skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're saying makes sense in some cases. In most of the use-cases I've encountered I want to run a separate version of Python than the operating system. This allows me to update Python independently to the OS. I was stuck supporting CentOS5, which ships with Python2.4, long after Python2.7 had shipped. Jumping straight to CentOS6 or 7 introduced quite a few variables (not to mention quite a few bugs in the standard library were patched and it was nice to take advantage of that without upgrading the OS).

It'd be nice of macOS shipped Python 3.
This seems quite ridiculous to me, I have seldom seen "modern compilers are always faster than you" but rather "they are good enough that it is not worth it". It provides a very over-confident "conclusion" based on a single dubious test.

The main advantage of compilers is that the optimizations scale across a large codebase through inlining for example.

Also, just moving from Sandy-Bridge to Haswell for example can have significant performance swing (in both direction). The maintenance cost of the assembly is again a scaling issue.

If you have a single function that takes a significant amount of time in your program, and performance is critical, of course you can try to go with lower level. But it is likely that it will be more profitable to start with 1) pre-optimized libraries (i.e. don't write your own "sort") ; 2) follow the optimization guidelines of the CPU vendors regarding memory layout, etc. ; and 3) start with vector C-level intrinsic if possible if you can benefit from vectorization.
I think it's more intended as a proof of concept to allow researchers to target specific neurons and a live animal would help demonstrate that. If I'm understanding correctly they would be able to target the optogentic cells to very specific parts of the brain.
If civilization ever falls, future generations would think using crystals for energy must have been a fairy tale.
The timing _should_ be constant each run, so best case is the best way to remove the scheduler variations. I tried mean also, and the results aren't that different.

Optimization is -O3 (see the attached Makefile at the bottom).
g4 quicksilver is from late 2001

http://www.unex-t.com/applestore/index-Pages/Image8.html
(Anti)Fragility and Convex Responses in Medicine by Taleb

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/medicine.pdf
Because then you've got the worst of both worlds - you're still going cap-in-hand looking for money but you're also delivering a product covered in advertising that most people don't want.

Second, why do they want taxpayers to effectively fund the private media?

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is publicly owned. Doing basic research is a great way to avoid looking foolish before commenting on the internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporat...
Yes, Congress can impeach and try the President (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_Stat..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_Stat...)
Any news as to whether this is a real android replacement or just a research OS like plan9 and singularity??
"These guys definitely made a mistake. It wasn't calculated fraud. It was bad incentive setting. Politicians like Warren don't intuitively understand how hard it is to actually control a group of thousands of middle-class workers and get them to do things.It is not easy to govern"

Oh come on, talk about sugar coating it!!! If you create crazy incentives of course it is FRAUD! If it wasn't CEOs could wash their hands of every possible fraud they might imagine by simply setting the right incentives to get the fraud done. You got an economy were people are lucky to hold onto a job and you are threatening them with getting fired if they don't meet your insane goals? That is like a tortured person answering whatever the torturer asks.

We see this stuff happening again and again. This is the new way of committing fraud. Engineer it so that the poor suckers at the bottom have to take all the heat. The poor suckers who have no golden parachute to fall back on when they are kicked out.

When you got 5000 employees caught doing this, the alarm bells should be ringing and you should realize you did something wrong instead of firing everybody. 5000 employees aren't all rotten apples who did something for their own gain. They gained nothing and put their reputation and job on the line for this so top management could line their pockets.

Makes me sick.
This is the best part of this site, I completely forgot what this article was about and I'm 60 comments deep about the history and trends of the word "cyber". There needs to be a site dedicated to these entertaining comment threads / bravo
Yep, and yet you couldn't even imagine that to be true if you saw half of comments around yours, and the immense right wing belly-aching and shitposting of a similar nature that occurs all over the comment boards of Canadian news articles.
Hardly. According to Jeff, nothing is wrong and everything is for the best in his best of all possible worlds.

Read enough https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/ and it's a consistent picture though. Speaking as a Seattle local, I hear these sort of anecdotes all the time.
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I love working with murmurhash, but where the hell do I even start learning about hashing and the current theories around it?
Impressive, however nature itself is even more impressive http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Neuroethology_of_Parasit...
> Stick to LTSB version

Good advice in general for almost any software.
"Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists funded by the government agree: The government should fund more climate research"

FTFY. I am joking but I think there is a serious credibility issue here. I forget who but some famous science researcher (not in climate research) once said that the conclusion of every research paper is, more funding is needed. How does that institutionalized mindset impact objectivity and who is paying for most of the research today? As I mentioned this is not an overt policy or strategy but just the way things work out once the government takes over funding science research. Read Rand on "The Establishing of the Establishment" for a clear discussion of how it works insidiously to corrupt even an honest man.

