skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NoMachine offers two methods when delivering a remote Linux/Unix desktop: 1) NX in 'lightweight mode', mainly using advanced compression and caching of the X11 protocol and 2) NX using hardware accelerated video encoding and decoding.

The first method is the preferred option when connecting to legacy X11 applications, i.e. applications making mostly use of traditional X11 Render operations and X11 vector graphics. In this 'lightweight mode' NX reduces both the bandwidth usage and the HW requirements on the client and the server to the very minimum, by employing the expensive video encoding operations only when detecting that the server-side application is producing video data on the screen.

Unfortunately this 'lightweight mode' can't deliver games, a Mac or Windows desktop, as well as most contemporary Unix/Linux desktop environments. The reason, in the latter case, is the inefficient way these applications use the X11 protocol, as well as the inability of the X11 protocol to deal with modern graphics. In these cases, the use of video encoding is unavoidable. NX employs a number of different techniques to reduce the CPU consumption and the bandwidth needed, so much to often make video encoding advantageous even compared to the legacy X11 protocol compression. But, of course, the final results always depend on the screen content being deployed.

Disclaimer: I work for NoMachine
Ketogenic Diet – The Fundamentals
So GoshawkDB doesn't have an SQL engine currently, so in that way it's probably not comparable with F1. GoshawkDB stores and accesses an object graph. Hopefully the howtos on the website will help people get into the mindset.

I'm not sure if it's worth trying to compare anything to Spanner or F1 because unless I'm mistaken, no one outside of Google can use F1 or Spanner - they're not released. So who knows what the performance of these things actually is? There's no way to verify the claims made in any Google paper.
> Since the amount needed is directly proportional to how much you currently make, it makes relatively little difference if your household brings in $70k or $140k a year.

I have to take issue with this. If your salary doubles, your needs do not double along with it. $100K is right around the 80th percentile of US household income. That means 80% of households (~250 million people) in the US are living on less than that. Maybe you can too, despite your paycheck being higher. And if your household's take-home pay suddenly increases from $70k to $140k, see if you can fight the urge to follow that increase with your spending habits. Keep the old car, pay off your debts, and save for a rainy day (layoff, medical emergency, etc).

It absolutely baffles me that prevailing financial habits in the US seem to include spending as much money as possible.
>Not exactly sure what they're supposed to perform better/easier on a shared-hosting locked-in platform.

To be clear, I meant perform as in "tap dance routine" and was being metaphorical.

A large project on github gets more exposure than a large project not on github, because it regularly shows up in the "explore" section of the site. A small project on github gets no more exposure than a small project not on github, because it does not.

(I have no citation for this, it's based on my observations only)
Uhh if they're mirrored, a bit flip is not only detected by ZFS but also corrected, whether it happens passively during a normal file read, or scrubbing, or presumably a resilver.
TeleAPI Is Simple Wrapper to Node.js for Telegram Bot's API
If your Windows host need Windows update, then all the Linux guests would need to be rebooted (but seems they've managed to reduce the number of reboot significantly since last year). But regarding the performance and security, most people using Linux still prefer a Linux VM host.
Control of CRISPR, biotech’s most promising breakthrough, is in dispute
Publishers Gave Away 123M Books During World War II
American disagree about the reality of global warming. The rest of the world has no doubts.
> thing is, bzip2 is widespread, unlike lzma not everybody has.

What year is this, 2010? xz/lzma is everywhere.
Amusingly most of my recent posts are not exactly desired, but the old goodies "copy folder structure without files in bash" and "How to handle exceptions on [6 year old] JS grid" keep getting upvotes because they're interesting to folks who are new to the area.

They were questions I had at the time, and tech I worked with that I don't any longer but still in wide use.

How old is bash anyway?
Because cash won't be that easy to use anymore. Where I live they want to ban using cash like in a restaurant. Because it's easier for the government to check the restaurant that they pay taxes on the income they have.

This means for me as punter that I can't pay with cash anymore and for me the same thing applies. All my money can be checked.

I still want to be able to spend money without anybody tracking me. You know because there are privacy concerns. Maybe governments in the future ban buying ice cream and I need to be able to buy my ice cream fix?
Make some showy data visualizations with R or MatPlotLib. Publish them somewhere with a link you can share. Even better if you can handle a little webdev, make something like one of these and really knock their socks off: http://d3js.org/. Have a resume website or fleshed out LinkedIn account that you can share.

Sign up on Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/) and start participating in contests. Use this to refine your technique. If you do well in the contests, it will be noticed. Be awesome, tactfully, but publicly. Join their data science jobs mailing list and aggressively pursue leads. Make friends and participate in the community and forums.

