skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, imagine I get suspected of a crime, turns out I actually wasn’t responsible.

Obviously, you can’t remove the newspaper article, even if it is heavily editorialized.

But removing the connection between my name and that article would be possible. If someone searches for the specific article, they’ll find it. If they search for my name, they won’t.

A reasonable compromise (all data is still there and readable, but my name isn’t connected with it anymore).
I stopped reading after the first paragraph:

> From September 2014 to June 2015 alone, it repelled more than 30 million known malicious attacks at the boundaries of its networks.

Someone told them about SSHGuard and pf, I presume?
I think you might be misapprehending Sam's posts. Demo Day just finished and he's advising startups by warning them about pitfalls. YC has a tradition of making these kinds of posts public—pg used to publish his advice to YC startups in the form of essays for anyone. I always thought that was great. (Off topic: I've been inspired by it to (slowly) write some advice for YC startups about what counts as good content for Hacker News, and when it's ready, will make that public too.)

As for what's disagreeable in what you said, let's look at your paragraphs: (1) 100% fine; (2) assumes its conclusion and makes an unfair jab; (3) mischaracterizes Sam's posts on the whole, as well as the recent ones; (4) off-topic posturing about bannage.
Think of a quantum computer as an analog computer. You don't program it, you construct it.
So where can one learn about financial terms or processes before running a company ?. Most people are familiar with AWS than with SEC.
It's not about blame. Everyone makes mistakes.

It's about seeing a recurrent problem, then helping people by fixing it
Great insight!
I don't think prototype is fair. A prototype is a proof of concept. Just because something is in beta or even alpha shape doesn't make it that.
They should spearhead the work on pushing the spec people (and in extension the actual developer teams) at the browser companies to support what is needed to implement DownThemAll in Chrome/Opera/Safari/New Firefox. I have the feeling there isn't that much that is lacking today (sparse file writing support?).

This is clearly a use case that users want.

(DownThemAll is the sole reason I have Firefox installed. Would love to have it work in e.g. Chrome.)
> Isn't the whole article pretty much basis for that

For "declining to do any diligence about illegal behavior"? Of course not. Why did this topic come up in the first place?

Re lack of diligence, it's astonishing how people jump to make mean, false statements without a second's pause to consider the obvious.
Requiring code-signing is fairly controversial by itself, but even still, comparing add-ons to drivers isn't really accurate. For monolithic systems, drivers imply kernel mode, which implies Ring-O privileges, which also implies root access. An add-on is restricted to user privileges or less.

These are by pretty far not comparable.
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It would be awesome to have some from those areas. If you know of any: http://apprentice.at/submit/
This reminds me of the GPU technique to generate Voronoi diagrams by rendering conical geometry... And, sure enough, it looks like someone else already thought of using cones to generate distance fields:

http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/DIFI/Sud-EG04-DiFi-Presentation.pdf

The technique in the article is similar, but uses brightness and the minimum blending operator instead of depth -- which has the advantage that you can use it to generate distance fields over surfaces other than the plane, which is pretty cool.
They used to do this at theme parks as well
no$ is awesome. I used (and paid for) it for all my professional development when I was writing GB/GBA games.
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It's always good when governments have ways to escalate international conflicts other than by shedding blood, even though, or especially if, these ways are consequenceless. Just to appease the hardliners.
> For example, most plausible instantiations of the crime policies suggested above are blatantly unconstitutional.

No. Perhaps it's even the other way around: police and courts should not be hindered in fighting crime, just because too many of the criminals seem to be black. Don't black people in black neighbourhoods have a right to protection against criminals? Is it constitutional to deny them said protection?

> Second, there are plenty of objective arguments in my posts here that any racialized theory of intelligence is not worth to studying, and you're ignoring all of them.

No.

> As one small example, over multiple posts, you and peterfirefly have failed to name one concrete policy option for which an answer to this question is remotely necessary.

No.

> We know that Every. Single. Time. any society has made a decision motivated by the belief that one race is objectively better than another race, the result was a social order that could not be described with any word other than evil.

We know that ideologies that pretend people are equal have gone terrifyingly off the rails -- especially when they succeeded in controlling what was allowed to be said.

> We know that even if that characterization had a causal link to intelligence, there are far better and less noisy predictors of intelligence.

Absolutely. We can measure it directly, for example, on individuals.
No, its absolutely not. The new firefox addon signing requirements are a hundred percent more restrictive then the requirements to get listed on the chrome store.
Yep, table views, collection views, stack views, etc under both iOS and OS X have been doing this for ages now. A bonus of this setup is that it forces you to separate your data source from your view, doing sorts and filters and whatnot independent of the table view. It keeps things neat and clean.

