skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol. "Avoiding textbooks" is probably the worse advice imaginable. Now, I'm not saying go out and buy all of Pearson's catalog, but textbooks are the only books designed from the ground up to impart knowledge to a reader that meets the minimum standards described in the first few pages. Plus, the good ones describe the experiments used to develop whatever theory they're trying to impart to the reader.

I will agree there are lots of bad textbooks, but the best-in-class textbooks are better than any self-learning guide you could make up yourself (within categories).
I'm the other way around, I'm using a 5yo desktop (i5-2500k) and a four year old phone.

Both do exactly what I need them to do and upgrading would be a marginal improvement.

I loathe buying technology my gf says I'm the worst techie ever :)
Latex works across many websites.

There's an extension for Google Docs for Latex BTW.
>This is pretty much false, because on the one end we have people in poverty who will hopefully move out of it, which will cause growth.

They can move out of poverty by society distributing wealth more equally, which is not dependent on growth. Especially when people have 100000 the net worth of other people.
"I was elected to lead, not to read"
Given how ridiculously basic the website is, I think you're right. It should have been a real triplestore with a SPARQL endpoint though.
There is an advantage to universal GC: it can simplify interfaces.

For example, in C every time a `const char *` appears in an API there has to be an implicit contract about who owns the string and how to free it. A language like Rust improves on this by enforcing such contracts, but the contracts still complicate every interface.

In a GC'd language you can just forget about these issues and just treat strings (and other immutable objects) almost as if they were ordinary fixed-sized values.
Yeah. Reading a bit more into it, I think you're right.
Less than 8 hours later and I don't see it. And 8 hours between my comment and yours. They show it less than a day, but Kim getting robbed has been front page for a week
Regardless of layout, that subtraction will have the same effect on most printable characters. An identical effect on digits.
They put coffee in their coffee in Brazil.

It suppose it goes without saying, but that meme is some selective criticism.
> How are the numbers taken out of context?

The numbers lack context in that they don't specify a rate, merely a value. It makes it sound like 70K women are attacked each year by undocumented immigrants, when the reality is that the number is closer to 1.27K per year since 1955. Let's do some back of the napkin math:

There are about 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US, meaning that the rate of sexual assault victims per undocumented immigrant would be ~0.012%. Meanwhile, in 2006, 300,000 college women were raped.[1] With 300 million people (in 2006), that puts the rate for the general population at 0.1% of victims per person. That's nearly 10x the rate of the undocumented immigrant population, and that's only including college-aged rape victims, rather than sexual assault victims of all ages as the 70K number claims to be.

Meanwhile, we have Trump who has no fewer than 4 woman claiming he sexually assaulted him. Divide that over the 70 years of Trump's life, and at 0.057 women-per-year you have a 1-man rate of 5.7% -- 57x the rate of the general population. Seems like Paul Ryan is targeting the right person, and that Breitbart is using bad logic.

[1]: https://www.nsopw.gov/en-US/Education/FactsStatistics#victim...
I'll second that. I get a lot more mocha than coffee. Though the alertness effect seems to be consistent with having a small cup of coffee in the morning.
> As moxie said, it's about raising the defaults of the world, not about making it secure for the crypto nerd.

The thing is, the attacks in the "crypto-nerd paranoia" category tend to become everyday attacks over time. Pre-Snowden, most people would put a lot of the things the NSA is doing into the "crypto-nerd paranoia" bucket. Now we know they were wrong to do so.

Signal routes all conversation metadata through one infrastructure, which becomes a very tempting target. By also requiring phone numbers as identity, they make it very easy to tie that metadata to real people and perform graph analysis on it.
Really fascinating article. I'm yet to look at the library and Herb's library too but great to have both.

