skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on the related paper[1], this appears to be more of a proof of concept than something you might introduce into production.

For example:

"To evaluate a JavaScript file, the
scheduler uses the built-in eval() function that is provided by the JavaScript engine. To evaluate HTML,
CSS, and images, Polaris leverages DOM interfaces like
document.innerHTML to dynamically update the
page’s state"

So, it relies on eval(), which will slow down javascript significantly, and document.innerHTML, which will slow down rendering. It's trading asset download improvements for rendering slowdown.

The high level advice of streamlining the dependency chain of page assets is laudable, but this doesn't sound like the right approach.

[1]http://web.mit.edu/ravinet/www/polaris_nsdi16.pdf
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It is clearly implied in the quote that they will be doing much more than the others - that's what matters. Your interpretation above that they will be doing "the same" is unreasonable given the context. It's pretty reasonble then to assume "dozens" will be at the very least two dozen on the lower bound. Even if it's a guess, it's likely a far better guess than to assume they meant "others are doing too few launches, so we'll do the same number of launches"
Are they vastly less, though? The core of the algorithm is still a deep Monte Carlo Tree Search which AlphaGo gets quite a boost on computationally for being able to fire it off in parallel. It's obviously incorrect to take the training system and assume it's identical to the live system, but I think it's disingenuous to say the live system didn't have some serious horsepower.
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For those who don't know: He's talking about the in the aforementioned "beach" room, which had a different name, meaning, and story. MrEricSir appears to be one of the top google results for "The Latitude Book 2" if you care to explore.

There was a hexagon shaped table with a sandbox. In each corner of the sandbox there was a digital camera (connected to a raspberry pi) that would photograph the sandbox throughout your appointment and then send the pictures to your personal account on our website. When you went back to the website to confirm that you had completed your experience, you were presented with a handful of sandcastle-POV photos that were just for you.

Yeah, I heard that a couple of times. That's part of why there were 6 cameras, with the hope that two or three would be working + get a decent shot.

Still, I'd say from a design pov, that _totally worked_. People behave different when they know they're being watched or evaluated. This was meant to be a private space for you, and the photos of that thing were meant to be a pleasant surprise.
I'll caveat this with the fact that I'm a coworker of alloy's and orta's, so I'm admittedly biased to seeing them in a positive light.

But I think you may be reading his tone more negatively than necessary. What I see is him starting off by expressing gratitude and then switching voices to communicate very explicitly what the needs and desires of his stakeholders are. He's simply trying to reflect that as clearly as possible and discover the additional context. This was clearly effective, as you can see from the rest of the conversation that with all the information out there, everybody comes to a mutually acceptable consensus. Problem solved!

What we've ultimately got here is a free service built on a free service. CocoaPods has nothing but the time and effort of volunteers. GitHub has input of resources from the commercial side of their business. Both sides clearly want to preserve the utility of this end-to-end workflow in a more sustainable way.

"Falling over yourself" is a subjective amount of effort, but clearly CocoaPods has tried to minimize their impact on GitHub. As it turns out, the attempted optimization of shallow fetching backfired, but that's not from lack of regard for the resources they rely on. What was missing was exactly the context the Github employees provided.

Honestly, I think people are offended second-hand by a perceived lack of groveling on CocoaPods part, and to me, that's way overblown.
Tinfoil is a great lean Android Facebook client https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danvelazco...
I'm running a pair of L5639's in my main server. Perfectly usable. Yes, the cores are relatively slow, but you get plenty of them.

> OVH has the Kimsufi outlet which is cheaper and better hardware

I see one dual socket Westmere Xeon that's actually slower than the two you're complaining about (1/3rd as much cache, 5-20% slower clock), and a bunch of similarly ancient consumer-level junk.

I even spy an i7 920 in there. A 2008 first-gen Nehalem. That's a 130W CPU with terrible power management, how on Earth is that economical for them to deploy?!
Pad filenames to prevent sorting problems (Node)
So have we done it in the previous times? :)
How exotic are tools like WinSCP (https://winscp.net/eng/index.php), Filezilla (https://filezilla-project.org/) or Cyberduck (https://cyberduck.io/?l=en) ?
I don't think they should just throw out homework.

I have to imagine there is a huge difference between homework done with a parent helping vs independent study.

I bet homework where the parent is involved is successful (at least it was for me... and no not the parent doing the work) as it is basically extended school time and I wish the study looked into that more.

Also what about an option to choose a particularly subject for homework. That is give the child a choice of which subject to learn more about after hours.
Show HN: Startup Growth Help Tailored to Your Business Over Text
Interesting, thanks. By MWD you mean megawatt day?

