skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it many of the Ruby Communities have decided to argument Ruby with Rust, rather then something much more similar to Ruby like Swift or Crystal?
Procedurally generating gas planets and cloud systems using the GPU
To be fair, people poured millions of dollars into a drunken pirate investment company (pirateat40). "I'm going to take your money and drink it away, har har" was somehow better than the alternatives, which often involve basically-impossible-to-circumvent paperwork requirements(buying stock without a phone/mailing address, say), obtrusive spy-on-your-customer policies, risk of having your wealth appropriated by governments like the government of Venezuela and so on.
> Socialism means that production and distribution are controlled by the workers

That's not what socialism means. That sounds more like communism.

In capitalism, both basic and non-basic industries are privately owned. In communism both basic and non-basic industries are publicly owned. In socialism, basic industries are publicly owned and non-basic industries are privately owned. Of course there is some argument about what industries are basic, which makes this more of a spectrum than three distinct categories.

So when you say "mostly liberal states with extensive welfare programs", the "extensive welfare programs" ostensibly cover most basic industries, while the "liberal market policies" you mention cover the non-basic industries.

I'm not arguing your knowledge of Scandinavia, I'm saying that's not what socialism means.

Corporations have tried to politicize the terms in order to vilify socialism and capitalism, and represent them as oppressive ideologies, but they're just economic systems, and don't inherently have to be tied to totalitarianism as they were in the USSR for example.
I was first employee and lead engineer at a startup that was primarily focused on video, which eventually got aquired by a very well known video sharing platform. If there's one thing I learned in that 5 years, it's that I don't care much about video. I had every opportunity to find a way to care. I enjoyed creating the technologies that we created. I enjoyed managing the systems we built and meshed. I enjoyed inventing ways to store and retrieve Terabytes of short videos for thousands of people. I even enjoyed building a prototype video renderer in Javascript (which was eventually ported to C). But as far as consumption is concerned, I couldn't be bothered with the vast majority of it.

The applications that we built were an attempt to resolve some of this. We were building editing / curation tools to help improve video, and some of the people using our software created incredible things, that I absolutely loved.

I especially dislike the trend in the past (5?) years toward programming tutorials in video. Give me a written tutorial. Give me a blog post. Give me a well-commented repo, or at least a poorly commented one with a decent README file. When teaching anything involving a textual artform / profession, give me Anything but a visual / audial medium. I write and read code for a living, and otherwise I write and read about problems solved with code all day. When it comes to programming, video is a square peg in a knife fight.

That said, I have an enormous collection of TV shows and Movies, and I have a great deal of appreciation for the medium, in general. One of my close friends is an Editor in Hollywood and I have such an absolute respect for him and the creative sides of his industry. I love to see his work and hear about the intricacies therein. When edited and curated, video is splended. I can dive in and forget the world exists and appreciate nuance and symmetry of visuals, sounds, and ideas. And despite my feelings about programming videos, I know it's possible to learn from video, depending on the subject.

I don't want to watch videos of everyone I know doing every day things. I don't want to watch unedited, uncurated crap in real time. Every time a "Live" video link shows up on my FB notifications, I skip it. I don't want to see you live. If I did, I'd video chat with you, or I'd call you up to hang out. But if you want me to take some time out to watch your broadcast, then I expect some planning, editing, and and overall respect for my time. This is video, after all. It's all-consuming. I have to watch AND listen in real time, which means I'm not doing anything else. Asking that much of me requires respect.

Of course another benefit of text is that it's so easy to edit. I don't know if you've actually enjoyed reading this post, but I assure you the first version was much, much worse.

And if you just skimmed it and ended up here, at this sentence, well there it is: my favorite part about text over video.
Crohn's can hit early, too; the social hurdles of having a colostomy bag in your 20s or 30s can be extremely daunting.
The Presidential election odds seem about on point. Maybe giving more of a chance to others than warranted for the nominations. But the 74% chance for Hillary for the Presidency seems pretty spot on, where I'd guess it.

The VICE President page is super interesting, because it's far less clear cut. There's a lot of options on the table, and nobody has a clear majority.

Obviously Warren is a good choice for appeasing Sanders fans, Sanders himself has a tiny chance, unsurprisingly. Republican side I feel is super early to tell, Trump could go anywhere (it's Trump, I mean, come on). Gingrich is listed at the top on this page right now, which is an interesting choice. When I saw Gingrich interviewed, I thought he was a pretty clever guy, he could be a reasonable voice working in a Trump White House, until he gave up trying to bring order to chaos.
Amazon usually gives you a refund and free month of Prime for pretty much any complaint. They won't even make you send the items back!
We target 8 - 18 year old kids, and I've found that the 8-11 year olds learn best with Python while the older kids 12+ learn best with Java. Our general progression is to start kids of any age with Python using pythonroom.com, and then move toward Java/web development/iOS as they become more comfortable with computer science principles and syntax.

