skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given that most of Firefox is in JS so the actual code that you end up running is the JIT output, I'd be very skeptical it's any faster.

Most of Firefox is JS? Almost all of the lines of code are C++, as far as I'm aware. Certainly the UI is drawn using XUL/XBL/web-stuff, but how often is web performance bounded by UI performance? It's bounded by the performance of the rendering engine, and that is C++.

> (And if it were, I'd assume Mozilla would just Intel C for the official builds, too?)

Seems unlikely, given the output of ICC is crippled for non-Intel x86 chips (which de-facto means AMD nowadays).
Yeah, it’s using WKWebView:

https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/search?utf8=&q=WKWebV...
They won't. :|
The REASON cable TV caught on initially decades ago was the promise of cutting out ads. There were NO ads on Cable TV initially.
I'm not sure about OpenVPN, but the only time you'd need to disable rootless for Homebrew is to create /usr/local if it doesn't exist.

/usr is write-protected, /usr/local isn't. But if /usr/local doesn't exist you can't create it. This only affects upgrades to 10.11 where /usr/local didn't exist, if it's a clean install Apple creates the directory.
A VPS costs 5 bucks on DO and I've seen (can't remember where) a 3 USD/month offering. So it's rather cheap to move away from shared hosting nowadays.

For me Let's Encrypt came out at the right time. They said they will automate the 90-day renewal process.
The Droid Turbo 2 Is (Almost) Unbreakable. Here’s How Motorola Did It
Hmmm... Sound like Chekov from Star Trek: http://youtu.be/IC6W8J0j8Co
Don't feel so bad, it doesn't run on Mac OSX or even RHEL. Use the Docker container, it worked for me.
While true, they're one of a small handful of English language mainstream global news publications able to command premium subscriptions. I'm not sure to what degree you can generalize their success to publications with a less well-established brand. That's not to say there aren't alternatives to clickbait though. There are a couple of newish tech news sites that don't go the listicle and clickbait route.
> now feel... well i'm not sure but it's different than before when i read this article and the comments

That's the feeling of learning a new incredible science fact!

Also, if you feel that you died a little inside then, as a quote attributed to /b/ goes, "That was the weak part. Now you're stronger."
OP is probably right. Though it doesn't seem radically different than what's happened with journalism before, as alluded to regarding TV. I'm sure it happened with print, and I'm sure it happened with whatever existed before that.
Return of a King (William Dalrymple 2013) - A book about the Anglo-Afghan wars of the 19th century. To paraphrase Mark Twain: History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes

Being Mortal (Atul Gawande, 2014) - Powerful book about old age and confronting the mortality of our loved ones

The Dark Forest (Cixin Liu, 2014) - Wonderful science fiction from China

The Peripheral (William Gibson, 2015) - Bleak, near future science fiction.

The Water Knife (Paolo Bacigalupi, 2015) - More bleak, near future science fiction.
Vizio Smart TVs Track Viewers’ Watching Habits to Work with Advertisers
Yann LeCun: Teaching Machines to Understand Us
Could you define for me "compacted thyroid" and "blue blockers"? I'm not familiar with those terms.

(My wife has CFS.)
I really like how you visualized it. What are you using for that specifically?
I'm really pleased to see this initiative and I've used the private beta with letsencrypt-nosudo[0] to issue a certificate, but after successfully getting a certificate my site failed the SSL Labs test[1] with an 'unknown CA' error, even though I used the newer one that should have been trusted. It was probably down to user error and the additional complexity of denying sudo privileges for the set up script, but it took much more work than I expected. Then I noticed the certs will only ever be good for 90 days, and I'll have to do this multiple times a year!

Bottom line for me is that with DV certs so inexpensive and simple to get, I'd rather pay a few dollars a year for normal commercial certificates. I can do things like use CloudFront at a custom subdomain with HTTPS without needing to point DNS somewhere every few months to get a cert reissued.

