents are effectively atoms jammed next to an unbounded queue or unbounded thread pool, depending on whether you use `send` or `send-off`. In cases where you have enough contention to actually need formal serialization, you don't want either of those.

If you have low contention, use an atom. If you have high contention, use atoms and/or pieces of java.util.concurrent.
Don’t do the wrong thing better
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Are you proposing we simply stop all manufacturing?
> It's obvious who runs the comms stuff, and it's obvious why it's kept the way it is, but nobody will talk about it.

Including you, it seems :)

Who runs the comms stuff? Why is it that way?
Short advice: get a low-cost physically-replicating ETF covering a large part of the market (e.g. Vanguard) and dollar-cost average. This is the ultra-low-effort average returns approach.

Stock picking advice and understanding the economy:

I really recommend reading all of Warren Buffett's letters to shareholders which can be found on the Berkshire Hathaway website. They are written in a down-to-earth style and offer a panoramic view of investing, from accounting issues to competitive advantages to macroeconomics. You can also see Warren's investing style evolve and him deal with various issues throughout history, from high inflation to the dot-com boom. Warren boils down many issues into easily remembered sayings ("Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy", though the sayings themselves are probably as old as the stock market itself).

Find investments that have moats is one of Warren's guiding rules, i.e. business advantages that are hard to replicate.

Learn about accounting. You don't have to learn everything, but you should know about the things that will affect your valuation of an investment. Pension contributions, stock-option accounting, etc. Come up with your own metrics to compare companies in a sector to find out who is the most efficient etc.

You will have to find an edge, something that most other people don't know, otherwise you'll just follow the crowd. Things that aren't in fashion are great places to find bargains.

Understand how a discounted cash flow (DCF) calculation works. The important part in a DCF from the point of an investor is to look at how sensitive the results are with regard to changes in the input variables (because the risk-free interest rate and size/timing of future cash flows isn't known in advance).

Understand the effect of interest rates on asset prices (see DCF calculation).

Understand the debt cycle. We are at an interesting point in time, coming ever closer to our debt-carrying capacity.

Here is a nice video by Ray Dalio on this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0

Some economists probably disagree with some things said there, but i think the gist of it is spot on.
Seriously thought this was going to be about getting a 100M users, not load balancing for them.
i may be the world's worst golfer so that sounds like a match made in ... ascension
Is there any reason why this proof from 1947 is on the front page? Is this proof particularly gratifying of intellectual curiosity or is this just a random feedback loop?
How about if they hire people with nice handwriting to write your postcards for you (and compose the message for a little extra) — kind of like the main character's job in Her.
I don't know. For one, iOS doesn't control the market. Recent stats show iOS at 13.9% share [0]. Second, Google (and presumably others) take the same 30% [1]. As a part time developer that recently dealt with this 30% issue, I hate the fact they require it, but I understand why. Distributing the apps to millions of phones isn't free.

0 - http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp
1 - https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
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So you think your audience are just blocking ads? Well think again
It sounds like a self improvement system built on top of this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3304496/Be-lucky-its-a...
Getting the really interesting javascript posts is going to be hard, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11526368
>Would you refuse to buy headphones that have an integrated amplifier and dac and a USB connector.

If those headphones don't unplug from the amp to allow me to use a 3.5mm stereo jack. Yes.

>or would you refuse to buy a dedicated amp/dac with which you could use any headphones?

I would not refuse that.

I try to avoid buying products which have non-standard connectors that limit connectivity with other devices.

I only buy headphones with a standard 3.5mm stereo jack because I have a ton of different devices and I don't want to limit myself to audio devices which only have a USB port or Bluetooth chip. That's just silly in my eyes.

If the headphones have a stereo jack then my opinion of them might be different, but still dependent on their quality.
i agree. the parent points out some reasonable objections, like certainly the 10 year old didn't make a 3d magic-leap mount everest project for gradeschool science fair.

