skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pulled/squatted in a 5-plate range which ain't much by any serious standards for a 242lbs lifter so I'm just mentioning the numbers to put things in perspective as it isn't something to brag about :)

So typically my GPP workouts - pull-ups, curls, direct triceps work etc would take 45 min tops.

PL workouts (5/3/1 or Cube style) would typically take about the same time or longer with less work sets - warm up, rest between the sets etc. The only PL workouts that were shorter than that for me were the PR style workouts where I'd warm up, try for the PR, go home.

Serious lifters (the likes of Elitefts crew) take forever to warm up but then again they are moving some insane weights. We're literally talking going up in quarters from 125 up to 600+ for the bench with 2-3 minute rest intervals once they get above 405 and sometimes would start going up in dimes from there.
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Larry seems to be of the megalomaniacal persuasion, his interviews focus on wanting to run cities, airports, etc. Somewhere on the side of "it would be making the world better if it wasn't a dystopian vision". There's the whole curing death thing too somewhere in there.

Sergey seems more interested in the Google X toys, as he always has.
More unsolicited advice: A prestige mechanic can be a good way to increase re-playability, whereby current progress can be traded for future boosts.

I play(ed) a game called Sky Force 2014 that would have benefitted from a prestige mechanic.
Not very...

At 15 inferences per second in fp16 for Googlenet, I'd guesstimate 50-60 GHFLOPs. That would give it very roughly 2x perf/W over TitanX.
The set of all prime numbers is contained within the set of rational numbers, but they are rational numbers that are not within the set of prime numbers.

Cantor's diagonalization is simply demonstrating that same inequality by showing a number in set A is not in set B.

Just because you can map two infinity's to each other does not mean they are of the same size consider: Limit(0->inifinity) of (x - (x/2)) algebraically that's clearly Limit(0->inifinity) of X/2 which is infinity.

PS: What makes Cantor's diagonalization interesting is you can repeat it recursively an infinite number of times. This is more obvious in base 2.
I don't think you can talk about consciousness on a mutually agreed basis using math. I think that very few people, when they talk about "consciousness," mean something that a mathematical model can describe straightforwardly.
I would hesitate to call polymorphic variants "part of the OO infrastructure". They are really orthogonal to OO, but they do make OO less necessary. Ironically, OCaml has a really nice OO system but it's rarely used because with modules and functors there is little need for it. Put differently, a lot of the conventional use for OO is as a poor man's module system, and when you have a really good module system, you only use OO when you absolutely need the OO kind of polymorphism, and those cases are surprisingly rare (like existential types in Haskell).
Well, for one thing, the charges for actual kiddie porn are less than "indefinite detention".
Great article. The Sysdig team really knows how to root cause tough problems. The Sysdig tools can be invaluable for getting and making sense of low level data.

If you want to play with ELBs, rolling deploys, connection draining to ECS containers, I humbly submit the open source Convox project I am working on.

https://github.com/convox/rack

It sets up a peer reviewed, production tested batteries-included VPC, ECS, ASG, ELB, etc cluster in minutes.

If the conclusion of this Sysdig post was that you always need to run 2 instances per AZ for the best reliability, I would strongly consider adding that knowledge into the tools either as a default or a production check.

Since it sounds like an ELB bug I'll keep the 3 instances in 3 AZs default.
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That may just be because they are shell scripts instead of symlinks. On ArchLinux:

$ ls -li /usr/bin/{grep,egrep,fgrep}
1728040 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28 Apr 23 12:12 /usr/bin/egrep*
1728041 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28 Apr 23 12:12 /usr/bin/fgrep*
1728042 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 159024 Apr 23 12:12 /usr/bin/grep*

$ cat /usr/bin/egrep
#!/bin/sh
exec grep -E "$@"

$ cat /usr/bin/fgrep
#!/bin/sh
exec grep -F "$@"

The general point of them being implemented by the same executable still stands.
All the news I've been hearing lately about Mark Zuckerberg is Wall Street stuff. I'm curious with all this maneuvering around stock splits, share classes and tax havens, does he still have free time to bring any value to Facebook's shareholders as its CEO, beyond what some other Wall Street CEO would?
That's one scenario, but there are others.

