skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...in the coming year". They've been claiming that the Canada datacenter is coming for awhile now... disappointed there are no details on launch date.

Anyone have insight into the timing?
There you go :)

https://vimeo.com/151682787
For example, a try/catch in V8 triggers deoptimization for the entire function it's in, while it might not in other engines. So this leads to many developers avoiding try/catch in performance critical code.

This ends up with them avoiding it in general usage, which means that now "avoiding try/catch" is considered a general purpose performance tip in javascript, even though it might only apply to one engine (and the v8 team has expressed interest in trying to stop that deopt)

This might be a bad example, i'm honestly not sure how try/catch performs in other engines, i just know it deopts in V8. But the fact that i don't know if it's a javascript thing or a V8 thing speaks to my point.
I don't know where I heard this but if these elite schools are really that good, why haven't we commercialized them and made them even more accessible? ... Food for thought - I don't know what I think of that statement myself to be fair.
See also: Jerry Jones & Jimmy Johnson.
What's the open source alternative to maps.google.com then? Or is it just not yet built?
The rendering engine in MS Edge. (Like Gecko, Blink, WebCore (Webkit), Trident.) A fork of Trident stripped of some legacy code.
It kind of is Linux ;)
I am guessing that was meant to be a comparison between those two old chips, not a comparison between those older chips and modern ones.
They don't work on mainstream PC platforms, but for embedded use Coreboot/Libreboot has a much better story. For example, Atom and Geode systems support it basically by default, and many boards ship with it preinstalled.
They didn't blur faces and addresses! This must be in violation of some Privatrecht!
Not long and the contact will be unusable!
I wonder how difficult it is to announce the change of a CEO's mail address.
I was annoyed when this launched because it was no longer easy to get to the English language version of Al Jazeera even if you wanted to, unless you took steps to change your location.
I wonder if doing this, just the action of choosing to encrypt, would be held up as sufficient grounds for the company to investigate your activity, or even possibly regarded immediately as criminal or potentially criminal. I can see a lot of companies coming up with extremely irrational policies that say that any attempt to encrypt anything is inherently not allowed.
It's their most recent browser engine.
I remember hearing about this channel being hyped in the media but I never was able to watch it (required more expensive cable plan) and also I never even saw it being referenced online like from youtube or anyone.
> Have you talked about not duplicating all efforts?

In this case the duplicated effort is desirable. You're implementing an engine to meet a spec. Duplicating the effort gives you:

Competition - if there's only one implementation, what are your drivers, metrics and priorities for improving performance, spec compliance, and correctness? In practice, you're going to be deciding these things arbitrarily, by committee, on behalf of the market. If on the other hand you have two(+) competing engines, all these decisions are driven much more by the market, which is far likelier to generate better results for the market.

Redundancy - If the same spec is implemented semi-independently by two different teams, then different implementations of the same features will be tried, and tested in the wild, until winners emerge for different use cases. This is incredibly powerful for innovation and optimisation, and the fact that both engines are open source only multiplies this power.

Definitely by literally merging the two engines into one codebase, you'll lose these advantages almost completely, and even putting the two teams and the two projects under one organisational roof whilst still trying to keep them 'separate' would put the advantages of them being truly independent at serious risk, whilst probably not having much upside that isn't already provided by having the two codebases be open source.

Two independent teams duplicating their efforts is a very, very good thing, and even better now that ChakraCore is open source.
This is really awesome. I've spent a ton of time optimizing high throughput PG instances. Every time one of my optimizations failed it was from an incomplete understanding of the physical storage layer and/or MVCC.

These 2 docs really help with a deeper understanding if you want to learn more:
http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/internalpics.pdf
http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/mvcc.pdf
This is too bad as I find the news on Al Jazeera to be more balanced then CNN, Fox, or MSNBC. Unfortunately it seems people want a spin on news. Al Jazeera is to the tv news as a long form article is to written journalism.
The SAM pattern (bye-bye MVC)
On ARM side, RK3288* looks promising:

https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/c201.html

* Yes, that is the very same RK3288 that has an embarrassing calendar bug discussed here a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10768140
> * Mozilla gets by without one. Apple's approach for managing Swift, too.*

Mozilla does have one.

> Code committed by you to a Mozilla Repository, whether written by you or a third party, must be governed by the Mozilla Public License 2.0, or another license or set of licenses acceptable to the Mozilla Foundation for the Code in question.

https://static.mozilla.com/foundation/documents/commit-acces...

Swift has a much shorter one:

> By submitting a pull request, you represent that you have the right to license your contribution to Apple and the community, and agree by submitting the patch that your contributions are licensed under the Swift license.

https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
How does a bad random number generator or a smaller probability space change the EV?

