skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In games you're probably applying many small inverse matrices to many small vectors. In partial differential equations, you solve a single large linear system where the unknown vector represents a field defined at every point on a spatial mesh.

In my research, specifically, that spatial mesh can have as many as 10^7 grid points. For linear systems of this size, any exact solution at all is impractical - we exclusively employ iterative approximations built from terms of the form (A^n) b since matrix-vector products are about the only things we can compute in a reasonable amount of time.
I'd argue that a TLD can add semantic meaning to a website's domain name in a more general way than what would be possible by using subdomains, and without the clutter of using /paths/to/sections/and/pages.
TL;DR: Recommendations systems cannot be indifferent to truth.

Some related concepts:

1. Donella Meadows, in Thinking in Systems, notes that an absolute requirement of an effective and healthy system is accurate feedback and information. Media which are indifferent to truth value, or which actively promote distortion (see Robert Proctor's term, agnotology), will actively harm the system.

2. Celine's 2nd law, and inversion. In Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! trilogy, a character notes that "accurate information is possible only in a non-punishing situation". Its inverse is also true: acurate information is only possible when it is accuracy itself and ONLY accuracy which is rewarded. Academic publishing, in which paper output and journal selection is a gateway determinant of professional careers, would be an instance of this. Or the long skew of The Learning Channel from NASA-PBS educational co-production to Honey Boo-Boo broadcaster.

3. Paperclip Maximizer. "Don't be evil" isn't good enough. You've got to actively seek out good. Even a benign maximisation goal will, if not tempered by requirements to provide net benefit, lead to catastrophic results.

4. Mancur Olson's "The Logic of Collective Action" explains how and why small (but motivated) fringe groups can achieve goals directly opposed to the interests of far larger groups. This explains a great deal of market and political dysfunction.

5. A generalisation of Gresham's Law leads to the realisation that understanding of complex truths is itself expensive. It's also (Dunning-Kruger) beyond the capability of much of the population. This also has some rather dismal implications, though as William Ophuls notes, political theory based on the assumption that all the children can be above average ("the Lake Wobegon effect") are doomed. You dance with the dunce what brung ya.

Social media are being flagrantly self-serving and destructive.
The logic here being "If it works fine in X country, it should therefore work well in Y country?"
Yeah because the comments section of YouTube is of such a high caliber anyone would want to go there for a rational discussion.
This comment doesn't make sense to me.

Neither of these things happen.

You are saying tips aren't based on quality of the service?
Why, out of curiosity? Is first-come-first-served really any better?
>Pay the staff a living wage in addition to tips

Isn't that a basic assumption for most pay? Living wage + performance bonus
Yes, the number of reported vulnerabilities isn't a good metric to judge the security of a project. It often means that few people bothered to look, and that when developers fixed a bug they didn't try to find out whether it was exploitable.

The latter is supported by the fact that changelog entries don't discriminate between security bugs and normal bugs, and by the fact that no vulnerability was ever reported by the developers themselves.

More worryingly, in all instances where a vulnerability was reported, the CVE vulnerability was filed specifically because the reporters were security researchers. This means that when a normal user reported a crash bug, no vulnerability was EVER filed. How likely do you think it is that none of those crashes could possibly be turned into an exploit? There are 95 instances of "Some bugs were fixed" in the changelog.
Given then that one grain of wheat does not make a heap, it would seem to follow that two do not, thus three do not, and so on.

The weasel words in this case are "and so on." Four grains of wheat can make a heap. Put 3 on the bottom and one on top. If it's too windy to work where you are, slather them in honey. A sticky heap is still a heap.
I have no issue with tipping people who do things for me that go above and beyond. I'm much less in favor of building tipping into interactions where it's customary and expected (especially when different parties will invariably have different ideas about what is customary and expected).
Great current inspiring article written Jan 2016, shows the benefits of freelancing as a programmer. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-19/why-an-ex-...
Last time I checked, the McDonald's employees didn't refill my soda cup when it was empty or bring me more fries when I ran out.
Who can basically make new TLDs whenever, can't they? At no real cost to themselves. By what authority to they derive that privilege, why are they allowed to make such huge sums without doing anything useful for the money?
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Agree with you on that front. In fact on my laptop i would happily trade some latency/responsiveness to get battery life. ie let the os batch some wireless / IO / computation together and do it at one go when it wakes up relevant hardware from its sleep state.
Also - we likely could correct most of the damage by sequencing only one or a few cells. Almost all human genetic variation is in a relatively small number of well known locations in the genome - if we assume mutations occur at random locations, we can fix almost all of them by looking at any reference genome.
You are imagining that you get under the canopy and magically a city in ruins appears.

