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Knuth says:

For many years I've resisted temptations to put out a hasty electronic version of The Art of Computer Programming, because the samples sent to me were not well made.

But now, working together with experts at Mathematical Sciences Publishers, my publishers and I are launching an electronic edition that meets the highest standards. We've put special emphasis into making the search feature work well. Thousands of useful "clickable" cross-references are also provided --- from exercises to their answers and back, from the index to the text, from the text to important tables and figures, etc.

The first fascicle can now be ordered from Pearson's InformIT website, and we expect to release thousands of additional pages next year.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.html
The marginal utility argument you make is fair, but my question would be: marginal utility to whom, and when? The poor person who receives a government payout does benefit immediately, but poor people would benefit in the long term if that money had been invested in a job (and wealth) creating venture. This seems to me a difficult trade-off, and not a clear argument for or against welfare; my criticism of your argument here is that you presuppose an unlikely counter-factual.

You say "the poor are much more likely to actually spend that money than the rich are", but there is no evidence for the idea that poor people are less likely to hoard wealth than the rich. Rich individuals allocate their wealth to longer-term investments, whereas poorer people spend their money on consumption goods; both of these allocation systems allow the money to circulate in the economy. The notable difference is that the long-term investments create jobs in the long term, in exchange for forgoing consumption in the short term.
For humanitarian reasons, it's important to get as close to open borders as we can. What benefits of a first world welfare state do we gain that are worth consigning a human being to live on $1300/year (the GDP/capita of Haiti)?

Sweden is a pretty terrible example to cite. Go read the blog of Tino Sanandaji (an Iraqi immigrant to Sweden) - he does a great job showing why it's a failed policy and prevents some of the best arguments against immigration that I've read.
Aha that makes more sense. Push notifications are free on all platforms.
A "Basic Job" is not a "much better policy" at all. Paying people to take care of our public spaces is worthwhile (and should be done regardless, and much is done regardless), but makework is a disease. With BI, I have assistance when I work on my startup or retrain for a different career or take care of my children or volunteer in my community - there's no bureaucrat judging my activities and deciding what is and is not worthy.
Clever Gets $10 Million To Provide A Standardized API For School Data
Pretty shoddy reporting from the WSJ, Peter Thiel isn't (just) an investor in Palantir he's a cofounder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies
No it isn't a metaphor. Not a good one anyway.

Medical screening tests are a costs benefits analysis. Science does this.

There is a cost for everything. If you have a disease that isn't causing any symptoms, do you treat it, even though it will probably never cause symptoms? There is a risk in all treatments, some more than others. There is a study that most prostate cancers don't show symptoms, ever and our super sensitive cancer diagnostics tests are causing more harm than good. More diagnostics does not mean more good. That's why we no longer do the Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Test. It finds too many cancers that aren't going to cause harm and then people get unneeded treatment that causes side effects. (Source in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate-specific_antigen)

For example, it used to be recommended that all women perform a breast self exam every month, then data showed us this didn't prevent cancer and actually caused harm because it lead to needless surgeries and biopsies. (Sources here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_self_exam)

We just don't throw more diagnosis and screening at patients and assume that is a good thing.
> Can anyone confirm that they've implemented this properly

Well, they are the largest e-mail service provider in the world. My guess is somebody checked the format for bugs.
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Hello Hacker News, this is the Hebel developer. Thanks for the attention and the Github stars!

I'll do my best to answer any questions in the thread. Looking forward to you trying out Hebel and your pull requests ;)
So you won't use the winning solution in your product?
> I wouldn't participate in this because it clearly devalues the industry.

People this may be aimed at:

* Experienced devs in boring day-jobs who are seeking some kind of off-time challenge.

* People just getting into ML and want to solve something real.

* CS students with spare time.

You know more about ML than me, but it doesn't sound like they're looking for a cancer cure; just fishing around for a one-off challenge. Or maybe they're taking names for future interview candidates.

> Developers who are considering participation in this, I'd suggest you build something for yourself with data acquired elsewhere.

Relax, dude. If people think this an interesting problem to solve, what's that to you?
It's not that spammers try to guess your email, but that if you accept any email address as valid they'll notice that you are accepting delivery.

Once i figured this out i just created wildcard aliases that end with a static prefix: netflix-blah@example.com, adobe-blah@example.com, etc. This cuts down on 99% of the random spam.
Now you're changing your story. PRISM was widely reported not to provide automated/unauthorized access to data; it is now believed to be a submission/management system for FISA requests, which are reviewed by providers before the providers own personnel locate the data. The Guardian silently (to their shame) retracted the claims that PRISM was anything more than that.

