skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire calculus of having nuclear weapons in the first place rests on the assumption that no one will use them because to use them invites a retaliatory strike. Reducing the likelihood of a retaliatory strike, under this model, increases the likelihood of nuclear weapons being used.

Now of course, this model may be wrong (pre-emptive strike on non-nuclear state with no nuclear allies); but I'm somewhat disturbed that the Pentagon employees don't seem to understand this. Maybe they do, and the author only gave the initial reaction rather than their full counterargument.
> Very good compatibility with C code

How much harder would it be to call C++?
That's the essence of a goto-based state machine (one of the few problems where gotos are the most natural solution), compared to the alternative of storing the state in a variable and doing an extra indirection every transition to "go to" the right one.
To go deeper, the challenge of balance begin from the most basic decision in Starcraft.

Starcraft has three races and random. At top pro levels, picking random is unheard of and actually extremely difficult to play against because it complicates your very early decisions.

Im also interested in who would be picked to play against DeepCraft. Flash would be incredible but he's retired. I'm curious which top level talent will be left by the time the bot is ready to play
So far no one seems to be discussing the "volunteer". S/He can fight back. Use the butcher's knife against the president. Maybe even be in the right, or not. The moment this person "volunteers" to carry the codes inside, it becomes suicide, even if it never happens, they have to be ready to be hacked to death, and not try to avoid it when the moment comes, and this I believe is next to impossible, and effectively compromises the president's ability to carry out whatever actions deemed necessary. It's a nice thought experiment, but not more than that.
TPP and the manner with which it was discussed proves otherwise... Obama is a moderate Republican, really.

https://theintercept.com/2015/05/12/cant-read-tpp-heres-huge...

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/24/barack-obama-...

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/27/corporations...
NOOO! This ruins the whole experience. Right now Uber is a convenient alternative to Taxis in (large) part because there is no tipping necessary. Once tipping is required you have to go through all those mental gymnastics all the time: how good a job did this person do, will I ever want them as a driver again, if I leave too low a tip will I get lower rating?

Tipping will take Uber from a nice no-personality no-thought experience to an annoying "do I want to deal with all that" mental decision each and every time.
i happen to despise stock buybacks. if the company cant think of anything left in the world to invest in, i'd much rather have it as a one time dividend - even if less tax advantaged.
Perhaps it is an argument from meta-authority, or a meta-argument from authority :) But I don't think it is. The argument is simply that there's little reason to accept a factual statement as correct if it is not supported by factual study.

The reason I'm so sensitive about this issue in particular is that I've personally been involved both with the social sciences and STEM, and I'm extremely annoyed to see people in the latter group put so much emphasis on evidence, and at the same time display such a broad dismissal of the former group without so much as a rudimentary understanding of the field(s). You hardly see historians dismiss research in solid-state physics as you see computer scientists dismiss research in sociology (which goes above and beyond the well-accepted inaccuracy of the latter due to intractability).
If you use 170/110 as a ratio, then you still end up with just over a doubling of current battery capacity as a "crossover" estimate point.
Probably the biggest one of all
"Stock prices are high because profits are high" --
Stock prices are high compared to profits, is the point. Look at the P/E ratio of the S&P 500 over time & compare to today's 24:1.

http://www.multpl.com/

In which years was the trailing P/E of the S&P 500 higher than 24?
I tend to agree right now. In the past when stocks have traded at 24 times earnings, it hasn't ended well.

But when shares are cheap, you're missing out if they don't do a buyback. Late 2008/early 2009 was an easy time to make good buyback purchases.
also of note, the US has precedent of making the first strike: against Japan.
How long before we can have open source CPU cores made a la carte by pure play foundries?

Beyond Moore's Law I wonder if we'll just see a massive drop in the cost of computing power to the point where something near parity with a 48 core Xeon is like $10. Then it would become very cheap to put tons of them in a box and build little desktop supercomputers.
What's New in Ubuntu 16.04 “Xenial Xerus”?
> ...and a retaliatory launch is the appropriate action.

Why? So that when a new intelligence emerges on this planet they'll know the value of deterrence?
Depends how much of C++ you need. In full generality you need a C++ compiler in the calling compilation unit (inlining, template instantiation, etc.). The name mangling and ABI itself really isn't that hard.
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The point of the article was to show how the % of used memory will affect performance in a non-linear manner. It's obvious once you know, but it's not if you've never experienced it before.
There are systematic biases in the social sciences, and there are systematic biases in physics. Read Lee Smolin's The Trouble with Physics. As they are social systems, they will always be biased. And the most dangerous bias is the one that claims itself unbiased, fully objective.
Why is it the right thing to do? A lot of people are already dead or about to die in the immediate future, why would you want to kill even more people, most of whom are not responsible for the attack? It's just pitiable revenge unless you specifically try to deter further attacks which may or may not be necessary and effectively achieved by the use of nuclear weapons.
I think at this point it is clear those who care about memory usage and deterministic performance will use C/C++/Rust(maybe). Saying Java is not up there will bring Java supporters arguing endlessly how Java is so superior to anything else in market, how Java's GC is state of the art. It would not matter to them how much expert level tuning it takes to make it work. Yeah and then there is Azul zing: a heavily over provisioned system on top of already over provisioned Java systems to have better GC compared to Oracle/OpenJDK GC.

