skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a rhetorical question. I did not say tapering is bad move. I say it is a forced move because they can't afford to keep their current inflationary policy any longer, even when many of economic indicators remain below trend.. I'm not for or against anything the Fed does, the financial system is too far gone to save in the long run.

There's no way that Fed balance sheet will ever return to 'normal'.

The federal debt will never go back to previous levels.

Good. Our perspectives are too different.
Woaa - schizophrenia and pattern matching? Can you elaborate that sounds interesting !
I particularly enjoyed the writing style in this article, largely because of the extent that the author provided unverified and loose figures in the article - cputime distributions etc. My experience is usually people are extremely hesitant to publish any uninformed, fast, and incomplete conclusions despite them being, in my opinion, still extremely valuable. It may not be perfectly correct, but that small conclusion is still often much better than the practically non existent data on the situation I start off with and allows me to additionally read the article far faster than slowing down to make these minor fuzzy conclusions myself. There is this misconception that when writing you can do two things - you can tell a fact or you can say a false statement. In reality it is a gray gradient space, and when the reader starts off knowing nothing, that gray is many times superior. Anyways, awesome job, I really want to see more of this writing style in publications like personal blogs.

[In case it isn't clear, I'm referring to statements like "So I think that means that it spends 32% of its time accessing RAM, and the other 68% of its time doing calculations.", and "So we’ve learned that cache misses can make your code 40 times slower." (comment made in the context of a single non-comprehensive datapoint)]
Looks like you overflowed when when_was == 9, or maybe there's a time machine involved?
It could use annotation processing (aka compiler plugins) instead. Not sure how easy that is to bundle and deploy however (it's not hard to do by hand, by don't know if you can include that kind of stuff in a maven dependency for instance).
I thought the latest Safari (Desktop at least) were already on Webkit2. And i know Safari on iOS7 tends to be running one cycle behind ( Correct me if i am wrong )

So may be we get Webkit2 for iOS 8?
Yes.. I ran a small service started in 2000 that saved epoch times in a varchar column. Sorting on time turned funky for a short while.
Sorry I got a little carried away (then noprocrast stopped me reediting.)

Anyway, if I was to give our hero here any advice, it would be to see himself not as an employee but as a consulting company - if POV at Parc Xerox was worth 40 IQ points, in our business I would say POV is worth 40k pa.
And why would you be so obsessed with round numbers? Silly pseudo-humans.
What a great genius. What a great loss.

Celebrate his life today by watching Alien!
1234,5678,99 scans a little better.
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Very sad, I did not know he was disabled recently. I remember reading a lot about him in the 80s as well, and seeing what he did outside of his work on Alien. Dark Seed (the game) also comes to mind.
Yes, this was on the radar then as Y2k was still fresh in everyone's memory.

[1] "S1B coming" http://tech.slashdot.org/story/01/04/17/1915221/the-quickly-...

[2] "Any Billennium Bugs?" http://tech.slashdot.org/story/01/09/10/0353238/billenniums-...
about:crashes doesn't exist, but yes
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For those that may not get the joke the 555 is a timer chip.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_timer_IC
In many cases annotations are just a crutch to work around glaring limitations in the Java language.
BSON object IDs contain a 4 byte timestamp so perhaps it'd be directly visible on those.
Interestingly, both Chemistry and Chemical Engineering also have a majority of female students in Brazil. I wonder why.

I don't know if it's the same in other places.
Good idea, but [ SPOILER ALERT!! ] remember to watch the original version, the one where you don’t see the alien till the last minute of the movie.
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I like the "free" style of the article. Here is another conclusion: In my professional life I have heard many, many excuses in the name of performance. "We don't need the third normal form, after all, normalized databases are less performant, because of the joins". Optimizing for performance should not mean to make it just as fast as it could possibly run, but to make it just fast enough.

Julia's article shows a good example for this. Of course, the goal appears to generate a feeling of what tends to make a program fast and slow and get a feeling for how slow it will be or how fast it can get; yet I'd like to point out that this...

https://github.com/jvns/howcomputer/blob/master/bytesum_intr...

... might be 0.1 Seconds faster than the original code when started as "already loaded into ram" which she claims runs at 0.6 seconds. Yet this last piece of code is way more complicated and hard to read. Code like this

Line 11: __m128i vk0 = _mm_set1_epi8(0);

might be idiomatic, fast and give you a great sense of mastery, but you can't even pronounce it and it it's purpose does not become clear in any way.

