skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How will this affect the programmers reading HN today in the future?

For programming where high performance really matters (throughput not latency), adoption for parallel frameworks/languages like CUDA has been a no brainer, and people have embraced the new parallel programming model.

Since major speedups in consumer chips today are about adding parallelism (Intel AVX), versus the clock speedup of a decade ago and earlier...

What does HN think about mainstream effects? Will there be a noticeable migration to less computationally wasteful or less sequential languages/frameworks when mainstream applications increase their hunger for compute resources?

p.s.
(I'm assuming that the average application's future equivalent/spawn needs more and more computational resources, either bc of more load from customers using it, or because it gets more complex and ambitious as the space of applications gets more complex in the future)
A certain amount of almost Byzantine-style iconoclasm seems to be a feature of Wahabbism[1] in particular, rather than Islam as a whole.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism#Shi.27a_criticism
From the ReCode article:
"Twitter and Square both declined to comment."

Now it's official
So do you believe that by discussing black dogs and cats being executed in animal shelters, I'm taking away from the focus on people being shot in the streets? Do you think I'm only capable of being concerned about one problem at a time, and I shouldn't care about black dogs and cats until all of our world's other problems are solved?
We'll have a new location in Singapore in the coming weeks/months. But if I understand well, it's not enough for japanese users?
Zappos sounds like a dystopia to me. It's well-off white-collar workers (i.e., leisure class) who depressingly keep trying to optimise their workflow/happiness--like an addict chasing the next high. It's the top part of the Maslow's Hierarchy of Need.

This experiment is only possible because Zappos is a stable money-making business and the CEO can afford the "risk" of failure due to personal financial security. How about experiment on improving the lives of the lower class, instead of the upper class? If this philosophy is the pinnacle of working human society, then why limit it to only a select few? I guess the warehouse workers will all be replaced by robots anyway, so they'll be someone else's problem after that.
Nice to see Perl 6 coming along! Even if it doesn't garner the developer base Perl 5 had back in the 90s, I think Perl 6 is important to push the art of programming along. Kudos to the Perl 6 team.

- Would be nice to make the intro copy more informative. Like: why would I want to use it as a developer? What does it look like compared to my favorite language?

- Really like the examples, especially since I haven't done much with Perl 6. However, like Perl 5, it still looks like parseable line noise to the untrained eye. Would be nice to have some better explanations to go along with the code. Maybe not right on the homepage, but at least linked into it.

- Would like to see the "For Newcomers" links on the "Documentation" page on the homepage.
Chris Sacca would sleep very soundly tonight.

Jokes aside, I think Jack is the man for the job. He has proven capable in square. I hope he does the same with Twitter. The company needs to take advantages of the huge market share it has.
The behaviour might be hygienic for the dog, but not for the humans interacting with it.
Intriguing that this renders Tor essentially transparent in some contexts - that could almost seem by design.

I guess (unless Tor is completely broken) that there would still be more legwork involved in associating traffic from the endpoint with its corresponding traffic into Tor, but even "user logs into that service through Tor" is still a pretty fertile datapoint. Obviously Microsoft would be able to see that pretty easily anyway, but why would they make it easy for others to see it too?
Also, 'spunky little sister' doesn't mean the same thing in the UK as the US...
Both major parties have their favorite cronies. Although you could shorten that statement to "election season" and expect the same outcome.
Congrats, @jack

Would love to see twtr become a platform for a myriad of third-party apps. Wouldn't it be great to place a market order by messaging @bats "buy $TWTR 10,000 30.00". Or order a limo with @uber "2 people in one hour to jfk airport"?
It is kind of similar to the Chinese "credit" rating that is also talked about in today's news.
Heroku private spaces is available in Tokyo now...

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/9/10/heroku_private_sp...
Any way to export to 3d file format ?
Great work by the way ...
Yeah that did occur to me too, but either way "spunky" is never a word I want to see when I'm reading about a programming language.
The fact that a systems programming language must have a way to do this, and Rust sort-of has: (it'd be better if it was a stable API though)

https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/intrinsics/fn.volatile_set_me...

