skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That chart is using 15 year old numbers because recent history is less flattering. Strictly speaking the

International Space Station is the safest way to travel, 17,150 mph, and zero deaths.
Further, Deaths per billion journeys:

Car: 40 Foot: 40

But wait, more people are ~8x as many people are killed in cars vs walking in the US. So you only walk somewhere every few days?

Let's sanity check that: 1.24 million deaths occurred on the world’s roads. 7 billion people let's say they all average 2 trips a day * 365 days a year. That's ~485 deaths per billion trips.

Ok, so that chart is pure B.S.
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that is how kayak and tripadvisor make most of their money too. Ever notice how photo galleries for hotels on tripadvisor open new windows? they're making sure you have their cookie when you book it on hotels.com, expedia, booking.com, etc later.
And, yes, I really liked the text, specially "A real live 10% time project!"
As has been mentioned, the boilers themselves do not heat up that quickly; however, you _also_ have to mix the pulverized coal with hot air and then pump it into the firebox for combustion.

If you're coming up from a cold start, you're going to need to pre-heat the air, probably with electricity and/or natural gas. With this in mind, it's not so much that they don't generate power right away, it's that they don't generate enough power to overcome the cost of their initial inputs.

From a power plant perspective, you aren't "started" until your output power is larger than your input power.
Curious, what small screen apps need or could use that much space?
Why not just
function isPrime(n) {
return !/^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/.test(Array(n+1).join('1'))
}
then? :]
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M-R is a probabilistic primality test, with a deterministic variant for some ranges and a general-deterministic variant dependent on GRH. Lots of people want a better test, so we have Lucas-Lehmer and APRT-CL and AKS.

Better primality testing would be interesting to the crypto community, but it could rock the math world - like "Primes is in P" introducing AKS as the first deterministic polynomial time primality test.

As you said, though, better factoring would be game-changing for both cryptography AND mathematics.
A self-paced version of that course is (still) available now:

https://class.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/Fal...
It's been a long time since I participated. But admins, at the time, weren't meant to be anything more that editors with some special tools. Those tools require good judgement, unfortunately good judgement is not something any of exhibit 100% of the time, especially if you need to show it every day.

Not sure what the status of admins are now.
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CBT almost entirely resolved my baseline 'mental' anxiety of the nature you seem to explain. YMMV.

For the less controllable situational physical "fight or flight" anxiety, however, I've found low dosage beta blockers work very well. Apparently a lot of musicians and surgeons use them for similar purposes, but you'd need to have the mental anxiety sorted out first, I suspect.
When I do PL these days, I always start with the editor; e.g. see:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/smcdirm/managedti...

Co-designing your editor with your language allows for a better experience.

You are right in that all of this is basically undocumented in textbooks. Even their presentation on on parsing is mostly unhelpful (if you want an error tolerant incremental parser for your editor, recursive descent works very well).
> Garbage never generated is garbage never collected.

But garbage that dies young is also garbage that is never collected, and that is the only kind of garbage EA can help with. Objects that die young are very cheap.

> Large enterprise Java apps often still have GC issues despite very advanced GCs to choose from

Very true, but never in the young generation.
Thanks for the input. A few application developers were trying to bring it in, so it looked like they geared the pitch towards a devops role. It looked like it had potential in both situations though as you mentioned.
I haven't looked at Azul Systems, thanks for mentioning them, I'll take a peek at their offering as well.
Well, yes - it would be the other existing species of mosquitoes. But that would be mission-accomplished if those other species don't happen to be malarial vectors. Carrying malaria is not a necessary thing for mosquitoes to do in Africa, they don't need to spread malaria to humans in order to survive and reproduce.
You are correct, however, there is just one thing. Despite our low-tech primitive home, we also had a PAH monitor as in an industrial bit of kit that measures polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. This could detect cigarette smoke that had been acquired on one's breath down the pub an hour ago after a four mile walk home. As a teenager I found this out 'the hard way'!!! Oddly enough it did not bleep because the fire was 'on' and burning coal.

Anyway, I am willing to think differently about open fires, but again, there is an art to having a fire. Building the thing and having it reliably start with just the one match was a skill. I think that the size of the fireplace was also important, to create a draught we could use a broadsheet newspaper opened out and held over the fireplace surround. This would get it going burning with ridiculously huge flames and a rocket-style roar.

Some people just don't get physics and plenty of friend's houses had those horrible wood burning stoves that were a complete waste of time. Alternatively there would be those huge fireplaces with no potential to do the 'newspaper trick' for getting it going. These fires just lacked the airflow that a proper fireplace/grate/fire combo should provide.

