skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The odds that your homegrown function is an inverse to the dank-dispensary-function you've layered below it are as low as somebody cracking dank-func without insider knowledge. Dank-func would be worthless in all situations if it were the case.

Unless state-actor is willing to spend time decrypting homegrown-func, you have succeeded.
Bit unfair, dumping on people who had seventy or eighty years less experience, and profit from widely published literature and history on the topic.

I mean, it's not like they could even go read the Wikipedia piece on the German tank serial numbers info leak. Might have been a feature of a certain seminal strategy game - "you have defeated A[213 of 330]" ;-)
> Only a fraction of a percent of people use the web's most powerful feature, which is JavaScript functions.

…What!?
Eh, the islamic state and the likes of them dont need a bitcoin. They allready have the islamic informal banking system, which is basically - "I entrust you this money, my cousin in this or that place can withdraw that money from your family"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala

Its very hard to track and certainly non-human SIGINT proof. If anyone on the planet wants those guys to pick up a systematic trackable crypto-currency, its the secrect services.
London.
Some very good examples and a good explanation of the reasoning behind the previous and the current optimizations of the JavaScript execution infrastructure.

For the context, from the "about" page of the author, he:

"joined Google to work on the V8 JavaScript Engine in the Munich office, where" he's "currently working as tech lead for the JavaScript execution optimization team."
> We have seen strong reception for the private preview to date with more than 50% of Fortune 500 companies applying for the private preview

wow
> What modifications are required to be made to the linux kernel/tcp stack to take advantage of 48+ cores, in order to achieve a more linear scalability?

https://xkcd.com/619/ isn't a joke.

Linux is the default operating system of huge NUMA systems with hundreds of CPUs / thousands of cores.
As a European living in a country where people of all walks of life regularly use public transportation systems the attitudes present in this thread are a bit shocking.
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It's neither a good nor a bad idea.

The point of pegging your currency to a foreign currency is to rebuild trust in your currency by guaranteeing a fixed exchange rate.

But if you do that by pegging to multiple currencies that all have variable exchange rates, how do you handle the relative changes between them ?

The only way would to be adjust it almost daily. Which is the same thing as letting it float.

++ PS: I'm talking about a somehow hard peg here. Most countries tend to use targets and will try to maintain some levels of rate. But they do so by operation on the market rather a peg by fiat.
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This is a great start, but as you get more serious about NLP, keep in mind that a Web crawl from 2006 is not the same as ground truth about language. The top 100,000 words in this data include a lot of ephemeral spam. If you're looking for slang, it'll mostly be outdated. And words like "sitemap" and "Shockwave" are not as common throughout language as the Web alone would indicate.

The later Google Books Ngrams [1] data sets are cleaner, but that comes at a cost. You lose spam, but also a lot of other uses of language, when you only consider text that has been published in print. It's all in the formal register. And then you also get correlated OCR errors, as in [2], and you still get data whose collection ended in 2008.

So what am I suggesting you should use, if data from the Web is bad for some things and data from books is bad for others? Well, both of them, and a lot of other things too. An analysis that depends on word frequencies should use the consensus of many sources.

I've been working on compiling together many of those sources, in many languages, in the Python package wordfreq [3]. Now I'm working on an update to include excellent corpus data just released by the OPUS project, including OpenSubtitles 2016 [4].

[1] http://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books/datasetsv2....

[2] http://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/

[3] https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/wordfreq

[4] http://opus.lingfil.uu.se/OpenSubtitles2016.php
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It has turned out well for a bunch of countries.

But only as a transition measure, to rebuild trust.
Given how crazy the hyperinflation has been, that could easily be just a factories payroll, sadly.

Frankly, I'm dubious about anything the Venezuelan government says, as are my Venezuelan friends.

Seems much more likely that this is a classic case of a oil export dependent government being hit by low oil prices and being unable to implement spending cuts (understandable given the political consequences).
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The article seems to be describing something more like traditional computer memory (encoded in an electrically stable configuration of switches) than the memory of a recurrent neural network (encoded in the pattern of underlying connections). In biological terms that might be comparable to the distinction between short-term memory and long-term memory.
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You're effectively asking to limit the incentives for people to work on these problems.
Just to clarify, Oracle has a cloud too, not just a database product: https://cloud.oracle.com/home

I think Cisco's and Oracle's cloud are both not heard of before?
The vibration is the key for me.

I first got the Pebble because I wanted to know who was calling or texting me while I was on my bike around town. Over the next few years the other features became part of my daily habits. Simple things like responding to texts with canned messages (e.g. 'Ten minutes away' or 'I'll call you in five') allowed me to take a relaxing ride without stressing about missing an important call or message.