I simply can't justify the extra work involved to get 'free' certificates, and I'm happy to continue buying regular DV certs. Maybe these are temporary limitations and if so I will definitely try again in the future.

[0]https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo
[1]https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html
Give people more time to invest in things they'll have to spend money on and they will spend more money?

Who'd have thunk.

Not gonna buy a boat for 10 vacation days total per year.. Why would I?

25 days on the other hand.. That's a solid three extra weeks of boating. Might buy a boat.
The article seems to be confused over content viewed by way of advertisement and content delivered by users actively seeking content.

When I want to read up on some news, I go to the publisher's site directly or to a preferred aggregator, which is not going to be facebook/twitter/etc.

Advertised content is typically very poor, and really not worth defending.
Sorry not my field! But I would first give NAUTY[1] a try before trying more exotic, structure-exploiting stuff.

[1] http://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~algorith/implement/nauty/impl...
The Economist is a prime example that quality still sells, and always will. Even their new daily newsletters are top-notch.

IMHO they get right what most "old media" are getting wrong: The Economist isn't trying to compete with new media at what new media does best.

I don't need a magazine for opinion pieces, I have blogs for that; I don't need my local newspaper to tell me about Lady Gaga's new acting career, I don't need a magazine to tell me what's new and cool in fashion or music, and I certainly don't need CNN to tell me what's trending on twitter.

Give it up. You can't compete with the masses for that type of content. What I can't get from blogs and twitter is quality journalism: investigation, inside scoops, quality political analysis, etc.

When traditional media realizes that this is the domain where they excel, they will be just fine. Instead of cutting down on their investigative journalism departments, slash the entertainment reporters, slash opinion and talking heads. Cut your content in half, cut your staff, stop wasting resources on a hopeless battle, and focus on the one thing no blog or YouTube channel can do... give me concise, focused, quality journalism.
The reason is the performance penalty for barriers On + disk cache On was much higher than for barriers Off + Disk Cache off, at least that is how it looked like on our testing system. Of course that could be do to the fact that we are using a RAID controller which has a 1GB of cache. If you are not using RAID, "On On" would be a valid test.
Ask HN: What is a good hacker magazine for a teen?
I want to get a hacker magazine for my nephew in order to give him exposure to coding. I was thinking something like 2600 but it might be a bit advanced. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Silicon Valley Tries to Alter the Perception of Cannabis
It’s Way Too Easy to Hack the Hospital
Daily Bite of Python: Prevent SQL injections by avoiding string interpolations
I'm running NoScript, uBlock Origin and Self-Destructing Cookies on my Android Firefox.

I normally run BetterPrivacy too (for long-term storage/flash cookies) but it doesn't seemt o have been updated for the lastest Firefox mobile yet.
Side question, does anyone actually enjoy running a VPS? Between managing the sites on it, you have to maintain the VPS, keep it up to date, its prone to security bugs and flaws, etc. Am I missing something here? I remember setting up multiple VPSes on Linode / DO and it was always a painful process of installing the OS, installing the whole stack, configuring everything, setting up users / roles, firewalls, etc.

On top of that, whereas on a shared host i click a button and host a second domain, with a VPS I have to SSH in and manually edit server files.

But everyone always recommends running a VPS so I can't help but imagine I've either missed some magical tool that makes running a VPS a snap or it's just not a realistic solution for most people.
Given the scope of what they are trying to accomplish and the fact that I've never worked on a project which was delivered on time and with all features complete, I'm pretty happy that the delay isn't longer! :)
In-N-Out sues startup DoorDash, says burger delivery is a trademark violation
NVidia has been great for this. Back in 2009 they gave me 2 Teslas (C2060) and 2 Quadro FX 5800 cards. Then, I was able to get some results from those to get an NVidia Professor Partnership grant of $25000 (as a post doc). They had a large part in launching my engineering career doing HPC.
> "could be universally accepted and praised by the tech community"

Apple's reputation in the tech community is very far from being universally accepted and praised.
Just plain D3.

https://github.com/dokipen/sunblock-web/blob/master/app/comp...
Sarcasm and subtle humor has always been problematic on the internets. It's just that on Hacker News you'd expect that most people are more clued and would appreciate the playful/funny variety, but noooo they tend to take it quite literally.
Yep, everywhere is different. The pay and benefits at my job are decent. Also the company does something socially useful, which puts everything else in perspective, for me.
For an essay, I use a paper thesaurus. (I do my first drafts longhand - I just think better that way.)

