skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That article is stilted to say the least. Representative Smith has a number of initiatives for science Leahy-Smith America Invents Act and the STEM Education Act of 2014.

The goal with any Congress is to think what if the parties were reversed. Would the conversation be the same if Hank "[Guam] the island will tip over" Johnson asked for information on the collusion between an agency and outside agencies.

We have a government agency turning down a request by a voted in member representing the populace of the United States of America that elected him. There is no reason for a government agency to be doing this. They should be accorded the respect of the position, no matter how much someone disagrees with it.

We have a situation where the Republicans postulated that the IRS was coordinating against a group of individuals to prevent their recognition during an election, and were proven correct despite agency stonewalling. The agency head had a secret e-mail to avoid FOIA, so searching for a slip-up required going through thousands of e-mails.

Another agency had its Secretary running a private server as an end run around the FOIA. Where upon closer inspection reveals that the agency publicly deceived the populace on originations of a terrorist attack.

Additionally, the federal government has been on a bender with coordinating against individuals in the name of political purposes. Witness former Senator Stevens railroading, IRS' Lois Lerner, and EPA's Phillip North coordinating with EPA on Pebble Mine.
I think it could be argued that the high rates of piracy are forcing devs to look at these alternative models. That he doesn't suggest this hypothesis is kind of a hole in his argument.
Just yesterday, I tried to find an album that Scott Melker had uploaded to SoundCloud. It's gone, and he posted this announcement https://soundcloud.com/scottmelker/please-listen-a-message-o...

So, SoundCloud can't present me with the discography of Black Sabbath, and a smaller artist I enjoy can't even keep his music on the service.
I was thinking some kind of mortar but ultra-portable. Perhaps an iPhone attachment of some kind?
You mean upper bound -- being a more likely killer than heart attacks is a statistical impossibility. Same for car accidents. Same for iron deficiency, Trypanosomiasis, and a bunch of other things.
Yes, we did.

Justice Roberts in his opinion for Riley v California.

Our cases have recognized that the Fourth Amendment was the founding
generation's response to the reviled "general warrants" and "writs of
assistance" of the colonial era, which allowed British officers to
rummage through homes in an unrestrained search for evidence of
criminal activity. Opposition to such searches was in fact on of the
driving forces behind the Revolution itself. [...]

Modern cell phones are not just another technological convenience.
With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many
Americans "the privacies of life." The fact that technology now allows
an individual to carry such information in his hand does not make the
information any less worth of the protection for which the Founders fought.
I would define "Good People" as people who care more about giving to their users than taking their money.

There are predatory founders who are short term thinkers and there are long-term-create-value types of people. The type of people that understand and appreciate that serving your users is your most important goal and the reward comes as a result of that.

The examples you have of spamming, etc... is still in the spirit of serving their customers with a better experience and more value.

You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.
Interesting. While skimming over the Wiki for micromorts it's reported [1] that Ecstasy has a rating of 0.5 micromorts per tablet. Which I kind of already suspected, given how widely it's consumed versus the rarely occurring yet widely reported deaths that result from its use.

For perspective you get 1 micromort from traveling 17 miles (27 km) by foot. I've walked 8.91 miles (14.34 km) today, which comparatively would be as dangerous as taking an ecstasy pill...well probably not as it would scale differently. I wouldn't be surprised if simply attending a dance-party/rave would have a micromort rating of ~0.5, regardless of substances ingested.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort#Additional
Chimera changes the ransomware game
Google Play Music uses Media Source Extensions[1], so no Flash required.

https://w3c.github.io/media-source/
Life-saving food and medical supplies? I mean, I'm not saying that putting the book in the public domain will cut off major charitable funding, but you needn't be quite so flip.
Actually this proposal is quite bad compared to simple "<4 bytes size><size bytes contents>". If you use netstrings recursively like djb recommends, you will end up copying / reallocing the strings many times. Since your top-level length depends on the lower level length, you cannot send it without actually calculating the whole contents. Asn1 DER has the same issue because of the weird size encoding.

RIFF is a bit better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Form... with strict length,tag,contents format.
This assumes there is some incentive for terrorists to attack big cities. It could be strategically valuable for terrorists to just randomly attack tiny villages, where the response time for emergency services equipped to deal with heavily-armed moderately-trained militants is long enough for them to wipe basically the whole place out, and after which they can strike fear into any village and cause the governments to spend a ton turning all of them into fortresses.
Hm, no I really meant 'lower bound', as in 'we have seen x events in y days to date, so there can't be fewer than that'. And then you'd have to adjust that as more evidence rolls in.
No, it is not rude. The seats were made to recline and I have never heard any flight attendants asking not to do it. You just take advantage of the comforts (mediocre, but still), offered to you.
The fact that the cooled compressed air expands upon exiting the machine is also very important -- this, along with impurities in the water, allows nucleation to happen immediately as the water exits the nozzles. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowmaking
But a big problem is that it's comparing 11 year olds in an easier grade with 11 year olds in a harder grade, rather than two groups that started at different ages but still have the same age<->grade mapping.
> CPython for-loops are slow. PyPy for-loops are not slow.

