skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would've liked to hear about more of his earlier life, pre-cambridge. How a person working on a phd at cambridge happened to have 2 open rooms in their apartment. A lot of what I'd be interested in is how people actually end up getting the ideas, or meeting the people, or being in the position to take the leap to the success that people have had.
Sometimes downvotes mean people just disagree not that the comment was malformed.
If you are alluding to cross-compiling, rest assured that I wrote my comment being fully aware of the plenty of pitfalls, which is why I started the MXE (mingw-cross-env) project some time ago:

http://mxe.cc/
No matter what your politics, Yanis Varoufakis is one of the best minds and speakers to be involved in the story of Europe in the past few years. I urge anyone to watch any of his talks here https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=yanis+varoufaki... -- I especially liked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWB6lY2GBjQ

As one of the introductions states: "Yanis Varoufakis considers himself a politician by necessity, not by choice."
As a programmer I'll admit to you right now - I don't know shit about statistics. I took the course during my degree - it was like a shaman was cursing me.
Never gonna catch me talking shit about stats. This post just validated everything I felt about it.
NSA Classifies Linux Journal Readers, Tor and Tails Linux Users as “extremists”
Very cool concept. I would like a bit more information on the following:

1) What kind of fish are recommended/suitable?

2) Where do you get the fish? I assume most pet stores don't sell fish to raise for food.

3) What are the fish food options? Again, I assume pet stores don't carry the required feed.

Edit: A few more fish related questions:
Do you have to stick to one type of fish at a time?
How many fish can your kit support at one time? I'm sure that's species dependent, so perhaps some examples?
If you read the tweets, and then the autopsy, you'll wonder which wound was so serious it needed stitches, considering there are only three minor lacerations, and absolutely no mention of stitches anywhere. If he's telling the truth about police brutality, then why did he need to make up needing stitches?
Magnetic Rope observed for the first time between Saturn and the Sun
Challenges and Opportunities in the BaaS Market
Mainstream Slack send me an email brayson@letsprattle.com
I remember another article, but cannot find it. It had very different arguments what is slow about Python and would have disagreed with those two articles.

Python is slow because it is dynamically typed rather than statically typed? No. In most cases, type inference is good enough. See Javascript. Python is slow because it is interpreted rather than compiled? That is not really a limit in the long run. Insert a JIT compiler. Java was interpreted as well initially.

Python's object model can lead to inefficient memory access? No we are getting somewhere. Scripting languages in general tend to overuse hashmaps. That gives you a lot of flexibility and monkey patching. It is also a lot harder to optimize than dynamic dispatch.

Another problem of scripting languages is the inability to control your memory. Python forces you to make a lot of memory allocations and there is little control over the garbage collector. Even Java suffers from this, but the JVM engineers invested a lot to fix it. There are no value record types (struct) in Java.
Why You Shouldn't Dial 1-800-COLLECT, and Other Phone Number Oddities
IS Introduces Gold Currency in Iraqi, Syrian Areas It Controls
My guess: there is an exact copy of Kidlington in China, and people who live there want to see the original.
She's been asked questions like this before during her talks. She says that if you need the item for your job then she would encourage you to find joy in it if you don't already.
Are you kidding? Java is much, much faster than Python.
The war in Iraq was not a blunder or a mistake. It was a crime
Eminent: A DOM assertions library with Emmet syntax
Load test your backend -- not the 'actual' production backend but a copy with the same characteristics. That is, call your backend functions in an order and manner that's consistent users' actual usage, with as many simultaneous requests as you can. There are many products that can do this, one free one is JMeter [1].

This will help you figure out if you can scale your way out of the problem (i.e. throw more servers at it), or if it's fundamentally broken beyond saving.

[1] http://jmeter.apache.org/
From the New York Times:

> Among allergy sufferers, there is a widespread belief that locally produced honey can alleviate symptoms. . .when University of Connecticut Health Center researchers did a test, they found that the honey had no such effect.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/health/10really.html
>Today it's more common for multiplayer to only be broken in a limited set of ways, instead of "we are hacking away at a fundamentally wrong architecture for this problem".

