skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, there is the other side to this coin WITHOUT replacing PHP http://engineering.dailymotion.com/php-7-deployment-at-daily...
Looks like you're reading that wrong? Java 8 is listed twice. Java 8, when using the non-standard library version of the program is second only to C++. This is pretty much as expected.
Just read the posts and comments there - lots of CT + right-leaning discussion that seems curiously aligned with alt-right ideology.

ie, more heat, less light.
Google's Hybrid Approach to Research (2012)
Even if we live inside a simulation inside a simulation inside a simulation, ultimately there is a base reality that influences the design of the simulations contained within it, and can impinge upon the simulations at any time. Infinite regression doesn't work here - using the term "simulation" implies some special pleading when moving from the outermost simulation to the base reality. If you want to regress forever, then there is no qualitative difference between layers of reality and the word "simulation" is meaningless.

We live in the base reality. All a simulation could do is obscure complexity.

Interestingly this isn't a new idea. The gnostics of the first two centuries BCE had a theology of this, in which a flawed world, in which humans lived, was created by an imperfect creator called the demiurge. There was a perfect realm beyond this world with an intercessor named Sophia (wisdom) who would rescue us from our flawed world, the simulation created by the demiurge.
So I've done what you suggest, both of them. The assembler was useful, got close to the metal. The forth, for me, was a waste of time. I remember writing something like less(1) in forth just so I could scroll forwards/backwards through code, search, you know, basic stuff.

I don't feel like learning forth did much for me. Learning assembler, hell yes, reused that knowledge over and over (I rewrote assembly versions of Unix stuff like ls, cp, rm, etc in Z80 for a CPM machine I had at University).

Maybe I just don't get forth.
Shameless self post about a repo I've made about UI resources

https://github.com/kevindeasis/awesome-ui

I'll be adding more content in the last week of October and fixing the repo so it'll be easier to navigate
I've been meaning to write a blog post about it...

We use Shopify with a printing and fulfillment service: http://theprintful.com

It's been a decent amount of work, to be honest.
I don't know where do you get your 2-3 orders of magnitude from.

A rewrite I worked on, from PHP to C++, had an improvement of 20 times better performance.

That's only one (1) order of magnitude.
I think you're missing the point of my post -- I don't think writing code is easy.
The 99% 10 year survival would be disease specific. This is pretty normal for a cohort first diagnosed with PCa. Most are low risk low grade cases and survival is good. Other causes of death are usually orders of magnitude higher e.g 10-20% over 10 years at age 60-70+.

Hormone ablation is mostly to buy you maybe a couple years of 'life'. I put 'life' in quotes because having experienced it I found it more like a living death - but your mileage may vary.

People differ in how they prioritize length versus quality of life. Most people cling to life at almost any price, perhaps until the last few weeks they stop treatment. People even cling to the hope of life at almost any price. I have friends enrolling in "cancer trials" of some slight variation of a chemo drug that has very little if any chance of curing them.

A recent study found that most men who died of PCa had some major, invasive, 'unpleasant', difficult, futile treatment in the last six months of life. The price of 'hope' can be high.

People dying with cancer or other diseases often come under enormous pressure from the people around them to survive as long as possible. I have experienced this myself.
That's a great overview. Thanks.
Clinton WikiLeaks Update: Saudi Arabia and Qatar Accused of Funding ISIS
I've heard stories about people who call firefighters that would have instead called police... because they fear the police would just show up and shoot their way to a closed case.
Tobyfox has said he can't port Undertale to Nintendo consoles because he used Game Maker, despite wanting to.
It's also pretty common in startup and executive culture to lie about how many hours you work. It's a machismo thing. In reality people rarely actually work 80+ hours. Even if they are physically present that much they are not really working (in a productive / effective sense) for more then 50-60 hours of that time.

Research has repeatedly shown that for most people productivity begins to decline after 40 hours a week and to tank after 50. Results can vary a bit from individual to individual and for different types of work. Knowledge work is usually worse in the sense that deep "flow state" focus can usually be sustained for even less time than this. Humans seem to be "burstable" in the sense that short duration crunch times can be done but they require rest afterwords to return to peak performance.
I don't agree with the ban, but it seems like the risks of kratom are not discussed, and in fact even downplayed by saying hey, it's just a plant.

To help me be an informed reader I would like WaPo to mention:

1) If you search kratom withdrawal there are a ton of anecdotal reports that sound pretty unpleasant if not debilitating.

2) What is the frequency of severe side effects, as best as can be known?

3) That "natural" substances or "plants" are not always safe. This misconception is so common and dangerous it shouldn't be used to mock the ban (real logic will suffice). https://web.stanford.edu/~jpc/overture.htm

There are plenty of valid reasons to argue against a ban. For example the chill on research, the low rate of fatalities, the likelihood it will make use more dangerous, and the probability a ban would have no net benefits.
We have more reason to bomb Saudi Arabia to bits than to attack Russia. I will never fight against Russia even if there is a draft. Stand against your government.
Martin Fowler – What Does Tech Excellence Look Like? [video]
The Gang of Four patterns book is one of those books that you should probably only read when you already have decent experience writing non trivial software.

