skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The parent was saying that he shouldn't have to pay $45.71/year because there's no direct benefit to him. My response was that a strong civil society requires some latitude in how directly one needs to benefit in order to support taxes for things one doesn't directly enjoy. I agree that a mere willingness to fund something is not, in itself, a measure of some tax-funded good's actual value.

I do think that there's probably a good argument that a strong civil society requires a public broadcaster, but my analogy was more about relative equity--I'm okay with your sports stadium, if you're okay with my public broadcaster, because our civil society is better when there's public goods for both of us. And that doesn't even get into the direct economic benefits that are the mainstay arguments for sports stadiums and public broadcasters.
I second the criticism of using violin plots here. A violin plot is a kernel density plot. It is designed to show a distribution at a scale much larger than variations in the data. Its raison d'etre is to smooth out and aggregate these small-scale variations.

But in this survey data, the values in the distribution are spaced far apart. The discretization is so large that the violin plots show meaningless and weirdly inconsistent curves between x-values which actually have data. A bar plot would be much clearer.

OP, I think you have done a fine job of styling your plots tastefully. But I recommend taking another look at the visual language you have chosen to communicate the data.
Not familiar with "two wrongs don't make a right"?
Do they still have the backloaded RSU vesting schedule? Something like 5%, 15%, 40%, 40% (each year)?

Does anyone else do this?
There's no such thing as an idle genius. An idle genius is an oxymoron.

I like to think of genius in terms of perspective and thus measure it by how rare and valuable a perspective is. Genius is the extreme form of insight. It's really not a measure of IQ, although a high IQ helps.

Getting to a rare perspective is usually a product of building up a mental framework and then seeing patterns in- and making associations or connections among seemingly unrelated phenomena. True genius is seeing associations among things previously unseen.

A high IQ gives you more ability to build the mental framework needed to see these associations, and a genius has actually applied it.
No, but it is possible to get integrated into those communities. Normally you need an agent at first.
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Not OP, but at my company we're heavy users of Datomic. Some examples:

- Declarative and pattern matching make it elegant to read.

E.g., find me the ids of all customers invited by a customer named "Joe":

{:find [?customer]
:where [
[?inviter :customer/name "Joe"]
[?customer :customer/invited-by ?inviter]]}

- Syntax more appropriate for code generation and introspection (since it's just a bunch of nested lists). A big plus when pairing w/ Clojure.

- Allows recursive queries.

- You can reference metadata associated to any transaction that ever touched any attribute in your database within the same query constructs.

E.g, find me the time customer name was last modified:

{:find [?customer ?name ?last-modified]
:where [
[?customer :customer/name ?name ?tx]
[?tx :db/txInstant ?last-modified]]}

- You can easily query the entire history of records.

E.g, find me the name every customer ever had, w/ date of modification

{:find [?customer ?name ?last-modified]
:where [
[?customer :customer/name ?name ?tx true]
[?tx :db/txInstant ?last-modified]]}

Almost the same as query above, only difference would be executed using a different Datomic API call (http://docs.datomic.com/clojure/#datomic.api/history).

- You can easily execute a query against how your database looked like months ago.

Same thing: would look like the query above, but executed using a different API call (http://docs.datomic.com/clojure/#datomic.api/as-of)

I would say these are the main ones, but there's more.
but the supply of usable ones will surely dwindle in the coming years as old hardware inevitably breaks down

Gameboys, at least the original ones, seem to be pretty robust:

http://kotaku.com/reminder-the-game-boy-was-almost-indestruc...
I'm not a lawyer.
My view is that you should be able to pay to solve civil issues (my dog pooped on your lawn, etc).
But criminal issues are not open to market forces -particularly such an unequal market as Cambodia.
Im assuming they way they work is supply existing demand with a cheaper product. Much less risky than attempting to entire an untested market
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For the memorization aspect, I would say use spaced repetition software:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anki_(software)

Source: I actually did this and it improved my grade 55% in Calc I.
What I was thinking as well
For the first year...

Then there'll be amendments that force ISPs to log the pages viewed, time spent on each page, downloads, etc.
>For your comment about performance, immutable structure being comparable by reference can provide huge gains in read and re-use heavy environments, thanks to memoization-like techniques.

Fair enough. I'm often doing things to graphics, and the concept of using immutable data when the data is a bitmap with 4Mb of pixels, and you're trying to draw hundreds of sprites or shapes to it...well, let's just say that immutable doesn't make sense for that.

Even when I'm just working on a game, though, the more frequent allocations required by copy-on-write structures means more fragmentation of the heap and more deallocations later. Ideally during runtime nothing gets allocated.

