skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's safe to say that it's not a matter of a recreational activity vs. "producing something". I think it rather has to do with the fact that Germans are very privacy conscious. Facebook (and other American application providers) have a pretty bad rep.
Ah, that 80-char limit is irritating...

I would love to see Vulkan take off and get good adoption. Ultimately, though, it's going to come down to how good the driver support is, I think. If there is a serious effort and buy-in from the major vendors and OS providers, then it might take off. Otherwise, it might just be another thing, and contribute to the fragmentation in the GPU space.

Will Apple continue with their Metal platform, instead of, or in addition to Vulkan? Microsoft will back DirectX 12 by default, and if it is a situation where NVidia or AMD or Intel have to provide decent Windows Vulkan drivers, we're back to the same situation OpenGL is in. I don't know enough about the situation in Android-land. General-purpose GPU usage is interesting, but if Vulkan is going to gain mindshare, game developers are the ones that are going to have to pick it over any of the alternatives.
Lots of eggs in this basket.
Are those crazy jargon words meant to translate to $ ? If so, is it profitable? Sounds like they've just cut their lunch by 40% too.
And? KCBS isn't an affiliate; it's owned and operated by the network. The difference in domain name is purely cosmetic; if CBS corporate weren't OK with the content of the story, the story would no longer be online, if indeed it had ever been published at all.
I'm not sure that either of those languages are usually GC'd, but they'd be good choices, too, if they were.

(I just don't like Wirth languages. I don't like their type systems and I don't like the definition-before-use requirement. They're better than C, in some respects, but worse in others, and the net isn't always an improvement.)
> I don't like looking at javascript as much as I like looking at ruby.

If I could choose, I would take Ruby or Python over plain JS. But CoffeeScript makes the best parts of JS shine (an object is a hash/map) while making it far more beautiful by disposing of semicolons and unnecessary braces and parentheses. Indentation and arrow functions really make it a beautiful language. If you haven't already, you owe it to yourself to try Ember with CoffeeScript (and Emblem and indented Sass).
An interesting though exercise:

Does the new capacity make a bitcoin more valuable or less valuable?

Intuitively seems like more valuable, but the average cost in energy to mine the marginal block has gone down (otherwise the new miner wouldn't be mining) and that's often though of as the floor on BTC value.

Seems like having a stronger network is a net plus, and since they're probably not near the 50%+1 threshold it probably is in fact a stronger network. Although maybe they will get close if marginal miners are forced to turn off if the price of XBT drops and BitFury is enough more efficient.

Although BitFury is probably not a bad actor, technically a 50%+1 attack is not obviously illegal (IANAL), although a government might step in ironically enough. It seems to me these types of more centralized setups do introduce some tail risk to the system.
> With printf, we have gettext. I don't really see how there's any analogy for gettext in iosream-world.

Funny thing. Boost more-or-less uses gettext, too! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10774941
I have a 1GB/month mobile plan, which is actually medium-large in Australia. I would burn through that pretty quick if I was streaming mp3s all day. Also we are a large, sparse country with poor (or zero) mobile reception outside cities and large towns (at all, let along 3g/4g), and I do a lot of country driving. I rarely listen to music in front of a computer, where streaming would make a lot more sense for me.
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I wrote much of an OS in Modula I. I wrote robotics code in Modula II. I didn't do much with Modula III, but I knew some of the people behind it at DEC SRL, before Compaq bought DEC and shut down research.

I wish computing had gone that way, instead of C/C++. Everything would be less buggy.
To answer more specifically: the NES doesn't know what the CRT is doing. It's the CRT's responsibility to sync itself to the incoming signal. So there's not bidirectional communication, but they are still synced.
Means you won't be able to generate code that runs on other machines without it being signed a trusted third party.

You watch.
Thanks very, very much to whoever posted this!
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Taxi fare is something everyone wants to save on. Once Uber and Lyft start making big margin on their service other low key and smaller companies can compete with them. Pretty much like airfare. Price is the king and low cost companies are doing a lot of business. I'm not sure how this Uber/Lyft story will end but I'm pretty sure it's not going to end like Facebook or Google.
Did you watch it?

Since when is youtube about reading titles?? This title is misleading; it's all about Disney as empire.
> All that mining does is give the person with the most hashrate more voting power in which transactions will be accepted. Innovation in mining hardware and data centers does not in any way increase bitcoin's security.

This is completely wrong. The higher the difficulty, the harder it becomes to attack the network, which is a critical feature. If anyone who rented a data center could attack Bitcoin at this point, it would be even less stable (much less!) than it has been already.
Not really.

When I was 4-5, my father took me to the arcades. Playing games there I had the lightbulb moment where I said 'That is what I want to do'. At 11 I was reading the Turbo Pascal manual trying to figure out how things work (mind you, this was before Internet access was a thing and before I was playing with the ZX spectrum playground). From there to C/C++ (DJGPP anyone?) to VB when at 16 I started doing payed work. At 19 I wrote a book on C++ and games and from then on, games, insurance, banking, industrial processes, etc etc.

