skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
uMatrix if you are a control freak. I usually stand it for two weeks before giving up. And yup, I've trained it to know the sites I regularly visit. Thing is, I also surf NEW sites all the time.

Now I use Self Destructing Cookies, uBlock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere. That works just fine without taking the fun out of the web.
What happens if you forget? Does your body tell you? Do you suddenly get hungry for nutritional yeast?
I have to admit, the technical aspects of this are way beyond me. Would this technology allow (in theory) secure distributed computation via RDMA?

I've long suspected that Intel understands the implications of mass adoption of cheap, RDMA capable network adapters (iWarp, ROCE and Infiniband): it will cannibalise future CPU sales revenue. Imagine a standard corporate working environment with 1000 workstations on a LAN. At any given time, average CPU utilisation is probably 5-10 per cent tops. It's a similar story with storage and I/O capacity. If you add RDMA (and ultra-low latency networking) to the equation, there is now no need to buy additional computational power for the next 5 years, as there are a tonne of idle resources that can now be efficiently utilised (even for non-parallelisable computation).

From what I can surmise from recent Intel actions, they've opted to not take the 'Microsoft' approach (i.e. hold back the tide), and have instead decided that if CPU markets are going to be cannibalised, they may as well be the ones doing the cannibalising.

Well, that's my theory anyway. Am I crazy?
For the same reason I switched to Ember.js. I prefer the more opinionated way, the conventions. It looks to me, this repo try to provide some structure, but this is only one from the other 25 projects which do the same. The development effort is so fragmented. Should focus only one good react based framework. Luckily Ember.js is already implemented the good parts from React and from the Flux concept, stable, production ready, huge community. When you work with Ember, you dont feel that "fatigue" bullshit, because it is just disappeared. ;)
That's the boat I'm in. I really would like a good project that would let me learn modern C++, but I haven't found one in an interesting space yet :/
Hi,
I'm a lavagna.io developer so I'm surely biased but the search / filter feature is deeply integrated and plays a key role once a team starts to handle a lots of cards, take a look if you like the idea.
Thank you for sharing this.

I wonder, apart from financies, how can we support their efforts?
I have to highlight the contempt part of ebiester's post. Working with people who have contempt for the people around them is seriously deleterious to your productivity and mental health.

If you are working for a boss who has contempt for his underlings, I would suggest leaving, if you want to be productive in the future. Working under that sort of manager is absolutely hazardous.

A way you can spot someone who has contempt is to notice if they put down people, even if in a backhanded kind of way, or assuming the worst about someone. I have found that showing contempt for people in a 'lower socioeconomic status' is a strong sign of them showing contempt for everyone else they can put down to elevate themselves.

If they are your manager then they are likely to go up the organisational hierarchy soon, because they are really good at self promotion if they are already your manager.

This has come from my experience in the workforce.
I know of no other CPU feature that requires authorization from Intel.
Thanks for the chuckle. I needed it!
Speaking about effectiveness and stuff: I am still amazed how these modern bootstrapy landing pages, that, in this particular case, basically contain nothing more than text and a couple of pictures, can make browser noticeably slower. I mean, yeah, it works, can be built quickly and, since users are used to it — nobody really complains. If it would be some yet another tiny startup, I wouldn't even bother to comment.

But when it's a landing for some futuristic Microsoft project, which is about doing significant work to achieve relatively small improvement in something, and which is very likely to be non-environmentally-friendly… Really, just look at it. Enjoy how scrolling up and down makes your browser lag. And then look at the source. Just marvelous.
Uber Takes Its Alipay Partnership Global to Tap into Chinese Travelers
Good examples. The tools should come 2nd to humans wherever it makes sense. I push strong static analysis tools like Astree & SPARK because they find things that are hard for humans. Complexity metrics, if well-designed, might find trouble spots in the code. However, I agree with author that this sort of thing is hard enough for a computer to understand that anyone using that should let human mind decide if a change makes sense for comprehension.

