skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sequential access in an array has caching advantages because the memory is contiguous. For a linked structure, that is often not true. Linked structure mostly suck at sequential accesses. Extreme random access can actually work against arrays for the same reason.

There is a good reason why the subscript of log is often not even mentioned. Logarithmic is logarithmic, no longer what subscript you bother in investing extra space for.
So that's where that crazy tuition goes....

Also, wonder why not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospike_engine ?
Both parties have strong top down control over their respective primaries. Both in terms of direct influence and manipulation. For the Democrats you could observe this during Bernie's campaign for president. For republicans you could see it during Ron Paul's. Both had the majority in the primaries in terms of popular support but primary regulations were such that it didn't matter. Local and state factions were just overruled.
Yes, they did.

Here is tptacek saying that Assagne was dishonest and irrational when claiming to fear extradition to America: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11043329

Go through his comment history and survey what he's been saying about Assange over the years. It's pretty egregious.
Kerbin has a soup-like lower atmosphere, and is much smaller, and much denser than the Earth.
Double taxation prevention treaties will do their jobs. US should have one with EU.
Thank you, I've never actually seen COBOL code (presumably a good thing...)
> foreign adversaries

He isn't a US citizen.
Yeah I found the root linux password online. There was more than once I had to SSH in and fix the SLIP connection between the controllers when they went into a brain split.

If I recall correctly they were running SuSE Linux with Websphere App for management and DB2 storing all of the configuration information.

I hadn't heard they traced their linage back to the shark. That surprises me a bit because we had several of those and they were very reliable. Though thinking about it that makes sense.

Hopefully the later software fixed the reliability problems. I got rid of all of ours in about 2010 or so. Replaced them DS5000 on the Open Systems side (which had their own set of problems), and DS8000s on the Mainframe side. The DS8000 was pretty rock solid.
I suspect that it might be harder to extradite him on these offences because the extradition treaty between the US and the UK, like all such treaties, bans extradition for “political offences.” (See article 4-1) If he is extradited on the hacking offence the US can’t also try him for espionage without the UK’s permission.
> Stallman believes in all source code being open and treated no different than a cooking recipe.

Not exactly. He doesn't want people modifying the recipe and keeping it a secret. Or atleast, not distributing food made from that recipe. (I know that analogy breaks down here.. but I tried!)
The his is huge: directed-IO and trim being sent to underlying drives. This is a massive update. Oh and encryption to boot!
Assange is not a journalist, and thus is not protected by legal cases protecting members of the press.

(Posting unverified documents without making any attempts to verify them is not a journalistic activity.)

EDIT: downvotes don't change reality...Courts have analyzed what makes someone a journalist for purposes of these laws, and at a minimum, whether investigation/research or discourse (i.e., writing or video reporting) is involved, they all agree that analysis of the investigated/researched material is required. Assange put no effort into analyzing the materials he received; he simply published everything (except the Trump stuff).
AFAIK a "senior" dev there can expect to make just shy of $150K, which is just about slightly above-average for SD for a large company (excluding the defense industry, which depresses the average, and there's a lot of it)
I can’t think of a statement - beyond, perhaps, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights - that I have agreed with more.

There is simply no use for one individual to have that much wealth. Tax it, and individuals will find creative ways to put it to use instead of hoarding it.
As I understand it, currently everything points to space and time (really, spacetime) not being discrete. I'm copying and pasting a previous reply I made the last time this came up.

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I'm no physicist, but the layman explanation I've heard is that the concepts of Planck length and Planck time do not imply that spacetime is discretized into little "voxels"; instead these quantities are just limits on the uncertainty of any possible measurement.

As I understand it there are two contributing facts:

a) the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that there's a tradeoff between certainty in position vs momentum, so if you're more certain in a particle's position you're less certain of its momentum. (For photons, momentum is proportional to frequency, i.e. wavelength, and frequency is proportional to energy.)

b) By mass-energy equivalence, anything with energy has mass, therefore higher frequency photons are more "massive". A single photon of sufficiently high frequency would form a black hole.

Putting those two together, to measure distances accurately you need higher and higher frequency photons with shorter and shorter wavelengths. For example, radar creates blurry images at ~5cm wavelengths, while ordinary photographs can be razor sharp with wavelengths of only ~500nm. The Planck length is just the wavelength at which the photon would have so much energy that it would collapse into a black hole and break our current mathematical models. That's why it's nonsensical--with current models--to talk about lengths smaller than a Planck length, but it doesn't mean that space itself is quantized. Similar argument for time.

(Also, the same logic applies to other particles like electrons, protons, and even up to macroscopic items like baseballs; everything has a wavelength...)
MonsterMatch, a game from Mozilla.org about collaborative filtering and dating
I'd wager this is more of a "cover your ass" kind of situation for GitHub.
Nobody today would improve on the old. That wasn't always the case.