If you saw my reply to stouset then imagine that I tried to have a career in climate research. If you aren't "all in" on the validity of the models you don't get jobs, you don't get published and you don't have a career. And that's just questioning the validity of the models not even questioning that global warming is caused by man.

Moreover, the qualifier "peer-reviewed" is one of the standards being undercut by government funded science. If all your peers have to "go along to get along" then the independence of their review has to be questioned. There was the email leaks a few years back where it was revealed that climate researchers were publicly telling other researchers who disagreed with the methods or conclusions to publish in peer-reviewed journals if they wanted to be heard. But privately, through back channels and political pull, they got papers spiked and opponents blackballed and threatened boycotts of journals that published any "anti" papers. This is not science, it is politics.
This is a serious question:

Shouldn't there be an ethics stipulation in HR departments/companies/services?

I have many a horror story about HR violations including (at multiple companies) where HR employees were sleeping with employees and in certain cases taking interviewees to the company gym and having sex with them...

Sure - sex in the workplace does happen... but heck, HR reps should be held to a higher standard of punishment should they violate the rules - and even an HR COMPANY should be held higher still...

How should such situations be handled?
Not at all.

The main point of the article and you seem to be missing: freedom has intrinsic value.

Personally I don't care if you voted in the last election, or if you ever traveled abroad. But I do care very much about the rights that I have and allow me to vote or exercise free movement.

I also don't care if you are interested in modifying the source code of your operating system or the driver of your printer, but I do care very much about having a world where these things are possible.

The article is trying to exactly show that "Free Software" is like this, focusing on keeping the intrinsic value of having software that can be freely read, distributed and modified - even when it does not translate in more utility value, a.k.a better software.
Thank you for the explanation and the link to that article. I disagree with some of the philosophical statements, like:

> While in theory it is possible to have a stable API, in practice real life is more complicated.

(In practice it's also possible, as Microsoft demonstrated with Windows for decades).

or (from the article):

> benefits if your driver is in the main kernel tree, all of which has made Linux into such a strong, stable, and mature operating system which is the reason you are using it in the first place

(The reality is, that wasn't enough of a reason to move users from Windows, before the smartphone era. Nor is it the reason Linux won over Windows in the smartphone market, either.)

I think the article hits the crux of the issue, though: Nobody wants to spend their free time contributing to maintain an old interface, instead of working on the new one. A side effect of this policy is a better kernel, granted (for the devices that actually make it to the main tree).

So given that a stable API isn't an option, and the current model is clearly not working, I guess the solution lies in solving the hurdles these companies face to upstream their code. Do you know about that, or where could I learn more?
For instance, if your kernel depends on Qualcomm snapdragon 800 support and Qualcomm no longer supports those closed bits for OpenGL and the rest, then even with cyanogenmod you'll never be fully patched. But cyanogenmod isn't the smoothest experience to be honest.
You might want to have two accounts for your kid, one for the card and one for "savings". Hence them messaging you to get access to those savings.

In any case, I think cards and online banking give you useful tools that can make it much easier for your kid to learn budgeting and to track their spending.
I'm interested to hear the patterns that users of MVC frameworks like Rails and Django have adopted when "fat models" start to become unwieldy.

The video "Decoupling from Rails"[1] that's linked in this article was quite interesting, and argued a complete separation of business logic from the model code, to allow the business logic to be tested (and reused) more easily.

I've definitely found fat-model code to be tricky to mock and test at times in Python/Django, as mocking out the ORM is gnarly. But if the business logic operates on proxy objects, then it would be much easier to do so.

On the other hand, DHH's retort to this approach also makes some good points regarding the introduction of excess complexity[2]. It's a fair point that architectural decisions should not be motivated by the speed of the UTs. But perhaps there are other benefits to the Hexagonal architecture, as well.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg5RFeSfBM4
[2]: http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/test-induced-design-...
So what? Why do people think they should get a precise share of the value in public utilities? A public good has a calculable value, it's not simply the aggregate of everyone's private good. I'm so sick of this zero-sum mindset which has no rational basis in economics but rather demonstrates ignorance of anything beyond the individual's own economic activity.
There's also a blog post introducing the library at http://blog.eng.xogrp.com/post/153784367849/introducing-feli...
If you're renting a large place, I would highly suggest shopping on AirBnB then trying to find the contact information of the owner and hitting them up directly. Large places usually have their own websites and you can save a ton of money since the fee AirBnB charges is a percentage of the total cost (although AirBnB reduces risk).
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Because of noise in general, "best case" seems always like the best metric to me. Over a large number of run, you're likely to hit the "perfect" measurement with on a microbenchmark.

