skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem I see with government welfare programs is that (1) they must provide comprehensive solutions with legal obligations, making the system prone to abuse (2) vulnerable to the "give me everything I want or I'll take it by force" problem (3) inefficient as much resources needs to be spent on re-election, playing politics, and dodging budget cuts.
Just like phone menus were meant to. Except they have become mostly universally loathed.

I can just imagine how much more annoying a "cute" pseudo-AI will be when I just want to get through to a human being.
Immigration is irrelevant. It's automation that's the real issue. And Pres Trump and his voters are living in some wistful golden era where Trump can bring back all of those magical jobs and "Make America Great Again"

Scrotus Trump has barely addressed education policy which is the solution to allow people to join the new knowledge economy. As a matter of fact he put a completely incompetent person in charge of the dept of education.

Trumps views are either dishonest, predatory, or completely delusional.. I'm not sure which.

The implications of all of them are terrifying.
Agreed. Very interesting to see behind the scenes.

Implanted search for a client using Algolia last month and was completely blown away. The speed queries returned at were amazing. (Although it wasn't my idea to use Algolia I'll definitely be looking for opportunities to use it again).
I tried the chatbot - I must admit I'm surprised how well it worked actually! Got me interested, I hope you don't mind a few questions:

When you write 'built i from scratch' what do you mean? That you handcrafted all the data?

How long did it take to develop this bot, and what technologies did you use?
As far as churches go, the Mormon church does not have "notorious hostility" toward LGBT persons, and does everything it can to give hope to youth who feel they may be part of that group.

It is true that Mormons maintain a doctrine that forbids homosexual behavior. Other than giving that up, they've done everything they can to be welcoming and accepting of gay people, regularly encouraging members to be civil, kind, and sympathetic to those who engage in homosexual behavior, despite disagreements with reference to the propriety of the conduct.

Gay people can and do attend church services, and are included in church activities insofar as their personal compliance with worthiness standards allows. The Church has emphasized repeatedly that homosexual proclivities or temptations themselves are not sinful.

Gay couples even attend church as couples, and the congregation is expected to be warm and non-judgmental.

See https://mormonandgay.lds.org/ .
Once I wrote a library for double-to-string conversion and vice versa, which handles such roundings nicely: https://github.com/mkupchik/dconvstr

Key idea is not just to map binary floating point value X to a decimal floating point value Y, but instead (in extended precision, with 64-bit mantissa) compute an interval of decimal floating point values [Y1, Y2] which maps back to X (in standard precision, with 53-bit mantissa). Then choose such Y from [Y1, Y2] that Y has the shortest decimal representation.
We do what our friends do and upvote what is already upvoted. When the two identical links got posted, the first few drive-by voters opted for the first rather than the second. Other late clickers simply upvoted what was already upvoted. The derogatory term for that is "hivemind" and the effect is fairly common on Reddit or any other social media with anonymous users.
There is a simple dichotomy that challenges every individual in our society.

At the personal level, we are told that we "need to take care of ourselves."

Simultaneously, at the macro level, we are told that we need to "trust in established institutions." Government, corporate, etc. Institutions that are ever more "globalized."

Well, which is it? More and more people are realizing -- re-learning -- that you have to have local control in order to take care of yourself.

And, if you can't take care of yourself, what does the rest matter? There's only so far that the rhetoric of "sacrifice" will take a social system (aka society) that is destroying its inhabitants.
You might want to read "Save the Cat!" which gives a lot of practical tips for structuring your screenplay so people won't automatically nix it. A friend from a top film school (for whatever that's worth) had it as part of his curriculum.
Ask HN: What is the best VPN provider?
After the post by Bryan Krebs I started investigation what would be the VPN used by him.

The list suggested by him https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/ has some interesting points. What do you think he is using? Also, what are you using and why?
This is where I'm a bit baffled by the implication this is some hot new thing. I've been using Google as a smart command line for a couple of years now. The speech interface on my phone was an incremental improvement to this.

There have been small improvements but the real breakthrough was a couple of years back when Google got good enough that i started typing search queries in plain English for most things.
Reading this thread and the discussion of the pros and cons of the shell, reminded me of this:

The Bentley-Knuth problem and solutions:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/07/the-bentley-knuth-problem...

It is about an interesting programming problem to do with text processing - involving finding word frequencies (apparently initially posed by Jon Bentley to Donald Knuth).

The above post (on my blog) has two solutions by me, in Python and shell, and links to the original discussion on another blog, where I first read about the problem - which was an interesting read, with many comments:

More shell, less egg:

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg...
Actually it is rather obvious, that is HAS to be social structures and not the individual. Look at any statistics about any aspect of a persons life, and it is almost always determined by that persons environment or genes. Evidence from the last years point towards that there is no such thing as free will. Studies show e.g. that we make our decisions way before we are conscious of it. Our rational for the choices we make, are most of the time post-rationalization. We makeup reasons after the choice has been made.

