skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how are functions and variables named, does it take in args, what style is the commenting, does it do error handling, input validation, which language features are used to solve it etc, etc?

A lot of that is going to depend on the test. For fizzbuzz using functions at all would be over complicated, if it's timed then I'm not going to bother with comments and variable naming.
>"The one feature we like in WSS that haven't had luck finding elsewhere, is online datasheet reporting where you can define columns, views, and sorting."

Do you mean something like Tableau/QlikView/Pentaho/PowerBI?

http://www.tableau.com/

http://www.qlik.com/us/products/qlikview

http://community.pentaho.com/

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/
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First signs of weird quantum property of empty space?
I don't think there's nearly as much gentrification as people say there is, overall. I mean sure, there's a huge amount of gentrification in the 20% of SF that is not rent controlled: there only the super rich can live.

But, as for the other 80% that's rent controlled, lots of it is pretty dilapidated, almost borderline 3rd world country in some parts. 1% (7k people) of the SF population is homeless and even more are nearly there (despite over 240 million$ a year spent fighting homelessness).

Perhaps the reason people find SF boring is due to the hollowing out of the middle class.
> all the rich people in the world are scared of death and will pay anything to avoid it for as long as possible

This is generally true of poor people as well.
As someone who has operated in the world of digital advertising, this may have more to do with the fact that so much bullshit has been slung at both advertisers and publishers that there is an incredible amount of skepticism about advertising products.
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To add to @mkolosick's reply: Pyret doesn't have classes and hence class "hierarchies".
No doubt fueled by the recent surge in market cap by both Amazon and Microsoft.
Yes, but poor people can't pay. That's why they can't solve anything. Google can spend a billion dollars on this. Multiple billions can be easily spent on this. And it's a great time for that. So much excessive capital. So many millionaires and billionaires. All going to die. What can scientists do to help them?
99% of the value of Github is that nobody wants to bother using anything else
My understanding was there are about 50 to 100 years left for large marine fish excluding what it might be possible to farm. Not sure if this makes it any shorter.
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Mightier and bloody wars will not be caused than when we finally figure out how to cure ageing.
A Scientific American article on the same research with a useful comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13187302

Interesting bits:

"In living mice they activated the four genes (known as “Yamanaka factors,” for researcher Shinya Yamanaka, the Nobelist who discovered their combined potential in 2006). This approach rejuvenated damaged muscles and the pancreas in a middle-aged mouse, ... "

"... These (other) approaches can reverse some aspects of aging, such as muscle degeneration—but aging returns when the treatment stops, he adds. With an approach like the one Belmonte lays out in the new study, theoretically “you could have one treatment and go back 10 or 20 years,” he says. If aging starts to catch up to you again, you simply get another treatment."
If you want to understand better the comparison to Python, see https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=13189513
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> My hope is that post-election Google Fiber will ramp back up, simply for the legal defense of saying that they too are a cable company and the same laws should apply. In any case, consumers want it. High-end consumers will pay a premium, and the cost for urban footprint fill-out is not exorbitant.

I'm not sure I see why the election will make things more favorable for Google Fiber. Nor do I necessarily agree with the statement that "consumers want it." FiOS is awesome in the D.C. metro area. I get 150 mbps symmetric all times of day with 8 ms pings to my hosted server. In rural Maryland. Yet, Verizon has struggled to hit even 33% market penetration. It's incomprehensible to me, but most people seem to care more about television viewing options than broadband. My parents wanted to ditch FiOS because of all the Indian channels Cox Cable had!!

> 2. Cable coaxial wire - this is a big thick wire that continues to upgrade nicely. DOCSIS 3.0 is basically the same old 1980s/1990s cable with better comms protocols. It's getting to the point to where they can compete on a reasonable basis with single strand fiber, at a lower speed and price point. So cable companies build out the back-end with fiber, but don't have to replant single homes.

Modern HFC networks are nothing like the 1980s/1990s networks even when you're talking about the wires in the ground. The only thing that hasn't been upgraded is the coaxial cable into the house.
We're looking for extended life for some people, without being able to guarantee a regular life for all.

