skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it breaks down when you pay more attention. Using this map: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2016/countymapp...

- The Mississippi river is quite blue but has very low life expectancy

- Similarly in Montana and the Dakotas, the blue counties are the ones doing poorly

- From Alabama to SC, the black belt has low life expectancy and votes blue.
Given how much these types of processors are used for virtualization, wouldn't a lower core count at a higher clock speed be just as useful? 32 cores at 1.4Ghz only seems useful if you need to use a lot of processor affinity, but assigning faster vCPUs to your VMs doesn't seem to have a downside. Just not sure what advantage this would have over a 16core 2.8ghz chip as a comparison.
I'm shocked whenever I find myself in a Starbucks early in the morning - it's essentially a constant line of folks ordering milkshakes for breakfast.
When I was in the Boy Scouts, we had this saying for when we were out camping and hiking. It was "you're only as fast as your slowest hiker". I realize that the context here isn't the same but the concept is still very much applicable. We as a species can only be judged and advance as fast as our as the 'slowest' of us are willing to move.
You can run CockroachDB on GCE instances.
Ridiculous. I would never allow it. I think that autonomy and freedom triumph in America at the very least (Europe is hopeless)
Forever? Hot kernel patching only really arrived in Linux 4.0.
Part of the problem, as mentioned in the article, is that unions among other things increased costs for these workers.

So, you can wish they were maintained, or built up, or whatever.. but how would that prevent offshoring of union jobs?
Also take a look at https://www.pingcap.com/ for sql scale-out and http://www.scylladb.com/ for cassandra-but-fast.
> We have tried with BoltDB. Its performance is really bad.

BoltDB author here. I agree with you that Badger would beat Bolt in many performance benchmarks but it's an apples and oranges comparison. LSM tree key/value stores are write-optimized and generally lack transactional support. BoltDB is read-optimized and supports ACID transactions with serializable isolation. Transactions come with a cost but they're really important for most applications.

Regarding benchmarks, LSMs typically excel in random and sequential write performance and do OK with random read performance. LSMs tend to be terrible for sequential scans since levels have to be merged at query time. B+trees are usually terrible at random write performance but can do well with sequential writes that are batched. They tend to have good random read performance and awesome sequential scan performance.

It comes down to using the right tool for the job. If you don't need transactions, Bolt is probably overkill. There's whole section on the BoltDB README about when not to use Bolt:

https://github.com/boltdb/bolt#caveats--limitations

> It is just badly implemented, acquires a global mutex lock across all reads and writes.

You're welcome to your opinion about it being "badly implemented" but the global mutex lock across reads and writes is simply untrue. Writes are serialized so those have a database-wide lock. However, read transactions only briefly take a lock when they start and again when they stop so they can obtain a snapshot of the root node. That gives the transaction a point-in-time snapshot of the entire database for the length of the transaction without blocking other read or write transactions.
I am indeed, my mind was thinking way to local.
The value is what it delivers.

The cost is what's required to create it.

The price is what it exchanges for.

These are three independent attributes.

Generally, though, sustainability comes when cost <= price < value.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/48rd02/cost_va...
Facebook Gets Slap on the Wrist from 2 European Privacy Regulators
New Style for User Groups
Devil's advocate:

After the mother passed, Lola had nowhere to go, and no job or career or savings. She had nothing, except for the kids that she helped raise since their birth. The author gave her not only a place to live rent-free, but paid her some amount of money he could afford so she could better enjoy her life.

I'm not saying either of our comments are 100% accurate, but you are taking a pretty 1-sided viewpoint to the situation. You can't pretend like the relationship between the author and Lola was strictly one of slave-master - that's disingenuous.

