skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also interesting is the name of two of the "General Purpose Ignition Routines" (I'm assuming, I don't speak Assembly):

159: BURNBABY
169: B*RNB*B*
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11986214
How exactly do you want to hold them accountable? The best thing I can come up with is force restrictions on the sales - you have to prove the production met the known standard. But you can't do that if there are no local alternatives meeting that standard.
I have a friend at the Census who is, in principle, allowed to use R or Python, but is definitely aware of a strong historic bias for commercial statistical software--SAS mainly. That's the weak form of pro-commercial government bias. The strong form is that there are, I'm told, agencies in which only "certified" statistical software can be used.
It's obvious what narrative the media is trying to push. If the media succeeds, it'll set back the progress of technology that will save numerous lives.

Maybe humans don't deserve this fucking planet.
I think the major difference is that Iceland had its own currency and flexibility with regards to how it managed its banks. Italy, on the other hand is bound by the Euro and the EU banking regulations. This seems like it will not end well.
I think she said right there? She doesn't commit meaningfully to the data pool, so go right ahead and collect it for all the good it will do you.
Thats silly though. You should use ground truth of actual outcomes, not predict that useless humans would do. But even then I bet the algorithm would be less racist than the humans, if you don't give them race as a feature.
> as well as a significant chunk of Rust's usability advantage.

What bits are you thinking of here? Just curious, as I do a lot of no_std work, and don't feel that way, and am probably blind to it :)

Rust 1.10, coming out later today, has a new crate type that removes Rust-specific metadata for dynamic libraries, by the way, making them a bit smaller for this kind of case.
Cites from journals (not politicized websites like huffpo, guardian, etc) , credential listings, publication listings, etc.

Something like this could filter out the "random geek wanna-be with an axe to grind" type post.
They have a small overview of cloud storage systems at http://rclone.org/overview/. Interesting to see that apart from Google drive, other compared systems do not support duplicate files or objects with same name.

Github repo - https://github.com/ncw/rclone

docs - http://rclone.org/docs/

faqs - http://rclone.org/faq/
Air regulations have an immediate, local effect too. But you're right, we should subsidize clean air in developing countries too. [..Ducks..]
As someone living in the US who visits China every couple of years, I would really love to see China clean up their act (the pollution has become by far my #1 dislike), but I would really hate to see the US loosen pollution regulations because of some weird idea that we shouldn't bother cleaning up our air unless everybody else does too.

I love the fact that when we have air quality warnings, I can't even tell the difference. I hate the fact that half the time I'm in Beijing, I can't comfortably breathe outside. I would hate to see the air quality here made worse just because China hasn't made theirs better.
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Some issues of right and wrong don't need expertise in the consequences. E.g. "Burning hobos for fuel would be CO2 neutral. But it will have an effect on prices, and perhaps change stock fund values for pensioners. Hm, what should we do?"
Just pick your favorite from the dozen or so Second Life forks.
If you have read any of the books like Surely Your Joking, the first thing that sprung to my mind were those diagrams he drew on napkins
> (which you need to do in a library used by C anyway, really)

You can also use panic::catch_unwind at the boundary too, it depends on what you want to do.
We do have our own version of ghost malls. Actual ghost malls. The US is where that term was coined. Most of the time those developments involved partly public funds (directly or via tax incentives).

And I wouldn't characterize our military spending as ghost malls. They serve a purpose even when not actively used: deterrent. You can argue how important that is but it's not useless.
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Just to add to this: The part that comes this initial gluon emission (hadronization) is not very well understood since at this length scale the perturbative (i.e., feynman diagram) approach to QCD breaks down. See e.g. http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2010/12/11/when-feynman-diagra...
I don't quite understand it, so just to be sure:

Instead of fixed calls to other modules all modules use this library to call other modules' functions?

I think everyone has that idea at some point. I started writing my own but ended up going back to rigid coupling because unless I really decouple the system, for example to place modules in different processes or even machines, or letting different versions of certain modules "plug in" simply by loading them (run-time configurable) instead of having to change module names all over the code (needs to be done before deployment), it didn't really give me any benefit (at that early stage). I still use it for logging: I don't have to call a specific method, instead it's all just "messages", and when I have a "logger" listening for certain messages it logs them on the console, in production I'd leave the calls in but send them to a server, simply by loading another logger module, without code changes.

My statement is only for my own specific project, I found that whether to use such a method or not is highly specific.

So my only point is that trying to use such an approach "because it sounds cool" turned out not to be sufficient reason. IMHO the provided "Motivation" document is not sufficient (https://mbasso.github.io/refraction/docs/introduction/Motiva...). I think more could (should?) be said and explained.
I assume is "one return only per function" rule http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/118703/where-...
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When mentioning this, I find it helpful to include this page: https://www.ftc.gov/faq/consumer-protection/get-my-free-cred...

