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When our CAD people work on large 3D models, Autodesk Inventor will happily gobble up 32 GB of RAM, and if they had machines with 64 GB, I suspect it would make good use of those, too. Also, I am told editing high-res graphics and video benefit both from the larger address space and the ability to use more RAM.

But I admit, these are the exception to the rule.

Having used both Linux and Windows in 32 and 64 bit versions - in a few cases on the same machine -, I did not notice a difference in performance[1]. If the performance hit due to 64bit is really that substantial, I could imagine the larger number of registers (and possibly larger caches) make up for that.

[1] Possibly, as so often in the days before SSDs, I/O was enough of a bottleneck that the difference between 32 and 64 bit code became unnoticeable.
I have read these studies and often wonder if it is not the coffee itself, but rather what you aren't doing when you are drinking coffee.

For example, coffee suppresses the appetite so maybe you snack less and that is driving the difference in the two study groups. Or people on the non-coffee drinking group have Coke-Cola instead.

I feel very badly for my Grandparents, who were told not to drink coffee because it was "bad" for them. They all stopped drinking coffee in the early 90s and subsequently put on a ton of weight and then suffered all the related health problems (diabetes, heart failure).

I often wonder if they stuck with coffee instead of giving it up would they have been in better health.
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Great writing. Elixir/Phoenix has been on my radar for learning something exciting considering it is faster out of the box and can handle tons of concurrent connections.

For the lazy, here is the github link from this article:

https://github.com/achariam/elyxel
Yes, I cut my teeth in technical reading on the 370 PoPs manual (Principals of Operations). IIRC it was the authoritative assembler reference. Many IBM manuals had a distinctive turn of phrase for operations which would crash. I can't remember exactly what it was, but something like "results will be unpredictable".
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There is a big difference between ongoing gang violence and a terrorist attack. They are both problems, yes, but a terrorist attack by a Nazi during a public demonstration is by far bigger news.
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Not really. He didn't refer to them as white supremacists, and was far too moderate in condemning the violence that happened on behalf of the neo-Nazi protestors, referring to "violence on all sides". For a person who slammed the media and Obama for not "calling a spade a spade" on radial Islamic terrorism, it's quite hypocritical to then not "call a spade a spade" on white supremacist terrorism.

To be clear, the left has acted violently as well in the past (just look at the Berkley riots), but in this context "violence on all sides" sounds as though the violence was not entirely initiated by one side. But for all accounts, that's exactly what happened. Counter-protestors weren't the ones to drive a car into a crowd.

Some people argue that the protestors having permits somehow excuses the fact that they attacked counter-protestors, but that doesn't make sense unless the violence was initiated by the counter-protestors (which there doesn't appear to be evidence for, and there is plenty of evidence to the contrary).
We use Geekbot for Slack and it's pretty neat!
No it isn't. Clearly both techniques "can" be used, but that one "allows" shared state trivially and one doesn't matters greatly; it is not orthogonal, you just don't grasp the point being made about the nature of the choice of abstractions and the problems that come with them.
I'm pretty sure there are a whole host of color schemes that apps/sites/terminals are supposed to use because they decrease eye stress.
There's another thread about destination charging. My family's experience is that there's a dryer plug or at least a 120V plug within reach at homes we visit, or else a Supercharger less than ~100 miles (round trip + driving around town) from the hotel where we're staying.

There are also Chargepoint stations in many public parking lots, but we've never had to use them.

It's not as convenient today as gas stations. But Tesla has been adding Superchargers quickly.
I've previously run with a #standup channel in Slack for distributed teams, where everyone makes sure there's an update in-channel at 0900 GMT of what they did in the preceding time they worked.

Plus an #achievements channel where you make a note of anything you did that was significant (I've also heard this called #whathappened)

I'm doing some consulting on the side (while starting https://getctx.io) and at this client we have a daily physical standup with a video call on Zoom, plus #achievements in Slack.
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I also slightly dislike parser combinators.
Mainly because usually you cannot easily debug them
by placing a breakpoint.

In the best case scenario the specific parser combinator
has good tracing support to enable debugging.
However, imho this is still inferior to simple breakpoints and debugging "directly" in one's favorite IDE.
I totally agree. The most "in the moment" person I've ever known ran a non-profit coffee shop and drank coffee every weekday. I drink one cup of coffee three or four times a week and I feel like it boosts my awareness rather than takes away from it.
>I believe we would need to make real and measurable progress on sexism as the cause of the gender gap before we start looking for other reasons

There is actually another way to move past sexism as the primary cause - show that sexism is comparable in other fields with a much smaller gender gap. If Engineering has 2 "sexism units", Medicine has 2.3 and Law 1.5 for instance, that might imply that sexism isn't the cause of Engineering's gender gap - because otherwise we'd expect similar gaps in Law and Medicine.
Democrats today are not Democrats of yesteryear. The ideology of the two parties switched during the Civil Rights movement. The Civil War was not “left wing violence”.
Come on, much that I like playing with Tcl, the programmers world is a better place because of Lua/LuaJIT. If for nothing else but a pedagogic demonstration of a well designed small language.
https://pics.onsizzle.com/why-cant-they-protest-peacefully-o...
The foley on that video must have taken some time.
Please provide a source for your last statement since that is not at all clear. By your logic, the primary cause of the gender gap in public school teaching must also be sexism. Do you believe that as well?

