skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good, but I'd do one modification -- always write a null byte at the end. Otherwise you end up with a non-null-terminated string and that's bad.

So,

copy_sz = src_sz < (dest_sz - dest_off) ? src_sz : (dest_sz - dest_off - 1);
...
*dest_end = '\0';
I constantly have to remind myself that people who browse HN learn strongly libertarian and are mostly well-off white males. Otherwise, saying that the US quality of life exceeds that of the UK, Germany or Switzerland is just blatantly false.
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Some of the non-overclockable cpus might work fine after overclocking, some might not. Intel definitely doesn't want the negative press when some kids decides to overclock their non-K CPU and break it during the process.

Have you participated much in the overclocking community? The whole point is that every CPU chip is different and can be overclocked by different amounts, some almost not at all. There is no "negative press", since anything past stock speed is a bonus which is what overclockers are trying to get. If CPUs were not working at stock speeds, that would be a reason for "negative press".
I have everything in ~/dotfiles which is a git repository here: https://github.com/dmarcoux/dotfiles. Basically, I use GNU Stow to symlink what I need. I have master which contains common config and one branch per computer. Everything is explained in the README, in more details if you want do know more. It's not perfect yet, I still have some small irritants, but I'm quite happy with this setup.
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He had to pay an exit tax on all his unrealized gains at the moment of rescinding citizenship, so it's almost certain that his taxes were much higher if he did so last year.

Details please, or it didn't happen.

Just for your own information: tax avoidance is legal and expected. Tax evasion is criminal and can result in prison. The distinction is that tax evasion is when you misrepresent the facts in your tax filings.
Billions are never "hard earned". Do the math :-)
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fascinating. never heard of doing something like this, though i use emacs all day long (but not org mode -- didn't even know org mode could do this).
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git + symlinks

https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/dotfiles
This is why I think getting a Green Card and relocating to the US is a bad idea. The idea that I'd have to keep paying crazy amounts of taxes even if I decide to move on with my life five or ten years from now and relocate to Japan or Germany is nuts.

In my opinion working remotely from a nice and affordable country is the best bet for skilled tech workers. Right now the US market is good but maybe in the future the money will be in China. You can work for the same startups from your bungalow in a tropical country instead of having to live over there. Maybe you can rationalize moving there today because of high salaries but that will inevitably change and when that happens you might regret committing to the US.
I am doing both.
I just noticed that this year if you open a bank account in most EU places they all ask you if you are a US citizen or have a green-card for the US to tick a box on the account opening forms.

I'd really hate it if my own country would force all the banks in the world to report back to the "mothership" and hence track my every move around the world for what? The IRS? Sure there are also other implications such as total control over the movements of a citizen. Can see why people renounce their citizenship. This isn't freedom any more.
As much as they can afford to I reckon.
"Everyone with the slightest knowledge about overclocking knows that overclocking can damage your parts."

It is not necessarily about damaging your parts; that would be the least of their worries. Unreliability of the CPU is the real problem. Your CPU might be 20% faster, but if it incorrectly computes some number in your spreadsheet, corrupts the file, or, worse, corrupts your file system without immediate consequences, or, even worse, makes hardware (drone, self-driving car, nuclear facility) behave incorrectly, they will not just have angry customers, but likely also lawsuits started against them (yes, they might win them, but not necessarily easily; people would complain that they should have closed that hole, given that they knew it was misused)

Also, that 'everybody with the slightest knowledge about overclocking knows' is only relevant as long as overclocking remains a niche thing. If it were mainstream, many of its users would not have 'the slightest knowledge about overclocking'. This microcode update helps keep it that way.
"almost every U.S. child has blood work done on an annual basis"

What? I hated needles as a kid. I think I would have remembered having my blood drawn once a year.

At http://www.mamapedia.com/article/how-often-do-children-get-r... , there are a lot of people who had never heard of routine bloodwork. At http://www.metroparent.com/daily/health-fitness/childrens-he... is a doctor talking about routine bloodwork for children, but only every other year after the age of 5.
Heh, I'm gonna use this opportunity to make my case then. Why is Google Analytics data export available only to premium customers? I'm sure it's a compelling feature to nudge some clients to upgrade, but allowing everybody to export GA data to BigQuery would create quite a lot more revenue. BQ consumption, VMs for R/Python/RapidMiner/Knime, databases, importing data from other sources, which in turns means even higher BQ consumption, people moving ERPs and other systems to be closer. I actually think that it will increase the demand for GA premium too since it will make companies feed an ever increasing volume of data to GA, requiring custom dimensions and more event volume. GA is very useful, consolidating multiple sources of marketing data. However this data is practically locked beyond retrieval. Hell, even charge for exports, everybody will pounce on the opportunity. The current workflows are very frustrating, requiring you to have multiple tools, locking your data in silos.
In the case of TXT I don't think everyone would consider it a desirable feature since it's part of the trusted computing stuff, but in the past they've also disabled more friendly features like virtualisation.
> "The United States is one of only two countries in the world that has citizenship-based taxation (the other is Eritrea)."