Moltex looks like it might be ideal for waste burning.
Does it? I did not know that. I am currently living in France but I had passed my childhood in the east. Do you know what are the conditions or do you have experience with it?
https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/c/
It's not at all about hiding something.

It's your civic responsibility to encrypt everything you can. Democracy everywhere is counting on it. We need to make it as ubiquitous and as difficult as possible to conduct mass surveillance.

The world is depending on all of us techies to get this right.
Library of predicates (Node and browser)
Besides disagreeing with you, this actually isn't true at all. In competition, AlphaGo doesn't rely on particularly expansive hardware. For training, yes, but not for playing.
In principle these are all reasonable questions but I worry people are going to take this too much as a checklist. These points should come up in the discussion process I'd hope, albeit less directly than the list here.
Well, yes actually. What about Trump?
Is it true that 2σ holds some significance? I imagine if it was common to get erroneous 2σ or 3σ readings this wouldn't have made the news in the way that it did.

Just trying to determine if this is closer to "this is probably something but we will need to confirm" or "something weird happened but it's probably nothing"
He's complaining about Internet.org
No surprise at all, human brain is an organ with limited neurons, and computer doubles its performance very 18 months. In fact not just the chess, I would say that AI will beat human all around at unlimited ratio in the future, when they learned how to improve themselves especially.
Although in "real" terms 2σ is still pretty significant - but not firm enough to go "yes, absolutely" - but if they've got 2σ it's unlikely to be just noise, albeit still perfectly possible. IIRC 2σ is about a 1/20 chance of being erroneous. 1σ is almost meaningless - 2/5 chance of being erroneous.
This. I killed off my FB account years ago and have not had the tiniest regret. But they do amazing things, and I love keeping tabs on what they are open sourcing.
I also had that same impression. I mentioned these thoughts in another thread here on HN (regarding SpaceX) and one of the engineers chimed in saying they have many positions across different areas. I still think it would be cool to join something like this, but would prefer to work on some lower level stuff. I'm currently a Full Stack web developer.

Is there a path to from my current position to something more systems related? Has anyone made this transition before?
Is the software available to download?
Quickly fetch example from a README (Node)
For another argument see "green energy" I join a program at my electric company and pay 30% or so more for solar and wind power. I do this. They pool the monthly total KWh I bought at 30% higher rate and contractually buy it from local wind farms. Cool.

The problem is I'd like a program where I get 100% of my KWh from the 0.75 cent/KWh "local" nuke plant instead of stinky coal. Where's my "green glow energy" program that drops my electric bill by 50%?
it's probably one of the most over engineered "enterprisey" piece of software ever created. The was an article a couple months back about how the app had more than 19000 Java Classes. A lot of them were auto generated i think. I have no idea how a code base ends up that bloated.
> It's OK to eat outside your feeding window

Everybody's different, I use meal time and IF in part to limit what I eat. I have to because I love everything about eating, the taste, the feeling of eating, the socialising environment, etc.
. I ccan eat anything at any time, and have a bottom less stomach.
Games may have existed, but the relative skill level of the players was likely a lot lower when people weren't spending as much time mastering the game, spreading and consuming strategy knowledge, and constantly holding events to compete and refine the best players.

I think the entire analogy is stretched a little thin of the players requiring all of this, but I also think the original attack on the Go AI based on it's mass is off base as well.
Microsoft disabled Dropbox integration in Office 365
Your understanding here is factually incorrect.

Automated traders react to all kinds of different information not just prices. And even if it was just prices that would be enough because there are lots of different markets and you can't coordinate them all.
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I'm not going to fear an AI whose idea of "the world" is a computer game, an AI that isn't even aware of the existence of the real world, and isn't even aware of the existence of the set of real world actions.
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"An unexpected data signal that could change everything has particle physicists salivating."

I know I'm like an old man screaming into the wilderness, but I can't be the only one that's profoundly sad that even nature.com has to resort to this sort of horrible clickbait formulation for a headline.

Notwithstanding my aesthetic dislike of it, the thing about these headlines that makes me really upset is the fact that they aren't actually telling the truth.

Not to be pedantic, but they have not observed any particle physicists with an unusual amount of saliva, presumably. There is no anecdotal or visual evidence of people drooling, nothing.

It seems to me this is like the most horrible way to start off an article in a publication that is about the scientific method for gods sakes, where precision and accuracy is sort of the whole point.

Would it really be so hard to have a headline like "Shocking and unexpected evidence of a new particle" or something similar that actually says or at least approximates what the news is?
Go's net/http framework uses a go routine per connection.
Are you really completely oblivious to the working conditions of workers at those times? I think the workers were as passionate about their work as the capitalist was for worker welfare and safety expenses.