What a world.
Not to put too cynical a point on it, but if I were getting paid by the world's rich for a cure for death... the last thing I would want to do is release it if I found it.
been hearing this since dawn of humanity. next.
Material Design is mostly linked to Matias Duarte. I would ask you to take a look at his history instead of just asserting that it's just ad industry professionals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat%C3%ADas_Duarte
Yeah, and imagine what it's like to make less than $12k and live near any halfway decent city (in economic terms). 4 people to a studio apartment situations are due to stuff like this.
I thought before they accepted VC money, they were profitable?
I think there were a few releases where the lag was bigger, particularly in the early days of PyCharm. My take is as the IDEs have matured it's shrunk considerably.
On the first day in SF, Uber’s self-driving car ran a red light
More like "git spend" is running in an infinite loop on frivolous bullshit. 600 employees is pretty crazy for what GH is.
I too learned BASIC first. It was fine for what it was. And computing has come a long, long way from there, and our pedagogy has evolved substantially. In fact, kids have no trouble with concepts like lists and trees — I see more trouble with it from people who learned programming poorly before than people who didn't learn to program before at all.

Also, nobody said Pyret is for kids (defined as pre-teen). It's not.
> 99.9% of users don't care

More like 99.9% of users don't know enough about the situation to warrant an opinion.

I mean, if you asked random passerby on the street about Facebook's neutrality in terms of freedom of speech, I guarantee you that 99.9% of them will respond with something along the lines of "I don't know, I just use it to share funny cat videos with my friends lmao xD" or "If you don't like it you don't have to click on it".
> obvious intuition

I don't mean to throw it out, but I try to be skeptical of obvious intuition. I just feel like people were saying "the Earth is obviously flat" (and plenty of other examples). Which from a practical point of view for a lot of people, the Earth was effectively flat. I'm certainly not saying "FP-Master-Race!" But I try to be wary of the fact that history is important but imperfect. Imperative programming is terrifically important, but that does not necessarily mean it is inherently more humane.
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Amazon prime video problems with their app update?
Anyone else experiencing problems with the recently updated amazon prime video app (on roku device)? I've been using amazon prime video for the last 6 months or so without issue...then the app updated itself about 2 days ago, and began having issues...and now can't strewam anything via the app; its doesn't even want to start up. It displays an "internet connection" type error...which is poppycock, considering every other streaming app on my roku streams just fine, my investigation into my router shows that my all net connection is fine too (every other node on my network is humming along just fine). Anyone encountering this issue have any tips on resolution?

Hey amazon: fix your recent update!
Renewable energy accounting is shady (no pun intended). This is more accurate (original source EIA):

http://www.safremaenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/LCOE...

... and also why natural gas will always win, and why coal is getting shut down.
Why? Any other thing we have invented has generally reduced war by increasing resources available to all, at least since industrialization. There are a few exception, but they were generally intended to be weapons, it seems hard to imagine an aging based weapon.
https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=13189513
That's better data than the original link - thanks.
From what I've seen, the automatic update system is sweet. I'm really glad the team decided to tackle one of the largest blockers to adoption (IMO) which was providing security updates.
>>Unlike other devices, which are aiming to compress the entire raw HDMI signal over the air, Rivvr uses its proprietary tech to compress the much smaller video feed from the PC, sending just about 40-80 mbps of video signal over the air.

This paragraph seems contradictory to me: other devices aim to compress the video signal over the air (i.e. wirelessly), but Rivvr somehow compresses "much smaller" video feeds from the PC "over the air" (i.e. wirelessly).

This isn't my industry, so what key technical definition or fact am I missing from this picture? The two statements seem to be equivalent.
I think the best leverage is with the funding bodies. Declare that all publicly funded papers need to be OA, and this goes away in an instant.

That said, these news made my life a lot easier right now. I was considering whether to accept an invitation to review for an Elsevier journal (which I've usually avoided). Now I'm fairly sure I will not.
I can tell you I don't refer to mine as a smartwatch.
Careful what you wish for. Aging and death are woven deeply into the fabric of society, indeed, into the fabric of life itself. Old growth needs to be periodically swept away to make room for new growth.

The only logically possible outcome of immortality is that sooner or later the entire biomass of the planet is consumed by immortals, at which point all growth must stop. Imagine being the last person born into such a world, doomed forever to be the youngest, least experienced, least powerful member of a static society where no one ever ages and no new people are ever born. Is that really a life you would want to lead?
>And videos the company had distributed, which suggested they were made with the Magic Leap tech, were actually produced by a special effects studio.

Wow. They were claiming it was filmed through "Magic Leap Technology," but if it was really just CGI, that's grounds for a lawsuit.
Ask Craigslist, or soon Twitter?
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No problem! I hope people realize that transferring an H-1B is actually not that complicated. It sure made me feel a lot more confident about switching jobs.
One is easier than the other I am afraid.
:( Can you swim? Might be somewhat similar with less impact.

