skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parse additions from Git patches in Node.js
https://github.com/ucb-bar/riscv-torture, stupid copy/paste.
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"Yeah, Vox is losing credibility."

Serious question: did they ever have credibility? Other than being able to apparently fund a site and pay (?) writers, is there something else there I just wasn't aware of?
I don't fault his making predictions; but an occams razor explanation seems FAR more compelling to me, that a character like trump provides an outlet for sentiments that haven't been well served by any _marginally_ viable political candidate. Combined with a boisterous personality (which dovetails well with what seems to be a rising anti-establishment sentiment in certain groups) and celebrity background, it fits neatly into America's tendency to lend more credence than might be deserved otherwise to stars, regardless of their individual domain specific merit. (c.f. other celebrity anti-vaxers and the recurring trend to have non-political notables on political talk shows)
If only they had some sort of automated communication mechanism that they could use to share the same pages of information between the engineers working on the lowest level of the product, and the management that needs to understand the root cause of it all...
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Yahoo looking to slash 10 percent or more of its workforce
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That's an interesting thought but I'm not sure that's the case. Everything I've read about VR indicates that latency capturing and interpreting input are the biggest factors in the VR experience. If output latency were a major concern then I'm not sure they'd have chosen standard HDMI to carry the audio/video signals. The DAC on the Rift is simply to take the HDMI audio and output it.
Assumption being the data can be traced back to a user.
"I know the rich aren't all getting richer simply from some sinister new system for transferring wealth to them from everyone else,"

401(k)'s are a great example of shifting wealth to the wealthy. SS was used to fund general government spending, but nobody got directly rich from it. With 401(k)'s the financial sector can skim a vast pool of money from the middle class with a huge range of hidden fees. Toss in a 10% fee for pulling money out in an emergency and it's surprisingly bad for younger workers vs simply investing money and paying the trivial cap gains taxes.

On top of that it inserted 100's of billions of dumb money into the market which creates tones of opportunity's to make money using HFT etc.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/tutorial-start.htm...

What particularly are you looking for in a "getting started" tutorial? Honestly, you should just plunge in, on some side project (or a mirror of whatever projects you've used MySQL on) and just compare.

This is a lot easier to say than do/live by, but I think you shouldn't invest in one tool choice when you haven't given the others a fair shake (once you have enough time to step back and think about your decision).
Interesting, because I find dealing with high DPI significantly better on Ubuntu than Windows.

And Unity works well for me, my wife, and daughter.
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Microsoft doesn't own the company, Cyanogen Inc is venture funded presently
Well, first thing is write down a full list and make sure to re-use your previous bag of skills as much as possible: you are starting again but not as a zero in software development! That said, it will be more a network problem than a technical one. Just go out, meet real people in the field and tell them the same things you have just written here. Cold calls to local shops may help too. Good luck!
> Rocks in space are subject to a force/pressure from the sun, a pressure comparable to that from a earthbound laser.

Hum, is it? When near the Sun, yes, of course, but when away from it, we can probably throw way more energy on it than the Sun.

Yes, it does require details that we currently can't measure. The good new is that the laser doubles as an excellent instrument for measuring those details.
My favorite example (since fixed) was the word "amistad" translated from Spanish to English. It translated to "friendship," of course. You could add exclamation marks to it, like "amistad!" and it would translate to "friendship!" You could add more, and it would add more. But if you translated "amistad!!!!!" with precisely five exclamation marks, not four nor six but exactly five, it would instead translate to "murder!"
This is going to be so much more awesome as drones improve.
Healthcare tech, which is disproportionately based in MA, is having a moment. So I imagine that contributed to the ranking.
Does it know what category to put something in if I use cash?

From my experience tracking what I spend, it's those transactions that I actually need to keep track of if I'm going to spend money more sensibly. All of the headline, automated bills that get paid monthly are easy to manage. It's the little transactions of a few bucks here and there that add up to that "Where the hell did this month's wages go?!" feeling.

If there isn't a good way to track cash transactions then it's not likely to change the way I handle my money, and consequently it wouldn't be very useful for me.
Fair point. Right now we're not making any money off of users. Down the line, we'd like to explore freemium features or perhaps a subscription model. We don't want to or plan to sell your data.

And for completeness: in the US the competition includes Level Money and BillGuard.
rubbish, go put this on the yahoo board.
This looks great, really good UX/UI from a first glance. My bank has a pretty modern banking app, so some of the features (like spending graphs) are familiar to me (though not as pretty as in Penny).

