skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apropos of nothing: does country of origin (or is it residence; or residence of the main contributors) tell us anything that is at all useful?

It seems like information - the sort people go 'oh really, how fascinating' to - but I can't really see how it's relevant.

Anyone want to chip in and make a stand for national identity or anything?

To me it's kinda like you said 'find and grep are the two main contributions to OSS from the flan-eating community'.

Yes, I should probably just keep such thoughts to myself ...

Oh and htop is awesome! Only used Lua on a Minecraft mod (and an not a programmer/CS) so can't really comment on it.
This story has a little more info, including the chip's origin from Myricom:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/09/google_processor/
Lanai is a simple in-order 32-bit processor with 32 x 32-bit registers, two registers with fixed values, four used for program state tracking, and two reserved for explicit usage by user, and no floating point support.

Might as well be a MIPS. The fact that Google has suppoedly developed its own CPU is interesting, but the architecture itself seems quite mundane.

Edit: comments on the article suggest it's the Myricom LANai, a NIC embedded processor. Google may just happen have these NICs in their machines and want to write firmware for them.
If it is a rumor it's probably on very good authority. The author appears to be extremely reputable.
It just confirms Kellaway's point that the editorial side of a newspaper is supposed to be independent of the advertising. If we wanted advertising disguised as journalism or editorial decisions taken by the advertisers we could read a trade magazine.
It sounds a bit weird, not sure I understand everything. How hard is it to update a dependency and run a web server with https to serve new versions?
I feel a bit of schaudenfreude toward these apps, many of whom fit fully within the sandboxing constraints of the Mac App Store, yet don't bother with it. I much prefer the MAS model, where apps are updated from the MAS app itself (as in any package manager.) Amusing that it has (de-facto) security advantages as well.
The author is Sir Martin Rees, the leading astronomer in the UK (Astronomer Royal), and former president of the Royal Society. It's not some random journalist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Rees
Mainline htop never worked on OSX. OSX's htop is a fork of 0.8.2 with all the linux stuff stripped out and replaced, and then not really updated (let alone resynced with mainline): https://github.com/AndyA/htop-osx
The author is Sir Martin Rees, one of the most accomplished astronomers in the world, not a Telegraph reporter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Rees
An internal app we use at work requires an extension to do one button clipboard in Chrome and Firefox. And if you're using another browser, you're out of luck. I use it enough that I have the extension, but now the version we have and the extension it supports isn't "signed" in Firefox, so I have to make an about:config change.

This is all for a password manager.
Not from my experience. There's quite a few sites that require a newer flash player, so it's either Google's PPAPI Flash or Windows.
It's just a single example. Google more if you didn't like it.
It wasn't all that different from Soviet Union back then. Or current DPRK for that matter.
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Sue you for damages.
The CTO of a project I worked on a couple of years ago refused to install a version control system. I basically threatened to abandon ship if he wouldn't relent and eventually he did, but until today I don't think he's fully convinced that it was a good move.
Is not related but is a curiosity, 'Los primos' (the cousins) is often translated colloquially as 'The fools' in spanish. When you fall in a very obvious scam you are a 'primo' or did 'el primo'.

But the best part is what is not said in the article. It seems that there is a licensed grocery selling sandwiches next to this garage... if your dream is to develop superpowers after sipping a coffe this would the place.
Reminds me: is there any simple not-dead service for filtering posts out of RSS feeds, collating related input feed items together into single output feed items, etc.? I used to use FeedRinse for the former case, and Yahoo Pipes for the latter, but now both are dead.
But you also need CALs for the Windows Server your database sits on.
The second paragraph, immediately afterwards, says:

"Sadly it is not unknown for hyped-up scientific claims to be mistaken or exaggerated - claims of particles going faster than light, gravitational waves from the big bang, and so forth. I count myself a hard-to-convince sceptic. But what is being claimed will be the culmination of literally decades of effort by scientists and engineers with high credentials, and this time I expect to be fully convinced."

ie., Sir Martin Rees (the author), one of the most famous astronomers in the world, is putting his credibility behind this. That matters.
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It appears to be for the Myricom LanAI processor, which is available to others. It's an older 32 bit RISC processor, used as the offload engine for their NIC cards.

Here's gcc for it: https://github.com/myri/lanai-gcc

Sounds like it's not particularly interesting unless you want to write your own network offload code.

Edit: Probably just the offload processor they are choosing for their in-house routers/switches/servers. And, probably they want their own firmware either for security/nsa reasons, or performance, or both.
interesting command from one of the comments on the original article:

find /Applications -path '*Autoupdate.app/Contents/Info.plist' -exec echo {} \; -exec grep -A1 CFBundleShortVersionString '{}' \; | grep -v CFBundleShortVersionString

This gives an overview of the programs using sparkle, and which version.
Good post. But "http://www.yoursetup.io/" is returning 502s most of the time... Maybe something's wrong with your setup :/
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoroni...