For something like an HN comment, I just use the word that comes to mind. If I'm not happy with it, I use whatever word seems best after 30 seconds to two minutes of thought. I'm not really concerned with "the perfect word" in this context.
Ugh: https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUE...

I am not sure if I am more or less confused.

+1 for PostgreSQL on this one.
Testing the Random-Walk Hypothesis with a Dickey-Fuller Test
I agree with you.

All I was saying that monetizing link aggregation with commentary, twitter and reddit, is pretty hard. Vs google who is actually providing the conduit for people that are actually searching for something where suppliers will incentivize google (pay) to be a top result.

sites like reddit, even moreso than twitter, have a user base who HATE the idea of a content provider paying to be a top of the frontpage or anything "sponsored"

my suggestion is equally flawed in that you cant then expect reddit to have a yelp-like model where they extort money from content providers for traffic...

But that was essentially what I mentioned, I guess.

Maybe the real model is a super low cost fee for advanced customization features?

Like i'd happily pay reddit $1.99 a month for more control over my experience -- even though we get that also from RES.
That's an extraordinarily expensive way to send a signal.
wendybeth already gave a very good answer.

I'd like to add: are you burned out? When was the last holiday when you didn't touch anything technical? How long did it last? How much have you been working lately?
> That is important for a number of reasons, not the least of which is how do you manage multiple launches going up into LEO across the country not looking like a preemptive nuclear strike :-).

I suppose that the right way is to inform every party capable of responding with their own nukes about the launches, the exact trajectories planned and to update them on any deviation in real-time, 'lest they go to DEFCON 1.
Blink is a fork of Webkit. So while it may be sufficiently different thank Webkit in the future, I'm not sure how meaningfully different it is today. Especially from the perspective of a web developer or user.
It should land in the Release channel in 12 weeks (things move from Developer Edition to Beta to Release every six weeks)
I don't think it's a question of "enjoy" versus "need". If you just doing some static hosting with perhaps PHP, sure, go with shared hosting. The second you need to run your own Java server, Go server, etc. you're in VPS territory.
"Would you like that animal style?"
The leaderboard stopped showing karma scores because I asked PG and then 'dang to do that. I'd be much happier if they eliminated accumulated karma altogether --- keep karma, keep showing comment karma to authors, but don't show accumulated karma to anyone.

I've made a bunch of friends from HN, but among my real-world friends, the HN karma thing is an embarrassment; I'm needled over it constantly.

The most under-appreciated writer on HN is 'tzs, for what it's worth.
Edit to say that your point is interesting and one I hadn't really thought about. This make elections a referendum on the most salient topics, which I guess makes sense. I still think that in elections there are a lot of other factors that influence decisions and given certain voting preferences there are a lot of arbitrary factors that influence the results, more so that in sortition, whose main drawback, as I see it is how little we know about how it would work in practice.

Original message:
But even for salient issues there are a lot of random factors in elections. Suppose there is a issue so important that everybody cares and votes based only on that issue. Suppose there are only two candidate, and they have a clear and opposing position on this issue so that things are very simple for voters.

Suppose candidate A gets 50,999,897 votes
Suppose candidate B gets 50,456,002 votes

B can still win, as happened with Bush, depending on the voting system. This is just an example and of course depends on the specific voting system. The real point being that for sortition you have simple statistical guarantees, always, independently from salience.
This is an age-old issue that comes up at least once or twice a business cycle. Some perspective-- here's what Peter Drucker had to say...