If you do so, it will formidably crystallize knowledge you've been acquiring subconsciously. You'll have probably been having gut feelings about why certain things are wrong or clunky and others are elegant, and Design Patterns will give you a vocabulary to describe these things.

If you read it as a beginner, the subtleties of it all will go over your head, and you'll end up trying to cram design patterns everywhere without much sense or reason.
Sounds familiar to https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.no/2014/08/the-poisoned-n...
No. Trump. Trump is the carnival barker.

But nicely done :)
Thanks for posting this. What does "coherent" mean in this context, and why is it special?
The hard drugs have ugly consequences for their users, and for their society as a whole. Look at how the Japanese in WWII legalized all drugs in China, and made heroin, in particular, cheap and easily available; they wanted to corrode the substance of Chinese civil society, and they did.
Followedby another brief indicating such a ban would adversely affect pharmaceutical companies.

"Researchers say that their work with kratom could eventually lead to the development of nonaddictive alternatives to powerful opiate painkillers. Placing kratom in schedule 1 would cripple researchers ability to study the drug, they say."
I found a discussion of the topic in the Federalist papers this year because it seemed it might be relevant. Don't have the citation handy but they were absolutely intended to exercise their own judgment in the event of a patently unqualified candidate.
> Bitcoin also had a fork due to a bug in 2013.

True, but misleading. That multi-hour outage was due to a subtle db library issue.

This is much more like writing software then trying to secure it later when you discover people are exposing it to the internet :(
> It sounds as if you've taking your conclusion that religious faith must be blind and ignorant and worked backwards from there.

Faith must be, yes. All faith. It's what exists in absence of, or despite, evidence.

> I remain unconvinced

Thankfully that's a bridge we don't need to cross. We've led you to water, your unwillingness to drink it isn't anyone else's failure.
I'd put SICP on the better read when dead list. Fundamental Algorithms shouldn't be read anymore but at least I liked it when I read it. SICP was the text in 61A at Berkeley but there were no assigned readings from it. It was meant to be worshipped rather than read. I rather like the Dragon book but compilers have come along. The 2nd edition is an improvement.

I'd add that EE20N used a Berkeley written text, Structure and Interpretation of Systems and Signals. I was in the minority and liked that book. I still have it.
Second Tufte, read all of them several times and they've influenced everything since. Raskin's "The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems" is another good one, puts a lot of solid research into context.
I only made it to the 2nd third of Thunderf00t debunk, the vertical temperature gradient => buckling seems to ignore the plans to cover the pipe with solar panels.

The terminal length offset seems unrelated at first. It seems they have more options to handle this.

ps: I wonder if, even a public mode of transport fails, it could be interesting for objects; smaller diameter and less security issues.
I have a question, aren't some of these public universities in some part subsidized by tax payer money at the state level?

If this is true, should these patents be exclusive domain of these school's to profit from exclusively? It seems to me that selling patents to these litigious entities impedes progress that might otherwise benefit the same tax paying public that helped underwrite at least some of the research.

Am I looking at this wrong?

Maybe there are lots of other nuances that my oversimplification doesn't account for. I would be curious to hear what those are if so.
The root distinction seems to be whether you prioritize reality or abstractions.

If reality comes first, you might not even believe that there is a set of universal mathematical laws governing nature (Feynman expresses this viewpoint, and raises the possibility that no such laws exist here[0]). Edward Nelson came up with similar ideas on the limits of abstractions in mathematics, based on Christian philosophy [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkhBcLk_8f0

[1] https://web.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/papers/warn.pdf
Only if the warnings come up too often. I imagine it should be quite possible to define criteria that discriminate selling shares at a price of 0.0000016 yen from normal prices, by comparing with the market price, or the range of prices ever seen by the software, for example.

Alarm fatigue is an important design consideration, but not a reason to not put warnings at all (given that this isn't amenable to an "Undo" button, which is preferable when possible).
Depends where you live. The pound crashed 6% last week in a matter of minutes, and is down 8% this month and 17% this year. The Swiss franc jumped 40% against the euro in a matter of minutes in 2015. The ruble crashed 45% over 6 months in 2014. Icelandic kronor crashed 35% vs the dollar in 2008. Venezuela is in hyperinflation right now.
I have been through this study and the supplements carefully.

The major problem is that they mixed patients with low risk (Gleason score of 6) and those with moderate risk (Gleason 7) and even some with high risk (8+).

