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> A heavily optimized C program looks like C.

Really? I haven't found that to be the case very often.

> A heavily optimized [insert functional programming language here. Most often haskell] program looks like shit.

Here we definitely agree :). It's also worth mentioning that it's not often worth it to optimize very much of your code. (The 80-20, or perhaps 95-5, rule applies in full force.)

Obviously, it's still worth it to have compilers optimize idiomatic code.
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Like I said, it's not entirely impossible (a while ago I was using checkrestart on my Debian machine with pretty good results), but the result is still somewhat clunky. There are a lot of things that aren't so easily checked: changes in interpreted code (needrestart can, fortunately, deal with Java, Perl, Python and Ruby, but I don't know how well, and there's no shortage of packages that rely on old-fashioned bash scripts or -- hey, Polkit! -- JavaScript), changes in configuration files and so on.

This is a reasonable solution if you're running relatively non-critical processes on a single machine. If you really want to avoid downtime, a cluster with rolling updates seems like a solution with far fewer headaches.

Non-critical covers a lot these days, fortunately :-).
>I think most of my colleagues will be moved over to open educational resources within fifteen years, and I'm not sure there's long-term profit to be made in this market.

As a student, I'm not sure I agree with this. I think there's a lot of value in having a really well laid out, well designed textbook with good examples and illustrations. Especially in lower division classes where you end up mostly teaching yourself the material from the text anyways. Most of the open courseware I've had to deal with in classes was extremely sub par compared to actual textbooks.

I think if someone could create textbooks at the quality of Pearson in the range of $20-$50 instead of $100-$200, I would be happy to pay for better materials.
Flash still exists?

I used to avoid annoyances by not having Flash. Now, thanks to the hard work of WHATWG on HTML5, I'm scrod.
Yes, thank you for saying that. I understand that different people have different use cases, but there is an environmental cost to owning too much shit that no one talks about.

Here's an example. I own a surface pro 3, and a smartphone. The SP3 is a tablet when I want it to be one, and a proper laptop when that's what's required. My brother, by contrast, has a Fitbit smartwatch thing, an iPod for music, a kindle for books, a Nexus tablet (just for flights!), a smartphone and a laptop!

And the industry seems to insist that even this is not enough. No, clearly, we must also own wifi connected anal probes, refrigerators that tweet, and coffee machines that need firmware updates before they can give you your morning cup. How do we end this madness?!
I think Ubuntu (and almost all other Linux distros) suffer from the same problem: there is no real security coordination during development. Compare that to OpenBSD which very rarely needs to do emergency security updates.

With that said, Canonical updates the whole system and all applications. Microsoft updates only the core system, even Office is not updated unless you manually opt in.
There is this crypto currency called gridcoin where you lend your machine's processing power for researches like climate change,cancer research... Very intersting projects there
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13652094
This is a thinly-veiled ad for some image-compression software. The actual informative content is light and unsubstantiated. There's plenty of missed opportunity to show the claims, e.g. by doing a comparison of the same scene shot at the same pixel size with different-sized sensors, or conversely fixing the image quality and seeing how big you can go without visible degradation.
Don't own a TV, especially a Samsung, fixed...
it should be available in any language on JVM although I've never tried it myself. It's simple enough, I don't think it would take too much work to get the information from flight recorder.
Is there some benefit to giving a fuck?

I think we're at the point where we respect people enough to just say, "Yup, I don't care what sort of junk my boss has, or what color it is, or what other kinds of junk s/he likes to bump it with."

The intent of the article is to say we should have some sort of mandated demographics among leadership or in the board room?

Because trying to pick a c-team to match up with census data seems like it would mean not picking a c-team based on merit.

The color and kind and intent of junk should probably just not be something that we give a fuck about.
I am sorry. English is not my mother tongue so it came off wrong. I didnt think the sentence was bizarre. It just resonated with me so much , maybe because currently I am involved as a programmer in a project where if I had more domain knowledge, my life would be so much better and I would be able to take initiatives a lot more. And I just got a feeling of a need to support your work. I called it bizarre, because at the moment it seemed too sudden. Looking forward to the complete text. Nice work :)
wasn't edge originally supposed to be updated via store?
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thank you for helping further fragmentation of IMDb alternatives by creating dumb forum like tons of other generic forums when there is REAL alternative movie database with discussions for each movie called The Movie database themoviedb.org run since 2008 and edited by its own users like Wikipedia

it's nice you created searchable archive of IMDb discussions though guys at Archive are doing same anyway, not posing as alternative and I am not feeling very happy sometime took 14 years of my IMDb posts and put them on his website without my agreement
> What does acme do to help on touch screens?

