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"In the current state of affair we are way better off leaving this to the hardware."

That is something I'm not so sure about. That might have been true before, when the hardware served well the then simple computational model of a single high frequency processing core. Things got more complicated since the times of first CPU cache offerings and hardware general use-case implementation can only give you so much. The performance boost that once could be relied on without much care now dissipated. This cache thing now become just a leaky abstraction. We can not abstract it away completely if we care for performance, nor we can control it in any meaningful way. It is not a good model anymore. Just recognize it as a failed experiment.

"Unless you want programmers to explicitely manage this fast memory..."

Yes, that's exactly what I have in mind (and implied before). Most applications do not need maximal performance and can disregard the fast memory completely. That will only mean that those processes either will not consume their share and leave it more for the processes that need it, or that the fast memory will (occasionally) be used indirectly, through the optimized bits in the layers that the given process relies on. This memory, however, won't be unproductively overwritten or invalidated on every cold cache or whatnot.
I'd recommend also radare2 book[1] and radare2 explorations book[2] for learning how to reverse using radare2 framework/toolset.

[1] https://radare.gitbooks.io/radare2book/content/introduction/...

[2] https://monosource.gitbooks.io/radare2-explorations/content/...
Maybe from Joe Armstrong?

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5079
off topic, is that what green highlighting on usernames means? age of account?
No. Step 1: Do no harm. In practice, this means staying up to date on the latest research (by law), but follow the guidelines. These are updated regularly, just not after each and every study that comes out. And it's a good thing a lot of doctors exercise caution.
Yeah, that doesn't give high hopes for this book teaching best practices :/

If you don't want to depend on text-icu, there is support for more Unicode space characters in https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.8.2.0/docs/Data-C...

import Data.Char (isAlpha, isLower, isSpace)
import qualified Data.Text as T

giving you e.g.

textIsAllSpace t = T.all isSpace t
I lost almost 70 lbs on prescription pills and then Weight Watchers. I've gained about 10 lbs back (over a year, when I stopped doing WW!) but I can say for certain that WW definitely gives you good information to help you lose weight, including telling you how to pick appropriate foods and calorie amounts per meal.

It's not the typical "Eat this exactly" diet, but it is a diet, and it works. If you stick with it. But you'll need to continue eating healthily afterwards. You will never again be able to just eat whatever you want, if you want to maintain that weight loss. (And it's totally worth it!)

WW is hardly unique here, either. Any plan that gives you good information and processes will work the same way, assuming it's not based on pseudo-science.

Cutting down carbs (especially processed sugars) has been great, too. Cutting them out completely is dangerous, but I was definitely eating way too many carbs.
Not necessarily. There are fields like complexity and computability wich are pureley mathematical in nature and have little to do with actual code, but much with the abstract theoretical fundamentals of code in general. And on the other hand you have fields like machine learning, where you can have an algorithm, wich you can implement (or have as code), but you don't nessessarily know the values of certain parameters, specific for your problem space.
What ever happened to fail gracefully?
Seaside, Monticello, and the Smalltalk Kernel are all fairly large codebases. I haven't looked at them though...
You can have just one hypervisor working at any given time. So, no, you can't use your VirtualBox VMs while a Docker container is running in this way (because it'd be using Hyper-V/xhyve).
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It worked pretty well back when scientific inquiry was funded by selling inventions or other work that the scientist did "as a day job." That was a long time ago, though.
Yes. But for the reviewers _you_ follow, _you_ rank them based on how much you trust their reviews. Your trust rank is factored into the reviewers who are followed by the reviewers you follow, so as you go down the line the trust gets lower and lower.
Personal experience (I've met many pre- and current doctors during my studies) suggests that few doctors are scientists. They know a lot of things, but they're not what I'd call scientists in the same way a physicist or biologist would be (and I've often wondered why they'd get a "Doctorate" at all). So this might explain the abovementioned behaviour...

Yet I'm surprised by your colleagues behaviour nonetheless. I would have thought they'd have more retenue.
More pragmatically, we should not accept scientific publications and conferences which do not publish negative results and disconfirmations.
right, thanks. 90B$ in current assets and 150B$ in total book value.
For the project for real, actual moonshots, we knew in quite good terms right at the beginning that the project was doable. Same for the Manhattan project. Same for GPS. Same for the SR-71.

So, right, there is a methodology. Get very far from that methodology and tend to get failed projects.

Sure, on some par 3 hole, there are a lot of hole in one shots, and only a small fraction are made by expert golfers with the rest from luck. Still, if picking someone to make a hole in one, pick an expert!

