skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm shocked that Bill Gates drinks 3-4 Diet Cokes a day.

Why? The caffeine, or the fact that it's Coke and not coffee or tea (or ...)?

> at least with smoking, there's a chemical dependency at play

Diet Coke still contains caffeine (~50mg/can), which is generally considered to also cause physical dependence and withdrawal effects on abrupt cessation[1].

Granted, nicotine withdrawal is a lot worse, but serious caffeine fiends won't have a fun time of it for a few days, and it can be disruptive for several weeks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine_addiction
I'm shocked that you find this shocking.

Seriously, I do not understand your reaction here - what part of this habit is sufficiently terrible to warrant a comparison to smoking?
It's the lack of competition that makes it a problem.
That's probably wise of them. The last time I looked at data from them, the CCS reads were still very noisy. It's better to rely on your strengths. In their case, it's long reads.
You're right. The insincere "wondering why" shouldn't have baited my response.
What's so bad about Diet Coke; aside from the taste?
I prefer Meld on Linux and yes on the odd day, Windows.
Flagged. This is a terrible source -- other articles write credulously about blatant crackpottery, i.e. cold fusion, "hydrinos". I'm not at all dismissing Polywell fusion; but this article isn't written by people who can credibly exposit it.
When I'm on Windows I use Cygwin ssh but for those who are more Windows aware, BitVise Tunnelier.
Because, to the best of my knowledge, there's no good that comes from it. It may not be as harmful as smoking, but it's still linked to a number of health issues. 4 seems excessive.

update - references added:

Kidney issues
http://www.kidney.org/news/KidneyCare/spring10/DietSoda.cfm

Dental issues
http://www.wda.org/your-oral-health/sip-all-day

Vascular issues:
http://www.miami.edu/index.php/news/releases/study_finds_pos...
The Daily Show Mocks Google Glass (and Glass Explorers)
Doing necessary work that you don't want to do is a normal part of life.

Being trained to do unnecessary work that you don't want to do to prove that you can game the system is simply degeneration.
If the ssh connection remains (it is what he is using to poke around afterall), you can tunnel through the active connection without having to create a new one http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2857/ssh-easily-copy...
It usually makes sense to vary a single dimension when comparing metrics; not two.
I think the idea is more to emphasize the relative rate of development in China in recent times (as opposed to the specifics of the comparison being terribly interesting).
Health issues such as? It's Diet Cola, and the brain cancer link was thoroughly debunked.
dont let leorocky get you down.

if the universe keeps expanding, eventually it will expand at the speed of light and everything that is not gravitationally locked with us (wich only includes the milky way and about 5 or so other galaixies) will be moving faster than the speed of light and will be impossible to observe in any way.

in a sense, it means leo is actually wrong. if an intelligent race comes into being after said event, it could be true that no amount of science will ever be able to show that the rest of the universe existed. that also means some other phenomenon may have occurred that will make us as just as useless at understanding what happened as ants are at knowing/exploring the stars.

that is, if certain theories about the expansion of the galaxy is true.
Haha thanks for the vote of confidence but I've already submitted it before and had some good feedback. I've written a series of articles on emulating a BBC too, which have also been submitted; my webserver felt the strain then too :)
"They just don't really understand the solar system. And i think it is difficult for them to do."

You could say that about many humans too right now, and certainly all humans up until the last however many years.
I entirely disagree. Illumina actual error rates (as opposed to base quality) is less systematic than current Oxford Nanopore reads, which there are admittedly very few in public.

Pac Bio SMRT kits are super cheap and highly multiplexed (ie produce a lot more data) in comparison to Oxford Nanopore. The error rates are lower, average read lengths higher.

I don't see any large market so far for ONP. Of course with better data and lower error rates things might change..
I make the mistake all the time too, but I think you would get a better response from sending them a message at feedback@github.com.
I wasn't thinking about caffeine (but if that's the issue, tea or coffee seem like good alternative). I was thinking about the health issues its linked to (kidney problems, type 2 diabetes, dental issues, ...)
What the shit? Your question: "You are given two systems, one implemented in language class X, one implemented in language class Y, pick the one you trust." Me: "Not enough information to make a valid answer."

To be clear, I think mistakes have been made with all paradigms of programming. In many cases, the mistakes were made completely outside the realm of the program. Like the Ariane example. I only mentioned it as a "failure" of static typing because of your bloody question.

Seriously, it is your hypothetical: "Here is a rocket where the control system was implemented in Ada. Do you trust it more than a competing one that was implemented in machine language?" That is essentially the question you gave me. I turned it around precisely to show that just knowing the type of language that something was implemented in is bloody worthless.

I have made up my mind. To remain skeptical of claims that are not backed by empirical evidence. I'm optimistic enough to think that static typing is actually a good thing. The arguments used to put it lack any backing with verification. (Which, I find ironic, since they are supposed to be about verification.)
There may be an ecosystem designed to circumvent the test, but it's mostly snake oil. Test prep generates very small improvements in scores.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/03/the...