Put a random person from a bad neighborhood in a good one and they will almost always radically improve. You can look at IQ studies, correlation between IQ and genes is very high for a middle class, but very low for the poor. Hence middle class children reach the full potential of their genes while the environment is holding back the poor.

Look at the difference between West-Germany and DDR or North and South Korea. Huge difference in the outcome of each individual, yet it has nothing to do with personal traits but everything to do with the different society structures imposed on the people.

Focusing on the individual instead of society is also rather pointless as one can change society through policy but there is no way of changing an individual directly.
Well, XDR with some changes. In other words, yet another protocol.
It’s not obvious that 1/7 cannot be expressed in decimal, or 1/5 cannot be expressed in binary?
Sorry, I meant the Python GIL. Should've written that.
Why isn't Wikipedia made like this?
Hi, I’m the author of the Faiss GPU code.

The GPU implementation depends upon a lot of particularities in CUDA (warp shuffles and warp ballots, tricks with using register memory), and gets much of its speed in this way.

Much of the code would be much slower if unable to use register file memory and instead forced to use shared memory instead (the k-selection most notably). Some needed functionality is supported in OpenCL 2.0; e.g.,

https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenCL/sdk/2.0/docs/man/xht...

but are still extensions or implementation specific, and I wouldn’t hold my breath for them to work well.

OpenCL tends to be lowest common denominator and for bleeding-edge GPU programming it won’t map well. I don’t think shuffles are supported at all in OpenCL (?). They are available directly in AMD’s GPU ISA, but have slightly different semantics, and at that point you're just using something that is as proprietary as CUDA. Not to mention trying to support wavefront size 64 vs. warp size 32 etc:

http://gpuopen.com/amd-gcn-assembly-cross-lane-operations/
I've seen a strong correlation between my happiness and the amount of meat I consume, yes.

I'm sorry if that sounds facetious, but do I really need to demonstrate that most people enjoy eating meat? Well, they do. They enjoy it a lot.
Any country with nukes and a disdain and distrust for both its own people and any country not like them is definitely a threat. Look back at history - the biggest threats were the ones that did terrible things to their own people.

We're talking about a country with 100k+ CCTVs monitoring their own people, loaded with anti-US and anti-South Korean propaganda, forbids internet usage, starves its people, has a top 5 military while being the size of Pennsylvania, and enslaves 200k+ of their own people falsely.

What evidence do you have that they are not a threat?
In the US at least, almost half of elderly would be living in poverty but for social security. Most are not retiring and living off of investment income.
In Norway, apart from the well known sovereign investment fund investing abroad, the state also owns shares equivalent to about 1/3 of the total value of all companies listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. I'm sure you can go wrong there, but it clearly is also possible not to, as this model has worked quite well so far.
Why don't I ever hear about the role inflation plays in these matters. I've yet to hear an explanation I understand that explains the following questions:

If productivity is rising why isn't the costs of goods and services falling?

If the overall costs of goods and services are falling wouldn't that translate to less labor to maintain current standards of living?

If less labor to maintain current standards of living was a reality, why is less labor necessarily a problem?

If the goal of productivity and efficiency gains in the labor market is reduced costs in goods and services, why is price deflation of those goods and services a bad thing like we're continually told?

What is the real goal of a monetary inflation targets of 2%? Why 2% and not 3%?
You should just round the percentages to the nearest value of the appropriate precision, and let them sum to slightly more or less than 100% if that’s how the numbers work out. If you want, add an asterisk and a “note, numbers do not sum to 100% because of rounding” at the bottom.
I am from Brazil...

Let me see.

Laws requiring 30% of election candidates be women? check.
University quotas? Check.
Arguments about "not enough women in <insert random profession here>" because it is not 50% split? Check.

I guess your "No one reasonable is advocating for a mandated perfect 50/50 split." phrase is true, specially the reasonable part, it seems most politicians are unreasonable.
It was actually an email to a colleague who is a little too enthusiastic about serialization protocols. I thought it was funny rather than anything resembling advice.

I'll probably use messagepack instead of json in an upcoming project for performance reasons, and the fact it works better than the json thing in J.
Does the LLVM not count as a dependency?
This is an interesting article on many levels. For example, I think it is interesting to see how technology continues to offer us new insights into old scientific conclusions. It was also refreshing to read a scientific article that addressed both sides of the debate with a fair amount of neutrality. To me, this seems to be the wisest attitude to have when walking the path of discovery.

