jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No, national security stuff is simply not published. The mandate is not enforced.
Is the term still used? e.g. for Mooninites in Boston?
To the people holding the theory that I just gave, that's a Chinese disinformation campaign that is part of the coverup. They are accusing others of what they did.

But, there is more than one conspiracy theory here. And probably will be forever. As a hopefully rational third party, I would like it investigated.

But I'm currently giving good odds to "accidental release from program intended to research possible future pandemics". And if that winds up seeming at all likely, I believe that the whole world should commit to having better controls on this type of research to avoid future accidental releases. Because accidental mass murder isn't OK.
Out of curiosity is "superconductivity" an "all or nothing" phenomenon?

ie. Is there such a thing as semi-superconductive?
Here is a tip: use instapaper with kindle. When you are at your computer mark articles as "Save for Later", then convert all those articles into one Kindle-formatted file and drag and drop to your kindle to read them anywhere.
First comment on the post mentions Unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/index.html), which I'd never heard of - but looks pretty sweet for some things I've been meaning to do.
Yes, on occasion. We've combatted this in a couple of different ways:

1) Rewriting code to make fewer memory allocations or, in some cases, allocate memory for shorter periods of time (so it doesn't get promoted to a longer lived heap)

2) Garden variety GC tuning. Tune the various heap sizes, and GC algorithms used.
Agreed. But, AMOLED gives some nice opportunity here. Try NoLED:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730692
Alabama would have been the first (and default) option in the list.
ARM dominates, yes. BTW: the other company mentioned is also a fabless core designer: Imagination Technologies. They are a bit lower-end than ARM, but disruption tends to come from below...

They have some cool ideas for customized many-core, with a mix of CPU and DSP. My hunch has been that that's where Moore's Law will go: specialized silicon (like specialized organs in your body; or specialized firms in the economy.)
A4 is ARM based
Some but it's a pretty small minority if HFT algos.
The risk is that you're on the hook for the book. You can certainly drop ship, and it's a common practice, but you have no quality control. For example, if you're drop shipping a book in "Good" condition and it gets to the buyer in "Fair" condition and they complain, you're out the money and it's your feedback on the line.

From experience, overpricing works when you have better feedback than your competitors.
It's not just a matter of syntax. It's what some people call the difference between expression (which are mathematical) and statements (which are harder to manage mathematically). Check out Hughes' well known paper or some discussions about it. <http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/03/why-why-functional-progr...;

I simply point out this feature because most people focus on language features and this is "programmer feature" that you might not think of if it wasn't pointed it out.
Yes, but the point the parent comment is referring to is that Google (apparently) abandoned Microsoft Windows completely - across the entire company. Even admin staff, accounts staff, the computers used to book free massages etc.

Some how I doubted it (how would they QA test any of their Windows executables such as Chrome or GTalk) but it was what they announced.
Good for them, but FF4 crashes on me every day. Very annoying, especially compared to FF3 that never did that.
Sure -- but they were beaten by ordinary machines because the combination of better ordinary machines and better techniques for running lisp on ordinary machines improved to the point where lisp machines weren't better at running lisp.

A lot of this is that a few small low-budget research groups were building lisp machines at a time when the big players suddenly started pouring all their efforts into developing commodity single-user graphical workstations. But it's also true that developments in GC technology -- developments which Torvalds seems unaware of in this 2002 post, even though they were 15-20 years old by then -- made GC really fast even on hardware not designed with GC in mind.
I think there's a confusion here between the copy-on-write system that makes fork() so fast under Unix and Linux's overcommiting memory, which allows malloc() to return success for memory allocation that will in fact only be allocated as necessary. (e.g. you can allocate 32GB using malloc but as long as you don't write anything there, the kernel isn't really allocating that much memory).

The latter causes much trouble because people tend to assume that, say, a database can allocate a certain amount of memory and be sure that it will never run out of memory as long as it does not explicitly allocate more memory. This is not true for Linux at all, and a process can be terminated at any time (if I am not mistaken, with the confusing SIGILL signal and an OOM-killer message sent to the system log) if the system is running out of memory.

I suspect the diagnostics in the article may be wrong, and there is something else causing the problem there. My polite guess would be something with the JVM (you are all having problems with the JVM... hmmm...). Merely forking a process is a tiny operation under Linux and I don't believe memory overcommitting is relevant at all here. And in any case you can simply turn off overcommits with a sysctl to verify the theory.
What is a no-shop clause?

I didn't even realize that the Humble Bundle was a YC company.
Best of all, nobody is going to question the transactions.
Read again. I said "link with a list of articles". Try clicking the link.