If test prep did work, it would reduce racial gaps since blacks do more test prep than average.
Totally. The Interstate Highway Act alone was just one of the huge projects using tons and tons and tons of concrete in the US - part of why the figure's so mindboggling, really.
You forgot to add #notallmen
Yes, I never expected Marc Andreessen to flip his own bozo bit, but that quote did the trick. Andreessen took the concept of "shooting the messenger" to new depths of stupidity when he said that.

Still, this link is well worth the few minutes it takes to read. His blog has a lot of "Things I've learned from" entries from various people.
Wow, a Weissman Score of 5.2!
> In fact, a Dell rep can be quoted: "... a 2007WFP is a 2007WFP ... It does not matter what panel is installed."

Did they ever list the panel type? If they did, isn't this false advertising?

If they never promised the panel type/view angle/color accuracy in the first place, then I don't think there's anything wrong with what the rep said. After all, not every one cares what type of panel is used as much as physical dimension/resolution. Nevertheless, it is very surprising to me that they didn't specify what panel is used.
Once you've learned Haskell, actually, you can be far more productive in it than most other languages.

Productive in what sense and at what cost (in time, especially, but generally)? What benefit is there to learning Haskell when the existing "tooling" in FORTRAN77, C, or C++ is quite adequate for the purpose of research? I mean for the specific purpose of applying it in a research context; not the general sense (i.e. this isn't meant to question the worth learning something new in general).
I wondered the same thing! This article seems to do a fine job on talking about black hole collisions: http://www.universetoday.com/13002/what-happens-when-superma...

TL;DR: blackhole mergers are really rare, because one often kicks the other out.
Here is the paper the (poor) article references: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.0133v1.pdf (PDF)
I screwed up with Duck Tales, I was thinking of the stuff that the cartoon developed from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Scrooge#U.S._publication_...
It would be fun to actually compute the center of mass, knowing that people are not uniformly massive.
It's the aspartame.

You can decide for yourself whether it's poison, but it's definitely the reason many people regard diet sodas as such.

EDIT, I guess this should have gone on parent. At any rate, latch, I had the exact same reaction. And this is a man with resources. (Indeed, maybe he drinks some secret power soda and just used Diet Coke to give it a plebian air. Maybe such details are even handled by his blogging software.)
Artificial sweeteners are not free of negative impacts;

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892765/
I believe black holes can be treated as normal astronomical objects outside their event horizon. The weird singularity behavior only applies within the event horizons.
The article claims to be about the power of Applicative (and/or spreadsheets?), but I've been writing Haskell for about a year and am comfortable with all of the canonical Haskell abstractions including `Applicative`, and this made basically zero sense to me. Beyond familiarity with Applicative, the author also assumes the reader has facility with Controller, Fold, Managed, View, the Pipes library, Lens, and a host of functions I had never seen, such as last (not the Prelude version), stdinLines, tick, and runMVC. Assuming this, he throws out the definition of Updatable on top of that like it makes perfect sense ("just a Fold sitting in front of a Managed Controller". Oh, well then.). Basically, two or three paragraphs in and I am already completely lost. I don't even know what problem it is we're trying to solve, and I have no idea what it has to do at all with spreadsheets.

This is one of the downsides of Haskell; with so much emphasis on abstraction, code often ends up being just that: so damn abstract that it's practically inscrutable except to the very few who are familiar with what's going on. I guess this article was written for an audience with very broad and detailed knowledge of some complicated Haskell libraries -- meaning it's not so important that anyone else be able to make head or tails out of what he's talking about. Which is ok, but it does add to the impression that Haskell is an exclusive club.

Also, this part sticks out as confusing: The type signature of `example` does not include IO (unless Updatable has IO on under the hood), and yet the language above suggests that it will change, i.e. that it is mutable:

> example will update every time lastLine or seconds updates, caching and reusing portions that do not update. For example, if lastLine updates then only the first field of Example will change. Similarly, if seconds updates then only the second field of Example will change.

Can someone clear this up for me?
thank you autokad.
For anyone arguing this was the right decision... the bottom line is that now Ikea has made me very aware that they care more about the brainless legal bullying of corporate business than applauding a patron who loves their goods.

I can only imagine being an artist, finding someone has created a site about my work, and then deciding that I should attempt to sue or censor that person.
Unless you happen to be targeting iOS or Mac OSX, in which case take core data seriously.

