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I’d argue the business practices of Microsoft in the 1990s and 2000s have set the technology industry back at least a decade. The side effect of this is lives of toil instead of productivity. May have saved six million lives but cost a billion people a future they could have had.
> not every comment about a feature of Rust needs a "rebuttal" about how it wasn't the first language with that feature.

People keep repeating that the popular language/framework/library of the year has $feature without acknowledging that it's not a new idea. This creates hype.
The problem is that projects like Singular depend on listing papers that have been written with them to get funding and attract contributions. These represent a very significant amount of work. Sage doesn't handle a lot of stuff directly: anything more then basic arithmetic often goes to a specialized package.
The power budget is impressive to impossible. They show 4 cells of unknown specifications. Let's suppose they're 32650s, the largest listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battery_sizes#List_of_... so you get 4 x 3.7V x 6000mAh/year ~= 10milliwatt average power consumption. (or 2.7mA @ 3.7V)

Curiously, in the only datasheet I found for the IMX323 sensor, sony hasn't yet characterized the current or power requirements of the sensor -- but it's a datasheet hosted by a third party so who knows. http://support.hkvstar.com/file/IMX323LQ-C.pdf
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> nominated for a Nobel Prize.

After forcing OEMs to install Windows for decades, yeah he does deserve a kind of prize but I am not thinking about the same one. Your present does not redeem your past actions.
Oddly enough I think I prefer that logo to the new branding
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The article seems a little rough (draft?), but the money shot is the algo in Section 5. Looks pretty neat and straightforward!

TL;DR:

1. Build a special distance(word1, word2) metric using a set of word vectors trained elsewhere (such as GloVe). This distance works better than cosine distance.

2. Given a document (a sentence, a paragraph… basically, a sequence of words), calculate the "importance" of each word as a sigmoid over distances(word, avg(all_words)).

3. To embed a document, simply do a weighted average of its word vectors, where the weight of each word equals the importance above.
> I'd let corporations get away with way worse if the profits were always used like this.

You must be kidding right? Its like saying stealing is OK as long as its used well.
> ... spend half a day answering the initial questions

Half a day??? Talk about dedication :)!

Anyway, Zapier's process appears to have improved from 2 years ago -- they commit to and usually succeed in responding to your application within a week now.
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To put $12 million in perspective, its estimated that much is wasted on crappy medical research every 35-40 minutes:

http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2016/01/14/paul-glasziou-and-iain-c...
It's not a prize, it's a grant program.

Organizations working along the lines of the challenge can apply for an initial grant of up to $2 million and then some more if things are going well. The idea is to identify underfunded ideas and reduce that particular problem.
The fact that you are more likely to die of every other disease after the age of 30 is a direct consequence of aging. It is more important than any other disease. Also, that quote does not say that every other disease should be ignored, only that we should spend less than 100% of our budget on them.
OP probably doesn't know either. He submitted ~30 links to HN within a few hours a little bit ago (~20 of them in roughly an hour).
It is not true anymore that "anything more than basic arithmetic goes to a specialized package" (it used to be true back in 2005). The Sage library itself is nearly a million lines of code and is very deep after contributions by over 500 people during 14 years--it's far more than "basic arithmetic".
I think about pink spotted aardvarks when I feel I’m about to come down with a cold. The cold usually doesn’t come. This is a lot quicker and less sweaty than the sauna trick.
A few languages do support such low-level controls to have such fine grain memory control outside GC hands.

So the question is, having been able to achieve half of the allowed budget, why pay for more development effort?

Of course, if the bugdet is only achievable with a lower level language, there is no way around using it.
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Because this article completely misdefines "middle class"? Being middle class doesn't mean you can afford absolutely everything you want. It just means you're financially secure enough not to have to choose between food, clothing, shelter, and healthcare with every paycheck, and to be able to save up a buffer in case of emergency.

Example: $2100/mo to feed 3 people is ridiculous. Instead of buying prepared foods, cook meals. You can feed 3 people on $750/mo. If you're spending $300/wk on date night dinner, find something less expensive to do for date night.

Similarly for some of the other budgets. Drive a used Honda instead of a new Volvo. Find less expensive ways to entertain yourselves. If you insist on living in an expensive housing market, accept that middle class family living in a dense city means (and has always meant) a (cramped to midwestern suburban sensibilities but quite livable) 2BR without outdoor space, not a house with a lawn; and consider renting instead of buying.

