skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, I was referring primarily to memory latency between L1 cache, which has improved over the past 2.5 decades only through the combination of Moore's law getting the wires shorter (which is going to end soon, at least for silicon) and increasing clockspeed (which really ended with the breakdown of Dennard scaling a little over 10 years ago). Intel's L1 cache latency has not improved in almost 10 years, with it still at 4 cycle latency (at best). The improvement has only been that there is more data you can access at L1, but the time to data hitting your registers has not improved at all.

Our scratchpad (the analogous term for software managed memory, in comparison to a traditional hardware managed L1/L2/L3 cache system) for instance has single cycle latency along with zero bus turnaround. Along with our ability to guarantee memory latencies between any locations in memory, our whole goal is to try to never have a wasted cycle.
"We should not make such claims" -- why not? She's a public figure and her performance matters to hundreds of thousands of people. Debating her ability is important.

I don't have complete information, but I don't need it. She's not paring down the company's businesses. It's still impossible to quickly answer the question, "What does Yahoo do?" She was supposed to focus to company and define it, and she hasn't.

She's also made moves that employees were upset about, such as eliminating working from home.

There have been lots of articles about how poorly Mayer is doing, and I personally have never seen one arguing the opposite. Look at this one: http://qz.com/314225/everything-we-learned-from-marissa-maye...
It opens in Adobe Acrobat reader on my Mac. My guess it's a fillable form which is preventing it from being displayed in other viewers.
Yes, a public good, which a country can decide to acquire and provide or not.
"'Greece/Argentina/Brazil/Japan/...'"

... were all just barely over 100% debt / GDP when things went bad? I don't recall that being the case.

It is surely true that there can be unsustainable levels of debt. You have not made the case that those are anywhere near 100% GDP. I would be surprised if there were any fixed number of GDP where it goes from good to bad - it's going to at least depend on the cost of borrowing that money, and that also looks much different between the US and many other countries (very much including the countries you listed).
Site seems overloaded.

Here are the KB links from an earlier discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10110316). Thanks vetinari.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/3068708

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/3075249

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/3080149

Also found:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/2976978
It's the same policy at General Motors. 3 years and if you leave before, you're out all your matched money.
Google Now’s Staff Exodus Reveals Hurdles for New CEO Pichai
I'm sorry to burst your bubble but most teachers and advisors are lying to everyone. You can get some pretty respectable jobs in construction or the oil business without ever getting a college degree. People just have to be willing to work hard and maybe get a little dirty. If you are a good worker that only last for a few years before you move up to better positions.
Well, yes, they did lie to you (a little bit).

If you really _just_ want "a good job" there are easier ways to do it than going to a 4 year university.

I think that students who major in something like philosophy or literature are aware of what awaits them after college and are going into it with open eyes. Those that expect more than entry-level jobs immediately after college are simply failing to grasp reality.

That said, a good education, whatever the subject matter is DOES HELP people in their lives in ways which are hard to measure. Bright English lit majors who end up as waiters after college, don't necessarily remain as waiters for the rest of their careers.
> -- USDA food pyramid. (The uneducated don't realize that the USDA (and hence the chart) is influenced and manipulated by the meat & dairy industries. Because the nutrition advice is officially published by the government and plastered all over school walls, it feels authoritative. Naive consumers don't realize that if the food pyramid was designed by nutritionists not financially linked to meat & dairy, they would place vegetables as highest priority.)

Huh? Neither of the food pyramid[0] or its replacement[1] have meat and dairy as highest priority.

Edit: The pyramid that came in between[3] does have milk at a similar size to vegetables, is this the one you take issue with?

[0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/USDA_Foo...

[1]: http://static01.nyt.com/images/2011/06/03/business/03pyramid...

[3]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/My...
Even if you only have disinterested, non-partisan scientists performing very rigorous studies, the science on this stuff is hard and layperson takeaways are nearly non-existent.
Investors are not rational.

EDIT> Why would you choose Disney over Google, given the choice? FYI I own both.
> Why do people spend so much time and money on something like that?

Probably because it makes them feel unique and special. It's a badge they can wear that sets them apart. Nobody really advertises that they're getting a History/Literature or CompSci/Engineering (or some other dime-a-dozen major) degree without being prompted, but I guarantee you that girl that's studying "Oriental Medicine and Horticulture" or that guy that's majoring in "Fermentation Sciences" are going to tell everyone they meet.
When I was a comp sci student in the 90s, I was testing some code where I used foo@bar.com as a placeholder. Amusingly, I got a reply from The Foo, and now I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one who accidentally emailed him/her.

As others have pointed out, username@example.com is a better choice for documentation and examples.
That's kind of a broad statement. I built a new PC around the time Windows 10 came out and I have multiple Windows tablets around the house, so I installed it on 2 of my machines the week it came out and I love it.

