skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To my untrained eye, it looks like the first naive algorithm would be fastest. Two of them require trig functions while the other relies on sqrt and cube root, all of which are expensive functions when compared to the first approach.

So I'd wager that the 50% reject rate would still be cheaper at scale than evaluating trigonometric functions.
Venezuela President Maduro 'survives drone attack'
I'd enjoy reading some more character analysis of obscure polyhedra. The Dodecahedron was the most multifaceted character in The Phantom Tollbooth!

https://www.shmoop.com/phantom-tollbooth/dodecahedron.html

http://teacherwifey.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-phantom-tollboo...
I feel grateful for my old age and limited future participation in the workforce when I read these stories. Anyone that thinks North American companies will have ethical problems with these technologies just isn't being honest.
Footage from Venezuelan TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew0RN8ozA8I
I feel like you're asking the equivalent of why we use DRAM instead of SRAM, or spinning rust instead of flash. And I don't want to shout that down because, as in the latter, constraints do change. But the current state of things is fundamentally based on a cost tradeoff.

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/42084/can-yo...

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/326177/energ...

Perhaps in the future we'll have supercooled inductors providing power storage, and not requiring periodic changing the way say batteries do. Alas, it's just not right now.

As an aside, it's amazing how little power it actually takes to produce worthwhile sound out of modern speakers. I once wanted to test some tower speakers without a proper receiver around, so I wired up a breadboard with some stupid opamps around poorly-heatsunk transistors, powered by a lab supply. The speakers turned out to be disappointing, but not because of the amplifier!
An armed drone dropped explosives near President Maduro, injuring 7 people
Related: selecting points on the surface of a sphere https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/random-points/

Poisson disc sampling can be quite useful.
It is absolutely nonsensical to think that someone who creates a thing should be held responsible for every negative use or misuse of what they create. It's even more nonsensical to expect someone to come up with every single one of these scenarios that could possibly happen. It's just not realistic, doable or even helpful. At best, it will have an extensively negative effect as every single new development will be tut-tutted into the shadows by a group of hand-wringers, terrified of a user 7 sigmas away from the mean might do with it one day. This is an appalling way to construct a society, let alone a discipline that requires rapid, ground-breaking iteration.
"about 48% of the points chosen are discarded. This may not be a huge problem if the number of points that need to be generated is small"

... or if the number of points isn't small -- it's only 2x the cost of the simple linear case without a loss of uniformity or adding any costly trig functions. That's still pretty good!
This is the model for "Eduroam" (Academics and students at various educational institutions, particularly in Europe but these days around the world have a single network). Each device is configured with certs for their home institution, their username lets any member figure out where that home institution is, and so their password or other authentication flows only to an IdP for that institution, which under the Eduroam agreement is trusted to authenticate them at all other member institutions.

So you set up "eduroam" once on your phone, and then it works the same in a lecture theatre at Stanford, or in Nantes (France). So that's nice, and as dfox observes the AP isn't much involved, so the inevitable frailty of individual WiFi setups in less sophisticated institutions isn't a huge flaw in Eduroam or a grave risk for your home institution.
A friend of mine in college decided to make an LED clock for an EE project. Everyone else who decides to make an LED clock strives for accurate time. My friend decided that nobody needs time closer than quarter hour intervals. So that's all it displayed - it was highly accurate to within 15 minutes.
I'd like to be the current page of the book I'm reading!
You can show the page http://jenevoldsen.com/literature-clock as a screensaver. Search for "show web page as screensaver".
Try 50%. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/moon-landing-celebrate...

