skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voice is a separate issue, but this has the same problem as a touchscreen. We are very sensitive to touch. It's quite possible that with the proliferation of touchscreens, children may find increasingly less tactile feedback in the world around them (due to various other reasons - less play time, sterilized playgrounds, etc) and we could end up with a generation of adults lacking the same tactile ability we have today.

So I don't think the problem solves itself, it just compounds.

Much like our loss of movement ability, it seems to become less relevant, until you notice that we've lost an essential part of what makes us human.

Its about time computers started fitting humans and not the other way round.
It can be as terse as you want it to be. The bigger virtues are its speed, language features, and the environment.

F# interactive is what powershell/ISE wants to be, when it grows up and drinks the magic potion of awesomeness.
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Boss is right.
I thought that bolded line was familiar: http://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/1m8p1c/when_...
The only reason I'm storing the VFP registers is because that is the 'official' iOS ABI, and yes, I could probably trim it down significantly, however, the binary itself currently sits at about 63k when compiled in debug mode, so I didn't deem it necessary to trim that further at that time.

Some good ideas though, and one day I may just go ahead and do it!
Indeed, it's my favorite section of his blog. If I had to pick a favorite, it would be "Sand Won't Save You This Time". The sheer thought of something that can set sand on fire makes me LOL.

edit: no hyperlinking? wtf?
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There are many different ways in which adding instructions improves absolute performance. Execution port saturation (the example in the article) is one. Another one is where additional computation in-register is faster than simply loading a register with a new value (i.e. computation is faster than access). There is also instruction fusion, where a pair of assembly operations commonly used together are fused into a one, single-cycle operation inside the CPU. Optimization on modern micro-architectures has a lot of complex and sometimes counterintuitive rules but you can often squeeze substantial performance gains out of them if you know what you are doing.

One caveat to be aware of in the article's example: hyper-threading works by letting a second thread run on the CPU's execution ports that are unused by the first thread. Consequently, if you design your code to do an excellent job of saturating execution ports, it will often mean that hyper-threading is slower than using a single thread per core (all of the additional cache pressure, few free execution ports that allow the code to run). However, the speed improvements you can see on a single thread with excellent execution port saturation will often be higher than the speed improvements you will see from hyper-threading code that does not saturate the execution ports due to the aforementioned cache overhead of running a second thread concurrently.
This has about as much weight as pirates and global warming

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2012/03/23/true-fa...
I received one of these as a gift once. Played around with it for 2 minutes, then never used it again.

The main issue I had with it was that you had to 'hunt and peck' in order for it to register. Merely sliding your fingers around like on a standard keyboard would just register errant keystrokes.

Also, resting your palms had the same keyboard-mashing effect. It was cool to show off to others, but totally impractical for real use.
I, too, will comment on this article without reading it!
I imagine that while it doesn't need to be this vicious for humans, they have evolved this to deal with other large animals. Humans tend to avoid getting bitten so we haven't evolved the defences other animals have. We are pretty weak creatures all things considered.

Have you seen that youtube clip of a honey badger attacking a poisonous snake? He is bitten repeatedly. He falls unconscious, and later wakes up and continues eating the snake. That's the kind of predator poison gets stronger and stronger for.
Even if your assumption Objective-C was only relevant after the release of iOS was correct, then Objective-C was still relevant since 2007. That's 7 years.
Our Octoblu designer is a MUCH more robust version of NodeRED. It's multi-tenant and sandboxed via Docker.

Our goal with NodeBLU was to release a very simple client-side designer that didn't require setup and at the same time incorporated more client-side technologies such as: WebRTC, Google Speech APIs, HTML5 notifications, Game controllers, Chrome DB datastores, as well as SkyNet nodes.
I wonder how good are error messages in OCaml? I tried SML some time ago, and found error messages very hard to follow.
" A dose of the venom contains only a few molecules of the neurotoxin, which has a high molecular weight--in fact, the molecules are large enough to be seen under an ordinary microscope."

Does anyone have another source for this, maybe a photo? I spent some time looking around but I can't find anything relevant and it seems a little hard to believe.
We have a TLS certificate and support HTTPS on all REST APIs as well as WebSocket API calls. It's your option as to whether or not you use SSL.
I would like to see a line graph, not some really weird bar graph (I've never seen a graph like that, so it's unfamiliar and hard to read). Show me the trend, preferably with different lines for marijuana in order to show it's impact separately.
There are no reasons to use CityHash or MumurHash in 2014. If security is not a concern, xxHash is faster.
Awesome! #skynetim on freenode.net.
>Programmers develop highly specialized taste as they mature, with preferences like "C is good, Java is bad" or "everything should be done with the command line" or "I never want to leave Visual Studio again". I'm amazed by how many people say, for example, that they absolutely can't use Boost but when pressed, they can't give a good reason why. That's because Boost offends their subjective sensibilities for some ill-understood reason, not because Boost is flawed in any particular way (although Boost certainly has its flaws).

