skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not saying that this particular optimization is not generally beneficial; however I'm always a bit wary of local code size increasing optimizations. Instruction cache miss costs a lot more than a mispredicted branch. Increasing code size creates more opportunities for a cache miss to occur.

To really know whether or not this is a win, you need to test this in the context of the whole thing. Microbenchmarks often give a wrong idea. They're not usually run under stress of certain CPU resources such as L1C, L1D, TLB, etc. But in real code the situation is different. Other code also needs those cache entries and may very well perform worse because of a local optimization elsewhere bottlenecking execution by taking up resources.
IBM's brain-like chip and the quest for a 'cognitive planet'
Proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Founders can suck at sales and still close deals
> They were scanning a book every few seconds

What's the hurry?
Google Chrome may stop trusting Symantec certificates
In order for this to be true for Adblock Origin, there would have to be a toggle to allow acceptable ads. There is none. Even if their lists whitelisted sites, other lists would negate this.

I'm aggressive with regard to ad blocking and use I use the majority of UBO's adblock lists except for the foreign lists.
Forty years later and solar is still the future.... Now we're only 15 years away. That's about the period of time it took humans to learn how to fly then break the sound barrier.

I like the observation that it's about the economics because it's always about economics. If solar could have had a consumer product like personal computers, cell phones, or big screen TVs, we would be using a lot more solar today. There was nothing to bootstrap the industry. No Intel of solar energy was ever created.
Submitted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10470867
That's a shame, it can sometimes be tough to pick out a good manageable intro-bug on an open source project you want to contribute to. Perhaps it was a new-ish core dev who was also keen to cut his teeth on small/doable bugs?
Well since Communism advocates a stateless (and classless) society there will probably never be one.
It might not be such a bad idea. If the main goal is to develop a specification or standard then it makes sense to have several implementations. The implementations can be used to flesh out and improve the specification.

Also, from their website:

Why rewrite it in Scala?

The Scala implementation is not competing with the OCaml implementation, we do plan to maintain both in the future. Having several implementations of the core forced us to really think the formats through, and will allow others to write tools in the languages the like best, for their favorite platform (try to get and compile OCaml Pijul on Windows!).
We did put some effort into making built-in json faster. If you're using an optimized version like uJson, it'll be faster under cpython so far, but it all depends whether there is more processing or more parsing involved. We're happy to help you with benchmarks though
most of my existing production code is 3.4, hence my question.
9/11 with oculus rift
I would put any research or estimates into perspective. We have well surpassed predicted carrying capacities, but maybe these estimates are different?

Example:

> In a 1994 study titled Food, Land, Population and the U.S. Economy, David Pimentel and Mario Giampietro estimated the maximum U.S. population for a sustainable economy at 200 million

The dangers of over-population myth assumes a naive view of a static society. For instance, we can reasonably have X land for food production, from that we can grow Y food and that can feed Z people so anything above Z would be harmful. The problem is that Y is dependent on human innovation and technology. Same can be said for most resources. We never did reach peak oil.

These predictions of inevitable decline have been wrong for a long time. I don't know why you put so much faith into the modern day equivalents.
The URL says "Harvard Law Library sacrifices a trove for the sake of a free database", and the title of the print article is "Sacrificing a Legal Trove for the Digital Age", so perhaps the submitter did not editorialize the submission title. Maybe the online title has just changed since submission.
Working on it (even wrote 2 blog posts recently about it). Mercurial is an interesting benchmark/use case for us.
In a system where people win trials for milions if the coffee you sell them is too hot, I would be surprised if that victim can't literally crucify the Ken Anderson guy in court for all that he has, in terms of years and money.

If not, then this is a really fucked-up system.
Plaintoid would grow a lot faster if its Bitcoin wallet ID could be copied and pasted from its Web site. Just sayin'....
This is a problem which people here at HN have the ability to change. We need strong access-enabling tools built, along with strong anti-shill/anti-propaganda tools.
Not all ESPs force unsubscribe links. We ultimately put liability on our customers for CAN-SPAM compliance. We had CAN-SPAM compliance checks on by default, but they could be disabled. As to your original question, no, ESPs have not gained much in the way of power. I might be in the minority in my industry, but I think this is good. All of the arguments against page-based ads can be used against email-based ads. But in this case, the users have won, and have full power over their inbox.
I host a half-dozen websites out of my own pocket with no ads. I pay for an Ars Technica subscription and don't view ads. Hacker News doesn't have ads, yet here we are. Wikipedia doesn't have ads.

