skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Latency would be an issue when dealing with face-to-face communication because of the uncanny valley. Perhaps.

Latency would not be an issue harnessing the cloud to drive robots to do chores around the house -- serving drinks, cleaning up, feeding the pets, and so on. All you'd really need is an intermediate language. You'd send commands like "walk over there" or "Pick up that cup" So what if there was a 2-3 second delay?

Also, you should be able to use real people over the cloud controlling bots right away. Actually hooking AI into it and having the cloud control everything is still a ways off. (And having robots in your house controlled remotely by other computers is about as freaking crazy as I can imagine)
If you click on a comment's timestamp to go to its page, it shouldn't be greyed out there.
Can you walk around, walk away and come back? How much movement is allowed before experience breaks down? This is the major difference between VR devices like Occulus/Cardboard vs Hololens.
Comcast (a BB sponsor) is holding a contest in which you design your own virtual apartment in "Comcast Town." They invited Boing Boing to judge but, even more fun, they asked us to suggest some Boing Boing furniture that people could use to decorate their pads! Above is the living room I designed. (I'm obviously not eligible to win. Sniff, sniff.) Notice the steampunk computer, carnivorous plant, and Flying Spaghetti Monster statue. I think the illustrator did a terrific job. In fact, I wish it was my real living room! The grand prize winning design gets a real-world room remodel, 40-inch HDTV, a new laptop, and a digital phone. I'm just helping select the ten finalists -- then it's up to The People.

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Did you take a look at how small the image would be if using Alpine (Docker's new best friend)?
Well, then, couldn't you subtract the cost of their AWS bill (or some fraction of that cost) from their revenue, to adjust for the lower headcount?
Your mobile is a huge security risk should you have any reason to not want to be compromised (or even, in some cases if you don't). It can be used to eavesdrop, track your location, track who you meet with, who you talk to, why you meet and talk with these people, who you are close to, who your relatives are and if it's a smartphone, what your personality is, what your interests are, what you are thinking about at any given time etc etc.
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That’s because, according to a LinkedIn spokesperson, Weiner is forgoing his annual stock package so that employees can have it instead.

Huge kudos CEO taking responsibility (even though its probably not his fault) while making sure employees don't get impacted.
I think, you have mixed terms for revenue, earnings and profit.
How the Feds Might Get into the iPhone Without Apple's Help
> we tend to measure charity by the sacrifice a persons makes, rather than the impact they have on the world.

A perhaps unintentional critique of charity itself.
You're describing a situation where it is still personal. Whereas for the people in the RoI, the English menace is no longer in living memory.
Actual article: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/02/bmw-are-sending-their-softw...
Asking for statutes to be removed is extreme? Burning things in protest is extreme? I think we use the word extreme differently, seems pretty tame.
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In that case I'd love for it to include resuming downloads though, but given the differences I don't think merging is going to be more useful than just adding the feature in curl.

Edit: nevermind, I just learned that wget can download a page's resources or even inline them (-k apparently), that's a bit of a way off from curl's purpose. Better keep them separate tools, although wget might benefit from using libcurl so they don't have to implement lots of stuff like https or http2.
Even with the colocation we have eye-to-action response times of around 400ms. It takes 100ms for information to even get from the retina to processing in the brain http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627309...

Given this, network latency doesn't seem like a big deal.
How does it work? Pass the return address in a register and have enough caller-saved registers that leaf functions can often do without spilling? Or is there a more sophisticated mechanism?
The ability to appear as offline or at least away. It is a feature present in almost every modern chat application.
The last scene... VR graphic novels could be pretty amazing.
Interesting but it is another technology increasing the complexity of building web sites, also to consider what happens with chains of dependencies and scripts loaded by things like require.js. I don't think it's required, browsers should just have an arbitrary limit of resources a single tab can use, useless the user promotes it somehow (like unity webapps) or apps running in an electron wrapper.
I'm all for Google and Bing analyzing client side performance and penalizing in ranking those that are considered abusive but pushing the responsibility to all eyeballs doesn't seem like a good idea to me. This is Ilya Grigorik though so somewhat desired to retract my opinion.. wait.. click add comment
It's ridiculous and juvenile to make these kinds of comparisons.

Do people escape through books and movies? Not usually to the point that they become dangerous.