However, the point you make is how I interpreted it. We have the ability to do what google glass couldn't amd overlay realtime data into the real-world, also they can use data to provide contextual information.

Is it a long way off? Maybe. Maybe not. A lot of video game trailers give you a good picture of gameplay. I would play this game...
You can enable in CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3 - http://www.cloudberrylab.com/blog/amazon-s3-transfer-acceler...
Also if you gave a chronic condition like asthma you might be on 3 medicines with a 75 dollar copay a month each. Many people have to make due without, that might increase mortality right there.
The science-fiction author Greg Egan is probably stoked...
Check out his "Border Guards" short story.
It had a quantum sport reminicent of this.
>but absolutely no one in America comes out ahead after that.
Huh ?

Anyway. You need to educate yourself. Read up on Modern Monetary Theory. You continue to make analogies between household budget constraints and money issuer budget constraints. Money issuers have no budget constraints. The only constraint is inflation and policy makers the world over have been try to create inflation for 25 years. ( see japan, europe, usa post 2008).

Government debt == private sector savings. Eliminating government debt would lead to another great depression. It makes no sense for a country like ours which is a net importer. Again, you're empowering the politicians with this FUD.
Actually he updated the article after I read it and commented (he replied to another comment saying this). But if so, yeah, that's scary and hopefully something that will be fixed before general release.
This is a great tutorial, but why obfuscate the CSS as SCSS? In most cases here there’s essentially nothing gained.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
Personally, I try and trust most of these sites until they prove that they can not be trusted. Granted, it gets harder and harder to provide any level of trust, given how intrusive web sites become (with ads, trackers, dark patterns, etc).
When is Google going to build a Google Now for the living room to compete with Echo? I want an Echo, but I think a Google product with access to the whole Google ecosystem would be more useful to me.

We know Echo will never play nice with Google (you can't buy Chromecast on Amazon is evidence). If Google built this product, the only feature they probably couldn't match would be buying products on Amazon, which I don't know if I would use anyway.
The downside of the idea here is that the postcards will presumably be sent from where-ever they are (e.g. some place in the US) and not from where you are (e.g. some place in Italy) so no stamp, postmarks, etc. as well as no handwritten note.

Perhaps on the plus side: a photograph you took vs. a professionally shot postcard.
Are You Team Meatball, or Team Worm?
And how exactly am I supposed to do that without transferring userdata to a third party (like Google)?

Privacy laws – which I personally like – prevent using that.
What we've found is it's immediately viable for commercial properties that make profits e.g. malls, workshops, small factories, petrol pumps, etc. The accelerated depreciation benefits mean you'll make your money back in little more than a year. If you own any such rooftop, this ought to be a no-brainer for you.

Even if you're not making profits (and so have no tax, and accelerated depreciation doesn't help you), commercial electricity rates in India are high, and you can expect break-even in about 3 years.

For residential consumers, break-even is 5-7 years, depending on which state you're in.

For your specific example, would need to know details to offer comments. At first glance, the quoted price seems way too high. Consider not installing batteries unless you absolutely must for your use-case.
I started to read your blog and ...discover you, in a way! All I've known before was ZeroMQ. I wish to have found your blog-posts earlier, maybe posted here on HN.
I have invested some years of my life in trying to change that on HN. I feel I have seen progress here. I am reasonably pleased with the direction things are going.
Still no ipv6 for S3?
Doesn't matter. It's still going to feel like a pay cut, and be treated as such by most people.
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Is there a preview before paying? (Sorry, if I missed that in the FAQ).
I'm still waiting for an OpenPOWER system well under the~ $9k floor they are at now, so I can try it out (or alternatively a need for one at work, so I can try it out on someone else's dime).
Funny how this is a faux question with a faux answer from people who don't realize GIFs were first and foremost _still_ images.
Ask HN: Blogs about Machine Learning?
Hi HN! I'm studying and Learning about this ropic and since I discover HN I've been reading a lot of blogs. What are good blogs about Machine Learning in specific?
"and consumers have the last word about which apps they want to use on their devices."
Is this true in the EU? Do the carriers and hardware manufacturers not bundle in a bunch of total garbage that you aren't allowed to remove (sometimes you can disable it but like I want any of this crap from LG)?
There's a taste to the smoke that some people like and the highs are very different. I have all options available to me (water pipe, vape, edibles, joint) and I rotate around to keep things interesting.

