skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I don't know what extremely talented reliable developer only charged 3k for a good finished MVP product. That sort of guy is kind of a moron or a fluke, and extremely difficult to find.
Had similar problems with our cat who was able to retrieve food from every automatic feeder we tried, apart from the perfect pet feeder [1] which was the only model that defeated him.

[1] http://www.perfectpetfeeder.com/
Tool AIs want to be agent AIs
Don't forget the extreme pressures on the surface which have crushed every probe we've sent there.
Is there some advantage to laws such as this? If not, what would state lawmakers lose if they repealed this law? For their re-election, they could claim to have had a major positive economic impact by lowering food prices, that I'm sure the voting public would eat up.
Haha, I know! chucks a week's worth of food in 5 bowls "peace out cats, see you next week!"
so the casino always uses these cards. Sun bought a set of the cards from that casino and studied them. Sun was also not a player, she was just the interpreter while Ivey was the better.

if the rationale of this case stands, then every past player at Borgata and the Attorney General and dealers should sue Borgata under the New Jersey Casino Control Act

If that fails then the New Jersey Casino Control Act should be challenged on constitutional grounds of unequal application of the law

Would love to see this case moved to federal jurisdiction, no federal judge is going to take a favorable view of New Jersey State's enshrinement of casino superiority.
Now that does sound like a difficult situation to handle. I'd like to think I'd always choose the high road and say, "code quality first!" But personally I probably would not always do that when there's a strong financial incentive on the line (if I'm going to be honest with myself).
How about a super-optimizing hyper-intelligent AI with "hyperspace effectors" from the Culture books? Make it the "Mind" who was shunned as a pervert, because he liked to mess with sentients. We'll call him "MeatFracker." Perhaps a "concert" from MF could be billed as a new kind of experience, where MF scans the brains of the listeners to determine the best sounds to play. What's more, MF could conduct experiments, determine the best phrase out of several, then "rewind" the brains of the audience so that everyone only remembers hearing the best phrase. This process is then iterated over the entire "set" of compositions. The concert would take longer than the audience's subjective experience of the time. However, the audience would likely be left in tears and speechless, saying the experience was timeless and indescribable.

As a meta joke, years later, he could confess to not actually having gone through with the above process, and instead say he used remote brain manipulations equivalent to injecting the audience with LSD while playing Nickleback.
Actual article: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/21/twitter-is-toast-and-the-stoc...
Just wanted to say thats an AWESOME side project!!
No, I mean all the problems taken together.
Interesting, I'll stop pushing that as ground truth
I believe what the mean to say by "essentially" is the only relevant dimension in this case would be the length, as the thickness is negligible, given the domain under consideration.
Maybe the missing mass is just the universe skimming a small percentage of the "transaction" as payment, right?
Fashions and preferences come and go. And, for many people, they change based on their stage in life and changing priorities.

There are tradeoffs associated with life in, especially dense, cities. Yes, walking to restaurants/stores/etc. can be nice. So can stepping out onto a deck or patio without a lot of noise and nearby neighbors--or the ability to hop in a car and be in forests or mountains in 30 minutes.

Also, while I think that fully autonomous vehicles are further out than many people here seem to think, I have to believe that once they do eventually exist, they'll make dispersed living relatively more attractive. If you have a "personal driver" at your beck and call, I have to believe that makes being able to walk to a nearby restaurant or taking the subway to see a play less compelling as tradeoffs against more crowded/noisier/etc. housing.
No. Actually most useful OSS is supported by goverment funding or big companies.
FWIW, they still have them in stock at the Amazon Bookstore (in Seattle). My sister in North Carolina was trying desperately to find one for a gift, so I popped in there. They're also on sale, a discount of about ~$40. They seemed to be aware of the shortage and saw this a good way to get people to check out the store.
Yep -- players cannot identify Strads by sound, and in fact prefer newer instruments.

http://www.thestrad.com/blind-tested-soloists-unable-to-tell...
I'll admit to a pause for reflection around 9pm UK time (Midnight Moscow time). After that, no worries. ADA has robust time and date libraries.
OP is topologically equivalent to a bagel (disregarding nostrils)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustachian_tube
Iran's growing drug problem: 'No walk of society is immune'
They certainly didn't get unbanned! And btw I vaguely recall other accounts being silly around a similar derangement-point, so perhaps this is a serial troll, which is one of the few cases where we just ban accounts immediately.

The comment might have gotten unkilled because of a bug that I might have introduced yesterday. Looking into it now.

