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I don't see being critical of people in power as a bias, unless you're saying that they don't spend enough time being critical of people not in power.

My original point said nothing on the media's involvement with polling, outside of simply reporting it. As for the pollsters, whether it was ideological bias or simply mistake is a…

What is The Intercept's bias?

It seems kind of predictable that "real news" sites would run stories on how "fake news" is an epidemic. Maybe this is too much speculation but it seems like deflecting. Fake news …

I don't necessarily disagree that they went too far though I assume they probably had good reason at the time in most cases. I'd prefer it if the decision to trap or not were an op…

It's not convoluted. It's actually clear and well-defined making it easier to reason about. I'd call compiler specific alignment attributes more arcane, convoluted, and susceptible…

I'm not sure I understand your deal breaker. For the platform he was targeting it produces optimal code, for other platforms it's merely slower (but not specifically slower, since …

Nah, correct solution is simply to use memcpy(), works on all compilers, all platforms, all versions, with SSE and with any flags specified: #include #include uint64_t sum (char *p…

Undefined behavior is one of the most intelligent things the C designers did when designing the language. It's a fact of life that not all syntactic forms will have meaning. What's…

Who wrote this?

Usually the case as in usually never the case.

What's preventing there being an AI with hardcoded desire to regulate values like hunger level, boredom level, etc.? I could imagine a problem solving AI dedicated to continuously …

Only if you release it.

The point of the 0-day black market is to not reveal these attacks publicly. If there were public proof of this in the past it would have been fixed in the past. Take my word for i…

The sad reality is that black hats have been exploiting this class of bugs for years .

I've been provably shadowbanned by Twitter before so it is something they practice. N/s what happened in his case.

Never said violent revolt couldn't happen. It just seems very improbable. I'd bet that the vast majority of those people who believe Obama/Clinton are evil wouldn't be willing to r…

Nothing is going to get out of hand. That whole idea just seems like media sensationalism. There may be a minority of people who won't accept the results, but the vast majority of …

Happy to a see this trending on HN.

Well it could be near, like 2x slowdown, instead of the 10x slowdown I saw.

at the time, I preferred to write it completely in C++ than have a mixed Python/Cython codebase.

Re "not even close": At least 10x slower This was tweaking Nagle, using edge triggered epoll, using sendfile(). Not just Python-optimizations.

Your PyPy point is fair. A PyPy-oriented optimization effort could have improved performance. N/s by what magnitude though. I did extensive benchmarking until there were no more ho…

I've actually written a highly optimized asyncio-based Python web server in the past. I meticulously optimized every component, using all the standard CPython optimization techniqu…