There is a lot of historical precedent for restorers "fixing" art. (Most often adding clothing to cover private areas). Since we now know the art by the "fixed version today there is the open question of if we remove the fix or not - either way we are destroying art.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_imprisoned_spies to see the sentences of spies.

Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years, but it was commuted after 7.
Glad to see there are some people on here following along!
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Espionage is not a political offense in either the US or the UK.

A political offense means something like being charged with a crime for offending the "good name" of the prime minister (see, e.g., Turkey or India for examples).
> I completely disagree. The spire is gone. The original one is never going back. What's the point of making a copy ?

Like the German Reichstag modifications post-reunification, but there also was a very different modification in the 1960s, early 70s. Such projects can go both directions, even on the very same building.
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I don't really get the obsession with fast lenses, shooting wide open suits a fairly limited range of subjects, and generally lens performance is terrible wide open. I have some Zeiss Planar f/1.4 lenses for 35mm, and I basically never shoot wider than f/5.6. Also never really shoot wider than f/8 on medium format Zeiss CF lenses. But I don't shoot stuff that needs fast lenses I suppose.

In broader photographic terms (outside of full-frame / mirrorless), f/4 is fast.

I suspect that people shooting medium format aren't as interested in having awesome bokeh and a super fast lens with a lower number, and instead care about lens performance in general.
This may be considered OT, but since we are on the subject of the "Super Rich" I'd just like to remark that I've never understood the cult of personality surrounding Beyonce. The people I know who like Beyonce, really like Beyonce. It's borderline religious worship.

About the only pop star that has ever made sense to me for was Michael Jackson, and that's pushing it.
> Those terms didn't seem that unreasonable to me.

You don't think it's unreasonable that the IRS is precluded from making better services available to American citizens?
Yes because “crowd funding” is going to raise the $5 million it took to make “Get Out” let alone the $356 million it took to make “Avengers Endgame”.
> “muhaha let’s make our UI confusing to screw service members.” That’s ludicrous.

Considering this is Intuit, it does NOT sound ludicrous.
I think it may have been intended specifically to make you that angry.
>>>> Is it your belief that he would not end up in US custody? And do you think he also believes that?

>>> Yes, that is my belief. I don't know what he believes.

>> Well, you seem to be implying that he is being dishonest about his fear of being extradited. As if he is doing this so he doesn't have to answer to the charges in Sweden. Based on your statement, you clearly do believe that he isn't actually worried about ending up in US custody.

> I do think he's being dishonest, yes. He has access to skilled lawyers, and his concern about extradition to the US is irrational: it's easier to extradite him where he is.
Awesome! :) We're really happy to hear that.

If you have any suggestions or bugs, please feel free to comment on https://forum.makecode.com/ or https://github.com/microsoft/pxt. We're still in the early stages with Arcade so feedback is especially useful.
"the company estimates that five per cent of its 2.4 billion monthly active users are fake accounts" wow. That's sizable
Agreed. Conjunction fallacy galore in parent post.
Lobbying is not the same thing as corruption, and conflating the two does not help the conversation or address the problems with either.
> Why would Microsoft prioritize development and improvements of GitHub when they don't earn a profit from it?

Because they also use it for their own works.
Her commutation came about as a bit of a surprise at the end of the Obama presidency. I'm not sure I'd expect that to happen here.
Only 41.8% pay it with cash does not mean others do not have cash.

I routinely pay everything through credit cards that give me cash back and a nice organized ledger or all purchases despite having plenty of cash. A significant portion of people I know do the same thing.
Backend is the polite term
So did he commit espionage, or expose war crimes? Let’s hope the courts decide wisely, because this case will settle the question of whether governments and militaries can be held accountable by their people.
Personally the major selling point of the Deluge, and the reason I love it so much, is the sequencer. It's the most intuitive sequencer I've used and allows you to flow and work quickly.

The scale note keyboard is good, but not all that playable, a LaunchPad might be better for doing similar but with aftertouch and bigger pads. That said, it's a very welcome feature and easy to use for coming up with ideas and staying in key.

I am not a musician though, at all. I am rubbish at music, but the Deluge has helped me make smiles and dive into hours of sounds and beats I thought I'd never be able to make. I've spent time in Ableton and never got anything much out of mouse clicking, mostly just frustration with all the options and tedious input methods. With the Deluge I can turn it on and quickly lay down a simple chord progression, a drum beat, and make a bass line that satisfies. Then I twist filter knobs and mute tracks, and just jam on it for hours.

Oh, and its battery powered, so I take it everywhere. It's just such a wonderful piece of technology. Easily worth every penny I spent on it.
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>he claimed were waiting for him if he left the Embassy. Over the years, many observers claimed he was delusional in this regard

That's a bizarre statement.