Meanwhile, illegal direct access to intra-provider communications can be cured by improving operational security at providers, which is exactly what the story we're commenting on is an instance of.

No, I don't think your argument is valid.
Would You Hold the Mayo If the Receipt Suggested It?
Wow, got downvoted for that. I wouldn't have thought this description of how I do passwords is so controversial.

What's so bad about it?
"MI"?
Wait, App.net is free?
Justice with Michael Sandel
I've never had that problem. I have plenty of other annoyances with Thunderbird (so much that I'm paying for what's essentially a custom UI), but it's usually stable. It hasn't complained when I've hooked up a half-dozen accounts, collectively about a half-million emails, and it did everything reasonably quickly.
@antirez: What i'm missing now is a function on (n) slave that tells me whether one is up to date or not.

Example:

1 - client 1 set foo,bar to node 1

2 - node 2 replicates the data

3 - client 2 set foo,baz to node 1

4 - node 2 replicates the data

What if a read (get foo) reaches node 2 between step 3 and 4? What's the return value? "bar" or "baz"?

It would be nice if this kind of consistency can be done with redis... however... great work!!
I have the first 4 books, but reading that makes me want to get it as an e-book, as well.
There was a time when Internet Explorer could run VBScript code... you said <script language="VBScript"> ...

What I think you mean is letting the browser run scripts in the Windows Scripting Host, which gives you unlimited access to the filesystem, etc.
Psychologist - technology entrepreneurs frequently experience hypomania (2005)
It will increase demand for those goods. It will only decrease supply of those goods if we cannot increase production to meet demand. The US has price supports on an awful lot of basic necessities.
Doing OS things is hard. In x86 it's extra hard

Agreed, 1000 times over. To the author: WELL DONE.

The jumps between real mode, v8086/protected mode, and long mode are absolutely mind boggling.

Here's the best part that I remember from implementing Intel VMX support in a VMM: once you've booted the VMM and are ready to do a VMXON to load a guest, you will realize you have a problem. Specifically, Intel realized a while ago that "real mode" sucks and is obviously not the "real mode" that actual applications expect to run in, so they introduced v8086 mode in addition to real mode.

The problem, of course, is that booting an OS still requires real mode, but you can't run a guest in VMX in real mode, only v8086 mode. But all those things that Intel "fixed" in v8086 mode? Yeah they will totally keep you from booting.

So you're chugging along in v8086 and your guest does something that it should absolutely be able to do and BOOM -- you've faulted. So what's the solution? Write your own emulator for a Real Real Mode(tm) in your host, capture the faults, and re-enter after rewriting the guest's state.

Abso-frickin-lutely insane.
If all of your potential tenants are getting an extra >$10,000 per year, and the supply of cheap housing in your city is basically fixed in the short term, you're not going to be looking for a small increase in rent...
"We would never trap user data"

No, we just use a different definition of "user data" than most privacy and civil rights laws.

Or can I soon expect to be able to download all the data anything from Google+ buttons, YouTube to Doubleclick ads have gathered on me?
> The engineer's oath towards ethical practice is precisely about not being a robot.

How so? I didn't get that at all from the oath.
There is a somewhat proud history of Doctors self experimenting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-experimentation_in_medicin...
Sure. While we're at it, let's get rid of meat inspections too.
It's pretty easy to clone wikipedia. As a random example, here's some site that maintains a copy of wikipedia as it was in 2007: http://www.bazpedia.com/en/index.html

Now set up whatever policies for content or editing you want. Then set up some kind of system for automatically updating it with new content from the main wikipedia without overwriting anything your own users have changed. This way you get the benefit of both worlds.
I bet they give it to you compressed, which should have a pretty good ratio unless your mail is a bunch of binary attachments!
This is a possibility - but so far the US tends to not do this very well. I don't have great data on the subject, but I've seen at least one study suggesting immigrants with children tend to be a net drain on the US.

http://cis.org/immigrant-welfare-use-2011

Don't get me wrong - I'd love to do what you propose, though I think a BJ is a better policy than BI regardless of immigration. But I'm not aware of any western society that actually manages to do it.
They will be slowly rolling it out over this month.
> Evil behavior, however precisely defined, has been and always will be with us.

But from what I've heard, Zarathustra was the first to tell people of the difference so that they could see it.

No reference, just something I think I've read or heard somewhere, sometime. Or maybe Nietzsche[1] said it somewhere.

