jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Also, no one really cares about network support anymore, because it's simpler and better to just do a screen share.

Actually, some of us do make use of X11 network transparency on a regular basis. Running an X11 program on a remote CPU, but having its window appear on the screen of the machine I'm sitting in front of, is quite a useful feature. And one that I make use of quite regularly. And it is most definitely not the same as a 'screen share'.
> If Google pulls off the same trick that they did with Kubernetes and creates a genuinely independent project with clean integration points for a wide range of vendors then it could become the open-source Switzerland we need.

Istio is that project, but they'd rather it was Luxembourg than Switzerland.
Maybe it would be easier and better if we just removed the walled gardens from Quora and Pinterest and their ilk.
My main complaint about npm/yarn is that they keep the library code in the project dir and only keep the exact versions and packages that you are using so every time you switch branch you constantly have to run yarn to get the right package versions unlike with ruby gems where there is a folder outside of the project dir which contains a cache of everything you have downloaded and it all just works after branch switches.
As far as I can tell it doesn't provide availability information, though.
Over-the-top safety requirements are spot on I think. Here in BC Worksafe BC just constantly adds on new rules and regulations every year, and they don't care about your company's budget or productivity.

I know Worksafe programs are similar from province to province, so I would be curious to see a comparison of Canadian Worksafe safety standards to safety standards from around the world to see just how much more (or less?) onerous they are.
> There are many places where there is no light, especially in the countryside or in the forest.

> The nearest place on land where darksitefinder shows grey (not even black) is across the continent from me, >1000 kilometers in any direction.

The only places in the universe where there really is no light may be the interiors of planets/asteroids.
Google images returns relatively in-specific and poor results. I have turned to using Yandex. They seem to be better at training their AI as to what is actualy in the images.
Russell and Norvig [0]. The best introduction IMO to "real" AI, as opposed to the ML stuff that currently passes for AI.

[0] http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
>I am pretty sure that most people would not have been able to contribute meaningfully to that type of revolutionary project.

I agree with you totally. Didn't a lifetime of learning lead to that achievement though? The concept of cross compilation between languages had been around for some time prior to HipHop.

They developed their knowledge and executed on it; but other people could, and would, have made the same connection under similar circumstances. They were experts with a specific set of skills. Not just born to be "great programmers."
Please understand the problem. Calling them "Hackers", or "Black hats" or whatever fucking term is NOT the issue.

When someone has the possibility of doing a Sybil attack, no matter what they did before, you take that shit seriously. As of now, we don't know if the goal is to really test their 0day (which, if it's a Sybil isn't exactly 0day) or just popping up 3360 exit nodes to give "free" bandwidth.
It's kind of weird to see the same discussion being repeated over and over again, with people talking over each others with the same point, again over and over.

How about this instead, let's say I'm Patio11 and I want to go to the US, how do I do that? I personally consider Patrick to be the top 1% in what he is doing. And from what I've seen in on of HN's thread last week, a lot of people are aspiring to be the same.

Funny enough, after I typed the above paragraph, I just realized that I can't actually think of a good way to move to the US if I was Patrick. And I'd wager I know more about immigration (pertaining to tech works) than at least most people here, seeing that some of you quoting H1B as "over 100000 coming per years". H1B won't work, you can't have side project/ company on H1B while in the US. And I'm not particularly sure Kalzumeus Software will fit the profile for the investing/ job creators visa one. O visa is just iffy. (Special visas for country aside).

I'm not sure if I'm a great programmers or not. But I'm young enough to hope that I could one day be one. Please, actually proposing solutions on how great programmers could come to the US, with current immigration laws or any changes you think should be made. Keep bashing the H1B is not productive.

Or you can just come out and say "fuck you foreigners", in which case I will gladly reevaluate my plan.

(And then there is still a whole discussion with the OPT system, for some reasons, I have not seen anyone discussing about foreigners graduate from US university, and then have to leave because of the immigration system. There are a whole lot of us too!)
O-1 is also tied to the sponsoring company.

The standards set by the government for the O-1 visa are more geared towards pure research scientist or professor kind of positions. A PhD is a minimum requirement along with publications in top international journals.

Most of the top engineers and developers don't have a PhD or scientific publications. O-1 is more appropriate for an university professor or NASA scientist position. Not for startup engineer.
Why do you dislike Huawei in particular? I could hazard some guesses but most of the reasons I would guess are present in every other manufacturer I can think of. I'm truly interested in why that's a problem for you.

