skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Cray 1 was done before anyone realized the importance of denormals. And denormals are gruesome to implement on vector machines anyway.
I'm very glad that they are shipping first, and trying to fix the binary blob issues later. If they tried to completely free the system first, they would never ship anything and once they did, it would already be terribly out of date (though these aren't state of the art anyway).
That's an excellent explanation for why scientific computing has been using vectors for a long time and has traditionally faulted when hitting the first NaN. Is there something about Tensorflow that makes propagating NaNs useful? And if so, why are you generalizing from Tensorflow to all "vectorized operations"?
Reminds me of the people who think we'll be able to plug our phones into a dock and have a portable pc everywhere, there will always be trade offs.
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I wouldn't say there's an abstraction layer between the kernel an programs; my understanding is that it's in the kernel and no more an abstraction layer than Win32.
Numbers have been crunched and conclusions have been drawn.
If you're talking about when all the coal was buried, that was about 350 million years ago in the Carboniferous Period (so named because that's when the plant matter that became our coal was laid down). And yeah, it does appear the Sun was about 2-3% less intense, corresponding to roughly 2-3 degrees Celsius in the case of a blackbody at equilibrium in space.
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/files/2013/01/sun-gr...
That kind of "we must actively prevent such stories" censorship approach is exactly what the government is doing.

A story of quite significance to our daily lives is not off topic here.
I haven't tried the DX. Ideally I'd like a monitor that was bigger than the standard 8.5x11 PDF page.

The other use case for it being a monitor is ease of use. It is slightly difficult to transfer a PDF to a Kindle; not very difficult I know, but enough that I rarely do it.

I think you are right about manufacturing scale. LCDs have such incredible scale I don't think e-ink could ever match, unless there was a combined e-ink LCD.

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Side note, that 13.3 e-ink kit looks suspiciously like the Dasung Paperlike form factor.
I've gotten the "pleurisy" diagnosis, twice even, and I don't believe it. Pleurisy seems to be the catch-all default diagnosis for when they can't find anything wrong and just want you to go away. There isn't actual evidence in favor of pleurisy, just the inability to find something else wrong.

In the first case, I'm pretty sure I had a panic attack. At least they served me bacon and eggs, probably hoping for a repeat customer with a real heart attack.

In the second case, I'm pretty sure I pinched a nerve in my back. I got shoulder pain associated with movement. I then got pain in the front -- but remember that a nerve pinched in one spot can cause pain to be felt elsewhere. Other back-related issues in the days afterward lead me to my conclusion.

I'm now way less inclined to go in to the emergency room. I don't want to spend 12 hours with an IV hurting my arm, no privacy, no sleep, and not being able to work on anything. One of the times the doctor even cleared me to go home, but the nurses didn't bother to remove the IV for hours afterward. Being in the emergency room isn't harmless; it is a place where diseases spread.
Only a subset of scientific codes benefit from denormals, and it does not appear that implementing them is that big of a deal, given that 4-stage pipelines can do it. The pipeline depth to memory is a lot bigger than 4.
> Problem-solving is not a mechanical task

Food for thought: how sure are we that this statement is true? What does it even mean, seen from a cybernetics perspective? How complex does a task need to be until it's not considered mechanical anymore? Isn't the brain, eventually, a very complex biological machine?
I think that's probably bullshit. Snapchat can restrict the ads they show as much as they want, as long as they're not discriminating against any protected classes of people.

They have a whole page covering the limitations and what types of things aren't allowed: https://www.snap.com/en-US/ad-policies/
Clojure and Kotlin are, for me, the brightest stars in the JVM sky. However, I fear Clojure adoption has peaked at its current low rate probably because it was never aimed at the corporate Java world as Kotlin is. Clojure appeals more to the software artisan which is a valuable niche in itself but its syntax, which is its strength, is so different from Java's that I think it is rarely seen as an alternative to Java.
> With the advance of the internet marketing,

This is a myth. I've just parted ways with a second company in a row that had to discover for themselves that 'internet marketing' wouldn't magically solve their top-of-the-funnel problem.
How would every last human die? I mean, sure, millions or even billions . . . but not one human surviving with all the resources and resourcefulness we have at our disposal?
Yep, and Safeway with over 1500 stores across the US/Mexico has a market cap $8.1B.
I wonder if you can send a 50MB attachment if using smtp-relay.gmail.com
Admittedly biased but can't help but think this article reads like something stating that Scala is indeed a "better Java".

