jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A more-fair comparison for current devices would be mobile vs a laptop or pc coming out of sleep mode... but even then it's not fair unless the pc has an SSD rather than a drive that has to spin up and seek.

All of his 1970-1980's devices ran from ROM rather than media. A C64 computer could boot up to a Basic prompt very quickly, but to load a program took many minutes. Apples and Ataris were similar, unless the program was on a ROM pack. To compare that to todays computer you have to stop at the initial BIOS screen, because that's where the ROM loading stops and media loading starts.

Modern devices are more powerful and more flexible partly because their functionality isn't burnt into a ROM anymore. Only the initial loader is ROM, and the rest is loaded from media.

The one thing that would make this faster is if computers remembered their initial hardware and software state after bootup and could quickly verify if anything has changed since the last boot. That would avoid the time consuming initialization of hardware and software. Of course, the hardware would need to remember its state too, and that's probably the sticking point.
US Law makes hacking illegal
This is why I rotate my social media/news consumption habits every couple of months. I go from right to left, select a particular bubble to wade into for a while. Then I stop. Switching up your bubbles on purpose makes you more aware of them.

It helps that my political beliefs are unorthodox enough that I can agree with most groups about something, though.
The absolute bloodbath of VC funded companies with weak fundamentals is finally catching up. Peloton, Robinhood, WeWork, Opendoor, Clover health, and countless others with major layoffs, stock down 60-80%, no profitability or sustainable business model in sight.

My back of the envelope calculation suggests that over the last decade $200-300bn has been spent by VCs on startups, led by Softbank. And with very little to show for it. 95% of tech revenue, profit, and market cap is dominated by MSFT, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon - companies that took very little to no VC funds.

Just makes me ask what a world with little VC influence will look like. Will most likely be more resolute companies and founders building more sustainable businesses who take on this big 5.
And now he is arm twisting his board. What do you think about such founders? Is he toxic or just right about what he does?
I was taught about slavery & american racism in an american public school about 20 years ago also. These are the main points I remember being made:

* slave owners and, later, segregationists were products of the time and systems under which they lived. their acts were wrong but understanding and grace is necessary to interpret them.

* racism is an act of individual, intentional malice, one person to another. to the extent larger systems play a role it is only by giving leverage to individuals to fulfill their personal racist desires.

* there are no notable current, ongoing consequences of these policies that need to be addressed. sharecropping was a thing for a little while though.

* these problems are gone now and they went away because people are just better to each other now, thanks to the good peaceful works of people like rev dr martin luther king jr.

So I like idk. It doesn't sound like this article is talking about your education experience but it is talking about mine. It's a big country though, there's a lotta schools.
> Why a few though?

Because it’s less dangerous and cheaper?

> Horizontal scaling, docker K8s have their own benefits that are many and obviously to the industry.

Which is why SO runs on more than one IIS...

You don’t need a tech-stack, that is apparently even too complex for google considering the article, to scale horizontally.

> If you deploy one server for each app and each team vs deploying a common K8s cluster where is the higher investment?

The investment comes from the complexity. We’ve seen numerous proofs of concepts in my country, and in my sector of work, where different IT departments spent one or two 2-5 full years worth of man hours trying to adopt a perfect devops tech-stach.

Maybe that’s because they were incompetent, you’re free and possible right to claim so, but that’s still professional teams expending real world resources and failing.

From a management perspective, and this is where I’m coming from much more than a technical perspective mind you, the most expensive resource you have is your employees. If software is so complex that I need one or two full time operators to run it, well, let’s just say I could run more than a million azure web apps, and have our regular Microsoft certified operators handle it.

> You claim more ROI with more physical hardware and more servers?

I haven’t owned my own iron since 2010. All our on-prem servers, and we still do have those, are virtual and running on rented iron.

I think we may be speaking past each other though. My point is financial and yours appear to be mostly technical. If you can set up and run your K8s without expending resources, then good for you, a lot of companies and organisations have proven to be unable to do that though, and in those cases, I think they would’ve been better off not doing it, until they needed to.
A psychopath is not corrupted but sick...that's a big difference.

Maybe your are both (a psychopath and corrupt) but for one of those points you aren't responsible (the sickness NOT the possible actions).
I think a good solution would be some kind of box that you could just put over the whole thing while maintaining airflow. Ideally you'd also be able to sit on it or use it as a kind of side table.

It wouldn't be too hard to build something, e.g. out of wood, to do the job, but that would surely increase the total build time and tools needed by at least 10x.

