skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have dramatically improved communication in the last couple of days. They got a lot of flack for it in the thread a couple of days ago, and they seem to have responded to it. Updates are on status.linode.com.
I saw this patch but was a bit reluctant to use it. Was it easy to patch and what if Tmux is updated to a newer version?
I'm not comfortable with the idea of everyone having far-field microphones in their homes. Cell phone spying is bad enough. If these become widespread, then ten years from now instead of a political debate about call metadata it'll be a debate about literally every word ever spoken.
And how do you know author's agenda? From what other people with their own agendas write about him? Also, any information that's closer to political labels ("a communist", "a right-wing somethingsomething") than to actual details about him ("spent 20 years publishing anti-soviet writings, focusing on corruption in the government", etc.) is of negative utility - political labels are bullshit and only lead you to assume things about people that are not true.
This is a frequent and IMHO mostly weird question. I understand the "why reimplement XYZ in $YOURFAVORITELANGUAGE just to have XYZ in $YOURFAVORITELANGUAGE" sentiment but there is an equally valid benefit in using uniform tool stacks. I am a Python developer. I am comfortable working in other languages, and contributing patches to tools written in other languages, but there is a real benefit to having a full toolset written in a single language even if some of those tools are less developed than their counterparts.

This is besides the benefit that even though you might not need tmux in Python, having tmux in Python might have created tmux-the-library which someone might later need.

(I haven't yet tried this but I plan on doing so. On an unrelated note, thanks to the author for making this pure Python, and for caveatting "it's not as fast as C" with "but try PyPy").
My impression of it was less for answering random questions and more for predefined tasks like home automation,listening to news ect.
Can you talk about how involved/committed chip vendors are in the lowRISC effort or RISC-V generally? I remember seeing mentions of STMicro in some of the Berkeley slides, but it wasn't clear to me whether they were just donating fab capacity/support or were in a more interested/collaborative role.
What do you mean automatic register allocation? Your example doesn't really make sense to me.

mov 5, eax

mov eax, ebx

It seems pretty prerequisite to know what you're doing with the registers themselves. I have only taken a basic systems class that taught y86 so knowledge of building anything production worthy in assembly is nil. Just caught my eye and thought I'd ask!
This page:

http://www.hulu.com/help/articles/52427902

says some shows still have commercials:

Grey’s Anatomy, Once Upon a Time, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Scandal, Grimm, New Girl and How To Get Away With Murder

It also says shows available for next-day viewing will still have commercials.
> How does a person starting out know which parts of this are relevant and which are not?

I think this is why I think that a weathered mentor is a boon to learning -- they can pick out the learning resources that they've used that are actually good, which saves the mentoree(?) a lot of time.

(But then of course I'd say this, I recently became one by accident...)
I feel like it's worth distinguishing between reality TV with a consistent cast like Real World, and those without like Cops, which is almost more like a documentary in that sense.

I'm not sure how I'd make the distinction clear though, because stuff like "Ghost Hunters" feels a lot more like the Real World kind, despite being (ostensibly) more like a documentary.
This article is missing the forest for tiny NOx colored trees.

Sure, there is an indirect health problem with pollution, but there is also a much more direct health problem: cars causing fatal accidents. The best way is hence to fix the problem at the root: personal cars do not belong in cities, and cars do not belong in pedestrian areas.
> Try approaching them and saying: Hi! I would like to reserve two billion DOIs :)

If you've already registered a prefix with them (say it's 10.8888), then you have an essentially unlimited namespace of possible suffixes for forming DOIs. Representing two billion DOIs requires only 6 suffix digits in base 36.

What exactly is so difficult about this?
I don't use Instagram, but I understand that you go there with your real life persona, but the usual reddit handle is a quite unidentifiable nick?

And subreddits are different. I really don't see much connection between Instagram and /r/polandball
The Entrepreneurship/Inequality Myth
I don't mean to defend Google, but only to sympathize that it could be very difficult for a well meaning actor to come up with a tightly worded TOS the way you are describing.

For example, consider "we collect the following data" - because everything is hosted in GAFE, isn't Google technically collecting your email data? And your calendar data? And your students research papers? The list of "following purposes" could be very long to just even describe the list of features the client is expecting - and may even have to be updated every time a new feature is deployed - imagine you had to go through legal every time you wanted to push a change prod.
>people with guns taking over government-owned property

Yeah this is one of the reasons I don't like guns in general. Sure if they disagree they can demonstrate all they want, but bringing guns into the equation is just plain stupid and asks for trouble.
Selfish and greedy applies to many (if not most) of the adherents to each political philosophy. It's hardly a coincidence they pick one they believe would benefit themselves the most, and politicians sell them to voters that way.

