skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Servers accumulate bitflips over long periods of time because they run 24/7. If you reboot your computer every few days to clear the memory then it's not going to be a significant problem.
What about the IQ of those people? Not that IQ were of any huge significance, but that's the first thing probably come to mind of any researcher.
Added sugar recommendations are always given as "no more than X grams per day." In other words, it's an upper limit and less is always better.
thanks for posting! curious to hear more thoughts/critiques
I've been working on ways to combat this. Taking on longer tasks/projects at home, and requiring myself to pace myself/go slowly and focus on details. Also got back into reading more which can take my attention for hours without too much effort.

I'm getting to the point where I want to shut all personal notifications, social media access etc.. off for 12 hours a day (mid-late evening to morning) to remove distractions and interruptions, and try to do things that require focus and concentration during those periods (also sleeping, and staying in bed/not grabbing my phone if I can't sleep)
I managed to fool it by hand movements (up and down and bending my fingers), so for sure no face needed.
>Consumption is surprisingly flexible in these cases. How often do you "need" a house, right now? Just look at all the data out there on how home-buying patterns are changing.

I'd argue that a reduction in our consumption might not be a bad thing. Yes, on a shorter scale it can cause some harm, however we are on a planet with limited resources, and incentivizing saving over consumption might have massive benefits if done correctly.

>You currently hold both A and B. Which do you use for your day-to-day spending?

If you ignore the benefits that a decentralized cryptocurrency provides, currency A would be the choice. However if you include those benefits (no "gatekeeper" telling you who or what you can spend your money with or on, no ability to "charge back" any money, no trust needed to transact, and an audit-able "paper trail" which cannot be altered), then there are a significant number of transactions where I'd rather use B.

Paying for "subscription" services without fear of being continually charged after I stop wanting the service, receiving donations for work without fear that chargebacks will cause me to owe more than I received, buying goods and services that a company or government may not approve of, sending money quickly and cheaply across political boundaries (ignoring that bitcoin is failing here right now in many ways), and more are all very huge benefits that (at least for me) overshadow the fact that my bitcoin might be more valuable tomorrow than they are today.

>On an unrelated note, it's a shame that "trust me, I'm an economist" holds no weight nowadays.

Its extremely difficult to experiment on "the economy" by its nature, and because of that it is difficult to get hard evidence of the effects that specific things have on an economy. At best they can make educated guesses, but with something that complex I think it's naive to think that anyone fully understands the cause and effect relationships at play.

All social sciences share this problem, and it's why they all get similar amounts of distrust and cargo culting.
When I interview and they ask me "Tell us about your biggest flaw" or something along those lines, I too always answer that it's that I'm too ambitious and that I work too hard.
Oh, right. I don't see how this could realistically work for a service like Eternum, since there's no way to know how much data the IPFS node is actually using for a hash at any time.

Can these ten people not just share a single Eternum account?
Possibly. Given the number of competitors in the "adventure camera" business like Contour and a variety of Chinese manufacturers, they're going to end up taking hits on it. Their cameras are already very pricey -- part of the reason why I went with a Contour.
That's not remotely true.

https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/37...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-return-of-th...

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/14/opinions/leftist-terrorism...

https://www.thenation.com/article/remembering-left-wing-terr...

Of course this also depends how you define left vs right wing. "Nazi" was short for "National Socialist" after all but they are frequently (re?)defined as right wing.

So I'm not sure why gadders was downvoted beyond the ambient bias on Hacker News. There is "hate" on all sides of the political spectrum. She only appears to care about very specific groups, though. No surprise it's controversial.
I'd even go so far to say that the only way something can be literally unreadable is if it is physically impossible to do so (e.g. unrecoverable data) or there is not yet any known way of determining the meaning of a given text (e.g. the Voynich manuscript).

But of course that isn't what is meant when we say something is unreadable because humans don't deal in absolutes (though programmers sometimes do, which is why programmers are so fond of using overly noncommital language like "should" and "most likely").
But there it actually makes sense - they are in fact teaching courses to graduate students, providing them with library access, etc. If a grant wants to support an extra grad student for a professor, it has to cover that stuff and calling that stuff 'tuition' is reasonable. It's only unreasonable to call it "income" for the student, which is a fiction that's inconsequential outside of the university itself (and the alternative universe where the tax change took place).
Isn't the number of people travelling between the cities the thing that actually matters?

Not if you have lay new tracks, then that cost will dwarf all other considerations. A lot of the land between Melbourne and Sydney is quite valuable as well making it even more expensive. Plus the fact that there already are fully functional and reasonably priced air routes makes it much harder for high speed rail to charge a premium, making the profit pr. passenger quite slim.