There's got to be some cheap and widely available product out there that you can just buy and use. (Something from IKEA?) I looked around but haven't found any good options so far.
It's "Dance" by Matisse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_(Matisse)
just look at https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p5fdbowk7X8/maxresdefault.jpg yucatan peninsula crater photo and try and picture the Dinosaurs and that big boom, cloud of dust and it's like c'mon, no brainer. We need N planets not just 1 planet.
More examples of the Linux distro world telling us that they know better than all of us, and in spite of decades of something working well one way, this new way, which just happens to benefit certain large monopoly-aspiring companies, is better.

Disabling "fallback" to Cloudflare, Google, et al, is what everyone should do. The idea of "fallback" is completely and horribly flawed, and only an idiot or a corporate shill could think that it's a good idea.
You have it backwards. They have unproductive economies because they're lawless and violent. You can see it in the evolution of societies like Singapore or India.
This makes me so angry. This was one of the reasons I got out of consulting. Every fucking time, I would get an enhanced check. Surprisingly enough, it is nothing new. This is something you face if you are a minority. Hell, I remember a friend from back in Africa whose dad got blacklisted in the nineties because he had a beard. Brown catholic guy with a beard got blacklisted. The only difference now is that at least this guy is articulate enough to vocalize organized discrimination.

And Fuck Jet Blue while we are at it.
As it is, 4S was developed under Jobs.
By 2005, however, 73% of buyers paid above ask.

Is 73% a typo? It seems like it should be lower based on the tone of the sentence.
I've been wondering about applying nuclear in non-traditional locations. I wonder if CSX could get a compact breeder for trains. Same thing for super tankers. No more diesel. Just clean, safe, semi-renewable nuclear.
Damn you, GUEST!
I cannot answer your question (I'm a CS undergraduate), but did you know about this subreddit?

> http://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions

I didn't know about that. There's plenty of questions answered. It might inspire you somehow.
trackball is a bit of a problem - fun game though - f'n andy - shooting someone who isn't moving :)
Right, but many people use the same password for their email account as they do for many other services.
I would argue that while crypto most certainly works that way (use only when definitively proven), security in general is a bit more lax in terms of requirements.

Despite hashes being cryptographic primitives, user password hashing is less about cryptographic principles (preventing first and second preimage attacks) and more about increasing the amount of work an attacker must muster to find an input which hashes to the hash value.

Attributes like collision resistance generally mean almost nothing when on the scale of strings under 100 characters in length, which most user passwords are. Practically, you are never going to run into collision issues if you're using MD5 or later. Your goal is merely to increase the amount of CPU time it takes to find a hash's original input.

Because of this, even if AES encrypting a hash with a random pepper somehow reduced the collision resistance of a hash (I'm 99.8% sure it doesn't), it wouldn't at all affect the speed at which the hash is cracked.

>a sly and subtle vulnerability that simehow leaks information about original plain text by interrogating the cipher text.

Hashes are not ciphertext. For all intents and purposes they can be viewed as CSPRNG output. There is nothing you could do to them to leak info about the plaintext as long as your hash algorithm isn't pathological. There are things you could do to reduce collision resistance, but I addressed that above.

Password protection in web apps is not about encryption or decryption.
He could generate a lot more attention for him as a person if he wanted. Instead he let the world largely focus on the material he could extract. Which is good, because this shouldn't be about him: If it was the media and government would try even harder to find irksome material about him as a person (Bullshit like "his girlfriend was a stripper, and this is why we should not trust the material").

Or do you actually think the material is forged?
Wow you are right! It sounds so convenient when you manufacture a description to make it sound like we are currently going through 9 arduous steps instead of opening a website!
you could have a shortcut with a nice icon on your phone, it would be mostly the same I think.

Except your kids won't spam that on your phone, like they would with a physical button.
Surfing the web or doing any form of multitasking.

But of course, the sad reality is that the only reason there is a 2 GB version is so that they can have a ridiculous premium for the 4 GB version yet still lure customers with the low starting price point.

I wonder if, when the market has matured enough, that there will be honest companies making products that tries to make good mainstream products rather than trying to get away with whatever they can. There is no reason what so ever that there should be any high-end smartphone available for purchase with less than 64 GB of storage.
But now we have 16 GB and, for a $100 GB premium you get, gasp, 32 GB!

Phone storage has not gone up, in many cases down, in the last five years... And that's like 120 years in the tech world.

But hey, 2 GB of ram is certainly enough for the 5 min demo you get in the store...
Worryingly hot in fact.

