skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which doesn't change the reality of what I've said.

I even linked to an left-wing incident that happened over the weekend, with an order of magnitude more people.

http://college.usatoday.com/2017/05/30/protests-erupt-over-r...
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Never fought the build, javascript is as complicated as you decide to make it, I can deploy my app to a new platform with a few commands, I do not have to learn to write a new app each time I want to deploy on a new platform.

The plugins are interfaces to the device APIs, what complexity did you encounter that was so far out the scope of the device APIs? I use many plugins and for many complex tasks, why are your's more complex?

You mention this was 3 years ago like somehow these platforms remained static in the time you last used them. 3 years is incredibly long time in mobile development. Phonegap/cordova community has grown, more plugins are available and js engines on mobile have improved immensely.

You are stating phonegap/cordova is not a viable alternative for the future and I say it is. That was the whole point about mentioning my work. You not liking it and 'not knowing anyone who is using it in the future' is purely anecdotal. Obviously each project has its own ambitions, costs and timeframes to consider, but limiting possible paths to a solution is not a good idea. Do your own dev, but there is no need to deprecate a framework for others because you had a bad experience once.
They did, Purdue instructed the doctors do prescribe higher doses if it wore off too soon. They actively discouraged prescribing more than one dose a day. This dramatically increases the addiction potential.

I have to say, the doctors have some plausible deniability. When the drug company tells you how to prescribe, there are good reasons to listen. Pharmokinetics is heinously complex and unpredictable. Unfortunately in this case the drug manufacturer outright lied.
Yes, Honolulu County.

We are typically lucky to make 10 to 15% profit on Prevailing Wage Work, (Federal or State).

We do occasionally but it's generally luck coupled with good management and having the ideal crew on the job.

https://labor.hawaii.gov/rs/files/2012/12/WRS489.pdf

Prevailing Wage Schedule for Hawaii for Public Works. New York localities are even higher.

We do laborer classification work, with some small percentage of "Operators". The skilled trades are even higher.

The next bump for Laborer 1 (what we pay the workers when they are performing asbestos removal) occurs in September 2017. At that point they will be making $55.66 an hour.

We pay the entire Base wage and Fringe to the workers, as opposed to union shops.
Legal drugs are not de facto safe.
Even if you do that, are certificates validated against a meaningful list of valid root certificates? (I can't imagine any being practical other than the operating system's).
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How much worse is it than an internet connected always on mic on your person at all times, which also tracks your every move to boot?
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Buck's translation is garbled, from what I've heard, but there's a thoroughly readable scholarly translation that came out relatively recently. I think it's by the same author who did the two-volume _Romance of the Three Kingdoms_ -- it certainly has the same cover style, and is hard to miss on Amazon.
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Come on, really? It's a goddamned opioid. If a doctor isn't aware that an opioid is potentially addictive, then that is a really bad doctor. OxyContin is better than morphine, so any drug epidemic (which doesn't really exist, people have been doing opioids/opiates for a very long time) is lessened, not exacerbated, by substituting older opiates with more modern opioids.
If I recompile Wei Dai's code with optimization, it will make Crypto++ perform better and make blake2sp look slower.

Just do it. If it's slower, you're doing something wrong. Which implementation of blake2sp are you measuring? It should be at least 1.5x as fast.

Why? If you study the source code, you'll see a loop inside the hash update() function. Why does a loop outside that update() mean "less noise"? Why does adding more function calls of BUFSIZETOTAL divided by BLOCK PROCESSING SIZE equal less noise?

Because you'll be measuring a lot of memory copying time apart from hashing time. Dealing with memory outside of CPU cache introduces a lot of variance.

I suggest that instead of our discussion you should try to reproduce the results of https://bench.cr.yp.to (which is a highly trusted source, e.g. it was used during SHA-3 competition by NIST and participants): if something doesn't approximately match it means you did something wrong. In the process, you'll learn how to properly benchmark hash functions and make some sciency science by reproducing results! :-)
Can you do it better, faster, or cheaper? That's the big question.
Same! And I have theories about it. It's either because

1.) In general Star Trek isn't really about physics, its about sociology or (in the better episodes) political science.

2.) Star Trek gets physics so wildly wrong that its not as grating as a show/movie that tries really hard for realism and still fails utterly. If there's an uncanny valley of scifi physics, Star Trek is definitely standing miles from the opposite side.

