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Ansible's modules documentation is auto-generated from the code. Hence, there is a standardized (across all ansible's modules) way to extract their parameters/outputs.

See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/mo... for example:

DOCUMENTATION is a yaml snippet that follows their documentation schema to tell you about all the module's input parameters.

EXAMPLES gives you some usage examples.

RETURN documents the outputs.

A proper IDE plugin could parse those snippets for each module and do some pretty nice autocompletion/inline documentation for you...
Newbie here. Can someone explain what would I use these vectors for?
They were beautiful machines. I was a Commodore user at the time and had no idea what I was missing, but I own a bunch of Atari 8-bits now. Emulators are great, but you should hunt yourself down an original Atari 8-bit to collect.
I mainly got the "a lot" from here: https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/

But maybe you're right. I have encountered these people myself, but perhaps it's not truly "a lot."
I love this comment so much I want to print it out on a sheet and sleep under it tonight.
Still probably 100x more secure the paper ballots counted by an easily corruptible social process, than a mathematical equation that is auditable by the entire world.
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That isn't what I said. I said you can know. But only if you provide some amount of regulation to mandate reporting of reliable information.

The claim is actually the opposite: You can never make the claim that no regulation is good, because you don't know what you don't know.

(But you absolutely can still make that claim, in fairness; you just can't base it on a cost-benefit analysis from the customer's perspective.)
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Many food companies will have their own "store" on Amazon and you can purchase from them as a supplier. I assume they have quality control to ensure the food they ship to Amazon is from their warehouses, and I assume that Amazon only ships you that food. I guess it's a lot of assumptions.
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It's not like that everywhere in the lispverse. I was overjoyed when Racket offered functions like 'first', 'rest', and 'second' to use in place of 'car', 'cdr' and 'cadr'. (Though it still retains the gross names, for backward compatibility.) Clojure does similar, with a hefty dose of additional pragmatism.

TBH, though, as someone who used to love Scheme (and has yet to spend any real time with Clojure), I agree that there's a hefty amount of nostalgia involved. 2 or 3 decades ago, lisp felt like a total sea change compared to what else was out there, which was mostly just a bunch of C and BASIC dialects. Nowadays even the C dialects have adopted most of what made lisp feel great, and I just don't feel that great a need to go back to living a world where (almost) everything is a linked list.
My guess is the effect isn't very significant. Are there studies showing disease versus pet ownership? People are far more "clean" today than in the past and I wonder how much our high standards for cleanliness make a difference. Some people feed their cats raw chicken intentionally. Dogs get into all sorts of things outside (carcasses, feces, etc) they can bring into a house. Personally, when I am backpacking or caving, I will eat food with dirty hands (as in caked in dirt and mud) and don't get sick from it. I occasionally drink untreated water as well, but typically try to avoid it from giardia risk.
There are still relatively strong effects. Whatever genes are statistically linked to things like less education, for example, are flooding the gene pool relative to others. There are plenty of dimensions like this.
Also a lot of surviving websites are no longer so accessible. ie Youtube and reddit comments, panoramio pictures (which google kept but you can't see, even if you took them), even capturing a large amount of tweets is pretty hard right now.

Companies are closing down all data they can grab. Youtube used to have a list of the top 1000 videos ordered by view count and other parameters. It allowed you to explore and filter their data. To choose what to see. To index their content. This is no longer possible. They want to keep everything they know about you private, and they want to control what you see and "discover".

This is pretty far away from the open web we had 10 years ago. Part of the blame is Javascript, but most of the blame is on users who don't care. Smartphones ruined the internet in my opinion. Sure, there's more content than ever, but it's not freely available. In fact you're not even allowed to know what's available.
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Look into the scale in question. We're not talking about crippled mute kids banging their heads into walls or attacking their teachers.
Meh... not really.
In some tasks punctuation marks may play significant role, but I agree that for things like text classification, they may not be necessary...
> This could have been a tweet

Right. Everyone should give their content to third party if they want to share it.
I work on largeish commercial Haskell codebase and I never have to look anywhere to figure it out—I know what the do block is doing because I know what function it's in and what the return type is. With a bit of experience I started keeping track of this context subconsciously so the question just doesn't come up.

Haskell code tends to rely on context quite a bit. This does make it more difficult to learn, but once you're over the hump, context is something you end up understanding automatically.
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Reading the book, "The Chicken Shit Club", it's a combination of the prosecutors being buddy buddy with the big defense lawyer firms (someone who has a reputation for going after white collar crime and being aggressive about it might not get a job with the big defense firms after their time in the DOJ or SEC or what have you), and Congress being buddy buddy with the execs and getting upset when the DOJ does their job.
Yeah, but attaching two spacex interplanetary spaceships nose to nose via a tether and giving the pair spin with the maneuvering thrusters would probably give you a s*load more space with much more comfortable artificial gravity.