In the mid-1950s, as the “automation revolution” swept America’s factories, Peter Drucker called on corporations to take responsibility for providing something essential to their workers’ fortunes, as well as their own: the training needed to master the new technology.

“Large companies in particular will have to become educational institutions,”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/drucker/2012/06/05/why-businesse...
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Why does NVidia dominate GPU computing? Where is AMD in this space?

I was under the impression that AMD's strongest R&D in the past few years has been directed at hybrid consumer desktops, surely this should translate directly into their server processing products.
That's why the concept of "derailing" evolution is silly. There's no set course for evolution to be derailed from... in fact that's the entire basis of the concept of evolution. Diet and medicine are just evolutionary pressure, just like every other part of the environment since life began.
CCP Games, creators of EVE Valkyrie, raise $30M to build more VR games
Reposting from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10331848

That is kinda how political negotiation works. One side says, "We want X." The other side says, "Ok, we'll support X if it also has Y." Repeat that, in this case for a few years, and you have a very large number of Y's.

The problem with saying this,

> Because tons of it is likely to be things that would not pass if they were part of small little individual deals where the vested interests were not so huge.

Is that the thing that potentially would pass would never make it out to see the daylight without negotiation, which is how you get the things that potentially wouldn't pass stand-alone. (And I say potentially, because for every person we're probably talking about different things.)
> installing the OS, installing the whole stack, configuring everything, setting up users / roles, firewalls, etc.

> SSH in and manually edit server files.

Docker solves almost all those problems. Comes with its own complexities, though.
Elon Musk explains why he is so confident Tesla's batteries are the future
Very nice write-up, Jeremy! Too bad you won't be able to make it to the second talk.

Also nice disclaimer at the end:

At the time of this writing, Babai’s work has not been peer reviewed, and my understanding of his lectures has large gaps and may be faulty. Do not put your life in danger based on information in this post.
I don't think cost is what's keeping people on shared hosting versus VPS. It's that there is a whole wide world of people just doing a little static hosting. They don't want, need, or know how to use a VPS.
Do they have a working prototype to show investors? It seems like anything would go a long way to silence critics at this point.
Sounds a lot like burnout, which I have had serious cases of in jobs that demanded a lot in terms of effort and appearance. I would add that since you are so close to graduating, would you be able to tone down the 'extracurricular' stuff (socializing/networking/github stuff) to conserve energy for the work that is required to graduate? The reason is, once you do get that degree, you can take some time off (if you can afford it monetarily) without having an impact on your career opportunities. However, an unfinished degree will come back to haunt you until you get it done (both in terms of employment prospects and your own satisfaction of having it done). Depression and burn out go hand in hand, and have similar symptoms. Best of luck.
This is why I've been deploying Crucial M500, M550, and MX200 drives over the years. They don't use full scale super-cap protection, but they're better than Samsung Pros and the few Intel drives without proper protection.

Generally power loss will not effect these drives, and I couldn't get them to scramble existing data or damage the drive while unplugging them or unplugging the computer they were in during heavy writes.

M600DC is Crucial's full scale DC model that offers superior power loss protection.

Crucial drives are manufactured at the joint Intel/Micron facility (using technology from both companies) that Intel's current lineup of drives are manufactured.

I agree with the article that S3500s have sufficient protection.

SanDisk also has a power loss protected drive, but the drives themselves don't seem to be any good. I'm hoping SanDisk drives produced under Western Digital's ownership will be much better.
I'd like to see Firefox for AppleTV
There's no downtime when using the webroot method, see here for details: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/using-the-webroot-domain...
How startups are building businesses by solving their grandparents' problems
I removed all the companies that stayed completely flat or were marked down at some point. Those that remain:

Cloudflare (Series D) $4.35M $4.90M $4.90M
Honest Co. (common) $4.06M $6.87M $6.87M
Honest Co. (Series C) $9.48M $16.03M $16.03M
Meituan Corp. (Series D) $10.00M $12.29M $15.71M
SpaceX (Series G)	$7.54M $7.54M $8.66M
Uber (Series D)	$80.00M $204.42M $204.42M
Uber (Series E)	$3.42M $4.07M $4.07M
You're right, I was wrong.

