skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And finally, how does anybody know "what they really want" unless you ask the entire country in a free and fair manner? This is the big fallacy behind "the people prefer the lesser evil of dictatorship." You can't say that. You don't have a clue what the people prefer. This is the whole point: if the people want a dictatorship, give them a free, fair, democratic vote and let them choose dictatorship.

It's not even that easy. Ask the entire country in a free and fair manner and you'll quickly discover that people's opinions are not independent and do not exist in a vacuum. They may say to you they prefer living in a dictatorship because of a combination of not knowing anything else and pro-dictatorship propaganda. Or they may say "democracy!" because they drank the kool-aid.

I'm starting to believe that the only way to reach democracy as a stable state is for a society to naturally evolve towards it. Just leave it alone, let them figure things out; after a few generations they will probably sort out their culture and then they'll have a democracy that's sustainable because it'll be backed by decades of cultural growth. Trying to speed this transformation up is a dangerous game. Trying to speed it up with tanks and guns is just crazy.
i have been getting crushed by these. i freely admit that the debt is my responsibility ~6k credit cards. but every day 5 calls. fake numbers from my area code (town over) my state doesnt have a chase bank in it and prob no capital one either.

2 months late. call back after i have the money and say i will pay current in a week. all of the collection department (to be clear these are still part of the bank, represented themselves as banking employees, and get routed via a bank number) they offered me $90 bucks off. call back to make direct payment in line with the verbal agreement.

them: sir i have no call notes

me: ok, let me look. i actually do think i said i would phone you back and pay i have that in my call notes.

Them: yes, it says you owe us $100 today.

me : (whered those notes come from mate) oh, ok so you were able to find thr notes. do you have the paymeny arrangements i made with lisa?

Them : no.

me: she offered me an arrangement.

them: oh i do see that yes $30 dollars

me: (i have detailed call notes with her and everones employee number i spoke with extrapolating the rapidly illegitimate deal they can't put in writiing because it is a service and convenience)

sure, well she offered me $90 and i will pay right now, even though i said it wpuld be a week, if you give me the deal she offered which might be in the notes if you look closer (you lieing dickhead)

them: no sir, i can give you $30.

me: let me think about it and consult my notes, i don't feel confortable paying today.

them: ok

---- 2 minutes elapse

robo call local number from town over of 7k people. on line don't answer.

-- robocall from same number. demanding payment. have similar accent to callcenter people, act like they arent affiliated.

look, my fault for not paying and sure i broke the agreement, but fuck this. i dont have to pay i will just never get a credit card this decade. but im trying even on shitty financial terms now to pay you because it is an obligation. but calling me 5x times from fake numbers is fucked up on a 2 missed payments over 2+ years of good standing. couldnt imagine what actual collections would do.

this story was about fictional bank p.j morgones.

also i want to note capital one was cool about it and as professional (or more) than me as i dis reneg on my card services agreement and they called from their real number
35 year old overweight single women from the midwest who spend most of their time with their cats have no interest in Katie Couric. Yahoo needs to understand their demographics and cater to them. They waste too much money and resources trying to be something they are not.

I've always thought the best play for Yahoo would have been to swing right and become a "Fox News" of the internets.

All of these tech/acquihires and throwing good money at Stanford/Google pedigree will not work. Yahoo does not have the culture, infrastructure or the talent to compete with Google/Facebook or become a Netflix. They are far behind on many fronts and instead of investing in areas that will be hard for them to compete, they should invest in areas that they are already successful (Fantasy sports, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance).

The millennials who have already decided Yahoo is not cool are not going to change their mind because of SNL episodes, community or Katie Couric. Mayer needs to understand this.
Check out this cookbook from 2011: "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter."

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11510733-make-the-bread-b...

Baking good bread should be both easy and cheap, as long as you have an oven! That's not to say it wouldn't be better with more practice, experience, specialization, and, of course, better grains. But it might just beat "sliced bread!"
This one is fantastic, and only 1g carbohydrate per serving because it's primarily fiber and protein: http://www.holdthecarbs.com/low-carb-fresh-baked/low-carb-wh...

(The company has some sort of patented flour substitute that they make by stripping digestible starches from wheat flour and replacing them with flax and resistant starch.)

But yeah, as bad_user points out this kind of thing raises questions about the semantics of what should be correctly considered "bread".
Same here. I also use Google Voice, so they can leave a message which is (often humourously) transcribed and sent as email and sms. The legit calls (eg dry cleaning is ready) get through. The spammers never leave a message.
> As a kinda-sort-maintainer of a bunch of the low-level Linux code that is all tangled up with the Xen PV stuff, I would be shocked if there isn't a PV-specific security bug or two in there.