You should also be attending events like ODSC (http://odsc.com/). Talk to data science people in your area, make connections.

Get very, very friendly with the features in NumPy. Keep your skills sharp and continue to build them.

You should get paid for what you do. Take charge of your fate.
Which alternate cryptocurrencies is he working with?
I think VeilEm is saying it was a bait-and-switch, or maybe false marketing.

If you pay me $50k for a BMW, and I deliver a Honda, the problem isn't that $50k is the wrong price for a BMW.
Did your grandmother's family have a tractor? If so, where did it, and the fuel, come from? Were they using artificial fertilizers? 80 years ago was 1936 and for her to remember things it was more likely during WWII, so they most certainly weren't using guano.

Did she go to school by school bus? Did the family buy things through the Sears catalog, or did her parents or friends drive into the city for shopping? The clothing they made - did they weave the fabric themselves, or buy it? Who made the canning jars, and the seals? Did they produce their own salt? Did they do everything by firewood, or did they use gas or electricity to cook the vegetables for canning?

But those are side-details, mostly to get you to thinking about the things she might not have told you about.

Consider the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which (quoting Wikipedia):

> destroyed many homes and devastated the agricultural economy of the Mississippi Basin. Many people were forced to flee to the cities of the Midwest in search of work, contributing to the "Great Migration" of African Americans in the first half of the 20th century. During the flood and the years after it subsided, it became the subject of numerous Delta blues songs, including "When the Levee Breaks",

I believe a goal of "prepper culture" is to be able to survive something like that significantly better than the pre-WWII American farmer household did, so I don't think these are the same cultures. There's overlap, certainly, but there's also overlap with modern urban life - my urban relatives in Florida have hurricane plans, which includes stocking reserve food, water, gas, etc., having storm shutters, trimming the trees before the season starts, and more.

Thus, if the overlap is enough for you to think that "prepper culture" is the same as pre-WWII American farm values, then I'll argue that it's also the same as modern urban Florida values, and thus rather meaninless - there aren't many TV shows on preparing for hurricane season.

> My point is that the reason why you don't see this in europe isn't because the behaviors are different but merely because the advertising techniques are different in America so the lexicon is different.

Another possibility is that humans, when they are insecure and threatened, often react by withdrawing and becoming defensive. The US does not have a good social safety net, so many people are worried all the time, about their job, health care, family, and retirement and possible lack thereof. Scared humans are more easily led, and many a firebrand have been able to take advantage of that fear for political and economic gain.

While if there is a strong social safety net (as in many places in Europe), and you believe the government will be effective at responding to a natural disasters, then there's less need of a belief to take on the heavier burden of individual planning.
So I do see a number of advantages :

1) transforms all RAM into ECC RAM

2) consumers may not care, but large server cpu customers certainly will see it as a bonus, some will see it as required. Of course, this won't protect against the NSA.

(server cpu customers are the biggest market for intel [1], and also it's the market that's not declining at an alarming rate)

[1] http://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/images/m... (if you know a more recent one, do let me know)
Nice! One question: You seem to have all free apps without in-app purchases (and ads?). How do you plan to monetize?
When you hear stories about dudes building self-driving cars in their garages, you might think the "market" will solve it. But we're no way near having self driving cars.
This is just another way to say "Apple, please acquire us".
Electric motors are much simpler and easier to maintain than an ICE. There's no reason you couldn't keep an EV running optimally for 20 years, assuming you replace the battery at regular intervals.
I don't believe large mining farms in China pay less than 2 cents per kWh. But if you have sources, quote them. I would like to be proven wrong.

For example the lowest Chinese costs I remember reading were from a remote farm who benefits from hydro power and admits that paying 3 cents per kWh is already "on the cheap side": https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1072474.msg11472186#... Farms don't usually disclose how much they pay (strategically sensitive number), but I always do some back-of-the-napkin math when possible, eg. when they release approximate figures, and I usually calculate somewhere between 4 and 10 cents per kWh.
Backlit displays have only replaced CRTs in the last 10 or so years. I don't recall old monitors having a problem with being blue.
How do I prevent the Cascadia earthquake?
See link in the GP:

"The use cases they are looking at and requirements they have cannot be met with the Bitcoin protocol, it just doesn't have the things they need. They are actually spending a lot more time looking at Ethereum than Bitcoin, as it's more obvious how to apply it to their use cases."
OP here: I came across this while looking for ways to combine C++ with electron.js and thought it was interesting.

My next project graphs/plots some realtime data and allows recording/saving/retrieval to a database (SQLlite). I'm considering doing it in election.js instead of WPF/C#. I'd welcome any helpful thoughts or links you might feel like sharing.
Plug in a wireless mouse dongle to a non visible USB port. Move the mouse in slight random movements when they are using it.