I fear you might have missed the point of that paragraph. The point was that multiple reasons contributed to the need for Numpy, so now it exists and is widely used by those who are serious about their scientific computing. The vast majority of those reasons are still valid, even though PyPy speeds up some general-purpose programming tasks in Python.

"A loop that just counts" is not anywhere near a substitute for Numpy. Nor does a 25x speed increase in a particular operation (from CPython to PyPy) hold a candle to the number-crunching speedups provided by algorithm-optimized, code-optimized (often to the point of targeting specific vector instruction sets like SSEx) special-purpose numeric libraries.
Thanks for taking the time to provide this background and level of detail. I will try out the Kazoo ISO some time.
In many countries everyone, or every male, has to do military service or training. Linus Torvalds, for instance, had to take a year off from college to serve.

I remember a Chinese programmer in Silicon Valley complaining that he toted an AK47-like rifle but only got to fire three cartridges during his military service - a cost saving measure.
I understand that making chips is hard, but this thinking reminds me of the Palm CEO's quote "PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in."

Just look at how far Apple and TSMC have come since 2009. Sure, Apple "cheated" by acquiring PA Semi (the DEC Alpha people). But China has the rest of the ingredients: vertical integration of hardware/software (I assume these will be used for defense-related HPC), strong political incentives to be independent, and massive amounts of cash.
By that reasoning we should rescind the public domain and re-assign all copyright to charitable foundations.
i386 ROP mitigation
Women in the United States gained the right to vote in 1920. The majority of men (non-landowners) received the right to vote only 50 years prior in 1870 [1].

This doesn't seem to be the work of a nefarious patriarchy behind the veil, but a continuing democratic movement that began with the Magna Carta.

Although of course, once again, this information does not fit the feminist narrative, and is blasphemy to a movement whose only goal is political power.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_suffrage
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you can design silicon in kicad.
Step one in starting a business - Richard Branson
The entire thread basically focuses on "whatever, they're not really shipping in 2016" instead of a more positive: "Cool! Another bit of compiler infrastructure being turned open-source!".

I understand that many people find the GPL to be the only truly "free" license, but it seems uncouth to be so hostile to what is ultimately a positive outcome.
I have heard good things about these guys. They got accepted into TechStars and rejected the offer and are doing very well. They have great reviews for their services. Here it is http://talkroute.com
Entertainment value for whoever is holding the purse strings.
I don't think I'm going to die in a terrorist attack, and yet, I'm outraged and offended by acts of terrorism. I want them prevented and I want terrorists thwarted and destroyed. I don't think most people's opposition to terrorism and will to defeat it comes from a personal fear of becoming a victim.

Admonitions to shrug your shoulders at terrorism because car accidents kill more people always ring hollow with me.
Again: it IS available to all. There's bound to be a copy of the definitive edition in your local library.
Offtopic, but thank you for starting (and linking to) sameroom.

I just started noodling around with some code last week to bridge the messaging gap within my own company (we're supposed to use Lync, or Skype, or whatever it's called now, but nobody does because we've all used it), so we have a mish mash of users on a variety of networks, and I'm looking forward to using sameroom, and hopefully, get to abandon the code I was working on.
Even on youtube?
Not an unreasonable conclusion, but let's say there is a true (hidden/unknowable) rate of deaths X. You'd expect, not knowing the statistical distribution, maybe half the time the measurement (adding deaths from events) it'll be less and half the time it'd be more, just like any other random variable measurement. So it isn't a lower bound, just a fantastic guess that's bound to be pretty close. How close will it be? Well, the sample size is pretty low, so honestly it could be quite wrong. This is what the mega-parent was saying.

edit: you can get a lower bound, from a statistical perspective, the same way, where you go out a couple standard deviations to make up for small sample size, e.g. terrorism is more dangerous than being hit by two meteors at the same time, but if you wanted to make the case terrorism is more dangerous than something strange like water overdose that's probably true but not a lower-bound level statistical certainty.
That this comment is on top of this thread is saddening. You just called about a dozen broadly used protocols that depend on nothing more than the basic guarantee provided by UDP (unreliable datagram delivery-non/delivery) "broken by design".

If I was Linus, now would be my cue to unleash a tirade about how you don't fing break userspace. Ever.
Protocol layering works because higher level protocols depend on long standing contracts with the lower layers. Google decided to willy nilly go and break the basic contract of UDP across their entire cloud and the top comment here faults protocols built on those guarantees. Disappointing.
> There is zero chance I'd subject employees to a hacked together payroll system.

