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And it was a smash hit, right? Or... nope, iwatches were shit until Apple defines how the interface will work.
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Yeah, and it was really disruptive innovation, right? Lulz
Love the game, but it's a bit annoying that you can't build an army of killer robots.

Bloody humans don't know how good they have it that the game forces me to play pacifist.

... Or maybe the AI is just deeply socially anxious, so that it completely shuts itself in when threatened by mere human contact?

That's really the only way to justify your behavior in the endgame.
> the idea of seeing a specialist for help or medication really scares me.

Don't let it. You're seeking help voluntarily. Assuming something is actually wrong with your brain, it's worth it to address it head-on. Worst case, you wind up with a bad doctor and you have to go find a new one. Best case, you gain some tools to help you gain a much higher degree of control over your life.

> Do I just google for psychiatrists near me and give one a call? Would I need to find one that specializes in ADHD? Are there any websites that can help direct me?

What country are you in? If you're in the states, I'd start with your insurance company. Most insurance companies have directories of in-network specialists. If your insurance is shit and doesn't cover specialist visits, then yeah - I'd just Google around. Absent recommendations, look for somebody board-certified [1]. I happened to luck into a doctor who had both psychiatric and neurological specialities.

In New Zealand you must start off by asking your GP for a referral to a psychiatrist (you may need to do this in the USA if your insurance requires a referral). Explain your concerns with concentration, and that you'd like to be screened for ADHD and other related conditions. At this point if they're well-informed they'll likely ask you a few questions about it and offer some advice, but since you're asking to see a specialist they should be willing to make a referral. If they're not well-informed, they'll either skip the questions & counsel or tell you to piss off. If you get the referral, you'll go see a psychiatrist. I have no idea what the diagnosis process is like here, however - I was diagnosed in the states. However, when you are diagnosed your psych will receive a special authority number. Eventually this number will be transferred over to your GP once your treatment regimen is stabilized.

Aside: In the states it's not likely that your GP will tell you to piss off when asking for a psych/neuro referral. Also in the states GPs may offer to treat you directly w/o a specialist. This is illegal in New Zealand, as general physicians aren't typically qualified in this area. Really - go see a specialist.

The diagnosis process is nothing to be worried about, though it could take a bit of time. The process can take a few hours, or a few 1-2 hour sessions. If I recall correctly, they did an ADHD questionnaire, the MMPI [2], an IQ test, an "IQ achievement test," a few very brief visual/spatial tests which supposedly look for neurological symptoms schizophrenia, and a session or two of discussion with a psychologist about what my goals for improvement were, where I felt I was failing, etc. I think my range of testing was a bit more in depth than usual, as they were looking for a bunch of different learning disorders. After all this they discussed the results of each of the tests with me, explained my diagnosis, and set me up with the psychiatrist to begin a treatment regimen.

1: http://www.abms.org/board-certification/
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Multiphasic_Personali...
Btrfs is still very new as a filesystem. There's little evidence that it can hold up in production use. It is similar to ZFS, which is the filesystem of choice for many large deployments. Unfortunately ZFS can't be distributed with Linux because of license mismatch.

Ext3/4 are of previous generation of filesystems, their performance on very large volumes is not acceptable. And you don't want your production system to be down because of boot-time fsck for hours.

ReiserFS had some promise years ago, but the project leader is in prison and nobody has picked up the effort. I don't think it's possible for it to close the gap to other filesystems even if Mr. Reiser returns to develop it after his sentence.
We found the same issue with non-normal distributions in our time series data sets when using SAX (developed by this paper's authors - assumes normality for dimensionality reduction) and addressed it by using quantiles in the piecewise aggregate approximation step. The quantile breakpoints behaved much better than the "normal" breakpoints.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pail_of_Air

Los Alamos, Argonne, and Tana Tuva.

Was Tana Tuva a topic of discussion during this time period? I remember Richard Feynman wrote quite a bit about it, too.
Assuming your application was written for something like S3, yes. That's a big assumption though.
How about we take a step back and realize that, maybe, to stop using any screen 30-60 min before sleep might achieve the same result?
Most of their success is owing to the invention of new interfaces that fit new form factors. Before that, only dissatisfying shit is available, and the market is mostly novelty. After that, new device categories have actual features a human can use, and a market happens and knock offs compete.
Not at all. Software doesn't qualify for personhood in the same way that animals don't - perhaps you remember that case last year of monkey who took photographs of himself with a wildlife photographer's camera. The photographer tried to claim copyright, which was rejected as he was clearly not the author of the photographs, but since the monkey can't have a copyright interest either the picture is considered to be in the public domain for copyright purposes.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/monkeys-selfie-ca...
That's what I was going to link to.