The primary cause of the gender gap is tech is the lack of a gender-balanced candidate pool for tech jobs. If you're a hiring manager posting developer jobs and 80% of the applicants are men, is it sexist that you end up hiring mostly men?

The real sexism problems are happening much earlier in life than when people start looking for jobs. If you want gender balance in tech jobs, we need to get more women into tech-focused college degrees, which means we need to get more girls interested in tech in primary school, which means we need to encourage teaching and parenting in early development that leads to an interest in tech later... etc. But wait, prenatal hormone exposure predicts toy choices in young children [1], so it's not that simple. This is exactly what Damore was trying to get at.

I think we need to split the gender problem in tech into a few different categories and tackle each independently rather than throwing everything in the "tech is sexist" bucket and looking for magic umbrella solutions. At a minimum, there are problems with getting girls interested in tech, keeping girls on an education path that leads to a tech career, eliminating subconscious bias in hiring practices, moving startups away from bro culture, and retaining women in tech when work-life balance becomes more important. All of these are important and require different solutions.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15693771
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Strap one to your largish dog with a heart rate close to human range.
I've found for me the secret to effective coffee drinking is don't drink it right away upon awaking, particularly on an empty stomach. Move about, have breakfast, wake up naturally. Then an hour or two after waking up have a small amount. Much less negative effect on rest of day while getting the energy benefits.
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Yup, pretty much anywhere in the city will be close to that. But that's regular NYC pricing, everything is more expensive there.
You must run a very limited set of programs to not have run a single 32-bit one in over 10 years. Even now, on my 64-bit Windows 10, I open my task manager and see over a dozen 32-bit programs running (mostly background processes). You might be running 64-bit Windows, but WoW64 (32-bit binaries on 64-bit Windows) is used constantly.
Proof checking in dependent type theory is nonelementary. Of course, this is a completely artificial result with no real world consequences, but that's complexity theory for you...
Yeah it's called a dog whistle. A white supremacist killed a woman in Charlottesville last weekend, but look what black people did in Chicago.
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Even if all you say is true and the guy is an odious anti-feminist, the points he made should be debated and refuted, not silenced.

Even if most people that make similar points are just "weaseling around" and justifying their racism/sexism, this is not reason enough to assume the worst. That's how you get thoughtcrime, were the faintest association with unorthodox thought self-evidently makes you a despicable person who should be punished and whose ideas should be ignored.

Many tech guys are waking up to the farcical, oppressive way in which some leftists spread their ideas and silence their opponents, and won't stand for it any longer.
That may be an argument for using a feature or ticket tracking system. If you've been assigned a feature (or "story", if you prefer) or a bug, there should never be a mystery as to what you're working on. And if you somehow forgot, a quick check would confirm what you were doing... in theory.
Has trump used that term "radical Islamic terrorism" since he took office? I thought I'd read that the military had finally convinced him that they thought it was counter-productive. (edit: turns out he last used it in July, so he's still not doing what the military advisors suggest).

This reminds me that during his rallies, Trump would point to a camera that he knew was contractually obliged to point only at him, and tell the crowd that the fake news media didn't want to show his crowd.

Just in case you think that he's just a total idiot, who regularly complains about the sitting President following military advice. No, he's a mendacious demagogue who intentionally riles his idiotic followers up by pretending that Obama following military protocol is either cowardice or complicity in terror.
You misunderstand this model - MoviePass does not own nor share a revenue stake with the theaters directly. MoviePass pays the theatres the full price of each ticket, and the theatres don’t provide kickbacks. MoviePass wants to make money off the data they collect.
I guess at 43 I'm not an adult yet because I go to the movies pretty often. I almost always go to the earliest matinee on Friday or Saturday and don't have to put up with a crowd.

I got tired of House of Cards after the 3rd season and you would have to pay me to watch Boardwalk Empire.