Well, perhaps not "a better Java" but at least "better than Java".
I found out the hard way that even though the dash still says it has 80km to go until empty, my car will not start if parked on a steep incline. I live on a hill of course.

Unfortunately I ended up learning this lesson twice because I'm a dummy who needs to test boundaries. But at least I had the jerry can from the first time on the second occasion.
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or.. use cloudfront. It will probably be much cheaper to use cloudfront than the instance scaling required as your traffic increases.
> very interesting results concerning machine learning

This is the big chance for alternative number formats. a whole lot of people are working on neural net ASICs these days and IEEE 754 is not a requirement. A new number format with a low power/low area hardware implementation could easily find adoption in this new area.
The movement to find justice for abused female engineers and workers would do well to separate themselves from ellen pao. She is a victim to noone.
Those people aren't the people the NRA is trying to reach. They're on the wrong side of the issue as far as the NRA cares. The people who don't feel strongly about the issue are the ones the NRA wants to reach. They have a few seconds to snap them back into reality after consuming a bunch of sob stories about violent crime.
It's been just over a year since they received funding, and it's still early 2017. Give it time; if this really comes to market I'm sure we will all hear about it.
Not quite correct. When you're discussing the death of innocent people, children, etc. some tact is appropriate. I'm generally pro-gun but yelling at the top of your lungs about how great guns are to the parents of the victims of sandy hook is completely repulsive and something I'm sure you would never do.

Pro-gun ads are great but if they appear right after a haunting piece about a child killed through gun violence they are disgusting unless they are very, very tactful (which I have never seen from ANY ad). They shouldn't be placed there because it's offensive (and it does no favor to the pro-gun cause). I think that's on snap chat to avoid those instances always.

You could say hyper-emotional appeals about the victims shouldn't be done, and I'd agree with you, but they are done, so tact is important.
Yeah I live off of Loudoun parkway and there are three or four of them going up now and 4 on my street built in the last two years.
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I see Uber, Lyft, Amazon Fresh, Instacart, etc and I can't understand why they take the market by storm like that. They are not the first to ever think about that, their service isn't super great (except for Amazon, I'd say) and still, in the US, it seems like the market just sits and waits for them. Then a majority of people jumps in and the thing skyrockets.

Meanwhile, in other countries, small to medium-sized companies have had online groceries ordering for many years, local taxi unions have had websites and recently apps, and still... it's like OMG so much innovation from US companies let's give them crazy valuations.

What gives? Is it market size?
So about 50% of US citizens you would treat like holocaust deniers/flat-earthers?

http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/10/04/public-views-on-climat...
But some projects don't have the copyright of the original author/s, particularly forked ones.
I didn't realize that feature exists until I read your post. Neat!
> Remember too that Base64 encoding increases file size by 33%.

We really shouldn't have to use an encoding scheme that has that kind of overhead. According to the SMTP RFC 5321 section 3.1.1.4 [1], data sent during the DATA phase may contain any of the 128 ASCII characters (though control characters should be avoided). Based on my testing with a couple of commercial SMTP servers I have accounts on, it appears that it will allow almost all characters (0 - 255) through unaltered or escaped except for NUL, CR, LF, and . (in the first column only).

Interestingly enough, the binary newsgroup hierarchy uses an encoding termed yEnc [2] that actually uses almost all ascii characters (other than the ones I mentioned above) to encode binaries and puts the resulting data directly in the body of the news article. It appears that it would work just as well over SMTP and only has roughly a 2% overhead compared to the original file size. Unfortunately, that encoding is just a defacto standard and has not, to my knowledge, ever been submitted as an RFC or used outside of binary newsgroups.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321

[2] http://www.yenc.org/yenc-draft.1.3.txt
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It's off topic for everyone not based in the US. There are more appropriate forums for this discussion.
"The USA tells us their model of capitalism is the best. They apply their system to healthcare. It utterly fails to deliver versus "socialist" solutions.
At what point are you guys going to join the dots on this contradiction?"

