skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to suggest Tofino, where I am sitting. But the internet speed is not great.
The High coast of Sweden, I'm biased since I live here, but the place have for 42 years never ceased to amaze me with its nature and people. The name comes from the fact that the land rises about 10 mm out of the sea each year, this is because of the pressure of the ice during the last ice age

http://www.visitsweden.com/sweden/Regions--Cities/Northern-S...

https://vimeo.com/79557856

PS. The internet connection is very good, I have currently 100/100 fiber connection and live in a very small village DS.

PSS. I live here, but I work (remote) for a Boston based software company DSS.
Why would I want any of this in a web browser?
It is "CertplusRoot CA G1" in my system too. This CA was added recently (http://www.infoworld.com/article/2941594/security/microsoft-...).
I don't see why (e) teaching scientists to be statistically literate so they don't abuse or misunderstand these tests, and/or (f) focusing on reproducible results and shaming researchers with sloppy methodology, wouldn't work. The hypothesis test has known limitations, but it's not clear that we should blame null hypothesis tests for people mis-using them, when researchers untrained in stats are just as likely to mis-use any method you give them.
> just ask him, how your currently salary is influencing the decision making process, if your are the candidate or not.

I didn't ask him this. But, another recruiter did tell me that it is HR policy that company need to know this before coming up with offer.

> in Europe, people mostly don´t talk about salaries.

Good to know that.
Pacific Northwest is nice. I like the Olympic Peninsula. I don't know the state of internet there; when I was last there, "Are you on email" was still a common question. Probably drops off as you get farther from the various towns. You could probably base yourself in Port Angeles, they have a ferry terminal to Canada and close access to the Olympic Mountains and the coastal rainforest.

https://www.bing.com/mapspreview?q=Olympic%20Peninsula&obox=...

Lots of good daytrips, weekend and week trips available from there.
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Concur. I spent some time working from Koh Lanta earlier this year. Beautiful island with good infrastructure but it's not been overrun by giant resorts. There's a nice coworking space on Long Beach called Kohub.
The only way I've successfully used a fountain pen for any length of time as a lefty was to write right to left with it. As with a right handed script you're drawing away from the finished script so you don't smudge it, but your angle and letters are "wrong" (until you get used to them that way). When I was in high school I read that Leanardo DaVinci wrote "backwards" in his notebooks[1] because it was more comfortable for him as a left handed writer, which of course as a nerd I had to try :-).

[1] http://legacy.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeonardoRighttoLeft.html
Perhaps off topic, but I have to ask: did you make it to the teahouse on Lake Agnes? It's absolutely fantastic to take the hike then relax at the top with a nice cup of tea!
Subatomic particles that appear to defy Standard Model
Haskell has elegance. Quite a different kind of language if you're not used to it, though. I found it a pleasure to learn a bit of Haskell.
Same thing happened when companies adopted Yammer. Here we go again...
I just vacationed in Park Rapids, Minnesota. A couple thousand people live there, with much fewer than 400 homes per square mile. Mostly just farms, lakes and undeveloped land. The local ISP, "Paul Bunyan Communications", offers gigabit fiber. My lakeside cabin in the woods for the week had better internet than I have at home outside Philadelphia, and for less money.

Turns out most of the fiber-to-the-door deployed in the US is in the middle of the country, where population densities are low. These assumptions about rural availability and cost don't hold as often as some would think

http://www.broadbandmap.gov/technology
There's always the Loongson devices:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson

They have quite a bit more support in FOSS than Cavium's Octeon processor boards. Which are also cool:

http://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-III_CN7XXX.html

CHERI project modifies open-source BERI core on Terasic device:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/

Note: Barely gets more open and extensible than that outside RISC-V, etc. Those don't run FreeBSD, IIRC.

So, MIPS is far from dead even if MIPS32's limitations sucked. :)
You see peterwwillis's reply to your comment? That's the sort of meaty discussion I was looking for. Your post -while better than your first- is the sort of content-light, platitude-heavy post that I most often see from folks who have taken a side in a tech holy war but are not otherwise really involved. [0] I would very much like to engage you in a real technical discussion. I'm eager to learn new things!

> [T]he functionality necessary to create a clean login in a container is beyond the scope of what PAM does.

Given that I use a PAM module that takes the login password that I keyed in, calls out to cryptsetup using that password to unlock an encrypted volume, creates the mountpoint for that volume, mounts it, then -when I've logged out- (optionally) kills any processes of mine that may still be running, then reverses those mount and unlock operations, I'm not convinced that your claim is true.

