skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given 90% of the time the clients were tech-handicap, but still.

Referring to people who aren't knowledgeable about a subject as 'tech-handicap' rules you out as a potential evangelist in my opinion. You need to be an expert, you need to be passionate about a product, but most of all you need to be a nice person who doesn't look down on people who know less than you.
So, Piketty wants to forgive debt, and he thinks it's a bad idea to kick states out of the Eurozone, since that supposedly will hurt confidence. And he wants a new European institution that will determine the maximum allowable budget deficit, in order to prevent the regrowth of debt. But if kicking states out is taboo, then I wonder what he would do if a state exceeds this maximum allowable budget deficit?
Sorry for assuming the problem would adhere to standard expectations. By breaking the typical rules of a logic puzzle, the interesting aspects are replaced with groan-worthy ones.
Australia was bailed out in the financial crisis by high and rising commodity prices, and the banks are supported by a massive house price boom.
Yeap to everything the article refers to. I rarely bother with posting a question to SO.

Wikipedia has the same problem.

Basically, the righteous trolls take over - you see this with Homeowner Associations as well.
Random mutations that give resistance may evolve differently even under the same evolutionary pressure.

You'd effectively get two independent strains which might or might not be sensible to the se drugs
I appreciate the spirited debate prior to this comment but your tone is now more harsh than I want to engage.

I understand you have a different viewpoint on this and I don't think either of us will convince the other. It's been real, have a good one.

PS. I'm not doing this to annoy you. I have given this subject a lot of thought over the years, and I genuinely believe everything I wrote to the letter. Maybe there is some miscommunication due to not being face to face but I tried my best to be as clear as possible.

Harassment is awful and I feel individuals do better at dealing with it than policies or enforcement. We do not need police to protect people's feelings as long as comments do not contain PII. The imgur photo is borderline as that came from their staff page anyway. Policing it covers the problem in the short term and does not expose the violators to other communities' reactions. Reddit is segmenting populations and reducing diversity, destroying the whole point of the site to begin with, which is a place where everyone, however you define them as good or bad, can come together to communicate. And this, because they fear that hatred will spread. That is the real FUD and it is coming from Reddit Inc
With what, though? ITU-T wants to take over their role, but I can't imagine that being anything but worse.
You may find http://www.amazon.com/Fuzzy-Grammar-Reader-Bas-Aarts/dp/0199... interesting
I thought we had to use ulps and (worst-case) error bounds specified by a library in ulps?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_in_the_last_place

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Math.html
I haven't watched this yet, but the trailer really put me off. Is the movie as sexist and as obnoxious as the trailer?

Is this another movie for critics rather than for children? (Up!, Wall-e)
Perhaps looking to the stats, instead of the culture, is a symptom of the problem. No country left behind.
Here's a quick translation:

(El Mundo) Even though there are no polls, what you feel in Athen's streets is that people is more scared every day.

(Varoufakis) Yes, that's it. What they are doing to Greece has a name: terrorism.

(El Mundo) Do you really think that what they are doing to Greece is terrorism?

(Varoufakis) Of course I think so: it is terrorism. Why did they force us to close our banks? (They did so) To instill fear into people. And when the objective is to spread terror, that phenomenon is called terrorism. But I have faith in that fear won't win.

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My personal stance is that he did indeed call their counterparties terrorists. However, he carefully distinguished them from "violent terriorists" such as ISIS et al. Which kind of terrorists are actually more harmful in the long run... that's a matter for personal opinion.
The bond holders with Greek government bonds did lose, their debt was restructured with a 50% haircut. It was the bank loans that were bailed out.
He's not engaging in moralising. The entire point is that while there's nothing wrong with wanting to get paid, it's entirely irrational to try to force payment no matter the consequences. Especially when both historical examples of similar steps and numbers from the last few years in Greece demonstrates that such a policy is likely to make matters worse, not better, not just for Greece but for the creditors as well.
They're probably not the ones who made that change though...
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Can someone explain the reasoning behind having any kind of backwards compatibility? Who would pick a worse-but-compatible ES6 over a better incompatible version?

For example, the scoping rules: why have two separate scoping rules for let and var? To put it another way, would ES6 have let and var with differing scoping rules if it was designed today? If not, then it's a flaw (any difference from what a clean redesign would look like I consider a flaw).

