skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. We're not even certain if life exists (or ever previously existed) on planets that we have hardware on.

The criteria in the article were input energy and a "bath" into which that energy can be dissipated. Perhaps there is a minimum potential difference before structures will self-organize--or perhaps the probability of self-organization is proportional to the difference.

Speculating along this line of reasoning: On Mercury, you have plenty of input energy, but few options for dissipating it. On Europa, you may have the reverse problem.

For all we know, however, Europa may actually have life. Our sample set is too small.
Are there historical parallels to the current situation? Has there been another time or place where a young population all of a sudden became rich in the span of only a few decades and wanted to live in urban areas, which were currently occupied by less rich communities?

Has this happened before? How did it turn out?
Or maybe people just shouldn't take drugs.
I am glad I read the article and not judge it based on your comment. Your comment is apparently valid for some research but here its targeting the wrong one.
We don't know when and where life might have existed or currently exists ...even on the planets that we know about. Some interesting things to read if you wonder about such things:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Seager#Seager_equation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
Shiny is incredible. My company might be delivering a customer facing product using Shiny.
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The semantics for write(2) and mmap(2) differ. Neither can be used to implement the other in full.

It's possible to have access patterns which don't demonstrate the efficiencies of mmap but it would be incorrect to suggest they do not exist. The overhead of making a syscall to access an area of a file and copying the data being accessed is significant for many workloads.
My suspicion is that it started as an economic move. The Israelites were sheep herders trying to carve a niche in a dominant culture of pig and cattle herders. Telling them they couldn't eat pork and certain sacrifices had to be lambs was a way of subsidizing the sheep farmers. I came to this conclusion after reading a long chapter in the bible that talks about the breeding. Even back then they understood husbandry and economics. I doubt anyone had a clue about germ theory.
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Mostly reliability. I would never carry spinning rust in my laptop again, those days are gone. But also form factor, simplicity, consistency of end-user experience, and eventually solid-state will be cheaper than spinning platters in any case. Every graph I've seen of storage price with series for platters and flash show those lines eventually intersecting.
Seems there's nothing specific in the article about which which changes to DX are supposed to enable CGI quality, or how. Is it more polys/sec for smoother models and more geometry? Maybe a more efficient shared memory architecture for GI (I'm speculating. Maybe dreaming)? We're always being promised cinema quality in games, and while we're really not all that far off from it already, we're still quite a bit behind in lighting/rendering.
You describe me by directly contradicting my own statements. Now you're telling me I am lying about myself just so you can paint me as some particular kind of bogeyman? You could have had this conversation without me. Try accusing a mailbox of something as an outlet, perhaps? Or do you have a need to make people feel bad?
CGI = Computer-generated Imagery

Now that's what I call a tautology :)

"Feature film quality" is probably what the author was after.
And not just rendering. Animation is the biggest issue. You don't get Hollywood quality animation out of nothing. DX12 is going to provide some new features but calling it "as good as CGI" (i.e. movie-quality CGI) is just dreaming.
Thanks 4 your feedback, the reason why I am using the requrejs + amdclean is that the other tools I've found like browserify add extra code to keep using the require calls and I would like to avoid it. If there is a better solution I'd really appreciate a pull request
Yup. Simply disassociating the benefits of rent control from the housing unit it is attached to would go a long way to permitting development. The way things are today, rent control basically serves as an almost permanent mutex on the development of the underlying real estate.

I'd be more useful if cities made it a policy that the amount of housing subsidy you receive is proportional to the year you moved to the city. That would achieve the same goal as rent control (i.e. affordable housing), but alleviates the mutex on many structures that could be torn down to make way for structures that permit great density.

Affordable housing programs are fine. Tying up the underlying asset indefinitely is counterproductive.
Yes, I'm familiar with Michael Hoffman's egodeath theory, and I agree with many of his historical perspectives and interpretations of religious experience. Like you say, his theory is hard to summarize. Relating to this thread, I think psychoactives can be a double-edged sword used for good or evil. Quoting Hoffman:

> Given that the Empire used entheogenic mystery-religion initiation to dominate socially and oppressively, Christianity used mystery-religion initiation to emancipate/liberate ... The religions of Jesus and Caesar were in a battle over the meaning and application of mystery-religion initiation. It's a battle about what to do with the fact of mystery-religion initiation. [1]

Perhaps there were mystery cults with the best of intentions, such as the Gnostics for example, who would have had good reasons to conduct their initiations in secrecy to avoid persecution. And perhaps psychoactives can be used for "short path enlightenment" as Watts would say, as well as for political control.