Most took issue with the hyperbole that was attached to what he would be charged with, "droned" or otherwise dealt with, not if he would or wouldn't be charged with anything.

This is one of those classic conspiracy theory type situations where it is "oh look people said this wasn't a thing and here it is" and it's way not what anyone else said either... and that doesn't prove anything.
He's more or less saying "no one should ever be richer than my favorite singer." I can't possibly think of a shallower way to talk about wealth inequality.
[Before Snowden]

People on HN: Of course the government aren't spying on citizens. What are you? Some kind of tin-foil hat-wearing conspiracy theory nutjob?

[After Snowden]

People on HN: Well obviously the government were spying on everyone. Were you really that naïve?

[Before Assange Indictment]

People on HN: That Assange guy is a completely delusional whack-job. How can anyone be so stupid to believe the UK/Sweden would cooperate with the US in taking him down permanently?

[After Assange Indictment]

[crickets (for now at least)]
Maybe. My observation, though, is that whatever good thing it may be doing ends up costing people more, and being less good, when done by a for-profit company as opposed to a non-profit organization.

Plus it is becoming increasingly risky to engage with for-profit companies for certain things because of their insatiable desire for data on their customers.
The Korean War and invasion of Vietnam are the only clear foreign wars in that list. You've listed almost every border skirmish that China has ever conducted.

* Burma border campaign: a campaign along the China-Burma border conducted jointly by Chinese and Burmese forces, against Nationalist (i.e., Taiwanese) forces. China didn't invade Burma, and calling this a "foreign war" would be a big stretch.

* Sino-Indian War: a campaign along a disputed border with India, on territory that both sides claim.

* Vietnam War: China didn't fight in the Vietnam War. It did lend aid to the Vietnamese.

* "a separate China-South Vietnam War": I assume you mean the "Battle of the Paracel Islands," a small battle fought over disputed islands. Again, calling this sort of thing a "foreign war" is a big stretch.

I'll even grant you another border skirmish:

* The Sino-Soviet border conflict of 1969.

Note how the last conflict on this list is in 1979. That doesn't exactly scream "aggressive ambitions on the world stage."
Oh man, what a great story! I’m usually scared to meet my heroes, because I don’t want to be disappointed. Glad to know Underhill was able to live up to you and your dad’s expectations.
Since 1905 [1], though philosophically this law indeed takes its roots in the French revolution.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_French_law_on_the_Separ...
I agree with your point, but I would expand on it to say that defense could have even more important implications for scavenging than for surviving predation. Being able to scare predators off a kill [1] makes scavenging a lot easier. And then you can apply the same means to hunting, which is also more fruitful because you can hold your own kills.

You wouldn't even need to be strong enough for lions to start with; every step up the pecking order would be an advantage.

I don't envy paleontologists and archaeologists trying to make a case for "why" an adaptation emerged when it has so many plausible advantages, especially when cultural developments might have happened too fast or at too great a distance in the past for us to have an accurate idea of their timing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBpu4DAvwI8
Many "observers" claimed that fleeing to the UK was a nonsensical move if he feared the US. Sweden would have been much safer.
It's worked out into a particular kind of doublespeak where "liberal" officials cite a litany of reasons which always add up to NIMBY: neighborhood character, "affordable housing" as a tax on homebuyers, "greedy developers", displacement, etc.
Your comment was also confusing until I reached your parenthetical, because `+` is used for separating trait bounds :)
Fire protection systems are "inauthentic" too, and weren't included for that reason, with the end result being that we lost a lot more authenticity from the fire than would have been lost just by including fire protection.

Anyway, the wood is inside the roof. It's not even visible unless you go up into the attic. Would it really be such a big deal to replace it with steel trusses?

There's a role for modern technology to play in preserving older technology. Sometimes you need to retrofit the old stuff with the modern in order to preserve as much as possible over the long run. That's the case here.
Dan Ariely's 2008 book "Predictably Irrational" [1], which presents experiments in behavioral economics, has one chapter [2] that discusses the introduction of money ("market norms") in an otherwise money-free social context, typically of favors being exchanged ("social norms")

To summarize, the introduction of hard currency completely disrupts the social dynamics and the resulting work quality, usually for the worst.

You can find an more in-depth summary in the links:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictably_Irrational

[2] http://bookoutlines.pbworks.com/w/page/14422685/Predictably%... "Chapter 4: The Cost of Social Norms"
And self-indulgent.
For the vast majority of people in the US, completely supporting themselves on 40 hours a week of a minimum wage is impossible, yes.
I’m not sure whether you’re really making a blanket statement about what all observers had to say. But if you are, your recollection is incorrect. The issue of capital punishment aside, many voices chimed in to say (especially in the early going) that the United States would not hold these cards close to its chest for such a long time and that he should just go face justice in Sweden.
For #1, it looks like that's coming? The documentation[1] has been updated for project sponsor buttons to include up to 4 github-sponsor enabled users. I can't find a project using it yet, but I imagine this divides your donation to the project among the 4?

