skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a trick. Innocent people will die from the nuclear bomb.
The problem with that is that just like with antibiotics you're left with the ones which they don't kill, you'll be left with those who would actually rather enjoy watching people getting killed.
Because a lot of employers of researchers demand it.
Hah, funny enough... Not on that project, but on a different messy one, I packed up and went out there, only to discover at 9am on the first day of the project that I had accidentally brought a pound of decaf. The nearest town is about a half hour drive one-way, and the best I could find at tiny grocery store there was a large can of Folgers with questionable vintage, and a box of Red Rose tea.

Surprisingly, if you use pre-ground cheap coffee in an Aeropress, it still turns out... sort of OK. Better than I expected, worse than I'd hoped!
Thanks for what?
If you're disabling GC, why use Java at all?

That's the point of using Java (or any interpreted language), isn't it? Avoiding manual memory management?

If you're going to go through all that horrid FactoryFactory Factory = new FactoryFactory(); bullshit, might as well get the benefits of the GC.

And if you don't want the GC, why not write your code in something else?
I have no inside or nonpublic information, I'm just an interested observer working in a related industry :)
> Stores in %4 the initial pattern shifted left by 8 bytes.

Shouldn't that be 8 bits?

Very interesting write up
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Very similar reason the answer to "why are manhole covers round" is that manholes are round; because you want to make money by selling your English test to the large number of people who read English.
I think you missed the connection. Gates did not want to be the richest person in the world any more. Giving that money to charity was a socially acceptable way of doing so. Thus, it may have been a selfish action with a net positive outcome.

The pimps homeless shelter might also be a net positive impact. It seems far more selfish.

Alternatively it may have started Gates down a different path which changed his mindset. I can't know as this is all internal. The point is some people feel the internal reasoning is just as important as the outcome.

PS: This is one of the reasons the law cares about internal reasoning not just outcomes.
I agree with the premise of the article, but what is a practical solution? The financial industry arises naturally from the time-value of money combined with human greed. Every time something like Dodd-Frank comes along to try and put a damper on things, people find a way around it or else redirect profiteering in another direction (like the stock buybacks we've been seeing).
related, admin your server with minecraft: https://github.com/simplyianm/sysadmincraft
Good question. I've seen some crm-like systems like pipedrive come close to capturing both traits (static features) as well as behavior /events of prospects/users. For capturing and using a bit more structured stuff, e.g. 1-n user-survey, user-emailOpen, etc even pipedrive etc, even pipedrive (being the most flexibele i know of although that doesnt say much) falls short. Dont know of any 'customer/contact/profile'-hub like tool that does all of this.
I'm not arguing. I literally paraphrased what you wrote in agreement.
With all due respect to Aaronson (with whom I find myself agreeing on many things), I wouldn't take his evaluation on the state of social science and his analysis of its core problems as correct. He's not a social scientist, and I don't think he'd appreciate an anthropologist evaluating the state of affairs in quantum computing research.
I have taken a couple of permaculture courses and am also a developer. The biggest synergy between the two is system thinking. In both domains, you are thinking at multiple levels of abstraction, bouncing back and forth between the high level design and low level implementation.

Highly recommended: Thinking in Systems: http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/...

And the permaculture podcast covers a variety of interesting topics: http://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/
We don't know what causes depression, and there's a lot of evidence that it is an illness.
I too would love to know the inspiring Ted talk.
Policy changes were made. Such as getting rid of defined benefit pension plans and replacing them with personal investment scenarios where people invest directly in mutual funds and stocks, which has the net effect that the populace as a whole becomes personally interested in the health of the stock market and compliant to political positions that prioritize propping it up.
Not to mention the far more significant problem of bicycling in winter climates, which renders a bicycle (at best) somewhat unsafe for many months of the year. Typically, I would end up with some snow and snowy slush on me if I tried biking in the winter, not to mention very cold limbs.
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Probably not.

The piece that I found particularly interesting about the proposal is the that the person with the implanted codes is a volunteer.

Not only would you need to have a President take hands-on ownership of taking a life (the first of many if the launch proceeds), but you have a martyr who is first to die for a cause that they feel most strongly for.
It's definitely a credibility hit, and those are the kinds of companies I associate with Capella, too. I believe Hackbright turned down an offer from Kaplan, which went on to buy DevBootcamp. Despite their predatory practices, however, the government has given them a seal of approval on which Hackbright can now hitch a ride.

That makes Hackbright more accessible to folks without the resources to pay 15k+ and spend at least 3 months without a job in one of the most expensive regions in the US. That's huge, because of Hackbright's commitment to taking in students with a variety of backgrounds, races, and economic statuses (no word on how that will be affected by a corporate buy-out).