Two things that I dislike with my banking app:

- No real differentiation between fixed, monthly cost and variable expenses. It would be nice if the automatically separated monthly expenses and one-time expenses.

- Lots of "-$100 Cash" transactions whenever I use an ATM. This is my main concern actually. It's really hard to have some sort of insight about my finances without seeing the biggest part of my non-expenditure spending: The stuff I pay for in cash. Especially since it distorts the monthly overviews: If I retrieve $500 from my bank account on July 31st, it's not helpful to add that to my July spending, since 90% of that money will probably be spent in August. This is really a data-entry/UX problem, no API will solve this. One thing that I would suggest: Make an extension that makes it really simple to "scan" receipts. Just one glance of the camera, some OCR and the data is in there. If it's simple enough, it may become part of my "muscle memory" to scan receipts with the app whenever I buy something, so I get meaningful analysis results.

(By the way, if you want to build something like that, check out this API: https://scanbot.io/de/sdk.html - great product & company, I'm not affiliated in any way)
I'm not really into the simulated live chat interface. It'd be a lot easier to click a button that said "Your spending" than to type out "Please show me my monthly spending Mr. Robot" (or to type out anything, especially on a phone).
The difference between the top two is not large enough to conclude one is more innovative than another.
I might get some hate, but I also think upsert was one of the best features that MongoDB offered that PG didn't, so this is a big win from that perspective too.
China unfortunately created stock market but doesn't have the requisite pieces to allow one to operate properly.

For a fully functioning stock market you need:

- capital, which they have

- speculators, to make trades happen, they have these

- transparency in how your market works, or atlest the appearance that the market is fair to all

- and you need stoggy old buy/hold/long only investors. China is missing these.

In most markets the latter is done by ETF retirement investment and pension plans who have to invest 100's of billions of dollars each year.

The scariest thing about this for the global equity markets is that in 10-20 years the top 3 markets could be China, India and the US.

Whether or not you like the US stock market, it is fairly transparent and not run by the whims of the government. The other two countries are about as opaque as you can be. Speaking as a person who actively invests money, that's a very troubling thought.

As one economic nobel prize winner put it... "China and India haven't put out a credible macroeconomic number in the past 10 years".

China is also loosing alot of money each month trying to support the yuan. I saw a credible estimate of about 100 billion a month since October.
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They've already given up on the circuit breakers: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/07/chinese-securities-regulator-....
It arrives when path-tracing or at least some good GI (global illumination) approximation can be accurately solved in real time.

Ray-tracing has a pretty limited use for photorealism, unless you have a lot of shiny surfaces and such. It can't model diffuse light bouncing off surfaces.
Odd, I hear this complaint all the time but have never personally experienced it. Mint has always worked for me, even with a bunch of esoteric 401k and other accounts from no-name banks.
Yes, the Visual Studio Code was demoed at the latest developers' event.
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I'm building a badass security-first OAuth2 lib and need you to get it right
Listening is another great way to learn a foreign language. I recommend adding the ability to hear a passage. Create functionality for people to read a transcript and input it.
Here we go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRNoRlLlsD8

Hadn't heard of that engine before. Was a very pleasant way to take a break from emails. Thanks.
Could you please respond to my whole comment rather than cherry picking one thing I said.

> wealth doesn't beget wealth

The return on an investment in the S&P 500 over the past 50 years undermines this.

> absence of it does not prevent one from generating wealth.

Prevent is such a strong word. I'm not technically prevented from breaking the longest free-fall record. However, I do not have 1000s of skydives under my belt or connections in the community of record breaking skydiving. While I'm not technically prevented from getting those things, I'm behind the curve compared to someone that has those things.

> the manner in which it produce income inequality is not harmful

But he doesn't really present any real evidence that this is the case. Now, I agree, that some startups produce new wealth as some percentage of the wealth that their founders, investors, and employees reap. But it's obviously always more complicated than that. Take, for example, the Microsoft office suite, which by almost any measure created an immense amount of wealth. However, it also made a large number of jobs obsolete, and thus "redistributed" the wealth from people working typist style jobs. Take for example, smartphones, which again, have created an immense amount of wealth. However, they also allow smaller independent contractors who would otherwise have rented an office space, and hired a secretary, to simply use their smartphone to manage their day, thus "redistributing" some amount of wealth from a lower-middle class job to an upper-middle class job. Now, obviously, I've ignored that maybe, the loss of these jobs created new jobs that the workers who were displaced could do, but given that PGs argument was basically just "We make the pie bigger" with almost no evidence, my argument of "It's really not that simple" with some examples should be at least equally convincing to you.
"and you hereby appoint Penny as your true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for you and in your name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to access third party internet sites, servers or documents, retrieve information, and use your accounts, passwords, and other information"

Lol, no.
If you're not throttling the number of incorrect password guesses per IP, or per IP per account, or both, you're opening your users up to a dictionary attacks anyway. If I can get a box close your yours (~5ms is doable if we use the same colo), then it's completely feasible.