The cppcon YouTube channel is full of videos that will take up my evenings, to my wife's disgust (doubt she wants to watch Bjarne talk).
> I don't expect big changes from this, I suspect that MS Office Open XML would also be considered an open standard.

https://www.forumstandaardisatie.nl/lijst-open-standaarden

https://www.forumstandaardisatie.nl/standaard/odf

Unable to locate OOXML
I didn't say the problem was "just" a poor language. I said that Solidity is a poor example of a language for writing contracts in. I didn't say it would be easy to develop one, certainly not a universal one. But Solidity is not a counterexample, itself, to the idea of a "formal law language". It's just an example of a language totally unsuited for its intended domain.
Only sad if you believe that he didn't effect change in teh institution.
This is exactly how my wife and I drive, whichever person is in the passenger seat is the co-driver. We are American, BTW, not sure how common it is for Americans, but I reckon it isn't uncommon.
Here's Glenn Greenwald, who can hardly be accused of being right-wing or a Trump supporter, on media bias:

The U.S. media is essentially 100 percent united, vehemently, against Trump,
and preventing him from being elected president. I don’t have an actual problem
with that because I share the premises on which it is based about why he poses
such extreme dangers. But that doesn’t mean that as a journalist, or even just
as a citizen, that I am willing to go along with any claim, no matter how fact-free,
no matter how irrational, no matter how dangerous it could be, in order to bring
Trump down.

Although he doesn't name them, it seems to me he's likely referring to the vary news outlets you would consider beyond reproach (say, NYT or WaPo). Does this perhaps make you reconsider your position?

EDIT: formatting.
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Although listening to that song now I find it somewhat sad and dispiriting, because the "change" that came in the decades following that proclamation, was it really a change? Looking at politics and society? I think of that song in the context of its use in "Watchmen" [0] as more realistic.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVUDdQS2UxA
Thank you, I think I understand this now. So now we can train a model that doesn't have to learn everything from its weights alone.

Would this be an apt metaphor: LSTM's were like a student who had to know how to take a test and memorize how to do the problems - a DNC can learn how to take the test but it can look at its notes.
Several dramatists have won the Nobel in Literature. Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Elfriede Jelinek, and probably some I'm not remembering.

EDIT: Eugene O'Neil, Jacinto Benavente, Dario Fo
Inherited mutability and no aliasing mean cyclical structures tend to be a fairly complicated mess of RefCell/Cells. The borrow checker is very good at handling ordered lifetimes but cannot handle more complicated access patterns without the runtime checks in RefCells.

There are graph libraries, but these only help with structures that are graphs in the strict sense (all edges are created equal and not actually part of the structure) as opposed to structs with one or more fields that reference (and have shared ownership of) another node in the graph.
I would use PaaS like:

Cloudways/Heroku because I don't want to spend my time on bothering with server management.
>But as people moved to smartphones and push IM platforms, twitter's reason to exist kinda evaporated.

Huh? Did you read the articles? Can you explain how this jives with the massive increases in revenue?
I don't think everyone uses that distinction, see this list for example. Radium is included among others:

https://github.com/MicheleBertoli/css-in-js

Or this influential talk:

https://speakerdeck.com/vjeux/react-css-in-js
Disclaimer: I work at 2ndQuadrant.

We used a 16 datanodes, 2 coordinators Postgres-XL cluster for these tests. We'll be publishing more information with different cluster sizes in the coming weeks.
Imagine that Samsung shipped the Note 7 and the battery worked just fine but charged more slowly than people would like. If Samsung wasn't able to lock down the firmware (via DRM) on the charging chip and people were able to "repair" the charging firmware. What happens liability wise if someone's "repair" of the firmware caused batteries to explode? It puts companies in a really shitty spot. Same thing with a John Deere combine. A user "fix" could potentially destroy a million dollar piece of equipment or otherwise malfunction and kill someone.

I'm certainly sympathetic to wanting to be able to modify my devices as I see fit, but I can't help understand how much legal liability that puts on the manufacturer.
Of course. Current youth generation's pop songs are always bad (mostly).

