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I did not expect you'd say "char", because it's a fixed size numeric type. Isn't that what you have been arguing against so far? Anyway, I'd get yelled at if I checked in code where I do math on char. It has to be on uint8 or int8 (or other widths). Not that I'd ever check in such code, after all, I agree with the company policy there. But "char" is just a part of the problem. We have the same issue with all kinds of bid-widths. When I read PC code with such names, I don't worry about their sizes, and just assume i386 conventions. When I read embedded C code with datatypes of undeclared widths, I get quite annoyed. Thankfully, I can't recall the last time I read such code.

> then uint_least32_t should make you happy

The thing is, I assume all uintX types to really mean at least X bits wide. I am aware that the compiler is free to use its discretion for allocating memory. I worry about finer details only when I need to.
first page: "You must also choose a key size. The size of a DSA key must be between 512 and 1024 bits". Definitely do not follow this guide nowadays :D
A brazilian startup of some friends got accepted (with no warm intros or fancier credentials, just "cold" application). They applied as soon it came, got an invitation in July i think. Now, as far as i know, the process is on hold as the startup is still figuring out some bureaucracy on their side.
Eh, fruits are the core diet of primates, infact most primates wait for the fruits to start ferment which increases their caloric value while actually reduces the fiber count.

Humans have evolved eating sugar just fine, fruits and fermentation were used before we learned to walk, and other sources of sugar including honey were also commonly consumed.

You can easily look at the diets of "modern" hunter gatherers and see just how "low carb" it is.

Don't get me wrong eating too much sugar (glucose/fructose/sucrose) isn't good for you, but sugar isn't the only carb out there.

Until the 1900's starch fed the world, it still does, some how what is succesfully feeding the 5.5-6bln poor people of the world is no longer good for you.
Planning. Oftentimes all you need is to calculate some columns and play with numbers and see how the calculations change. The same things that make Excel bad for robust statistical modeling, make it good for all sorts of planning activities.
"Most of the guns that we see in the news and the gun debates are not guns that I ever saw someone hunting with."

Correct. Hunting rifles are typically much more powerful and lethal than handguns and "assault style" AR-15 and AR-derivative rifles.

They shoot farther and with more velocity, they use larger (sometimes much larger) projectiles and are much more accurate.
1TB will fit in memory too: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-instance-update-x1-sap-...
>Terrorist groups use encryption to organize and coordinate attacks, such as the mass shooting in Paris that claimed 137 lives, with an additional 400 injuries.

This is not true, and you should not allow someone to get away with statements like these. The Paris attackers made extensive use of unencrypted burner phones. Far from supporting it, this actually deals a fatal blow to the idea that terrorists could be stopped, if it weren't for that pesky encryption. They demonstrably can't.

I'm frightened that, as a meme, "paris attacks demonstrate the need to weaken encryption" actually got off the ground. It demonstrates the power of government propaganda is sufficient to completely invert the lessons of an event to suit them.
Only if I could. It's impossible to teach people though. You can only take from people, you can't give them anything. Especially when it comes to subtle things like politics.
Are you proposing there be no taxes at all?

How do you pay for military, police, courts and all other aspects of a developed state?

If taxes are ok to pay for those, why not a UBI that tries to improve on what's currently done? It won't be perfect, nothing human is.
It would be so nice if the people in favor of UBI would be the only contributors to the system, leaving everyone else to live their lives as they like. But no, UBI means everyone else needs to contribute and convincing is done by force ("you pay your taxes or go to prison, you citizen, and your tax money will be used for what we want").
The same people are mostly still around. But the people who talked about Apple being superior in form or function despite being inferior in profit back in the 90s are not the people who today talk about how Apple is great because they're so crazy profitable.
Preliterate versus historical site: European sites not in the Greek, Egyptian or Biblical histories are often a mystery too and not heavily visited, with the exception of Stonehedge.
I started mine the fourth week in June; about 20 grams of carbs per day. I've basically cut out all sugar and bread, pasta, crackers etc... You know, foods that make up 95% of the food in super markets. I've lost approximately 25 lbs since then and I haven't felt this good in years. I have no hunger pains, when I'm hungery I have some cheese or a piece of ham or chicken. At night, not all nights, I'll have a piece of fruit for "desert".

It has been remarkable how consistent the weight loss has been. I can more or less predict exactly how much I'll weigh this Thanksgiving; it's really incredible.

However, I've become quite pissed that corporations in concert with the Gubment have been allowed to poison our food supply over the past 40-50 years.

