jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Fujitsu A64fx already exists, the threat is quite near. Arm on the server market is quite interesting too (Graviton2 and Ampere Altra today).

And those are big cores. For a ton of little cores, looks less clear-cut for me because of the communication overhead. (could work out though, but won't be exactly easy).
We won't know until we see standardized testing for this cohort. Which won't be until next year.

I suspect kids of wealthy, educated parents will actually excel. Those parents will learn that they could can actually do better than schools on the pure academics.

Unfortunately, I suspect kids of poorer parents will really slow down.

But, yes, I think we're about to unbundle a lot of education.
Practically speaking, keeping 100% of the ice off of even well-used sidewalks 100% of the time all winter long isn't going to happen. All it takes is one patch of black ice and you can have a very serious bike crash.

There's also a safety issue in that if you're in that kind of cold for long enough, it'll kill you, jacket or no jacket.
Yep. Information security is a nonalgorithmic problem. Much as people might like to disagree or pretend otherwise, it is fundamentally at odds with a service that can scale to meet the needs of clientele in an automated manner. The most successful companies in that space are consultancies that can deliver personalized results to every client on every engagement, and while they are very successful, they will never be what venture capitalists want.

It feels good to try and form a business model on prevalent security themes like, "Think like an attacker" and "How do we develop preventative measures before we get hacked?" but that doesn't actually stop incidents from happening. There's no perfect security, just good enough security based on what a company can invest and how much risk it wants to manage.

This is something I've found most startup folks are really resistant to, because it means that they can't commercialize security services in the same way you can commercialize web hosting. That's understandably upsetting to them, when you see how trendy security has become in the media, and how successful a company could become by capitalizing on it.

I think the section any VC or investor has on security potential is going to remain naive for a long time. Semantic desires like "I don't want my mail to be read by other people" simply don't map very well to purely mathematical operations encapsulating privacy and security in software. Organizing security vulnerabilities into neat taxonomies makes security folks sleep well at night and gives the appearance of an ordered checklist you can build a product on, but in practice that's never the case.

Personally, I don't think security should be the sole product or service anyone tries to base a startup on. I am really excited about virtual reality and machine learning companies, however. I'd really love to see some hard innovations and improvements in that space. It'd be nice to have more hardware companies in general.
Sentences make more sense in context. In this case, the context is under the tongue-in-cheek reference to the "well-equipped greek" which is someone who, presumably, wants to have all the "must-have" gadgets. For someone who considers that list of gadgets "must-have", I'd argue that both cable and smart-phones are certainly at the very top of the list.

Your point, then, is that you aren't one of those "well-equipped geeks" who must subscribe to everything. Neither am I (is anyone?). Neither of those bits of information undermine the point he is trying to make.
Those are all great questions. I don't have good data on most of them.

I don't think that I have any competition yet. They've spent a few months on the problem and I think it is just dawning on them how difficult it is. I personally can think of one guy who might be willing and able to do this sort of project but I think he is too smart to get involved by the time they figure out their project is in trouble. If I don't take the project I will probably pass it on to him.

It's one of those problems that initially appears fairly simple. I'm in no way putting them down for not figuring this out, they simply haven't made as many mistakes in this niche as I have. Heck, it's more complicated than I first thought as well
Not to mention the 90+% conviction rate in Japan ...
I think this is a great business to be in right now.

As others have said, I'd include screenshots and details about the optimization process works, not the monitoring bits and referral tracking - after all, most people already have a very involved process they use to do that.

Design wise it looks good, but the signup button transparency is distracting.
I couldn't find your demo/feedback site link, and it wasn't until I got back here to complain that I saw that you do actually have one. Went back to the site and still it took 30 seconds of hunting (and another minute to notice the one up top in the little bubble). Nobody off the street will give you that much time. I'd make it as big a priority on the homepage as "sign up".

And speaking of which, the biggest glaring issue with your site is that the "Support" link doesn't go to one of your own feedback sites. Why are you not using your own product? As a potential customer, the immediate answer that springs to mind is "because it's not good enough", and that's the last you'll see of me.
Upvote for the digger love :)
Rats of Tobruk, Kokoda Track - some very hard young men involved there.
When it comes down to it I don't really know much, just enough to fake it online - like the other 90% of online posters about complex subjects that can be made ambiguous without much effort.
It is not all gloom and doom. I remember reading about Pyongyang University of Science and Technology and how it was initiated by this man - Kim Chin Kyung in fortune mag. His background is very interesting. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/04/1057179156781.h...
He tried to affect change in a different way. Not by anger which we all feel after reading the article. You have to admire his determination.
Immediate changes or changes caused by outside interference may not be a lasting or stable thing.
I believe at some point in time, the idiots ruling the place will want to follow their only friend, China, transformation. The question is when. Any form of aggression is only going to cost extra lives and delay this timetable. As for them making the first move in a war....hmm...US can vaporize the whole north peninsula and still have left over nukes.
I was in Eastern China when the news about the South Korean ship getting sunk came out and there were talks of a Korea/Korea war. I was ready to go volunteer as a civilian in South Korea to help a war effort if it came to that - I think the vast majority of the United States' wars in recent history have been poorly chosen, poorly executed, and morally questionable.

