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> I don't follow the Times that closely any more, but from what I can see David Brooks is their analog to what Alan Colmes was to Fox. Somewhat like a court jester.

Then I'm not sure why you have such a strong opinion of the NY Times? Also, no one at the paper is using Brooks as a token conservative in the same manner as what Colmes was for Hannity. Brooks even appears weekly on PBS.

> But even Brooks knew enough to publicly declare that he wouldn't vote for Trump, even though Trump's political views probably aligned more closely to Brooks than Hillary's views did.

Political views aren't binary. Brooks can have differing views from Trump and Clinton. I don't understand the underlying need to declare blind allegiance to Trump just because one is a conservative.
> If we could measure it's state perfectly at a given moment, have knowledge of future inputs, and possess adequate classical computational power, we could perfectly predict the future decisions made by your brain

This is not true even in principle.
I didn't say background checks are bad.
Related tangent: sounds like Zeit.co's `pkg` for Node:
https://twitter.com/zeithq/status/858393067241357312
I feel exactly the other way about Chrome; whenever I need to type in a test site URL, it thinks it's a search query, and I need to go back and stick http:// in front.
> I didn't notice a name

My vote is Chappie.
.03 isn't much better for US.
Perl has great Unicode support. Not just Unicode regexes, but a lot of built-in Unicode support ( https://perldoc.perl.org/perlunicode.html ). I have no idea if other languages have caught up, though.

Perl doesn't have anything like Python's GIL. People have other complaints about threading in Perl, but you can count on things running in parallel more often.

I believe Larry Wall is correct that he borrowed more from Lisp than Guido did. Perl built in functions are also often modeled after POSIX functions (that may not mean a lot to you, but I like it).

On the other hand, Perl 5 doesn't have anything like Python's "yield", and the closest it gets to list comprehensions is a Lisp-style "map" that is NOT lazily evaluated. And I've never managed to get a job where I was expected to write Perl (I've written Perl utilities at plenty of jobs, but Perl was never on the official job description).
Tolkien seems to have had a hard time actually finishing things. He would go back to tinker or re-write rather than producing a single final draft. (That's intended only as an observation, not a criticism. I sympathize with the tendency.) So for the stories he really liked (of which Beren and Luthien is certainly one) there's a lot of material.

I'd hope for a completed poetic version, but as a life-long Tolkien fan, I'll be buying it regardless.
These kinds of advancements make me nervous, not because I'm a technophobe luddite, but because I don't think the implications and side effects have been thought through enough.

Of course the people making the decision to move forward do so with the assumption that they will always have power/control over the situation so the bad parts won't apply to them, but this may not be the case.
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Casual sexism in the office does not invalidate the business model. And is irrelevant when it comes to creating value for customers. What's your point?
>A friend of mine who has Native American ancestry was livid when I gave her the first book to read - there were things in there "not for the white man to know".

Could you give an example or two of such things?
Thanks for the reference.

I would be interested in a comparison of modern static vs dynamic predictors. Do you know of one?

The misprediction rates that I see in practice are much lower than the ~20% that they are talking about in this paper. For example, gcc compiling sqlite3 misses only ~3.8% of branches on my Haswell processor (see below.)

I attribute this improvement to dynamic predictors using more information like recent history, return stack context, loop counter value, computed branch address, etc. This information seems beneficial and also challenging for a static predictor to use.

$ perf stat -e branches,branch-misses gcc sqlite3.c
12,212,167,816 branches:u
463,727,878 branch-misses:u # 3.80% of all branches
I was reading very fast "...Announce Snapdragon $35 PCs with Gigabit LTE"... I hope the price will be $35...
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I find it very telling that both memory hotspots were explicit loops, and the fixes were to use implicit looping constructs (range and a list comprehension). I wonder if the underlying problem was the loop, or the constant append() calls.
> false equivalence and the need to sell newspapers to both sides of the aisle

What does that mean? Are you saying you would prefer the paper take a more hardline stance in favor of one side because you perceive that side to be objectively superior in some manner?
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I do not understand this desire to endlessly fight crime. It is just the nature of some people. Crime will never cease, fighting it with an iron fist only prevents real problems from getting solved. Problems such as then homelessness, the hungry. Solve those problems and crime will decrease forever.
The pricing of the new "extended memory" stopped me from using it.(For a committed use case)

Still waiting for the AWS c5 instance: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/coming-so...
> I sometimes watch programming streams

Which ones?
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Hey, I'm Adrian. I did the 'More colors' shader.