Sure, with luck, might get another successful mobile, social, local, sharing app, but luck is not very reliable!
I think it's worth updating to Windows 10, because it's the first version of Windows that was built in a more open-to-feedback way. Microsoft started listening to its customers during beta so there are a lot of small nuisances fixed and useful features added. Trivial things like proper full screen for the terminal.
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I'm not affiliated with it but Agent Ransack just does search the old fashioned way, but fast. Sear inside files works properly too, without waiting for some sort of index that may, or may not be complete.
Well it would appear you've identified a valid bug.

This has been fixed, and I've placed my email address on the site.
The idea of scratchpad memory is as old as the hills, and you may still find it on some specialty platforms like gaming consoles, but the lesson learned is mostly that it ends up chronically underutilized.

A cache speeds up nearly all code written for any system, not just the 0.1% that someone bothered to hand optimize the memory access patterns for.
If you use some style injector plugin (like stylish), you can add this for that page:

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and it works fine... (or you can remove the matching div from the web inspector if you are using a browser which has one).

Aside: That one element is blocking an entire working page for no reason. Where oh where has web dev come to :'(
I copy the URL of the web page in ads and then go directly to that website instead of clicking the ad.
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Anger clouds judgement and suspends rational thought. I struggle to see how being angry myself might be useful to me. Of course like with NLP that knowledge can be useful when dealing with another who is or gets angry.
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How much did Microsoft spend on their R&D?
May I ask what percentage of your visitors clicks on ads? $5 per click isn't really worth much if no one clicks the ad, or is that constant throughout topics?
Of course you as a reader of said claims confirm at the very least that they've been independently reproduced, right?

(If so, this shouldn't be news.)
You've illustrated the distinction between prescriptive and descriptive definition nicely.
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Oh my god, exactly this. This one pissed me off so much. Made the OP sound like a pretentious know-it-all who actually doesn't know it all, or even any of it.
Why? NIH. Or they hadn't heard of it.
I think they would have to get to the point where they are similar to regular sunglasses[0]. And the set up would have to be as simple as picking up a remote and turning on the tv. IOW, when someone puts on the VR glasses, they auto connect and start up immediately with little user intervention. Anyone other than a geek/nerd/techie, doesn't want to 'fiddle' with something to use it. They want it TV remote easy.

[0] Though I still tend to think that even this would not be enough for most people - see 3D glasses/TVs.
> 29) The Bible, The Bhavagad Gita, Buddha, The Koran, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, are all the same book.

Apparently, Buddha is a book.

It's fun to peddle motivational pap.
Companies are gaming verified purchases now. There are several sites that provide a service of connecting reviewers with companies who provide their products for a hefty discount with the expectation of getting a perfect review.

Companies are allowed to vet your previous reviews to determine how likely you are to give a good review before giving you a discount code. If reviewers don't deliver, they stop getting discounted products, or even get banned from these sites.
How do we know this is related to space radiation and not gravity?
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Looking good is, sadly, better rewarded than doing good in many areas of life. It's doubly sad that this affects our body of scientific knowledge. Even claims that are reproduced can suffer from funding bias and confirmation bias. The truth hopefully comes out in the end, but I'm sad for the harm that's caused in the interim.
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Meaning it doesn't run on LTSB as well (10240). Too bad, it's the only sane version of Windows 10 yet.
> Physics and most of biology are just opinions that will change every few years.

Err ok, whatever.
I wouldn't call it a bluff, but FUD. Of course the carriers can MITM pretty much all traffic, unless the keys were exchanged on a private channel. The internet is not private, SMS 2FA ain't either. It's FUD, because the spin that this announcement is a bluff would lead Terrorists from using it anyhow, revealing sensitive information. Putting on the tin-foil: If even I could figure that out, perhaps it's indeed intended as deterrent, e.g. because AI is not strong or efficient enough to process the amounts of data. That's still less paranoid than thinking AI was indeed strong enough and just keeping people busy with unsubstantial stories.

Of course there's also the theory, that even governments are sometimes just stupid.
But you don't always need to build a network yourself: in my experience, if you're reasonably bright from the technical point of view, you get paired with a sales account manager who will chase the deals for you, so you just show up, take care of the (relative simple) technical bits, and get your commission. He will do everything else.
I recently used a large dataset of tweets in a research project. As far as I know, I do not have the rights to distribute these.

