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> Rust does not guarantee the possibility of matching C++ performance unless you use unsafe code.

As with any performance question, this is hard to actually say in general. In the Benchmarks game(1), there are several benchmarks where Rust has no unsafe code and is still faster than C.

1: personal note: ugh, all usual caveats apply, etc.
Well, then... Any good network-transparent channel libraries for Go? :)
Definitely true. Plus there's a long standing precedent that save files aren't copyrightable, since they aren't a derivative work.
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I meant the alternative of not doing one at all. As opposed to venting, or trying to change things. Even if you try to be positive it is problematic.

Firstly if you are so positive, then why are you leaving? Secondly even only being positive means you leave things out. How is someone going to feel when they read it, and see you don't mention them or mention them enough.

The good light/positive leaving can be better accomplished by your farewell email, as you get to choose who it goes to (most likely far more people than just the exit interview) and you can put in it whatever you want.
What a colossal waste of electricity though, think about the impact mining leaves on the world, is it worth the digital gold?
On a related note, here is an essay written by a high-functioning autistic person which I read once and found illuminating on the identity issue:

https://www.fysh.org/~zefram/allism/allism_intro.txt
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Thanks, appreciated, including the language. The good thing is: We only need 120 good people to make it work.

And we hope there are many more in cities like NY, SF or London.
That's commonly done in a bunch of academic papers where authors are from the same institution - saves space mostly
So what are they doing to people who had paid for a subscription? There's no discussion of a refund.
Not experiments, but observational data is often analyzed using regression, the poor man's predictive modeling :-)
I compared mid-size VM on Azure and AWS, and I got almost 50% better hdd and cpu perf on azure.

And with Win Server, I run ASP.NET and PHP and Node, it works nice. Db (pg) is on linux.
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No age restrictions, actively gender balanced, we don't really make the latter distinction.
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You're right, will update later today once the HN onslaught is quieting down a bit.
Waiting till an exit interview to improve the company is the worst time and manner of doing so. In a company that you care about and can be improved you should be doing so a lot earlier. Once you give up and leave isn't going to achieve anything.
It seems like a neat idea, but I just get a blank rectangle where the site to record is supposed to show up. Nothing in the console; using latest Chrome on latest OS X.
That's not always the case. In my situations, much of the damage was done in terms of people leaving, but after the primary individual was gone, things got 'back to normal' (with some new staff) within 6 months. Much of that will depend on management, and if they let the bad actors go on that long, one might question their ability to repair things, but it's not impossible.
As a side note, Clash of clans makes 5 million dollars per day so what they spent in this ad is like pocket change for them.
If you're using MS stack, their web app hosting is really easy to use. One-click publish from VS and auto-running migrations are pretty handy if you want to focus on delivering some prototype fast, rather than mucking around with various admin and deployment tools. I think it's a good selling/entry point for some of their services.

Also, do competing services have anything similar to MS's machine learning services?
Check out TodoMVC (http://todomvc.com/). It's a simple app that's written in various frontend frameworks for comparison sake.

Other than that I recommend just starting your own project and learn from mistakes, do whatever you are excited about. Motivation is key.
This is the release that makes you go "people were insane to think that Swift 1.1 was anything near usable".
If you invoiced according to the contract and weren't paid and are not receiving replies to communications your friend is a deadbeat. I suppose you could lawyer up. That's a medium term strategy. The short term should be based on the assumption that you will never be paid. Some people are just assholes.

The way to reduce this sort of risk is screening clients and requiring retainers applicable against final invoice. And no favors for friends. I mean the reciprocal of you lowering your rate or being flexible on terms is your friend paying more than the standard rate under terms more favorable to you. Somehow that is not where people usually come from.

Don't be anyone's bank.

Good luck.
The pac-man ad is a counterpoint. It's an ad with suspense and a twist. During the Superbowl, you have to watch the whole thing. I saw it on youtube, the suspense was curious, then there was the reveal - okay, got it now, no need to watch the rest of the light show. On Youtube, you can't recapture interest, but if someone has to watch the whole thing, they can re-engage later in the ad.

This doesn't mean that the youtube analysis isn't useful, but it does highlight a difference in the mediums.
Just not actually funny.
There are a lot of differences in the way the whole things work, from the practical architecture to the funding model (investors and 'subscribers' are not necessarily the same people etc).

