skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What hardware is used for the first round of sieving? Is it "just" distributed computing on normal machines, or are they using special FPGA farms?
Medical advances have - up to now - probably meant more disabled people, and I expect this will continue.

As people reach old age, disability rates increase.
Medical advances allow people to live full, healthy lives with their disabilities when they may not have survived childhood in the past.

In any case, disability is not going away.
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Probably not a brilliant branding exercise to intimate you're a dinosaur out-the-gate, either.

'We're the Rosetta Stone of cutting edge tech! Rawr! Rarw? Rarw.'
There's a Margherita as discribed in my earlier comment available at Santa Lucia[1].

[1] http://www.bindella.ch/gastronomie/ueberblick-ristoranti/res...
Thing is, stocks are very scary, you can't just look at a balance sheet and make predictions because share price depends on market momentum. But you can look at a balance sheet and see how likely is that you will get your bonds money back.
I'm quite a heavy user of WebCite and I think here would be a good place to remind people that they are in desperate need of funding to keep their service accepting submissions. https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/aQMp7
Желанието на различните власти в България е заедно
Министър-председателят Пламен Орешарски, министърът на транспорта, информационните технологии и съобщенията Данаил Папазов, евродепутат Илияна Йотова, депутати от "Коалиция за България" се запознаха с проблемите на общините в региона и участваха в първата копка на автогара в областния център Пазарджик.
Social advances too - where once people with disabilities would have been ghettoed away now they're helped to live independent lives.
Thank you so very much for your efforts. We use Capistrano at Bigcommerce to deploy our apps and components, and it's saved us from an inevitable pile of shell scripts. :-)
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http://tom.preston-werner.com/ seems to be down. https://status.github.com/ reports everything operational.
"Wheelchair bound" is discouraged nowadays, as it implies that the wheelchair is something negative. The opposite is the case: the wheelchair enables the user to freely move around, enabling his personal freedom.
The rebranding of "having a hobby" into "being a maker" -- there's a blog post I'd like to read.
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Nope, all my gh-pages are up. See http://s4a.cat/ for example.
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Yes, though actually moving isn't all that hard compared to all the other things you do one a daily basis.
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More: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/october/sudhof-nobel-priz...
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They probably want to fire 80% of staff working on the servers.
How do you know if a company has been using off balance sheet financing to make their balance sheet look healthier?

[NB Not being snarky - I just remember the HN entry recently that mentioned the growth in off balance sheet financing.]
Potentially it can save the jit results from the last execution.
Do the machines shred? That would be an interesting advantage to machine sorting, shove an old car thru the shredder, and the glass chips go this way, the metal chunks go that way, and the plastic pieces go this way.

Maybe we don't often throw cars into the residential trash, but I could see this working with kids toys, or plastic bottles with metal caps.
22 percent of Californians live in poverty.
If debt jumped 30 something percent before the crash then it dropping by a percentage point a year still means people are massively overburdened by debt compared to where they used to be.

Growth to be sustainable can't be debt fuelled, so it's hardly the fault of consumers for not spending, especially if their discretionary spending power isn't increasing.

Business confidence is picking up which should lead to more growth in that sector, combined with more employment - which is healthy growth, people get jobs and thus have discretionary income again.
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I'd peg them as sophomores -- they know enough of the names and stories to feel like authorities, but don't have any depth of understanding. The Eames example is particularly hilarious, since Charles and Ray are pretty famous for starting with some basic goals, learning everything about the materials at hand, and figuring out first-hand the best way to use those materials to solve the problem. They developed techniques for molding plywood in their apartment, for chrissakes!
Maybe "wasting asset" is a better metaphor. At some point, there'll come an OS release on which that Ruby won't even build (and this can happen sooner than you'd think - 1.8.7 needs to be patched to build on Wheezy, for instance; by the time Jessie goes stable 1.9.3 will probably have been deprecated and unsupported too). At that point, you're forced into porting to a newer Ruby just so you can keep up with security patches to the underlying OS. It might not be "technical debt" per se, but it's definitely a maintenance cost.
I like the way Cosma Shalizi described it to aspiring statisticians:

INDEPENDENCE: otherwise, you rely on someone else always
having made exactly the right tool for you, and giving it to you.