It could be lanAI too...
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Wouldn't it be much more spectacular if these waves were not detected?
Feels a bit on the spammy side since there is no user activity to curate the list. Catch-22.
I'm am really confused as to how Martin Rees has written such a poor article. He's bloody Astronomer Royal. I suspect a ghostwriter.

a) Gravitational waves do NOT "shake the mirrors". They make spacetime contract in orthogonal directions around and within the beam tube (and of course elsewhere) thus causing the light to travel a tiny bit further in the tube, thus causing interference by moving the two beams out of phase.

b) As I posted the other day - what about Virgo? What about GEO600? I feel really sorry for the scientists who've spent decades working on this as part of a global collaboration to now have LIGO take all of the credit for this discovery.
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These two statements are not mutually exclusive.
I went the other way for two reasons:

1) Dolphin uses the stock browser's rendering engine, which is not updated as often as an external one. For older devices is not updated at all. I remember two or three updates in an year on my tablet, which went from 4.4.2 to 5.0.2. Opera is updated in sync with Chromium/Chrome.

2) Opera has text reflow and that made me ditch Dolphin instantaneously. I checked it again now and Dolphin still doesn't have text reflow.
Never touch or even stand close to an antenna that's transmitting. Even small mag loops with 10 watts of power will cause serious burns if touched.
The general direction may be possible, but the source itself would not be. The compression is smallest parallel to the direction of the wave's travel, and is largest perpendicular to the direction of the wave's travel. LIGO measures a change in the difference between the lengths of the two arms, ad so it would be more sensitive to waves moving along one of the arms. It would not be at all sensitive to waves that are moving perpendicular to both arms.

Since there are two such facilities, located on different parts of the Earth, they may be able to compare the relative size measured by each facility, and narrow down a part of the sky. Since the facilities are relatively close to each other (only 2000 miles, 30 degrees along Earth's circumference), the margin of error would be very large.

Ideally, to localize the direction, you would have three facilities, each located at 90 degrees away from the other two, so that you have one facility "pointed" in each direction. Even then, it would only be able to narrow it down to 2 possible origins, as the direction of travel of the wave would not be measurable.

Anything that carries information is limited to the speed of light. Gravitational waves carry information about the location of the merging black holes, and so they are limited to the speed of light. If anything that carried information were to travel faster than the speed of light, it would break causality, because you could find some frame of reference in which the effect happened before the cause.

And yes, it is spacetime itself that is vibrating.
a) I think it is a great idea.
b) My co-founder already does something similar on LinkedIn. He sends a LinkedIn request if there is interest to the email and chats on that. Seems to work well. If you can remove the friction of connecting on LinkedIn, it might work quite well.
Sure but OpenGL/OpenCL is a good counter example. We have an open standard tailored to a specialized style of architecture that is supported across vendors, competitive with closed/proprietary alternatives and beats the hell out of anything we could run on a CPU.
Andresson basically tweeted colonialism is good for India. How can someone, especially someone from India, just agree to disagree on that. That is like saying one can make racist, sexist remarks and the people who were offended can just agree to disagree on that. At least the guy made his viewpoint public.

Besides isn't it the intolerant who shape the society around them. If one wants a community whose members aren't ignorant or bigoted, why would just a live and let live approach shape the community to one's desires?
Swap that 1.5 litre diesel for the one Renault make that has 110 hp and it'd be great.
I'm aware of that feedback loop, but the comments I see here seem to view that kind of Draconian treatment of people, ones who are obviously not child pornographers or dangerous individuals, as a problem. So there seems to be at least a subset of voters who recognize the issue and think it's absurd.

This is partly a problem of common knowledge[1] - where lots of people are thinking the laws are absurd, but no one wants to be the first to say it openly, because they can't know for certain that anyone else is thinking the same thing. Getting a conversation going about how ridiculous some of these prosecutions for "child porn" are would be the first step towards a sane discussion of what those kinds of child protection laws should actually be, when they should be applied and when they shouldn't, etc, so that it stops being a third rail for lawmakers.

Might also point out that the recently passed "International Megan's Law" actually places a permanent mark on these people's passports labeling them as sex offenders.[2] These cases of a dad being permanently marked as a sex offender just for letting his daughter borrow his phone, or a 19 yro getting a naked pic from his 17 yro girlfriend, only end up being counterproductive to protecting the real victims. When you hear of someone labeled as a "sex offender" now, does it serve as a reliable warning? Or do you just wonder if the guy was unlucky enough to get caught pissing in public?