If you are one of the people just finding out about this today, and you Google "free credit report", you come up with a loooot of bad, scammy links. This is how you get your legally-mandated, really free, annual credit report, starting from an ftc.gov address so you know it's really the right one.
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> Then report that the rejection was due to the un-tweaked parameter value.

Shouldn't it be the tweaked parameter value(s), since those are what made the difference between acceptance and rejection?
As an Indian when I come back from overseas this the very first problem I notice, especially when I return from a long trip. The problem is far deep than one can imagine.

A city like Bangalore has almost an impossible amount of scooters on roads. Almost every house has at least one, and most homes have easily 1 for every two people staying in the home. And its not like US where there are laws on building homes. People take a 1200 sqft plot and build 4 floors, with 4 families, so at least 6 two wheelers for a small plot of land. This is even possible because auto rickshaws and buses have gotten expensive. Public transport of any kind is expensive, unpredictable and not worth when you look at the overall comfort and economics of having our own scooter.

At the other hand trees are being cut at an alarming rate. The area where I stay, around 15 years back, had a drive where students from an agricultural campus plotted a tree per home. In the time since a countable few trees remain. People cut trees for various reasons, some which are down right stupid. Reasons go like- A big tree will attract birds who will in turn crap on our cars/scooters, or that chirping birds disturb their morning sleep to impossibility of cutting the tree if grows too high.

The garbage landfill are full. So the government often doesn't collect garbage on time. Sometimes even a whole month passes before the garbage is collected. So you have massive piles of trash(Medical and all other toxic waste included) piling right at the corner of the lane. This causes mosquitoes to breed, and then diseases like dengue spread. The most obvious solution people around the place work to is burn the trash, causing all this toxic fumes to now mix in the air and reach almost everyone's lungs in the area.

On top of this comes industrial pollution. Rivers and lakes are being polluted, encroached and destroyed almost everywhere. Bangalore's lakes have almost disappeared. Many remaining are now cesspools. There was a lake which caught fire recently.

India needs something on the lines of Clean air act, and clean water act urgently. Feasibility of implementation remains a problem though.
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Cool! Good initiative Daniel :)
After finding this picture of a real Portia, I have to disagree.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6096/6306406141_3b237e21ee_b.j...

Look at those big, soulful black eyes...
Another way to stifle dissent, which is being consumed under the flavor of "muh terrorists".
I doubt it's intended to be sarcasm. There is a lot of fearmongering going on regarding Brexit. Regarding this particular article, as another commenter pointed out the majority of the UK's space spending goes to the ESA, which is separate from the EU.

However, pesky things like "facts" shouldn't get in the way of a Brexit story. /s
Tony Stark is retiring in the comics. Iron Man will be taken over by Riri Williams a 15 year old genius who happens to be a black american woman.

There's nothing much else to it at this point, since her story or the story that has her taking over Iron Man is not out yet.

James Rhodes (i.e. War Man) is unavailable to take over.
This, and our failure to simulate something as well understood as the c. elegans' 302 neurons, makes me think that biologists need to push a new approach.

When it comes to understanding a radio or a microchip, my first instinct would be to try to isolate components which are as small as possible, and actually try to map inputs to outputs... And if that's not working, either the component isn't small/basic enough, or I haven't really captured all the inputs. I'd hopefully start getting an idea about logic gates and voltage thresholds and eventually building up to larger and more complex processes and parts.

1) Would such an approach work in theory for a radio or chip?

2) I'm assuming I'm not the first person to think of this - is that approach basically what's already being done? (edit: a lot of stuff in this seem to be along those line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrophysiology )

3) Is it just much harder than I imagine to isolate a single neuron (or small set of neurons) and try some inputs to come up with the algorithm to properly simulate it?

4) Or are neurons too complex for this approach to be effective, and we need to dig down to more basic components or get a better understanding of inputs?
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Suggestion: start going to murder trials. Every time someone gets sentenced to manslaughter instead of murder, shout "the Hanlon Dodge!".

I'm sure the judge will appreciate your insight into jurisprudence.
I think whats missing is greenspace with a commercial element. If you attach a beergarden or cafe to a greenspace people will spend much more time there
Had his text been the body of an email, I would have concluded that it must be some new variation of the Nigerian scam; being on HN, I really have no idea what it is.
I could be wrong. But I think part of why they did it this way was so they could edit things on the fly if a emergency dictated so. Having to ship a compiler (would have likely been an entire separate computer) would have not been feasible.

