skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I'll publish the data soon. I've planned to do that before the talk at pgconf.eu (end of October in Vienna) where I'll talk about the results. But given the current interest, I'll probably do that sooner, given the interest.

I've used kernel 4.0 because that's what was latest in May when I started with the benchmark - it takes ~3-4 days to test a single configuration and you can't simply change the kernel halfway through.

Also, as pointed out by semi-extrinsic, if you have to use bleeding-edge kernel, it probably is not mature enough for general use.

FWIW, I haven't really expected the rant to get discussed on linux-btrfs, but I'm nicely surprised by how polite and factual the posts are. They got most of the facts right and the inaccuracies are mostly minor and probably a consequence of the rant not providing all the data.
I don't known what else can be said in a Meditation course, all I known about it is you sit comfortably, you set a timer for at least 8 minutes or indefinitely, you concentrate in your breathing without controlling it, and any thought that arise in your mind you despise it just like a bad pop up ad.

Meditation should be our main activity every day, is the basic activity for well being, so its not surprise that it has been labeled by the media as something from a different religion or for weird people, it should be taught just like brushing our teeth.
Since I am on Windows, it will take some time for me to set it up. Can someone please explain what extra information I get as compared to the Lightbeam extension (formerly Collusion) in Firefox?
How does CloudFlare compare to Akamai? Are they direct competitors?
> Not every project needs its API documented to be successful.

That's a counter-intuitive claim. Can you give an example?
Try a 4k screen.
I feel like the artists think it is serious art
> There are people who care about power as well, right?

Not as much as you would think.

Battery life in the embedded space is mostly defined by how much you can stay off and what your leakages are rather than what your active current is--since you can quite often just stay asleep a little longer.

Most of these microcontrollers are in the same range for leakage and are at the point where you have to start considering other leakage sources on the board (capacitors for example).

It's Amdahl's Law in action: the big contributors have all been smacked down pretty much as far as they can (sure, you might get 10% here or there ... but it's going to be real work now) so now getting overall performance isn't so easy.

If someone really wanted to get my attention with their microcontroller, they should produce a combined BLE/WiFi chip where the WiFi can be run off of a coin cell battery like BLE (that would mean something like 2mW transmit power rather than 200mW).
Thanks, that's nice to hear. Love to hear your feedback.

This is where I shamelessly tell you that we're hiring for almost any position.
That sounds like some good groundwork. Do you have plans to expand this to a proper ML system? Eg. I have a project and want to coordinate one list for translators, one list for devs, and one list for user support.
I always wondered how they stored the oil- salt mines are a good way of doing it I suppose. Reminds me of a certain science-y game...
8chan has actually been the victim of a number of increasingly sophisticated attacks, all of which have detailed and interesting postmortems.
I also would like to know why 8chan specifically, but it does appear that they are the primary target for someone.
It's not at the time of writing.

http://status.gitlab.com/
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9770322
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Can we run gitlab 8.0 without CI?
Following this iOS Content Blocker furore, a CloudFlare-type service could be an ideal place from which to inject and serve ads; as opposed to the client-perf-sapping script tags the industry has been using so far.
I never managed to work comfortably with Eclipse, Netbeans, Android Studio, Qt Creator or Visual Studio in tiny screens.

Specially when doing code navigation across multiple modules or UI design.

Also quite painful when using the debugger and being forced to context switch all the time between top level windows.
Taking a spin with Dancer, the lightweight Perl web application framework
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You can just not use it. There will be a few links in the UI, but it will not cost you anything.

Note that you can still integrate with your current CI.
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US legislation requiring tech industry to report terrorist activity dropped
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An easy way to guesstimate how long a company's investment will last (given no other revenue) is to just assume each person they have on staff costs between $200-$250k per year.

It's not perfectly accurate, but it's surprisingly good in terms of figuring out runway. Staffing costs are typically the lions share of business costs for software companies. This gets weird if they do lots of advertising, or have enormous hosting costs or something, but it's usually on the order of 70-80% of the total operating costs (by comparison renting physical locations like offices is usually among the cheapest).

So let's assume they had 26 people, that's between $5.2m-6.5m per year...right in line with what the actual math shows ($5.67m).

There's other ways of estimating, like if you think a company is running cheap you can go with the old "10 people for a million dollars a year" guess, but I've found that to be increasingly inaccurate.

The reason the numbers look like this isn't because that's what people get paid, but because of all the other cost burdens on having employees -- most of which are already covered here.