While true generally, that doesn't preclude us from some epic failures. My understanding is that The Division implemented client-authoritative simulation and is now in a hopeless battle against those that would modify their client for an advantage...
My information on this is secondhand/word-of-mouth but it is my understanding that at least some engineers at Yahoo have in fact been very handsomely compensated.

A friend of mine involved in offer negotiation at another company who was at one point (this was perhaps 5-6 years ago) trying to poach some high level Yahoo infrastructure folks told me that a lot of senior Yahoo engineers had straight cash compensation packages that rivaled what Google or Facebook would pay in cash + RSUs.

Presumably these were folks involved in directly maintaining core revenue generating ad systems who would be very expensive and painful to lose / replace.
It is also a bit of a conflict of interest on Google's part to support Mozilla. They have a competing app ecosystem, and while supporting the Firefox Marketplace and Chrome App Store are actually relatively simple for HTML5 apps, they probably would rather not have the competition at all.
Hmmm, I did a bit of searching and didn't find anything I particularly liked, I guess I'll add this to the list of posts I need to write. Nevertheless, I did find something. Check out these links:

http://matplotlib.org/users/artists.html

http://matplotlib.org/users/transforms_tutorial.html

http://matplotlib.org/users/path_tutorial.html

http://matplotlib.org/users/event_handling.html
wow , wow ! Looks like I don't understand the first thing about the CPU design . Do CPUs have to be designed to IDLE ? Can you throw some more light on this ?
Nvidia unveils the GTX 1060: Faster than a GTX 980 for $250
THS IS NSFW so ya know!
Damn, I would have done his job for ... well, let's say just $25M and only another $10 or so in severance ... It would have been a bargain!
Loneliness can increase your risk of mental health issues, scientists find
1. This may be true with aquaculture, but in backyard-sized aquaponics, where you're not trying to breed fish, I feel there's really not that much labor involved. And the feed not only feeds the fish, it's later re-used as fertilizer for plants. If you account for both fish and plant production, you can definitely save money.

2. Maintenance time is minimal: I spent 15 minutes a day on my initial prototype, and that was mostly to feed the fish and gather the harvest, once it got going. Maintenance costs are really minimal: fish feed and seeds come out to maybe $20-30 annually.

3. I've never had a problem with mold, since the water always drains (after flooding). There is always the chance that you'll get some kind of pest or disease on your fish/plants, I've had those pests but companion planting can minimize that risk (something I'll help my customers with).
Absolutely. The biggest criticism of KonMari from Japanese is "no duh." Even the techniques for things like folding and arranging clothing so you can see everything at a glance are common knowledge among Japanese. Baffling.
Why Java Will Always Be Slower Than C++ (2001)
Weird coincidence. Just today I was reading about South Korean artist Lee Ufan who in another very rare case concerning authentication of his work decided that 13 paintings in an investigation are indeed his—even after a forger was arrested and confessed to having painted them himself.
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-a-forger-confe...
If you are concerned about privacy, using a web browser produced by an advertising company is probably unwise.
The external legs (propagators) of Feynman diagrams represent real (not virtual) particles, whose interactions we want to study. Virtual particles run in the closed loops of Feynman diagrams, i.e. they can be thought of as actual particles (of the same or of other types), being created by the collision of the real particles, and they recombine back into the real particles.

So say two real particles collide and scatter off each other: the collision creates all kinds of "virtual particles" that are allowed by the interaction terms in the theory Lagrangian, and they recombine back into the same two real particles because of the same interaction terms. Using the famous Feynman's path integral, you integrate over all possible virtual particles and their states (with different contributions to the integral), normalize those contributions, and then you get the probability (or amplitude) of the real particles with a certain state getting scattered (or transitioning to "another [quantum] state") - the external incoming and outgoing "legs" of the diagram.
ExprEngine can be used as a part of large programs. The expression is supposed to be small enough so that the grammar issues in the expression can be addressed easily. Dynamic evaulation is designed in purpose for applications which prefer this style.
2.6 million per employee? And infrastructure hosting, especially just for bugtracker / source repo / CI cannot be that expensive.