I’m not a web guy but most sorting table implementations on the web I’ve seen do the opposite, instead treating the table contents as the data to be manipulated. While this works it’ll cause you trouble in the long run and if nothing else will negatively impact performance. With the cell reuse model, you instead perform your transformations on the original data (free of markup gunk) and ask the table view to update itself to match the data source. Under iOS, this is done through UITableView’s reloadData method. You never directly interact with the table view’s recycling functions.
> Vim is moving to git, GCC is moving to git. What's with all the change?

Git does something very well: it has great support for rewriting version histories. It nearly flawlessly supports almost every conceivable scenario of slicing, dicing, mixing and combining.

It also has great support for working at the sub-file granularity. For instance, this morning I moved a fix from an experimental branch to stable. The fix was part of a huge commit, and consisted of just a few "hunks" out of many in one file. It was obvious that the particular fix, though needed by the experimental changes, could be promoted to stable (it was a change of the kind where some code is altered in such a way that it no longer interacts with the experimental changes, and is improved at the same time.) With git I easily rewrote that big commit such that just those specific changes in the specific file were removed from that commit. This was done without touching anything in the working copy not so much as altering any modification timestamp! ("make" didn't even see that anything needed to be rebuilt after the commit rewrite.) In git we can do "keep my working copy as it is, but alter the history behind it, so those alterations then appear as staged, uncommitted changes". Then we can easily migrate the changes somewhere, like turning it into its own commit, perhaps on another branch. After I migrated those changes to master, I then went back to that branch and did a "git rebase". Lo and behold, that branch picked up the changes, and now it looks as if those changes were written on master all along, before the experimental changes were developed.

Programmers need this kind of thing because we are obsessed about making the perfect set of changes. Since the history of a code base is a digital artifact, we want to be able to hack that artifact to perfection too, not just the instantaneous/current view of the code itself.

Git is also like an adventure game in which you solve quests and acquire higher and higher status. This creates allure. The Novice Adventurer cannot understand all the reasons why the Grandmaster Wizards of GCC have switched to Git, but is mystified and fascinated.
This is the part I thought HN would find interesting:

“Bear is unique because he can sniff out SD cards, thumb drives, external hard drives, iPads and micro SD cards,” said Todd Jordan, chief handler with Tactical Detection K9.
yes, .Net Native runs the managed code through a modified version of the c++ compiler and gains some benefits from it's optimization, not sure how much of a difference that does however. Good talk here: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Inside-NET-Native
Jason Scott does it again... I love that guy, and am inspired by the passion with which he seems to undertake everything.

I've been following this, and if I didn't live eons away, would have been there in a flash.
Ah, yes, the PDP-11 "bus error", SIGBUS. I remember hitting one of those in the early '80s and having to look up what it meant.

So, yeah, in my personal experience over the years the architectures without hard alignment restrictions were less common. I suppose lacking them except for speed didn't hurt adoption of the Intel x86 family.
For those unsure, SHA256 is worthless here. There are few enough MACs and SHA2 is fast enough that it's easy to reverse.
Oh yes, the security was a huge problem. I absolutely do not want to go back to the land of Flash for many reasons.

Haha! The dictator reference is specifically in regards to intrusive CPU/battery-wasting Javascript ads. Which, I expect to see many more of if I ever disable adblock.

Edit: I just checked out your article and the referenced one. Chris Black responded to your issue with his code in the follow up article:

> 98% of the code optimizations from the last demo completely missed the point of purposefully redrawing the whole screen to compare performance. They were still good submissions, just not for the context of this comparison.
nice!

the roll effect doesn't work on firefox ;(
Not just DTA, but FireGestures, Easy DragToGo, and all the amazing extensions that made me stick by Firefox even though most of my colleagues left for Chrome. It is a sad day.
I remember seeing those screens as a kid and being confused. Seems like quite a departure from the game I was just playing. I wasnt even considering using drugs, will they somehow improve my game performance? and thats why not using them playing games is more honourable? Hmmm, I must investigate these 'drugs', Thanks FBI warning message!

*ps I reckon we got the US versions of various games here in Ireland so the warning from the 'FBI' was doubly incongruous.
Wind power can generate 140% of Denmark's electricity demand
Short term vacation rentals are definitely is where the money are at.

Also, for my experience, the niche if affordable mid/long-term rentals (1-2 months) appears to be underserved. Sure I can negotiate a monthly rate with a hotel, but unless they are experiencing a lack of demand, it's not worth it for them - they can make more money on short stays.

The cheapest alternative for finding a sublet appears to be local sources (websites, asking around locals), but that could be too much hassle, especially if you don't have time for it.