I.e. the canonical "chicken in every pot".
There was a mobile age of empires game made a year or two ago. I heard it was shitty and only vaguely based on age of empires.
This is easy -- any person working a full-time job should be able to pay rent in safe, decent, legal housing, afford to feed themeselves and their family and put clothes on their back.

If this condition isn't satisfied, our economic system doesn't work, period.
There are a few shows that large cable companies wants to have with ads. But it's minimal. I think one of them is "Once upon a time".
IIRC the claim of the book is much weaker than that; his theory is that Stalin and Hitler were both building up to attack each other, each refusing to believe reports from the frontline that the other side is readying to attack first. Then Hitler attacked first, literally by weeks or days, and the Soviet side, prepared for an attack, found itself utterly unprepared to defend - thus the initial success, to put it mildly, of the Third Reich.
right, but running a company requires a rather different skillset from working for someone else as a programmer. It's a different job.

My point is just that as a full timer at a big company, you are at the top end of "market rate" for programmers.

If you start your own company, you are on the 'business person' payscale, which is a rather different thing.
Where does a designer stand if they want to make the missing resources so that the whole game can be shipped for free?
> A permissive open-source license.

What specific license will you be releasing under? Is that still TBD?

Also, who is putting up the money for dev time and fabrication? Partners?

Exciting stuff. Thanks for sharing!
An anonymous social media app.
Google's question parsing is ridiculously good. You can also do neat things like say "When I get to work, remind me to email John" and you'll get a notification when you arrive. I don't have an Echo, but I imagine it can't do such contextual things.

You could get a dedicated Android phone/tablet, and leave it always plugged into a charger somewhere. I just tested it on my Phone (LG G3 Android 5.0.1), and I'm able to get my phone to respond to "Ok, Google" questions, even with the screen off.

Though the microphone probably won't be nearly as good as the Echo, and from the setup it seems like you have to train "Ok, Google" to respond to your voice, so I don't know if it will work with multiple users.
Sounds like the typical twisting of facts from a conspiracy theorist.

That said, I welcome evidence of the original claim.
Even smart people need to justify their own sins.
Well this is how the American Revolution started. Do you think that was stupid?
This is interesting because the federal government still owns a lot of the land in the western half of the country. I saw an infographic recently (sourcing a federal agency's statistics) which said that 48% of California's and 88% of Nevada's land are owned by the federal government.
That is an amazing interview question. What's the average reaction like? If I heard that I'd laugh, because it's so unexpected, and then tell a tale of woe that of course in hindsight I've learned from. However I can also see how the interviewee might be offended by it, so I'm wondering how people have responded to it (before stealing it for myself).
I haven't followed the progress the last few months, so sorry for my probably dumb questions:

What's the current status? (I read http://www.lowrisc.org/blog/2015/06/second-risc-v-workshop-d... (June 30, 2015))

Your site mentions a lot of "FPGA", do you have some actual silicon prototypes?

What's the current raw speed in MHz or FLOPS?

I read about OpenRISC, OpenSPARC, RISC-V, Z-Scale, BOOM - which are furthest in testing phase? Can we buy some of them in 2017? Or will it take longer?
Same, although I'm keeping open the possibility of an internal transfer within my current company. I figure a Japanese office of an American multinational won't be as bad, right? Right??
It means that a software engineer with odious politics was not allowed to speak about a completely separate domain [0]. Presumably because of the worry that he might give a rousing speech.

[0] http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/06/cur...
Sigh, it is hard for me to imagine that this comment was made in good faith.

First of all, owning "free and clear" is hardly the expected meaning of ownership in the context of cars or especially houses in the US. I have a mortgage and I still say I own my house. When I told friends I was buying my house, I expect >90% of them assumed I was getting a mortgage. The government reported "homeownership rate" certainly does not exclude households with mortgages.

Second of all, ignoring semantics, the original context was a conversation about whether a significant number of households being unable to afford technology like a $5K computer would stifle innovation. Innovation probably doesn't care whether customers are in debt or not, so this is still perfectly decent evidence to cite about the spending capacity of poor households.

"Disappointing but not surprising". Sigh.
The government handled the situation with Cliven surprisingly well, I'm hoping that no one gets hurt in this latest standoff with his son.
The infrastructure already exists. IIRC Free Basics uses the existing mobile internet infrastructure. I would suggest it'd be better for ISPs to offer a free, data capped tier, funded by whomever chooses to do so (governments, charities, etc...). If Facebook truly wanted to be philanthropic they could fund a scheme like this, rather than following a plan designed to directly benefit their core business.
Do you think what these protesters are doing is equivalent to the American Revolution?
Also, SciPy 2016 is scheduled for July 11-17 (same location [as 2015], AT&T conference center, Austin)

Austin, TX, July 6-11, 2015

The site is down at the moment though:
https://twitter.com/dpinte/status/663650024191037441
Yes, but whenever I see these things, I'm always in a bit of a quandary over them - the technical challenge element is obviously impressive, but the flipside is that there's probably nothing worthwhile that can be done with it. I've done the same myself - I spent days resurrecting a Zenith Minisport (including getting round the BIOS lock), but at a time when it was of no functional use at all. There must be something in our psyche that makes us perform such acts of folly!
You don't have to engage imagination, wealth tax is a concept deployed in other countries. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax#Current_examples

The evidence is inconclusive - some (Norway, Switzerland) are economically strong societies, while others (Spain, India) are economic basket cases.