Apparently they signed up Huawei with a contract where they warranted there were no backdoors in the hardware. Guarantees nothing of course but props for the chutzpah to demand such an outrageous clause in the contract.
Yes, I'm sure there are relays being run by the NSA and other governments. But people monitor the creation of new relays an attempt to determine who is running them. It's not a simple task to fool everyone.
What is the analogous mistake you'd make in CTR? The problem here was setting the IV to the last block of the previous stream, right? Would the analog to CTR be continuing to count in the same sequence? Also, I know this isn't the best forum for crypto discussion, but what is (especially for people who are almost totally ignorant but want to learn, like myself)?
Wait till they start pulling books out that they do not want you to read!
Voyeurism is illegal in most places, are you saying that is what this is?
To give an oversimplified answer, that depends on how things are connected and synchronized.

You know how bottlenecks are often explained using funnels in real life? Imagine two funnels, one directly connecting to another one. In that case, the effective rate of flow is determined by the funnel which has the smallest tip - the fact that the larger one lets through fluid quicker is irrelevant, as it is slowed down by the smaller one (we're obviously ignoring things like funnels potentially overflowing here, this is a simplified scenario). So then the bottleneck is easy to pin-point, but also it immediately becomes obvious that widening one funnel beyond the size of the other has no effect.

Now let's change the scenario: I have a bucket of water that I tip into the first funnel, going into a second bucket. Once the second bucket is full I tip the second bucket into the second funnel, going into a third bucket. In this case both funnels have an impact on the time it takes to fill the second bucket, but the smaller one sill has the bigger impact.

And then of course there is the parallel scenario, you can probably see how that plays out.

In our software environment is a complicated mix of all of these, and it can be really hard to pin-point what is the most significant effect. The "buckets" and "funnels" translate to all kinds of things - CPU an I/O are the most obvious ones, but there's more to it than that.

Also there's tons of side-effects that make this entire picture a lot more complicated than the simplified model I just described. The article gives quite a few examples, like thermal throttling, or branch prediction, but reality is even more depressing. Here's a great talk on why benchmarking is even harder than you think it is by Emery Berger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koTf7u0v41o

This, by the way, is also why micro-benchmarks can be meaningless in the larger context. For those kind of situations Coz is supposedly a better option (I've never had to optimize complicated situations like that). The talk I just linked goes into detail as to how it works and why it is better
I have(had) an ok reading speed, and I could read couple of hundred pages of fiction and 20-50 pages of non-fiction in a stretch. Now I struggle to attain such sittings, maybe because age or habits have moulded my brain to get distracted easily.

One thing I have found to help is merging audio/textual reading. I enable tts in Kindle app or Edge reader mode and try to read along as I listen, this enables to me to have 30-60 min sessions without getting distracted. It is slower than my absolute reading speed, but I get more in a single sitting.
I just hope they won't drop any of their CPLD chips. It would be a shame if only way to set up a simple logic circuits without having to use 74xxx was to use FPGA.
It reminded me of "The Sensuous Dirty Old Man" by Isaac Asimov.
These sorts of anti-SUV articles always seem to miss that, you know, people ain't buying SUVs for shits and giggles. In my case, for example, I need a vehicle that's flexible enough to be able to handle hauling moderately-big things (or lots of smaller things) or can haul friends and family around, and I often need to be able to do that in e.g. snowy weather where a combination of all-terrain tires and 4WD/AWD is invaluable. An SUV or CUV/crossover is arguably the most affordable option at that intersection of features.

That said, if 4WD/AWD vans were easier to find, I'd probably switch over to one, since even a minivan is strictly superior on the fronts of both cargo and passenger space (especially with removable seats). Unfortunately, relatively few seem to be on the market whenever I've looked (at least at reasonable prices), and even fewer have good enough ground clearance to not effectively turn into a boat when snow driving (though I guess I could get one lifted, lol).
AFAIK the iCE FPGAs also have open source tooling available
> Laptops are highly susceptible to thermal throttling and aggressive power throttling to conserve battery. I hold the general opinion that laptops are just too variable to have reliable performance. Given the choice, I want CPU heavy workloads running in controlled and observed desktops or server environments.

Hallelujah. Running microbenchmarks on laptops is generally pointless
Ah. Would you mind explaining how? I think that this is a myth that this gives you leverage.
How would you do that? Is this a thing now?
Would you be kind and explain how this is works? (my suspicion is that it is akin "if you owe bank a $10000, you have a problem. If you owe bank a $100mil, bank has a problem", but please don't let this idea influence your answer)

Thank you.
The only reason I'm on FB is my past time: dancing tango.

It is the platform that social group has settled on, somehow, worldwide, for advertising & organizing events and, most importantly, communicating last minute changes to those/after parties, etc.

If you are a tango dancer and not on FB you must communicate with people who are, constantly, to not miss stuff. It's not practical.

