skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The modern Lisp CPU may be almost the same as the modern OoO CPUs, with only a few additional bits (which would have been useful for things like JVM as well) - a hardware read and write barrier for the hardware-assisted GC, a tagged memory, a fully controllable cache prefetch and probably an additional scratchpad memory, and a smaller dedicated GC core. I'm currently working on such a design. ISA, besides the tagged memory, barriers and prefetching, does not matter much, can be a usual RISC thing.
Is This Problem Worth Solving?
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The point is, "discrimination" is sometimes just applying statistics. Just because some statistical factors correlate with race doesn't mean one is being racist; they are just optimizing their selection process.

If your optimized selection process selects away from Black candidates it is by definition racist.
It's a good point. I feel like we should start making distinctions between Tech startups (i.e. companies using technology as a core raison d'être - the Microsofts, Apples, Googles, Facebooks, Yahoos of the world) and tech-enabled companies (the Amazons, Ubers, Airbnbs, the numerous food delivery or washing businesses etc - basically just replacing an old ordering tech (the phone/catalog) with a new one (a website/mobile app)).
"Bad teachers can game any system; good teachers can lose their focus trying to take new requirements seriously."

This is a major point and it applies to educational 'systems' across the world.
Minor nit: Welfare isn't an entitlement, it's a "benefit." Entitlements are programs paid for through taxes--like Social Security and Medicare--with the expectation that they'll eventually be paid back to the taxpayer. That's why phrases like "entitlement reform" mean cuts or changes to Social Security and the old-age medical system.
The PoC exploit fails on Android 5.0.1 with latest Google Play Services.
Usual dodgy rags to riches story.

I'm rather sure the Scheinberg family (the founders and previous owners of PokerStars) engineered the takeover due to the bad outlook for online gaming in general (market segmentation via government regulations everywhere in combination with high taxation) and it had little to do with Baazovs business acumen.
I'd rather go for the voltera v-one which is capable of printing on FR4 board : http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/06/the-voltera-v-one-makes-cir...
With a video : http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/06/the-voltera-v-one-makes-cir...
> individuals sitting on their ass are getting paid $17/hr. There is no motivation to get a job.

The legal maximum is around 60% of your average weekly wage over the last year you worked. Whatever someone is getting in unemployment, they were making 66% more at their last job. That seems like enough motivation.

I suspect your numbers are skewed because you didn't subtract federal taxes from your unemployment check or add SS and Medicare to your wages. Once you take that into account, the difference is more like $210.
next time, try beta.vizir.co for a sexier survey !
Yes, of course the modern CPUs are designed with C in mind, and C-based benchmarks are always the first to be used to assess any new architectural change. So calling them 'C machines' is legitimate.

The worst bit of being a 'C machine' is the fact that the integers of unspecified nature and pointers are interchangeable, instead of forcing them to occupy the different register files. Another similar consequence is the lack of type tags, which could have been useful for many high level language features - GC, smarter caches pre-fetching the pointers from structures (most importantly for Lisp - pre-fetching the cons cells, depending on a way they've been accessed).
Forgot to mention it can even dispend solder paste and do reflow
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"That money and our presence there hasn't worked"

- I don't agree. It is valid if you are naive and believe US went around the world twice to spread goodwill and western values to those who despised them anyway, by blasting hundrets of thousands of civilians (and few armed guys along) to pieces. But, if you look at those adventures from economical perspective of those who have huge influence in US politics all the way to white house and can profit nicely from any war effort, there are no big mysteries. Or, just "follow the money" works nicely.

- completely agree on that cash spending point. in fact, my personal opinion is that we shouldn't try to reach the stars/other planets until we solve our massive issues here, ie no person should die from hunger, all children should get proper education/health care, minimize polluting/raping our own ecosystem etc. You know, the basics of fabric of any sustainable advanced society that we sometimes claim to be/aspire to be.

- multiculturalism has largely not worked, at least not for europe's immigration. the issue is lack of any proper integration, accepting european values etc. People here are well aware, and incidents like these will play nicely in hands of terrorists. Further polarization of society, meaning more jihad recruits, more attacks and so on. It doesn't matter that maybe 98% of muslims here are nice people that don't cause any issues (apart from that integration, but if I were living in muslim country, I wouldn't accept their values neither). US fares much better in this aspect.
The TDD analogy works when youre trying to objectively quantify and rank a person, based on their test result, but i don't think it works as well when youre trying to test a student body, or more roboticly put, a body of objects(really, thats not so TDD as much as it is ranking outputs of a black box)

When it comes to testing teacher/school performance through its students, if you reconsider a test framework is given a body of objects:

* instantiated outside its control(students are brought, not created at school)

* instantiated with unique and unknown inputs(vs given known inputs)

* have hidden independent variables(personal traits)

* have hidden linked/shared variables(external traits, economic environment, local crime, family etc)

* have _few known inputs_ (teachers, school staff, grounds)

and then ONLY test pass/fail based on those _few known inputs_ and the results from each individual object, you will learn that the inputs pass/failed, but determining what the cause is will be far harder(strong linked variable or teacher? intelligence sapping virus?). unfortunately the frameworks executors believe that the tests clearly show that given the inputs they control, the results are repeatable.

