skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tweaking 't' here seems to be similar to tweaking the learning rate in gradient descent. But in gradient descent you assume the problem is convex.

Is there any way to tell whether this logic problem (or any other) is convex? Is it possible that the correct solution's 5-away neighbours all have very high costs (like 9+)? What prevents you from doing worse that brute force?
The way I see it, Microsoft had respect for consumers back then, but zero for its competition. Now it's the other way around - Microsoft will actually build nice apps for iOS and let you build a platform on Azure and all that, but if you use their stuff, then you better OBEY OBEY OBEY.
> And BTW if you do the math a bicyclist (in the US, eating a typical US diet) emits more CO2 per mile than a small car. Assumptions: The bicyclist is riding in addition to any exercise, the riding is not exercise, and the bicyclist eats normal food. A bicyclist who prefers organic, or local, would definitely emit more (both of those emit more CO2 in the growing than regular food).

This result is useless since it makes impression that those miles are interchangeable while they are not. No bicyclist will make same amount of miles per unit of time as car driver. Bicyclist will make other choices: living closer to the job, working remotely, etc.
For a sleepy minute there I thought you meant because you were driving and wanted to play donkey.bas while commuting in a self driving car
You bring up a good point; and Pakistan has lots of extra metal to use thanks to the Americans.
Oh no, why would they do this? You could already achieve something similar (and superior IMO) with the old FreeType by enabling "loose hinting" (ignoring hinting in x-direction) and using RGBA subpixel hinting. Ignoring horizontal hinting only really works when you have subpixel hinting, because of the ~tripled horizontal resolution.

I don't understand why anybody (MS, the FreeType devs, ...) would choose DirectWrite style rendering. It just looks blurry to me. Even on a hidpi display, where it shouldn't make a difference, it looks wierd compared to GDI rendering. One major reason I don't like Edge, and also find Metro and XAML apps somehow yucky (just a gut reaction, I'm not judging them technically).
Bots and messaging – fake it 'til you make it
> While it’s in our best interests to keep similar documents restricted to certain collections, there’s no kind of constraint that enforces this.

However, if you need such a thing, there's always things such as Mongoose[1] that can do this trivially for you.

[1] https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose
Protector pantallas liquido, análisis, vídeos e información
What I don't get is that my very first digital camera was a Kodak (must have been in 2000). It wasn't very good (but no camera were then) but it was one of the cheapest. So it's not like they were absent from the digital market. But still somehow they missed the boat.
You think the deal was started, and nearly completed in a few weeks? Surely the deal had been going on for a while longer than brexit turmoil
Which is only and issue if you are American.
Other Kiwis I know have reported receiving great treatment in France. Some have pointed out that they still feel a bit guilty about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
I was part of the banking system for many years - it is unbelievably greedy. There is no respect for individuals, other than how much money they can make. Concepts like loyalty and service have no meaning.
Exactly. The average citizen doesn't see much of the benefits of globalization. It mostly helps governments and companies.
Are you sure about the single thread performance? Because the jump from Pentium 3 to Pentium 4 was not that large, but the jump from Pentium 4 to Core 2 Duo (2006) was. All the jumps after that (Nehalem etc.) were larger than the jumps we have nowdays, and the jump to Sandy Bride (2011) was really large. Only since then has the single thread performance stagnated.

Cinebench R10 32 bit single thread scores:

