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> As much as I dislike CL's quirky inelegance (I prefer the scheme side of the Lisp family tree)

Obligatory link: A Short Ballad Dedicated to the Growth of Programs. http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~wiseman/humor/large-programs....
1. Install uMatrix.
2. Allow *.mapbox.com on weather.com
3. Enjoy a fast and useful site.

Same trick works for many sites, particularly old media (TV, newspapers, content spam etc).
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for an old-school game that has much of the same feel as zork but which you might find more fun, check out unkuulian underworld [http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=tyu4zalevqkvujk4]. it doesn't take itself too seriously, which adds to its charm.
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mind. blown. how would you go about determining if there was a third+ adversary?
I imagine it's been a difficult few decades for bellwrights. Bellsmiths. Bellers. I don't know. Sleep well.
Well for some of us the lesser evil is unacceptable. The rest will happily use Quicklisp.

If I had to guess however, I would say that the vast majority of Quicklisp users are not aware of the tradeoffs they are making. It's troubling that none of the security implications I mentioned are listed or even hinted at, in the Quicklisp site https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/release-notes.html or anywhere in the Quicklisp documentation.

One alternative is to improve Quicklisp. I don't want to be seen as blaming Xach here, but he's solely responsible for the lack of documentation. For CL docstrings especially, their absence is unfathomable for a core project that is positioned for wide usage. Every function, method and dynamic variable should have a docstring.
You don't add these after the fact, you add them when you're writing the code.

If Xach improves the documentation situation, people will step in and start fixing issues.
Already had some time on the front page on HN today, but I just released https://zaphod.surge.sh/ which uses it.
> Stereo vision is obviously highly effective in biology as it has independently evolved a great many times

This argument sounds like a second cousin of the "chemicals are bad, but if it is natural it is good" argument. Just because it evolved in nature doesn't mean it's optimal, or it's the best system under massively different constraints. And who knows what evolution would have thrown up after a few more billion years.
Gravity can stretch spacetime to make the distance light has to travel longer than in an unaltered "flat" universe. But can it also shrink, causing a photon to arrive at a destination in a shorter time? And I don't mean a wormhole, which requires tearing in a topological sense.
Nietzsche for physicists – J. C. S. Neves (2016)
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I don't know that I'm positing any sort of formal theory, just describing a pattern that's been going on for decades now. I'd suggest that unless something fundamental changes, there's a reasonable chance that it will keep on going that way.

Progress in machine learning has never been at a snails pace. What has happened at times is that the futurists of the world stop making breathless pronouncements about machine learning, and that creates a public perception that things are going slowly.

Case in point: Deep learning really isn't anything revolutionary or new. I first started noticing papers about stuff that now falls under the "deep learning" catchphrase about 15 years ago. Not because it started then, but because that's when I started reading that sort of thing. During that time, there's been relatively constant, steady progress being made. But you wouldn't know it unless you had been following the literature, which not many people do. And all of this happened at a time when everyone was convinced that neural nets were dead and support vector machines were the way of the future.

As far as Robin Hansen's skepticism about deep learning getting us to true artificial intelligence, meh. A technology doesn't need to make Ray Kurzweil's eyes roll back in his head for it to be useful.
I too keep a lot of tabs open. I use OneTab and The Great Suspender chrome extensions to also keep memory usage under control. They've been indispensable tools for the tab hoarders like me.
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To add to what Scott (sctb) said:

Toxic threads like this one are the reason why we're going to try an experiment called "Political Detox Week" on Hacker News. For one week, starting Monday, all political stories and threads will be off topic. We'll kill them when we see them and ask users to flag them.

Then we'll see what happens.
This article references deforestation whose root cause is a desire to to create land for grazing, so in this case it seems to be.
If you avoid swapping because of it, yes.
A computerized version was indeed developed but ran into legal trouble. The web site still exists [1]. Perhaps someday they'll be allowed to host the game again.

[1] http://r-s-g.org/kriegspiel/index.php
Personally I'd rather have a long press button activate it. Saying "OK Google"or any derivative is a waste of words me. Apple got it right with holding the home button to activate Siri. I'm really sure why this doesn't exist on Android as it seems to lower the friction quite a bit.
I wanted a particular job; I wanted to get it and succeed at it once I had it. I wanted it more than any job I'd ever wanted. The commute was 44 miles, work started at 7 AM. I quickly realized I could eat breakfast, read the paper at home, then fight rush hour traffic, or reverse that and avoid rush hour. I searched and found a nice deli/diner 1.1 miles from work. That meant getting up at 4:30 AM, which meant going to bed at 8:30 PM. My (now ex) girlfriend picked a pointless fight with me at 8:20 twice the first week. But at 8:30 I went to bed.