At that, what are the employees doing? Rust is fantastic and important, but Opus has been pretty done for years, Daala is still DOA, isn't Xiph an independent organization?
According to the Pyston developers, yes[1].

[1] http://blog.kevmod.com/2016/07/why-is-python-slow/
Kevin Kelly on the Inevitable
To be clear, I'm not saying that it would be okay for the police to assault Murdock if he were not white, or not wealthy, not male, or anything else. My point was that if someone believes that the police are systematically targeting the less privileged, then they wouldn't have targeted Murdock.

And while yes, Murdock appears to have had some kind of mental illness during all this, it's unfair to say that the police "targeted" him because of that without any evidence. It would likewise be unfair to accuse the police of targeting Murdock for being a black woman (if he were a black woman) absent some evidence to support that.

Aside from Murdock's somewhat-incoherent twitter claims, there seems to be nothing supporting the idea that the police "targeted" him in any way or otherwise abused their power. So far it's purely speculation, and given that it's been six months, I have to assume no evidence will appear and the accusations of police misconduct here will remain baseless speculation.

I understand your concern about ignoring complaints from the mentally-ill and other underprivileged groups being a bad precedent and a slippery slope to broader abuse. I agree and would not advocate for ignoring these sorts of complaints. I think each complaint should be given due consideration. In this particular case, with the information that has been made broadly available, I don't personally see evidence to support any claims that the police did anything wrong.
Huh, I didn't realise you had a separate landing page (which btw. displays a HTTPS certificate warning when you go to https://www.automicrofarm.com/ - you might want to fix that, lots of users still type the "www" at front of addresses). How about linking to it from blog page?

Landing page looks much better, though I would suggest replacing the top image with the photo of the system (because it takes quite a lot of scrolling until you see the solution). Also, I miss info where you ship to - EU too?

Ok, sorry, this reply looks like I am dissecting your web page... professional deformation I guess. I don't mean any harm. ;)

Congrats on your achievement and good luck with the project!
Shortly after this story broke, I spoke to someone at Into Japan Specialist Tours, who are actually based in Kidlington. They would have been informed if the tourists were Japanese. The woman I spoke to doesn't think they're Japanese, and are more likely Chinese, based on how they were dressed. Also, it is not far from Bicester Village, a shopping centre popular with Chinese.
A Warning About JQuery 3
Are so different the stats in the EU countries?

If we take the whole EU dat, will differ too much from taking the different countries?
I don't have time today to write a fresh response to this so I'm going to just scream for a few minutes and then quote myself from somewhere else:

"""

I firmly believe that all genetic engineering applications, except for human health-related medical interventions, should be delayed for at least several hundred years. Research, yes, but applications are out of the question for centuries.

Anything less stringent is open-ended experimentation on the only biosphere in the known Universe. It is hubris of the rankest sort.

Further I believe that this is a scientific view.

We know our ignorance is far too vast.

The only reasons to use GMOs are hubris and greed. That is it.

Either you are a scientific ego-tripper who can't or won't understand that real people have serious reservations about participating in your open-ended genetic experiment, or you just want to make a buck and don't care.

If it could be shown that, for some given application of GE, there is absolutely no other alternative to save lives, then that's something. However, I believe we can feed ourselves without GMOs by means of "applied ecology" ("Permaculture" etc.) so there is no call to use GMOs. These doubtless well-meaning scientists are using the reduction of "Vitamin-A deficiencies causing blindness and death in children in the developing world" to insist on a highly controversial technology. It's kind of just as ugly and self-serving as they paint Greenpeace to be.

The report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine is quoted in the article as saying, "such crops are relatively new and that it is premature to make broad generalizations, positive or negative, about their safety."