The current bug is pv-specific. there was another one that effected me early this year[1]... I'm not saying it's bug free or anything, I'm just saying that xen PV has had fewer exploits over the last year (and over the last decade) than HVM mode or KVM.

[1]xsa123 if I remember right; my blog archive is all messed up at the moment. but, for example, xsa-108, which was a big deal, was a non-issue for me because all my stuff is paravirtualized.

Note, the list I'm going off of is here:

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/
You've seen nothing, what about all the billion dollars? "Google Inc. Races Apple To $1 Trillion Valuation"... And what about Translation, and Google Drive, I love it. Google Maps, too. It changed the world. Maybe too much? I think we're biased against them, from the power they hold. We feel subservient from the lack of alternatives, like for governments. Science is their private army. The low hanging fruits have been picked. They were first, they hire the best, they'll remain the best... Maybe, it makes us reflect that we chose this, capitalism, man against man, and when we pay the price, there comes the cognitive dissonance, that it's too much both good and bad.
Yeah, but how big are the antennas?
Sure, you can hook up a low power serial transmitter to a Raspberry Pi's UART and have a text only console to operate over. But you are pretty much limited to text only and very slow file transer over a serial transmission like Kermit or Xmodem. You'll hate it for the type of computing you're used to. If you want a graphical remote desktop you are better off setting up a WiFi router/WLAN and connecting through a remote desktop connection. This will consume much more battery life, but I power a WiFi router with an RC LiPo battery and a voltage regulator and it lasts for several hours (but you certainly aren't getting days of battery life).
The point is, a country growing like crazy and hitting into famine after famine doesn't have a chance to stabilize and actually develop without ensuring deaths of countless millions over many decades. It's not hard to make a case that China has made the right choice. They developed so well because of the policy.
> Space Shuttle embedded controllers firmware

Not the space shuttle, but if you think things that go to space (and land on the goddamned Moon) are free of bugs then you are very sorely mistaken.

https://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=ApolloComputer
> All of these steps can be efficiently automated.

Good luck with that. Yes, a compiler will do a good job with i * 28, but the optimization in the article - which is a pretty simple case, chosen to fit in a blog post - requires manipulating the algorithm beyond the capability of any compiler I'm aware of.

We do have good tooling to show what code is slow, for instance, so it's not like automation doesn't help here.
It's not a direct replacement for asynchronous, as reactive implies quite a different set of semantics. The collision is only in your misunderstanding of the pattern. The jargon is meaningful, not marketing.
There is a Scheme compiler called Stalin[1] which apparently does some very sophisticated full-program and lifetime analysis. This of course leads to very long compile times, but the code is also very fast compared to other Schemes, and even C in some cases, from the benchmarks I've seen[2][3] etc. You can find more benchmarks for it, and similar compilers like MLton.

Of course, I can't comment on whether or not it is actually usable in a real-world environment, just that the techniques do exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_%28Scheme_implementatio...
[2] https://justindomke.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/the-stalin-comp...
[3] http://www.ffconsultancy.com/ocaml/ray_tracer/languages.html
You don't just remove fat from milk. For one because it loses taste and texture, they have to compensate by adding things like powder milk, sucrose or high-fructose corn syrup and colorants amongst others. Of course the list of ingredients vary, depending on the country and on what's being banned or not.

But the more interesting fact is that when stripping the fat from milk you can't just strip out 1.5% or 2%. Oh no, that's inefficient, the milk produced by cows is not that uniform and the tools we have aren't that precise.

So to obtain milk with 1.5% of fat (you know, the middle one, that's usually colored with blue, sitting between the green that's 0.5% and the red that's 3.5%) ... well, for 1.5% fat they have to strip whatever they can, then re-add that fat until they get the desired percentage. And what they add back is not the same fat that they stripped. No, what they add back is vegetable fat, usually from soy and animal fat of all sorts. Like for example there could be pork fat in the cow milk that you're drinking.

Disclaimer: my father is a veterinarian that has been the director of the center for food safety in my city and I live in Europe. Boy, he can tell me stories.
Why don't they proxy host client-side analytics on their side, and don't put the word analytics in the endpoint names?

Most ads would be unblockable if you made the ads come from your domain and have them indistinguishable from your normal content in the URIs as far as I know.
No, they're extremely slow.
If you haven't already, check out this youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel
>On an iPhone5S, it can decode 720p video in realtime[1].

