skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I started it was set up so that only the left canvas worked. I spent some time to make it work for both.

I could make it so that when drawing it reverses from the middle so that it was just one canvas. Well, I could try.
Isn't that list biased towards countries with more natural resources?
This picture...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eigenvectors.gif

...is pretty famous by now and helps a lot of people, but there's actually more information in it than the description below it lets on.

It's a two-dimensional plot, with two-dimensional vectors, and the number of eigenvectors is two. Well, the number of families of eigenvectors; the number of colours. By noticing that they're orthogonal to each other, you can imagine that if we were in three dimensions, there'd be a third one, orthogonal to the other two.

The number of eigenvalues is pretty obvious from the maths (the characteristic eqn will always have a lambda^n in it), but that there's the reason graphically. Most people only think of that picture as the behaviour of eigenvectors, but it also allows you to see the space they occupy and their relation to each other.

(oh, and dim(graph) == dim(matrix) because dim(graph)==dim(vectors)==dim(matrix))

While I'm on the subject, I think trying to visualise everything in two dimensions can set you up to make certain mistakes. Most people think that if lines aren't parallel, then they touch once and then diverge. This is true of planes, not lines, in general.
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What real world experience does Allen Holub have with compiler design? As far as I can tell, he has not contributed to gcc, LLVM,or written any toy compilers like TCC.
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Show HN: A folding electric bike that can fit into a backpack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfZX39jd6cw#t=80s
Ignore the first 1:20 or so, in which he configures things the slow way.

The real magic of ido is the completion engine. It's not made super explicit in that video, but it's actually possible to complete on arbitrary subsequences of strings you want.

With my configuration (using the popular "flx-ido" matching engine), if you wanted to match "README.md", you could achieve this by just typing ED. Even though E and D aren't consecutive, E appears before D. (But "GOOD_EDITING_SOFTWARE" would be matched before "README.md", because it prioritizes consecutive matches and characters at the beginnings of logical groups of characters.)
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It's not a novel idea - consumption for identity purposes is a very, very old and well explored meme:

https://www.google.co.uk/?q=consumption%20and%20identity#q=c...

A lot of basic sales books/courses discuss it. I've met a few people in the traditional publishing and they seem to well understand that the majority of books sold are never read.

I am actually having great trouble getting motivated to read the whole essay. Gwern's writing suffers a lot from poor sequencing, excessive footnotes/hyperlinks/digressions and a general reluctance/inability to summarise. Wish he could find a way to make his writing "skim-able", so that I can at least tell what the rough subject is before investing an hour to understand it.
I know everyone can boast their own city but I have found Sacramento to be the perfect combination of low cost, central location, and atmosphere. Within 2 miles from downtown, a 1 bedroom flat for $800 in a bike friendly midtown.

I've been a part of the startup community for the past few years and have witnessed the buzz. With large campuses for Intel, HP, Oracle in the suburb areas there is a large pool of talent that I grew up around and occupy the area. Recruiters and VC make regular appearances at collaborative work spaces and maker labs in the area.

Honestly, when I see these articles I'm a bit baffled. why would you move to Reno to save a couple hundred a month on rent?
Writing from Germany, this article is shallow and stereotypical due to not being well researched.

Please don't read it, or forget what you read in it; not all work is good work, and you shouldn't value bad work; this article is a bad article.
These are good questions.

The end goal is much farther along than what's being presented now. This has, for the most part, been a one person effort. I was motivated by my Compilers course and a minimal Java compiler we developed targeting MIPS to start a project creating my own language.

Much of my experience with programming languages has been with interpreted or scripted languages. I find that they have a really low barrier to entry. But ideally Duck would have its own binary compiler and other tools. It's just that right now, in the language forming stage, it makes sense to formalize all aspects of the programming language first. In the future, it might be the case that Duck has significantly better performance than Lua or Python, but I can't really tell at the moment, especially without some tweaks to the language that move it towards static/strongly typed code. This is just the nature of reality.

So yes, it's mainly a toy language at this stage, but I would like to see it optimally used as a game language. I think it may be extremely easy to have it facing several different platforms, and use it as a high-level abstraction for loading 3D meshes and manipulating an interactive world.
I don't know the answer may be someone may have experienced same and may know why
Yet another brilliant cigar butt find. It would be fun as well as rewarding to be able to see through Buffet's eyes.
Quite amusing to see the same people behind the organizations that present themselves as do gooders, solicit for donations from the tech community, seem to just be playing as faux opposition, like the red-team vs blue team in war games.

Even when groups like the sunlight foundation oppose EFF on the recent Freedom Act, took 2 million dollars this year from the Omaydar network[0], it all still seems like part of a marketing pitch.