All of this might sound crazy, but I wanted it badly, made it paramount, so all the rest flowed from that. If you really want your life to be different, decide what you want and accept the decisions that flow from the goal. People will get in your way, including yourself. I've had the weirdest effects myself of suddenly unable to focus on getting out the door, forgetting where my keys or such are, etc. But keep at it. Make the goal paramount, break through whatever bizzareness appears, and you'll have what you want.
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This also works, by the way:

[...document.querySelectorAll('p')].map(f)

In the future, NodeList could extend Array which would make these workarounds redundant. Extending Array was made possible by ES6.

Anyhow, I think having some kind of extension methods would be great.
I love the ripgrep utility, and it is slowly replacing ag for me. But I am more interested in your blog design. I am an Emacs and Org enthusiast. Would you like to share your blog generation setup? I'd like to learn how you creates the TOC at the end of the page (looks like that on phone) and see if I can recreate that in hugo. Thanks!
Not a counterpoint to your experience but rather a stinging endorsement:

Pond Scum by Kathryn Schulz

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/pond-scum

This vision cannot survive any serious reading of “Walden.” The real Thoreau was, in the fullest sense of the word, self-obsessed: narcissistic, fanatical about self-control, adamant that he required nothing beyond himself to understand and thrive in the world. From that inward fixation flowed a social and political vision that is deeply unsettling.
Until the taboo on talking about consciousness is broken and we seek to understand what role this incredible phenomenon plays in human cognition, there will be no progress towards the holy grail: true general purpose AI. That is my falsifiable prediction.
What is the current state of affairs with regard to Common Lisp on Windows?

I remember that when I was last trying to explore it, that was the single biggest hurdle - all the recommended freely available "industrial strength" implementations (SBCL, CMUCL) were either unavailable on Windows outright, or considered experimental and highly unstable there. The stuff that was available was either proprietary (and costly), or its performance was not deemed sufficient for production use (e.g. CLisp).

But that was several years ago. Did anything change?
just toys? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning#Applications
Oh my god I can't stand moderator responses. Worse when they're just copy+paste and they didn't even read your request/question. Been happening on Github more and more too with issues.
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I'm not sure I understand your post. There are tradeoffs to different ways of implementing substring. They were fairly well covered in this page.

Are there points you disagree with?
Singapore tops global education rankings
Also, there is https://weather.gov
Wow. My normal session now leaves me with around 8gb free out of 16, compared to 1-2gb free previously. Gmail is using less than 1GB again. I might even disable The Great Suspender, and stop killing tabs that use up lots of memory.

Whoever worked on this, you deserve a raise. QOL improvements for so many people.
Show HN: YouTuLong – TL;DW chrome extension/website for YouTube
Two links, So I'll post a message:

Chrome Extension: http://goo.gl/rhwid5
Website: https://youtulong.com

Basically, it runs a simple skip to timeframe script with youtube API, thus TL;DW's videos without actually editing video.

By using the chrome extension (shows and runs TL;DW's made for the video you are watching on youtube), the users remain in youtube website, so no traffic gets stolen.

For more advanced features, use the website.
My brain hurts trying to imagine how this drug would undergo a DBRCT.
That's pretty disingenuous. "Touching the subject" of restricting what other people eat naturally will make them angry. Particularly the way you do it.
It does. Long press on the home button, or press and swipe up.
Even the IMF's economists are starting to question neoliberalism's limitations: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2016/06/pdf/ostry...

Lenin (for all his faults) said that fascism is capitalism in decay, and far-right governments are gaining power all over the world, so...
Briefly: a quality education involves a wide set of subjects, some of which are distasteful or boring to the childish mind. Unschooling does not demand attending to those. Thus, it will produce a narrowness of knowledge in the profound majority of children who are involved, barring the genuine polymath (n.b.: hacker news seems to have a disproportionately high number of polymaths. It's entirely plausible that you, gentle reader, are such a polymath. Please don't generalize from your experience to everyone). That is a disservice to society and the child.
It's unethical, but in France they do it all the time -- it's called homeopathy.
So take it more as the general "you" that goes with the "meat is evil" position you appeared to be supporting, rather than the personal "you".
Any links to your papers? How much better have things gotten over e.g. Kinect v2, which was pretty bulky and power hungry, and had active cooling? I'd imagine it has gotten a lot better.
Wouldn't a pipeline operator [1] be a more interesting solution for this instead of adding syntax that relies on the `this` keyword?

[1] https://github.com/mindeavor/es-pipeline-operator
This is an awesome Hack write-up. Also, glad to see that someone is continuing Hack Princeton's history of epic musical hacks. At one of the first editions of the hackathon (waaaaaaay before MLH was a thing) someone made a Dubstep Laser Harp that was a ton of fun to play.