HONESTY: otherwise, you end up distorting the problem to match the tools you happen to have.

CLARITY: turning your method into something a machine can do
forces you to discipline your thinking and make it communicable; and science is public.
Although shortsightedness is easily corrected nowadays, it should still be counted as a disability from a certain degree on.

Considering the numbers here, I would not expect the parents numbers to include all cases, though:

"A recent study involving first-year undergraduate students in the United Kingdom found 50% of British whites and 53.4% of British Asians were myopic.[62]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopia#Epidemiology
"as long as we've gathered together in groups to organise ourselves into herds and packs and tribes and villages and
nations, as opposed to streaming mindlessly through the
oceans like shoals of mackerel"

What? Mackerel? "Streaming mindlessly through the ocean"?

Argument-from-assways-understanding-of-evolution is the new argument from authority, it seems
(Disclaimer: not an economist, it's likely I'm talking nonsense)
This is one of those situations where it's hard to grasp what exactly is right to do, and where the media doesn't really help. Individually it makes sense to save money, but as many people will no doubt note it is harmful if everyone does it - less money circulating meaning a slower recovery overall. It's also slightly counter-intuitive, the financial crisis came about due in no small part to under-capitalised banks so therefore it seems reasonable to think that more savings deposits and fewer mortgages\loans is a healthy sign.

Another confusing thing I've seen during reporting on the financial crisis is conflicting views on the prices of housing. Prices were sky-high during the boom, and to me it seems plainly obvious that they were not the correct value and needed to return to normal. Yet falling house prices are reported negatively, and rising prices are cheered. I can see why individually some people (home owners) would want to have rising prices, but surely overall a return to the sort of pre-boom valuations overall are what we should be aiming for. Oh well, not entirely sure what I'm trying to say, maybe just "Finance is weird"?
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No, but that's because WebKit has other requirements, like a short startup time as well as memory constraints. If WebKit were a long-running server process, a Java version could well be faster (although WebKit's most performance-critical code runs on the GPU anyway, where Java wouldn't have any advantage).

There are other issues as well (maybe I'll write a blog post about them): when it comes to throughput, Java is extremely hard to beat (i.e., it's certainly possible, but not without a lot of work); when it comes to latency, a Java project needs work, too; when it comes to a lot of concurrency, it's almost impossible to beat Java with C++, even with a lot of work (depending on the complexity of the concurrent code).
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At the end of the day, why does it matter?
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Stick to IRC for the internal chats guys.

Wait, I meant email... ;)
Discharge Petition is plausible but remember that all signatures are now public record since mccain-finegold which makes me wonder.

Boehner will never defy "Hastert rule" because he likes his job, no matter how horrible he is at it.
.class files are a fairly simple mechanical translation from java into bytecodes making them easy to decompile. Many optimizations that a compiler would do for static code are not done as the JIT can decide at runtime.

The Java->OpenCL framework https://code.google.com/p/aparapi/ decompiles kernels written in Java class files back into algebra and reprojects them into OpenCL.

The peformance of a LuaJIT based JVM could actually be quite good depending on how much work is done in the decompilation stage.
Can you explain this? In Germany, where I live there are no public mugshots (in fact this is explicitly forbidden) and I am pretty sure that we don't have secret arrests. In which way do public mugshots prevent secret arrests? In case you want to arrest someone secretly, just don't publish the mugshot.
I don't mind people who analyse everything. It's great that there are people who know why processes are how they are.

I dislike the amount of "post rationalisation" that goes with arts critique. See the movie "Room 237"[1] as a great example of this. Some of them sound reasonable, and make sense. And some of them just sound ridiculous, and tenuous, and make very little sense. And because Kubrick is dead and didn't tell us what he meant there's little way for us to know if these people's imaginings about his film are in any way correct or not.

I tend to go a bit too far the other way. I know someone who, when at school and asked "Why did that character do that thing?" would answer "because that's what the author wrote" which is correct, but not what an English comprehension teacher wants to hear.