I guess the world we live in is pretty magical!
Well, you are guaranteed they won't respond if you don't send a email to them.
Ah, sorry! I'll remove this one.
If we take that observation as general rule (not that it is, but let's pretend) - wouldn't that make for a stronger collective then? In order to mitigate those issues. Lots of interesting speculations can be made. Sociologists and psychologists must have a field day there.
Democracy is typically a thing that is grown at home, not a thing that is "given".
35 Metrics You Should Use to Monitor Data Governance
Can you not install extensions directly any more?
I just linked an image search in an HN comment yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10459123

Deleted all the nonessential arguments by hand out of suspicion of something like this. Nice to know I'm not being too paranoid.
Those hints are generally ignored by the CPU anyways.
Here's some analysis by the Qubes team: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qs...
Last time I sat on a jury, before the evidence was all presented and before the judge even read the law (happens after all the evidence is presented, where the judge reads what the law actually is and explains things like how sure you need to be to find in favor of one party or the other), I heard jurors mention they already had their mind made up.

They literally didn't even know what the crime actually was and were already ready to convict.

It made me realize I never want to go before a jury if I'm innocent (not sure if a judge is better or not, haven't experience on that end).
Cops use terror powers to lift BBC man's laptop after ISIS interview
Simulation of Black Hole Shredding a Star
http://agrpartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/AGR-Though...

This has a survey of capacity estimates on page 10. I took the median of those, which more or less matched the sources I've encountered over the past year.
Ask HN: Does anybody else have trouble finding Rails devs in the midwest?
A couple years ago, I decided to switch the stack at my workplace from PHP to Rails. I haven't looked back, and neither have any of the devs that learned Rails with me. There were plenty of resources online, huge communities, and it just seemed so widely used.

Fast forward to 2015... I'm looking to grow the team with 2-3 more devs, and after 4 months of searching, I'm just coming up dry. I've reached out to a local Ruby group in Detroit, posted on Craigslist, posted on Stack Overflow, tried networking... I even went so far as to get in touch with a handful of recruiters. Two of them laughed and said something along the lines of "that's too west-coast for Michigan". So far I've only gotten a single interview.

Is my perception of the distribution of Ruby developers really that skewed? Is Michigan just a really terrible place for them because there are so many huge companies (like the Auto manufacturers) that employ huge numbers of .NET developers? I can't imagine that the job description is so terrible that nobody wants to check it out (don't want to post it in case it's seen as advertising or something...)

Has anyone else in the mid-west had trouble finding full-time developers? Any advice?
about:	Newsroom developer

Ads from newspapers are one of the biggest vectors for malwared ads, because they have so many viewers. You're a very efficacious channel for the malicious. Because newspapers have proven incompetent at not endangering their readers.

If you have an exciting new method of not malwaring your readers, that hasn't occurred to every newspaper that's malwared their readers so far, we'd love to see it in action! Until then, you really can't expect readers to just assume your competence in the face of overwhelming evidence.

Possibly you need to explore business models that don't risk malwaring your readers.
You can use a Baillie-PSW test to efficiently test numbers for probable primality. There are currently no known counterexamples for this algorithm, so it gives a modest degree of certainty.

However, Pari-GP has an APR-CL implementation, or there are a number of ECPP implementations available that can check it.

It doesn't take all that long to actually prove primality of a number this size. It takes almost no time at all to demonstrate they are probably prime, as this person appears to be doing.

Now if I got a primality certificate (which I could check myself), 1 Euro might not be such a bad price.
That got my attention as well. There was another person with the game in their dock, which I noticed first. I may have to install it from Steam and play it again sometime..
You're Eight Times More Likely to Be Killed by a Police Officer Than a Terrorist
lol - I suggest you read history: every time we come close to a 'carrying capacity' human ingenuity finds a better way. Necessity is the Mother of Invention.
Medication errors and adverse drug events are a terrifyingly common cause of hospitalization and even death, especially in the elderly. Thankfully some companies are really doing neat things to try and improve the quality of care that elders receive. For example Carekinesis[1], one of my old employers, is effectively engineering solutions to help new-school eldercare paradigms - specifically PACE programs[2] - to decrease adverse drug events to nearly zero.

If you haven't heard of PACE as an alternative model for elder care (as opposed to long term care) I highly recommend you learn about it. The statistics on its effectiveness versus LTC are astounding.

[1] http://www.carekinesis.com
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_of_All-Inclusive_Care_...
John Ralston Saul, writing in The Doubter's Companion:

> Restaurants, until recently, were places of refuge for people
> excluded from the mainstream or seeking to escape it—poor students,
> aging unmarried men not rich enough to have themselves fed at home,
> richer men seeking sex not wives, and the proverbial artists leading
> their irresponsible lives. Over the last half-century, restaurants
> have risen in importance to fill the void left by the decline of the
> old public celebrations. They now provide the leading forums of public
> participation.

He's right - restaurants are a relatively modern convenience / provide an arguably regrettable function, and we'd do well to not assume that their implementation is currently ideal, or demands preservation.

