skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way.

Yes, I can walk reasonably long distances at the drop of a hat and without difficulty, and I can exercise in the gym, but every time I've done that, I never felt the high. I don't think I ever will.

I guess I'll just have to be glad when it's over.
From the comments on that page, some registrars are now registering domains with emoji in them. RFC 3490 didn't contemplate that, so it is not, apparently, disallowed. No idea if IDNA does normalization for the color modifiers.
Before you compare your work to that of others you really need to know how much time was spent on both and normalize accordingly.

Additionally, many individuals in our industry have zero life outside of hacking on their software. It's difficult if not impossible to be competitive with someone spending every waking hour practicing their craft without doing the same.
Government is not interested in saving. The power of individual in the government is associated with the budget he is responsible for. No costs on software - no budget, no power.
Ideologue, idealist, zealot, weird person? All fine with me.

I don't like that he starts with some good ideas, but then slippery slopes his way to see existential threats to our life liberty and happiness. It starts out making sense and takes on an air of paranoia.
Mind if I ask which store this is? Genuinely curious as even the smallest store I've been to had all types of power cables on the wall. Really wondering why your local store is so different.
Zero chance I download this based off such a low-information website
I took and passed Algabra in the 6th 7th 8th and 9th grade. I slept in class usually didn't do the home work and got A's on most every test. But the teachers all felt I wasn't ready for harder math as they thought I wasn't mature enough. I didnt realize till years latter that this turned me from a bright excited student to lazy, lethargic and not wanting to challenge myself academically. Ended up graduating with a 1.8 gpa and a 1380 SAT score. Ended up joining the army, Infantryman, paratrooper and a Sergent by 21 years of age. Now I'm 34 and feel in some ways that if teachers had allowed me to progress and encouraged me earlier instead of being punished for not showing work or doing homework that was essentially busy work,I would have applied my self fully then instead of in the Army. As proud of I am of my service and having been a wartime team leader in the infantry at 21, maybe I would have gone to college first and not had to suffer from various medical and metal issues at the age of 34 from my military service. /rant over.

Edited for typos as I'm half blind and proffreding sucks.
Author here. I am embarrassed and surprised to find this article on the front page of HN. I think it isn't well-written, and I never intended it to appeal to a wide audience.

The only fact this article really proves is that I can write an x86 AVX implementation of FFT, such that it has reasonable performance and reasonably readable code.

I threw together the C code quickly - the portable version is basically the result of "what if I implement FFT in a relatively naive way?", and the AVX model version is the result of "what if I simulate the computation order and memory access pattern of the AVX code in pure C?". You wouldn't be wrong to say that I created strawmen C code as comparisons to the AVX code.

I view the article as a non-thorough wrapper around a proof-of-concept AVX code. I failed on a lot of fronts - comparing performance against well-known high-performance libraries like FFTW, explaining why I designed my AVX code the way it is, elaborating on the memory access patterns, et cetera. For these I apologize to the reader who had their hopes up.
That it wasn't touched by mods was exactly my point. This feature that's ostensibly a "flame war detector" is effectively admins exercising editorial control over content if overriding it is inconsistently applied.
That’s neat! I made this tool for Unicode in general: https://www.azabani.com/labs/charming/
Sir Kenneth Robinson! :-)
For those interested, here's a little toy Hough transform visualizer: https://liquiddandruff.github.io/hough-transform-visualizer/
This is a very confusing title. 1:100,000 is not a magnitude of a magnetic field. It refers to the approximate deviation from the desired magnetic topology that the stellerator experiment was targeting.
There is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Studies_in_Law
This seems like very beginner level JavaScript. Defining Functions, Functions as Objects, Context? All JS fundamental concepts.
Except their build quality isn't on par with Dell and Apple.
So, magnetic fields can be used to confine fusion plasma with "five nines" reliability?
> "No problem, an entire replacement seat will turn up in a truck tomorrow. We'll fit it and leave your chair good as new. Have a nice day, sir."

