skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Investing in many startups requires a great deal of judgement and some due-diligence, far more than either IBM or Yahoo were capable... If direct investment were in-house scalable, institutional investors wouldn't invest in VC funds, but it's a very high-risk, somewhat hands-on activity to avoid throwing all money away.

It's not called a warchest for nothing, so although it might give competitors some pause, it does chap investors for not disbursing larger dividends or reinvesting in growth/m&a, and it additionally paints a larger bull's eye on them for capital extraction.
Oracle issues emergency Java fix for Windows binary planting threat
Can you burn dopamine channels with love or is that something specific to cocaine that naturally produced substances don't do at achievable levels?
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to make zero rated products illegal
I don't think that makes it any less disturbing.
Be Like Joey Tribbiani: Embrace the Fear
On efficiency

The compiler cannot rely on the stack (or registers) to be zero, so there has to be a instruction to set it to zero anyways.

However, setting a register to zero is a special case and your hardware might be optimized for it.

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/the-surprising-...

Maybe setting to zero would faster. However, if you optimize on that level, then you can optimize by hand as well. Set it to zero explicitly or even let it uninitialized explicitly:

int x = void;
Is there a primary driver? It seems to me that it's the effect of many forces, each of which is probably worth addressing.

When I get medical bills, I have a lot of difficulty trying to figure out why the service I consumed could possibly cost as much as I am being charged. But I apparently agreed to pay whatever as a condition of obtaining the service.
Getting started with Ansible via interactive browser based lab
That's something I've wanted for a long time too.

tig (a curses-based git interface) fits the bill, though it can be quite confusing (too many keybindings). "tig blame -w <file>" to view a blame (-w to ignore whitespace), and then you can press , on a line to recompute the blame using the parent of that commit, while moving to the ancestor of that line (but tracking the line frequently doesn't work). And < to go back to the previous commit.

I remember that tortoisesvn was fairly nice for viewing blames, IIRC you can move through history inside it with some clicking around, and the tortoisegit interface appears to be largely the same:
https://tortoisegit.org/docs/tortoisegit/tgit-dug-blame.html
Windows only however.
SF has laws around how much you can raise rents on tenants of older buildings. New construction is not regulated. People debate this endlessly, but what I was referring to was the (nearly universal) practice of raising rents at the end of every lease period, regardless of your tenant history -- for example, a corporate landlord will use a month-to-month lease as an excuse to raise your rent many times a year, regardless of your history or market conditions. They're betting that you really don't want to move, and that you'll suffer a series of regular rent increases, even if you could easily get a better deal elsewhere. This is shitty, evil behavior, but large landlords do it because they can make the bet profitably, in aggregate.

That said, it's interesting that you asked, because I lived in Colorado for years and the corporatization (and corresponding market behavior) of apartment managers there was as bad as any place I've been. If you stayed in the same complex for a few leases and weren't an aggressive negotiator, it was easy to end up paying more per month than someone who had moved in the week before. You had to move every year or two to keep your rent from skyrocketing.

It's one of the tangible reasons I prefer thoughtful systems of rent regulations (like SF's) -- it leads to more stable communities. When people have to move every year, nobody puts down roots or cares about their neighborhood.
India has blocked Free Basics
The Surprising Subtleties of Zeroing a Register (2012)
I've got one, I find it mostly useless as I can't set my location to London. The speaker is fine - but I have a much better system in the same room with an apple tv (v2) connected with a dac. I guess it's just me, but I also like controlling what I'm listening to and having some agency over it, so just mindlessly listening to playlists or automated radio isn't really my thing.

I think it is cool that it's programmable, but I'm not that impressed thus far.

(I should add, the reason I have one is that it was a gift from AMZN after attending an event of theirs last year, I didn't buy it)
Show HN:Piecenote is the note app for small logs and ideas.
> All human beings have equal moral worth

Perhaps most of us would like that to be true, but judging humanity by it's behaviour rather than by its stated ideals I'd say we're not there yet.
The monitoring for keywords is done in the hardware or firmware. Nothing ever gets sent to Amazon until "Alexa" or "Echo" is recognized.