(Of course, that's assuming the survey and reporting are reliable ...)
More importantly, that description means Earth's atmosphere is left behind.
I too have read Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. But the hold of the manias seems particularly strong at the moment.
Introduction to Computer Organization with X86-64 Assembly Language and Linux
Alternative to .compact is https://i.reddit.com/r/test
Is advocating for more rigorous science an anti-science or anti-vaccine position? It seems most vaccine "science" looks more like industry propaganda or simply bullying! Show me the studies... the real, peer reviewed, scientific studies. The more I dig, the more questions I'm finding. For those dismissing others as ignorant, how deep have you really gone?
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, and especially not flamebait.
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I have this recurring vision since years: scientists from a far remote future or planet attempting to study the remains of our society of a few decades from now, just like many did with ancient Egypt ruins and elsewhere. This time however all their efforts fail because of DRMed documents and strong encryption, including the only still working AI computer which refuses to share any data to protect its company from liability. That would make a plot for a short film maybe.
To illustrate the problem, just think of what could have happened in the past had the Rosetta Stone been DRMed and encrypted.
Point taken, but it was still fairly common around ~2008-2010 when I was an undergrad. :-)
> Big Pharma doesn't exactly have a track record of always using good judgment, but it does have a track record of using bad science and plain illegal activities like failing to report adverse reactions on plenty of things it sells.

This is a key driver. And if you look further back, you find that there were some real vaccine safety issues, some decades ago. Enough that the pharmaceutical industry pushed through a law providing immunity for civil damages from side effects.[0] And setting up the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program,[1] which basically amounts to forced arbitration.

So yes, the anti-vaccine activists may come off as paranoid. But there are arguably some valid reasons for that attitude.

0) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/300aa-22

1) https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/
This breaks the site guidelines, which ask: "Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

If you post like this you're guaranteeing a flamewar. Please don't post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, you run the .net code on the .net runtime. If you use UIKit namespace, for example, you will run with the dotnet shim.

And when you run your code on the iOS simulator you are also not running against the same code that’s is running on your phone...

You aren’t running ARM code.

Because Microsoft doesn't have emulator or simulator. Not anything comparable with what Apple has, or what Google has (and what Microsoft is shipping for Android).

When you run on your code on your desktop you run on a simulated environment - the Xamarin runtime on top of Windows. When you run your code on MacOS, you run on x86 version of the iOS runtime. By definition, you are running a simulator.

It is not a first-class solution.

So in your experience using both, what capabilities were you missing?

Actually you can

You haven’t had to ship C binaries to various Linux distributions....

For instance, the official MySQL driver for Python is not pure Python. Even if you are on Linux, you can’t just do a pip install from your box, create a zip file and guarantee it will work. You need to use the package built for whatever version Amazon Linux is based on....

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35763380/problems-using-...

There are plenty of compatibility issues distributing binary builds for different versions of Linux.

Not a big deal, I use AWS CodeBuild to create my distribution anyway.
A note about the rejection method: in high dimensions, this becomes very expensive. This is because the volume of a ball inscribed in a unit cube goes to zero (very quickly) as the dimension goes to infinity, so you start rejecting points with high probability.
No amount of bike lane makes you pedal 60mph. That assertion is clearly absurd. Of course there are tradeoffs other than time, but people aren't evil for valuing it.

To replicate the 25 minute commute times that are completely normal across America's car-centric sprawl into a dense and transit-centric area, one has to live in the most central and premium real estate. Great if you can afford it. Most can’t.
This has been planned since before the GitHub acquisition.
All of the utility functions: gas, water, sewerage have to deal with surge effects. They have buffering just like internet routing and switching. Time of day effects. It's more complex than you would think. A friend does salt water fish tanks for a reef, he's in a constant battle with dilute chemicals and aeration. Now scale that to a city..

Traffic flow policing is like live operations research: tweak one bit, the others Go bananas. The tail back delay usually outlives the actual blockage by hours.

Supply chain logistics in goods and services. How does a small tire shop in the city get stock to fix that one off car walk in? Milk supply..

Oh dairy: making ghee? In a factory? You have like a 4C temperature window. Colder, try pipe cleaners on twenty tonnes of rancid butter. Hotter? It burns black..