Given the nature of the project, a hackathon, sticking to the last computed FFTs and a notion of time was all we need to play with nice shader effects.

I'm currently playing with tensorflow on my spare time.
I'd like to use a neural net to find interesting features of a track and inputting this to a shader. That's what I would do if I had another go at it.
I tried to read Griffiths once, but I couldn't learn that way. I wish there were a path to learn quantum mechanics from a programmer's point of view, with "how to" knowledge rather than only the declarative language of mathematical equations. When I look at a differential equation like the wave function in the first pages of the Griffiths book, I don't see it. But when I look at the code to compute a derivative or integral, and can build up pieces and see it plotted on the screen, it starts to make sense. If anyone knows a good set of books to take this approach, please post.
Instagram stories seem popular but either I have the wrong friends or really no one ever uses Whatsapp stories. Don't think I've ever seen a story there and it's the messenger I use for ~95% of my contacts.
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A decent Slick book is desperately needed.

While the Slick documentation is accurate and nicely written it is really slim. I honestly think the paucity of documentation is holding back wider adoption.
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The few numbers that Uber posted look like good news for them, but let's not overstate things.

The reason that people post numbers YoY instead of QoQ most of the time is not to artificially inflate numbers. It's because lots of companies have yearly seasonality. If you looked at Apple's numbers for Q4 (real Q4, Oct-Dec, not Apple's fiscal Q4) quarter over quarter, they'd always look like they were on a massive, incredible growth trend. If you looked at their Q1 numbers quarter over quarter, they'd always look like they're shrinking.

Since Uber is sharing a very limited subset of numbers on a purely voluntary basis, it's pretty reasonable to assume that they're showing the ones that make them look good. If they wanted to show YoY numbers, they certainly could. It stands to reason that YoY numbers aren't going to make them look massively better than QoQ numbers.

And, finally, saying that you could "just" raise revenue by 6% and have it all go to the bottom line with no other effects is fantasy -- and even if they could do that, that would make them non-GAAP break-even, not "the kind of profitable company that justifies a $70B valuation."
I've been sort of amazed at how brazen people are in cryptocurrencies about pyramid schemes. They'll even call themselves ponzi schemes. And how many people will join them, knowing that it's a scam, just assuming they won't be the last suckers in.
Is there many cases where you sue your employer, go make public statements about the case and still have a job at the end of the day?
Sorry. That was before my coffee. It's indeed what I meant. Thanks!
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It is true that they are all corrupt. However the level of corruption introduced by the workers' party is unprecedented. It's not merely corruption for personal gain, as in most other cases, but to support a project that had the goal of maintaining them perpetually in power. We are talking about the party who use Brazilian taxpayer money to fund other left-wing totalitarian governments in Latin America and Africa.

The article opposes the former and current governments as if they weren't elected together; it's morally broken to the point of saying corruption "allowed the party to get things done"; it says the investigation made the economy worse, as if it wasn't corruption that broke the economy, but unveiling it; it says previous administrations had commited the same administrative crimes as Rousseff's, which is plain fake news; it claims it's unclear Rousseff and Lula have obtained personal gains from corruption, while that is perfectly clear, especially in Lula's case; the "shelver-in-chief" narrative is straight from the worker party's collection of slogans and the current attorney general is not much different: why is Temer being investigated with such speed for his leaked recordings, while Roussef's leaked recordings, which were much more damning and showed clear intent of obstruction of justice resulted in nothing?

The article then insists on the narrative that taking Rousseff out was part of a plan to stop the Car Wash operation. That's fake news again, and The Guardian reports slogans from the workers' party as if they were facts. The truth is that they did and are still doing everything they can to stop the investigations, including the many attempts of character assassination of judge Moro and the Prosecution Office.

Finally, it ends by questioning if Car Wash was worth it because it helped bring down the workers' party government (clearly a good thing) and "and ushered in an administration that appears just as tainted", which is, again, fake news. Car Wash didn't (and couldn't) usher in any administration. The new administration was elected together with the previous one, and as the law dictates, Temer, as the elected vice-president, was made president. The questioning of whether unveiling the world's largest corruption scheme in history was "worth the pain" shows how broken and biased this piece of reporting is.
It's doubtful the NYT would have been the main player in those newspapers' downfalls. The NYT has almost always been seen as having weak local coverage compared to papers like the Daily News and the Post.
I don't see the purpose of this. Current Windows on ARM has pretty non existent support by developers.
> car safety, maintenance, insurance

All those laws exist for all cars, not just taxis.