Why not just make a simple and consistent syntax?
I think OS == Open Source in this case.
Exports have been an important part of the German economy for decades. People aren't buying German products because they happen to be cheaper now and the won't stop buying them should they get more expensive.
So, what does pass your lips during a fast period?
While my example isn't an issue in ES6, most of the controversial came from CoffeeScript. Using classes comes with classical inheritance expectations. In CoffeeScript, changing class variables would carry through all instances, and that is unexpected from a classical inheritance point of view. However, it made complete sense in the compiled JS.
Of course mass gun ownership is the source of problem. Nobody claims otherways.

Some people just want to solve the problem by changing the law so that people have fewer reasons to own guns.
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Well I opened the link being a bit sceptical but I have to admit it's really nice! well done!
They did, but domination of Europe and beyond wasn't really really in their scope.
Why Angular and Meteor?
I'm not sure what you're expecting here. This was a conference talk, then someone recorded it and made a transcript. It's not like someone thought, "I'm going to present this content using video instead of writing it," and then recorded themselves talking to their camera.
Even the nicest people can be brutally honest it doesn't mean he was mean to the people. You yourself are assuming he is not based on 1 brutally honest opinion. No one is perfect and even the nicest people can generalize it's nothing to be ashamed of and definitely does not rule him out
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What about it is not simple and consistent? Two different syntaxes, and two different expectations and rules. Var is function scope, and let is block scope.
https://www.themuse.com/

Some basic common sense stuff, but as a tech person its good to be reminded.
Fruit juice cut with water, and some coffee (there are bleeping limits! ;-))
Top results suggest this is useless to the HN-centric environment

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Admin, service tech
You can already see some of the recent pictures they've taken here: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/index.php?page=1
I once ran into this with python. 2 interpreters giving different results. Turns out they compiled 1 interpreter with some --I-don-t-care-about-correct-flops-as-long-as-they-are-fast flags. Still traumatised.
Well, you've got https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_functional_grammar and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-driven_phrase_structure_g... which are both model-theoretic grammars (see http://www.researchgate.net/publication/220718697_On_the_Dis... ). In short, grammar rules are constraints that have to unify in order to describe a grammatical utterance, instead of phrase-structure rules that generate sentences.

And there are newer theories that are much more compatible with a probabilistic / data-oriented outlook, even combining this with the model-theoretic grammar: http://www.nclt.dcu.ie/lfg-dop/

People into semantics seem to like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_grammar which I never learnt much about. Oh and there's also the Meaning-Text theory, Relational Grammar and various dependency-based frameworks, Optimality Theory applied to syntax, … it goes on and on :)
Great, so if I'm being harassed, and I accept donations or set up a legal defense fund or whatever, I'll have to dox myself.

This is a real-names policy, just like Facebook currently has, with all of the problems and oppression that brings. Adding the distinction of "commercial activities" is about as help as it is in licensing (i.e. it isn't at all helpful).
Ask HN: Where is the best place to distribute and market a productivity app?
In the UK, even if you've managed to buy emails it's of no use, you aren't allowed to contact people unless you've had a business relationship for a related product in the last 12 months.
What I see missing in those analogies between historic debt forgiveness events and a possible approach to the current Greek situation is that those historic cases all happened in the context of a complete reboot of the debter state right down to the constitution. Ironically, the one that happened within a democratic framework is the kind of reboot you absolutely don't want to see repeated anywhere.
> I called my local elected representative about it, SPD (social democrat), and "voiced my concern", but only got met with talk about chain reactions and responsibility. Perhaps I shouldn't have shouted.

I think the problem is, that nobody really knows what had happened if we've let the banks die.

The fear that the results might be a lot worse than the current situation is perhaps the driving force of politics of the last years.
Not so sure about the expert comment. What is an expert?

But I do agree about the 'tech-handicap'. If / when you do become an evangelist, these people are likely to be your customers.

If you can't relate to them (why are the handicapped?) you have bigger problems.

Who are the great evangelist you admire? What are they doing well?

Have a look below at WestCoastJustin[1] suggestions. He is bang on!

Have a look at his profile. He is super approachable.

That is a key difference - Evangelist go out of their way to be helpful. They often give you multiple ways of connecting with them. Compare that to your profile - what could you change / improve?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=WestCoastJustin
The important question to ask is: do you really need bit-accurate results? If so, then floating point arithmetic isn't probably what you want. However, running the same binary on different (compatible, ie. not ARM vs. x86) CPU architectures should produce identical results almost always (can anyone give a counterexample?).

But in reality, it is often acceptable to have one or two least significant bits differing. Especially when computing with doubles, a relative error in the order of 2^-53 = ~10^-16 isn't really significant. Even 32 bit floats give a precision of 2^-24 = 5*10^-8.