Working in Java for 10 years make me realize that so many solutions Java/ JVM ecosystem provides are to the problems that Java ecosystem created in first place.
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Re-evaluation of the traditional diet-heart hypothesis
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555640

Alex3917:

I like this idea in theory, but in practice if I see Dick
Cheney coming at me with a butcher's knife I'm getting the
hell out of there.
Awww, we played this on a projector at Systems '99 in Munich - probably the most important selling point for Debian, which we were promoting. (And 3 months later I discovered FreeBSD and never looked back, but such is life ;)
Thanks for posting this it is very helpful. It's clear you need to prep and leverage.
I guess I don't know how JS was any more "designed for" async than python was.
selling loans wasn't ever a problem, and I'm not aware of any time in recent history it wasn't allowed.

the problem was that companies were allowed to buy insurance against bad loans they didnt even make, and insurers were allowed to sell more of that insurance than they had capital to back them up.

so when a person defaulted on their home, the homeowner lost, the bank lost, the insurer lost, and the company who bought the near garentee win insurance also lost. capital flows froze, then companies who needed liquidity lost, and losses just kept chaining.
This article would have been much more informative had we seen the actual program. Usually it doesn't much matter how big a file you read from your program assuming you are reading for aggregation purposes. If you are in need of individual records, then that is what databases are for. So i smell a large red herring. Is GC a problem? sure it can be. Usually tho when it is, it's more likely to be my problem, not the JVMs.
Taking long term hostages to try to insure the good behavior of others is an ancient tradition.
To a Haskeller, you could explain Java-style reference types by saying “it's an artificial limitation whereby every value is behind an IORef, and the value itself isn't a first-class entity”. But Haskell itself doesn't have this artificial limitation, and every type is a value type.
The article is arguing for more government intervention in the economy which I would argue is exactly what has led to this form of crony capitalism. What is the answer to 'to big to fail'? Failure. But the problem is that the government made a decision decades ago to bail out Chrysler, and the Fed cut rates in 98 and after to bail out the markets. The we had QE1, QE2, ZIRP, etc...All of these GOVERNMENT policies have created a massive excessive of capital in the system and creates all kinds of temptations to do share buybacks and boost dividends. Verizon workers are covered by unions, which are supposed to ensure their workers get a fair wage.

This article is paint by numbers economics designed to whitewash all the problems caused by the gov't and demonize corporations for taking advantage of a situation the gov't created.
I don't think a president Trump would have any reservations about nuking "terrorists' families"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11548354
What about VAT fraud? A couple of shell companies and not only have you evaded the tax, you've now profited from it.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The first president of Equatorial Guinea, Macías Nguema won his election post in a free and fair election. It all went to hell after that.

He replaced the Constitution with a new document that gave him absolute power.

He also changed the national motto to, "There is no other God than Macías Nguema."

During Christmas in 1975, he ordered about 150 of his opponents killed. Soldiers dressed up in Santa Claus costumes murdered them by shooting at the football stadium.

He assigned himself the title, "Grand Master of Education, Science, and Culture." By the end of his rule, nearly all of the country's educated class was either executed or forced into exile.
First only if you don't count minor details like Pearl Harbor. And given that we were systematically destroying their urban areas, just less efficiently albeit with more casualties, it's again a different thing.
How about dealing with mosquitoes/flies?
I've talked to people who know what it's like living on the land in Siberia (ie. like the Yukon - permafrost and swamps) and it's a life threatening issue. You can't have any skin exposed so traditional methods of dealing with it involve things like greasing your face and using natural repelants. Again.. doable but very unpleasant and it makes it very difficult to do things in the summer.
Dream Quest felt really different from the rest, but I really liked it as well. I was reading a collection of all his short stories at the time and it's pretty cool to see little stories that tie in to this storie's dreamverse from time to time.
Please explain to me how this proves or even just suggests that Obama was forced to say anything.
For those reading comments before the article: the title is rather silly, but it contains lots of interesting stuff. For example the answers to questions 14 and 15 sound very sane to me, compared to most people's views on it.
It may not have to be nuclear armed adversary. And it will cause a high probability of your own citizens dying. Not certainty.
> Fictionalism in the philosophy of mathematics is the view that mathematical statements, such as ‘8+5=13’ and ‘π is irrational’, are to be interpreted at face value and, thus interpreted, are false.