It is a pity that I don't have the PAH monitor, the fire and the other variables needed to checkout what you are saying for myself. That said, the PAH monitor only worked on things like benzene, I imagine that there is everything up to and including uranium, asbestos and sulphur to check too.
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> 8.4.4. “Not being ASCII is a deal-breaker”

> Yes, we like being able to see protocols in the clear since it makes debugging and tracing easier. But text based protocols are also more error prone and open up for much more parsing and parsing problems.

> If you really can't take a binary protocol, then you couldn't handle TLS and compression in HTTP 1.x either and its been there and used for a very long time.

First, you can have the best of both worlds of fixed-sized frames and human readability: make sure each HTTP keyword has a finite, short length. ASCII abbreviations are an acceptable means to this end. This would also eliminate a lot of the implementation difficulties and performance penalties of writing and using a parser.

Second, TLS and compression are not integrated into HTTP/1.1, meaning that people who want to be able to read an HTTP stream on the wire can do so by disabling these features. It's disingenuous to claim that people don't care about human readability just because these extensions exist.
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I have one of these on order. They are in the process of securing the permission of PG&E to install it.
There does not exist a "true" regular expression (i.e. a FSM) to check if a number is prime.

Proving this is a common assignment in automata theory classes.
I think the context is important (it's hard to dig up the edit history for so long ago). I actually was in the wrong about the way I went about things - it was being debated and I really did try to prove a point (though it never occurred to me that I was being disruptive).

The editor in question quite possibly had good intentions, or didn't see anything wrong with what they did. Whilst I was not a malicious actor, there was debate about the situation and I think people objected more to the way I went about proving the point I was making (which I maintain was valid). That's a fair cop, and I accept my action was rash.

But yes, it wasn't outrageous.
Did you evaluate log15? And if so, what did you find lacking about it?

https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/inconshreveable/log15.v2
https://github.com/inconshreveable/log15
I suspect, of course have no proof that the bounty was this size because FB found a large number of other API calls similarly exploitable and locked them down in one go.
I think so, too. Java has had escape analysis for some years now[1]. It is not only used for stack allocation, but also for lock eliding. In any case, stack allocation has been found to not be a dramatic improvement under normal program circumstances precisely because young garbage is so cheap.

[1]: https://wikis.oracle.com/display/HotSpotInternals/EscapeAnal...
I've been playing around with an idea to replace variable names with brands. So say you have an argument to a procedure:

brand position <- Point

Position is a point, but is not a distinct type. You can document it centrally and not for each time it is used as an argument to a procedure or as a variable. E.g.

def Set(position): ...

You have define brands before you can define your procedure, but multiple procedures can share brands they use to declare their arguments.
I did this class. It is quite challenging (and rewarding). If you plan to do it make sure to allocate a significant amount of time per week. My recommendation would be to do the Java version of the assignments over the C++ version, even if you know C++. The codebase provided is pretty crufty.
I've never understood why scientists thought deception was a big deal. Every hunting animal that hides is engaging in a kind of deception. So are dogs and squirrels who bury things to hide them. So are the birds who feign broken wings to lead predators from their nests. So, in several ways, were the dogs I grew up with.

That said, I think that nonsense is a lot less prevalent now than it was even 10-15 years ago, let alone 30-50.
It recently occurred to me that humans probably have a baseline level of anxiety, and this causes us to find things to worry about (no matter how trivial).

Over the past several years I've had growing issues with anxiety, and I had found myself fretting about a passing conversation with someone that doesn't know me and likely will never see again. It wasn't even like the conversation went that badly, so why was I replaying it and worrying about it? Logically it made no sense, but it keeps happening over little things like this. The only way I can explain it is that life has been going well and I haven't had any significant things to worry about for a while. Now my brain seems to be working overtime to find hidden dangers.
> I see no reason I should pay more so that my phone has 28GB free instead of 12GB

If Apple made the 32GB the base model and sold it for the same price as the 16GB model, you wouldn't have to pay any more money. It's about time they did this since flash memory is dirt cheap.
My naive understanding of your follow up question is that energy is a special case of information and the Second Law is a special case of Shannon's Information Theory. The system in the second law is a special case of Shannon's channel. Apparent lossless digital transfer is a red herring though. Noise is inherent to any channel.
1. There is no comment from jordanlev in this story. You're thinking of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9034177 in the Memoirs from the Browser Wars thread

2. Note that immediately before your quote, he made the same point I made: “Microsoft intentionally let IE6 development come to a halt because it was no longer strategically beneficial to them”.

3. In addition to reversing your earlier position on the first point, you never stated anything like his second point – just a tangent from the topic in question. You could have fleshed it out into something similar but never did.

