skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Props for not going through with the outing. There's a weird sense of entitlement that people have, that they have the right to unmask someone doing nothing wrong but choosing to be anonymous. I'm really glad to read the author overcame that urge, it helps keep the world a little more interesting.
summary: customers don't have a problem with AWS but we do because we are not AWS
The amount of CPU time you should be spending on these tasks is really low.

Which is exactly the point. They are not CPU intensive, but the CPU is constantly doing a multitude of little things, whether simply moving memory around from the GPU to storage, sending the render buffers for the 60fps display, etc. Another comment mentioned, rightly, that cores are put to sleep in they don't have anything to do in a quantum. A quantum is an enormously huge period of time, and is a macro power management technique, and is the last bastion behind idle frequency scaling, and big.little.

Truthfully, for most A53 cores, this is true only in the dreams of the chip designers.

You have zero expertise to be saying this. I mean, here's how Samsung actually does it on a big/little setup-

http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s6-octa-core-processo...

Here's Qualcomm-

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8933/snapdragon-810-performanc...

Here's ARM-

https://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/biglitt...

They favor the little cores, unless the process actually saturates the core at which point it is elevated to a big core, because the power profile for low demand tasks is far better for the small cores.

I'm going to favor the industry's interpretation of this a bit more than your anecdotal, occasional compiler-writer knowledge.

what do you expect the A57's to be doing in this world?

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Those probably don't hit the employee themselves; those hit the company. Classic principal-agent problem.
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HN used to do that, and they took it away, presumably because it was engendering cooperative behavior (piling on, counter-voting to be part of "the struggle", etc.)
Yeah, it's kind of sad. You used to be able to look at the Nexus line and say it was the best value phone on the market.
In their Questions and Answers section, they forgot "WTF is First Click Free?!"

I realize that I can Google for it, but they still should include a synopsis in the post itself.
Oil tankers optimize for both fuel consumption and timely (= at the right moment for the spot market) arrival. If prices are low, tankers can get 'parked' for months. If that's the case at one's destination (or rather: possible destinations), there is no need to rush there.

I also think truck drivers already adjust their speed depending on economic reality. If, say, you are transporting fresh flowers towards an airport, arriving in time is more important than when you are transporting furniture to a furniture shop.

That certainly is true at the extreme ends. Drivers who drive to be transplanted organs between hospitals get special training to drive fast, while drivers driving garbage to a landfill likely will not be pressed for a timely delivery (although I do not rule out that someone who knows the latter business will tell me that missing one's reserved spot for delivery at a landfill can cost a lot of money)
Wonder if this means Terry Davis gets to live on HN? It will be interesting to see how this system handles "controversial" user accounts.
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The former, 147 with at least 1 fatality.
Yes, but is it worth spending the required resources? If the answer is yes, than anyway the 4 digit pin isn't more secure (you can watch people type them and find out the code).
This. My Bravia no longer works with iPlayer. That was the first and last time I got burned by that.
Startup Bullshit
Ok, presented this way it sounds fair to me!
The rumors expected this to run ChromeOS because its codename is apparently Ryu. If that's true, there are still changes being pushed to the ChromeOS codebase regarding this device:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/ec/+/1...

which tells me there's still more to know about this device. I'm curious what it is. Even though I'm typing this on my first generation Pixel, is there really enough of a difference between a Chromebook and Chrome for Android to justify porting both OSes to the same piece of hardware?
It is likely that Google's take on "The ultimate Android experience" is different to yours: i.e. "cloud-sync" rather than "mount/unmount SD cards".

FWIW - I'm pro-removable memory myself, for cost & convenience of data transfer
I'm at the point of considering upgrading my N4 to an S6 or this new N5 but really was hoping for a higher-end phone in an N4 form factor. Seems like nobody wants to make a high-end phone for smaller hands these days.
Dropbox problem is that it was obviously better several years ago so its user acquisition was easy.

Nowadays dropbox needs to convince user of other services that it is better. On paper though, dropbox provides less for more money - that's going to be difficult. I share your opinion - they are better. The reason I know is because I have been a client for years and they never let me down even in weird syncing scenario. Syncing quality is #1 feature of a cloud storage, you need to be able to trust it fully.

However, how do I convince a MS user that 1 TB from dropbox for 7.99 GBP/month is a better deal than 1 TB (actually 5 TB since it is 1 TB per user) + Office 365 + 60 Skype Minutes for 7.99 GBP/month ?
If you meant that students can't come up with the correct answer at all, okay, then you have problem, but that seems quite improbable

Unfortunately, that is the case I've seen. They either must reach for a calculator(!), or get it completely wrong if forced to do it manually.
Building a feature is fine but that means you need to sell out then at some point or grow into new areas. Dropbox is not doing to good at moving into new areas and they are probably too big now to sell out easily.
One could argue that internal politics (in the form of the rise of Sundar Pichai) are what propped ChromeOS up to the point where it was even a question whether a device like this should run Android or not given that ChromeOS's functionality is theoretically a subset of Android (given a full-featured Chrome browser for Android).