Intel Pentium 4 660 - 3.60 Ghz - 2245 Points
AMD Athlon X2 6000+ - 3.00 Ghz - 2848 Points
Intel Core2 Duo E8400 - 3.00 Ghz - 3647 Points
AMD Phenom II X6 1075T - 3.00 Ghz - 3820 Points
AMD FX 8320E - 3.20 Ghz - 4056 Points
Intel Core i7 950 - 3.06 Ghz - 4353 Points
Intel Core i7 3930 - 3.20 Ghz - 6268 Points
Intel Core i7 5960X - 3.00 Ghz - 6950 Points
Article reminds me of joke but with different perspective: Bill Gates walks in to bar and everyone is billionaire, on average. The thing is that cities which have not resisted expansion (like Atlanta), prices of home has grew very modestly - far below S&P. For cities like NYC or SF there no end in sight. However if you average out then real estate may not be so appealing. So basically any statements like real estate is great or poor investments are wrong without proper context.
Versatility with Infrastructure as Code
We've been running node+postgres in production for a couple of years and it's been great so far. If you have advanced questions, #postgresql on freenode is always there for help, and the node-pg libraries are very mature.
I'm guessing they've suppressed them to prevent the public from wanting to start a war with the saudis
I never said they were less efficient, but they do pollute. As to the ones that do not use fossil fuels, they are few and far between at the moment. The bulk of our electicity production is still gas a coal. Toronto may get a lot of green electricity from Quebec hydro, but please do not claim that this is anything but an outlier at the moment.

Electric cars are more efficient than ICE vehicles and they pollute less, but they are not powered by rainbows and dreams of utopia. Zero emmisions at the tailpipe is nice, but don't try to make the claim that these cars are not following that grand SV tradition of moving the negative externalities somewhere else so that someone else can pay the cost.
Found it:

http://www.wikalong.org/
6,000 detained from Turkish army, judiciary in probe into failed coup attempt
The BBC it was done in two weeks.
I was rather sad when Dijkstra said anyone who learnt on BASIC was irrepairably broken :

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html

The second line of code I ever wrote was in BASIC :

goto 10
"Much" is not "all" and the released documents are heavily redacted. So a large amount of the information has been scrubbed. This seems to me more about controlling public opinion about the documents than releasing any information.
The site shows a certificate error:

NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID
That's what all real innovation is about: making something difficult look easy.
Thanks for writing this post.

I was happily using cloudflare on two of my sites on webfaction mostly for the easy SSL (I did this before let's encrypt). Your post motivated me to try out let's encrypt via the acme.sh script in webroot mode: It took me all of 10 minutes to get and install LE's SSL certificates and change authoritative nameservers away from cloudflare.
Mac with the monochrome screen? Not really. It did have a few games, but the gaming platforms of the time were your C64s, Spectrums, Ataris, Amigas and other more graphically capable TV units.
They took 95% ownership of Aldebaran Robotic a while ago,
and it's a huge success in Japan.
I'm no expert but isn't that building a vertical?

AFAIR the robots are running on Intel Atom, but well... embedded... ARM... (not saying that's the only reason though)
Ah, programmers. I love how we can show the logic behind 3 correct ages for Bill when he wrote this :)
Not real yellow corn tortillas you didn't. I am literally checking waitrose, tesco, aldi, and sainsbury online right now to confirm. Not a single one has a corn tortilla that is not deep fried or else a corn and wheat blend. Perhaps you do not actually know what a corn tortilla looks or tastes like, but there is not one for sale on the shelves in any major chain in London.
So, just Disneyland?
Pokémon Go – A Catching Fire Success
Clash Royale.
Every light source produces a spectrum - even a laser, albeit only small one.

Have a look at this link: http://www.soundandvision.com/content/led-vs-cfl-bulbs-color...

As you can see a lot of LEDs have quite a lot of blue. Which is exactly what is responsible for synchronizing your own "clock": http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831986/

> Not only does light reset the human circadian rhythm, but the same blue
> light that has the strongest impact on dinoflagellates has equal power
> to reset our own clocks — although most visible wavelengths can reset
> the clock, the blues do the job with the greatest efficiency.

Which is the whole reason f.lux became so popular.
Interview with Larry Wall
Do you have some sources maybe? I find it very interesting, because it doesn't agree with my experiences.

I've never played baseball, but lots of basketball and soccer, and I get this "virtual trajectory of ball" overlay, so that I can adjust my body position, jump at the right time if needed.