Edit: yep, it turns out I introduced a bug, with the dismaying but hilarious property that flagging a dead comment would revive it. We'll revert the change and try again later.
I think cats that do NOT overeat is the majority. At least among domestic cats.
Twitter offers real-time streams that filter by limited numbers of keywords, userids, and locations.

https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/reference/post/statuses/fi...
For our first child, I was considering building a DIY ultrasound machine, since I had several friends doing their final MSc project on ultrasound hardware and software. I came as far as setting up a shopping list, where I assumed a high-end laptop and Matlab with all toolboxes for free, together with some code from my friends. Still I ended up north of $3k for hardware, and several hundred projected work-hours. A lot of the cost comes from needing 50-100 transducers to get a useable image.

OTOH, the single transducer doppler ultrasound devices that's used in early pregnancy to hear the baby heartbeat can be had for $30 on ebay.
Going from 30 min on CPU to 0.4 sec on GPU can mean only one thing - you had a really crappy CPU code.

A well written C code should run about 20-50 times slower than a well written CUDA code on the latest GPUs, and that's for a single CPU core. This was true with my hand-written implementations, as well as when using libraries (Numpy vs CuDNN).
FWIW, one of my beefs with classical music is the extreme lack of diversity in tones (ie: piano, violin, ...) as opposed to popular music (synthesizer)

When you listen popular music on a timeline (70s, 80s, ...), you can at the same time see to the evolution of synthesizers and music production software.
My last 3 discrete GPUs for PC were AMD, and while AMD keep reasonable prices, Linux Kernel support, and supporting standards on Linux (OpenGL, OpenCL), I'll continue buying from them.
Who would you jail when an AI runs over a pedestrian?
"A true sommelier can identify different wines by taste alone, but for every one of those there's a dozen frauds who pretend they know what they're doing, just parroting stuff they've memorized."

Funnily enough, these are my exact thoughts on the state of the software industry and trying to hire good people.
> http://flexboxfroggy.com/
The follow-up to that is basically Command and Control which covers what happens after those things were made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control_(book)

It starts out where those weapons and prototypes from World War II were sitting on a shelf in a hut in the middle of the desert with no real security. That program had been all but shut down, the team disbanded.

Equally interesting is Stalin and the Bomb which covers the Soviet efforts to replicate what the Americans had created: https://books.google.ca/books/about/Stalin_and_the_Bomb.html...

There's accounts of scientists painstakingly re-discovering fundamental things only to realize their superiors already knew the correct approach to take, their intelligence had stolen the files, but were concerned that the information was faked to lead them astray. They must have felt like high-school students getting their homework checked by the teacher.
microsoft/oracle aren't gonna jump whenever some random customer says... I've had good to great experiences with msft support, but our 50 licenses or whatever just don't matter.
This is exactly why they slightly pivoted to serving business teams.
That would definitely be the usual explanation but I'm happy to report that in this case there were no vouches.

I suppose I should be glad that nobody here leaps to 'programmer error' as an explanation for anything.
My first professional programming job was to fix a Y2K bug in 1995 in an embedded system that hadn't shipped yet
Great points. Also feeding cats only dry food can lead to kidney problems in old age - they do not naturally drink much water, instead relying on moisture from their food sources. Feed good quality canned food!
There are a lot of great quiet options in the PC building market right now, like PSUs that don't turn a fan at all under normal loads.

It is possible to build a PC or Hackintosh that is as quiet as a Mac Mini.
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> Doing a simple commit with git is just git commit. What am I missing here? ...

> ... These aren't more complex on the command line, they're just done differently.

The process I outlined was a series of steps which were all part of what I'd consider an average commit (not necessarily "simple"). Invoking `thg ci` I could cherry pick lines, edit files as I'm reviewing the diffs, shelve away others, all within seconds, without shifting context. There isn't a single "flag" to read about which makes typing all those commands out necessarily faster.

Simple commits, I will frequently just do `hg ci` and be done. But if I'm doing a bunch of manipulation, I have click the hunks I want, commit, merge and push, all in much fewer seconds than it would be possible to type the equivalent set of commands.

I consider the overall job "tell the computer what I want, as efficiently as possible". For some specific tasks, a mouse just is a better method than a keyboard. I think it's good for complex multi-purpose tools to offer multiple UIs, allowing the user to get work done using the most efficient method tailored to their specific task at hand.

That said, I think having them based on the CLI, and using it to trigger a gui, is a far superior meta flow than having a gui trigger a cli just never seems to work out.
Of course, mine was just a quip at those that dismiss dark matter as just an 'hack' to patch a broken theory.
It's important to note that this ruling also invalidates all other customer traffic storage laws in the EU.

In Sweden Telenor immediately seized saving traffic data:
http://press.telenor.se/pressreleases/telenor-upphoer-med-la...
Yes it does. Perhaps if they got enough of these they would stop publishing trash.
The heart is a complex place and the internet a good channel for its darker bits.
I love the teams I work with, but that doesn't mean I want them to interrupt me all day long while I'm trying to do meaningful work.

