skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're out of imagination you can copy and paste some comments from here and watch the results.

http://www.translationparty.com/bizarrely-the-pixelated-stuf...
Not necessarily an improvement. RBS was nationalised, in 2008 when it was failing. It's still majority state-owned. But since then as part of the bank attempting to return to profitability another scandal emerged - squeezing small business customers into bankruptcy in order to take their assets.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/09/07/nicky-morgan-...
It was just as much about loss as it was about the good things. Go write your own story!
It's like the three major areas of programming where "things may appear to work but are in fact dangerously broken in hidden ways" converged. Compared to other software where the worst case is often crashing or not working, unproven crypto code bases might in fact appear to work (as in, traffic does appear to tunnel correctly), while in fact it could be broadcasting your private keys and plaintext data to anyone who comes knocking.
I think it is safe enough for the common Windows malware such as this one.
Remove the GIL
What is surprising to me is that LIBOR setting was not based on actual transactions but on the assumptions what I would pay bank X to borrow money. The perceived punishment for lying was laughable too. All around this just invites actors with bad incentives.

I believe as of today LIBOR is set based on actual transactions. But who was the genius who created the original LIBOR? Perhaps it all started as something hacky in the 60s and they could not foresee how important LIBOR would become?
The difference between what most of New York considers undriveable and Rochester considers "normal Tuesday" is amazing. Three inches on the ground going to get your garbage plate is considered part for the course.
First you would have to audit the compiler itself... but then how do you compile it?
>>> the cost of getting by — long ago went past insane (£17,040: the cost per year of educating a four year-old child at Thomas’s school in Fulham, not including uniform).

Note that this is only if you send your child to private school, not merely "getting by". Even among the middle classes, this is not very common, especially at four years old. The nicer parts of London have some of the best state schools in the country.
They're not really "natural computers". What brains do really well is calculating heuristics. For example, "that smells bad, I probably shouldn't eat it". That's very different from asking an animal to calculate the optimal eating strategy given a pile of food. Calculating hash values requires exact computation and it's a tractible problem, meaning it can be done efficiently by machine, so it's not something moths are going to be better at.

Curiously, the things brains tend to be really good at are often NP-hard problems if you require the optimal solution. But this is really just a curiosity because brains don't calcualte the optimal solution and what they do calculate is good enough. So the question for me is whether we should even be trying to do any of this stuff with computers in the first place. You might be on to something there. Imagine a self-driving car controlled by moths reacting stimuli...
There is certainly a significant slowdown and a tsunami of stock of new built luxury towers coming to the market. Just in canary wharf you have perhaps 10 residential sky-crappers in construction now. They started slashing the asking price but I don't even know if all of them will be completed. While rates are low, sellers can abstain from selling which is what I understand is happening now, transactions have dried out. But rates are on the way up and people will be forced to sell (relocation, divorce, family expanding, inheritance, etc).
Normal people don't rewrite "harassment" in a CoC as "reinforcing systemic oppression". (They might a few years from now)

In fairness, FreeBSD say at the end they lifted material from another CoC (geekfeminism), although looking at it (http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Community_anti-harassment...) it's actually all on FreeBSD.
I noticed earbuds and their cords are both designed to fit the human ear.
I'm just reading Lathe of Heaven also because of the thread a couple of weeks ago on HN after her death. It's brilliant. I'll have to check this one out too.

Speaking of authors that make you think, Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice is a recent Sci-Fi that made me think. Without spoiling, the odd person view seemed a bit jarring when I first started reading it, but within a few chapters it makes sense. I enjoyed the trilogy as a whole, but the first is the best of the three.
And yet, which is better; finding someone that has the skill and knowledge needed to optimize this (e.g. bring in a consultant), or rewrite the thing - hundreds if not thousands of lines of code and working hours being replaced by even more. And not just rewrite it, but (IMO) replacing it with more complicated technology (additional steps required to make it usable, additional skills needed to work on the project).

I think people think too lightly of rewrites. Actually, I'd even argue that in some cases, rewrites are done because they're easier than actually fixing the problem. Yes, Rust and other languages will give you better performance out of the box, but at what cost?
I largely agree with you.. sugar has been shown extensively as being downright bad for insulin levels, microbiome, hormone levels in general, and lots of other issues.

White flour (in moderation, and always mixed with fat or protein) can be beneficial though as it’s low in lectins (which damage the gut lining and organs like the kidneys and the brain [1]). One (!) slice of white bread is easier on the body than one slice of full corn bread, if you manage to keep your blood sugar level.

[1]: http://www.krispin.com/lectin.html
I wouldn't be surprised.
While it helps sometimes to have two windows side by side, the focus is convincingly better with a single window in the front of the eyes.