I think it is even more telling how most people in the community here seem to look the other way when presented with these things.

All apart of the banality of privacy as a service:

So right away, let us cast aside the technological protocols, that are usually referred to as “the internet”, that of which was built upon that make accessing or publishing information public between two or more machines…

Because talking about such things would require most internet users to cast aside social constructs they willingly suspend on a daily basis upon engaging with such technology/services (without any care to understand for oneself, one might add) and then demand collectively in retrospect to have their cries pacified while continuing to use such services (of which, most for free).

Yup, let us look past all that and believe (because that’s all we can do for ourselves) that institutions/organizations/companies/governments, that all consist of our fellow human beings in all of our qualities and flaws, can provide for the individual that which he chooses not to do for himself, to a satisfactory level in which his desires are forever coddled and placated…[1]

[0] http://sunlightfoundation.com/about/funding/

[1] http://blog.pictobar.com/post/63785124046/the-banality-of-pr...
If it's a descent, why call it climbing? Climb: go or come up (a slope, incline, or staircase), especially by using the feet and sometimes the hands; ascend.
Order to fill in the board (1, 2, 3, ... 9, A, B, C, ... N):

B C D O 2 1
X 3 G N 4 X
M N H I 5 O
F E F X O X
L K J 6 A X
9 8 X 7 8 O

Reasoning:

1. finish column
2. avoid OOO in row
3. avoid OOO in row
4. avoid OOO in row
5. avoid OOO in column
6. don't duplicate column 6
7. avoid XXX in column
8. wrap XX on both sides
9. finish row
A. finish column
B. avoid OOO in column
C. avoid XXX in column
D. finish row
E. don't duplicate column 5
F. finish row
G. avoid OOO in column
H. avoid OOO in column
I. avoid XXX in row
J. finish column
K. avoid OOO in row
L. finish row
M. finish column
N. finish rows
The main enabler seems to be the fact that isolation is now redundantly enforced in two places - both by the kernel, and by IO device drivers. In return for making the hardware support non-optional, Arrakis eliminates the kernel's involvement.
I have read similar articles before, and would be interested to counterpoints you might have.
Going through the language forming stage I've really been at a loss to how other languages accomplish certain features. Revisiting some older code I had written I had to start contemplating syntax like var_name$ for strings or decmial_number#.
Yes, if you want prints then film is still an economical option. I think 120 film is kind of awkward for scanning because there are no affordable dedicated film scanners which handle it but it's still not quite big enough to get really good results from a flatbad. (It's tough to get more than 1200dpi of real resolution out of a flatbed and that only gives you 8MP for 6x6 negatives.)
Another possible reason we haven't heard a peep from Carmack on the subject since is that he joined OculusVR and has a bunch of interesting hardware problems to work on.
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Not to step into a troll, but basically depending on the metric you take, it is either less or more (it's a big troll in France), so I prefer to think we work about the same.

But the office habits are very different, in France people leave the office way later than in Germany or the US (6 or 7pm), so it's quite a shock for some foreigners (basically our lunch break is longer, and our coffee breaks are shorter). You might have trouble getting a hold of people on Friday afternoon because they might take it off, and more and more on Wednesday (some people just take a 20% salary cut and spend one day with their kids).
We are social animals, hardwired for status, so it's pretty easy to find status elements in anything we do. But I think it's a mistake to say that because X has a status aspect, it's about status.

I also think this argument assumes everybody's optimizing for a particular characteristic: sound. But for most decisions people are satisficers [1], not optimizers. If one tries instruments more or less at random until one crosses the "good enough" line, then instrument choice will mainly be about availability. In which case, people will tend to converge on a small number of instruments without any need for "cool" as an explanation. There are also other characteristics people value about instruments. For example, the ability to play with other people, or the ability to participate in a style of music that they like. Those are definitionally social, but not necessarily driven by status-seeking.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
I'd really encourage you to checkout the git repo and modify the syntax yourself. It's almost like play-doh.
I know that, but I don't think every material has the interesting properties that Si does for image sensors, i.e. it needs to basically turn photons of the right wavelength range into electrons.
Not easy to get to the original article but worth a read. Basically it describes Japan's progress in farming bluefin tuna which is a particularly difficult species to farm.
A pothole of stereotypes combined with cheesy imagery. Seriously, why the upvotes?
Moreover I find his writing style (having just read few paragraphs of this book) very advanced even although I'm French.
Great documentary, I really enjoyed it.

You'll notice that the member of congress mentions that Europe will build it anyway, so why waste US taxpayer money?

Europe did indeed build the LHC, and whatever value there is in discovering the origins of the universe is now enjoyed by the entire world. So what exactly was wrong with his argument?
> Meh, a simple "we already had a full docket to test with our main goals and didn't want to allocate the time to try any spray oils" is more than adequate.