I very recently read that Brazil does this too - that no matter where you currently live or work, as a Brazilian citizen, you have to pay taxes on it to Brazil (someone correct me if I'm wrong)
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Is this similar to firebase https://www.firebase.com/?
You are completely wrong and people with your attitude are part of the reason we expats are suffering.

Studies repeatedly show that that that majority of almost 8 million Americans living abroad moved to look for work, to find love, explore the world, do volunteer work, teach, and so on. We're largely middle class, just like most Americans back home. We're not rich (many of us teaching or volunteering are dirt poor), but we're putting up with a tax horror that Americans back home would revolt over if they had to endure it.
This idea only rings true if your team is reliant on a single infrastructure service you don't control.

If you maintain mirrors of your repos on multiple servers you control, or on multiple services run by others (eg GitHub + BitBucket) there is no issue when one suffers an outage.

Hell, git's built-in pull-request functionality works over email and doesn't require any specific git server.

I have issues with git specifically (I find mercurial is a better tool for most tasks) but GitHub/BitBucket/etc are not the definition of what dvcs is about.
No, it's simply out of date.
You don't have to imagine, it's all chronicled on his blog. Gogulski's life is an open book.
This is bad news. Opera runs products like Opera Mini, Opera Turbo, Opera Max, and SurfEasy VPN. Each of these products require routing data through Opera's servers. Trust is of paramount importance. And Qihoo is not a company that I trust.
It sounds more as if she is having difficulty getting access to banking facilities on account of the additional reporting requirements the US insists on.
I like the way this guy thinks. Takes on the fat cats who are abusing their unfairly advantaged business positions to squeeze more money than they deserve out of us.

If he keeps doing this and getting squashed, it could lead to a successful career in politics :)
Behind every successful UX there is a well thought out psychology
Yes, but there are a number of core differences

- Deepstream.io is a free open source server, not a PaaS offering

- Deepstream offers pub-sub, request-response and web-rtc call management in addition to data-sync

- Firebase’s data-sync approach is based on one large chunk of JSON data that allows you to observe and manipulate sub-paths. Deepstream does the same, but breaks the data down into individual units, called records

- Deepstream uses a functional permissioning model, allowing you to interface with other systems (data-bases / active directory) for user-management, as opposed to firebase’ configuration based permissioning approach
>as a way of teaching them their "feeling of Japanese identity"

In my opinion, if it must be taught rather than naturally experienced, it can't be worth much. This just goes to show how much people are invested in using anything to push their own agenda.

That said, it's hardly uncommon to create an identity, say that it exists, then control people with it. Look at any nation in any war for example.

For me, it doesn't make any sense to have an idea of "Japanese-ness"; it's based around culture and that can be learned an experienced. If all that's to it is knowledge, there's no reason to push it as something unique. It's not dissimilar to a physicist teaching their fellow physicists the "feeling of physicist identity".
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Opera mini runs Chinese servers separately. If ppl use Opera mini in mainland China, their activity is already on servers which the gov has a legal access to.
Indeed. I think most people mind the Kafkaesque bureaucracy involved in taxation much more than the taxation itself.
> E.g. you can visit the US with a German passport for 3 months for a holiday but it's extremely difficult to get a visa to move there indefinitely.

You do realise that works the same way for everybody and US visa-free entry is not a residence permit right? For instance as a US citizen you'd get visa-free entry to Iceland or Japan or New Zealand but can only stay for 90 days.
And really, at that price have you thought about upgrading to triple play?
Ever since JvT was pushed out by shareholders eager for profit, and Lars stepped in, they have stopped listening to users.

Many old timers now work at Vivaldi. And even folks like Haavard left - https://opvard.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/goodbye-opera/
To recap:

[1] Random person on Hacker News personally "knows" a billionaire.

[2] Billionaire renounced U.S. citizenship without having to realize any significant capitals gains.

[3] Billionaire doesn't own a car. He just spends his time touring Africa, solving AIDS or malaria like Bono or Bill Gates.

[4] Billionaire has a secret lair, from which he dresses up in a costume and fights crime by night.