Sorry but this comment and some child comments are truly shocking for me in their historical ignorance.
You're right. You should get in touch with the author of this http://lesswrong.com/lw/xu/failed_utopia_42/ and tell him :-).
These prices are simply not true. 1000 USD per month in the US will get you much more than a 1000 RMB in China. For 100 RMB you can only find a roach and mold infested hole in a tier 3 city, there are no hotels at this price in cities like Beijing or Shanghai. Yes, you can buy a jianbing on the street for 10 RMB or less, but it is the equivalent of buying a street hot dog in New York and calling that "breakfast". Something a sane person can call breakfast will be at least 20-30 RMB, still with no guarantees that your food isn't cooked in recycled gutter oil.
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I've been very pleased with http://packet.net and their typo 0 server. It's bare metal, but much more performant than here. They have an amazing network, it's by the hour, and it's < $40/mo. Bandwidth is not included: $.05/GB, but that's half AWS.

Also they're based in the US, so less latency for those of us with primary customer bases here.
We use them at DNSFilter in NYC as part of our anycast network, for the last two months. Looking forward to their San Jose and Amsterdam datacenter expansions coming soon.
I don't really understand their bug description but the result is:

Current Status:
The Office Apps team has temporarily disabled Dropbox integration in the service.

Looks like they really messed something up and now have huge problems fixing it.
But you have to admit that it's easier to learn fuseki when you don't have to worry about being eaten by a tiger.
Most languages yes not PHP.
I use it almost daily in a test/configuration environment to move text conf files to Linux machines we are setting up via scripted process. The Linux hosts have ftp disabled and ssh enabled by default.
That's based on the assumption that computing must exist as silicon transistors. When would we have reached the bounds of computation based on physical limits if we had stuck with vacuum tubes. The point is computation is an abstract concept and not tied to the physical medium that we use.
source + discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11252732
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If it's a graviton/gravitino then it could lead to things like mass drives way down the road - but until we know what it is, it's way to early to even be considering practical applications. Oh, and if it is a gravity mediating particle then we may also be able to solve that pesky dark matter question.
On Android 6.0, Facebook must ask you for accessing your contacts, location and doing most sensitive stuff. You can deny it those things and the app will keep on function normally. To their credit, Facebook is a lot quicker to update their app to work with the more restrictive Android 6.0 permission model than others.

Combine that with something like Greenify that will stop the app from doing stuff in the background and killing your battery, and it's actually a better experience than the mobile website. It's just insane on how much you must tame the application to be acceptable to use. Wish Facebook engineers would take note of how bloated and overreaching their app is by default.
> And we learned very, very well, that H2O2 monopropellants rocket engines are a pain to use in practice, and don't seem feasible for any kind of reusable system.

In no way Armadillo Aerospace's work shown that H2O2 engines are somehow fundamentally inferior to other rocket engines. What turned AA away from H2O2 were problems to obtain rocket-grade without building a processing plant.
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There is a public interest issue when politicians says one thing to the voters and another behind closed doors.
Just for the lulz, here is nbench running on my Asus Chromebook Flip.

==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
CPU : 4 CPU ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l)
L2 Cache :
OS : Linux 3.14.0
C compiler : gcc version 5.2.1 20151028 (Debian 5.2.1-23)
libc : libc-2.21.so
MEMORY INDEX : 15.111
INTEGER INDEX : 14.374
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 18.785
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11251463
He probably doesn't want a book, but I'm going to recommend he beg, borrow, or steal K&R (ANSI ed). It does a great job, and with his backround it's just the level he needs.

What is more interesting is all the lost voodoo, that everyone half decent was expected to just know, especially if you were doing anything embedded or kernel hacking. This will help him to understand why it's low level when needed.

Like the lost art of structure packing (that most of us used to do automatically without thought). No one does that any more outside of embedded systems.

http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/

Or some of the evil low level pointer hackery, but I'm not turning up anything great on google about this. Most sites claiming to have are dull run of the mill pointer operations. No unions of structs of arrays of pointers to functions doing evil trickery with inline assembler in sight! Amateurs!

SO post on "hidden features of C" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/132241/hidden-features-o...

Not very hidden most of them, but hey.

Obfuscated C Contest is good for making you friends' head hurt. Some really clever ones, so worth a look.

http://www.ioccc.org/

I think I may have spent too long C hacking in my 20s... :)
One study isn't what convinces me, it's the existing body of evidence that does so. Organisations like WHO don't recommend a minimum of 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding because of a single study, and I don't claim to be able to interpret any of the studies better than them. Your complaints about the 'breastfeeding brigade' don't seem to square up with existing medical advice.

The NZ study is an interesting one because of its huge scope and the fact that NZ at the time (for some reason) didn't have a big link between socio-economic status and breastfeeding, like in Europe. So I do believe it was instrumental in changing medical advice around the world when it was published.
The initial description of the library had me thinking of 'the Man Who Was Thursday', a book which includes its own absurd secret society.