You're right however that this is going to be painful, because most web frameworks don't have any of this throttling architecture (like persistent in-memory hashtables) in place, and as soon as they switch to Argon2/Scrypt, it's going to be an easy DoS vector... particularly for services running on weak VPSs.

It's another reason why solid, secure password authentication protocols, that do client-side hashing, will eventually happen. Even in fancy zero-knowledge asymmetric protocols however, online rate-limiting is essential.
And that's okay as long as the data doesn't leave your computer.
>want to love Evernote because having a centralized, cross-platform, easily searchable repository for both binary content and text is hugely powerful, and there aren't really any viable competitors in this space.

OneNote?
I did intentionally write "valuable" instead of "intrusive," as you're right -- that is very useful data to aid Microsoft in developing Windows. But as a user, I ought to be able to at least opt out. But typical Windows users cannot, even if they might think that they are by downgrading from Enhanced to Basic.
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I'd use semi-realtime path tracers as a benchmark: https://home.otoy.com/render/brigade/showcase/
Recently I've been finding myself writing an increasing amount of integration tests over unit tests. They are typically more difficult to write, though I enjoy the safety net of knowing I'm not breaking user-facing features. I haven't been a fan of most of the existing frameworks with nested callbacks, or huge function chains with inline assertions. As people become more familiar with standardized async functions, I feel that they + mocha can be used as a test library which is very easy to reason about.
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At the end of the day, the most eBay will do is make sure you get your money back if the seller doesn't deliver. That's exactly what StubHub did, AND they offered him hundreds in gift certificates as well.

The problem here is that getting one's money back doesn't feel like enough, because you're losing out on massive appreciation of the purchase between when you bought it and now.

This is one of the most difficult customer service issues to solve, because the cost to correct the situation in the customer's eyes has no upper bound.
Keep up the good work. Already referred it out to a bunch of people. Think it will work great overseas where people actually need to learn another language for work. I have referred it to the people who live in Italy and work for me to help them learn english faster.
For Battlecode it's not too late to start. Plenty of people are still getting started. The competition lasts until January 30th and it's only the 4th day.
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Depends which C and C++ worlds you mean.

In the GNU/Linux world maybe, but that is just one planet in the C and C++ galaxy.
I have experienced this myself with Lakers playoff tickets a few years ago ... we showed up at the game with the tickets we were sent, and they were tickets to the previous playoff series, a week or so prior.

We ran a few blocks from Staples to the stubhub office and they just handed us comparable tickets. It was amazing. One of the nicest and best customer service interactions I have ever had.
I'd like to see where Canadian provinces fit on this list. Wonder if those numbers are available.
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> and you need stoggy old buy/hold/long only investors. China is missing these.

I've never heard about this before, and it doesn't even make sense. It sounds to me like you made it up.
He wrote a book of predictions that I read years ago. The big concrete prediction I remember from it was that health food would go mainstream, and it has. More recently/concretely I was going by http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/02/2015-predictions-calibr... .
Yep - he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal which was the other ranks version of the Distinguished Service Cross which Lt Cdr Balme was awarded.

The Daily Telegraph usually does good obituaries:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12078997/Lieutena...
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It would be interesting to add a column of average income tax rates. At a glance, it seems like higher tax states tend to have more innovation, but that could just be my own bias.

(Correlation isn't sufficient to show causation, but it would show that taxes don't have a negative effect on innovation as many anti-tax proponents would argue.)
Senior then. I guess my comment serves as evidence for why the numbering is useless for anyone not paying close attention to the sequence of US presidents.
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Japan after ~1900 very much flip-flopped in their policy between playing the anti-imperialist liberator of Asia and its first colonial power and equal to western colonial powers for some time. Of course there was a political power struggle within Japan about this direction. Defining moment was the victory in the Russo-Japanese war of 1905, which was the first victory of a "3rd world" country against a traditional colonial power.

Likewise they partially treated Koreans as lost brothers that needed to be elevated and integrated into their empire and an inferior race that was to be exploited colonial style.
Note that even the "integration" strategy showed some similarity to what the Nazis later (after 1938) did with their "Heim ins Reich" strategy (which included "reintegration" of ethnic Germans on foreign soil by territorial annexation).