With things done this way and documented this why they could (fairly sure did) have the pages printed out on paper and such. And if say there was some bug or new routine that needed to be added mid flight they could go to a key board input (no screen) and with the instructions from the ground reprogram a section or add a new jump point or change a value mid flight.

Remember, computers were not what they are today. They did not have super powerful laptops and such with fancy tools.
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Reading though this thread I have been justifying my statements and backing into an odd corner.

Buying a house was an example of a life changing thing you could do with 500k even with a six figure job. And no you can't buy a house at 100k with zero savings in the bay.

Sure, that's true long before you randomly hit ~500k, but that was chosen as a 'good' return from joining a startup that does not become Google as a non founder.

PS: As to returns, if you can't get 4+% retirement get's a lot harder. 1.04 ^ 40 = 4.8x So, 10% is not even close to cutting it. At 2% forget about it. Best of luck.
You might be interested to read about the kugelblitz:

> In theoretical physics, a kugelblitz is a concentration of light so intense that it forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped: according to general relativity, if enough radiation is aimed into a region, the concentration of energy can warp spacetime enough for the region to become a black hole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)
They validate the accuracy of the model with real users, starting with short term/low value loans, to mitigate risk.

The explanation for them is - it works.
What software do you use to measure utilization?
Polluted air is a symptom of a system which has little regulation over industrial and commercial waste. This means that while we suffer from the air, they will suffer from all kinds of water and soil pollution. They are inflicting grave health wounds upon themselves (like we did to ourselves earlier). We can hope the people will demand a cleaner environment from the government and industry.
Tariffs on products imported from nations with low environmental standards. This taxes the externalities. This doesn't shut off the flow, but it gives protections for companies setting up in the US with those regulations.
Also, two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12037546
I am actually looking for a CTO position at an early startup. Hit me up by email: my HN username @gmail.com I'll send you more info. about myself and I would love to hear more about what you are trying to build.
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Then the problem is in the racist human(s), not the algorithm.
How does a non-expert recognise an expert with so many claiming expertise?

> If you can't do that you shouldn't vote, because you have no idea what you're talking about and no way to judge the consequences.

Why? Can you assume, then, that only those who do know the consequences will vote instead? Who does know the consequences - experts?

Also, who's to decide the importance or magnitude of an issue?

Doesn't this mean that the ability to muddy the waters is the power to restrict votes?

If we, the great unwashed don't understand the EU, or it's importance, how did our democratic country get into it in the first place? Surely the public understood it as little then? Or should we do what our politicians tell us to?

...
It's not about waiting for someone to offer a deal. In the wake of Brexit there are elections to decide the new prime minister. Article 50 will be triggered after the new prime minister has been chosen.
> The spec allows them to be anything, including kernel modules or hardware (and in practice they're… plug-ins).

On mobile platforms, they generally are system-integrated (and hardware-supported) components, often running at privilege levels exceeding the running Android/Linux kernel.

See the recent Qualcomm case where a DRM component (Widevine) running in TrustZone context[0] was used to attack Android's full disk encryption scheme.

[0] TrustZone is an ARM architecture feature for running code in a different execution context not accessible from the "normal" running kernel. Useful for running small amounts of code dedicated to protecting crypto keys, but horrible if you load gigantic DRM blobs into it that no one could reasonably audit due to sheer size even if their source code was available.
I agree with you, but I also still agree with me:

Making Delphi or Common Lisp the next hotness is pretty much a lost cause, and has been for a long time. The people using those things tend to be heavily invested in them, and still making money. If you're not making enough money to spend US1.5K on your primary tool then you're not really making money.

Most of the people who balk at $1,500 will probably still pick the free option rather than pay $19.99.

Even though there are good free options (in the case of common lisp there are multiple good free options), there's still no gaining of traction.

So these companies charging money have defined their target market as people already using the language professionally, and they've found a price point that lets them stay in business and provide quality tooling (specialized IDEs, debuggers, GUI frameworks, et al). If they lowered their prices to $19.99, rather than attract loads of new mindshare they'd simply go out of business.
Are most of those scooters 2-stroke or 4-stroke? At that scale, the efficiency and emissions differences could make a big difference.
That's not what Leave said, and it's not what Cameron said.

He said that article 50 would be triggered very soon after the vote.
I sincerely hope you are right. There's a lot of assumptions there.

Will Germany sacrifice its principle for car sales? I don't know. Will France and Germany persuade the other EU members to follow them? I don't know. Will this happen quickly? In the meanwhile what happens? There's a lot of uncertainty.
I agree with both this and the above comment, in that I see this ideal as a dream at best, which is why as enticing as his views are, I can't fully say "yes, this is worth trying", especially since Heinlein's characters tend to be larger than life where the public just sort of accepts them for whatever reason.