You may even be right that the amortized speed of using immutable structures is the same as doing it with mutable data. But anything that adds a lot of allocations and therefore adds to the frequency of garbage collection will cause (or increase) jankiness in a game.

You have 16.66ms to accomplish all the work for a frame. If a garbage collector comes along and steals even 10ms, if you can't do the remaining work in 6.6ms, it will skip a frame, and users will see it.

And my current game needs to run in a browser, at least mostly. So here I am. :)
Even if you're paying for G Suite, my experience has been that it's tough to get a hold of a human Googler.
> A team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol have grown a man-made diamond that, when placed in a radioactive field, is able to generate a small electrical current.

So, they are replacing the thermocouples as used in RTGs with this diamond-like stuff? And low radioactivity sources (as opposed to plutonium)? That would indeed be revolutionary if it worked.
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Current publicly announced AVX512 does not support fp16. Skylake Server (SKX) and Knights Landing (KNL) are at a disadvantage here. They've not publicly said anything about extensions in Knights Hill (the long announced successor to KNL).

That said, Intel have announced the emergency "Knights Mill" processor jammed into the roundmap between KNL and Knights Hill. It's specifically targeted at deep learning workloads and one might expect FP16 support. They had a bullet point suggesting 'variable' precision too. I would guess that means Williamson style variable fixed point. (I also guess that the Nervena "flexpoint" is a trademarked variant of it).

I assume the FPGA inference card supports fp16. And Lake Crest (the first Nervena chip sampling next year) will support flex point of course. I would expect subsequent Xeon / Lake Crest successor integrations to do the same.

Fun times..

Aside on the compiler work -- I think it's not that hard to emit this instruction at least for GEMM style kernels where it's relatively obvious.
Yeah, pot shots are easy when mistakes are made, especially so publicly. Their recent kerfluffle was definitely a big one. Should Rolling Stone shut its doors? Or learn from its mistakes as best it can, knowing it has ground to make up, and continue to produce journalism?
Wash cloths, Iron them out, clean the house, do the dishes.
Maybe the wisdom should be "the compiler is saner than you."
(Other useful strategies not mentioned)

* Watch video's on Khan Academy/youtube
* Use Wolfram Alpha to confirm/deny yr solutions
* Get a tutor who can explictly show you how they approach solving any arbitrary problem you bring them
* Accumulate a list of math tricks that you can use and how to use them (example: how to long divide polynomials)
* Print out old exams and pretend to take them ~3 days before final
* Rewrite your lecture with each example problem on it's own page(s)
* Create an index on your lecture notes so that you can quickly identify what type of problems and topics were covered in each lecture.
* Identify yr strenghts - we can't all be good at everything - knowing yr strenghts will give you a foundation of confidence to build upon
* Queue cards for memorizing all those trig identities
* Expect to spend a lot of time - this is not always possible
Original sin was when the first living creature decided to eat another living creature instead of getting energy directly from the source like the sun or a thermal vent.
With this:

> Note that with Linux you can get more a semblance of Microsoft style stability. Use RHEL (redhat enterprise linux) and they do the work of backporting relevant drivers and changes. You also get to pay handsomely for that.

> Note that the majority of devices do make it to the kernel. You can plug in virtually anything and it works!

it looks like you're mostly thinking of the server space. The problem of manufacturers forking the kernel, and the topic of this HN post in general, is on Android. E.g. my last two phones, a Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and an LG Nexus 5, won't get any more OS updates.

I'm going to read that article, and check LWN regularly.
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It takes 2 minutes on broadband connection to get Atom for example. But these minutes/seconds are nothing of course in case of IDEs, I agree as I said.

All that just does not look right. Two JS instances while you can do the same in just one. A lot of code in script that is doubling functionality that is already there. So it is not just about size but effectiveness of the whole solution.
Word for word blogspam of

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/harris-imsi-catcher-picture...

(... right down to the unfortunately-worded quote, '“It shouldn’t take a leak,” he said, ...')
Great idea. Let's take away any remaining thing that rich people can potentially be held accountable for!

What's the ante for a dead person? Is a kid worth less than a working parent?
I dont think they'll condemn us for it, just that they'll do it a better way.

People suffer and die from things that animal research can help us study, and I don't think that killing a dozen or a hundred or a thousand rats per lifetime we save is too many. (A human lives about 30 times as long as a rat, and Id say a human year is worth 30 times a rat year. A little self-centered, but probably not genuinely that awful.)

Something like 600,000 people in the US die each year of cancer. If you figure on average they'd get ten more years, that's about 75,000 human lifetimes a year lost.

So Id be okay with a literal rat holocost: 75,000,000 rats a year on the altar of science for as long as we can get useful knowledge about cancer from them.