Also, I made some student code a similar game a few years ago, cf my web page [1]. Except the game was played over IRC (the code was an IRC bot).
They had a working implementation in Racket and it was quite fun to play with. I don't think they released it however :-/.

EDIT: Actually I just asked and they did release it! But it's on Gitorious [2]…

[1] http://pablo.rauzy.name/teaching.html#ens-ispp_autonomic

[2] https://gitorious.org/autonomic
At first; if the AI could successfully assert its own personhood in court then that could change overnight.
Too bad Python 3 equals Perl 6. :(
Maybe an error but the entry for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9305360 is getting confused with Melbourne, Australia. I think is should be under Melbourne, Florida.

I am from Melbourne which made me looked at the Australian entries.
Private corporations already underwrite bonds (and related debt products like pensions, corporate loans, annuities or mortgages). A deposit in a bank is not completely different from a customer loaning money to the banking institution (at low or zero interest) in exchange for on-demand funds availability.
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I would think it did? ext4 is the most deployed when you don't need extra features, because it's very stable, seamless upgrading from ext3, universaly GRUB support, and has little surprises and is actually pretty fast. ReiserFS is mostly dead, btrfs isn't even really stable yet and is slower.

I wouldn't be surprised if XFS was the second most deployed filesystem after ext4.

Where it's really losing is to the "block layering violations" of btrfs. Being able to manage storage pools at the filesystem level like ZFS is a major feature advantage.
what do you mean "Free-floating planets", everything orbits something that is orbiting something
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I wonder if the same effect applies to an exponential sliding window, ie. weight more "recent" samples higher than older samples, so effectively it's an infinite window. Instead of using a hard cutoff window.
Do people crave phenylalanine beyond the essential levels needed? There's strong hints some do, via both diet sodas and sugar-free gums. And there's a plausible mechanism, given phenylalanine's relation to key neurotransmitters, and its use in treating depression and other neurologic disorders.

(I suppose we could raise the same question about food in general. Obviously food is necessary, but can it ever make sense to talk about a 'food addiction'? Or perhaps more accurately, an 'overeating addiction'? I think it can, in some cases. For someone wondering why they feel 'addicted' to diet soda, the high levels of mood-altering phenylalanine from the aspartame is highly likely to be a factor.)
Come on, you can still take it as an axiom, and deduce things.
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Yes, it is [1]. It works even for /boot. It is also the default filesystem for /home in SLES12 [2]

[1] http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-unveil...
[2] https://www.suse.com/communities/conversations/xfs-the-file-...
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> It looks to be really cool, and also proprietary.

They open sourced the OLTP portion of the distributed postgres store.
What is the best framework(s) for image recognition with unsupervised learning?
I'm looking to recognize merchandise in a retail store using a mobile app. It's an interesting problem.
what about openshift?

https://www.openshift.com/products/pricing/plan-comparison

https://blog.openshift.com/heroku-ruby-app-migration/

ps : I dont work for them
The only trouble I ever had was blowing out the stack in highly layered storage setups when using XFS. XFS uses (or used) tons of stack space and if you put, say, LVM, md, and NFS in the mix there just wasn't enough.

Something along these lines, although I never used RHEL: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/54544
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Ask HN: Why USB drives are still using the FAT32 format?
With all the Terabyte of drives available for desktop machines and the affordable SSDs pushing toward the same limit, why is that every single USB stick (drive) out there is sold with the same FAT32 format? This is a hindrance as the max filesize on this format is 4Gig. So how come MSFT/APPL and Co have not agreed on a new file format to get past this out dated standard?
A prototype doesn't get you a meeting with a VC.

It's usually a network thing. Founder X says to (slightly better connected) Founder Y, "I'm raising a round. Who should I talk to?" Assuming Founder Y thinks that an intro to Founder X is something investors would want, they say, "I could intro you to Firm X, Y, Z."

Clever fundraisers do this in a systematic when when it's time to raise. They make a spreadsheet of investors that might be a good fit, scour LinkedIn and the firms' portfolio pages to see if they are connected with them, try to see if the firm is a good fit (firm personality, conflicts, check size they write, geographic focus, etc) and then start working on getting warm intros. They try to get as many of these conversations going in parallel as possible, which is freakin' HARD.

Which is where this article comes in. It's massively wasteful to have conversations with investors which end quickly with "We don't do seed rounds," or "we only invest in New York" or "We already invested in a company that you compete with", "we don't write checks that big", "you don't fit our investment thesis", etc.
MPI is popular in the HPC community, not just in academia. If you are in the Big Data community, you might not ever have used it before...since Big Data is not really HPC. You wouldn't use Hadoop for a HPC job just like you wouldn't use MPI for a big data job! Heck, you might even use CUDA if your job is parallel enough with a small enough memory footprint (and there is interesting work on combining CUDA and MPI).