Perhaps we interpreted these paragraphs differently because I read it as saying "when are we going to connect the dots and see that capitalism is not the best because it utterly fails in healthcare and thus by extension elsewhere too"
[ I have no idea why people are downvoting me, so I'll just remove this comment. ]
What is the practical application of this?
Yeah I just got back from staying with the inlaws for a couple of months and working remote and I was dying to have real food again. You could literally eat food from a different country every day for a month here without trying too hard.
> I want to emphasize that NN means that people in Iraq who now can have access to a snapshot of the world's knowledge absolutely free wouldn't have that option anymore.

Not free. The costs are being covered by increased pricing on the rest of their phone usage.
Are they counting pass-through as revenue?
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What was huge, was the perception that trade, specifically NAFTA, China, and TPP cause people to lose their jobs. The perception that the elite, and Hilary Clinton, supported those things, even when sometimes they said they didn't is what caused the backlash.
While I think now is probably the time for lyft to strike while the iron is hot, I appreciate nytimes' candor in acknowledging neither Lyft nor Uber has demonstrated a "financially viable business". The road ahead is undoubtedly not easy for Lyft.
> A story of quite significance to our daily lives is not off topic here.

Well, the site guidelines[1] would disagree with you:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Again, If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I can see it now.

How many microservices are needed for a CMS webapp?

a. 17
b. 34
c. When you do service discovery properly, you don't need to count.
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Nice! That's some good citizenry.

Interesting fact: Justine was the founder of occupywallst.org, which was the highest-trafficked publisher/web hub for the Occupy Wall Street movement before she worked for Google.
If you consider every iterative algorithm that solves systems of nonlinear equations a subset you cam ignore.... SPICE, linpack, fishpack.... sorry, denormals are essential to today's algorithms.

As to "no big deal".... show me your code.

Don't worry, I'll be able to understand it. After 20 years as a CPU designer I've learned how to understand bit-bashing.
Great post, I love it!

I definitely have an opiniosn.

I've raised money, couldn't raise money, have had friends that couldn't, have ended up having friends slogging through to become millionaires without any vc, and even turned down rounds hoping to get more.

Now when I look back and think "how would I do this now?" I come to two conclusions.

1. If I want to own an idea as a business owner over the long term, then I don't care about investors. This is my Basecamp spidey sense and convictions. My happy path.

2. My idea is great, I need some money. However.... Nowadays I'm thinking along the lines of "long term (hopefully,, but I suspect that most people don't care bs long term"", which is not SV or wall st friendly. I am seriously looking at non-profit.

Uggggh!

I've been through #1 a gazillion times and now, since I have a family and a diff outlook on life, I'm looking longer term.

But, how does the 'family dude' perspective conflict with the Uber perspective?

Growth is the altar that we all kneel to. The Iron Throne. But, it doesn't have to be this way. Granted, we all have Maslow's needs and that varies based on a number of factors (geographic, personal, etc). But in the end, what is our purpose?

Are we here to sustain sexual harassment via star pupils at Uber so they that their 'CEO' can grow? (At the expense of human beings?)

What is the point of growth or even exponential growth? Money? Riches?

Look, I think YC is better than not and I think that we - we tech people - need to lead the way because we 'can'. Thumbs up on riches, algorithms, and technology. These are awesome progressive things!

But, seriously, after going thru the vc grinder, seeing the cap tables of founders and everyone else and then THEN (stupidly) agreeing to this inequity.. Well, the fault is obviously mine but there is is (a lot) of fault with these pump and dump startups.
Early returns here will require duplicated free() calls, which makes it hard to prevent leaks.

This coding style is standard practice for Win32 API development.
Can also be done with an animated SVG, like so: https://gist.github.com/kentbrew/873fabf69f678a7b1d6127ea6e0...
When the logging industry finds certain invasive species on land it owns it clear cuts, chips and burns a few square miles just to be on the safe side.

I have no problem with science taking that approach. At least it keeps it fairly pure.
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If you're seriously asking: for the most part the tools are in-house. There isn't a single widely used framework (to my knowledge...) that covers everything. Basically, you'd use a mix of something like redis, beautifulsoup, digitalocean, ansible, a fleet of shady proxies and various middleware for everything. Throw in postgres too.

If you're not using the API, all you're doing is programmatically signing up for accounts, storing the corresponding login credentials, writing a little library that assigns all outgoing bot activities to a user-agent and proxy, queues their activities and executes them. Naturally you have a little library that manages the random profile information creator - collect CSVs from data.gov such that you can create convincing random names and addresses, then use random profile pictures from Google images.