My theory is the high carb/corn syrup food supply has masked the affects of inflation and the fact the real wages have stagnated or even declined over that same period of time. And that most average Joe's just can't afford to eat the way their parents and grand parents did.
I'm guessing the author hasn't a maths education beyond high school.
Author forgot to list one of the theories running around: DRM enforcement. It is harder to control what plays through an analog plug in contrast with controlling DRM with the closed source driver that will control the wireless headphones (or the analog adapter).
Golang UK conference 2016 presentations are on YouTube now
I've been doing the Coursera ML course the past few weeks(started on the 22th of August). I can only give it my highest recommendation, it really is a great course. I did computer science in university(2.5 years) and have a decent grasp of calculus and linear algebra. I've also been programming for 9 or so years. I've found the course to be surprisingly simple and intuitive, but this probably varies with how comfortable you are with the math in the course.
That doesn't even make sense at all. Fat stored in cells != Dietary fat. You can gain tons of weight by just eating carbs.
Could it be definition 1 or 2b here? http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism

In this particular case he's arguing the government is appropriating private land (means of production) for third-party gain.
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I don't know what authoritarian means in this context. My understanding is the government has a monopoly on violence, and when I disobey laws that other people pass (through the process of democracy), I will be on the receiving end of government violence. What you call authoritarian is to me what folks call democracy. I also don't understand the distinction for private trade, in that without a functioning government to support a marketplace, such trade would not exist.
If by "keto" we're talking about "ketogenic diet" that's means the body has fundamentally changed its metabolism away from using glucose and instead uses ketones for energy. That's what ketosis actually is. Getting to this state and maintaining it is far harder than, say, paleo or mere "low carb".

I don't have anything against any diet, just saying that ketosis isn't necessarily an easy alternative, it is an extreme practice. Most folks can do just fine with a bit of moderation in eating and regular exercise over the long-term (by long-term, I mean forever).
Forget iPhone 7 Headphones. Apple just changed the game with the iPhone 7+
Don't be silly, they wouldn't do that!

They would take a minimum of 10 selfies per painting before moving on.
> I'm not certain, but is it possible it went smooth because everyone working in C/C++ started paying attention to their data sizes?

We don't have to guess. A huge amount of the code that made this transition was strewn across the internet in CVS and SVN repos, and now in preserved git history. From compilers and libcs to kernels to linkers, loaders and interpreters. They make concessions where they had to (check out glibc), but stay with traditional K&R-style types when possible. The "i32 calculate_age()" thing is way newer than that.
Because a lot of the "knowledge" comes from the engineering process much of it is trial and error and often it's not documented in the theoretical books ;)

This is why it's easy to lose the ability to produce something e.g. the big rockets that NASA used to make.

China can make a copy of the engine but it would not gain sufficient insight into why they chosen to design it exactly as it did so making adjustments would not be very easy or possible at all without putting almost as much R&D effort into it as making a whole new engine from scratch and debugging things would also be near impossible.

There is a reason why there are only a few engine manufacturers in the world, it's very hard work, and as far as big engines go then only RR and GE are really in the game.
They use an ultra-short laser pulse which "gates" (enables/disables) the detector for a very short window of time. They repeat the stimulus+gated detection with different offsets in order to sample different parts of the signal.

The ultra-short laser pulse can be generated through purely-optical means. You have a laser pulse traveling around a cavity. Due to a combination of non-linear optical effects, each round-trip tends to shorten and concentrate the pulse. The resulting pulses can be much shorter than what's achievable with electronic generators.
For the people that want to know more about the AN-225 there is a very interesting documentary on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAyD16lWznc
You don't have the same tools. You are probably thinking about emulating POSIX filesystem API and things like that and using those command-line tools on top of that in a single-box kind of way. That's not how you treat your distributed system.

EDIT:
For something that beats a single box easily I envision an interpreter with JIT running on each node in a distributed system and on the same process that stores data, having pretty much no overhead to access and process it.
Antonov is selling the unfinished frame of second AN-225 and rights and documentation as far as I remember.
I've been at or near ketosis levels of low carb since around 2013; I used it to get over a fourteen-year eating disorder (anorexia->bulimia->BED->freedom). If I had infinite money/time, I'd love to run trials on its effects on impulse suppression completely separate from weight loss. There are some interesting parallels between it and the off-label uses of anti-epileptics.

It's been fun watching the sea change towards acceptance of it. When I first started, most people I encountered were weirdly confrontational about it, but now it's pretty pedestrian. Granted, I had a now-embarrassing proselytizing phase at the beginning and quickly learned to keep my mouth shut unless asked.
That depends on the tradeoff between management/transfer overhead and actually doing work.

Always in the "word count" style examples, but quite often in real life, the "get the data into the process" takes more time than actually processing it.

