skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now I'm imagining a CG cartoon film about stoned bees starring Andy Samberg or somebody.

"Dude, like, why do we gotta serve the queen anyway? Don't you get it man? She's part of the system -- the system that oppresses us. Whoa, this is good shit."
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>equally viable for men or women to be stay-at-home pa[r]ents //

Bio-engineer men to produce breastmilk?
People unfamiliar with full-device encryption on Android devices need to be aware of the following: until Marshmallow, it was SLOW. It was so bad that while Google recommended turning on encryption by default on Lollipop, they had to back off of the recommendation because full-disk encryption made the devices run like crap. [0] The reason suspected for this is that up to and including Lollipop, Android handsets did not support hardware-backed encryption/decryption, which meant it all had to be done in software.[1] This had the end result of putting huge overhead onto the device once FDE was turned on, and over time it would get slower and slower. Anecdotally, I tried encrypting my HTC One M7 a few years ago for security, and I eventually I had to factory wipe the damn thing because the overhead got so bad that I would periodically turn on the screen and it would take so long for the phone to respond that the auto-idle would turn the screen back off before I I was even presented with a lockscreen!

The M7's specs were nothing to scoff at in 2013. Given the incredibly limited specs of Amazon's tablets, however, I would not be surprised if encrypting them could slow them down further to the point of being unusable.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/03/google-quietly-backs-...
[1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/11/20/anandtech-posts-side...
A five part series trying to translate the statistics of the upcoming Portland quake into understandable "speculative fiction".
There are downsides too. Some perceived, some real.

Unions are all about tenure. When the shit hits the fan, the young people lose. Pay scale is generally based on tenure as well.
The fear of waste has always struck me as illogical for a couple of reasons:

First, uranium is not some mythic dark magic demon that we conjure from a hellish fairy land in another dimension. It's a naturally-occurring rock that we intentionally dig up because it's useful. Another comment mentions lead, mercury, etc. as being even more terrifying, but again, these are natural elements that we mine for various uses. They're not new. They've always been here. Most of the fear is just superstition.

Secondly, fear seems to be predicated on the idea that we need to dump all the stuff, we need to find a single place to concentrate it all when we dump it, and we need to leave it there for thousands of years. Of course no one wants that next door. But why try to find a place to dump all this lead/mercury/uranium while we're still digging up and refining more? Why not find ways to use it?

We used to take just the kerosene and dump most of the rest of the oil because we just didn't know what to do with it. Turns out gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel did have uses after all. We also didn't know what to do with heavy oils, oil sands, etc., but we've found ways to process them into something useful.

If we do need to dump some (perhaps because we don't yet have the technology to filter out impurities), why not just put it back where we got it, or scatter it around the way that it is found naturally, or better still just tuck it away for a few decades until it becomes useful? Because it won't be a problem for a million years or 10,000 years or hundreds of years. It will soon be a valuable resource.

With nuclear waste it's especially odd. That is by definition mass that naturally produces energy, and we're most worried about how to get rid of the stuff that will produce energy for a long time...while we are simultaneously worried about how we're going to produce enough energy to meet the demands of the future. Yet people are suggesting that we launch it all into space! How different would our world be if we had launched all the gasoline and diesel into space before we knew what to do with it?
There's a middle ground to what he's saying. Once you MASTER something that all your life has been in demand and incredibly lucrative, it becomes hard to believe that completely pivoting away from that knowledge is your best course of action. I believe in most cases these down turns seem temporarily, a short storm to weather with a small reduction in pay until things get going again (see Big 3 auto). Unfortunately things just keep spiraling downwards and by the time you realize it, it is too late.

Definitely such short sightedness and stubbornness can be associated with brilliance.
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>The only thing that I am disagreeing with him on is whether "it is safe to assume that gender roles are baked into our DNA".

Ah, now I understand. You're practicing the common internet commenter behavior of picking out a single strongly worded statement and ignoring everything else the person said. Uncharitably reading my comments as "hurr durr women belong in the kitchen" instead of putting some faith in the author that they might have simply meant "hey, maybe it's not just a whim of culture that women are traditionally the caretakers in just about every single successful society." All because I didn't wrap a particular sentence in 3 paragraphs of qualifications and apologies.
People probably don't use it because at every English school in non English-speaking countries, they teach you that "they" is for plural only. I had personally never heard until recently that "they" could be singular too. It also really sounds weird to a French like me.
250K for hello world example... where is this world going to! :)

I am sure it can be trimmed, but we are getting oblivious to common sense a little. This is system language.
The function name often includes the name of the first argument just by virtue of it being spelled out. Current Swift function names are usually two parts, one part for the function itself, and one part that indicates the meaning of the first argument. For example, consider removeAtIndex, substringWithRange, or joinWithSeparator.