Concrete pouring depends on slump tests done onsite. Watch what they're doing with that two part mould and simultaneously pouring the entire load into a pumper. Now think about it going wrong. Or the concrete delivery itself, that's a nightmare.
Is your productivity really just procrastination?
I find it fascinating that the people (that I know) who have these beliefs cut across all economic, educational and cultural backgrounds.
Huawei has it, but it's kind of hidden and only accessible from the lockscreen (wtf, right?).
The screensaver hack allows you to do that.
I'm not convinced it isn't still the best option. The naive viewer may not properly perceive the distortions, but I bet they'll get closer than with anything else, for general purposes.

What projection would you say would be good for that view?
There is the music21 python project from MIT http://web.mit.edu/music21/

It's been awhile since I've used it but it worked well and could generate and analyze music in the classical Western tradition.

I used it in a project to generate midi music in the style of specific composers based on Markov chains. Sadly I don't have the source anymore otherwise I'd link you to it.
I really don't want to insult anyone with this comment, but after hearing about how shitty academics are treated during their entire career (phd, postdoc, faculty, publishing), including the low pay, politics, and giving away the rights to their work, they seem like one of the most manipulated and least self-confident demographics in the global workforce.
I need work on a website so I have a job for you.
So, maybe Indiana Jones was just fighting against arcane DRMs?
Ok, I guess you could detail some complex social engineering work arounds.

Anyway, losing weight used to be summarized as "calories in, calories out." But through physical, laymen-led experimentation posted on youtube, we as a society have learned that hormones and electrolytes have a very heavy influence on how calories are absorbed and how water is retained.
My original title - "Learning binary file formats (work in progress) from flat assembler Author". Someone edited it and I can't change title anymore looks like. :-)
Why should taxpayers be funding the massive profits of Elsevier and others?
Tiddles.

Ridgemont High.

Golden.
Assuming you set a reasonable ControlPath (the default is reasonable on all platforms) this is fine, sure. Even if you don't, it's fine-ish. Not how you're going to get popped.
> The fact that there's still countries where you can cite philosophical preferences to opt your kid out of vaccinations speaks to some sort of fundamental disconnect that's hard to put one's finger on.

There's this concept we call freedom.

Edit: If you're hating on me, stop and consider where you'd draw the line regarding individual risk vs social benefit. What about eugenics? For me, the drug war is going too far.
Apple $1 Trillion Valuation: What Does It Mean?
I found the link:

https://hackernoon.com/12-manager-readmes-from-silicon-valle...
OS/2 was very stable, and certainly immune to viruses designed for Windows. The only problem back in the day could arise from its infamous single input queue which could freeze the entire system if a single program didn't respond in time to GUI events.
The problem however was corrected in the latter versions.
Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature”
When the author mentions "normally distributed numbers" it sounds like he is sampling a normal (Gaussian) distribution. In fact, he is sampling from a uniform distribution.
It's a big deal because the numbers will (hopefully) get large quickly.

A $3M account that pays an extra 0.1% per year is dinged for $3,000 a year, every year. The cumulative compounded effect over 20 years is north of $75K.
But you might want to consider average case time and worst case time. The first algorithm might have a good average case time, but its worst case time is infinity, which might be unacceptable.
So why don't they hold the queue under vacuum? Or under some inert gas?
UPDATE: Everyone has been great and I had many emails with job leads and support. Thanks to a very kind donation, I am on my way to get my haircut that is desperately needed. High chances I will be offline the rest of the day. I met a person irl today from this thread and we talked tech which was nice to have some normalcy back in my life. Thanks again!
If you ditch over the ocean in any plane, you’re probably dead no matter what. There’s a reason we overengineer planes.
Note: I'm not an aviator, so this is to be taken with a "I'm reading things". The great circle route is rather direct - http://www.gcmap.com/map?P=YQM-YYT-SMA-DKR&MS=wls&MR=600&MX=... (from http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=YQM-YYT-SMA-DKR&MS=wls&DU=mi ) with legs of 1581 and 1602 miles.