A couple of other things:

1. Is "neandertals" a misspelling of "neanderthals," or an accepted variant of the word that I'm not familiar with?

2. "Mushroom-munching" may not be the best phrase to have in a headline. At first, I thought it was a metaphor for prehistoric fellatio. On second thought, perhaps that was intentional. I mean, I read it.
Rational numbers are horrible for most numerical computing. The denominators double in length with every multiplication, so computation speed gets slow exponentially.

Any time there’s any degree of uncertainty about a quantity (e.g. it comes from a physical measurement) there’s also no longer any advantage to using rational arithmetic. This turns out to encompass most practical situations.

Rational arithmetic also breaks down entirely in the face of square roots or trig functions, unless you go for a fully symbolic computation environment, which gets even much slower.

Rational arithmetic is mostly nice when the problems have been carefully chosen so the operations will stay rational and the answers will work out nicely, e.g. in high school homework.
So is wonderous working for this company?
Do FB employees have a key granting them access to every member's profile page?
I don't see that cabaalis said that any limit is equally arbitrary, and I doubt s/he thinks that.

Some limits are more reasonable than others. Saying "you can have knives but the blade must be no more than 5mm long" would be stupid; so would saying "you can drive a car but no faster than 1mph". (Because in either case you might as well, and should in preference, just say "you may not"). Likewise for a limit of 10m or 500mph (because then you might as well, and should in preference, just not bother with the limits).

If you're going to have a limit on the length of a knife blade, presumably for the sake of a small reduction in knife crime, you want a limit long enough that some (non-criminally) useful knives are shorter and short enough that the restriction, if it reduces the number of long knives in circulation, would actually do something to impede crime.

It seems plausible that a 3-inch limit would do that. Maybe a 4-inch limit too. The exact choice of limit isn't completely arbitrary: some choices are better than others. But really, the only answer to "why 3 inches rather than 4?" is "that's where we happened to make the tradeoff".

I'm guessing (not least because the above all seems kinda obvious) that your actual objection is to having any limit at all. (Perhaps on the grounds of some more general libertarian principle?) That's a reasonable objection, but I don't think "why 3 inches rather than 4?" is a good way to make it.
I'm assuming op is a military veteran that was sent overseas to protect US interests in a civil war; one such example would be Somalia in the 90s.
I don't recall seeing 95% confidence intervals that narrow. Even the 90% confidence intervals I see are usually like 5-150 or something. (Also it would be super weird to me if the lower bound of someone's 95%CI was 50.)
Populations of commercially-important species are only about 50% of he size they were 100 years ago. And, i shit you not: that is a rather conservative estimate.

Don't take my work for it. The most cited number is 10%.

And farmed fish are wreaking havoc in the local marine environment wherever they are. Most countries have laws protecting water from "overnutrition" (which kills most marine life) yet the farmed fishing industry seems largely exempt from those laws. Outside my home town of 100.000 inhabitants they just opened a new salmon farm that lets out as much nitrogen into the water as would the whole town's sewer system if we just dumped it all at sea.

Fish might be sustainable from a co2(e) point of view, but most fisheries and fish farms are not.
Companies not in Silicon Valley.
> A church is not a government.

A church can be nothing like a government, very much like a government, a de facto government, or a de jure government.

In practice, relevant to the specific situation at hand, a religion which is both dominant in a region and possessed of a strong centralizee heirarchy often acts a lot like a government, though it's direct sanctions are generally social (though potentially very powerful in effect, including economically) and often also has substantial influence with the formal government.
The B-52s got revived again for the Iraq war :-)

Turns out the B-52 is hopelessly obsolete for its original design purpose, but as a cheap truck for delivering huge quantities of bombs on target it has found a lot of utility.
A joke I heard once is that entering Provo you see a sign: "Have a Nice Day. It's the Law."
I thought that the Phalanx was in the process of being phased out in favor of some short range missile system (RAM?)? Phalanx is awesome for taking out subsonic missiles flying a straight trajectory. A mach 3 monster doing evasive maneuvers, not so much..

Think of the problem:

- At Mach 3, the missile is flying at roughly the same speed as the unguided bullets the thing is firing. If it's additionally doing evasive maneuvers it's going to be pretty hard to hit.. (though I guess at Mach 3 it's not going to do very much acrobatics, but perhaps even a little bit is enough to make the CIWS miss?)

