skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with all but your first sentence. Perhaps I am projecting my own beliefs on nickff, but nowhere did they say that government should not provide police or similar services. They correctly stated that the private sector has the substantial advantage of being able to fail if they do a bad job. The obvious conclusion is that Government should not do things unless there is a compelling reason not to leave it to the private sector. As you point out there is a reason for the government to provide police (and other services) that outweighs the private sector's fundamental advantage.
Maybe that's part of it, but it's <=1 DNS request per domain request so no more than half that circle should be DNS requests. In practice it's far, far less because web browsing typically has numerous requests per domain (e.g. loading images off facebook.com).

My best guess is VPN. Maybe that's how they link Princeton campuses together or something.
First Quark-based SMARC module runs Linux on 2W
On the bright side, you only have to send the people and not all the gear, so much less weight to accelerate. I couldn't find something to indicate how much less fuel you would need to send only a few people with an earth reentry capsule. you would of course need air and supplies for 200-300 days hmm.. I guess it will be somewhat a problem anyways..
I'm stealing that
Agreed fully
The original comment was a joke, then? Because these are really the only two contexts it can be parsed with.

I took a look at your brief comment history. The amount of feedback you're going to get here will be increasingly limited as your comments won't even be visible to most users. So this could be the only opportunity to address you:

You might have a serious problem without realizing it. Please, if it hasn't been already, get it checked out.
That seems like bad advice to me. A possible infinite loop is given as justification in case of wrongly implemented reverse iteration (counting down an unsigned loop variable). Well, i claim that an infinite loop is a much more noticeable bug than undefined overflow behaviour, negative view counts, etc. Unsigned ints will make bugs impossible that with signed ints will (hopefully, famous last words) trigger assertions, if they are enabled...
Given that the White House gave information that they are asking the USCIS to streamline processing of visa through these kinds of tweaks (the law doesn't say how the quotas should be distributed AFAIK), I believe the correct venue would be a whitehouse.gov petition.
>The problem with this pair of assertions is that they neglect one essential aspect of Docker — one that is arguably its killer feature: its open API.

Yes, that Open API is great but it does not seem relevant to CoreOS's criticisms.

To me, Bryan Cantril's highlighting of "Open API" as a counterpoint would make sense if CoreOS specifically stated that they will create a "closed proprietary API". I didn't think they stated that as an architecture goal. CoreOS wants to create a non-monolithic container system -- and presumably, their alternative will also be an "Open API".

Docker's "Open API" for flexibility doesn't allow you to "undo" how Docker internals would run as a pid on Linux. I'm genuinely confused as to why this Open API was brought up. My current interpretation is that it is almost a non-sequitur.
From what I can make of it, it doesn't sounds like that's really the same thing as seeing the infrared part of the spectrum, at least not the way people would normally mean it. It sounds like an effect that makes photons from infrared light simulate green light.
In the horrifying finale, Daniel Dennett turns up to reveal that nothing has changed! He was really just a distributed, persistent messaging service all along. And then Samsa wakes up and it was all a silly dream.
I think limited scope is exactly the point made by skriticos2.

I don't doubt that a private entity is as capable of scope creep as a massive federal government institution.

But I suspect mission-fatal scope creep occurs with less frequency with private entities than with massive federal government institutions.
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Agreed. I too had given a tutorial on this a while back (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKe4M4iSclc) and nltk is a quick way to prototype up something neat,but yes- if you need more than "toy" functionality, there are currently better tools for the job.
If I wrote a natural number calculator in Agda; would all my numbers be represented as lists of successions from zero or can the compiler convert them to two's-complement integers as we know and love them?

In case the compiler can do that conversion: is it is programmed to do that for some subset of numeric types or can it infer an optimal binary representation of a value somehow?

On the other hand, if they really were represented as lists then I presume this language is intended as purely academic work and has no application in a production environment. Am I wrong?
A belief that relies on known falsehoods is plainly mistaken.
If you're playing a 16 bit PCM at a reasonable listening level of 85dB SPL, then your 6 bit sinusoid is at 25dB SPL, which is quieter than a whisper at 6 feet away in a library. The quantization noise floor of a 6 bit recording is a further ~30dB quieter.

So, the noise of that signal is -5dB SPL. 0dB SPL was set to be the lowest possible perceivable level of a single sound in an aechoic chamber. And that's not even considering other sounds in the recording, or ambient noise levels in a typical living room, etc.