In actuality, I expect we're killing less than 1 rat per human lifetime lost each year -- and Im so absolutely okay with that cost to make progress against scourges like cancer, it's legitimately hard for me to understand the other view.

Do you really believe that future humans will condemn us for killing less than 1 rat per human lost to try and stem the loss of human potential?

Or is your position that it's just not sufficiently useful to do things about mental disorders (which cause lifetimes of suffering and disability, instead of immediate death)?
Yeah, it probably should be. It doesn't affect the performance. The difference would only manifest if you passed in a negative count, which would be an error anyway.
Oh, I'm not trying to make the case that it's impossible. Just that it seems a lot easier than it is. Most people coming out of a Kickstarter wont have several thousand dollars to figure out how to say "This hoodie, created by a mom, is over 1,000,000 on Kickstarter".
I think you're implying that those punishments are wrong. What would be justice in your eyes for the three crimes described? To mine, the proportionality seems more than a little out of whack.

- Stolen TV (let's say $1000 burglary)

- Stolen car (let's say $15,000)

- $500MM fraud
> it's that this is a potential solution to the (very) secure storage of nuclear waste.

This only works with nuclear materials that decay via beta decay - which is a rare kind of decay.

The "bad" stuff decays in other ways, which are not usable in this device.

If you goal was dealing with nuclear waste then nuclear reprocessing is the solution.
I succeeded at doing this to an old Asus Z68 motherboard. Steps:

flashrom -p internal -r bios.rom
ifdtool -x bios.rom
python3 me_cleaner.py flashregion_2_intel_me.bin
python2 dump_me.py flashregion_2_intel_me.bin -x
python2 me_sigcheck.py FTPR_part.bin
ifdtool -i ME:flashregion_2_intel_me.bin bios.rom
exit # Skip this line if you're okay with bricking your motherboard.
flashrom -p internal -w bios.rom.new

`lspci | grep -i mei` and `lsmod | grep mei` are now empty.

intelmetool:

ME: FW Partition Table : OK
ME: Bringup Loader Failure : NO
ME: Firmware Init Complete : NO
ME: Manufacturing Mode : NO
ME: Boot Options Present : NO
ME: Update In Progress : NO
ME: Current Working State : Initializing
ME: Current Operation State : Bring up
ME: Current Operation Mode : Normal
ME: Error Code : Debug Failure
ME: Progress Phase : BUP Phase
ME: Power Management Event : Pseudo-global reset
ME: Progress Phase State : 0x3b
...
ME has a broken implementation on your board with this BIOS
ME: failed to become ready

It took a hard reset to re-enable integrated ethernet.

Awesome!
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Chrome doesn't deal with (client) certificates well regardless of the HTTP version in use, to be honest.
Couldn't agree more. I'd like to add:
Don't let not-customers butter you up! Find your customers and get their feedback. Lots of people will think yours is a great idea: just not great enough to pay you for it!
Following that statement, the author spends the rest of the article explaining how the people asserting supremacy often do not see it as such.

It is an implicit and unwitting reality of the position they are taking. I used to be one of these folks; I couldn't see the harm and hate of my own positions, thanks to the fog of ethnocentrism.
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Eventually, the Voyagers will pass other stars. In about 40,000 years....
There are far far far better choices for long range interstellar probes. In particular you want a material with much better power density.

The type of decay used by this device (beta decay) is one of the least energetic types.
Bad PR is never bad PR ...
By law, all water heaters need a regulator pressure valve. (Before this federal requirement; some people had rocket in their garage. Middle of the night a water heater would go through the roof, if the homeowner was lucky.). In this case, I would want four regulators, on my nuclear hydronic heater.
The Ford Nucleon was a styling exercise and was never intended to have a working prototype.

The concept itself didn't use a nuclear battery, it was designed around a miniaturized nuclear reactor which powered the car using a steam turbine.
Anyone have a recommendation on a good statistic textbook?

Everything I've tried has been absolutely horrible except for "An Introduction to Error Analysis" by John Taylor (yeah the classical mechanics guy). Unfortunately it's a bit basic...
> But do they, though? I'm thinking it's just a matter of actually reading the owner's manual.

It's in the glove box...
On vacation, presumably you would use a water heater that allowed for recirculating in cold water if it got over temp, presumably you could even open a radiator loop for that. The goal is to have something that is thermally stable sitting out in the open air and still can warm water to a usefully warm temperature.