Middle class living means making compromises. If you're not making compromises, that's upper class living. And yeah, that can cost $300k/yr easily.
Perhaps, but I'm not sure we should punish good behavior like this. He is doing it, his peers are not.
Agreed. I manage a small remote team. When i'm in the office i do video calls but have been stuck at home for the last four months on audio only. It makes a substantial difference.
I started making sourdough out of law school back in the late 90's when I got Nancy Silverton's book on the topic (La Brea Bakery Founder). I baked bread back then, but found it too exacting and inconsistent. I began again years later after starting a family and almost every weekend we make the amazing sourdough pancakes and waffles in Silverton's book. We maintain a starter that's 60% water and 40% flour by weight. It stays in the fridge during the week. We pull it out Friday morning, feed it midday and night and it's ready to go in the morning a repeat for Sunday. Then it gets a small feeding and goes back in the fridge. It can stay there for up to a few weeks. The pancakes are excellent and light I believe because the yeast digests much of the flour. You don't have that heavy feeling after eating them. The waffles are the best I've had anywhere. I have a one-page spreadsheet that has the feeding recipe and schedule for various batch sizes and the recipes for the waffles and pancakes if anyone is interested. We also make kefir soda from water kefir grains, which is really good. Naturally carbonated soda that's not too sweet and is probiotic.
What can redeem your past actions then?
Cooking recipe on github top ranked on hacker news.
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We all love to be cynical, but I feel this sort of discussion is pointless. It's not based on facts or any domain knowledge.
Larry Page's family foundation is participating in this grant program.
Aren't you basically printing money once you have a universal vaccine for the flue? I imagine 12m will be peanuts in comparison.
Presumably they plunked down the cash to hire an IBM A-level team, not the turn the crank-level most people gripe about.
"So why do I think this? When I studied the business school, it was just very weak intellectually. Kinda like watching documentaries all day; interesting, makes you think you understand something, but ultimately superficial. Reading about Betamax vs VHS is the same; you think you're gaining insight as you do it, but there's nothing really deep in there. There's not really a method or organising principle to decision making, other than "try to think about it in an organized way, keeping in mind relevant precedents" (like SWOT). Basically just common sense as a degree."

That's one thing I have heard from several people who have STEM degrees and also an MBA. They all say that once you got into business school it was by far the easiest degree they got.
Thanks for posting. The claim is not especially bold or novel, unless I misunderstand. Math can be seen as a source of absolute truth. It’s long been noted that this butts up against the monopoly that religion often claims over truth.
I repeat my question
I'm arguing that heliocentrism was a means to an end. The Catholic Church was being accused of not taking the Bible seriously by the Protestents which is what caused the whole "heliocentrism heresy", but it wasn't really about heliocentrism it was about the Catholic Church trying to protect themselves. See also this line from the wikipedia article:

"The decree of the Congregation of the Index banned Copernicus's De Revolutionibus and other heliocentric works until correction. Bellarmine's instructions did not prohibit Galileo from discussing heliocentrism as a mathematical and philosophic idea, so long as he did not advocate for its physical truth."

This was a political move, with heliocentrism being the vechicle.
> While the wood is probably at least that old, the carving isn't necessarily quite that old.

The russian article on Wikipedia says that there was a research including examining the surface with a microscope and it shows that the statue is made from a freshly chopped tree with stone tools.

The difference is dates is because the research in 2015 was done using another method [1] . The age of the tree is estimated to be around 160 years old.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2018-04-wooden-shigir-idol-egyptian-py...
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Well, he certainly goes out of his way to make sure his name is attached to everything, which is one prerequisite to being positioned well for a Nobel.
How did they get red pigment on the kid's skull?
Answer is you don’t have to initialize rcx, since it is already a prerequisite for a looping subroutine. There is no for (i=0; i<n; i++). Argument n is a counter and it is rcx itself. It is ‘discharged’ by a loop. If caller wants to save it, then it does that by his own means. This contradicts all regular languages’ rules, but this is low-level, far below all the safety.

On your second question about different loops. First, you can loop through any register via (dec <reg>; jnz <label>), thus having nested loops. Second, all valuable registers are pushed onto the stack and popped before/after a call or an interrupt, so their contents don’t change. Some registers have to be saved by the caller and some by the callee, depending on a calling convention and an actual usage. The stack is always available (rsp points to its top), so you can offload temporary values and concentrate on current evaluation, loading values on demand later.
Your link indicates that there is no evidence that this experiment ever took place.
Anyone: please make an online playable version!
Relevant: "Why Don't Women Ask Men Out on First Dates?
Despite greater equality, women still don't ask. Why?" https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-how-and-why-sex-...
Being a programmer who recently started making sourdough, this is nice to see. But I have to admit that I clicked because I saw Github + sourdough and thought that someone had coded an app to help you track weights and timing!
>> I must admit I find the EU pretty progressive and thought-leading lately - ironically using the tool progressives despise the most: Regulation.