It's also one of those things that makes me scratch my head when startups hire huge staffs too early. In good markets, hiring loads of people isn't a huge deal, but burning millions per year you don't have doesn't make much sense.
or just google it
7zip's implementation of zip has been faster and more effective than zlib for a long time now.
The WTFPL is approved both by OSI and the FSF, both of whom had lawyers look at it. It looks like they do know what it means.

I'm more of a GNU GPL guy myself, but the WTFPL isn't a bad license.

Edit: Ah oops, OSI did not approve WTFPL. Oh well.
Are you really not sensing an anti-nuclear sentiment? For example, take this paragraph where he talks about Chernobyl?

"Silence, lack of cries, laughter, tears and only the wind answers... Have we learnt anything since then?"

I would say the framing of that question makes his stance pretty clear.
One way I addressed this exact situation: Compute a hash on the state after each iteration and save it. Now run again normally and save several iterations worth of state somewhere. When the hash diverges, you have hit the race condition.

Do this a few times until you've characterized what's happening and your brain figures out how and why by seeing the pattern this will (hopefully) reveal.
> Unlike other algorithms compared here, brotli includes a static dictionary. It contains 13’504 words or syllables of English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Russian and Arabic, as well as common phrases used in machine readable languages, particularly HTML and JavaScript.

They could at least have measured the other algorithms with the same dictionary for fairness.
Are there any Youtube videos that will walk me through how to read an actual book? it's been so long... I don't know if I'll remember how to do it without some internet star to show me the way.
Mattermost team here. Sorry if the screenshot is confusing.

The text of the screenshot was actually written in Slack, and the goal of the screenshot was to demonstrate the Slack Import feature to GitLab Mattermost.

On the GitLab Mattermost page (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-mattermost) there was a subtitle describing this, but we could have made it more clear in the screenshot itself.
I meant transliteration to English. No English speaker will pronounce the o with the umlaut, so you have to pick how you want English speakers to pronounce your word from the two alternatives above. Bro-li sounds much better to me than bro-ee-li.
There isn't a difference other than emphasis. It refers to the same set of software, but describes this same set of software differently. It's like saying "African American" or "black". The intended meaning is the same set of people.

Indeed, the term "open source" was coined as a marketing term for promoting free software:

http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/5-things-we-have-forgot...

edit: sigh, every time I say there's no difference I have to contend with the downvotes. Go read my blog post above, please.
This reminds me of dealing with dates, in that parsing and outputting the countless conventions is nearly impossible, but more people than realize it can side-step the task entirely.

For instance, most systems that request a name are just asking how to address you on-screen. You can answer that for 99.99% of people with a single unicode string, and for the remaining 0.01% with a drawing if you are so inclined. Sure some people will have no name or multiple names, but these people are still able to respond to the question "what should I call you?". And then, of course, you need to treat what you get back as an unparseable black box, and not use it for anything but to address them.

Or maybe you're making a system that accepts payments that needs to compare names to names on credit cards. In this case what you want still isn't The Complete List of Things You Associate with the Word "Name", but the name that is on their credit card.

Or maybe you're making something that interacts with legal information, in which case you want the name on the specific legal documents you care about.

Or maybe you're making some form of social network, in which case you do want to allow multiple names (if you're being thorough), but you still don't care about parsing those names.

There aren't many instances in which you need to fully parse and understand a variety of naming conventions.
Thanks for updating me on this! Has been a while since I've done any astronomical observations myself. Back in the day I used a Dobson telescope which made it a bit challenging to follow objects as you said, but which was much cheaper than a telescope with a professional mount.
It does seem like it would make more sense to wait until the conflict is over before getting the seeds? What's the chance that the seeds could be destroyed again before the conflict is over?
I have worked on everything between a 11" Macbook Air and a 17" Macbook Pro. I recently switched from a 13" MBP to the 15" one. Both had 16 GB of RAM but for my work, the quad core CPU that is only available in the 15" models made a noticeable difference and I'm happier now.

Portability: I travel a lot and the 15" is too heavy but the 13" Macbook Pro was heavy as well and in combination with everything else I'm carrying around, the difference doesn't really matter. I got a nice bag that I can convert to a backpack instead. The 15" doesn't feel very "clunky" to me. I was worried that I wouldn't want to sit on the couch with it like I used to with my 13" but here I am and I like it.

Screen size: the 15" screen is a little bit more convenient but the 13" was no problem for me either, you get used to it.

I would never do 11 or 17 " again, the 13 and 15" are both ok to work on.
You also have to consider employees who make money vs. employees who cost money. Administrative overhead, management, etc. aren't often major contributors to revenue, but their cost metrics are the same. So the burden on money making employees can be considered to be even higher.