Writing the code this way may make it faster, but that makes it 1000x harder to maintain. I'd rather sacrifice 0.1 seconds running time and improve the development time by 3 days instead.
"I was actually hesitant to mention Buddhism, since it was partially responsible for the kamikaze and other horrific acts."

Kamikaze has nothing to do with buddhism whatsoever. If you want to stick it to a religion, it would have to be shintoism, an animistic, purely Japanese religion.
Hey Bryan,

just curious, are you guys not already using statsd/graphite? I think that at least you used to, since you contributed to my small script[0] to automate the installation of graphite... So I'm curious if/why it wasn't good enough, or whether this has different requirements that graphite wasn't suitable for?

[0]https://github.com/gingerlime/graphite-fabric
It doesn't come across as a benchmark of a particular system or a performance tuning guide. It is a few simple experiments to get ballpark figures for just how fast a modern computer is and to trigger a couple of effects (such as cache misses) that can really slow down the system.

I think the real value is to show how to start having a play with things yourself.
You might want to add a spoiler alert at the beginning of your comment. I'm sure most of HN has already seen the movie but for those who haven't, knowing that can ruin the suspense.
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I work on widgy, so I admit that I'm very biased, but I'd like to expand on this a little bit.

I think there are some use cases where the tree structure really shines, where I haven't really seen anything that could really match the power that we give the user. For example, the Form Widget -- users can create their own forms just by dragging and dropping the form input widgets. Now this would be possible without the tree structure, but since we have it in widgy, users are able to intersperse non-form related widgets like text or images and also they can add structure widgets like the Tabs or Accordion widget.

> I also take your point about the tree of widgets thing, but there is always a trade off between conceptual-ease-of-use and power.

We do find that our clients are willing to take a little time to learn the interface in exchange for the ability to have more power.
Camfed actually also helps boys. The thing is, when the disparities in school attendance are so great (7:1 in some places), because families almost always choose them when they can't afford to send all children to school, claiming to be gender agnostic would be almost ridiculous.
Lol. Sure. I used to have the special edition DVD...before I let go of all my DVDs. I would just say: don't worry about that. Just soak in the beautiful ambience of a film which features prominently the art of Giger, both in set design, and creature design!
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6372255.
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Good enough is
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An authentic scientific thriller! Shows the excitement of patient research met with failure after failure and, eventually, a cautious success, followed by learning something important and opening up further avenues of research.

Lean entrepreneurs take note! This is your job too!
> watch the original version

You mean there is another version where you see it earlier? Whose stupid idea was that?
> Is it practical to create a driver abstraction that masks cross vendor issues and provides a consistent interface to the dev? Like what jquery did for browsers.

Yes and no. The situation with OpenGL and drivers is quite different to browsers and jQuery.

OpenGL drivers are generally quite good in implementing the API as it is specified and this is tested with a huge bunch of conformance suites. It's not like ancient browsers where one vendor's understanding of the CSS box model is different from the others'.

However, OpenGL has a huge number of different versions, some require hardware support (major versions like GL 4.x vs. 3.x), while others might be software only additions (minor versions, GL 3.2 to 3.3). And then there are lots of API extensions that may or may not be available. This is a relatively simple problem to solve and we have tools like Regal and ANGLE to patch the little things.

But the real problem is functional bugs. Incorrect pixels on the screen ranging from a minor annoyance to a completely destroyed image. And more severe issues like application crashes, completely corrupted display/desktop to blue screens and kernel hangs. This is something that cannot be fixed.
Babbage had an argument with Brunel about the who had the right of way when driving their own railway engines:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKqdlpuLDPE

Brunel is also a character in the brilliant "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage":

http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/cast/

Where his described as:

"The Wolverine of the mid-Victorians, he was short, ripped, had big sideburns, smoked forty cigars a day and generally kicked everyone’s ass."
4 stone is a pretty big handicap (though I can't win against pros with 9 so I guess there's that :))
For those interested in his work, I really recommend viewing the recent documentary Jodorowsky's Dune, a failed film project Giger and several other proto-luminaries worked on (inspiring much of the iconic imagery in Alien, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones). Giger appears throughout the documentary. I believe it's still playing in the Bay Area.
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I'm not sure how many layers of sarcasm are in that last statement. ;-) But really, that would be a great thing to know for sure: Whether certain kinds of dishonesty are useful in charitable campaigns. If we had studies proving it was counterproductive overall, then we could confidently and on principle criticize and discourage that behavior. If they proved the opposite, ... I would sigh, let others do that for my causes, and not work too hard to discourage them.

Has anyone made serious attempts to study this sort of thing? I know there have been some A/B tests on charity pitches that other people've cited. For this... ideally you'd like to compare the long-run success of a charity, but that'd probably be too hard. Studying specific fundraising drives with specific end dates seems more doable and might turn up something useful.

