skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a much better alternative: work really hard for 2 to 3 months per year and then take the rest of the year off. If you're doing high value consulting you can easily do this. You may have to forego some luxury but that's a very small price to pay for the freedom you get in return.
Looks rather interesting, but I am not sure of the benefits that it has over the pandora. As a side note, I find it amusing that they used GIMP for the heat testing.
The Second Smartphone Revolution
XMPP strong selling point is federation. You can run your own private server and it does encryption. There is plenty of implementations from servers to clients, most being open source. It seems to me just one of the Zillion messaging alternative available.
Sure, I agree it'd be great to pick a hub and fill it with high-rise buildings. But I'd advocate a multi-pronged approach; high-rises at hubs, low- and mid-rises elsewhere. Consider the following:

(1) Skyscrapers are very expensive per livable sq. ft. and take long to build. Low-rises are comparable to single-family homes, so they're lower-risk for developers, come about faster, and have a lower minimum rent price (in the wonderful event SF builds enough housing for rents to go down).

(2) If you neglect the rest of the city and create a sharp density cliff, transit patterns will be wonky. SF is in an odd in-between stage regarding public transit, and creating a transit-oriented dense central neighborhood hurts commutes from other semi-car-based neighborhoods: they should be denser to justify an increase in buses and trains needed by the city.

(3) In a medium-density city like SF, low-rise apartments would make a huge difference in supply. Consider the fact that the NYC neighborhood East Village, comprised mostly of 3-6 story low-rises, is (IIRC) the 2nd densest residential neighborhood after a part of the Upper East Side, pushing over 100k per sq. mile. Because this avoids the problems of high-rises[1] (e.g. blocked sunlight, like Manhattan's FiDI), it's not nearly as unattractive to NIMBYs. The few I've met hate skyscrapers, not low-rises.

I think HN might have a skewed perception of what levels of density correspond to different building heights, and what those buildings cost (in time and money). You don't really see huge swaths of residential high-rises in Manhattan most anywhere. That's due to both quality of life and cost reasons[2]. SF doesn't need to become Hong Kong anytime soon--there's not that much demand--so it's worth considering other options for the sake of political tractability.

[1] http://images25.blocksy.com/L_2027825/122330054/original.jpe...

[2] You could argue that in the past 10 years, Manhattan has had an increased need for more high-rises. But because of cost and the cliff reason mentioned above, it turns out a big part of the cost pressure in NYC has come from an inability to build low- and mid-rise buildings in Queens (which has comparable density to SF).
But for this kind of application, wouldn't you just panic and do a soft restart on malloc failure anyway? Actually recovering from an out-of-memory situation is incredibly fraught and unreliable; most of the realtime operating systems I've used don't even bother to try.
See also http://danluu.com/assembly-intrinsics/ , in which hand-tuned assembly popcnt is 3x faster than using the compiler intrinsic.
Former Microsoft CEO No Longer Negatively Attacks Linux
There's been a huge shitstorm on Reddit about Windows 7 / 8 forcing an automatic upgrade to Windows 10 [1] [2] [3] [4], with many accounts of people going away to do something and coming back to find their PCs had updated to Windows 10 without their permission. However I've not been able to find any stories on this from reliable sources. All I've found so far is a forum post on CNET and a submission on Slashdot [5] [6].

Does anyone know what's actually going on with this?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/4a5edx/psa_window...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/4a7bkp/psa_micros...

[3] https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4a0asv/warning_w...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4a59p4/psa_wi...

[5] http://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/forced-to-upgrade-fro...

[6] https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/03/12/1634229/windows-10-...
A friend at work prefer to stay at work incontrolably doozing rather than taking a cut, because "that's not proper", even though he will spend that time on reddit, self loathing, doubling the negative effect.
If you had to type on either device in a serious capacity you'd be handicapped until you plugged in a keyboard and mouse.
Re 2)

set wildmode=list:longest

EDIT: Re 3), there's something weird going on.

I just tried the benchmark from the article that you linked ("1000000aaeou<ESC>"), and it really did not complete in a useful timeframe. However, when I insert the text once, yank it, then paste it with repeat ("iaeou<ESC>^y4l1000000p"), the operation completes instantly, and I can still browse the file without any slowdown. Undo/redo across this operation seems to take some seconds, though.
That goes a long way to call out the Pi foundation for not helping move AAarch64 support into Linux. I get that people are annoyed that its better for the RPi folks to just just ARM7 for all versions because its easier for unsophisticated users, but that is their choice right?

I was hoping the Dragonboard 4.10c would have better aarch64 support but so far the only 64 bit support is Android?

Of course even the "millions" of Raspberry Pis is just a pimple on the "hundreds of millions" of phone handsets that ship so there isn't a lot of incentive on chip maker's parts to create more accessible documentation. Sad though. And perhaps we'll get there with a MediaTek or AllWinner CPU at some point.
That's not true either...10 days with 6 hours sleep is as bad as 2 with none.
Very interesting result!

