skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How often do you really care about the sin of large floating-point numbers?
More accessible to the hard of hearing, too. I hope this model takes off.
Inflation or deflation is basically driven by the balance of goods and services available against money being spent. If your hairdresser say is full all the time you raise prices, if it's empty you give discounts.

At the moment if you handed everyone more cash without an increase in output you would get inflation.

If you took the money from the rich and gave it to the poor you might get some inflation in basic goods as the poor tend to spend their money while the rich invest it. Also possibly deflation in luxury condos. This probably isn't going to happen in a hurry due to politics.

If robots start producing a lot of goods and services then giving more money to people would not necessarily be inflationary and there would be more money spent but more goods and services also. Your hairdresser would have twice the customers but employ robo-haircutters rather than raise prices as it were. I could see something along these lines being gradually rolled out with the amount of basic income increasing as human labour became less necessary.
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Coincidentally I've also thought about creating a "better x86", but in the opposite direction: on the basis that segmentation is extremely powerful and useful, I think it would've been better for all the various virtualisation extensions to be based on the same model that V86 and protected mode started: segment descriptors of different types. That would allow V86, 16, 32, and 64-bit (using "double-wide" descriptors, to allow a 64-bit base and limit to fit) protected mode "tasks" or VMs to coexist completely, and the OS to switch between them easily. There are enough reserved spaces in the existing specification to allow these to fit nicely (in fact, what I came up with fits so neatly that I wonder if Intel had originally envisioned them for this purpose, if AMD hadn't beaten them with AMD64.)

Instead, now we have partially-backwards-compatible (and even slightly different) AMD64/Intel64 and at least two non-interoperable virtualisation extensions (AMD-V, VT-x).
for me personally i dont really have a choice...to continue the analogy, its nice to have friends and go to parties. but instead of throwing hysterics when married lisa makes a drunken pass at married brad...i get to chide the bartender for overserving and wait until midnight.
Blocking talent? Or not in need of the talent offered at the price expected?
I have used inheritance twice in the past two years. Here is the most recent example. The code is from an iOS application written in Swift. The task was to write a quiz application. I used a combination of a protocol and a base class to avoid duplicating the code to advance to the next question. All view controllers implement the Scorable protocol and the view controllers for individual questions all inherit from ScorableViewController.

// Scorable.swift

import Foundation

protocol Scorable {
var totalScore : Int {get set}
}

// ScorableViewController.swift

import UIKit

class ScorableViewController: UIViewController, Scorable {

//overrides here...

//This class exists to share the following code.
var totalScore : Int = 0
var currentChoice : Selection? = nil

final var choseOption : Bool {
get {
return currentChoice != nil
}
}

final override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
precondition(choseOption, "must choose option before proceeding")
precondition(segue.identifier != nil, "identifier is nil")
precondition(!segue.identifier!.isEmpty, "identifier is empty")
var dest = segue.destination as! Scorable
dest.totalScore = Selection.add(score: totalScore, selection: currentChoice!)
}
}
jews: you are depressed and burned out

me: put on a show

jews: what show?

me: jews starving to death
> This page crashes my chrome tab!!

The problem appears to be the SVG image http://mooooo.ooo/chebyshev-sine-approximation/horner_ulp.sv..., which has a path of 5000+ points.
It still won't solve the "Qualcomm won't update the BSP" issue, though.
They say they need it. They often do need it to achieve their goals. Then they block everyone that can do it unless they'll do it for a ridiculously low amount. One so low that it seems to result in half-assed results in most IT work that cause them trouble down the line. They just can't afford that $10-20k for real production work.

That said, they can pay someone $1+ mil a year to let the people under him do all the work. Give executives raises. Pay for meetings in expensive hotels that could happen over the phone. Buy lavish furnishings for their buildings. So on and so forth. Don't buy into the idea that most of these companies are ultra-rational actors investing only what they need for the benefit of the company. Lots of politics, gaming the numbers, and people on top trying to move more money their way in most of them.
Of course, such devices can put their code in ROM, and so any malware would not survive a reboot.
Perl 6 does have macros but they are not quite mature and that would probably be overkill for a six coefficients polynomial. Reduce should be pretty fast anyway.
> We tend to think of that as social engineering and Godless communism.

Come on, you're making an argument for universal basic income, but you obviously aren't educated enough to make an argument for or against it if you think only religious bigots and those lacking your level of sophistication are the majority of the opposition. Learn some opposing views, Buddy
IIRC the margin for single payer healthcare being not considered under Obama was Joe Lieberman demanding it be removed from the ACA/Obamacare in the Senate. And this was only because the Democrats were honoring the filibuster so they wanted 60 votes, when they could have removed the filibuster like the GOP did for the Supreme Court nomination.
Sorry, Dave, I can't code that: AI's prejudice problem
I should've broken up the comment a bit as it looks like I meant all MS Research as you said. I meant to say something along the lines of (1) MS Research is doing a lot of great stuff with some examples and (2) Butler Lampson should've been on the parent's list of top talent at Microsoft. Appreciate you telling me about the mistake, though. :)
> The OCaml garbage collector is a modern hybrid generational/incremental collector which outperforms hand-allocation in most cases. Unlike the Java GC, which gives GCs a bad name, the OCaml GC doesn't allocate huge amounts of memory at start-up, nor does it appear to have arbitrary fixed limits that need to be overridden by hand.

