skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>However, so many things on linux lack polish, crash at random times, or have UI problems. Apple would have to screw up a lot more to get anywhere near the disaster of desktop linux,

This is just not true at all. Apple is way more buggy in all those areas for me. I use fedora with GNOME and haven't had one single problem. My grandparents even use it. If I bought them a mac I'd have to fix it every time I come over, with Linux I don't.
I have long suspected that this is true for certain types of articles. If a new article appears on some really popular website like CNN or Slate (for example) and it is about some HN-worthy topic, there's a good chance that multiple HN users will encounter the article browsing the original source site and submit it from there. Now you've got a submission with 3 or 4 upvotes, none of them from the /new page.
Deis v1.9 – Kubernetes and Mesos Previews
It seems like some of these (perhaps all of them other than fixing the "+1" problem) can be done via API clients instead of via GitHub itself implementing it. A third-party website can do wiki searches. A separate service can send you email notifications, and you can turn off built-in emails.

Even the +1 thing might be solvable with a bot that edits each bug report to add a clickable +1 badge (a la the CI build-passing badges) at the top; all you need is to give the bot ownership of your repository. The badge can display the current +n count, and the service can give you a sorted list of open issues by +n. For bonus points, have the bot also harvest and remove comments that consist of just "+1" or ":+1".

This is GitHub after all; why don't we build stuff ourselves instead of waiting for a centralized closed-source company to decide they care about our features?
Report claims Uber posting huge losses
Groovy also has two such typing systems. Type tagging, which has been present since Groovy 1.x, causes runtime type checks and actually slows down the code. Developers would use Java if they needed compile-time typing, say, for performance.

Since Groovy 2, however, the `@CompileStatic` annotation has been available. It's not being used much, probably because people using Groovy just use it for scripting, e.g. testing Java code or in Gradle build scripts. Because only one programmer built it, many developers are concerned about residual bugs, and just use Java or Scala instead.
+1

I would also implement a button for reverting pull requests already merged in master. Reverting merges may be not trivial for less experienced users
He doesn't mention it directly but if you look at the pix you can see a resistor inline and he kinda tangentially mentions limiting current to prevent disaster. I suggest throwing a LED in series too, when it lights up you've found yourself a ground pin.

Look for fun with pull-up resistors, sometimes you'll need to pull up and down. I2C with pullups on both pins unless you have active termination comes to mind. So throw another pull up in parallel with the existing hardware, nothing happens, hmm... Sometimes you're gonna want to pull down thru a resistor too.
Only Great Wallpapers
Moore's law is about transistor density, not individual thread speed. Transistor density continues to increase. Nvidia's Maxwell is supposed to have over 8 billion transistors on 28nm.
KDF should be slow.

Stream ciphers should be fast.

Message authentication should be fast.

Hash functions can be used in any of the above, therefore it should be fast. Key derivation functions generally work by taking a secure hash (that can be done fast), and then taking an operation that transforms the output of the hash function to another output that requires a lot of time and/or memory. And then possibly takes the hash of this as well to obscure the internal workings. The "slowness" is part of the KDF, and not part of the hash function. The reason it's tuneable is because it doesn't matter how fast the hash is, you can just run more iterations.
But this is a step back to the cold, dead, static systems of UNIX. How about stepping back and taking a look at the dynamic, hackable environments of Lisp?
This article is about the warhead B61-12; the whole program is estimated to cost about $11 billion.

This is scary, as the higher-precision guidance and adjustable lower yields make it more likely to be used; and sad, that President Obama and the various contractors and New Mexico politicians are pushing this.
You're making it sound like what happened is the fault of Europe and the US. How could you possibly reach such a conclusion?

If anything, I believe that the reaction was not aggressive enough and that the mild economic sanctions and ultimatums have been the only thing that prevented a serious escalation of the conflict, a conflict in which I must say, Russia illegally occupied a territory and created the rebels in the east, trampling on the sovereignty of another nation and they did so in your own backyard. This wasn't an ego fight, but a calculated move that would have happened regardless of the western reaction. Because lets be honest, Putin was losing in popularity, there's nothing like a new nationalistic drive to keep an impoverished population in line, plus occupying some territory, while teaching the neighbors what happens when leaving the party does have benefits.

I'm also disappointed, but my reasoning is different.
I reported this a while back, so it's in their backlog somewhere but obviously not super-important:

I'd like to see an option to turn off fork notifications for org projects without turning off all org notifications. As-is, I get an email for every dev forking every project, sometimes more than once due to lack of git knowledge.
I'm not sure what you'd expect a microservice with a straightforward bit of logic and a single HTTP route to actually cost in terms of lines?