[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1998
Thanks; I wasn't able to find it, which is why I was unsure whether you were quoting or paraphrasing. :)
Increase your security by trusting proprietary software to protect your data! Don't worry about the big, bad government. We'll make sure that we are the only ones spying on you.
Without Sacrifice, There Is No Launch
Innovation Act Passes House
About time something like this came out
I think we are fast approaching a time when it makes less and less sense to draw boxes around different types of mass media.
Do not call upon engineers to reject unethical projects. There is always the danger that they will redesign the society's ethics instead of the work!
I worked on serious x86 clone once - we took a lot of real-world trace and ran it through our various microarchitectures to see how it would fly - dynamic C++ dispatch was interesting normally you expect something like

mov r1, n(bp) ; get vtable
mov r2, n(r2) ; get method pointer
call (r2) ; call

that's a really bad pipe break a double indirect load and a call - but branch prediction may be your friend ...

However some of the code we saw (I think it came from a Borland compiler)

mov r1, n(bp) ; get vtable
push n(r2) ; get method pointer
ret ; call

an extra memory write/read but always caught in L1 and on the register poor x86 it saves a register right> ... but on most CPUs of the time you're screwed for the branch prediction - CPUs had a return cache, a cheap way to predict the branch target of a return - by doing a return without a call you've popped the return cache leaving it in a bad state - EVERY return in an enclosing method is going to mispredict as well - the code will run, but slowly
> I would love to see the numbers that show a no-questions-asked basic income would be cheaper than the present social assistance monies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome

From the article: "She found that only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less. Mothers with newborns stopped working because they wanted to stay at home longer with their babies, and teenagers worked less because they weren't under as much pressure to support their families".

To me that sounds like more adults would work, while those who have other obligations (childbearing) or goals (study, creative, startups) can focus on that.

I'm not saying it would be cheaper, but providing a guaranteed minimum to all adults, would remove the need for the other programs, saving THAT money. It would not pay for it completely. Removing the government jobs that oversee most of the selection and verification (fact checking if the person is pursuing offers) could be eliminated. This could also save money. Again not enough, but enough to help sigificantly.

> There are a lot of logistics here.

Absolutely. We need to take risks for rewards though, and there must be a way to test this without hurting the whole economy, but we need to all agree to take that risk before we work on the next step.

> How do we prove you did not already get your check?

Great question. My guess would be you only provide one per person per period. Any duplications would be search for via software, then again by a human. Any proven duplication will be deducted. Rinse and repeat, minimal bureaucracy. The government always pays me/requires me to pay them every year, but even though its not perfect, it works for the most part.

> Is the basic income adjusted for families of 1 vs 7?

In my mind it would be a set amount per adult. The argument that we need to provide more for larger families creates odd and sad circumstances of child farms and generational welfare homes. People need to start becoming responsible for their families. We'd still have child services. Besides, this shouldn't be comfortable for a single mother living alone who isn't working. These people can get family or charity to help them, not taxes. It SHOULD be comfortable for a single mother working 15 hours a week though, which would help a lot of people out there.

> This idea of a minimalist ruleset for financial assistance seems like it is great at first, but will inevitably just get more and more bloated (and costly) as you actually implement it.

Well, you could argue are current system will only get more bloated and costly as well (which is has). A major reform is necessary eventually, and this is an innovative and modern potential solution we should SERIOUSLY investigate past talking and move towards researching through small implementations.
The Misconstrued Hiring Process (Part 1 - For the Job Seeker)
Well, it'll leave the working poor and the non-working poor all a little better off, and give them the ability to shift resources as they see fit instead of as we see fit, which should typically help increase their welfare.
Depends whether the increase is in price or in quantity. If you give a lot of money to people to buy food, one possibility is that they will buy more food. Another possibility is that they will spend more money to purchase the same amount of food.

We saw this in the housing market. Between 2002-2007, a huge amount of cash went into the housing market in the form of housing subsidies, government-backed loans, interest-only mortgages, tax deductions, and other incentives to encourage an "ownership society". The result was that the home ownership rate increased from 63% to 65%, but the average price of a home basically doubled. And then it all came crashing down when the mortgage bubble popped and people couldn't afford the payments on these inflated prices.
I see what you're saying, but I disagree.

If open-source projects adopt an "email first before pull request" approach, I think that's a big mistake. That will mean a lot of dialog with people who aren't actually going to do the work, and a lot of missed patch opportunities from people who have done or will do the work but are put off by the uncertainty of a policy like that.

Regardless, if a pull request is the wrong vehicle, then the correct response isn't, "Request rejected! Go away." It's "Let's talk about this more." It was a two-line change that made the project better. (At least, nobody has so far claimed that the gender-exclusive language was better.) I think that's enough of a positive signal to be worth following up on, and certainly not the dire insult that some believe it to be.
Predictable?

> the price would plunge.