A water pipe (bong) is a great high for about 20mins, then you pretty much fall asleep. Vape takes a long time to get high, it's not as strong, and you fall asleep after 20mins. Edibles take a really long time to hit you, like 2 hours, it comes on very quickly and fades very quickly, but doesn't really knock you out. Joints hit you pretty quick, the high is average, and doesn't really knock you out.

So it depends on what you're feeling! Joints are very social, good for smoking with friends. Vapes and bongs get dirty quickly, I don't like using them socially. Edibles are great for novices or when you're going to the movies or something.
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Fair points, but they are good to get started and can later be replaced with a proper log e.g. Kafka and a worker thread :)
The proof is short, but frankly I can't read it (as I am not sure what all the products are sisj ; I presume they are line segments and the + is union/area or some such). Yes, I know it because I didn't study classic geometry long enough.

If we take the brutal step of resorting to trigonometry and calculus we can prove the statement using general techniques. It may seem long and technical- but I think it demonstrates re-usable methods that give some intuition (after you use them a few times!).

To prove: the regular n-gon has the maximal area of any n-gon inscribed inside the unit circle.

Proof sketch:

We will prove only the lemma that if theta1, and theta2 are angles summing to C < pi then sum of the areas of the area of the figure formed by the convex hull of (0,0), (sin(theta1),cos(theta1)), (0,1), and (-sin(theta2),cos(theta2)) is maximized for a given C when theta1=theta2. That is: the area formed by subdividing a segment of the circle of angle theta1+theta2 is maximized by dividing in the middle. This would let us prove the theorem as it implies any non-regular division can be improved by re-centering one of the sub-divisions.

Proof of lemma:

The area of triangle formed by the convex hull of the center of a unit circle and the points (sin(theta/2),cos(theta/2)), (-sin(theta/2),cos(theta/2)) is (1/2) base height = (1/2) (2 sin(theta/2)) cos(theta/2) = sin(theta/2) cos(theta/2).

So if f(theta1,theta2) is the area of the two inscribed triangles of angles theta1 and theta2 we have:
f(theta1,theta2) = sin(theta1/2) cos(theta1/2) + sin(theta2/2) cos(theta2/2)

If we add the constraint theta1+theta2=C then we expect the maximum to occur at one of theta1=0,theta2=C; theta1=C,theta2=0 or an point where the Lagrange auxiliary function L(theta1,theta2,lambda) = f(theta1,theta2) + lamba (theta1+theta2-C) has a zero gradient (gradient with respect to theta1, theta2))

Gradient((theta1,theta2),L) =
(1/2) (cos(theta1/2)^2 -sin(theta1/2)^2, cos(theta2/2)^2 -sin(theta2/2)^2) + lambda (1,1)

For this vector quantity to be equal to zero we would have to have the coordinates equal (so the lambda (1,1) can stomp them out):
cos(theta1/2)^2 -sin(theta1/2)^2 = cos(theta2/2)^2 - sin(theta2/2)^2

But cos(x)^2 -sin(x)^2 = 1 - 2 sin(x)^2 which is a 1 to 1 function in the range [0,pi) so to have
cos(theta1/2)^2 -sin(theta1/2)^2 = cos(theta2/2)^2 -sin(theta2/2)^2 we must have theta1=theta2.

So we check that f(C/2,C/2) >= max(f(C,0),f(0,C)) and we are done.