I suspect the same (or greater) linecount gains could have been gotten by using a language even more pithy. How much you wanna bet the equivalent Clojure or Scala versio would be half again as many lines?
My sense is that, by definition, evidence of ways the future will be different than the present is always weak, particularly if the evidence you're looking at is data.
Personally, I'd like a nice GUI to pick and squash commits with new commit messages against them on creating a pull request. I don't enjoy using the CLI for this, and it would be nice to thread thoughts on the solution into the commits themselves rather than explaining solely in the PR description.
AWS Device Farm Has Added iOS
... and the associated readme with some background info:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/discover/1994/readme.html
>This is GitHub after all; why don't we build stuff ourselves instead of waiting for a centralized closed-source company to decide they care about our features?

Why would I build something for a centralized closed-source company?
“Design Patterns” Aren't
Nate Silver: AMA
Those are interesting suggestions, but my guess is that they are probably focusing on features to make github more enterprise friendly. If a16z invests $100 million in github, it doesn't seem like streamlining emails will have the ROI that investors expect.

Maybe github is focusing on creating a full software development lifecycle management (ALM) in the cloud. (Like Microsoft Team Foundation Server and JIRA.) A dashboard for sprints, defect fixes, issues tracking, etc. That's the type of "enterprisey" thing that attracts more business subscriptions. They use the storage of sourcecode repositories to open doors to other sw development related business.

These are just my guesses. I haven't seen any explicit roadmap from github.
>like two different programs to be able to play sound at the same time.

It just works on Fedora with GNOME.
Airbus patents plane that could fly from Paris to Tokyo in three hours
Unless (puts on tinfoil hat) that piece of wreckage was placed there with the intent that it would be discovered. Nutty people will believe whatever they want.
Is that first screenshot showing QT and the last one GTK, or is it just QtCurve or some other theme-trickery?
Be aware though that that 4x FPU number is very misleading, because it only applies if every instruction you are doing is a vectorized fma (fuse multiply add). AVX is massively untapped, but Intel's peak flops numbers based on SIMD fma are only true in the most technical sense.

Also, it is unlikely that you are actually memory bandwidth bound unless you are looping through linear memory on every core. It is fairly tricky to make useful software that is not memory latency bound.
How would one go about verifying that the debris comes from the missing plane, assuming plane-specific serial number is not found?
Any expert care to shed some light on this?
Runtastic Acquired by Adidas for $240M
Obstructions Vanish from Images Treated with New Software from MIT, Google
I at first believed it came from MH370 but now that I hear the Malaysian PM confirm it it makes me wonder if it's from some other source.

(This is a sarcastic comment on the quality of thee Malaysian leadership and how they handled the situation.)
Trumps hair song
Sure, but I would argue the root feeling of perseverance should be "I can do this" not "I can withstand this," which is a victim-mentality that reinforces work = pain.

It's this mentality that causes burn-out, resentment, and a wide array of other negative feelings. Focusing on what you can do and learning to do better / more is how I think success is eventually created.
Scary. Last thing brick and mortar needs is another reason to complain where the online experience is superior.

"I'd buy that at Amazon, but then I wouldn't get unrelated spam on my phone" - said no one ever.
The problem got exacerbated when the container-ized deployment stopped letting the OS more efficiently serve shared memory. There are lots of tricks and wisdom built into platforms like Tomcat to reduce memory use, too. They're just confused when they're alone in what appears to be their own universe.

This is why there's such a strong pressure to move to more svelte language implementations and "microservices" as you start to see containerization take off.
I would build a Slack alternative + Jira alternative that is deeply integrated into Github.

QED.
Even the S&P 500 could keep on going up a long way despite eventually being doomed to drop substantially. (I have no idea if it actually is, of course.)

My point is just that seeing if someone is putting money behind their opinions about the long term isn't really telling, because "markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" and you may not know just how long term it'll be.
I will admit that I'm not familiar with SHA3 nor BLAKE - in fact my OP demonstrates that I'm looking for more information about why BLAKE is a "better" hashing function. But I am actually quite aware of timing attacks, HMAC, and the other points you raised.