However, this workload involved a loop summing the popcounts of a series of values, with intermediate results not needed. Beating popcount on that workload with AVX2 instructions seems plausible; splitting the work across several instructions gives the CPU more to work with simultaneously, and batching the last sum makes it effectively free when amortized across enough iterations.

However, if the popcounts in your workload remain independent, and you immediately need the values from them, I don't think this approach will help.
Among other things that you might do, post "what should I do with this site?" on your two domains, and collect ideas.

Because someone is already going there accidentally, and they probably have some expectation. Possibly there's an expectation that you can fill.
nmap <F11> :if exists("syntax_on") \| syntax off \| else \| syntax on \| endif \|<cr><C-g>
nmap <F12> :set wrap! wrap?<cr>

My personal productivity boost :)
antirez as Italian Renaissance code painter?
What about work 11 hours a week and be happy? Works for me, and I am a freelancer.

Edit: I usually do three blocks of three hours each and one two hour block each week. I find three hours perfect to tackle a problem, and a good chunk to be able to reflect upon afterwards.
But IE 11 is still supported and "secure" after latest updates.
I expect in the future we'll be hearing a lot of this kind of vague alarmist sentiment coming from well paid practitioners in industries so far untouched by technological competition & outsourcing.
We can estimate the power consumption: 1920 CPUs as in cores, or physical packages? If the latter they are ~100W each, so that's 192kW; if it's the former, depending on how many cores per package, a fraction of that. The GPUs are likely to be counting physical packages (and not cores, which is much more) and they draw 300-400W each, for a total of ~300kW. Add a bit of overhead and I'd say 500kW (half a megawatt) is a good rough estimate.
I agree with most of it, and hope this would be done. However the questions that come to mind is:

- How often does this happen? How much cellphone camming would need to be done?

- Would the results be legally admissible, especially when you hang around recording things hoping to catch someone in the act?

- Would the results be enough to get a cop to care? Or maybe a lawyer to care?

I don't know the answers, but maybe the answers would help clarify why nothing is being done.
I see that this submission disappeared from the front page, despite having 6 points. I am not sure, why.
> No security company that allowed its employees to pepper-spray nonviolent people on public walkways --- or, really, anywhere --- could long remain in business.

What evidence leads you to this conclusion? Can you recall an instance in the US in which any company or any public agency was shut down or even dramatically reformed for abusing non-violent homeless people?
I have several modes of reading code, from scanning very fast to find a section (highlighting helps a lot), to reading at medium speed for obtaining overall gist (highlighting good?), to slowly reading for accuracy (highlighting not needed).

It would be a pain to turn highlighting on/off since I switch modes rapidly and often. But I can image a mode where it changes highlighting based on scrolling speed. It would be easy fade the CSS colors to/from B/W on the fly.
Lee Sedol will forever be known as the first human to defeat AlphaGo in Game 4, and potentially the last one too.

That's quite an accomplishment.
>> Did anybody else go from needing a white background, to preferring a dark one?

A white background was never preferable to me. So dang bright.

I started on with gray on black (BASICA) and yellow on black (Turbo Pascal 2.0). Later on things like Q-BASIC used gray on blue (which I would occasionally change to green on black), and the Borland IDE's continued with a blue background, but added syntax highlighting.

When I made the move to Windows and Visual C++, back we went to white backgrounds. Yikes. Xcode does this as well by default.
I agree there's been way too much pandering to NIMBYism. But this is politics, and as much as we'd all like to we can't just ignore them: they vote too, so we have to convince them to vote for what we want.

Lucky for us, I believe you can have your cake and eat it too: SF housing demand is actually not high enough to require huge swaths of high-rises. It'd help a ton, but so would a mixed option. In fact I think the mixed option is better: see my post here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11278295
On a tangential note, apparently AlphaGo has been added to http://www.goratings.org/, though its current rating of 3533 looks off. Shouldn't it be much higher?
"It's pretty clear... is the direction the industry as a whole is going".

You or anyone else posting hasn't identified this "industry", it appears to be "quickly built apps that have no lifespan". I mean no offense; but we're back to saying it should be used because people are using it.

I'm upset at exactly that; it's not like anyone replied with objective software development reasoning that justifies this constant shift of frameworks, or addresses the need for enterprise software to have a longer horizon for support and talent.
All of the btcsuite code (btcd, btcwallet, ...)
Any writer that says something similar to Google or Apple are "the world’s most highly valued company" should be ignored. If they are going to twist the truth on this what ever else they say is unreliable.

