skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to comment on that as well. Very cool to see. I really hope the Fuller projection goes mainstream.

"Fuller argued that in the universe there is no "up" and "down", or "north" and "south": only "in" and "out". Gravitational forces of the stars and planets created "in", meaning "towards the gravitational center", and "out", meaning "away from the gravitational center". He attributed the north-up-superior/south-down-inferior presentation of most other world maps to cultural bias.

"Fuller intended the map to be unfolded in different ways to emphasize different aspects of the world. Peeling the triangular faces of the icosahedron apart in one way results in an icosahedral net that shows an almost contiguous land mass comprising all of Earth's continents – not groups of continents divided by oceans. Peeling the solid apart in a different way presents a view of the world dominated by connected oceans surrounded by land.

"Showing the continents as "one island earth" also helped Fuller explain, in his book Critical Path, the journeys of early seafaring people, who were in effect using prevailing winds to circumnavigate this world island."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
Interesting. I think that still might be the 'push' model and not the 'pull' model, so it might attempt to do work in parallel.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/intro-invocation...

The Concurrent Executions section of this page suggests that anything other than Kinesis and Lambda Streams will cause parallel work, which is not what I want:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/intro-core-compo...
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Every generation of soft social "scientists" (I use scare quotes because they don't usually use the scientific method. When I say "soft" social scientists I mean e.g. Gender studies people as opposed to demographers.) tends to disagree with the previous generation on huge fundamental tenets for mostly arbitrary reasons. It is wise to take any dictionary-defying claims from these fields with a large grain of salt, because there's a substantial chance that such a claim is made for social or political (but not scientific) reasons.
> Sex is the biology; Gender is the identity.

What evidence do you have that identity doesn't originate in biology?

I'm well-aware of the existence of transpeople, but I'm not ready to conclude that gender dysphoria doesn't originate in biology. There's more to a person's biology than their genitalia.
Although I sympathies with your first point this claim "Religion is not the source of all evil" really dims down the evil.
But Google also more or less owns the market now. Back then it was anyone's game (and internet usage in tdeveloped countries was growing rapidly, making the market a bit more volatile).
Who are the clients and how much do they pay for these services? Whats the typical size of the dataset? Speed benchmarks shared with the public?
Not by today's standards no, but this was the 1500s.

They saw casting the horoscope of the royals in the same way that we would view someone now who had inside knowledge of (say) a major development project in some part of a city and who used that inside knowledge to buy land cheap in order to speculate.
We are long past a point where there needs to be some regulatory intervention regarding the authority of pilots to deplane people at the whims of bigoted passengers.
I don't think so. I prefer people simply not identify. I don't prefer associating with other atheists just because they are other atheists. I rather loathe proselytizing evangelizing atheists they irk me as much as the young adults in white shirts black slacks and black ties.

Now, I welcome an ebb in Christianity and Islam. As well as the expansion of atheism, I just prefer soft atheism over the more Religious-like atheism. It's antithetical to being an atheist.
This is so true. I am not sure we can accept or reject any hypothesis unless the treatment factors were assigned in a completely randomized way.
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I meant previous-gen chip fab process (28nm) vs. new-gen (14/16nm).
I consider my protests and vocal opposition to christianity being enforced on my family from my family, and my vocal opposition to its ongoing role in politics as a defensive tactic.

I am often labeled as being on the offensive, and it'd be nice to talk about this line more (when is it offense, when is it defense).
>"hindered by knowledge"

This is a great phrase. "Joe was hindered by knowledge of what a p-value means and so didn't claim he discovered a key to understanding the disease."
It's not about operator precedence, it's about sequence points. Assignment—including in ++—is a side-effecting operation. An expression form that does side effects can lead to very confusing code like:

foo(a++, a++);

What values get passed foo()? In some languages, it's undefined (!). In others, there is a well-defined answer, but even there the answer may not be intuitive. Removing assignment expression forms avoids this. Note that even "=" is a statement in Go.

It does sacrifice a little expressiveness. But in languages that have dedicated syntax like ranges for iterating over sequential numbers, the ++ and -- operators end up pretty rarely used so it's no big loss.
Addiction can be managed, it's only a catastrophic problem for the patient in limited circumstances: the dosage is too strong or you can't get it.

Where are you getting the goal of fewer people taking it, and why is the number of people taking it a concern at all? Pain management is the issue at hand.
You go to a school where the grades are read out loud or published in some form.

This isn't unique to the Middle East. Its often no secret who the valedictorian of your class will be in my experience (American school)... even if the grades weren't revealed.