The only consistent exception to this is Voyager which does start to get on my nerves as a particle astrophysicist. I mean c'mon guys thats too many made up particles. Settle down.
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Create Search Folder in mailbox that displays only Unread and Flagged items from the Inbox. Work out of this folder, flagging items that I cannot address immediately and marking items as read that I do.
Purdue made at least $5 Billion USD in profit from OxyContin, as an aside.
Stop worrying, the free market will fix it any day now.
How much more generous, compared to taxes paid?
With all due respect, dosing schedule and biological half life have little to do with the addictive potential of oxycodone. Put simply, it lights up the brain's reward center like a Christmas tree. If you dig, you can find studies that show that oxycodone causes a far greater dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens than even IV heroin. This has been known for a long time. The people who developed oxycodone knew what they were doing - engineering the most addictive opiate on the market. Purdue really needs to be held accountable for what they've done and the lives they've ruined and/or ended. The blame for the opioid epidemic falls squarely on them, in my opinion.
There were four broad groups:

CPU interrupts - handlers for CPU errors like division by zero (0h) or overflow (4h).

IRQ interrupts - handlers for hardware events; e.g. hardware timer (8h) or keyboard (9h).

BIOS interrupts - for BIOS-implemented syscalls; e.g. video output (10h) or sector-oriented disk I/O (13h). Also callbacks to be invoked by BIOS, like the aforementioned 1Ch for configurable timer.

DOS interrupts - for DOS-implemented syscalls; mostly this was 21h with actual syscall ID in the register. This is where you got things like file-oriented I/O, and some basic memory management.

And then there was "everything else", meaning things installed by third party TSRs and drivers. For example, 33h for the Microsoft mouse driver (which all other mouse drivers promptly copied, so it became the de facto standard mouse API in DOS), or 3Eh for Borland's software floating point emulator.

Of these, only the first two are actually "special" as far as hardware is concerned - the rest is just convention.
Hmm, maybe it isn't completely intuitive. You actually need to click on the menu at the top right to navigate between sections on mobile.
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I think in the second one, a simple list of values that correspond to true would be more reasonable than putting this in your source code, if you just need a look up table. The way the comments are structured though, I wonder if each row an option map, (annotated by the comments along the top)
For what it is worth I fail to see English commercial law cases' results as anything other than PRNG with weighted mean.

A very, very expensive PRNG which allegedly requires "combining academic brilliance with emotional fragility".

(I kinda understand that it's not a topic for me-the-peon to grasp)
It's becoming a race of the tortoises to see whether Valve or George RR Martin will release a much-rumored, eagerly-awaited new work first...
By the numbers yes, but terror alters behavior of society as a whole. But I do agree the overall impact is lower, but at what cost to society? How much resources does it take to keep the impact as low as it is?
Internet Thieves Using Manchester Terrorism Tragedy to Steal Your Money
Tk - It can look a bit dated, but it's easy to use, comes bundled with Python or Tcl, and bindings in most popular languages. Can run on Windows, Linux, macOS.

Qt - The IDE is great. It doesn't look native. Either dynamically linked, or commercially licensed. Runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, and a range of embedded hardware.

wxWidgets - Native backends, so it always looks like it belongs. Bindings in a ton of languages. Can be both simple or complex, depending on what you need it to do. Runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and in-progress for Android and iOS.

JavaFX - Java's replacement for Spring. Runs anywhere Java does. Fairly flexible, and easy to use.

Kivy - A Python framework. Mainly aimed at touch-compatibility. Runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android.

LCL - A Lazarus framework. (Think Pascal). Really easy to use, with great drag'n'drop and the like in the IDE. Runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.

nuklear - Fairly easy to use, with bindings in a lot of languages. Sometimes requires a bit more work getting it to run on some platforms.

This is not all, but the ones I find easy to use (as easy or easier than Electron), and easy to set up and deploy.
"accuses the companies of engaging in a sustained marketing campaign to downplay the addiction risks of the prescription opioid drugs they sell and to exaggerate the benefits of their use for health problems such as chronic pain."

This is very relevant, from the article. This is the accusation. I have seen very generic comments in this thread that don't take this information into account.
This is similar to a pretty famous result in networking and distributed systems about self-synchronization, which used to cause problems.

http://ee.lbl.gov/papers/sync_94.pdf
By comparison Box2D is actively maintained: https://github.com/erincatto/Box2D/commits/master

This is the problem when you fork a project. :/
I'm pretty sure we're the only country that has commercials for "Opioid Induced Constipation" drugs as well.

You know something is prevalent when the drugs to treat its side effects are worthy of prime time advertising.
The author found it hard to "find the right API entry point in Go documentation".

For the record, Go produces one U+FFFD per byte, not per maximal contiguous run, when iterating over bad UTF-8. This is part of the language specification, not just a library, although the standard libraries follow this behavior. For example, in the standard UTF-8 library, https://golang.org/pkg/unicode/utf8/#DecodeRune says that the size returned is 1 (i.e. 1 byte) for invalid UTF-8.

The relevant language spec section is https://golang.org/ref/spec#For_statements and look for "If the iteration encounters an invalid UTF-8 sequence, the second value will be 0xFFFD, the Unicode replacement character, and the next iteration will advance a single byte in the string."