Had they started building the high speed rail line in 1984, before the land prices started to sky rocket and before low cost airlines took of, then it might have worked out very well. Starting to build it today is an entirely different prospect.
The article mentions 13.5nm. Is 19nm the wavelength used to blast the tin that re-emits as the the 13.5nm EUV source? Is that where the power is going to result in a few watts at the printing surface?
Nice job. Worked for me without having to fiddle with the camera or anything. Well done!
My description of blind trial-and-error programming is not a veiled reference to agile development, if that is what you are thinking - it is, rather, an anti-pattern in development that is neither agile nor waterfall. There is nothing in agile that says you should just try things until something seems to work. No line of code gets written without the programmer of having an expectation of it making some contribution to the solution, and the issue is how well-founded that expectation was.

Update: Perhaps the canonical example of non-agile trial-and-error programming without well-founded expectations is the programmer who is putting delays in various parts of his program in an attempt to fix a concurrency error.

One's understanding of the program does not necessarily break down under iterative development, as, if you are doing it right, each iteration improves your understanding.

The usefulness of documentation does depend on the complexity of the problem, but in the opposite sense: programs solving simple, well-defined problems do not benefit much from additional explanation (there's not much to say that is not obvious), but the more complex things get, the more it helps.
Potatoes are high carb, and high carb makes most people fat. To be fair, bananas are high carb too.

Also fat doesn't make you fat. A lot of people actually rapidly lose weight on a ketogenic diet with approx 70% of their food being healthy fats.

The Story of Fat: Why we were Wrong about Health
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S6-v37nOtY
This seems like one arugment to be made in favor of giving the language first-class access to the compiler, à la Lisp.
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Oh sorry I did know that I remember now.

Here professor is quite a distinguished title, and while it isn't legally protected, I've never seen it used for anyone except a very senior academic who has been formally appointed as a professor.
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Trying to imagine how something like this even happens... there's probably half a dozen people around him helping him get suited up and half-way through he says... "Hold up, guys. Let me get something from the fridge."
Inverse Lithography

http://nanocad.ee.ucla.edu/pub/Main/SnippetTutorial/ILT.pdf

https://semiengineering.com/what-happened-to-inverse-lithogr...
The pragmas in Go are not intended to be used in general user code. They should be only used in Go runtime implementation and standard packages.
The pragmas in Go are just some hints for compilers. Compilers will ignore many of the pragmas used in custom user code.
Thanks for the suggestion. I just checked New Relic's page, almost gave up on the "Pricing" drop-down, confused, but then did give up when I ended up at the "Request Demo" button. Ugh.

Main reason I ask is I am on the verge of starting to build a(/yet another) small service to solve the problem. But I wanted to avoid re-inventing the wheel, especially on something so simple, it MUST exist over and over, I can't be the only one struggling with this.

Btw. if you made forwardmx — congrats, it's a great tool, very well designed. I'm not a customer but it's bookmarked. Another one of those returning problems I have, e-mail forwards on side projects. Great solution.
There is nothing about react that you need to do this, unless they're using a react package to interact with the canvas element.
The original was a phrase, and my translation is a phrase that's the same number of words.
The US still has lecturers (who normally have PhDs), but the title is different from the UK one.
I'd rather see this implemented in a way that didn't involve a third party collecting data about children.
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ack doesn't do git ignore right? The matrix suggests it does, and I thought it did, but I don't use it routinely.
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We always carried “totems”.

Little trinkets that we’d hold while waiting for the effect while silently repeating to ourselves that this would remind us we’re just high.

Be damned if you lost that thing though.

Mine was a toy kitten holding a cheeseburger.
I was going to write that I disagree with you, but according to the Taulbee survey this is true:

The percentage of Ph.D. graduates who took North American
academic jobs rose in 2015-16 for the second straight year,
to 30.7 from 29.0 last year. However, the percentage of
graduates taking tenure-track positions in North American
doctoral-granting computing departments fell from to 10.0 in
2014-15 to 9.0 in 2015-16. The percentage taking positions in
North American non-Ph.D.-granting computing departments
fell from 2.3 percent to 1.6 percent, while the percentage
taking North American academic postdoctoral positions
jumped from 9.7 percent to 14.3 percent.[1]

[1] https://cra.org/crn/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2017/05/2016-...
I stopped using Facebook years ago. But I still live in a world with Brexit and Trump. What did I do wrong?
Maybe not designed to be misleading, but misleading nonetheless. For `grep`, `grep -i needle` is (approximately) equal to `ack/ag needle`, but looking at the table I wouldn't think grep supports case sensitivity.
The course on Coursera about Microbiome (https://www.coursera.org/learn/microbiome) has been extremely helpful for me in understanding gut bacteria and Microbiome.