I realize that in practice many people buy ChromeOS devices primarily to run Crouton or their own bootloaded Linux build which this is a complication for, but I don't believe that is relevant to the internal politics issue.
Most (all?) supermarkets require you to weigh produce yourself, even when making use of regular checkout. There are several scales with a bunch of buttons in the produce section, you put your produce of preference on there and press the button to identify it. Then you get a sticker with a barcode/price based on the produce type and weight.
The calculation is straight forward. The coefficient given for rolling resistance is 0.0004 for rail which means that .0004W is the frictional resistance of the track. Given a train going at velocity v then the train is accelerated by friction at a rate of -.0004W/m (F=ma so a=F/m) which is equal to -.0004g (W=mg).

Then to stop it will take t = v/.0004g which means that you will travel vt/2 in that time.

For example, if a train is cruising along at 30 mph (44 fps) then it takes 44 ft/s / .0004(32.2 ft/s^2) = 3416 seconds to stop which means that the train travels 14.2 miles under ideal conditions.
One really nice anecdote from that response:

> In fact, the freight rail system is so efficient that to some extent we've obviated the need for the Panama Canal. Many Asian container ships bound for Europe actually make port in Seattle or Vancouver, offload their containers onto trains which shoot across the country to New York or another eastern port where they are reloaded on ships for the trip to Europe.
The N4 has 5.1.1, and it'll get M via community ROMs for sure.
> It's arguably more secure than a 4 number passcode

My friends often have to share their passcodes with me; at which point it's like, what's this adding?
As nice as the new fingerprint sensors are, they come with some nasty drawbacks[0]:

Namely, your defense against legally compelled decryption is significantly weakened via use of a fingerprint sensor, since the phone's unlock mechanism is the same authentication system that the phone's encryption mechanism uses (it would be really nice to have some sort of separation there).

The last drawback, I'll simply quote verbatim from the article:

>What would happen if some government “asked” phone manufacturers to create a back door to store or send it fingerprint information, and to lie to the public with denials of the existence of such a program. Considering the news of the past few years such a scenario seems far from impossible.

On that note, I wonder how compatible smartphone fingerprint data is with data you'd find in a fingerprint database. If not immediately compatible, would it still be possible to convert it to a standardized format?

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/josephsteinberg/2015/03/05/wh-yo...
For the lazy:

"It is possible to limit the number of free articles that a Google News reader can access via First Click Free. A user coming from the domain [.google.] must be able to see a minimum of 3 articles per day."

https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en
If you could make it so when ever company X is hiring one or more staff you could share the location of these hires in the link. I would appreciate it thanks.
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I was an Evernote Premium customer and enjoyed multi-device syncing and private notebooks. I had my own account, paid for out of my own pocket for a year. The company I worked for also decided to used Evernote and I could see our "Team" notebooks, right along with my stuff. When the company stopped using it, not only did I lose the "Team" notebooks, it took all of my personal data with it. I lost everything.

Support acknowledged it was a bug and told me that there was nothing they could do. They didn't even offer to let me have a few months free to catch back up and re-create my notebooks.
> I want to be absolutely clear that we have never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services. We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will.

The slides imply Apple gives access to data on customers. Tim Cook says Apple does not give access to their servers. Is that really the point you're trying to make?

That's just semantics and weasel words, nothing more.
What would be the point of having Chrome OS on a tablet? I can't think of anything that the Chrome OS would be better at doing on a tablet over Android.
Tracking down rights to rerelease old games is GOG.com's secret sauce. And once they've got the distribution rights, they'll work with people who build emulators (like DOSBox) and wrappers.

See also: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/09/16/how-gog-com-save-...

Granted, some companies do want to keep those rights to themselves.
Great job man!! This is awesome, on point ethics lesson as well.
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For academics, you can pry Latex from their cold dead hands, so better include a Latex mode. Personally, I like emacs and I think that modes, aka the plug-in architecture has really a lot of merit, so try to expose as much as possible of the documents to a plug-in api. ( That one only becomes important when your project is very successful, but perhaps it is good thing to keep in mind.)

One thing I would like to see in emacs is something similar to scrivener's corkboard, basically a virtual corkboard were you can place index cards and group them together.
> It affects only a few comments which are unlikely to be particularly valuable anyway.

Vouching basically transfers some of the responsibility for overseeing the automated algorithms to the community rather than a central moderator. Doing so will probably affect more comments than you think -- because the frequent comments from long-time posters complaining about how particular posts are affected by the automated algorithm can be replaced by those posters taking direct action.