Still the scifi character of the ring is neat :D
I guess it's easy to say patents are bad when you're already a millionaire...
How does one sign up for this course?
So disappointed Videri doesn't ship to Canada, it looks very good.
> In Germany, you obey the speed limit

German living in Germany here: er, no. Typical is slighly more than +10%. If you keep to the speed limit, people behind you will get upset.
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I recently read that the digital scanning of shredded Stasi documents ran into some technical trouble;

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/03/stasi-files-ea...
UE4 isn’t open source. You get source access with the license but it’s quite restrictive on what you can actually do with it. If you tried to setup a competing engine based on a fork of it you would quickly find yourself being sued.

Godot would be an example of an open source game engine.
There is no opinion of him on Apple implementing features from third party apps into it's platform. Would be interesting since he's such a big Apple fan.
I was at my best at age 4. It has been all downhill from there.
I used to match patchwork quilts out of plugins, different HTML widgets, and try to make use of pre-made frameworks for CSS in the past. I always felt like I was 80% of the way finished before I started.....but the hard part was building the other 80%.

A few years ago I flipped the way I built stuff, preferring small, self-built pieces of code only I had authored, and not only was our code smaller and easier to maintain, it also significantly dropped the amount of bugs and conflicts we were having.

The problem that often happens with pre-built, well-tested solutions, is that they often only partly solve what you need to do. Edge cases might be the only cases you have, it's often better to get the one tailor made for solving your exact problem.
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”In future releases we’ll be adding this to Watchtower within the 1Password apps, so you can see your pwned passwords right in the 1Password app you use every day.”
I'll give it a go.

Background: Brains are complicated. We don't have an "autism gene" or a "smart gene" or a "schizophrenia gene." Rather, it is a network of genes acting in concert that give rise to these traits (autism, smart, schizophrenia, etc).

The researchers looked at the genes that are involved in autism - certain "alleles" (versions of a gene) are correlated with autism.

They were surprised to find that several of these autism-related alleles were also associated with increased intelligence. That is, having one or more "autism-like" alleles may boost your intelligence, without necessarily causing autism.

They then looked at the prevalence of these autism-related alleles, and found that it was significantly higher than you would expect to see by random chance. From this, they can conclude that there is positive selection occurring - having at least one autism-related allele results in you being more likely to pass your genetics on to your children.

I may be missing a few things; I read the paper pretty quickly.
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Agreed the articles leaves technical information to be desired.

On the point of 3,000 MPH. One of the comments on the TechCrunch article maybe provides some insight on why they aren't targeting 17,500 MPH.

"even if they need to supplement with rocket propulsion (after exiting the rotational acceleration phase), the amount of rocket energy needed will be way less. could see a huge increase in payload mass fraction as a result. maybe closer to 20 or 30% instead of 1 or 2%"

IF they are flying beyond Mach 1, drag coefficient will actually drop as Mach number increases. [1] Gravity loss will play an interesting roll as well for a system launching with a high initial velocity. There will be a balance between aerodynamic drag and gravity drag losses. The lower the angle launched, the higher the aerodynamic drag but the low the gravity drag loss. [2] Typically launch vehicles actually need more than 9.5 km/s of delta-v even though the orbital velocity for low earth orbit is only 7.8 km/s. This is due to predominantly to account for the large drag forces the velocity experiences during the vertical portion of ascent at sub, trans, and lower super sonic speeds prior to exiting the atmosphere. Some allocation will need to be made for drag loss, but I suspect it is less than a traditional launch vehicle. I would also suspect there is a balance between launch speed, fuel fraction reduction, and difficulty of implementation. The sweet spot between those three things will be important to hone in on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_(physics)#/media/File:Qua...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_drag
At one level, it’s simply a vector of weights. In a simple 1-of-N (or ‘one-hot’) encoding every element in the vector is associated with a word in the vocabulary. The encoding of a given word is simply the vector in which the corresponding element is set to one, and all other elements are zero. It's all about Natural Language Processing.

If you are interested in more, check out these excellent reviews by Adrian Colyer posted in The Morning Paper.

https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/04/21/the-amazing-power-of-wor...
No, nothing wrong with the spelling; rather, I found it ironical.
Author here.

No, this is really only comparing the throughput on the devices. A thorough comparison should really focus on time to reach a certain quality - including all of the tricks available for a certain architecture.
> Like - it's 2018 and people are still using 'cdr' and 'cons' as terminology and happily expecting other people to learn those words and not even feeling bad about it.