I don't think testing a body of objects-- err --students is pointless, but directly linking their results to teachers and schools discounts so much more than this testing framework can account for. They should be a starting place for conversation, but not a litmus test.
Mass market has already swallowed willingly some highly specialised stuff, like GPUs, for example.
The Final Demonstration of the Xerox 'Star' Computer
You shouldn't have your doubts. The pros stopped playing even inferior bots a long time ago in HULHE. We're talking 5 years ago.

I have very little doubt that this bot cannot be beat.
In the same vein, an easy way to get the tests to pass is to add a bunch of "if" statements to handle each test case. Of course, that is counterproductive in terms of the usefulness of the software.

However, because so much weight is put on testing, that is essentially what happens in school a lot of the time. For some reason, it seems more obviously absurd in the software context.
It's not ignored, but it's not a 'huge part' of the game.

It's one of thousands of factors that weigh in, and in my mind, one of the least important factors.

I've played several million hands of poker fwiw.
I assumed genetics.
This is really cool, locks up the tab in Safari 8.0.2 once in awhile though.

Also, the brushed metal is a nice nod to the late 90's.

Why Delphi for generation the terrain?
Now there's the true casualty of the barbox. 3-cushion is practically extinct here in the US. You can still play straight pool if you want to, but good luck finding a pocketless table anywhere, outside of a Korean or Columbian neighborhood. It's a crying shame for such a creative and elegant game.

I've been trying to play, but there are literally zero tables in all of Manhattan where I live.
I was surprised that he mentioned the global financial crisis. I think 'too big to fail' was one of the biggest frauds ever committed against society. There is no such thing as too big to fail.

I think the 2008 financial crisis was an evolutionary mechanism for society to rid itself of excessive greed among its leaders (natural selection). The bailout was an unnatural intervention and will only serve to propagate the genes for greed in our society.

I think it's only a matter of time though before the next crisis - And I think it will be the same people who will take us there - This time the cause will be more clever and more complicated than the last time.
CES 2015: Why the future of drones is up in the air
Small point, but I think the writers of Breaking Bad agree with you more than you think they do. The show was in no way endorsing meth cooking, as it ruins (nearly) every aspect of Walt's life.

In fact, the show was basically saying, "Hey, teaching needs to be more valued in our culture, because right now 'good' teachers can't afford what they need and feel discouraged."

Now, of course the meth-cooking was an exaggeration--and in no way is Walt excused for his actions (he had friends, family, and co-workers all offering to help)--but it was meant to show how trapped teachers felt.
> As an aside, it's a bit simplified and inflammatory to cast this as a black/white thing.

I agree in a limited way. I was originally going to use forced religious conversion as my example instead of cosmetic surgery, but I discovered that while it's easy to find unemployment statistics by race, it's not so easy to find unemployment statistics by religion.

Regardless -- as far as I can see, you've completely missed the point that being in a bucket labeled "5.4% unemployment" doesn't necessarily cause people to personally experience 5.4% unemployment. If it sounds strange to you that a group of people might develop better employment statistics by having cosmetic surgery en masse, or by all converting from voodoo to judaism, that should give you pause before concluding that forced education would have any more effect than forced conversion.
If your tests are of the form

`assert(complexFunction() == 42)`

then the easiest way to make the test pass is just to return 42. The analogy in education is "teaching to the test". You can get people to recall small specific bits of information for the test without it actually being useful.
Is this going to be tricky for distributions or will they just have to keep a 1.4 version of Go around just to build modern versions of Go?
Generating OpenCL/CUDA source code from C++ expressions in VexCL
So, is college selection process in the US racist? The process is SAT, and AFAIK blacks and Hispanics score less than whites, who score less than Asians. Is is also sexist (as more women than men study)?

I don't think so. Correlation doesn't equal causation.

Edit: also, since more Asians and less blacks are accepted at good universities, if your company relies on the name of university when selecting candidates (e.g. a candidate from Harvard is more likely to have an interview than a candidate from an unknown state school), by your logic that's racist as well.
Surely this would mean sending very high powered microwaves around a living space. Does anybody have more information/knowledge about the medium to long term safety of this approach.
You are using worst kinds of ads on the internet.
And the only thing which my chrome blocks is actually the link to video.
I'd go with still far away.
You could, for those customers, give the software away for free but charge for each support request?