[1] <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085910/>
There are opensource enthusiast which do not use github.
> What's also driving her away may be something that runs deeper: "People feel like they're being ripped off everywhere," she says.

There we go, nail on the head. In the age of HFT-induced flash crashes, high profile systemic scandals (LIBOR, FB-style IPO abuse, and so forth), predatory and dubious bank foreclosures in the news -- individually these things make people skittish but combined they portray an acidic environment that does little else than subtly eat away at any gains you make.

Cheap credit has its advantages, however the very notion of "cheap credit" is worrying. If the economy is in shambles, then why do we get cheap credit? There's a distinct sense that it just isn't sustainable.
The article missed the famous quote along the lines of spending it all in Amsterdam.

The winners buying real estate need to look out for maintenance costs and taxes... better expect to spend 5% the cost of the house, or more, annually, for taxes and utilities and upkeep, so if the prize is more than perhaps 10 times your annual income you're eventually going to be in a world of hurt. I've had some relatives end up land-poor and its not a pretty sight. Here's 5 million dollars of lakefront property. Whoops he doesn't make 500K/yr.
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The whole tone of the article is very dismissive. It's important to remember no real structural reforms were done after the 2008 crisis, and the underlying problem (the principal-agent problem in public financial institutions and their dealings in risk) remains. And now with even more leverage and greater exposure to even more complex derivatives and financial instruments. There's a reason people are behaving like this.

It's also either misinformed, or misleading. A statement like "Shunning debt and spending less can be good for one family's finances. When hundreds of millions do it together, it can starve the global economy." is false. Engaging in deficit spending in ones family would be a great idea if you had an unlimited line of infinite forgiveable-borrowing at 0% from a reserve bank. Similarly saving in the global economy could create large amounts of spare capital that would drive investment in real productive goods and services with healthy returns, if your savings investments weren't being front-run by a central bank with the legal right to print currency.

The investment/reward money pricing mechanism (interest rates) are beyond broken, they are corrupted. People saying this were once branded insane, and then libor was revealed. It goes on. This being said, the underlying movement by people leaves me with hope. It's good to see a lot of people paying down their debt, saving their money, choosing to take the financial medicine now, rather than later when the flavour will be even more bitter and possibly deadly.
There are many problems that can eat your assets and are not in the B/S. I don't thing that creative accounting is very likely, especially in well established Corporations. One scarier issue might be law suits.

But you can keep an eye on "easy" things like cash flow. A company that can run on 100M of cash and produces 1B of cash per year is very unlikely going to go so under that it won't be able to pay its creditors, for example.
Especially for consumer banks, under-capitalized is just a bad euphemism for over-leveraged.

As far as regional markets and economies, the trend of housing prices is an important health indicator, hence the tendency to cheer rising prices.
You might be interested in http://blog.incubaid.com/2012/02/14/rediscovering-the-rsync-...
Total debt has ballooned around the world in this "recovery" because of government deficits, despite some consumer deleveraging. When the debt growth machine falters, we go right back into the 2008 deflationary crisis.
Looks like they cannot end QE-to-∞

Reuters "The Fed has no clue what will happen when it starts selling assets," IMF Chief Economist Olivier Blanchard told a meeting of the Institute of International Finance in Paris. "So it cannot make any commitments in term of quantities."
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/06/25/us-economy-imf-idUK...
FTA:

> Silk Road and its like must not only be defeated, they must be crushed out of existence and deter anyone from attempting anything similar.

I'm hoping this is satire

Edit: Apparently this is not the opinion of the author. From the comments:

Just to be clear, the sentence you're quoting is not my belief. It's my description of the obvious [?] strategic imperative from the viewpoint of centralist forces should they feel a threat from emerging individualist forces.
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What load of bullshit. It does not even mention pasteurization. As most of the uninformed comments on this page as well. As a comment rightly notes:

Raw milk contains lactase producing bacteria, so anyone consuming milk in its raw form would be able to digest it without any digestion problems. Only pasteurized milk is lactase free as heating destroys the bacteria that produce the enzyme. Most milk historically would have been consumed raw so an adaptation to produce lactase would have been unnecessary and would not provide a significant competitive advantage.
Absolutely true, though of course you could do the same memory layout with the Go code. If we're talking about compiler comparisons, a vectorization-suitable tighter inner loop that operates on contiguous memory would be a good high performance comparison. The standard Go compiler would not vectorize it...yet...though honestly I don't know what the state of gccgo is or whether it yields an intermediary that brings the gcc vectorization into play.