In any case, "Nerd" in my experience means something closer to the hobbies you persue. "Geeks" play video games and academically do good in "computer stuff" and music. "Nerds" pursue theater, LARP, and table-top RPGs (Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, World of Darkness, etc.)

The intersection of "Nerds" and "Geeks" is anime, comic book heroes, and sci-fi.
Urban myth? This probably varies from place to place, but certainly all the physicians I'm close to are treated to very good food every day, and will accept occasional invitations to attend fun events with sales reps. Drug companies do their best to create an informal quid pro quo atmosphere. Many drug companies are involved, so they are clearly seeing returns from their physician influence.

More overtly, drug companies pay for fancy physician association dinners, and a rep will give a presentation on their drug and hand out business cards and brochures.
Nvidia's main advantage over AMD for deep learning is software, not the hardware itself. Nvidia's software advantage has lead to network effects where almost all GPU supporting deep learning libraries build on top of Nvidia. There's no Tensorflow/Theano/Torch/Keras/etc for AMD/OpenCL for the most part. Nvidia also releases high performance kernels for common neural net operations (such as matrix multiply and convolution).

On the hardware end, Nvidia has slightly superior floating point performance (which is the only thing that matters for neural nets). Pascal also contains 16 bit floating point instructions, which will also be a big boost to neural net training performance.
Maher doesn't say that vaccines are bad. He's saying that not all vaccines are good, and that Merck has discovered that it's a new stream of profits by convincing doctors that everyone should take vaccines for low-risk diseases.

So there's a difference, and I agree with him. I vaccinated my kids, and I even take the flu shot because my kids are still young. But given the fact that the flu vaccines is sometimes less than 50% effective some years especially in the years when it's a new strain, it's mostly an enormous waste of money that is going into the pockets of the drug companies. They have marketed the idea and created vaccine militants when practically it's not effective. If you even dare to say you don't want to take a flu-shot, you're labeled as an anti-vaxxer kook, basically exactly what you did.
He even looks italian.
I wish we had more information on the engines used and their configuration.
My point is that Apple has no interest in doing any of that.

> If people could reliably and legally install it on any PC they want it could still cut into Windows' share a lot more than it currently can.

But Apple would lose a huge amount of money on hardware sales, which is where they make their money. Apple even tried an approved clones program in the 90s, it was a miserable failure and one of the first things Jobs did on his return was kill it.

> It's not hard to imagine that before long, enterprising people will release custom "distros" of it

Which Apple really wouldn't want. One of the selling points of OS X is the lack of variation in both software and hardware.
Still no way to export structs or enum-ADTs to Objective C code, though. Really makes it hard to write idiomatic Swift APIs that can be called from Objective C.
Teachers talk in class when they shouldn't.

"Hey Teacher, how much is the curve on this test gonna be?"

"Well, it won't be anything because John got a 100."

[Angry glares at John]
While I love Rails, I've stepped away from it over the past couple years in favour of smaller frameworks. While it's nice to have a kitchen sink approach when it applies, for SPA's, I found I was using very little of the sink, and the sink often got in the way. Is Rails 5 doing a better job of letting you pick what parts you want, or is it still predominantly focused on an all or nothing approach?
Curious; have they made any statements on their versioning? I've seen mature projects years in development that are still 0 for major and in the teens for the minor version. Despite breaking changes Swift is now a 3.0 project?
I might have given the wrong impression: at my current job in France, I'm hired by a very corporate guy who spent years working at the State owned energy company, and he required some telephone references and some tests at an external head hunter. My guess is that corporate France still likes to use the Downton Abbey method, but at previous startups it was more about resumé, interviews and actual written code.
It is definitely a property exclusive to religion. Religion has immense power to instill core beliefs in a person. And core beliefs are the absolute center of our thinking.
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"It appears" means it's an opinion, thus not legally actionable in the US.
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Interesting. What would you say is the average age of these people? Would you say a 31 year old would be on the "older" side comparably?
One of the cool things about the biography of John Boyd (http://www.amazon.com/Boyd-Fighter-Pilot-Who-Changed/dp/0316...) was the quoting from and parsing of his performance reviews in the US Air Force.
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I have friends at UIUC and the difference in recruiting is night and day. I didn't get any response when I applied to Dropbox and Citadel over the last 2 years, but on the UIUC Computer Science Facebook page both companies post internship opportunities with direct recruiter emails, sometimes saying "anybody can interview" (for Dropbox). As someone who goes to a school of decent, but lower caliber this is a significant difference.
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If you have ever watched the TV show Black Mirror, it does an exploration of what it would be like to have instant access to know everything about a person by looking at them. The technology becomes a commodity and results in the destruction of personal relationships rather than a dystopian big brother society.