HN has some advice about "firing customers".

http://blog.aaronklein.com/post/59393862062/firing-a-custome...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4045251

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3131372

https://www.groovehq.com/support/how-to-fire-a-bad-customer
> I dunno what & how you're selling

Yeah - link to it!
Any vendor is free to sell lottery tickets, but if they call those lottery tickets something else (e.g. a computer with fixed specs, rather than a range of possible specs), customers may be less than satisfied with the transaction.
How sure are you about your other app? (the one you're investing your time in currently)

It might be unwise to give some certain away for something not so certain.
Although binary search is straightforward, the details can be tricky
Jesus... did you even read the article you are commenting on? It isn't just one example. And it isnt about being racist, its about racism without racists.

> One study conducted by a Brigham Young University economics professor showed that white NBA referees call more fouls on black layers, and black referees call more fouls on white players. Another study that was published in the American Journal of Sociology showed that newly released white felons experience better job hunting success than young black men with no criminal record, Ross says.

>"The overwhelming number of people will actually experience the black man as having the knife because we're more open to the notion of the black man having a knife than a white man, " Ross says. "This is one of the most insidious things about bias. People may absorb these things without knowing them."

Anyways, this kinda stuff has been shown to happen with plenty of different groups. Attractive vs ugly, fat vs normal weight, woman vs man, old vs young, tall vs short. We aren't as rational as we'd like to believe.

...And what the hell does someone coming from a poor neighborhood have anything to do with anything? I grew up poor, I don't see how that is relevant to my job skills. I'd love to knkw why I'd be optimized out of a selection process. Furthermore, your resume usually has your address on it, you don't have to guess.
education degrees are lower on the IQ scale
http://www.statisticbrain.com/iq-estimates-by-intended-colle...

I think they are paid about right, given the business model. If we had a private run education system, we would see much higher salaries (and attract much smarter people to the career).
The Pen vs. The Gun: 30 Cartoonists Pay Tribute to the Victims of Charlie Hebdo
Is there an application, in any way, of this in graphics animation or any field?
Wow, it boggles my mind to think what we can do in a browser these days...
I got this too!
Just don't have any chocolate in your pockets.
And if you have your phone in your pocket and happen to be in the beam, your testicles get microwaved. (Well, I hope and may assume that they addressed that in some way, but the article doesn't mention it.)
The post and the product page at http://www.energous.com/overview/ don't have much details. However the product pages has some data about the power output:

> Power Delivered to a Consumer Full-Featured Product

> 4W delivered simultaneously to 4 devices, 0-5 feet

> 2W delivered simultaneously to 4 devices, 5-10 feet

> 1W delivered simultaneously to 4 devices, 10-15 feet

> Delivering on average 2W to 4 devices simultaneously within the charging envelope

Things that concern me are, in random order:

- Is it safe to keep the device (let say it's a phone) in a pocket or close to one's head while is it charging?

- Is it safe to sit/sleep for hours in between the charger and a (possibly somebody's else) device?

- How focused the power beam is?

- What are the safety measures to prevent other people stealing the power? Think about the family living on the other side of the wall. Probably Bluetooth pairing, but I'm not 100% sure.

- Does it cause reduction of bandwidth for WiFi? (it uses the same frequencies)

- Compliancy with regulations about electromagnetic pollution? They started the certification process in the USA for a receiver (http://www.energous.com/energous-completes-initial-fcc-part-...) but I'm more worried about the transmitter.
Looks like the American Idol audition

(I'm serious)

However, rolling 6 on 5 dice is 1 to 7766 odds, and I suspect AI has a lower entrance bar for the committee
its the business model. As long as its taxpayer funded, incentives won't be aligned, and you won't see a lot of money in education. A market system would have a lot higher salaries, and attract a lot more investment.
This was an awesome and very inspiring talk.

It would be interesting to create a game where the population has limited ressources on a planet and if it overdoes the exploitation it gets extinct (like 'How bis is our island' https://twitter.com/dirkk/status/549866431480074240 ). Also I was equally inspired by Vi Harts and Nick Cases 'Parable of the Polygons' (http://ncase.me/polygons/).

'Boidz' and 'Game of Life' make complex behaviours from a simple set of rules. It was very smart of you to throw in some simplified physics rules (and civilization rules etc) to make these work together.

I can't access your website right now (is it down?), so I don't know if you run a blog or something. Will you continue to work on this?
Ask HN: Is it okay to request a none live coding exercise before an interview?
Posting from a throwaway.

So i'm 2/4 interviews in with a well known large corporation.
The next interview is the technical one, beforehand I asked the interviewer what the nature of the coding exercise would be. He mentioned that sometimes they give you an exercise to do in your own time and others they do live coding during the interview.