I could be making some of these up. I started to have serious doubts right at [1], and completely got off the train by [2].
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How to ‘weld’ neurons with a laser
Nice advert. Shame it's just more SaaS. Not sure if it's just because I'm in .au and have laggier connections to all the fancy tools in the US, but I just don't find web tools that fulfilling.

I've been having a great time with Serif's Affinity Designer lately. Same sort of bezier tools as everyone else, but feels a lot nicer to use than say, Illustrator.

Edit: downvote for calling it an advert? Or is disliking SaaS the unpopular point of view? ;)
Why is this a bare repo as opposed to a normal one?
Have you tried VPaint?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk1_CugdytI

[1] http://www.vpaint.org/
What? I haven't taken advantage of anyone. I file and pay my taxes like everyone else. It's just that dropping bombs on impoverished people and bailing out corporations do not align with my personal values. How does this make me greedy?
strcatm - aye, missed that, but I must insist on 8.
Why Politicians Still Fail at Tech
More than the product brings in.
Nice, I'll investigate if Deepstream makes sense for AppShare, another realtime framework: https://github.com/zubairq/AppShare
A large part of the Netherlands rides in terrible wind. Something people further in the land and with hills or mountains don't know.
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Sorry, the negative press argument is utter nonsense.

If you run any hardware outside specifications, you expect it to fail. People brick phones and ruin engines but there isn't a backlash against people trying to jailbreak their phone or modify their cars. If anything, the people that matter —the enthusiast market for these devices— are demanding that their devices be more customisable. The press and other consumers don't give two hoots about little Jimmy trying to rice 5GHz out of his $100 CPU and turning it into liquid magma. Stupid kid was stupid.

The opposite is true though. If lil Jim manages to get a $5000 part for $100, other consumers are going to factor that into their purchasing decisions.

What is most concerning is that this is a part that has been out and about for a little while. There are dozens of guides recommending certain CPUs for this that Intel are going to patch up now. The articles and their recommendations will remain out there though. It's false advertising by the back door.
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Scientists are wrong all the time, often for their whole lives, and on the balance of things it is extremely likely Mr. Sheldrake is an example of this.
Author is responsible for a majority of the Air Force software programs, but this experience is his first trial-by-fire. That said, not surprised that his first approach to the problem was to develop his own hardware and software standard. It would have been better to identify AOCs with the best practices and standardize a proven setup.

I admire his advocacy for use of open source software, but his primary pitch is a reduction of costs. Any organization that switches to open source for the purpose of promised dramatically reduced operating costs is fooling themselves. The true benefit of open source is much more than savings.
That's all well and great, but should we let people die, because we don't want to hurt some animals? Animals that are bred for the sole purpose of studies and would otherwise had to be killed? Lab mice don't grow in wilds you know.

Where do you stop? Do you stop eating bread because there are bits of mice/crickets in it? Do you stop eating carrots, because a family of rabbits might depend on it? Do you stop eating bread because a strain of fungus (which aren't plants and are capable of moving on its own volition) might depend on it?
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Does your girlfriend have access to services as a US citizen? Such as embassies, entrance to the US without a visa, or evacuation in case of war? Who should pay for those services if your girlfriend doesn't want to?
Those supposedly triple and dual core CPUs that got unlocked to quad cores were apparently a way to sell damaged silicon that the remaining cores passed QA so they just disabled the broken core. To meet demand of these product lines perfectly good quad core CPUs got disabled and sold off as dual/triple editions. It was the luck of the draw if you got one of those and not a genuinely flawed chip.

Now, How much of that is true I don't know but that's what I remember reading at the time. A friend of mine did succesfully unlock his triple and ran for a long time.
Firefox OS dies with strings attached
GOOGLE WANTS TO DELIVER STUFF USING SELF-DRIVING TRUCKS WITH STORAGE LOCKERS
Microcode is not written to the CPU, it gets loaded on every boot. This can happen during the BIOS POST, during the OS bootloader or even while the OS is booting. Therefore, yes its possible to run older microcode (at least on Linux), since you just have to not write the newer version on boot. If the BIOS contains the new microcode, you can flash the previous version of the BIOS.
I have already noticed some performance issue with strncpy (and big destination buffers) vs strlcpy. The two functions introduced in the article have the good complexity and seem to be more handy than usual api.
"Operating through a company doesn't make me immune from the law, and neither should working through an algorithm."

That might be technically true but in reality it quite often does. See nearly all bankers from 2K8 melt down for good examples of how money and power buy immunity in what is really an economically based caste system.

Do you really think if this was some garage start-up and not Google that they would have been granted anything but a swift kick in the ass out the office door of whatever bureaucrat handled this?
We gotta chase the latest photo-sharing apps bro.