You can get some economies of scale with more revenue generating employees vs. cost center employees, but no matter what, as companies grow they need cost center employees to make the ship sail.
Yes, maybe they would have released it, just like they released modified parts of FreeBSD. But the share-alike makes it less likely that they keep the best parts hidden, and more likely that there's a single reference implementation where improvements from competitors are kept close to one another.
I'm surprised so many are willing to trust a random stranger's driving especially on long rural roads, which are more dangerous. I would not even trust a licensed livery driver for this, or even most friends.

It's amazing how people are willing to hand total control of their lives to people they know nothing about.
Looks good!

One question though, clicking on any of the files on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master/config takes at least 10s to open, is it because the site is being hammered right now?
What's your experience with System76? Are they worth their money?
This patch is a game changer. Wow!
I really love gitlab, however one thing: I wish you can view people's activity calendar even if the projects are private.
I think our package repo is not in your sources.list!

To add it:
`curl https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitl... | sudo bash`
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It seems more than optimistic to put the cost at $70/barrel for coal liquefaction, and it makes me question the validity of the source. It's an energy intensive process that is usually seen as much higher than $70, and the alternative economic uses of the energy used in production are usually going to be better.

Not only do you still have to spend energy mining and transporting coal, but the energy spent refining the coal is immense compared to what refinable products you get out of it.

There is also market evidence where people are more willing to put their money into technological development of fracking than liquefaction.

It's best to be suspicious whenever a source suggests that coal liquefaction, and other processes like it, are that simple. A good book on the topic is Oil 101 by Morgan Downey.
Android Fragmentation Visualized
yeah, it's very safe.. you have areas of land where people won't be able to live for thousands of years.. and you have hundreds of these "safe" power plants all over the world.. in addition to that we have to store the waste from these "safe" plants for few millennia, and hope that after our civilization is gone, it won't destroy the life on this planet.
> First, RMS hates the term "open-source", so it's funny that the idea is to promote GPL here.

RMS isn't the only proponent of copyleft. The Mozilla license also has some weak copyleft clauses.
Indeed, that's interesting. For example, for oil, the US has an annual cost of $0.2b for storing about $44b worth of oil i.e. a 0.45% annual cost. You'd expect if the reserves are dumped for an entire year for example, that smart investors would be happy to start paying a 0.45% annual cost once the price drops by slightly more than that. At 5-10% at such a scale, despite other price fluctuation risks, that's already a significant arbitrage opportunity that would generate enough buying power to put a floor under a small price drop.

That having been said, the US actually ran a planned long-term programme for oil storage. But if someone suddenly floods a market, there probably isn't infrastructure and expertise to immediately seize that as an arbitrage opportunity. If it happened every few years then there'd be tons of cheap storage, if it happens once every few decades, then sudden gluts probably dump the price with little capacity for investors to immediately buy back in. And this is coincidentally a few years short of derivatives taking off on a big scale, Allende died the year of the Black-Scholes model, which would've made everything more frictionless and easier to invest and trade in for the various parties (producers, investors, storage, buyers etc)

Of course it wasn't the only factor, it may have dropped prices by a few percent and that's already very significant. Remember that a lot of US employees and advisers left the country after the copper industry was appropriated, replaced by people with very different backgrounds and no experience to manage these companies. I've seen some sources that said the price of production went from 20 n something cents to 40 n something cents, while the price on the market was something like 49 cents. Profits were squeezed hard. Combined with sanctions on Chile (much of Chilean copper went to the US, Europe and Japan, big allies who could impose quotas and tariffs), a small price drop due to extra copper flooding the market and similar issues in other markets, could and indeed did create layoffs, economic woes and friction in Chilean society.
Have you looked at other products?
The dashboard doesn't show an activity feed anymore, just a giant list of projects? That's pretty lame.
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Good to hear!

> I wish you can view people's activity calendar even if the projects are private.

That would show you private information, which is not what we want.
Free software is about trying to claim the moral high ground, and proponents see a huge difference. Open source is about what works, and as long as it works all that silliness isn't all that relevant.

No bias here whatsoever. Nope.

Though, ironically, your justification for "open source" could just as easily be applied to proprietary software, rendering open source completely devoid of meaning.
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Hi HN, I am currently bootstrapping an automated trading platform startup. As I am on a lean budget, what free tools/email service with option of custom domain do you recommend?
Agreed. Why not an animated clock? Or some progressive image like Towers of Hanoi being played? Or something, oh, artistic?
Burning coal does not produce more radioactive waste. It is just that under normal operating conditions more is released into the atmosphere from burning coal.

