skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our software needs to scale and to have fallbacks when "infinite compute and memory" is not available. I used to detest when I was forced to make my code run on machine with 512MB, I'd argue that we are already charging them tens of thousands of dollars, why not just ship them a couple sticks. 2G would make the code 10x as clean. But I was wrong.

Our code needs to scale down as well as up, but it should do so in the libraries and the abstractions. That is why "big data" was such an issue, we weren't working on abstractions that blurred the lines between in and out of core and now we are.

If we turn from imperative to declarative and any-typed to algebraic the semantics remain consistent and it is up to the runtime to fit the code to the available compute and memory. Cache Oblivious was a good start, memory and compute oblivious is the next level. A Lisp with an RDD [0] feels about right.

[0] http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pwendell/strataconf/api/core/spa...
Yes though I understand that in terms of work for a service like this, users is the only measure that increases the workload.

For now I'm just sending emails on failed payments, but it's incomplete, obviously.

Product is Email It In: https://www.emailitin.com/
Which leads to the point that talent does not guarantee success. I don't think talent is even the primary factor, though the article seems to go one step further and claim that all people are equally talented.
I,m sorry, but the question is why do Nycombinator users hate Facebook, not how to use a search engine.
One problem I've had before was if one cell in a pack is damaged and replaced, the BMS balance current would take forever to flatten the pack.

Do you know if Tesla has any way of improving or making this faster?
Right, but with the GSM 7-bit alphabet they could easily expand their index table to 127 entries rather than Base64's 64, netting them much greater efficiency.
Helllllllll yeah
There's an oversimplification going on here, I think (in the article I mean--the experiment is simplified for a good reason). The "one place" that all of these strains reach is that they are more fit for the environment than the starting point of each. This is not a new idea. This was the thesis of "On the Origin of Species".

As for the level of fitness of each strain... after sufficient generations, basic statistics would tell tell us to expect this result. The combination of random mutations influenced by one constant factor (natural selection in a fixed environment) over a large number of generations implies this result.

But the article appears to assert that this means that evolution's course is predictable. But what's not addressed is how each strain is succeeding. They know that the variations in the genes from strain to strain vary quite a bit. Yes, the result measured from one statistic (growth rate) is the same, but future evolution and other traits of the yeast will be influenced by the particular paths taken.

Finally, once you put this mechanism in an environment filled with millions of other competing gene pools and a varying environment not bound by natural selection which means there's an actual threat of extinction, then that's where the true variability of the process emerges.
American prices are not high because they pay for R+D. For the medicines, maybe. I'm epileptic, and the equipment that was used for my treatment in India was consistently better than the one my neurologist used for examination when I moved here.

Essential drugs are cheap because of not paying for R+D, plus government subsidies.
That's one application.
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You're welcome.

That would be pretty cool for a normal web browser too.

EDIT: I'm also part of the team, that comment looks really strange out of context.

We don't have specific monetization plans yet, but we're probably going to do some sort of donation system, or maybe ads (through wifi). No idea though, it is pretty expensive.
I'll throw out what my roommate and I did too. We did essentially the same thing, but it plays music from rdio, or whatever songs you have on an iPhone/iPad/iPod touch.

It's up at http://letsparty.fm. Not quite finished, but definitely usable for our purposes.
Assuming they don't go under before then. Twitter has yet to turn a profit.
Do you realize that you went from animals not being able to synthesize proteins, to not being able to synthesize amino acids to not being able to get nitrogen from sources other than ingested amino acids?

Where will you move the post after you find out about niacin?
Wow, that gets expensive very quickly especially at 3 messages/sec.

Assuming the average user gets only one burst of three messages per query, uses it only twice a day for 200 days a year and the service gets only 10,000 users signed up, the costs just to send the texts for the next year alone would be $90,000.

Seems like it will be hard to scale but I agree that this is a really cool way to get connectivity! Best of luck.
You can send anything in the GSM 7-bit alphabet, which has 128 characters rather than Base64's 64-entry index table.

They could gain a lot of efficiency by using a 127-entry index table (or 128 if the ESC character doesn't need to be avoided - I don't know how the Android SMS APIs handle it) rather than a 64-entry one.
Will radio encryption hurt emergency communications?
This is amazing!
It's good to see USB technology keeping step with storage speeds. Imagine putting a SSD in a 3.1 enclosure.
Supporting Filesystems in Persistent Memory
In other words, the communists pretty much have granted their people nearly USA-style freedom of speech, after having observed for many decades that it is no threat to the power structure there, and probably in some ways helps to preserve the status quo.

That last bit of censorship they have there just helps to curb some protests; the USA version of that is to let people communicate about the protest, so it blows larger, but then bring in the National Guard.
> One of the ingredients is NAD, which is made from tryptophan or aspartic acid, both of which are amino acids.