Also often you look at ball, memorize where it will fall, then run to get there without looking at the ball. It can take seconds if it's a long ball in soccer, so it can't possibly be just adjusting to the sight picture.
I actually did both. That is to say, I taught seniors [0] both how to use computers and about the scams they would find online, with specific examples and even some taken from the spam of my own email account. I gave full descriptions of different variations on the scams and how they play out for the people who actually buy into them. It's not too hard for them to get the basics down with a little practice and they remember the scams better if they're presented in story form.

[0] Technically, the classes were open to anyone in the community, but nobody under ~50 was interested in those topics at those times, so almost everyone in every class appeared to be retired.
I was not denying that the banking system is greedy, I am saying that it is not more greedy than certain other branches.
I have been part of the banking system for quite a few years as well, and although there is some truth in what you are saying, I have experienced the same things elsewhere as well. For instance in certain IT consultancy firms.
React Native+Redux TodoMVC Demo
If Saudi Arabia is linked to 9/11 we need to have a serious look at the past 15 years and reevaluate our entire foreign policy justification
Clash Royale - one of the top grossing games of the past few months.
There's a nice saying for this: "it's a six ton safe in the middle of a desert." No matter how secure your safe is, someone can just airlift it out and will have practically limitless time to tear it apart.
nice job pointing out the obvious ... seriously wtf?
Tell that to my cheap phone made in China running an OS made by developers from around the world. My Turkish t-shirt, the Spanish tomatoes I ate this morning or the server I'm remotely setting up on the other side of the planet, so my company can sell their services there.
Evidence seems like it worked. Much as people didn't want it to.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/haida-gwaii-o...
Thanks, this looks like a nice tool.

I'd like to see something with the specific purpose of saying "this thing on the web is wrong" rather than a catch-all but I am going to give this a closer look.
I guess it depends where you live.

In my part of the UK people were overwhelmingly in favour of leave. I wouldn't typically mention I was a remain voter as it was near sure to get me a discussion.

Very few claimed the immigration directly - t'was about jobs, or more precisely the lack of them, therefore immigration.

A good part of the region is not yet out of the 2008 recession, and house price growth is a joke. When you relatively recently had a well paying job with which you supported your family, yet now you're not making ends meet in a temporary delivery driver fake-freelance job, as that's all you can get despite skills, it's hard to see much logic in the "dynamic globalized economy".

Now then, I'd argue that for most in tht position, the social justice, work regulation and regional development funds of the EU would be something to heavily vote for. The EU, though, has always been appalling at making a case for itself - hence distant EU bureaucrats and other tropes.

Sadly, Boris's bullshit of £350m to the NHS and evil EU immigrants taking your jobs touched sore nerves and lead to the leave votes.

Now we get a government that looks like it will lurch heavily to the right, and as far as London and the tories are concerned, the regions can go f* themselves.

Turkeys voting for Christmas perhaps, but I do undertand the reasons why, least round these parts. I'd say the root cause goes all the way back to Thatcher and the loss of local industry, from which many towns have still not recovered.
Teespring design advice
Hey guys. Would like to get any advice on a European Union Tshirt design:-

https://teespring.com/covert-european-union-tee#pid=389&cid=100019&sid=front
Use d and h for left and right worked for me.
Are you look for "gluten free tortilla" or "corn tortilla"? Because gluten free should turn some up.
> If you look at the age breakdown of the vote

That's not the breakdown of the vote but of exit polls and other opt-in polling such as YouGov surveys. Both of which are biased towards those (1) likely to contribute and (2) not concerned about sharing how they voted.

The actual demographic composition of the vote is unknown, it could be determined ( all UK ballot papers are linked to their voter ) but that would be unprecedented and probably bad for democracy.
Why Saudi Arabia is leading a U.N. human rights panel
Even more than the extra mass, they'd have to have a different engine design with its own production line (the second stage engine is slightly different from the first stage engine but IIRC that's mainly just a longer nozzle), control systems and so on. Modern control systems are good enough that doing it this way works.
It was likely suppressed as it would have drawn attention away from Iraq, and the insinuated link between Iraq and 9-11.