We know we don't know enough. I don't want to eat your faith.
"""
StarCraft: Ghost: What went wrong
Random bit of trivia about Brian Eno is that he wrote the start-up music to Windows 95.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno#The_Microsoft_Sound
this is fascinating. anyone applying these approaches with clojure? i'm wondering what additional considerations (if any) come into scope in the case of other jvm languages
Your problem statement is accurate.

I work on a chat product that uses XMPP ....

There isn't, I don't think, a common protocol that could be used, is there?
> It's not like you can pay facebook to respect your privacy.

Arguably, this is a massive loss of revenue to Facebook as click rate goes down year over year. It's a tradeoff for them, too. I would certainly pay $10/month to not see all the shit they thrown in my timeline, to opt out of all the bullshit features I don't want (ads, "memories" which seem to pop up daily with no way to opt out, friend celebrations, annoying suggestions, sports scores, non-chronological timelines, etc etc). Instead, I'm forced to limit my likes to non-commercial entities and I use heavy user stylesheet customizations to remove all the other crap. Facebook just loses $10/month this way while being unable to make money (at least via serving ads; I'm sure my information is fair game to sell to ad networks).

Of course, if this were popular, the ads would accelerate in decreasing value. Which is probably why Facebook or other ad networks don't want to start this trend.
The thing is that if you shoot them when they're on the ground, say with a .22 caliber, then they will move because they'll know they're not safe. You will fill a freezer in one go and that will be it for this year, they'll move on their migratory path.

And plenty of hunters miss them on their landing approach, it's not so easy for people who shoot one or twice a year when they go on their hunting trip.
New Directions in Cryptography by Diffie and Hellman (1976) [pdf]
I needed pixel perfect plots for visualising raster data and did not manage to make it render that. Felt similar to LaTeX: Great if you like what it does by default but don't you dare want something reasonably different. :\
> I had one CTO of a public HFT firm tell me that short of FPGA's Azul's pause-less GC (https://www.azul.com/products/zing/pgc/) was the biggest performance win they'd had in the past few years, note: this was a few years ago.

Even better than using C++? Something sounds off.
Look for TNL (Torque Networking Library) and "Zap!", a demo game which served as an example usage of this libary.

http://opentnl.sourceforge.net/doxydocs/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/opentnl/files/Zap/
1. Tilapia, perch, and catfish are popular. I have catfish in mine. You just have to match the temperature requirements to your climate/area.

2. You would get the fish at a fish hatchery, there should be one near you. This is something I find out for my customers. You can also buy fish online, but the overnight shipping makes it a bit expensive.

3. You can buy fish food online, or at a hatchery, or e.g. Tractor Supply.

4. The thing about different fish species (or even same species but substantially different sizes) is that if a fish fits inside a bigger fish's mouth, that bigger fish will try to eat it, unless the smaller fish has somewhere to hide, like aquatic vegetation. This is something I will be experimenting with more.
Wow, that makes OnStar sound even creepier than it already did. How hard is it to rip the system out?
Love the "open to experiments!" attitude. I think you nailed it here - 20 minutes is enough to rule someone out.

If our original scenario is:

Scenario 0: 25 1-hour meetings over the course of a few days. Investments = 25-n

You seemed to be suggesting in an earlier comment you might end up with:

Scenario 1: 25 20-minute meetings followed by 25 1-hour meetings. Investments = 25-n

I think you'll actually end up with:

Scenario 2: 25 20-minute meetings, eliminate x companies, (25-x) 1-hour meetings. Investments = (25-x)-n.

Saves you and the founders some unnecessary hour long meetings.
Tibetless China is still a lot bigger than India and doesn't have that 94% property. The spirit of the GP's comment holds, I think.
By that logic, why optimize anything? Just use the thing that's out there that's already faster. Clearly some people think there's a benefit to dynamic languages (I'm not one of them), and they'd like to preserve that benefit while minimizing the performance impact.
It's close to impossible to get certain kinds of code correct in C, for instance, string parsing. Also until pretty recently, C and C++ did not have a sane memory model so what happened when threads was involved was dependent on what CPU you are on, the sign of the moon, etc.