Happy to make answer more specific questions about the differences.
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Genetic programming is an inefficient search method, and will require many evaluations of the cost function to optimize anything. In the case of DCNNs, evaluating an architecture can keep a modern GPU busy for days, so genetic algorithms are pretty much out of the question.

I think an easy way to improve our models in the short term is to make more of the parameters we use be learnable: the parameters of the non-linearity are a good place to start with, and another would be the parameters of the data augmentation transformations.

One could consider that learned data augmentation schemes implement a form of guided visual attention.
Thanks Lukasz, appreciated!
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While I agree with you that competition is crucial, and without experimentation we will get nowhere, it is worth remembering that IE6 and all of its specific behaviors "won" through "raw competition".

Often things win not through fair competition. For example, WebSQL "won" on mobile because WebKit won on mobile, and WebKit happened to have WebSQL. If WebKit had had, say, the Audio Data API (which it did not), then the Audio Data API would have "won". Neither of those APIs won or would have won on its own merits, but because it was backed by the 800 pound gorilla in the space. (I chose Audio Data as an example because it is not in the same space as WebSQL, i.e. not competing with it, and was a nice API, that failed).

And the problem is that PNaCl will fragment the web, and already has. That's a serious problem - for everyone but Google.
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Conflict of interest much ? writes a paper saying they did research on this.....
I would love to have this clarified by someone who knows more about patent royalties. It's possible that you're right and they're essentially discounting their fees by 35%, but it's also possible that there is a difference between the OEM sales price and the net sales price that this royalty applies to.
"Mexico City. Why on earth would you want to go to Mexico City?"

Because the most beautiful and exciting city on Earth is full of artists, programmers, scholars, great street food, great fancy restaurants, museums, history, good looking and outgoing young locals, sports clubs, perfect weather, rugged mountain wilderness, organic ripe produce year round, religious pilgrimage sites, great universities, live music and theatre, pretty architecture, peaceful parks, lively squares and plazas, fast easy transit and bikeshare programs, and a constant parade of special events.

Plus, if you're earning in euros or dollars, it's cheap.
I hope all startups are made aware of Microsoft BizSpark. You get a pretty spectacular line up of freebies. And freebies that stay free even after you graduate. Free copes of Windows, Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, Office, etc. It's damn near everything. A++++ would recommend.

http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/default.aspx
I like it. I've used Simply Noise in the past but will give Noisli a try next time I think of it!
Your data may be anecdotal, but it's vastly more data than the paper provides (zero data to back up its claims).

My personal experience with advertising matches yours. Likes on Facebook can come from the strangest sources, but the clicks on ads are mostly real users that fill out forms and buy products.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

I've seen the blog before; it's been mentioned on HN a few times. But so what? It's better than a lot of stuff on /newest
Except I take issue with this statement from the article, especially as it applies to Superbowl Ads:
A successful video will have more views, higher engagement, and resulting lower cost per minute.

The only thing that matters when putting forth a Superbowl commercial is that the viewer stood around long enough to figure out who sponsored it, even if they didn't stay for the whole thing. On air this is complicated by several factors.

The Youtube attention statistics are a nice proxy for it but it didn't take into consideration the likelihood that a potential viewer lost interest before they knew what it was 'about' (a particularly poor example of this would have been the Nationwide commercial-- people tuned out before the reveal and if they did find out who sponsored it after-the-fact, they heard it in a negative context).

And of course none of this translates directly into brand awareness, but having a talked-about Superbowl commercial is usually the point; the question is did you achieve the buzz you were looking for.

I feel a better measure of the utility of the commercial (answer the question: "what was my bang for buck vs. competitors?") would be to measure the trending of hashtags / mentions / youtube views of the commercial in the days following
Not sure where that 2.8million users number comes from as there is no way ~20% of Cubans have internet service. (11.2mil population) Unless they count being able to get online with censored connections from some schools as having internet?
I'm puzzled, did you miss the announcement? The EFF, Mozilla, and others are creating a CA that will give free certs to everyone: https://letsencrypt.org/
Didn't catch that, yeah, that is more like a windfall. :)
With all those 5 bucks for 1000 page likes companies, there are a ton of people who are just paid to click like on things. Its not bots, its humans from places that are not the US. These humans, to avoid detection just click on random things to like in the US just to make it less obvious when they are paid to click like on things.
Or use something like 'pash', a powershell work-alike for UNIX-likes.
Again: _I_ have absolutely nothing to gain by participating in an exit interview, and a lot to lose.
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This strongly implies that things have failed dismally. Surely this information should be established long before exit interviews. Finding out new information in exit interviews means that management/HR haven't been doing their jobs.
Can someone explain to me the actual upside of header compression? I work on a fairly major educational site and calculating now our request + response headers comes out to 1,399 bytes. Gzipping them they come out to 1,421 bytes. A small net increase.