Do you really think it would be easy to hide a persistent audio datastream to a central server?
Getting Started with C++[Lesson 4] # Loops
You might want to have a look at jasper: http://jasperproject.github.io/

You can use an offline speech recognition engine in that.
> When political correctness appears, logic and reason disappears out the window.

Because that's precisely what PC is, a self-censoring process. Some thoughts are not only not to be voiced, you should not even think them; and if you do then you are have to self-flagellate ("i'm not a racist i'm not a racist i'm not a racist...").

You have to isolate yourself from reality, avoid independent opinions, and only adopt properly authorized ideas.
"Why are we going with ms?" This is what I don't know (as I tried to explain I will provide domain knowledge more than anything else) and also one of the reasons I would like to get a better idea of what ms are.
I want to be sure we can really leverage the strong points (and be aware of the drawbacks) in this specific context.

Thanks for the pointers, I will check these out.
Wow, I didn't notice I wasn't on Reddit. The only thing I noticed was that it loaded more posts after scrolling to the end.
I'm only a little way into this but I could swear this is the Planescape soundtrack.

Thanks!
That's a nice protocol.

I have to quibble though that the Turing test is meant to be a test of intelligence, and this sort of task seems pretty different, although it may actually be visual-AI-hard (to invent a new term). So may deserve a different name.
I've been trying to find a usb array mic/software combo that works better for far field sound capture than a single mic - to use with either OK Google on old android phones, or Jasper running on Rpi.. Any recommendations?
For stalkers, perhaps. Might be beneficial.
That's an interesting way of looking at it. I'd never considered that.
how many are actually insured for that specific liability? just asking, I'm unfamiliar with the other countries insurance policies, but I've rarely heard people being insured that way in the European countries I lived.
Is there a link available to the data that has been used?
I've heard that adding certain entries to the hosts file doesn't stop much of the telemetry from happening, so I wouldn't be surprised if the same was true for Windows Firewall.

I use a third party firewall with all the known telemetry domanins added to a block list.
I'd also question this criticism as dismissing him solely because of his social status. Which is even worse
I think the audio out isn't going to happen as Amazon would prefer the 3rd parties built their own integration to Alexa into their devices: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-vo...
Enterprise is the only version that allows you to disable most of this stuff.

It's on by default on all other versions.
> For this analysis, I wanted to simply analyse the network traffic of Windows 10 on a clean install, and just let it sit and run without using it.

Ha. So if Windows 10 was designed by a VW engineer you could expect it to behave perfectly reasonably.
I only really notice it when I've been out of London for a few days. Although I rarely venture into the centre where it's worst.
PHP very fast compare to the other languages like .net or java etc..
Facebook's Free Basics service has been banned in India
PHP coding is easy to understand literate human.
In the US at least, horses are not raised for meat. This means that veterinarians use whatever drugs they deem necessary when treating horses many of which might make the meat toxic.

I've had this told to me by several horse people including my wife and a horse vet but don't know how true it actually is.
>If you mean "tail recursion optimization", it's a compiler thing, not a language thing in this case

That doesn't help so much. If it is not a standard language feature as per the C++ spec, then it's not as useful as you'd think.
Please see the GH link I posted, and consider replying directly to the author, who is a well-known C++ guy.
>Two key aspects of the Net Neutrality consultation that remain: firstly, the proposed requirement for providers of VoIP services like Whatsapp, Viber and Skype to obtain a government licence, which would mean that telecom operators could be required to treat traffic from unlicensed VoIP providers differently from the rest, and secondly, allowing telecom operators the ability to slow down and speed up websites, giving them the ability to play king-makers and gate-keepers. Citizens should be vigilant, as always, and should consider participating in this process in the future. SaveTheInternet opposes any form of licensing of Internet Services. This includes VoIP.