But the United States Government not taking out Communist China and Kim Sung-il's North Korea during the Korean War has to be one of the largest war mistakes in history. So much misery could have been avoided if they'd done it the way Chiang Kai-shek wanted and pushed through Korea into China. The Communists got a huge boost from seizing the Imperial Japanese weapons after WWII, but they were still far underequipped compared to the U.N. forces in South Korea. Then the Soviets got nuclear weapons and the stand-still happened, and lots of people suffered for it.

North Korea has to be one of the most vicious places in the world. I'd sign up pretty quickly if an international coalition went to tear down its government.
What is a CPA and why does this guy hate it so much?
>Because of this, I've always suspected a stronger mind-body link than traditional Western medicine currently admits to (obvious caveat of n = 1). It seems that whatever state my mind is in, my body follows soon after. Mental anxiety begets physical tension. It's like my whole body downclocks itself to deal with things.

Um every western medical practitioner "admits" to this kind of mind body connection.
No trash burning, just a little party to send off our blue logo in style :)
Seems like that would be a good credential for a computer security consultant to have
It was strange that the suggested address was not in the dropdown list, so I could not delete it.
Anything that supports RAID1 would do for me. I had a ReadyNAS in the past but now I have a cheap 2-bay D-Link[1] with 2 + 2 TB of Western Digital HDs installed. The important thing is the PSU which should support both power supply AND ethernet[2]. This setup is for just family pictures, documents and some family video that is all backed up via TimeMachine. My code is on bitbucket/github. Some work documents are on Google drive too.

ReadyNAS are way better especially the ones with INTEL cpus, since they can transcode video on the fly for some media players that require such a thing (e.g. you could stream video to your iPhone/iPad). But these are expensive and I don't need this kind of functionality.

If I had more than 5-10 TB of data to backup then I'd for a custom tower, 8 GB of memory, Gbit Ethernet of course and + FreeNAS (ZFS + FreeBSD network stack).

[1] http://amzn.to/1CSugSb

[2] The ReadyNAS got toasted through ethernet by a thunder!!!

[3] http://www.freenas.org
I'm a little bit curious if anyone knows or someone from the company is willing to answer: Magic charges the customer, then pays for the items. Since this was a weekend project and they use Stripe (which pays in no less than 2 business days, and in most cases 7 days)...where did they get the money for such a large "float" at the beginning? They have to have the money to pay out in advance, well before receiving it back.

Also, maybe Stripe should issue temporary cards instantly for just this sort of business. You charge a customer, then can get a one-time-use virtual card number to be able to order the items that you just charged the customer for, up to the amount you have in "escrow" with Stripe. People could do "roll your own" affiliate programs anywhere, with anything, without the cooperation of any other business.
It's from 2009, and based on technology ideas from 2007 (the nanowire paper was published at http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v2/n10/full/nnano.2007.2... ). Rather, it more generically says "To claim that [similar] technology [though not super-fast SSDs] will not be developed in the next 10-15 years is a bit pessimistic. To start new projects using RDBMS is simply short-sighted."

It's now halfway through that range, and there's been no evidence that using a RDBMS is looking any more foolhardy than it was in 2009. If anything, I've developed a lot more relational databases during that period, because of sqlite.

"what computer programs really need to persist their data is a way to transparently store objects to disk, and restore them at a later time"

That's incomplete. Databases are also good at maintaining indices, even in the face of live updates. I would rather let the database implement the index than write my own and only have the database persist my homebrew code. Especially if I need to implement any sort of basic text search.
Looks horrendous to me, but I guess many people love it.

Also, "truck" doesn't seem appropriate at all, maybe "tugcar" would be?
> If people are easily convinced to hate other people, the problem is not dangerous speech or ideas. The problem is a breakdown in fundamental education, i.e., those people are dangerously ignorant.

With reeducation camps reappearing in parts of the world and sensitivity, bias and other types of training in other parts ... that makes me somewhat uncomfortable as idea. The ones in power always want to educate the wrongthinkers.