If enough consumers decide to stop doing business with a company because of the company's behavior, then that's also a kind of market demand. The article gives one example of such a customer, though it's unwise to extrapolate too much from a single data point.
Actual child porn isn't an automatic life sentence.
Can you be more specific? Show us the code that isn't working.
I agree something is wrong; We're all underpaid.
VW and Shell try to block EU push for electric cars
Slightly tangential:
I've been wishing for years that a cottage industry would form around building quality systems for playing old games. Maybe a 486 100mhz with 16mb of RAM, or a Pentium 133 with 32mb and a decent video card so Quake would run well (Diamond Monster 3D 2 maybe?). Proper Soundblaster, 3.5 and 5.25in floppies, 4x CDROM, and a correctly configured autoexec.bat and config.sys. Hell, an external 28.8 or 56k modem too.

Dosbox and the like are great, but the sound is never right. Soundblaster 16/Pro/etc had a very distinct sound that none of the emulated stuff even approaches. Miss it mostly when playing Doom/Doom 2. The music is never right.
>Acceleration is needed for training -- not running the models themselves

This isn't true. Running neural networks (including CNNs) can be computationally and power intensive, and lends itself to the vector operations of GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs. Putting the computations on devoted hardware could enable embedded applications that simply aren't possible otherwise.

Here's a whitepaper by Microsoft about using FPGA's to speed up CNNs: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/?id=240715

Article by Google explaining the importance of optimizing neural networks to run on mobile phones: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/07/how-google-transl...
It was a ARM Cortex-A15 SoC. And we're going to have to use regular threads.

Just look at this[1] (then get your manager to bring me in as a consultant - it pains me to hear you have "long-standing issues with an ARM port" and the way your team-lead thinks he can solve it is with unit tests). "Long time to load which sometimes fails entirely" is a race condition. Insure++ is the "Coverity" for embedded (just as expensive, just as wonderful).

I think you misunderstand.

The platform already shipped with TBB. However, when I recompiled TBB from source, the unit tests that came with TBB (which are just peachy on my desktop) took either a long time to run, or crashed. I didn't have to write any unit tests myself.

Before doing any hardcore debugging, I looked around a little and found this:

https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-threading-buil...

Which still doesn't seem to be fixed correctly in the latest release. That's from 2013, hence the 'long standing issues'. I gave up on TBB before spending much time on it.
During ww2, the US were constructing one aircraft carrier a week. I don't think anything of these conflicts matched that ever since.
Appropriate the URL is .co.uk. Here in the UK, this is actually explicit law. If you refuse to decrypt, you can be chucked in jail.
You should consider moving the "after this deal" para to the top of your comment. Apparently people are reading too fast or something.
> You should have included those quotes too.

You should have read the article.
The parent edited their post.

When does the deal close?
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I'm not saying this is what happened, (and from what I've read, it's as absurd as you think).

However, an expert could hypothetically have all sorts of clue about the contents of an encrypted drive. Keep in mind that encrypted files still probably have a "last modified date" maintained by the OS, and that many viewer/player apps keep a timestamped list of recent files. If they see that realplayer claims to have played "nude_12_year_old.avi" on a "z:\" drive on a certain date, and that an encryption app opened an encrypted file a little while before that.... You can't know, but an expert could, hypothetically, make an educated guess.

Again, not saying that's what the expert did here. Just saying that this sort of conclusion is theoretically possible in some cases.
> What this shows is that encryption does not lock justice out and that it's really no different than papers in a safe in a person's house. If prosecutors have a valid reason to access the information they can go to a judge, get a lawful court order and serve it against the person who owns the safe.