And the linked article clearly states why they were fired:

"The latest development occurred Monday when Google (GOOG) sent an email to all staff members describing its decision to fire four employees for allegedly violating its data-security policies. Google confirmed the contents of the email titled "Securing our data," which was first obtained and reported on by Bloomberg.
The email described some of the actions allegedly taken by the fired employees, including accessing other employees' calendars and sharing information about their whereabouts with outside sources. It was sent out on behalf of Google's Security and Investigations Team."
I didn't say they were. I just said they don't wear suits to work, and then implied that their work is more important to the bank (in terms of raw money-per-transaction) than the nicer-dressing tellers.
Anyone recall a paper depicting full emulation of an IBM 360 mainframe in APL? A fond memory of techcool from long ago...
The $150 would essentially be a "3 a.m. delivery fee".
If you have friends who have HIV/AIDS, you'll be more appreciative of the dramatic flair.
> Neither of these assumptions appear to be true, at least to me.

It's been my observation that if you ask most people who espouse a particular philosophy couched in "morality", that they claim that following their particular moral code will lead to well being. I've also found that the strong that belief is, the less likely that those followers have actually spent time thinking on the ramifications of their moral code towards that goal. They think they have thought about it a lot, but typically they've just spent brain cycles thinking about the code and how to follow it most closely -- not what following that code leads to.

I'm not disagreeing, just throwing in an observation -- most moral codes claim to lead to well being, but in reality many of them do not actually go there.

This phenomenon seems to create a particularly powerful barrier to rational thought that very few people seem to be able to overcome and can even seem to defeat some individuals.

I've seen friends, family and colleagues fail repeatedly to come to terms with this, they think it's because they haven't applied themselves completely to some arbitrary code so the only solution is to double down again and again.

After decades of doubling down this seems to drive people closer and closer to a kind of insanity...I've seen a few withdraw into fantasy worlds constructed of such powerful cognitive dissonance (arising from the inherent contradictions of their moral code and the observed outcome) that having a normal conversation about simple things, like the weather, become impossible -- they can barely complete a sentence without contradicting themselves or becoming lost and sidetracked about how such and such random topic has some particularly deep meaning in their hyper acute moralist world.
Good for you. I would suggest that Runway Finder moves to Europe and let's the lawyers chase them.
This story is big news in the little world of general aviation. RunwayFinder was an excellent free product, well loved, and a lot of pilots are angry about it being bullied offline. RunwayFinder says they don't infringe. It seems likely to me, between the prior art, the obviousness of the patent, and the specificity of the patent claims (including language about using "housekeeping frames"). But they lack the means to defend themselves. I blogged some more analysis at http://www.somebits.com/weblog/aviation/flightprep-patent-76...

FlightPrep tried to go after the deep pockets in the industry, too, Jeppesen. Jepp's apparently blown them off: http://www.aopa.org/flightplanning/articles/2010/101214AOPA_...
On which benchmarks? Is this the case for both x86 and x86/64 targets? Do you have any specific reference?
No reason not to :). I got in on the free amazon AWS and use the machine as a dev server.
Suing someone is expensive and risky. If the "victim" can just be bossed around with scary numbers like "33 million dollars per month", then that's excellent; they get what they want without even having to work for it.

(Personally, that amount would be more than I could ever pay off in a lifetime, so I wouldn't worry about it. I would just join some teach-kids-to-read-in-Africa chairty, leave the world of material wealth behind forever, and never pay a dime of the settlement. Just to spite them.)
Unless we're talking proprietary software deployed to only one environment, or something really trivial, it's still totally worth testing other environments / architectures.

You'll find dependency compilation issues, path case issues, reserved name usage, assumptions about filesystem layout, etc. which break the code outside of Linux x86.
You're fine with preventing KKK members from buying food? You would literally have them starve to death? And you're fine with private corporations making decisions on who has the right to live and who doesn't?

Personally, I value human rights. I think even KKK members have the right to live.
FWIW, Google's vesting schedule is heavily frontloaded to reduce the "4 year cliff"
>"Public display of affection like that which Argentines are accustomed to is frowned upon here."

Are you referring to the single cheek kiss used as a greeting? This is generally reserved for friends, friends of friends and family. The term PDA is generally used in a romantic context.

I have travelled pretty extensively in Argentina - from BA to Mendoza and from Salta down to Ushuia and PDA is not a characteristic I would associate with Argentina which on the whole is pretty religious and conservative.
NPN BJTs (and N-channel FETs) are more efficient (and cheaper), and IIRC it was an enormous difference years back.

This is to the extent that many integrated circuits that drive external transistors will actually have a charge pump to allow them to generate the voltage greater than the main supply in order to use N over P on the high side. [0] is an example of one I was looking at recently.