The most important use-case I have for side-by-side windows is having a file explorer as the second window, which too does not need half the width. I disable the tree pane (using tabs instead if I need multiple folders together), and do a 3:1 split for the windows. Even then, I see myself always maximizing the primary window for a better focus.

I place the Windows taskbar on the sides to create more vertical space for documents, and discovered accidentally that placing it on the right side made it less distracting for work. (Perhaps given left-to-right reading order, our initial focus is skewed towards the left.) These seemingly little things do make a significant difference to usability and productivity.
Which London though?

There are a lot of different boroughs, and the way their house prices move seem to be somewhat independent of each other.

The bottom falling out of Kensington because there is no oil money seems like a vastly different situation to just generally people wanting to live in outer suburbs.
Exactly my thought - this sounds like a criminal matter, not a civil one.

It's the same reason you don't try to brick someone's computer even if you can prove with certainty that they were, say, cheating and griefing on your game's multiplayer. None of that matters, it would still be a crime.

In which country are these guys based?
Have you actually though about your own hypothesis beyond the seconds it took to write that post?

For example, you pick on fruit and not all of the vegetables that are even easier to grow like, grabbing at random, green beans?

I guess thanks for the "applied mathematician" disclaimer. Not sure why your job title matters here. I know this is hard to believe after dropping this wisdom bomb but I'm just an airplane engine mechanic out of Texas with 17 years experience! -- Just seems like a bizarre trope I only see on HN.
Indirectly help the under privileged by directly applying your skills to solve problems for those with the deepest pockets and then donating that money.
Found my job through who's hitting
I think there may be some nuance to this, however. What you're saying is known to be to true at the macro level, but it may be more complicated at the micro level. For instance, it's well known that games companies aren't too fussed about games getting cracked after the launch window. The availability of a crack may not reduce your spend on video games, but it may reduce your spend on specific video games. This situation is made much much worse if your product is expensive, like this one is, and meant to make money over a long period rather than a short launch period.

None of this excuses them, but I do wonder about how the piracy data actually pans out for small, expensive shops like this.
I think I know the person in Copenhagen, it is a small city after all :D
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I'm not sure and if there is an underlying problem it is certainly exacerbated by the first past the post voting system that is used in the US and UK. But in any case I certainly see the principle in politics all over the world, in particular pigeonholing every person into "right" or "left", for example.
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Another thing which non-UK readers might not be aware of is that the UK government introduced a "Help to Buy" and "Lifetime" ISA, which is essentially an account with some bank where, any money you put in (up to a certain limit), the government will give you an extra 25% free if yiou use it to buy your first home. While this might seem to help with home ownership, I think studies have shown that it only really benefits people who were already saving hard, and thus it only really contributes to house price inflation. I'd be interested to know if other countries have similar schemes.
In case anyone might be mislead given the topic of this article, you shouldn't do base64 encoding with a general purpose routine like getbits(). Since 3 * 8 / 6 = 4 you can process the input bytes in groups of 3 to avoid straddling issues (ideally with an unaligned 32-bit load if they're fast on your platform). Then your inner loop will look like this:

uint32_t triple = *(uint32_t *)in;
*out++ = base64[triple & MASK];
*out++ = base64[(triple >> 6) & MASK];
*out++ = base64[(triple >> 12) & MASK];
*out++ = base64[(triple >> 18) & MASK];
in += 3;

(The 32-bit load can read one byte past the end of the buffer, so allocate extra space or stop the loop early.)
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You left out the other stuff about marijuana: lower IQ and higher risk of psychosis.
The parent argues that it's "a useless but noisy zero-sum jockeying for a rungs on the socio-economic ladder"

And you argue "If companies care about maximizing productivity and profits, and given America's hyper-competitive economy and super-fickle stock market where the difference between meeting the earnings estimate versus missing it by a penny can make the difference between a stock being up 10% or down 10%, why would a company waste money on jobs that are bullshit"

This is the same argument, just with a different spin. In the instance of Facebook, it was able to provide it's core utility with some software cobbled together by one guy in his dorm room over a couple weeks. So what are the other 25,000 employees for? It's not to make Facebook more useful, it's to prevent some other college kid from building a social media network that displaces it. It's all just a silly game that isn't very fun to play. One could argue that Facebook's core utility is now in delivering ads, but nobody likes looking at ads, and companies would rather not spend on ads if they didn't need to to compete, so again, it's all just a silly game. Very little of it is doing anything that is either useful or wanted.
keeping stuff that doesn't show results but feels good seems an awfully dumb thing to do. instead they need to determine why it does not do what they expected. The reason I take this view is that too many will accept a state "we feel good about it" and never work to solve the actual problem.