This situation has actually come up before and it was ruled that while a person can be compelled to unlock a box with a physical key, a person cannot be compelled to provide the combination to a safe. [0] goes into a lot of depth on this.

[0] http://www.uclalawreview.org/the-fifth-amendment-encryption-...
I think you're on to something, since he's doing all this stuff himself and doesn't have an army of attorneys and accountants looking out for his best interests.
How much of that is tax?
Alright, I understood Tabata incorrectly then - I thought you have to do all-out every single interval and once you can maintain the 100% level in each, you are ready for Olympics ;-)
> It's more likely that beyond a certain point you have all the energy you can use, and the limiting factor becomes collective intelligence.

Why is this more likely?
I wonder if it then makes sense to write 0s as part of a permanent deletion process. No ambiguity about remaining content or intent when you do that.
>> Before Atari, software engineering was considered a highly professional career which meant coders wore a tie and a sensible haircut. “Atari was able to change that corporate culture a great deal,” says Bushnell. “When Steve Jobs – who worked for me – left, he took that ethos to Apple. Everybody else who worked in Silicon Valley back then looked at these two fastest growing companies, and started to think maybe our culture was important. So they started copying it, and now, today, anybody in technology can go to work looking like shit. That’s one legacy.”

And for that legacy, I for one, am grateful.
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No, the post was edited to remove the offending language.

Go go transparency
At 0.99 though, do you really make much money? Back of the envelop numbers seems that any game at that price point is so underpriced to never be profitable or more than a side project. Especially when an ad driven install costs more than that - relying on the pretty poor app store discovery mechanisms cant drive much traffic. (ive worked for free to play, so maybe we just saw a totally different thing)

The reason IAP became so big is because there was a huge race to the bottom in pricing in mobile, $1 isnt sustainable, so everyone was forced to find alternate revenue streams. If apple got rid of free and <$5, the average quality of the app store could be so much higher
The second edition of K&R adopts C89, so it depends.
It seems most people commenting did not.
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Game Dev Story is fun and has no micro-purchases. I was hooked for a couple weeks straight.
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OCaml 4.03
Negative subscription models: Trapping you in a club you didn't know you joined
The key difference between the two is what is revealed by the disclosure that they are trying to compel.

In the case of the hard drives, providing the decryption key establishes only that the drives belong to him or that he at least has access to the information they contain.

In the second case showing the police where a body is located is in itself strong evidence that he was involved in the crime.
And I really hope they fail. If you can't keep pace you have to change your business and should not try to change the market.
Given that figure and the Titan X at 250W TDP would put it somewhere around 1/125th of the performance. Which is probably more than good enough for inference given a network but you still need something beefy for the training.

It's still pretty interesting, though, since only need to do the training once.
I'm still hoping there will be a fourth novel. He never really explored what was going on with the zones of thought.
You might have already looked into this, but a lot of public libraries are part of larger interlibrary system that will include other public libraries + college libraries. Where I'm at the consortium includes most of Colorado and Wyoming, with a total of ~30M volumes. I can request them online and they're typically available at my local library in a few days.
Also useful in latency-sensitive applications, such as the drone flight demo they use in their video.
Like maybe there is a very good reason NOT to be emitting radiation at that obvious wavelength, because we might not be the only ones looking...
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Peter F Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga series has trains travelling through wormholes.
Ask HN: Commercial projects versus open source?
I find potential employers pushing open source (github activity, etc) projects a lot. I feel this discourages me from working on commercial (closed source) projects.

How does one balance closed source work while maintaining a "public" presence in the open source world. Time is so limited and splitting focus doesn't seem like a good plan.
>I thought the Core2 chips were actually multiple single-core processors on a single slab, which would make that true of all Core2 machines (not just Xeons)

Correct.
It's been a while since I used Unity, but as I recall it uses a global menu (yuk), it lacks a window list (which I like), and Alt-Tab works in a per-application, not a per-window, basis. And I think it does the Mac thing where clicking on a launcher icon either activates the app or launches it. I generally want the launcher icon to launch a new window, no matter what.