Also, anyone interested in real-world social games might enjoy Journey to the End of the Night (http://ichaseyou.com/). It's not a secret society, but it shares some elements of roaming through your city, playing a game with strangers, and creating your own adventures.
I'm not 100% certain, but it looks like that parsing is meant to be done ahead of time, rather than on the fly?

> "To use Polaris with a specific page, a web developer runs
Scout on that page to generate a dependency graph and a Polaris scheduler stub. The developer then configures her web server to respond to requests for that page with the scheduler stub’s HTML instead of the page's regular HTML."

(But even if I've misunderstood that and it is realtime, the network is still a tighter bottleneck than the page renderer in most cases, so it seems like a generally reasonable tradeoff to me.)

I'm curious how well this compares to e.g. a plain old webpack solution though -- ideally you'd have organized your assets well enough in the first place that something like Polaris would be unnecessary. "Ideal" is often a long way from reality, of course.
I think that would be mixing presentation with functionality in a way that would become a maintenance nightmare.
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IMO, half a minute falls within "seconds". If I had to cut it somewhere, I'd think it would be in 45 or 50 seconds, at which point I would call it almost a minute. But then again, colloquial english.

Still. The point is that this does not take several minutes to download, and thus is unlikely to fail. And that's a huge achievment on Android. Applications that do very little can very easily get to 5 or 10MB. Facebook does quite a lot, and the benefits of doing that with only 1MB are obvious.
I learned to program (among other things) in the time when I wasn't doing homework. Ironically enough that's probably been far more important to my eventual career than any of the homework.
The Ci40 boards are headless, so they have no graphics support at all.
We Now Have Algorithms to Predict Police Misconduct
Actually the rational thing to do would be to start a class action suit forcing the entire fossil fuel industry to pay compensation for the environmental damage it's causing, and to compensate various national economies for the opportunity cost of getting in the way of a move to a clean energy economy.

Which is pretty much what's been happening to Big Tobacco. And it's compensation not prevention.

In tobacco's case, it isn't going to bring any dead people back to life.

I think most people, if asked, would say they'd prefer it if someone they loved hadn't died. Compensation can only go so far to fix that - just as getting the carbon industry to pay compensation won't un-flood any homes that are now underwater.

But this is only necessary because the so-called efficient, so-called market, so-called hypothesis is rhetorical bullshit - precisely because so-called market pricing is calculated in ways that exclude the true long-term costs of the external consequences of short term profit.

A genuinely efficient market would have to factor in the reality-based pricing consequences so that very bad effects became so financially unattractive they were prevented before they could happen.

Without that, you have a wealth extraction playground relying on political privilege to pretend to be something it very much isn't.
Well, it's all public now, through various straight forward means like this article, public postings on the website by the owner, etc. This covers most of my NDA. At the time, most of the secrecy was for game mechanics. That's pretty moot now as well. I've had several jobs where nobody wants the specifics discussed, so I've gotten good at saying "Imagine if you had a shipping container with a lock that needed to open for a hundred different people at a hundred different times". You can zoom into and out of problems with fabricated scenarios.

The other side of this, is that for the 18 odd months that Book One was open I would just give you a card. From my POV, that was better than any description I could give. I gave them out like candy and I still only had about 50 or 70 people come through. I probably gave out a hundred and fifty invitations.
> and I do have

So you can tell us: what happens if you have Javascript turned off?

I have sympathy for the "what happens if I'm using a screen reader or other accessibility device" question, not excluding those who need to use assertive technologies where possible is important. geocar's post below suggests what might be a better implementation in that regard, which will support your use case too, but some advanced screen readers might try run the script (to access generated content like Google does for indexing) and then not read the text because said code has hidden it via DOM manipulation, meaning the technique might not work in all cases.

But disabling all javascript and expecting the world to support your preference in everything we produce (you can at least read be core content in this case) feels a bit entitled IMO, along the lines of people/companies (who I deal with in my day job) who use legacy browsers and are upset when that means they can't have shiny new features in the browser based applications that they use (or want to use).

I understand the desire to block all the iffy JS (adverts, particularly adverts that eat CPU cycles and therefore my battery when mobile, tracking, and so on) and I understand that running noscript or similar plugins is too cumbersome in many opinions, but unless you are paying for the content in some way you can't really expect to demand to control how it is delivered to you.

A thought for reducing tracking and such without blocking code used for page functionality: I'd like to see browsers block 3rd party code as an option (as some do for 3rd party cookies), with a whitelist to enable CDNs (possibly with the major CDNs on the whitelist by default). That would still allow iffy code if it is served from the same site (by design or because it has been hacked) so isn't perfect, but it might be a good compromise.