From the linked article. Can anyone confirm or deny this? I have hard time believing this statement.
Is President Trump on track?
Wow, I can't believe the cynicism and bile in this thread. Even the title of the submission!

I didn't get to participate in this game, but I played in a elaborate plot-based scavenger hunt that some friends of mine in San Luis Obispo spent months (and thousands of dollars) planning. It was incredible, and I feel very special and honored to be one of the relatively few people invited to participate. Many months later some of the semi-permanent fixtures left behind caused some controversy and confusion in the papers: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/artic...

I had the kind of fun that you only get when someone burns a huge chunk of their life and treasure to make something for you. It's pretty clear from reading the vice article that the Latitude Society was a similar project. I live in SF and somehow completely missed the opportunity to participate, but I'm pretty sure I would have loved it.

Years ago EA tried to create a game called Majestic. It was an interactive fiction that interrupted you in the middle of your day, kinda like this. They screwed it up by doing things like playing "This is a a game." at the beginning of phone calls you would receive (thanks, legal), but it would be pretty lame to be reading headlines on HN bashing "EA's for-profit alternate reality game".
At this point, if one could guarantee that what one is selling is not a counterfeit, one has a leg up on Amazon.
I suspect there's considerable variance.
Is Jigsaw dead? Not quite
Didn't Russia/USSR basically do just that to the transural part of Russia/USSR? I don't think anyone today would think of devolving that part of Russia (or for that Matter China devolve Machuria (as the Japanese were hoping to do in wwII))

Once things settle down like that it's been too long and practical assimilation into the victors has long happened.

There are a few exceptions when the people are too dissimilar and assimilation has not completed as in Turkey and the Kurds.
#FUNcationFriday Is there enough FUN in your life? Win a drone Hurry
It seems like very few viruses are "obvious" these days - aside from ransomware. How do you know what you're doing on these computers isn't affected or compromised in that case?
I want to master my craft, and i believe the way to do that is to have the application and the theory. being a rails + mobile dev teaches a bunch about the application side of programming and I find it fascinating.

In terms of the age thing, I get it. At 19 I hated being at school because I wanted to be making $20+/hour working on websites. But now at 25 and right under 6-figures, I see that I can simply work during the day and then go to school at night. It just means I have to do that for 4+ years. I started at 24, but I will not be done until I am 30. So, if I would have done it right the first time, and not dropped out, I __might__ have been further.

I don't regret it tho. I rolled the dice and although I was trying to hit the start-up lottery at that age (why I got into programming), I ended up on a great career with incredibly valuable experiences that I would not have had if I didn't drop out at 19.

8/10 would do again.
Too true - in this life it's good to be not too sure of anything because often we are wrong about everything. In the end it doesn't really matter to our everyday lives if you or I believe one way or the other...
Is this like a grown up version of "Cathy's Book? https://www.amazon.com/Cathys-Book-Found-Call-650-266-8233/d...
Right, and calling someone English when they're Welsh or Scottish may rather annoy them.

There's an animosity towards the English from the Welsh. I believe the Scottish generally feel the same way towards them. England are like family that we love, but we don't really like very much.

Northern Ireland is a bit of a tricky one because people from Northern Ireland generally consider themselves "Northern Irish", "British" or "Irish".

I don't know if anyone would take offence at "Northern Irish", but you don't want to incorrectly guess either of the others!
You will also never be able to justify hiring more expensively if you can instead use a cheap/free machine, which is of course where we're heading, since people refuse to acknowledge the truth in OP's quote.
No irony there. You need precise control over the machine to implement a paradigm accurately from the ground up. It's hard to do that using someone else's paradigm, living with their choices of what aspects of the machine are still revealed and which are hidden.
You are assuming a lot of things about me that are simply not based in reality and not based in my comments.

Don't do that. Be better.
In virtually all Linux distros you can switch software repositories or delay or block updates altogether. And if they go the Linux route they can always choose a distro maintained inside the EU.
I think the main point to focus on is not the relative condition of liveliness, but the mechanism of its generation - which is to have and engage with difficult life problems, struggling against them each day, even while knowing that there's some absurdity to it(because the premises are so often arbitrary).