I've personally have wrestled with this, and many times its a case where its most certainly a premature optimization. There are times where I've bent over backwards to avoid calling a `new` inside a Java loop because of some project, some years ago, was running slowly and when I profiled it came down to too many allocations in a loop. I try to hammer "benchmark & profile" in may head however.
what is the significance of the tail end ...UWLpVr? why not just X's all the way?
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Or precisely, its VM needs as much love as possible.
Sometimes I start thinking I'm a really good programmer.

These kinds of things are great for keeping me humble as hell.
Yeah, judging by https://twitter.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.splasmata.com%... a lot of people took it at face value.
That can't possibly work. There's just one dispatch_one function but many callsites, and for each callsite you could have multiple distinct predicates.
People who type a lot may be interested in moving away from the keyboard-and-screen model for ergonomic reasons. "This is how you don't fuck up your body while working" is a lot stronger selling point than "Wouldn't not carrying a keyboard with your tablet be nice?"

People who type a lot are likely to be working with some level of jargon (variable names for programmers, macros and cell codes for data analysts, etc.) rather than the pure prose autocorrect is designed for.

AFAIK, there aren't any good demos of autocorrecting keyboards for technical domains. That said, TextMate's autocomplete works pretty well most of the time. If you could seed the autospell dictionary with a combination of language-specific keywords and the variables that have already been defined in your project (ala TextMate), that could be pretty powerful for technical people trying to be productive with alternate input methods.
oof :(
If this is true, this is a big deal. However study is inherently flawed because it uses only two cities for it's data. There are a number of factors that could have called this result to be observed, for example increase in SF's DUI due to more rigorous police patrols. I also did not see any seasonal controls. DUI rates might be different depending on the time of year.

Here is what would provide for a way stronger claim:

1. Aggregate DUI levels change since UBER started operating across all cities with no UBER service.

2. Aggregate same data for cities with UBER.

If UBER causes decline in DUI rates hypothesis is true, we can expect two trends:

1. On average cities with UBER will observe relative number of DUI's going down when compared to cities without UBER.

2. Amount of UBER rides given will be positively correlated with decrease of DUI rates.

Personally I think it would make sense that UBER decreased amount of DUIs and I would really like a data released that can prove it.
Wow I lost 20 hitpoints (and falling rapidly) over this opinion. Did I touch a nerve?

I can just imagine $AAPL shareholders quivering. "What is this guy talking about?"

Betting it all on Objective-C, a unknown language based on a superseded language. Steve was so ballsy. Google at least had a clue. Java + Android actually makes sense.
That's any job. You have to take risks and ask for what you want to get it in life. If this guy is being offered equity it's a fair bet the company is very interested in him, more-so then a regular hire. To quote Zombieland: 'Time to nut up, or shut up.'
Oh, I should have expanded on my question. I know of HHVM already, I was curious about the use of "Hip" in HHVM and in HippyVm, it appeared that there must be some common heritage
"Mr Musk has said in the past that Space X does not patent its technologies for fear that they could be stolen by competitors."

The USA has forgot it, but this is why we have patents: to stimulate people (and companies) to publicize their technology instead of hiding. The most important function of patents is avoiding science and tech secrets.

This is why patents on functionality rather than methods (as are most software patents) are bogus. A patent for "recognize a phone number in a text field" is useless for society because it does not tell us how to accomplish that, just what need to be accomplished.

One should be able to patent a specific way of building a lamp. This way, it will not be worth to keep it a secret, as the legal protection is more secure than obscurity. OTOH, Patenting the concept of "a device which illuminates a room with electricity" should not be acceptable.

This comment from Musk shows that the patent system in broken both ways: it prevents what should be stimulated (creating new science and tech, even for the same applications) and stimulates what should be prevented (tech secrecy).
Doesn't really matter for winning the narrative.