This alone will improve the S/N ratio of some conversations significantly.
CAP Theorem
I think that's precisely why they avoided mentioning their result in the article.
Apple bans app that maps U.S. drone strikes
Follow up question: I am assuming this change has not effect on Startup school radio that is hosted by AHarris.
As for your second question, do you mean how do you define algebraic number fields in Nemo, or in Pari/GP? For Nemo we document it in the Antic fields section of the manual.
That shouldn't ever be necessary. Part of the point of Rust is that you can do unsafe low-level work, so long as you tag it with the "unsafe" keyword to enable pointer arithmetic and so forth.
"Gets to live"? That wording gives me the willies. But if you see substantive (e.g. on-topic technical) comments that are [dead], you should definitely vouch for them.
I've founded a startup that wants to tackle the digital notebook and save-for-later problem, for any content - not just web stuff. What's your wish list for your ideal notebook?
I am Jackpot51, I wrote Redox and would be able to confirm with a master push.

To start, this wasn't supposed to be public yet. I was preparing cleanup before release, and I hope it is not seen as complete.

I am excited to see how much attention this has gotten, and I would be willing to answer any questions about Redox, how to use it, and how to contribute.

I have a blog at https://redox-os.org/ where I recently posted screenshots.

We can IRC at irc.mozilla.org #redox
I love using HBO Now on my Chromecast but man is it a bear to fast forward and reverse using the iPhone app.
Currently the game is too complex, so it's not satisfying for an average user

It might be a good idea to turn it into a game where it starts easy, gets harder, and you can share the level you achieved and brag about it (like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7, the level could be stored in localStorage so a user can continue fresh from that same level later on, with a different random pieceset)

Edit: Just checked the code, impressive :) - I assumed the game and pieces were randomly generated
I personally struggle with Evernote - not in the utilization aspect as I use it multiple times a week, but rather, on its lack of focus on addressing & fixing the features its users really need & want: i.e code formatting, inconsistencies between formats across mobile, web & app, and oddities when copying/pasting content into notes & it breaking the rest of the note are just some of the minor issues I personally struggle with. Features such as presentation mode and larger transfer size are fine and all, but neither of which I personally care for - I primarily take text notes and have some images embedded here and there, so I'm not necessarily asking for a major shift in features. I want to find reasons to pay for Evernote as I depend on it so much from a notebook aspect, but alas, I haven't been convinced that they necessarily care about addressing these pain points.
Nope, it isn't. I didn't post it on HN. I didn't even have a HN account until I decided to reply to a few comments (including this one). This is simply someone so annoyed and frustrated with Airbnb's apparent indifference to bad hosts they decided to blog it and tweet the blog post. Everything else was beyond my control. And actually, the money is a side point. It was company account, meh, who cares? The REAL point is there's someone gaming Airbnb, they know this, but they're not removing this person from their listings. That's what really pees me off.
"Well Musk has not a good track record with announcements like that."

Yup, very much like a politician. You get the sense that he is playing their game. They'll give him a hand but he has to speak their language. Promises made to the public are more like optimistic goals in which potential complications aren't accounted for and instead reserved as explanations for revised promises.

I'm a Musk fan, don't get me wrong, but there is a level of dream fuelling manipulation behind his approach that feels political.

That whole [i]warning the public about dangerous AI thing[/i] actually felt like a big political money push to me. Designed to overwork the imaginations of the public and get government more interested in throwing money at the tech.
Nope, not at all.
For that CPU the times are good. My understanding is that Pari uses recursive dense, and Nemo is also using that, and you are instructing Magma to do that. I'll have to download Nemo and try it out :)
Who will bother to recreate the fingerprint, most of us aren't that important? (I'm not) :) Don't get me wrong, I do understand the main problem is that you can't change this "token" and it's something that the people have easy access to. It shouldn't be used to keep data that has a higher value than the effort required.
Finally! Now merge with Facebook and all is fine.
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This is a typical requirement that blows up on implementation.

How do you deal with retweets?

Example:
>I tweet: I love christians @Pontifex

@Pontifex retweets.

Fix "typo":
I hate christians @Pontifex

Refresh @Pontifex profile, screenshot ...