Am I missing something? Do some people have so many cookies that this makes a difference or something?
It seems to be meant for research and development, not as the asteroid from the lex manpage. It would make sense as a teaching language for compilers, too. The people who need to know how Lex and Yacc work could read the Dragon Book later.

I wonder if Alan Kay and the Viewpoints mob knew about this, and if so, why they bothered with O-Meta?
The $1B fine might be one reason why they suddenly are charging for Vuforia AR SDK in version 4.0. They maybe rushed the change to pay licenses.

EDIT: Yes slightly off topic but Vuforia is owned by Qualcomm and recently surprised all SDK developers with the bait and switch to licensing from free for commercial. But it has happened so drastically that there is no way to find out what it costs, "contact sales" is the answer but no response from them yet. It was very rushed see here: https://developer.vuforia.com/forum/vuforia-40-beta/prices-a... This is a good example of how not to introduce pay commercial licensing on something that used to be free.
How to get more credibility for blog posts:

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- Use LaTeX, and convert to PDF
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I got a refund. They are ending all automatic payments.

Seems we all get the pro version for free and their new revenue model will be ad-supported.
I believe the Milgram experiment conclusively proved that a significant number of people can be coerced into doing the unthinkable when an authority figure tells them to. And this effect is universal.
For a fun tour of nasty chemicals, I can recommend "Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants" by John D. Clark. You will learn about all the nice propellants that were tried back in the 50s and 60s, like FCl_3 and liquid lithium...

Edit: Nm, saw this was already mentioned.
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I would think one shared connection can have many users. It would be analogous to a family sharing a computer going to Facebook which counts them as four users not one, because four sets of services are being delivered. If they meant connections I think they would have said that.
He got worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9022358

He created that account to "go after" me with a lot of vitriol. It's a bit mysterious though. Why would someone work themselves up into such rage over a database? Normally, you'd explain this as teenage frustration or something. But he's clearly very unhappy, lashing out.

More mystifying than offensive, since it's impossible to take seriously. How can you deal with these people.
The losses would have to be written off somehow, maybe it could have been done more slowly, but I wouldn't think too much about the trigger for the crisis.
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"The number of crashes in the swift-compiler-crashes project shrank -83 % with today's release of Xcode 6.3b. Thank you Swift engineers! :-)"

https://twitter.com/practicalswift/status/564921024782041088

https://github.com/practicalswift/swift-compiler-crashes/com...
> In December 2013 I added three new commands -- CLOAK to cloak the Enterprise...

A true Star Trek fan would know this violates the Treaty of Algeron: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Algeron
A study in 2013 would have been prior to the commissioning of the ALBA-1 cable from Venezuela though. While a single link is still pretty fragile, it's likely that capacity for the island is more in the range of hundreds of GB/S to low TB/s now.

http://research.dyn.com/2013/01/cuban-fiber-completo/
Qualcomm's IP portfolio is sufficient that the company can demand royalties from virtually any company that wants to produce a cell phone. It had a stranglehold over CDMA technologies, and has a great deal of valuable LTE-related IP.

I don't know how China defines a monopoly relative to the U.S. definition, but Qualcomm seems like a natural candidate.
Nice, this is very useful, thanks!
>In terms of bang for the buck, you can't really beat DO

If you treat DO as just another VPS provider and pay on a monthly basis does it offer advantages over the competition?
Live demos that you can play with:

Speech to Text: https://speech-to-text-demo.mybluemix.net

Text to Speech: http://text-to-speech-demo.mybluemix.net
Numberphile has an episode on the Stable Marriage Problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcv1IqHWAzg
Very interesting project! Thank you for sharing it with us.

Currently using https://github.com/retspen/webvirtmgr for KVM based virtualization and one of the main reasons is the ability to manage multiple kvm hosts from a single installation, is there support for something similar in Space?

A very interesting feature that would interest a lot of people would be a digital ocean like vm generation from a template that virtkick.io is trying to accomplish.
I hear the castro has become gentrified and isn't anywhere near as radical as it was.
Actually, thats really awesome. I've been researching maxmind, threat-metrix, and neustars offerings to protect a large site that gets targeted with a lot of spam. Threat-metrix and neustar are both too expensive, and maxmind didnt really work all that well.