I know it's very tricky in presence of an optimizer. The current implementation in KeePassC uses the pointer after memset in Drop, so it might be just lucky (https://github.com/raymontag/rust-keepass/issues/4).
Simply "Sans" will work just fine.
I use it, it's pretty good. As simple as it can be, easily integrates with everything.
You may find what you want from our addons list here: https://scalingo.com/addons We have an addon provider API http://developers.scalingo.com/addon-provider-api/ and we're now working with several third party providers to enrich our marketplace.
Mecca seems like a pretty fascinating place. It's a terrible shame non-Muslims are banned.
That clock tower and hotel are an abomination and in bad taste.It's as if someone decided to put a Las Vegas style Casino style building right next to the Vatican.
Well it can by context, but yeah sniggering does abound. At least she doesn't also have a "fanny pack" in the logo too.
Medicaid and Medicare are very different beasts. Medicaid takes 23.1% off the top of most drugs and typically pays the least out of any insurer (including the private ones). There is even a "best price" provision that says Medicaid either gets a hefty discount or best price, whichever is lower. I wouldn't worry about Medicaid.

Medicare (for physician administered drugs) pays the average of all the private payers, which isn't a bad way to do it. For prescription drugs, it pays list price, except for the Part-D private plans which already negotiate.

To be honest, allowing Medicare to negotiate is a little bit like any company "negotiating" with the gov't. It's a take it or leave it proposition and is a more like "price by fiat" than a negotiation.

Having the federal gov't negotiate drug prices is not necessarily a panacea. The largest US insurance companies cover 30-40M lives, that larger than the population of Canada. Yet, they pay more for drugs than Canada does. You know why? Because the Canadian gov't makes them (back to the "price by fiat").
The simplest solution to create interactive how-to-do tutorials and tooltips
Just out of interest: what do you think is on-topic for HN?

Also, from the guidelines.

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Alright guys, avocado awareness is at an all time low. We've got to come up with some interesting angles to let people know that Hass avocados are the very definition of smooth and creamy.
What a perfect example of why twitter is a terrible platform for communication of all but the simplest thoughts.
YiSpecter: iOS Malware That Attacks Apple iOS Devices by Abusing Private APIs
As long as you write good unit tests I'm sure you'll be fine ;)
afaik, it's because Mina is only populated during the Hajj and the temporary structures are deemed enough, while the other structures (additional lanes for the stone throwing, the tunnel or additional levels in the Grand Mosque) are either necessary or still usable outside of Hajj season.
I think it's my real name, proof underneath :-)

http://i.imgur.com/onAPdMr.jpg
We let 10k+ people draw the former inner-german border. This is what happened
Great point! A Republican senator said the exact same thing: "You guys figure it out on your own or else we'll figure it out for you and trust me, you won't like our ideas."
3D Slicer (http://www.slicer.org/) has most (if not all) of that, if I understood your questions. I have struggled with the learning curve, though. YouTube helps sometimes.
The profile picture URL looks like “https:‍//cid-___.users.storage.live.com/___”. Both the host part and the path part contain your CID. The CID in the host name really doesn’t have an effect (from the client’s perspective); you could use, for example, “cid-0000000000000000.users.storage.live.com” instead, or really just “storage.live.com”.
Twitter does not need to gain new users - it needs to reactivate old users. The statistic I cannot get past is that they have lost one billion users. That is a much different problem than most companies are dealing with.
A software person would say that moving to EV's has the important benefit of separation of concerns.

If power generation is not in the vehicle, our national fraction of combustion generators can be reduced systematically. This is already under way; some US cities are already at 0.