So, please do understand in no way do I advocate for the actual separation. I think it'd be disastrous and used as a tool of oppression more than anything, despite my admiration of it in the initial post.
Alright, who wants to make a video game using this source code with me?
>ban operation systems, which architecture allows execution of malware

Ban everything except iPads?
Can't you just say the decision was based on a random forest trained on the following parameters with historical data. You could get more specific on how the model was trained or even show model if you have to. I'm sure you can create a small-print tree diagram.

In terms of human review, does this require more than a spot check? I can imagine look over the p-value and possibly spot check the input data, and then approve it.
With feathers.
This is exactly why the legislation is created: to stop peoples' lives from being destroyed or negatively affected by computer programs that not even their creator know how they work.
Indeed. It could even conceivably use some special memcpy hardware. I doubt it goes that far, but another comment here mentions that it will use SSE or AVX registers when appropriate.

`rep movsb` shouldn't be thought of as repeatedly copying single bytes from source to destination, but rather as a `memcpy` instruction with a weird name due to history. If it's used frequently enough to be worth optimizing (and it seems like it is) then Intel and AMD can easily recognize it as such and make their hardware perform the operation as efficiently as possible.
> SSDs are not a requirement: one can get equivalent system performance, with predictable failures, by spending more money on more hard drives and CPUs to talk to them.

Lots more money. Many, many more hard drives, with failure rates to match. And you're still not going to get there.

We started running a 240TB all SSD array a few months ago and we get sub-millisecond latencies on most reads and writes. When we see an excursion to 10ms that's cause for concern; 50ms and we do a root-cause. We can peg multiple 16GBit fiber channels and it's okay. And it fits in half a rack; try that with disk.

I cannot imagine doing this with spinning rust.
I wonder if that submission was in any way related to Peter Watts' novel "Echopraxia"...
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Weird layout.

The article text on the far left, and the side column on the far right with a LOT of white space between. The white space in the middle is as wide as the article text itself.

BTW, I'm on a 2560 width screen, using Firefox.

And this is what it looks like:

http://i.imgur.com/bWwMuNH.png

If this is considered good web design, I'm going back to Lynx ...
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> How does his long-term success compare to other well-known businesses?

You mean, how does it compare to two cherry-picked extremely successful businesses (and one other one thrown in for "objectivity")?
It would probably be much more cost effective for the US to pay Chinese firms to reduce emissions (say, by paying for the installation of more advanced filtering equipment) than it is to try and wring further reductions out of US firms.
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I recommend the first two chapters of Griffiths's Introduction to Elementary Particles which gives a very readable approach of showing which Feynman diagrams occur and what they mean. After that, the book gets more technical, but the first two chpaters give historical background and make it feel like playing with tinker-toys where you can just snap together various basic diagrams.
Thanks for that link. It's an excellent analysis of the actual data from the study. I'm part way into reading it and right away the author has thrashed some of the claims of the original study. It appears that even some of the basic claims of correlation aren't even correct.

Added: Schistosomiasis infection is such a huge cofounder for colorectal cancer rates that it is ridiculous to have claimed dietary cholesterol from animal sources as the cause.
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Notifications can be turned off per app or completely. The author complains about Starbucks notifications as if he is helpless to stop the onslaught.

Just take control of your devices rather than leaving everything at default settings. Go on... embark on an adventurous mission into the settings and flick a few switches like a boss.
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I'll add this metaphor:

Here's a large boulder that looks like it might/mightn't be about to fall over a cliff.

I super-glued your hand to it - the glue's not completely dry yet, but it sure will hurt pulling your hand away (might take off some skin, you could bleed to death!) - better not do it?
You still need to install horrible binary plugins available only for a small set of platforms.
I don't know, comics and superhero stuff are usually topics that the tech crowd enjoys.
This is wonderful. I read the whole series in one sitting. It actually made video codecs feel way more approachable, rather than some patented black box magic I'll never understand.

It also reminded me of a recent article talking about how you can break audio codecs by guessing which quantizer was used by the packet, then using it in reverse to produce speech! Which I suppose is obvious in retrospect, that lossy codecs are trying to compress data by making it perceptually similar, whatever the domain.

I also appreciated the ties to video game networking. Gaffer on Games has had a long-running series on designing multiplayer networking protocols with UDP and you two approach bit-shaving very similarly (unsurprisingly I suppose - it's a very specific process with its own tools).

Anyway, thank you! I learned a lot.