When you look at the supplement the death rate for the Gleason 7's on active surveillance was 10X higher than for Gleason 6. Why on earth they combined the 7s and 6s together in the statistics would be a complete mystery to me if I had not been reading medical papers for 40 years and come to expect this sort of statistical idiocy as par for the course.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/17/statistical-literacy-am...
More likely the 12-steppers and religious zealots who feel that all recreational drug/alcohol induced highs are wrong, and should be stopped/illegal. There's been a lot of fighting against anything that works to end addiction through medical research/means. In addition to those who think all recreational drugs should be outlawed.
> We have more reason to bomb Saudi Arabia to bits than to attack Russia.

Yeah but Russia doesn't donate as much to the Clinton Foundation.
In the Finder, iCloud Drive is also available in the Go menu, or with the keyboard shortcut ⌘⇧I
macOS Sierra syncs the desktop and documents folders across all your Macs and makes the files available in the iOS iCloud Drive app as well.

It's really handy - I've pretty much stopped using Dropbox, except to share files with people on other platforms.

With a few (and lessening) limitations, iCloud is becoming the general user-accessible filesystem that iOS has lacked since the beginning.

All that's needed now is a download manager in safari.
A CTO of a 5 person operation doesn't remotely have the scope/role of the CTO of a hundred let-alone thousand person operation. Ditto for the CEO. But I don't see how it's possible or meaningful to prevent people from declaring themselves a "king of a kingdom", no matter how small. I think this comes out in the wash - anyone looking at a resume of someone that called themselves the CTO of a 5 person company is going to assume they were capable of performing to the level of a basic manager in a large org, so does it do any harm in the end?
Where would the fake NSL demand you send the collected info?
> .. do we really want them issuing secret orders with no public oversight at all?

do they want to issue secret orders with no public oversight at all?

Yes. Yes, they do.
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The Linux experience on the Chromebook should be researched before buying it. The best experience comes through removing the write protection on the motherboard and flashing the BIOS. I haven't done that myself yet.
On the flip side, this drug and marajuana have marginal negative affects beyond being reactionally impared, which being very tired can also do. Are they going to outlaw being awake for more than 20 hours next?
Non-locality doesn't imply that you can transmit information FTL, in fact you can't without classical channels. You can send random bits with entangled particles, but that is the precise opposite of information.
My rule of thumb is, "would I rather be in a room full of people on X (a variable, not the drug) or a room full of people on beer?" If the answer is X, which it almost always is, then I would rather make X more legally and socially acceptable than beer.
Are you still looking for candidates? After last month's post saying that some emails were missed, I applied again (and then once more this month), but I have yet to receive a reply indicating my application was received.
It is a green thread, but Erlang's green threads each have their own heap/garbage collector, so they're not sharing memory.
The allocator used on that project sure seems to think that off by one errors never happen. Why on earth would you put the in use bit in the first byte in your object header? Good grief.
Again, that doesn't say PHP is good, just that they think PHP7 is a better upgrade path than HHVM if you want to "scale without investing too much" (their words). A rewrite in something better wasn't an option.

It does highlight an important issue with Hack though. Once you start to migrate to Hack, moving back to "pure PHP" is a pig.
I'd settle for seeing it off the Schedule 1 list, which would at least allow for more information/research to happen.
Hotmail is doing the same with my server's IP because apparently someone else with a similar IP is a spammer. Could you tell me who you contacted?
WebSockets memory consumption cut to 1/16th using µWS
With neocons like Hillary Clinton who takes a lot of Saudi money anything is possible except bombing Saudi Arabia. And USA always needed a big bad enemy for fear mongering, Saddam, Bin Laden, Putin, US needs a "big baddy" to justify its insane military spendings.
I totally agree. That's why I'm running my own mail server, as well. That doesn't change the fact, though, that email is fundamentally broken these days.
Here the librarians are not defending free speech but take a political position on this issue.

For example, they could have put up a book "Book about White Lives - The European Experience".

This wouldn't go over well in the current political climate, I assume.

So since the police officers are on the other side of this issue, it makes sense that they wouldn't want to be implicitly defending the opposite side.
In medicine, you have to show a drug is more effective (or as effective) and is as safe as existing drugs for a purpose in order to get FDA approval. Why not take a similar stance on drugs for recreational purposes? If it is as safe or safer than alcohol or tobacco, approve it.
> If you're interested enough in programming that you're reading this blog, you've probably read most, if not all of the books in this list

oh, really?

> it's intended for the multitudes who are trying to appear smarter by pretending to have read them.

As opposed to trying to appear smarter by issuing decrees to the internet about what everyone who is "interested in programming" has read.
I read SICP for the first time in February this year, 15 years into my programming career and 12 years after graduating from a CS department. It's a very easy and enjoyable read, even the code blocks are readable, unlike coding examples in most (all?) modern programming books. I literally loved every page of it.