The thing is, there's not one 'spray oil additive' that everyone uses they could even test. They could just say: "Spray oils use additives that could complicate this process and each spray oil is different. We didn't test them and don't recommend that you use them. Using real, unadulterated oil is simple, proven, and effective."

I can't comment on the effectiveness of the overall process of seasoning a skillet, nor was I.
I've certainly wondered about making a modern language with influences from BASIC. Most of the languages in use today seem to be C-influenced.
I guess you're misunderstanding the intention of the developers. If they are truly just wanting to make a huge profit out of a brainless game pattern then they won't go with this design. Those "repetitive attention" games inevitably make you feel empty and waste your time in the end, and shouldn't be any self-respecting programmer's dedication. That's why there should be alternatives.
I remember following your campaign when it happened on HN. I was impressed that someone took a stand for Turing.

Congratulations jgrahamc and thank you!
Your comment provides a fine example of German efficiency :-)
It's actually unknown whether there's an atmosphere there. Temperature in space is very cold, sure, but if there are no gas collisions nothing carries the heat away (like, say, on Antarctica). So the lander would only really be cold where it touches the comet, and the comet actually gets quite hot at times. Wikipedia mentions that Haley's comet was 70 degrees celcius (above zero) last time it passed by Earth.

Despite geostationary satellites operating in an environment that's nominally -265 or so degrees celcius, the problem they usually experience is overheating, not freezing. Blackbody radiation will eventually carry the heat away, but we're talking decades to get to -100 or so.

For instance, a human body at rest generates about 150 watts of power, which would kill you in geostationary orbit without a cooling system. It would kill you because it wouldn't take long for your body temperature to rise to 52 degrees, at which point your cell metabolism abruptly stops (your mitochondria will stop generating energy). It would take longer than it takes you to choke though. Though nobody's ever tried for obvious reasons, you should be able to exit a space station and get back in with just a helmet that protects your mouth and nose and ears from decompression. You wouldn't freeze, you wouldn't explode. You'd overheat in 10-15 minutes or so. If you survive that, you'd die 2 weeks later from radiation poisoning. On the moon you need heating, because it actually has an atmosphere that would carry heat away.

It is fun reminiscing about just how special our place in the universe is. Human bodies wouldn't be able to survive on planets 30% closer to the Sun, or about 15% farther away. We wouldn't be alive without a mostly oxygen atmosphere, because without the ozone layer, solar radiation would kill us. Without the earth magnetic field, solar radiation would kill us. Without the sun protecting us from interstellar radiation, we'd die. If our solar system was further to the outside of the milky way, we wouldn't survive the radiation, solar protection or not. If it was closer to the middle, we wouldn't survive. It's unknown whether it's a black hole at the center or something else, but it sure outputs a lot of radiation. Oh, and we're in the < 0.1% of the milky way that hasn't experienced a supernova explosion for about 3 billion years (a supernova explosion at 20 lightyears or less would kill all life on earth. 50 lightyears is considered the minimum safe distance for large mammals to survive). The milky way has collided with at least 3 other (tiny) galaxies, none of the collissions were (are) anywhere near us, as the tidal stresses would alter planetary orbits, and so on and so forth.

All of this is ignoring the physical necessities for life to exist. If the fine structure constant, for instance, was 0.1% bigger or smaller, there would be no chemistry, and no humans. If the speed of light was ~5% bigger or smaller, there would be no atoms, as there would not be any stable electron orbitals, and so on.
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Yeah. When I write like this, it's because I'm really writing for me. It's my way of processing a topic.

But if I'm going to publish something, I'd rather write for the reader. I just threw out half a book manuscript because I realized that while my intended audience was novice entrepreneurs, my actual audience would be grizzled, grumpy old veterans like myself. Eventually I hope I'll start fresh and really write for my readers.
Also the Dinosaur Book[1]. I don't think Silberschatz et al. could have pulled this off if they were starting today.

[1] http://galvin.info/2007/03/13/history-of-the-operating-syste...
No. "The factory is supposed to employ 6,500 people, but that is not what the tax breaks are tied to." - New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/business/nevada-woos-tesla...

It's really "up to 6,500 people". That's only if the later stages of factory expansion take place in the future. They're hiring. Right now, they have 14 job openings.

http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2014/10/16/tesla-battery-plant...
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Really? The cost of real estate in Bushwick has gone through the roof over the last 10 yeas and particularly in the last 5. When I moved to Bushwick 6 years ago my the rent for my 3 bedroom apartment was 1800, there were other options in that range, as well as similarly priced apartments in Crown Heights. Look at the prices today and the rents in those areas have almost doubled. The New York real estate market is insane right now and people are already investing in areas like East New York hoping that the gentrification and rising rents keep moving eastward. Commercial rent is less expensive than residential and people do great things in NYC but a giant space in Bushwick is going to be very expensive right now and you're going to have to be good at turning a profit to keep the lights on.