So even though discriminatory pricing is not allowed, operators can still slow/speed down/up apps and websites. Seems to me a key aspect of net neutrality has not been upheld.

For eg, what if an ISP decides to "slow down" Netflix to 0.1 kbps? I believe this is a wholly unsatisfactory outcome of the entire national debate over the last several months.
I think if that is your level of concern, you have to not use Windows, not try to patch over their control of the firewall.
`packer` does not: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/packer/
> it looks like leaving exceptions does not make a language simpler.

I don't think that this ever was the claim. Rust leaves exceptions out because they make code hard to work with and because it prefers errors be acknowledged. I don't think monadic errors are "simpler" than exceptions.

(Though I suspect they are simpler to teach than exceptions to people who have learned neither)

Once `?` lands in Rust I expect these "gyrations" become much simpler.

> Are we going to see
>
> date.if_weekday(|day| { ... })
>
> and similar cruft for every type? I hope not.

Not sure where this comes from. As the others have mentioned, closures are pretty cheap, but anyway you don't need to use the control flow primitives. There are many ways of dealing with errors, including using `if let`, `match`, `unwrap_or_else`, `try!`, and the upcoming `?`.
Which operating systems other than Win10 do we know track you by default?
Will it ever be more popular? EU is recently thinking about banning crypto currencies. This might end with ID verification requirement for all exchanges. Then Visa and other CC issuers will ban anything related to BitCoin, just like PayPal did and whole market will be dead.
The Problem with Time and Timezones – Computerphile
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-go_area#Contemporary_no-go_...

From your link:

Local police forces denied the claims [of no-
go areas]

Katie Hopkins could not name areas of Britain
that were no-go areas because it would not be
"legally accurate"

British Prime Minister David Cameron described
Steven Emerson as "clearly a complete idiot".
*Her

http://www.ucop.edu/president/index.html
Gartner Report: SaaS an indicator into the state of IT activities
Errr, if the government don't like anyone's opinions, they are entitled to ignore them, but in general I'd say that people are entitled to express their opinions as Prince Charles did.

In terms of "tolerated" the only thing that springs to mind that you'd be suggesting is that the labour government should have somehow stopped Prince Charles from writing the letters? but that seems like an odd thing to suggest, so perhaps I'm missing something
> In many chat tools, notification state is not preserved across network reconnection or signout/signin. If you send someone a message, you have no way of knowing if they’re ever going to notice it.

This is no longer true with Slack no? I mean, Slack is smart about when to email you in case you miss reading a post, and it's all perfectly synced between desktop and mobile.
Would not need to be persistent or audio to get the job done
It also work on Windows, it's what MSYS uses for package management, convenient to avoid having to install CYGIN or using virtualisation.
OP gave an example: ChromeOS
Dutch Police train Eagles to take down Drones
> Since Swift is implemented in C++, no doubt that's why it's not a reality in that new language either.

The language the compiler is implemented in doesn't matter, so I guess you mean that it's not possible because Swift is too heavily influenced by C++? I don't think that this is really the case, it's more influenced by Objective-C
Not when the other service is on another machine, like in the case I described.
Or will Bitcoin be like the year of the linux desktop where it's always a year away?
We can't keep regulating nature so that it looks like it has done since our history, creatures should go extinct. it's how evolution works.
The "Computer Fun" book is what first taught me about programming, on the C64.

I remember typing in the program that tells you how old you will be in the year 2000. At the time it seemed unimaginable that I could ever be 21 years old!

Feeling very nostalgic looking through this.
Digital Publishing: Web Design and Development
I use the term freedom as established by all major philosophers in the last 300 years or so. No one really believes that the true definition of freedom is the law of the jungle where anyone is "free" (scare quotes indeed) to do what they want with no restrictions.