I'm guessing weather is a key question there. This is based on https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/hangar-talk/34838-help-ne... which is taking a C172 from Maine to India and has the same question: St. Johns to Azores or Greenland and Iceland. The general suggestion there appears to be the Greenland and Iceland route.

There's also http://220kts.com/ferry-flights/atlantic-ferry-routes.html which looks at some of the options too. That seems to be a popular route: https://www.k-aircraft.de/en/news-neuigkeit/north-atlantic-f.... Note that first link mentions "good alternative during wintertime". The ferry was done in October.

Consider things like: GPS was new. The pilot was flying the "same" route as the airlines (this was important when the radio broke - if he was flying a different route he wouldn't be able to transmit until close range with VHF)

All that said, this appears to be his preferred route: http://www.aerocompinc.com/airplanes/CA6/africa.htm .

As a not an aviator, I'll guess fuel costs (Greenland is a ways north if you're trying to go to Africa) and icing concerns?

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Tangent to this... The 717s that Hawaiian Airlines flies has a range of 2,371 miles. The distance from SFO to Hawaii is 2,339 miles. To get the proper range - the inside of the plane: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Hawaiian-Air/Boeing-717-22A/1...
It’s really hard and not fun to keep everyone just counting seconds. In practice it goes faster in earlier rounds and slower in later ones.
From Wikipedia:

"Vaccine overload", a non-medical term, is the notion that giving many vaccines at once may overwhelm or weaken a child's immature immune system and lead to adverse effects.[134] Despite scientific evidence that strongly contradicts this idea,[113] some parents of autistic children believe that vaccine overload causes autism.[135] The resulting controversy has caused many parents to delay or avoid immunizing their children.[134] Such parental misperceptions are major obstacles towards immunization of children.[136]

The concept of vaccine overload is flawed on several levels.[113] Despite the increase in the number of vaccines over recent decades, improvements in vaccine design have reduced the immunologic load from vaccines; the total number of immunological components in the 14 vaccines administered to US children in 2009 is less than 10% of what it was in the 7 vaccines given in 1980.[113] A study published in 2013 found no correlation between autism and the antigen number in the vaccines the children were administered up to the age of two. Of the 1,008 children in the study, one quarter of those diagnosed with autism were born between 1994 and 1999, when the routine vaccine schedule could contain more than 3,000 antigens (in a single shot of DTP vaccine). The vaccine schedule in 2012 contains several more vaccines, but the number of antigens the child is exposed to by the age of two is 315.[137][138] Vaccines pose a very small immunologic load compared to the pathogens naturally encountered by a child in a typical year;[113] common childhood conditions such as fevers and middle-ear infections pose a much greater challenge to the immune system than vaccines,[139] and studies have shown that vaccinations, even multiple concurrent vaccinations, do not weaken the immune system[113] or compromise overall immunity.[140] The lack of evidence supporting the vaccine overload hypothesis, combined with these findings directly contradicting it, has led to the conclusion that currently recommended vaccine programs do not "overload" or weaken the immune system.[103][141][142]

Any experiment based on withholding vaccines from children has been considered unethical,[143] and observational studies would likely be confounded by differences in the health care-seeking behaviours of under-vaccinated children. Thus, no study directly comparing rates of autism in vaccinated and unvaccinated children has been done. However, the concept of vaccine overload is biologically implausible, vaccinated and unvaccinated children have the same immune response to non-vaccine-related infections, and autism is not an immune-mediated disease, so claims that vaccines could cause it by overloading the immune system go against current knowledge of the pathogenesis of autism. As such, the idea that vaccines cause autism has been effectively dismissed by the weight of current evidence.[113]
The next thing to come from the same person, Miegakure[1], is going to be even more epic and mind-blowing. But it will take a while for it to be done.

[1]http://miegakure.com/
The game Earthbound for SNES had code that detected if it was pirated or not.