Maybe my "wealth of other content online" comment pissed a few people off - but equally I was pissed off that my original comment was downvoted so heavily with a few comments that weren't entirely accurate in response (I've often said the negative rep on HN gets over used and often causes more arguments - but that's another topic). Anyhow, I've removed my offending comment now and glad to see that the quality of responses have improved :)
GitHub wiki is a repo and can be cloned locally. Searching through a local files is trivial.
Get Paid to House Sit
If you're concerned about Go, you might also find better results with Rust or Nim. Both are up-and-coming in similar spaces to Go.
Future Proof Your Career by Becoming a Hackademic
At the risk of being off-topic, an honest stupid EE question:

What physical innovations actually drive the processor releases, or even flash storage sizes? I understand that each generation shrinks the transistors. But what tangible things were invented in 2015 to make the transistors smaller? Is it that in order to make them smaller, Intel has to run some kind of circuit optimization calculations that weren't possible the year before? Or are there advances in manufacturing (e.g. physical inventions of new molding processes, new chemical processes, something else?) Or is it simply market forces driving the prices and the specs?
Germany was severely hampered both by Hitler's poor leadership as well as several key mistakes by top nuclear scientists, which resulted in the perception of a bomb not being feasible.
The +1 thing is solved by ZenHub - which I'm amazed they've been unable to gather a large amount of traction!

https://www.zenhub.io/

Not affiliated, used it, but without others using it it's largely...well.. useless. :)

E:

Hmm... seems it has become $5/mo to use. I remember it being free. Wonder when that happened?

E2:

>ZenHub is free for the open source community.

Oh.
I know that. But I also know FMA is what you're almost always doing with a FPU, in terms of consumed clock cycles.

So I don't really think it's that misleading. It's the go-to instruction.

> Also, it is unlikely that you are actually memory bandwidth bound unless you are looping through linear memory on every core.

Well, that's what Intel vtune says. If I'm processing stuff at total bandwidth of 30 GB/s, I tend to believe it. Each core is dual issue, so with SSE you can process up to 32 bytes per cycle per core. When you have 4 cores at 3.5 GHz, that adds up. The CPU beast can consume an order of magnitude more data than DRAM can supply, even with just SSE. So you can do a lot of operations on the data and still be memory bound.
I used to play with roborealm when it was still free; it provides the same sort of high level abstraction to experimenting with computer vision and comes with a big library of filters/kernels.
> slap a web app together with it

Web apps are on the decline, being gradually replaced by Android/iOS apps. When people can use Go to slap up a performant Android app, it may find more use.
Microsoft follows Netflix's lead and extends its parental leave
I worked in a WeWork for about a year. Their biggest gap, which they are nowhere near overcoming, is culture.

The culture at WeWork is incredibly artificial and made everyone there feel disconnected and unhappy. A huge focus on sports and drinking events. Art everywhere, but not that reflected the values of the people there; but rather art that was speaking at the people there.

Management was constantly changing out, and it was impossible to have a relationship with the people in charge and they often seemed not listen to the concerns and needs of the people renting space there. I felt zero connection to people at other companies there.

There was always this weird vibe from them trying to do a political song-and-dance too, like having the mayor come by for press events, and way too many suits running around acting like they were important.

This is in stark contrast to coworking at small, truly community driven places like betahouse (Central Square in Cambridge, now defunct due to difficulty to find new real-estate), which fostered deep and long lasting connections between its members. Even 5 years after we disbanded, we still all keep in frequent touch and rely on the connections we made there.

I'd make the comparison/analogy of culture-rich dormitories at places like MIT, and mega-corporate hotel-like dorms at Boston University (or just a hotel). WeWork is the soulless corporate hotel where you'll never get to know anyone.

Maybe I'm just too punk for WeWork. There's no way to have a soul/culture in a place like that. I shudder to think about living in a place run by them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10008009
Microsoft Expands Its Parental Leave, Bolsters Paid Time Off And 401k Matching
My Galago Pro runs three screens just fine. It makes a fine desktop, I use a MacBook Air for a laptop.
Despite all the talk about Moore's law and all that, what this really means is that user-experience has gone all the way down to silicon. Raw performance just isn't important to most people these days. They want a small, light, just-works, good power consumption, doesn't have annoying hickups or laggyness experience.

Intel's trying to build the chips that can support this and not trying to enable regular consumers to fold proteins or factor primes.
Heap (YC W13) is hiring our first Infrastructure / DevOps engineer
> Go is not early Java, it's more like C 2.0

Or perhaps Go is C+
Where does product market fit fits?
Every part in a modern airplane has a number. Even the smallest piece. These numbers are recorded and tracked during maintenance.
That would work great for people like me. I often forget that the "new" page even exists. Having the "new" stories in their own box separated from the rest of the front page would be helpful in considering these stories (e.g., one might be more skeptical of these stories).

I would make one suggestion: On each page load, randomly select three stories to display from those submitted within the last 60 minutes, instead of selecting the stories using the algorithm outlined above. If there is a problem with too many people submitting too many garbage/spammy stories, perhaps that problem can be solved by considering downvotes or flags (i.e., an affirmative action that the story isn't good) rather than a simple lack of upvotes (which could happen from people simply not taking a look at the story).
I meant to upvote this, but fat-fingered it into a downvote. Sorry!
Any part more complicated than a screw or rivet likely has a serial number / part number on it, and if it does, could be traced back to the exact aircraft it was installed on.
"I have only seen recent studies finding that campaign spending has little impact on electoral outcomes;"

It's a 1994 article and the research didn't stop in 1994. There are quite a few after-1994 articles supporting either view.