I love running but I'm dreading the time when my knees can't take it anymore.
hmm at least for JS.. that for sure
This is such good news. Can't wait until we abandon fossil fuels altogether.
It turns out the changes were pretty trivial (partially due to vscode apparently not allowing vertical split), so I just put them in my keybindings.json.

For anyone interested:
https://gist.github.com/saghm/6f97aea92029fec62067e658c6f02f...
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> I never see anyone else with a marginally equivalent level of curiosity especially for my age (mid-30s)

I'm in my early 30s, and the combination of work and having a very young child certainly puts an upper bound on the available free time and energy you have in any given day.
This prices carbon at $0/ton, right? Lots of big energy companies are not making that assumption.
NZ's UFB network has always been FTTH (meaning it terminates inside your house), there is no copper in this picture.

This is why, for example, last month people who qualified for 200MB can now get gigabit plans.
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Other folks are looking at the material.io site as well. It's no where close to 5mb, it's < 150kb.

Here's my chrome network panel: http://i.imgur.com/kUqttf3.png
Can you explain more about what is shady in the auctions mentioned in the article? To me they seem to be market derived prices rather than accounting shenanigans.
We don't necessarily need OA. Nature allows you to publish your papers on the arxiv. If all papers are on the arxiv, and with the journal, the negotiation position of the journals goes away.
Well serverside you store them as plaintext equivalents - i.e. salt+hash the hash. So a leak doesn't leak the user-side.
Neat. Some steps that I take on my desktop linux on machines like my work machine that mitigate this attack:

- always run your browser in a restricted firejail. this prevents browser exploits from reading your ssh keys. It also makes it much harder to pivot to a root shell or maintain a persistent backdoor because the filesystem is deleted upon jail exit.

- don't install multimedia applications on sensitive machines. My default install is ubuntu server with i3-wm,vim,git and other dev tools. No mplayer, no vlc, no multimedia. I listen to music on my phone if I want to jam out. The work computer is for work.

- use snapshotted VMs for interacting with sketchy files such as word docs, xlsx, mp3s, etc.

- default deny rules in iptables to block inbound connections

- static arp entry for the default route to prevent MITM on lan if possible. I do this on my work machine where the network is well known.
What's stopping other companies from using your GPL software in their proprietary stuff without telling anyone? Not every company out there is a startup who needs to be sparkling clean to pass due diligence for the next round, acquisition or IPO. A lot of companies out there are perfectly fine with a little bit of cheating here and there — I would actually say that most of them are. Especially when you remember about the world outside of US.
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The watch has two primary benefits over the phone: it can track your fitness when you don't have your phone if you don't want to carry it, and it can track your heart rate which makes it far more accurate at figuring out your calorie burn.

In response to your comments on the HRM in an Apple smart watch, that hasn't been my experience. It seems to work quite well, and articles I've seen say that compares surprisingly well to a chest strap or something like that. I will say that it is HIGHLY dependent on having a good fit. The band that came with my watch cost me a lot of problems, when I got one it was more adjustable it got a lot better.

I'd say an Apple Watch is a quite a few steps up from a basic fit bit, and it doesn't compare to a high-end Garmin, but I think it's more than enough for most people in the market.
Completely agree. I used to be a dedicated Fitbit and more recently Vivoactive wearer and after just switching to using the iPhone plus some apps like Jawbone for sleep tracking I find the value-add of the low-end fitness 'watches' to be completely replaced by the iPhone's built in capabilities. I do plan on buying a Fenix when the next model rev comes out to use when in the mountains and I don't want to rely on a smartphone or wear my automatic watch, but I'd be very concerned if I was Fitbit.
Why can't you think while you run? I guess if you're really out of shape, running is so difficult that you can't think.

I run trails, and when I run is the time I get the most thinking done! I listen to podcasts and music, and sometimes just listen to the wildlife around. It's definitely my most concentrated thinking time though.
If you are interested in this, I would recommend looking up the Extempore programming language/environment and some of Andrew Sorensen's live coding performances. Even if live coding is not your thing, it's definitely interesting.
From the top down, executives need to communicate that it is a company priority. Even better if they can make it a cultural thing, instead of an afterthought. A lot of the time, engineers just don't know best security practices or in the case of web development, common exploits[0].

For middle management and below, if upper management doesn't care about security, despite the "look at Yahoo" argument, then you'll find no leverage there for security funding. If they care at all, then managers and individual contributors can argue for security to stand out and accelerate their career. Yahoo's security troubles brighten the spotlight on the need for security funding at companies for training, audits, and setting aside time to do retroactive security work. It's not a silver bullet, but it helps.