Let's be adults here.
Ask HN: Best Enterprise Scheduler
Could you please recommend enterprise Scheduler. Currently, we are using Activebatch. my colleagues were recommending Control-M.
Bouncelytics: Finding Website Bottlenecks Just Got Easier
Well, it looks like I was taught wrong, and it's not 'cat URL' (though that's a good way to think of it), but the rather more direct-to-STDOUT-sounding 'see URL'. TIL something too :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL
Like historians? I also think they will exist in fifty years.
Show HN: Start a pair programming session over WebRTC by just sharing a link
> Think about it, have YOU ever seen it? We've all seen videos, but no real life robots in the uncanny valley.

Isn't that kinda like saying:

Think about it, have YOU ever seen atomic bombs? We've all seen videos, but no real life atomic bombs. They're not real!
It depends if your labor is going up in demand/price.
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the article is just about finding GPL licensed software. not about their refusal.
My cartoon solution is to develop nuclear(or otherwise) powered rockets that send nuclear waste onto a collision course with the sun.
This is addressed in the linked issue.[1] Your criticism is the reason why (a subset of) WebAssembly is used, not LLVM IR.

1. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/48#issuecomment-1690...
> The debate is shifting to "public security vs privacy" instead of Apple vs FBI, which is how a lot of the consumers and Apple fans see this right now

Actually Apple is painting it as a "security vs. security" debate [1] [2]. They point out that every iPhone user's security is put at risk if they are forced to sign software that weakens the iPhone's security.

> I rather enjoyed hearing Comey's responses and found Bruce Sewell to lack the same maturity and preparedness

I thought Sewell performed well. He was given some tough questions he could not have anticipated. Sewell was the one on the hot seat here. Comey did not face as much pressure.

[1] https://youtu.be/g1GgnbN9oNw?t=3h11m46s

[2] https://youtu.be/g1GgnbN9oNw?t=3h19m39s
It started with the x86 and PDP-11 thing. Some CPU architectures have a specific stack pointer register, and some don't. IBM mainframes don't have a dedicated stack pointer; the stack is a software construct. Neither do SPARC machines.

There are also real stack machines, where instructions take operands from the stack and push results on the stack. The Burroughs 5000 and the English Electric LEO-Marconi KDF9 introduced that architecture around 1958. It lives on in the x86 FPU register stack.

FORTRAN and COBOL originally forbade recursion. Compilers could allocate all temporary memory at compile time. Stack overflow is impossible. Some real-time systems still work that way.
Pretty sure skiddies will not assume most victims have wget already, they'll just ship it with the exploit. If not installing wget is an annoyance to a hacker, they're already in too deep ;)
LinkedIn CEO Addressing Employees After Stock Dropped 40 Percent [video]
I currently have basic router from ISP, but I'm waiting for Omnia Turris.
And a stock that turned into a machete!
Grand Theft Internet
Ask HN: How many UU/day do you need on your websites to make minimal profit?
The heap is basically the memory that isn't your program code, your stack, or the space reserved by the compiler for your global variables (speaking of C, here). The heap memory traditionally gets allocated from a unix kernel with a syscall called sbrk(), which adds on to one end of the heap so that it stays one big contiguous chunk of memory. Traditionally, the heap begins at the opposite end of memory from the stack and grows towards it (some CPU's stacks grow up and some grow down). This may not be the case any more on 64 bit machines, since 64 bit address space is so big.

Technically it's up to your app to use that memory as it pleases. Of course, 99.9999% of programs use the standard C library functions malloc() and free() (or "new" and "delete") which handle all this for you, and keep track of which chunks of memory are in use. They're also cross platform so you don't have to worry about what the system API in Windows is for low level memory allocation. But you don't have to use them if you really don't want to (though in that case be careful calling shared library functions that might call malloc() behind your back).
https://github.com/Antox/Antox
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Sure. But I was commenting on the concept of discounting future costs in present-value calculations. A 4% discount rate is about right for strontium-90, with a half-life of 28.9 years. But plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24.1 thousand years, so maybe a lower discount rate is appropriate.
Hindsight – it's not just for past events (2014)
I'm sorry but I don't see how these are for kids. "Monte Carlo Pi Estimator" ??

Some stuff kids would enjoy more: https://inventwithpython.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Python-Kids-Playful-Introduction-Progr...
Bankrate [0] defaults to 7%, but yes, basically. Compound interest is magical.

Vanguard's Total Stock Market index fund [1] has seen an average annual return of 8.87% since inception in 1992.

[0] http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/retirement/retirement-pl...