> fare counter requirements

Classic example of over-regulation, leading to crappy service, low supply, and high prices.

> mandatory drivers background check

If some person is so suspect that you cannot trust them to drive you around in public while being tracked by GPS continuously, why is he not locked up? This is a bullshit made-up requirement and does not prevent anything.
Please see my reply to dmichulke for my opinion on that.
Thanks for the legal link. I'd gone googling for "kingpin law" and hadn't found it. That explains that, and why my guess was wrong: I'd been looking at cases from before its introduction.

> I'm sorry but I can't muster any sympathy for this guy.

If we're really going to get into this discussion...

The marketplace was inherently driven by "customers find and buy" rather than "suppliers market and sell" and the supply chain had tighter feedback loops, meaning that there were few mechanisms or motivations for suppliers to worsen their customers' habits. Additionally, the use of mail, cryptocurrency, and a website reduced the possibility for Things To Go Wrong, eliminated threats of force, disallowed predatory loans and bartering, and I presume provided conflict-resolution protocols that didn't involve "busting a cap in yo ass". Finally, doing it by internet and mail reduced or eliminated suppliers' ability to interact each other, forcing them to compete by attracting customers The Way Smith and Young Intended and wiping out entire classes of harm relating to organized crime and bad product.

This guy was not a saint, he did something bad, the lesser of two evils should not get off. But I hold the position that the silk road was the economic equivalent of a safe injection site, unquestionably a better harm-reducer than the War on Drugs, and that a rational approach to harm reduction supports it.
Moral of the story: If you sue your employer in an at-will state, you're very likely to be fired.

Now, the only winners will be the lawyers.
This sounds like a PR move more than anything else. What exactly is it going to do?
Well, I guess the question at the end of the day is if her claims have merit. If she can prove the discrimination, her termination is illegal. If she's been unreasonable, and Tesla has indeed, as it claims, made every effort to meet her needs, I absolutely can see why they'd fire her.
Let's see. Taxes take around 1/3 of it. Rent takes 1/6. Schools, kindergarten, nannies takes 1/6. That leaves around 1/3 for food, clothes, insurance, phones, cable, heat etc. for a NYC family.

A family I know in the East Village says they spend $12,000 per month. They live 2 parents, 2 kids in a 500 square feet rent stabilized apartment (a walkup). The 140 square feet living room has a kitchenette in the corner. I believe rent is $2,200 monthly. Last time we visited, my one year old found a syringe outside their door. Don't know what they make before tax but it can hardly be less than $200,000. I asked why they didn't just move away from Manhattan, but they would have to commute 1-2 hours more per day to find a cheaper solution. They were already aways from the kids 10-12 hours a day as it were so that was not an option.

Families in such situation is a big part of the so called upper class.
This sounds terrible for Tesla in many directions. Either she is right, in which case Tesla sounds very bad. Alternatively, Tesla is completely right (which I personally don't believe), in which case as they confess that : "Vandermeyden had been granted numerous positions “over other more qualified candidates” and was “given special treatment and opportunities for advancement that were unwarranted based on her qualifications”."
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Therese Lawless, Vandermeyden’s attorney

Now that's a career name.
Then you should be very sceptical of your system. "History proves me right" works for Fidel Castro, but not for lottery winners.
That's just begging for robot wars to jump out of TV and into the real world
Ask HN: Create your own open-source stack for product usage analytics and BI?
Hi everyone,

I'm an architect for a small team trying to put together an analysis and reporting tool for our usage data (500GB/mo). Googling around for a week plus and considering a bunch of open-source tools (Pentaho Suite, BiRT, JasperSoft, Spagobi) left me underwhelmed.

Can't get anything more than OLAP queries. No dynamic cohorts or retention analysis. No data mining or modelling. We could even live with just OLAP but like this guy the interfaces and the reports make me think I got time warped back to 2005.

So now we want to glue together existing tools. I haven’t really come across anything that really made me sit up and go wow. At present the best options I’ve found are:
- Talend or Kettle for ETL,
- Pentaho Mondrian or Druid for OLAP processing, and
- nada for reporting

So my question is, if you had to choose the best of breed open-source components for an analytics stack, what would you pick? The stack should be able to

- integrate data from 3-5 sources (click-stream, metadata, pii)
- join across keys from each source (about 10-15 total)
- post joining, Xform from normalised to denormalised form to speed up queries

- place this into a DB which provides
- OLAP style queries through Java, Python, Ruby (multi-dimensional aggregation, slice/dice)
- API access via standard query language to extract data in XML/JSON/RDD format (use in R/Jupyter)
- dynamic cohort creation & analysis
- retention analysis
- drill-down into individual rows of the incoming data

- From here I’d like to integrate reporting tools for
- damn sexy visualisation out of the box
- interactive charts
- easy to use report and dashboard builders (don't have to be drag-drop)
- scheduled report email
- export reports and dashboards to PDF and JPG
- export tabular data to CSV

Am I just dreaming? Or is this even remotely possible? Thanks in advance!
Oops. Meant to write ActiveX.
This is bad news. Wasn't aware.
The little I know about Tolkien sometimes I think if he wanted to his stories to became alive.