In the popular context this always maps onto basic survival since it's very relatable and immediate: but for a person in a slightly more privileged state the problem is one of picking the thing to struggle with, because it's possible to walk away from so much of it, find a distraction and squander one more day. If walking away from everything were really the answer, suicide would be success, and we are disinclined to want to believe that. Neither does it work to try to engage with every problem you see as there are too many of those and you aren't going to be effective at all of them.

This motivates many of the conclusions of Stoic thought: the moderation, the development of awareness about one's sphere of control.
I went to a talk about dinosaurs once. Apparently you can volunteer for digs. But you have to work your way up if you want to work on fossils.

Does anyone have any experience with this and what it entails?
If Trump is confused and infuriated by digital catapults, no one should tell him about the nuclear submarines, lest he order them all to run on kerosene.
Amazing, thanks. My wife has OCD tendencies and has found mindfulness to be useful so far -- I've just ordered the second book for her.
The concept of minimum wage is beneficial to the big players as well, because the small players will eventually have neither the money to pay people more than they're worth nor the upfront capital to develop the machines to replace them.
Actually, I'm not anonymous.
Wikipedia does a great job of listing credited song writers, from what I've seen. Just check out the detail in a Beyonce or Maroon 5 album. It's like a public CV.

Edit: I just looked up a Maroon 5 album, "Overexposed" and found a few credits to M. Martin. So I clicked on "Daylight." M. Martin. Max Martin.
In hindsight, I guess "pet theory" made this sound like a joke question.
I believe single payer eliminates market competition to the detriment of all but those who can pay out of pocket.

A better way is to use UBI which a portion earmarked only to purchase health insurance. Instant universal coverage with consumer choice and market forces stay intact.
Basically someone used a service to commit a crime. A violent act with no thought past a con. This kind of stuff should stay off site in local news or something given we prefer thought-provoking stuff that expands our minds or (if law-related) gives us means to improve our situation.
Red, White and Blue Drinks
The site crashes the Chrome Tab on 57.0.2987.133 (64-bit) Windows when I scroll down :/
Same here, using Firefox. Worked fine in Chrome. The site's a bit overwrought.
Introducing the Payment Request API
Pathfinding algorithms visualized
You can use them for free if you put the Creative Commons credit on an acknowledgements page with a link to where you got it.
Probably because employees had the right to quit.
I found this to be a good starting point: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/01/why-your-mind-is-always...
> So would Mr. Xu have received the same negative public feedback if he had avoided the ground and pound, and won without perceived brutality?

I think Mr. Xu would not receive negative public feedback if he simply stops at knocking Mr. Wei down or simply choke hold (not deadly). After all, the fight was organized and started in a fair mood. I think before the result, most audiences are simply curious. And the ground pounding is quickly stopped and people rush to take care of Wei, which supports my belief on what is the real show stopper.

KO would be acceptable if it is perceived to be necessary, that is, if there were signs that Xu could lose without the quick KO.

By sacred cows, do you refer to cultural value system? If yes, then that is my point. If not, what will be the equivalent sacred cow in America?
Android Kotlin – Extensions Custom Functions
This isn't really true. I know that both Google and Amazon (and likely others) have their own versions of desktop Unbuntu, and, importantly, all software comes from their own PPAs (including OS / kernel updates).

In terms of the "kill switch" threat, this pretty much removes it.

Additionally, desktop Linux systems are similar and open enough that it wouldn't be a big deal to move to Debian / others if Canonical went up in smoke or were compromised. It certainly wouldn't cost end users file compatibility.
Trumpistan
Not trying to feel self important, I'm saying why I'm not hiring bootcamp people anymore. I could go through a litany of topics from OS, algorithms, networking, architecture, languages... if you are a magic box programmer, don't be shocked if I ask you how the magic box works and you have no clue.
> There are quite a small number of old martial art that's pretty decent still.

could you mention a few more? And distinguish if its possible which of those were generally practiced as highly competitive full contact sports (within their rulesets of forbidden strikes etc), and which mostly as a martial art?
Pride cometh before the fall - Chinese people. If it is untested it doesn't work - martial arts. It's hard for someone to recognize a falsehood if his livelihood depends on it - martial arts schools.

Money attracts talent. There is relatively little money in traditional martial arts. No money results in little talent.

That MMA fighter looks fit. That martial arts guy does not and looks totally unskilled backing up. You have no power in your body and legs backing up like.

Those raised arms are completely worthless. Tensed muscles cannot react. They need to release tension first thus slowing down reaction time.

Lessons from my father who was in the army when soldiers liked to fight each other.
Fiat Chrysler recalls 1.25m trucks over software error
Her reasoning is nonsensical. It may not be 'evil spirits', but 'the heartbeat pushes on the brain cells, that's bad' is hardly more rational.

If she wants her opinion to be taken seriously, give us something testable instead of new age woo about feelings of buoyancy.
@pron probably has the answer to this
What you've described is just one way a classloader can work, however, they can be implemented or hacked upon in a variety of ways.