Unlike emacs or vim, acme leverages the mouse/gui for powerful editing - and I believe (multi)touch screens have the potential to be better guis than than screen+mouse. For one thing mice generally utilise at most three fingers and one hand - and IMNHO while eg blender/photoshop combine mouse and keyboard - the combination is awkward and not very intuitive.

I think (but am far from certain) that acme is a more promising approach.
I don't get it. So because of one issue, they're not going to deliver any other security patch either?
Eviction works fine when k8s detects there's a problem. I was referring to cases like this one: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/13385
As well as likely distributing firmware which SHOULD just be shipped with the bloody hardware in a small sliver of ROM, or patches to roms which have bugs because of lack of testing, etc.

Also many of the WiFi drivers have such crazy firmware because they're actually (at least partly) software defined radios and thus each country needs a slightly different flavor and that's related to regulations and testing.

Everything would be much easier if we could just have some part of the UN that every country agrees to follow manage a universal spectrum allocation and anyone that disagrees should just expect all of the electronics to break.
Some people are having success with it.

There were a lecture and a workshop at OHM 2013 "Building A Trading Robot With Open Source Tools", perhaps you can find a recording (the OHM 2013 website appears to be down at the moment).
It did cross my mind as well. Considering the whole Russia drama right now, I wonder if the NSA just asked Microsoft to delay its patches for this month so it doesn't interrupt the agency's on-going operations against Russia.

I doesn't help that Microsoft has been moving in a direction where it provides less and less information about what its updates do these days, while sneaking through dozens of new root certificates at once every now and then.

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/25/14381174/microsoft-thailan...

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2348143/security/microso...

https://hexatomium.github.io/2016/10/11/unannounced-root-cer...

https://hexatomium.github.io/2015/06/26/ms-very-quietly-adds...
I totally agree with this.

I am not comfortable running a daily, task scheduler based, third party script with local admin rights, on my Windows Server, that checks my Lets Encrypt certs and auto renews them.

However, now that Chrome v56+ is revoking StartSSL.com certs, I've probably got no choice. Either that, or actually PAY for a multi-domain cert (Comodo do a fairly cheap one).
Agree. DBaaS are all quite expensive.
I would suggest going for your own machine. You should probably checkout Scaleway/AWS RDS etc.

Also, storing files in S3 would workout better.
When many smart tv's display adverts and commercial apps, you could argue that the smart feature is subsidising the TV.
But the entire point of this project is that it's a faster version of Ruby, combined with a much more lightweight version of the JVM.
he doesn't have movie database with ratings and watchlists, so i see no reason moving there when i can have all of this plus discussions at TMDb (yes, they are at the moment quite empty because nobody illegally copied posts from IMDb there, including mine)
We're hiring devs, designers, PM's, digital producers etc. working with recruitment companies, advertising in various places - meet ups, job boards etc etc.

Recieved hundreds of CV's, run dozens of interviews.

I can count on one hand the number of women that sent their CV through, and we interviewed two, hiring one.

This isn't a tech thing - this goes back to children growing up in an environment where gender should make no difference to their desire or interest in STEM subjects, which should be encouraged regardless.

Now the conundrum:

Given two candidates (m/f) of equal footing (talent, skill, comms etc) - would you offer work to the female or male?

Given a stronger male candidate over a female candidate - should I offer the job to the female instead just because she's a she?
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If you like these RGB LED matrix displays, make sure to check out LEDmePlay ( http://mithotronic.de/ledmeplay.php ). Great hack.
A wired keyboard would be even more reliable and cheaper... but less convenient. This is the reason voice is being used, and it is more efficient on Amazon Prime etc.
Its not hard at all to pay 500/month for anything, assuming its got value.

I would PERSONALLY pay you 500/month if you could prove to me that you deliver more than 500/month in value. Your problem is your value prop, not your price.
no, he doesn't and he illegally copied 14 years of my posts which i don't like especially since I moved to TMDb which is proper movie database where you can also import your IMDb ratings and watchlist and each movie there has own discussions
In the US, yes. Ubuntu, VLC and the likes are exempt from this sort of nonsense because they are not registered in the US. I don't know what happens when a US based company like Dell sells laptops with Ubuntu in the US though. They probably would have made some deals.
The "Disable Falsh" button is under Advanced Settings on Edge. Switched it off and I barely notice anything is missing these days.
promoting illegally copied content of users without their consent? for what's it worth, he copied 14 years of my posts and I don't like it
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While I applaud Python to have established a well-designed[1] layer on top of the math/numeric libraries written in Fortran, C and C++, I hope that one day Rust will smoothen the corners.