That leaves storage on vehicle. The more EV's we have, the more incentive to find clean, high energy density batteries. This is not a static field either. Graphene is just one vaporware which might appear on the street shortly.
Ah, I was referring to WebGL specifically. From what I've seen, you lose AA with stencil polygon approach.

https://github.com/pixijs/pixi.js/issues/1011
It is well known that unique identifiers are used to identify general internet traffic as the host moves to different IPs. This works even when the intended meaning of that identifier isn't known.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/nsa-turns-cookies-and-...
Huxley vs. Orwell (2009)
As expected, the MSM continues to completely miss these aspects, though did catch that the US is disappointed that 12 year exclusive patents for drugs wasn't included. Meanwhile, the benefits are being lauded when the entire agreement is shrouded in secrecy.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadian-busine...

Most interesting aspect is how it plays out in the election, only 14 days away.
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Are Newsletters the Internet’s New Safe Space for Women?
I still think it's impossible to run two companies that both require so much attention, given their stage.

Yes Jobs had Apple and Pixar, and Musk has Tesla and SpaceX. But both Pixar and SpaceX don't really require day-to-day CEO attention, they follow long term plans (movies, rockets). That's really different from Square and Twitter, which are both, in their own ways, in a kind of trouble.

I'd love to be proven wrong though -- so good luck, Jack!
I would say that they are different issues.

Python 3 really is almost 7 years old and it is moving forward. The Wall of Shame has become the Wall of Super Powers. The scope for Python 3 was different than Perl 6.

Perl 6 was to be ageless and for all time. Python 3 was a fix to a broken issues in Python 2 having redundant ways to do things.

> Python 3.0 was developed with the same philosophy as in prior versions. However, as Python had accumulated new and redundant ways to program the same task, Python 3.0 had an emphasis on removing duplicative constructs and modules, in keeping with "There should be one— and preferably only one —obvious way to do it". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python

I don't mind there being more than one way to do things.
Human beings will, too, in extreme circumstances:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Andes_flight_disaster
Did they really go through the exercise of trade marking the butterfly logo? They must be serious about this style of branding this version of Perl.
> I don't think anything wireless(besides free space optics) will ever be able to match the bandwidth of fiber.

This isn't really the goal of the project. SpaceX needs to create a com link with Mars. Also, it can cheaply laucnch sattelites so it will be able to connect the world via satelite uplink. The goal isn't to beat wired networks but provide redundancy and in some cases primary connections.

SpaceX is betting on itself achieving reusability which will lower costs from ~$60M to a marginal cost of something like ~$600K. As a byproduct of the cellphone wars nanosats have become insanely cheap due to commoditization and miniturization of hardware. Making this more feasible

The reason they are doing this is to establish communications between earth & mars. Even a 50mbps connection could bring huge swathes of the world online and create a race for infrastructure to compete.

So if we could get 1-5gbps connections terrestriallydue to some market penetration and competition, it would bringlots of people online. The goal of the project is lofty, but would provide a lot of positive things.

Downsides:
* personal satelites and the proliferation of spying.
* space debris could lock us out of orbit.
* space debris/launch failures could cause issues.
* something like radiation or an unexpected externality could make this non-feasible.
* we could literally create skynet.

I am pumped on it though, and those reasons, along with the many others I have assuredly missed make me really really excited to see this happen. We need a secondary network anyway and terrestrial speeds won't improve without competition so I would roll the dice on skynet for that.
Check the html source for this additional tidbit

> The following day, Tamara entered the office she shared
with Sean and Larry, and saw "google.com" as the final
name remaining on their whiteboard. Recognizing the
misspelling, she brought it to their attention. Sean checked
the domain name registry for "googol.com" and found that
it was already taken. Larry said he preferred the "google.com"
spelling anyway, and when he and Sergey later received their
first angel investment check for $100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim,
it was made out to "Google Inc."
>This article, as I read it, seems to imply that the engineers where technically unable to comply with the regulations, that why they cheating.

They can comply, but fuel economy will plummet. Other negatives can happen as well, the engines can get crudded up quickly, which has already been a problem in VW diesels, and in some Mercedes models as well.

The EPA has also been criticized here as being a tool to prevent foreign competition from high efficiency diesels available in Europe and Asia.

>They told, that they need a greater budget per car to comply with the regulations.