The numbers 1-2-3-4-5-6 are just as likely to be the winning numbers as the output of a perfect random number generator. The only remaining variable in the EV is the liklyhood of sharing the winning numbers, and that probability can be reduced by decreasing the probability space in smart ways.
You may also enjoy this speedrun of pokemon blue from last year's Summer Games Done Quick, where all 151 monsters are caught as quickly as possible. Essentially nothing is done correctly: menus are underflowed, pointers are gymnastically redirected, PRNGs are manipulated, various state machines are thrown out of alignment and fun is had by all.

https://youtu.be/wtZ7CzbxBFM?t=576
Stock market annual total return average is 11.41% (1928-2015). Total return means dividends re-invested; not inflation adjusted.

(source : http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/... )
And just when it seemed to start gaining traction, too. Pity.
Is it Libreboot who is being ridiculous, or Intel/AMD? Is it worth trusting OEMs with wholesale access to your data and your networks?
Obviously this is about development but that's not the only place where you can accrue technical debt. In operations it's shortcuts or bandaids so you can get something done quickly or fix a production issue "ASAP". While it is a trade off it's a crippling one. Without good engineering principals and management support to regularly pay it down you can easily get to a point where the collective fragility has you putting out fires constantly and no one wants to touch anything.

Unfortunately management often thinks that they're supportive but ask them what project they need to axe or put on the back burner to free up time and the ephemeral promises and deferment to some hazy future date get put on the table.

Perhaps it's not "real" in development but it is very much a real issue that needs to be thought about by anyone in charge of operations.
It is not overblown. I'm very happy that Microsoft is getting bad press. Hopefully this drives people away from Windows. This is the only way Microsoft "listens". When their revenue takes a hit. The primary issue with Windows 10 is how Microsoft is forcing people to upgrade to it. The secondary issue is with the lack of controls given to users.

I don't want certain Win 7 machines that I own/maintain to ever upgrade to Windows 10. Didn't ask for it. Don't want it. Just go away and let me do my job. Microsoft provides me no official way to disable that horrendous popup. I expect that shit from shady browser toolbars, and bundled crapware, not Microsoft.

Microsoft seems to think the users can't be trusted with options to disable Updates, Telemetry, and other BS services. I absolutely HATE having to ever reboot my windows machine. It is extremely critical for me to have my dev box be rock stable and running 24/7. I frequently used to go months without ever rebooting it. Also, with Win 7 I could just set the Update behavior to "don't call us, we'll call you". With Windows 10 I'm forced to muck around with services and group policy just to get my machine to update and reboot on my schedule, rather than Microsoft's.

As a customer of MS, I despise these methods, as I continue to use their OS, because there simply isn't any other alternative. All I can hope for is people who don't specifically need Windows to switch to other OSs en masse. At this point I could be swayed into thinking that its a good idea to support anti-microsoft efforts even if they are not based in facts (as you point out, nobody has shown exactly what they collect), just to obtain the result that you want.
This is actually an interesting question, IMO. But, I think you can quickly see the situation is not inherently symmetric, so the answer can't be either.

Just one example - giving employees open access to company materials affects the privacy rights of other people, not just the company. So in order to protect the privacy rights you do have vs the company, they will have to restrict other people's access to your information.

The title of this article is misleading in the sense that the decision was that companies may inspect employees' PMs that originate from company computers. They did not make a blanket decision that the company may monitor personal phones or personal computers.

That highlights how the situation is not symmetric in the sense that you haven't loaned your computers to the company in order to produce their personnel files.
Given that AMD and Intel are both driven by large for profit customers and their requirements, these concerns will probably only get worse.

ARM is probably the closest open chip platform out there, but even that is not Free in the FSF sense or $ sense. It seems that the project is going to forgo user-base for principles, and then most likely no longer be relevant.

It's great to try and fight for and defend your principles, but if that means that you no longer have a user base on which to stand, then the fight will be of little value. I'd love to be wrong about this, but I can't logically see another way that this will play out.
This is taking into account you are the only winner. If others win, this will reduce your profit.
This is unfortunate but expected. Al Jazeera has a severely unfair reputation in America, and most people probably had no idea of the difference between AJ(Qatar) and AJ(America). Hopefully they will continue to have coverage in America, and this doesn't actually mean their total exit of America-based reporting.
They do, but the options aren't reasonable (like the automatic sharing of Wifi AP passwords unless you change the AP's SSID).
I truly believe we've had a paradigm shift in how workers are viewed in this country. Even Paul Graham thinks if a labor union exists, there's opportunity for disruption in that industry.