Not an ADP user I presume.
As the husband of someone who is afraid of these sorts of things, I can tell you that this line of argument would be entirely ineffective. What would be effective? I don't know and I wish I did.

I suspect that I'm just unusually unfazed by things and fundamentally lack the ability to understand the perspective of people for whom bombings like this cause fear. This makes me sad.
> Granted, it's from Greenwald

Care to explain?
> We're past that point. PyPy is the future. CPython is the past.

CPython is the past and is the present, and the future you can't predict. However, if you try to extrapolate, you should perhaps consider as much historical context as possible. For instance, why is Python what it is? Is it speed? I think it is the accessibility of language syntax, design and features. CPython is the base of this language evolution, and PyPy is improving just speed. So I would extrapolate CPython to always be more popular.

Go exists because someone at Google wanted to make better C and C++, a statically typed language. It doesn't have much to do with Python. Google always preferred C++ and Java to python because of static typing, not just because of speed.

Overall, I think it's a mistake to fixate so much on speed of execution, when often times speed of development is considered more important. This niche is never going away, despite of how hard some people hammer square pegs in round holes.
True, but the problem I had (which I will admit was back in '99) is that there's no standard one. So, if you need to solve a system of ODEs and a linear system, you're invariably needing to convert between the two.
A I see (or at least, I think I see), it's just another bell curve and this is the center line of that curve?
Not knowing the subjects of the OP I'm confused now, didn't Graham say in the OP a reason he gets more attention is because he's a writer. So, she's a writer too, did he forget??

It's also stated that she doesn't ask many questions but prefers to observe from "afar" - presumably that's not true in this book of interviews.

Livingston seems to have been somewhat mischaracterised or my reading comprehension is super-ropey.

>"Partly because I'm a writer, and writers always get disproportionate attention." (Graham, "Jessica Livingston" an essay) //
This is an option for large firms with resources to throw around, but at a startup, everyone needs to pull their own weight. There are already enough things eating into your resources -- don't need to pay a second designer to train your first designer.
So you are saying that we fought for independence because British were invading our privacy? They were opening our snailmail and were reading it and that's why we fought for independence. Right.

I have never seen any credible historian claim that. Good luck with that line of reasoning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War
I'm sort of surprised this could be a paper published in 2011. Isn't this pretty much the obvious thing to do? Counter hashing is a well known way to generate good random numbers, and it seems almost as obvious how you'd scale to multiple processors.
Then there's no point to their action, because it would still be public domain even after their attempt to steal it.
It's pretty easy to look back over my entire lifetime and observe that terrorism is not new, not getting worse, and not a significant risk. None of that has changed as of this past Friday; this is just... a thing that happens every now and then, noisy and easy to show on the news, but not actually accomplishing much. Terrorists are weak; they depend on our {chickenshit|warmonger} governments to do their dirty work. I am not afraid of terrorists.
Good to know. I've been looking at it, but not seriously. It's been more keeping an eye on it. I was hoping that Fortress would go somewhere, but it died.

My other problem is code generation. I can't generate Julia code yet.
Especially when you re-open some browser session and then one of those tabs happens to be a youtube one playing some video.
> The memes at [1]

Ha ha ha. The absolute best way to deal with any threat.
If you're willing to host it yourself, Plex has a web UI that doesn't require Flash and a set of mobile apps (that support syncing for offline playback). You're providing the content yourself, though.
I am in House Livingston.
I've never noticed that myself, but if you say it's a feature, I'll believe you, and applaud Google for doing it that way.

As different album releases often contain different recordings, sometimes finding EXACTLY the song I want to hear is hard to do. Having fallen for Sublime when they were still playing live shows, but knowing that they were only able to capitalize on their fame after the death of their singer, they've (necessarily) released a bunch of versions of old songs, which are often vastly different from one another. Finding JUST the right recording of a particular song is only enabled by having that otherwise needless duplication in the selection process, and I'm certainly willing to endure that if it means being able to add every version of X to my queue to find just the one I was looking for.

Offtopic, if they could only add Whitesnake's "Starkers in Tokyo" recording, I'd have just the right version of "Here I Go Again" in my library.
A Cool New Product – RainBender Umbrella
Can you expand on your comment please?
Fed Economic Letter: “What’s Different about the Latest Housing Boom?”
The Early History of the “more” Command
It's a single data point on the curve, so probably close to average, but yeah, that's the notion.
That's cute, but it is already widely known that there is way less chance to die from Terrorism than anything else. And it is a common misunderstanding that Terrorism's goal is to generate Terror. It is not. It is a form of political action with political goals, and it has about nothing to do with how fearful you are in your daily life.
Apple does not fab its own chips, it just designs them from IP licenced from British firm ARM. This article is referring to constructing a fab plant to produce nand chips.
What is terrorism? If two sides are fighting each other and one side has smart bombs and drones and the other side doesn't, clearly the choice for the weaker side is to give up or to find tactics that work to break its enemy's will.