Also, compile time safety is available with generated headers or Swift.
I think the idea is that this is your persistence model, not necessarily your business model. Often attempts are made to combine these. I feel it is also often that these attempts lead to pain. (And, judging by this blog, I'm not alone. Unless, of course, I'm mistaken.)
"Model code" in that sentence refers purely to NSManagedObject subclasses. Create other model objects to work with your entities instead of asking them to do things for you. How much business logic belongs in the class that models a tweet?
If you want a highly customizable in-browser Star Trek ambient engine noise, check out this: http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/spaceshipNoiseGenerator.php
Comcast turns 50,000 paying customer homes into public hotspots
6.64% of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation portfolio is held in Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) shares. [1]

48.61% of the portfolio is held in Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) which allocates 14.62% of its holdings to Coca-Cola. [2]

"Bill Gates' Cascade Investment has disclosed a significant position in Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A.B. de C.V. (ADR) (NYSE:KOF). According to a newly amended filing with the SEC, Cascade Investment holds a total of some 25.79 million series L shares of the company, equal to 5.3% of the outstanding stock. Mr. Gates, via Cascade and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust is deemed to own around 88.01 million shares, or 17.7% of the class. In an earlier filing, Mr. Gates' position in Coca-Cola FEMSA amassed 87.84 million shares, or 19.2% of the outstanding stock." [3]

[1] http://www.j3sg.com/Reports/Stock-Insider/Generate-Instituti...

[2] http://www.j3sg.com/Reports/Stock-Insider/Generate-Instituti...

[3] http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/bill-gates-cascade-investm...
Aren't those health problems avoided when drinking diet? Not that it's necessarily super healthy, but I thought sugar was the great enemy here.
I don't understand why binning 1 million values would take more than a second on the CPU. I've tested the following in C:

int len= 1000000;
int numbuckets= 1000;
double* vec= ...; // malloc(sizeof(double)*len) and fill with values between 0..1
unsigned long* res= calloc(numbuckets, sizeof(unsigned long));
int i;
for (i=0; i<len; i++) {
int ii= vec[i] * numbuckets;
res[ii]++;
}

This runs in 8 ms on my elderly laptop.

It would be slower if the individual bins wouldn't be of equal size, but the examples shown in the video seem to suggest that they are, and even with about a 10 times slowdown for a binary search it would be faster than the USB 2.0 transfer. Without using a GPU, multiple threads or SIMD.
Yes, everything enjoyable is bad your health. Choose your poison, or live as a eunuch monk.
Http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&jstevenharper=charlie73
Just curious, how long did that paper take to write (including research time)?
I respectfully suggest that Applicative is not what makes this article hard to understand. I agree with thinkpad20 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7894258
How can you tell? If ants were able to understand the solar system, would you expect them to behave differently?
Yeah I think the point is that the majority of urbanization in the US occurred in the 20th century, whereas China has only very recently been doing so.
An ant as an individual is smart enough to recognize food and bring it back, do basic social behaviors. However, the real intelligence of ants is emergent from the entire colony.

http://www.fountainmagazine.com/Issue/detail/Collective-Inte...
> "China used as much concrete in just three years as United States in one century"

He wants you to think he's comparing the last 100 years. In reality he's comparing two different time periods because U.S. acceleration ruins the wow factor.

> "Chinese now consume more Guccis and Bulgaris and Louis Vuittons than the rest of the world combined."

He wants you to think Chinese consumers have a lot of buying power. They don't. They just happen to like those specific brands. Even Japan spends more than the U.S. on those specific brands, with half the population.
Why, because aspartame is a \gasp\ chemical? Yes, please disregard the numerous studies that all find aspartame to be completely safe for human consumption. Gates probably drinks Diet Coke for the same reason that many educated people do: they're actually able to read and understand primary sources. Aspartame conspiracy theorists are just as woefully uninformed as anti-vaxxers.
He said "...in one century" in the video and I don't see anything in text. Are you sure your quote is accurate?
Many developers dual-license their software under the GPL3 or Affero license and then separately offer a commercial license (possibly offering options for paid support). This allows other developers to contribute and even re-sell (open source only + their support) but ensures that all improvements made in this manner are available to everyone. (Note that in this scenario [1]contributions can be a bit tricky since they need to be dual licensed which usually means a developer CLA, and [2]companies and developers often get away with licensing violations.) In general, contributors will prefer more liberal licenses.

In any case, thanks for being willing to consider all the options. For the most part I'd guess the primary benefit would be signing yourself up as benevolent dictator nurturing a community of developers (in addition to users) around your new tool.
I'm sorry you had to learn this way, but you have now learned one of the lessons that everyone who has anything to do with computers has (or ought) to learn: don't trust Dell, don't buy Dell, don't use Dell.
What a bunch of cunts.
What are TCHAR, WCHAR, LPSTR, LPWSTR, LPCTSTR?
kidney.org: a bastion of peer reviewed study.
I'm not sure I see the article and study as saying much or discovering anything new.

The phenomena is obvious.
The motivations, at a rational, cognitive level are also obvious though.

Within a group, there is comfort, love, protection, identity, etc.