To me, it makes a lot more sense to just call these remove, substring, and join, and label the first argument to express what's removed, substringed, or joined with. This makes the first parameter consistent with subsequent parameters, and makes the actual function name purely about the function's, uh, function.
Get as much money as you can especially while our skill/experience is in high demand; man or woman!

Use recruiters to your advantage; utilize them to get a higher salary or hourly rate. I.E. When they message you tell them your making more then you really are to see how high they can go.
I don't know where you got the impression that he was doing any of this with the intention of putting it on production.
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How did you come with the idea with watermark-image? Looks like a cool site!
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Terra is lower-level, and on evaluation compiles to object code. Lua is higher-level, and on evaluation compiles to bytecode before being executed. A source file written entirely in Terra would produce a binary, and a source file written in Lua would produce Lua bytecode. In either case, you can run the result immediately, or save the resulting object code/bytecode to run later.

The strength of the two is that Terra can be manipulated using Lua as a metalanguage: for example, you could write a Lua function which produces Terra code, which is then executed. In some sense, this is like C, which has a lower-level language (C) and a corresponding high-level language which can manipulate that lower-level language (the C preprocessor). In this case, though, Lua is much more powerful and flexible than CPP, and Terra is also a smaller, simpler language than C.

It gets more powerful, though, because the Lua parts don't just have to exist at compile-time. You could use Lua at run-time to produce Terra code, which in turn can get executed immediately, producing object code specialized to a given situation or machine: for example, you might write a language, use Lua to parse it, and then convert it to Terra to produce object code which is then invoked immediately: this effectively just-in-time compiles your code. Or, you could write an algorithm in Terra with specific constants that aren't known until run-time, and then use Lua to stitch those constants in before running the algorithm: for example, to take advantage of specific machine features or parameters.

These examples also assume that you have only "compile" and "run" stages; you could also write programs with more stages: for example "compile source", "specialize for machine", and "run" could be three distinct stages. Terra/Lua would afford you the flexibility to stage your computations in this way.
You haven't been following IBM then. 2010-2015 was "Roadmap 2015" during which the principal goal of the CEO was to bring earnings per share up to $20. It's 2016, and the EPS is still only $10. In the process, they've issued countless share buyback programs, fired anything that looked like it might be earning less than the average required, and sold the rest at firesale prices. For example, they paid GlobalFoundries 1.5 billion to take their POWER chip fabs and run them. IBM's notable for their government services, and they lost a cloud computing contract with the CIA to Amazon, and filed suit, only to be found against publicly as 'not actually a cloud computing service.' So they bought Softlayer, which incidentally, doesn't have the profit margins they would have needed for ye olde Roadmap. Bloomberg Businessweek went so far as to describe the executive strategy in 2014 as "financial engineering."

Given the complete failure to achieve not only value for shareholders, but their own fucking stated goals, it seems reasonable to question exactly what the executive team is paid and why.
They're not guaranteeing failure in 5 years, but are pretty sure it won't fail. If "pretty sure" is 98%, then that's 100K (or something like it, probability maths is hard).
The issue is software library related: they'd have to pay Microsoft a bunch of money find a way to get Direct X to work on their system. Granted there are a number of libraries that don't use Direct X, but they mostly use OpenGL, which is also not very well implemented on Mac OS. Blizzard games are pretty much the only exception, and they've sort of dropped that in Overwatch.

Some of this is fixable, but not a priority as long as Direct X is blocking them from a good chunk of the market. The real solution is to just dual boot into Windows for PC games. Or depend on the handful of ports that use Cider + OpenGL in the background and run slower with more RAM usage.
If you're sure that they're pretty much ineffectual, how about proposing that each of you own a license to the software as it currently exists, and can continue to build a company on it - with perhaps a clause that the software cannot be sold or licensed to a 3rd party for some time period - a year or so.