The word terrorism is a propaganda word intended to make the audience pass moral judgment on the act and ignore the larger issue of why the conflict exists in the first place.

I too find acts of violence upsetting, but it's dangerous to buy into the propaganda around the word terrorism, since it's used to justify abandoning diplomacy and dehumanizing the enemy.
Last I checked, some things that can be vectorized, but aren't in LAPACK/BLAS weren't particularly fast. There's even one example from a few years ago on Stack Overflow where it was at least an order of magnitude slower than Octave.
FT Labs
Very educational. The U.S. response to I.S. seems completely out of touch. The only way it makes any sense is if it is a Honeypot tactic -- to lure in as many radical Muslims to one place as possible before unleashing on them. And yet no ground troops are forthcoming, and I am pretty sure they can have babies faster than we can bomb them out of existence.
Frustration validated friend
It's community, not generational, IME. I know old hackers that don't use it, and relatively young physicists and aerospace people that do.
yeah but they also say that computers should be avoided because they are influenced by the demon Ahriman
China has near clones of the F-35 Lightning, the Comanche stealth helicopter, the best of Russia's newest generation of tanks, etc.

I purchased a Trijicon ACOG clone from China for $136. It's just as good as, if not better than (doesn't require a battery for the chevron, and a battery powered chevron is, IMHO, not a good feature), the real thing, which costs civilians $1,400, and our military something like $800 each.

I can't speak for the highest of the high tech, in terms of a "wind down", but I can assure you that $47B in China will get you a LOT more than $47B will in the US, and the lack of R&D costs is a big part of that.
Spinnaker: Global Continuous Delivery by Netflix
Platform Independent assembly code for loading DLL and executing commands
Writing a real-time ad bidder in Golang
I've been using PyPy as my main development platform for quite some time now. So for me if I were to move to Python3, it would have to be Python 3.2 since that's all PyPy3 supports. I've also been told that PyPy3 is not production-ready. While PyPy4 is, so it's a no brainer for me to develop for PyPy4 then fallback to CPython2.7 if I run into problems.

Fingers crossed, but so far my home business is running off pure PyPy4. No C-extensions, no interpreters. :)
You will be happy to learn that many HPC people refer to non-Fortran programs as codes, too.
Like pornography, you know it when you see it. I don't care much for this bit of sophistry. Islamic fundamentalists or lone wolf nuts deliberately targeting innocent people works as a definition of terrorism to me. I don't feel like I'm being manipulated by propaganda.
I'm genuinely curious, if it's not more data, what do we need to differentiate between a would be terrorist and a run of the mill extremist? Like better systems for prioritizing, filtering people?
Personally I'd be in favor of a more general solution... Some kind of cffi/CPython bridge.
Opposition to terrorism is pretty broad. Insistence that we bomb entire countries or bar refugees because some of them might be terrorists seems fear-relate.

I refuse to give up freedoms or deny those freedoms to innocent people out of fear of terrorists. That's not "shrugging my shoulders". That's not succumbing to the terror that is so obviously the tool of terrorism.
Some people just look for parades to rain on.
It should be based on the scope of policies. France should set their anti-terrorism policies based on the risk to France. The EU should set their anti-terrorism policies based on the risk to the EU. Paris should set their anti-terrorism policies based on the risk to Paris.

Most policies being looked at right now are France-scope.
I agree it's unsettling. I still haven't formed a strong position on Bernays' normative assertions. If you have any thoughts on the subject, I would be interested to discuss them.
The risk of being shot in a mass shooting in the US is way higher but everybody seems blasé about it.
>Overall, I think it's a mistake to fixate so much on speed of execution, when often times speed of development is considered more important. This niche is never going away, despite of how hard some people hammer square pegs in round holes.

That's the point to PyPy. You get fast speed of development and fast CPU performance. Best of every world. That's why we use it and not CPython. It's already bigger than you think.
Rust automatically chooses the "best" strategy based on how you're building the source, per https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1183-swap...

If you're building a dynamic or static library, we use the system allocator because Rust is "subordinate". If you're building a binary, we use jemalloc because Rust is in control and jemalloc is basically the best allocator in town. These behaviors can be manually overridden, and you can also provide your own custom global allocator (see linked RFC for details).

A Rust project using Rust libraries will generally link them in as rlibs, which is basically the Rust equivalent of an object file. rlibs just inherit whatever allocator from what they're linked into.
How do you know that? Have you experienced both? Otherwise, you're at best interpreting what others have said. Or maybe just what others have written about the subject.
FWIW, the micromorts for an innocent Iraqi, when it was being bombed by the Allied forces was pretty high too.

But at least Donald Trump is going to ensure that we get all the Iraqi oil. /sarcasm