And judging how easily Democrats learned to hate everything Trump related and before them Republicans - everything Obama, and hating each other - I would say that it is not a problem with education. People hate because it is fun and pleasurable.
Are these threats so sparse in the whole universe, or is our region special?

Is it unlikely that we are far enough to be mostly safe from these threats?

Or maybe it's one filter for Fermi paradox (on a planet that isn't far from these kinds of threats life wouldn't survive long enough to develop civilization).
My experience with this is very different. I used to know a few kazakh fellows and their views on Borat were resentful to say the least. They said Sacha Cohen is a universally hated figure in Kazakhstan, along with the Borat movie itself, to the point where a lot of people genuinely want him dead. I have no doubt some Kazakhstan citizens actually enjoy Borat but to generalize it as being seen as "high comedy" over there is a vast and incorrect exaggeration.
> I think its expressiveness and conciseness makes it more dispiriting to study: one page of a maths textbook can contain so much information, and it feels like you're just stupid when it takes an hour to understand that page fully.

This is very important. Apparently some people get frustrated by this because they are used to studying lower-information-density textbooks. Maybe there would be value in teaching these meta-skills, like how to approach learning each subject. People may apply techniques, like rote learning or brute-force cramming, reading the same page for hours on end, expecting to magically grok it, where these are ineffective of even counterproductive. Not sure how well this is teachable though.
There are claims about Google "mistakenly" breaking Youtube etc. on Firefox. I wonder what happens if Microsoft "mistakenly" breaks Chrome and the updater?

Because when these companies truly take on to each other, they do play dirty.

I would prefer to watch such a fight, instead of browsers becoming non-standard. Default ad-blocking shouldn't be a thing, what's next? Browsers with default Reddit enhancement suits?

The default should be, browsers render whatever the HTML and JS say and leave it to the users to choose to modify this through ad blocking extensions and so on.
Probably because most SO questions can't be answered with product recommendations.

Also SO is very specific and narrow (programming questions only), while Quora is very broad, so it's probably harder to moderate effectively.
> WhatsApp calls and messages were used by Facebook.

If that's true that would be extremely serious, given that Whatsapp promises end-to-end encryption

> WhatsApp end-to-end encryption ensures only you and the person you're communicating with can read what's sent, and nobody in between, not even WhatsApp. Your messages are secured with locks, and only the recipient and you have the special keys needed to unlock and read your messages. For added protection, every message you send has an unique lock and key. All of this happens automatically: No need to turn on settings or set up special secret chats to secure your messages.

> Important: End-to-end encryption is always activated. There's no way to turn off end-to-end encryption.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/28030015/

Source please?
Its a perpetuated scam, part of psychological operations against the populous of the planet.

Whats really sought after is invulnerable no form-factor options with beyond-time communications, that are forced to do security stuff for everyone & more.
If the difference in speed comes down to money, as the first two answers suggest, then why is LuaJIT even faster than V8? I'm pretty sure PyPy has had far more money invested in it than LuaJIT has.
a country can print as much money as it wants

Printing money is essentially a tax, because it reduces the value of the currency everyone else is holding through inflation.

Or another way: money is not physical resources, it is a measure of resources. How could printing money increase the physical resources available to a country?
Both.

Started as a weekend project to make a couple of bucks a month, it has the potential to grow and scale backed by google infrastructure. As a side effect, it may grow bigger than mailinator taking its place as number one disposable email account provider.

I hope that clears the confusion about my intentions and future goals.
Medium is just a blogging platform
You gotta love the irony of a guy who laments spending so much time on the internet -- by spending time on the internet blogging about it.

(And I'm allowed to pick at lion, because I do the same thing)
So it makes sense then that they should actually pay their employees in India less, to reduce the gap.
I was in the same boat as you when leaving college — I knew the Java _language_, but I didn't really know _Java._ Prior to my first job I always thought of Java as "that big ugly language," but after a few years there I really started to get it.

A few things that made me enjoy Java more:

• Use an IDE Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA or NetBeans. Vim can't handle things like automatic imports and serious refactorings like "extract method."

• Use packages liberally. Start your project inside `com.mistrq.myproject` and make a good, semantic hierarchy.

• Write applications with Guice. Program to interfaces and bind concrete classes at runtime. Dependency injection lets you easily turn a giant, hard-to-comprehend project into manageable chunks.

• Be liberal with interfaces. Sure, we had a lot of single implementations for interfaces, but using Guice made it trivial to swap out implementations for experimentation.

• Write tests. Use whatever's popular for unit tests right now, and check out EasyMock for amazingly-easy creation of mock objects.
giving more to employees in India will just help the growing gap between rich and poor, which is a big problem in these countries.
The idea at the time was to use the data in delicious to augment and improve search. The analysis wasn't actually done till two years or so after the acquisition, and by then the team was in the throes of the stupid d2 development debacle.
20 million.

