skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is plenty of exploitation and abuse (including sexual abuse) in mainstream media as well... but because there isn't a public stigma attached to that, it's possible for public and political pressures to be arrayed against it. But since we're all supposed to be ashamed of porn and sex outside of marriage in the west, the worst of those industries are just considered par for the course and left to fester.
> But there are a variety of conditions, including slavery, addiction, and psychosis, where people may voluntarily enter them but then cannot leave without help.

In the case of slavery, the slave doesn't want to do something, but is forced to. In the case of addiction and psychosis, you don't want someone to do something, but he's allowed to.
So WHY is Windows slower? What effect can OS conceivably have on CPU benchmarks? Off the top of my head I can think of preemptive multitasking and memory allocation implementations (the latter shouldn't influence pure CPU benchmarks much, but it can influence 7-Zip results), any better guesses?
I doubt much would come from that. The Department of Home Affairs is run by some pretty dodgy characters (i.e Peter Dutton)...

I plan to send letters to key opposition members and crossbench senators, might have a bit more chance of something coming out of that.

Unfortunately Labor has been in lockstep with the LNP in voting for these kind of acts so far (our slow descent into authoritarianism) but we can always hope...
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If the mind and body remain strong, I wonder if the atrophy of ambition is just due to a waning sense of purpose? At 96 my grandfather was still driving his van solo every summer from Michigan to the central highlands of Mexico to help my father on his farm. He stopped at 97 after getting a viral infection that sent him back to Michigan to recover. My father and his family went up to take care of him, but he slowly decline and then died just one week shy of 100.
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'cos all the kewl kids are doing it!

I agree with you, functional programming and pure functions have a lot to offer but they have a place and as soon as you start pushing them into every corner of an app you end up just creating problems for the future.
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who thinks it's a good idea to host anything in the US in 2018. they should host both blackhat & defcon outside the US also to include infosec experts that are otherwise discriminated against. (anyone with a Muslim name or simply an non-US passport). Fuck that country and fuck their events.
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I find this a very hard point to deal with as well.

If sickness is defined as a function of your own perception of how it limits you (analogous to "freedom"), that's fine for all illnesses that don't affect your perception.

But in some cases like psychosis and schizophrenia, the illness directly affects your perception... your definiton of freedom; your definition of illness; it doesn't work anymore.
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I'm surprised nobody mentioned LeetCode. You can start solving 100 most popular interview questions (sort them by difficulty first):

https://leetcode.com/problemset/top-100-liked-questions/

If you've never took any algorithm course and have only a week for preparation, it would be very difficult to prepare for coding interview. But I think you can at least finish all easy problems from this list. In this case, you may at least pass screening coding interview.

Right now, I'm very actively interviewing with pretty selective high-frequency trading companies. I can say that LeetCode has pretty relevant set of interview problems.

One more thing. Even if you solved a problem, always look at description of solution, if there is no description of solution, you should look at discussion.

From there, you can find references to common algorithms/themes like binary search etc.
The patient signed a release form, but the hospital still refused to answer the claims.

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I wonder whether Windows Server SKUs do differently, perhaps due to different scheduler optimization choices.
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You're mostly right. Also, big companies want to

* Minimize the time spent by their engineers interviewing candidates,

* Standardize the process as much as possible, so that anyone can run the interview.

I'm convinced there are many reasons for smaller shops not to blindly follow Google's practices. But as a candidate, what can you do... it's their loss, I guess.
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For a Riemannian metric yes, but a lot of physics gets done in Lorentzian (psuedo-)metric spaces.
I have a few kiwi friends and it seems like most of them (and most of their friends over there) are financially very successful regardless of their profession and background. Appears to be a very good time to be in NZ!
Not sure about the US but in Europe most of the cities where good jobs are have daft house prices.
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I don't understand why these companies don't have normal names and then nobody will suspect anything.

Like the video chat company that I worked for was called Telecom. Their website said nothing about this, all general words about what a good company they are with happy employees and nothing specific. Put it on my CV with no issues.

Then they have an affiliate website where everything was happening. All charges were direct through this Telecom company. If someone asked about the billing they probably answered something about a phone, extra charges etc.
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The market need is not yet clear, at this point. However, the need for CPUs which are individually more powerful and which use up less power has been proven.

They're just focusing on where the money is now.
I found the last example hard to read so I made this fork : https://github.com/kimat/rb
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That's quite a narrow view. You can certainly model time in a metric space, i.e. it you go one block west and one new-york minute forward.
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As someone who has been doing this for a while, I find sometimes I don't get a notification until I open an app. You get used to it. Anyway, when someone calls me on Whatsapp it still works fine for instance.
This acronym makes zero sense and covers companies with wildly different interviewing practices.
General recursion in programs (that makes termination undecidable) requires a fix-point operator of type (a -> a) -> a

The logical equivalent of this is an axiom (P -> P) -> P which lets you prove anything. So non-termination in a programming language corresponds to being able to prove anything - including False - in the logic.
In fact, it is possible for telephony providers to recognize fax signals, decode them themselves and just send the decoded bits over the connection, then re-generate the fax sounds at the other end. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.38 .
Seems like cryptocurrencies would be the way to go for this.
Uh, for business reasons?