Hope it helps.
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"D" for "Disposable", these are supposedly death-row inmates. However, since SCP has hundreds of thousands of D-class personnel, this claim is slightly dubious.
In Moore’s unpublished 1970 book he says “subroutine” a lot and mostly references Fortran when comparing forth to other languages. He calls the input tokens “words” since they are delimited by spaces in a stream of other words. He builds a kind-of analogy by saying that words are given definitions in a forth dictionary. He also explicitly points out that he has used the same term “word” that they use for processor data size, to avoid any confusion.

All in all, I don’t think the terminology was considered as fixed as you seem to think it was in 1968. As you mentioned, people were misusing “function” as defined by centuries of mathematics... but because that caught on, your response to that is “so?” The weird things about forth did not stick, so they still seem weird today.
I agree, but I know in my own project that my "competition" is moving, and I don't follow them. Thus any time like the linked one that I create quickly become out of date as they add new features.
There is readability and there is understandability. Which may or may not be the same. Just like text you may have text that is cramped with very long lines and no line spacing, maybe no word spacing—it may be very hard to read it but once read it can be easy to understand. OTOH you can have a nicely typeset text which is impossible to understand.

And if you talk about code there is also changeability. Which is somehow at odds with understandability. To make code easier to change you must move to abstractions, and more abstractions make a code more difficult to understand—but easier to change.
If I get asked this question, I always stop intentionally as if I’ve never been asked this before, look out of the window (if there is one), then look back at the interviewer and say - with lots of pathos: well, I guess I’m too much of a perfectionist
diet mostly I think. There was a good recent article about fiber too. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/science/food-fiber-microb...
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There is a lot of space left in drone industry, but mostly in niches.

1. Serious UAV for serious aerial photography. DJI still suck there, but the distance from their best offer and the nearest competitor is around $180k USD

2. Serious UAV for remote sensing. DJI simply has no offers there other than a consumer handheld ir camera screwed on to a quad

3. High performance. DJI still can't approach mid-tier amateur aerobatic brands

4. Agricultural use, chemical sprayer. DJI has something for Chinese internal market, but they get steamrolled by domestic competition.

5. High payload. DJI have nothing made specially for this niche
why not?

(it's purely a question to know why not, not a provocation)
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> I am concerned with any action that takes a child's privacy or liberty from them.

Such as signing them up for a Facebook account, or having their schools force them to use Google hardware and services that track everything they do?
I'm curious if its actually polishing for 18 months, or if its a few days of polishing, followed by a few days inspection, on and off.* I can't imagine they simply turn it on and let it run for a year and a half non-stop.

* Or some other tempo of alternation.
I have never seen the title "lecturer" used in the US. Can you recall where you saw it? The title "instructor" is quite common when the person does not have a PhD.
I agree. It's more like they're retaining control of the money supply like a central bank does. It give you the power to indirectly influence the price / exchange rate of the currency, but you're not involved with every transaction.
Unicorns need IPOs
... and the majority of traditional aerospace execs still apparently think reusable rockets will fail.

This is why sometimes you just have to "reboot" an industry or other system and replace its institutions. IMHO the next industry that deserves a full reboot is Hollywood.
https://www.sandimetz.com/99bottles/ is all about that. It starts with a few different ways to solve the same problem and then goes into comparing them using chosen criteria.

And then it goes on to implement the solution using TDD.
Very underappreciated book, imho.
In production though the machine will not behave deterministically from your perspective, because you do not have all the inputs to the machine. Some of the inputs are controlled by a third party (the hypervisor, or worse, another VM running on your EC2 host that is actively manipulating branch predictor data to control the speculative execution for your application.) Even if you capture every operation that runs inside your VM, including register states, timing, etc, you won't be able to reproduce the actual behavior that occurred on the host because you don't know what happened outside the VM.

One could argue that the introduction of cloud computing (using virtualization) has converted the machines we run on from deterministic to sorta-deterministic. It just happens that until now we haven't been hurt by it much. Now everyone's paying for it, to the tune of a sizable performance hit on syscalls.
No, absolutely not, I literally said "she still eats very high carb." Her diet does not restrict or limit carbs at all and she eats plenty of them. It's pretty silly to assume everyone's diet is low carb by default.

I believe she eats potatoes at every meal or at least almost every meal and she also eats plenty of white rice. Also fruit juice is on her "good" list. Though she claims she "doesn't eat sugar."

She claims to not eat dairy but she eats yogurt because she thinks it's non-dairy. No, she doesn't have a yogurt exception, she honestly thinks it doesn't contain dairy. I'm not sure what she thinks it is.

There's not many foods she does eat and her diet is the same thing for the most part. I honestly think the key to her diet is all the food I've ever had made by her has been bland and unseasoned. If you're eating bland food you aren't prone to overeat.