This paper basically touched on everything I wished for in a bot detecting product, at a price that seems totally reasonable.
I want to make sure I read that correctly.

You're saying deportation is not that much more humane than mass extermination? Wow. No comments there.

There's a lot more evidence that the Third Reich had a Transfer Agreement with the Zionists than there is that the Nazis wanted to kill all Jews.

And stop calling me a revisionist when all I argue is from mainstream sources. You don't give me sources because there aren't any, like the respectable mainstream holocaust historian, Raul Hilberg, said under oath in 1985.
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The microbiome may be new, but treating children with behavioral issues with dietary intervention goes back 100 years (with varying levels of success).

The GFCF diet (and others) seems to get criticized because parental reporting doesn't seem to match scientific studies. But the anecdotal evidence is overwhelming. The Autism Research Institute has surveyed thousands of parents about diet and results, and some of the diets have a high success rate with helping some symptoms.
How do you feel about the new Bloomberg? I hate it
it mentions it in the game :)

under "help cloak"

> The Treaty of Algeron with the Romulans in Stardate 2311 prohibits the use of cloaking devices. If a Romulan ship observes you cloaking or uncloaking after this point in time you will be in violation, which will hurt your final score.
"assume the property would be in the Condesa or Roma area."

I hope so. Polanco is too snooty. The Historic Center has gotten viable for living with residential redevelopment and revolutionary traffic calming but still has a touristy vibe. I like family-oriented Del Valle but it's probably better for a 40 year old than a 20 year old.

Coyoacán's ayuntamiento discourages short term residents and has driven almost all hotels out of the area, but would make a good location close to the National University and lively streets and parks.

I think Startup Weekend was in the Condesa.
I think user drawkbox says it best in his post:

"Nothing amazing will happen with words if you couldn't change it with actions in possibly years of work."

This is it. Plain and simple.
Ingvar Stepanyan, author of the original 6to5 pull request has finished submitting a series of further optimizations via https://github.com/6to5/6to5/pull/736.

I'm clocking a 110-215X performance boost: 1,255,700 - 2,384,556 ops/sec! (on Chrome and Firefox alpha builds respectively) Check out the new JSPerf: http://jsperf.com/tco/17
Well put. Very succinct.
> it is worth remembering that IE6 and all of its specific behaviors "won" through "raw competition".

It is worth noting that the findings in the antitrust actions in the US over Microsoft's illegal and anti-competitive behavior in establishing IE's dominance indicate that that claim is, at best, misleading.
As far as I can tell, the compression is separate for the headers, does not use deflate, and (most importantly) is over the entire session, not just one request.

This would benefit from the fact that in one request headers are not repeated, but over multiple requests they certainly are.

http://www.greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-head...
The real question is whether we can make FOOOF :)
Aren't most advertising campaigns focused on acquisitions these days?
"Low quality products never gain mass traction and are discarded" Yet we're still kicking IPv6
We've been talking about it. I think it's just a question of when.
It just made me sick. Didn't even bother reading.
Very nice. In testing this, I found some songs where a chord change happens very soon after the autoscroll moves forward to the next page. You don't have enough to time to read the next chord and make the change. Without being able to see ahead of the current song position at all times, its not quite functional.

Chordify does it differently:
http://chordify.net/chords/family-of-the-year-hey-ma-loma-vi...
Answers to #1, #3 (implicitly), and #4 can all be found on Seed-DB (http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators).
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Because the people who have the biggest reach in telling stories about history (Hollywood) are American and the Nazis made an impact of the US via their impact on the Jewish people. If the US or US citizens has suffered the Rape of Nanking I imagine that we'd have more films about evil Japanese or films about Stalin or Pol Pot if your population of film makers were related to people who suffered under those despots.

It may be somewhat myopic, but it's understandable. At worst, it ignores other people's pain and elevates one people's suffering as the only suffering. But it is still understandable (if lazy).
The header compression in HTTP 2.0 isn't based on gzip or something like that. The CRIME attack pretty much killed those approaches dead. It's more akin to differential updates for header during the lifetime of the connection. So if you request a lot of files with fairly similar headers you'll effectively only have to transmit the bulk of the header once while the other request will efficiently re-use the previously transmitted fields.

So to answer your question: Header compression as employed in HTTP 2.0 helps if you do many requests with similar headers on the same connection.