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. "

- Socrates, circa 470 BC
This is a great argument, and it makes me think of my favorite tea bar / restaurant in SF, Samovar. However there are downsides to eating like that too: it costs more and takes more time (either to prepare yourself, or to wait at a restaurant).
>I lived in new, modern, fairly-well-layed-out 330sqft and 450sqft apartments for four years, and you know what? It was fine, but you definitely get tired of it.

To put it in perspective, hundreds of millions of families of 4 and more live in non-well-layed out 330sqft and 450sqft apartments in the developing world, to which a couple or a family of 3 living in a fairly-well-layed-out apartment with our modern trimmings would seem like a dream.
with open source libraries/ reference implementations

Citation needed? FAFAIK the reference implementation is closed source, and there are no libraries -- only a powershell module that is actually a wrapper around the Word/Excel OLE objects.
And should novels be eligible for songwriting awards?
I decided to become 'God' by coding a 'God' (the non omniscient kinds)
Albeit, not the omniscient, omnipotent God seen in religion.

https://github.com/JordanMicahBennett/God
His diaries have interesting bits, but as Paul Fussell remarked, Waugh wrote the diaries at night after drinking, and the letters in the morning sober. I have a volume of his and Nancy Mitford's letters to each other; I must say that her prose would look better on its own.
that was a great listen, thanks
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I very much realize that, which is why I've been pushing towards people recognizing this because it _does_ make a huge difference! (as seen by the OC that kicked off this discussion)
I agree with you, but in this

> std::string x = "Hello, " + fullname; // cpu cycles spent on GC

you are already spending cycles on memory management (if C++ allocates character data on the heap which I think it does). You are searching for free space in the heap, possibly synchronising to do that, and so on.

With a GC you may even use less cycles here! For example a copying GC could mean that you can allocate with a simple thread local bump pointer.

So in your statement you are already paying an unknown cycle cost for memory management. Why do you care if it's GC?

Your answer is probably the variance in the number of cycles - the noticeable pauses - which is a reasonable concern.
The author is focusing on the server side but similar issues imho. are on the client side too. I've recently stumbled into some reactive compiled TS code while debugging and it became frustrating very quickly. The challenge to debug async code is a hard one - at times it seems promises and observable may just make easier to build a larger callback hell instance.

Besides the probably never fully granted wish of being able to replay considering the standardization of these patterns is there anything we can do:

- making the promise easier debug-able by changing the promise itself?

- making the environment more supportive of debugging (approach like zone?)?

- creating promise et. al. awareness in debuggers?

What are the existing best practices and how can we improve on them?
Just curious if you've tried Coffiest? This seems like the use case they were trying to hit.
C++/WinRT is a standard C++ language projection for the Windows Runtime
Does the package "react-native-style-tachyons" also work for non-React-Native projects?
Surely you mean the Faraday tensor?
My 2007 Honda Civic Si has this feature. I always use the valet key when I take the car in for service.
What's the word that means "uninformed person spewing tired cliches" again?

The EU bureaucracy is actually pretty good regarding open standards. They publish most documents in html/doc and pdf, see for example http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/FR/TXT/?uri=CELEX:520...

They have also adopted the Akoma Ntoso standard internally, meaning all legislation is crafted in standardized semantic xml (as well transcripts, court proceedings & decisions etc). The public launch should happen some time early next year, and it'll allow anybody to do the kind of fun stuff you can do with a meticulously annotated, machine-readable history of 40 years of governing.
Wait, so a garbled story that tries to convince people Russia is threatening ends up in western media (not just Twitter) ... and that's Russias fault?
Is GNU social a spec?

You might be interested in general P2P decentralized tools like https://webtorrent.io/ and http://gun.js.org/ . There are tutorials that go with them, but nothing specific to GNU.
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As part of the Bootleg Series, Dylan released recordings of the Rolling Thunder Review tour where this song features. It's one of my favorite live albums and Dylan at probably the most satisfied and happy point of his career.
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Well, I try my best

To be just like I am

But everybody wants you

To be just like them

- Maggie's Farm
Speeding through NYC: the billion row taxi dataset
Two words: 'event calculus'. A type of predicate logic constructed to precisely specify the types of relationships that we use language to do with law and contracts:

'Formalizing Legislation in the Event Calculus':
http://www.marcellodibello.com/files/research_files/theses/c...