Or niacin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niacin
I don't really get the point of article... Find your own A player tailored to the environement you are building? How is this different than to hire A players?
I think that sort of misses the point of the metaphor as used here. If one big part of the brain is missing, and thus the mechanisms it enables are unavailable, some other part of the brain (at least in this case) makes up for it by providing an approximation of that mechanism. That other part of the brain is thus not able to perform whatever its normal function would be; even if it's doing double-duty, you expect that there's some capacity limit. When and if that deprioritized function involves reasoning, then you'd expect a drop in reasoning ability. Thus the "processing power" metaphor is simply saying that if a neuron is busy doing something, it can't also be busy doing other things.
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Yes, of course 18650 is the form factor.

From what I understand these are stock Panasonic NCR-18650 3100 mAH batteries though.

Any ideas on what "special chemistry" they are using?
Like with any other technologies, or in fact many establishments of Human society, the tool and the use of the tool are two very different things.

Most religions, for instance, were designed to give people a set of values to adhere to without necessarily understanding their purpose. This was very handy in societies where education would be lacking. The only problem being that when you don't understand or forget the purpose of a tool, you then start glorifying the tool itself.

Similarly, the Internet is a means to an end, not an end in itself, unless you let it be so, as I believe is the case with people who think the Internet is responsible for their enternainment. The content is definitely there, but if you can't make use of it or at least appreciate it, then it'll obviously become boring. So in essence, it has nothing to do with the tool, but with the person using it, or rather this evolving tool called "brain".

I think the Law of the instrument[0] is a concept that works both ways: when all you can see is nails, then you'll always resort to the hammer.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
Or one can just use the DHS to illegally coordinate crackdowns like they did for Occupy.
Or maybe: don't communicate knowledge about some event where crowds are assembling (which spreads the word, and causes more people to show up).
Random stuff gets downvoted sometimes. It might not even have been intentional, what with no way to correct it. Obviously some people disagree with your statement, though, so who knows.
FFS http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/30/retrophin-stocks-i...
It's unfortunately pretty slow. I mean, when you factor in the overhead for text messages, it adds up. We haven't tested it enough but it definitely won't match 4g. We also are planning to switch to a better compression algorithm.
All hospitals should probably be required to do something like this: http://www.surgerycenterok.com/pricing/ ...
R is underrated.
You Should Be Terrified of Superintelligent Machines
#2) You can attach multiple tokens to a card. If you want to go through with it I supposed you could attach it to your friends phone... or just give them your card because you will still have that.

#4) You call your bank and they don't allow that token to be used anymore, pretty simple really.

You don't even have to change cards because all they got was the token, which can only be used where you authorized it, once. So if someone gets the token it's pretty useless.
I know at least Virgin already has an extensive on-board digital content delivery system so there's already a provider that's done a lot more than Netflix in terms of aircraft VOD infrastructure. Plus, since the airline controls the content, they get to reap the advertising rewards.
Perhaps I am missing something, but I don't understand the appeal of this phone. Its only real differentiator seems to be the "instant customer service" feature.
The latter is most likely
Thanks for the heads up. Due to sunshine and summer I'm stalled out 3 episodes into the last season. I've managed to avoid spoilers so far...
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Reading this was like watching a kid make a snowman on top of a mountain, then the snowman fell off the mountain and created a landslide that destroyed the nearby town. The consequences and grand implications seem a bit far-ranging for the central premise.

Kids buy movies. You get the teenagers and young 20-somethings doing your thing, whatever your thing is? They'll drag the rest of society along with them.

Enough with the comic book movies already. I think after 50 or so we should have exhausted the genre for a while.

I think the key question is whether or not eventually people, including teenagers, wise up to this nonsense. Do you really want to be consuming the same old regurgitated boy-who-thinks-he-has-nothing-is-actually-a-great-wizard storyline that grandpa did? At some point, I would think, this edifice has to collapse under its own weight.
Not sure where to begin, but I'll take a crack at this one...

I used to be like you. I was out at every meetup -- flirting with all the new frameworks in town. We would start off hot-n-heavy, staying up late into the night, making big plans. But just as things were about to get serious, I back-peddled and started to better-deal -- thinking there is a "better framework" out there. I didn't want to make the wrong choice.

Backbone was the hot new sexy, and we got along great. We breezed through TODOMVc, and everything just "clicked." She showed me a better way to javascript. This was great! I took the relationship to the next level, and we were off on our enterprise app. Sad to say, the romance ended the moment I realized what two-way data-binding was, memory leaks when destroying views, and the need for good message passing. Backbone had none of it, and I told her about it. Then one day she came home dressed as Marionette (marionettejs.com), and I hardly recognized her. I found her to be complex and abstract. She was no longer the simple and elegant framework I knew, and so I moved on...