Otherwise, for an "adaptive" number of runs till enough time is spent to have some "confidence" on the measure, I've been fairly happy with: https://github.com/google/benchmark/
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You are right that testing whether the gene changes how cells react can be tested in vivo, and that's how it was done originally. But the point of these studies is to figure out how certain parts of the brain work. Since the brain produces behavior, we can best understand how it works by changing brain activity and then seeing how that changes behavior. That can't be done in a dish, at least not now, even though we often use modeling whenever possible to make sure we're doing the right experiments.
The goal was definitely not to control mice or make them suffer and I find it a little regrettable that the professor did not emphasize that. The fact that making neurons in motor cortex fire causes movement is proof of concept, but no neuroscientist wants to just sit around making mice just turn in circles all day. The goal here is to better understand how neurons firing produce behavior. For example if we can crack the code for movement, we can e.g. help patients better recover function after a stroke. The techniques we've had for a hundred years have not gotten us all the way to an answer on that yet.
Think of it this way: do you want to debug your program with only print statements, or would you rather be able to put in a break point?
Here's the best I can find, from Eikka's comment on Phys.org:

"Carbon-14 has a mean decay energy of 49 keV or 7.85e-15 Joules and activity of 165e+9 bq/g which gives you a power output of 0.0013 Watts per gram.

So a gram-sized lump of carbon-14 - about half a teaspoon - assuming perfect conversion, will produce 1.3 Milliwatts, or about 1/20th of what it takes to light up a common red indicator LED."

http://phys.org/news/2016-11-diamond-age-power-nuclear-batte...
I'm sure there is some truth to that. It also seems that the FICO score is getting slowly used more frequently.

However, it doesn't seem that more data is going into the FICO score. Such as, personal, non-finance related data.
Don't all gift cards?
Where are you located? Here in Montréal, you can watch HD TV over the air using a ATSC tuner. The picture quality is excellent, better than HD cable even.
My question was why do the want to fund private media. If you read the article it says "Critics have said that the CBC is taking ad revenue away from private media that are struggling financially." I wasn't asking why taxpayers were funding the CBC, a public company.

EDIT: regarding "worst of both worlds", CBC gets to fulfill it's mandate at a cheaper cost with ads.
I'm just curious if there is any overhead in the compiler outputs as the author seemed to be timing the .exe

It would be interesting to see the assembly output of all the compilers, and what the compiler settings are
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Yea, my question was more rhetorical.

For the record, I think it is a problem that someone can consistently drop hateful political rhetoric (I looked through hga's history) essentially without repercussions. It looks like he has some perfectly fine technical contributions, but that shouldn't be an excuse to regularly derail threads with hateful commentary.

Any new account which displayed hga's history of political commentary would be summarily banned. I'm skeptical that HN should allow such commentary to continue just because it comes from the same account that has technically good content.
One returned me the error "You changed your password 5 months ago"
Nice link but I think it's something beyond what they describe, because they say:

"The problem will correct itself in 4 days as the cached responses expire..."

when in fact it has been way more than 4 days. So possibly my particular client has an issue that this help page doesn't address.

Edit: and now reading more closely this page is clearly aimed at GlobalSign customers, not at end users like me who are trying to access sites of GlobalSign customers.
You can get a demo shirt from ModernTailor for $20 and then as many perfectly tailored shirts for under $100 as you want. As the earlier commenter said, these companies have been around for years.
I'd say a more pertinent stat would be "how many undergrads who want to pursue a PhD have published a paper". At least at my alma mater, there were many opportunities to partake in independent research during our Junior and Senior years working closely with a professor to work on an eventual paper.
> the movie Ender's Game was pretty faithful to the source novel

I disagree entirely. In fact I would claim that the movie fails precisely because it deviates from the novel in exactly the way that makes the novel great.

Spoilers follow.

The whole point of Ender's Game as a novel is the way it leads you into a comfortable, safe zone. You think you're just reading another "child overcomes tough conditions, grows as an individual and succeeds at hard task" novel a la Heinlein. Oh no. Just when you are comfortable, when you've been set up to think, ah, at last, the war, let's watch him think circles around the bugs with his well trained superior brain... you get slapped in the face so hard with the plot twist it leaves you reeling and then the book ends and you can't stop thinking about it for weeks.

In the movie, the plot twist is pretty much revealed near the beginning. My memory is fuzzy but I remember Harrison Ford communicating with the army and exchanging status updates as the point where I "deduced" that they were at war and not travelling to it. It was very important that the novel be entirely from Ender's point of view as the military conspired to create the illusion that he was training, because the illusion was key to his being able to make the final decision of the war.