I think it's absolutely ridiculous and makes no sense but it seems to work for her so I can't judge too harshly.
The price of avocados has soared worldwide thanks to memes like avocado toast. Avocados themselves are now valuable enough for cartels. They're calling it green gold.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41635008

http://www.businessinsider.com/mexican-farmers-in-michoacan-...

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2008-01-30/news/080130007...

It has now become a joke to say "échale aguacate", (throw in some avocado) to express something like "go all out" or "be a big spender".

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmUQfURW8AAYQpY.jpg
The biggest problem I have with GoPro is price. I've lost a few cameras surfing and I'd be willing to give up quality for a concession on price.

Alternatively, if they made their product more find-able through some sort of tracking/recovery feature, I'd be happy to spend $600 on their camera.

Same type of problem with their drone, not enough features that protect the investment to make it worth the money. For instance, it isn't waterproof. That would at least give me a reason to buy it over a DJI model.
I've certainly met girls that I thought, "I could fall in love with this person." But it wasn't a premonition, just an observation of how great they were, and how well I thought (from a single observation) that we could fit together.

It certainly wasn't fate for any of them, as I didn't date a single one, and I'm quite happy with the woman that I did marry.
Super interesting article. Curious, with the pharmaceutical developments we have already, what would be an upper bound for human AQ today? How might we measure it?
I'd guess more likely "pay as much as you can, and a bit more".

A bit like the tax authorities in any country, but even more callous and without public scrutiny.
That's a great point. I've given approximately zero thought to this, but would you say TDD (or any other requirements-driven design process) would avoid that kind of oversimplification?
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It may be rational for payers to minimize cost of care rather than try to find a better balance between cost of care and outcomes, but that doesn't make it benign. The preferable first line option would be medication + psychotherapy, or at least medication and regular follow up to ensure it's working and adjust dose if needed

6-12 sessions of CBT (NICE recommends 6-8 for mild to moderate depression) with a licensed clinical social worker would be comparable in cost to a year of generic SSRIs. However 55% of US counties don't even have a mental health professional (because payers stopped paying for it), so CBT isn't really an option for many
I'm not sure. I've found this in the App Store Review Guidelines:

>3.1.5 (a) Physical Goods and Services Outside of the App: If your app enables people to purchase goods or services that will be consumed outside of the app, you must use purchase methods other than in-app purchase to collect those payments, such as Apple Pay or traditional credit card entry.

But if this applies to Bandcamp, then it would equally apply to Amazon... So I don't know.
>No one would argue that SQL is bad because some implementations are Turing-complete

They do actually. Though when people do say that it tends to be phrased "keeping business logic in stored procedures is a bad idea".

People argue that all the damn time.

Accidental turing completeness usually signals a design flaw somewhere (would you also consider it too controversial to argue that C++ templates mentioned in your link are nasty and people complain about them a lot?).
What (if anything) is the price difference between the two?
Telegram is hugely popular in the cryptocurrency community to the point that multiple traders I know monitor Telegram community engagement as a primary indicator to bet on small cap coins.

Telegram founder is also big into cryptocurrency and owns a bunch of bitcoin [1]. I think after kik [2] and Status [3] this was inevitable.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-12/cryptic-r...

[2]: http://www.kinecosystem.org/

[3]: https://status.im/
This issue that xdcbt is supposed to solve happens at a completely different level. Performing a full disk to tape backup would slow systems down because the entire disk would be copied through the OS buffer cache, evicting data used by other processes.

The UNIX fix for this was to use a raw device or O_DIRECT to bypass the buffer cache.

Maybe Intel's new cache partitioning feature offers a similar fix, see:

https://lwn.net/Articles/694800/

Actually in the comments someone mentions using cache partitioning for security. Maybe the threads used by jit code could be placed in their cache partition to avoid some of Spectre.
If the market of iPhone users are older, I think that this study will impact apple much less than android.
Kik is pretty popular among camgirls. Usually paying for a subscription to them gets you added to their contents on Kik so you can chat with them.

I wouldn't associate that with older, rural people. More female, sure... but then you've also got their male followers.
Little known fact... if you eat Potatoes with the skin on them, they are the only food that is BOTH a fruit AND a Vegetable.

~ Dave Thomas (Founder of Wendy's and Nutritional Scientist)
Misleading title. Pixel 2 devices had the largest lift in activations over the previous week.
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The whole point of a government-issued ID is the trust behind it. They can be counterfeit, but the penalties for getting caught are severe.

What's the penalty for faking a Visa with picture on it? Nothing.

Of course, there's still a penalty for fraud, but if you're just taking the reservation and not taking the money that's been paid for it, then it's going to be hard to prosecute.