Whether this approach is inherently better or worse _in totality_ is a somewhat irrelevant question.
The justice system can and does handle all those appeals and habeas petitions. But there is a difference between giving people a chance to prove their innocence, and making it easier for them to try and have prosecutors imprisoned for misconduct.

And reducing the number of cases would not change the calculus. If you had fewer convicts you'd need fewer prosecutors, but the ratios for each prosecutor would not change. The basic problem is that if you make it easier for 1 person to hold the prosecutor accountable for actual misconduct, you make it easier for 20-30 validly convicted people to harass prosecutors who did nothing wrong.
Interview Humiliation
Freescale's fabs in the U.S. are all very old (like early 1990's old). AFAIK they only manufacture analog and MEMS type stuff there. I think TSMC manufactures their MCU, MPU's, and most other digital electronics. This is the 'fab-lite' model.
I have the good fortune to have worked in the same office as Alex Gulotta my senior year at an internship. This was before he left to work at the Bay Area Legal Aid but he was a huge presence and boost for the office in Charlottesville.
Google to beam wifi to Indonesia’s rural areas with balloons
I've spent some time thinking about what you wrote. I think you bring up some very good points.

>Another element of this is that artists should be expanding our minds

I would agree, but I would disagree that art from the Chinese artists in question can't accomplish this. If you saw a painting that came from there, but didn't know its provenance, could it not accomplish this? Would learning where it came from change how you felt about it? One might say these artists are simply copying photographs people send them, and they are, but they are still human reproductions and there is inevitably some element of interpretation on the part of these artists in producing the paintings. As I see it, that is art, and it is no less intrinsically valuable, kitschy as it may be.
Cell phones weren't really a mass market product until sometime around 2000. Then almost everyone had them by 2010.

(In the US anyway, but I guess they weren't so widespread in Europe in 1990 either, so it has an at least similar adoption profile.)

So it could be that the moment for solar is still coming. I guess there is a good chance that a consumer storage product tips the scales, if people buy storage to save money on grid power, they benefit from incrementally installing solar even in the absence of net metering.
Condos Are Back – And Outpacing Single-Family Homes in Appreciation
A month ago I asked this: "Can Amazon terminate an AWS account because you returned a shirt?" [1]

I didn't get any satisfactory answers, but this is exactly the kind of scenario I was afraid of.

A business that relies on AWS can be wiped out by an automated script in a different department. There is no mitigation since Amazon will also close "linked accounts", so having separate business and personal Amazon accounts isn't enough. It's super scary.

I tried tweeting @jeffbarr and posting in the AWS forums about these risks, but got no response from Amazon.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10248690
>It's also unique is that when an authority has a hole, breach or is an incompetent actor, it's very difficult to remove them from authority.

There is no proof of this. There are lots of systems in place to deal with mistakes and trust breaches. If it gets to the extent that a Root or CA needs to be removed from trust stores, then they are removed.

Just this year we saw two CAs lose their trust.
I'd dug out a link to Nellie Bly's interview with Susan B Anthony (mentioned in the article) as a source for wikiquote, if anyone's interested:
http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20NY%20Wo...

Fulton History have quite a large archive for the NY World, but finding things in it...good luck. I had a less detailed reference to go on that narrowed it down to a year and a section of the paper (fortunately, a weekly supplement), and had to search page by page after that.
Has This Home Owner Gone Too Far with Halloween Decorations
I "love" how Huffpost frames this as "meaningful punishment" as if saying so makes that farce acceptable. I'm with the OP of this thread, that judge owes this man 25 years.
Are you sure?

Could someone add some invisible 'before: content()' (or however that works in CSS) inside of an a:visited rule, and then check the DOM via Javascript to see if that content is there?

I haven't tried this, but it seems like it should work unless there is something specifically blocking that
Be thankful, you can barely move in London for pop-up restaurants with "wacky" concepts and overpriced food. Some of them are pretty good, but a lot seem to be pop ups because they wouldn't survive building up a reputation.
The way I remember it is 4:3 was by far the most common aspect ratio of the day (it's 640:480 and 1024:768).
It should be that way. But some cannot understand that some countries do not want Democracy. Its not that they don't matured - they just don't want it. Even in some European countries we can see the move to shift much more power to presidents (Hungary, Slovakia, Poland).
I think there are legal ways of getting all of these inside the walls of a prison.
didn't get your point honestly
You can also sniff glue to get high, cheap drugs. Although it wouldn't have to be "super"-glue.
Looks like someone from Google noticed and apologized https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/880#issuecomment-15....
According to the article, this app is good: https://www.vizeat.com/
Expectation of privacy in a private/public place.
Of course it's real and it does matter. But having the same old anti-harassment discussions is pointless in my opinion.

We have to focus on new solutions which create an environment where such behavior is not encouraged.