That is, to simplify the process of doing business.

(I don't understand what other meaning you'd get from the other post)
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Your perspective is not even close to being the legal reality yet. Companies that provide a public service are considered to be a public utility and are thus subject to certain federal laws including freedom of speech. There are two cases in particular that reference freedom of speech on private property[0][1].

The two rulings are at odds with each other. The first ruling, a US supreme court case, says what you're saying. The second, which is specifically a state of California ruling, says 'individuals may peacefully exercise their right to free speech in parts of private shopping centers regularly held open to the public, subject to reasonable regulations adopted by the shopping centers' and 'states can provide their citizens with broader rights in their constitutions than under the federal Constitution, so long as those rights do not infringe on any federal constitutional rights'.

It seems this issue could wind up being decided on a state by state basis.

[0]: https://infogalactic.com/info/Lloyd_Corp._v._Tanner
[1]: https://infogalactic.com/info/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...
Yes, when it comes to the law, if they mean things they should say them. It seems like they have used these generic terms in order to ensure there is zero weight on individual rights and maximum weight on the side of those exercising the power. That is, they really can't be bothered thinking through what powers they actually need and under what circumestances those are warranted, so let's just write "the government can do anything to accomplish the things" and put a story about a child rapist on the front of the legislation. It's lazy, imprecise and offensive to the idea of civil liberties.
Some questions:

- Would ACH solve an issue like this? There are some clean interfaces (e.g. Plaid), and chargebacks are not trivial.

- Would 3-D secure solve the chargeback problem? As I understand it, it shifts liability to the consumer, not the business.

- Is blockchain being adopted anywhere for micropayments like this?
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Actually bands hire the musician who has the look, sound and personality that fits whatever they're going for. Most of them don't know any theory beyond blues and folk chords. They might test them by jamming with them, but the decision has nothing to do with musical skills. So it's actually very similar to hiring in tech.
You can unit-test pure functions better.
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Several people have tried to tackle this in Python. My attempt was python-oneliner[1]. There's also a list of similar projects in the readme.

[1] https://github.com/gvalkov/python-oneliner
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> This is plain stupid.

Not stupid you are just young and ill informed.

> While on a phone call with Helen Thomas about the Watergate break-in, King pulled the phone cord from the wall. She was held against her will in a California hotel room and forcefully sedated by a psychiatrist after a physical struggle with five men that left her needing stitches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Mitchell
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While it would be great if everyone used PGP, I don't think you can guarantee that interim SMTP servers (of which there could be several on your email's path to its recipient) will communicate with each other over TLS, or that your end user will download the email over a secure connection either. So, wiretapping your email is definitely that can happen even if you send it securely.
For the same reason porn magazine aren't delivered in see-through plastic like other magazines and instead are delivered in white envelopes.
It's trivial to fake. You can tag any picture with any time and GPS coordinates you want.
Scheduling threads is probably a big one I imagine. If Windows schedules two threads from the same process working on a shared dataset across two different NUMA nodes then memory latency can shoot up, from what I understand.

I've also noticed that Windows is very fond of passing hard-working threads around all the cores in turn, rather than letting them hog certain cores. Pretty sure that doesn't improve cache behavior etc.
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Have you considered that you're on the wrong side of this one? Twitter has been mass banning right wing figures for over two years now, including Republican candidates for Congress. It hasn't made the platform any better. If anything, the platform continues to degrade with every politically-oriented mass banning.
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I would consider this click bait and irrelevant on HN. The article is very long and contains very little factual information, making it impossible to understand the story or any of the arguments that could be made.
And also a whole lot of loans that have to be paid back somehow....they didn’t bond this, they got huge loans from all of the state banks. If the government is just going to pay for HSR, they haven’t put that money on the books yet.
"Lacks partial application"? What about:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Meanwhile infix operators are just syntax sugar and can be emulated in other ways.
Sure that's a bad example, but he does kind of have a point.

In the blog post he estimated it's saved $60,000 in fines. That's a drop in the bucket at the scale we're talking about (a quick Google says the proposed 2018 budget for Chicago was $10.1 billion), but still a decrease. Not only would it cost the government money to employ someone to go through this data and find hotspots like this, someone to go out and evaluate the signs, presumably several someones during the approval process to change signage, and finally people to make and install that signage, but the end result would be to purely cost them more money by decreasing revenue from fines.

I don't personally think governments are inherently evil (though some do seem to try harder than others), but even from a purely capitalistic viewpoint that's a hard sell for anyone who cares about their budget. At the very very best I could see it becoming a token effort that's mostly marketing ("look, we're using big data to make your life better!").
> It's really curious how free speech for all was a widespread liberal value until they got control over the platforms. Now, it's free speech for me, not for thee.

You're laboring under two misconceptions. First, that free speech is a "liberal" value, and second, that social media platforms are run to promote a "liberal" agenda.
So what? The trade route only just opened up. The numbers started at zero and started only recently, so of course they are small. By how much the trade is going to increase and at what rate is what everyone is arguing about. People underestimate how large Eurasia is along its east-west axis and how underdeveloped it is in parts. I predict the naysayers and doomsayers will be eating their hats.