9 hours later... the prices have stabilized after dropping $100. We can add that to the hundredth time people have predicted the death of Bitcoin.
>Clearly the problems she gets in school are extremely rote

Not necessarily. It could just be that she is just learning how to answer tricky questions by using logic to determine what's not exactly spelled out.

That's about the same age that I started getting word problems that don't tell you specifically what you need to do so you have to 'find the problem'.
The headers with asterisks are intentionally mislabeled. Updated this to be more clear in the README.
> Interesting that they chose to share code with Chrome. Since the two are competitors, I would have thought that they'd use completely separate implementations.

That's what open source is about: collaboration instead competition. Why compete when you can pool your resources together.
Investment creates demand as much as consumption does, they are just different types of demand. Investment creates demand for capital goods, while consumption creates demand demand for corresponding goods.
Zyklon B was invented in the 20s, long before WWII. So I'm not sure what Kool-Aid they were supposedly drinking. There were many legitimate uses.

Additionally, Haber (of Haber-Bosch, indirectly responsible for feeding like what, a third or more of current human population?) deliberately worked on chemical warfare as he really believed "in Germany". I'm pretty sure he didn't see his work as evil, and likely many of his employees would agree. I think I recall that they hoped it'd be such a shock, it'd end the war earlier.

I agree with your sentiment in general, but things aren't as easy as you're phrasing them.
To be clear, this already exists :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_protocol#Paper_wallets...
Pardon? I'm advocating Photoshop over Inkscape because, to my knowledge, only one of them excels at mixing raster and vector capabilities.

If I want a high-resolution vector button with the modified picture of a face on it, I know which program I'm choosing.

Was I that unclear?

> Gimp is for image manipulation, not drawing buttons.

> (implied) Inkscape is for drawing buttons, not image manipulation

Photoshop is used for both image manipulation and for drawing vector buttons, in its modern incarnations. That was my point.
Avoiding the Sign-Up/Sign-In Mobile Antipattern
Are BTC "values" not just hypothetical right now? Does anyone really do heavy trading in BTC-USD?
Powerful cross-platform localization by Square
The Bitcoin Investment Experiment
But let me be a bit more fair.

I checked out the app and it looks really sweet. I don't quite know how I would use this, as I rarely write long articles on mobile, but good job!
Granted again. Maybe these car thieves carry an acetylene torch with them, but otherwise there's no excuse to transport this stuff in a container that can be opened by a couple of dipshits on the run in a stolen truck.
In my previous job this hit home quite hard, one day many of the people who helped us build the system that automated their jobs were laid off.

Then once the system was fully streamlined we developers were laid off as well.

In addition some of the end product was used in aerospace so there's a good chance it could be used for 'bad' (depending on your perspective) things.

Now I work in video games, not curing cancer, but in my search I was looking for a company that at least did no harm.
Koryo Tours is not the only operator allowed to run trips there for no reason.

Are all the other tour companies fake? They must have some seriously dedicated Western actors to spend their lives pretending they went on a tour with one of those fake companies.
There is an advantage, but perhaps not the one you think. The advantage is not the brand, but that you know lots of smart people you can recruit to join you. Which Drew did, starting with Arash.
Clever (YC S12) is hiring engineers, security, devops to improve education
Some cool new technologies
Agreed. But there are yaks you shave but once.
Fun fact: none of the meat purchased by mcdonalds for their burgers is FDA approved. :)
It would depend how the OTPs are generated and delivered.
The solution is very simple in my eyes - do not include a negative on the left side, and pick the default on the right side to match intentions.

These cases seem to have happened the other way around - values/meaning are picked for the right side first, which then requires contorting the left in order to match intentions.
When were you there? I was there in April 2012 and recall both the funfair in Pyongyang and the claim that every family would have a computer (although I recall it being future tense, rather than present).

HN contains the most people I've ever found who've been to the DPRK. Must be something in the water :)
Very similar to if-by-whiskey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If-by-whiskey

If when you say whiskey you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster, that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean the evil drink that topples the Christian man and woman from the pinnacle of righteous, gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation, and despair, and shame and helplessness, and hopelessness, then certainly I am against it.

But, if when you say whiskey you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and laughter on their lips, and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer; if you mean the stimulating drink that puts the spring in the old gentleman's step on a frosty, crispy morning; if you mean the drink which enables a man to magnify his joy, and his happiness, and to forget, if only for a little while, life's great tragedies, and heartaches, and sorrows; if you mean that drink, the sale of which pours into our treasuries untold millions of dollars, which are used to provide tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitiful aged and infirm; to build highways and hospitals and schools, then certainly I am for it.