It's also, IMHO, ugly as heck out of the box.
>Finally! I can get my entire workout done in one minute' and that's kind of missing the point.

I can't agree with you more. However, I think this shows the importance of going hard. When I am at the gym and I see these people leisure peddling a bike while reading a book or a magazine, I just don't get it, why bother at all? Peddling slowly for 40 minuets isn't going to do jack. If you go to the gym go all out, push yourself as hard as you can until you body fails. Then rest and push until it fails again. Work through the failure. If you aren't wobbling out of the gym then you failed.
When you design a eDSL out of functions you get a lot of expressive power for free because you can lean on the host language's composition facilities. However this also means you have to shoehorn your semantics into an existing set of constraints (this is addressed by the "If possible" qualifier in "If possible, do things without macros") and you have to adopt all the complexity that the host language enables.

One big advantage of a DSL is that it limits complexity so that it's easier to predict what code will do, even if you haven't read it yet. With a macro-based DSL, you can know exactly what functionalty expressed in the DSL can and cannot do, which makes it easier to reason about without studying the code for hours.
Short of a revolution in Saudi Arabia, or something along those lines, oil/gas costs aren't going to go up 10x. Although gas isn't perfectly linked to oil prices, a barrel of oil isn't going to hit $450 anytime soon. There's far too much accessible oil at under $100/barrel for this to occur.
> Or rather, as long as it's on your computer (say a website downloaded it in the background), you're liable. Even if you have 100% solid proof that it wasn't your fault, you're guilty.

Do you have a cite for the law? What you say isn't true for the England; I doubt it's true for the US.

EDIT: Here's the English law.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/part/1/crosshead...

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/33/part/XI/crosshea...

> Where a person is charged with an offence under subsection (1) above, it shall be a defence for him to prove—

> (a)that he had a legitimate reason for having the photograph [F5or pseudo-photograph] in his possession; or

> (b)that he had not himself seen the photograph [F5or pseudo-photograph] and did not know, nor had any cause to suspect, it to be indecent; or

> (c)that the photograph [F5or pseudo-photograph] was sent to him without any prior request made by him or on his behalf and that he did not keep it for an unreasonable time.
What are you using as a basis to say that Pinboard's submission was a joke?
Let's see how it will play out once Facebook reaches MySpace-style decline and shareholders would need to get as much money out of Facebook as they still will be able to.
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The industry is still in the process of adopting it. My workplace only switched over six months ago. (That had been annoying, as I picked it up in roughly 2013, and it was hard to unlearn the new habits when I started working here.)

My recollection is that C99 took roughly ten years to go from "the new thing" to "normal".
There's this weird pattern that happens to geeky types when they become rich and powerful. They suddenly buy into the whole command-economy top-down philosophy when their success and wealth only exists because of the largely decentralized nature of technological markets and tech's low regulatory environment. All of sudden they think they can mastermind everything to perfection. The 20th century had a horrific experiment with centrally planned masterminding that cost humanity 94m lives. This should give every central planner some pause.

Pie in the sky rich guy stuff like immortality (Page, Kurzweil) and central-planning stuff like robot run cities, AI controlled airports, etc are just mindless futurism that either will never happen or will be too impractical or unethical to ever properly attempt. Heck, Page can't even deliver a thermostat that doesn't regularly fuck up in spectacular ways. He wants this cowboy engineering to run cities and fly planes? Meanwhile, Google has competely missed the boat on some real futurist stuff that is actually panning out like VR or private spaceflight.

The only person I can think of who didn't fall into this bizarre pattern is Gates, who just funds a foundation that hands out grants to various organizations, mostly non-profit and NGO, who might get things done. I think this is by far the wiser approach and the one that has the potential for the most change.