When you need to distribute, you need to distribute. However, the point where "you need to distribute" is about 100x more data than the time most hadoop users do, and the overhead costs are far from negligible - in fact, they dominate everything until you get to 100x more data.
Chinese tourists do pretty much the same in most places I've encountered them though, even Taiwan.
What more features am I supposed to be using when I write essays and plot small line charts?
Last paragraph of the article: "Hopefully this has illustrated some points about using and abusing tools like Hadoop for data processing tasks that can better be accomplished on a single machine with simple shell commands and tools"

That was exactly his point.
While the article is about diabetes, it's been my understanding that the low fat diet thing was a response to an epidemic of heart disease.

I recently eliminated a number of things from my diet: Butter, my daily cheese sandwiches with mayo, processed meats, and pretty much all restaurant and vending machine food. I went from 175 to 150 pounds in six months, and have felt no urge to put it back on. I eat more lean meat, and have found alternatives for my lunches that are good enough.

The change in fat intake doesn't explain my weight loss. I simply eat less food overall because those ingredients were what made it tasty. I won't pretend that I enjoy eating as much as I did. On the other hand, I'm a good cook, and I like vegetables, so I'm far from miserable.

All these things support the fact that diet is not just a biochemical problem, but a psychological and social one. Doctors know that sending someone home with a diet is going to kill them, because the diet won't happen. The people whose conditions improve on a diet are only the people who manage to follow the diet. So instead they load us up with statins, or prescribe surgery.
10 days later I realize... interestingly we know what happens to the body when it's exposed to zero gravity and 1g of gravity... but we really don't know what happens at 20% or really anything between zero and one g...
> Diet soda, although technically not containing carbs, prompts a similar insulin response to drinking sugared soda

Is there any scientific basis for this claim?
I know. That makes the tradeoff all the worse.
The Inuit did pretty well on a diet of whale blubber, so I doubt that fat is a problem. The Italians and French are pretty healthy, and they don't skimp on fats either. However, I do agree that we should all eat more fresh produce.
Ask HN: Are there any startups trying to cure autoimmune disease?
Gremlin [0] over RDBMS, SQLg [1, 2], is also an interesting take on this problem.

[0] http://tinkerpop.apache.org

[1] https://github.com/pietermartin/sqlg

[2] https://github.com/unipop-graph/unipop
I have a bachelors degree in economics, so some university math with calculus and linear algebra. The reason I found it hard was because I had to learn Octave while also understanding the algorithms and general ml concepts.

That being said, I think it's a great course, and would highly recommend it to anyone who thinks they're up for it. But there are other courses that provides an easier gateway into ML.
I feel like every time something like this comes up people completely skip over the benefit of having as much of your data processing jobs in one ecosystem as possible.

Many of our jobs operate on low TBs and growing but even if the data for a job is super small I'll write it in Hadoop (Spark these days) so that the build, deployment, and schedluing of the job is handled for free by our curent system.

Sure spending more time listing files on S3 at startup than running the job is a waste but far less than the man hours to build and maintain a custom data transformation.

The main benefit of these tools is not the scale or processing speed though. The main benefits are the fault tolerance, failure recovery, elasticity, and the massive ecosystem of aggregations, data types and external integrations provided by the community.
The problem with the American mass has never ever been the lack of "advanced math" or whatsoever. They're missing the point. It's the tremendous gap between elite education and "common" education, as well as the lack of very basic scientific common sense among the population. It's not required for people to possess outstanding advanced skills like a PhD, but when many get even some of the most basic facts wrong, and even believe the earth is 4000 years old for example, then there's a massive problem.

Of course I know it's the elites among the upper echelons of the society who are more than happy to see and maintain such a situation, and unfortunately this article might well be another addition, a so-called academic/think-tank publication that serves their agenda. It can't get more obvious at the end of the article: "leave elite education to those who 'need' it! Keep the mass ignorant!" Yeah, sure, so that the children of the elites always stay powerful and the mass keep remaining ignorant. It doesn't matter for the massive power wielded by the US, the state terrorism employed by Uncle Sam, but it matters, a lot, for genuine empowerment of the people and true democracy, which people including the author here doubtlessly want to stop at all costs.
Surely it is about this VCs personal preferences, but has the dynamic markedly changed in that time?

My favorite high-tech product marketing book was written in the 1980s...
Another vote for Spring
I have a hunch that a weekend election could really hurt voter turnout of low income individuals.
Wow, this is so old (1999) it's terrible. It recommends generating DSA keys.

Interesting as a historic artefact, but please don't follow this guide, search for something more recent.
zero to one - Peter thiel - good read

old man and the sea - Hemingway - good read

sapiens (currently reading) - Yuval Noah Harari - fantastic till now

What if (still reading) - Randall Munroe - an interesting read
As usual, nothing about prevention.