Change the keyboard mapping.

Back in the 90's was installing black orfice on a friends computer, though they didn't appreciate that. ;)
The subsequent paragraphs address that, I think. It does not have to be this way, but the reality is that most people spend as much as they earn. You know, anecdotally, I talked to people in the Bay Area who claim that they couldn't really save any money even if they wanted to, because they were only making $120k a year. But I don't think it's a US-only phenomenon; it certainly happens in Europe, too.

I suspect it comes down to a belief that a raise entitles you to a better life, right now: so you go out and buy more expensive groceries, get a nicer car, etc. I was actually raised in a fairly poor family and it's a habit I picked up very early on; took me a fair amount of work to overcome this.
Comcast punishes customers for not renting their routers
I thought it might be worth highlighting the final section, where some consequences of this decision have been highlighted:

'There will be some unfortunate side-effects of this. Most of them are relatively minor (for example, docker inspect will not show an IP address), but some are significant. In particular, containers started by docker run might not be able to communicate with containers started by Kubernetes, and network integrators will have to provide CNI drivers if they want to fully integrate with Kubernetes.'

It will be interesting to see what would happen if a number of significant and interested enterprise parties unite to embrace runC or similar in earnest, relegating Docker's solution set to just another implementation. RedHat + Google + (say) Microsoft and it's game over.
Xiaomi finally releases 2015 sales stats
Should We Limit Web Development to JavaScript?
If you connect a pendrive to your computer, it can easily say that it's a keyboard, because your computer cannot easily verify that you haven't just connected a keyboard.

Sure it can. Just pop up a dialogue on the screen displaying a random character string and ask the user to type the string. The dialogue could simply instruct the user to unplug and cast suspicion upon a device that is pretending to be a keyboard.
Vehicular accidents don't cause fear among the population, nor can they lead to political instability.
Ben Carson talks up threat of terrorism, Internet comments
Ben Carson, self-proclaimed sleepy neurosurgeon and Republican candidate for president, is having a fun debate night. Alongside a few lighthearted jokes, he has both expressed fear of a massive national cyber-and-electromagnetic pulse attack and horror at the nastiness of online comments. When asked about his views on Bill Clinton, Carson went off on a tangent and expressed a view that many share:

“You know, you go to the Internet, you start reading an article, and you go to the comment section, you cannot go five comments down before people are calling each other all manner of names. Where did that spirit come from in America? It did not come from our Judeo-Christian roots. I can tell you that. And wherever it came from, we need to start once again, recognizing that there is such a thing as right and wrong.”

Yep, it’s a scary world out there on the World Wide Web. But don’t you know the No. 1 rule on the Internet? Never read the comments!
No. It doesn't. It was my error. I just need to switch out Ramanujan so you don't trip up on the small stuff. The point stands.
For 95% percent of our existence, population density was waay lower than now. If shit hits the fan in a populated area, and no outside help can get in, people starve.
I think the main advantage of FreeNAS is the the GUI and the support tooling around this web interface. This means creating storage pools and datasets and managing those. Creating and managing jails as well as access control and sharing. It really makes managing the nas a lot more easy.
An informal hierarchy is where one gain power through influence and manipulation (e.g. creating a fight between two other people so you're the only one who still have good relations with both of them and you're the only one getting the benefits of these relations). The problem with this is that you end up with invisible hierarchies with a lack of accountability. At some point few people understand why a project is stuck and it takes a while to unearth. God forbid that a small clique forms and finds a way to exploit failures in the oversight to drain the company for their own interest, blocking real progress within the company but with the inability to either point fingers or fire people.

Now with formal hierarchies everyone generally knows who's responsible for what, but in larger companies you can still end up with inter-divisional fights, rivalries, etc. e.g. Microsoft under Ballmer. But at least a higher up can roll their sleeves and clean up house because they have that power, e.g. Satya Nadella.
Buffer and Google Analytics for photographers
As someone once said to me when I proposed running a diet-related experiment on myself, "You can't live your life in a research lab!"

To which the answer is, of course, "Maybe not, but I can certainly spend two weeks."
ESP8266 Jamming
We demand strong #SecurityForAll
Isn't your #2 point the rebuttal of your #1 ?

If you feel flux is bad designed, lacks options that you need, and needs to evolve into something that behaves smarter; perhaps we can agree the problem is not just 'make my screen more red'

You present your case as a simple tweak, there will definitely be thousands of people who also need a 'super-simple option' (I read it in my mind as "Just add a setting!"), so I guess finding good defaults and packing enough flexibility without a twelve pages setting screen would also be non trivial but appreciated.