I've worked with brilliant 8 year olds that absorb programming like sponges, and I've had reticent teenagers who discover a passion for computer science through Java game development. I've also had the kids who refuse to make an effort to learn despite my best efforts. More than anything, the experience of teaching real computer science to kids has taught me that it's not for everyone, and that's not a bad thing at all. As long as every kid understands what technology can do and what problems it can solve, they can be effective adults in our rapidly modernizing society.
If you're paying ATM fees a) that's on the banks, not on the cab driver, and b) you need to switch banks--I have paid a handful of ATM fees in the last decade and I make in-person purchases almost exclusively in cash.
> Where everyone literally has the same power over everyone else

I'm sympathetic to these sorts of ideals. I think you've gone too far though. I want Elon Musk to be able to exist. The working world is a lot shittier than it needs to be. It's the ultimate buyer's market. The masses are forced to sell their labor under penalty of death. The owners, however benevolent, know this. They design our jobs with it in the back of their minds. They don't want to acknowledge it directly. They know they've won more power than a meaningless game should grant any person. But I think there's a way to fix even the subtlest (and not so subtle) forms of oppression without reverting to the Harrison Bergeron society. Just guarantee everyone's basic security. I want to be able to work. Both because I like nice things and because I want to contribute to society. But frankly, I'm pretty indignant about having to do it just for my basic safety.
Is Cancer helping humanity? Bulgarian researchers think so
I enjoy cooking, but good luck finding the time. As I work more and more hours during the week it seems, my other pursuits and todo items get pushed off to the weekend, which gets packed full as well. Finding time to even go to the grocery store every so often can be rare, and then actually cooking every day? Seems crazy.

But I enjoy eating good food at home when I have it.
Anti-intellectualism runs deep in American society. Consider the words nerd, wonk, geek, brainiac, college boy, the negative Hollywood stereotypes, etc. The Big Bang Theory is the latest incarnation of that.

My father learned to keep his book collection out of the living room.
Yes.

For example, Breakout saves score in address 76 and 77. Arcade Learning Environment has code to read the score, one per game. Code for Breakout is here: https://github.com/mgbellemare/Arcade-Learning-Environment/b...
Checked C: extension of C that adds bounds checking to C from Microsoft
A better analogy is probably Thaksin Shinawatra, where the rules are very much still up in the air, and where depending who has sway in Thailand, he can expect vastly different treatment.
Apple tANS implementation was suboptimal - both from the quantization and symbol spread point of view: http://encode.ru/threads/2221-LZFSE-New-Apple-Data-Compressi...
The author of this post (Eric Biggers) has made corrections and one of them was already merged in lzfse github (the second would make it incompatible).

There is a paper about FPGA implementation of tANS encoder ( ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7306068 ), but it uses branch which is removed in more recent implementations (bottom of the first post of http://encode.ru/threads/2078-List-of-Asymmetric-Numeral-Sys... ).

It is worth to mention that rANS variant - using one multiplication per symbol (e.g. in Google VP10), has recently exceeded the speed of tANS/FSE: https://github.com/jkbonfield/rans_static
Thanks for that, although I don't think those particular tools apply in a polyglot sense, the concepts establish a nice pattern to replicate in other tool chains.
Borges taught himself German to be able read Arthur Schopenhauer in its original language. Interestingly he also learned to read Italian by reading an English translation of the Divine comedy with the original text in one page and the translation in the other. The translation was by John Carlyle, Thomas' brother.
What is incredible is that you can't conceive of how an average of six hours of TV watching might allow for many people to watch zero hours of television.

But since you brought it up, maybe you should look into what kind of people watch >6 hours of television per day.
Yes, it's fed the score as the reward value used. If I'm not wrong, they didn't normalise it across games for the initial paper but normalised it to some range for some of the following research experiments.
http://www.biznews.com/undictated/2015/05/13/elon-musk-the-b...

Elon Musk can be brutal with himself and then he has to convince other people to join him and those who want to experience brutality or know how to be brutal with themselves, to meet his standard will do so. And that's about it. I don't think "forcing" this on the world is a bad thing, as it's more closer to the natural order of things in hunter gatherer societies than what we have right now.