The US enacted a 21-year old drinking age in 1984. It has been an absolute train wreck. One of the most backwards and out of touch with reality national policies that we have. The only reason it's still around is because of an idea that it somehow "saves lives". The stat most often cited to "prove" this, is the number of alcohol related traffic fatalities that have occured in the US since 1984. They have declined, significantly. Does it matter that this has nothing to do with the drinking age? Does it matter that number of highway deaths have declined across the entire world, and at a much faster rate than the United States? Does it matter that highway deaths declined at the same time as a rapid increase in seat belt usage? No. None of it matters. In terms of the narrative MADD won, and half the country believes the drinking age saves lives, even though it's utter baloney.

If Uber can play up the idea that having Uber around saves lives, it's a trump card. It doesn't matter how sound the statistics are, they'll win the narrative in every city. As a politician do you really want to be against saving lives?
No, it has more weight because there is a plausible mechanism for causation. It isn't proof, but it's an interesting potential theory.
> If Uber can show definitively that highway safety increases in Uber cities, it's very compelling evidence that they should be in every major city regardless of existing taxi laws.

No, it's evidence that cities should increase the availability of taxis or taxi-like services in general, not Uber specifically. In fact, due to more stable pricing, I'd expect Lyft to do better than Uber, and normal taxis to do even better.
Looks like they've copied some of PHP's tests, yes. But being able to run run-tests.php and being compatible aren't quite the same thing, really. It's how many tests pass that count.

Technical side-note: /Zend there appears to be just the tests for the Zend engine (i.e. from PHP's /Zend/tests), while the containing directory contains test folders copied from other parts of PHP (like the standard library)
You don't have to, but it would be a good idea.

They'll eventually diagnose you and get around to tracking down some antivenin without it.

If you lose track of it, it's probably more important to get to the hospital faster than trying to track it down. But if you can nab it, it'll save you time and you won't have to wonder where the spider went off to later, since many people encounter these things inside their homes.
Well, it doesn't surprise me as RPython is bloody amazing. I actually started doing something like HippyVM about six months ago for work, to explore if it was possible, and sure enough someone has gone way further than I did haha
Although I was pleased to see my favorite taco shop's burrito represented, I'm upset that a place like Cancun or Farolito has a higher rated index.
AWS eu-west-1 region is down
Go is not good enough at expression. Firefox's market is dropping.
ReactPHP does exactly that, heh. Running an event loop on HippyVM with RPythons JIT? Yes please!
Yeah these are one of the few spiders I kill on sight instead of gently moving to the yard.

Pretty much as soon as I find one I immediately drop whatever I'm doing to make sure it's out of my living space as quickly as possible before I lose track of it.
I got HHVM running wordpress on a relatively high traffic site. The difference is night and day and setup was simple. To have something faster is crazy :)
You'd allocate a trampoline for each predicate, jump unconditionally into that, then jump unconditionally back to mainline code. Each trampoline can be modifier individually. Of course that doesn't work with the current dispatch_once API, though.
Two weeks after the original time of writing, Apple released Swift - which is considerably influenced by the ML family of languages.
Excellent. My weekend now consists of fending off irate clients.
They are: their design (not in the PLT sense, but in the "shared-nothing super simple startup" in PHPs case, and "only language in the browser" for javascripts case) is why they get this sort of attention.
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we have machines that are still alive but networking seems to be kaput. i keep getting emails saying they are broken but i have no way to ssh onto the machines :(
It seems like a network issue. I can reach the region via an Amsterdam based VPN but not from anything else.

Edit: Confirmed: http://status.aws.amazon.com
this.

Also, after having read a lot of social science research, the research is pretty crap for the most part. I'm sure there are a few gems in there, but you have to read a lot of positive results from badly-thought-out experiments with obvious holes to get to the few nuggets of truth.

Much, much, easier and faster to conduct your own experiment by building something and seeing how customers react to it.
The ordinary results of fasting and meditation are visions and hallucinations. It isn't something that should be taken lightly or to an extreme. I had a Christian friend who tried a 30-day fast, he did indeed speak to God and God told him to kill himself. The note he left was basically gibberish. This is not too surprising.
IMO this Article is full of feel-good stories and not enough actual data to back up what really happens? How these people starting to put money into investments/retirements/savings? Are they spending it on frivolous things?

It sounds like they are grateful for the health insurance as they or their family had health problems, but it sounds like the article isn't examining the actual data of what happens when their wage is doubled.
The rules are different when you're an OS vendor who makes all of the hardware that the OS officially supports.

It would be a bad idea for you or I, but for Apple there's no problem. If Intel ever ships a CPU that needs something else, then Apple can update their code for the OS release that goes out on the corresponding Macs.
No, you cannot get a taxi 90% of the time in NYC.

If you are in select parts of manhattan below 150th st, you can get a taxi very easily.