I'm saying, recognizing that what we want from something like flux can be as complex as we want it to be, and developing an ecosystem of those would be interesting and hopefully very beneficial to everyone.
> But I guess that's not as much fun as stock-piling guns and ammo for a zombie apocalypse.

Don't forget limitless quantities of beer and jerky.
Personally I avoid moral and ethical discussion because I think it takes real discipline to create a convincing, general, elegant, and accessible moral framework by which to convince others, and I don't think anyone has a go-to framework yet.

In fact, I think having a framework for anything is uncommon and difficult (concurrency and parallelism, cognitive science, causal learning, math). The consequence of discussing without a framework is that we're really just thinking about what we want, and working backward to find any reason for it, unwilling to just say "It's what I want."

I've yet to meet a vegan that provides me a framework with accessibility and clarity, and this article is no exception. I don't even have a moral or ethical framework for myself yet, because I know it must be incredibly hard, and I feel like embarking on a search for one would be like wasting one's mathematical career on P ? NP. I'm not a philosophical genius. I'm just a person with feelings.

With morality and ethics, it's either you already agree with my values or you don't. It's nigh impossible for me to persuade you in the value of Jesus the Christ. You would expect me to solve some unsolved philosophical questions with clarity and accessibility, and I likely wouldn't even scratch the surface of the problem.

I don't think any vegan is about to come out with a blockbuster theory that smashes through the philosophical community, building general consensus. In the meantime, they're just having feelings like I do, and trying to find justifications for them post-fact.

Do you already have the same feelings as I do? Great. Now we can make some arguments about achieving our mutual feelings. But I'm not going to pretend that it's some conclusion of a logical foundation.
Water ice found on the surface of comet 67P
To reduce that number to as close to 0 as is possible absolutely should be a top priority for our nation as a whole.

Of course it should be a goal, but you a cost vs. benefit analysis is required. If you can save 30K lives per year for $4B, could you save even more lives if you spent it another way?

20x more people die of heart disease in the US every year as compared to vehicular accidents. In fact, car crashes isn't even in the top 10.
You're looking at it from the wrong perspective. Intel is doing this because it's so far ahead of AMD and they have their customers locked-in, so they think they can do whatever they want to their customers' PCs.

It's a shame Google actively tried to push Intel chips in Chromebooks over ARM, when ChromeOS is virtually completely architecture agnostic, and that Microsoft killed Windows RT, too. If those things wouldn't have happened we would see Intel more in a panic mode by now, as "high-end" ARM chips start taking over sub-$400 notebooks.

Before you say "but Intel's chips are so much more powerful for $400 machines" - not they aren't. Intel has transitioned to using almost completely Atom chips (ARM chips' direct competitors) for sub-$400 machines and the OEMs went along with it, paying them ~3-5x what they would pay for an ARM chip of the same or better performance. All thanks to Intel's monopoly in PCs.
> Personally I can't use the web UI for notifications because they bundle multiple notifications per issue. This leads to potentially missed notifications since it is up to me to scan the issue/PR for new comments.

I think the bundling aspect is an awesome feature! I can read multiple new comments all at once, with context in mind and less total context switches.

About being able to miss new comments - doesn't the link in the notifications UI take you directly to the first unread comment?
It was a joke by 4chan's technology board, made to see if people would take it seriously (some did and even agreed with it!).
And interestingly almost all politicians of all hue and color and with capacity to do something seem to be siding with them.
Is there a definitive list somewhere? If there was, a boycott could be organized.
IIRC That's their marginal cost of production, not breakeven. They'd still be running massive losses at that price and would have to default on their debts.
I think this desire is a case of the best being the enemy of good.

The ethical case for veganism is accessible for people who accept the rather mainstream premises that we have man made climate change and unethical treatment of production animals, and working against them is the ethical thing to do.
> like with most political problems, it's a political solution

I don't know anything about Bitcoin but the promise seemed to be to invent a technical form of money, with limited supply, that would be free of politics and interference from governments.

To quote the beginning of the article:

> What was meant to be a new, decentralised form of money that lacked “systemically important institutions” and “too big to fail” has become something even worse: a system completely controlled by just a handful of people.
OpenBSD Xen DomU Support in -current
The container shipping industry is still largely paper document driven. There are startups[1] in the industry working to build software products to disrupt it and cash in on the potential optimisations. When you talk to people who know the industry it's a bit like listening to someone talking about the web in 1995 - there's brilliant stuff going on but things could obviously be so much better.

[1] E.g https://kontainers.com I'm not affiliated, but they did do the same accelerator as my startup.