Oh please, cry me a river. Like monads, promises, or props are any better.

> If the person justifying Lisp doesn't mind that the word 'cons' is terrible, why should I trust their aesthetic sense about anything? If I have to have "miserable notations" to get "coding nirvana", and coding nirvana is so great, why not fix the notations? do you just think everyone should have to struggle because you did?

Your ignorance is baffling. The notation is a feature, not a bug. If you want the feature, then yes, you will have to struggle.

While cons and cdr as concepts are necessary to learning what goes underneath the hood, idiomatic lisp is rarely written in terms of cons and cdr.
If it's anything I need to care about privacy with, I'm not uploading it to someone else's server even if I pay for it, I'm doing it locally.

But if it's say, as a friend recently experienced, a handout from a teacher in Corel Draw format, you bet your ass I'm uploading it to whatever the top google result for "convert corel draw to pdf online" is.
What an interesting question! Many computers are an impenetrable "unibody" or otherwise glued-together cryptex these days :).

Guile/Emacs offers a way to clear a staggering amount of baggage, offering some great features, while mostly keeping add-on packages compatible. You'd think it would get more love. I use Emacs (having switch from Vim because of elisp) but I'm definitely not well positioned to do anything here :/. As it is, I'm a very strange Emacs user: no emacs-server and always '-nw' inside tmux.
"Is that for your brother? I don't think so."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5J5swxSLnE
I think 1Password's issues are a UI issue. I've been using it for years and I still sometimes can't find the "Edit" button when the app is full-screened because it's so far away at the bottom.

Also, the 25% failure you speak of is why I don't trust it at all. All it takes is one time where it doesn't save your username and it becomes useless.

So I just open it up and create entries manually. Which is fine for me but exactly something I wouldn't expect everyone to do since the app trains you to depend on its autosave.

I think a few UI changes would go a long way. I have a mental list and wish it would be worthwhile to build my own, as every developer likes to think. But in reality it just feels like a list of minor features/tweaks they can add eventually.
> Khosla’s appeal with the Supreme Court argues that he shouldn’t have to get a permit to lock the public access gates, claiming the California Coastal Act is a violation of his constitutional rights. The California Coastal Act was enacted in 1976 to ensure the public had access to the California shoreline.

So this guy wants to outlaw easements, basically because he's rich so he shouldn't have to share? Seems like he has more money than sense.
Well, it is a regulation to ensure the business is intended to close. Instead of "going out of business" sign, what happen "big sale" sign every quarters? FWIW, I am not sure if that big sale is really a big sale with discounts. In fact, I have seen mattress stores claiming a price drop on the flyer for $850 but the regular price never stays - basically I am calling out certain stores lying about the regular price and promotional price.
This might be a good YC "request for startups."

Virta Health is one I've seen.

And the Robert Johnson Wood Foundation is working on this cause: https://www.rwjf.org/en/our-focus-areas/topics/childhood-obe...

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Diet seems crucial.

Obesity isn't really helped by exercise. (https://www.vox.com/2018/1/3/16845438/exercise-weight-loss-m...)

"Significant weight loss was observed with any low-carbohydrate or low-fat diet. Weight loss differences between individual named diets were small. This supports the practice of recommending any diet that a patient will adhere to in order to lose weight." (Many diets work. Most important is optimizing for one that will be continued long term / rest of their life)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25182101

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Overweight-obesity is also a top 3 preventable cause of death for US people (and many other nations).

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/smoking-hig...

About 1 in 12 of total deaths each year in the US can be attributed to the person being overweight or obese.

~7x more Americans die each year due to obesity/overweight than due to opioids. (Though opioid deaths are rising much faster.) https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/o...

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What causes obesity?

The "greatest contributor to weight gain" is eating more calories than are burned. (https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/obesity/conditioninf...)

It seems that food types do play into this - in part because eating 1000 calories of sugar will leave you much hungrier than eating 1000 calories of fat, so while in theory you've eaten the same amount of calories, in reality the sugar eating person will probably eat more the rest of the day.
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> What if it's a messy business where a gene arises that gives a small edge, but brings with it a host of problems.

Because it doesn't. That sort of pleiotropy just is not common, empirically, in humans. Hundreds or thousands of genetic correlations tend to confirm this: there are loads of free lunches. Why is that? A lot of it looks like relaxed selection (eg my other submission shows that our ancestors thousands of years ago appear to have had substantially lower genetic risk of disease because it was decreasing over time, but has reversed), the slowness of selection given the small effect sizes vs the constant incoming stream of new mutations, and the demographic history of humanity of massive expansion from a small starting population based on migration of also tiny groups.
Unlike a shotgun, the AR-15 is usable by frail people. You can be 90 pounds, be on blood thinners, have weak muscles and bones, and still practice with an AR-15. Essentially, a requirement to rely on a shotgun would be discriminatory, particularly toward women and the elderly.