While Rust might not become a replacement for the Python layer, it may replace the C/C++/Fortran layer with all their speed and low-level optimization, yet provide good (and especially safe!) abstractions on top of that.

Currently, people try to use C++ to fill that gap, but I'd love to see Rust's type system, borrow checker and macro system, instead of C++ templates.

[1] As opposed to Mathematica, MatLab, etc.
Red-Lang.org should convince you otherwise
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The best resource (imo) is "Practical Deep Learning". As the title suggests it is...well practical. They specifically say that a lot of Deep Learning seems to be made complex on purpose and that it's important to get a good overview and start doing stuff immediately. They use old Keggle competitions as a benchmark. After lesson 1 you can already recreate the infamous dog/cat classifier and get pretty amazing accuracy (>90% iirc). It's all free and online, there's also a paid on premise course (in San Francisco iirc). They use Keras (so one level of abstraction higher than the stuff in the post) and make heavy use of Python Notebooks. I also love the approach of using AWS p2 instances for everything...very nice to pay as you go for the GPU power (I wasn't even aware these types of instances existed before watching the videos).
The second course isn't online yet but the claim is that you'll be at the bleeding edge after that one (i.e. compete with state of the art papers). I fully believe it.

http://course.fast.ai/
As a foot note.
Heisenberg was not the only one to foster the idea that the weight of such a bomb would be an impediment to its realisation. Both Heisenberg and Yoshio Nishina were students under Niels Bohr. Nishina went on to become Japan’s eminent physicist and to work on Japan’s own atomic bomb but even he had some ambivalence about such a weapon. As recorded in the minutes of the meeting on the 2nd July 1943 at Riken, Tokyo, after describing some technical aspects to Lt. Gen. Nobu-uji, Nishina adds “ that is to say, the weight of this thing would be enormous and because of this, the opinion is that it would not be suitable (as a bomb)”.
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Sunawachi bombu no jyuryo jindai naru mono to naru wo motte tekito narazarubeshi tono kenkai nari.”
agreed on second part that TMDb is the only real alternative, it has information about each movie and TV show, discussion for each of them and you can even import there your IMDb ratings and watchlist, plus is run since 2008 and edited by its users plus developer is very responsive and provide API free of charge
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You are fully within your legal right (based on most countries data protection laws - I do not know where you are), to reach out to MovieChat.org and request formally your data be deleted. If it bothers you that much, I fully recommend you do so.

However, surely rule #1 of the internet is, once you've posted it, it's out there forever. Are you going to go around to every cache server, and everyone's browser cache and demand that your comments be deleted from there as well ?
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I quit a high flying job to research ASD when my son was diagnosed years ago and have read every single paper and website I could find.

My broad conclusion from this is that ASD is a condition caused by lots of different factors with common symptoms.

This makes treatments tough as ASD caused by oxidative stress would respond badly to treatments that work great on ASD caused by reductive stress for example (eg ASD symptoms that seem to get 'better' when taking paracetamol vs ASD made worse by it).

Thus when treatments are tried across the population you get odd results if you're not sub-dividing the groups into likely etiology, I've tried to look for statistically significant sets taking this into account.

The key dysfunctional system in most ASD seems to be the balance between the excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters GABA and Glutamate.

The two broad groups for this appear to reflect 'classical' autism, ie same from birth vs 'regressive' ASD, for example secondary to mitochondrial dysfunction where there is a sudden loss of ability.

For the former, a common cause appears to be GABA dysfunction, which the blog epiphanyasd.blogspot.com does a great job pulling together the research on.

In this case GABA doesn't flip to inhibitory from excitatory at birth and this could show up in brain scans for this subset of children with ASD..