I had to fight tooth-and-nail for an aluminum chair that had scratches all over it on delivery to get it replaced. They blamed me for scratching a chair that I'd paid over $1k!
Apple VPP came out summer of 2011, so it existed 3 years ago.
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Amazing. And remember, this stellarator is our "Plan B". The main effort is in the alternative method, the Tokamak (in ITER).
Big Pharma should have some audit questions to answer...
RFC 3490 has been replaced by RFC 5890. Sadly, emojis are disallowed. But some registries (for example, .ws, according to rumors) may allow them to be registered anyway.
Holy crap. I've danced with Liz (she's an amazing dancer--I was not an amazing leader--she was very gracious).

Geez. Small world.
> There are certainly licenses offering more freedom than GPL v3.

More freedom to who? Users, distributors, maintainers, vendors, service providers?
You can't guarantee complete freedom to each of them simultaneously.

For example, allowing distributors to do everything they want (e.g not providing source code) will prevent users to do everything they want (e.g modifying the program).
So it makes no sense to talk about which license "offers more freedom".

So, let's stop saying imprecise things like "GPL code doesn't give me freedom because I can't use such code in my proprietary software".
The free software movement is about protecting the freedoms of the end users first.
> Farm Bill subsidies have incentivized modes of agriculture that minimize labor inputs [...]

I once had a passenger who'd been tapped to work in her bank's "wealth management" department (>$10 million portfolio, iirc). One of her clients was the "sweetest" old lady. Farms were part of the portfolio - they'd analyze the productivity of the various properties, and decide to keep or to sell.

I said to myself, "that is NOT farming."
I still consider myself to be a noob but I use a lot of these everyday. For example currying instead of binding. Am I just being humble?
Forgive me as I'm quite ignorant when it comes to drug abuse.

What is it that tends to drive people to start using heroin initially ?
Indeed, these tutorials were essentially my parallel processing class in college. We didn't have a mandatory textbook -- most of the content was in these tutorials.
Bit of a summary:

This is a stellarator which is the same idea as a tokamak: Confine hydrogen with magnets and get fusion.

The magnetic field in a stellarator is crazy complicated, and was impossible to model and design before computers. With computers they were able to design it, but were unsure if they could build it.

This is a test showing that yes, they can actually build it.

In theory stellarators are simpler to get right than tokamaks, but only if you can actually design, and then make one.
Next step up from prescription painkiller abuse, when legal painkillers become too expensive.

"damn near 50% of the people I chilled with growing up got hooked on the oxy during the pill mill days....some got strait and quit...most of us just kept it moving until they got so expensive that we had to switch to H."

http://www.bluelight.org/vb/archive/index.php/t-496626.html

http://www.bluelight.org/vb/archive/index.php/t-712613.html
Today a first taste can be doctor's prescription for pain. Pain killers are often potent, addictive, opioids. There is also some evidence that some pharmaceuticals mislead doctors about their potential for abuse.
The real and imag-pointers should be marked with "restrict"-keyword to enable aliasing optimizations. This goes for all other pointers also. And as others have already said, leaving optimzation at -O1 and not targeting your architecture (-march) can also have big impact.