Others, outside the group, are a threat to all that endorphin-releasing meeting of needs and/or desires.
Of course there are physical (psycho-chemical) reinforcements to the behavior. I would have been surprised to NOT find brain activity of the sort.

We are social creatures through natural selection and, despite modernity's recontextualizing of what our clans look like, we should very well expect a very plastic ability of individuals to storm+norm+form groups which then are "protected" by degrading the power of those not in the group.

Would it be a terrible analogy to say this echo's the brain's feedback loop for sugary foods? We are wired to gorge on sugar when we find it. Food marketers apply psychological levers based around how that feedback loop is molded by our modern, human existence.

http://foodporn.com

I want waffles...
In the absence of quality evidence, randomness is better than prejudicial bias.
I one who tried it but ended up having to port to python to use a sparse linear system solver.

The state of the art in numerical computing really isn't to the point we can work from equations because things like sparsity and which solver you use (Algebraic Multi Grid? Conjugate Gradient Descent? ...) matter a lot and the established algorithms and implementations are really fast and well tested.
Postfix has no public version control
that's not how you get to the battle bridge... I can't get past the foyer, either.
I really need to do some digging, see if there are any relevant studies... see, I don't think I have met anyone with any particular issues, who drinks soda in moderation.

Remember, the dose makes the poison.
Hardly new stuff. We had horrible problems in production 10 years ago. After analyzing the situation, we found out that the new servers had same memory as older ones from Kingston. But when you watched closely, you noticed that even if the Kingston label with all type information was exactly the same, the chips on the DIMM weren't. So no new news here.

If you work in the IT department, you'll also probably know, that when ordering 300 "similar" computers: Changes are quite low that you're really getting those delivered. After going through the delivery, it's quite likely that you got at least 10 different computer series in that delivery. Different power source, different memory, possibly different motherboard, hard drive, power source cooling fan, cpu cooler etc. That's just normal unfortunately. That's why many supplier leave the specification quite open on purpose, so it doesn't matter what they deliver as long as it's something meeting the specification.
There's no good that comes from just about any drink, aside from water.

Too much milk can give you kidney stones. Too much fruit juice gives you cavities. Too much coffee stains your teeth and gives you, what was it, high blood pressure? On and on.
The animation blew my mind. Especially S0-16. What the heck was that thing's velocity at perihelion? A whole star moving that much, that fast, accelerating like that in only 16 years. An entire star, tossed about in space like a ragdoll.
Except Samsung has different model numbers for different SOC's (Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 in N9005/Exynos 5420 in N9000) and those are in comparable speed.
By monetizing the site with ads she is making money with their unique brand name.
Mozilla under fire: Inside the 9-day reign of fallen CEO Brendan Eich
Well, I'm having a nice big existentialist crisis right now having being reminded of our place in the universe. I'm going to go pour myself a whiskey and hug my kids. G'night everybody.
They would know I exist, and that I would massacre them every time they set foot on my yard, with my advanced chemical weapons of mass ant destruction. But they keep coming, and dying. They don't seem to be aware of me, let alone the solar system.
Apple iPhone 6 Release Date Set For August According to Suppliers 
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Have to admit this makes me curious to know more about your contributions!
I don't necessarily disagree, although I don't find anything objectionable about this article, and I'm not sure that flagging based on source is a good policy. I considered submitting the paper directly, but thought it didn't offer enough context. Then I searched for media coverage, and this was the best of the public oriented articles I found.

An NBC news article was similar: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/low-cost-fusion-...

And there is a fairly good Daily Kos article by Roger Fox: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/08/1305412/-Best-Polyw...

If you are looking for something more technical, the discussion on "talk-polywell" is high quality: http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5425

Personally, I think Polywell Fusion is a long shot, but a smart long shot to pursue.
That was well put...
Over a year, I'd say. We'd run the test infrastructure for ~11 months on a couple machines when we submitted the paper.

That's not indicative of much though, as the actual timelines for writing papers can be driven by conference deadlines more than the works themselves (when talking about granularity of six months to a year).
Exactly my original point, but referencing those ants who think they know the solar system.
what superenergetic catastrophe happens when those two black holes collapse onto each other?

Is this black hole pair likely to be two galactic cores that collided, and captured each other due to some sort of inelastic interaction (maybe ejecting stars out?) and their surrounding galactic matter got eaten up due to basically the three-body problem?
The problem is that C++ and ObjectiveC have overlapping purposes. The issue isn't that it's impossible to use them together. The issue is that you will have to have a strategy for dealing with conflicts before they occur.
JavaScript vs. Swift: A JavaScript Developer's Take On Swift
also, weight per can in 2010 (12g) is displayed higher then the weight per can in 1980 (19g)? but at this point I don't even think I can trust the can weights... is that really from Bill Gates? Very deceiving article...
"At least one of these statements are incorrect."