It probably would contaminate the results if you had the same charity putting out an honest and a dishonest message that would both reach the same audience, 'cause I think a failure mode of dishonest messages is someone loudly disproving it and denouncing the organization, which would probably hurt both messages. So you might want a lot of charities... or a nationwide charity doing local campaigns in several different states, and assign them randomly to the honest or dishonest message. And then there's plausibility, and other kinds of effectiveness... you may have to try a lot of messages, or make an honest/dishonest pair with a very small change (e.g. just the number). Probably difficult... but I'd be interested to see someone do it.
I don't think the media initially cared much about the kidnapping of the girls either. They were wrong-footed by the news spreading on twitter.

I agree that the much lesser coverage of the deaths of the boys is not really OK though.
It seems like it would be easy for Apple to add a confirmation like "Open in App Store?" Just like clicking on a phone number and have a confirmation before it starts dialing. Perhaps it's advantageous for Apple to keep it as-is, though?

In the meantime, I just let the advertisers know my feelings with a 1-star review. If everybody did that it would probably put an end to these pop-ups, but I won't hold my breath.
>There are things that I wish could be improved about the admin - mainly to do with the slightly old-school HTML and CSS behind it - but there are so many points where you can override, replace and extend that the good outweights the bad.

I use this: https://github.com/django-admin-bootstrapped/django-admin-bo...

It seems to work pretty well.
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As far as I remember the director’s cut has a lot of glimpses to it way before [ SPOILER ALERT!! ] the xenomorph get spit out of the ship.
Agreed. At first, the writing style (too! many! exclamation! points! Are you Unidan or what?) made me think that the article wasn't serious. The fact that I immediately thought, "you're just going to be benchmarking your disk!" didn't help, either. But the author did take the disk performance into account, and the rest of the article was surprisingly interesting as well. It's a quick and dirty exposition for a quick and dirty suite of benchmarks.
I explicitly said that the article was too long for the amount of content it contained. It had far too much of a story-telling style yet may have contained some insight.

I really, really dislike these long-form articles when I'm looking for information rather than entertainment.
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Around agile software development, since lean as the "Toyota Way" originated from Japan, a lot of Japan's folklore diffuses into modern agile dev- lingo, such as Kanban, Kata, Dojo, Kaizen. I found another term that I liked:

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

In my mind this is isomorphic to the metaphor of the hammer. A samurai with a new sword will go out and cut up the first person he sees.

This is a cautionary tale, you might end up hurting somebody. If, for example you get a new katana(e.g. python decorators) you might decorate everything that looks like a function, but you would actually suffer casualties in readability and structure; debugging becomes a mess. Therefore you should also understand when and who needs to be cut up.
Depends if that 0.1 seconds is going to add up to a very significant amount. Obviously these are just tests but in a production system running 24/7 that 0.1 seconds per run is going to add up to a lot. The code might be ugly but that is when comments are most important.
I use dropsync on my phone. I have set up rules to sync screenshots to a different folder from photos, and periodically it will check a folder on dropbox and sync files from it to phone.
The article doesn't challenge one's attention span; it dilutes any information it contains with anecdotes and colour.
For the record, I like Ridley Scott's cuts. I guess I'm specifically alluding to Blade Runner here, as another example.

Second note: I'm noticing already other comments focusing on how much knowledge we have outside of Alien, almost like punk rock posturing. It's okay to like something that's popular and beautiful! Watch Alien! This is not an underground punk band guys, a great genius has just died. =)
First of all zero hedge is entirely the wrong place to get any information on the economy. He really does not have any idea how the economy works. For the last couple of years he has been predicting that the economy would crash and gold would skyrocket and exactly the opposite has been happening.

It is true that companies usually have a choice between investing and paying money back to the shareholders. It may be true that nowadays companies have mostly chosen to pay money back (i have not seen statistics, but it certainly feels that way sometimes).

But the federal reserve is not to blame for this. Federal reserve policy makes money cheap but it does not force companies to pay money back to shareholders instead of investing. It does not weigh much on that choice. In fact if anything loose federal reserve policy should be steering companies towards investment as cheap credit should help consumption. However, this effect may have been negated by much tougher credit terms for consumer loans.

But this lack of investing cannot be blamed on the federal reserve.
http://jsfiddle.net/pd9yB/498/

Slide-y chars. Had to be done.
Perhaps families make those choices because it is more efficient to send boys to school? If you can only afford to educate one of your kids, educating the girl might be less efficient because she might end up being a mother and unable to put her education to good use.