It's also tricky to match N and P transistors because there's always tradeoffs on the P side, so if you can just use Ns across the board it can make the analysis component selection easier.

Arguably they are just glanced over because they really do just apply the same principles. I still would reach for a P-channel to do power rail switching on my lower power designs, fwiw, but that's about the only situation.

[0] https://www.analog.com/en/products/lt4320.html
That's not an argument against moderation. That's an argument against monopolies and oligopolies. Banning a guy from the store isn't even in the top 10 worst things that will be going wrong in that scenario.
hmm if chinese citizens had no chance to increase their wealth, how did they drive up housing prices around the world? Isn't the narrative that hot money from China was the cause?
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I hope someone takes care of this.
I don’t understand why chipmakers seem to always restrict access to documentation on chips. Their competitors will get it anyway. This only creates more problems for small developers.
How are his views not important when the entire mission of the FSF is to spread a very particular point of view?

When RMS is advocating for zoophilia and necrophilia (he's finally relented on pedophilia, though, after many years of also defending "consensual" pedophilia), it hurts the advocacy for his other causes. You can't effectively simultaneously champion two such disparate causes without one cause seeping into the other.

Edit: Sigh, here it is, let's trot it out again, 2006 is when he was defending pedophilia:

> I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing

https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html#05%20June%20...
Except he didn’t keep his views to himself. He shared it with a ton of others, in writing.
Others have mentioned in the comments: the blocking is because they don’t want people poking round the binary. It’s likely because of the opportunity for creating and spreading malware via the forum.
3. They actually can't
> we want them to behave the same way we do

That is a false statement. We want people to behave respectfully of others, not the same way we do.
In its introduction, the article contrasts "being able to decide what business you deal with" with "the non-judicial punishment of individuals". I'm not a fan how it simultaneously grouped it together - it's setting the scene up for others to do motte-and-bailey defense (using the business/voting facet to defend abuse towards individuals). But even more surprisingly, the article seems to be oblivious as to why cancellation has teeth - it involves chaining these two facets together.

A bunch of Internet strangers shunning you or calling you names can be distressing, but is mostly inconsequential. The problem starts when the crowd issues or implies a threat - threat of weaponizing this "key part of having a free market" against organizations associated with the victim. Threat of amplifying a negative message to a larger crowd still, to the point it could impact a company's bottom-line, a foundation's mission. Only then the victim is being cancelled, as the groups around them cut ties to save themselves.
>>Richard Stallman told me of his misery and that he’d kill himself if I didn’t go out with him.

I said exactly that many times to girls when I was a teenager. It was a joke. Taken out of context, those phrases can mean anything good or bad.
> Totally agree, but I won't make a blind person the watchout guy on a ship. There are limits to inclusion.

Generally speaking, a blind person can't do anything to improve their vision.

A person with a social disability can learn coping strategies to perform better in social situations, in spite of their disability. In the literature on ASD, this process even has a name – "masking". They may never be as good at social stuff as someone without a social disability, they may find social situations draining, etc, but they can improve.

People with ASD [0] often have poor social intuition, but they can learn to think consciously about things which other people can identify intuitively. There's no reason why Stallman couldn't do that as well. Sometimes, given enough time, what first had to be learnt consciously can become more automatic, even intuitive.

Has Stallman been taking actions to try to improve as a result of this public controversy? No idea. But it is at least possible he has. Maybe he's been seeing a therapist. Maybe he's even shared that fact with the FSF board, and maybe they've taken that into account in their decision to reinstate him, but of course it wouldn't be appropriate for the FSF board to share that kind of private medical information publicly.

Of course, we also have to consider the fact that he is 68. Increasing cognitive rigidity is a natural consequence of ageing, and people can find it harder to change ingrained habits at 68 than if they were 20 or 30 or 40 years younger. Even so, I don't think being 68 makes change impossible, just harder.

[0] I'm not saying Stallman has ASD, simply that he may. Quite a few years ago he publicly expressed the opinion that he doesn't have ASD/autism/Asperger's, but I don't believe that was based on a professional evaluation, simply a case of "self-undiagnosis". Also, his comments demonstrate he doesn't have a good understanding of ASD, so I don't think his "self-undiagnosis" should be given a lot of weight. He obviously has signs of broad autism phenotype (BAP), but whether it is just BAP or whether it is ASD is something which only a professional can answer. BAP is not a clinical diagnosis, it is a very common subclinical condition. I don't think the BAP-vs-ASD boundary is important for this discussion – people with BAP have many of the same issues that people with ASD do, just to a milder and less disabling degree.
I'm perplexed. I don't think we're looking at the same content. Perhaps you haven't read the entire thread but just the first 6 tweets?
The experts do prefer the more modern sound, but the core of the study proves that strats are different. They have a special sound. If that's what you want to hear then you need a strat. And we should not discount the psychological effects on the player of playing and living with such a legendary object. Great paintings are more than pixels. Great instruments are more than sound boxes.
> Sadly I cannot find anything about this on a better news site.