The fallback argument was WMD, bring democracy and prosperity.

Instead we got ISIS.

I was very surprised that this was released as it adds to the evidence that the decision to attack Iraq and to dismantle its security services was based on lies and deception.

The timing of the release, when the repercussions of creating political and military instability in the region are becoming more frequent in Europe and the US is what surprises me the most. Perhaps the US has reduced its energy dependence on the middle east sufficiently to begin focusing on Saudi Arabia?

With this release and the Chilcot report, the leaders of US/UK have created a serious deficit in credibility and trust.
> 4 Generalised references

Sounds interesting, could you expand or point me in the right direction? Do you mean this https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node80.html ?
The line of thinking was that people are used to email+password (as oppose to what was before). I think that was the right move.

The system is still end-to-end encrypted, if you reset your password it will also reset the storage (by definition).
You are expected to read the PR pieces, not think about their content. Critical thinking is dangerous and sign of subversion of the system.

My opinion is that a branch of their government has gone rogue. But that puts SA elite in very uncomfortable position - their later kings are reformers and progressives (baby steps, baby steps) with somewhat strained relationship with the clergy. But they either cannot control their government - implying they are weak or admit they are involved - which is casus belli for the US.
Mature in the mobile and current marketplace - as has been mentioned in the thread previously, the gamble they're taking is that ARM is going to dominate IoT. With a (potential) monumental increase in the number of connected devices, as well as updating older gen embedded systems, that's where they're aiming for that >3x growth to come from.
Then we can don our statistical machine learning hat and make an ensemble model out of the three sub-models.

Unless we do something exotic we're probably going to predict 25 as the point estimate of {24, 25, 26}.
Iirc the casters are engineering employees that are rotated with every launch.
They do selection mostly to make sure they are photogenic enough and can face a camera but they aren't professional reporters.
Many people did dump on the PC as inferior, but it was a marvelous platform for tinkerers of every sort, and tinker they did. The result was a firehose of applications and hardware add-ons of every sort imaginable, including some unimaginably good ones like Doom.

Programmers were utterly amazed by Doom. Nobody had thought that was possible on the PC hardware.

The first PC Flight Simulator was another astonishing piece of engineering.
I agree it's only a modest infoleak. Depending on the nature of the exploit you may not have multiple attempts. Consider also that one can block updates by serving the client stale update lists/packages. The client sees "no updates available" and thus the attacker can extend a window of vulnerability. Using TLS on the update delivery mirrors raises the bar.
I'd wager they have an optimization pass that coalesces adjacent constant stores.
You can look more recently than that, the failed austerity experiment contributed to these conditions
Pokémon GO API in Python
You could even use Redis for this. You really need a cache or key-value store, not a database.
Well oracle has an eventlog (which you use to synchornize databases).

I'm guessing that other databases have similar implementations.

Though no API to hook into it, as far as I know.
Indeed. The power of language in shaping our perception of the world is the subject of much of twentieth century philosophy [1].

For an analogy for this crowd though: All programming languages are Turing complete. Any algorithm can be expressed in any of them.

Would you thus conclude that your choice of programming language does not limit you? Especially when it comes to working in a large team on a complex project? (and there are no larger and more complex projects than human society)

An analogous concept would be Dennetts intuition pumps [2]. An answer that is more idiomatic and more easily expressed will present itself more rapidly. It will be communicated to your teammates more efficiently, and it might win out due to its linguistic superiority rather than its inherent superiority or correctness. Thus it quite literally shapes my world.

None of this requires me to suppose that thoughts outside of language can not be expressed or that I can not extend and develop language to better express my thoughts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_turn
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_pump
>Andy Hertzfeld sounds like a sore loser.

A proven winner, with significant contributions to the field would be more accurate.

>Why should anyone care what he thinks about games?

It's not what he thinks about games in general, it's what he think about a particular historical artifact that happens to be a game. And people care about his opinion on those times (the website linked is quite popular) because he was an important contributor to that era of computing and the early PC industry.