In your example, moving to 24 bit would been a long way from having any effect (other than a 50% increase in file size). And if you use, say, an 8 bit signal as an example, then things are even less noisy. Note that the noise is the only consideration here: any fidelity loss is represented in that figure.

The audio engineers of yore who (among other things) decided that 16 bits was more than enough for final mixdown were much more competent than they get credit for (many were downright amazing at what they did, in fact). They thought of stuff like this.
Where the analogy breaks down is that Quarterback is a very specific job that millions of people train for from a young age. Despite the uncertainty over how top prospects will pan out in the NFL, and the influence of the supporting cast, etc, there still is a huge amount of objective data to look at about performance over time.

To make a startup succeed you need some very special people. Many brilliant programmers, designers, sales people, executives, etc do not have what it takes to build a successful company. Heck, many people have what it takes to build one successful company, but not another one, or they have what it takes if they are with certain complementing individuals but not others. This is because unlike sports teams, every company is different, and every successful one succeeds in a unique way. The number one criteria for the initial hires should be people who, in addition to whatever concrete skill you need right now, also have a strong ability to feel out this invisible path and separate the 99% chaff of potentially promising tasks from the 1% that actually get you closer to a viable business.

Now how do you filter for that? Hell if I know.
Pretty sure it's getting downvoted because Hacker News doesn't want pseudointellectual superiority circlejerks overtaking actual technical discussion.
The interesting question to me is why this particular video is so wildly popular. I don't generally go in for music videos, but I find this one fascinating and have watched it a dozen times. I read an article that tried to explain to non-Koreans like me the meaning of it all, and apparently there are several layers of parody and social satire. I think I love it for its combination of attitude, surrealism, bizarre humor, and self-mockery, plus the music that seems to fit magically.
Unsigned ints aren't supported by any sql database.
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/84/
Agreed. I kind of miss the good old days when the dichotomy was functional/imperative (which is much more valid), and the prevalent rhetoric didn't seem quite so eager to erase the likes of Caml and Dylan from the pages of history.
Sure, but these types of deep architectures haven't really been practical until relatively recently.

Well, then we're in agreement about the meaning of the term.
Deep Learning, then, would be Machine Learning using any of these deep architectures – be they Restricted Boltzmann Machines, or otherwise.
I can't understand that attitude. The whole point of moving to another is to embrace the new country and learn from the experience.

There is a lot more to the US than learning English. This is not just a change of address.

I can say for myself, if I ever move to the US, I'd probably be end up as involved in politics as a non-citizen can be.
Data caps, limited competition a recipe for trouble in home Internet service
+1. Everytime I see for(int i=0;...;i++) I wonder why we have developed this habit of defaulting all int as signed and consider uint as taboo (most coding guidelines asks not to use them unless "you know what you are doing"). Most of the time we use integers for counting and so uint should have been more natural. I did this in one of my libraries I was writing from scratch and I was happy for a while but then I got in to trouble because there is lot of code out there with interfaces expecting signed ints even though they should using uint. So ultimately the legacy forced me back to default again at using signed int.
We certainly don't help the problem. I have a few friends who switch jobs every 9 months or so, which almost certainly makes companies wary of investing years of training.
The article doesn't mention it because it would be useless advice. Most startups don't have the money to match Facebook, Google, etc. and the ones that do don't need the advice.
Ezra was an inspiration to me. My first ever OS contribution was to merb, and his was so helpful, it inspired me to keep going. It was great to work with him on that project, and later at Engineyard. So sorry to hear of his passing.
Here we see silverstorm employ a pair common techniques for handling criticism of dog whistle rhetoric.

First, he attempts to leverage previous deliberately vague language with a trap -- a demand for the respondent to place his vague language into precise terms:

If I'm arguing, what am I arguing for?

Of course, this is a can't lose situation if the respondent obliges. It does not matter what answer is given, the response will be that they are wrong and mistaken about challenges of racism, as evidenced by their wrongness. Vague language is what allows this to happen.

Silverstorm uses this as a starting point for an attempt to regain control of the conversation. As I mentioned below, this is a key concept of dog whistle techniques:

It is a strategy based on controlling the conversation

The comment to which silverstorm is responding makes no mention of H1Bs or Visas or dual citizenship, nor does it take any position on grants of citizenship. But that's what silverstorm is going to pretend happened. It's an attempt to take control of the conversation.