Instead, it is so entirely overgrown with a thousand years of vegetation, that it is difficult to spot the difference between a hill and a temple.

I was in tikal recently (drove from Flores, as you pointed out), and it was astounding to compare the parts they have excavated and restored to the rest. You would see hundreds of small hills and know that under each is an undiscovered building! Had it not been for the escavated parts, I wouldn't have even realized the hills were anything else.

As a parallel, under parts of Guatemala city (far to the south in the highlands) there are the remains of a Mayan city from pre-classical to early classical. The center of which is under a high end shopping mall. There are similar hills there covered in grass in a nice lark. I have laid on hills like this throughout the city without really realizing there were ancient buildings underneath.

Thus, there is a good rule in the capital. If there is a big, grassy hill, it is probably because there are ruins underneath. The government prevents people from developing that land, but no one has the money to excavate. Thus they stay entombed, waiting for future grad students and funding.
Who do you think owns .com? All the new ones, and some of the country codes, are companies.

You can't just go out tomorrow and buy a TLD - there's a whole process to prove you have the technical capabilities and financial capital to run the operation.
Aside from download.com and weather.com, I can't think of too many generic domain names that have picked up any traction. They actually come off as sketchy to me and many seem to be held by speculators looking to sell. I don't see the value.
While I value many of the same things as the author, I've found code reviews to be far inferior in every respect to pairing (especially promiscuous pairing (google it)), and to have negative effects in several important ways:

* They delay integration.
* They tend to encourage focus on abstract code polishing without proportionality or relation to the value of the code.
* They favor superficial improvements, while increasing the costs sunk into paths that may be deeply flawed. (They facilitate late code-structural feedback, but not early directional/problem-analytical feedback.)
* They often discourage more collaborative work and therefore quicker and richer feedback, by their presence as a substitute for pairing.
* They create impediments to work moving quickly to completion.

Of these, the most egregious is the distraction from value. Teams that are spending a lot of time and energy talking about code quality (which is absolutely important, but not primary...the best teams I've seen maintain a high level of quality and talk about tradeoffs involved in delivering value at high quality) are often neglecting communication about where value lies and how to deliver it most efficiently.

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The idea that a concrete thing (a number of grains on top of another) can not be said to be in a specific state, but rather its pile-ness is a non-linear function of the number of items it contains, is already the paradox.

Common logic would expect concrete things to be either X or not X (unless X is something subjective like "is it pretty?", "is it art?", "is it ethical?", etc).

Instead it turns out (paradoxically) that even a quality of a concrete thing based on its physical characteristics, like "is it a pile", can be subjective.
The obvious solution is to replace all the water in your body with something else.
Fast-food restaurants don't have servers. The (yes, weirdly specific) restaurant tipping expectations in the US (and, generally, where tipping is the custom) revolve specifically around tipping the person who brings you your food at your table.
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There is also nothing wrong with a small project that will always remain a side project, just offering something to the world for free, simply because you want it to exist.

If it starts to take more resources than you are willing to commit, THEN you evaluate how to monetize and grow. But small hobby projects absolutely have their place.
Eh, those media companies will simply leave the WG. The most notable one there is Netflix, and if their choice is being in the WG or having content, they'll choose the latter.
ICANN began the process for this in 2008 and the first gTLDs were sold in, I think, 2012(?). However, yes, you're right, private entities will end up owning all of the TLDs and it will put likely startups at a disadvantage to incumbents as they become more common.
McDonald's employees prepare your food. What's so special about refilling your soda that it requires tipping while preparing your food can be done without tipping?
I look at it tonight when I'm off. Already sounds better than regular platform.
Anyone know a tool that does Natural Language to SQL?
Soylent is the only company I can think of, though I'm not sure if they count.

In fact the only reason I bring it up is because it's marketed towards developers, and the founder/CEO is (was?) a full-stack Python developer.
> gaming.blog will probably have a lot of value

I'm not sure about that; many everyday users I know are now wary of 'general' domain names and see them as spammy or suspicious.

In the UK B&Q has to remind us that diy.com is actually their retail website and not some ad-ridden "answer aggregator"
don knuth.

Besides from his talent, I love the fact that he is still working on a project that will never be finished -TAOCP.

I look up to him as a hacker, not an academic, in the way that hackers scratch an itch and write something cool. His itch was typesetting, so he just nonchalantly created tex. Using a methodology (literate programming) he created to scratch a previous itch.