I think it's important to be flexible with work hours, but that goes both ways. My concern is with places where strict requirements are set up for hours, and places that are not willing to be more open minded about crossover work hours. As far as I am concerned, 4 hours of overlap per day amongst the team is sufficient. If more overlap than that seems necessary, it is probably a process problem.

I love pair programming! However I cannot pair program in an open office plan with tons of noise/distractions.
I expect the article doesn't mention them because it views them as a means to an end. Since the article is about high-level philosophical concerns and not the nuts and bolts of how the music is created, talking about compositional/performance tools such as computers and synthesizers would be out of place -- the article is more concerned with the aesthetic goals which these or other tools would be used toward rather than the tools themselves.

Anyway the article does actually mention electronics at least twice, althouh both times mostly in passing:

"I draw your attention to the example we heard yesterday, when Nathan Davies used live filtering to give the effect of resonators, extracting tones from white noise, and turning those tones towards music."

"Joanna Bailie, to take just one example, has used the recorded and digitally processed sounds ..."
The analysis in the article (and the PCPartPicker spreadsheet from which they source their data) excludes integrated GPUs.

This is a significant difference, because Intel has a 17.48% marketshare on graphics per the Steam Hardware Survey [1] (the original source for the spreadsheet data), while AMD has a 23.46% share -- which includes both their integrated and discrete graphics.

The average price of AMD builds has risen because the lowest-end builds on the Intel side can rely on Intel's integrated graphics. Intel integrated GPUs attain one or two percent share of all GPUs for each generation, while AMD APUs are far behind.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
I believe the default for SQL Server is actually read committed.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175909.aspx
Both would be awesome, I am looking at building a stateful set scaling service for my company right now. But before I do that I wanted to make sure it wasn't being released soon. Thanks
24 days of Rust – app_dirs and preferences
> the old one is pretty horrible though, just like most other languages from 30 years ago when compared to modern languages

Maybe 50? To put modern into perspective, 30 years ago is 1986 and Python is from 1989.
A bunch of other mainstream languages are only slightly younger: Ruby, Java, JavaScript, PHP. I think C++ is not much older than that.
Create an issue along the lines of what many people have suggested already. At the end ask if the maintainer would be open to a PR for the issue. If they are go write that PR, if it truly is a "showstopper" it should be a no-brainer to spend the time on that PR.
Except that it's only hurting Yahoo because they're trying to sell. Counterexamples include the UK telco TalkTalk, who has managed to increase users and revenue despite the lack of basic security features.

It just doesn't matter that much, because the inconvenience is minimal for the average person, so the backlash is minimal. I mean, most people cannot even be bothered to use different passwords (!). That's how low the bar is. Say something gets hacked, unless you experience identity theft, nothing happens. Banks will reverse any fraudulent charges. Not even a minor inconvenience. So people won't learn and won't care. Brand damage is minimal. Not worth spending on infosec if the maximum fine is less than your CEO earns in a month. Meh.
Y2K at Microsoft was boring as hell. What wasn't boring as hell was the long period of time leading up to it. But everyone here knows that. New Year's Eve 1999 and the hours following was probably the most Age of Empires I've ever played in one sitting.

EDIT: "for an estimated issue programmers were not taking into account when applying the Gregorian calendar rule to software."

First, what the hell does that even mean? Anyway, no, it was taken into account. What, you think programmers didn't know what would happen when 2000 rolled around? What wasn't taken into account was that the software would still be running ten, twenty years later.
>the more capital you have, the larger your share of those gains, in a superlinear fashion

This is the essence of capitalism and why it works well. Gains exponentiate and as well they should. Capitalism favours retention of capital goods as opposed to the consumption of said capital. What has happened is that many folks have engaged in consumerism and the savings rate has gone down immensely. This phenomenon has negatively affected the middle class and working class more than any misconstrued notion of increased productivity without corresponding increase in compensation. If you're to address the culprit, start there.

You cannot invest into a better future if you consume everything and this is exactly what has happened. Nobody cares about savings anymore. Such high time preference, it's horrible!

Here's an excerpt from an Austrian (school) blog:

Low time preference people value present use of their money less than a certain higher future quantity of money. High time preference people, in contrast, are willing to forego higher future quantities of money for sake of enjoying a certain lower present quantity of money. The low time preference people will therefore be inclined to lend to the high time preference people.

That last part is extremely vital. It explains the perpetual cycle we seem to be in. The middle class and working class engaging in excessive consumerism will at some point need to borrow money from the fiscally disciplined to engage in even more consumerism.
It has been claimed that the current savings rate is only comparable to that of medieval peasants (more validation needed on this but if it is the case, this is terrible).