Airbnb listings sometimes provide a monthly rate, but again in my experience it's not very competitive. Being not very price sensitive, I'd still go with a previous option - it has it perks of local immersion.
What ZFS implementations are you talking about? I'm only aware of zfsonlinux which AFAIK is CDDL (and out-of-tree -- but works fine) -- is there a port licensed under GPL?
There's a great book called 'The HBR Guide to Finance Basics for Managers', about 200 pages:

https://hbr.org/product/hbr-guide-to-finance-basics-for-mana...

It doesn't specifically address the terms in the OP, but it should be the starting point for non-MBAs (like myself) to start understanding basic Finance.

In my experience, if you're a co-founder and you don't understand basic Finance and let your Finance department do whatever it's doing you may be setting yourself up for trouble. The OP described the other case of simply saying non-sense because you don't understand the terms :)
I used no$ because it was simply the best emulator available back then (circa 1999), plus the company didn't feel a need to actually buy a dev kit since I was fully capable of building my own, and actually preferred to use, using open source tools (assembler, linker, make, etc) and no$gba.

We were publishing through Mattel for those games as a 3rd party developer, so they handled all the dealings with Nintendo and I assume they had an in house dev kit or two, or at least it was just a 2 gorrila relationship.
Precisely. It's not unreasonable to suspect that using Distributed VCS would give GCC at least one advantage over Clang, which uses a Centralized VCS. It's a popular opinion that Clang is superior to GCC, so it would make sense that the GCC devs would want any advantage in terms of development time, and DVCS offers efficiency over CVCS. So it would be reasonable to suspect that the move might be "[due to] pressure from Clang", no?

... unless you chose to interpret that as "oh, hey, Clang is using Git, so we (GCC) should too!", which is both incorrect (Clang uses Subversion) and a fairly silly motivation regardless. If that interpretation is both incorrect and silly, why not try for a more reasonable/charitable interpretation like mine? Did it not occur to you?

I'm having a hard time understanding why jussij was down-voted... I suppose it's because people are quick to interpret others in ways that put them down, or because the down-voters lack the intelligence to make the more likely interpretation. Either way, it's disappointing.
There's already GNU IceCat. Pale Moon is quite popular among Windows power users, I've read.
Yeah, and the not-so-popular add-ons can screw themselves, I guess. Your add-on only has 10.000 users? 200 users? uhhh... Sorry, priorities.

Then again, actually look at the vimperator or pentadactyl code... That code interacts and/or hooks a ton of stuff. Designing and implementing APIs just to support that will require a lot of time. And that is just one add-on.

Furthermore, do you really believe that add-ons like vimperator or Tab Mix Plus or Stylish or SqliteManager would have been created if there was no "open API"? I don't think so.

Also, did you know that a lot of the Chrome extension API was created after directly soliciting feedback from Firefox add-on developers? Yet, a ton of add-ons still couldn't or just weren't supported in the Chrome API. And added to that, the Chrome API kinda stagnated after that.
I think that's what the Pale Moon (https://www.palemoon.org/) folks were doing some time ago. I'm pretty sure they support most of the original firefox extensions without the signing etc.
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The blogpost should have led with that.

A lot of the discussion here is based off of people incorrectly assuming addons like that won't work.
I'd also like to hear any rationale for why one would trust XFS less than EXT4. There might be arguments against using XFS -- but trust/maturity sounds like a very strange one to pick?
This is what happens when humans achieve success. Rather than maintain the course they are obligated to exploit to the nth in order to squeeze every gram of return from an idea(product) until they can get no more. Then, they will get creative and pull out every hook & crook to squeeze some more. Thanks Mozilla, for everything up until your mass-collection, feature- bloat, entrapment blitz you've set out upon. Perhaps DTA will make their plug-in compatible with PaleMtoon now. Chances are the forks will come out on top & Moz can go f-up Thunderbird & Seamonkey for awhil as their top-heavy pyramid topples.

edit:admittedly a pipe dream, markets ruled by duops and oligops never lose the top players, they just cannibalize each othet and bloat.
Shame, I used to use it back in college. Like most colleges there was a proxy so torrenting without ssh tunnelling was difficult and I didn't have a server to tunnel in to anyway.

Most people just bought RapidShare (also gone) and downthemall saved mind numbing ctrl+c/v for .rar files along with being able to pause and resume downloads which few others have seemed to grasp as well as they did.
I don't see why cross-process XPCOM would have to be particularly slow. Windows is built on cross-process COM.
I didn't notice any drastic difference between the two operating systems in that regard. I had to test educational software written in Flash on a range of computer systems years ago. Adobe has always supported Apple/Windows evenly, so I'm surprised you would experience a difference.
That is essentially correct. The subtlety is that the hidden layer still has a finite (but arbitrarily large) number of nodes, while there are an infinite number of inputs. The solution to this is that you can keep adding nodes until the space between the nodes is close enough to the function you are modelling.
How is that Mozilla’s problem? If you close all the “hoops” the rogue installer can just simply replace Firefox with its own build of “Firefox.”

