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by merraksh 10y ago
The original title is "Switzerland bores underground". I'm fine with a different title, but please replace "it's" with "its". Thanks, and sorry for nitpicking.
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by merraksh 10y ago
According to reports on the ground, Didi used its local knowledge to act more nimbly in satisfying Chinese customers. But my guess is that if the American ride-sharing company had been more successful, China would have put a Mao-sized thum
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How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia(ibm.com)
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Gender/nationality diversity, politeness linked to higher SW productivity [pdf](peerj.com)
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First Round-the-World solar flight completes(blog.solarimpulse.com)
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SAS, R, or Python Survey 2016: Which Tool Do Analytics Pros Prefer?(burtchworks.com)
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by merraksh 10y ago
"Meta-x gud-gdb" for the old fashioned, or "Meta-x gdb", starts a gdb session in Emacs. Give it the executable you want to debug, then at the prompt type "run arg1 arg2...". "watch p_mydata[34]->blahbla
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by merraksh 10y ago
Yes. It can print the value of C variables and Python objects, using their _str() method I assume. Extremely useful. Even better when done within Emacs.
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Dennis Cooper fears censorship as Google erases blog without warning(theguardian.com)
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Uber hired former CIA officer in probe of lawsuit opponent(cnbc.com)
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Andrea Leadsom quits the Tory leadership race, backs Theresa May(bbc.co.uk)
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by merraksh 10y ago
I wonder if this was submitted after reading today's submission ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12047234 ) about (real) Portia spiders and googling the subject.
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The Iraq Inquiry: Statement by Sir John Chilcot [pdf](iraqinquiry.org.uk)
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Chilcot report: Blair sent troops to Iraq before peaceful options exhausted(theguardian.com)
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TTIP 'impossible' in 2016, says French minister(dailymail.co.uk)
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Integer percentages as fingerprints of electoral falsification(arxiv.org)
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Boris Johnson breaks silence to set out leadership platform(theguardian.com)
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Petition map on 2nd UK referendum on EU membership(petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com)
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Gun Threats and Self-Defense Gun Use(hsph.harvard.edu)
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by merraksh 10y ago
The EU is unlikely to accept Scotland as member states won't want to encourage their own secessionist regions. I would understand the need to discourage secession of regions who would then leave the EU, however the EU has an incentiv
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by merraksh 10y ago
tl;dr Continued consumption of energy drinks like 5 Hour Energy / Costco Energy Shot / RockStar Pure Zero gave him the 2000% of the US recommended daily B6 of 2mg. Main effect: numbness in half of the body, a known side effect of
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by merraksh 10y ago
Previous discussions on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2723675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7734867 https://news.yc
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by merraksh 10y ago
That's precisely what I said: a lot of people are helping both causes, so they are trying to cure cancer or solve poverty. Possibly including the author of the comment above.
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by merraksh 10y ago
Well, nobody is curing cancer or solving poverty, so by your logic nobody could criticize. Many people are actually doing something to help either cause (from researchers down to the $10 donor), and I think all of them have the right to cri
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by merraksh 10y ago
How taxes support the military is decided by lawmakers. We vote candidates based on their programs. If a candidate promised to lower contributions to defense, (s)he'd have my vote. You can have labour that doesn't feed the militar
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How attackers can hijack your Facebook account(helpnetsecurity.com)
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by merraksh 10y ago
Indeed max {f(x): x in X} = - min {-f(x): x in X} However, gradient ascent on a convex minimization problem will get stuck in a local maximum (as a convex minimization problem has f(x) convex, hence with local minima = global minim
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by merraksh 10y ago
In spite of this, optimization algorithms are still designed by hand. Well, they are tuned automatically. There are derivative-free optimization algorithms that have been designed to tune optimization algorithms on a set of instances.
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Gradient ascent reaches a local maximum eventually, but gradient descent is guaranteed to find local minima only.
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by merraksh 10y ago
Yes, and increasingly in northern Italy and elsewhere in Europe [1], although it is barely felt by any citizen. The impact of such organizations goes from rigging construction contracts, for instance by imposing their affiliates' const

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