[1] https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0085&...
Dick Smith receiver puts customer databases up for sale
When Tattoos Are Sexy – The Emporialist│romanian „street Fashion” Magazine
It still feels better to mix and apply real paint to a physical surface with an actual brush held in one's hand. More time spent lashed to an electronic apparatus feels less like relaxation these days.
Loophole (Polar Loop API) Has Now Linux Support
Should also point out that Juno can run EVM, via Masala, which is our stand-alone EVM interpreter. (https://github.com/slpopejoy/masala)

One thing EVM gets right is being a deterministic state machine -- giving rise to the possibility of "diffed" outputs, which is a feature of Hopper. This makes it amenable to offering a sidelong key-value store that is 100% verifiable, offering fast restarts and (dirty) reads.

Hopper's main goal is to reduce the surface area of computation, in order to focus on the problem of mass-conservation and transactionality. In EVM you have to code all of this stuff yourself. As we've seen, this requires a LOT of code.

EVM also bundles in a notion of accounts, which Juno does not.
No more than gambling usage has dropped because it's no longer rebellious to gamble.

Gambling legalization is very close to drug legalization in my opinion, and that has shown that usage will increase, and the behavior will be destigmatized.
We were going to put it inside a mountain in Nevada—Congress even passed a law authorizing it—but politics ended up killing the project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...
Unless you want to download a web site for archiving purposes.
Whatever, I have no sympathy for employers who exploit people like these or actually any people. More reason for them to play nice.
Not early cosmonauts. They remain up there today, in soyus pods attached to the ISS.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/23131359/ns/technology_and_science...
ARE CERTAIN KIDS BORN WITH DREADLOCKS?
Reminds me of Gladia's "Field colorings" in Isaac Asimov's book Naked Sun
Thanks for the link! I think their approach of including the real-world is very exciting and has just as much potential as completely virtual applications.

Edit: Just realized you were asking me a question. Well nothing quite as advanced. The user would look through their camera on the phone screen and draw directly on the screen and also be able to see other people's overlays, kinda like snapchat but in 3D and realtime. If I find the implementation I saw on HN I
l link it.
No offence, but a link to your own tweet, not something in writing from BMW is hardly worth discussing?
uBlock is probably enough. Yes?
Dick Smith Electronics receiver Ferrier Hodgson is trying to sell the retailer's customer databases in an effort to recoup revenue from the failed business. What do you think? Should everything including privacy be sold off?
>making a land-landing more pleasant.

Or at least a bit less unpleasant

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/06/08/back_to_...
"It's not Apple's job to protect the American people."

Perhaps not, Mr. Comey. It is, however, their job to protect their customers.
Why I use Logic Studio (2009)
Max Levchin Wants Apple to Open the iPhone – But Just This Once
Done, Thank you!!!
Having played both, I would strongly recommend you do. When I took off the vive my first thought was "no way I'm getting an oculus".
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There are. Parallax Propeller has no stack, no interrupts.
When I worked retail back in college, after the store closed a manager would have to unlock the door to let you out of the store. Letting employees out was never a high priority, so you often had to wait a while.

Multiply that times 10-20 employees a night at ~1,000 stores and you've got a good chunk of change.
I love Hacker News, but my least favourite thing about it all is how we glorify 'startups'. It's honestly just a really weird business model, that seems like it's bound to inspire things like the recent Zenefits scandal, Uber and Airbnb's disregard for regulation, etc. etc. etc. I dunno... like this story implies, it just seems totally ass-backwards to focus on growth before you're profitable, and pretty unhealthy to boot.
Lessons (or Not) When a Startup Misses the Mark
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The Vital Role of Research in Preserving the American Dream [pdf]
I don't have an answer for where to bury it (though recycling it really ought to be an option. Politics prevents that right now) but the movement of the waste is actually a problem that has been largely solved. Nuclear flasks are designed to withstand incredible accidents. For instance, the UK flasks were tested by placing one one a derailed flatbed car & ramming a locomotive into it at >90mph. The flask was situated so that the hinge (weakest point) would be hit. The flask was minimally damaged while the locomotive was destroyed. [1]

The US flasks are required to withstand similar catastrophic accidents.

[1]http://www.railmagazine.com/trains/heritage/it-s-a-lovely-da...
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Where do they refuse? It seems at best they are just getting called out on it. Time to lawyer up.
It's just a fancy way of saying what it really is (estimating pi with increasing accuracy using geometry). I remember doing the pencil circle drop calculation for pi in middle school which is a similar concept just physical instead of on a computer.

The problem I've found with pygame is that the time from starting to producing a playable game is too long, the kids get frustrated and lose interest when you need to type 20-40 lines of boiler plate to just get an image and a moving character on the screen before anything even happens. I've had much greater success with "boring" projects that produce the final result in 10-20 lines.