This is usually good enough for e.g. games, although multiplayer games need some kind of authoritative server model to avoid cheating.

Finally, the x87 floating point unit shouldn't be used any more because SSE2 is ubiquitous at this point so issues with 80 bit internal precision should be a thing of the past.

I'll conclude with a link to an article about a (very) competitive sim racing game where a least significant bit in a float ended up making a practical difference:
http://www.iracing.com/q-circles-the-crop-circles-of-iracing...
For anyone wondering: ML = Machine Learning, CV = computer vision.
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I make a nice tea with Ginger, Fresh Turmeric Root, Cloves and Cinnamon.

It tastes amazing :-)
As Portuguese you should also be honest and mention how we tend to have similar corruption cases like Greece.

How people avoid asking for bills when going to the doctor to avoid the extra 20 euros being added to the bill.

How people get things done, because someone has a friend that knows a guy... Of course without anything written and payed in cash.

How many small businesses closed down because they couldn't afford the new computer systems required by IRS.

How Portuguese are fleeing the country to countries like Angola, Mozambique and south American ones in the hope of finding a job that helps pay the bills to those that stay back.

Lots of many other cases that don't make us far from the Greek situation.

Yet, the Portuguese media has the outrage to call us a success case?!
Well..My first reaction is "Meh".
Things you go to know. The startup who incubated in university incubation center are lobbied heavy by the student fraternities. If you are not part of it, you are probably not going to get in. Talking about rockstart and others, they do not really have enough talented startups. Ofcourse there are exceptions. Also, do not forget the government subsides that "sustainable" startup get.

According to me, the dutch startup scene is like any other european startup scene. Theres always few success stories and alot of failures.
I'm getting a plain black page from this link in both Firefox and Chromium. For the people that the link works for -- is there anything else of interest in the post beyond what's in the title and the previous story posted earlier today?
Well put. Yet all our banks who have been reckless lenders have simply been led to the trough of unlimited QE to short circuit this healthy mechanism that you cite. We'll pay more in the end because of it.
Name me one person older than 24 who's achieved great things. You can't, can you?

/s

EDIT: Someone replied with an interesting link but deleted the comment: http://fundersandfounders.com/too-late-to-start-life-crisis/
you can idol another well-known evangelist of your choice, for example Richard Stallman. ; >
Any direct link there? I find it as simple job portal.
You can see it like that.

You can also see it like this: he gave voice to the people, and accepted to step aside when pressured by the powers-that-be, instead of stubbornly clinching to his post.

He is no politician. We need more of those.
> To put it in perspective, doctors' sloppy handwriting kills roughly 7,000 people annually. That's far more than combined spree shooting victims. Certainly mandating doctors to type out all communication would be much easier than the herculean task of ridding the US of guns.

This is a false alternative. There's nothing forcing us to solve just 1 of these problems.

> Personally, I'd like to see the first step in gun control being federal funding directed toward research. Do guns (concealed carry, etc) actually deter other forms of violent crime? How many homeowners have used guns in self defense during a home invasion?

Another question that should be asked to be fair - do gun ownership among general population encourages criminals to take guns with them when they perform crime? Does the presence of a gun increase probabililty of a crime turning violent/deadly?

My expectation: gun ownership makes crimes slightly less frequent (higher barrier to entry), at the cost of making it much more common for the crime to turn violent/deadly to someone.
Knowing ICANN they will just want to make yet another .tld called .dissident or something retarded like .sucks for all those who want their privacy and also make it easy to block those who want privacy by authoritarian governments worldwide.
This is the case for example with the x86 .NET jit. The problem is usually when values are moved to 64bit locations rather than keeping them in 80bit fpu registers. This was a huge headache our regression tests for a .NET engineering/FEM application. .NET has no option to force "strict" FPU mode so there is no way of getting reproducible results. What saved us was that the x64 JIT uses only 64 bit, which makes it deterministic.
This.

Indeed no access to capital. No entrepeneurial mindset. The market is stingy and conservative. The majority of the deals are in the 20k - 300k range. And only if you are almost profitable.

Pro: It's easy to live here for foreign people.

The article is probably just an advertorial for rockstart.
There's a lot of research going on in those areas. But startups? Not really.
I'm not sure 80-bit floats are a thing of the past. Many calculations still benefit from the extended precision compared to 64-bit. The issue also crops up agian on some platforms that can do 128-bit float, but are then truncated down to 64-bits for storage.

