skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building on creshal's comment, ensuring direct access to it outside of gaming applications could be offered as an extra feature or selling point of those applications. First, it was just a graphics coprocessor. Second, they turned it into a more general coprocessor. Next, it's also extra RAM or cache for whatever we need enabled with flip of a switch or targeted by included library worst case.
My boss often talks about some of the accidental misrepresentations of data occur in big data/statistics in the academic world. I started becoming interested in this during the P-Value debacle.

There is a lot of work to be done to reverse the clinical misunderstanding and misuse of the tools we have at hand, because to be frank I'd say none of us understands them.

Can someone point me to a piece of reading so I can learn about the correct way to do this kind of statistical analysis?
You have a sample size of one, and no control group. The patient dies. Are either of the drugs safe individually? Can't tell. Maybe one caused death and the other was fine. Maybe the two interacted in the human body somehow.

Okay, now consider the scenario where the patient lives. Are either of the drugs safe individually? Can't tell. Again, maybe the two interacted in the human body in such a way that a potentially lethal treatment was rendered ineffective at curing or killing.
I can highly recommend F * ck Feelings:

http://www.amazon.com/Feelings-Practical-Managing-Impossible...

And here's my personal advice: There are women who will tell you that they hate the manly types. However, by this they usually mean all the bravado-macho disingenuous stuff. Ignore those objections. You will go off the rails if you take them seriously. Bravado and macho is just fine so long as it is sincere and rooted in respect for women as women. (If this brings on the down-votes please note that I don't care.)

But it may not be a part of your personality. Men who avoid conflict usually do so because it is not in their emotional makeup to do otherwise. They are driven by fear of rejection, and do not want to take the lead in a relationship, and often do not know how. This is becoming more and more common as men in our society are more and more feminized. (See parenthetical note above.)

The good news is that you can change, but it takes time. A lot of time. How you react is based upon how you think. But changing how you think, counterintuitively, is most effectively done by changing what you do, your personal habits. It is like teaching your children to say "please" and "thank you." Does this in itself make them grateful? No, but instills a habit of gratitude that guides their thinking. By acting grateful they become grateful.
I think that http://www.ucw.cz/holmes/ has (or had) an HTTP parser based on perfect hashing of strings for maybe 15 years. It was written by some very smart people and there are lot of tricks like that in these sources.
This smart vibrator syncs with your erotic e-books and pleasures you as you read
That's why i said blimps are the way to go.
Lifting body also has it's limit, at the end solar just can't provide enough thrust for heavy lifting, if the lifting it self is done through other means such as buoyancy then it's not an issue as solar can provide enough thrust for actually going forward as well as power the compressors to control the buoyancy of the craft.

Anything that will be dependent on aerodynamic lift alone literally won't be getting of the ground with any significant payload.
Why do motherboards have this limitation? There's nothing inherent in PCIe that restricts devices to such a small range.

Is this a 32-bit BAR / low 4GB space issue?
So I'll need a rfid coil aimed at my wallpaper? There's much better technology for this, it's not power source free
>How long before they start aggressively promoting stuff in the cabin for the whole duration of the trip?

I have only taken Ryanair once, and it was like being in a flying macdonalds. The back of every seat was covered in ads.
> I wouldn't be surprised if the method in the article is faster

If that is true, then I suspect we can toss RB trees out of the window. When searching for a key inside a sorted collection, you could use binary search of complexity O(log N), which is the same complexity as searching in an RB tree. So if incremental sorting is faster than updating an RB tree, we wouldn't really need RB trees.

Of course there could be special circumstances that change this (for example large batches of inserts).
I wonder what to use on Windows. Because sometimes you maybe need robust randomness on a popular desktop.
A guy out stealing bikes is going to do everything they possibly can to avoid getting in a fight with someone. There is simply no profit in it for such low stakes.
I agree. Contact with law enforcement always has the potential to become very costly - in lives, freedom, liberty, or simply reputation. I am not sanguine about the effects of broadening this contact, and inviting the state apparatus into more peoples' lives at an even earlier stage.
Are you sure you follow actual physicists? Have you ever heard Sean Carrol talk about how anyone who doesn't believe in the MW interpretation is pretty much stupid?
For the size comparison I just estimated: a mammal's avg density isn't much more than 1 and the volume of a chihuahua is about the size of my Wolfhound's brain case (I see both kinds of dog daily).

The "intelligence" point is both uncontroversial and well attested: consider, for example, that you can train any dog to an agility course (adapting for size constraints of course) and in dog shows this is very common.