Its said he created The Lord of The Rings world to his language be alive. I guess he loved tales. Could he be intend to his work evolve in such way as the tales he studied and taught?
firstname@firstnamelastname.com

In early 2000s was annoyed with having to switch between mail providers depending on fees introduced, so decided to go with something that was agnostic and as a domain name was rented at least on my terms.

1. Common TLD. Most annoying thing today is others want it. Not a very common first or last name in themselves, but in combination quite a common match.

2. Unusual TLDs. No idea, however having a name.co could well be mis-typed/remembered as a .com depending on your audience. Don't know. Don't assume other people are as savvy as you.

3. Friends with far more common names have done creative but also somewhat agnostic stuff, like '1'insertfirstnamehere.com. This is less likely to be mistyped, as the name is obvious as is the extension.

Just throwing some ideas outside of pure TLD.
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I think you missed that news : https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/12/windows-10-will-seamless...
No, when did I say they spent everything on research? Most of the spending must have been on operating their service.
Wow, This is what I was talking about when I got down voted two or 3 days ago. Yes, ARM/Qualcomm in no position to compete with INTEL high-end desktop CPUs. But they are perfectly capable of competing in low-end market and multi-processor environment. This will hurt INTEL in long term very badly. ARM will come to the desktop. No matter we like it or not.
I don't think Ghostbusters was that bad. I played it a lot as a kid and enjoyed it, but I agree it was confusing (you needed to read the instructions to understand how to bait the Marshmallow Man, for instance). The C64 version of Ghostbusters was much better, especially for its karaoke title screen.

I'm tempted to give my vote to Bobby Is Going Home on 2600, except I actually played it a lot as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djgTlZbwIgQ
Not talking about re-writing. But there is an enormous amount of code out there in c, c++ and other langs that people would love to use in web apps.

In our case we use the same library code on iOS, Android, Windows and in the browser to do computationally expensive operations.

Also, to dismiss productivity apps such as PS and CAD as unimportant is kind of crazy. Huge business model change? They are still an enormous part of the software industry and the browser a great platform for distribution for many cases. Performance and code secrecy being two barriers that WASM solves for them.
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>At the time, Vandermeyden said she was hopeful her lawsuit and public comments would not end her career at the company.

How could she honestly expect to keep her job with an employer she is sueing and smearing in the media? Why would she even want to continue working there?
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> A delegate trying his hand at virtual spiner training game at the 11th International Symposium for Best Police

It shows somebody with a Vive on his head and a big old sniper in his hands. Any more infos on that?
Any takers on when the first ED-209 event will take place?

Actually this reminds me of a kids' cartoon I used to watch called C.O.P.S. (not to be confused with the Fox police reality show Cops). It was pretty cyberpunk for a kids' show and centered around an elite team of cybernetically enhanced police officers from the near future. In one episode, a city councilman had agitated for beat cops to be replaced with AI robots called Instant Justice Machines, presumably as a cost-saving measure. In reality he was on the take from the local criminal organization, whose activities the robots cheerfully ignored. Which highlights another failure mode of delegating police duty to robots: how do we know their programming matches up with our understanding of the law?
What do you mean by Perl functions being modeled after POSIX functions?

My only points of reference are POSIX being a UNIX system specification which defines both a C language reference and system userspace specification. I also have a vague notion of POSIX specifying the fundamental behavior of shells.

I'm just not quite sure which point of reference to apply.
x86 emulation will make life easier initially. But if these devices become popular, so will UWP apps.
As already was pointed out. I meant to write ActiveX, not DirectX.

I don't actually know too much about graphics programming. Stupid mistake from my side. Sorry!
There is a bit more detail here (with pictures)

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Prototype-of-Snapdragon-835-po...
Side note: "Therese Lawless, Vandermeyden’s attorney"

A lawyer named "Lawless" in real life.

It's like there could actually be a Dewey, Cheetham, and Howe LLP
that's purely a business decision.