Preferably, several of them that are more likely to disagree. ;)
SGX has nothing to do with RDMA, and I suspect they don't play well together; all data entering/leaving an enclave probably has to be copied. Also, RDMA is only for servers and may not be as powerful as you think.
Why don't yall rest your mind about all this huckterism from poettering and have a cookie...
or rather some libre vidya:

For real time strategy:
http://lgdb.org/game/0-ad
0 AD

For minecraft style:
http://www.minetest.net/download
Mine Test

For RPG style:
http://www.freedroid.org/news/news-detail/article/merry-chri...
FreeDroid RPG

For Platformer Style:
https://github.com/SuperTux/supertux/releases/tag/v0.4.0
SuperTux

For FPS style:
http://www.lgdb.org/game/chaosesque-anthology
ChaosEsque Anthology (Fork of Xonotic)

For 2d Physics sandbox:
http://powdertoy.co.uk/
Powder Toy

Take your mind off this poettering bullshit.
They've taken over our thing, line-unix, and there is nothing
that we can do about it.

Maybe contribute to devuan, if they'll even let you.
(Some of the blowhards there on the mailing list
don't even want security-hardening
scripts in Devuan because "A real unix admin knows how to
do the 100+ changes HIMSELF (EVERYTIME!!!)". Fucking faggot.
(S something)...
> Rust is basically a better alternative to C++ for almost any usage of C++ that doesn't require interoperating with existing C++ libraries

What often isn't mentioned is that C++ has a much more diverse ecosystem than Rust. C++ has four major compilers, three major standard library implementations, and 30 years of associated tooling and library development. Occasional serious issues in GCC and libstdc++ (or Clang and libc++, or in Microsoft, ...) do crop up, and the ability to cross reference alternative toolchains is quite valuable. If Rust can hit enough critical mass the ecosystem will develop, but it isn't there, yet.
Hans Reiser did the correct thing.
He just didn't do enough of it.
> Future of capitalism is worker owned cooperatives

Oh, please, go run a business with 20+ employees for ten years and then come back to this comment. You'll see juat how ridiculous it actually sounds. Until then, please stop thinking you understand how a business runs, 'cause you don't.
7 Things you must absolutely do before writing an iOS app
My guess is they are more concerned with latency for real-time services used by millions in big cities, where land is expensive. Think VR servers.

Quick googling yields [1] datacenter land selling for more than $1 million per acre in SV and [2] Google's requirements for datacenter placement. The first four points listed are cheap electricity, carbon neutrality, lots of water, and large parcels of land; the 215 to 1200 acres mentioned in [2] would cost $240 million to $1.5 billion at the price quoted in [1]. Sealed containers anchored to the free sea floor, running on free wave energy and cooled with free sea water would be a very clever way to satisfy those requirements while staying close to the customers.

[1] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2015/07/24/equin...

[2] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/google-data-center-faq-pa...
How do you enable it?
I got this impression as well. It seems like Rust would have been a great fit for what he/she is looking for. For example, calling into Rust from Python is dead simple because of its C-compatible ABI.
I ended up learning Rust and I will never look back!
Self destructing cookies

Chrome gives you the option to delete cookies on quit and has exceptions for whitelisting, is "Self destructing cookies" any different?
I think GP meant Firefox. It has reading mode in android and desktop versions
They hired a CPU designer. Tesla's going to design their own CPU? That's not the problem with their "autopilot".
This is so true!
Pinegrow starts at $49 and has been around for two years since 1.0 release. Makes me so happy that I'm my own boss and don't have to prove anything to a person like you :)
Rust doesn't have stable ABI. I think what you meant is that Rust exposes C API.
Firefox doesn't offer its reader mode on this article.

I really want to know how it determines whether a page is suitable for reader mode or not (but I can't find any documentation on that). Even on my blog, it allows reader mode on the "about" page, yet not on any of the actual articles, despite them being structured very similarly. :/
Feel free to look at their indictment.
The crime is providing too much anonymity and not centralizing enough. See "The criminal design of Liberty Reserve", starting from point 14.

http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-sdny/legacy/...
Sorry, but isn't that the point? Why do I need to know what `sum` does behind the scenes? Same with `map`, `reduce`, etc. Those functions exist to avoid a `for` loop or other forms of imperative iteration for common uses.