Yes, it uses a library of obscure symbols to describe these relationships, but can be algorithmically translated into any number of natural languages, thus making these descriptions understandable to most people.

It's my belief that event calculus + blockchain (I'm looking at tauchain as an ideal platform) to enable the construction of massively scalable, voluntary, commons-based social coordination, production, politics and law.
It's quite obvious that you've never even listened to Bob Dylan. He may not have been a rebel, though he was the absolute polar opposite of 'generic'.
In addition to what adrianratnapala said, it is perfectly fine to have specialized GCs for specific problems, and I suspect that any moderately complex C++ program in fact does (and no, that's not Greenspuring). The problem is using GC as the general memory management solution when 95% of the allocated objects have a single reference or a simple lifetime patter.

A not well known fact is that even the linux kernel as a GC implementation, used to collect file descriptors, but any suggestion to GCing all memory in the linux kernel wouldn't be well received.
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Willing? Or able? You're saying it makes a difference in the ability itself. In either case this argument - well, it's not even much of an argument, merely a belief - is so absurd to me that frankly I can't believe you're serious, no offence.

Care to share any examples of what technologies is, in turn, a white software engineer more likely to be able to design? Or does this philosophy only work one way : )

Is designing medical software better left to be implemented by software engineers who themselves eg. battled cancer?
Nobody says GC has no advantages, the claim is that its disadvantages don't always offset them.
> Did he vote for the Iraq war?

No, he's never served as a politician and so has no platform record. He's never demonstrated an ability to serve his country so I don't understand why we should entrust him with our most powerful station.

> Has he shown an inclination towards mass murder in other scenarios?

I don't believe there's any evidence of that.

> What evidence do you have that Trump has any more likelihood of using a nuclear bomb against the wishes of congress than Hillary?

To me it's his lack of temperament. I'm confident he means what he says that he doesn't want to use nuclear weapons. But in dire situations which may arise, I personally do not trust his temperament or judgement in dealing with foreign powers. This is because he's shown many times that he only cares for the most short-term benefits. His tax plans demonstrate this, his inability to explain many of his plans demonstrates this, and his history in business demonstrates this.
I've seen him in concert twice, once about ten years ago and another about 15, and though he didn't sound great, they were still great concerts. Lots of singing along and crowd pandering. He was clearly enjoying himself and so did we.
If they have a tune and you can dance to them.
Why For-Profit Education Fails
It's interesting to think that Schmidhuber's actually applying machine learning methods to the field of machine learning, e.g. see the opening of http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-conspiracy.htm...

If AGI is the goal and machine learning research is the search algorithm, then Schmidhuber's attempting to perform backpropagation by pushing rewards back along the connections :)
As someone with a left-leaning bias, I agree with your assessment, if only in the sense that the loudest and most powerful voices in the most reputable newsrooms tend to also have (implicit) left-leaning biases. I would love for their to be a conservative equivalent (this was the reason for the founding of Fox News pre-Ailes: get a bunch of conservatives in the newsroom and have them do their jobs to the best of their ability, following an implicit rather than explicit bias).