In nominal terms the US is the world's largest economy. Let's put it at ~$20tn gdp nominal with moderate growth. EU is about ~$17tn with less than moderate growth say and China is about ~$13tn and growing fast. Problem is that EU and China are at opposite ends of the Eurasian landmass. Anything that reduces trade times and cost between the poles of this massive continent and interconnects a combined ~$30tn economy is going to have an enormous impact.

But even so the article contradicts itself.

“The overwhelming majority of China's trade with Europe is by sea and air. Overland routes don't cut it”

What the detailed stats show is that by value rail is 2% and road is 6% of total trade. (Air is 28%). Take into account that,

“Just 10 years ago, regular direct freight services from China to Europe did not exist. Today, they connect roughly 35 Chinese cities with 34 European cities.”[1]

And that,

“Rail services are considerably cheaper than air and faster than sea”[2]

So 2% of trade captured in 10 years. So if people stop thinking in terms of years and start thinking in terms of decades it is obvious that improvements in land logistics will far surpass those of sea and air. By the middle of the century it is anybody's guess what fraction of total trade will be capture by road and rail but it could be very significant. From my reading most analyses put Khazakstan as one of the major bottlenecks, an upgrade there could have huge knock on effects. (And that's not even taking into consideration different sized rail gauges.)

[1] https://www.csis.org/analysis/rise-china-europe-railways

[2] https://csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/180228_fig1.p...
> Anyone know what the Easter eggs in the Furby35 changelog entry are?

They are well-known and documented almost everywhere.

The interesting thing the code does reveal, though, is that there were only 15 possible names, with this being extended to 24 later.
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The VAT is still specified on the receipt. So you can see it just as clearly, and the mental arithmetic to calculate whan you have to pay is much simpler.
Personally I don't mind non thin laptops. Thin is tempting but I'm sure a sturdy easy to fix/upgrade model would overcome the desire for beauty.
> Most characters are grouped into “words”, which start with the “start word” character and are connected by a vertical line on the right side. I don’t have a logical reason for why the same character is present at the start of every word

Well, you could argue that English puts the space character at the start of every word, other than the first one. Maybe the aliens want to delineate their words but think blank spaces look ugly.
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No, I had no need for accounting software so far. I just kept an eye on the oss solutions if need ever arises.
First I thought: This is stupid.
But then I watched the examples on github and here in the comments, and I changed my mind: It's pretty neat :) I like it.
Compiler flags mostly.
There are reasons why it is called the WinTel alliance. Fortunately Linux dominate the server market now, hopefully this will give AMD some breathing space.
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Agreed, but also - it's private property and most likely a contract was signed at hotel checkin that permitted it legally.
Man, I've never studied for an interview...

I turn up on the day, but then these interviews asking difficult algorithm question seem to be a rarity in the UK, thankfully.

Our interview process seems to be much more reasonable.
The first is indisputable. The left pushed free speech as a liberal value for decades (at least) specifically to get rid of blasphemy and obscenity laws. The second: are you suggesting twitter regularly purges right wing figures, including Republican candidates for congress, because twitter is of the political right? And, no, Twitter is not neutral, precisely for the aforementioned reason.
You are what you do. You spend so much time in life working, and your work is your main function in your integration with the rest of society (and all the relationships that entails).

And I think there's a certain humility to be found in that, in identifying yourself with your work, and a job well done, as opposed to your work being about you, a reflection of your ego. (Those two ideas might sound like they're the same thing, but I don't think they are.)

Identity is often contextual. When you're with friends, you're one person, when you're at work, you're another, and yet a third with relatives. You can hear it when people's accents change when talking on the phone, their bearing changes according to their interlocutors. If who you are is the sum of the contexts your exist in, full retirement is a kind of death.
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[2] has an oxymoron right on it's homepage:

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If you drop anything interesting he ocean it will become a rich ecosystem.

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It's a perfect fit for a peer-to-peer electronic cash system (title of Bitcoin's whitepaper) yes.

This is the problem with permissioned transactions which cryptocurrencies remove. The only thing missing is adoption.

With the fees and issues I don't understand why the porn business isn't pushing harder for cryptocurrency use on their sites. There's huge amount of money to be saved here.
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> Of course, to REALLY solve the problem you'd "only" need people to stop seeing sex (and porn) as bad, dirty, taboo, etc. But this won't happen anytime soon :-(((

It won't, since it is not universally true, that seeing porn is not bad. There are thousands of personal accounts, or even a whole communities of people, who are trying to get rid of porn watching due to damage it brought to their lives.
Windows is the first thing I blame ;-)

In this case, it looks like the thread scheduler is trying to do something clever that doesn't quite work well with this specific CPU. Maybe it's improperly localizing threads to cores or causing more cache evictions than it should. Without seeing performance counters it's hard to guess.
I think that would be the reason why Apple haven’t choose AMD yet.

On the hand it has taken years if not over a decades of HPC and Server work that Linux had this fully tested and tuned. I wonder if Windows or Mac will ever be on that level.

Any one knows how good is NUMA on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and DF BSD?