Either way, I seem to remember that Clojure does have a REPL function to show you the source code for any function. You can use that to know what's going on behind the scenes.
Isn't it ironic that this page itself has a google.com dependency as shown by uBlock :D
Firefox lets you do that natively too. Self destructing cookies deletes the cookies after you close the browser tab, not the entire window. If the browser doesn't provide complete isolation between tabs, this'll make it so the cookie isn't there to harvest from. You can set each site to tab/browser/never too.
This made me wonder why Opportunity doesn't have the same problem (answer: it uses solar panels), after a couple of clicks on wikipedia I found this awesome visualization of Huygen landing on Titan! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huygens_descent.ogg
Thanks! I hadn't thought about how it maps to this "fast" thinking style, but that does help explain why I've found this method generally useful for breaking intuitions down and understanding them.
Remember that the TPP will enact new laws and penalties related to copyright, affecting 800 million people. First they came for the librarians... Unless there is public opposition, the TPP will likely be voted into effect during the US post-election lame duck period. Instead, the TPP can be made into a visible 2016 election issue, to forestall post-election flip-flops.

The US Copyright Office has a progressive report [1] on Orphan Works, a positive example of practical steps negotiated among a wide range of business and civil society stakeholders. This example can be expanded to other areas of copyright law. Instead, the TPP favors a subset [2] of corporate interests, at the expense of competing corporate and public groups who were excluded from deliberations. We can do better.

[1] http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/how-tpp-will-affect-yo...
Angels and Magick are not real to the uninitiated.
Apple to introduce wireless charging technology
Angular Material doesn't suffer from any of those issues because it is based on flexbox. It works without Javascript, only it hasn't been written to do that. There are two issues:

- first, the elements being selected are all angular directives like `md-content`, `md-button` -- not a dependency on Javascript but clearly targeting a JS app

- a second theme stylesheet is dynamically generated and injected into the head

None of these are strict requirements -- I've extracted the stylesheet and repurposed it for my own projects.
The laser links are between different satellites not between the base station and the sattlelite.

Terrestrial FSO is still pretty much limited to about 2500-3000m, no one is going to be using laser to talk to satellites from the ground not as long as the earth has an atmosphere.
But those same features make it very bewildering and difficult for newcomers. Four different compiler behaviors to read about in any area not defined by the standard, tooling that can require a long and complex setup from an expert, and 30 years of differing opinions about good development practices crufting up learning resources.
Protection of society as a whole is usually just special interest in disguise. See drug war, child pornography distribution, copyright extension etc.
This one's not far from my expectations, but I think we're going to see more coming out of China in the next few years. Would definitely be interesting to see how the map evolves year by year.

Also, I wish it was just color intensity, as the circles don't really show the whole story, and tend to crawl into the ocean and areas with very little population.
Now all they need is a billion dollar marketing department.
Well, P/NP really has almost no bearing on this problem. That is a theoretical problem and even if P=NP, the algorithm could have a ginormous constant or degree. Conversely even if P=/=NP, the problem might be very easy to solve at human timescales with advanced enough algorithms/processing speed.
Hmm, I guess I'm not familiar enough with the terms to be confident that I'm using the correct terminology, but in any case it's very easy to call Rust code from C, or from Python, etc. Anything that can call C code can call Rust code (with a few compiler directives around the desired functions to prevent name mangling etc). This might not be the exact same thing as having the same ABI (although I had been under the impression that that is what it meant).

Examples:

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/24/Rust-Once-Run-Everywher...

https://gist.github.com/seanjensengrey/f5d73bbdf22cfa1ad463
Cooling data centers with seawater is not new, Google has been doing it since at least 2011. There are many ways to mitigate the corrosive effects on the equipment. "For instance, Interxion uses materials like Cunifer and titanium, which will last approximately 10 years in seawater." [1]

There also are many tried and true ways to manage the heated water so that it is safe for the environment [1, 2].