There's just something special in the way material is presented in SICP, in the order of topics, in the text's tone: it remains enthralling without being difficult, it teaches without being indulgent. It absolutely is meant to be read.
Isn't space super-cold? I mean, if you pull air out of a tube, the stretched air absorbs calories (–or cools down, which is the principle of a fridge with other chemicals and a liquid/gas transition). So can this effect keep the metal cold?
Lets just say that dlmalloc is the product of another era.
The difference is not that monitoring causes disease, but you are not doing surgery or radiotherapy, and it is not doing that which results in higher risks, in some patients.

Unfortunately they mixed up Gleason 6 (low risk) and 7+ (intermediate and high risk) patients in the statistics.

In the supplement they give information which allows you to see that the risk of dying is far higher (~10X higher) for the 7+ patients. But they do not provide this breakup for the risk of progression and metastases. So we cannot know what the risk is for low risk patients. And it is low risk patients who are usually recommended for active surveillance.

People have a hard time believing this, but this kind of statistical fail is common, even normal in medical research. The average doctor, including medical researchers, has zero formal training in statistics. So they basically use cookbooks without really knowing what they are doing. So you get researchers saying that because they has a statistically insignificant result, they showed there is no effect.

We had a study which had a slightly below significant result for fish oil reducing post natal depression in women with a 30% reduction(P=.11m where < .05 is arbitrarily counted as 'significant'). The lead researcher then gets on the media and tells the country <we showed fish oil is useless>.

The Bayesian revolution in statistics has largely bypassed medicine even though it is well accepted in many other fields.
Are all courses in this course avail? How
The DNC is a private organization. Why does its hacking justify a government-sponsored response?
Diaspora... never got off the ground. Honestly, there's room for something that works around decentralized email accounts and/or keybase.io which could allow for work combined with WebRTC + data channels.

In the end, the work needed isn't or won't be done, because any corporate interests that can make this work would want to own the system that it works under.
Bad edit of the headline; very bad. Makes it appear to mean the opposite of what is intended.

Original headline was: "The DEA is withdrawing a proposal to ban another plant after the Internet got really mad"

See the problem?
This is a pretty redundant comment, but I echo that sentiment! Slightly more modest price tag and configuration and I'd snap one of these up in a heartbeat.
Own in the very legal sense that it is your Intellectual Property, even though you have no real control over it once it gets into their hands.
It feels good to still be in business at http://www.getkratom.com after all these years. There has definitely been a Streisand Effect from all of the DEA's attention but I don't think it was worth the stress.

I think I liked this article the most from the wave of press today. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/14/kratom-dea-b...

I'm one of the moderators of https://www.reddit.com/r/kratom/ , check it out if you want to keep up with news and community sentiment on this topic.
These are expensive, but the power 8 systems are really fantastic. I used to work extensively with power servers when they first started offering Linux support, and they just have fantastic performance characteristics under heavy load.
Hi, BitKeeper guy here (BK predates git, first distributed SCM). I built what I'm sure is a less good version of this, I called it purify, you included purify.h and it warned you about all the stuff that it could by redefining malloc/free/etc to ones that kept track of stuff. So some overlap with the system posted here.

We were very careful to free everything before exit. It just felt cleaner.

It was also a bad idea. Until a few years ago, BK used an ascii file format, which means it read in the graph with all the meta data, parsing that, malloc-ing each string, each struct, etc. At exit we carefully freed all that.

Why was that a bad idea? If you wanted to link BK into your long lived IDE or wanted it to be a library, then it was a very good idea. But we never did that and BK doesn't really want to be used that way. So it became a performance problem. Consider

bk changes -1 # same as git log -1

That used to parse the entire changeset graph, build an in memory one version of it, find the tip (HEAD), print out the comment, then recursively free everything.

All for the holy grail of "knowing your code is clean". Clean is good unless it is pointless.

Another way to say the same thing is you could make the claim that all code should be written to be thread safe. Even if you never multi thread it. That's a lot of work, maybe not so bad for people who are good at threading, but it's work for most people (I'm a former Sun kernel hack, I get threads, it's not that hard once you get over the hump but a lot of people don't). If you have no intention of multi threading the code then making it thread safe is just "clean code" masturbation.

I'm all for clean code stuff where you are going to reap some value. In our case we did all that clean code memory management and eventually said screw that, changed the file format so we could mmap() it and page it in (read/write protect everything, take the fault, fault handler pages it in). No alloc, no free, way better performance.

All those years of clean code bought us nothing. I get that if you are making a library the rules about clean are very very different. But for an app that is going to run and exit, don't push clean down people's throat, it isn't helping in a lot of cases.
Interesting read... and nice to see a more moderate tone in an EFF post, opposed to some of the more "the sky is falling" types of posts in the past.

My personal hope is that WebRTC becomes much more usable, and with something like keybase.io can be used to send/receive encrypted messages with much less of a centralized repo.