The second problem I mentioned is caused by the EGR Exhaust Gas Recirculation systems, which are primitive; so, yeah, throwing money at that would help.

Overall, I'm fairly confident that the VW mess is the tip of a huge iceberg. Other mfrs have been caught doing this exact same thing before.
I love the bug, but it's because I have a two year old daughter.
I honestly wonder how many of twitter's accounts are fake accounts, it seems that spam is a huge problem there.
So it's fine to use them in the query string?
Exactly - hence why my wife who owns a house, a car and a thriving business couldn't get a loan, but our previously almost-bankrupt credit-addicted friend could. Because my wife had a single credit card she lost and forgot to pay the installments on @400 GBP credit, whereas our friend regularly paid hers off.
Turbocharger - don't turn the engine off immediately after stopping, leave it running for a few seconds so the turbo has time to cool off. After starting, don't rev past 2k RPM until the engine oil had time to get into the turbine so it's not running dry(so not for a few minutes).

DPF - don't drive in the city :P if you do, take the car out on the motorway every few weeks at least and maintain speed above 50mph so the car can burn out the soot in the filter.

Double mass flywheel - well, it's designed to absorb the "shock" of attaching the clutch too early. So if you're driving a manual, be gentle with the clutch and your flywheel will serve you well. If you rev your engine and just release the clutch the flywheel will have to absorb a huge amount of force - it's designed to do that so it shouldn't be too harmful, but do it enough times and it will split and have to be replaced.
I know I used to work for Dar Al Handasha (who designed that clock tower) and even as a non mulslim I think its a shocking way to treat they holy places.
That's because it's early in development. More features are planned for the future :)
Yes it is: http://i.imgur.com/sJjJwSa.png
The Nasal Ranger Is a Real-Life Smell-O-Scope
"Twitter Feels Compelled to Point Out That Twitter CEO Is a Full-Time Job"

https://recode.net/2015/06/22/twitter-feels-compelled-to-poi...
tldr: eventually end more than 18,000 tariffs that the participating countries have placed on United States exports

- Goods include: autos, machinery, information technology and consumer goods, chemicals and agricultural products ranging from avocados in California to wheat, pork and beef from the Plains states.

- establish uniform rules on corporations’ intellectual property,

- open the Internet

- crack down on wildlife trafficking and environmental abuses
Totally unreadable. This sums up a lot of what's wrong with Twitter. If even the CEO struggles to communicate effectively using the platform then...
Alexander Klöpping visited silicon valley for a series on dutch tv, I guess he got inspired there :)
http://dewerelddraaitdoor.vara.nl/media/230201 (Dutch)
Why?

DNS lookups are routed through Tor just like HTTP/TCP traffic (in implementations that aren't broken).
Given that Microsoft recentralized Skype in order to make it suitably wiretappable, we can hazard a guess at the reason.
You know there's a "Black Lives Matter" slogan, right?

Feel free to talk about the death of animals - it's an important topic - but linking your campaign the the murder of humans by police officers is, and I say this as politely as I can, fucking stupid.
I love the bug too really :'( I have a Moomin on my desk, I have the aesthetic sensibility of a two year old. The problem is no one else I work with does. That is a problem, at least for me.
Another concern: modern HTTPS use SNI standard and those who sniff your traffic, can extract the hostname from this traffic, because it's not encrypted yet. So DNS sniffing is not necessary, if I understand everything correctly.

I would consider that as misuse of DNS. User id must be in request parameter or path, not in hostname.
It is a modifier that makes explicit his intention not to use the word literally. Ironic that I'm getting dinged in a thread of discussion about language.

If you want to tell they guy he's hyperbolic (he is), then fine, but don't tell him he said this something was ACTUALLY the same as being racist when he went out of his way not to
No idea. But I'd throw $100 their way to buy an account that's been dormant for six years.
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Just a reminder: the TPP, like most trade deals, is negotiated in secret, but ratified in public. The final version of the deal will be published in 30 days, and then Congress gets 90 days to consider before an up-or-down vote.