It's really easy to judge someone else for what they didn't do when you have no understanding of what their lives were like.
So what might be a solution to the problem that government have so much control that it can make the functioning of the communally-organized enterprise very difficult?
"Has the US military come to rely on an indentured workforce?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEovFBU7V9Q

"[Iraq and Afghanistan war] foreign workers are known, in military parlance, as 'third-country nationals,' or TCNs. Many of them recount having been robbed of wages, injured without compensation, subjected to sexual assault, and held in conditions resembling indentured servitude by their subcontractor bosses. Previously unreleased contractor memos, hundreds of interviews, and government documents I obtained during a yearlong investigation confirm many of these claims and reveal other grounds for concern. Widespread mistreatment even led to a series of food riots in Pentagon subcontractor camps, some involving more than a thousand workers."

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/06/06/the-invisible-a...
Jupyter Notebooks + Theano + Lasagne + Matplotlib + [the pip package ecosystem]. For my weird little niche (Machine Learning / Computational Intelligence), it is the perfect tool. It's also the perfect language for basic management scripts - a handful of lines of Python made setting up a shared machine learning server with Slurm/Jupyter-Hub/IPFS/Theano+Lasagne+Tensorflow (the last of which I've not personally used) easy. I work with a tmux session with scripts running training nets, and a Jupyter notebook open to evaluate and explore parameters and behavior at save points each epoch. Python/Theano/Lasagne allow for concise easily readable code that documents and describes the concept at hand such that my code cells wind up containing few, if any, comments - instead writing anything that needs to be written in markdown with any inline graphic needed in cells between code cells. For real-time work like mine, scripts are likely to be run once (or rather several times, changing meta-parameters along the way), and most code written will be notebook cells either soon to be deleted or as part of a record that should ideally be in clear readable language.
Ah yes, another shrooms and mdma cure all article.
>1) Follow behind your kid on halloween

Seriously? Fucking walk.
Ok. Looks like a bit complex licence: http://swing.fit.cvut.cz/projects/stx/doc/online/english/LIC...

But I think you should be able to release free and commercial software with it in general.
Up-voting because even though genetic algorithms seem inefficient compared to back-propagation with gradient descent, it still is an elegant optimization heuristic for many classes of practical problems, and often easier to implement compared to NNs if you're trying to apply on a novel domain.
I think creating a healthy company culture is a necessary foundation before any of those other things can have a good effect.
Etiquette Isn’t Everything, No Matter What Emily Post Says
Yep. Tor is just a great big eye for the NSA and GCHQ. For them it doesn't matter if scoundrels use it, as long as they can use it too.
I would say that Ansible, with its all SSH baggage, is quite poor method of
running remote procedures, especially when it's mixed with maintaining
configuration. But d'oh, it's the usual way people abuse it.
This is why US government employees and employees of contractors get mandatory training in how to recognize human trafficking.

In this situation, at the very minimum, you need to ask "Do you feel your employer treats you fairly? I will keep your answer confidential."

If the answer is "yes", then your moral obligation is satisfied. If the answer is "no", you may have to dig down through "uncomfortable situation," potentially to "friendship-ending argument about unethical behavior."
> just put in contract childcare ends same time as contract, simple as that, it's just bullshit excuse not provide option hiding it behind caring about well-being of employee

Not an excuse. Just one of the many logistics problems involved. What happens when you have to stay longer than childcare is open, etc...

Yeah, these problems also happen with third party child care but that's the point. It might be wiser and more efficient to subsidize an external option that to build an internal one. Not only for the company, for the employee as well.
A new sort of hedge fund relies on crowd-sourcing
It's more acceptable outside the west. Western cultures were the ones who decided slavery was a universal sin and had to be eradicated everywhere.

There are still whole races of people kept as slaves in sub-saharan Africa, for example. And I mean outright slavery, no ambiguity about it.

Abolitionism is a Eurocentric concept.

Another example from Asia. Two people were kept as slaves for 14 years in a tofu factory. This is in a developed country with a GDP per capita comparable to Spains. They were caught and fined 40k USD, no jail time.

http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3105152
Every fall we buy a bunch of Galas and Fujis. We eat the Galas immediately, and put the Fujis in our walk-in cooler for the rest of the year.
When you go searching for meaning, chase all the leads, trying to separate wrong from right. What you find is that beyond all the pop culture tropes, the outrage and terror about the latest and greatest paedophile revelation, evil greedy capitalists banker stories, murderous terrorists and backstabbing trophy wives and all the other stories about 'true monsters'. You'll find that all the monsters are just humans. Just like you and me.