[0] OWASP has a lot of great web security resources. Here is their top 10 list from 2013, https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Top_Ten_Cheat_Sheet
I think he nailed it. I've stopped reading Washington Post and NY Times because over the past year their articles seemed to be written around an "agenda", rather than coming from certain values that they support.

You notice this is happening when you see it attacking Republicans for "Terrible Things™" but it remains quiet or writes in a more defensive angle when it's Democrats that do the Terrible Things™.

If they really focused on values, then they would criticize both sides just as hard and just as much, and people from both sides would trust them and they'd have credibility.
For smallish amounts of solar, you need stabilization but not storage -- when it's sunny, there's more air conditioning usage.

For large amounts of solar, sure, there's a lot of work to be done on storage.
Nate, first of all, thank you for your detailed responses. I really appreciate it!

Second, your suggestion to use fma instruction for dot product is great - the code is both simpler and much faster. I wasted some time trying to run the code on my work computer, where it compiled fine, however exited without any output. Turned out that CPU is Ivy Bridge and doesn't support AVX2. So it seems that compiling with -mfma will convince the compiler to use non-existing instructions, regardless of the architecture.

I'm now wondering if I should upgrade GCC on my Ubuntu box - the default was 4.8, which I upgraded to 4.9, however, the latest is 6.2. Is there a reason they keep it so old?

Anyway, Agner guide to optimization is pretty interesting, lots of stuff to learn. My naive original code when compiled with Ofast and march=native is still faster than my AVX code compiled without any optimizations, but hopefully one day that will be able to beat it!
Or, we could limit reproduction for those that choose not to age, so that you can only reproduce when you're next in line with and someone dies, keeping a consistent population.
tldr for biologists out there. They made a transgenic mouse line of doxycycline inducible Yamanaka factors in progeria (LAKI) background. Too high induction lead to mortality and teratomas, which is known. They cyclicly induced the Yamanaka factors and found it reversed signs of aging (prolong lifespan by ~30%)
Especially when you look at the cost composition: almost 3/4 of the total cost of natural gas is variable, so if you're not producing, you're not paying.

Compare it to wind and solar, where the vast majority is capital costs.
Not everywhere. CA, for example, doesn't permit them.

But companies also have non-compete (or other exclusionary) clauses which are legal outside of anti-trust laws.
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It's funny reading Tom Preston-Werner's write up on GitHub in Dec 08:

>You Don’t Need Venture Capital

>A lot has been written recently about how the venture capital world is changing. I don’t pretend to be an expert on the subject, but I’ve learned enough to say that a web startup like ours doesn’t need any outside money to succeed. I know this because we haven’t taken a single dime from investors. We bootstrapped the company on a few thousand dollars and became profitable the day we opened to the public and started charging for subscriptions.

I guess VCing up and losing money is a choice. They probably figure the odd $100m cash loss will end up as $1bn+ on the market cap. He looks quite cheerful in his rich list write up http://www.forbes.com/profile/tom-preston-werner/
> "The income statement shows a loss of $66 million in the first three quarters of this year. That’s more than twice as much lost in any nine-month time frame by Twilio Inc., another maker of software tools founded the same year as GitHub."

These sort of statements are a little annoying. I understand that Bloomberg has to write for a less technical audience, but the writer must know this isn't an accurate comparison.
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Reducing aging will likely reduce the resources available to all, by reducing the rate of population decline relative to the growth.
Generative hip-hop beats, looks nice. As I see it, the sequencing isn't the hardest part in hip-hop beats, though: a lot of the magic is in the timbre. Sampling, mixing, etc. are often what captivates me the most. Imagine doing that algorithmically - foraging through a collection of samples, processing them, chopping them up and making beats out of it. A similar constraint-based approach might work well, though probably a lot more work.

Anyways, who are the authors? Nowhere to be found! Sure it's a class project but that's no excuse! And they should publish the BeatOven source, would love to play around with it.
That graph puts solar at $150/MWh, while current contracts are reaching < $30
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I had one of those square designs when I was a kid. I'm pretty sure it was a Raketa. But the color scheme of the face had a deep blue background.
No, ultimately we're looking for unlimited life for everyone. We will not sell anyone to the dark.
The immortals will be risk averse and stay inside their highly
secured compounds.
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The problem isn't an "aging based weapon" - it's the repercussions of what happens population that doesn't have a natural death rate. This introduces resource scarcity the likes of which we've never seen.
Your link changes the whole discussion and makes the original post irrelevant. If the data is correct:

1) Garmin is selling almost 20% more than Apple

2) Fitness is the killer app for wrist-wearables. The 3 front runners are fitness focused.
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