real[j + halfsize] = real[j] - tpre;
imag[j + halfsize] = imag[j] - tpim; // 1. Reading imag[j]
real[j] += tpre; // 2. Writing real[j], which could be same data as imag[j]
imag[j] += tpim; // 3. Must re-read imag[j] even though we read it in #1, because real[j] might alias it
Executives from one fentanyl manufacturer, Insys Therapeutics, are currently being prosecuted:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/12/09/executives...
This isn't really the whole story. It is only profitable to scalp if prices are kept artificially low by the original vendor. Usually this is because the want to be able to claim they sell out more frequently than they would under regular conditions. If the original vendor optimizes for profit, the problem disappears.
Headline should be more clear, great re-phrasing.
I think now it's all considered basic since JS ecosystem has grown a lot and people take it for granted, but probably back then these were all advanced materials you couldn't find easily.
Take a look at Apache Merton's architecture. They seem to have dealt with a number of inherent issues in the problem putting together data processing pipelines of open source components and ensuring they work together. The project is active but incubating right now.
I wonder how long till somebody either buys them out, or they die out. It is a shock to me and a shame. I've always appreciated game engines as a programmer knowing full well the amount of work regular software takes, their engine still astounds me. I hope the best happens, it would be a huge shame to see those developers be lost. There has to be a company out there that would benefit from such engineers. Maybe Valve, Microsoft, Apple? Google even? I say big players because it would put them in a competitive area of the gaming industry. Just thinking aloud. I hope for the best for those employees, and I hope this is a lesson to us all that money should be managed wisely, regardless of if you're running a company or your own personal finances.
Yet still no mention of the Fast Hough Transform. Not the randomized approximate one, but fast as in FFT, n²log n fast. We've been using it a lot in, e.g. the automatic vehicle classifier [0, 1]. It has been recently contributed to OpenCV [2] by my colleagues.

The title of the paper (by my company's CTO) "Hough Transform: Underestimated Tool In The Computer Vision Field" [3] still holds true. It describes the FHT algorithm rather well.

[0] http://visillect.com/en/avc

[1] pdf http://www.scs-europe.net/dlib/2015/ecms2015acceptedpapers/0...

[2] http://docs.opencv.org/3.1.0/d9/d29/namespacecv_1_1ximgproc....

[3] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228573007_Hough_Tra...
A toolkit to handle special cases of suspicious activities
If you haven't tried the Vive, try it. Room-scale is everything. Also don't do anything in VR that forces artificial movement without employing some technique to counter the nausea (Google Earth VR does this well, for instance).

It will never be true immersion. There will always be some level of unreality to it until we figure out how to plug a computer directly into our nervous system.
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For context: the `Sen. Byrd` referred to above was the senator from West Virginia from 1959 to 2010. Clearly, he was trying to get federal dollars for his state.
And Plan C is ARC/SPARC out of MIT which I like because it is taking more of a startup approach and addresses issues such as financial return on investment, maintenance etc.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMFsHceLUJNkXMiCMFNnvkA
I'd like to highlight the fact that copyleft licensing also creates license incompatibility issues that prevent its use in many open source projects, and the same would apply to open hardware projects in the future. There are those (particularly certain systems-oriented luminaries) who have taken to referring to copyleft licenses as "anti-collaboration" licenses for this reason, and while I try to avoid adopting such snarky terms for my own use, it's worth noting the strength of opinion and specific problems relating to copyleft licenses.

As for me personally . . . I'm an open source developer and advocate with a history of writing very pro-open-source articles for a (somewhat?) major online tech publication, and I am one of quite a few people I know who refuse to throw any significant code into the legal compatibility black hole of copyleft licensed projects. I would, therefore, be considerably less likely to show interest in RISC-V if it was copyleft.

I've also noted that in recent years new copyleft projects (except in particular niche areas where people apparently haven't heard of non-copyleft open source licenses) tend to suffer problems with rate of popular uptake. I'd hate to see that happen to such an obviously excellence-aimed open hardware project as RISC-V.
He was able to make his own operating system though.
However, I agree. In comparison to his achievement, simple code style choices are nearly irrelevant.
* Trigger warning *

I have to "subscribe via email" if I wanna read that post.

If they hit you with a subscribe-wall for content, go ahead and type this fucking jQuery into your console:

$('html').removeClass('drawbridge-up');
$('#drawbridge-root').remove();
//enjoy the article, buddy

Fucking idiots. Don't they know anything about internet etiquette and that they shouldn't use jQuery. There's a joke here -- they shouldn't be subscribe-walling me. Who the fuck uses jQuery and React at the same time, anyways? (Actually, I do :(, but I shouldn't!)

Anyways, back to my story.

When I was looking for a temporary place near Oakland, I went to Craigslist. Why not? I called up a guy who listed a room for rent. Turns out, he was renting out the room because the girl just died from Heroin OD. :( I ended up talking with him for like an hour. It was pretty sad.