Again I know that is long and technical (and bringing in overly big hammers)- but the steps are all standard re-usable ideas. (actually longer than I even intended)
really like this. Always thought of building a similar app but here it is already. For $99, it is a steal :)
Yes, axolotl is open source. (However I can't comment on how much it's been modified for the official client)
You're correct, as it does not grant scalability. Tho if my application lives on the client-side, I can distribute the cached application which contains all the user needs. This provides less worry when my server crashes and will still allow my users to access and use my site. Tho will fail if my API's are not accessible. Which then comes down to identifying and breaking the bottleneck. CDN's can also help with my scaling as I can just distribute the bundled up version and live beyond internet access so long as I've built application to be progressive (https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps) I can now just notify my application to update next time the user connects to the internet. Tho if my application where to only live with the server rendering my information, I wouldn't be able to periodically lose my "stable" connection and my application would be rendered useless.

Tho this solution is adaptable to server-side applications, you'll need to use javascript to do so. And I believe that settles why we need javascript in your applications. If I can't access your sever-side application because it's flooded with requests and the cached version of your site relies on the server then I believe you've failed your users.

The solution to scalability for both server-side and client-side applications are complex, but only one of them depends on a server being around while the other relies on a cached copy.
I have an even cheaper Xeon setup that's based on the older LGA1366 socket and off-lease workstation-class machines such as the Dell Precision T5500 or HP Z600. Those processors can be had for dirt cheap -- I got a matched pair of X5660 for $25 on Ebay. They don't match the single-threaded performance of current generation Intel processors, but they're still decently fast.
The article and the title are wayyy out of parallel. The title says "There is a definite link between cannabis and dopamine levels, and too much will cause a deficit!!"

Whereas, in the article it clearly says "Nope, we didn't see any causal effect. The patients could have had a deficit already and we wouldn't know." Are the title, copy, and image editors all different people?
6 hours is not enough sleep
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True, but I also need people I want to talk to to be on the messaging tool, which is the real issue here.

As for email, to me it just doesn't serve the same purpose that IM does. It's analogous to sending letters back and forth as opposed to having a face-to-face conversation -- the increased time lag between replies encouraged by the medium has a huge influence on the nature of conversations that occur through it.

I still use email, for example when I want to send something more in-depth to someone and I don't expect a quick reply. But it's not the right tool if I want a real-time, informal conversation with someone, which is most of my conversations.
Ask HN: Best 24“ external monitor (brand) for Macbook Pro?
I'm looking to buy an external monitor for my 15" MacBook Pro and use it as the only display. Ideally the monitor would be 23-24" for the screen size and cost no more than $200. It doesn't need to have 4k or ultra HD resolution, but it should be clear and easy on the eyes as I'll be doing a lot of reading and coding. I already have a comfortable mechanical keyboard and mouse, but am unfamiliar with what's commonly used as the monitor.
Your dismissive tone is concerning. Because your Wordpress site doesn't load, we can't learn about your "Passport" service, so you're wasting 10,000 prospective customers.
where? the options market for bitcoin hasn't changed since 2014, high premiums, spreads 100 points wide, non-standard contracts with hard to decipher conditions.... If it were high premiums and spreads 5-15 points wide, I'd play.
"While we believe adblocking is a consumer right we also believe that publishers whose content we access have the right to protect the Integrity and Delivery of their web content from any form of manipulation, change or censorship."

Lol, yes, you have a right to download malware, annoying video and audio and related junk on my system first in its entirety before I block it. This site also calls ad-blocking a 'racket'. Give me a break.

I have a simple policy. If you ask me to unblock ads nicely and clearly and explicitly state your ads have NO video, NO audio, NO pop ups or other crap then I unblock them. 99% of times I regret unblocking ads and block them again immediately because they are so terrible and in your face.

The advertising industry has no one to blame but themselves.
To reverse engineer code? For big projects, I used IDA, like everyone else does. For smaller projects, I used Hopper, or, for architectures that IDA and Hopper didn't support, I'd postprocess binutils output.