Please convince me otherwise! :D

[0] Why is it the most frequent? I don't know for sure, but I suspect that the adage "It's easy to have opinions, but much harder to have informed opinions." would be applicable.
The original comment was: NYT is way too negative, all they do is say bad things about china; on the ground (in China), everything looks perfectly fine.

My reply: if all you read is xinhua, you wouldn't see it. Western press provides us with information, even negative information, in uncertain times. That is all good.

Your reply: westerner performing an ad hominem by calling parent a Xinhua wumao shill; you should be ashamed of yourself!

So please excuse me if I took offense.

I do read western press...at work where I can. But I feel like I'm in a bubble starved for information since the Chinese press is so biased and unreliable, which isn't great in these very uncertain times. NYT provides valuable information, mostly solid reporting (this article isn't even controversial at all, even by Chinese standards), information that tells me if I should make a dash for the bank and convert my RMB savings into dollars and get it out of the country!

We won't know that the sky has fallen until it hits the ground. For now, we are stuck reading tea leafs to figure out what will happen next. We live in interesting times.
Tokyo vs. the Bay Area
There is a numberphile video about at&t's article. https://youtu.be/kCSzjExvbTQ
Well said, even it it touches only on the distraction aspect of chat apps. Reposting a comment I made recently:

"""

web chat is often (ab)used in a way that makes it the equivalent of global variables for communication: if offers the path of least resistance for sharing information (state) at the cost of making this information harder to retrieve, search, structure, associate, leverage in the future. Or to try another metaphor, it's the equivalent of dumping data on flat free-text files instead of a relational database.

Web chat does away with two (at least) properties I have come to appreciate in written communication: being asynchronous and contextual. Although modern web chat systems typically work even when you're offline by sending notifications, they're primarily a realtime system. There is the implicit or explicit expectation that a chat message (especially a direct one) should be answered asap, unlike an email or a tracker comment. As for context, there is little to none. In more than one company I've seen chat effectively replace the dedicated bug/ticket tracker system, with people polluting one or more channels with intermixed discussions that would be better off as comments on the ticket at hand. It's a mess for anything other than transient, throwaway stuff you wouldn't mind purging after a few hours or days.

Looking forward for a "web chat considered harmful" blog post if there hasn't been one already.

"""
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Asheville, North Carolina, or -- "The Paris of the South."
I have quite fond memories of Swansea, I use to walk down to the beach on mornings in the summer and read there for a few hours before starting my day.

I think everyone would win if it became a tech-hub.

The city center is a bit ugly (probably due to rapid post-war reconstruction after being bombed, combined with the general horrors of UK 1960s architecture) :D but cost of living is definitely cheap.

Because of general UK drinking culture and Swansea being a University town the town center is pretty raucous most nights and especially at the weekend. At least that was the case when I was there about 10 years ago!

There's a lot of beautiful scenery - like the Gower
http://www.visitswanseabay.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Rh...

And away from the city center it's much quiter and rural. People are super friendly and warm in my experience, definitely more so than average for the UK!
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Briem is great, but can tend to very similar zig-zags when written at speed.

Modern systems aim for legibility, at speed.

Anyone wanting to see different systems used during 20th century might be interested in this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Handwriting-Twentieth-Century-Rosema...
I worked as a telephone repairman in the dial era. Impatient diallers would often "push" the dial back rather than let it unwind naturally. Switch gear in the central office was sensitive to mis-timed pulses so wrong numbers often resulted. Also, as mentioned elsewhere, the early keypads sent pulses rather than DTMF, which made for an annoying clicking sound in one's ear.
Definitely. And absolutely beautiful place, atmosphere & history. Wished it wasn't raining as bad but enjoyed it nonetheless.
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The article specifically calls out that the 3 series will become a plug-in hybrid, so there will still be a gas engine directly powering the wheels, not just generating electricity.
Trivandrum, India is a good place. It is a seaside city and has it's share of jungles and small hillocks. Besides monthly libing comes to about $30. It has a 'technopark' which is essentially offices cut into a jungle. I study here. For reference http://technopark.org/
Yeah, Nabokov pwned him pretty hard.

It's always a bit weird/uncomfortable to witness non-native speakers of a language confidently and incorrectly expound on the language to people who have a far stronger command of it than they. Pretty much guarantees errors of the type Wilson makes.
Some military phones used the extra keys as part of autovon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autovon

> The Automatic Voice Network (AUTOVON) was a world-wide American military telephone system. The system was built starting in 1963,
Well, the speed and power of the car will depend on the gearing. The Model S only has one gear so while it has tons of power and torque from 0, it tapers off quite a bit when the car starts going fast.
Was it Waterloo? If so, I have a few questions I'd like to ask if you don't mind
No love for India so far!!! if you can tolerate the spicy food here are two places I wud recommend -

1) Kerela (called gods own country) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala

2) Arunachal Pradesh - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arunachal_Pradesh
I expect Tesla to work on improving this in future models. Elon has stated that he wants to prove that electric cars can be better in every possible way than gas cars. And largely, the Model S accomplishes that goal. What performance the Model S doesn't deliver compared to other cars will probably be fixed asap.
This looks beautiful. What are the living costs like there?
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Ozarks. Northwest Arkansas. Eureka Springs if you are super blue. Fayetteville area for college life.