And soon enough, there I was out at the meetups again. That was when I met Angular. I found her opinionated, and a really domineering. However, she was from a well known and respected family. Besides, I was happy to be with someone who took care of so many things. But that comfort came with a price. She wanted me to do things her way, and do it without much documentation. She just wanted to me to "get it." But it didn't click. And so I gave her the "its not you, its me" talk, and I moved on.

See a pattern here? I think many devs can relate. Let me explain:

TL;DR

Frameworks are like relationships. The only way you can get the most out of it is to fully commit yourself to it -- using the good parts and working around the bad. The sooner you realize this the better, because you will stop wasting your time with frameworks who don't do more than offer a weekend thrill with TodoMVC.

BTW: I'm now in a polyamorous relationship with Flux and ReactJS, and it is wonderful.
> Overall, we at Gearcraft predict the deal will generate over $15-20 billion in revenue during its lifespan.

Bullshit claim that has no numbers behind it. Notch owning the IP was also brought up in another thread here, so you'd have to size that figure down substantially if true.
I hate this stuff.

Steve was pretty explicit to Tim Cook and others that they should never ask "what would Steve do". He knew what that kind of attitude did to Disney after Walt died. It destroyed their creativity for years.
I agree with the first point about being defensive towards samsung. It's well known in marketing that the Alpha brand never acknowledges the beta brand... even implicitly.

For instance, Pepsi did a taste test against Coke. But no Coke commercials ever acknowledge that Pepsi even existed. Coke commercials are always about their brand.
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This is pretty cool! One thing to think about (and its raised in the last two paragraphs of the article) is how this might change in a dynamic environment, and with the addition of other simultaneously evolving agents.

I think its pretty clear that given some static environment, there will be some maxima of fitness - everything is limited by physics and thermodynamics at some point. Aside from the question of 'how close can we get to this maxima', another question is, if we have a bunch of different sets of mutations that together generate an organism that is at or near the current environmental maxima, what happens as the environment changes?

By the way, here's a preprint of the paper in question: http://sergeykryazhimskiy.webs.com/1519.full.pdf

The e. coli studies cited can be found: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3461117/ and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2430337/
But couldn't that alternatively be explained by the cerebral cortex being able to act as a "backup" of sorts for the cerebellum, to the extent of "neglecting" its ordinary tasks? It would make sense if the brain were to "consider" motor control to be at a higher priority than cognition, and was designed as such. (Sort of like in a pinch a kitchen might use a cook as a dishwasher.)

I'm using wishy-washy words here, sorry. I don't know how better to explain it.
"assurances to please liberal or socially-conscious users, such as knowing that their opium is "fair-trade" and their cocaine "conflict-free"" -

As gleeful as I am that there might be a way out of - or at least around - the drug war, I find these assurances incredibly dubious with no actual regulatory or independent oversight making sure that the substances in question are actually fair trade or conflict free (and obviously there won't be any until the war on drugs ends and addiction is more sensibly treated as a health problem rather than a criminal problem.)

There is also absolutely no way - by design - to tell that the person selling you these substances is telling you the truth.

This is where a purely libertarian position tends to run into trouble. In a system where there are serious negative externalities involved (is the production of this drug causing environmental damage? is it causing innocent children to die? is it grown without pesticides? will it kill me?) you have absolutely no recourse to protect yourself or others especially if something goes wrong.
It is still worth watching. It's about the journey, not just the destination.
The previous poster is well aware of what ZFS on Linux is.

Licensing matters. It may not matter in terms of what I can do with my servers. I can compile ZFS and run it just fine on Linux. But you won't find Red Hat doing it. You won't find IBM doing it. Linus won't be adding it into the mainline tree anytime soon.

This means that there may be "technical" solutions to getting ZFS running on Linux, but that also means that there will be artificial barriers in place that will make it more difficult to run, test, deploy, and support.

These things matter.

I might use ZFS for Linux on a personal workstation, but there is no way that I'd add it to a production cluster.
Good point, hadn't considered that.
Epsilon-delta proofs are beyond me, but we still teach calculus in high school. Just because some parts of a field are esoteric without study doesn't mean the field is doomed to obscurity.
It's not always like that. There are insurers like Kaiser that are vertically integrated that make the whole experience much smoother. At my last checkup, my doctor gave he an immunization, ordered blood tests and prescribed medication. The blood tests and pharmacy were both in the same building, so I just had to make two stops on my way out of the building that took an extra ~15 minutes. The immunization and checkup were covered by my insurance and I paid my copay for the blood work and prescription up-front just before having my blood taken and getting my medication. It was all very affordable, quick and easy and I never saw a total bill. I only got a receipt for my copay.