What gives me pause for concern is the evidence of deep involvement on the part of the CIA with the drug counterculture. This is the same agency with a history of overthrowing democratically elected governments, conducting heinous psychological experiments on Americans, and not to mention torturing and murdering people around the world. They're simply not to be trusted.

Yet we find the fingerprints of the CIA all over the origins of the so-called psychedelic revolution, even carefully crafting the terms and definitions in which to frame the discussion:

> In the early years of research into these drugs, psychology researchers and military intelligence communities sometimes called them, aside from “hallucinogen,” by the name “psychotomimetic” –which means psychosis mimicking. The word hallucinogen, “to generate hallucinations,” came just a few years before psychotomimetic. The same year that psychotomimetic was created we also saw the creation of the word “psychedelic” – which means “to manifest the mind.” The last stage of this etymological evolution, as we’ll see, was the word “entheogen” – which means “to generate god within.”

The word "entheogen" was a creation of Wasson and Ruck [2], which has the intended effect of framing discussions about psychoactives as spiritual phenomenon. Like Leary said, it's all about set and setting.

Jan Irvin, a researcher in this field who I quoted above, has said that "mysticism is the tool of tyrants". It's hard to find cases in history of mysticism liberating individuals with so-called true knowledge. Usually, it's been the opposite: rational, scientifically-based discovery has been the liberator from superstition, ignorance, prejudice, and authority.

I'll definitely check out csp.org since this is an area of interest for me. And I'd be happy to talk about experiences via an email discussion with you at donald dot ness at gmail dot com.

[1] http://www.egodeath.com/SocioPoliticalResistanceAsThematicLa...
[2] http://www.gnosticmedia.com/Entheogens_WhatsinaName_Psychede...
Can a 'perfect' algorithm actually give end-users the consistent feel of flash performance with 80% of data stuck on platters? I doubt it.

Access patterns having some statistical distribution is one thing. Writing the allocator -- and always guessing right in where you allocate a file is another thing altogether.

Flash is massively higher performance, so every time you are wrong the user will definitely know. All we hear about these drives is that they aren't consistently fast. Or they're decent until you actually push them too hard.

SSDs themselves used to have poor consistency. But drives are manufactured to ever increasing standards. The Samsung 10 year warranty for example is striking.

80% of your data on a medium which is less reliable over time?! More complex moving parts increases failure rates. There are downsides here to consider I think?
I can understand that debugging expanded code is not fun.

On the other hand, LOOP allows to naturally express iteration patterns that can be error-prone with other languages: you hardly produce off-by-one bugs contrary to hand-crafted loops.

See the Appendix of the Iterate manual for a comparison of looping constructs in CL: http://common-lisp.net/project/iterate/doc/Don_0027t-Loop-It....
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You're gonna have to learn to talk that Variety speak!
Thats the exact point. Why pay for all flash in a storage system when the costs don't justify the usage. The article is pointing out that our applications don't use all of the storage allocated to them. Thus we really don't need a one medium for all but rather a tailored approach based on your workloads.
> "The Soviets also had a design that supposedly incorporated stolen Concorde blueprints"

From what I understand, the Tu-144 didn't really incorporate anything of significance from Concorde -- the plans they had access to were more like sketches than fully fleshed out blueprints, and they only had usable details on a few minor components. The Tu-144 shares mostly superficial similarities with Concorde, with only a couple of similarities that might possibly have been the result of espionage.
I didn't know Esperanto.I will test it an if it produces a better output I'd be happy to replace requirejs + amdclean with it
Not a very good starting point to consider phone app storage a reliable secure black box...
Yes, write a book. It would sell like hot cakes to us. You've inspired the shit out of me today!!
True, but you can increase that reliability with encrypted sqlite. Gonna have to pay for it, though.
I disagree with clumping atonal together with microtonal, they are two completely different things.

Regarding Wyschnegradsky, maybe his music is a gentle introduction into atonal music, I don't know. Compared to other microtonal music though, I find it quite dissonant. Some alternatives I would suggest:

Wendy Carlos' album "Beaty in the Beast",
Easley Blackwood's etudes, such as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odTIoRzbDhA , Sevish's music: https://soundcloud.com/sevish ,Cryptic Ruse's music: https://soundcloud.com/crypticruse, X.J. Scott's music: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=141776 ,Prent Rodgers' music: https://soundcloud.com/prent-rodgers ,Dante Rosati's music: https://soundcloud.com/dante-rosati ,Syzygy's music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3FZkQTn51o

And I could go on.
over-analysis of language is needed when language becomes arbitrary

I'm not sure I understand why over-analysis is needed. The "cloud" concept isn't entirely arbitrary. Most clouds (unless they're in a photograph or painting or being described abstractly using language) arise from the same physical processes and behave similarly (raining, darkening the sky and so on). This is how "cloud" gets its meaning in everyday language: there really is a shared phenomenon there.