Live long enough to see yourself become the villain seems to be in effect here. Most super successful people don't have a second act. They peak and either disappear or just become weirdos who have spent too much time around yes men and in echo chambers.
It's really hard to replace the simplicity and reliability of letting ASG (and generally CloudFormation) roll out new instances.

However best practices always evolve...

I'd say that rolling out containers on ECS is starting to really show advantages.

It is now generally:

- easier to build and push an image than burn an AMI
- faster to boot a container than an instance
- faster to finish a deploy with options like min containers in service and a slack instance or two

To be honest most teams don't actually need the extra agility that containers promise.

But if I was starting an AWS setup from scratch I'd strongly consider containers on ECS.

In addition to the speed there is more portability with containers and a whole new generation of tools coming in the ecosystem.
Do you know what else makes people poorer? Having fixed expenses (housing) and roughly fixed income (salary) and growing expenses (food, clothing, energy, entertainment, etc).

As your income grows slower than inflation -- and for many people it does -- your variable expenses grow and you have to start giving things up. You can't give up housing and you can't give up food so you have to buy cheaper food, cheaper clothing, etc.

Of course, infrastructure spending is totally dwarfed by wars/military budget, so it's kind of disingenuous to suggest that in order to spend on infrastructure, public education or public health that debt must be accumulated. Cut the military budget by half and you can go hog wild, while still balancing the budget.
No, on my system they're three distinct executables; check the sizes shown in my previous comment.

Ubuntu 14.04 uses GNU grep 2.16. When I install it from source (grep-2.16.tar.xz), I get the three distinct executables. When I install the latest version (2.25) from source, egrep and fgrep are shell script that invoke "grep". (Which could be a problem if you happen to have another "grep" command in an earlier directory in your $PATH. Symlinks would avoid that problem.)

Here's the Changelog entry for the change to shell scripts:

2014-03-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

egrep, fgrep: go back to shell scripts
Although egrep's and fgrep's switch from shell scripts to
executables may have made sense in 2005, it complicated
maintenance and recently has caused subtle performance bugs.
Go back to the old way of doing things, as it's simpler and more
easily separated from the mainstream implementation. This should
be good enough nowadays, as POSIX has withdrawn egrep/fgrep and
portable applications should be using -E/-F anyway.
Man jailed for failing to decrypt hard drives
Is there an overview of all the Arctic explorations?
They talk about there being many of them, but I've not heard of any others, surely others would have suffered lead poisoning too.
This was one of the issues the Roman's had, but it was several more decades before people realised it was such an issue.
A century or so if you include the US water supply.
This [1] Wikipedia article explains the concept, and also refers to a science fiction novel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
Count me in the category that would definitely get weeded out for not having a warmup time before fleeing from the bear.

Sample size of one: I just started to "get fit" after 10 years of sitting on my ass. I'm running every morning when I wake up (I always wake up about 5am, but usually I just go back to sleep until the 7am alarm). So I open eyes, put on clothes, and hit the road within 5 minutes of waking up. I have to start at a slow jog, and I'm not able to go much faster than a speedy walk for about 10 minutes before I can actually jog. So for 10 minutes I'm pacing for a 15 minute mile. I can literally feel the moment at which I can comfortably jog, and then I'm able to do 10 minute miles for the duration of the run.

When I started this at the beginning of April, I could only do 30 minutes at a time and was hitting about 2.25 miles. This week I ran 5.5 miles in 60 minutes, still have to take my slow start.
Huh. I was at the same showing and didn't care for it much. The movie only rarely touched on the mathematics and instead focused on his life and personal troubles. At least Theory of Everything and Imitation Game actually showed a bit of work happening. The closest we get in this movie is a bit of argument about primes and then a little of his partitions work (at an extremely consumable level, so much so it was boring). I kept thinking "Hmm, I wonder why they felt hiding mathematics and making it a personal biopic was better than getting people interested in the actual math?".

In my opinion, Carl Sagan's books remain a much better "popular interest in X" method. Explain things to people, sometimes slowly or incompletely, but avoid the hero worship.