Student loans are of course their own kind of mess; there's income-based repayment, less stigma, and even forgiveness, but it's also harder to get out of through things like bankruptcy.
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Odd coincidence that I literally just finished reading The Atrocity Archives about ten minutes ago. Great book, loved it. Thought the series might have been the inspiration for the movie Cabin in the Woods, but seems not.
Actually we are much bigger than just competing with Wikipedia. We combine aspects of Wikipedia, daily news, Youtube, LinkedIn and (coming soon) Facebook.
I don't know about where you live (might be the USA where the distances are ridiculous and there's nothing in range for people living in the suburbs) but most of the time you can go for local shops that have the goods you're looking for, or go farther with a backpack, or get them delivered to you through a system using electric cars or bikes.

I might be biased by my being European and living in my extremely dense Parisian metropolitan area though.
Yeah, I know about that but I'm not interested in businessmen unless they also make interesting music, and Prince only released a couple of songs I didn't dislike.

Also, he wasn't the first to do what you describe, and had a confused attitude to the internet, including the whole radiohead thing which revealed him to be something of an idiot.
Hey startups, your company name is eXhust.ing
> Killing via button is killing many of them "them". Hacking the innocent's chest is killing one of "us".

Pressing the button means killing of lot of "us" in the end too, because there's no such thing as one-way nuclear exchanges nowadays, with subs ready to fire from anywhere in the world.
Take a look at data virtualization. It's an alternative to data warehousing without the burden of making mutiple copies of the data; instead, it retrieves the information fron source systems in real time.

The "single view of customer" use case, which is the one you mention in your post, is one of the oldest that this technology aimed to solve and it does solve it very well.

Disclaimer: I work for Denodo (http://denodo.com).
You forgot Gibraltar, but your point stands.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555017 Azul's Zing is pauseless, never has to do a stop-the-world collection which they say on a JVM takes about a second per GiB.

It has threads which concurrently collect as other threads mutate, uses clever VM tricks such as bulk operations with only one TLB invalidation (or at least they did that with an earlier version of the current collector, they couldn't get it into the mainline Linux kernel and now use a DLKM). It's the only non-toy currently maintained pauseless/concurrent GC that I know of.
Thanks for sharing you experience at boost. Little nitpick: you might have swapped the ping labels (Pak vs boost).
easily to all? nope.
Honestly, large scale nuclear weapon deployment is going to kill alot of "us" so symbolically killing one of us is a better representation of reality.

There is never going to be a one-sided nuclear exchange when a substantial number of powerful, ideologically opposed countries have access to ICBMs.
BTW, there is a great music scene among the Tuareg people. I like the slow, groovy and intense sound of bands like Tamikrest or Tinariwen. Desert blues, if you want.
PPP to IPoE migration: MAC address management and subscriber binding automation
Basically you just incentivised the cruelest, nastiest sadists as the best candidates for high office. What could go wrong?
But jumping around in DRAM does have a slower access time.
Is there any actual proof that that's what happened aside from lame conspiracy theories?
Why do you think that controlling a mouse and keyboard would be hard? Industrial robots can do stuff like that with sub-millimeter precision and super-speed.

Controlling the motors of a drone or the moving surfaces of a fly-by-wire plane is much more complex than moving a mouse or hitting some keys.
Oh, and I can't imagine how isolating your situation mist be, so good on you for making lemonade out of those lemons.

For what it is worth, I really enjoy talking to folks with deep tech experience, and it seems the best way to get that is to have long, varied industry experience.
These "scientists" try to understand depression in order to help people. If you do not want that you do not have to take the mediciation. Contrarily, I would. And that you call this torture is a simple case of you mocking every person who has ever been really tortured. These experiment are undertaken with extrem precaution and after a paper trail that can be measured in trees. On the other hands, mice that are killed by pesticides usually die of internal bleeding. That is torture.
Buyback mania isn't necessarily good for shareholders. Paying too much for share buybacks is as bad as paying too much for anything else.* And, empirically, buyback mania tends to be strongest when share prices are high. By contrast in early 2009, when the US stock market was a great deal, buybacks were rare.

To be fair, though, overpriced buybacks do benefit investors who have warrants or options.

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*Unless you happen to get lucky and time the market. Very few people can do that repeatably.
I have a few thoughts on this:

1. When I created [citation needed] I never cared that people would source unreliable information. At that point I wanted to see the sources that were being used, and if they were unreliable then say so and under NPOV either make the fact or view less prominent, or remove it entirely. After all, when balancing neutrality with accuracy you shouldn't need to give equal weight to every crackpot theory.