Keep up the great work!
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Scientists find bacteria in Beijing smog that lead to antibiotic resistance
I just ran into an interesting theory for Gravity: Subquantum Kinetics

It's featured in Dr. Paul LaViolette's book The Secrets of Anti-gravity Propulsion, and there's a really interesting section that challenges the Standard Model in Quantum Mechanics called the Model G in Subquantum Kinetics.

The idea is that matter is born out of what's called the Ether, the origin to all energy. The positive and negative electrical energy sums a positive or negative charge with a "spin" -- which also yields positive or negative gravity.

This is a video that simulates matter being created out of the Ether:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPLNfgxD2ic

Supposedly, it's been rejected by other researchers because it goes against Einstein's theory of Relativity and the Big Bang, -- however, there's been rumors the Model G is being used by underground, black-project sites like Lockheed-Martin and Boeing (e.g. Northrop Grumman's B-2 Spirit stealth bomber.)

Here's a lecture by Dr. Paul LaViolette featuring content from his book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifEgGMFK-VU - (warning: audio isn't great)
It helps a lot, yes! I loved your essay too: https://byrslf.co/take-time-off-da7e5421f99e#.zh8e4w81u

Women seem better at making decisions like these. Men may as well begin to admit it.
I do not know what SJW is nor that the toxic masculinity angle is standard. I never thought about it much until I wrote about it here. I cannot help it is not very original; it is what I see around me ( I own a meat serving restaurant for instance ).

A lot of people believe 1-2 glasses of alcohol a day save your life while there is more and more proof it is actually very bad (which is what you call it outright); I see the same kind of thing happening for meat. That was what I was commenting on.
21 contributors and the author is a famous programmer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang
You are comparing an investment with an expected value of -30% to another which could go either way. I'm struggling with the logic of how minus thirty is the better choice here.
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Assuming a commercial web application, appropriately sized hardware, and correctly optimized code, when is "footprint" a significant disadvantage? How is "footprint" defined? When are startup times a significant disadvantage?
Can we get the temperature in degC?
I was surprised by this. (Rich is rigorously perceptive and characteristically peels conflations apart.) Here, he seems to be conflating linker responsibilities with (unit-module) dependency management concerns.

If deployment-unit-A depends on du-B, but system-language level dependencies have additional subtleties, then that is fine, since someone like RH could be looking into code stripping of unreachable/dead-code on linking, and I'd be completely surprised if that hasn't been already looked at extensively to date.

Yes, you would sacrifice some transfer bandwidth/time on artifact acquisition but keep conceptual models local and their implementations simpler. Or, looking at it from another point of view, OP should consider that a 'dependency' is maximally the provider of objects in context of its namespace.
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> I feel like this post is essentially someone from the first group criticizing the last group, saying their methods are not applicable to him.

Probably more accurate to say that it's the first group criticizing others in the first group who try to act like people in the third group. Data scientists who use deep learning for everything, when a more interpretable model would do just as well.
The team found that those with slick vacuums (about a quarter of the human population) respond poorly to placebos while those with hinky vacuums (another quarter of the population) respond extremely well and those with a mix (half the population) are in the middle.

The placebo effect is well known, understanding it is fundamental to designing a trial, and it has been studied a lot.

It strains credulity to suppose that a hard partition like this (one quarter of humans respond weakly, period), if it existed, would not have been discovered long ago. You wouldn't need to find genes or proteins or any of that stuff, you'd just need to check if placebo response in individuals is reasonably consistent over time.
It does not seem to support TLS, so: http://weather.gov
I can assure you that there's an analogous person who can do the 1000 lines drawing (or whatever the equivalent monstrosity is). And if that is impossible, it means the language is too limited to be of real use.

We've had many programming paradigms over the years, most delivered and we can argue about their merits. To the best of my knowledge the only somewhat successful visual programming systems are simulink and lab view, which are extremely limited, and any nontrivial use does venture into the "dreaded" textual.

I would love to be proven wrong, but I suspect it is inherent. A picture might be worth a thousand words, but movie scripts are still written as text, and graphic novels are a minuscule part of the market.

In my opinion It is similar to the misguided notion that some people have that if only math notation (or physics notation, or music notation, etc) was more graphic/elaborate/readable, it would be easier and accessible. This is wrong: the notation is just the top of the iceberg you see above the water. The underlying complexity is the real issue, and it won't go away with a different notation.
Not sure why you would want to do this in the first place. Wouldn't be easier just to stop using Facebook?
A real drug might really treat some subset of the cases of an issue, if some issue has multiple unknown causes and the drug addresses one of them.

If a drug cures 10% of people with an issue, and does not cure 90% of them, is it still worth trying out on people?