There is no publicly traded company that is even close to the value of some non-publicly traded companies, ie Saudi Aramco.
I just gave it a shot too, and it works well. I deleted my account though, because I only need voice chat with my team and Discord has this app beat hands down for collaboration and team rooms.
AlphaGo enlarged a group that was at risk of atari (loss to opponent) instead of correctly trying to divert attention to elsewhere on the board or starting a new fight or simply writing it off. If basically added stones to a group that was almost certainly dead and allowed the opponent to punish it heavily, thus giving away more stones than it had to.
> Low contrast / dimmed comments are basically saying "I spent time writing this, but it's not important, disregard".

One could make the opposite argument that comments are the important part and you only need to read code when diving in. This would be sort of a literate coding. I'm torn between making comments dimmer or brighter.
> Using R as a scripting language in Excel, edited/debugged in RTVS (poke the Excel team pls ;))

I imagine the Excel team is well aware of how embarrassingly weak the VBA language and Excel object model "quirkiness" is in the year 2016. I simply can't understand why they continue to let such a key platform languish.
Varnish cache.

1) Configured via a special DSL (Varnish Configuration language) that gets translated into C, compiled and loaded into the Varnish process via a .so. Perfect combination of expressiveness and speed. You can even inline raw C code in it!

2) Heavy, good use of virtual memory. Varnish allocates quite a lot of gigabytes and leaves it up to the operating system to decide what should be in RAM and what should be on disk.

3) LRU garbage collection of cached objects requires a synchronized priority queue. Varnish people transformed the decades old idea of implementing a heap in an array that every CS graduate knows and came up with a faster, paging-aware solution (http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1814327).
I'd largely agree with that - but that's not what's going on here. It seems that the person entertaining the offer would work in an office in Soma, then commute another 50 miles one way, once weekly.
I've used UO for over a year and never had a single css file get removed. Any specific sites you mind mentioning?
I'm a contributor of statinamic. Feel free to ask anything
"I don't get paid to write blog posts defending Angular, so I don't bother."

I really like this comment; because it resonates with my Backbone experience. I kept reading these hit pieces by Angular fans as part of my daily info gathering; but I had code to write and a project to deliver.

But not writing those blog posts may have been an error on our part; we avoided the discussions and it leads to the cool kids changing the rules all day.

I can't force you or I to write these posts; but maybe we have to face that there is a cost to not contributing.
> What am I missing here?

You can do pretty much what you like (short of mass murder) to homeless people and no-one, including police, gives a fuck.

Many homeless people have adversarial at best relationships with police and will be reluctant to seek police assistance.
Whatever is going on, you can stop it from happening. Please get the word out about GWX Control Panel!

http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/

You can turn off all updates, delete the pre-downloaded update cache, kill the tray notifications, etc. - works wonderfully on several machines I tested!
C Is Manly, Python Is for N00bs:How False Stereotypes Turn into Technical Truths
Lawyers take cases on contingency if they look like obvious wins against someone with deep pockets. The victims don't need to pay a cent.
Sure, but AlphaGo will probably evolve much faster. In a few years it will run on much smaller devices, as happened to chess programs.
They've said it doesn't require that, AlphaGo running on a single machine beats the cluster they're using 25% of the time.
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Dead Kennedys guitarist goes after the modern music industry
It's not about the amount of total sunlight during the day but rather how much sunlight is available to you during hours that you are "free" and not working or otherwise busy. It's far easier to just change the standard once than all the numerous activities that an individual might be bound to during the course of the day, especially many that they have no control over scheduling.

For many people (like in government or blue-collar jobs), it's just not as simple as talking to the boss or finding a different job. However I see no reason why they don't deserve a better level of comfort that works for everyone.
Also interesting to note that, despite this claim on their front page, the Terms of Use specifies that for American users it is interpreted by / subject to California law and SF courts.
Well, not ed, but refactoring Haskell code with sed incredibly nice.
> It's cool, but maybe too expensive and underpowered?

I feel like that would come with the territory of a niche, small-batch device. They wouldn't be large enough to benefit from economies of scale, and they're not bringing in enough money to employ teams of engineers to optimize and refresh the hardware regularly.
> DST is actually more comfortable to live with by allowing for more daylight after work hours.

Or we could just work slightly different hours? But I guess we're more comfortable altering the definition of time itself...
So based on current data, Lee Sedol is exactly as good AlphaGo running on a single machine.
Surprised that no one mentioned elasticsearch here. The Java code is truly one of the best I have seen in any large open source Java project.
Nothing is wrong with Backbone. I thought it was beautiful.
We don't always pick our tech though. It's part of the problem here; the hype engine is used to steer non-technical people, or more managerial technical people. While the engineers and technical leads might be completely comfortable; the next project starts and you are told it should use X since that is what the client kept mentioning when they called.