4. There's potentially an interesting discussion about the benefits of API stability but that's not conclusively proven – there are many confounds – and there's a separate question of actually specifying behaviours and fixing bugs in the various in-the-wild-versions. As anyone who was working on the web in that era remembers even IE6 wasn't reliably a single target since key features depended on the combination of Windows patches installed on the client. There would have been zero downside had Microsoft more aggressively promoted updates so IE would consistently support HTTP compression, SSL, caching, etc. rather than marking them as minor updates.
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Yes, but Priceline is bigger, hence the buyouts to be able to compete better.
Really? Which countries are those?

My impression was that basically the only country that uses heroin for pain relief is the UK, and even there it is basically only used in cases where addition is not an issue, e.g. terminal cancer patients.
Philippe Harewood (@phwd on Twitter) mantains a list of published Facebook bug bounty reports. It's a very good resource for anyone looking to learn about bug bounties and web app security in general: https://www.facebook.com/notes/phwd/facebook-bug-bounties/70...
>But this was the CEO of a company unapologetically supporting a hate group aimed at many of his own employees.

There likely wouldn't have been a Mozilla corp or org if he hadn't founded the company and as Mozilla grew he did nothing to hamper its growth into a highly diversity-friendly company. Privately he had issues, likely religious, about the definition of marriage and this was, culturally, a mainstream view at the time.
They probably would have suffered from creative destruction and not survived for hundreds of years. Maintaining innovation over multiple technology generations is a unicorn's unicorn.
Thanks - I've tried :-)

I've been pretty open in that situations probably get exacerbated for me because I have a mental illness - anxiety, depression and adult ADD (I refuse to call it ADHD, I'm not hyperactive!). I manage these better now, but it still leaks into my life. I'm extremely lucky I have a supportive wife and two small children who keep my mind off things and let me focus on what's important :-)

I really appreciate your kind words, btw.
> Also Open Sourcing something without a license is very pragmatic too :). When did "open source" became a term for "we're nice giving you stuff for free".

AFAIK by the open-source definition, it is all about the license: http://opensource.org/osd-annotated

Something without a license meeting that definition is not open-source.
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Anyone know if Orbitz is still built on lisp as pg famously documented so long ago?
Evidently beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Yup, that was definitely silly of me. Like I say, it was a bad judgement call.
As I understand it, Rear Window Captioning Systems specifically don't modify the actual film of the movie. That's their advantage over baked-in captions.
Not when those examples are immediately followed by this comment:

“Worse still,” said attorney Timothy Fox, “a sampling of the videos available illustrates the problem with inaccurate captioning, making them confusing and sometimes completely unintelligible.”

Where he's explicitly saying those above examples are not as bad as Lady Gaga et. al. being inaccurately captioned (apparently auto-captioned by Youtube).

"The Lady Gaga video was submitted to show how laughable the automated captioning system is..."

If so, it's entirely unapparent in the link (supply a quote if you disagree). Which as far as wel can tell starts out with false framing by claiming MOOCs are included in the problems, at least if the claims elsewhere in this discussion about all edX courses being professionally treated are true. Looks like, at least for MIT, that NAD is trying to confound that with Open CourseWare, which has an explicit mission limiting it's remit to making MIT course material useful to other teachers; anything else is gravy.

This is mendacious, invidious PR thuggery; we'll see what the lawyers have to say after analyzing the lawsuit; ah, yeah, the Instapundit is going to be all over this.

When faced with the above, my alma mater simply cannot win. And it certainly doesn't have the money to caption all this stuff; see elsewhere where I speculate one outcome will be a large fraction if not all the content will simply be pulled, the creation of future content will be severely curtailed due to this being moved from the arena of (not) good (enough) works to the legal one, and the remediation of the pulled works will be limited at best.

One wonders just how many people in the entire world these SJWs will seriously piss off....
IFF you have insurance:

"The Virginia Uninsured Motor Vehicle (UMV) fee allows a motor vehicle owner to register an uninsured motor vehicle. At the time of registration, the motor vehicle owner must certify whether the vehicle is insured or uninsured.
If the vehicle is uninsured, the motor vehicle owner is required to pay to DMV a $500 uninsured motor vehicle fee in addition to normal registration fees. Payment of the $500 fee does not provide the motorist with any insurance coverage. If involved in an accident, the uninsured motorist remains personally liable. This fee is valid for twelve months but may be prorated for a shorter amount of time."

https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/vehicles/#uninsured_fee.asp
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The funny thing is that taken literally the tweet is actually incredibly damning of the inequality between access to treatment for blacks and whites. White people DONT get fully blown AIDS because they have access to therapy. The fact that the twitter community can't even distinguish between HIV and AIDS is revealing of how hard they are projecting when they react to 140 characters or less. The reaction reveals a thousand times more about the ignorance and hate of online communities than anything about the individual they are responding to.
There are less addictive anxiolytics out there that won't kill you upon cessation. Opinion is shifting towards doling a few of them out to stop severe panic attacks and using other methods for treating anxiety.