So they would be acting with the same logic as the "girls education" organizations. Those are the results if you go by efficiency, rather than equality.

Maybe some other solutions could be found, for example "we pay for your boy's education, but only if you also let us educate your girls".

In any case, I think if an organization also helps boys, it shouldn't claim to be a "help the girls" organization.
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Even though this is offtopic I'll answer: Not going to happen.

Nvidia hates OpenCL as it eats their Cuda business and Intel performs market segmentation, therefore their Linux implementation supports only CPU and Xeon Phi and Windows supports the GPU. They don't want server builders to purchase their desktop chips with GPU's. They want them to purchase the massively expensive Xeon Phi and use normal Xeon CPU's.
What about christian states going back 100++ years?

Consider that the US felt fine about interfering with Iran when they felt they had a too socialist leadership, but has not interfered much with e.g. Norway. Is it perhaps that the religion, skin-color and culture in these countries are different enough that westerner citizens don't complain when their government meddle with these places? Are we confusing correlation with causation?

I must say, I too find it easy to draw conclusions, but considering the big perspective I'm not convinced this book you're hinting to is the root of the issue.

And what solution are you getting at? Should we ban this book? Kill everyone who endorse it maybe?
Meh. Using a dummy object doesn't solve the problem of testing if you got the dummy or not. And throwing a specific exception is still an exception, but now more code to maintain, and only for exceptional circumstances (or is it really exceptional?).

Yeah, Null Ref Exception isn't as pretty as a more domain specific one, but the essential thing happens regardless: the program throws as soon as you try to access a member. And if you just pass your results on to another function, that function could be testing its inputs, and throwing your exception there as an explicit ArgumentNull instead of Null Ref.

I prefer less to more code, especially for an error I wont even expect to ever see. If it something I do expect, then sure, make a fancy exception and throw that.
> So I think that means that it spends 32% of its time accessing RAM, and the other 68% of its time doing calculations

Not sure if you can do such conclusion actually, because of pipelining etc. I'd assume that the CPU is doing memory transfers simultaneously while doing the calculations.

I also think that only the first movdqa instruction is accessing RAM, the others are shuffling data from one register to another inside the CPU. I'd venture a guess that the last movdqa is shown taking so much time because of a pipeline stall. That would probably be the first place I'd look for further optimization.

On the other hand, I don't have a clue about assembly programming or low-level optimization, so take my comments with a chunk of salt.
This is because Western thinking about the Middle East is still dominated by orientalism, which allows us to relate to the Middle East as a culturally homogeneous block of Muslims snake charmers wearing turbans whose culture is ultimately inferior to ours yet theirs have its good sides (say, respect of family values) in their charming savage ways. It's been like this for many hundreds of years. It's truly shameful.
Interesting use case and a great writeup - thanks for sharing :)
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So it appears that if you can build something that gets 2 million page views, you can probably live off of just ad revenues from AdSense.

The rough cost of click seems to be fluctuating around 0.25-0.50c but gets stabilized to almost a dollar later. I guess people usually don't think about the fact that when you click on a ad, you just made someone pay a dollar to someone :).
Shows how excited they were. I always like to see blog posts where the poster is excited about the post!
Took me a while to thing about it! True dat :D
I remember picking up an Omni magazine when I was a prepubescent tadpole. The cover had this amazing art that caught my eye. Guess who had drawn it?

Only later did I read it and become fascinated with science. Guess what I do now?

It's amazing how much this man did for the world through his work. Very influential to many people in many ways.

He will be missed.
"The best is the enemy of the good."

Dans ses écrits, un sage Italien

Dit que le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.

~~Voltaire

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Perfection
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I'd rather they just told the truth. Lying for a good cause is still lying.

Also, it would make it hard to choose between competing charities for finite amounds of funding. Would you fund the most serious issue, or the biggest liar?
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The ruling class in America no longer gives a flying shit about the health of the American economy or its competitiveness or any other such nonsense. They are in a resource-extraction phase and from the look of it they are just getting warmed up.

Whether that works out it anyone's best interest in the long run is forgotten as everyone at the top is just scrambling to grab whatever they can.

So, what they "realize" has nothing to do with it.
That's really sad. I just recently watched "Jodorowksy's Dune" (http://jodorowskysdune.com/), a documentary on the planned but never realized "Dune" movie by Alejandro Jodorowsky, for which H.R. Giger did a lot of artwork and which features an interview with him in his home in Switzerland. If you look at the designs that Giger did for this movie, you can already see the "Alien" style all over it.
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