It seems to me that is a much more likely future than a criminal and government oppression future. Is one of them inevitable? Probably, but not any more than our present is someone else's future.
> Just as a reminder there are two types of fascists: fascists and anti-facists

First of all this is the kind of shit fascists typically say. Secondly how does that even follow?!
It took me a moment or two as well, but you won't get change without making change. The Mercator was historically good for navigation, but is a poor representation of the globe. You need only look at their last figure, with the more granular data, to see the level and ease of detail would be lost in Africa and Eurasia.
The point is if you sum up what people would want to do with their time, there's no reason to expect that in any way corresponds with what the allocation of resources should be to keep the engines of the economy moving / achieve maximal societal benefit / whatever. It's a classic tragedy of the commons situation.
Apart from swift on iOS/mobile which is gigantic, you are underestimating the push for Swift by enterprise players (IBM,SAP..). The next big frontier for enterprise applications is cloud, IoT and of course mobile (buzzwords or not). Java is increasingly being used by Oracle to extract revenue, there is no guarantee they will not change their mind and start charging fees from future versions as their other businesses (database, apps etc.) shrink.

The major enterprise players are not going to let Java (with Oracle stewardship) continue to be the language for the next generation of enterprise platforms and be at Oracle's mercy. Swift is open source and apple enterprise agnostic, easy to see other enterprise players pile on this language. IBM and SAP already on board. If you remember, this is how Java came to dominate enterprise space. Don't be surprised if Google release some sort of compatibility layer for Android.

[Case for bringing Swift on the Server by IBM]

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/swift-server

You are also overestimating Go's influence. It has been five years since the language release, it seems to have settled as a niche language like Clojure and topped out. Unless some major platform adopts it, it will remain a niche area. It certainly hasn't replaced (or even come close to) Python, C++, Java in any sense.
"He laughed because those scribbles weren’t Arabic, or another foreign language, or even some special secret terrorist code. They were math."
After a bit more investigation, I found that if you replace the following code:

result.append(begin == eos ? "" : String(cs[begin..<end.successor()]))

with this:

if begin == eos {
result.append("")
} else if let str = String(cs[begin..<end.successor()]) {
result.append(str)
}

runtime goes down from ~3 seconds to ~2.2 seconds.

This is due to a rather insidious API design decision:

init?(_ view: String.UTF16View)

constructs a string out of a UTF16 view, but it can fail. If used in a context where its type is inferred to be non-nullable, the following generic reflection-related init is used instead:

init<T>(_ instance: T)

I'm going to bring this up on the list and see if there are better ways of doing things.

As far as I can tell most of the rest of the time is spent in the Swift native Unicode --> UTF16 decoding machinery, and NSCharacterSet.
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Perhaps that is the fault of a deficient classical education, rather than the merit (or lack thereof) of Bergson's ideas? To extrapolate from your example argument, there are thousands of historical figures you have never heard of. And yet, their decisions and actions have had a profound effect upon trajectory of history, and the way the world appears to you today. Are they unimportant just because you have yet to personally learn about them?

Or perhaps it is a lack of imagination: Bergson was certainly a large part of the intellectual milieu in which Einstein was working. His thoughts pushed Einstein in certain directions Einstein might not have gone otherwise. Even if Bergson is unremarkable for his own work, surely he is important for no other reason than his impact on the thought of the remarkable and memorable theories of Einstein?

Taking 'I haven't hear of them' as your starting point of historical importance seems like an intellectually lazy argument to me. Each to their own, however, and you are certainly entitled to your opinion.
Meanwhile, 4mg of codeine will make me drowsy and seriously impair my rationality; 8mg will send me right to sleep.

Human bodies are not even vaguely consistent in their response to medications.
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About time.

Because religion often enjoys legal protection, in my eyes proclaiming to be religious does not differ much from stating: "I am legally delusional!"

In the same vein, one can hope that eventually nations also realise that churches do not deserve tax exemptions. They are businesses, and to be more precise, they are in the protection racket business.[0] The logical difference to mafia is miniscule.[1]

0: "Say, that's a nice soul. Would be awful if something happened to it..."

1: "Say, a nice shop you have here. Would be awful if something happened to it..."
>It is incredibly important to force people to learn stuff that they might forget even existed in a few years. A free and appropriate public education is one of the greatest things we as a civilization can provide to our citizens. Education is possibly the greatest civil right we possess.

I believe in this ideal as well.