MapReduce is kind of limiting, and HPC jobs require more pinned machine allocations anyways (if you schedule them like big data jobs, they perform like crap).
How can i make programming exciting again?
Awesome! A nice and rare view into how banks work internally.
> I can't think of any columnar DBs that are FOSS aside from Cloudera's Impala

Cassandra isn't strictly a columnar store, but it has much the same properties.

MonetDB.

(O)RCFile.

InfiniDB (which actually did go out of business, and is still available as open source).

Druid.

I'm sure I missed a bunch of others.
Because there are people who will pay those economists a percentage and they would rather work there?
Google's competing product: https://cloud.google.com/prediction/docs
You'd be left out in the cold without an ability to do OLAP queries efficiently. Fortunately, most OLAP use cases where you'd use CitusDB would be ones where the latency penalty of extracting form CitusDB to process in another system, while painful, would be acceptable as an interim solution.
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Are you sure that NYC has an annual budget of $78B? That's a humongous number for any city, and an outrageous number for a city with a Subway system that is (supposedly still) in a state of disrepair.
Yeah, they were pretty good until I used the Apple version... :) (Exception: MacOS 9 laptops, MacBooks pre-titanium)

My phone before the iPhone was horrible, though. Partly that was my fault for getting a Razr. The user interface somehow managed it so that my thumb was always in exactly the wrong spot for what I needed to push right now. It was a joyous day when I found someone to give that thing away to. (On the good side, it woke up two years after I stopped using it, plugging it in, etc. to give me an alarm I had set. Now that is a reliability!)
The one book that I first thought of when I read the OP's original question was Mathieu Ricard's L'Art de la Méditation (an English translation aptly named The Art of Meditation is available).

At some point in my life, while I was going through severe depression, I got interested (by the folks on HN) into looking more into Buddhist philosophy and meditation. This little book, quick to read, made me realize that our selves are not what we think they are, and that our emotions are impermanent, that we can deal with them by simply acknowledging them instead of letting them overthrow us. It's a brilliant simple idea, though it is harder to put into practice. (I am still not quite managing to be a regular meditator to this day)

This little book changed my life, and I've now bought it or lent it to several people from my friends or family in the hope that it may have the same impact on them as it had on me.
Vanguard institutional plus is 0.02%
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Nothing rages me more than beeing unable to copy a 5GB file (4GB limit on FAT32) on an USB stick just because a PC and a Mac are actively _not_ willing to cooperate.

Recently discovered my TV was able to read ext4, never looked back :)
Obviously this is not a perfect comparison, but even on Earth, if the night is cloudless, you are away from any cities, and the moon is not visible, the stars provide some light. Not bright enough to see clearly, but you can see a little bit, even with our weak human eyes. So I imagine that even on a planet without a star it wouldn't be 100% dark, there would be some light.
The best practices are going to be somewhat language-dependent. In general, the least confusing style is the one that is already used widely in the application you're writing.

If it's up to me to decide a naming system (I mostly do C# professionally), my boolean-returning methods will be in the form of a tiny question that has a yes or no answer:

IsEntityPersisted()
WasActionPerformed()
IsFooOfTypeBar()

etc.

For variables, local values and method parameters, the names will be similar, but in the form of a true or false statement. The equivalent would then be:

entityIsPersisted
actionWasPerformed
fooIsOfTypeBar

The important thing in both cases is to name the boolean for what it means, why you'd set it to true or false, not for how you intend to use it. Compare:

if(logicFlag)
{
//do something
}

vs

if(actionWasPerformed)
{
//do something
}

Clarity in a naming schemes is all about making it clear what something means in the context. I know that sounds like a tautology, but there is a difference between "what something means" and "what something does in the application". If you manage to make the meaning clear, the reasons for what it does will become clearer too. The reverse is rarely the case.
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It is that high. http://www.nyc.gov/html/omb/downloads/pdf/tech2_15.pdf
Prime factorizations of small numbers
It gets an incredible amount of use in the physical science and applied maths communities, and that's not only in academia. It's an extensive standard for message passing that allows distributed (non- shared-memory) computations. Multiple implementations of the standard exist. It is so widely used that entire software suites (Trilinos and PETSc, neither developed by academia but largely by the DOE) are built on top of its message passing framework.

The author's point is that because it is such a large standard it is difficult to grasp and he would rather use something else.