There are certain breeds of dog (or horse) that are considered "more intelligent" than others, but this rarely holds up under scrutiny -- some are more gregarious than others but all are apparently equally trainable to the kinds of tasks humans typically ask. Some are more gregarious than others or have other traits but they are well within the variations humans also exhibit.

HTH
What Happens When Baseball-Stats Nerds Run a Pro Team
Contacting fake ISIS members and FBI agents is one thing.

Really sad that he was contacting american hostages families.
I wonder if there is more that bicycle manufacturers/dealers can do to prevent theft or help recover stolen bikes - not because they're obligated but just to improve sales. Especially as the price approaches four digits, "what if this gets stolen?" has to be near the top of most potential buyers' list of concerns and probably chills sales to some degree.
Monkey kingdom: China's positioning itself as a world leader in primate research
> Solvers don't do brute force at all

> solver will efficiently backtrack all the possible solutions of input variables to come up to your desired endstate, by filtering out impossible paths and values

That seems to be a contradiction, because Back-Tracking uses Brute-Force. The efficiency comes from heuristics that can fail, which is kind of important to note. SAT problems are in principle np-complete with all the uncertainty that implies.
The problem with hydrogen is that it has abysmally low density, being a gas (8mg / L at STP, 40 g / L at 700 bar). Even liquid hydrogen has a density of only 70 g / L. Compare jet fuel, which ranges around 800 g / L. Hydrogen is a more efficient fuel per weight, but it really loses out when you compare volume. This inefficient use of volume is probably a more severe limiting factor than the weight.
How would you use an RB tree to do incremental sorting? Wouldn't you have to insert all the elements into the tree up-front? That would certainly be slower, but maybe you mean something different.
I'd rather have one of these that has a tiny, lithium-ion battery that it barely uses. Makes much more sense with the same applications. When done, you either plug it into a charger or (more homebrew) take the battery out to plug it into a charger. Regardless, I see a tiny battery getting better results than sacrifices made to be "powerless."

Now, what's the smallest PC you all know that can run for a long time and with some useful work on a tiny, lithium-ion battery? That would be interesting.
Silent coding vs. ambient coding: a dev's workday booster
Assuming that's true, or the photo is legit.
This is an awesome thing for him to be doing, but I don't understand why he needed to step up and do it.

The thieves post in a public place basically admitting that they stole the item and are more than willing to meet up... Why did it take a third party to start doing it?
>Whenever I have a paper boarding pass I always fold it into my password

Great idea, that way you can have your password manager take care of the boarding and you don't have to worry about it at all!
That's because the school shootings should be addressed by finding a root cause (after all, they seem to be a very much USA localized issue) instad of more orwellian surveillance which leads to false accusations and abuse.
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Not to mention that it conditions youngsters to accept state surveillance/intrusion into their personal lives
When public institutions are engaging in industrialized surveillance (of children, no less), it's a violation of privacy.

We also have no idea if Facebook posts are actually a good indicator of propensity to commit violence. To the best of my knowledge, there is not a proper study indicating that this may be the case.
News people always smugly expose people who should be anonymous, I wonder if he knew they were going to print a photo of him.

One day the intersection of super easy access guns with the combined lack of intelligence/respect of a bike thief is going to make things end very badly for the good guys.
Unless it's done in form of massive data collection targeted at a (minor!) group.
Medium.Com is totally broken for me:

```

HTTP/2.0 403 Forbidden
Server: cloudflare-nginx <!-- CloudFlare
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 16:45:26 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=dbfe2964790ee51252ab642de294d32ea1461516326; expires=Mon, 24-Apr-17 16:45:26 GMT; path=/; domain=.medium.com; HttpOnly
Cache-Control: max-age=2
Expires: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 16:45:28 GMT
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains; preload
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
CF-RAY: 298b06918f1f2b8e-AMS
Content-Encoding: gzip
X-Firefox-Spdy: h2
```
CryptGenRandom. It's the Windows equivalent of /dev/urandom.
> That's a feature, not a bug.

No, it's definitely a bug. You can have extensiblity without ambiguity, see the examples below...

> Name a binary application level protocol that has achieved adoption as wide as HTTP

TLS, SSH, DHCP, DNS
CryptGenRandom [1] would be the equivalent.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
This is interesting. So basically, my understanding is that the Posix subsystem is just a user mode portion of Windows that translates API calls to calls into Executive services through ntdll.dll

Now this means that if you know the ntdll.dll interface then this remains stable. So if you want to develop your own environmental subsystem it should be possible. After all, the Posix subsystem was purchased by Microsoft!