[1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2410

[2] http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/02/obama_signs_int...
Designing an infrastructure which allows you to solve problems by firing up more instances is non-trivial work, beyond the skillset of many (otherwise apt) developers.
> There's a lot of low-hanging performance fruit in programming language design.

Indeed but there is also huge scope for applying known techniques to existing languages, PHP7 for example is twice as fast as 5.6 (in the real world, I've seen this) with about half the memory usage.

The interesting thing is that anyone using PHP who goes to 7 gets that performance upgrade at essentially zero-cost.
None what so ever, as it is the parents who purchase the toys... They won't notice any difference.
"This is why it’s been crucial to have two similar detectors separated by nearly 2,000 miles - one in Washington State, the other in Louisiana - and to seek events that show up in both detectors, thereby ruling out effects caused by local seismic events, passing trucks, and so forth."

Sounds like a good old survival bias ;)
Seriously though, what is confidence interval in LIGO?
This is a really odd post. No citation for this trial, some very peculiar sweeping statements (pointed out by others), and a link to a website that looks more than a little hokey.

CBT is proven to be effective when the depression is low-level, ie not acute. Like when people can get it together to get out of the house and see a therapist. Really it amounts to little more than reversing the causality of standard behaviours (eg exercise to make yourself feel good rather than because you feel good).

The website linked to is extremely poorly written, and contains zingers like: 'The way out of depression is all about getting started doing all the things you once loved to do! Getting started is the hardest step but trust us, you will feel better after doing all the things you love!'

This is the kind of wonderful advice you get from people who've never suffered from crippling depression.

I'm curious to know which nation this person is a clinical psychologist in.

It's a shame because exercise is probably the single thing most likely to help depression. That and drugs.
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It's two detectors, each of which has two tunnels at right angles to each other (and generate an interference pattern when a gravity wave distorts the tunnels length).
Same thing with VLC I (as a Mac user) once installed for a Windows friend... The malware/adware version scored nr 1.
Thanks! I'd actually love to crowdfund an Android version, but I think I need to grow my userbase a bit first.
Ghostery like protection is already built in. There is no menu option for normal browsing mode but you can turn it on in about:config. Set privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to true.
It is, shall I say, suspiciously easy to recognize oneself in this piece. In doing so, you get to be gifted at the small psychic price of being cursed. (For a narcissist, that's actually a win-win.) I submit as evidence most of this comment thread.

Maybe not every one of us is a hugely gifted reserve of untapped potential. Maybe some of us are just people with shitty habits and a reluctance to change.
The Fed is an association of banks, it's directors directly picked, by bank directors, from bank directors. So you're not exactly denying the GP's point : the source of your data isn't a neutral party, but is controlled by banks. For all intents and purposes, it is a bank.

But even if there was no conflict of interest in the data you presented. (Fractional reserve) banks are built on trust. Not on money, not on reserves, not on loans, insurance or credit default swaps, not on any of that. If the trust goes, reserves won't last long, and can't cover the losses. This is by design, not because something weird happened.

The banks in the US in theory should have 0, 3 or 10% of the money needed to cover depositors, depending on size, bigger banks having more. However the laws state that if a bank goes bankrupt that money won't actually be used to reimburse depositors, but rather lenders (ie. mostly other banks). So from your perspective as a depositor, money you have a legal claim against that's likely to be fulfilled (the original meaning of reserve ratio, decades ago), reserve ratio is 0%. In Europe due to bail-in legislation introduced during and after the 2008 crisis and the Greek debt crisis, the reserve ratio, while nominally 1%, is effectively 0 from the perspective of depositors. If a European bank goes belly-up, depositors will see what the government gives them, if anything.

You might think, but there's FDIC insurance, so why worry ? But in history there has never been a big payout resulting from FDIC insurance, either in the US, or anywhere. The big examples are the Greek and Cypriot debt crisis. People lost access to their money, and their banks were bankrupt. The result : they couldn't transfer money anywhere, nor get money from ATMs. Then they were "bailed in" (the depositor's money was used to pay off other debtors) and they took haircuts on the money in their accounts. You might think the ECB's equivalent of the FDIC insurance would have made up the difference, but this was of course explicitly excluded in the legislation.

In the Cyprus examples, depositors < 100k euro found their funds blocked for years and halfway through them being blocked, the amounts on the accounts were reduced by 6.75%. > 100k euro accounts, same, but 9.9%.