Windows 10 is the best Windows that I've used in terms of UX. My only problems are the privacy issues and the lack of a MouseCornerClipLength setting. I do expect Microsoft to add controls to fix the privacy snafu, but honestly - Android and iOS apps spy more than Windows does. I bet Microsoft has better privacy controls than either of those tired mobile OSes do before long.
Protestants if you go back to their roots actually expected you to become an expert in scripture in order to recognize when your "priest" is wrong. But they didn't promote anything goes. It's more that you should learn and be able to apply scripture correctly. This didn't prevent the proliferation of denominations because of course different people would interpret a piece of scripture differently and get really worked up about it.
UK may use EU small print to swerve impact of green cuts
Futures were off bad before the market opened. People look at futures, think the sky is falling, flood the market with sell orders that cannot be filled until market opens, price temporarily crashes, then quants and smart money bring them back.
Let's say all the wealth in the world, minus a few percent, belonged to 400 people. Can you think of some ways that would wreak havoc on the economy, even without triggering a "proletarian revolution?"
Judging by upvotes/downvotes, I believe there are more extroverts. It's hard to tell for sure. Maybe you should do a poll?

- "I'm an extrovert and actively comment"

- "I'm an extrovert and do not actively comment"

- "I'm an introvert and actively comment"

- "I'm an introvert and do not actively comment"
>"Artificially low interest rates is the main cause of most malinvestment and inflating assets."

Rates aren't "artificial" (there is huge demand for treasuries) and malinvestment occurs at any time. Sure, it makes it "cheaper" to spend money stupidly, but it's also cheaper to spend money "smartly" -- to take risks and chances to do big things. You know, what places like SV are all about. I'm agnostic as to what the rates are, because our economy requires lenders and borrowers. Right now it favors borrowers.

>"Wages don't keep up with inflation and assets are inflated"

Who owns all these inflated assets, the houses, the stocks?
There was actually a very interesting discussion on econtalk that easily came to the conclusion that interest rates aren't artificially low. The primary, possible reasons they saw were that new industries in the West need fewer initial investments than traditional industries (compare the cost of starting a new refrigerator factory to starting a tech startup) and that Asian countries with much higher saving rates are making up a larger portion of the economy. One point they made is that interest rates were already very low before the recession and QE.
If the economy picked up there wouldn't be a problem. It's apparently better than a total crash, because the economy has to go on either way. The problem is what products and services can we make to make the economy grow again and to employ people. Also you may get malinvestments, but that is what risk is all about. No risk, no gain, you know. You just need a few homeruns to cushion the bad ones and the big homeruns are the ones that create whole new markets and longer employment. How to function and survive in the economy is difficult for everyone and it's a big clusterfuck of complexity and short term thinking, so it's all related in many ways. I think QE and 0% interest rate is the smallest of our problems as far as long term goes
Oh wow. You're right. The option does exist. It's just hidden behind a stupid, non-sensical UI. Apparently if I long tap the app name, I get a lot of options. This is great. I don't understand why they hide it behind such a stupid, non-obvious UI. Do I need to long tap every single other UI element to get some functionality that should be obvious? Until they make a proper UI for it, it might as well not exist.
So I checked my rs1421085 status and luckily I don't have the obesity variant.

I guess the cause of my overweight is my laziness then :)
Maybe you thought you did that
Sometimes, I even use nonce email addresses with non-vice-based businesses. For anything potentially embarrassing or blackmailable, I believe I would have to create an entirely separate and strictly segregated identity for each one, even just for "evaluation".

Practically everyone has had a data breach by now. It's well past time to start acquiring data-protection habits to practice before going out on the Internet.
Ask HN: With oil prices falling how is it that gas prices have stayed up?
I remember hearing something recently about federal laws preventing the export of crude in the US and so we stockpile it here which drives down the price. Apparently, the same rules don't govern refined products and so we can export lots of gasoline which is keeping the price of that up. Is any of that accurate?

Thanks.
Bogon Generation as a Service
Note that a location tracking database would probably give you enough information to determine who's actively cheating. All the big 3 (Microsoft, Google, Apple) plus the cell phone companies have this data.
The backlash is a bit of an overreaction, although justified due to the lack of total transparency of what's being sent. This is no different than any other cloud oriented services offered by Google/Apple, etc. Edit: blog.laptopmag.com/windows-10-privacy-issues-exaggerated

The phoning home isn't new, is it? Licensing validation was done every few months on Windows 7.

The only thing Microsoft is guilty of SO FAR that I'm aware of, is providing slightly better transparency over the data it sends to its' and third parties' servers, and now they're getting called out for it.
The reason people feel societal pressure to get degrees is jobs. It's how universities market themselves and often the only way to justify the cost, in either a public-pays or a user-pays system. So, it's rather disingenuous to turn around and say, well… it's really more of a general education thing.