Does any equivalent exist today (eg trying to report as an outlet run by conservatives instead of a conservative outlet)?
For HTML-DOM you can use the regular tachyons package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/tachyons
It seems that Haruki Murakami is the Leonardo DiCaprio of Nobel prizes.
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Reviews of Medical Studies May Be Tainted by Funders' Influence
Show me one that wasn't approved by congress.
Oh, but you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears

Bury the rag deep in your face

For now's the time for your tears
Oversharing with the browser’s autofill
What advantage does Opswork have for deployments over CodeDeploy?
Also worth noting that these are arrests, not convictions. The police can relatively easily arrest, but need more evidence to charge and eventually convict.
this reminds me of a coworker who tried to create a tiny DC motor with a battery, a magnet, and _non-enameled_ wire. yeah, that didn't work out too well for him. I tried to explain why the wire needed to be enameled, but the cargo-cult science was strong with him.
See http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2015/04/06/mode... and its linked post; they cover some of the ways you can write general graphs in Rust. It's a bit differently than you'd do it elsewhere.

Of course, if you're willing to give up some safety internally, you can also implement them the same was as you could in C or C++.
"Looking back, I think the idea was that the local minorities were fine ... as long as they acted exactly like us"

This applies to so many areas of life. Look around you at your workplace. Most of your coworkers that you'd consider part of your "group" are probably very much like you, but most people have some one thing that makes them unique.

For example stereotypical Silicon Valley:

- young
- white
- male
- plays video games
- likes to drink beer with colleagues
- religiousness isn't part of their core definition of themselves
- socially liberal
- etc.

Most people don't check all those boxes. They miss one. They don't drink, do sports instead of videogames, are evangelical Christian, et cetera.

Yet they're still part of the team. But notice that those attributes aren't all that similar? A white guy whose hobby is urban dance instead of video games still fits in. A black guy who plays video games fits in, but a black guy who is into urban dance is a gangster.
I completely agree, but the OP has been pretty clear in this thread that a GC is never the best solution and I'd like to know his alternative.
The lack of context renders it meaningless.

They cite 70,000 sexual assaults from 1955-2010 and characterize it as a crisis. Yet, there are over 200,000 sexual assaults and rapes annually, and 80,000 sexual assaults in prisons alone annually. (https://www.rainn.org/statistics/scope-problem) If the 70,000 number was equally distributed, than 1,272 sexual assaults by criminal aliens would happen each year, which represents 0.006% of the total.

Is this a good thing? No. Is this some existential crisis where illegals are flooding over the border to rape american women? No.
There are many levels of cause and effect.

Central banks use open market operations. When they want interest rates to go down, they print money and buy debt on the open market until the rates reach their target. This new money is the cause... the new interest rates are the effect. The new money (aka "monetary base" or M0) is then multiplied 10x by private banks, due to fractional reserve banking. That M1 money is another effect. The controlled interest rate helps the private banks loan that money out.
I'm a bit confused here.

Was that before or after he invented the Internet?

- - -

By the way, you're a mean person peter303, Al Gore is a nice person.

- - -

Edit: Oh, I spoke too soon. He actually has a Nobel, a Grammy and an Emmy award. That's actually even more impressive than I expected.
The cast is the problematic part, not the subtraction.
Totally 100% well deserved. Just imagine the 13 year old out there discovering "Masters of War" or "Idiot Wind" for the first time today. Their entire point of view is about to change. Mind upon to hitherto unknowable vistas. Ergo, the absolute benchmark of what Great Literature strives to embody.

Also worth checking out is Dylan's controversial speech upon receiving the the MusiCares Person of the Year 2015 award. I wonder what he'll have to say to the World when he gets to Stockholm ;)

Read Bob Dylan's Complete, Riveting MusiCares Speech

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/read-bob-dylans-compl...

And of course some essential viewing. D.A. Pennebaker's seminal documentary classic Don't Look Back which follows Dylan on his concert tour of the U.K. in 1965.

Inside Criterion's Incredible Restoration of Dylan Doc 'Don't Look Back'

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/inside-the-restorati...

And from that timeless English tour, a masterful performance ;)

"It Ain't Me Babe" (Live, 5/7/65 - Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d8o8vNTNao
How does having known unknowns help our leaders to establish policies?

I respect the want to not have a stance - but having no stance is not a way in which a decision can be made.
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Wait, your build times increased on the CI server? What makes that worth it?