Is it still worth researching to try to whittle down diagnoses to hone in on those 10% instead of just claiming it to be a failed drug?
A few differences I spotted as I quickly read the Softcover book (I'm the main author of bookdown, so I could be biased):

Bookdown is built on top of R Markdown, which means it has the genes of literate programming (knitr) and Pandoc. Literate programming is an important bridge to reproducible research (source code and prose in the same document), which we strongly believe in. We also value Pandoc's efforts in standardizing Markdown, although John Gruber didn't seem to care [1].

Softcover seems to be focused on the typesetting syntax, cherry-picking from different flavors of Markdown plus LaTeX when Markdown cannot get you there.

I think the design of these tools is heavily influenced by the background of their authors. I have been a student in the statistics major for several years, and published a few academic papers, a PhD thesis, and a book before, so I know some of the pain of publishing these things. The overall feeling you get from bookdown may be "hmm, this is for people in the academia" (who else cares about equations or theorems after all). By comparison, the feeling I get from Softcover is "this is for software manuals" (who else would care about code listings). Neither feeling is accurate: bookdown is not only for academia and softcover is certainly not only for software manuals.

There are certainly many differences in the Markdown syntax, but I don't think it is worthwhile listing them here. One subtle thing is that on bookdown book pages, you may see an edit button that takes you to Github to edit the R Markdown source, then send a pull request. This little feature is one of my personal favorite features.

Another major difference is that Softcover provides the service of marketing and selling as well, and bookdown is only a tool for authoring books at the moment (you have to talk to publishers by yourself). Both self-publishing and publishing with an established publisher have their pros and cons, e.g. the former is quick and the latter is slow. We leave the decision to the authors. Several platforms for self-publishing exist, and authors can send the PDF/EPUB there if they want.

[1] https://twitter.com/markdown/status/507341395137658880
I once had 1000 tabs open in firefox. I only found out when I accidentally clicked the x and it asked "are you sure you want to close 1000 tabs".
I don't care as much for the Big Bang, but for it to go against relativity seems a bit hard to swallow.
It might just be because of the difference in platforms. 32-bit Mac has been gone for half a decade, whereas 32-bit Windows is still out there (32-bit Windows 10 exists), and those wouldn't be able to run 64-bit Chrome, so they may be using 32-bit as the default in order to avoid user confusion.
Azul's C4 collector can handle 2TB heaps with "pauseless" (<50 microsecond) operation:

https://www.azul.com/press_release/azul-systems-extends-supp...
I just went for the first thing that popped in to my mind that is a primary reward -- something biology has conditioned me to want, and will activate reward pathways (quickly!) when ingested/experienced.

Honestly, you could probably just start with the secondary reward of congratulating yourself -- it's just important that you do it out loud and call yourself by name (eg, "John, you did a good job of running today"), so you hear it happening, instead of it being part of your mental dialog.

Generally though, I find that speaking to myself is psychologically different than talking to myself internally, so YMMV if that's not true for you.
>It's also suffering from hype.

I'm imagining someone tweeting at Robin, several years back:

"Good Prediction Markets expert says: Most firms that think they want advanced Prediction Markets really just need linear regression on cleaned-up data."

;)
I believe they still track this with your fingerprints so next time you try to enter you'll be asked about it. Best to be nice to the agents even if they're not being nice back. People that create a scene are the ones that end up basically banned for life.
It is only because of AngularJS + Ads.

This is a slow down caused by browser rendering/parsing/JS execution. I'm not sure what the server operating system would have to do with it.
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That is a good deal of my point.

Along with the children left behind no longer getting to interact with adults who are in the more successful category, losing an entire set of role models to aspire to. How many children have benefited from their friends' parents providing excellent role models and life advice? Allowing the privileged to separate themselves into private gardens removes part of the ladder to pull yourself up by. And, along with that, it limits the mixing of the SES/racial categories, which further inhibits compassion, as you won't have grown up next to them.

A key example of the effect this category of isolation leads to is Romney's remark in 2012[1]: "... middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less...". Had Romney more experience (or even familiar with the vital statistics), he would never had said such an profoundly ignorant remark.

[1]https://www.yahoo.com/news/romney-middle-income-200k-250k-15...
Awesome stuff :)
The reason that so much expense has been added is that a faulty drug results in millions of dollars in lawsuits. Litigation is one of the single largest contributors to drug costs.
Yeah, no kidding... because that would also challenge the "Laws" of Thermodynamics, too: Free Energy from the Ether.

*I have to put that in quotes because it's not actually a law, right? You shouldn't go to jail for breaking it.
I know and I really like the achievements! Also there are other JVM GCs usable for RT application. But I would preferable have a comparison between two open source systems ie. go and openjdk8/9 :)
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