However, if there is an accident, then you are talking orders of magnitude more radiation in a nuclear accident.
http://www.cejournal.net/?p=410
700 megabytes is a lot of barrels....
Well, that alone makes the move to CloudFlare even more unlikely at all. More huge investors means more control over what CF does and what CF will do with all the data they see flowing through. Bigest MITM just got bigger, at least financial wise.

Not for me.
>not extracting unenforceable promises from trillion-dollar tech giants.

Of course you can enforce it. Create a law that tech giants must comply with FISMA/FEDRAMP, ISO 27001, DFARS 252.204-7012. I don't see why that's such a bad thing anyways. Compliance is a necessity because its just thorough hygiene.

Why DON't we have a written process to change our firewall rules, a written process to review our code, a written process to rotate our keys. These don't seem like a burden to me at all.
The metric divides compression ratio by log compression time. (Ignore for now the normalization to a standard compressor.) This is:

r / log(T)

That doesn't seem like a good metric, because it overvalues changes in T. For example, say we currently can manage 10% compression (ratio = 100/90 = 1.11) and it takes us 16ms. That's

r / logT = 1.11 / log(16) = 0.2775

Now we have two proposals. One brings us to from 10% compression to 55% compression (ratio = 100/45 = 2.22) while the other one drops compression time to 4ms:

r / logT = 2.22 / log(16) = 0.555
r / logT = 1.11 / log( 4) = 0.555

But improving compression by 5x matters more than improving speed by 4x. Take this to the extreme: a compressor that exits immediately leaving its input unchanged has the best possible score here, despite being useless.
This woman with her feet on the window bothers me. How rude!

http://dereklow.co/content/images/2015/09/18-resized-1.jpg
Yes, there are, and the industry players are pushing this as their main differentiator.

However, for most projects I see, people don't care much. A better efficiency in a car is good, but a few microwatts can't compete with double the RAM in this context.

Lots of electronics projects are not battery dependent, and engineers care more about reliability, development ease and speed and flexibility. I surely like the idea of not reimplementing a firmware ten years from now by just upgrading the micro controller, instead of dealing with a whole new set peripheral drivers.
Why Qualcomm? They make mobile chips. Are we going to see SoCs specially optimized for communicating with CloudFlare servers? That sounds like a potentially bad idea.
Open source is ugly: Improving UI and UX
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SMS is also filled with spam these days. To be honest what medium is not filled with spam/ads?
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I gave Rose a try for a few minutes. There were some non-sequiturs... like when I brought up the humanitarian crisis in Syria, it responded with a criticism of how "generals are always playing the humanitarian crisis card". But I was just talking about it in the broader sense, and not talking about what specific people were saying about the crisis.
Interesting quote.

I'm not a lawyer, but my
understanding is that, really,
there is nothing Congress can
do about a SCOTUS decision
such as Roe v Wade just by
passing a law and getting the
POTUS to sign it. And should
a US state pass a law against
abortion, the legal system
would instantly use Roe v Wade
to strike down that state law.

If all that is
so, then the only way to
make abortion illegal is to
reverse Roe v Wade, and there
are only two ways to do that,
(A) have another case brought
to the SCOTUS and accepted
for review by the SCOTUS and
with enough new justices to
reverse Roe v Wade and (B)
have a Constitutional amendment
with, as I mentioned, 2/3rds
of the House, .... IMHO, the
chances of either (A) or (B)
within 100 years look slim to
none.

If all that is correct, then
talking about laws against
abortion is some form
of self-abuse or manipulation of
others and less useful than
a spit to windward.

Again, I'm just talking about
process, not the pros/cons of
abortion.
This lawyer disagrees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8104407

He even points out that using it could get you sued due to the lack of a warranty disclaimer by default.

I've heard other stories of companies refusing to use WTFPL-licensed code, and that alone should discourage you from using it if you goal is really to let anyone use the code with no hassle.

Edit: the FSF doesn't recommend it (in contrast to CC0, which they do recommend if you want a public-domain license): http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#WTFPL
Yes. We went from 3 to 50 c4.4xlarge nodes in the past few months and are working hard to keep up with the demand of the growth.
fwiw - the best you can do here, is probably implement the dots yourself as cdef functions. If your arrays get larger, you can get a C pointer to the blas routine from scipy and call it from cython (which can be faster than the dot you write when your arrays are larger)
>But that aside, yeah, I just don't see how asking you to use one word instead of another to describe a person or a group makes you gagged or incapable of dealing with reality.

Take PR 101. Never leave the other side in control of the narrative. If you play by left branding rules, you will lose.