"We pump that seawater through cooling modules - which are direct water to water heat exchange modules - and then the water is gravity fed from the cooling modules back out to a temporary building, which serves the purpose of mixing incoming seawater with outgoing return water, so when we return the water to the Gulf it is at a temperature more similar to the incoming water." [2].

I'm sure Microsoft was aware of all this before publishing their report. Good on them for thinking creatively.

[1]: http://www.datacenterjournal.com/industry-perspective-seawat...

[2]: http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/power-cooling/googles-finl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrocurrency is a global Pyramid scheme, resulting in friction between Islam and the West;
http://www.zerohedge.com/print/502779
http://in5stepstutorials.com/google-chrome/i/show-reading-mo...
It communicates with other satellites by laser. Ground communication is over Ka-band radio. The 50-100% figure is simple geometry. A satellite with an orbit that is always in view will have 100% coverage. Other satellites will have at least 50%.
Anyone here uses D? I recall it was kind of popular a few years back, and its features look very similar to Rust. Thoughts?
Perhaps I configured it wrongly but when I forget to close my IRC client at work then ZNC is not buffering and showing me anything on the other clients when I log in.
>It used to be that Python's lack of performance didn't matter because disks and networks were so slow things were IO bound. In more and more cases that's just not true anymore.

That's generally a valid statement. But it's why PyPy and Nuitka exist. Pyston and Pyjion are up and coming in this area.

>And it baffles me that anyone would even consider writing 100KLOC+ project in something as lax as Python. That's just asking for trouble.

That's why Python 3.5 has type annotations. It increases the amount of sane usecases for Python going forward.

Let me add I'm with you though in your general thought. The DB/IO bottleneck myth needs to die. We do need more performance, on the order of Elixir. CPU performance at that level or above removes a whole class of application issues. Not sure C's performance is needed though unless you're doing systems programming.

I just happen to like Python as a language, so happy to fly the flag on the various solutions to make it fit that truly needed aspect.
Writing code and prose
Part of the UNIX philosophy is to expose as a file what can be exposed as a file. That way, open, read, write and close is all you need.
It's not free. "The AWS Free Tier includes services with a free tier available for 12 months following your AWS sign-up date" https://aws.amazon.com/free/
They claim to only sell your data if you opt-in to something called "GhostRank." [1]. It's proprietary software so there's no way to actually confirm that though.

There's really no reason for privacy conscious individuals to use Ghostery when uBlock Origin can do the exact same thing.

[1] https://www.ghostery.com/intelligence/consumer-blog/consumer...
The Natural Rhythm of Time
More likely it's to reconcile latency requirements with national borders. If you want to be close to a country to offer low latency, but political or legal or tax reasons mean you don't want to be in that country, then an ocean datacenter can get you close enough.
You're just a pack of SJW faggots that oppose men marrying female children
("Girls not brides"), support feminism, women's rights, and are
in bed with the governments that support cunts and suppress men.

It is no suprise that you push for a swiss cheeze security nightmare:
the better to penetrate all popular computing systems and find
those who oppose you pro-CUNT world view
(Currently every marry-young-girl culture is being bombed by
the United States of America: your contract employer).
There's really no need to use both Privacy Badger and Disconnect as they both do pretty much the same thing. I'd ditch them both and just use uBlock Origin with the "Privacy" filter lists enabled.
#asksama Sam Altman Twitter Q&A Scribe
What exactly does the author mean by "C/C++ compatible"?

Because my language[1] just got the ability to directly include .h files and access to the functions and symbols therein. Small snippet[2]:

c_import {
@c_include("GLFW/glfw3.h");
@c_include("stdlib.h");
@c_include("stdio.h");
}

I realize this probably comes across as trying to one-up another person's work but I just got this working a few minutes ago and I'm really excited to demo it!