There was a discussion of this sort of thing in the papers on the pebble bed reactor (that reactor uses encased fuel "pebbles" and one question came up with what you do with the "used up" ones.) It has come up off and on both at conferences and in discussion forums.
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It's already like this. They just want more. Because you really can't have enough control. You want 5,000 in cash? Well let us just report you to a government agency that will monitor you for the next little while to make sure you're not doing anything nefarious. Each time I visit A&W and then quit, they send me coupons to get me back. Same thing with the liquor shop and I drink a single Crabbies every month.
It's totally ridiculous - I spent several years coding almost exclusively in x86 assembly and the prospect that a compiler could best a human at optimizing a specific function is ignorant. The only exception I can think of so-called 'superoptimization' where the optimal sequence of instructions is determined by exhaustively testing every combination. And that's not an effective strategy for anything beyond a handful of instructions.

Technically you could imagine some intelligent-agent based search algorithm that finds the near-optimal sequence of instructions for a given statement of some intermediate language, employing some heuristics derived from thousands of years of deep learning to get the search time down to something reasonable (say like hours or days instead of eons) - with the pressure on compilers today leaning towards everything being JIT'ed on the fly I don't think we're like to see it ever. It's just the old "sufficiently smart compiler" myth.
That's a good point, I can switch the FastCompany quote with the boing boing one.
There is an overwhelming amount of physical and documented evidence of the old testament and new testament folks. Here is the last (2) paradoxes that remain. Babel is where political correctness, the bane to truth, began. We as believers have not atoned for nor corrected the hubris in our rational(logic) beliefs that man is superior to god. Service to those in need will clear this up for you, on a person basis.

The second paradox that must be "atoned for" is the fact that nowhere in the new or old testament does the scriptures authorize "Christians" to stop celebrating all of those old testament (Jewish?) feast days. It's an insult of the law and god is not pleased with Christians that abandoned those days of celebration. Religious celebration is how we show God we love and honor what he has does for us.

IT was and continues to be a 'business' decision by the Catholic Church and most modern day (Christian) religions. Besides, If Christians returned to honoring the law (the OT) then Jews would be much more amicable to embracing their brothers of the law.

Like it or not, the past is a problem; but both Jews and Christian anxiously away Messiah and an emphasis on the OT does not marginalize the gift of Jesus Christ; never has and never will. How and when Jews embrace Jesus, is between then and god. Besides there are probable more messianic Jews than Torah Jews that truly believe. Most are secretive about it.

A simple 1 week trip to Israel and Jerusalem will fix your doubts, brah.
> water heater "booster" ball

I would not use beta decay for that though because it is ionizing. Alpha decay is a far better choice, and also more energetic typically, and easier to harness for heat.
I wonder how much of this depends on where the user lives.

I live in Redmond, WA. Someone with a good arm could throw a rock from here to Amazon HQ. I've probably also done the most complaining on this thread. Make of that what you will, because I sure can't make anything of it. :-)
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Way to miss the point! lol
>The man survived the fall from Amazon’s 12-story Apollo building at about 8:45 a.m. local time Monday and was taken to a Seattle hospital, police said.

Aside: That is a testament to the resilience of a body. The physics behind that fall would be astounding to analyze! I come from a long line of suicidal people we're not jumpers, but swingers.
Worked at the same company. Watched his workflow, built tools to speed it up. Years later, started a company around the same concept. Sold to a bigger company and spend our time moving that forward. Hit it off right away and are like brothers now.
I do, and I'm delighted you asked. There is some academic evidence (linked below in a relevant news article) but I would have held much the same attitude anyway having grown up and lived in countries with a public broadcaster and then moved to the US which doesn't really have one in the same way. My personal impression is that US consumers enjoy massive choice but that most of the products in he media market are total crap. Consumers are entertained, but that's like saying that consumers who eat a lot of fast food are satisfied by the taste; we can point to a legitimate economic preference, but we're fooling ourselves if we think that a Big Mac is high quality food.

Quality in media is hard to define, but I'd say it means delivering a decent awareness (in the aggregate obviously) of current affairs, sufficient cultural literacy to know a basic history of art, science, and nations, and somewhat greater familiarity with the history of the home country, stuff like that. It would be nice if there were no bias or ideological slant, but that's probably an unachievable goal, and only through the lens of history can we have much certainty about who was objectively right on any given topic. A charter should aim to minimize bias, while accepting its existence as an unavoidable trade-off of media organizations in general, and aiming for measurable improvements in functional knowledge among its consumers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2013/10/1...
If you're running highly privileged binary blob drivers, is ME really the attack vector you should be worried about?
Dilithium crystals, anyone?
We are dealing with this right now with our software. Our end users on Windows 7 who haven't kept their machine up to date can't install the VC++ 2015 redistributable which is required to run our software. It's a Microsoft problem but it's still frustrating having to do basic tech support for them just because they won't let Windows do the updates that it is insistently but politely asking them to let it do. Not a problem with our Windows 10 end users, of course.
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