However, access to material was a different issue. I tried a brief experiment called "bookcasing" where everyone could list the sources they physically owned, with the idea that if you needed to have material verified you could reach out to those people and have them check the material for you. Sort of like a crowd sourced fact checker.

It looks to me like Sci-Hub might now be the best way for Wikipedia to verify sources. There are many editors who don't have access to university where these things are freely available. The fact that information is not freely available to verify for Wikipedia highlights the fact that corporate interests slow down research and actively cause false and misleading information to be propagated!

2. The article asserts that it would be too expensive to make journals free. That's not exactly correct - a good portion of scientific work and research is government funded. As has been pointed out time and again, the journals don't pay for the research, they only pay to vet and publish the research. They are making profits of 30% and leveraging the research dollars paid by the general public.

In fact, I think that if they want to publish work, then I'd like to see them be forced to pay for 25% of the costs of the research. I'm pretty certain at this point you would see them squeal that it's too expensive - at which point we can point out that they aren't the ones who do the bulk of the work that allows them to publish in the first place!

3. There is nothing stopping third parties from creating a plugin themselves that verifies the transparency and availability of sources.

I can see a number of metrics I'd be interested in.

* a score that works out a weighting for reliability of journals. So in other words, it would penalise the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine for not making clear how they judge the manuscripts they publish

* another might utilise an impact score

* others might look at the weight that an article gives to a particular viewpoint to give insights into its neutrality.

It would be nice to be able to do this in Wikimedia and to be able to data analysis with the working clearly shown on how the metrics are derived.

It's workable, and I think it would be insightful!
There's a user on Metafilter.com, Dee Xtrovert,( https://www.metafilter.com/user/45778 ) who lived through the siege in Sarajevo.

Their stories of what it's like are so vastly different than what you would expect. Do yourself a favor: dig in and read.

"Well, unlike the majority of you (I assume), I actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions. "

A collection: https://www.metafilter.com/137458/In-war-not-everyone-is-a-s...

My Favorite:
https://www.metafilter.com/78669/What-if-things-just-keep-ge...
China's cheap labor is not everything it used to be. Nearly 7x more expensive over the past two decades and expertise is everywhere. Sure it would be painful, but it isn't like China doesn't stand to also lose here as well.
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That's the problem with the MAD doctrine, see. It assumes your opponent is rational. But if he is rational, then perhaps you can agree on not having nuclear weapons in the first place.
Other than as a disincentive (e.g. cigarette taxes), the whole point of taxes is to clamp down on inflation.

The government certainly doesn't need taxes to create money to pay for things.
Why In-Car Touchscreen Interfaces Shouldn’t Be Designed Like Smartphones
Yeah, it seems like you could more reasonably conclude from a failed swim test that a mouse was tired, not depressed. So isn't an equally valid conclusion just that the illness-induced cytokine-blocking makes you feel tired?

That doesn't seem as interesting! We all know that when we're sick, we often feel tired.
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> If faced with a symmetric foe that has launched a nuclear holocaust upon my country, it would be absolutely essential to retaliate in kind so as to ensure that they could not mount a second assault and kill even more people. If I were president, I would not hesitate.

OK, and it's the end of the world as we know it. Like, Game Over, the survivors are back to the Stone Age and the civilization can start from scratch with 99% less people. Sounds like a sound decision you'd make.
Hacking around the DRM in tractors is a great example of that intersection.
Generalized claptrap. You merely use cliches like 'free market ideology' which unless you give a specific example could mean just about anything. By the way, which right wing think tanks advised governments to take on borrowing to the insane levels that some have? The house will come tumbling down one day. As for 'financialization'. What does that mean? It certainly sounds terrible and we should stop it immediately.
Was 3DXpoint released as an actual product in the past 5+ years? I think the post you replied to just talked about progress in actual, released-to-market products, not future R&D that we don't even have a release date for yet.
And how does a lack of even rudimentary knowledge of a specific field of study qualify one to reject it wholesale?

The difficulties in meta-analysis in the social sciences vary from field to field -- psychology is qualitatively different from anthropology or history -- but if we had to generalize, they have more to do with the sheer dimensionality of the problem combined with the difficulty of precise measurement (and sometimes obtaining a large-enough sample), than with the field being "opinion based" or the existence of "mutually exclusive schools of thought" (I don't know how this differs from many other, more tractable research areas, and I don't see how this can be reconciled with saying that there's too much consensus).
probably returning, since the burn rate is much lower there. That's an advantage I have over other founders. Advantages are meant to be exploited.
There's a difference between verifiability and reliability. A bad actor could claim a reliable source that is hard to access says something it does not. That doesn't make the source any less reliable, only it does make it hard to verify that what is written is indeed what the source actually says.
The average time people in the UK spend commuting each day is 55 mins, with more than 3 million spending two or more hours and 880,000 people spending more than 3 hours each day[0]. In London the average is 74 mins a day[1], and from my experience in London an hour each way is perfectly normal, with 1.5 or 2 hours each way not too unusual, and I've even worked with some people who spend significantly longer than that travelling to work.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/nov/09/million-people-...