In Harrison Burgeon the problem is not that people are equal. It's that they are forced by the State to be equal. People naturally have their abilities and gifts. That's not the issue. The issue is when they can coerce other people not because of those, but because of money. And make them behave on certain terms that the people never agreed to. The people simply want money so they can maintain a certain class in society.

Yes it will lead to a certain order but I don't see how that order is bad for society as a whole, compared to the current order. Other than well we won't go to space as fast or we won't get X product fast. We'll get there regardless. It's fine that we have shinning super stars, that we put in charge of other people, and we can do things quicker, better, faster, cheaper because of them. But those people actually end up making everyone around them and as a group society as a whole more miserable, to get the product or service based outcome. But I don't think those things would never get done without Elon Musk or Bill Gates or whoever. They would still get done in a different way and slower. And if we're not so brutal with exploiting everything, maybe there is enough time for that. Compare that to exploiting everything at an extremely quick rate and having to come up with solutions to those problems at quicker and quicker rates which just drives everyone and everything bonkers.

It's like I want driving cars and strong AI right now. Well maybe you'll get those things right now and three generations down the line the earth won't be able to support natural life and everything will have to done artificially, and so life and everyone's behavior will be even more closely regulated, because it will all need to be produced and therefore will be owned and sold for profit. I think these are the sorts of trade-offs we're looking at with the way we're running things.
Big difference is that I can still play the game with or without G-Sync
>Breeder reactors like fast neutron reactor main advantage is less radioactive waste,

Generally they will also have more passive safety features and in the case of something like the IFR, an even smaller chance of proliferation. Less nuclear waste might be the most important issue to most people though.

>... there is enough of uranium in world to feed the old light water reactors for thousands of years too

True, looks like I was really using the wrong units of time. Scientific American had an article where they estimated a 60,000 year supply at current rates. If we switched to the world using breeder reactors, probably more like hundreds of thousands or millions of years of fuel depending on the growth rate you use for consumption.
Thank you, that's so awesome. (sorry, could not resist.)

I've noticed this, and have found it relatively innocuous.

The largest corporate instances I can think of are Snapple or Ben and Jerry's, would you agree? Or am I thinking of a different phenomenon?
When Wikipedia got started, one of their early crises / edit wars had to do with people wanting very strongly to describe Tlön from an in-universe perspective. (People who've read the story will understand why!)

A kind of analogous later Wikipedia edit war had to do with whether the article about Gadsby (the lipographic novel that doesn't use the letter E) should be written with the same constraint as the novel itself, and also whether the article on E-Prime (an approach to writing English without using the verb "to be") should be written in E-Prime or not. But I feel like the Tlön issue was the granddaddy of all of these controversies.
Yes, they do exist. My experience:

They do tend to be lone wolves, happy to fill just 1-2 vacancies per month. 2 would be a good month, and cause them to slow down.

They're often from the field they specialise in, and recruit at senior levels, as they've knocked up 10-20 years' experience in the field themselves, and anything lower in the chain would not be worth their time.

How to get to know them? Know someone they know, that's the easiest way.

For non-senior roles, as above:

There are 2 problems:

Finding: Actual souls that exist purporting some skill-set.

Filtering: Who is actually competent at this skill-set.

(Perhaps a third: Fit, but that's fuzzy)

Finding: Go cheap. Let them trawl databases and send you 50 CVs per day, anything counts, because their judgement is not as good as yours. Filter: Takes less than 2 minutes to read a CV and put it in 'reject' or 'read more'.
No, I don't. I was into computers in the 70's. The first thing anyone did with two computers was figure out a way to connect them together. A smorgasbord of technologies emerged - Fidonet, BIX, CompuServe, Prodigy, MCImail, RBBS, etc. Heck, even I invented one (it wasn't very good, although I did call it "web" (!)). The notion that the internet would not exist without the Arpanet protocol is pedantically true, but we'd have something else just like it but with a different protocol.

It's like saying if engineers had wheels and engines laying around everywhere, nobody would have thought of connecting them together and making a car without a government grant. (I can tell you for a fact that the first thing any engineer does with an engine and wheels is find a way to put them together!)

The Arpanet also kinda went nowhere until the restrictions on commercial use of it were lifted.
Michio Kaku: Sub-Atomic Particles Are Evidence the Universe Was Created
Wow, it's almost as if capping the fees they can charge provides an incentive for the banks to aggressively pursue anti-fraud technologies that benefit everyone.

Naw, never mind this is the USA. Free market is all that matters.
> I find it endlessly amusing that people are willing to bet their cold hard cash on "this code has no bugs".