Example code: https://play.golang.org/p/OLIWcjLIvF

I'll note that both Go and UTF-8 were invented by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. I'm sure that the Go authors were aware of UTF-8's details. (Go also involved Robert Griesemer, but that's tangential).
"Revenue up 18%
Loss down 1/3rd
22x+ the revenue of $snap

So much important work left to do, but congrats to the @Uber team."

https://twitter.com/jason/status/870059383765389312
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Opioids also alters the behavior of society as a whole, to a larger degree than terrorism (albeit in a less flashy manner). When people can't get their addictive painkillers legally, illicit trade and overdosing permeates society, causing cascading side effects to society such as homelessness and crime. This is not normal.
Periodically re-verify your identity? For what purpose?
That's why programs like Data Carpentry and Software Carpentry, mentioned in the article, are so important. http://www.datacarpentry.org. Most universities actually don't have good opportunities for active researchers (graduate students, postdocs, professors, research staff) to learn programming or effective data skills. But, researchers are really looking to learn the skills. https://www.embl-abr.org.au/news/braembl-community-survey-re... DC and SWC help fill that gap by teaching two-day hands-on workshops that meet researchers where they are to give them the skills and perspectives to get out of spreadsheets and into R and Python.
Absolutely, but you can't rely on it to be persistent like Kafka. We use it extensively and are incredibly happy with it, but we follow best practices around not putting state in messages, making changes idempotent, and ensuring that we can always replay a message if needed.

We've yet to lose any messages in production, but it could happen and we're okay with the tradeoffs between that and the operational complexity of kafka.
Also anything that Siri can do, you allow Apple to do. Because ultimately it's Apple that is sending the response commands back to your computer or phone.
Attacking the supply doesn't work and never has worked. Even worse, it sentences a large number of people to die in agony because they cannot get pain relief.
Software as a Something after Service? ;).
I recently wrote a lengthy counterpoint to that:

https://likewise.am/2017/05/19/in-response-to-the-cult-of-re...
For a game engine, smooth performance is pretty much required. If you have to a) know that you have to worry about GC stutters (which beginners are unlikely to), and b) proactively do something about it, that seems like a major failing of a game engine. If I use a game engine, it's because I want to work on the game and avoid having to do things like manage the GC.

Besides, GC is one of those things that is classically unsuitable for real-time use cases, and games are exactly a real-time use case. So you could argue that Unity choosing a GC language was a predictably a bad decision. Again, I don't use a game engine because I want to put up with bad decisions.
Reuters (non-paywall): https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-results-idUSKBN18R3E...
Ah, right, I'd forgotten that little nugget (and I read that article... Stupid long term memory).
I expect as you get away from the very bottom of the organizational tree it's impossible to be more productive in less time. Too much of what you do involves the sort of interfacing with other people that isn't going to benefit much from more focus.
Supporting pNaCL and whether or not the browser's own code is sandboxed seem like very different issues; I'm not sure why you're conflating them.

>Hell, Firefox only recently got serious about putting different sites in different processes.

A multi-process architecture is a huge thing to try to bolt on later, and Firefox was also held back because many of its add-on APIs were incompatible with a multi-process architecture. They are finally making progress at least.
Fellow fan of the pod. They've done advertising really well.

I am not even American and I can also remember every single sponsor and product they've ever advertised.
The military purpose of the interstate is moving friendly troops around (logistics).
I know people who died of opioid overdoses, and they were never prescribed it. If you take away the medical pills, they just go get heroin and OD on that.
Worth reading the first paragraph just for the link to Frank Gehry's buildings.
I recognize that Google isn't recording everything said, etc. However, with video (tv, internet) ads prompting these devices to search [1], its not something I have an interest in participating in.

Ultimately, for me, it boils down to a lack of benefit for me, and a lot of benefit (current and potential) for Google and these other ad-drivers to track my decisions more than I really want or need them to. As it stands, I live a fairly ad-free life, either through payment or blockers --- so the targeted ads are less of a concern. Law enforcement concerns are also extremely limited, as are political (null).

I just don't see the benefits. If I need to know the current weather, I'll look outside. If I need to search something, it'll never be so important that it can't wait until I sit down at my computer.

I guess, overall, I'm less concerned about the privacy aspect as I am the actual personal benefit of these devices. In my mind I relate it to the Dash buttons.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5lj63-nc5g
We debated the same question and went with NSQ for now. We might need some of the guarantees that Kafka makes in the longterm or for some specific use cases, but for a no thrills distributed messaging platform that is incredibly simple to operate at scale, NSQ is pretty fantastic.

Building client libraries is also a joy. I blogged about it a bit here: https://product.reverb.com/how-to-write-an-nsq-consumer-in-g...
The numbers suggest the majority started with a prescription. The number of people given these prescriptions was staggering around 4 times as many people got hooked (2.1 million) than are using Heroin (0.4 million). https://www.drugabuse.gov/about-nida/legislative-activities/...