The "Shots" mobile app by John Shahidi is a great example for this and I hope there'll be many more!
Bitcoin is about to Breakout
It seems to me that the best solution here is to split the single file into one js file for each package. A big part of that file is the implementation of the metamodel, and it's very likely that a lot of people won't even want to use that on the client side.

We've even discussed the pros and cons of actually splitting the metamodel into its own separate module, ceylon.metamodel, or whatever.

P.S. My tests with uglify-js suggest that minification probably isn't the most fruitful path here.
It says the stuff was attached by fishing line. I imagine the pilot was trying to keep the drone as low as possible and misjudged the clearance of the fishing line from the top of the fence. Once it was caught, there's nothing you can really do.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=lists+of+large+primes
ABP's resource usage is not that dramatic. It had a huge problem on Firefox due to an unsolved bug, but Mozilla solved it and now ABP runs without issues. I use ABP precisely because it has the notion of acceptable ads.

> I have a right to a clutter-free Internet that is not tracking me

This is where we disagree. No, you don't have such a right, not on other people's expense. What you do have is the right to not use services or products that don't follow your world view. You are free to choose and preferably vote with your wallet.

But you are not free to infringe on people's copyright. Do note that I'm purposely not using the word "stealing" because that's not the case here, but that doesn't mean that such actions don't harm other people or companies. And because of this mentality it's precisely why we can't have nice things.

Because you see, by using ad-blockers, we are not punishing the bad actors, we are not punishing the ones that sell people's activity to the highest bidder, we are not rewarding services like Vimeo which are asking for a monthly subscription, etc, etc. And this isn't just about ad-blocking. We can extend this talk to DRM just as easily. Besides a handful of exceptions, like Minecraft or Witcher, how do you like your DRM-enabled, free-to-play, pay-to-win, mindless counter games? Because I sure as hell am glad that I've outgrown this industry.

Case in point - Google has had Google Apps. For $5 per user per month, which is the price of 2 coffees, you get an ads-free Gmail experience and a contractual guarantee that they won't mine your data, your own domain so they can't lock you in, plus support which is actually good these days. And if you don't trust Google, you've got trustworthy alternatives, like FastMail. Out of the pool of people using ad-blockers and complaining about tracking, how many of them are paying for their personal email account, or for their cloud storage account? I bet that only a minority.

The MPAA and the RIAA have always made the argument that piracy leads to billions in losses. I personally don't agree with their judgement, because obviously, just because some shitty movie is pirated by somebody, that doesn't mean that in absence of piracy methods the pirate would have paid. But you know what - losses do happen, because when your eyeballs and your ears are focused on some shitty piece, it means you aren't focusing on something else and there are only 24 hours in the day (same problem the food industry has, a problem called "inelastic demand"). And so the britney spearses and the beyonces and the star wars movies in our society are winning anyways.

And I must say that I consider people attributing moral values or rights to their usage of ad-blockers to be hypocrites. You know, there's nothing wrong with our human nature that wants free stuff, but lets be honest with ourselves.
How Hotels with Mobile Apps Are Winning Over Guests
Strapless Prom Gown by Mori Lee
That's a scary prospect. I guess that the judicial had better work hard to earn and keep the respect of citizens.
Rape was the major contributor to population growth in Eastern Kivu back when Nkunda was running rampant. And, to keep everything honest, it still is. (Particularly in Goma). It's not like rape and massacres went away because the Rwandans decided to replace their warlords. The Rwandans still do what Rwandans do I'm sure.

I'm only saying that you ascribe certain properties to the populations you are dealing with. And there are definitely places in the world where your assumptions fail to hold up. But biology ALWAYS holds up.

By the way... I was being kind. Rape is only ONE whole in your plan. There are many. For instance, your plan also assumes women will never simply get horny. Or that they will only "get off" in certain predetermined ways that your plan deems acceptable. Your plan assumes a lot ... and all of it from your own perspective and belief system. If we work within biological limits... we achieve our goals regardless of the local belief system.
Judges set the jury instructions, which define how the jury should interpret the evidence presented at trial. Much like "push" polls and leading questions, the instructions can be written in a way that all but guarantees a finding of innocence or guilt.
In this case they're not totalitarian though. China is a Republic, it's just a Republic with a taller pyramid than our own.

You elect district leaders, who elect state leaders and the congress, and they elect the president and prime minister.

Technically, that's roughly the same system we have here with the electoral congress and faithless electors. The difference is that in the US, faithless electors are much less common than in China.

But you can look here and see that there is a history of faithless electors in the US too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector#List_of_fait...

China's system is actually not so different from ours was 150 years ago, so they're not that far off all-told. Or, actually, in a sense even more recently when the congress decided between Bush and Gore.
> Some tried giving Arab countries democracy and it turned out they never really wanted it and most of the dictators were much better alternative (still bad, just better - to clarify)

That is highly contentious statement.