Plus he likes to compose music (great hackers hack across domains)
I always found it strange that 7-zip appears to be developed by a single individual, despite being very popular.

I know the fact that this lone developer apparently resides in Russia has caused 7-zip to be outright banned in certain places.
I'm not talking about a "trusting trust" attack, which is difficult to pull off and requires special compiler knowledge because it needs to survive bootstrapping.

Here the attacker just needs to patch a binary once and he already has complete control over the machine, so he has an infinite number of options: from simply manually replacing the binary file before it's uploaded to the website, to replacing gcc with a script that patches the source code before calling the original gcc.
"The solution to pollution is dilution."
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TLDs give a business credibility. People are much more likely to shop at foo.com than foo.info.
> That's actually exactly what happens if you are working to get a better tip - percent based on your service.

Can you provide a citation? Because all data points to tipping in no way being connected to the service you provide.

The best way to receive a tip (based on research)? Be female. Be blonde. Have large breasts.

So lets dispense with this nonsense that tipping incentivizes service workers. Its a thinly veiled, widespread (successful) attempt at wage theft.

http://www.tippingresearch.com/most_recent_tipping_papers.ht...

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/should-tipping-be-banned-a-n...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/17/abolish-tipping_n_5...
Aaron Swartz, not just for his programming skills, but also for never giving up on his fight to make knowledge opensource (See the Guirella Open Access Manifesto)

Other programmers I look up to are:

Tim Berners-Lee

Linus Torvalds

John Carmack
When picking up carry-out orders, I always leave a $3-4 tip when signing the card receipt for it. Is this considered a faux pas, then?
The US government. Someone else will be able to explain. I just read a bunch about it and am still extremely confused.
I'm curious how much of the code base will be publicly available. It would be great to try this stuff out.
Do you mean pinned tabs? It doesn't switch to the existing tab for me on chrome with osx. In what environment does this work because I'm very interested in it.
I didn't think it was a dig or gratuitous. It's a matter of fact that Facebook includes Fox News in its news sources, and as EdHominem points out, it really isn't.
The research is clear the the tips have very little to do with quality of service, and much more to do with who the customers are and who the servers are. More, waiters getting low tips tend to think their customers are cheap and not that their service was poor.

So when he says that this doesn't happen it's a claim that is well supported by research.
I define a non-word "uncomparable" to mean something specific and rather arbitrary, but I do not intend it to be the antonym of the real word "comparable". I'll try to clarify this on the webpage you linked to. - Robert Munafo
After a point, 100% will agree (anybody not agreeing that an obvious heap of say 100kg of sand is not a heap but just grains, can be discarded as a madman).

But still the exact point can't be specified, we only know when it's over-surpassed.

It's like in the famous trial, when they asked someone to specify is a film is "porn" or "erotic art", and he said:

"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that."
Cyclone is no longer active last time I checked. Or is it?

What other safe C subsets/variants are out there which are actively being worked on?

Cyclone and bit-c interested me greatly so pointers would be appreciated.
Because USA.
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"Living wage" in and of itself seems to be a little too idealist.
I think if you read that article, he isn't pushing 'Black Lives Matter', but rather asked employees to stop crossing it out and writing 'All Lives Matter'

His quote from that article explains it

"'Black lives matter' doesn't mean other lives don't. It's simply asking that the black community also achieves the justice they deserve.
We've never had rules around what people can write on our walls — we expect everybody to treat each other with respect. Regardless of the content or location, crossing out something means silencing speech, or that one person's speech is more important than another's."

There may be other cases of him pushing the "left agenda" but I don't think the article you link shows it.
That's kinda my point. There's nothing special about servers that they alone require tipping while other employees like cooks and cashiers do their jobs without tipping.
Because ICANN is responsible for overseeing the DNS root servers, and those roots are always used by ISPs as a matter of convention.

If you made your own DNS root and got folks to adopt it, you could make your own TLDs as well. Folks have tried in the past, none have really caught on (outside of a few specialized services, like .onion for Tor).
This underestimates how valuable land is within cities, and how comparatively cheap agricultural land is.

Worth reading: http://kaalvtn.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/r-farmers-will-all-go-...
Incredible impact of rich parents fighting to live by best schools
"Incidentally, a whale penis is the largest, and no discussion would be complete without mentioning the unique ability of whales. They are able to achieve erections at will, as readily as a man lifting his hand, and are the only mammal with this ability. This explains the lack of pornography marketed to whales. They simply don’t need it!"