Very cheap and infinite nature. Not as backwards as you'd expect.

Source: I grew up in Carroll County Arkansas.
If the cost of living is cheap enough, you can run your own fiber with the saved money (and share with the neighbors.)
Gasoline's advantage is not in speed and power; electric engines can produce quite enough torque, and get maximum speeds well above the legal and practical limits for highway driving.

It's in range and fast refueling on existing infrastructure - for example, the Tesla Model S gets only about 200-250 miles on a charge, after which it needs somewhere more than half an hour to recharge on a Supercharger. Compared to much cheaper gas-powered vehicles that can run 400 miles on a tank, and refuel in minutes, this is pretty bad, hence the BMW statement hedging the all-electric promise with things like range extenders and hybrid technology, rather than power-boosters of assorted types.
I know the 5 series has stop/start idle elimination now. Does the petrol 3 series?
Cache is extremely important, but most of these operate strictly on values in registers. So, losing cycles due to cache misses, latency, contention, etc... isn't a bottleneck.

A lot of these are crucial enough that they've been codified in transistors now, and generally can execute in a cycle without consuming extra registers. There are still some very valid bit tricks though.
One set you might find interesting, with likely expired patents, are the once-revolutionary SGI systems. Their O2 workstations and InfiniteReality systems specifically. Systems like O2 and Octane were used for movies such as Fight Club plus visualization applications (and Quake). The InfiniteReality technology was used in the Final Fantasy movie albeit with a lot of it. These might be copied in an open effort.

Note: To be clear, these aren't GPGPU systems but straight GPU's. I think MIMD architectures for general-purpose have proven better than GPU's. Just less investment and good one's mostly get acquired. FPGA's can be better, too, with good HLS tools and S-ASIC/ASIC conversion for better performance later.

http://webstaff.itn.liu.se/~matco/TNM053/Papers/p45-kilgard....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniteReality

Far as internal architecture of regular GPU's, just search for it in Google with terms like that to find it. There should be descriptions of their architectures and plenty that came before them.
Go to McLeodganj in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Croatia, both coast including islands (there is 1k of them, many uninhabitted) and in land. I recommend Velebit, Papuk, Brac and of course Dubrovnik archipelag.
With a great deal of government subsidies and grants. Left to own devices, private companies don't do theoretical, long-tail R&D, and you can see this in the fate of Bell Labs under the tutelage of Alcatel-Lucent. Its staff was cut 90% and their projects were subordinated to narrow, short-term commercial objectives with a 3-5 year go-to-market horizon.

Such an environment does not churn out transistors, fibre optics and TCP/IP.
CloudFlare AES-GCM optimizations merged into Go
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Manager vs maker schedule issue.
Slack is a tool - with quiet some configuration regarding this.
Has nothing really to do with slack.
You get the same issues when interrupting people in person.
Or actually calling them on their mobile.
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But is rare that you're the only one changing and using the code. Fixed width code looks similarly aligned on all systems with fixed width fonts.

A code written in Helvetica would render bizarro on an editor running Futura.
Untangling the Perl 6 Hash+Pair type hierarchy
"The only conceivable value that the type IO () can have is still the value IO ()."

There is some magic around the IO type, but it's not needed to answer your question.

If you look in GHC.Types in the package ghc-prim, you can find the definition of IO:

newtype IO a = IO (State# RealWorld -> (# State# RealWorld, a #))

An IO action is a function from the state of the world, to the state of the world plus a value. So the compiler may know it's giving you (), but it doesn't know what the new state-of-the-world will be.
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Fountain pens rule. But the problem with acquiring them is that nowadays a lot of fountain pens seem to be made to look fancy and not to write well.
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Can an English speaking tourist manage in these parts of Sweden?
With linux I usually just plug it in then hit print in the application. Then it prints... I've never run into a consumer model that needed installing in any way. I may just have been lucky.
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Yep, have similar problems with ballpoints and soft-leaded pencil.

At the moment I am mostly using Artline 200 Fine 0.4mm pens. These are not ballpoints and the think ink lines dry fast, so the text is hard to smudge. They are not without issue though. As the nibs are only crimped into place and writing with your left hand means you are pushing down and to the right; the nibs slowly get pushed up into the pen body. So I have to replace them when the nib disappears which is before the ink runs out.