The secret sauce is not in the orchestration (someone could wrap all this up into a framework pretty easily), it's in the structuring of activities so that you don't get caught by e.g. having your bots follow each other incestuously. That's a rather less automated process and require active vigilance and tweaking.

What I have seen work in the past is partitioning the botnet such that blocks of them slowly establish signal to noisy credibility in specific niches before intermingling. Many botnet creators attempt to create a multiplier effect, recursively improving their aggregate signal score by having the bots in a massive echo chamber with each other. This is easily caught.

Bot block A should have a few thousand from around the country commenting on the election and sometimes posting memes from reddit. Bot block B should retweet thinkpieces from the tech industry and be the first submitter of various obscure but passable Medium articles. And so on, and so forth. Basically, have the bots act like humans who mostly talk about one category of thing on Twitter, but who still have enough nuance to not seem spammy.

Once your botnet hits a critical mass, you no longer need to do this as strictly in the future. You can spin up new bot blocks quickly and have the mature blocks retweet and interact with them to bring them up to the requisite signal score more quickly. At this point you can capitalize on trends and have a credible mass of followers influencing a conversation on Twitter within hours or days of the trend emerging. As it snowballs, you compound the other blocks to simulate rippling popularity throughout the system (i.e. trends become less about one niche and more about everyone, like Uber->Uber's Sexual Harassment Scandal->Sexual Harassment).

The other secret sauce is in successfully managing the network on a budget, because while all those proxies are what diversify your botnet's origins, individual proxies typically score negatively for websites actively looking to reduce bots.
Weaving is mechanical yes.

It is also very difficult to do unless you are just making plain single color fabric.
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I wish it were true but major parts of my time are not using FOSS; iOS app dev & embedded dev notably.
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I see nothing on the libraries.io website that explains how it would be used to solve the problem described in the OP.
Yes, I agree that the idea that with continued automation humanity's role on earth will become un-necessary and superfluous (the useless that I believe you are referring to) is hogwash and not a concern.

The reason for the automation revolution (I just coined that phrase) is allow humanity to become a better citizen of the planet and not to discarded.
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Kotlin 1.1 + Reactor (http://projectreactor.io/) has erlang style messaging passing paradigms, world class tooling and is gradually replaceable (class-by-class) for Java.

It's going to be interesting comparing the adoption curves of both these languages especially after Java 9 and most importantly Graal (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/graal/) .
Trump address Twitter numbers appear to be boosted by 'bots'
The problem is that there are large portions of the country that answer no to: "Are you living at a higher material standard than the people in the 1980's?".
40% of global population lives in coastal areas of lesser elevation than 50m.[1] That is more like 3 billion people. Syrian refugee crisis seems quite insignificant in comparison. Of course, only one of those is currently underway, and we don't really know how fast sea levels will rise.

[1] http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/methodolog...
The only unrealistic expectation is thinking people will be happy working unequally hard for equal pay. Capitalism funnels that motivation to set oneself apart into a system where many can benefit from the creations of a relative few. Politics came about long before the first political system. It stems from the evolutionary compulsion to compete and reproduce. There will always be in-crowds and out-crowds of any group of sufficient size. This is where cronyism comes from. Not the political systems themselves. Humans play favorites, not free markets
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He was having occasional shortness of breath at night. He wasn't particularly good at reporting symptoms, and our GP was a bit of a dingdong (he should have been rushed to a cardiac unit in retrospect after a recent round of testing, rather than be sent home).
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I'm sure the world will recover just fine in a few hundred million years.
> This isn't true of Ada, Modula-3 or Eiffel generics.

I'm not familiar with those languages, but it appears that Eiffel and Modula-3 generics only work with boxed (implemented as pass-by-reference) types, and Eiffel doesn't have pass-by-value types at all.

It does look like Ada generics fulfil those three conditions.
The problem here is that there is objectively no difference between the two scenarios you laid out (because there is no evidence either way). It is purely a matter of "optics" in both situations (trust or lack thereof), so your interpretation is wholly dependent on what other news about that particular person you've read.
Forgive me if this is me being dense, but from an outsider's perspective I don't understand what makes Lyft any better than Uber. Neither company properly categorizes their drivers (as employees), both have a rather sizeable cut from fares, both depended on being basically illegal cabs--except for Uber Black, which uses licensed black car services--to get started, and neither has a financially viable business model.

Why is either business the cat's meow?
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