Really good writing, this is.
.diary, .journal, .thoughts, .musings might be a better choice ;).
This is a great point. Borobrudur was a massive Buddhist temple from the 9th century built in Indonesia. It was "rediscovered" in 1814. The temple was 115 ft high, but after the surrounding vegetation overgrew it, it just looked like a hill.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur
I would suspect that you are just overpaying the business, at that point.

To be honest, unless I'm leaving cash, I have my doubts about whether the tip actually makes it to the server.
One portion, Nile, is available on github:

https://github.com/damelang/nile
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Khaneman: It is not a book on leadership really, but on decision-making. It is backed by reproducible nobel-prize winning research and builds a ver clear mental model. My only quibble is that the author should call "system 1" "the intuitive mind" and "system 2" "the deliberative mind" for the sake of better affordance.

Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen: This is by the same group behind Getting to Yes. It presents a clear mental model for how to better predict the way your words will be perceived and how to avoid misperceiving what other people are trying to say.

The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni: The first part of this presents a clear model the prerequisites for a team to be effective. The Second part presents a model of how to get agreement on mission and strategy. If you prefer a more allegorical/narrative style, the author has several books that teach different pieces of this book.

Each of these is available on Audible, if you find it easier to listen while commuting.
It is not about directly entering, it is about search results and yes you still get to work to rank them better.
I agree with your general idea but disagree with the language used.

I believe that the quantity known as a 'heap' has an internet element of vagueness; that is it is not known the precise quantity of the heap. Or some specific property may be known but not all.

You might start by saying:

* This is a heap of wheat grain. -- As you know it is wheat the set includes any quantity larger than 0 (for nothing is nothing, though a container for heaps of wheat might be empty it's self).

* This is a heap of wheat grain weighing a kilogram. -- The number of grains, and possibly the volume and average grain sizes within the 'heap' are unknown, but now the heap has an additional bound, it weighs, within some range of error, a kilogram.

* A pile of 400 grains of wheat is exactly that. There is sufficient detail (an enumerate of the aggregate) that eliminates the vagueness implied by 'heap', though it would not be grammatically incorrect to introduce it thus:

This heap of wheat grain is comprised of 400 grains of wheat.
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The problem is what facebook says is at odds with what the leaked documents purport to show. Trending items, and hand-curated items are not the same thing, and apparently they have been passing one off as the other which is problematic.
"Members who participate in the Media Extensions Working Group will have to make a legally binding promise not to use anti-circumvention laws to aggress against security researchers or implementers."

Note that this promise only refers to 17 USC 1203, which deals with civil offenses, i.e. a lawsuit.

Circumventing access controls is also a criminal offense under 17 USC 1204 (if done "willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain") and it's not possible for a company to waive the government's ability to prosecute that crime.
But foo isn't buying '.foo' or foo.blog. I don't see how credibility is related to the new TLDs.
people are just as likely to click foo.co.m.ru too

use whatever money you were going to use on a TLD and use it on your facebook adspend, nobody is typing in addresses anymore.
To be fair, someone has to be responsible for deciding which TLD's should exist. Since the modern internet as we know it came from the ARPANet, the US government (specifically the USDoC) formed the ICANN to privatize the management of the public DNS system (they also sit over the IANA by contract from the US government at this time) - everyone else just fell in line and went with it.
"Vagueness" is one side where the other side of the same coin is abstraction - instead of counting number of sand grains in any given case and using "set of N grains" we abstracted such cases - where N is large enough for precise value of N not being important - into "heap".

Abstraction is a convenient tool, and trying to put abstracted out details back in - like the precise number of grains - makes the tool more of a unnecessary liability, i.e "heap" abstraction disappears the moment you ask the precise number of grains, and instead "set of N grains" appears back.
They gave it to themselves.
In the example above, if they had not filled your order at the price improved price, it would have either filled at the higher price, or rested at the higher price. In either case you get a higher price.

They do this because they are taking on the risk that the market will eventually allow them to work out of their short position at a better price than they paid you. But they don't know that it will do that.

One of the reasons they pay for retail flow is that it on average goes back and forth, making it more likely that this trade works to their advantage.

None of the profit of that trade came from you the limit order provider. It came entirely from the average spread.
Certainly not a faux pas. Nothing wrong with giving some extra money to workers who aren't paid much. Probably not something that I would do though. If I pickup a pizza or sub, no I don't tip. And I don't think that's the normal expectation other than some extra pocket change--which increasingly doesn't exist.