Therefore, banks will default when (enough) people believe they will default. Why ? Exactly because enough people believe they will default. That's the nature of the beast. When a large bank fails, the government will refuse to honor FDIC insurance. Granted the US government hasn't yet proven that it would do this, it has never been forced to make that choice. But it came damn close in 2005 and again in 2008, and we all know what choice they made.
True, but transistors are already smaller in size than a human synapse. But synapses don't produce so much heat, so you can stack as many as you want in 3D space without overheating, unlike silicon transistors.
Per Googling site:telegraph.co.uk "by sir martin rees", Rees has written one piece for the Telegraph before, in 2013. He doesn't seem to write for other news outlets (although he has written a book), and if he has any background as a journalist, Wikipedia doesn't mention it. Calling him a "reporter" seems quite silly.
You can find many extremes everywhere, but claiming that extreme is a common occurrence is not very honest.

Yes, I know what happens with ice roads during summer. That's why they are ice roads.
I think it's cool to see how these things are spreading round the world, and it's not just the US that creates useful software.
Wow, you're right! I looked into that just now. I figured USAA, which provides banking service to military and ex-military, and therefore likely has many members who live overseas, would be more likely to provide banking services to overseas Americans.

https://communities.usaa.com/t5/Other/INVESTMENT-ACCOUNTS-WI... suggests that even banking with them may be problematical, at least if you have no US address.
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If they were not detected, that wouldn't necessarily say much unless you could demonstrate certainly that they also should have been. In which case, yes. Though, in actuality, the physics of gravitational waves have been indirectly observed previously [0], so it's not like it's still entirely in the realm of hypothesis.

[0]: The Hulse–Taylor binary pulsar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_B1913%2B16
Linus was right. ESR was an idiot. ESR did have 27 years of experience, during which he's successfully accomplished nothing. He's a very articulate idiot. He says stupid things very, very convincingly. But arguing with the likes of Linus or Richard, I've never seen him be right. Ever. He's often won arguments, but he was wrong when he did so.

Linus built Linux. Then git. Track record counts. And he's right in most discussions, including this one, when you dig into it.

Specifically in the context of version control, svn and cvs would have killed Linux compared to the mailing list. Linux needed bitkeeper, Mercurial, or git. Linus understood the problem, and invented the Right solution. git isn't just clever. It's freakishly brilliant at every level.
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I wonder if they'll be using RISC-V for the same purposes in the near future.

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1328561
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At the moment, it would tell us more about cosmology than about the underlying physics, were we not to detect the gravitational waves. We expect gravitational waves to be emitted from two black holes as they orbit very close to each other, just before they merge. From general relativity, we know how big of gravitational waves to expect. However, we don't know how many such black hole mergers occur in nearby space.

LIGO can only measure gravitational waves down to a certain strength, and so we can only detect waves that are caused by black hole mergers within some distance of Earth. Predictions of how many such mergers occur vary wildly, depending on the assumptions in the model. (I don't have exact numbers, and would appreciate if anyone does have the numbers.)

If we did not detect gravitational waves, I would use that as a lower bound of the number of black hole mergers, rather than as a breaking of general relativity.
It's common for journalists to be told science news before an official announcement if they agree not to publish on it until afterward. This is called an embargo.
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Who would call this person gifted?! It's idiocy.
Not observing any gravitational waves wouldn't prove that gravitational waves didn't exist, so there wouldn't be nearly as much fuss and news articles written. Imagine the press release: "Jury still out on existence of gravitational waves: LIGO not sensitive enough/ Is LIGO a gazillion dollar waste?." So while if someone were able to PROVE that gravitational waves didn't exist that would be pretty spectacular because it would upend decades of scientific research and cause us to rethink relativity.

But this is still pretty spectacular in it's own right. The predictions that physicists make are made by examining mathematical models that are only partially vetted. Some parts of the models remain theoretical because we don't have instruments sensitive enough to measure their predictions (we are talking about energies on a ridiculous tiny scale here). Finally we have invested millions on an instrument that is sensitive enough and it confirms (to the best of its ability) that we were on the right track. This is a great relief to the scientists that they don't have to go back to the drawing board and rethink all their models, plus it is a great victory for predictions made before the age of computers.
Agree. Oh, and it will be also be used to generate other nudes - people create fake accounts, send the nudes as if they were theirs, and incite the other person to send nudes of their own.
> I'd also love to see some experiment where 10% of politicians were taken from the populace at random, kinda like Jury duty

It's called Sortition, and I very much agree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
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Reminds me of Ghe-O: http://www.ghe-o.com/
If at the same time* we were to observe a supernova via other telescopes, that would give a pretty good indication. :)

*: And this would also possibly serve to answer another question -- do gravitational waves travel at precisely the speed of light? (also, I'd be interested in hearing about neutrino detectors -- how closely (if nonzero) to the speed of light do neutrinos travel?)
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