That's less than 0.1% of what Gates donates. That's about 0.01% of Google's market cap. That's about 4.6 work-hours of Google revenues.

Google is counting on people not having a feeling for what "million" and "billion" mean, aside from both being big numbers.

And part of what was advertised was charities using Google Apps.

I like Google, but this feels pretty cynical.
Next thing you know, Windows 9 will be based on Linux.

I don't think I'd stop partying & celebrating for at least a week. Non-stop.

That is my personal private dream- that one day, Windows will have a true Unix core like OSX.
It's sure disheartening to see the majority of comments here say something to the effect of "20 mil is nothing—Google has so much more to give." Well they sure as hell do, but we wouldn't be saying anything if they'd donated nothing.

I don't see why it's Google's responsibility to donate a percentage of their income, or donate relative to other large donors.

I think it's cool Google donated 20 million. I don't know why it's on HN. I'm not going to take this as an opportunity to bitch about how they could have donated much more.
Huh. So the situation is worse than I expected.

The sites like the one you mentioned should close their comment section when it's morning in Europe and open it at night when their work day is over.

I hope people won't judge other Russians just because of these trolls...
He's obviously concerned about being sued by, for example, McDonald's because you made and used a logo having golden arches in the shape of an "M" with on a red background with text "McDonald's" at the bottom. There's no way he can detect or prevent every such possibility.
His point (I assume) isn't that these things aren't or shouldn't be illegal while driving, it's that you can make it illegal to drive under the influence without banning being under the influence.
> Loyal Citizens of Eurasia and Subjects of Big Brother, Act now!

Something like that?
Reminds me of Richard Feyman taking LSD. He said he had an incredible breakthrough and a moment of pure clarity on a problem he had been working on mid-trip, only to come down and realize his breakthrough was really jibberish and not insightful at all.
So some other definition of "big" than umm "big" then?
I understand that this is against the "wisdom", but I always wanted to build a compensation-transparent-company.
In which it is open (at least internally) how much everybody makes (including equity). And people have ways to change their compensation over longish periods of time and the ratio of cash / equity.
Start purism by removing the numpad ...
Talking I do as well - usually just describing what I'm doing at the moment while I carry her around. Or telling her how incredibly cute she is.
20V over 5A could definitely kill someone.
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> Having mail service to rural areas isn't uneconomical because nobody would offer the service for the right price, it's because nobody would pay the price it actually costs

Or perhaps they would pay the cost but it's uneconomical to do so and having an uneconomical situation results in worse outcomes for a significant amount of the population?

I can't believe you're saying this when a enormous group of Americans have shown at the last election that they are clearly uneducated in the richest country in the world yet instead of attempting to fix that issue capitalism is exploiting them for profit.

> This is almost never even useful.

There are a lot of issues America could fix if you had more faith in your government.
but still falls under Twitter's "Glorification of Violence policy"
Wait until you try to move away from the expat circles and start integrating with the Dutchies if you plan on staying long term. It's a famously "tolerant" society yet incredibly difficult to break into Dutch friendship circles who've known each other since birth.

I left Amsterdam after 4yrs last November.... and had the best years of my life immersed in music, art and culture from every corner of the planet. Brexit was why I moved originally and now I'm in another EU country.
Why does Pelosi's office not seem to have door locks?
Instinctively ML feels like it would mesh well with the continuous distributions in analog systems better than digital.
I think you're overestimating the effect of the exposure of corruption. Take for example, your example, Penn State. I'm not sure how much hard data there is one these things, but I'd bet that applications are as high in quantity as ever [0], job opportunities after graduation are as good as ever, and Penn State revenue has been barely affected [1].

Or perhaps people are just willing to isolate their judgement and only mentally penalize those actually involved with the scandal instead of all the professors and students.

[0]: http://onwardstate.com/2014/04/30/penn-state-application-num...

[1]: http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/penn-state-footb...
Note on source 1: this only shows that Penn State's football revenue, most likely the hardest hit area hasn't declined much.

Edit: I see you only said Penn State's reputation was tarnished beyond repair. Question then is if there are no practical consequences of that, is the reputation really tarnished?
You've implied that 0 data points are better than 20. With 0 data points, consider the source: I will make a "model" to exactly reflect whatever my agenda is, rather than generating one at random.
> Is a spy agency preparing ways to attack and cripple foreign infrastructure that unexpected or contentious?

In light of current revelations, it may or may not be all that surprising. Surprising or not though, it is most definitely contentious!