It's easy to see from far away what is bad, people all over the western world can point at Hitler in their history books as an example of absolute evil. But then we'd be missing the complete picture, which is so much worse if you cling to a traditional view of good and evil. Normal school curriculum (at least where I'm from) does not teach about the horrific things Belgium did in the Congo up until the 1960s Or any of the other decimations/genocides caused directly or indirectly as a result of occupation by the various colonial powers. Or all the terrible things our ancestors did even further in the past when news spread so much slower or not at all.

There was a Byzantine king named Basil. Who, after defeating a Bulgarian army and capturing a number of their soldiers, blinded 99 out of every 100 captured soldiers and sent them back to Bulgaria to cripple their economy and to sabotage future war efforts. Man is a savage evil creature imo. I don't think we ever truly can change. The civilization I and many others enjoy in the western world is a fragile thing I think. And if we can't make it stick and spread, and I don't think I can, then when the troubles get too bad we'll be back to savagery soon enough, or not as the bomb is still hanging above our heads even if it doesn't feel like that any more.
Don't forget that "turnover" includes people who aren't engineers, as well.
Yes, it is the relationship between them that makes this strange. The closeness.
Those other families are masters in a master-slave relationship.
There is a little more CPU time, but the extended vertical blanking interval means there is a huge difference in video memory bandwidth, which is critical for a long DMA transfer from 68000-bus memory to VRAM through the Mega Drive's VDP.

60Hz V-blank DMA: 7524
50Hz V-blank DMA: 17622

That's at 320x224 resolution for both. I don't know how much this affects this one demo in particular, but for other things it can be a little annoying sometimes to be bandwidth-starved.
Any plans for continous (read-only) direct database access? Without that, basically every modern BI solution can't be used. I think that besides the obvious lock-in, that's another big hinderance for building real products with Graphcool.
> IIRC one of the Snowden documents even mentioned GCHQ and other organisations using Tor for their own purposes.

I think you're referring to this presentation about hidden services by the GCHQ [1] where they state, 'Until then... Doesn't stop us from using them'

I wonder what they may have to say about the soon coming next-gen onion services.

[1] : https://www.eff.org/files/2015/01/26/20141228-speigel-analyt... (page 25)
Rich Retirees Are Hoarding Cash Out of Fear
I heard on The Bikeshed podcast that if you have a Screen Hero account you can invite others to sign up.
Western cultures were the ones who decided slavery was a universal sin and had to be eradicated everywhere.

Were they wrong?
Perhaps the situation you find yourself in is so egregious that it is "worth" the risk of losing a friendship, possibly troubling your friend even more, and you yourself going through much emotional distress leading up to, and during the conversation.

I've been accused by a friend for not doing enough in a much less egregious situation (but also in the category of morality and equality), and understand the social difficulty in broaching such a topic, especially if you don't know them well.

It's easy to say "do the right thing" on an internet forum to a stranger, especially if you yourself haven't been in this social situation where you know what the right thing is in a vacuum, yet our survival instincts push us towards not stirring the water. I think your reaction thus far is completely rational given such an alien situation (which is where I found myself in the past).

I just want to say that your internal turmoil is being discounted too much by other commenters. I hope that you can find internal peace and understanding of where you stand and what you believe in for yourself, not because someone tells you that's what people "should do", before doing or saying anything, because that is the only way we can sustain both our moral and emotional health.
BMI is a terrible metric for weightlifters.
Many such American slavery stories are just that- stories. There are plenty of real examples of American slave owners across the spectrum from evil cruelty to compassionate caring, even love.
Both Golang and Swift were designed as performant, type-aware Pythons. It should be able to fill the role fine.