Go to a psychiatrist and they'll tell you the best things for anxiety and mental health are: Exercise + a proper diet + sleep habits, reasonable to no alcohol/drug use, meditation, therapy and medication as last resort.

Try those first five things before popping pills, there are steps you can follow to make that feeling manageable and eventually extinguish the anxiety loop.
Agree. I'm (trying!) to do one, and now I only focused in the AST and trying to build the features. Is a waste of effort to rewrite parser/lexers/etc if the core is in constant change:

https://www.reddit.com/r/coding/comments/2ocw2r/how_to_creat...
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Haha, fixed. Thanks for bringing it up :P
You're personally liable. Let me be clear on this: I'm not advocating being uninsured, and of course I insure my own vehicle. I'm just pointing out there are some states that don't require it.
Do you know a disabled parent who says their non-disabled child shouldn't be provided an education unless they themselves also have access?

All those countless millions living in near poverty in Africa and Asia and in that dingy corner of your city you never drive through... do you deprive them of a leg up in life just because you don't get closed captions?
The screenshot was real, but from about a year ago. Maybe things have changed. Here's a blog post showing the cesspool that was search results less than a year ago:

http://www.fixedbyvonnie.com/2014/08/microsoft-windows-store...
How do I get initial customers/users for a new startup?
So I have a new startup product in development it's a consumer web application that's about all I'll say FOR NOW.

How can I go about getting initial users? What are some hacks, and things to consider during this process? I'm aware of Twitter promoted tweets, and Facebook ad's - what are some other interesting ways to create brand recognition and get users on-board?
Isn't every lecture, on-line or off, unavailable to deaf students? How does it work in legacy education? Is there a sign language interpreter in every hall?
I had measles as an adult 20 years ago. I didn't know what it was I had - it just felt like a mild case of the flu - so I thought nothing of it. I was a student, living in halls of residence, and continued about my days as normal, albeit feeling rather rough as I did so.

Eventually some spots appeared and, fearing meningitis, I went to the doctor. I took the bus to town, then walked through town to the surgery. I was uncharacteristically early for my appointment, so I sat in the waiting room as people came and went. Eventually the doctor saw me and after poking and prodding gave his verdict. "Don't go anywhere", he said, and left. He came back about two minutes later with a gaggle of passing medical students, so that he could show them what measles looked like. Apparently they didn't get many cases.

"What should I do?" I asked. "Nothing", came the response. "It might get worse. Drink plenty and try to eat."

I walked back across town, and got a bus back to my halls of residence.
> many have remarked that they haven't install iOS 8 (Apple's latest and greatest) because they cannot.

This is the key bit, and it already has caused some changes from Apple - 8.1.3 requires less free space to update.

The 8gb 5c is a terrible user experience though, and it really surprises me that they haven't discontinued it.
Virginia might actually be the only state that allows un-bonded uninsured motorists. I know it shocked me when I learned they allowed it.
Even if the publisher is listed, Microsoft reviewers should be vetting logo infringement.

As a developer, sure, become root and install whatever you want. As grandma, just trying to install Facebook on her tablet, do not allow any mistakes. No junkware allowed.
I've been working on a programming language in my spare time, also. I call it OWL. Its not quite ready, but here's a link anyways: https://github.com/bsurmanski/wlc

OWL aims to be a low level object-oriented language without a garbage collector (albeit with reference counting).

The best 'example' program using OWL right now is a game I made for the 48 hour game jam, Global Game Jam 2015: https://github.com/bsurmanski/ggj2015

I agree with the poster that making a programming language from scratch is a great way to explore programming. On top of that, its a great experience seeing able to implement all of those features you wish were in your favorite language (or find out why they aren't).
Ever notice how most "Social Justice Warriors" are women who love to stir up drama? As the NYTimes article states, this incident was highly entertaining to many people.
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The canonical example is how it's done in Forth: Ask for a number and it's already on the stack. Ask for three numbers and you push onto the stack three times. Upside: Terse code. Downside: Stack juggling can be a big maintenance burden.

FWIW I've realized that in languages that are variable centric, an anonymous naming convention is often preferable to a human name because it centers one's concerns around the algorithm. After studying the options for a while I now flip between descriptive word style and "single letter and number." So I have a lot of "x0, x1, i0, s0, a0" in my function arguments. Where it's a record type, I'm deciding between abbreviation and descriptive - which ultimately depends on how often and densely I expect the data structure to be accessed(short names imply it gets used in a dense, idiomatic style).
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