And of course the reason you code for auto-vectorization is for ease of platform support. The linked AVX code will not run on the vast majority of virtual machines, or any CPU made prior to 2012. Nor will it take advantage of AVX2. I use the Intel compiler and either yield builds that I can target to specific processors or technology levels or I can add support for virtually all technologies, such that the same code will vectorize on AVX2, failing that AVX, failing that SSE3.2, failing that... you get the picture. With a suitable ARM compiler the same code would vectorize to NEON, etc.
I found it amusing that going without internet access and a cell transported him "to the early 1900s," as opposed to, say, the mid-1980s.
I don't understand the OP's original phrase "bled dry by the freebie parasites". So I don't know how people who use code on github would be "parasites", nor how they would bleed anything dry.

Primarily open source software (or free software movement, whatever you'd like to call it) is free as in freedom, not necessarily free as in beer.
You're correct, it was apt-get. I also have a Centos image around, so I have yum on the brain.
Yes. The signers will be Republicans whose districts also went for Obama in 2012. Pete King in NY-2 would be an example.

Boehner has already defied the Hastert rule to pass the Violence Against Women Act and to pass emergency aid for hurricane Sandy victims. He will do it again.
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Good. I know that Chesky is trying to pretend that this is about people who occasionally share their homes, but that's bullshit. There are a lot of people who are stuck living next to illegal, untaxed hotels because one of their neighbors AirBNBs their place full time.

I know that a lot of people on this site think that if you add the words 'on the internet' you should be exempt from all regulation and taxation, but that's just not how the world works.

I hope that the people who've been profiting from the lack of enforcement are forced to play on a level playing field.

Disclaimer: my experience with NYC AirBNBs have been incredibly negative, including people listing with fake names, revealing that they'd given fake addresses at the last minute (when it was already too late to change plans), showing deceptive photos, and giving false descriptions.
This was pretty much bound to happen. Next they'll go after each host for all sorts of taxes and penalties.
The way handled this game is really quite sad. I was excited for it, the previews looked promising ... but the fact that the server performance was newsworthy, and the small-city problem, meant that I never bothered buying it. I imagine I'm not alone.

Not having actually bought the game I can't say for sure, but I wonder if the much-touted online features haven't been as popular as they hoped ... which means that this now 7-month old game is probably quite expensive for them to keep running into perpetuity. Ripping the online features out, and allowing offline only, could allow them to save on running costs?
Seems to be pretty much similar to Oberon, used to build a few OS.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6498878

As you should be aware, since you mentioned Oberon.
Absolutely not. Online presences, while a plus, should never be used as a hiring requirement. Also, what if they contribute to a bunch of private repos (e.g. their previous company)? You have no way of knowing this beyond what they will tell you.
We're no longer Norwegian :)

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/09/25/exciting-news-fastmail-st...
World trade does not need any central bank to continue. People only need freedom to do transactions without constant interference. If gov currencies are to collapse, there are only to choices: private IOUs in private banks backed or not by gold (either way, a huge amount of trust is needed to be placed in the banks, almost no one is going to move gold across the world all the time); or bitcoin - which enables world trade without necessary placing trust in intermediaries.
My friend, it's not that easy. The guys who have already made it big (those in top management) have a great deal of financial security built up for themselves. The unfortunate ones would be the 'supposedly' good folks who have only been slogging while making those fat fellows richer. Now, again, much of the wealth and means of production is with the erstwhile PHBs. And now, they would have even better control on things as they won't have an organization to report to but can call shots by starting their own companies. And the 'good folks' will have nowhere to go but those firms, casue the other bigger/better ones are all gone by now. In such a situation, who do you think would still get jacked?
Being in a similar situation to you I was grossly confused with Ruby until I ran update-alternatives, then things started to make more sense.
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