My experience is similar to the days before I got a smartphone -- that 'pfft... I don't need that. I can do that when I get back to my desk.'
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> We have made it easier than ever to get started with SQL Server. You’ll find native Linux installations with familiar RPM and APT packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu Linux, and packages for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server will be coming soon as well.

So easy for some ;) Not to not applaud their efforts though.
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+1 "JS is the only API we currently have to use one of the most popular plateform we have" would be more accurate. And it's a terrible API. I can't wait for webassembly.
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This is very ignorant, Switzerland 's foreign population is over 20%, in a city like Zurich it's a third.

http://blog.tagesanzeiger.ch/datenblog/wp-content/uploads/si...
Id like to see the figures on the cost of ss and medicade given the aging population
If power-to-gas means methane, it's bullshit. You'd need a source of carbon dioxide, and despite all the hype, it's only a trace gas in the atmosphere. (Personally, I think power-to-gas is a propaganda piece invented to link renewables and natural gas in the minds of gullible people.)
Think about it from the perspective of someone in the black market. If I accumulate Bolivars I can have greater control over the local market, slowing down the velocity of trade, creating artificial scarcity. By creating artificial scarcity I'm then able to increase the demand for goods on the black market, which is where I make my money. The losses incurred by hoarding increasingly worthless currency can be offset by the profits made elsewhere.

By changing the currency to make it more practical, it's possible to encourage more people to trade in Bolivars. The more people trade in Bolivars the less people need the black market.

This latest move isn't a silver bullet, but it probably is a step in the right direction. More work will be needed to ramp up production of goods for the local economy.
What actually happened to the lady who did this telomere prolonging experiment on her self?
"Fundamentals" does not mean "the newest thing that has come through". It means almost the opposite.

It's your site, but if I meant fundamentals, I would call it fundamentals and start with fundamentals: HTML and CSS. If I meant building on the fundamentals, I would write about the standard uses of JavaScript to bring HTML and CSS to life. If I meant "newest things", I would call it a blog and talk about the newest things: recently implemented and incompletely supported APIs, such as notifications. Some of the newest things are very interesting as what they are: new things.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any reason to label a site "web fundamentals" and lead with something that has never been fundamental to the Web unless the agenda of "web fundamentals" is something other than teaching web fundamentals.
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This is indeed very fun, but when mentioning "what if" the first thing jumps into my mind is alternative history, like r/historywhatif. With all the fancies of machine learning and Microsoft wouldn't be super cool to have something that tries to figure out historical events, visualize them in a timeline or a tree, let you replace some titles and compute the yields?

Hope I'm not off topic.
I think this is probably correct, actually.

That and the mass adoption of cheap, handheld, and powerful computers with easy user interfaces and lots of short range wireless peripherals...

Imagine being able to pay your bar/coffee/restaurant/hotel tab with NFC or something, exchanging whatever virtual currency units, as an expected social norm.
I wonder who would choose Microsoft or MySQL over PostgreSQL these days.
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I was wild, but deferential to them.

They knew it.

I always took their direction.
I can't really go into details because of NDAs (oh the irony) but these machines will boot fully open source and upstream kernels out of the box. We are very much trying to avoid the problems encountered with phone-grade ARM chips.
It's more than that: it's the government doing anti-market things such as forcing stores to sell products below cost, then lamenting that shortages are happening. That government has no concept of basic economics. Central planning has never worked -- ever. They need to read more Adam Smith and less Karl Marx.
"speed or price? A new, crowdfunded entrant in Germany’s passenger rail scene is betting on the former, offering low-price but slightly slower than average"

Betting ON the former or Betting AGAINST the former?
The referenced Reddit thread, for anyone interested:

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/5iknmp/a_film_stude...
This is a rediscovery of contiki's protothreads:

http://contiki.sourceforge.net/docs/2.6/a01802.html
Its all about having a lot of lottery tickets in the game theory device that is civil war. And religion is pro lottery-tickets, and infinite lottery cycles.

The horror, if you would adapt to this hellish circumstances, by speeding up the cycle, creating "specialists" for each cycle stage and survived through the hard times by reducing all that makes up human society. No arts, no compassion, no creation, no school, all of these are calories wasted, instead go full zombie and walk the earth till the cycle of strife ends.

PS: Before somebody yells racism. This behavior could be seen everywhere during world war 2. So one could claim that white racists are actually the pro-zombie equivalent found elsewhere.
Decent writer looks for a niche that's not occupied and says 'hey this will do'. Then tries to convince us it is all well. It is not -- the emperor is naked.