Its the #hashtag way of life, the lazy.
> Developers should be careful, though; this could prove to be a slippery slope leading toward something that starts to look like a microkernel architecture.

That's an interesting warning. Pushing more tasks out of the kernel would seem like a good idea to me. I thought Torvalds' argument against a microkernel design was more about performance than complexity. Is that incorrect?
Interactive mode in Online Compiler/IDE
I am developing a online compiler and want to provide Interactive mode for getting the user input (similar to repl.it).

Please explain how this can be implemented.
There is SimCorp and Issuu that I know of, but I've also been at a meetup hosted by a company doing ReasonML. And there are a couple of people doing OCaml at Zendesk, but I don't know if they use it in production or just for fun.
Could you elaborate on "bad science" and what could be done differently?

Diet/nutrition studies are inherently difficult because they're almost by necessity self-reported, expensive, takes a lot of time to see effects, and for best effect would need continuous supervision over subjects, which is infeasible over those time spans.

It's easy to throw your hands in the air and just say it's bad science because it's not perfect (welcome to science), but it's not constructive and it was the thing I argued against in my original post.

So yes, it is better, therefor it is progress.
They actually did a sort-of merger for post-Soviet territory

https://yandex.ru/blog/company/130717

https://www.uber.com/ru/blog/future-uber-yandex/
Better would be the Huffman coding; one has to deal with variable bitfield widths.
But he didn't argue that, did he? Can you give a quote from the memo that makes you think Damore argued or believes that?
I'm a big Go fan, but this is the first time I've seen someone recommend Go for data science. After looking at this cheat sheet you've got me convinced though. Would you mind pointing me to any other less cheat sheet style and more in depth examples that you particularly like?
Does it make sense to view IO/State monads in Haskell as analogous to unsafe blocks in Rust?
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Australia has the "First Home Buyer's Grant". It just serves to inflate the general price of houses though.
Low fat "light" products generally add sugar or various combinations of binders, in order to mimic the original consistency and taste. They are universally all crap, when compared to the originals.
Yes, but without Admin privileges it is easier to contain software.
Whilst attempting to seem like they're presenting both sides of the argument they do misrepresent what Corbyn says: he's never says or implies that the state will steal the property, he says houses/apartments/etc that are kept vacant would be bought and turned over to residents who need the accommodation.

I don't think it's particularly partisan to say that's not a bad thing, in my experience when the government buys something off citizens they usually do it for a very good price, so it's not like it will be taken from them with no notice and no recourse.
There wasn't really a move away from Libor fixings. They were, and still are, very important in the derivative markets.

There was a move towards collateralised transactions so the overnight rates become more important for funding than the unsecured rates.
>The people who pirated it simply were never going to pay for it whether they play it or not.

I hear this argument a lot but can't see how it possibly be correct. Sure, not everyone who pirates would buy instead but at least some people would (it probably is a small percentage, but it is not zero).

One can imagine that the effect of those few is amplified for titles with high costs per unit.
Monads are not directly related to handling side effects. Or to the famous IO that you're refeering here. What a Monad does is to force sequencing by creating a data dependency.

Speaking of IO ...

In an imperative program you get guaranteed ordering of those instructions, but that ordering is thread local, meaning that the compiler, the runtime, the kernel, the CPU are all free to reorder instructions for optimal execution and ordering between threads is forced via memory barriers, which is in fact incredibly error prone.

In an FP language such as Haskell you get the extra problem that the compiler is even more free to rewrite and execute your code in any order it sees fit due to non-strictness and to referential transparency.

What the IO monad does is to "suspend side effects" and to force ordering on evaluation. And guess what, the IO monad is useful even in your average imperative program for describing concurrent logic.

Here are the implementations I contributed to:

1. https://monix.io/docs/2x/eval/task.html (Scala)

2. https://github.com/typelevel/cats-effect (Scala)

3. https://funfix.org (JavaScript)

If you've ever worked with JS Promises, think of IO as a non-broken, pure, awesome alternative.

And this is just IO. There are other monads as well. List is a monad, Option and Either are monads ;-)

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I recommend you let go of your misconceptions and do some learning because this is a freaking useful concept.
That's a very good point, and you're right. My comment about white flour wasn't intended to suggest replacement with an alternative flour, but to indicate that its effect on blood sugar is almost the same as sugar. Mix it with oil to make a tortilla and its glycemic index lowers to half.

I don't live by it because it's delicious, but I would instead say don't eat bread, there's fiber to be had in vegetables.
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Yes, it's a pity that went south.

For readers not familiar with this mechanism in Australia, sellers just raised prices by the value of the grants.
And how many of them are in those positions because their professorship was advertised as being exclusively for white men only?