For an interesting exercise, open the links to the two comments in separate tabs. See if you think you could tell just from reading that one of those was in direct response to the other when the comments are no longer stacked and indented.
What? I think you have me confused with someone else.
OK, then why not have the sensitive operation always take 100ms? If it finishes early, just sleep until the 100ms mark.
I don't think anyone is arguing that you do, the high-frequency sinusoid he described has a peak-to-peak amplitude of 2 * UINT6_MAX (although it appears as though the intention was a sinusoid with a p-p amplitude of UINT6_MAX) which on its own (in terms of the integer numbers given in his example) be represented in a 6-bit system. This isn't really relevant though, because that signal would be 0dBFS in a 6-bit system. The higher 10 bits are far from unused by the sinusoid in a 16 bit system, as they allow the amplitude of the sinusoid relative to the other sinusoid to remain unchanged. The little stairstep digitally-sampled sinusoid picture might look a little more rough for the "6-bit" sinusoid than the "10-bit" sinusoid but that's A)kind a pathological case and B)not at all representative of what gets sent to the amplifier after the DAC. (Think about the spectrum of all those little "stairsteps" and what happens to them once they are sent across a shunt capacitor...) anyways
It doesn't really have a point. I was just trying to find a way to make it possible for people to actually remember different things and both to be correct.

So like I remember one thing, but once the waveform collapsed it ended up being different. But my memories are either of what could have been (the other state of the waveform), or alternately memories from a different universe.

I thought it was an interesting idea so I wrote it. I'm not trying to start new physics.
Out of curiosity: did the finger hot dog trick not work, or did it not translate to the magic eye?
I'm all for expanding frontiers of science.

I'd much prefer sending robotic exploration craft, though.

I don't see much scientific gain coming out of putting the people in space, while the massively increased costs associated of keeping people alive and well in space just subtract from scientific gains in knowledge and exploration.

Putting people in space is for PR, putting robots in space is for science.
Except that high frequencies attenuate fairly quickly in air.

Sound attenuates proportional to f^2 in air. So, a 10-fold increase in frequency causes a 100-fold increase in attenuation. So, a 100KHz signal has 10,000 times the attenuation for a 1KHz signal over the same range.

In addition, attenuation due to water vapor is particularly bad above about 40KHz.
Much of that study cannot be replicated, and people have tried:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersonic_effect

In addition, the effect went away when using headphones.

However, I can certainly believe that if you can pump enough energy to rattle things at ultrasonic frequencies you are going to get a result. Especially since ultrasonic frequencies rattle in water particularly effectively.

As an example, if I pump enough energy into an ultraviolet or infrared signal at your eye I will eventually get a detection result in your brain. However, pain and a burned retina are not what we think about when we consider a brain response.
I don’t use Agda, but for most mathy Unicode input, I use C-\ (toggle-input-method) and choose TeX mode. Then you can type “\forall\alpha. \alpha \to \alpha” and get back “∀α. α → α”, which is pretty good. There is also C-x 8 RET if you want to type a particular Unicode character by name or code point number.
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Check this and the citing papers for it:

http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED498867

"Purported labor market shortages for scientists and engineers are anecdotal and also not supported by the available evidence"

"the education system produces qualified graduates far in excess of demand: S&E occupations make up only about one-twentieth of all workers, and each year there are more than three times as many S&E four-year college graduates as S&E job openings"

This article links to a bunch of other papers:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-i...

"The departure of STEM graduates to other fields starts early. In 2008, the NSF surveyed STEM graduates who’d earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 2006 and 2007. It found that 2 out of 10 were already working in non-STEM fields. And 10 years after receiving a STEM degree, 58 percent of STEM graduates had left the field"

Some data from the economic policy institute (this is the first place i could re-find it):
http://www.rit.edu/news/pdfs/CHE_Hira.pdf

Of the 50% of engineering graduates not working in engineering, 40% of CS grads not in CS, (35% total are working in totally unrelated fields), ~50% are not working in their fields because of pay and conditions, 37% are not working in their fields because they can't find work, and 10% are not working in the field for another reason. The 37% probably aren't the people who moved into management consulting.

Certainly some STEM grads may not be qualified to work in tech, but i'd argue that a biology major would easily adapt to working in the average web development shop. And certainly a mathematician or engineer would (obviously).

Lastly, there's a large supply of unemployed CS graduates in the US:
http://www.epi.org/publication/pm195-stem-labor-shortages-mi...
Being generous with equity by default is a bad strategy. Employees are bad at valuing it, and it becomes a point-score system, which is almost the worst-case scenario for equity allocation. It also does few favors for the employees themselves, because when allocations get out of whack, the company can and (because it often has to) will pull the rug out from under them.