John Locke describe freedom as a synonym to agency, where none is under any restrictions except the standing rules to live by that are common to everyone in the society. Share and share alike a perfectly fine example of a rule that is common to everyone where no individual are be subjected to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, and arbitrary wills of others.
New cross platform Git GUI client – GitKraken
Looks cool, but could somebody explain what this would be used for? I'm guessing in situations between Native Code and JS? Looks a bit like .NET's IL.

ADD: Looking at the other comments, this is useful also as a platform to create languages, sort of a universal IL, yes?
Maybe you could convince management that maintaining such a hodgepodge solution is actually more expensive than paying for an upgrade? (I assume you don't work for free :) ).

> I don't want to talk about it!

So don't!
There are actually two brand new programming books for kids right on that page. One of them uses a language called Scratch.
Negative interest rates are interesting. In Denmark many banks actually closed down for a while, due to the negative rates crashing their software.
Have you looked at trampolines/continuation passing?
The Midas Plague
Company loyalty died in the '80s; however, loyalty to your team-mates is another thing. Not everyone can quit a reasonably-secure corporate job to live on ramen for $amazing_startup, nor are you guaranteed to bond as much with the next set of colleagues (in fact, chances are that you won't, since it usually gets harder as you age).
Bitcoin commerce is surprisingly resilient. Sites like LocalBitcoins facilitate in person cash trades.

As long as you can barter things of value, like a brand new Macbook for bitcoins, bitcoin will survive.
> how his heart holds up for eight hours of freestyle
> every single day

I expect NPR to not confuse freestyle and front crawl :-/
They are, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fission bombs.
> I have to say I find that hard to believe.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Steps to reproduce: Set up one mysql server. Set up one PHP application server (nginx+PHP fpm in my case, shouldn't make a difference with mod_php) on a different machine. Configure Wordpress to use said mysql server. Lock the database in some way (say, mysqldump of a Wordpress installation with millions of records in wp_options), then hit the application server with regular traffic (or ab), watch as load reaches pm.max_children. On the application server, not the database server.
Moisture barrier = condensation = rot.
Modal Dialog – Creating Gallery with Modal Preview
Thanks for this article. Made me block random facebook posts from the girl I spent 7 years being addicted to. I don't want to get any unexpected cues that could trigger pathways forged by this addiction.
This is basically a banker trying to divert attention away. A reinstatement of the separation of investment banking from retail banking is really the only thing to put capitalism back into the system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Legisla...

Investment banks can fail at the expense of investors (the wealthy) whereas retail banks failing hurts everybody. The risk profiles are not the same and the fact that the two operations became intertwined meant that central banks had to prop up these hybrid banks.

Bankers don't want the separation because they'll lose a chunk of money to play dice with. If ring fencing did what it's meant to do then bankers wouldn't care.
I learned functional programming from Ralf Hinze, great to see his contributions, even if he did teach me to say 'mooo-nad'.
I wonder why they didn't go with LLVM IR, both WebKit and LLVM are essentially Apple products now.
I still manually build off the AUR and don't use AUR package management.
I would also love having something like this. I found the Playstation Eye camera for PS3 has an array of four mics, but there's no accompanying software, so it's not as useful. I'd buy a hardware/software combo that did far-field sound capture well.

Essentially, I want a better mic so I can run this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eiHO7uqccs
'Reportedly' being the operative word. And the reporting in question coming from (to be very charitable) slightly less than reliable sources. I get what you mean, it just doesn't seem to be reflected in actuality, and you have to be really careful here: those that support what you're saying are in large part from the far right of the political spectrum, often the extreme far right (eg Tommy Robinson), and figures they pull out are utterly suspect.
Free drum-only backing tracks, sorted by genre and tempo
happy practicing
Someone linked a copy of his blog below.