The error happens when we try to understand the individual physical processes underlying a particular phenomenon as part of a single object. Even though the concept of separate objects is useful in everyday life, it no longer has meaning when you start trying to decide which cloud a given raindrop belongs to. Why not just abandon the now-useless concept of cloud and start talking about the raindrops as individual entities with their own behavior? Of course, we could look closely at the raindrops and see they are made of molecules: really the concept of "raindrop" is just another useful but ultimately imprecise bit of language. And so on...
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> Note it presently has no support for loops whatsoever.

Could you comment on why? Is it perhaps necessary to save/restore ECX [edit: I meant RCX for 64bit] between procedure/function calls/rets?
I had something much larger typed up, but I'll be honest, it's been a number of years since I studied and my chemistry is a bit rusty. From what I seem to remember, I would've thought the apomorphine rearrangement would be more likely to prevail in the conditions given from a RP/I2 reaction, but I'm possibly completely off-base now (see above: rusty!).

I'd be super curious to see whether anyone has properly analysed what comes out of that reaction, and what those addicts are putting into their veins (aside from horrendous toxic byproducts). The reaction method makes some sense, but reactions with opiates are typically finicky, so I've always been skeptical of these reports. I'd expect desomorphine to be present, yes, but in trace amounts at best (along with morphine and other byproducts)!
thanks without you this project would neither exist. At moment I didn't find any issue with 6to5 but if I'll do of course I will let you know. Btw feel free to do the same on my project.
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Significant typo: the second memset() in each pair needs to be memcpy() instead.
Also, many cultures have microtonality as the basis of melody. Makam in Turkish/Ottoman classical music, Qawwali in Pakistani Sufi music, both Carnatic and Hindustani music from Inda, Tuvan from Mongolia, etc. A great recent example is Aphex Twin's most recent album - Syro - which is pretty much end-to-end quarter-tone and microtonally based.
I really want to see the package manager security paper when it's out.
That's the goal right? To make the software do the heavy lifting so your storage is better utilized without requiring the end user to do the constant change between mediums of storage.
I never heard about Axe, I wish I'd had access to it when I was in high school. I spent a lot of time in high school writing games in TI BASIC.

Good job!
For fun with microtonal synthesis, (or just "fretless", depending on your zoom factor), I recommend playing with DIN Is Noise ( http://dinisnoise.org/ )

Other features include a script api (in Tcl!), support for thousands of simultanious oscillators, a microtonal mouse+kbd interface, and a Bézier editor for the waveform, envelope, etc.

DIN may be next to impossible[1] to use as an actual instrument, but it's still really fun to play with. I would love to see some of DIN's unique ideas (like Bézier envelopes) used in other synths.

[1] The C.C.C.C., MSBR, and TG albums on my shelf suggest "impossible" is merely personal opinion.
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That's an interesting point. It seems that Cicero would have been between a rock and a hard place, on the one hand advocating republican ideals, and on the other appearing loyal to Caesar in the midst of imperial ambitions.
It lets you write javascript using the brand new ES6 syntax (not yet supported by any browser) publishing code runnable on any modern browser/nodejs
Check out page 15 of their Odroid magazine December issue [1]. It has a few Odroid-C1 vs Raspberry Pi B+ benchmarks.

[1]: http://magazine.odroid.com/assets/201412/pdf/ODROID-Magazine...
Periodic table of the loop macro
The world needs a single-HDD form factor explicit HD + SSD for laptops. No changes in laptops needed, use a single cable and SATA's standard PMP (port multiplier) feature in the device. OS sees two separate drives.
I'm pretty much a beginner. I think the last time I saw a similar game was on my C64 ;)

Thanks for the commands :)
Speaking of screen size, having used it i confirm that 39-40" is what i find the minimum acceptable size for 4K if you are not running in HiDPI mode. It corresponds to 1080p at 20" which (which to my 50y eyes is almost below the threshold of what i can see).
Depends on context, but I like variations of the ole

"If you could wave a magic wand and change one thing about (your life | your job | this situation | your marriage | whatever), what would you change?"

Another good one, is this - after asking a series of questions, ask

"Is there anything I should have asked you, that I didn't?"

This seems more appropriate for business conversations than casual smalltalk / social situations, but you might be able to riff on it and come up with some useful variations.

Also, for when talking to doctors:

"What's the worst thing that could be causing my symptoms?"