It's not "this code has no bugs" it's "this code has less visible bugs than the lower hanging fruit". If it's harder to find than any bug in any system with bitcoin (or other ethereum) in it, then people will find that stuff first. Bitcoin gave us out here in the IT world, for the first time in history, a realistic way to measure the large-scale security of various kinds of systems. Microsoft, for example, has not had the bitcoin from any of their wallets stolen. With every flaw that's found, we get the chance of learning how not to fail in the future.

Furthermore you have to invest in something. And it's remarkably hard to invest these days. Just try buying a house with ethereum, see how frustrating it is.
The movie, 'The Revenge of the Nerds' came out in 1984, after I had left my neighborhood, and for all of its silly comedy, was a sign that things were changing.

My parents and other parents in my poor, working class neighborhood saw education as the way to a better future, not just financially. Intelligence was berated by others in my age group in class. I don't equate education with intelligence, since I have met so many bright people who never finished high school (my father), and so many phDs whose intelligence I question to this day. That piece of paper, a university degree, can be earned with average intelligence, but costs a fortune for most non-public universities. As an acquaintance said to me about his son going to an Ivy league school, 'he's set up for life'. Regardless of his son's IQ, or final GPA, the societal strata he will interact with and form networked connections with, along with the school's reputation, will guarantee him a higher-than-average floor of entry compared to my children. For the record, I am not for that type of education.
The original papers [1][2] for the deep Q-network used reward clipping: "As the scale of scores varies greatly from game to game, we clipped all positive rewards at 1 and all negative rewards at -1, leaving 0 rewards unchanged".

[1] https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~vmnih/docs/dqn.pdf

[2] http://home.uchicago.edu/~arij/journalclub/papers/2015_Mnih_...
Crazy how that documentary appears to be not for sale in any form and DVDs on Amazon go for $3xx. Am I missing something?
> The stream format works in blocks of up to 65k.

Can you point to where in the gzip or DEFLATE spec having that stipulation?

The gzip format doesn't store the compressed data length, nor the offset of the compressed data blobs. It just has the header and then the blobs of DEFLATE compressed data, one after another. That's why it's good for streaming.

Same thing with DEFLATE. It's just a series of arbitrary size compressed data blocks. With a dictionary upfront for dynamic Huffman and no dictionary for static Huffman. You read as much data as you can to decompress until encountering the ending Huffman symbol, where you arrive at the next block. The 65K limit is for non-compress type block, which is not useful in the scheme of things.

There's no well known magic signature bytes to search for a DEFLATE header.
This is a little off-topic but the software sounds interesting, do if you wouldn't mind I'd appreciate a link.
Video excels in doing two things... 1) conveying emotion and 2) telling stories that paint pictures.
Remember, in this headline it's paired up with "walking on water".
I agree, but I think you have to admit the usual alternative "sketchy" is pretty expressive as well. :)
For comparison: 1000NZD is 705USD. An iPhone 6s is 649USD, and the plus is 749USD. I've got a Nexus 5, which was 400USD a couple of years ago.

BLU is a usually-cheap phone brand, with handsets starting around 60USD.
I get along just fine using a $150 BLU phone

Wow. Not a comment about you in particular, but about the industry in general. I did a quick search and found this: http://bluproducts.com/android-phones

Really? 66 different phones? Is this entire industry, except for Apple, run by imbeciles? Not that I'm in the target demographic, but I only have a relatively few years left on this earth. I don't want to spend half of them just figuring out the differences between Android phones!

Hasn't the rest of the world learned anything from St. Steven?
This seems like a case where something completely legitimate got so abused that it lost its meaning to many people. It does have a point. It's a classic phrase used in teaching logic to rebut the logical fallacy of an argument from ignorance. I think what you've seen is a lot of people using the authority of something from formal logic to back up their own fallacious arguments.

"The phrase "the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence" can be used as a shorthand rebuttal to the second form of the ignorance fallacy (i.e. P has never been absolutely proven and is therefore certainly false). Most often it is directed at any conclusion derived from null results in an experiment or from the non-detection of something. In other words, where one researcher may say their experiment suggests evidence of absence, another researcher might argue that the experiment failed to detect a phenomenon for other reasons."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
Well oculus was well on its way after its Kickstarter, but the they sold out. Good for them, but it sucks for the rest of us.
new folks: use https://drive.google.com/a/hugomelo.com/folderview?id=0B_H50... and https://drive.google.com/a/hugomelo.com/folderview?id=0B_H50... so it doesn't ask me for permissions, did not anticipate how many folks would ask :)