They already have games that we'll never be able to come close to in terms of quality. There's nothing that I can make in even 20 hours that is even close to as interesting as Minecraft or a high budget xbox game - there is effectively a very small difference to them between building a game with "boring" dynamics and solving math problems.

This mostly only applies to first projects, once you complete a few projects and have separated out the children who actually enjoy programming - that's when you can start doing multi-week epics. But you need to build confidence and give them some easy "wins" before you are going to be able to do that in my experience.
NoScript doesn't break the Web. It's usually enough to allow first-party scripts, plus scripts as needed for content.
Did you ever play twitchplayspokemon? The latency between sending your command in the chat and it appearing on the stream is about 20 to 30 seconds.
NVidia GRID is probably the best benchmark, especially since a latency optimized data center full of GPUs sounds like a pretty good place to do some matrix multiplication. If it's fast enough to play a game it should be usable for everything but fast motor control.
For some context, read the top level OP. Of course it's not inherently negative.
Most strains of Christianity will have some form of proselytizing, though it might be muted. Plus there also tends to be ebbs and flows in the history and culture of such things. It's interesting to note that proselytizing arguably has a very significant (positive) effect on formation of liberal democracies [1].

[1]: http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic965299.files/Wood...
This is a good comment because lots of folks confuse the heap and the stack.

Let's say you assign a variable in c, like so
int i = 0;
No matter where you do this, you're assigning a variable on the stack. A location on the stack is set aside and your variable goes in there.

This works great for small-ish things that you keep around to work on, but sometimes you want a big thing -- or you want something that lives on after the function dies.

In this case, you create something on the heap. In this case, you tell the computer to set aside a chunk of memory somewhere else -- the heap -- and let you store things there. You can continue using this location after your function is completed.

For an integer, it'd look like this.

int* j = malloc(sizeof(int));

So if you have a function creating bitmaps, you might have a lot of local (stack) variables, and you'd probably either create or use a pointer to a big hunk of memory where you kept all the bits for the bitmap (heap)

One way of thinking about it is if you're using a stack variable, only one piece of information gets stored in the computer -- the value. If you're using a heap variable, you're actually creating and storing two pieces of information, the value (on the heap), and a pointer to the value (on the stack). (hat tip to StackOverlow for the nice example http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6770596/memory-allocation... )
I kinda have to agree. Obviously, I don't have hard numbers to support the notion, but having seen two full boom-bust cycles (I started working in tech in '97) and, looking at what feels more and more like the precipice of a third, I'm strongly inclined to believe that the "growth über alles" mentality that can tend to be a defining aspect of "startup-hood" has probably actually destroyed more good ideas than it's fostered.
It would be difficult so no one bothers. How many "people" is monthly use of S3, DynamoDB, RDS, Route 53, etc. equivalent to? Its not easy or worthwhile to estimate. Revenue per employee can be a bit of a vanity metric.
I like the MENA line that connects France, through the Suez Canal, and to Mumbai. We have a constant stream of data flowing through underneath the boats sailing above it? Pretty darn cool.
Nuclear reactions aren't a theory about human psychology. It would be really weird if nuclear reactions seemed to work when we filmed them but not in the reality. It doesn't seem that strange that people might feel differently about an object than a video of that object.
You might also like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S0aBV-Waeo

Although call stacks aren't the main topic, it gives a really nice outline of them
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Google reinstates federated instant messaging
Thanks. I've been looking at PG replication solutions to get rid of the hand-coded synchronization built into a couple of my apps that date back to the dial-up days.
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Juno follows Raft/Tangaroa in that it treats the state machine like a black box which it runs strictly post-commit.

Significantly, this means it doesn't do a full BFT (which is ultimately application-specific), meaning it is possible to DOS with correct-but-spurious messages.

We are investigating ways to lazily verify SM results, which would necessarily be application specific. This opens the way for an application to code DOS resistance.
Noob question, why don't torrents get transferred over SSL?
Probably polarizing because people believe so differently about giving.

Some believe that "good" giving means giving a large portion of what you have, not a small fraction.

Others believe a gift is good gift, no matter how small.

Others believe a $14mm gift is good because of how large it is, regardless of whether or not it's 0.01% or 100% of his net worth.

Others take offense when people try to dictate theirs or others lives by claiming a kind or charitable act is insufficient because it doesn't put out the giver as much as they should like.

And there are probably other ways to look at it as well.

This sort of debate always crops up when rich people donate money.