If all this is true, why would those gains you mention above fail to grow in a superlinear fashion?

I think it is a case of eroded values more than anything else.
Lots of third party code is tested only on the latest LTS version, so using LTS often makes everything easier.
We are at the tail end of introducing Webpack to an ~8yr old codebase and this has been our approach:

* Allocate training time for all team members to go through some e-learning courses / tutorials about Webpack (Frontend Masters, egghead.io, etc) and UMD (assorted tutorials / blog posts)

* After much hand-wringing we decided that for our situation converting our all-over-the-place JS codebase to UMDs with global fallbacks was the most flexible approach. This allows us to use the same code both in Webpack bundles and in our existing litany of <script> tags. Introducing Webpack has forced us to pay down a lot of technical debt during the process, something that has been years overdue but had to get done eventually. It's been frustrating having to clean up the mess made by developers who no longer work here but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

* Created a long-running feature branch where we added Node.js and Webpack dependencies to our existing Java / Spring / Maven project

* As internal libraries are converted to UMD, merge them into the feature branch and add them to the appropriate Webpack bundle. Any 3rd party JS libraries that are available via npm have been removed from our codebase and are now pulled in as dependencies via package.json

* Put everything behind feature toggles

* Experiment with our CD / CI pipelines using the Webpack feature branch to make sure we can reliably break the Maven build when something goes wrong with Webpack / Node.js, generate fresh bundles for hot / partial deploys, and get things deployed to an app server in one of our dev environments without any issues

* Do demos every 2-3 weeks for both our team and other teams / managers to show progress, share lessons learned, etc

All of this has unfolded along with our regular workload over the last 3 months or so. We've taken a measured approach with small steps along the way and it's worked out well.

A lot of people are off for the holidays so my guess is we'll start introducing Webpack bundles into production sometime in mid-late January.

As an added benefit, this project has been used to establish a bit of a beachhead with respect to introducing Node.js to our various codebases so we can start doing automated testing, modern JS dependency management, code linting / style enforcement, and providing better developer tools to the team(s) that write JS / CSS / etc.
There Is NO Open Source Business Model
I've heard people with families kids can struggle with this. The people I know who've been successful at it seem to always have some kind of office work space where they can close the door and get a bit of isolation, or, they invest in an offsite office of some kind.
> In four separate occasions, people tried to take control of my github organization and npm repos by complaining to github and npm suppo

THat blows my mind a bit. Particularly since forking a repository is not exactly a difficult thing.
Government requests for Facebook user data up 27 percent in first half of 2016
You don't need to get the entire mass of the elevator down initially. Just the harpoon and cable.

Many of the ideas for visiting other planets could and should be tested on earth first. I think we need to get comfortable with visiting the moon and performing large scale industrial projects in space before we have any chance of visiting remote planetary bodies and returning.
IMO this is a great tradeoff and in some ways an ideal work environment!
I hope I'm not coming off as dismissive of electronic music in general... just the idea that "computers and synthesizers and sequencers" represent the future of music. They are, at best, merely instruments. If anything, they're pretty strongly wedded to some very narrow musical conventions, such as 12 tone equal temperament and basic time signatures like 4/4 and 3/4. Getting past those limitations is doable, but difficult.

Electronic music can be wonderfully experimental, but that's not because of anything that's been invented lately. Listen to the Forbidden Planet soundtrack, for example. That was wild, and it was 1956. I work with a lot of electronic musicians, and there's a strong interest in older instruments - analog synthesis, early digital like 12 bit samplers, etc.

I've used recent software synths, but for the most part, they're either not all that interesting, or they're studied knockoffs of analog synthesis techniques from the 1970s and earlier. At worst, many/most hit Brian Eno's criticism of modern synths - they lack character. By trying to sound like everything, they wind up not sounding like themselves.
Wonder what would happen if you just gave the cat unlimited access to a large bowl of unguarded food all day every day. Would the cat eventually self-regulate the amount it ate? Or would you just end up with a really fat cat? Or both to some degree?
I love it that there's people in the world who are so nerdy as to document such a thing.
Hahaha! My father makes violins as a profession. He also thinks nothing of spending hundreds on small pieces of wood from strange places. He recently flew to Lithuania and gave some strangers several tens of thousands of dollars for a few piles of wood. My dad does eat out and buy new pants every now and then, though. :P
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Some kind of retaliation or counter-suit to develop leverage?
That's the tragedy of 'everyone can do everything' thinking. And it's why growth-mindset has to be tempered with recognition of aptitude. If it isn't it can derail lives.
I didn't read any implication of delinquency or obliviousness into the OP's post. It seemed merely informative and another aspect to think about when considering how and when to feed your pets. A disagreement is not necessarily adversarial.