Whether the method is specific career training or general education, a very big part of the end goal is employability. Otherwise we're talking about a completely different (probably much smaller and certainly worse funded) tertiary education system to the one that exists today.

Employability is important to people. That's reasonable. People are going to universities for this reason. They are taking loans for this reason. They are being funded by States for this reason. Unemployable graduates is a failure for Universities.

I think comments about general enrichment are moving the goal posts. That type of University is an extreme luxury item that only a few can afford.
I must say that privacy is a matter of trust. We rely on code that we haven't inspected. Even open source software doesn't get that much scrutiny as the various major recent vulnerabilities have shown.

So getting worried because Microsoft is turning against their users by exploiting their data is a legitimate concern. I have disabled all these settings too but I must say that Microsoft damaged the trust I had in them. I always used windows and I am a big fan of the .net framework and of visual studio. But I am now considering learning Linux. I have zero interest in an OS that leaks my personal data.
I believe the price of an undergraduate degree is only justified if we assume some sort of real return (i.e., jobs that pay money) on the substantial investment of time and money.

Middle-class people don't typically spend years of their lives and tens of thousands of dollars on structured self-betterment activities.
In any case, your point doesn't say anything about the healthiness of carbohydrates.

There's evidence (sorry, I don't have the citations in front of me) to link carbohydrate intake to increased triglycerides, higher HDL, and more inflamation - pretty much the opposite of "healthy". OTOH, there's reason to think that a low carb, high fat, moderate protein diet may improve lipid profiles, and reduce the risk of heart disease.

Now, I can't say with certainty that a low carb, high fat, moderate protein diet is better (or worse) than a high carb, low fat diet, or a high protein diet, etc. And I think part of the problem is simply that when you talk about human health and the connection between health and diet, there are just too many variables, and it's hard to control for them all. Hence the fact that you can find research endorsing a number of different diets, which appear diametrically opposed to each other.
Is there any tool like DisableWinTracking for Windows 7?
I'm sure it didn't help either.
We tell little boys that "Big boys don't cry". Then wonder why so many men in their 20s kill themselves instead of seeking professional help. :(
Individual investors really don't impact prices. It's big funds that are able to do very large trades that have an impact on supply/demand.

And I'd also point out that nothing has to be bought/sold for prices to move, although volume does spike when prices move downwards.

I'm curious about your terminology. 100k is quite a bit for most people. Is that your 'trading' portfolio or your 'investing' portfolio? If it's the latter, I suggest you keep doing what you are doing (i.e. nothing).
If they left notes behind, it's pretty conclusive.
Thousands of Britons's hard drives easy to hack with Shodan info
Of course you'd have to switch mobile browsers, since mobile browsers don't currently have the option of installing extensions that would allow cross-browser syncing.

That may be a deal-breaker for you at the moment, but I believe that when Firefox's rendering engine switches to Servo, it's going to blow Chrome away on both desktop and mobile.
It's not a variant of polygamy, though. If you were a polygamist and only ever had one partner at a time and weren't looking and courting others then you would be, de facto, practicing monogamy.

If I had a spouse, to whom I was devoted, and they were hit by a bus and killed, and then I had another spouse, who was killed by a falling meteoroid, and then a third spouse, who died of an aneurysm, and finally a fourth who left me because of a reasonable fear of death-by-misfortune--I would still be considered monogamous.

Yours is a very tortured interpretation of what polygamy is.
Not sure why this is being down-voted. Just trying to be helpful in case people want to avoid these optional updates or uninstall them. Maybe I should just delete the comment?
Did angularjs provide a device targeting feature for you? That's all I've used bootstrap for.
The company I work at also has 401(k) contributions vesting at 3 years. In my mental accounting I basically see this as a retention bonus - if I stick around for three years they'll pay me a bonus of roughly 15% of a year's salary.

As far as I know there's no tendency to fire just before vesting. But it wouldn't surprise me if you see less employees quitting between 30 and 36 months after hire, and more quitting between 36 and 42, than you would otherwise.
When are we going to stop with these dumb introvert/extrovert labels. Irrelevant labels from another era.
And what happens when you want to undelete your account, because it was deleted by someone else who had access to your computer? (This will happen)

Would deleting an account enable the associated Steam keys (physical or electronic) to be reused? Or is deleting an account equivalent to putting all your games in a pile and burning them?
How to run effective one-on-ones
>by adding lots of salt

Proving your point that this is non-obvious even further, high salt intake may not actually be as harmful as common knowledge suggests:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/06/mo...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-th...
I was contemplating doing a FFT as a demo, but Mandelbrot was low hanging fruit that made for pretty pictures. Keep in mind this was student work.