Python also has optional type support since 3.5: https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html
I heard a recent youtube talk by former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg in which he claimed one of the greatest successes of his administration is that the length of the average NYC life was extended 3 years.

Most of this was accomplished by public health initiatives such as raising the cost of tobacco to about $12-$14 per pack through NYS and NYC taxes, banning smoking in public places, hard-hitting anti-smoking ads of about $1 to $2 per capita per year. Significant efforts were made to reduce air pollution. Bloomberg is also known in his attempts to limit sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) consumption by tax or banning the purchase with food stamp or limiting the size of fountain "Cokes" to 16 oz. These SSB attempts were unsuccessful, yet because of all of the publicity, the rate of New Yorkers who consumed at least 1 SSB per day dropped from 33% to 25%.

The politicians focus on access to care rather than on public health.
Also take a look at https://www.pingcap.com/
"work well" in Lync is usually not what it sounds like
It's not that "government has so much controls". It's that private interests have so much control through (among other things) government.

That said "less government" is another way to let them have even more control.
Moore’s Law: The Shift Towards Software-Defined Hardware
No, they were not. Slavery is a universal wrong.
Many Virtualised workloads have many VMs with light CPU utilisation on each. As such this kind of core configuration allows lots of VMs to be doing low intensity background tasks at the same time.

As such this would be ideal for things like VDI and web / cloud hosting where the quantity of VMs is very high, but the load from each is typically not.
The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious (2014) (theatlantic.com) is tagged 'Microsoft' 'Apple'

Might wanna tweak that...
U.S. Considers Expanding Airline Laptop Ban Beyond Europe
> introverted i.e. social interactions do not make them necessarily happier or more productive

Soon there will be more definitions of introversion than there are actual introverts.
> Am I the only one who thinks gitlab is a poor product?

Not at all.

Some gripes:

- Bad UX, just one example: many things that require one-click + type in competetitors products require more than one click (2-3). Another: Hard to see in the issue tracker which issues were updated.

- Bad notifications: It seriously creates notifications for actions done by oneself. That makes absolutely no sense at all whatsoever.

- Somewhat sluggish performance .... compared to Github!

- Poor review UX

- Annoyingly bad issue listings (e.g. select some issues and change something about them)

... and I've literally only used it in one rather small project. Incidentally no one of the regular users I know are satisfied or ok with Gitlab.
Completely agree, but I was only saying you could retain the 3rd item, control of your own destiny.

Unless they stumble, China will undoubtedly be the world leader before too long (<20 years is my guess), yet other nations would still control how things operate in their own countries, until China decided they wanted control of that as well and decided to forcibly take it. If it was me, I would precede that with some healthy immigration to strategic locations first in order to facilitate a smooth transition, perhaps without having to even fire a single shot.
Hyundai Whistle-Blower, in Rarity for South Korea, Prompts Recall
I would certainly appreciate a daycare facility on a campus more than a gym.
We spoke to the developer of Maru OS on yesterday's Late Night Linux podcast.

http://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-11/
Under ideal – and often somewhat uncomfortable – conditions, perhaps. Anyway, range anxiety is a real thing, and 335 miles won't cut it unless you can charge it like you can fill up a traditional car (which you can't do), although 335 miles sure takes a lot more time when driving at a speed that Tesla gets it without a recharge.
NAFTA was a big issue in the 1992 election with Ross Perot basing his 3rd party run on it. Clinton stood with HW Bush as pro-NAFTA. In 1988 Dukakis had been much more protectionist. But since Dukakis and Mondale before him had lost badly Clinton was espousing himself as a New Democrat moving to the right and taking some of Reagan's positions such as tax cuts, welfare cuts and free trade.
1.4GHz is just the base clock, designed for power efficiency when the CPU isn't under load. The turbo-clock is 2.8 GHz.