While killing the battery while doing it... Why we don't just expose lower level decoding apis to JS instead, I don't know...
also: https://github.com/paypal/seifnode
Why software architects should lead continuous delivery
Analytics JS is not pointless because it is part of the page/service that the visitor is requesting. It is a legitimate form of data logging just like Apache or Nginx logs and reading cookies. Logging is a necessity for troubleshooting and improving any software service.

It's no more pointless than using Adobe Typekit for fonts or pulling jquery from a CDN. Both of these use a lot more bandwidth than an analytics ping, BTW.
Python3 is a language. Python2 is also a language. Python3 might someday become wildly popular, but that doesn't magically make Python2 go away just because the name sounds the same.
Many compilers will iterate the so called classical optimizations until they produce no effect (an iteration where no optimization took place) or some artificial limit (say 4 or 8 iterations through a basic block or a function). At some point, you risk several accidental de-optimizations such as inducing cache thrashing, cache spilling, architectural limitation, or, even optimization clashing where one optimization de-optimizes a previous optimization on one iteration that then gets re-optimized in the following iteration (A->Opt B->"De-"Opt A->Opt B->...). Another poster suggested profile directed optimization and that usually is even more effective naively iterating through optimization steps.
@diafygi, what type of problems are need to be solved?
The history of DST is distinct from agriculture, it was more strongly connected to factory work. It's easier to have every employee change their clock by an hour than change the schedule twice a year.

However, we've moved away from the need (mostly) for the potential energy savings, though perhaps for the wrong reasons (we work in offices and factories with little natural light). The remaining reason to keep it is to allow people access to daylight after their normal work hours. But this can be accomplished by shifting schedules. Move the standard start of work from 7 to 6:30, split the difference. And if that seems intractable, shift our time zones by 30 minutes and be done with it.
I'm not saying you are wrong about performance (other than to point out that actually using the qemu devices is even slower.) Still, if you go through the xsa list, if I was running HVM, I'd have had to reboot pretty often. It's a huge firedrill every time the security list sends something out, for those of us who use (normally lower-stress) local disk. Twice in one year is bad enough.
I got a reply back. They said for some reason the email bounced. Here is the response:

Hi JJ,

Sorry for the trouble! Looks like we were bounced by your mail server:

550 5.5.0 Mail Denied, contact your postmaster

Do you have an alternate address we can use?

I supplied another one so we will see if I get something on that one now.
What do you mean by "really good"? Spelt right and mildly engaging, or the next EB White's "This is New York"?

First you'll find on Upwork or Textbroker no problem. Latter will be a long search for a great writer who creates exactly the work you want.

Writing is like most other unregulated professional services in that costs vary wildly, as does quality, and the two are not necessarily correlated.

Get samples, ask friends for recommendations, find blog posts you like and e-mail the authors, give small easily completed sample tasks that grow into big assignments and build a solid relationship with one vendor over time.
As Anatole France said, "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges".
They told you they rejected you because you don't have a degree from a top tier school?
Data rate in the US is something like 11kbps. So you'd have to be really patient.
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Makes me wonder - is there any work being done on making the desert areas arable? It would probably take big geoengineering effort and one has to be pretty damn sure it doesn't disturb some important climate regulation mechanism, but doubling their arable/habitable land area would sove a lot of problems for China, as well as humanity in general.
All the while being directly against the US constitution...as if that matters anymore.
I freeze my tasty fresh bread and then double-toast it -- it'll lose some of its flavor but it's still >> wonder-bread
It's good to be proactive about such things as a developer. But it's also worth considering that if you're using things that take such a zealous approach to blocking that you are trading some of the UX of well-behaved sites and apps to deal with the poorly-behaved ones.
This is also why the scipy/numpy crowd doesn't care much about PyPy. In this world Python is the equivalent of ducttape. You don't performance optimize ducttape, you want it to be easy to use and to fix any problem you have.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10471172
it's interesting how very close the margin in the micrographs they show looks to explosive welding.

The ones on page 2053 (warning, PDF, but it isn't 2000+ pages) http://www.jim.or.jp/journal/e/pdf3/47/08/2049.pdf are the ones I'm on about.
React-set-animate
LMAO
From a country that could not even control their gun problem, comes a comment saying an effective policy is a brutal and cruel enforcement...

I am not saying it's not brutal or cruel, it is. But please, I dont want to hear it from a country people literally are killing each other everyday...
We received some mentions in the last minutes, and we just reviewed our account settings, nothing seems problematic on our end. Weird indeed. But thanks for the feedback!
The new number on my cell used to belong to someone with a debt. No matter how often I explain that the person they want is not and never will be available at this number again, they keep calling as they sell the debt and the info to new people.