Opens you to possible competition, but could head off litigious issues.
Or reverse it, what if you're a blue collard worker in a disadvantaged community that IBM just moved into, they lure you into training at IBM in a narrow skill set with the promise of becoming white collard.

Can't blame someone for taking that risk.
i was thinking this too. i'd like to also have a screen, for example on my fridge, where echo can post visual data replies.
I wonder why reading this article makes me think of pogs and Beanie Babies...
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... with a couple of kinect type devices to monitor one's signs.
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> But from about 9 months you could both work say 3 days a week if you wanted.

TERRIBLE advice. In all things gender and money, Penelope Trunk is a goto: http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2013/01/07/how-to-pick-a-husba...

> Don’t tell me that you want your husband to work part-time, because aiming for the impossible 50/50 split leads to divorce. First, because it’s the road to eternal poverty; part-time jobs are low pay, without advancement, and they are the first to go when it’s time to cut jobs. So you create massive financial instability by having two people work part-time.
I discovered this a few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11152640) on my Kindle Fire HD 6. I ran it quite happily with encryption under Fire OS 4, and upgrading actually required that I wipe the device. Amazingly, Fire OS 5 (without encryption) appears to run about the same, or maybe even a bit more slowly. The HD 6 actually has decent specs, so I'm speculating that this is mainly to improve performance on the newer $50 tablets that don't have the computational power of the older models.
Shouldn't attribution of Visual Studio Code also be given to Google since it uses a large portion of code from the Chromium project?
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I am pretty sure I am dyslexic. My favour slogan is "Dyslexic of the World Untie!"
Wouldn't being able to offload to multiple SSD controllers potentially help too if that's the bottleneck?
By default Rust statically links the standard library into every program. For binaries it also statically links to jemalloc by default to use as the allocator. This is a large constant factory that makes trivial programs significantly larger than C, but like all constant factors it becomes insignificant when n is larger.

Binary size is not a major concern for most programs, even those written in a systems language. If it is a concern for your use case, you can use dynamic linking and the system allocator to get the size down to the same scale as C.
Agreed. It's a rhetorical technique that always makes me question the credibility of the writer (in any work, not just TCM). It always makes the writer sound like they lack skepticism and may be drinking their own Kool-Aid.
Interesting article. Looking at the code, it's pretty clear that this is not a particularly practical approach, but I think it points in the direction of where language design should head. Abstractions shouldn't be forced, unless absolutely necessary; forced abstractions lead to inefficiency.

I've been working on a related concept, but more along the lines of developing a low-level IR (LLIR) and corresponding syntax that allows direct coding in the LLIR. It would essentially be a portable assembly language. The LLIR could be then be compiled down to machine code for different architectures, or even run directly in a VM.

This isn't too different from the LLVM concept, except the IR would be a practical programming language, much like assembly. Furthermore, the IR would provide access control primitives (reference capabilities) that most languages do not support, but that are extremely useful for low-overhead secure computing and concurrent computing. These primitives could be especially useful in the design of exokernel OS's, and related applications.
Regarding hustle, I see:

> late 17th century (originally in the sense ‘shake, toss’): from Middle Dutch hutselen

So I think it splits into the dice and gambling sense, where deception becomes a valuable skill. And also the "hustle and bustle" sense, as in a football coach yelling at his player to hustle.
> It's also what they've been saying about iPhones for the last few years, even though it's now been shown to be untrue.

Well, the model of phone in that case (5C) is 2.5 years old using a 3.5 year old version of their CPUs lacking some of the modern hardware necessary (Secure Enclave.)

High-level details here: https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
I'll just leave this [1] here..

[1]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CcBl4edUMAASf7X.jpg:large
Great example of explanatory writing that makes an article interesting even for a reader who's never played bridge.
This sort of stuff does happen. I knew of one company whose insurance limits them to something like 20 containers per vessel. During the Han lunar new year they the would place as many as 35 onto a single ship. One of these would be bound to be on top, especially if you can somehow determine when they entered the loading dock relative to other containers on the vessel. They'd probably get zero coverage once the insurer found out they'd overloaded too.