I like how Federico does his job but I really don't like 'lets pretend iPad can replace proper computer' approach.

Matt Gemmell took the same path recently and it won't end well too.
OK, I can't resist:

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/ashley_planes.html

http://www.mtn-top-hs.org/ashley_planes.htm
Not a problem. From my investigations the Indian payment gateways can only deal with Indian companies.

The RBI certainly hates us :(
Let me try somethings...
It is deterministic, but you still need to keep track of a field that covers your whole configuration space (basically you need all the information contained in a function R^n->C for n degrees of freedom). Keeping track this high-dimensional field is what makes a quantum computer hard to simulate in the first place, not the non-determinism. So no, it doesn't make anything easier to simulate.

This makes a lot of sense if you think of it that way: Pilot wave theory gives exactly the same results as any other decent interpretation of quantum mechanics. So the work necessary to simulate it will also be exactly the same. Simulating quantum mechanics is not hard because we don't understand it. It is hard because it is an inherently hard problem (otherwise, how could quantum computers be faster than classical computers?).
The government has enabled the black market by forcing businesses to sell below cost in the name of 'helping the people.'

This problem is entirely the creation of a government hell-bent on pursing discredited economic theories.
HPC = High Performance Computing

http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/definition/high-...
Thanks for the correction and clarification.

For others who, like me, aren't in the field, the "EFT" mentioned is explained, for example, here:

https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0311082

"The problems of quantizing gravity within the experimentally
accessible situations are similar to those which arise in a host of other
non-gravitational applications throughout physics. As such, the size of quantum corrections
can be safely estimated and are extremely small. The theoretical framework
which allows this quantification is the formalism of effective field theories."

dS is "de Sitter space":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Sitter_space

I'd also appreciate a link to the explanation of "What in GR we would consider perturbations of dS and IR corrections."
From the article:

> The strength of a defense based on the non-copyrightability of pornography rests on whether pornography promotes the progress of science and useful arts as prescribed by the Copyright Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

> An argument in favor of refusing copyright protection is the very reason why copyright protection is granted in the first place: it gives incentives for creation.

> Allowing copyright protection on pornographic works, then, would only give more incentive for pornographic creations.

That's a losing battle right there.

First because the Supreme Court already affirmed adult entertainment as encompassed by the first amendment.

Second because it is a dangerous precedence to remove legal protections off something based on subjective standards. Today it is for adult entertainment, tomorrow it could very well be (for instance) for political comedy.
I've just read through the article: what do you see as 'dirty' about the salars? The fact that workers wear masks?
It's not clear why you think that From/map_err don't let you separate errors at levels of abstractions. It gets done all the time.

And error-chain exists if you want a more fluid system of errors.
Is that really the main cause of their inflation? It's trivial to fix that cause; for example give each governmental department a budget that increases 5% per month and not a penny more.
You could use an if variant with keywords, like if* (http://franz.com/~jkf/ifstar.txt):

(if* (== foo 3) then (foo 4) (return))
> And they'd like to have a minimum of screening so that they don't have to deal with people with severe mental issues on the way to work.

For me this is a big social issue, and it is only slightly related with public transportation. If you city has enough mental ill people in the streets everything is going to suck, including public transportation. That's why you have health care for mental patients, that with the correct treatment can be a normal part of society.
I can appreciate the cynicism your Venezuelan friends have about their government, they don't seem particularly competent or completely trustworthy.

However, if you put yourself if Maduro's shoes, what would you do differently? We're not going to make things better until we start thinking of the problems in that way.
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Hi, i think you need a copy writer, just showed this text below to a 19 yo on FB,snapchat and a 50 yo social media marketer, they both read it twice and said "huh?", you need to get it revised and tested till test subjects say "wow!"... Quoted text:"Most of the bookmarking apps rely on share button to save links from other apps. Facebook ,Twitter , WhatsApp - the apps where you spend most of the time don't have share button for links."
Plagiarism is wrong, but Schneier's vengeful attitude is really not flattering. "should be fired and/or expelled"? Why not let their universities worry about that?
you can export keyword to csv to sort by keyword count and word count
Well, from what I've read, that's why they didn't share information about the 9-11 team. And during WWII, they let some convoys go down to protect their methods. It's a tough call. One thread of Stephenson's Cryptonomicon covers this.
So to be clear, you're suggesting that these black market operatives are creating localised artificial scarcity of Bolivars in the form of cash. But Venezuela is a fairly modern country with ATMs and electronic payments, along with the associated cash distribution infrastructure all that implies. How are black market operatives successfully doing that, given how easy it is to move funds into an area, or for that matter, bypass the scarcity entirely via electronic payments?