I did 1 year at university before I realised I preferred to be working. This didn't mean I didn't learn (I have a library that I'm sure some small schools envy).

But you know what my turning point in my career was?? Boxing! Boxing was what gave me the discipline and hardwork to go through whatever it was thrown at me. Not sure if that is relevant to 'background in something else' but hardwork, dedication is 80% of the path, the 20% left, well... that is just luck (this coming from someone that isn't really 'smart' by usual standard)

ps: I'm slightly tipsy so I apologise in advance for the lack of coherence.
Is there any possibility that they could themselves attack the network?
checkinstall installs the software in order to build the .deb, so it is sort of dangerous in that regard. It would not keep your home dir safe. I would recommend running it in a virtual machine.

Building .debs is not all that difficult, just sort of an archaic and not particularly well-documented process. fpm (Ruby Gem) is worth looking into if you want a quick'n'dirty way to create packages.
Right, I'm just questioning whether this consistency buys you anything. Either way you're checking the docs to see how to print an object.
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Yeah, the key insight I think is that if you don't put any constraints on some variable then the intent is that the equation is true for any choice of that variable- so since x_i = y_i for any i, then it's logically the same as saying x0 = y0, x1 = y1, ... It was an aha moment when I realized what they were doing there. Very elegant actually.
No, he definitely was not saying that.
Not sure how they came up with that estimate, but the miners are getting more and more efficient, so it's not a linear increase.
If it's the existence of guns that are your concern, go to Mexico. Handguns are effectively banned there, so it must be really safe there.
> It should allow for much more flexible and portable implementations

I wish I shared your optimism, but without any support on Mac/iOS and Windows support only for desktop apps (I don't think Vulkan will be available for Windows Store apps, though I'd love to be wrong) I don't know how portable Vulkan is going to be in practice.

Once the middleware matures I'm hoping it'll be a good thing for predictability, though. And I'll be surprised and disappointed if tooling to compile DX12 and Metal shaders to SPIR-V doesn't appear in fairly short order, so if you're using an API abstraction layer then apps should be getting more portable.
As a point of comparison, a typical commercial nuclear reactor produces around 1000 MW (give or take; most power stations have more than one reactor).
I don't think analysis means what you think it means.
The difference between the entities is largely cosmetic, but it simply isn't accurate to say that "CBS News" is responsible for the content of the article that you linked. As I pointed out, CBS Radio is, so as you say, that points to "CBS corporate" still being responsible, but it's more fair to the people working at CBS News to not mis-attribute the story (I used the abc.com example to try to make it clearer that conflating a source mentioned in the headline with the attribution is a mistake).

edit (which I see you only said CBS, I got lost in the depth of the thread.)
An image of the landing pad. https://imgur.com/4tjcdRM

What's interesting too is that the descent path of the rocket has an engine failure trajectory that will ensure the rocket will fall into the ocean if a failure occurs during the powered descent.
You're misreading parent's comment. What s/he is saying is that if someone flat-out copied your design, then that would presumably be trade secret appropriation.

Patents are SUPPOSED to cover the case where someone else invents the same thing in parallel, independently. You might not like it, but that's a legal fact. Clearly, you have a different moral opinion of when someone should be able to enforce their patent rights.
I am guessing 1914 Northern Africa was not as nice as it is now. Probably an issue with roads.
The rent is too damn high.
Which is worse than none of them reverting back to default..
Direct youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5bTbVbe4e4
Infrastructure in general I think. The articles mentions railways, which seem to help a lot towards shorter travel times.
They really poured on the PR, lots of people going "Hi, I'm lead mechanical engineer for this or that" and then delivering a perfect speech that would have taken a lot of prectice to deliver to a camera as smoothly like that.

It's nice to see a lot of the lessons from media training. :D
Proof of work is the most secure way we have by far of running a decentralized currency. I am hopeful that a better, more energy-efficient method will be developed, but until then, I think advancing the state of the art is worth the energy cost.

It's not obscene to me that a truly global currency, that is decentralized and not controlled by any government, would cost a tenth of the energy output of a modest-sized power plant.
Like most things in life, it's a tradeoff. My best drive time to downtown is about 35 minutes. My best travel time by train/metro is about an hour. I did that for about a year and a half, and it wasn't awful, but due to transit times, I barely saw my kids.
> I don't understand why they make office parks so overtly pedestrian unfriendly

Because the people who design modern suburbs are bad people. I used to work in an office park in the Atlanta suburbs. Looked at what it would take to get there on public transit from the city. Even if I did the two mile walk from the nearest bus stop, there was no sidewalk in-between.