[1]: https://help.github.com/en/articles/displaying-a-sponsor-but...
Here's the context for that comment, which isn't nearly as black/white as claimed;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11043068
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and connections, knows someone who knows someone
Indeed I am. My apologies.
It’s 100% efficient, but you can do better than the 100% without breaking thermodynamic Laws with a heat pump.
Yes, and that would be good. Alls im saying is, follow the law, or change it, but don't advocate breaking it ;)

(I admit I too pirated music and sw during my college days, but I don't anymore..)
All income earned by USA citizens is subject to taxation by USA authorities even if the money was earned while resident in another country. Most other countries do not tax their citizens for income earned abroad.

*There may be tax treaties that may reduce total tax liability.
You know, I think it would actually be a lot harder to sell a $50 portable game system than a $150 one.

Both price points are in about the same range of disposable income for the target audience.

But $50 is a cheapo, side thing... as junky as the maker felt they could get away with. Not necessarily bad (Personally, I really appreciate things that are made as cheap as someone felt they could get away with, especially games. The cheapo-ness tells an interesting story and sometimes these things absolutely amaze me.) but usually pretty bad.

$150 is a centerpiece. It's a product that delivers at some decent level of quality/aesthetics. From the website I think they nailed that. (It looks like the handheld console you've made out of Lego and then imagined the details of what the real thing that the Lego model represents.)

So the $50 portable game is maybe too crappy to be a centerpiece gift (to another or to yourself), but maybe too expensive to fit in as a second-tier gift (e.g., a Christmas stocking-stuffer).

While this might qualify as "the gift of the year". (Or purchase for self of the year.)

The experience on the cheap device will probably be inferior in virtually every way to the phone you already have in your pocket.

But this device is different. Your phone doesn't have a crank. (Nor does whatever handheld system you may already have). It doesn't look like Lego. It doesn't have a black-and-white screen and it doesn't have a new, unique game coming out every week. (well your phone has seemingly a million games coming out each week, but in a diffuse, general way where you have to discover them for yourself and figure out for yourself if the IAP are too annoying or not, etc.)

Games are about new and fresh experiences so anything you already own and have been playing for 10 years is at a serious disadvantage, despite that it's cheaper to keep using it because you already own it.
This made the pirate party unelectable for me in this election. I haven't yet settled on a replacement, quite a large number of contenders.
Heil Hydra Brother.
This is a good idea, but also the behavior will probably be emergent with the introduction of this feature - I can definitely see OSS maintainers offering logos/links in the README in exchange for monthly sponsorship. I bet we'll see the emergence of "Gold/Silver/Bronze" tiers too, just like at conferences.
And all income earned by a US citizen is subject to federal taxes, regardless of where in the world the income is earned. Hence there would be precedent for a US wealth tax to apply to a citizen’s “global wealth,” which, unlike in the case of those other countries, means people couldn’t dodge the tax just by changing the physical/notional location of their wealth.
Good thing they didn't water-bomb it then.
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suresk 1 hour ago [-]

I think a big part of the problem is the structure of the survey that these stories (and the "debunking" are based on) - I don't think you can fully support either conclusion based on it, for a few reasons:
1) At least a few of the possible responses don't really map to any conclusion. Take for example, "Put it on my credit card and pay it off in full at the next statement". Does this mean someone is struggling to pay the expense? Or just a normal way to pay for things? I mentioned in another comment - I keep a fairly large emergency fund and $400 would be trivial to cover, but I'd still pay for it on a card and then pay it off when it was due, so I'd select this option. I think it makes it hard to infer much from this.*

I don't think that's the case with this answer. It's more, I'll need credit cause I don't have either cash or deposits to pay for it.
And yet Japan has been exchanging cultural and genetic material with the rest of East Asia for thousands of years, and the West for centuries. Even during the Sakoku period, they were trading with the world through the port at Dejima.

Pretending it's an island untouched by and uninterested in foreign culture is changing it to fit one's imagination. Someone may well have "bent to your will" a bit had you put in a bit more effort than your comment suggests you did while there, as hospitality is deeply ingrained into their culture.
>eventually extradited to U.S. once in custody.

That result was entirely his choice. He chose to go to the UK. That's not where you go if you're fearful of the US picking you up.

He chose to leave Sweden where he wouldn't likely be extradited to the US as Sweden considers espionage a political crime and does not extradite people for political crimes ....
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Nah, you just have to also encode all arrays like

["array", [...]]

;-)