Side effect of introducing a wealth tax is an increase in corruption as all of a sudden subjective evaluations of illiquid property can lead to substantial increases, so there are scenarios where it's cheaper to pay off the assessor in private than be subjected to an increase. Litigation to question the assessed value is a fairly minor occurrence nowadays, but with universal wealth tax owners of illiquid property are likely to sue more often, as there's more property to assess (and hence make mistakes).

India and Italy are known for high corruption levels, and you could argue that placing low-paid government officials into high-value positions is almost corruption by design.
> it will create a 1000 foot high nuclear tidal wave that will physically wipe out coastal cities and Naval installations, as well as pollute them with radioactive fallout."

That sounds unrealistic especially if it insunuates a device will wipe all all the East coast cities.

It seems anything they have will be able to wipe out all the stuff they want to wipe out just with ICBMs.

If this ever comes into play it is all over anyway.
Recording a website with PhantomJS and FFMPEG
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Because doing it in C might be a waste of time
The general term is "whole program optimizer". It what Google does to Chrome (but not Chromium IIRC), and what Proguard does to Java (e.g. Android) apps.

Define a couple entry points and use static analysis to pare down the code to that, for minification, obfuscation, and performance.
But what's the innovation? Adding the python API?
This is a better link than the current one in the headline:

https://www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-achieves-milestone-plutonium-...

It's more recent (Dec 22nd, 2015) and discusses a new achievement: first production of Pu-238 in the USA in 30 years.
Not a question really, but a comment for anyone involved: please push to add integer overflow traps. No processor adds support because C doesn't require them, and as a result no language detects integer overflow by default because the processors make it slow. We need to break this cycle and it's not often that a new processor architecture comes around.

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1154
Having a coworker depart definitely makes you readjust your matrix.

It's weighted by whether the coworker was good or not, which makes you wonder if he knows something you don't. THAT'S when you start sniffing around and discovering other things that say yeah, he was right and it's time to bail.
It highly depends on what you want. If you want some general high quality overview of what happened over the year, I recommend GOTO or QCon. These are great events.
> The traffic from the Echo has been studied extensively. Detection of the wake word is hardware-based

For now, maybe. If some update changed this, how and when would you figure out?

I'd say it's not entirely silly to be worried about something in your home which is controlled by a third party and could turn into a spying device at any moment, even though it seems not to have become evil yet.
ECOOP (European programming languages and systems conference) has a co-located industry/academic overlap conference called Curry On

It's in Rome in July
If I understand this right, fasm_g is the macro-language of fasm with some additions and the ability to output bytes.

That's really quite something, is it yet comparable to the current fasm?
In my kitchen and in my office, it lies on the table. It very practical to just speak, I can walk around and do other things at the same time.
Not sure I quite get what the benefit is in having all my tools in one language.
Not to mention smartphones seem to be explicitly designed to not provide this use case. Where is my always listening Google Now? If I have to take my phone out of my pocket and unlock it, I may as well type the question myself.
High-performers are still human beings. They still have families. They still get sick.

Harry Potter-type orphans with no living relatives and a magical ability to avoid disease are out there somewhere. Potter even had a trust fund that meant pay was not an issue. But an employer cannot bet on finding and keeping such people. Worse yet, trying to attract mythic people leads down dangerous roads. There are laws against seeking to hire or promote only single/healthy/non-disabled/sterile/rich people. If you run a workforce involving people you must accept that people are going to have unique problems and that pay will matter when those problems inevitably crop up.
If intellectual property protections present an economic constraint, then countries with weak intellectual property protections would outperform countries with strong intellectual property protections.

Yet for some reason countries with weak IP protection do not present the world with abundance of new technologies or pharma.
As I said last time this came up, the answer is a maximum wage. We can still set the maximum wage beyond the level of most people (e.g. $1,000,000 per annum after tax). I don't see how it would discourage innovation, but I do see how it'd help curb financial inequality.
The only thing that could mitigate long working hours for a payslip is creative freedom. Though that's probably impossible even outside of Japan.
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> What is the process of getting zero-rating like?

I don't know. As far as I can tell (what we're doing) we're speaking to the telcos directly. There's no formal process for getting zero-rating. We have an investor/incubator relationship with Vodafone Ghana. Zero-rating our service is just one of the things we're negotiating.