For an example of a more sophisticated approach, look at:

https://sourcedna.com/

Remember, in this case, it's especially easy to reverse, because you have the source code; all you're doing is matching the control flow graph to the original source.
It's nice because your backend doesn't matter. If I have a custom rendering platform I can probably spit out an image. But if I don't want to write a gui library or hook up some BS like QT, this is a super simple solution. I have three projects for three different clients which can use this, for at least internal debugging.
Announcing VLC as a UWP
The article suggests that the author is choosing a board member rather than an employee. The author speaks specifically to your concern within it:

In technology, diversity is often a synonym for gender diversity, specifically, women in tech. It shouldn’t be; we should consider age, race, geography of origin, socioeconomic class, sexual identity, native language, and much more.
As silly as it sounds, if you are a senior developer/eng director that is in high demand these days, the product that you'd be working on matters tremendously. Having people motivated by the whole of the product they are working on is huge, while individual complex problems are also fun, staying power lasts in people who want to use what they are building every day.

I think the sentiment of this article is more around finding senior developers who are also interested in the product you are building. Which is a huge problem because the intersection there is even more sparse than finding a senior developer that just wants to solve generic, complex problems.
If you want to help make solar even cheaper, Genability is hiring a VP of Engineering and a full-stack developer.

http://genability.com/careers/work_with_us.html
Thanks and totally understand! :)
Wishing more heroic moments for you in life! I wish I could be someone's hero! haha.. Great going! :)
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Haha. I wish! That would be awesome, but getting to 100M users is probably 10% planning/process and 90% luck.
What kind of progress are the interns making?
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"¿How can a dynamically typed language not actively prevent static checking?"
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5320
Ahh, those transitions from the days where you could just turn off you DOS, until the computer could "turn off" by itself (I know, not that hard off, just a soft button off)
The characteristics from which gold derives it's value are basic facts of the universe.

The characteristic from which bitcoin derives it's value is a brand name. A 'bitcoin asteroid' can be found by simply copying the bitcoin source code and building a stronger brand.
Cloudflare doesn't cache your sql queries.
The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Cloning Open-Source Hardware
Here is more information about the underlying technology, which also powers e.g. Twitter (Apache Mesos and DC/OS).
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-joins-the-n...
You get most of what's been described from social graph + location data + people pattern matching on positives & ignoring the vast number of negatives, so there's not much beyond conspiracy theories ATM.
True. Alexandrescu touches upon this in his Modern C++ take on multimethods. He uses static per class integers to uniquely identify them instead of RTTI. This is not unlike the special home-cooked "RTTI" LLVM uses (http://llvm.org/docs/HowToSetUpLLVMStyleRTTI.html) to avoid the large cost of typeid and dynamic_cast, so that it can be built with -fno-rtti but still provide runtime identification for types.

Naturally, these approaches require intrusion (special field/static member in each class)
Well using amphetamines will certainly motivate one to do /something/ :P The rampant use of prescription amphetamines while speed and meth remain much maligned is another issue entirely.

I also know many counter-examples, but most people I know that have used cannabis regularly for years or decades seem to sort of auto-regulate their use. It waxes and wanes - sometimes daily, sometimes monthly.

I don't suspect that it has extremely negative effects, but it wouldn't surprise me if their were a mix of effects that occur with heavy and regular use that don't occur with more moderate use.

To each their own -- I also know highly functional regular opiate users, and some who have fallen off the functional boat hard. I'm all about harm reduction and personal freedom when it comes to altering ones consciousness.

Also, of course we know that probably the most toxic substance to use heavily and regularly is alcohol. I expect many orders of magnitude more harmful for both the brain and body than cannabis will ever be shown to be.
What is this? I read: "Using a special syntax like CSS" and then saw: "if:<10%%(..." I gotta admit, it looks like it's just JavaScript, but harder to read. How does it make finding code easier?
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Yes - shame that circles (or G+) didn't really catch on.

You could do vaguely similar things on FB by defining who your close friends are, bu I doubt many people do that.