How many of them were unqualified, but given the job over a more qualified woman, just because they were a man?

I'm sure there are cases of that happening, somewhere. But I can point to multiple examples in the past year alone of jobs being advertised explicitly and in writing as not being open to white men. I do not recall ever seeing jobs being advertised as not open to women.

As it is, you're pointing at a disparity and implying - but not even outright stating - that it must be due to bias, or that white men can't possibly be being attacked or can't possibly fear for their careers, merely because there are a lot of them.

Would you have made the same sorts of arguments about black slaves, on the grounds that there were loads of non-enslaved blacks in Africa at the time of the slave ships, so clearly they couldn't be that oppressed. I mean just look at the quantities. Clearly you would not have made that argument because it'd be bogus. Merely having a common attribute doesn't imply you can't be oppressed.
From your link:

>A new Linux kernel technology called BPF is at the foundation of Cilium. It supports dynamic insertion of BPF bytecode into the Linux kernel at various integration points such as: network IO, application sockets, and tracepoints to implement security, networking and visibility logic. BPF is highly efficient and flexible.
Obviously this is your opinion, but I will counter with mine..

I think the Pebble Time Steel [0][1] is actually the only good looking fully-functional smartwatch on the market, even to this day..

The Apple Watch looks like a wrist computer (yeah I know), and most of the other ones out there are either HUGE (I'm not into massive watch faces), or also look clunky and un-appealing. Or they are very blatantly "sport watches". I want a watch I can wear to work (where I have to dress up somewhat), or wear out at night..

Combine that with once-a-week charging, and I'm still super sad that mine will one day stop working and there won't be anything I can do about it. :-(

[0]: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Jn9cYI1QL...
[1]: http://i.imgur.com/Wqbaibt.png
Working on it. Part of my goal for 2018 is to write a lot more soft documentation - tutorials etc.

Go is quite straightforwards though - WYSIWYG for the most parts, hence you probably won't find a lot of sexy tutorials. Almost everything is just a loop away, and in the next version of Gorgonia, even more native looping capability is coming
I live in the neighborhood; these streets are all around Yandex headquarters. It's one of the best districts in the whole city, streets rigorously cleaned, very light traffic and surprisingly cultured drivers. Even after recent record-breaking snowfalls, these streets were very clear short after.

Would love to see them trying to drive anywhere else in the city though.
We use spark for most of our work. We love it so far, able to handle all our use cases so far and we really appreciate the fact that Scala also runs on the JVM.
But the speedo will always stay the same
One thing that really makes me angry about owning property in England is the (imho) fraudulent setup where I buy house (or flat) and have to pay rent to the land owner. Yes, that is right. The LAND doesn't come with the HOUSE.

Also money laundring helped plenty, on insanely inflating the prices - money from anyone who could afford this. There are buildings in London that are empty. Kind of like a piece of jewelery that you keep as a safe-keep in the safe (but only bigger).

That said, it is a pitty that plenty of people will see that they got a mortgage of 999 for a flat that "now" costs 200-300,but it is healthy for this parasitic/fraudulent behaviour to end.
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Having never heard of this before, I 100% thought you were just blending brands and words together--Amazon/Fit/Bit--and throwing out an absurd tech spec--45 days of battery--but I just looked it up and it's real. Wow.

Edit: Except it's $99
Exactly. While there absolutely is discrimination due to systemic and personal bias, reaching for equality of outcome is much to heavy handed. The result is many innocent people being hurt at best, at worst istitutional tyranny.
Communism doesn't have a great track record either.

1. Tienanmen square

2. Great firewall of china.

3. Most of the judicial system in china

4. cuba

5. venezuela

Also, the stock market and the 24 hours news cycle hasn't had as long a time to corrupt china like it has democracies.

Most of the US is optimized for better stock results.
If you consider this you also have to consider people who pirate a game and then decide to buy it later when they get the money or they realize that it's worth the price. It happened to me on several occasions.

There's also the "photoshop effect", where piracy helps ensure that the application remains the de-facto standard. Admittedly this is less applicable for games but it might help with 3rd party controller support, modding community etc...
I've always felt that mastering CoreData's multi-threaded APIs are a trial by fire. Tutorials and recommendations only got me so far and I had to stumble my way through to truly master it. At the end of it all, I got a bigger feeling of appreciation for the complexities involved in multi-threaded synching of data and its persistence.
I would be interested to know to what extent the prediction of cardiovascular risk goes beyond a linear combination of the other factors such as hypertension, diabetes, age. I.e. if we just prediction these variables with the network then run a linear regression is it less accurate? This would give some indication as to whether there is additional independent information that is useful in the retinal imaging.
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