The treatment options are interesting in this regard, but the 'safest' trial to check this dysfunction I've found is micro-dosage clonazepam (40mcg), which is already prescribed to children with anxiety (at 500-1000mcg doses). At this subclinical dosage, it should have no impact unless there is a dysfunction, but if it does (which it has in several families I know), then the research into other drugs that could treat this dysfunction becomes far more interesting (eg current trials in France by Ben Ari and Lemmonier on bumetanide).
Can they not make it open source to get help from the community? I am sure many would sign up to the cause.
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casio makes some good rugged phones... I guess they came up with a 3g 5mp camera feature phone
why would i participate on dumb backup of database, done without my consent (OP stole 14 years of my posts), when I can go to proper movie database with discussions, imported ratings and watchlist from IMDb, called TMDb (themoviedb.org)
Not brilliant. He was simply in the right place at the right time.
illegally scraped,IMDb doesn't have API for this and automated scraping OP done is against their TOS, not mentioning without consent of users, for instance stole 14 years worth of my posts
There's a pull request that can effectively fix this, by finally exposing the Chez Scheme C library. Then you can finally write custom boot kernels. I pinged on it recently but nobody updated. I might try resubmitting it.

I actually have a full demonstration of using Chez to build a full "Unix application" that works 'just as you would expect'. Comes with complete Chez support: profile-guided rebuilds, coverage support, C extensions, some basic test stuff, a custom C boot kernel, and utility for portable .tar.gz builds. It even correctly copies out the boot files for a reidstributable build.

I could have extended this to "unpack the boot file out of my own elf executable" for a truly reusable binary but that seemed overkill. Also, if you keep the boot files, it then becomes possible to still drop into a Chez prompt and load your boot file from there for early debugging, which can be convenient and I didn't want to spend more time on that.

But, uhhhh, you're right if you want a one off binary, Chicken or something is way better. I spent like a week working on that skeleton so I could start working on my application itself. And my Makefile to support all this is extremely intense. But it works pretty well now and is very reusable and generic.

I'll get around to releasing it now I suppose!
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For a one-man project, sure. Otherwise, the grand-parent is right.

To achieve anything hard you'll need a team of engineers. That single good manager is going to be the one that attracts and retains those good engineers. You need few good managers but they're much harder to find.
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should not it be the other way? first he should have consent to publish that data and not that he illegally copy data and publish them and i must perform some action when he did some illegal?

as much as i hate IMDb shutting down boards i hope they will close this illegal website

OTOH i have no problem with recognized Archive.org instead of this solo thief
I'm going through Sedgewick's class right now. Is the MIT OCW's course math heavy? It lists "Mathematics for Computer Scientists" as a prerequisite, I am somewhat familiar with the material, but not in a very deep level. Should I take that one before?
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Ask HN: Best way to store large amount of binary files?
What is the best technology to store a large amount of binary files?

I thought about this problem and explored the solution space but still fail to get a final answer. The problem with flat file storage is that the size of the directories grows very large making backups and browsing a pain. And the dbms solution has the disadvantage over beeing not browseable (using file system tools) and beeing a "black box" of sort.

Also I prefer solutions that are slick and do their job fast. That any alpha/beta projects are out of the question for a durable data store, is obvious IMHO.
I'm doing my thesis in numerics for symplectic flow maps, and was really excited to see the popular press to somewhat cover the world I'm living in.

I also spent days on end joking about how the new generation of alt-medicine gurus will be "symplectic holistic healers" and how I want a piece of that. Out with quantum theory, in with symplectic physics!
> third party script with local admin rights

Why? Just have it drop the certs in some directory and then reload the services. Just give the account running the script permissions to only reload services.

I assume such is possible on Windows, but I don't know for sure because I only use Linux servers. It is trivial there, so I assume you can do it on Windows as well.
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They're doing a lot of research, so their personal views on how to leverage lisp/scheme heritage shows. For instance, they go deep into eDSL.
Can we start smaller? Say with a digital bill of rights?
I imagine a large part of Thorn's effectiveness comes from exploiting weaknesses in trafficker's infosec. If traffickers could see how the software works they could figure out ways to hide from it. That would likely be a net loss compared to what the open source community could do to help.
> Is there some benefit to giving a fuck?

I haven't seen one yet, save maybe doing so publicly in order to properly virtue-signal and keep the torches-and-pitchfork brigade off your back.

It gets very wearisome being berated all the time about diversity , when you just want to go build things. The compiler doesn't care if you're black, white, brown, or purple, and, honestly, I'm very suspicious of anyone who is more interested in the color of ones skin or, as you put it, the configuration of their junk, over getting the job done, done right, and done quickly.
I have no problem coming up with interesting ideas, either.

The problem is that they're usually only interesting to me :)
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