Congrats on having your informational/censorship bubble burst!
I tried browsing /r/whitepeopletwitter for the first time, and as far as I can tell it mainly consists of meme-like language that mocks views typically ascribed to Republicans or, in the case of race issues, white Americans that espouse white supremacy. This seems more like an expression of the political reality of some white Americans than any cultural aspect that applies to "white Americans" in general.

> The existence of stereotypes shows that a common culture exists.

I would also disagree with this premise. There were stereotypes about black Americans as soon as the first slave ships landed, despite these populations being from vastly different parts of the continent, different ethnic groups, different linguistic groups, etc. They were forced into a distinct reality and stereotypes served to reinforce the segregation that eventually may have led to cultural differences, not the other way around.

There are also stereotypes about various immigrant and second-generation American groups today (e.g. "Asian-Americans are smart") despite most of these primarily being a result of selection bias due to immigration policies that were ostensibly racist until recently, not a result of a general cultural attribute (e.g. "superior Asian intelligence").
I'm not sure using Unreal is a risk. It's used commercially by a lot of companies for much more than gaming. It's also open source. Obviously not written in Rust though, if that's important.
No kidding. Surprised it’s not higher. I ride a 1200cc motorbike, but not in India. A 100cc Honda on those roads with no rules, terrible surfaces and lighting, and, the main one for me, no trust in other road users to ever, ever, consider my well-being: Terrifying. I’ve done it, a lot, but I’ve fallen off a lot too.
They own android and chrome, that seems like a very good moat for the time being.
Wasn't this a big deal when Rust hit version 1.0 [1]? There's a lot of reasons for not being able to use a bleeding edge compiler version.

[1] https://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/10/30/Stability.html
It's competitor, Amethyst, fails to build on Linux with current Rust.

I think it's something to do with outdated dependencies of winit running into namespacing issues with macros that were added to the standard library
Fair enough, but that most definitely isn't djacobs's case considering the replacement snippet he wrote.
It's not trolling. Especially since this just came out as well.

http://www.hrw.org/node/95113
Even housing to some extent, from what I can tell. The Bay Area ain't cheap, but rents aren't like London or Paris, either. (Well, maybe NYC rents are.)
> Not superfluous at all. The (extraordinarily) superfluous code is the code used to set up the object config system where none is needed.

You need that code to load/create rules in any case, but for you it's done from a config file which the user writes. For TFAA, the user loads his data directly into the running system. Therefore the layer you have to setup between the config file and the actual running code (parsing the config file then interpreting its values to translate them into a running ruleset) is superfluous: you can do without it.

Because you know, your "example" YAML parsing is useless in and of itself, it doesn't result in a working ruleset, you skipped the whole part where you feed that data to your code and setup the stuff that actually does work.

TFAA removes the parsing and interpretation from the chain and instead lets the user feed data directly to the running code without layers inbetween.
> Speaking for our team, we were very disappointed by the way that this appeared in the press.

Speaking as a user, I am very disappointed not to see the team taking more responsibility for the way Yahoo! is handling this.
I don't write my passwords down, but I do use reminders in a code of sorts.

An example: I have an account with the bank Bancomer. In Spanish, "comer" means to eat, so I refer to it as "eßenbanque". (I know it's "essen"; nobody likely to find my list would recognize the ß, though; it would be mistaken for a B.) If my password were "l4rryb1rd" (it's not) I might render it as "oiseaulázaro", just enough of a reminder, while still misleading.

This scheme might not work so well in, say, Brussels, but here in Monolingüilandia I think it's reasonable, although I do wonder from time to time just how sound it really is.
Oh totally. Just commenting on the change, that's all. I certainly don't think 'lean' means 'never take money,' but it also does demonstrate that Shopify is a 'startup' and not a 'lifestyle business.' Maybe they always were, and I just didn't notice.
So true about journalists and agreed that not all droputs are the same. Andre Agassi was successful, yes, but he regrets never finishing his education --and he's all about kids from his charter school going to college.

Frankly, the world needs all kinds of people, and the work many people do (not just entrepreneurs) depends on the work of others. Many two-income families would be SOL if there weren't people willing to clean homes and take of children, for example.
It might have killed Wave but it was what made Gmail a success.