In practical terms both policies were put into measures sometimes simultaneously, but the colonialism supporters grew stronger over time. The famous "Greater Asian Welfare Sphere" rhetoric was a perverted remains of the "liberator"-style agenda.
(I read a history book on the topic many years ago, but unfortunately can't find a reference, sorry.)

Whether the Japanese empire of the time should be classified as fascist seems to be at least highly controversial among historians. I had the impression the majority see it as a nationalistic (and after the putsch 1936 also military) dictatorship.
That definition does not help the argument that "legacy application" is a more likely meaning than "legacy mysql". In the sentence in question, the application hasn't been migrated yet, so clearly it has not been superseded.
Go to a developer meetup in your area. You'll be able to network, ping senior developers for ideas and get to know some local dev shops in the area. You could even walk out with a job, most folks are often looking for devs that attend or sponsor.
Fair point. It is reasonable to demote this post.

Personally, I always read the release notes but am less interested in the press release. I think many others prefer the opposite, hence my posting both. You raise a valid point though.
Personally, I love linux Mint. It beats every other operating system that I've every tried, but occasionally I've had to know some CS concepts in order to keep it running/ fix bugs. This is more a linux problem in general, but it's easily worth it as a CS student.
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Linode is down
Any news on what is going on? I know they have been DDoSed recently, but is that still going on?
I agree the context is important, and it may sometimes provide reasonable justification for the police to shoot first, like if there's a crowd behind the officer. Generally, I think the officers should minimize the probability that 1) innocent bystanders get shot, 2) unarmed suspects get shot, and 3) the officer gets shot; in that order. Some people seem to put 3) in front of 2), and I think that's wrong.

However, a in lot of recent videotaped incidents, it's been shown that many police officers are shooting and often killing people merely because the officer falsely "thought" they had a real gun. That behavior is unacceptable and needs to stop, even if that means police have to take more personal risks themselves.
First version on arxiv.org: April 1, 2015
I grew up in Chicago, and I must second this. The tour is amazing.

The U505 initially was outside the museum, but a few years ago they moved it into its own beautifully done concrete hall [1]. I highly recommend it if you're in town and have the time.

[1] http://www.msichicago.org/fileadmin/Exhibits/permanent/u505/...
There's actually not a lot of typing involved since the responses are pre-populated for you. You can see an example of what that looks like on the marketing page.
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"You're alleging that a CoC is meaningless, but why implement a CoC, as a community, if you don't actually want more women and people of color becoming involved in your projects? The CoC is the signal saying, "We, as a community, want you to feel welcome here.""

See the part where i directly answer this:
"If a COC becomes a baseline requirement for people to run projects and attract contributors,"

IE if people stop going to projects without COC's, people will add COC's.

I'm not sure why you think anything else will happen.

"So, to repeat, a CoC is a signal of desire to be inclusive."

It is this second. As I said, if it becomes a thing people look for, it will no longer be that, because everyone will just add them and ignore them. It will no longer be a signal for what you are looking for. It will achieve precisely nothing.

Again, I'm honestly befuddled why you think anything else would happen

Do you really think normal people trying to start projects are going to say "well, i really want to attract contributors of all kinds, and it seems i have to have a COC, that i don't care about, to do that, but i guess it would just be wrong to have a COC if i don't care?"

Or do you think they are just going to say "well, i really want to attract contributors of all kinds, i better add a COC that i don't really care about".

I mean, this is already happening. How many projects are like our OP, and basically go and say "well, i should probably add a COC, but i don't really care".

You need look no further than things like yellow/pink ribbons/flag pins senators wear/etc to see what will happen. These things were once signals of people who cared. Now they are just social norms.
You're missing the point (which is hilarious, because the very first sentence of the linked article spells it out explicitly). The APIs for password hashing are simple, and always have been (c.f. man 3 crypt).

It's the problem area that is complicated and rapidly changing. And use of APIs and mechanisms that just a few years back were Best Practices is now discouraged. That's not something that can be treated by a cute Python API.
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So why are people then trading stocks in China or India or wherever if they don't trust the system? They wouldn't be able to become the largest stock markets if nobody would trade there and there would be nothing to be scared by.
> Industry is far more collaborative and credit is widely shared.

This couldn't be farther from the truth. Your idea's are generally credited to the company, which in turn is credited to the CEO or some other high up. On collaboration, it's only more collaborative within a given company, and not always even then. Between companies it's outright hostile to collaboration by definition.
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