To reveal that the war was actually ongoing, and that there was no waiting time, was a major early spoiler, perhaps to allow the audience to digest the idea, trading the comfort of an hour and a bit of "training" for the tension of knowing something Ender doesn't (that it's not a game). This tension has much less of an emotional impact on the viewer than surprise would have had, especially since it is one of the most overused plot devices both in Hollywood and in print.

So you are left with (very) nice visuals, fairly good acting from heavyweights, and a typical Hollywood plot. A summer movie. So disappointing.
Look at those ports! Not a single USB-C in sight!

http://www.unex-t.com/applestore/index-Pages/Image16.html
<Good luck doing any kind of fundamental science without government funding.>

This is exactly the issue that Rand addressed in her article regarding the Establishment. It is insidious and (eventually) undercuts even an honest researcher.

<That pretty much explains it.>

Yes, yes she did.
nslookup gives me the same addresses, just in a different order:

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	brave.com
Address: 151.101.129.7
Name:	brave.com
Address: 151.101.1.7
Name:	brave.com
Address: 151.101.193.7
Name:	brave.com
Address: 151.101.65.7
I've worked with plenty of investors who had goals which went beyond purely making money. There's even a legal movement to formally tie corporations to non-profit motivations (see benefit corporations).

Thinking about non-profit vs for-profit as a strict dichotomy is unhelpful. There are plenty of investors who shy away from particular for-profit investments and prefer other ones for entirely non-financial reasons.
Why don't we just have public food? And why only CBC? Why have consumer choice at all?

I'm willing to listen to that economic argument when it's hard to calculate the value you get from something or when you may have a large unexpected cost, but with things like this that have a clear use to value proposition and are completely optional, it's pretty clean cut.
Have you tried your classifier with a different accelerometer dataset? That will be a good test of generalization.
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"mandatory binding arbitration clause"

Wells Fargo hay have put an arbitration clause somewhere buried in their fine print; however, "binding" is what would be questioned by the courts. Probably pretty easy to refute its bind-ability, given that WF has negated and demonstrated incompetence on its side of the contract duty: safeguarding the consumer's info.

(Binding contracts require competent parties on both sides).

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/business/dealbook/arbitrat...
In Japan we're required to pay for TV for NHK. If you live in apartments that get the premium channels you're required to pay for it, too (about $250/year). The regular broadcast is around $135/year I believe.
> Have you ever been bitten by unsafe code?

Yeah. Most often in FFI code (when the invariants are much harder to uphold). Rarely when writing unsafe abstractions. The few times I remember this happening with abstractions is due to really old code that broke in a compiler upgrade (pre-1.0).

> IMHO any metrics would be gamed and prioritized above actually quality.

Yeah, there have been discussions in the past about a "safe code" badge for crates and stuff like this, and the conclusion is that it might discourage people from using unsafe code where they actually should be.
Great list. To add to this, basic (de)construction tools:

- screwdrivers
- hammer
- clamps / workbench with vice
- hand saw
- rulers / measuring tape
- hand drill (w/ bits)
- random assortment of screws, nails, bolts & nuts, glue, wood pieces, dowels, string, wheels, whatever. encourage dumpster diving.

Also, some inspiring literature, like:
https://www.amazon.com/American-Boys-Handy-Book-Centennial/d... and/or https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Book-Boys-Conn-Iggulden/dp/...

Oh, and it helps to have a partner in crime for encouragement, troubleshooting, etc. (siblings/friends/parents)

These days I'm an engineer, but that's how the passion starts, no doubt about it.
Markhor doesn't appear to be doing anything new or special. You can get similar shoes for less from makers like Meermin. They're not a venture funded startup though.
The problem is that libertarians will use the ideal about free markets to oppose any sort of sane regulation or discussion about the limits of the market. I would say markets in the US are rigged in many obvious ways, due to the outsized influence of business in American elections and the political system. So much of business regulations in the US is written by people from the very same business and people who oversee the markets are often from the same industry they are supposed to regulate and go to fat jobs in the industry after they have done the bidding of the industry in the public sector. Whether it is Tesla, broadband, telecoms or utilities you see the established players effectively block new entrants with all their political connections.

Just look at the ridiculous situation with patents, trademarks and copyrights. All of them have long outgrown their original intention and has been so amplified and extended that they can be used to very effectively kill all smaller competition and milk consumers dry.

The argument that government is horrible has been used effectively again and again to make government horrible. Is has been stripped of cash to work effectively and become completely dependent on largess from the private enterprise to function. That attracts the most rotten people as politicians, thus ensuring that government never looks good. The last thing these people want is a well functioning government.
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