> Are you glad that zero rating exists in your market?

Uhh...I should put my current feelings in context.

I didn't care much 2-3yrs ago because these were marketed as carrier promos, and telcos in Ghana have a bad reputation already. It was none of my business until word went round that MTN (the largest in Ghana, huge across Africa) will start charging special rates for using certain apps like WhatsApp, Instagram, the usual.

The response in our small tech community was mixed. A lot of people I asked weren't aware, but there few that were, were truly outraged.

I didn't follow the news but it seemed other telcos started moving in that direction, then backed down. All the while, 0.facebook.com was still promoted on billboards in Accra.

So it's two things: you can get useful services for free (so you remain subscribed to the network, I guess) or you can be charged specially for using a service that really matters.

My feelings are mixed at this point but I'd much rather prefer a neutral net than one that can favour or penalize services. That leaves an uncomfortable room for abuse.
So how does Amazon make money from Alexa running on non-Amazon devices? (Not obvious to me, sorry.)
How Cleaning Methods Aid in Weight Loss
Nuclear torpedos or Project Pluto is not what I'm most afraid of. This one is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand_(nuclear_war)
"An example of fail-deadly deterrence, it can automatically trigger the launch of the Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) if a nuclear strike is detected by seismic, light, radioactivity and overpressure sensors."
It's called loudspeaker or speakerphone mode. Of course it's not the default mode if you speak next to your ear.
Something like

mov 5, a

mov a, b

Where `a` gets `eax`, and `b` gets `ebx` during register allocation, and the lifetime analysis of each variable makes sure that all alive vars have register.
It's probably not even that hard to embed the CPython interpreter into tmux and allow extensions written in python. If you just wanted to write python extension modules, embedding Python and then wrapping the tmux api with Python using cffi is likely a winner.
I don't think it's equivalent. But people took up arms to fight what they thought was an oppressive government. A lot of people thought the American Revolutionaries were radicals with bad ideas, including a third of the Colonists. The Revolutionaries happened to also support slavery as a racist institution, which is why a lot of slaves sided with the British including some of Washington's own.
I've downloaded so much junk from the internet trying to do this but just couldn't and now I find it's so simple! Again, Thanks for sharing it. Who would have thought it would be so simple.
Sounds good, but I think you could probably skip the 8-week timer.
Ensemble employees get free beer from me for life, if I ever get the chance to meet any of you. You guys defined a big part of my childhood, and even today as a young adult I think back to lessons I learned from that game. It made a big impact on me in many ways.
Certification is a red herring; assembly line workers have skills that I lack. I'm really only interested in jobs of that could be filled by the people who used to work in the Rust Belt, whatever you actually want to call that type of employment.

Thought experiment: let's say a trend starts for everyone earning 6 figures in Silicon Valley to hire a butler and a cook. How many jobs would be created? How many have recently been destroyed? How long before robots are as good a substitute for human butlers as the robot in The Jetsons?
as I recall first they were excited, then calmer heads prevailed and pointed out it was orders of magnitude more DOIs than they had minted since the beginning of time and they were not prepared to make a sudden jump, but they could do a tiny fraction for several times our entire grants budget.
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> a horrible job providing answers to even simple questions.

If you think of it as a device that performs specific actions (i.e., plays audio, gives a weather forecast, sets a timer, etc.) via an voice interface, rather than a general intelligence that can answer random questions, you're going to have a better time.
The interesting thing about NOx and soot pollution is that it remains a local problem, unlike the (higher) CO2 emissions from gas engines, which are just a contribution to global climate change. In that sense, I'd say it would almost be preferable to require all passenger vehicles be diesel - people could see quickly why they should drive less... Many diesel owners in the US (myself included) run varying amounts of biodiesel in their engines, which produce slightly more NOx (generally), but less particulates.
Thanks for all the upvotes folks,

I should clarify that there is a bit of artistic license on the title calling this a $10 Echo, there are 2 caveats;

Its only about $10 the CHIP is a "$9 Computer" plus tax & shipping etc. and this hack then requires a speaker, microphone and a button, however you may well have these lying around of have another device like an old speakerphone or something that you could gut and put the CHIP into as a new brain.

The other point is that its not really a full Echo, the Echo is a hardware appliance that implements Far Field Voice Technology, Wake Word Detection, A High Quality Bluetooth Speaker, Support for various media service (Prime Music, Audible, Pandora etc) and finally the Alexa Voice Assistant. This hack is really just access to the Alexa Voice Assistant without the wake word or far field tech.

So its about 90% of the functionality for a much lower price. Personally I have an Echo in my dining room which is great when walking around the house but I built this to use on my desk when I want to trigger home automation features without shouting downstairs.