[1]: https://github.com/andrewrk/zig

[2]: https://github.com/andrewrk/tetris/blob/aaf09e30a3a7b9ed8f34...

OK I think I understand what the author means by "C/C++ compatible". Check out this snippet[3]

> Note that there is no #include line in the source file. The ZL prelude includes some of the more common functions from the C standard library and ZL source files are not run through the C preprocessor by default.
The driver script zlc is meant to act as a drop drop in replacement for GCC. For example,

> zlc main.zl file1.cpp file2.zlp -o main

I think that zl compiles to C and also acts as a compiler driver.

[3]: http://zl-lang.org/doc/zlch2.html
The best virtual reality from the 2016 Sundance Film Festival
2016 is not the year tablet magazines get to die
Of course that debt it offset by about $300 trillion in assets
I use D for almost everything I do.

A lot of the cool stuff being integrated in modern C++ has been present in D for ages ('enum class', 'string_view', 'constexpr', 'auto', ...) ...
D has a real module system (=it compiles fast) and an extremely powerfull template system. It's one of the rare languages allowing introspection (e.g you can statically loop over a struct members) without bringing in "dynamic" stuff (e.g add members at runtime, etc.).
Yup China grew......by borrowing 32Trillion http://www.businessinsider.com/china-debt-to-gdp-statistics-... in order to support dead state companies http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3422491... and build empty cities and buildings http://www.chinatopix.com/articles/75493/20160126/shanghais-... http://www.citymetric.com/skylines/enough-empty-floor-space-.... Now they have to layoff tons of steel/cement/coal workers, around 400,000 to start http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-26/china-stee..., and 300,000 soldiers.

Ironically, these unemployed million of disgruntled workers will not move into the empty buildings in the city; They'll most likely move back to the countryside. They will, however, be back in the city for protesting.
I like Random Agent Spoofer.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/random-agent-...
So does this cache files on your local machine that are often served via CDN?

Doesn't the browser do that automatically for you?
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It is not necessarily about the sustainability of the Chinese economy. No matter how much capital the hedge funds can muster it will be puny compared to PBoC resources. The real threat to the yuan is if regular Chinese become convinced of the trade.

Hedge funds bet against the yuan because right now it is one-sided: meaning they don't need to worry about short squeezes as typical shorters would have to. If yuan were to sharply rise it is pretty certain that PBoC would intervene. This makes the bet against the yuan relatively safe. The only way the PBoC can stop the shorts is to make borrowing cost high. But it is also trying to make the yuan more widely used so it is loathe to do that as well over any extended time.
Gated Development – is the Gates Foundation always a force for good? [pdf]
I am doing lots of PDF reading and highlighting what's important. Using this tool to extract the highlights later when I need to summarize my highlights:

https://www.sumnotes.net
Andrei Alexandrescu points out one major issue being that D went with a GC first approach, and even though the GC is optional, the library support isn't as good.

For at least some problems people will not want to use a GC, and D's story there isn't as good as Rust's.
headers are still sent with referer etc information every time the resource is loaded to check for freshness.
Other folks are beating about the bush, so I'll just come out and say it:

Linux is basically irrelevant to game developers.

Other folks have been nice, but let's just be clear here. Linux's graphics story is a stupid joke, the driver story is a stupid joke, the 3D story by way of OpenGL is a stupid joke, audio is a stupid joke.

That's why it doesn't matter if you can only use DirectCX on MS platforms--because by reaching only that teensy tiny vast majority of installed computers, devs can do well.

MS has always treated their developers better than anything in the 'nix or BSD ecosystem, and that extends to better thought-out and implemented APIs.

Sorry, but that's the world we live in, and in reality there is little point in MS worrying about a non-DX API--and little point in supporting one if you're making games for PC.
D is awesome. Very expressive, very well designed. But, to use the D standard library, you have to use (the otherwise optional) garbage collection. So, if your domain dictates no garbage collection, D is not really an option (technically, you could use D without the standard lib, but that's not very pragmatic in most cases).
World GDP is $75 trillion. So governments worldwide have promised less than one year of labor.