Java could very well be the first programming language designed by adults and it shows. (That is, they solve the hard problems, not just pretend they don't matter)
One of my biggest frustrations with python for data science is how bad the documentation for matplotlib is. Also the default settings leave a lot to be desired - look at the color map scatter plots to see what I mean. What is with all that white-space around the graph?
>> The brain is a computer that evolved to simulate the outside world. Among its internal models is a simulation of itself — a crude approximation of its own neurological processes.

Oooh. That's a little problematic. Because you have to wonder how far that sort of simulation has to go to be of any use. If they mind has an image of itself, then wont' the image have an image of itself, and so on ad infinitum? Is that physically possible? If it isn't and so the mind doesn't have that infinitely recursive image of itself, won't then its perception of itself be inaccurate? And if it's inaccurate, how useful is it after all? Specifically, how well can the mind use its image of itself to influence itself if it doesn't know itself very well?

I mean, we're in angel-dancing on pin-heads territory here. Maybe not state facts about how the mind works with such absolutely conviction when all we have is speculation? Just a thought, like.
A. Where?

B. Maybe?
That isn't actually as far-fetched as it sounds. There's a Thames Town (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/14/fake-english-town-i...), a copy of the village of Halstatt in Austria (http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hallstatt-china), and even a Paris clone (http://weburbanist.com/2013/09/07/paris-of-the-east-abandone...) in China.
I had a similar experience in Barbados, when I took a tour from the cruise ship I was on to visit the Concorde they have at Barbados' airport. It was pretty comical; on the way back our driver unexpectedly stopped at this little bar and grill in the middle of nowhere. We weren't the only ones surprised; the owner had to be woken up to open the place. I think there was some negotiating going on too, to convince her it was worth the trouble.

It wound up being nice; she had an outdoor patio overlooking a valley, and the food and drinks were just fine. It could have been an official part of the tour, but I guess if it was the cruise line would get a cut.
Rails didn't exist yet. People were still building from scratch instead of using a framework to get started. It wasn't the "wild west" in that no one was doing it, but it definitely was in terms of ecosystems that had developed around web development frameworks
This is not always the case. The grant may be structured such that you don't actually have the shares in your possession even after vesting, you just have a claim on them that will be honored at IPO or change of control. This though means you can't dump them on SharePost/SecondMarket etc. even after they vest.
agreed. Jobs' negotiation skills are "legendary" in the valley.
FWIW, startpage (like scroogle.org before it) re-enables the behavior that is so familiar to most web-knowledgeable people. Startpage is just a Google proxy.

I've been thinking it might be interesting to allow for easy hosting of Google proxies, like a one-click install on digitalocean that could be shared among a group of friends (~100 users at most).
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Nice project. I built one of these once on a C128 some years ago in interpreted BASIC of all things. I let it run through a few iterations to gauge its speed, saw that it was pretty quick and didn't even bother to compile it, completely forgetting that the speed of an iteration is determined by how many cycles are required before an escape and that the early ones all escaped quickly. The silly thing ran for over a week...
GIL may and does get released in the interpreter (on I/O) and C extensions such as regex, lxml, numpy. Performance sensitive extensions may even use multiple CPU cores implicitly e.g., as numpy.dot() can do for large enough input without changing the code in any way.
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Berlin is a failed state.

The riot police in Berlin is abused by Interior Minister Henkel as his personal bully crew to provoke left-wing activists, in order to produce riots on the streets, which Henkel can then again use in his election campaign (you can google "Rigaer 94" for more details). I'll be in Berlin on Saturday for the big rally, I'm pretty sure it will be yet another display of police brutality. All in order to fuel a personal election campaign.

It's disgusting and a shame to German police.

(disclaimer: I'm Bavarian, and have a cop in the family)