It may not actually be a problem at all. CPUs can run safely up to ~70C or so, which is 160F. This means thin tablets are becoming constrained by what you can safely touch, rather than what is safe for the CPU.

http://www.colorado.edu/engineering/MCEN/MCEN5166/supplement...
I thought this was interesting too... but are you also carrying around a keyboard and mouse?
Regarding contractors I might say that their multimedia-related code (ie the in-browser audio/video player) is done by Kaltura, an external contractor. http://kaltura.com
Penny counting is a bit too much, folks should be paid properly.
But their drift away from "organic" growth is a bit disturbing indeed.
Linode is pretty good, although you'll have to administer it yourselves. You could also split things up - have the main app on heroku or something, and farm out 'special' (background processing or whatever) jobs to a Linode.
"It is worth pointing out that the Globe and Mail is WAY off on the acquisition price of socialdeck, sources put it at $2.5m, not $10-20m" -@startupnorth

Not sure if this is any more true, but it may not have been as impressive.
Agreed on form factor. But I struggle with the idea that making kill bots are going to a) save lives and/or b) be seen as a positive advance by any one in le future.

Drones make us far more enemies than they kill. US soldiers have gone the way of the US cop (all utility belt; no substance) and the casualty counts being low is a bad thing. It is the equivalent of a person to high to receive signal from the nerves in their extremities telling them to quit whatever activity is causing the pain.
I think it's not as much as the office setting than the organization structure, the first big thing to notice is probably when "everyone" can't be together anymore and you need to divide up things between people so you don't know what everyone is doing all the time anymore
Seems like Uber is really solving racism problem with catching taxis: https://medium.com/matter/ubering-while-black-146db581b9db
Do not underestimate the back-end complexity of data integration. The front end may be a small engineering problem, but I assure you, the back end is fraught with more political, protocol, transmission, and format problems than you could imagine. Or maybe you can. But please do consider the number of disparate businesses that had to be technically unified for this purpose, and the tendency for technical unity to break constantly across political/organizational boundaries.
People buy that stuff just to help out kids though. Going door to door selling a 'magical candy bar' that can radically change someone's life for eternity would be much harder. I guess part of that is also conviction in what you are selling.
Not defending anyone just a 30,000 foot view.

The issue is that it really appears that it is a clash in personalities. When someone says they love R's community and then emphasis that it is a terrible language they lost me. In Open Source there are many examples of "mean" gate keepers. We see splits in the communities with examples all over i.e. ffmpeg vs libav.

This isn't the way to go about change by belittling the language and then say ALL of mail list when he has a personal issue with one person. This is not going to be healthy nor helpful unless there is documentation on conflict resolution that already took place.

Just my humble opinion.
One that I am aware of is https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2t227g/front_e...
What if we could design a solar cell that could shift from transparent to opaque on demand? Instead of putting up blinds, simply move a slider or tap a button or what have you, and suddenly the amount of light coming in is dimmed, and the energy being captured is increased.
Seems like a win-win to me, if it were possible.
What positives are you gaining that you wouldn't get from being in team based offices or private offices?

Your entire post is about how you can minimise the negatives, but anyone who has been to a library before already knows you can make an open plan almost noise free.
I'm in my early 30s, and I use none of those. Maybe its a generational thing?
Sometime in January of 2015, I'll do the same thing I do every January - nuke everything from 2014.

I don't get a lot of very personal email and most of what I do receive really only makes sense in the context at the time. I'm also not terribly sentimental about many things, due to my particular life history.

If it's important to me, I'll deal with it. If it's important to someone else, they'll let me know about it.
I have a 2012 MBP (non retina). Never ever had any problems with it at all, runs cool and I compile all day long (C++). Not much gaming going on, but when I do (under Windows on it) it goes mental with the fans. It is the top i7 one with the dedicated nVidia GPU in it, but I have no complaints about it (so far).

EDIT: I must also state that it has a plethora of ports on it that are lacking on the retina models. Gigabit ethernet (with AVB for audio, hurray), Thunderbolt (or Mini DisplayPort for driving a screen/TV with audio over it for HDMI too) FireWire (for audio interfaces), two USB3 ports, SD slot, mic input, audio out (headphone or optical S/PDIF), button to indicate amount of battery remaining (so you don't have to turn it on to find out) and a DVDR/CD drive. Can't beat them in my opinion.

I chuckled observing the MacBook Air user with his bag of appendages for ethernet and powering a display. Sort of defeated having the super slim device!
My comment was carefully worded in order to denote that it is not true in all cases.

Your Big O analysis is correct. However, in a real-world case the list could be an iterator over a log file on disk. Then you really don't want to use chained combinators, repeatedly returning to the disk and iterating over gigabytes of data on a spinning plate.

And yeah, you could benchmark to figure that out, or you could use the right tool for the job in the first place.
I think, spam is not the problem, email end-users are facing today. Filters are good enough.

