skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that the shuttle program has ended, it would be nice to get the supposedly perfect code produced by the On-board Shuttle Group as well. I wonder if a FOIA request has been made.
If you click through the pages 2,4,6 on the bottom they are blank.
ALSA as the only thing running on your system does. But if your game supports ALSA then it can plug into ALSA which plugs into PulseAudio and you still get all the benefits of PulseAudio.
These guys are doing some incredible stuff.
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Fair enough that GOGO works elegantly for a hard-coded DFA. But as hard-coded automata get larger, they get harder to read. A general-purpose solution which runs automata defined more concisely elsewhere (e.g., in a DSL) is generally preferable because it will end up being more flexible and maintainable.

Not as performant, no. But the complaint about GOTO is that it tends to be a hallmark of less-maintainable code. This example falls right in with that complaint on account of being a less-maintainable way to write code.
I hope so, I've seen some work on building typical models of the mind with averages of cat scans etc.

"and there's always the excuse of different cultures"

That's a good point. Related to this are the fascinating Culture-bound syndromes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture-bound_syndrome
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Finally an event that doesn't have a 'startup' ring to its name.

Just bought my ticket. And I can honestly say "I can't wait"!
Valve disagrees, here is an excerpt about 2011 Steam statistics:

>Valve is celebrating a successful 2011, with its seventh straight year of more than 100% sales increases. The developer also revealed that the recent holiday sale pushed the number of simultaneous users over the five million mark, and a handful of other impressive stats.

The service now boasts 1,800 games and 40 million accounts, and in 2011 it pushed out 780 petabytes of data -- double the amount from 2010. 14.5 million copies of Steamworks games were registered, a 67% increase over 2010, and the suite is now included in more than 400 games.

http://www.shacknews.com/article/71860/steam-touts-2011-sale...
Not to mention, you never know when you're going to accidentally violate their TOS and get banned; the less you rely on them, the less that will hurt when it happens.
Most on-die embedded DRAM is one cycle away for a whole word (I'm not sure about arduino but I'll bet it's in the same ballpark). This uses a 500 ns pulse for each bit, so reading a 8-bit word would take 40 clock cycles (at 10 mHz)
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I am trying to automatically generate categories for search queries. For e.g 'iphone 5 not working' should yield something like 'technology', 'mobile phone', 'troubleshooting'. These categories are to be automatically generated. Is there some open dataset that one can query to do this mapping? I am completely clueless. Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.
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If psychology is "under attack", or for that matter any scientific field is under attack, the solution is to do the hard work to prove that your work is meaningful and accurate, and if you discover it isn't, to fix those problems.

"People" are gullible and easy to fool in the short term, but I think it is commonly underestimated how smart "people" can be in the long term. Yes, you could throw up a smokescreen and dodge out of the spotlight cast on your bad science today, but that will only be a momentary reprieve of the pain. In the long term you'll still be under attack, and given that you will have been witnessed using smokescreens and obfuscations, you'll probably be on the losing side of that attack. In the short term, the pain of revealing just how much flimflam there is might hurt, but the result will be a discipline that in 5 or 10 years is no longer under serious attack, because "people" will notice that honesty and react to it.

If science is under attack, it is only because "people" are noticing that a lot of it is bunk... and the problem is people are right. We've seen that in a number of studies in a number of fields lately. The only answer that's going to truly restore confidence and respect is to eliminate the bunk. Politics won't work. Pay the piper now, or pay the piper more later. How often those are the choices....

and of all the people who should understand the psychological appeal of paying the piper later and taking the easy road today, you'd think it would be the psychologists...
So, when is someone going to write an Apollo emulator that in turns contains an Apollo hardware emulator that uses the actual program to simulate what the onboard system would have done? Or has that been done? :)
The note by that moth in the log book says "First actual case of bug being found." Other text on that page reinforces the idea that the word "bug" was in use before that particular bug, not least the quote from Thomas Edison.
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Apple's event invites are geeky Rorschach tests. You see what you want to see.
Euh, I don't see any blank pages...
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Offtopic, but I saw bizzare Bing translation to Polish below your twit. Translating it back to English it was something like:

This is the year of Linux desktops? Pipe fitting seems to be running on the client home pair.

Google translate managed at least to get first sentence right..
I have the feeling that a naive polynomial approximation would give lower relative error than a naive Taylor series approximation—at least for the same number of clock cycles. Or am I just crazy?

float sin(float const x) {
float const y = (4 / pi) * x + (-4 / (pi * pi)) * x * abs(x);
return y + 0.218 * (y * abs(y) - y);
}
Small sample sizes and publication bias are a lethal combination in any field.