If you're in any of the other boroughs, you usually can't count on being able to hail a taxi unless you live on a main route to one of the manhattan bridges.
Unless the molecular weight is about 10 pentillion (?) you ain't gonna see diddly! Avogadro's number is a big thing. (6 x 10^23). Now agreed that you don't need a mole of something (especially w/ a high molecular weight) to be able to see it in a microscope. But it's probably at least w/in 4 to 5 orders of magnitude of the right number.
October 12, 1994 [1]

[1] http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-10-12/
Requires writing to executable pages, which iOS doesn't have.
Do you think I literally meant 15 minutes? 7 years is nothing.

Check this out. Objective-C wasn't even Apple's first choice.

"Apple CEO Gil Amelio started negotiations to buy Be Inc., but negotiations stalled when Be CEO Jean-Louis Gassée wanted $200 million; Apple was unwilling to offer any more than $125 million. Apple's board of directors decided NeXTSTEP was a better choice and purchased NeXT in 1996 for $429 million, bringing back Apple co-founder Steve Jobs." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS

So you're all using Objective-C because Apple couldn't afford to buy the OS they wanted. Kinda sad!
I can reach eu-west-1 from several US datacentres, which suggests this is potentially just the UK having an outage for eu-west-1?

Someone buggered up a new wiretap install.

Edit: Aaaand back to bed. All seems fine again now.
It actually doesn't even provide data for two cities, just one. It talks about anecdotal data that is the equivalent of hearsay: "we consistently hear from our riders in Chicago and elsewhere."
Yes, I read the article and I applied an idea I took from one of the first articles on Nate Silver's 538 'news' site [0] of using Bayesian statistics to decode news as you read it and in my opinion the data presented is very underwhelming and there isn't any firm ground they are standing on here.

Here's my 'Bayesian logic' applied to it. My 'prior believe' in the claim being made is that I don't believe Uber has broad penetration across all demographics. Yes, people who are in the tech world and under 30 know of them, but not much outside of that. I was the first one of all my friends to use Uber (I would know because I have gotten over $60 in credits for signing them up). So outside of SF, my initial personal belief is that Uber doesn't have wide usage. So either the largest demographic of DUI violators are nerds who are younger than 30 or Uber is magically being used by people who would prefer using a more expensive Uber service than driver over a cheap taxi ride.

So let's look at the evidence they provide to see if it changes my prior significantly: one city was explicitly given data about without any hint as to what time-frame they are talking about. The other cities were literally the equivalent of hearsay arguments so because I'm the judge of this court, that evidence doesn't count. When you're talking about month-over-month and even year-over-year trends, a drop of 10% is just as easily explained by a random process modeled as a poisson [1] over the entrance of Uber. I would know having dealt with lots of time series data.

One finally comment, my apologies to the author of the bar chart, but that is just terrible. It's hard to read and doesn't make much sense from looking at it first. How many bar-chart graphs are out there that look like that? It could just be me speaking aesthetically because I'm weirded out by the random floating bars in the middle, but I feel Edward Tufte would have something to say about that.

jusitizin, I know you weren't speaking to me directly, but I read the article. Hope this comment proves it :)

[0]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-formula-for-decoding-h...

[1]

http://www.wired.com/2012/12/what-does-randomness-look-like/
Yeah, taking uber then would be stupid. There are plenty of yellow cabs within a few minutes walk from the starting location of that trip, and the trip itself would cost about $25 with a tip.
Doesn't this have all the same problems as the way they currently do it? The only difference between the two is that Apple's implementation puts the flag in a variable, while you're basically proposing to put the flag in code. You still need to ensure proper ordering on both reads and writes and ensure that speculative execution doesn't end up giving you the wrong answer.
You can learn a lot by writing your own code to solve problems solved by existing libraries. I always used to do these kind of things when I was in high school; just because I was bored and wanted to code. Plus, there are many reasons you might need to write your own library to replicate functions of an existing library. A great example is when you can't use an available library because of its license (closed source and you're an open sourced project, or open source and you're a closed source project).
The same evolutionary pressure that drives some predators to develop defenses against the merely painful versions of the venom...
Why would normal taxis do better? (Currently in SF) they're more expensive, the cars are less-well-maintained, and the drivers are often... I won't say "rude", but... less than pleasant to deal with. Not to mention the dirty looks you get when you want to use a credit card, and just the hassle of payment and tipping. Their dispatch services suck (they say 20 minutes and most of the time never show up), and hailing a taxi is a pain.

Simply increasing the availability of taxis won't fix those problems.