That being said: I never look at my stream. I mostly use messenger and post in groups, when looking for flat-/car sharing for tango events.
Interesting opinion, given what Tibet looked like before Chinese invasion (tl;dr: it was a totalitarian hellhole, not comparable with the current situation).
Not quite next door - 15 minutes drive away.
Holy shit, this comment made my day.
Frankly, if you're from the bay area, you have a cost-savings option (living at home) unavailable to anyone else at Stanford.
You always have to consider that people who have bad experiences are much more likely to seek out a site like Trustpilot to vent. Obviously many people have also had great experiences using AirBnB. It will nevertheless be interesting to see how they respond to this publicity.
Yes, on the iPhone. It's red, in the upper left corner. Once you unlock it, it'll follow the device's orientation.
As a programmer, I would be much more inclined to help someone with an existing coding project than to build a prototype for somebody else's idea.

I can't nail down exactly why, and I'm just a single data point.
What's the best JavaScript deployment strategy you've seen?

I.e., are assets always compiled and bundled? How do you split up your bundles? Would you use namespaces, like Closure? How do you handle dependencies? What percent of the code lives on the page in script tags versus external resources? What testing framework(s) do you use? Do you prefer a certain code style?
> The world's best text editor is now available for Mac!

Now this just shows guys never knew how to use Vim. Pass.
Someone left a comment when this was submitted 8 hours ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018404
Hong Kong now has free wifi in many government buildings and spaces, including libraries and public parks. So you can sit in a park and connect to the internet fast and for free.

http://www.gov.hk/en/theme/wifi/program/
As long as the password is unique, it doesn't even matter. Sure, it should be unique yet not revealimg a pattern ("goofy" is ok, "gawker" is not) but there is no need for the user to pass crypto 101.

This for those 1.5m that were just A target; Nick Denton, OTH, was THE target and it was just matter of time for him to get pwned.

>BTW Do you use the same password on your Gawker account elsewhere?

I had to check the other day. I opened that account to leave one comment on lifehacker (that was never approved, actually) and then forgot about it. Turns out the password was safe enough but my mistake there was to use an email address I cared about.

Now I have a less important email address and a supergenpass for everything, except gmail/facebook/dropbox and the other things I care about, for which I have better passwords.
Buckets and pathnames, ahead of their time: Cloud-natives.

And hopefully labels/tags.
Do you know who Ubisoft are?

They are huge, own many studios and their sales are orders of magnitude higher than the Genesis, which is an odd assumption to make.
What does it do that's so great?
As I noted, there will be justice. He will judge and provide eternal punishment or reward, fairly according to our knowledge, for our thoughts, words, and acts. It will be very specific and real. Mercy, and help in our lives, right now, are available as noted above, but only to the extent we choose them. These can now and will be concrete in their impact on us, not abstract, and I can attest to that in many specific ways.

I have learned some things for myself, not as a constructed philosophy, but as a determination of truth from multiple angles. Anyone can begin and continue to learn for themselves if they want and humbly & sincerely try. It has been important to me, to know for myself, because just believing what someone else said or wrote has limits. I have written about it in great detail at my site (noted in my profile), to be either skimmed or pursued, to the extent that one desires. All the best wishes to you in your endeavors.

(Edits: some phrasing.)

Edit: Also, everyone will eventually have a opportunity to know and choose accordingly, so by "fair", above, I mean that all will have a fair chance to receive their reward or punishment according to their own true desires and choices.
Not only that. You can also erase text by swiping left starting from the delete button.
> Regardless of political affiliation, I believe most honest, ordinary non-USians have held in high regard the robustness of the American democratic system and its resilience to the wholesale corruption that plagues many other countries. The democratic ideal, and America as exemplar, has always been held in lofty regard

Where are you from, how old are you? Watching too many Hollywood hero movies?

I think the above attitude is less common outside the US than within. It's usually Americans who view themselves as through the lens of American exceptionalism, the rightful police of the world, just bringing democracy everywhere out of altruism and a care for people everywhere etc.

In Europe, the US is definitely seen in a more ambivalent light with lots of corruption etc.
And well beyond--think of the Great Northern War.
Nice work. In September / October of last year I was inspired by someone else doing this and showing off they could Zwift with their PTON bike.

After some digging around, and figuring out how they encoded the data it was trivial to implement this in a project that was used to keep Flywheel Bikes working.

https://github.com/ptx2/gymnasticon

The changes I introduced which now include support for the Peloton can be found here: https://github.com/ptx2/gymnasticon/pull/12
Never heard of that before, are you running any background apps?
thanks for the tips - I've been meaning to check out 'The Selfish Gene'. I checked out the lesswrong.com article - I'm not sure that my argument is the same as what they are trying to disprove - it sounds like their models are based on individuals that collude or act altruistically in order to benefit collectively. I don't think that 'intention' is a good concept for understanding evolution in the first place. Also, from checking out the Wikipedia article on group selection, it doesn't sound like there is scientific agreement that this concept is disproved: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_selection