That said I'm really curious what just opened up in Bushwick that matches the description of the social club in the article.
I'm pretty sure the marketing of "Our CPU is used on the probe" is enough to get a donation or two.
I think the word you're looking for is "literals", i.e. rebol has URL literals (cause there isn't much difference in many modern languages between "basic types" and classes).

I always found that fascinating too.
If the author had just summarized his points in a thesis paragraph I wouldn't have had to wade through so many words just to try and figure out what he was ultimately trying to say. Ironically, he spent much of the post complaining about how much there is to read.
As a tablet, Surface Pro 3 is still pretty heavy. One simple solution would be to split the battery into two: put the second one under the keyboard. Whenever the tablet is connected with the keyboard, it uses the battery under the keyboard, which recharges the battery inside the tablet at the same time. The capacity of the battery under the keyboard can be customized with different options : )

I'm curious how much of the tablet weight can be reduced. Can Microsoft make a bigger yet light Surface with such approach?
You're a riot.
For those of you wondering about the motivations of this, I'd like to explain that it's mostly an enthusiast project but it might have some utility down the road.

Honestly, I don't see anyone else using this language besides me. I just enjoy implementing projects from the ground-up, so this was a chance to really do that. Originally, this was going to be part of a project to design a minimal computer from the CPU down to the operating system, but I don't really have time for that.

I'm hoping some day that Duck will find its uses, somewhere.
One big question that interests me is:
how many possible positions does the game of Go have?

Answering that requires computing the 361st power of a
very sparse 363 billion by 363 billion matrix,
a big computation indeed (see http://www.cwi.nl/~tromp/go/legal.html for details).

Right now, I'm computing the number of 18x18 positions
(standard size is 19x19) using a couple of servers with
512GB memory and a few TB of disk-space, and that's taking almost a year.

I'd love to have access to a super-computer, but they tend to frown upon such frivolous computations...
I can't wait for Paint.NET to be ported to Linux, that's one of the reasons I've not made the switch to Linux yet.
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1. Have you asked any women who aren't in these specialist areas why they aren't or have you read the arguments by the politicians and (I hate using the word) extremists? I have listened to both sides. Women aren't in tech because as a general rule, it's not interesting to them. Both sexes have different motivations. It doesn't mean they cant do it.

2. Yes you're probably right. All out engineers bar two are male. All our QA team bar two are female. QA get paid less than engineering because the role demands less, not because they are women. I'll say that the women have a better memory and attention to detail and the programmers have more patience and work better together.

3. No he wasn't. He was representing himself.

Fed up of this argument. Its horse shit propagated by a few people.

Throwing some science into it, if we weren't specialised into genders we would be hermaphrodites. We're not equal and that's why the majority of us form couples and step forward together.
A very closely related processor, the RTX2000, is described in detail in Koopman's book "Stack Computers: the new wave"

http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/stack_computers/index.html

The RTX2010 has had its own wikipedia entry too since 2008 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTX2010
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Not to try to sound like I'm appealing to authority or his greatness or anything, but I think gwern's essays are fantastic. I think their length is fine because of how rich they tend to be.
I guess "bad PR" like this is actually one downside for projects switching to GPL3.
But then there seems to be a contradiction here. If the ESA was planning to use an RHU powered by plutonium-238, which resource (your word) or technological capacity (from the IANUS paper) were they missing that prevented them from using a plutonium-238 RTG? Money?
The up arrow to go back in history matching the partial command I typed is has become essential to me.

I feel lost without it, more than the tab completion.
"The flaxseed oil that you buy seems to have some particulate matter that is noticeable in the finished seasoning."

I'm guessing that you buy unrefined flaxseed oil, and that you keep it refrigerated? That's what you should be doing, and it's all well and good. But unrefined flaxseed oil contains a mix of fatty acids with different melting points. Some of these solidify under refrigeration, and give the appearance of being particulates when poured or used.
That was once true, but not any more; solar and wind are way cheaper than oil based power today, and have been since about 2004.

The tax breaks help of course, but there's still more than 50 GW of electrical capacity worldwide that would be better served economically by renewables than oil
Is there a distinction between the number of legal positions, and the number of reachable positions?
Other than 'for fun' - does this serve a commercial purpose?

Looks very cool regardless
I say that's great! It helped uncover an otherwise unnoticed bug.