"Hacking" might not be an appropriate term here though. Most shipping website security is beyond awful. I've used Selenium to pull stuff off of shipping sites before as APIs are almost non-existent. When they do exist, they return fixed length text that you have to decode or you're using something archaic like automated email replies when you email a container number to them. (I have sent thousands of emails in a five minute period to a single VOCC to figure out if they were actually the ones shipping something and where the cargo is.) Lastly I've actually sent emails to website support on tracking sites telling them they weren't sanitizing inputs at all. Zero interest or chest pounding brush off reply.

As for barcodes, they probably mean shipping container number (ISO 6346 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6346).

Now all you need are pirates with a Russian Mil Mi-26 to dig for the buried treasure on the vessel while at sea (like in William Gibson's Spook Country)
If you use 3ware/LSI/Avago (now all Broadcom) you install the Megaraid tools and it has a scheduler that does a patrol read whenever you schedule it to. ReadyNAS devices have a similar setting that will check the disks.
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If you're just counting the flash chips on circuit boards, I would think that you could fit many more SD innards and wire them together with some type of controller in this space. I don't doubt however that given the use-case, it has some room allocated for chips going bad, heat dissipation, etc inside. If they could have made a 20TB drive instead for the enterprise market in this form factor, they would have.
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My reaction was to stop coding in C. You're safe from immediate irrelevance, but the alternatives keep getting better.
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All methods are namespaced but there is sugar which can cause a conflict because it searches the namespaces in scope for methods.

Imagine the trait (namespace) `Baz` defines a method `bar()`, and `Foo` is a type which implements `Baz`. `foo.bar()` is sugar for `<Foo as Baz>::bar(foo)`. Imagine `Foo` also implements `Quux`, another trait in scope, and `Quux` is extended to also define `bar()`. Now `foo.bar()` is ambiguous, because it could also mean `<Foo as Quux>::bar(foo)`. As you can imagine, though, this happens very rarely.

You can't avoid a conflict unless you require specifying the namespace at every call-site, which is in my estimation a much greater burden than editing your code to use the explicit namespace form if a conflict arises because of a new method in a dependency.
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<I really have never understood the cheater's mentality>

In this particular case, the incentive seemed to be that better performance resulted in recruitment to higher-compensated teams.
If you have lead paint that has been painted over, you don't really have a problem.
> forever double tapping their spacebar

???

I don't know anyone who does this.
People with mortgages and kids don't move to new places where there's more, or at least more immediate, economic opportunity?

Why not?

Kids are mobile. Mortgages can be covered by tenants or by selling the property (usually).

I only have kid (singular) and lack a mortgage, but I'd definitely move my family to a place with more opportunity if the well ran dry where we're at now. I wouldn't even hesitate or think twice about it. The temporary pain of transition is going to be a lot easier than the long-tail of fruitless toiling and economic decay.
if they're looking for booty why don't they use a porn site?
The article explicitly says that the 39% reproducibility isn't that far off what you would probably expect anyway.

The article then goes on to add the the meta-study was awful in it's study selection, giving the example: OSC researchers tried to reproduce an American study that dealt with Stanford University students’ attitudes toward affirmative action policies by using Dutch students at the University of Amsterdam.

The article then goes on to say that reproducibility is still a problem in science, but that the meta-study was simply terrible in it's own methodology. Low reproducability is less of an issue given the context of the problem space, the article says; the meta-study was wrong, both methodologically and in conclusion ('low reproducability' != 'unethical' or 'crisis').

I recommend reading the fine article.
This is like a question from a markov generator. I won't try to answer it.
They also taught that "they" is plural in American schools up until the last decade or so.

I remember getting points off of papers for misusing "they" in a singular context.

So it sounds weird to me too. We were always taught that "he" is a gender-neutral singular as needed.
Except that's not exactly what they're doing. They're laying off US workers and replacing them with cheap employee's from BRIC countries. This isn't about turning around the ship, it's about replacing the ship's crew with a foreign crew that will gladly accept a 1/3 of the wage.
That's what I figured at first too, but this line from Apple's open letter says otherwise:

>In the wrong hands, this software — which does not exist today — would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone’s physical possession.

This line has been quoted a lot and Apple has not redacted or clarified it. If newer iPhones were not vulnerable to these types of attacks, Apple wouldn't say that they are. Especially since they've openly said that one of their big concerns is damage to Apple's reputation for security and privacy.
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I assume you're being down voted for being new, but I read your comment as a more verbose "citation needed"
Sounds tiresome.