Last April in Oklahoma, a home defense situation with an AR-15 made the news. There were 3 armed intruders that got killed with only 2 rifle shots. That is a great example of just how effective the AR-15 can be in home defense.
Off topic. The OP meant to say that the crux of the article boils down to something conveyable in 140 characters or less.

Does Mastadon float your boat, versus twitter?
Well yeah, you have to be a great snake oil salesman to sell a $290 bar of chocolate.
Author here.

These are only available on the Google Cloud right now. I don't think there are plans to sell them anytime soon.
I know that on HN it often can not be left unsaid that the financial industry has a net benefit on the economy and on society, but I don't think it can be easily assumed that the cost of complying with such regulation makes the banking system less efficient, even if the cost of compliance is many times the fines that end up being paid out.

Banks ultimately compete with each other, and there is inevitably an information asymmetry between banks and their clients. A good faith bank will lose out to banks that "accidentally" employ dark patterns against their customers, if the customers are unaware that they are being cheated, or if the costs of remedies are more expensive than the damages.

People often talk about the value of assuming positive intent on Hacker News. I agree with this in principle, but I also think it is important to create an environment where people acting in good faith are rewarded with not having to waste their time thinking up schemes to compete with dishonest competitors. The bias toward assuming incompetence and honest mistakes over ill intent unfortunately gives cover to people who employ plausible deniability to cover intentional fraud. Cell phone companies, cable companies and utilities make billing errors far too often to plausibly credit honest mistakes alone. At least in their case they don't already have direct access to your assets in the way that banks do.
Okay, will check those out, thanks.
Tell that to 321 Media Player, who raked in millions by illegally copying VLC.

Simply attaching a big bad license to your code doesn't prevent 3rd world shovelware farms from copying your work and making tons of money from it for free.
Link is dead for non FT subscribers.

(Or at least for those who the FT thinks would pay for a subscription)
> There's less selection pressure now because there's less mortality.

There are two pathways to selection. You're only focusing on one. Sexual selection is alive and well.
To me the most interesting thing here is that there's a market for $300 chocolate bars.

Entrepreneurs are often reluctant to charge more for their products in the early days, and articles like this show that customer interest doesn't require low prices. If you can demonstrate value and differentation, people will pay more than you might expect. Sometimes much, much more.
While we're on the topic, does anyone know of resources on the characteristics of the (IR) flash and/or minimum range of ALPRs?

I assume the manufacturers try to control that information but someone has likely written a paper on it (I just can't find it).
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Originating a widely-used open-source technology is a huge liability with virtually no financial benefit. It's a goal an engineer fetishizes and a product creator recoils at. I can't pay my rent with a pat-on-the-back buried in some acknowledgements screen, but hooray for my competitors being able to copy my product in a tenth of the time and effort.

Also, if everything were open-source, then nothing would get brownie points just for being open-source.
First, the whole blog is about trying to be the best you can be. To a small extent, it is targeting people who want to be high achievers.

Second, how do you think it would sound if an MIT PhD started giving examples using underprivileged folks? I think many would equally dismiss him for being way out of touch.

Third, I see nothing in the advice given that limits it to privileged folks.
I disagree with just about everything you said and would argue nearly the opposite: too much state involvement in education, healthcare, and the economy is to blame for the deteriorating society.

Children are forced to conform to the state's schooling program from a very early age, and those who fail to do so are labeled as such with bad grades and trips to the school office. They are humiliated in front of their peers and feel powerless and dehumanized. This record follows them through their entire schooling career. The religious and cultural traditions of their parents are ridiculed by the authority figures at school. School zones keep poor children out of good schools.

Wealth inequality will naturally arise in any system, but when gains go to the politically-connected or well-lobbied, then the state is artificially enriching those at the expense of others. This is not the functioning of capitalism but rather of cronyism and corruption.

Student loans are out of control precisely because the government got in the business. Higher education costs are out of control because of the excess money from the student loans.

The job prospects suck because of excess regulation in the economy. Entrepreneurs are not able to innovate as well due to so much red tape. Occupational licensing sets up barriers at all levels of the workforce, enriching the incumbents and limiting competition. Healthcare is so overrun with regulation it's laughable to mention the word "market" in the same sentence. Those are barriers put in place of market forces by the state.

The drug epidemic is merely the result of all these forces put together.
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