- Mach 3 is close to a km per second, and I guess the realistic range for a 20 mm cannon isn't that much, lets say 4 km for the sake of argument. And below, say, 1 km it probably doesn't matter if you keep firing at it or not, it's likely to hit you out of sheer inertia even if you hit it. So that gives you around 3s time to fire and adjust the aim. Not very much..
You might be interested in interval arithmetics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic
If you can write n=p/q with p and q relatively prime using d digits after the decimal point in base 10, 10^d times n is an integer. We also have

10^d*n = 10^d*p/q

so 10^d*p must be divisible by q. Since p and q are relatively prime, 10^d must be divible by q. That's only possible if all prime factors of q are 2 or 5.
> A strong focus should be on "a path to employment", your job is to follow the path and you are guaranteed to have a job. (Which may be following a different education path (retraining))

Here's another idea. If the millions of people who are in the US illegally and working here were to be deported, and new ones stopped from coming in, it would open up jobs for the millions of American citizens with below-average IQs who are currently unable to find work. And it would increase the wages for all of the American citizens who do low-skilled work.
Python does this, for example (but likely in a more efficient way): http://bugs.python.org/issue1580

See also http://www.netlib.org/fp/ http://web.archive.org/web/20060908072403/http://ftp.ccs.neu...

So for instance 0.29999999999999993 + 0.00000000000000003 -> 0.3, but 0.30000000000000002 -> 0.30000000000000004

Note that this will still not solve the 0.1 + 0.2 problem from the OP, since the nearest float to 0.3 is not actually the same as the nearest float to 0.1 + 0.2.
Lead qualification as a service is a growing segment.

http://www.upcall.com is a thing.

Also, people are tired of bots signing up.

http://ringcaptcha.com is a thing.
Rapid mocking and testing.
That's basically how Gay's dtoa works, and you'll find it copied into many projects—Python, for example, uses it for repr().

http://www.netlib.org/fp/dtoa.c
OP did not mention anything about legal drugs. Id rather it be preachy and inform him and others that it is not difficult to get a prescription for Adderall if you have ADD symptoms.
AirVPN is pretty good. Modern crypto and uses OpenNIC DNS servers. You can lock the connection so it doesn't do IPv6 leaks and such. Clients are open source.
e.g. Docker, too.
May be there is something wrong with connection? You can try using mobile signal booster, here is example of it:
https://www.phonesignalboosters.co.uk/
> you just need to get used to it, then you can read and write the bytes in a hexdump as easily as you can English. In fact I'd prefer working with hexdumps to XML. But unfortunately there's now a whole generation of developers who can't even count to 2 in binary and don't know what a hex editor is...

Man, when I read this, all I can think is "real programmers don't eat quiche." [1]

We will continue to see more abstraction in our tools. By and large, the changes we've seen so far have made us more productive as programmers. You should try quiche sometime. You might like it.

http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers
US Army “Visual Signals” manual gets first update in 30 years [pdf]
Revolvers are semi automatic. Breach loader or bolt action might be a better metaphor?

Anyway, we have enough human bodies laying around that the most ineffective weapons can be mobilized to grave consequences. What you need is motivation.

Also, if north americans are squeamish about developing new weaponry, that just means the rest of the world will catch up and surpass them. This creates a sort of power vacuum which would inevitably lead to an invasion or a civil war. I would argue that that's a worse outcome than outright war.
Oh wow, the poor server is having trouble handling the new traffic! Thanks for checking it out though! Will try to resolve asap
Cloudera Files for IPO
http://www.engineersf.com/2016/04/17/a-list-of-the-technolog...

I put together a primer on all the new healthcare technologies so you can get more context on the technologies available.

I'm an advisor to semantic.md. If you want to talk to anybody on our team with an MD background who works on the tech side of things, would be happy to arrange that.

I love seeing MDs go in this direction.

Check out http://www.enzyme.io as well. Kind of a cool app I spotted a few days ago in the med-device space.
I don't believe you are required to provide your criminal history to physicians.
> why are their wives able to fair better

It's right there in his comment:

> I think the point he's really making is that there are a lot of men who aren't cut out for higher education or technical school. It's not that they're not capable people, but it's that they think very concretely and it's difficult for them to grasp higher education because of all of the abstractions.

Women are actually pretty good at that. I say this as a man who really struggles with it, with a few friends that have the same issue.
No, see, you can file your customs paperwork digitally.
Tin whisker incidents
> or that I don't know how to calculate them.

apologies, I don't know your background nor do I have an insight as to what goes on in your head. All I wanted to point out is that it's actually not a surprising growth rate. And while yes, you are right about the "speed" of the function. However that is not "unexpected". At least I don't find that to be the case personally!
I've read through this page a few times in the past and still find it difficult to get my head around the math involved.
There is nothing wrong with consuming hormones or cholesterol.
Handcuffing Cities to Help Telecom Giants
lol, this is comical. White people are not persecuted by a major US political party run by and composed of mostly whites. Sure, some people perceive it so because they have a narrow...argh...different understanding of the world.
Definition of: Liberal Hysteria.
Emphatic != Empathetic