If the game knew it was pirated, it would still quietly run...
But it would make the enemies so difficult and powerful that you could barely get out of the first town or even enjoy the game.

Oh and as a bonus it would delete your whole game right before the final boss.
Error Beneath the WAVs (follow-up to “Why I Ripped the Same CD 300 Times”)
And it is especially ironic given how many of us have tenure...
Interesting! There’s been a few advances in line arrays like D.B. Keele Jr’s CBT arrays (continuous beam width transducers)

http://www.xlrtechs.com/dbkeele.com/CBT.php
Guardrails Democracy. An Alarmingly Unpopular Opinion on Information Warfare
Bitcoin Could Be ‘First Worldwide Currency’: NYSE Owner
It was mostly the case the posts were regularly before that big gap. However if you look I got a reply :)
The problem with intellectual property is that it favors the sum, rather than the rate, of innovation. Companies have a natural incentive not to innovate. Since you make profit by not spending the revenue of your previous innovation on new innovation. If you want to have continuous innovation the profit should instead be based on your rate of innovation. Meaning that you don't get a monopoly on past achievements. That is how you don't have to wait decades for new cars or rockets while people with spreadsheets calculate their most opportune moment to start innovating again.
Hey my name is Austen and I’m the cofounder of Lambda School (https://lambdaschool.com), a YC company that trains software engineers in live online classes for no cost until they’re hired making $50k+.

We actually have a nonprofit fund dedicated to helping homeless software engineers land jobs. If you’ll email me austen@lambdaschool.com I would love to put you up in an Airbnb and connect you with our career services department.

We have a full-time program called “Lambda Next” that steps you through what it takes to get a job step by step with full support, code reviews, interview practice, salary negotiation, etc. Normally it’s reserved for our students (since we don’t get paid until students are hired), but we can have you participate at no cost.

Let’s see how fast we can get you hired! Happy to take care of housing and help you focus.

PS. if anyone at airbnb has a way to let us buy gift certificates bigger than $500 it would save me a ton of time
The sad part is that the linked sci-hub domain name has been shut down, so those are now dead links.
You’re seriously asking for a citation of whether medical advice is effective?
Totally understandable, didn't mean to sound like I was accusing if it felt like it. Thanks for putting your work up.
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Recent enough - at a Google event earlier in 2018 it was mentioned that GCP was now compliant with most (if not all) of the major studios’ security requirements.
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Thank you for the thorough explanation.

Still seems odd, as markdown by definition isn't really meant to be displayed in a terminal.

Markup: "the process or result of correcting text in preparation for printing."

This further confirms my suspicions about Microsoft's motives. If they wanted to make a `man` system, they would have made one, instead of working on markdown in the terminal which sounds quite trendy amongst Linux users.
Ya, I have had to ballast my cirrus when I had a very heavy passenger up front with me to keep the plane from being too heavy in the front. The problem when a plane is out of balance if you get into a stall, it could be unrecoverable. I've landed the aircraft with heavy front COG and was really surprised how quickly the nose came down on the runway, compared to the normal flare and float I was used to. : )

While training you need to know how to calculate W&B by hand on paper, but there are various wonderful applications on the iPad or iPhone that do it for me quickly. Here is a simple example of one if you're curious.

https://ipadpilotnews.com/2014/10/calculate-weight-balance-f...
expense of retrofitting. there is a standardized 'FOUP' that wafers are stored in and making a vacuum capable FOUP and redesigning the systems to support it for just a couple areas of the FAB would be hard and expensive

Edit to add a few more details:

A vacuum capable FOUP would be much MUCH heavier, requiring retorfitting of the overhead vehicles that transport wafers aroudn the FAB. further, each FOUP carries 25 wafers. A FAB can easily put out 30k wafers a week...it's a lot of FOUPS. even if you just used them at critical steps it would get heavy and expensive. I believe there was some talk abotu inert gas purges with the move to 450mm wafers but, like 450mm wafers, that never happened.