"if you have evidence that elections can be bought"

Influenced. Here's an example one from 2004:

http://karlan.yale.edu/fieldexperiments/papers/00246.pdf

TLDR: authors designed and performed some actual experiments whose outcomes support the thesis that campaign spending works - better for a challenger than for an incumbent.
Tesla Stock Price Follows the Price of Gas
> How much you wanna bet the equivalent Clojure or Scala version would be half again as many lines?

263 lines?
"We decided to focus on online content rather than coaching."
Color me not surprised haha (given its a YC company that moved to Mountain View). But I hope they are working on ideas that can really replace or improve the value of an actual human coach. Career coaching has to be really complex in today's changing environment.
I'm sure I'm being stupid and underinformed, but it doesn't seem like these systems do anything you can't replicate easily enough with htcondor/gridengine and so-forth alongside cluster computing filesystems. It almost seems like Java people decided they wanted Java only in their stack, so they ignored all the existing unix cluster computing stuff.

Somebody's downvoting me but I doubt they know anything about streaming and short-job support in gridengine.
Yes. Any new articles at this time, particularly ones brining forward new or rarely-seen evidence should be put under a magnifying glass. The use of nukes by the US against japan is a backdrop against which all US military decisions are made today.
> I know that. But I also know FMA is what you're almost always doing with a FPU, in terms of consumed clock cycles.

That is not a true generalization at all. Maybe you are doing image compositing, but fma instructions are not so heavily used that they can be thought of as the single workhorse of a processor.
The disk footprint was measuring the size of the docker container, who knows what was in it. Something would have to be wrong for 175 lines to require 650MB of dependencies... it could if it were loading all of Spring/Hibernate/etc., but then I'd challenge it wasn't a "microservice" at all.
All maintenance on aircraft is closely tracked. They can probably find evidence of maintenance operations that were conducted on the found piece and confirm that it matches the maintenance records for the aircraft. It's a similar idea to identifying people by dental records.
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Ideally, you'll have experience in recent versions of Ruby on Rails and testing with RSpec. Experience with the Spree eCommerce framework, Heroku, Amazon S3, Google Analytics, and Solr is a huge plus. Local candidates only, please, as it's important to us to have people who can work in-house.

If you're interested or would like to hear more, just drop me an email at erick@mitchells.com.

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You may think sprinting is pushing you faster, but by working yourself to exhaustion, you're really going slower (and neglecting your health in the process). For your own sake, give yourself time to recharge. Work/life balance is no small thing.
My biggest pet-peeve about GitHub is its issue tracker system. It's great for one-off issues or tracking a pull-request, but beyond that its design is super unwieldy. Such a missed opportunity to crush JIRA, et. al.
Boxes 2 has been released
Employees get money. If they don't, they leave. If they want to hang in there through some late paycheques, it's because either they believe in the founders and/or the work is rewarding enough.

You don't have to coddle employees and protect them from bad feelings. They're adults and can make decisions for themselves. That being said, founders who keep morale high tend to keep loyal employees longer.
I just left a WeWork office (Boston) while waiting for an office to be renovated.

Things I won't miss:

The sound of a Ping Pong ball hitting the
table and paddles at 2pm every day.

The word "hustle"

The people who thought it'd be fine to
do photo shoots/meetings/interviews in the common areas

Glass walls EVERYWHERE
The ability to search your own gists!
Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor
I started this as well: https://github.com/kevinSuttle/github/issues (not the same Kevin as link author)
Check of the VLSI Circuits conference proceedings: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome.jsp?punumber=1000798

Here are the papers Intel presented at the 2014 conference: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?filter%3D...
You could be right, but I don't consider investing to be the same as the lottery. Buffett and Rogers consistently beat the market, year after year, decade after decade.

The Quantum Fund (started by Jim Rogers and George Soros) had a 3365% return in the 70's, while the S&P 500 returned 47% (http://www.streetstories.com/James_Rogers.htm). Rogers also bet against Black Monday in 1987, wrote about the housing bubble and 2008 financial crisis as early as 2004 in his book "Hot Commodities", and called the collapse of the gold price in 2012 as well as the recent epic dollar rally.

"Why do you think the same five guys make it to the final table of the World Series of Poker EVERY YEAR? What, are they the luckiest guys in Las Vegas?" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128442/quotes?item=qt0379517)

You could be right and my understanding of EMH might be off base... but if all information was "priced in" I can't understand how such individuals could consistently be "right" when the broader market is "wrong".