People who want to register themselves to services with different email-addresses are likely to find a way to do so.
Quantitative trading companies are spending more and more money to trade faster, because the barrier to entry continues to plummet. For example, they used to install software programs on computers, now they actually hard-wire programs directly to motherboards to shorten the execution time. As the article mentioned, trading firms are investing heavily into expensive fiber optic lines instead of traditional internet. For these reasons and many more, the fraction of a penny that each trade earns them also continues to grow smaller as the arbitrage that they trade on grows smaller because every firm is investing into the same expensive strategies.
I don't think that was the point being addressed. I think the point was that the personal appeal banner was better designed and much higher contrast (greater use of color, larger font sizes, gradients, etc.), whereas the other banners are lower contrast with smaller fonts and far more ignorable, regardless of the presence of a face.
Does that mean Facebook will vanish completely over the next 10 years and turn into a punchline? Simplicity comes in different forms; I suspect that FB is actually aiming for the wrong kind in this case.
So many times at college in computer science I heard the idea that math == computer science and that it is impossible to grok one but not the other.

I've heard the famous Dijkstra quote "Computer Science is to computers as Astronomy is to telescopes", but one aspect of computer science education strikes me as fundamentally different than math education: The technological revolution brought by the compiler. While it's true that a compiler can't tell you if your algorithm is correct and is thus useless for algorithm analysis (although there are other tools for that), its ability to check syntax, etc. makes it an invaluable tool for the beginning programmer who once he is comfortable with programming can use it as a tool to explore computer science. The compiler is like a computerized instructor giving feedback for elementary programming in the same way that a human instructor gives feedback to students for elementary math. Of course in advanced math the student must reason out complex proofs, but at the beginning stages of any algebra or calculus course there’s a lot of "You must do X before Y" and its that kind of basic rules that are analogous to programming language syntax and grammar.

The compiler in computer science education is different from a calculator or a system like matlab or even those online assessment tests like "Webwork" found in higher math education because those tools are only binary in their feedback: "Either you're completely right or completely wrong, and I'm not going to tell you why you're wrong. Good luck!" If you had worked the problem out on the board with an instructor hopefully they tell you “You were close, but you messed up here, you can’t take the square root of that without doing this other thing first” or "you used the chain method incorrectly over here"

It is my goal to one day develop an open source "math compiler" that allows you to write out the steps of your problem line-by-line (either through pen input or some sort of math symbol input system) and let the compiler give you that sort of feedback that would otherwise take a dedicated tutor to give. I know that there’s a million ways to solve a given math problem, but math textbooks usually teach things in certain orders, so you more or less know what the student will know at that point in the semester, and if someone is already thinking beyond the material then they don’t need this helper at this point anyway.

It’s a crazy idea, but it is my hope that in the years to come we will see technology not necessarily replace human educators, but rather supplement them, allowing feedback that would normally consume all of one instructor’s time and being able to simultaneously provide that to an entire classroom.
Definitely start a blog - I start mine 6 years ago and it's been a huge motivator to create cool software projects, and it's connected me to like-minded people. Just get a wordpress install up on some random domain and start talking about your code.
Actually not so hard - below 30 meters, you can have that kind of accuracy with not too much effort IMHO - in recurve archery, we shoot only 3 arrows, on separate targets, starting at 50 meters, to avoid breaking arrows (the next one hitting the preceding one). At 30 meters, I can let go of sight and a lot of technique and still be "bullseye" as he is.
Except that it's becoming increasingly co-opted by commerce. How many non-commercial "maker" events are there? Make Magazine and various others are explictly selling the maker ethos, and using the maker "brand" to sell other things.
At what point do drivers tap out? This match keeps cutting their hopes dimmer and dimmer.
> to fight this recession, as OTHER GUY put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.

it's clear that Krugman is talking about someone else (Paul McCully)'s phrasing of some advice. What isn't clear is whether Krugman also thinks this advice is a good idea. It seems that way from my reading it - unless Krugman thinks ending the ression is not desirable. It's anything but clear, though.

"your interpretation is incorrect" is a reasonable opinion. "I don't see how anyone could interpret it that way" sounds like hyperbole.

A formal language used on social networks could solve problems like this. A record of accurate predictions made in a formal language could be a solid source of reputation.

https://github.com/neyer/dewDrop
Pretty neat idea. However, more glad that Lyft finally has the ability to split fare.
Sadly, most of the startups are finance/marketing/hr-focused. I haven't seen many other large startups outside that. Ones that come to mind are TempoDB, BellyCard, ShipBob, Raise, ParkWhiz, and SpotHero.
Even the Soviet countries were better than this.

I haven't seen tanks crushing people in DC.