His opinion notwithstanding though, things are unlikely to change significantly, at least in the near future: even just today we saw an announcement of a massive new specialized cluster being built at Argonne. You can be sure most application programming will be done with MPI, not Spark. Commenter jeffsci on the original post is on point.
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That's why you use an external backup as well. It's just quicker to restore your data if your machine (or cloud service) failed, but your backup disk is fine.
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Hmm, good question. I'd say this would simply distribute the contribution of each window member along an exponential (rather than constant) trend. The terms in the mean vector would then be polynomials of the window members. Even if you lined up t_(x^n) weight with t_(x^m), it seems to me the other t_i filtered at exponential distances wouldn't line up. You'd could probably arrange it to get split on these nonidentical term weights, and maybe this could work as a (somewhat involved) method of feature selection that didn't degenerate to identical contributions. Interesting idea! - and maybe there's a few papers about it somewhere :)
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However if it's a choice between onsite and offsite backups, which practically speaking it is for most people, definitely offsite wins. The risk of fire, theft, etc. is vastly greater than the risk that Apple has a critical syncing bug and no ability to recover lost data. (Normally they keep deleted files around for 30 days.)

Yes, but it also happens that someone deletes a photo from a stream accidentally and does not realize within 30 days. For this reason, iCloud Photo Stream is not a backup - a backup keeps copies until the end of time.
On the other hand, Carousel uploads are in Dropbox, automatically syncing to laptops and desktops, giving direct access to any application.
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I will say is that the Linux ecosystem has Windows beat hands-down when it comes to installing third-party apps and updating them - 'apt-get' is fantastic. OSX confuses me a little in that regard - some apps you copy to the Applications folder; others require an installer to run; for the ones that require an installer it's often not entirely clear how you uninstall them, etc. I always feel like OSX is a little inconsistent in that way. The Mac App Store is nice and unified updating through the app store is also nice.

Stability-wise my machines have actually been very good. I don't reboot much at all and mainly put the machine into suspend instead of turning it off. My first instinct/fear with a spontaneous BSOD now is that my RAM or HDD or something has gone bad.

Agree with you about development with things such as Python (though in that specific case I remember the Python Tools for Visual Studio being okay), or for that matter any new and upcoming language. My first thought when i want to try something like that out is to drop into Linux. It's just better supported for that kind of thing.
I disagree with #2. I'm an individual investor. I can get into vanguard index funds for around a 0.05 fee, depending on the fund. The author estimates that the NYC pensions were paying a roughly 0.25 fee on their funds.

That's a $10 billion customer paying 5X in fees what a small investor like me pays. I think that's insane.
wow, this is awesome.

boltons.tableutils has a lot of TODOs - if you like the concept, the littletable package [1] takes the concept of a python query language pretty far. I put it in production and extended it even further [2]. We'd both welcome help / pull requests.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=python+littletable

[2] https://github.com/asah/littletable
Is it not the same that uses OpenStack? I can see a lot of potential with containers + efs
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Because they aren't charging the amount they beat the market by, they're a percentage of that.

In your example, you suggest that you could get $100 by using an index, but instead, you hire a guy who gets you $200 for not using an index, and then charges you the $100, and you're no better off.

In the article, you could get $100 by using an index, but instead, you hired a guy who gets you $200, and then charges you a percentage of that, keeping $4 for them to your $196.

Do you begrudge them their $4, knowing that you "profited" $96 on the deal?

Yeah, the math gets uglier when you realize you're talking about much larger numbers, but the clients, e.g., the pension funds, still came out ahead against the index, even after the managers took their fees.
Because somebody already hired those people for a fixed wage and is smart enough to charge us a percentage for it?
Why are you even using physical media in the first place?

The only reason I ever use flash drives nowadays is to format an operating system.
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But they aren't buying index funds..?
There's a business side for it. Besides recruiting future customers via a preview, you also sublimilaly put off would-be customers decisions until your solution is ready to compete with existing solutions. Microsoft did it very successfully for years.
You mean that if you want the features of Apple software, you need to use apple hardware?
I think that it should read "Clustering of Time Series Subsequences With K-means Is Meaningless".
Hi, the columns are class-less. Regards.
It's funny because the author did a similar trick.

Vanguard's fees are 0.17. The pension fund paid ~0.25. That's a small difference because the numbers are small!

Actually, that's nearly a 50% upcharge for the fund relative to vanguard.
What's the matter with exFAT?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Adoption
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There's always use-cases.

Here's one of mine: When you want to transfer files between two machines which (for whatever reason) can't be on the same network, and you don't want to install additional software into the environment.

Depending on the files and the network involved, using a USB-stick (or any other physical media) can often be easier and faster than trying to find a network-bridge for your files.
They should be. There's no way the 5X charge is worth the active management. And yes, I realize that in this 10 year period it was, but that's just variance.
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