Also check what time it is when you post.
Huh. I thought this was going to be about the kernel bug which is causing a large amount of zombie processes in container systems at the moment.
"can't" or "not willing" ?

If people are not willing to invest five minutes or so what to choose then they should stick with FB and Twitter where they don't think about the consequences of releasing all their private data anyway.
saying "blatantly false" does not make something factual. Please provide and argument with evidence instead of blanket racist remarks.
Why are the academics forced to publish their papers through these paywalls? Hosting a PDF on the university website seems cheeper than going through these publishers.

Are these university imposed rules? Are they forced to go through these publishers if they want their paper peer reviewed and published in journals?
so he just earned all his money without using any government built/administrated infrastructure or any technology that was developed using government/tax money or any common good? I'm impressed. Must be hard developing your own internet, electrical network, build your own road infrastructure, legal system and police enforcement, schools and hospitals for your employees and in the end still end up billionaire.

As much as we like or dislike it, as a matter of fact we all use common goods and services provided by the government. For better or worse.
It's also "probably good enough" to use your tap water.

The one place we know it isn't safe - Flint - says that you should not use tap water for cooking as the lead will get in the food.

Nor does it make sense to diversify sources. You pay a lot more for non-tap water, bottled water doesn't have a track record of being better than tap water, and it's harder to track any recall issues or other warnings if you have multiple sources.

Plus, there are other ethical questions. Did you want to support the military government of Fiji? Or Nestlé's success in limiting the rights of Michigan citizens to bring legal action to "protect the state's natural resources from pollution, impairment or destruction"? Because those are some of the side-effects of choosing bottled water.

In addition, of course, to all the packaging waste and transport costs.
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Well it is 2016 now and boards get fickle.
Their Opera mini mobile browser has 300+ million users.
I ask because this is a major hurdle with the Diaspora* model, in my opinion. I just created two accounts with the same username on different servers to test, and the fact that I could do that bummed me out a bit...

It's great that my data can be free, but if my account is tied to a specific host and I must make a separate, unique account with another host later then I'm still substantially locked in. Essentially, switching accounts likely means all my social connections will have out-of-date contact info, urls, etc. when I switch.

If, however, my user ID is global across the distributed network and there is a way to gracefully transfer my account/data/info to another server seamlessly (without my social connections even knowing/caring about it) then I think distributed social networks like GNU Social could be a game changer.
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I have been following the development of Openshot for the past 3 years and I can't help but think that the progress is very slow.

Being an open source project and one in which a sufficiently large number of people are interested, why is that the project is moving so slowly?
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A Turn in the Capital Cycle
You can plug anything into anything, with enough force.
My follow up to the Unicorn Economy piece (link below) given the recent market moves

https://medium.com/@alexanderbcampbell/more-than-500bn-of-we...
Sure, they have not yet succumbed to the temptation. There is something unique about a company with their market share in internet search, browser, email, phone handsets, maps/gps, ad clicks etc, though. The sort of triangulated dossier you could put together would be impressive.

Edit: "Our new Privacy Policy makes clear that, if you’re signed in, we may combine information you've provided from one service with information from other services."
Have you come across anyone who has been fined under this law? I have not and know many people who are rubbish at filing on time or even in the same year. I've not seen any enforcement commensurate with $20k fines willy nilly. Not that I like the law, I've just not seen it enforced.
This is the logical continuation of Aaron Swartz work.
He should be mentioned.
I am a dog owner and I am completely in the belief that my dog can feel empathy. I see it from time to time. I have a really hard time understanding why some would even make the suggestion that animals generally don't feel empathy? If every animal does it, however, is a different question.
I used null-modem-cable, called rs-cable between my Casio FP-200 "laptop" and 286 AT PC. Later Laplink was used to transfer files much faster over parallel port.
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>How the hell does the US think it has the right to tax people who haven't lived there for over 30 years?

As long as you maintain a passport and citizenship, how do they not have such a right?
Thanks for the link, and for the rant. It deserves a separate submission to HN :) I'll let you do that.
I guess this was coming. Opera was on a long and painful road to irrelevance, right from when they threw away all their amazing work to become yet another chrome variant minus the most useful features that really made Opera what it was - respected, lightweight, fast, and supremely customisable.

As for this acquisition, it's a surefire way of alienating whatever userbase they managed to hold on to. Qihoo is a purveyor of questionable software to put it mildly, their servers are in mainland China and are probably controlled by the CCP/PLA unit 61398, and I sure as hell won't trust them with anything.
As an expat myself I always had the ability to get these services from my employer, in some cases I have even insisted that this will be part of the employment contract just like any relocation package.