I truly don’t understand why Mozilla is trying to do Microsoft’s job.
"So, is there any chance of something OTHER than the heat death or the decay of all matter?"

The Big Rip, mentioned already, involves extrapolating a present trend that has already changed once in the past of the universe indefinitely into the future. It is not impossible this is wrong somehow.

"Although that also begs the question "cant get there" -- how likely is that?"

Under the inflation model, those parts of the universe can be conceived of as being already out of our light cone, and accelerating away. Unlike "parallel dimensions" or other "quantum realities" that we can imagine being physically not distant, and somehow accessible, in some sense, these realities are "merely" 10 raised to arbitrarily large powers of meters away. It seems somewhat more final to me.

On the other hand, well, don't underestimate what's already here... there's already far more information available locally than any human brain is capable of processing. We need not pine for the universes 10^1,000,000 meters away... we've got more than we can do here already.
As a learning tool, this is really cool.

For practical compute workloads, it's not very interesting. A Cortex-A7 core @ 900MHz has a peak of 1.8 Gflops (single-precision; 450 Mflops for double). Assuming that you could actually achieve peak for the cluster as a whole (you can't for non-trivial problems because of communication overhead), that would give you 43 Gflops in single precision and 10.8 Gflops in double.

A single Haswell core clocked at a very conservative 2 GHz has a peak of 64 Gflops in single-precision and 32 Gflops in double, without communication overhead because it's a single core.

More importantly, the Cortex-A7 is a 32-bit machine, so working on big problems is painful (though it does support LPAE). There's also much better availability of highly-tuned compute libraries for x86 and GPUs. You're going to be writing your own compute kernels to get near peak on the cluster of Cortex-A7.
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This sounds like fake work that is not tied to success.
> Another thin lie to appease the foolish?

We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the HN guidelines and ignoring requests to stop.
Depends, if you are a realist, then there is a field; if you are a anti-realist then the electron is not real but only a convenient shorthand in the first place.

Compare
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/
(and references therein)
The good thing about something like this (in the abstract) is that you've potentially got many users hammering the facilities in many ways, and it becomes battle-hardened as a result. To this end, Colin hisself is sort of doing this w/ libcperciva[0] to a degree. One library of common code shared among many projects.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10099294
They can, and do if they are being sensible. One of your fairly early hires should be a real finance person (not an executive but someone experienced enough to take over the day to day effectively). Not doing this is false economy.

Well before that point, you should have a contract accountant of course.
I went to Tokyo and found a room in Ginza for $35 a night on Airbnb right next to the subway station. Another one in Silverlake LA for ~$40 a night.
Yeah, that's kind of my only advantage for not liking Mac (wish I did:).

Still, it is just a forked Firefox so it uses the same extensions etc for now, maybe using FF on Mac and PM on the other platforms would be possible?
Maybe the Chrome API stagnated, but that doesn't mean the same will happen here. The stated goals already include addons impossible in Chrome's API.
It's a sad day for me because I use FireGestures entirely for their wheel gesture "[Popup] List all tabs" that allows me to scroll between my tabs from anywhere on the page. It's a strange feature that I've only been able to find in FireGestures (and wish I could find as a stand-alone extension).

I use DTA! with AntiContainer quite frequently.

Palemoon doesn't (properly) support Tab Groups, so I refuse to use it. The add-on is broken and doesn't restore tabs if the browser crashes.

I feel like my only option is to disable FF updates and hope I never get bit by a security issue. As GNU IceCat doesn't work on my machine. Or learn how to compile from source and maintain my own personal fork...

(And before anyone suggests it, using Aurora/Web Dev version is not an option for me. I've already been there, tried that.)
AFAIK the particles vs fields discussion is not the same as temperature vs fields.

At the risk of straying into quantum info territory:

- given all possible information about a collection of particles, you could compute the temperature. However, knowing the temperature doesn't allow you to determine info about particles uniquely (you can write down a density matrix, and not assign a pure state).

- the above doesn't hold for the case of particles and fields. Given a set of field frequencies and amplitudes, you could describe the positions of particles and probabilities of observing them. Given positions and probabilities of observing particles, you could compute the frequencies and amplitudes of the associated field.

We can describe any given set of particles (however big or small, however fast or slow) in terms of fields, and vice versa.

I like this comment :

When I studied quantum mechanics, my professor advised that I avoid the question "which is more fundamental?" and replace it with "which is more useful?".

From this stackoverflow link (http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/122570/which-is-m...)

My QFT knowledge is rusty, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
Lets be clear; they won't be supporting Tab Mix Plus. They will be providing an API that might allow something similar to be built by someone. This is a good thing but nothing is guaranteed.
Into the rapid hole??