But I do wonder how it can be that there are TV shows filled with people who appear to have learned absolutely nothing in school. How can it be that even though schooling is free in most of the west, I've personally interviewed fewer people who knew the expectation of a dice roll than people who didn't (by a gigantic margin)? And that's selected from people with degrees in STEM. I wonder whether the problem is how schools are organized, what values they instil in the kids, which people teach the kids.
It was confusing to me too. Maybe they should list the reason they used that map in the caption
What effect do you think that has?

If smart students choose selective schools and smartness is associated with ROI, we would expect to see a correlation between ROI and school selectivity. That we don't is interesting.

If merit is highly correlated with school selectivity, then selectivity can be considered a proxy for smartness/determination/etc. If that's the case, education ROI appears to be not strongly correlated with merit (via the selectivity proxy). That is very interesting.
And is called Guido!

In this day and age, I feel lucky to be a blondish Italian.
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Is it going to take more deaths to convince people to learn from the Therac-25[1]? If you aren't designing for safety first, you have no business working on medical devices or anything else that might be a dangerous when it misbehaves.

[1] http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf
There's more than just bigotry at play here. We're constantly told now, "If you see something, say something" (the article even pokes a little at this), then our fear factor is raised as high as possible with notions that any of our fellow passengers could be evil terrorists about to bomb the plane. To top it all off, air travel is stressful and if you have even a little bit of fear of flying it gets amplified by the whole experience. It's like the perfect cocktail for these sorts of situations. I'm always surprised this doesn't happen more often.
Antivirus scans are one of those things added on IT checklists to cover their ass whenever something wrong happens.

But it rarely is useful. It only causes problems. We've seen so many issues related to virus scans throughout the years it's crazy.

What's better is to lock down the servers with only minimal access. I haven't used virus scan on my main desktop for over 10 years because I don't click on weird emails and I don't go to sketchy websites ever. Sure there's the risk of malware from ads I suppose, but I'm not that worried.
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> Give specific examples that a jury would convict for, keeping in mind that knowledge and intent must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

Knowledge and intent aren't needed for RICO prosecutions. 120 'gang members' just got arrested in the Bronx and sent to prison. Some of them probably didn't even know they were in a gang, and some of them were already in prison when the alleged crimes were committed. Doesn't matter.

It would be trivial to get convictions if the government wasn't also in on the crimes.
> how dangerous the combination of stupidity and fear is

Not dangerous at all, it's really quite convenient.

Can't have all those people sloshing around unsupervised, or even apparently unsupervised. Gotta show 'em.
It's often used inappropriately, which is one reason to use less of it and use other better alternative.

It's a significant cause of death in suicide so that's another reason to use less of it. It accounts for a lot of accidental death, so that's yet another reason to use less of it.
Alternatively they could make their own API, independent from OpenCL. I have written a small amount in each languages (a rainbow table generator), and found the CUDA version much more pleasant to use. CUDA made it really easy to get a good idea of the underlying hardware, and make architectural changes in order to make the code faster.

OpenCL (using an ATI card) was much harder to program, since the abstraction level was much higher. Writing two separate kernels and have them each be faster than a generic version that ends up compromising for compatibility.

The OpenCL one ended up being faster, but I suspect that's due to ATI hardware being superior at the time.
This idea contradicts the OPs' theory.
Umm it's the government and the media egging people on and creating a continuous atmosphere of suspicion, fear and mental illness. Honestly, the paranoia is a mental illness and it's caused by government and media propaganda. If you say that 10,000 people have died because of this, well we have spent $700,000 on the deaths of each of those individuals, 7.6 billion on TSA, to prop up the paranoia security apparatchiks. Not to mention billions of tourism dollars lost. It's already insane.
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Parent is referring to the anti-crushing design that was later introduced. It's in the article, grep for "crush".
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The author cites a scholarly article titled "General Motors and the Demise of Streetcars", but the link to this article seems to be dead.
> I've re-read it several times and I have no idea why you thought it was relevant or what point you were trying to make.

So people downvoted because you personally can't understand the following two laughably easy to understand sentences?

Let's say someone here posts "fuck off"
or "you're an idiot". Please explain how
that can be interpreted as constructive
to a discussion here.

Made - completely relevantly - in response to someone claiming "non-constructive" is always subjective.

> Comments like that will usually get you downvotes.

Why? Her post made no sense to me. If I can't tell if someone is being serious how am I supposed to find out?

If only I had 500+ karma, I guess I could have just mindlessly downvoted her instead, since according to you if someone can't understand a post, the poster should suffer for it.

> You might disagree with (I do too), but pointing it out by calling people childish is going to get downvoted.

> It's also childish to keep whining^W complaining about downvotes using the same language that got you downvotes.

Yet somehow okay for you to use the same language?
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They do. They have a retargeting compiler. It's performance sucks.
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