Who said it is necessary for 'progressives' hate regulation? Progressiveness, I think, is a contextual thing. Capitalism, free-marketism, socialism, theocracism, and indeed any political and social movement can all advocate progressivism toward their own ideologies.

So, in my view, progressivism has more to with general change to an idealogical view, whatever that idealogical view is, and not got anything to do with change to a certain idealogical view. As in one person may view a change being progressive, eg reduction in regulation, and another might view that change as being regressive, eg removal of regulation of toxic chemicals into a river system.
> No one has been deprived of their property.

On the contrary, money is a means to property, and Microsoft loses $3.5 (minus the production cost) for each copy Eric sells to his buyers, since otherwise Microsoft would be the one earning that money. The crime of theft, however, predates even this buying & selling.

Software is a non-depleting product. It is like the fruits that immediately regrow when plucked off of its tree. Now, just because Microsoft doesn't lose any fruits when somebody plucks a fruit from their tree without permission, shouldn't make this person not guilty of their theft. Eric, I would say, has committed this crime of theft at the point of copying the software. Microsoft may not have been deprived of their property, but that is merely due to the fact that their miraculous tree was capable of immediate replenishment, not because a fruit from it was not stolen.

Eric later benefited from his crime by selling it, which damaged Microsoft by saturating the demand for their product as a side-effect.

In the end, it really is hard not to think counterfeiting as a form of stealing, when any form of counterfeiting most definitely devaluates the properties owned by the genuine owners. I am not an expert on law, economics, or business, but I would say counterfeiting in any form would most likely indirectly equal to stealing, and doesn't look like it at the first sight because the translation is too convoluted.
Could this apply to social movements too?
Contributing to open source is, as the arihant answered, a hype. Don't do it. It is a form of slave labur where you give your knowlidge for free (it is not about giving your coding skills) you give your expertise for free to anyone, typically different companies, to profit from your work. Without ever paying you they craft their profit from what you have made. This kind of attitude brought developers wages down for more then half from 10-15 years back where instead of paying for developers work, everyone was profiting(not the developers - everyone else, from system admministrators to the lousiest company) from "off the shelf" code.

To explain it for idiots: when I need someone to pave my backyard, try to ask someone to make it for free while you will give him references. Absolutely no one will ever do it. Only the developers are stupid enough to do it. It is humiliating, it is stupid, but we are still doing it... for the fame? For the "pie in the sky"? Don't know, but surely is spitting in our own food.

(And now the downvoting begins from those who profit from our free labour)
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We've had multiple collisions with uuid v4. I'm not overly familiar with the examples, but in one case, the collision was found because the collision happened in the same account! Customer: "Why do these two events have the same id?" Us: "Wow." I think we determined that it was a limitation in the random number generator in the Perl lib we were using. To avoid that, I believe the solution was to go with uuid v1 plus a nonce of some sort.
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John Ralston-Saul, writing in The Doubter's Companion in 1994:

> BUSINESS SCHOOLS: Acting schools which train experts in abstract management methods to pretend they are capitalists.

> The graduates of these institutions have dominated Western business leadership for the last quarter-century. This corresponds exactly with a severe economic crisis in the West, which has included runaway inflation, endemic unemployment, almost no real growth, record levels of bankruptcy, and a collapse in industrial production. Manufacturing, the sector which they have been trained to manage, has suffered more than any other.

> This raises two questions:

> 1. Is there any indication—practical, statistical, philosophical or financial—that training future business leaders in specialized management schools has benefited business or the economy?

> 2. Has this new élite — approximately a quarter of the university population — been able to communicate to society any convincing program for ending the crisis?

> Not surprisingly, an education which above all teaches the management of structures is impervious to failure. Those within the structure continue to define the economy’s needs in their own terms and so seek out successive new generations of business school graduates.

> In 1993 the Harvard Business School reacted to growing criticism of its methods by announcing a new curriculum. In the future students would “focus less on specific disciplines and more on combining skills to solve problems.” But it is precisely their obsession with problem-solving that is the heart of the problem. To organize the training of business leaders from the point of view of the corporate executive is rather like training athletes to compete from the point of view of the team’s office manager.