And while air conditioning played a part in people going to see movies it was more due to the fact that TV wasn't invented yet. air conditioning raised movie attendance during hot months but people went just as much during other months
> Shouldn't that read: "" More specifically, the sum of all expected future premiums that all patients pay should be slightly more than the sum of all expected future claims for all patients ""

No, it shouldn't. I mean, the thing you wrote is a true statement too, because of the distributive property of summation, but the point is that insurance does work on a per-plan level. If any individual's expected future premiums are less than their expected future payouts, then it's not insurance.

There's a common misconception that insurance is about pooling risk between patients, which is not really the case - it's true at an accounting level, but only as a secondary effect. The fundamental purpose of insurance is to smooth risk across states of the world, which is a completely different thing.

Pretend for the moment that spontaneous combustion of humans exists, can be predicted with some understood probability model, and is an insurable event. In that case, "spontaneous combustion insurance" is not about smoothing risk between Alice and Bob - it's about smoothing risk between universe A (in which Bob spontaneously combusts tomorrow) and universe B (in which Bob does spontaneously combust).

Spontaneous combustion is an easy example to use illustratively because it's a binary event, terminal (you can only combust once), and intuitively independent (by definition of spontaneity, Bob's combustion does not impact Alice's chances of combustion). This is a simplified version of the general insurance model, however, which is capable of handling non-binary events, non-terminal events, and interdependent events. In all of those cases, the risk smoothing happens between states-of-the-world, not between individuals.

> If an insurer finds out that you will develop a certain type of cancer for which median treatment cost is 1M USD and lifetime support costs will be 30K USD/year, they should not be allowed to increase your premium accordingly.

That's a value judgement that you're free to make, but at that point, we're no longer talking about insurance in anything but name.
It came up on yesterday's launch of Lambda School (YC S17), but not sure anyone there can provide any additional info.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15015813
nice. Does everyone in the team follow the protocol and like it?
Really nice work!

I did have a slight giggle when the promo at the end says you explain everything about 'modern cars', while you are working on a car introduced 27 years ago.

Of course I understand that disassembling a new car does not make financial sense, I'm not trying to be negative here.
Aarsonson has since commented on this paper on his website. He still believes that it's a bogus proof.
With wait staff, food, alcohol, and table service too.
> For each Planet Fitness, much of the cost is upfront. That is, they have to buy the property, renovate (or build), and then buy all the machines.

As said before, this is not remotely accurate. Firstly, nearly all of these franchises rent their building space. Secondly, as with any B&M business, fully loaded employee costs comprise a majority of operating expenses. Thirdly, gym equipment maintenance is a non-trivial ongoing factor. Certainly the initial equipment purchase is a bubble, but the idea that PF is only fiscally viable due to equipment longevity is specious at best.

You can see an estimate breakdown of PF expenses here: http://www.franchisedirect.com/fitnessfranchises/planet-fitn...

Note fitness equipment estimates range from $35,930	to $944,800; re-equip costs are estimated at $359,900 to $944,800. (that low estimate on re-equip may be a typo, it is likely re-equip costs are estimated in the same range)
Change management at established organizations is hard. When franchises are involved I'm sure it's exponentially harder.

With most things, HN overestimates the ability of most organizations to overcome inertia. FB, AMZN, GOOG, etc are anomalies when it comes to managing change at large organizations.
Gotta keep those selfish poor people out right. Assholes live in every tax bracket.
Ok since you detached the threas I'm going to guess the downvote is yours, with no response so you think there is no problem. And this is off-topic.

Well, I've brought it to your attention, no reason to mention it anymore. Good day sir! :-)
Yeah, it's an ad. A pretty effective one, though, I think.
Further to the other answers given, `[1, 2, 3]` is not an array, but rather a list.
Honest question: can half of it for example $20B in cash, cure cancer? or HIV/AIDS?
Depends on where you are in the world. In many places around the world, attending an LGBT parade will get you fired, arrested and even killed.

I'm not saying they are morally "equal". I'm just pointing out why we have freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and rights.

Even in the US, 50 years ago, attending an LGBT parade would have been far more damaging than attending a white supremacy rally.

The point is that having rights and protecting everyone's rights is what is important. Even those of white supremacists.

Otherwise, rights are meaningless and we just have tyranny of the majority or public opinion.
I suspect you're missing the point of the parent comment, and the post itself. Regardless of whether these thoughts are wrong or oppressive, is it useful to fight or deny them? Is it helpful to chastise ourselves or feel guilty for having them?
I’m sorry but if you’re sitting here defending Trump’s record on civil rights or white supremacy, you are not in any way a “moderate”. That is far-right extremism, and no, it’s not character assassination.

Trump supports Nazis. That a not a moderate position to take.
Which part of the group? The part that calls for an end to violence or the part that openly calls for violence against police officers?