If I am forced to use ballpoints for any lengthy text I end up rotating the paper close to 90 degrees and writing at an extreme angle to get the pen to drag rather than push across the page.
I am going to miss the conventional engines.. getting old perhaps.
Yes, since 2008. Source my old car, a 318i 2008
But what if Notch is his fucking khakis?
What is so crucial about references to applications? Sometimes the applications are so distant that it is not imaginable for high school teacher to dig into them.

People learn about mammals in biology and don't ask for references to applications. Why is it different in math?
What seems to be happening with Windows is that Microsoft is making the machine more a slave of their services with each new release. It's as if they're trying to catch up with Chromebooks, which are totally slaved to Google. Especially since Windows 10 is free with ads. Treating the local certificate store as a cache to the main certificate store at Microsoft HQ is consistent with this.

How difficult it is to hijack the link between the local and remote certificate stores? That's a potential attack surface. It's not hard-coded; it's a registry key (Software\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\AuthRoot\AutoUpdate). The default URL is "ctldl.windowsupdate.com".

So what protects that domain from being hijacked via DNS poisoning? It ought to have a valid SSL cert, right? Well, no. Go to "https://ctldl.windowsupdate.com/":

ctldl.windowsupdate.com uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is only valid for the following names:
a248.e.akamai.net, *.akamaihd.net, *.akamaihd-staging.net,
*.akamaized.net, *.akamaized-staging.net
(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)

Uh oh. Am I missing something, or are root certs downloaded over an unsecured channel?
Nice HN discussion about handwriting from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2500864

I like this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2501152 – a partial quotation:

> Almost all US schools have standardized on forms of looped cursive (e.g. Parker Penmanship, Zaner-Bloser) -- a set of letterforms designed not for handwriting, but for the movable type printing press! Looped cursive was made to be attractive with the fewest unique joins possible so that printers needed to stock fewer pieces for their movable type presses. Looped cursive is slower, less legible, and more difficult to learn than forms of writing actually made to be written (such as cursive italic).
The information is useful to a non-retained recruiter because it allows them to estimate their cut and to predict the likelihood that the candidate will receive an attractive offer and therefore be worth the effort of getting them hired. Any recruiter who can't give a salary range when asked probably lacks a robust relationship with the hiring decision maker.

Good luck.
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This is why I started using Uniball Eye pens. They require so much less pressure, it's quite a relief for my hand. And when I picked them up, I started using cursive again in my handwriting.
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I've read many of these "The NYSE is using bitcoin!" articles and I'm still not sure if the banks are using the wrong words, or if the journalist are? Maybe I'm missing something?

One of the most critical parts of the Bitcoin network is the number of competing (non-colluding) parties doing proof of work. Re-writing the ledge would be entirely possible (and possibly easy) if there were only one or two parties processing transactions.

If its just the NYSE "using Bitcoin technology" then haven't they effectively encoded transactions into a linked-list with a few frivolous hashes placed throughout? You need a lot of competing minors to produce the trusted ledger the global Bitcoin network enjoys. If these banks are serious about using Bitcoin (or at least what I define as Bitcoin) then how do they plan on incentivizing a diverse set of non-colluding minors?
No, I have not. I managed to find only a few stanzas of Falen online after a quick search, so my assessment is definitely too quick and too dirty. I had an impression that Falen's translation is similar to Johnston's, but tries to be even closer to the original at the price of using more archaic and arcane words (at least for non-native English speakers like me). I was immediately thrown off by the usage of "base" as adjective meaning "dishonourable", and "pat" as "glib". I also had to look up words, such as "prate". Not a problem of translation per se, but rather of the expanse of my English vocabulary. Interesting trade-off.
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Los Altos in the bay area is like that. The stated reason is to "preserve the rural feel of the city" [1], but it's just a suburb. As a kid walking to school and even now walking to the sleepy downtown always feels somewhat fraught with peril. It's very unwelcoming. Compare that to Mountain View which neighbors it, it's always a pleasure to walk with friends to the vibrant downtown.

[1]: http://patch.com/california/losaltos/bp--los-altos-needs-a-p...
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I would say yes. I don't know this for sure but the level of english is good all over Sweden. People might be a bit unprepared and shy but they will understand and reply in some way.
Since Bic Cristal pens are my writing tool of choice, I have to say I find it strange you only mention Bic. Maybe a Bic pen isn't the right tool for how you write, but you can definitely use it without getting cramps.
Really really need nuclear power to actually make this a "clean" technology. And I hope we're paying attention to the environmental impact of lithium mining too while we're at it. And rare earth minerals.