Do you notify retweeters that the post was edited and ask for acknowledgement?
Do you nullify the retweet?
Do you mark it as edited?
If yes: get those criminals.
Variations of this have been suggested many times. I'd be curious to try it someday if we could figure out a way to do it that didn't put anything important at risk.
Of course. That's why all billionaires have to spend lots of money for 24x7 personal security. Some people look at super yachts and private jets and think it's about decadence, but some of it is about not having your location known to most of the world for long periods of time.
Nope. "He" (me) read the reviews. They were OK. I can only assume the user has only recently started using (gaming?) the Instant Book feature, because we're the apparently the first to report a "bait and switch", but I doubt we'll be the last.
Voting history for every member of Congress on surveillance issues
Hello, I wrote Redox, and I completely agree. I have been doing pretty substantial cleanups in this manner recently. At first, I had to start with pretty nasty code to get things going. Within the last week, I seperated out fundamental applications and moved them to the filesystem. This also meant writing a syscall interface, which is currently compatible with Linux system calls. Unsafe is often necessary in kernel land, and I am always rewriting code to make its use span smaller scopes.
Serious question:

What do these cars (with no steering wheel) do, if involved in an accident?

How would the owner / police move the car to the side of the road?
He's precise like that.
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And here I am wondering if I'll outlive feeling embarrassed not to drive shift!
Android M has Bluetooth stylus support as standard.
Perhaps not such a great choice of name as years of web browsing have me instinctively associating the "pixel.*" domain with a tracking pixel - and that's what I initially thought this would be about.
> Surely Apple and Google are primarily worried about revealing their plans to each other and similar companies, not to nascent startups, right?

Generally not. In most cases for a big launch like that the other companies already know about it, either through employee movement or more likely being launch partners in some respect. For example, Google knew about the iPhone launch because they provided the Youtube and Maps apps.

Netflix knew about the iPad and Apple TV for similar reasons (and the Chromecast and FireTV for that matter).
I've never seen anyone decide not to get an iPhone because the screen is too fragile. I have seen people decide to upgrade their phone because the screen on their old one is broken.
I think there's a big market for a mini-tablet and bluetooth headset combo that can replace the phone completely. You get the huge screen, the dumb pipe tablet 4G contract, VOIP calling, can make most calls without taking the slab out via voice control.
Yes, god yes I have. Chromecast used to work just fine last year, but this year it's been a disaster.

* Almost all youtube videos start playing before they're buffered, the video is paused but the audio continues playing until the video resumes and it catches up. Makes watching any 15 second video impossible. The buffering in general is really broken.

* Chromecast loves to play previous videos I watched when I start playing new ones. I frequently have to disconnect youtube from it and start a new session to get it to behave intuitively.

I pretty much have to transcode all of my media to h264/aac in order for it to play on the Chromecast from my computer -- I thought this would get better over time but it hasn't.
What an odd thing to say. Documentation can certainly include real identity. Those things are a set/subset relationship, not two different things.

In both cases the desired outcome is achieved: the 'war' is expanded, taking on either new dimensions (personal knowledge of the doxxing victim) or new avenues to attack them with.
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Interestingly the top seven domains are now user generated content, while there were two old media (bbc, nytimes) and one probably in a similar mold (yahoo, I assume that was yahoo news) in 2007.

Also what is asiacollege.ir (it redirects to a222.org, so it has the number eight and nine spots)?
GRPN is down nearly 46% since that was written...
Am I the only one who can't see the scrollbar on the page? Looks like a misuse of overflow:hidden;
The suggestions here are kinda silly.

To address your point, not updating really isn't an option. Sooner or later some software I use will make use of a library or framework from a new version of the OS, and then I'll be stuck either not updating it, or not being able to get my work done.

And if nothing else, next time I buy hardware I'll be getting the current version of iOs or OSX whether I like it or not.

And for the guy saying, "Don't sync your phone with iTunes," is that even a real suggestion? What happened to Apple products "just working"?

Really, it shouldn't be too much to ask that the richest company in the world do a little QA on their software so it's not buggy as hell, and not force "features" like Apple Music on everybody for the sole purpose of squeezing more money out of them.
Right, but an organisation is only as good as its response when something goes wrong, no? And Airbnb's response was... well...
My iPod Classic has 160MB, but it seems to be getting worse. I'm torn between either getting a phone (iPhone or 6P) with 128GB or getting the new iPod Touch with 128GB and keeping my Note 3 (I have had consistent trouble with 128GB cards).
Not iCloud: Apple would prefer you buy all your storage (NAND) from Apple rather than Kingston, Samsung or SanDisk. Soldered, with an Apple-sized margin.
The same is the case on my Nexus 6, for example. It's probably for convenience so that decrypting the device on boot also unlocks the lock screen, and also so that people don't have to remember two methods of authentication.
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Building www.heynay.com and you should definetly check it out and critique it if you have time :)
Are you at all following Uber's legal issues?
Does this website not have a scrollbar?
Looks very interesting. A more thorough performance comparison - both more alternatives and more varied workloads - would certainly be nice, though. HDFS isn't even close to full POSIX semantics, so comparing against it doesn't tell us much about the viability of the WTF approach for more general use. Maybe if I have some spare time I'll take it for a spin myself.

Disclaimer: I'm a developer on the Gluster project.