What I'm really interested in is what the ReactOS guys are doing. Have they implemented the same layering? If they have implemented ntdll.dll, then this could actually mean that they could technically get in ahead and do what Microsoft are doing right now.

For that matter, it starts to make me wonder whether someone could do what Microsoft have done but in reverse on Linux! In other words, implement a translation layer that translate ntdll.dll function calls to corresponding kernel syscalls, then work backwards implementing each of the user mode subsystems. Maybe WINE has done this already?
I've certainly found myself in the difficult position of having moved to a place where I know nobody. I read "How to win friends and influence people", hoping I could learn how to make better friends with it. It's easy to go to meetups and make shallow connections with small talk, but getting people to talk to me is like pulling teeth, a lot of single sentence reponses and no attempt to further the conversation.
Ubuntu is a pretty good distro to start using linux with, try that.
Because the police simply do not care about bike thefts so the criminals know they can get away with it.
> "married engineer, who is in his 30s", a bicycling enthusiast, and six feet, four inches tall. That, combined with the photo, is a pretty thorough description.

Not here in Seattle, it isn't!
Bike thieves are hardly organized criminals with weapons. Probably mostly homeless or very poor people without better ideas. It's a very low margin crime.
Damn, this makes me miss playing eve.
Another project is TrueRNG. They provide a small USB device, and a more expensive, larger TrueRNG Pro device, via http://ubld.it/
At Newzbin we used a simple partial quicksort for returning paginated results from our custom search engine - it worked really well for our needs.

It was implemented as a plain old C macro: https://github.com/Freaky/pqsort
Giving a drug to one person to see what happens is definitely an experiment.
Mayor Nenshi's Candid Camera Moment Unloading on Uber
Ate you familiar with fraternities and sororities? But you think that he genderqueer folks invented this obsession with gender identity?
See also the Armored Combat League, http://www.aclknights.com
and Battle of the Nations, http://botn.info/en/
for armored combat sports.
BTW, the SCA is having its 50-year anniversary next week.
Good project.

A question: Is there value in cryopto-signing the random numbers this emits ?
If you're going to have a blackbox (the SOC), you might as well get a BitBabbler as they have better design for noise and the black box is dumbest USB chip they could find.

http://www.bitbabbler.org/index.html

Needs more peer review and independent testing anyway. It's designed so you can do it yourself with a logic analyzer or whatever.

EDIT: I should add that, quite interesting to me, BitBabbler folks are building this for people who already know why a TRNG or analog source is important. They're not interested in evangelizing or winning anyone over: just people already wanting one buying it and preferably analyzing it to give them feedback on esoteric failure modes they haven't thought of. Only contact them if you're serious.
Yep, chimney fires are a very real concern. A couple of houses burn down every year because of them. We sweep ours once a month, there usually isn't much build up.
Using seawater for heating? Alaska aquarium takes the plunge
I do exactly this, I place "white blocks" over all the parts that aren't important, 3/4 of the document isn't, before printing the boarding pass to not waste ink.
About as much as you get when you say something in public space like a park. While potentially "anyone" can hear you, it's not going to be used against you 10 years from now to label you a criminal.
I normally dismiss advice from outliers like this, but the message of "Get out and exercize. Eat real food. Never retire." I think cannot be repeated enough.

Though I do suspect he's juicing with something, probably testosterone and or HGH.
The items are sorted after each insertion.
Isn't the actual issue that every discussion seems to descend into politics?

Could you create a platform without that?

I can't say I've noticed issues on cat photo subreddits, or /r/unixporn, or whatever else.

There seems to be this slow and inevitable descent into discussing politics at every available opportunity, and not in a humourous sense.

If you create a subreddit about some social issue, then the social issue will be discussed there.
You're missing the point. Sometimes you need to write software for Windows users.
Forget fitness taker, smart watch and tiny little things. I'm thinking thin smartphones. If one of these can be powered by multiple RFID signal sources. Do the math for required power signal strength and get working around the limitations.
Read "Gorilla Mindset" by Mike Cernovich:

http://www.amazon.com/Gorilla-Mindset-Mike-Cernovich-ebook/d...

You will thank me later.
Reprogrammable RFID Tag...
32bit executables can use 4GB address space on windows if they have the LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag set, which has been the case for firefox.exe since 2010[1].

It may appear that they use less than 4GB if you look at the working set or private bytes figures instead of virtual size because they reserve more address space than they allocate. Or it might crash before reaching that limit due to large allocations failing.