Suppose scientists wanted to test the hypothesis that a fair coin always comes up heads. Due to budgetary issues, scientists are only able to toss the coin 5 times. 40 groups of researchers conduct the experiment in universities around the world. One of them is quite likely to get 5 heads. Guess which result is likely to be published (or which group is going to even attempt to publish its result). Moreover, this result is statistically significant according to the well-accepted peer-reviewed journal standard of p < 0.05.

I suggest people read John Ioannidis's paper: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...), and the Atlantic story about Ioannidis and his work: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-dam...)
That argument doesn't hold water. I don't know you, but if I say "From the looks of your page many9s.com , I'd say you're an amateur with no design sense", then I'm personally attacking you.
"Yet when Stuart Ritchie, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of Edinburgh, and two colleagues failed to replicate his findings, they had a heck of a time getting the results into print"

Maybe because they were a bunch of hacks. They didn't actually replicate Bem's methodology, so whether or not they got the same results is irrelevant. The journals were right for rejecting their work.
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I believe pinball was the name of their keyboard and display program (not an actual pinball machine)
> "And then one day, a competitor comes out of nowhere, and has your same features, for less cost and a few new features that are awesome. And now you are playing catch up. But you will never catch up."

> "It just feels so good to type that. A self-fulfilling prophesy that feels so good. "

Who uses this self-fulfilling prophesy -- Treehouse to justify 4 day work weeks or OP to justify hard-work trumping a different view? Both can use the same argument.

> "And so here is my best advice to my sons…Be the first guy in the gym and the last to leave!"

...but are you on the field playing the game?

Good article, thank-you for the perspective.
Already "expired" due to high demand....
Do I provide more value in more time?

If I work in a factory, doing trivial manufacturing tasks where you control the speed of the lane/conveyor thingy: Probably.

When you explain me what you want without having a clear picture and while omitting juicy details along the way, totally relying on my ability to think for you and 'figuring it out'? No. Not at all.

Bottom line: That blog post is not applicable to me and uses a kind of math that Germans call 'Milchmaedchenrechnung' [1] (Google Translate might help, basically it's a naive and wrong way to do math). No challenge in sight.

1: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milchm%C3%A4dchenrechnung
C. J. Date is a very well known technical writer. He has written extensively about SQL and relational theory.
> that psychology is due for an Einstein level revolution

The Behaviour Therapy model was that revolution. The old model had many sessions trying to uncover past trauma before allowing the patient to move on. People with a phobia of something spent many weeks talking about their childhood and their adult life.

Now a severe phobia can be cured for most people in about an hour. And it stays gone.

I'm glad that psychology studies are being given more rigorous scrutiny. There's been too much sloppy science in the field for much too long.
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Interesting - although I probably wouldn't bother with it if I was unhappy. I'd be concentrating on sorting my unhappiness (ie finishing work, getting home, whatever) and would come back when I had time / was happier (much like Twitter etc.).

As a side note, the favicon looks like the Chrome loading icon got stuck at the bottom :-)
What makes you think coding proficiency is the goal of a university or a CS program, or the proper goal thereof.
Just my opinion, but you should basically do what you like. I like developing software, so working for ~40 hours a week is OK for me. But I also try not to spend too many hours (per year) working for clients so I have time for my own stuff and also for hobbies (cooking, photography, sports, ...).

I also know that I am less productive when I am tired or overworked, so this is another reasons why I try to limit my time in front of the computer. For example, when it's possible, I simply take breaks when I am tired (http://davidtanzer.net/node/114 - though this is often not possible when working for a client on-site).

I could make more money by doing the same work I do now for more hours - but that would just be a brute force solution. What I currently try is doing work that has better hourly rates. I'll also try to build some passive income - that's what you mentioned.
This is just a general comment based on some of the (strange) sentiment below.

Github is a for-profit company. As a student, they're offering you a break to make it easier to use their service. They do this because they ultimately want you to pay them (or host great open source projects with them). If you're not a student and derive value from their service, pay them. It's $10s of dollars per month (for private repo hosting).

If you value your code, I'd encourage you to go with (and pay) a service whose primary business is hosting it for you. That's github. Your money is going to pay people (like you) who make a living writing code.
Isn't what you describe more of a cultural problem, or simply a lack of basic communication skills among the participants?