> The outside observer might conclude dispassionately that these schools should be shut down or their methodology revolutionized. The graduate will argue, like the World War I staff officer, that failure could be turned into success if only there were more of his own kind in positions of power. Just one more wave of bodies heaved out of the trenches for a charge and the war will be won.
Also, as a recipient, the pressure isn't there to do something practical with it.
Losing track of time very badly sleeping in total darkness
Agreed. Also, start with: don't live in one of the most expensive cities in the world and expect luxuries not typically associated with urban living, such as two cars, a spacious home, etc.
Same, I think it provides some UI components over some common dependencies/services/infrastructure for Java apps but still after reading the site and repo I wouldnt be surprised to learn I'm completely wrong
And you can design hardware in Haskell http://www.clash-lang.org/
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It seems plausible in a logical, if not legal, sense... you've stolen the funds using someone's credit card and then launder that into receipts from Amazon.
But then why would $12M be an incentive?
twitch vs twitch would be more insteresting
Should have put Ubuntu on those refurbished pc's man!
^ 100% agree, that's the best book. It does a great job of explaining the exact reasons, science, and tradeoffs between the critical factors, and you come away with not just instructions, but a deeper understanding of bread and how it really works and why. It's a really great book.
I guess my concern is someone looking you up and the results being dominated by results like "Joe Smith, 55, of 22 East Wessex St, caught stealing from orphans" being a problem, even if clicking through shows a correction rather than the original story.
I worked on a bank migration project, early on in my career, and these things are a nightmare all around.

First, building something like this requires an acute understanding of banking software. And banking software means something written in COBOL, RPG400 etc. These languages are pretty old and hence, finding talent for these is like trying to find needle in a haystack. So, most of the stuff has to be done via bruteforce, trial and error. So most of the analysis provided by expert and "senior" business analysts is just that, analysis. Engineers have to bang their heads against the wall to glue stuff together.

Secondly, everyone has to be on the same page. The idea has to that customers are priority and egos are not.

So stuff like this shouldn't happen at all:

> To make matters worse, the Sabadell development team did not have full control – and therefore a full understanding – of the system they were trying to migrate customer data and systems from because Lloyds Banking Group was still the supplier.

In our case, the team managing the original product made it difficult for us to merge customer data. They would frequently seed the data incorrectly and refused to provide proper data dictionary. They demanded training on the new product and that all data transformation should be done by them.

Needles to see after spending 3 year and 100s of millions, the project was scrapped. The migration was never completed and both banks remained on their respective systems, kicking the can down the road.
Another argument for universal income.
It's a weird cultural quirk of the west that you shouldn't gift cash. In China people are perfectly happy to give money in red envelopes.
I'd guess the proposition here is "you can wipe away your past good with evil, but you can't wipe away your past evil with good."

Sounds a bit too "never forgive, and never forget" for me.
This. Banks can't have extended downtime.

So if a $100M budget would get a new system built, then what they would need is a $200M budget ($100M to run legacy in prod + $100M to build new system and gradually migrate).

The only good in-house systems I've ever seen we're (a) based on vendor reference designs w/ minimal changes, (b) based on OSS, (c) architected by some very smart people who stay at the company for non-monetary reasons.

Because when you boil it down to it, no company is big enough to solve a problem better than a group working with multiple companies (unless the problem is trivial).

Or to word it another way, are you bigger / better / smarter than both of your top competitors put together? If no, then don't reinvent the wheel.
This reminds me a lot of doping in sports. With seemingly normal people justifying it with "everyone is doing it so you have to do it to level the field" with a complete disregard for the ethical side of it.
You're absolutely right, the described scam is not money laundering.

I think you could, however, use a very similar method to actually launder money. The SSN/account would need to be accurate; the taxes would need to be paid; and the contents/price would need to be a plausible if low-quality example of the typical self-published book. You'd pay people dirty cash to buy copies of the book, and/or use single-use debit cards bought with dirty cash.
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From experience doing a bit of podcasting.

1 A proper professional external sound card

2 Pro / Semi Pro microphones no need for condensers etc a Sure SM58 is good enough.

3 for skype its often better to have dedicated skype drone machine and feed your audio into that.

4 a good video camera.
Do you miss the macOS shortcuts? I’m in the same boat as you (early 2013) and starting to looking more and more to X1 Carbon. The emacs-like system wide shortcuts is what I’m afraid of missing mostly.
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But isn't the virus inside of you at a higher temperature than that? You can't change your body temperature without problems so how do you plan on killing viruses by heat once you're already infected?
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If that's what you're worried about you might as well just never leave your house.

I worry about dying in car crash but that doesn't mean I never get in a car.
Far more Judges quote Cicero and other classical authors I bet
+1 for coining the word inventivize. I can't wait to use this for something, even tho I don't yet know what it means
Yeah you can easily eyeball breadmaking and get something you can eat, not sure why it has this reputation. Making a cheese sauce is harder than making bread.
This argument is whataboutism at its worst. He's not suggesting that we ignore healthcare and individual diseases. He's suggesting that we stop ignoring aging (and death in general) and take it seriously. The problem of medical patents and treatment distribution in the developing world is indeed a big one, but it's a political/economic one completely unrelated to the choice to ignore the biggest disease humans suffer from.