I also used a dataset consisting of newspaper articles. It cost me $1.000 to get access to, and I definitely do not have the rights to redistribute it.
It would be nice if took your own advice there about reading what others write. Just being civil and stopping with the name calling would be a improvement. "Evil", really? Quality way of refuting the argument of the article!

The blog post is very specific in what they criticize. They are not criticizing Patrick for using the wrong font or not following some policy document on how to use polite language. He is selling proprietary software licenses through litigation! and people would criticize Patrick regardless if the codec existed or not.

But according to you, writing so in a blog post is seeking supremacy and being evil right?
Such an aura can be cultered.

This was a fairly entertaining read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11631118
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I worked in the eyeglass business through college. A not insignificant number of people dislike wearing glasses. They are treated as a necessity in order to see, but there's not much enjoyment there (other than style, but that only goes so far).
I posted on reddit yesterday but didn't have much feedback, maybe I will have a better chance here : how would you guys have done it ? Do you have any idea for any new widget that I could integrate ?
This is a "voting philosophy" thread the day after the conventions end, and there isn't a single Trump or Hillary joke in here.

I'm disappointed guys...
Being popular isn't the same a being liked.
Is it common to use a new org for each repository now?

I can't understand the usecase for a new org called "safe-rb-commit-hook" that only has 1 contributor and 1 repo of the same name.
I actually believe the Russian government can do that.

It's trivial for a messenger app to include code that sends a copy of your private key to the messenger app's company's HQ, if served with a warrant or if obliged by law (and that seems to be precisely what's happening here).

If the messenger app is open-source (like Telegram or Signal), you can satisfy yourself that the messenger app isn't sending your private key behind your back.

But it's a different story if the app is closed-source and its parent company was involved in PRISM (like Whatsapp).
Same here. The other stories do seem real though.

A friend of mine once worked at a software company as recently as 2014 (it went bankrupt meanwhile) where the team of around 10 developers would work without any versioning system at all! They used folders with dates instead, and every once in a while someone would go over all the folders with the respective developer and merge the code manually.

My friend tried to introduce SVN, but the developers didn't want to invest time into learning it.

Anyway, given the stories I know first-hand, I totally believe it's a true story!
If you're working on any cloud software backend, windows is probably your third choice for development environment, and I see it really unlikely to change.

I see office software being commoditized instead. Then even the business guys can move off windows. If only google had some motivation improving docs. Maybe that hits another cultural wall. An engineering driven company can't produce tools for creating beautiful content.
XU92 (AKA "Xanadu Gold") was written in a dialect of smalltalk: http://www.udanax.xanadu.com/gold/download/index.html
The main question is why Carmack doesn't use the Facebook Engineering Blog. There are no popups or other annoyances there. For example:

https://code.facebook.com/posts/265413023819735/surround-360...
And with the more important nitpick that this Lagrangian is a quantum operator rather than a number.

I don't think that's true when dealing with the formulation in terms of path integrals as we do here...
Flagged for being abject nonsense.
> Now, straight to the point, who's going to pay for the repeated research to prove the first one?

Who is and who should are two different questions. The body who funded the original research should be best placed to fund the verification of the research. If the research isn't compelling enough to fund verification then why was it funded in the first place? And if the principle research group is requesting additional funding for more research that builds on the initial unverified research then that sounds like poor governance.

I realise that this simplistic view gets messy and confused when research is really academic led innovation and incubation.
Alternatively, all the physics work is pre-generated and it's just displaying stuff. The floor is flat and there are no interactions with other objects. That black sure is impressive though.
I disagree.

One part of science is observation. Including observations which cannot be, or at least have not been, repeated. For example, consider a rare event in astronomy which has only been detected once. Is that science? I say it is. But it's surely not repeatable. (Even if something like it is detected in the future, is it really a "repeat"?)

Some experiments are immoral to repeat. For example, in a drug trial you may find that 95% survive with a given treatment, while only 5% survive with the placebo. (Think to the first uses of penicillin as as real-world example.)

Who among you is going to argue that someone else needs to repeat that experiment before we regard it as a proper scientific result?
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I would love to see this article, about 5-10 times longer. Dig one level deeper into what the notation means, how it relates to the zoo of fundamental particles, etc. Compare and contrast the sections dealing with different forces/particles. Talk something about the history of how this came out as a unification of models for gravity, electricity and magnetism, weak force, strong force.
On a low level, I think it should be mandatory for masters students to do a pre-thesis project, which is replicating findings in a published paper.