The 90-day thing is a result of Trade Promotion Authority granted by Congress to the administration. This is the "fast track" Congress voted to allow the President. It means the bill can't be filibustered.
> Or order a limo with @uber "2 people in one hour to jfk airport"?

Why would typing out a generic request to a several square mile area without any identifying information be better than a GPS enabled app with real time communications, mapping, and integrated payment?

I see this kind of comment all the time (eg that ridiculous "magic" SMS startup) and always wonder how otherwise rational, linear thinkers develop this delusion.
Compliments to the Perl 6 community. Nice new layout and design.
That's exactly right. The main complaint I have with satellite isn't the latency or speed. Although the latency is awful.

It's that 15GB costs ~$100 and comes with an automatic next throttle on next month's bandwidth if I go over. Or, purchase additional GB for $10 each.

It's like having a Porsche with a thimble sized tank of gasoline.
When you say there isn't enough, is that there isn't physically enough spectrum, or is it just that there isn't enough licensable spectrum (or even enough available unlicensed spectrum)?

I am not very knowledgeable about things related to radio spectrums and so please clarify this for me.

What might the upper bound of radio broadcast data transmissions be if the entire radio spectrum could be allocated and given our current radio comms technology?
Larry Wall's discussion on the logo, Camelia (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/perl6/mu/master/misc/camel...):

Discussion Highlights
=====================

From: Larry Wall
Date: March 24, 2009 10:25
Subject: Re: Logo considerations

[...] I think there's a tendency to
go way too abstract in most of these proposals. I want something
with gut appeal on the order of Tux. In particular I want a logo
for Perl 6 that is:

Fun
Cool
Cute
Named
Lively
Punable
Personal
Concrete
Symmetric
Asymmetric
Attractive
Relational
Metamorphic
Decolorizable
Shrinkable to textual icon
Shrinkable to graphical icon

In addition, you can extend just about anything by attaching "P6"
wings to it. I also take it as a given that we want to discourage
misogyny in our community. You of the masculine persuasion should
consider it an opportunity to show off your sensitive side. :)

Hence, Camelia.

Larry
Well you just said it: "Anything that good hackers would find interesting" and not "Anything that anyone would find interesting".
"but chip costs will continue to fall "

Apparently Intel didn't get the memo...
I don't think the Saudi tourist board need any more help.
Most of this article is quoting what other people said about the TPP, applying labels to supposedly specific provisions eg. 'foo expert calling it "historic"' etc.

Smoke and mirrors until we can actually read the thing. Or change it ourselves.
Um, yeah I suppose that's one way of way saying. In actually, the health implications are good for herbivores AND other less efficient digestive systems like those in the rodent family.
Am I missing a joke here? (honest question)
Nicotine is not the enemy
> Someone looks simple and feels easy.

This may be the funniest tagline I've ever seen.
Drive it like you just stole it. Change the oil every now and then, and keep a clean air filter in it. If it is a TDI or Mercedes, expect to have to pull the intake plenum every 100k miles or so and clean the gunk out of it.

Edit: PS Also, do the timing belt maintenance if/when applicable

PPS: R&R the glow plugs every 50k or so. You may even be able to re-install the old ones (test them first). This is mainly to prevent them from becoming seized to the head, necessitating an expensive repair.
So Congress will publish the full "30 page document" on their website -- and citizens of each country have 90 days to harass their representatives if they disagree w/ the agreement? Sorry to be dense just trying to understand.
IPOs didn't require the roadshow they do nowadays either, which will keep Jack well occupied, when Square goes public.
You get to read it, all 30 chapters, most especially the riveting passages about opening dairy markets, in 30 days.

You will not have an opportunity to change it, nor will Congress, but the opportunity exists to reject it. It's an all-or-nothing proposition.
I agree - Twitter is the de facto messaging platform. Taking the idea a bit further, Twitter could be used instead of SQS and other messaging solutions / protocols. That'd be pretty cool. Twitter could be the way the IoT communicate with their AI overlords.
This is an article about the US political process. I don't know enough about the processes of Canada or Australia or Vietnam to comment on them.