But 64bit builds have been available for years on their ftp server, they just weren't supported. But since last december they are[2], so there really shouldn't be any need to run 32bit builds on a 64bit system.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556382#c34
[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/15/firefox-6...
Indeed, that is the worst change from the original draft to the final version in my opinion. It puts Ryanairs wants over the passengers needs, clearly. because as a passenger I just don't care for the ad, but the travel plan is a really great idea and will probably be unused by most passengers...
I've never had a problem just printing the pass part, though I generally use their app now.

Some trivia: Ryanair are not IATA members but discovered that organization had issued them a code of FR, for internal use. Ryanair just started using it on boarding passes and flight information systems and save themselves thousands in IATA membership fees!

Easyjet aren't members either but instead use their catchy ICAO code EZY. Their philosophy being that if an airport wants their custom they can damn well upgrade their system to handle three-character codes.
> On the bright side, at least IP, TCP, etc. weren't designed in the same way...

And yet almost anyone can implement an HTTP server with their own parser, that works for every client out there in just a few weeks, but not TCP stack or DNS server.

It is incorrect to assume, that parsing text is hard. It never was and never will be. It's the other way around.
It depends if you have a new wood stove with a catalytic combustor and good thermostate or not. Usually we keep it around 18C (pretty low).

When it's past -40C outside, I jam six of the biggest logs that will fit through the door of the woodstove in every ~6 hours. I even set my alarm for the middle of the night, otherwise it will be too cold in the morning.
I saw a discussion about a supersonic jet company on HN not too long ago.

http://boom.aero/

Discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11329286
>after all, they seem to be a very much USA localized issue

Absolutely false. Norway, Finland, Slovakia, Israel, and Switzerland all had more shooting rampages (and deaths thereof) per capita than the United States (at least from 2009-2013, which the data covers). http://archive.is/f4gbv
It's sort of a truism that the more expensive software is to buy, the more expensive it is to own... (i.e. worse quality, less development on the part of the vendor, etc.)
> If you forgot to print your own boarding pass you’d incur a hefty fee for the convenience of Ryanair printing it for you.

Yes that happened to me. Worst flight check-in user-experience ever.
There is this too:

http://ubld.it/products/truerng-hardware-random-number-gener...
Nope, Bayes makes the second situation (and to a lesser extent the first) informative since the probability of a life-saving second-order interaction between otherwise dangerous drugs is small compared to the probability of the toxicity having a more or less cumulative effect.

Now, do I expect regulatory recognition of that fact in proportion to what you would get from a proper phase 0/1 trial? Probably not, and I'm OK with that because of the moral hazard involved, but it strikes me as more than a little ungrateful to pretend that the experiment was scientifically worthless. Someone put their life on the line for all of us, we should thank them and move on.
The difference is, it's old school in here. The content, the people, the UI, it's all very different from the modern social media. I had trouble staying regular here when I first discovered HN but after a while, it feels nice to come and see people talking differently from the rest of the Internet. The closest thing to HN is a few reddit subs. This is what feels home now, not Facebook or Twitter like it used to.
You're assuming thieves are acting rationally.
Yep, and most interactions are non-deterministic. I think we can safely say it won't happen in our lifetime.

On the bright side, we have a lot to learn and learning is life :)
I wrote it mainly not to be so dismissive about the article because I haven't read it that carefully.

With that said trees are also build to support fast deletion so that is one extra requirement that is not needed for incremental sort, maybe opening a potential possibility for some speedup.
> watch SCA heavy

Holy shit, these guys don't fuck around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RiQR60-5gs
Simple Alerting for the ELK Stack
> Telomeres are short segments of DNA which cap the ends of every chromosome, acting as 'buffers' against wear and tear. They shorten with every cell division, eventually getting too short to protect the chromosome, causing the cell to malfunction and the body to age.

Can anyone explain what happens to telomere length when a new human is born? Presumably the telomere length is reset? Is there a beneficial reason for telomeres shortening with time?
> boost your manly power and confidence

Mainly self-talk. Like "I'm the real catch here, not her." or "I've done X, Y, Z, and that's pretty rare. I'm f-n awesome."
Nassim Taleb (author of Antifragile) has talked about this:

http://www.economist.com/node/17509373

https://theglobalobservatory.org/2014/09/risk-and-robustness...
> The link between telomere shortening and age was proved just a typical correlation recently

Rosedale made a brilliant case (though maybe not proper proof) for this back in 2012: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-tall-tail-of-telomeres/
Yes, but the incrmental sorting problem requires that the k elements are not only sorted, but are the k first elements of the whole sequence of length N.
"I wonder if he knew they were going to print a photo of him."

The fourth paragraph of the article starts with "He was however happy for the Guardian to publish a photograph of him".