People are commoditized and anything but a race to the bottom with employee wages and rights is an inefficiency.
The article did not mention Al Jazeera deciding to remove their Internet streaming, and requiring that you can only view via your local cable provider. See this page with the big note to US people: http://www.aljazeera.com/watch_now/201146152255537258.html

I used to check in on their coverage on the Roku channel, but they made a business decision to prevent that. I can understand their decision to make their success dependent on the existing way of doing content business in the US (cable channels), but the number of cord cutters keeps increasing, the most valuable segment for advertisers (younger folk) are the most likely cord cutters (or cord nevers), and the cable business depends heavily on bundling. For example Disney owns ESPN (most of it), so they can make the cable companies to take a portfolio of channels, or get none of them. Al Jazeera had no such leverage.

Their business model was a big gamble, based on the past, and didn't work.
I think it would have been a real challenge to get to the mainstream with their logo and their finances [0]

with financing from the deep pockets of the Qatar government

when the sentiments being purported by Fox, CNN et al were in stark contrast.

[0]: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/business/media/al-jazeera-...
Since 15 it also works damn near flawlessly for me on Ultimate, they also seem to be faster on getting the plugins upto date with the individual IDE's which is a major win for me.

Current project I'm using PHP and Python for different parts and it is absolutely flawless, also if anyone hasn't used them Facets and Aspects are incredible!
The entire employment system veers towards these biases. It's shown even in simple things like "you'll need to give us 10 minutes after you're supposed to be finished working this evening, but don't you dare consider taking 10 minutes off tomorrow".
Only because their skill is much higher than mine. That makes it a game of skill, just one in which the top percent is MUCH better than most.
The FSF has requires contributors to sign one too. Are they evil as well?
It's a sad commentary on the state of America's appetite for intelligent analysis when serious journalism can't compete with attractive talking heads ignorantly spouting talking points. Obama may have said that the increased political rancor was one of the greatest regrets of his presidency, but I think this points to how little of that was attributable to him.

Though I'd be willing to bet that their name was half their problem. With the amount of xenophobia we're seeing these days, a large percentage of the population likely wrote them off based solely on that and was never exposed to their content.
Should've rendered a sky as background :)
I don't think AJ had much of a reputation at all in the US. I wouldn't even know where to find it.
I won't know, if you find some^^

I consider myself as decent (but not genius) programmer and you might find some cool code snippets, but probably not in this project ;)

For me this was more about the endresult and getting compute shader to work. Never considered publishing it really...
It's sad that it won't be easy to find news in the United States that represents the view of the Emir of Qatar.
Anyone near Hamburg able to do this with Mapillary [1]?

[1] https://www.mapillary.com/
I like AJ news quite a bit, their election night report is often the best IMHO (no real bias) but once they launched you couldn't get english streams of their content and our TV plan didn't include them... Maybe now I will be able to get streams again and start watching it more.
Even if microsoft told, that doesn't mean we should automatically trust it. The could be wrong or lying.

I would prefer source code, but someone will eventually do packet captures to figure at least some of it out.
Here's an example Interior View of a coffee shop: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Brewbakers+Caf%C3%A9/@42.9...

Disclaimer: I worked on this community service project. All of our services were free. Just trying to help get small town Keene, NH on the map.
Did Peyton Manning bring them down?
Government spending in the UK is controlled by something called the Barnett Formula, which presently results in about £60Bn/year being transferred from England to Scotland. Should Scotland have become a separate country, this river of money would have run dry overnight. The Scottish Nationalists calculated that with oil at $100/barrel, they could manage without it. However a) the price of oil collapsed and b) the part of Scotland that actually "owns" most of the oil, the Shetlands, was adamant that it wanted to stay part of the UK. So 28 out of 32 voting districts in Scotland, decided the present arrangement suited them well enough!
An electric truck would be an interesting proposition - good torque for towing, and a large footprint gives plenty of battery space, but currently I'd imagine the high cost of entry and the range problem stop it from being viable.

The new smaller engined forced induction Ford trucks seem to be getting good reviews, so perhaps the segment is more open to innovation than I would've guessed
Are you seriously suggesting Airbus aircraft are more dangerous than Boeing due to automation? The (public) accident data show that they have comparable safety records across the board. Carriers aren't clamoring to Airbus for less automation. Flyers aren't gripped by fear when they see "A320" on their boarding passes. The manufacturers employ different philosophies on flight control, but it's not a clear shot that a human is always better. With cars, the general data suggest that automation leads to massive reduction in accidents. In every field there's some nostalgia and romanticizing over how when SHTF, only those with manual experience will be able to achieve anything. Then you have cases like the death of pilot of Michael Alsbury, which would have been prevented by very simple automated flight control checks. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ntsb-virgin-20150727-s...
You are kind of conflicting yourself in your argument against modularization, by noting that different manufacturers already share major sub-assembly. The electric systems have been going towards bus-like approach with microcontrollers. Which should again provide easy enough sub-assembly to be installed afterwards. This is demonstrated by the fact that they are sometimes outsourced.