I agree there are ways to avoid that problem, but the general issue of truncation across storage/calculation I think remains an important concept.
Yes, it was "forgiven" 50%, but at least in that book, the author explains that the process of how the original sum was calculated was that France asked for an unreasonable sum in the first place.
Awesome. Welcome to 1998.
EFI malware novel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BrdX7VdOr0

Anyway, serves them right.
Really puts the singularity hype into perspective. For years I've been hearing from them about radical medical advances just around the corner, and here we see that on this front, rather than making exponential progress, or even just progress period, medical "science" is actually losing rather than gaining ground.
How does the best to-do list look like?
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Why did the Uk/German holdings increase? When you say they now hold 10b I assume you mean face (redemption) value rather than market?
Anything interesting happening up in Groningen?
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In this particular context I believe using Servo as an argument is misleading. And actually its not just about "doesn't implement the entire web platform". Servo gains all of its performance wins from parallel rendering. A very effective but entirely orthogonal optimization. Just because one optimization far outweighs the performance wins of another optimization doesn't mean the other should be neglected entirely. Also, Servo's benchmarks run a relatively light workloads, i.e. one page at a time.

The argument might be similar to using benchmarks for a parallel web rendering engine (a Servo-like) in Go. It would probably have similar median latencies to Servo. And Go may even scale out better if tabs were sandboxed in goroutines instead of processes. However, ofcourse unlike Servo it would have a higher variance/p90/p99 latencies because of the GC. P.S. I'm not a big fan of Go I was just using it to try and bolster my argument that Servo's current benchmarks shouldn't be used as an argument against async io prioritization. Actually, side note, I would love to hear more flaws about building a Servo-like in Go.
But they have guns. For some reason there is the belief that if you have guns then you are more free than someone without guns. Perhaps because the original intention was that if you have an armed population then they cannot be ruled over by means of force or they would at least be able to rise up against their opressors in a meaningful fashion.

Guns in America are a bit of an opiate for the masses, people have guns and feel free therefore they dont need to rise up against their government no matter what other constitutional freedoms they shit on as long as they dont attempt to take their guns they will pretty much let them get away with anything.
Do you mean like AdFly? - https://adf.ly/
I suppose in hindsight my example doesn't look as disturbing as it's meant to. :)

It's hard to show concise examples that truly show how this little bit of error eventually compounds and destabilizes a calculation.
I am wondering if this is just a simple hack to generate some passive income by having 10 blog posts filled with reference links to the book sites on Amazon. Food for thought. shrugs
Not really (at least not the kind of stuff I mentioned), those functions can just return promises which the caller yields: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/WvzGLa

Granted async/await syntax will make this a bit nicer:

async function funcA() {
await sleep(1000);
// ...
Good article! Just a couple corrections / comments:

> n * x != x + … + x

Not true if n == 2! For n = 2 they are exactly the same.

Why is this? Because "n * 2" and "n + n" are both exactly one operation, which means they only get rounded once, and since both are mathematically identical they both get rounded to the same value.

> I’m not sure why, but the default string formatting of floating point numbers in most languages, even domain-specific math languages, does not have high enough precision to store the complete number.

I think it's probably related to the fact that printf() doesn't have any format specifiers for float that do What You Really Want, which is: print the shortest number that will parse back to the right value.

So unless people want to implement this algorithm themselves (and, fascinatingly, the best known algorithm to do this was published only five years ago: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1809028.1806623), you have to choose between having all your numbers be annoyingly long or losing precision for some numbers.
I am not sure I understand what you are saying exactly, but I believe in some circumstances you may be working with numerical values which you know to have errors > ulps.

For example, suppose you working with data that you've obtained from some physical measurement, and your knowledge of the measurement process means you know it will have around 1% relative error.

Or another example: suppose you are solving a linear system of equations Ax=b with highly precise right-hand-side data b (< \epsilon floating-point error), but the condition number of the matrix is large. Then perhaps it is only meaningful to expect the solution to be accurate to within k(A) \epsilon, the condition number of A.

(I haven't thought about this stuff for a while, please correct me if this is wrong).

edit: here's another reason. Suppose there's a heavy tradeoff between runtime and accuracy for some algorithm, so for some application it makes sense to use some cheap but somewhat inaccurate approximation. Then you're probably going to have and expect far larger errors. But, you might still be able to get some kind of (worst case?) bounds on the result, and want to assert something about that in test cases or sanity checks.
I think you are under estimating how similar many typefaces are to each other. When even human experts have a hard time determining which typeface is which you know it is a hard problem.

I do agree 100% with you that any such product would be impossible to monetarise. I would certainly like to use it so I hope someone makes it.
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