I'll go and read The selfish Gene before I write more, but one more pesky comment about the experiment in the lesswrong.com article: I am suspicious of their conclusion that their case study disproves group selection. This does not seem to respect the vast scope of evolutionary time scale. Maybe group selection is like quantum tunneling - with large clusters of individuals, the chances of it happening are infinitesimal - you won't see it in the laboratory. But on an evolutionary time scale, infinitesimal chances do happen occasionally - and if they yield advantageous results, they will shape life's future. Maybe our love for music came about from freak genetic mutations that in fact didn't serve much purpose for individual survival, but this collective activity caused individuals to synchronize their behavior. Maybe this synchronization helps low-advantage/individual traits 'tunnel' probabilistically and exist long afterward because the same traits are high-advantage/collective traits. (?)
Agreed, but as Aaronontheweb said, take a look at Fallout New Vegas. Several of the people involved with the original Fallouts now work AT Obsidian, and it seems they want to bring a lot of the old feel back. Just to take a single example, Stimpacks will be very rare now, and will slowly give back hitpoints - they won't give you +100hp in the middle of a gunfight. Radiation will be a lot more lethal too.
You're right. It's easy to talk about people as though they're not people online, even when you're secretly trying to praise them. I'm usually finding myself agreeing with you when reading things like that and even loving the vitriol while wincing.

So I apologize for writing timidly previously. I apologize for standing behind your back and spreading my opinion in an unbalanced fashion. I made the classic mistake of forgetting I'm actually in public.

I'll say it to you directly. Zed, I'm glad you stand up for yourself, both against my clumsy commentary and all the other blowhards who strike at you. I'm even glad you do it so vocally because it is a damn good story: the wronged who doesn't go quietly into the night.

The only negative side is that your voice is corrosive and bitter and if it weren't I'd feel a lot more comfortable about agreeing with you. As it is I feel like I'm nodding along as the bully takes out that annoying kid who really just had it coming. It feels good, but society is built on not just sitting and watching that happen. Worse, I hate that I end up remembering that feeling whenever I read about any of the cool things you do.

So yeah, I still think you're an asshole. It's unfortunately not what's fair or what's owed but instead how it looks. I'm sure you're ready to tell me why I'm wrong, but don't worry because I've already got a truckload of cognitive dissonance going on. It doesn't help that I think Fret War and Shedding Bikes and Lamson and Mongrel are all great projects and am completely sure that you're a great friend to those who earn your respect.

I just see it as the image you've intentionally built for yourself. Starting with ZSFA and now eking into oppugn.us.
It's the gear ratio times the nominal diameter of the wheel. Your gear ratio is 1.5:1. Assuming it's a road bike, the nominal diameter is 27 inches. You would have a 40.5 inch bottom gear. This is a rough, easy-to-calculate way of comparing gearing on different bikes, ones that don't necessarily have the same diameter wheels.

There are better methods around, but this is probably the most popular. I imagine it's because the better methods involve harder calculations.

edit: grammar, punctuation.
Well that's very true in my situation here! Even some lecturers are so little minded in encouraging students into entrepreneurship. Yes, who does not wants secure safe job with big company, be a good worker and live happily.

But.. It sounds like no more better life than after getting hired. Risk and failure that frightening good potential people away from being an entrepreneur.

Unfortunately, shameful to say, I'm surrounded with these kind of people everyday. Talking about ambition in establishing your own company is hardly achievable. At the end I need to survive myself, home made self motivating.
There is nothing wrong with this, good (or even any) advice will help gaining motivation!
I don't think getting a co-founder is a universal answer for everything.
This article reminded me of something I've thought about - does any game developer use high level languages for AI or core game engine? It seems they all use C/C++ for most everything.

A few games have embedded Lua or Python for user scripting (i.e. Vampire:Bloodlines used Python for dialoges and quest creation), and a couple of games have started to require having .Net runtime installed... but does anyone know of a core game engine in high level languages, and C/C++ is only used for graphics?
The later game studio founded by the makers of Fallout 1, Troika Games, had a lot of great forgotten RPGs. Arcanum, Temple of Elemental Evil, and Vampire Bloodlines were all by them. They were pretty expansive but shippied with bugs (that have all had patches or community fixes by now)
It could be a collective defense mechanism. The idea of animal intelligence being a threat to what many people perceive as the necessary status quo of being able to endlessly consume the resources of nature without consequence.
Go to the Spanish authorities, tell them the situation (illegally living in the USA) and that you fear for your life and need asylum in Spain.

F*ck the sort of family that marries you to someone 15 years older against your will, frankly.
It's more like the veneer of unbiased trustworthy journalism was a by-product of the mass media ad business.

Journalism has reverted back to the journalism mean which was always biased, propagandizing, shoddy, and appealed to the confirmation biases of the target audiences since the 18th century.

That's not to say there are not excellently written and researched articles produced today, but hey, today anyone can be a journalist.