If I'm talking face-to-face with a couple of other guys, or sitting at my desk with a colleague looking over my shoulder to give me a second opinion on something I'm working on, we don't need one of us to be speaking 100% of the time. The advantage is that you can have instant feedback when it's helpful, which I find is quite often.

If there's a larger meeting going on with a whole group of participants, then hopefully those participants were given enough information to prepare properly in advance, and hopefully someone is in the chair to moderate the discussion and ensure that the pace is sensible and everyone is able to contribute. That's another thing that becomes very much harder when phone lines and network connections are involved, IME.

Your point seems to be that smarter people tend to spend more time listening and thinking and less time talking. I completely agree. I just don't think meeting face-to-face necessarily prevents that. Sometimes you want to compare/evolve ideas at high speed or explain/learn something interactively, and being in the same place helps with that IME. Sometimes you want one person to consider an issue deeply and then report their findings, and maybe a formal document that other people can read, at their own pace and wherever they happen to be, is a better choice in that case. But working in the same location doesn't prevent that either.
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Quick correction: if you read your link you'll see that glitches have been called bugs since the 1930s or earlier. The Mark II team didn't originate the term but they were very amused to see the literal manifestation.
......aaaaaaand sold out. In 2 hours. Wow!
And it sold out in about two hours.
Probably could use a spelling/grammar tool. ;p
Oh, an industry supremacist.
I believe you meant Defect-Cooperate gives the defector a better payout than Cooperate-Cooperate. At any rate, I’m not sure that it makes a difference in this video.
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There is a fundamental flaw in the argument that v1again is making/supporting. The problem with this argument and the math that's always used to support it, is that it comes from the view point of simply making money. If it were as simple as (number_of_hours_worked * number_of_people = awesome_product) then a company would always be able to throw money at a problem and fix it.

In the real world this is so obviously not the case that it's laughable that anyone makes the argument in the first place. If you're starting a company and you knew that in order to succeed all you had to do was work more hours than the other guy, of course you'd do it.

If your goals in business are to make money, then working crazy hours and ignoring everything else in your life probably makes sense. If you want to build a long lasting, sustainable business full of happy, productive employees who make great stuff then you probably want to make sure the work life balance is as good as it can be.
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If your goal is accuracy, you are absolutely correct. But in the instances where I've wanted to implement my own versions of transcendental math functions, accuracy was actually pretty low on my list of priorities. Often just a couple terms of a taylor series was accurate enough, fast, and easy to implement.
I think they'll be announced within 2 weeks.
.. what about voyager program? you could then actually test the live system )
It will be interesting to see what this does to the state of GL support, Wayland, scheduler, etc. Steam telemetry will give Valve a lot of data about how different hardware/software/driver configurations are working but on Linux they'll be able to actually push patches to distros if need be. I would love to see Valve profile Source on Linux and start shaving sources of latency and jitter, it could eventually be better than Windows for competitive gaming.
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I find this an incredibly narrow view of the gaming ecosystem. Not only are there numerous games that flatly contradict your view, but you're ignoring many facets of games themselves. Mobile games can only provide a limited experience when compared to other platforms.

When you move from a mobile device to a console, you gain better controls, deeper gameplay (can you compare Draw Anything to Mario Galaxy?), and a much more reliable and centralized platform backing it in terms of networked play. This comparison repeats itself moving from consoles to the desktop. You gain better controls again, better hardware, and often, deeper gameplay. (Can you compare Mario Galaxy to StarCraft or World of Warcraft?). There's really just no way to compress the amount of complexity involved in the typical MMO onto a console, much less a mobile device. And while it's fair propose that this complexity creates a barrier, I think an argument could be made for the inverse as well.

Mobile devices could just as easily act as a gateway to deeper and more complex games and their platforms. I suspect more parents are playing Xbox and Wii with their children than they did NES and Sega Genesis, and perhaps that interest will cross another bridge onto desktop games.
Here is a more complete reading list:

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/11/lies-damne...)

The Truth Wears Off (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_...)

Grant System Leads Cancer Researchers to Play It Safe (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/health/research/28cancer.h...)

Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why. (http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo...)

The Cult of Pharmacology: How America Became the World's Most Troubled Drug Culture (http://www.erowid.org/library/review/review.php?p=269)

The Mouse Trap: The dangers of using one lab animal to study every disease (http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_mouse_t...)

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...)

Mistakes in Scientific Studies Surge (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230362710457641...)

Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/ff_causation/all/1)

In cancer science, many "discoveries" don't hold up (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/28/us-science-cancer-...)

Lullaby for a Mouse: Anthropological Observations of an Animal Model of Psychosis (http://vimeo.com/33803995)

Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_dsmv/all/1)

There are of course quite a few relevant books as well, but that's probably enough to keep most people busy for a few days. Also, most of these articles are about drug research, medicine, or psychology, but it applies to basically every field.
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We'll be posting videos of all our sessions shortly after the conference, so everyone can take advantage of great WWDC content for free."
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You're referring to clinical psychology. However, most psychological research (particularly that published in the journals chosen for review) does try to build a model of the typical mind.
if you are limited by search in gmail, you are doing it wrong. you are saying gmail is inferior to thunderbird for search? over google? c'mon. you also take issue with apps running in the browser, which is counter-culture. you are refusing to accept that there are specific advantages to the additional functionality we have gained in the browser, while claiming your machine is more secure than Google's data centers. sorry but you're not making a sound argument.
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Sure, if the money is being spent on things like stock and operating expenses that are a normal part of the business, I have no problem with that. If it's being done on an industrial scale and there are economies that go with that, it makes perfect sense. I'm just not convinced that (for example) certain large tech companies -- particularly those that are in the software or services businesses rather than in manufacturing -- need reserves on the scale they are holding for the kinds of purposes we're talking about here, which leads me to ask why the rest isn't being paid out in dividends to shareholders.
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I am a double major in Math and Computer Science planning to go to graduate school next year.I am interested in Data Analytics,Data Mining&Machine Learning .Which PhD program is most appropriate for this?
I don't see any blank pages either.
It's true regardless of what your goal is (unless your goal is to play with Taylor series approximations). Even if you're going purely for speed, you can often replace a third-order Taylor series with a second-order minimax polynomial, and deliver the same or better accuracy with significantly fewer operations.
Yeah I don't know about some of those fonts...

And negative contrast, please.
We really do and Christian is an extremely talented guy, we are lucky to have him at 10gen.
It works for me in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari

The last sentence is "Blake is the special unicorn"
I forgot one important point.

>Linux is the most powerful of the main three OSes but it also requires the most administration if you're doing much with it.

Too many weasel words to reply with certainty, but I like this one:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/29/munich_linux_savings...
Munich's mayor claims €4m savings from Linux switch
Lower costs and fewer support calls than Windows
But the reality is talented people are able to sustain a high level of productivity at long hours . . . They work 70-80 hour weeks. And they sustain that level indefinitely.

Studies have shown otherwise; why does he think businesses went to 40 hour weeks in the first place? Concern for their employees? Don't make me laugh.

Maybe there are exceptions to this rule, and maybe all these Uber-hard working smart people congregate at startups. Of course, there's also always been the adage of "work smarter, not harder", and the longer you work (past a certain amount), no matter how good you are, the less clearly you will be thinking (in other words, you will not be working smarter).

This is also the argument that PG puts forward in different ways (eg, http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html and http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html). Basically, if you can produce the same product, of the same quality, in less time, then you don't need to work more hours than your competition, and they will never be able to beat you if the productivity factor is high enough. Ergo, less hours, with better tools and people, will beat more hours.
Okay, I'd love to see that and the story's great.

Having said that: This is the URL:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve...

I have the unfortunate issue of inspecting URLs I navigate to. This one contains an 'item' called 'valve_linux_dampfnudeln'. What? Searching the page for 'dampf' gives no result. I fear that I won't be able to sleep tonight if no one can tell me what kind of reference this is.

Why am I deeply confused? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dampfnudel
Remember he was targeting 21 year olds. As a 21 year old I can confirm that not all of us just drink and play video games. As I said "The point is to give people time to do whatever they want." I don't care what you do or how old you are, I'm just not going to be sitting on my ass all day when I could be doing something productive or be "out of the office."
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In the US we have three kinds of charges: felonies, misdemeanors, and infractions.

Felonies are major criminal offenses. Misdemeanors are minor criminal offenses. Infractions are oopsies.

Most traffic charges are treated as infractions, even when they lead to levels of damage or injury that would ordinarily mean a misdemeanor or felony. Cars are somehow "special." If you want to get away with murder in the US, definitely use a car not a gun.

(But don't be drunk. Drunk driving is no longer socially acceptable -- if you're drunk and kill someone with your car, that's serious jail time. If you're just a bad driver and kill someone with your car, that's an oopsie.)