Meanwhile, we have a much more plausible story: Venezuela has been hit hard by the decline in oil prices - their main export - yet has been unable to curtail spending to match. That money needs to come from somewhere.
Yes, NeWS was cool. But NeWS no longer exists, sadly.
What makes you think i want to talk to someone who has gross opinions about women? Fuck that. Got better things to do.

(It's pretty clear you're implying that i'm a man-hater or some similar sexist bullshit. I have no idea what your problem is with me, but whatever.)
you have a very bad understanding of this site.
Have responded to this on another comment you made.
also you can upload exported keywords to Adwords Keyword Planner to get popularity.
While I like the idea and will probably try it out in January, I think this article takes it bit too easy. The price of the cheapest ticket maybe €22, but by that measure, I was also able to do the same journey for €14.25 with Deutsche Bahn this year. They are mostly cheaper but not that much as the those tickets are for particular trains which are also cheaper on DB. And other admenities like Wifi will also finally come to ICE this year, there are already family zones. Besides maybe the seat gurantee, the other features sound more like gimmiks to me, nice on the first look but not really world changing. I like the croudfunding aspect though.
Not to trigger a debate which is better, Many corporate companies choose SQL server over MySQL or PostgreSQL.

One reason is, Paid support and excellent integration with existing Microsoft products. The features are totally worthy to use SQL server.
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This is a major point of the article: that this shouldn't be the case.

You can disagree but just pointing out that this not the current situation is either missing the point of the article or begging the question.
SQL "Sewer" - ha! A "pubic" preview sounds more accurate to me... But hey, if the sales rep says you should pay for it, why not obey them and waste your company's money?
The lead-acid battery in my car holds 660Wh (12V, 55Ah) and costs less than $100. That puts lead acid at a quarter the price of the Tesla powerwall (admittedly without an inverter).
Except government pensions are continually being cut back, so you have to factor that in (especially if you are looking 30 years out).
Deployment story and expected performances are the two big questions for me.

i'd consider using elixir only if it made it easier to build and deploy fail safe architecture , at good performance.
You probably missed out on some of the exiting algorithms that all CS students learn, but don't worry I think few knows them without looking them up years later.

It is hard to know what you have missed, since you specificly say webdev, you can get by with very little knowledge and still make functional websites. Im guessing that low level stuff is what you are probably missing, maybe some design patterns.

I think the best way to get validation of your skills is to get your work peer reviewed, either by working in a shop that actually does code reviews or participating in open source or even just putting your own stuff on github.
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This seems pretty silly - the Copyright Clause gives Congress the power to enact a particular kind of legislation and states the broad purpose of such legislation. It doesn't say every single copyrightable work has to 'promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts'. It doesn't say much about what specifically is a copyrightable work at all.
also:

- pixie (sexp + python + llvm)
- pharen (sexp + php)
> like transit that's accessible to the disabled, elderly, and poor.

Very much this!

I don't like public transport, I don't like having to deal with other people when I travel, but I like Uber and private transport even less.

If you leave people alone to decide of their own "best", they will certainly destroy community as a whole.

What's my solution?

I walk when I can, I use car sharing/pooling when I can't walk, I use public transport when the first two solutions are unavailable.

I also dislike private car pooling companies, I think they should be public because the goal has to be to give people choices, without harming the community, not making some startup take over our transport infrastructure.
Many worlds is parsimonious in some ways in that all the stuff allowed by the equations happens and that's it (sort of in theory at any rate - not sure it really gives the Born rule). With pilot wave or Copenhagen you have to tack on a wave or observer respectively. On the other hand all the stuff is a lot of stuff.
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Maybe you don't have a choice. There's a ton of business applications that only support SQL Server. I worked for a company the used SAP Business One for their ERP system, it only supports SQL Server. Our infrastructure was mostly Linux, but for SAP B1, there's not a choice, you need SQL Server.

Old school client server database applications is still very much alive.
I'm curious what results we will see when people start benchmarking it running on the same hardware but Windows in one case and Linux in the other.

Also, what would happen (if anything) if the Linux results crushed the Windows ones? Would that be embarrassing to Microsoft? And to take the thought to the next level of paranoia, let's say Microsoft already ran those benchmarks in-house and found the Linux version vastly faster. To avoid embarrassment, would they slow it down to be more in line with the Windows version?
For me school was mostly a place where I discovered concepts that I didn't know that I didn't know.
Why ternaries? I can understand why a web dev might not know about bitwise operators though...