"Could I have multiple problems contributing to these symptoms?"

"If this diagnosis were to turn out wrong, what would the correct diagnosis then probably turn out to be?"

Credit to "How Doctors Think" for the above three (not necessarily word for word, but the spirit of them anyway).
The Concorde used about triple the fuel per passenger of other aircraft of its era.

As a rule of thumb, going supersonic triples fuel consumption. There's some research on improving that, and also reducing the sonic boom, but nothing flying yet. The aircraft geometries proposed are exotic. Angled flying wings, aircraft that transition from long/narrow to short/wide, and double inline wings have been considered.

http://www6.miami.edu/acfdlab/projects/AIAA2010-1013_slides_...

http://aero.stanford.edu/reports/vki_kroo_supersonics.pdf

Meanwhile, there's a startup proposing to build a supersonic bizjet.

http://www.aerionsupersonic.com

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it. It's only Mach 1.4 to Mach 1.6, though. The Concorde cruised just above Mach 2.
it usually is the smaller things that get overlooked. doesn't surprise me
It's definitely sensationalized. But the concept that life-type compounds are in some sense thermodynamically downhill from random molecules is worth looking at. It's testable, which beats most of what comes out of physics today.
Ok, I figured as much. I've only ever seen 'significant whitespace' to describe this, but I guess that's not very clear either. I myself do like it as well, I just wish tabs were the default for indenting in editors and general best practices instead of spaces.
Why? https://www.zetetic.net/sqlcipher/
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Please change the link to the original article, or simply flag it to hell:

http://www.littletinyfrogs.com/article/459838/DirectX_12_vs_...

Edit: Mind, even the original article is nonsensical as hell.
HTTP is not always insecure. Some environments (eg: LAN), can have network-level security (eg: IPSec).
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It's easy to blame politics, but those politics are based in social reality.

"Keeping the costs sane" for tech workers would mean putting the housing out of reach of many ordinary people.

There is a finite amount of space, and the reason why housing scarce in many cities in Europe is because a large portion is reserved for rent controlled social housing (which unlike the US isn't just the extreme low end).

Not doing that clearly doesn't work either (see SF), and has so many negative social side-effects that are unacceptable in Europe, so you don't even have to bother trying to suggest it.

It simply comes down to too many people wanting to live where there's not enough space. To solve that, you have to look at social factors, not bureaucracy and real estate.

Personally I would suggest looking at the people who actually wouldn't mind getting out of those cities but currently can't for various social and economic reasons. Ironically, those are not the tech workers who could at least theoretically work remotely.
Yeah, unfortunately most European cities are built to the max density allowed with old buildings that cost a lot to maintain and that offer an inferior experience to modern ones.

Rent controls and policies made for a negative populational growth only make things worse
I was talking about first class passengers who can go to the front of ticketing and security lines, since economy class passengers are not likely to be in the market for supersonic flights.
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The problem is that, if you're using it as an anti-nausea drug, you really don't want to take a pill that you're just going to throw up again! You want another method of intake.

And it turns out that vaporization is not only better for cannabis but tobacco as well, hence the e-cigarette craze.
Same housing problems in Copenhagen. I'm a student who just lives back in my home country and flies over to Copenhagen for exams because I couldn't find housing. If I want to get something, I have to be there so I can hunt down people in person. There's really no sort of easy way to just get an apartment room, and I've found that willing to pay more doesn't really help (though maybe if you're willing to rent out something for 3-4k USD a month + drop 12,000 on a deposit you might have better luck).
Perhaps it's just the increase in performance because DirectX is going to support multicore CPUs? The article only mentioned a doubling in performance. Isn't most of the work done on the GPU anyway?
Please someone explain something to me regarding the tech sector and housing

Edward Glaeser wrote a book that answers your question: Triumph of the City. Cities promote knowledge transfer and idea generation because of all the random interactions that happen among people. It's useful to be among people who are doing things like what you're doing. Cities offer great ways for cooperation and competition.

If you're doing routine tasks over and over again that can be done remotely maybe you don't need to live in a city. But the rest of us do, and the reasons make a lot of sense!
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Monitors with 40ms of input lag used to be commonplace and regarded as completely usable for non-gaming purposes. The extra input lag on a modern monitor that comes from running at 30Hz instead of 60Hz shouldn't be a huge problem, though depending on how much input lag there is due to other sources it might be at least noticeable.
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How can I insert a table?
I've googled but I couldn't find the way.
It is supported only purchased version?
I want to check this feature before I buy the quiver. :)
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Given this is funded by Mozilla, I'm surprised its not written in Rust. Any particular reasons?
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