Arrrgh! So annoying! How much time will it pass until philosophers of mathematics finally understand that mathematical truth has nothing to do with philosophical truth?

> Fictionalists are typically driven to reject the truth of such mathematical statements because these statements imply the existence of mathematical entities, and according to fictionalists there are no such entities.

Crash course in logic: If mathematical objects don't exist, then statements about them aren't “false” - they're meaningless.
oh yes, the health care system and the mental health care system are broken - especially because of our idiotic obsession with making everything privatized. Of course, this wouldn't have been an issue if we had health care entrepreneurs who opted to grow their brand by focusing on quality of service as opposed to by focusing on profit-maxing strategies. The problems you have described is sadly not the exception, but the norm.

I commend your idea, and I hope that you succeed in forging a new path for entrepreneurs in the area of providing services that maintain human rights. Hopefully you'll get good questions from experts in this area from fellow hackers.

my question:
I understand your vision, but not how you plan to implement it. you'll have to scale up the process you used for coming up with a treatment plan for your gf. The company can't individually interview every patient, gather enough information to isolate root cause(s), then prescribe personalized treatment for said patient.
Also, will you prescribe medications, or will you limit yourself to suggestions (including alternative treatments) that can be fulfilled over the counter? Even in the latter case, you may need some government approval depending on how the process is conducted.
> retaliate in kind so as to ensure that they could not mount a second assault and kill even more people

The bigger issue is that they are more likely to initiate the strike if they know about this protocol and believe it will reduce the likelihood of a counter strike.
They probably count on clients being clueless or not caring. 'we stop 99% of drones out there by sales volume' might by enough for the same people that buy application firewalls and antivirus software pretending its a sound security strategy.
This might actually work. Thanks!
it's not what you want, but i use Sandboxie to run untrusted stuff. it's a freemium product.

http://www.sandboxie.com/
A good GCed language should give you good controls about garbage generation. If you have not these controls, the language is to blame, not the concept of GC. But indeed, I think one of the strongest disadvantages of Java is that it does not give you much control about garbage generation.
Odd lot surcharges have (almost?) entirely vanished.
I'm fairly certain that was not one of the defined goals.
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This was all in the context of "Warmonger Reagan" becoming president. Assuming bad will on the part of the author is perhaps not required, but it was a safe bet back then.
Yes we do. But that only happens with technology dictatorships. And we've seen where that leads.
Chrome is 50. The internet is cracking apart
http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/189
not disable, from description it sounds like they recognize protocol/model used, hijack uplink and tell it to land. Trivial to bypass even by a novice with arduino.
People expecting higher refunds tend to file tax returns early
I was going to pass on this as "too personal", but thought better of it and dug it out again, mainly due to the "curse" answer, to mention that I could easily spend 1000 years just reading all the books I've bookmarked as "would like to read someday".

Multiply by 5-10x to properly understand the subject matter (it's not fiction I'm talking about). And that's just what's available right now, not counting all the stuff that would keep pouring out while I'm reading.

Along the way, I would obviously want to use my suitably enhanced mind (brain-computer interface, maybe genetic manipulation down the road) to apply what I've learned, and contribute to the subjects I've found most interesting. And go places, obviously - with centuries to burn, the solar system would be well within reach, maybe even the stars.

1000 years is not nearly enough.
> There are systematic biases in the social sciences, and there are systematic biases in physics. Read Lee Smolin's The Trouble with Physics. As they are social systems, they will always be biased. And the most dangerous bias is the one that claims itself unbiased, fully objective.

I never claimed physics was bias-free. I just said that political affiliation likely imparts less bias on physics than it does on sociology. And that was just one example of a possible source of bias.
Physics can collect so much data that the generally accepted standard for results is five sigma. There are biases in physics, but it's much harder to delude yourself into a five sigma result than a two sigma one--in the end the right answer becomes obvious.
That factory code you mentioned isn't _just_ a Java thing, but a very well-known and wonderful design pattern.

Wikipedia says it best: "[The] Factory pattern deals with the instantiation of object without exposing the instantiation logic."

Practical benefits:

- Can help rid of excessive switch and if/elseif statements and splits up your logic

- Eliminates new keyword to improve testability
To be, somewhat, fair getting shot is a risk you have to assume when going hunting, especially with other people. (Depressingly) Routine hunting accidents don't usually turn peoples lives into a media circus. That's ostensibly why the apology.