But good thing we live in a society where a fresh college grad with zero credit can still get a car loan!
Well at least in Canada and the USA in many spots. I don't know about europe and other parts of the world.

It is pretty sad.
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"nigger" is never neutral (except when it comes from the mouth of black rappers but that is the exception to the rule).
It's all about managing state and dependencies. Doesn't matter much for small apps but does when you have tons of people trying to work on the same thing.

Also helps in large organizations that develop lots of apps because it reduces the learning curve for new team members.

Besides, it's not like MVVM is a huge thing. It can be explained in a paragraph.
Game devs are always the first ones aren't they?

Valve is on board:

http://wccftech.com/vulkan-reason-create-dx12-backend-valves...

Nvidia is on board:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-V...

Google is onboard for Android:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/android-to-support-vu...

Of course it's too early to know if it will get traction but I am stoked to get a chance to play around with the API. I have a few simulations that no longer work in PyOpenCL and I'm dying to try porting them to something like vulkan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnOmy1ly6M0&list=PLCN-Ml6vUJ...
If you need local music on the go, using a device makes sense. I suggested Google Play as an alternative to Spotify.
I would like to examine the concept of properties as it exists in modern OOP with a more critical eye.

If a property is independent of other properties, then that means it is an independent holder of state. So then, wouldn't it be a prime target to be split out into a composable sub-component?

It just feels like many classic examples of components have been over-stuffed with properties. Kind of goes against the perspective of objects as minimal black boxes. Composability might go a long way to clarify that.
What's with all the fluff videos? Can we have a channel with just a comms feed?

T-4 minutes and still zero actual mission audio...
I think MVVM mainly makes two things easier: refactoring models and testing the user interface. It's not going to be a good fit in places where MVC wasn't already a good fit.
I only mentioned that there is a large amount of effective communication the occurs in English. Surely this is not a controversial claim.
I think what we've got here is a misalignment of the participants' roles courtesy of unintended consequences.

The recipients have become the schools, deriving all of the benefits with no risk. The originators have escaped their traditional role as gatekeepers and risk takers. That leaves the students for all of the risk to concentrate on while they receive few of the benefits.

Essentially becoming sharecroppers of their own minds.
Words were not "discussed", here, in any way, let alone a supposedly "neutral perspective". Pay attention to detail. It counts.
Most people find it funny to offend people they don't like, just deal with it.
I love commuting to work: it's either a 20 minute bus ride, or a 30 minute walk. The most direct walking path is just a hair over 2 miles, which means that—along with walking to and from lunch—I can easily walk 5 miles a day without having to make any 'real' changes to my daily schedule.
Just use tabs :p
Youtube link for people for whom livestream videos won't work. (I believe the embedded player is livestream).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5bTbVbe4e4
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If you had a language where that were the default behavior, it would not be insane at all (e.g., see all of mathematics,) and you probably wouldn't be able to even compile it the way you've written. You've set b equal to two different values.
The FPGA used (iCE40) is the only one currently on the market with a fully open-source toolchain, and the IceStick is among the cheapest boards for experimenting with the iCE40.
This time, with a much bigger landing area. The maneuvering to land on their landing barge was kind of extreme the last time they tried it.
I really appreciate it. If I had kids, this would be a great feed to watch with them, because it covers a lot of the how and why of what happens.
Could you translate some of that into an estimate of X coins mined per day and Y kwh used per day? Thanks.
Give people a choice maybe? Nothing wrong having the mainstream feed but I would appreciate an alternative.
I sorta lose it every time I see a brewery advertise "free parking."
Is this article missing a page? It ends without saying anything. It appears to be built around a single fact and extending that fact outward without examining its implications or methods of implementation: that is, just because capitalism doesn't currently exploit the third world in a negative sense says nothing about the potentiality for it to. Instead, the article seems to use this one data point as a smug shield against criticism. A more robust and therefore interesting article would have taken the criticisms (the ways in which capitalism is said to exploit the poor) point by point and explain how it would ultimately be avoided in even a baseline, pragmatic capitalist influence on struggling third world economies.

This article convinces no one and only makes already in-the-tank capitalist apologists feel validated. Is there a word for that?
A friend of mine was in Burkina Faso for some NGO (might have been Peace Corps). Originally they tried a PV setup for some of the more rural villages. Every time they'd come back to ask how things were working the panels had been stolen and sold off. Eventually they gave up on PV altogether.
What about sites like reddit? I don't have any stats, but there seems to be a good representation of Germans.
That n-body simulation is very cool.
This is especially viable in a smaller region like UK. Even if your at the other end of UK its realistic to do day trips to London for meetings, and would likely be cost effective for business if these are not overly regular.
It's a race to the bottom. It will end with the party that manages to just win that race by making the smallest profit possible at the highest efficiency of Joules per hash computed. Bitcoin is interesting for many reasons, the real-world effects of a couple of configuration settings and some cleverly picked auto-scaling parameters are immense. The number of orders of magnitude that the protocol has survived with minor tweaks to date is very impressive.
> look at the docs to see if the ostream operator is implemented for the class

Or give it a go and see if the ide/compiler complains.
On the other hand, Stack Overflow sites also have a "late answers" review category/queue for moderators: new answers to old questions (posted by new users).