I've never needed any major health care from them, but I have a parent that has had both hips and a shoulder replaced with Kaiser who had a similarly simple experience.
Harvard, Ivy League Should Judge Students by Standardized Tests
An article with a blatantly false headline oughtn't be the target of such boosting algorithms...
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If you make a lac/month, surgeries of the sort I've received will be one month of income. In the US, prices will be both higher relative to income and unknown, i.e. the doctor just won't tell you.

As for saving, people in the US don't save. And they refuse to spend money on medicine - I know a woman who easily spends $10-20k/year on entertainment, but balked at spending $8k to repair her knee.
> Since the points are rendered in pixel-perfect form and then down sampled on the iPhone 6+, the only potential loss of fidelity is in the downsampling step.

Are we sure that this is how it's implemented? They could just as well have the frame buffer be 1080p and adjust the device matrix of the rendering engine(s).

> but we should have moved to SVG or some vector format as a native format in iOS several years ago.

Like PDF?
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Jenkins is now sole focus for CloudBees as it drops PaaS
Agreed - I would love to see the results of the same search but with the key words "school" and "class" elsewhere in the post flagged as non-participants (unless they were part of the title). I'm guessing the results would be quite different.
that's what error correcting codes are for :)
If you design things to play nicely with the compression algorithm that's used by trying to stay within normal human vocal range and stuff, might be okay.
I've never been so happy to have skimmed an article :-)
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The xkcd this is referring to:

http://xkcd.com/327/
Building message queues on top of shared memory seems like a pretty natural high performance solution. What would you suggest?
Every article I've seen about the battery says that it doesn't use the usual chemistry, and that only the form factor is standard. I figured you would have something factual to say, given that you're saying you know it's dangerous.
(Dalvik is dead. You probably mean ART.)
Massimo Vignelli, the author passed away this year. It was all over the news in Italy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Vignelli
I agree, but damn that mock keynote was impressive.
> Any vector icons also need to be rasterized before drawing to the screen which can take up memory and make things less speedy.

Well...any raster format needs to be read from disk, decoded and drawn, though there are special optimizations for the drawing step.
Kind of upset right now too.
ah, so by "they never explain why" you mean they gave reasons that you didn't deem "valid".

As I said, off in the weeds.

In any case, here's lots of counter examples for you:
https://hn.algolia.com/#!/comment/forever/0/deleted%20facebo... (sorry, lots of emotional reasons in there too...it's hard to filter out a completely valid reason for stopping the use of something)
Sigh, I wish people would address the problem here that nvidia's CUDA runtime is non-free. There is no OpenCL free implementation that I know of either, except Clover, but it currently merely translates the OpenCL to run on the CPU instead of the GPU. I think I've heard of some free CUDA implementations that were in similar embryonic stages.

Octave is a GNU package. GNU's purpose is to ensure that you can use free software. Running to tie Octave to flashy features like GPU acceleration without first pausing to fix the initial problem of non-free GPU acceleration is putting the horse before the cart. This works against Octave's goal, to provide a free alternative to Matlab, one that lets you understand and control your computations down to the hardware level. If we don't emphasise software freedom, then there is no need for Octave, since we already have Matlab. Indeed, it is this very freedom that nvidia is abusing here to accelerate Octave's BLAS libraries, a task that would be much more difficult with Matlab, where they don't have the source code.

I know that nobody wants to even think that this problem exists and even fewer people want to fix Clover because it's such a difficult task, but it's a task that we can't ignore.

Note also that because the GPU libraries are not a system library as defined by the GPL (they are not shipped with the OS), you can't even distribute GPU-accelerated Octave object code. We consider the Octave C++ API to fall well under the domain of the GPL's copyleft.

Personally, as a GNU Octave developer, I am very unhappy that nvidia is using Octave to advertise its hardware and non-free drivers. I am also unhappy that nvidia is luring users to use non-free software, acting against our goals. I reiterate Linus Torvalds's well-known sentiments against nvidia.
PDFs:

"Innovations in payment technologies and the emergence of digital currencies": http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...

"The economics of digital currencies": http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...

Plus much commentary at FTAlphaville: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/
I'm posting from an Acer C720 docked to a 1920 x 1080 Benq monitor, and it looks and works just fine. If Open Office was working on ChromeOS, my joy would be extreme.
May I suggest Pied Piper?
Nature of Code by Shiffman may be a good fit. I haven't read it yet though, maybe someone else can say something about it.
However, I disagree about the phone size. They needed a bigger phone. Steve Jobs said "No one is going to buy a big phone" but he also was known to change his mind. Apple internally had documented that they were loosing sales by not having a big phone.
China sees big drop in carbon emissions