[1] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=average+commute+time+londo...
This is very interesting - is there any sample code one can learn from to build something in this style of programming ? Especially the deployment - do you have a scheduled that triggers GC or do you simply kill and restart, etc.
Slavoj Zizek said, "It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." I think he should have also added, "or, nowadays, the reform of capitalism".

I may be a seize-the-means-of-production socialist, but I acknowledge that managed capitalism in its Keynesian and social-democratic forms has actually existed and actually worked. What I find weird, a kind of ideological brainwashing on whole populations, is how nobody else to my Right acknowledges this. Everyone seems to pretend that the transition in the '70s-'90s from social democracy to full neoliberalism (ie: privatization, financialization, offshoring of industries, strengthening of intellectual-property laws over the industrial power of physical producers of physical goods) was some kind of mechanistic historical inevitability, as irreversible as gravity or entropy.

The misery and suffering of our people will stop as soon as we stop considering it inevitable and remember the dozens to hundreds of things we can do about it without even having to take riskily radical measures!
Things happened in Enders Game due to authorial fiat nothing more. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L4_zFYnnn2Y

Game designers spend a lot of effort in RTS game keeping the AI from crushing people. This showes up not just in the games AI but also unit mechanics. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mHbloVZ15Pc
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I agree, Zen + already great GPU designs from AMD in an APU package could be just what AMD needs right now to regain volume PC sales. I think they might actually have a better chance of succeeding here than in the server space where absolute performance/watt is more valued than in PCs and notebooks, but I still think for AMD to really regain their glory(and profits) they need to have the top performing CPU for a while and let it trickle down to APUs instead of eating scraps at the bottom of the pile like they are now.
31/40, but when I'm asked to visualize something I don't immediately conjure up a detailed picture, it's more like a cursor going over a scene and adding details as needed.

For instance, until I was asked to "Rate how vivid the colours of that person's clothes look in your mind?", I hadn't even imagined his clothes being ANY color. Once I decided that he wore a green sweater, I could "experience" the green color vividly.
> Can you agree that sometimes it is morally just and legally permitted to use violence?

Even if one can agree, which I think most of us can, this particular dilemma is specific to weapons of mass destruction, because their use inevitably (and intentionally) causes the death of many, many people who aren't the target but are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

So, the thinking goes, it makes some sense to force the president to kill someone who isn't the target to ensure that it's a worthwhile sacrifice.
Always good to read first hand accounts. Thanks for linking.
Sounds like a lot of competing interests. Best of luck to you, but I think you'll find this hard to accomplish well.
Only if your drops are freaking huge:
http://chemistry.about.com/od/waterchemistry/fl/How-Many-Ato...
>Wikipedia's aim may not be to become popular by just being an eye-candy. One of their features, what you call there as "dull grey textbook" is what I like very much. It allows the reader to read the thing comfortably and it also helps the pages load faster.

The format may suit you, but text, especially text in the long-form articles that are standard for Wikipedia is a poor format for the news-based articles that are the most popular on Wikipedia.

>If you stick to only some news (e.g. celebrity news) you won't get much controversy. But wikipedia is not for just news topics. It has provided space for many oppressed groups to post their views which are sure to generate controversy.

Wikipedia is a very expensive (time and energy) way to get information out to the public. Sending a video to Twitter and Facebook are easier and more shareable.

>I don't say that there is no need to improve Wikipedia but it requires better and deeper understanding and appreciation of Wikipedia, its readership and its goals.

Even with this, good luck getting any meaningful change from the Wikimedia Foundation.
I was thinking the same thing about the same two commenters, even though I do definitely enjoy their contributions.
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
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Money itself warps our sense of value.
Are there any among the other 49 states that don't permit self-defense when being pursued by an attacker with a knife?

edit: The difference is that some states have a requirement that the defending party retreat. Got it. For my part, I imagine I'd always retreat if given the chance and if it's reasonable (ie, I'm not going to retreat and leave my family in harm's way, etc). Of course, I can't fault anyone for making a different choice; who knows how one might act in such a situation.