I was aware that a handful of Bell SK-5s were used during Vietnam and then disbanded. I didn't realize that the US military had continued to develop the idea.
HMRC mulling 'one-month' nudge onto payrolls for UK contractors
"A Moor" in period use meant "a Muslim," primarily "a Muslim North African." What's important and troublesome about Othello's position is that he's a Muslim general fighting for Christian Venice, against his fellow Muslims. (Recall that Muslims aren't supposed to kill other Muslims -- and particularly aren't supposed to fight against the Muslim community on behalf of outsiders.)

_That_ is what makes his loyalty just barely suspect -- just suspect enough to have him living on edge, and to allow Iago to stab him in the back. The play says nothing about his race, one way or another; early performances could go either way, sometimes casting Othello as black, sometimes as white (if Arabs are white) -- a "black Moor" and "tawny Moor" respectively.

In the present day and age, with multiple half-revived Islamic Ummahs actively at war with each other, and with the loyalties of Muslims in the US military sometimes suspect (cf. the Fort Hood shooting, and a similar active-shooter incident that occurred during the 2003 invasion of Iraq), it says something unflattering about the theatrical world that every performance of _Othello_ is about race, and none about religion.

...

And if I'd read the article, I would have discovered that it talks about precisely that. It mentions that a king from the Maghreb came to London in 1600, and probably inspired the play...
It can be for compute bound processes compiled on and for the latest Xeon servers.

But, for end user apps with syscalls everywhere, I don't think the difference is notably different.
I teach high school, and I feel like I see pretty direct effects of the filter bubble. My students who are inside the bubble and unaware of that fact are more closed minded, racist, sexist, and hostile toward individuals and groups with views different than their own. Students who get their "news" from a variety of perspectives (through more consistent academic engagement, for example) are more open minded and tolerant.

Breaking out of the bubble is not about "forcing them to see everything else". It's about curating a variety of perspectives, rather than curating a slice of similar perspectives.
There are reasonable offerings for between 10 and 20 USD/year (from companies that are even likely to be around long enough for you to use the full year - there are cheaper still from the other sort of company) some with enough CPU+memory+disk space to be useful for more than static hosting too. Look at places like lowendtalk.com for such offers when they turn up.
Expensive signals tend to be strong and self-reinforcing. Also, I think GP meant that it would be a proof, not the cause, of global coordination.
> Russians and Eastern Europeans eat vegetables, even in winter, at almost every meal. But these are veggies that are easy to store through the winter: root veggies like beetroot, cabbage and potatoes, not leafy stuff like letuce or cress, which obviously does not store.

Also, food conservation! Pickled veggies and sauerkraut have always been stapled foods for me.

Speaking of diets. During the last ten-fifteen years people in Russia have developed a taste for fresh vegetables and fruit available immediately from the supermarket shelves. This trend is being reversed quite quickly due to skyrocketed prices (and the ridiculous embargo on agricultural production from eu and some other selected countries). Well, back to dachas, I guess.
And all those links go through their redirect gateway first. Open? Sure, just let me check those papers first...
It looks like the HMCR in the United Kingdom have got some potentially disastrous ideas about targeting freelancers, independent contractors and consultants.

If this legislation gets pushed through it will create an almost unworkable solution for Freelancers, contractors and independent consultants.

Does anyone have any suggestions based on past experience on the best countries to work in as a freelancer in Europe?
Precisely the reason I don't care that the other big browser engines can't be ported to iOS. Their concern for battery life/power drain is so low that there's zero chance I'd use them anyway. I don't even use them on the "desktop" (laptop) anymore, for that reason.
Central Utah - check back a month or so in my comment history and there was a more detailed discussion about all this...
Beautifully written article on articles.