"By 2002, death certificates listed opioid analgesic poisoning as a cause of death more commonly than heroin or cocaine."
You are either being mendacious, or not tall enough for this ride. I assume the first.
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Stuff like this makes me sad
AI will be able to beat us at everything by 2060
I love Debian, it feels "natural" to me :)
This is a recurring phenomenon in the US:

Opium/Morphine in the late 1800s:

"Throughout the late 1800s, the opiates (morphine and opium) continued to be distributed widely in patent medicines. There was also a widespread physicians' practice of prescribing opiates for menstrual and menopausal disorders. Too, there was extravagant advertising of the opiate patent medicines as able to relieve "female troubles."

Women, it seemed, had become the prevalent class of opiate users. Prescription and patent medicines containing the substances were advertised and accepted without question. Also, this was a convenient, gentile drug for a dependent lady who would never be seen drinking in public. "The extent to which alcohol-drinking by women was frowned upon may also [in addition to opiate medicines] have contributed to the excess of women among opiate users. Husbands drank alcohol in the saloon; wives took opium at home" (Brecher, 1972)."[0]

Amphetamines in the 1930s:

"Abuse of the drug began during the 1930s, when it was marketed under the name Benzedrine and sold in an over-the-counter inhaler. During World War II, amphetamines were widely distributed to soldiers to combat fatigue and improve both mood and endurance, and after the war physicians began to prescribe amphetamines to fight depression. As legal usage of amphetamines increased, a black market emerged. Common users of illicit amphetamines included truck drivers on long commutes and athletes looking for better performance. Students referred to the drug as "pep pills" and used them to aid in studying."[1]

LSD in the 1950s:

"Non-therapeutic use of LSD increased throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. Among the first groups to use LSD recreationally were research study participants, physicians, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals who later distributed the drug among their friends. Prior to 1962, LSD was available only on a small scale to those who had connections in the medical field, as all the LSD was produced by Sandoz Laboratories, in Basel Switzerland, and then distributed to health professionals. However, the drug was not difficult to produce in a chemical laboratory. The formula could be purchased for 50 cents from the US patent office, and the LSD itself could be stored inside blotting paper. Soon a black market for LSD in the US emerged."[2]

On the one hand, it's tragic. On the other, these events seem to have a similar arc and we should not be surprised to see opioids taken off the market and criminalized, like Opium and Amphetamines.

[0] http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/casey1.htm

[1], [2] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/buyers/s...
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The companies were very aware that opioids were being trafficked. For example, in Kermit, Kentucky (pop 392), drug companies shipped 9 million opioid doses over 2 years [1]. You don't have to be particularly analytical to figure out they were being resold into the black market with that order of sales numbers.

[1] http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-health/20161217/drug-firms...
And hundreds of thousands if not millions due to car accidents, drinking-related, smoking-related, and obesity-related illnesses.
And last time I checked into it, neither has much to do with 7 or 10 nanometers. The 'feature sizes' of old are not actually on that scale, rather it's more a measure (read: marketing speak) of resolution than of feature size at this point? I still can't get good answers. As a biologist used to working with objects that actually do have features on the order of 0.1nm, and volumes with less than <5nm per side, I'm trying to figure out just how big these transistors really are to fit into my existing mental models. At what point do the transistors actually have to start dealing with (can they deal with) quantum/thermal/structural effects of being so small.
Lose "Let's" - better scansion.
We use it to sync data stores for denormalization purposes (think syncing postgres tables into ElasticSearch) and event based communication between small services.
I've been reading a lot on the deal (I'm Venezuelan, so yes, I'm pretty concerned) and I am trying to find out how exactly is Dinousaur Group (the original lender) tied to the Venezuelan government. Because the only way that the Maduro regime can actually obtain more money than the 2.8 billion it first got in 2014 is for it to be tied in some way to Dinosaur Group and get the GS deal money from them, correct?
Yeah, at-least-once is definitely the way to go, sounds like you've got a good architecture around that.

Another nice thing I've heard with Kafka is that it can store all messages since the beginning of time (if you want) and you can replay them to retrieve all your MQ-related state. Does NSQ do that, do you know?
Why the silly dig at Snap? If you subtract Snap's employee stock program it lost $200m last quarter which is a lot less than Uber's $700m loss.
I know people who died of opioid overdoses, and they were always prescribed it.

Also if you read "Dreamland" 80% of heroin addicts started addiction with prescribed drugs.
I think "just as" was being use colloquially to mean "at least as".
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Rockets require cryogenic fuels, workers and large launch complexes. In contrast, Everest is a mere 9km and the first stage of a rocket will take it to something along the lines of 100km at 2000m/s. It is much easier just to throw more fuel in the first stage (or move to the equator) than try and relocate around the relatively smooth surface of Earth.