The better strategy is to be generous with salary, and to make equity available as an option for people who want a more uncapped upside and to assume more of the risk. That selects for people who understand what equity is, and is fair to everyone.
What is your business? How has the API helped you? Genuinely curious :)
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Yeah. My understanding of Rocket from the original blog post is that they don't have an "API" in the sense the Docker one is described at all. Since Rocket is just a container format/runner, there's no client/server relationship to document. You're running an executable on your system just like any other.

I'm new to Docker, so maybe there are some big wins surrounding the docker client/server architecture that I'm not realizing. But I already have tools in place to run commands on a remote server -- that's not the problem that I'm looking to Docker to solve. So if Rocket is able to get the containerization aspect working smoothly with fewer moving pieces, I'll count that as a point in its favor.

In fairness to Docker, I haven't had too much trouble so far pretending that "docker run" commands without the "-d" flag are just running the process in that PID. So the extra hidden complexity of really running it in another process and piping stdout back hasn't affected me in any negative way either.
Hire people who know the difference Google. Math puzzles doesn't solve everything :)
//quantize run duration to mitigate timing attacks
checkPasswordWrapper(...) {
result = checkPassword(...)
until (getMilliseconds() % 250) {
sleep(1) //Needs optimization
}
return result
}
yeah, some numbers can never be negative, but their difference can. and that's when it usually comes to bite me in the ass. i almost never use unsigned ints now.
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Which is a completely birdbrained policy given that signed integer under and overflow is completely undefined. If you want to catch implicit signed -> unsigned conversions then enable that warning on your compiler.... what they'd advocating is just dangerous.
This could be considered a failure of the medical training system rather than a failure of the immigration system. Canada has lots of need for doctors, there's a lack of residency spots to qualify as a Canadian-approved doctor.
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The idea is that what actually happened is what the video shows, but my memory shows what could have happened if the waveform collapsed the other way.

The whole thing is that people don't remember falsely things that are in contradiction with how things played out.

They remember thing falsely in a way that could have actually happened - that's why they believe them.

So you would never have a memory like this that would be impossible - it would only be little things that could have gone either way.
H1-B is a standard normal way.
Would anyone else stuck with a bunch of subscriptions on Authorize.net like to see Stripe come up with an easy way to transition over? That would be incredible.
Fair enough.

I'm not an adherent to the many worlds interpretation, and I claim no specific expertise in this space. That said, I read your comment as implying that a MWI would be, by definition, acyclic? To be honest I was thinking that might not be the case on the theory that you could arrive at the same universe by many paths. Some part of me wants infinity constrained slightly :-)
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Yes, <new tech> is detrimental. It becomes another hurdle that every subsequent Mars mission has to clear in the debate. "We can't go to Mars, we don't have <new tech> yet!"
Sarcasm?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/numeric-type-overview...
And in case it takes more than 100ms or a widely variable amount of time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8691076
Yes I've opened a ticket. And I'm switching to an external service for the emails. Thanks.
The tone is not so bad considering it was written by Bryan Cantrill, Joyent CTO. His blog post antics were discussed here a week ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8663197. At least this time he didn't fake fire anyone.

Joyent is building some way you can run Docker images on a Solaris kernel.
You mean you're sad that the majority of people on earth don't know or care about higgs boson? That's a weird thing to be sad about.
As someone excited about Docker and mildly annoyed by the idea that there would be _two_ "standard" container implementations, this is reassuring to me.

I hope shykes & co see the light and break the "new" aspirations out from the core Docker container; having one binary is aesthetically pleasing but understandably bothersome to anyone who likes modularity (most devs & unix folks, afaict).
Only the memory is transfered from one universe to another, not the actual event.

And because people don't usually falsely remember things in a way that is inconsistent with how things turned out only subtle changes would be transfered.

This is just an idea I'm playing with for fun, I'm not trying to start new physics.
Okay, I'm gonna take the bait.

> Sort of a quantum superposition, which collapses the wavefront in different ways for different people? Maybe tie in multiple universes somehow, and events shift from one to the other.

Then the observers with differing memories would actually live in different "multiverse tracks" (different universes with a common origin in the past) and would never interact with each other, ever again.

The fact that they can interact, even indirectly via a 3rd party like a cross-examiner, is proof that they live in the same worldtrack, and therefore the wave has "collapsed" the same way for both.
In my previous post I just explained I am 100% for immigration. All immigration. I welcome any and all peoples. Is that still too vague for you? Too much dog whistle? Too much covert racism? How can I be sufficiently clear?

I brought up H1B's because they were part of the original conversation, before you joined.