If you have a specific problem in mind, I'd be happy to work on adding it as an example.

I'm in search of my first "customer" so to speak. :)
Maybe a chance for the Linux gaming scene? Finally a window (see what I just did?) for an other gaming OS? Hail Unix.
Sure, but there's at least the barrier of making the effort to do that, naming the site makes it a google away and if you happen to be in the area it covers it'll be tempting.

It's easier to diet when you don't have a chocolate bar in front of you!
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Twitter shuts down 30 sites dedicated to saving politicians' deleted tweets
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Within 6 months after its release, 60-80% of iOS users will be running iOS 9. Sure there will always be issues but there are issues on older releases too.
I don't know if you need a switch to flip the gene variant on/off when it comes to processed food. I lost 10kg since February by just not eating sugars anymore.

I always assumed I wouldn't eat much sugar because I don't like sweets and I don't drink soda. But once I started counting added sugars in the processed foods I consumed it became clear I was consuming way too much of the stuff.

Nowadays I just watch out to buy products with 0 sugar in it. Now that's of course no silver bullet but a pretty low hanging fruit when it comes to improving your overall health.
>There are many people trying to generate "good enough" simulations

Who? As a 3D software engineer moving into this space, this is extremely relevant to me. :-]
I don't think we are in a bubble overall. I lived through 1999 and this is not that. But it's possible that there is a bubble in certain "unicorn" valuations.

The question is to what extent these unicorns are leveraged against their possibly-fictitious valuations? Can they survive a collapse of those valuations to more 'sane' levels? One way they could be leveraged is options promised to key employees, all of which would now be underwater.

Of course any company that suffers a valuation collapse and has no cash on hand is toast, since they won't be able to raise on anything other than bend-over terms. So part two of my question is how much cash the unicorns have. If they have enough to last, they'll probably be okay.

Edit:

There are some good arguments against an overall bubble here. Slide 10 with "spending per person online" is a very powerful argument against an Internet bubble but not necessarily against all possible bubble scenarios.

http://a16z.com/2015/06/15/u-s-tech-funding-whats-going-on/

But as I said above, it's possible that there are "mini-bubbles" and that these could pop destructively.

Of course there are other questions, like to what extent are VC firms exposed to China risk and to what extent will stock market losses destroy angel and VC investment? It's possible that the tech field itself is not in a bubble per se, but that it's part of a larger bubble in the global economy.
Before you start, determine what you are attempting to optimize. Throughput or latency? Improving averages, or reducing how often below-acceptable performance occurs?

Write end2end tests that execises the application as close to what user would. Then, use a profiler with an API so you can start dump when test/app setup is completed (to avoid extranous noise/misleading data).
I like gperftools combined with KCachegrind as a GUI. Used it very successfully for instance in MyPaint: http://www.jonnor.com/2012/11/improved-drawing-performance-i...
Situation in the Netherlands:

You can record people on the street with say your phone if you hold it yourself, but actually mounting a surveillance camera anywhere in public domain (except a dashcam) is only allowed in two cases. (1) people are adequately warned before-hand that there's a camera. (a warning sign will do, but a tiny sticker wouldn't, hidden cameras thereby can't be legal in any case) or (2) the camera doesn't film actual people. (e.g. bird watching, a live internet cam that watches the traffic or weather, or a busy square where the camera is zoomed out so much that individual people aren't recognisable).

Security cameras in public areas fall under similar conditions, but of course most of them are on private property where there are different rules. However, a shop is also public domain, despite being private territory, because shop owners open their doors to the public. So here, too, cameras surveillance must be communicated, too. (which can be the camera being very openly visible, a monitor showing camera footage indicating there's surveillance, signs, or e.g. a warning on the ticket of say a concert).

In short, what he did wouldn't have been allowed as it appears like he built this camera, 'hid' it (or didn't position it so it's easily visible to all), and didn't inform those being taped that they were being taped. That wouldn't have been allowed here, and I wouldn't be surprised if Dublin is similar. The solution would've been easy, and perhaps those taped e.g. ringing all bells wouldn't have if they knew they were being taped doing so.

What he did after, holding a phone and walking around, was completely fine, though.

But that's taping. Publishing (e.g. in a livestream to all) isn't always allowed. The law says it mustn't damage the 'reasonable interests' of a person, which refers to privacy issues. It's a bit vague what this means but I can easily imagine 'reasonable interests' relating to privacy meaning for example arguing with your girlfriend. None of that happened for the OP though, so his livestream was fine.
Steam works great for me. There is no discernible difference to the Windows version. There are 1400+ games available now for Linux, including some (older) AAA games like Bioshock Infinite.

Just make sure to buy a Nvidia graphics card (and use their proprietary driver). The (proprietary) AMD drivers work, but their performance is much worse than on Windows.
Do you have any evidence at all for this movement?