> “One way or another, we get educated, and it’s much cheaper to listen once in a while to engineers and scientists.”

Global temperatures and the sea level are rising because of human behavior. If we want different results, we have to behave differently. Engineers and scientists know engineering and science but not so much leading people to change their behavior.

It's easy to blame others: "Listen to me! If you don't you'll be sorry!" isn't effective. Also, what fraction of engineers and scientists have, say, flown in a plane or something similarly polluting in the past twelve months?

If you want to change behavior, you need to learn and practice leadership skills and apply them to yourself as well as others. The science is clear. More is nice and I agree we should keep pursuing it, but the best way to decrease the effects of global warming is to change our behavior. (This is why I moved from science to leadership.)

This article's writing about flood-proof architecture and other rearranging-deck-chairs-on-the-Titanic behavior is necessary since it's too late to stop a lot of change, but it's not too late to stop the change that we -- you and I -- are contributing to now. As much as I wish past generations had changed their behaviors so we wouldn't see these problems today, future generations will wish we had changed our behavior today. Even if you don't have kids or grandkids, I would think caring about human society in general and empathy and compassion for future generations would be enough to focus on changing our behavior proactively, not just reactively fixing problems others bequeathed to us.
if you dig further, it is indian: Dhyana -> Chan(na) -> Zen.
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Americans never fell in love with a low fat diet. Our diet is extremely high in fat and individuals that are obese consume much a much higher amount than average. By very low fat, I am saying reduce saturated fat to near 0 and limit intake of unsaturated fat to 30g or less a day.

http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/average-fat-intake-sad-11370...
Actually this is another example of Betteridge's law. If you replace "book" in the headline with "one letter flipbooks of 9 pages or less" (from the paper), then we'd have a counterexample.

Still really cool, but a long way to go before we can actually do what the headline teases.
The Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth - James Althucher
That's not true. According to US interpretation of law they may scan every IMAP mail which was not deleted. So in their analogy any book in a public or cooperate museum may be scanned, there is no privacy protection.

Only in democratic countries you can expect some privacy.
Dietary fat -> Bloodstream -> Cells
The title makes a refreshing change from 'in 24 hours'!
This concentration of tourism is by design. They call these areas "dead zones." The idea is to create a national park of millions of acres and concentrate all the tourism into just a few select areas and roads. You assume these areas will experience significant environmental degradation but the remaining park will be largely untouched, aside from the occasional backpacker. It makes good sense to me if the main goal is preservation.
I'm not saying paper ballot voting is absolutely fool-proof. I'm just arguing doing it correctly is much easier than with any electronic system.

Just for the record, I'm not a US citizen and don't live in the US and have therefore obviously never voted there. I can only talk about how we do it here in Germany.

You can ensure that no dead or non-citizens vote by having a well-kept population registry cross-referenced with other databases. If many public officials work with the data chances of fraud in the registry is extremely low. In any case, you would have the same kind of problem with any electronic system.

We tick off any voter from the list in the moment they throw their ballot into the box. After the station closed, the first thing we do is to count the ballots and cross-reference that with the number of ticks. We also count the voter cards (which gets mailed to every voter) and have a tally sheet of people voting without that card (by showing their ID). I'm not exactly sure how I would "lose" some votes. These numbers are phoned to the election office and written down in the record and signed by everyone working there. After the election is over I verify that the votes we counted correspond to the published number for that station.

Any questionable or invalid ballot needs be inspected by anyone working at the polling station and everyone needs to agree on how to proceed with that ballot. Those ballots are marked and the decision is recorded for every single one individually. We then package them up into a special sealed envelope. These questionable votes are verified by other people on a random basis and always if the election is a close call or any signs of fraud come up.

You could probably vote for someone else around here if you can get access to their voter's card as we usually don't check ID. We can see gender and birth date of the voter so they should roughly match. You also can't do that more than once or twice in the station or we start to remember your face. Additionally, you should hope that they haven't already voted themselves and haven't registered for absentee voting. It would be a logistical nightmare to effectively change the outcome of the election by that way and the risk is high.

The biggest risk I see is absentee voting. For example, there is evidence of people "helping" elderly to fill out "their" vote. But again, if you allow people to electronically vote from their home the same kind of fraud is possible.
Why is it possible for the Netherlands to prevent flooding and reclaim land but not for New York City? Is there some inherent difference in geography?
Not that many the bulk of manufacturing was done in Ukraine what was sourced externally can be sourced from subcontractors. For example engines are manufactured by Motor Sich (Ukraine based) which is still a fairly large engine manufacturer etc.