>Macs suck for games and they always have.

Only for people whose appreciation for games is restricted to the latest, full-blast on the GPU, AAA titles.

>Every piece of software he's written has been a second rate failure.

And it's HE who sounds like a "sore loser"? Oh, the irony.
Pokemon Go: What startups and entrepreneurs can learn
> With this release and the Chilcot report, the leaders of US/UK have created a serious deficit in credibility and trust.

I don't feel any different before / after. As far as I'm concerned the whole thing was a set-up from day #1 (the Iraq war, not 9/11, obviously), after Dr. Kelly's death and the Plame affair there was very little doubt we were being railroaded.
Is it possible to get rid of the mentality that anyone who criticizes anything is a hater, a loser or suffering from the sour grapes syndrome?
This is correct. I am a European who visited Iran. Before that, I could travel to the U.S. with the ESTA (14$). Now I must ask for a B2 tourist visa, which is valid for 10 years and is multi-entry - but it costs ~160$ and it requires me to have an interview with the consul to prove that I am not going to just not fly back to my country and immigrate into the US permanently.
Mongo's partitioning/distribution/replication does not work as well as it should. In particular, my team has seen several serious bugs pertaining to replication in release versions that were so bad, they should have blocked the release.
I agree, and I think that is a common problem with purely technical people. They don't include all of the other important factors: affordability, support (by the company and number of people around you familiar with the system), and many others.

The Amiga sound and graphics chips blew other systems out of the water technically, and did good with the consumer offerings like the A500, but aside from a niche in the video editing market (Toaster on A1000/A2000), Macs and PCs swamped it in sales numbers.

I have had a lot of systems starting in 1978 with an all-in-one CPM PET with a cassette drive to load programs, a very small green text terminal, and 8K RAM. I paid $800 for it used, and another $850 for a 32K Ram upgrade the year after. You could 'pop the hood' like an old American muscle car, and check the board inside, and install the RAM card. I wrote a horse racing game in 1979 using just ASCII characters with random trots, and an odds and bettings system for my two horse-loving, OTB-visting parents.

I have only really lusted after three machines: A Lisp Machine, Silicon Graphics workstation, and the NeXT machine, again all technically brilliant, but not the biggest sellers. Pricey because of that.

The best tech doesn't always win by default, and that's not always a bad thing (as I once thought).
The American health care system seems to be way less efficient than the state run systems in Europe.
> a completely different semantic thanks to macros.

Most of the time, you use functions. Sometimes, you need to define "WITH-X" macros or "DO-Y" iterators, or a custom "DEFINE-Z" to shorten declarations (I tend to use macrolet for that).

(defun rgb (r g b) (format nil "#~@{~2,'0x~}" r g b))

(defparameter *background* (rgb 10 10 30))
(defparameter *foreground* (rgb 90 90 255))

(with-html-output-to-string (s)
(:html
(:head
(:title "Hello")
(:style :media "screen"
:type "text/css"
(str (cl-css:css
`((:body :background-color ,*background*
:color ,*foreground*)))))
(:script :type "text/javascript"
(str
(ps:ps
(setf (ps:@ window onload)
(lambda () (alert "Message")))))))

(:body
(:h1 "Heading"))))

The above is an example of what I consider a heavy usage of macros, and yet somehow I find it readable.

(the output is here: http://pastebin.com/raw/S5cb5ufC)
In pictures: Relics of the Soviet era
>The result was a firehose of applications and hardware add-ons of every sort imaginable, including some unimaginably good ones like Doom.

Huh?

Doom was developed on NeXT workstations, under the NEXTSTEP operating system. The Doom game engine was programmed in C, and the editing tools were written in Objective-C. The engine was first compiled with Intel's C compiler for DOS, but later Watcom's C/C++ compiler was used. (Wikipedia)
You've been listening to the wrong people for the past 15 years if you think 9/11 had anything to do with US foreign policy.