Of course A)as VP Cheney's life was already a media circus B) Cheney shot the dude in his face and assumed-risk-or-no Cheney bears the responsibility for that.
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We've taken 'LLVM' out of the title above, since experience has shown that discussions about titles tend to be off-topic and/or shallow. We also added 'Show HN' since this is your own work. Good luck!
From elsewhere i have learned that there are a couple of ways to "harden" X.

http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/Security/ is one.

Another is to run each program inside their own "server", via xnest, xephyr or similar.
> It is very hard to evade.

Its pretty easy to get residence in a non-EU country and then reclaim the VAT when you return 'home'. Your 'non-EU' country can even be as close as Jersey.
As the philosopher Barrett Strong said: Money (That's What I Want) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5KU34DrrPI
Interesting project mpu. I like the stuff here:

http://c9x.me/compile/doc/llvm.html

Especially the optimizations that get you the first 70%. I've been asking optimization people as I see them to do a survey of various methods to find the smallest collection that provide the hugest benefit. This will help people writing new compilers and formal verification community get a head start.

Now, back to correctness. Your project aims to be small, simple, and rigorous. That's perfect time to use methods for higher assurance software or design yours to work with them easily. So, I suggest trying Design-by-Contract w/ interface checks, some static analysis tools, or even something like Softbound+CETS that makes C safer automatically. I also usually recommend writing compilers in something like Ocaml as it prevents lots of bugs and easier to do.

Also, if you do Ocaml or safe imperative, you can always do two implementations side-by-side in the safe language and in portable C. You run tests, analysis, etc available for each one. Problems in one might be problems in the other. Regardless, though, you get the benefits of the safer language by default with a C implementation if you absolutely need it. Many of us have used this with Sandia Labs even doing it for hardware with ML and hardware language of a Java processor that came out great.

So, I challenge you to try to push the envelope by using some available techniques and tools to boost the assurance of your code. Preferably getting it off C, too, due to all the errors it (esp pointers) introduce into the compilers.
Yes! And I would also add that:

> LLVM IL is more cluttered with type annotations and casts.

With LLVM moving to typeless pointers[1], this will be less true in the future than it is now.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/llvm-dev/vphBegBWyyE
"Whatever" (in French :"L'extension du domaine de la lutte")
How do the schools advertise the CS degree? Do they advertise it as a purely academic pursuit with little practical benefit, or do they promote it as the start of a career? If the latter, it is very much the schools who are to blame if they fail to teach the things needed to have that career.
How would strange attractors assist?
Also, this: https://github.com/docker/dockercraft. Manage your docker containers in minecraft! (Arguably a much better fit for the block-based world!)
This is more confirmation that everything the American public has been told about diet and cholesterol for the past several decades has been seriously flawed. Is there any persuasive evidence that cholesterol-reducing diets or medication improves life expectancy? If not, why are > 100k Americans being prescribed drugs with serious side effects and no significant benefit? Isn't the first rule of medicine to do no harm?

Disclaimer: this is not my field of study.
Interesting idea, but it fails to take user stupidity into account. "00000000"[1] in a capsule in a volunteer's body does not really protect anything.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/launch-code-for-u...
Firebird 3.0 (open source relational database) was released
So just to get this straigh... you worked on software projects with user interfaces but could not actually picture the actual interfaces in your mind?
I thought it was way too verbose going over too many examples to make a simple point. "Okay, I get it, what used to be exceptional is now just "meh".. Get to the point"..

It didn't address the actual matter, the one in the title, that not all practice makes perfect, until very far in the article.

I then thought about an article that would have given much more information with fewer words, a seminal paper entitled "The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance" by Anders Ericsson.

I was then surprised taking a look at the article's author.
Source? Last time I used it you could encrypt both hops (although you obviously need to tell CF to ignore the cert mismatch for backend server).
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Like using javascript
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Eh, it's pretty safe, and the Four Rules most certainly apply, it's just that implementing Rule 4 is much more difficult.

In ~70 years of it, one of my father's favorite pastimes, he got shot exactly once, although there was no excuse for it like there was in the Chaney accident. Then again, he was both careful in picking his hunting partners and only hunted with some of them once after they demonstrated they didn't have their act together.

As long as you wear glasses and there's some distance, serious injury is unlikely, as happened with him. A tough shirt is also recommenced, that stopped penetration of the shot that hit his chest.
I don't know if that would alleviate the authors concern, because (as I understand that proposal) the type information is still present, it's just bolted into the load/store/GEP instructions now.

Nothing is stopping you from writing LLVM that doesn't use types though! That's entirely a front end decision. If you wanted to, in your front end, you could never emit record or array types and do book keeping on cells in memory entirely on your own using pointer arithmetic / pointertoint / inttopointer. Doing so is entirely at the expense of the speed of the generated code though!