Live interview coding is something I struggle with and I would be much happier doing an exercise in my own time. The technical interview is in a week. Is it acceptable to request a coding exercise I can do in my own time rather than a live coding exercie?
Yep, that's as far as you can go. Obviously you can fly around the world and place things from any distance, but it's a bit of work still.

Would love to see someone build a program that automates this, though!
But isn't "same old, same old" a dangerous position? I understand what you are saying, there have constantly been wars in every possible inhabitable area, everywhere in the world and especially at the end of the 19th century. So the US is not special in that respect. But the outside view of the US is that they deem themselves special - the shining beacon on the hill - a narrative that cannot be accommodated with its history. Germany had to come to terms with its past, acknowledge its past, is it too much to ask American citizens to do that as well, and continue onwards with a little more humbleness? The history of the US is not particularly nasty in comparison to other countries' histories, but it is not particularly exemplary as well.
What? There isn't. You're basing your entire argument on a hypothetical 'what-if' scenario that's most likely never going to happen.

Instead of that, how about actually listing points as to why it could be bad instead of just say 'it will not end well'
I think I disagree with your comment regarding programmers: Linus is admired for such strong opinions, close to impoliteness, for example.

More than a jujutsu technique for dealing with such incisive questions, it is clear that being the second contender to enter the marker saves you the trouble of having to create such market (and it is sometimes reasonable to play it this safe). It's just a different approach to making money. To me, a VC asking this is a sign of weakness on his behalf (due to ignorance?).
Well, you did write you would get rid of all administrative staff and replace with academics.

I cannot see how very many, if any, academics will be interested in 24x7 on call duties to maintain a campus network. Are a handful of faculty assigned this responsibility? Do they leave class to deal with a down router? Do they spend their sabbatical replacing end of life wireless access points? Do they run fiber to new buildings? Or does this responsibility rotate: this week, the history department looks after the network, and next week the English department handles it?

As much as I think you under-estimate the work required in this network example, if the proposal is to ask the network engineer to also teach in some capacity, then I also think you under-estimate what is required to be an effective teacher.

Running a production network and doing cutting edge research in even networking do not overlap. Expertise in one of these says nothing about one's proficiency in the other.

I don't at all disagree with the suggestion that there are some administrative staff who just add overhead. If we were able to reliably identify which these are, then sure, elimination of these positions and turn-over of what few real responsibilities they had to those who remain (perhaps academics) would be a fine way to ensure things stay lean.

But what you propose seems to imply most staff positions are fluff, and have responsibilities that could be picked up without radically changing the focus of faculty. I think such a claim is really divorced from a real understanding of what makes the infrastructure and resources at a top tier (or perhaps even any tier) University possible.
"I hear quite a bit of negative feelings towards companies that ask for extensive amounts of time commitment during the hiring process"

YES

Time, Money (traveling for interviews, for example), too many/too long screening tests, etc
Most workplaces are broken in some way or other, eventually you either learn to grin and bear it or you find a way to escape the system.
It should be pretty easy for distributions, since they'll already have packaged versions of Go 1.4.
Ask HN: Which software can make you laugh?
I'm interested in humour produced by software experiences, as opposed to the transmission of humour via computers.

I'm aware of the academic study of Computational Humor and some of its results and also some "humorous" games (though these tend run out of laughs due to repetition of the material).

I'd be really interested to hear about software that has and, ideally, still does make you laugh, especially if this is part of the UX of a tool.

Thanks.
I was wondering why your writing sounded so much as Aubrey's, then I found out you are supporters of SENS. I hope things aren't really too confrontational and damage repair can actually use some of the knowledge generated from epigenetic research.
At the bottom of the page :

>During the last decade, I've helped build Anadelta Tessera, a desktop road design CAD written in Delphi.
It can do more than you can imagine!
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE – What Is MSM?
But how were the insects raised, farmed and killed? Was it insectane?
~4.5m for the rest of the world..
This can be also helpful:
http://www.similarweb.com/website/savedeo.com
This sounds like a terrible process.
The US has a superior health system to Canada's now?
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JPL produces vintage-style travel posters for faraway planets
You're right. Julia played the victim too much. If you're the elected leader of a country, even if you are the victim, you take the higher stance.

Being offended by Abbott, while a normal response, isn't something she should have mentioned. It makes the argument personal, and derails any possible logical argument.
Battery Swap Stations Will Help Tesla Requalify for ZEV Credits in California
Yes, the 5GL.
"The fifth-generation languages are designed to make the computer solve a given problem without the programmer. This way, the programmer only needs to worry about what problems need to be solved and what conditions need to be met, without worrying about how to implement a routine or algorithm to solve them".

The two languages{same as a set of tools, compilers,e.t.c} would do that.