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/148088/why-are-late-...
Define "work". Gold denominated WW1 debts caused WW2.
Similar story here.

Raised in the Midlands, studied in the Midlands, work in London. Why do I work in London? Because that's where all the jobs are.

My thoughts went something like this:
Where are the high paying jobs? Finance -> Go to london.

A few years later:
Where are the interesting startups? London.
My dream office would be wfh as desired (with a physical-separated-from-my-house shed/outbuilding, ideally), and then a choice of physical offices: a downtown SF/Seattle/NYC/Berlin type place, and some kind of lab facility which is essentially a military base layout (gated, guarded, buildings onsite).

Second best: living eastside seattle (i.e. Redmond) or SF Peninsula, and an easy (off-peak, or viable mass transit, so basically off-peak) commute in, with flexible wfh. I generally prefer entire-building-for-company vs. shared spaces, but not necessarily at the scale of the googleplex. However, minimum of 200 sf/person and ideally private offices or shared offices per small team, not open plan hell.

Suburban office building would be fine (the old vmware/fb/etc. buildings, or current googleplex/apple/etc.), and would be better than the super crowded cobbled together multiple offices of old Facebook or Palantir in downtown Palo Alto).

If suburban office parks in good locations (anywhere north of Mountain View) become substantially cheaper than DTPA or SOMA, I'd be happier with 500 ft/person there for $18-24 vs. 100/ft/person for $60-100. The trick would be having Facebook (or, it appears as is better today, Dropbox) quality catering and other amenities onsite, and a $25-50 pax/day shuttle system.
> ...I'm just questioning whether this consistency buys you anything.

It buys you the same thing that API consistency always buys you: reduced cognitive overhead when dealing with a given API. :)

Edit: As GFK_of_xmaspast mentions [0] instances of non-trivial classes are not compatible with the default implementations of "operator <<" in ostream. So, you can try "ostream << instanceOfNonTrivial". If it passes the compiler, then you know that operator << is defined for that class.

So, no need to check the docs... just ask the compiler. :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10775022
Germany has a unique historical relationship towards domestic spying and intrusion. I wonder if that influences Germans attitudes towards websites that accrue personal data.
My optimism may be getting the best of me. I don't really see this as a silver bullet that will solve all our problems in a single stroke, but I think it's a place to start for a sane approach for heterogeneous computing.

when I say "much more flexible and portable implementations" I'm mostly talking about GPGPU code.

I hear what you're saying, here's to hoping that SPIR-V will be able to fill in the gaps.
Thank you, I didn't know they had upgraded. I still remember the tiny RCS thruster trying to get the rocket upright from the last landing...
It's unreasonable to expect commercial software companies to do all the work to build a free software ecosystem, since that's not what they're about. Still, they've made some substantial contributions. F-droid might not be good enough yet, but they're still a lot further along than they would be starting from scratch, without Android.

So although it hasn't succeeded for phones yet, building on top of tech stacks contributed by others (who haven't fully bought in to the same goals, but are sympathetic in some ways) still seems like a great strategy. The free software community needs to finish the job.

On the other hand, going fully independent and building stuff separately without those contributions (which seems to be what some free software folks want to do with commercial-unfriendly licenses) doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. If you can't succeed even with substantial help, how do you succeed without help?
Stellar solves the same problem in a different way - nodes pick whom to trust in the network. So it doesn't burn vast quantities of energy just to stand still, and it's not vulnerable to someone with vast computing resources.

I'm not an expert but it makes a lot of sense to me. Most real-world decentralized institutions work kind of like this.

https://medium.com/a-stellar-journey/on-worldwide-consensus-...
The problem I think he is trying to point out, is that the regulatory agencies are controlled by those businesses in the first place. The FDA tried to regulate antibiotics in farm use decades ago, and the industry threw a fit until it stopped. They tried again awhile ago, and they fought against them until they made compliance voluntary.

If the only regulations you can have are ones which benefit big businesses, then no regulations at all might be better. You can't have a political ideology based around the idea that the government is perfectly competent and incorruptible.

Instead another alternative might be to get rid of the FDA entirely so new antibiotics can be developed faster, and we can genetically modify animals to breed them to grow bigger without antibiotics.

Well that only might work, and only in this one specific case. In general regulations can definitely be necessary. But they've proven they can't solve this problem, or at least not until the last minute when it might be too late. And even if we were successful, you can't stop other countries from doing it.