Lumping people into groups often times hides the positives and negatives of individuals.
You hit it on the head. I don't go to the movies because I don't want to pay a minimum of $25 to watch something I could see at home where I wouldn't have to stand in line just to eat the concessions that get more expensive and disgusting every year, sit in a theater that would look less clean than a motel room with the lights on, and be upsold on even more overpriced specialty tickets/scolded for bringing healthier snacks in as if the cost of admission isn't enough.

If these prices really must be raised so high they exceed the value of the experience it's a sign the business model is flawed. In my town there used to be 2 theaters so there was competition, but the same national chain now owns both and provides the same garbage experience. It doesn't help that, as you pointed out, most movies in theaters are sequels or so generically mass market that I'll feel the same seeing them on an airplane as on the big screen. R&M's parody of Guardians last night was dead on in this regard.

The only times I've gone to a theater the past few years was to screenings of old films at the historical theater in town and to the movie tavern 30 minutes out of town, which not only makes an effort to provide a better experience than home but ALSO somehow costs less. Being able to eat wings and drink a beer in a recliner (with too much space between rows for kids to kick the back of my seat) feels closest to an attempt at a better business model.
There's no risk to the movie theaters here, I just don't really understand how this business model works for MoviePass. Article says they're paying full price for the tickets and eating the costs.
I'm in the same club as you: Financial Services and Insurance.

One of the biggest challenges we had was introducing all kinds of new technology but minimal impact on bottom-line. In fact, it probably caused a great deal of productivity and cultural issues that just slows everything down.
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Yeah, if you park on the street where you live, an EV will be a burden. I've seen random extension cords plugged into cars on streets in San Francisco, but that's a hack.
And functional constructs are appearing in imperative languages, lambdas, iterators, etc. etc..
Look for numbers on earlier elections, then:

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/09/media-professionals...

http://dailycaller.com/2010/08/28/obama-democrats-got-88-per...
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Devils advocate here: by stripping away privacy controls and monitoring every bit and byte on the Chinese internet, the government would also have an easier time identifying and tracking down blackmailers, stalkers, etc.

As for the likelihood that these un-safeguarded powers will be abused for personal or political gain, well, like you said, technical/legal debt.
>There's a time for that discussion. But not now.

No. The time is now.

Without going into my stance, I will say that in all my years observing politics, every single time I've heard this comment it's to hide a double standard. Not a single exception. How do I know this?

Because when that time does come (in this case it would be violence by the left), they are silent, and will not condemn.

This is as good a time as any.
I drink a pot plus a day, stopped for a couple weeks, felt no difference. Prior to that I used to drink a 12-pack plus of diet soda a day. Stopped. BIG difference.

I think the difference is that coffee is a morning thing for me. I'll get through the pot by noon and be done, so it doesn't affect my sleep.
Right, it makes us doubt our usage of this powerful heuristic to instantly identify people as friends or enemies. That heuristic is what powers racism and stereotyping. That's the irony!

People combatting racism (completely understandably) want to use the same technique of quickly identifying friends and enemies to identify racists. And dog whistling interferes with that. It makes us uncertain and doubts our usage of it.

In my view, it is this uncertainty that we as a species need to get better at. You want to combat racism? Find ways to make them doubt the heuristic too.
I don't think IO is unidiomatic at all, although 7 years ago I might have agreed. First if we really need to we can write haskell that looks a lot like C. Secondly if I find myself in a situation where I need to write a little block of code that just doesn't lend itself to being written in Haskell I have no problem writing it in C. If I was implementing some numerical algorithm this is what I would do. Indeed haskell bindings to things like BLAS to just this. The benefit of marking all side effects with IO is an easy to read codebase, easy refactoring and of course Software Transactional Memory!
> For their current use of the networks, the apps aren't at all competitive with Uber Eats, Doordash, etc, for example. It tracks only 3 states. The UI also doesn't do a good job of highlighting state changes...the current state is just a slightly larger circle, of the same color, and no "ping" when it changes.

I guess I'm getting old or something, because I don't understand why you would need anything more detailed than "order received", "order on it's way", and maybe "order delivered" (although you should assumably be aware of this event without an app or website informing you).

If you have the time to watch second-by-second updates of where your food delivery is, why didn't you just go save the $5 delivery fee + tip and pick it up yourself? When I order delivery, it's because I'm doing something that needs my attention and I don't have time to cook or pickup...
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Still this seems like a poorly managed enterprise, probably a lazy cto or lack of a ciso, personally m kinda spektic that these services actually offer value in a well managed enterprise, specially if you work under the assumption that everything that it's on the internet or well "the cloud" it's by nature inherently insecure.
Let's see how long those "valley people" keep milking the "AI", "Deep learning", "Machine Learning" hype.
Well, Cruz didn't exactly throw in the towel and become a fan. And there's always next time.