It would do something about low hanging fruit in terms of testing reproduceability and since there is a published paper, the student has access to guidelines for setting up and reporting on a large project, which will help them learn how to do their own, original thesis.
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> Surely, ^career^life?

Not really, if you have a supportive spouse who can help you make the right job decisions through discussion (who hasn't discussed their job change with their other halfs?), then they /are/ the most important career decision you'll make.
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I think the biggest problem with Yelp is fake reviews intended to harm a business either from competition or disgruntled ex-employees. They allow 1-star reviews from throwaway accounts to stay on the front page and filter 5 star reviews from active users unless you pay for their service which includes 'account management support' to dispute fake reviews.
The best example that I can suggest is to look at the STEPS project (i.e. what Alan was referring to in the talk): http://tinlizzie.org/updates/exploratory/packages and their papers: http://vpri.org/html/writings.php. There have also been a couple of attempts to reduce Smalltalk back to the key concepts it was based on with projects such as Cuis: https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev

In general though, yes the Reddit comment you came across is probably a fair description of what you're likely to run into in the wild (commercial or open source) since most projects tend to prioritize the short term desires/needs at the expense of the long term. As it's often used, Smalltalk will just get them to the unmanageable mess faster. No environment/language/tool can prevent someone from doing silly things with it despite how hard their designers might try to.
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The point of science is to discover truth in a way that is objective and convincing. That's not to say there isn't other truth out there. I think people mixing 'science' up with 'truth about the universe' is causing some unnecessary cognitive dissonance.
At one point, I believe they released a Visual Studio extension that would let you highlight a particularly WTF-worthy chunk of code and post it up easily. I was tempted with some of the code that I inherited after it had gone through a couple iterations of cut-rate outsourced freelancers...
> If the messenger app is open-source ... you can satisfy yourself that the messenger app isn't sending your private key

But only if you are building and installing the app from source, and have audited each release. OS apps installed through app stores suffer the same lack of visibility as a CS app.
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Gary Johnson (Libertarian) and Jill Stein (Green) support pardoning.
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Good point about the public involvement. The public and the news systems are part of the problem.

I've lost count of how many 'battery breakthrough' articles I've come across, but they seem to pass the newsworthy test.
Maybe, maybe not. Do you have something specific in mind here?

I hope researchers and scientists don't considers others not capable enough, and therefore withhold info on how to reproduce.

Even if the experiment is crazy expensive and complex right now it might be considered much more tractable in 10 years, or someone builds upon your work and invents a simpler method to show the same thing.
Ideally you should re-implement the algorithm based on the description in the paper to verify that the description of the algorithm is correct. You should also test with your own data to make sure that the algorithm works on all reasonable data and not only on some provided cherry picked data. If you can't get the expected results with your own implementation and your own data then the results aren't reproduced.
Yes, green accounts are new, not sure the definition of new being used though.
Genuine question: Has Google ever achieved financial success with a moonshot project?

Google Glass seems to have come closest to becoming an actual product, but it eventually crashed and burned as well.

The self-driving car was a great technological success, but I really wonder how Google plans to monetize it. Years ago, when Google was the only major company doing self-driving-cars, there was a lot of buzz and potential. But they didn't seem to capitalize on that in any way. Now that Tesla and every other major car company has achieved near-parity, I really wonder what Google's end-game is for self-driving cars.

In general, a lot of these moonshot projects sound so zany, that I wonder if the division will ever recoup its investment.
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a thing that discourages or is intended to discourage someone from doing something.

adjective

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So, ignoring the ethical issues, would there actually be some benefit to space travel if, say over the next couple millennia, there was a deliberate gradual increasing of the background radiation levels on earth?

Would that lead to human adaptations that could survive in more radiation hostile environments?
Look at research done on many political hot button topics. They love results that have not been repeated. I see all sorts of posts even on HN that reference such "science" as well. The root problem, people who are pushing an agenda.
My thoughts exactly. I recently read Branson's own account of this event, and no - he did not raise money from the tickets. You cannot start an airline on the money raised from <100 tickets. He didn't actually make any profit from the event at all - he simply organised a private jet for him and the other stranded businessmen and got them to split the cost. Which supposedly led to him starting Virgin Air, but still a huge misrepresentation.
Ah ok, I missed you were specifically talking about sales engineering, my mistake.
As a Slashdot comment points out, CloudFlare could protect the owner from DDoS attacks with minimal effort on his part.

Edit: The original original post already talks about CloudFlare. The reference was lost in an Internet game of telephone.