But about 3D printing I agree. You can print paneling to your taste, but that's about it.

But then again all custom production is getting more and more accessible to end customer. You can order custom water jet cut sheet metal at your door these days.

Maybe something like this could happen: Order chassis and engine from BMW. Print side panels with CAD files you ordered from some Korean designer. Order hood from Jaguar and interior from Versace. Final assembly is done by "chop shop" who prints and orders all the necessary parts to connect the stuff you ordered.
Ravi: Lua with Static Typing and LLVM/libgccjit JIT
What advantage does running Perl 5 code in the Perl 6 runtime give you? Is it enough to warrant switching?
I guess the better question would be why they're even bothering any more when they only support a few ancient Thinkpads and a couple of decade old Apple laptops.

For better or worse, I think they've lost this battle.
Digging a safe latrine pit is more complex than you might think!

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/hygiene/emergenci...

Plus they have a limited lifetime; they fill up, and you need to dig a new one.
How did the monks of Kiev Lavra end up mummified?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev_Pechersk_Lavra
> which could be damaging to and unapproved by the employee

Because unless you work for some sort of co-op or a very specific subset of unionized labor, employees by definition do not have the right to approve anything
The Arabic gang-rape 'Taharrush' phenomenon has now spread to Europe
This. Moving away from service chord cutters at this point was just odd. Embracing alternative media has done wonders for outlets like Russia Today (Though that's state sponsored so it might not be the best comparison).
I can personally attest to the impact of this change. I used to watch their English language coverage, but have not done so since the launch of their cable channel. If this decision means I can stream the international feed from the US again, I won't complain.
Actually, if you click through, that desktop motherboard isn't even supported in the 20150518 release :-/
They require a CLA for exactly the same reason. So that they can change the licence later on if they want.

However, the FSF has a different record to Microsoft over the last 40 years wrt FOSS software.
Ask HN: What should i do if i want to launch a Reddit like website in my country?
should i learn python entirely, or just learn the algorithms that do the votes, or maybe hire a programmer.
Those same decision frequently had hiring and promotion authority. How different are these new people? Are they someone the old decision makers promoted minutes before leaving or are they fresh new hires? Chances are there is a complex mix and at least some of microsoft's behavior has changed and some will remain the same.
I think I'd rather have a machine that has a verified chain of trust from boot than one that will happily run anything.
This comes as absolutely no surprise at all. It doesn't matter if you are the most accurate, informed, respectable news source in the world, because almost no Americans know what Al Jazeera is, and the name evokes the image backdrop of a middle eastern city most Americans can't find on a map, discussing topics of primary interest to American Muslims and few else, while the female anchors are veiled. Not to mention it sounds like a group Americans are more familiar with that starts with "Al-".

This is almost as bad as the Latin American failure of the Chevy Nova (Spanish: no go). They could and should have named it anything, but they really seemed to think their brand would carry any weight at all.

One may say this is proof that Americans don't want truth and reason, just entertainment in their news. We do, but the simple fact is that if you fail to appeal to people's simple desires, fears, and impulses, you will fail entirely.
`type Extension s = s -> Endo Result` is already good enough IMO, since it's `Monoid` and we can also contramap thanks to `Profunctor (->)`. We don't have to bring in `ApAp`, which is anyway called `Compose` in `Data.Functor.Compose`.
> ... I still have a sense that the false positive rate is just too high.

That might be true in principle, but considering what's at stake, I think the investigators will bend over backward to avoid making a claim that isn't ironclad. Remember that in real science, investigators look for explanations that will falsify their results, and only give credence to results that resist sincere efforts at falsification. (Contract this to the outlook of a pseudoscientist, who only looks for reasons to confirm his results.)

Remember the incident in which some investigators claimed that neutrinos were exceeding the speed of light? In truth, they were looking for reasons to confirm their result, not falsify it. They were wrong, the real cause was a bad connection and ... they were pressured to resign their positions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano...

> ... the collaboration can't be expected to do full, detailed analysis of false signals a dozen times a year.

That's true, but they could instead choose a handful of genuinely peculiar signals, signals unlikely to have natural causes, and try to falsify those.

As above, there are a handful of cosmological sources that would produce -- not a brief signal -- but a pattern of signals, like a rising tone created by merging black holes. Those would be more interesting, as well as being easier to compare to false terrestrial sources.
My cable company bundled it away with the expensive foreign language channels, guaranteeing that almost nobody watched it. Add in their retreat from online streaming and it is no mystery why people were not watching.