Perusing it, perhaps it's confirmation bias but I can't help getting the sense that he's already the suicidal type... Fatalism and what I'll call "inflexibility/overcommitment to a cause" pervades it (hint: not a survival trait), and the looming 1000 day deadline ensures he will never get a chance to actually move on.
How well does it work? I think recognition latency is pretty large.
It doesn't seem like it at all. Things she apparently wrote in 1946:

The West experienced moments of doubt, Thompson wrote, in which the outcome of communist belief and behavior was questioned: "Can communist cultism, organized like a medieval secret order, with a priesthood, a police and an inquisition, reform itself into a modem, liberal, democratic movement?" Why, during the war, did communist propagandists throughout the world demand an immediate "second front", an attack on heavily fortified Western Europe by the United States and Great Britain? "Did these obedient claques care nothing for the lives of American boys? Were they listening to any voices but the voice of Stalin?"
"Yet, we said: No", Thompson continued. "We shall prove our confidence, trust and trustworthiness. We shall hold faith that it will not be betrayed. Loyalty, we said, begets loyalty." But as Germany collapsed, the Soviet Union began "reversing every wartime pledge and policy. And not only was the quarter of a century of communist despotism to be fastened again upon the necks of the long suffering, heroically,enduring, eternally,hoping, eternally,serving Russian people -but naked and unashamed it was seeking new people to subject. "
> Load average measures how long is the queue of processes waiting for the CPU

I don't think that's quite right.

Load averages measure the size of queue of processes runnable and waiting for CPU or disk.

If you ever have a webserver/cache that has disks that have become the bottleneck, you can often get to a high load (lots of runnable processes, blocked on disk) but low CPU util (everything is blocked on disk, CPU relatively idle).

In my experience high UNIX load on busy systems is far more caused by disk IO utilisation rather than CPU utilisation.

E.g. if you run "du -s / &" 4 times, you can watch your UNIX load go to 4 (after 1 minute), but you will have idle CPU time. This will be more obvious if you have slow magnetic disks rather than a fast SSD.
Somewhat related: "Why do Windows functions all begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction?" https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110921-00/?p=...
New Wearable Sensors Know What’s in Your Sweat
Not in any meaningful way.
There is already an LLVM backend in WebKit. I think the whole intention of the Bare Bones Backend is that it isn't LLVM. I can't find the link now, but I believe there are some design documents behind this where they critique the performance and output of LLVM, so they're trying something new.

LLVM does seem to struggle to support dynamic languages like JS well. For example Unladen Swallow (Python) and Rubinius (Ruby) were both commercially-backed efforts to use LLVM and neither achieved much performance.
That depends on the input, and that's what it must be able to tell, unbiased without any pre-defined constants.
Why is Bitcoin any different to cash in this case? Companies who will already store your Bitcoins for a small fee exist (and are probably safer for most people than self-storage).
Difference between a programmer, developer, and engineer
There is no structural reason why cryptocurrencies can't have negative interest rates.
Wearable Ski Tech – Carv
Sorry I am that guy. No RPM package, DEB and GZip only.

In a Linux world where we have Redhat and SUSE and the decline of Ubuntu's dominance of the Linux mind-share of the Linux desktop it would be great to have a RPM.
I note that Siri on my iPhone does much of this, and is also always listening. Siri switches my lights on, tells me what time it is in London, makes calls, and sets timers for me, and with the newer phones, doesn't require the phone to be plugged in.
It would be overwhelmingly more interesting to see the contents of these 'telemetry' packets. Has anyone sorted out how to do that yet?

A side-effect of being able to view the 'telemetry' packets is that one could also modify the packets on the way out.
Google virtual reality should be WAY better than Cardboard
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Welp, not going to lie here, I do feel like someone's personal disciplinary records should not be public. Unless that person is a public servant. Which a cop is. I'm not certain under which terms the punishment should be. When you protect an entire group from persecution from their crimes, what is that punishment?
54M Americans have been incorrectly labeled as unhealthy (using BMI)