Intel does similar, the E5-2650 v4 is 2.2 GHz to 2.9 GHz.
Tobacco and Coca Cola (refined sugar) consumption.
Higher core count means more total cache and fewer context switches. If your workload actually has 32 threads, then the 32-core processor will probably be faster overall than a processor with sixteen of the same cores running at twice the clock speed.
Funny. The Honey Crisps I have had I would never have thought of as "blandly sweet". They were tangy and delicious.

Reading these comments, though, does make me want to try Pink Ladies.
We're trying it out now (since it's included with o365) and I find it mostly usable. It has most of the things I need (group (video) calls, screen share, search, files tab etc). My biggest complaint has been the random glitches you run into every now then (repeatedly being logged out for no reason comes to mind). That and the slowness (i'll often see a lag between when I've hit return and when my message shows up in the conversation). Hope someone from Teams is reading this :).
heh, thanks - I've been on their site in the past and not quite appreciated what it is they can offer.
Are you an American? If so: America has never paid reparations to former slaves or their descendants. He may have only paid her a token sum, but it's better than the rest of us have done, so don't act holier than thou about it.

Also, he clearly didn't plan to take his secret to the grave, it's on the cover of the Atlantic.
Yeah Hypothesis is a bit nerdy. This is why Genius exists, and if rap/hip-hop is not your thing, Hypothesis can be used for any niche annotation.
$10 a day is $300 a month, which is a lot to someone near the poverty line (~$1000 a month). The maximum SNAP (food stamps) benefits for an individual is $194. I know SNAP is supposed to be supplemental, etc., but the government has decided someone who is very poor shouldn't have access to the level of nutrition you're talking about.

You can eat on $200 a month without much problem. I received max SNAP benefits for several months and I spent about $120 a month on food, so I had money left over at the end (being a vegetarian helps).

This really isn't relevant to the point at hand (or maybe it is, who knows?) but I think poor people would have an easier time if the means testing for food stamps were looser. The benefits fall off steeply. If someone is making a thousand dollars a months and working full-time or close to it, the government can chip in more than $10-20 to give them access to healthier food.
> it is within your power to free them with just a phone call to the police

Maybe not. Sounds like the situation was in another country. Who knows if the police there would care or not. And applying the term "slavery" to the story in the comment is jumping to a conclusion that provides more moral clarity than there may actually be. We don't know enough to say if the situation is that of a shitty employer or that of a slaveowner, and our only source of information doesn't even know himself:

> I will talk to this friend in person next time I'm in that part of the world, which should be soon, about this incident, and get the full story of how their housekeeper lives.

I only say that to emphasize that this stuff, in reality, is probably a lot harder to deal with than some people seem to think.
Look at it the other way: If people in your social class were glad to keep the electric bill paid and have a working car, some of them could have ended up like Lola.
True to some degree. But that only underscores why Apple was right to build more rather than fewer stalls.
My understanding is that lower-clocked cores run cooler and consume less power. CPUs designed for high clock speeds will have "hotspots" where certain units are running very hot compared to the rest of the chip. Slower cores have more even thermal profiles.

So, if you don't need the high peak clock speeds, 32 half-speed cores would be preferable for datacenters to save money on electricity and cooling design.
Really not sure on the "EPYC" name for an enterprise part. It seems more enthusiast then button down enterprise. But as long as it doesn't exclusively come in servers with glowing neons and tri-colour fans, I don't exactly care...

I just imagine it will make it easier for intel's marketing to imply these are toys rather then true enterprise grade parts.
1. There's no reason that Python has to be "the language of ML", especially not with so many new Python-inspired languages, like Go. ML is a performance-sensitive sector. Python's strong/established C FFI is its selling point here, since Python gives such nice icing on the cake buried in a C module like NumPy, but this will only matter as long as the newer languages are not fast enough for the performance-sensitive bits. Once native Go is fast enough, it seems logical that everything will move to Go instead of C+Python.

2. "ML is the future" is vague and meaningless. ML is certainly not the future for many things, and it's certainly being misapplied on many other things in the cargo-cult belief that ML must be used everywhere.