Sure - maven does the work of resolving/flattening the dependency graph and downloading the libs - but it simply isn't a classloader.

That said, it might be possible to write a custom classloader which uses some bits of maven internally (provided there is a package to GAV index somewhere).
"Icons and text are exactly the same thing."

Nope. Icons are direct visual analogs of the things represented. There's just one layer of abstraction: thing -> picture of thing. An icon, at least in principle, looks like the thing represented (or at least like some important property of it).

That's feasible for "save" or "center the text", but starts to get pretty damned hard when it's something like "Earl Warren's opinion in Brown v. Board of Education".

Western text, by contrast, is a visual representation of the phonemes in the verbal representation of the thing.

Thing -> audio of word representing thing -> phonemes making up that word -> text.

There are at least two more layers of abstraction involved, with all the additional power that implies. The word "horse" has virtually nothing in common with a physical horse.

Another important difference: a literate person can immediately write down any word that can be spoken, and any other literate person (who has learned that same character set) can immediately reproduce the original spoken word.

(I'm assuming, arguendo, that we're using the IPA alphabet or some other character set that tries to cover all the world's phonemes in an unambiguous manner).

Icons, by contrast, have to be designed. Good ones take a lot of thought and artistic skill to create, and even then they are notoriously prone to misinterpretation or outright user bafflement.

'Text can be just as bad. Imagine reading "subtract b from a and divide that result by q" versus "(a - b) / q". The latter is a more efficient language which most everyone will understand. Better to use the latter.'

The latter is still text. It's just using a different written language. It is a compact representation of "subtract the second thing from the first thing and divide the result by the third thing". How on earth could you represent that using icons? It seems like it would be quite a challenge.
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Laptop ban extending to Europe?
You can download SVG versions of the icons.
I love using the original GLO maps from 1800s, you can find some fascinating long forgotten things on them. I enjoy a good map nerd session myself.
Inside the Chinese Subway Stop Built in the Middle of Nowhere
I dealt with OCD in the past and what helped me the most is what they call Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It was in a group therapy with 5 others patients. It mostly involved identifying the fears that drive the OCD behavior and facing them so as not to give into them. The group environment helped a lot because it made me realize many other people deal with the similar issues and that the fears are not real.
Jane Street are big players in the OCaml community (they build/maintain what's arguably the defacto standard library for the language - Jane Street Core) and apparently make a lot of money being good at what they do; so I'm inclined to believe them.
Ask HN: What advice would you give to an East Coast student interning in SF?
I will be interning with a well-known social media company located in SF this Summer. I plan on doing as many things as possible to learn more about the industry and meet people. I would appreciate suggestions and pointers. What advice would you give me? What places should I visit?
Is it possible, just maybe, that at least _some_ people who enjoy his work are adults who can decide for themselves what they like, and aren't the victims of some elaborate confidence trick?
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I'm with ejcx. You got it made if you're a startup person making $150K in YC's program. You're doing better in terms of immediate benefit vs long-term possibilities than tons of other developers. I hope the startup works out for you but consider a tech hub with a lower cost of living if it doesn't. There's a lot of "tech cities" just a Google away with online tools for cost of living.
Just the thought of all those babies in the hopper
This site [1] discusses pretty much what you are asking (all networking going through a virtualbox pfSense) however it's written for windows 7, not sure if this still works for 8-10

http://timita.org/wordpress/2011/07/29/protect-your-windows-...

I would think if you set up the VM to deny everything coming from windows, and allow anything coming from the other linux VM it should work fine (just set up multiple NICs in the pfSense VM and have the linux VM go in through a different NIC than the host windows)

I personally do something similar with linux on linux where I have the host linux be allowed to only reach my internal network and the debian mirrors directly, and anything else is done through VMs.
Disturbingly low, but not negative: https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/05/17/americans-...
For comparison, these are the results I got from benchmarking this implementation with Rust's standard .sin() with a Core i3 M 380 (fast_sine is code from blog, normal_sine is .sin())

test fast_sine ... bench: 746,638 ns/iter (+/- 2,489)
test normal_sine ... bench: 1,535,147 ns/iter (+/- 13,731)
To add a datapoint: it worked fine for me in Firefox (well, Iceweasel) 53, once I told NoScript to allow ceros.com.
Zip in Python
Fair response. I guess it is probably both. Some businesses block, some just do not need the help at the going rate. And some just don't know they need it...
The last one, worded slightly differently, is more correctly attributable to Plutarch.
> Nearly all of the sub-cities around Austin and Dallas, and Austin and Dallas themselves, for instance, have minimum interior area requirements spanning from 1200 to 2000 square feet. Red Oak, just south of Dallas, is particularly egregious.

Whoa. That's pretty crazy. Why can't you just build a cottage on your land and live quietly?
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