So they continually robocall my cell phone chasing someone who isn't and never will be at this number. I do not have and never have had any unpaid debts to begin with.

I had to install a call blocking app and I just keep listing new numbers each time. It doesn't buy very much peace, but it blocks enough calls to be worthwhile.
The biggest optimization would be to change their programming language.
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One of my most memorable moments in amateur radio was making a JT65 contact - 1 watt, from the north-central US to the island of Reunion, roughly 10k Kilometers.

And that was on a very ad-hoc wire antenna.
Certificate Authority (providers of HTTPS digital certificates). Let's Encrypt is now one.
Wow...so Wikipedia tells me that C.H. Hinton was married to the daughter of George Boole...so that's the Same Hinton as our contemporary 'father of deep learning', Geoffrey Hinton. Quite the family of manifold surfers!
Hi all,

I work with Tony the author of the article and answer (or find someone to answer) any league questions you might have. Tony will be most likely be online later in the day as he works remotely with us from Australia.
Well, yeah, software emulated hardware is slow, but no one should be using emulated PCI devices on anything. There are PV or better yet, SR-IOV drivers that can be used for those that are going to be the closest to bare metal performance you'll get in a VM.
We now have an RSS feed. Thanks for your requests!
http://time.is/rss/time_zone_news.rss
In the US, it would be illegal to sell milk with added vegetable oils without including the vegetable oil on the label.

I can buy that someone does it somewhere, I don't for a second buy that the entire dairy industry is in on it.

It's also the case that the fat in store milk has been mixed into the milk, it naturally tends to separate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogenization_%28chemistry%29
There are many different pursuits that people enjoy, human endeavour is a wide and varied domain. I could tell you what I enjoy, but I doubt that'll give you the answer you're looking for, only you can ever know what you enjoy.

However, as you asked me to indulge you, here are a number of non-electronics-based activities that I enjoy: dancing, singing, cycling, sailing, swimming, writing, thinking, stargazing, kissing, playing guitar, watching a campfire, spending time at the seaside. I can go on if you want.
It's worth noting that the major mobile company's largest single customer is almost certainly the federal government. And, many of them fear being Nacchio-ed if they don't toe the line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
If you haven't read it, I'd highly recommend the book, "The Alchemy of Air" about the invention of Haber-Bosch.. It was unbelievable what they went through to fix nitrogen, they literally invented new fields of study in materials science and chemistry. The perils of a Jewish inventor creating a new method for making explosives under the Third Reich is a side story in the book but another fascinating historical anecdote.
I think many people (myself included) underestimate just how much knowledge is still tied up in books.

I thought I'd repeat this anecdote I previously posted on a discussion about libraries a while ago.

A few years ago I was researching the Swiss architect Le Corbusier. I wanted to find out about his famous housing complex called Unité d'habitation (Housing Unit) first built in Marseille in France. I started my research online looking for floorplans and commentary or critques. I found very little (there is a lot more available online today, but not when I was looking).

Consider that Le Corbusier is one of the most famous architects of the 20th century so this was a surprise. Eventually, I did find what I was looking for by going to the library and visiting an architecture exhibition. The point of all this is that we assume everything is mostly online and so it's our first port of call for any research or knowledge gathering. But there is a huge amount of information and knowledge found in books that have never made it online. If you never go to the library, you simply won't realise what you're missing.
This is un. fucking. real. I work in the IoT space (specifically on health devices), and something like this would be absolutely a GOD SEND for the things that we're doing.

The current "hottness" in our space is bluetooth low energy (BLE). This is super low power (or, rather: chips that are really good at going to deep sleep, and then coming online very quickly to burst some data out), but the range on BLE isn't great.

Some companies use general purpose radios (these guys: http://www.glowcaps.com/ are basically an couple of atmega 328s and some 433mhz radios) for range, but it seems like everything is moving towards BLE because you can use your cellphone/tablet as a base station.

If LORA can seriously get this sort of range (I'm skeptical, honestly), then that is a total game-changer for IoT.

A friend of mine at a chip manufacturer in town was telling me about some radio thing they were doing that had range like this about a year ago, but I didn't believe him. That little of power, for that long of range seems like straight-up magic.

Super cool stuff! Very excited to see this really happening!

Not to get too silly, but this about sums up how this makes me feel with regards to IoT: https://media.giphy.com/media/rl0FOxdz7CcxO/giphy.gif
What's your callsign? I'll see if I can pick you up with my RTL-SDR+Ham-it-up and maybe once I have my ham license I'll talk back.

Every now and then I find a post on HN that really makes my day and I realize how awesome this community is and how our interests overlap beyond computer programming and entrepreneurship. This is one of them.
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