Also, some people love this. It means they can show up at work and talk about how they learned React and it's better and they can do a pretty good job of using the hype train to stand out from their peers.
The StackExchange content is open, so I don't think the offending sites are doing anything wrong per se, excluding making the internet worse.
>My sleep patterns have never been very precise, certainly not since having kids. I do like DST.

And because it doesn't affect you it is your reason for imposing it on everyone else? I'm sure a majority of people dislike it. Supposing that everyone else be accustomed to imprecise sleep patterns as you are (which are most likely atypical) is not very fair.
Is "a guard from the google security team maced me" an easy win? What kind of evidence would be necessary to secure a win?
Oh, this is so true! For me it's Frontier: Elite II. I can't hear the Blue Danube Waltz without imagining I'm docking at a Coriolis station

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7PqehW2X7mHp3UW2Ix5Z85...
Linux, keyboard.
Maybe what our modern society needs is to orient its moral compass around reality rather than myths.
Any good readings on getting started with arenas?
"Even if you lose all one day, you can build all over again if you retain your calm." What an inspiration!
(EDIT: Wait, they have Google employee badges?)

Google will claim that these are not google employees but contractors, and that they're shocked at the lapse in standards, and that they've had strong words with the contractors to remind them of Google's standards. They'll make some token donation to a homeless shelter (or maybe they'll remind people of the donations they presumably already make).

The pepper-spraying will continue, but in future guards will count to 3 before spraying.
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That's true. A lot of people aren't getting thrown six figure entry level salaries and perhaps won't be able to find one, modulo geography, skill, personal preferences, etc. And it looks like we're seeing the market soften, so perhaps soon they won't be that easy to find.

But as it stands right now, if you:

a) Are in SF or NYC

b) Have a CS degree from a well-reputed university.

c) Are working as a programmer.

100 k$/yr is not only achievable but practically the minimum.

That said, the linked offer isn't for an engineer, it's for a financial analyst, so perhaps 65 k$/yr is in fact market rate or better.
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Daylight Saving Time: Why Does It Exist? (It’s Not for Farming)
There is a really good list covered in detail here:

http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html
Source code?
An index fund is not its index. The distinction is important because the latter does not include management fees, transaction costs, and financing. From here it's easy to see how an index fund might beat the market.
Yep! As someone who was rooting for DeepMind, I like this result, for two reasons: Lee Sedol earned it - he's behaved like a true sportsman all the way - and it gives us some interesting information (yesterday we only had a lower bound on AlphaGo's strength; today we also have an upper bound).
Cheaper and better: http://oralbreeze.com/

I own one and love it.
Knuth's TeX. Set the standards for documentation, reliability, portability, typography, extensibility and scripting, is well into its fourth decade and is free software.
This is hardly the first evil thing done by an employee at google and really there's no way I would believe that a company of over 10,000 people could avoid sort of thing happening in what is essentially the company's autonomic systems. Now that this article has presumably brought the issue to Google's equivalent of conscious attention we'll see how much Google intends to live up to its motto.
Well there is nothing glamorous about startups. It might seem this way initially, with fixie bikes hanged on exposed brick walls, and programmers somehow managing peak states in a noisy open plan office. (They should be hermetically sealed off). Employees apparently multitasking to look busy...Multitasking is an illusion propagated by the media, and it's actually impossible to multitask without performance suffering. Also see: banning mobile phone use whilst driving. A more ample question is: "must you have a life to...". It starts making sense when the natural rhythm of your own life is carried on into the startup. Ottherwise you're falling victim of the great illusion of startup glamour...
daisydisk. oh it's smooth, harmonious colours, quintessential

edit: other comments seem to be from a source code perspective ?
> Or we could just work slightly different hours?

Sure, if you can convince every single employer, store, school and numerous other places to coordinate then that'll be great. Otherwise changing the timezone setting once is far easier. We do it 2x a year right now anyway.

> But I guess we're more comfortable altering the definition of time itself...

Nobody is altering the definition of time. The dictionary entry for that remains the same. What I'm saying is we set the time once and forget about it. We ALREADY do this 2x a year, so this is actually a big improvement on the effort and negative results involved in switching the time.
I used to think ClearCorrect's competitive advantage was that they were much much cheaper than Invisalign so they could steal market share, but it appears they are now in the same ballpark. The ClearCorrect website says doctors set their own fees which can range from $1,000 to $7,000 USD.

Thanks for the link. It allowed me learn of even cheaper options.
Had he been able to exercise he would have received that half million
I don't think the graded vesting was the surprising thing to the parent comment, it's that it's five years instead of four.

All the tech companies I've seen use 1 year cliff/4 year total vesting. Ie, 25% after the first year, 1/36th of the remainder monthly.
AlphaGo is not an AI in the sense meant by Yudkowsky, I believe. He speaks more of a recursively self-improving AI, an AI which is capable of upgrading itself to be faster and more intelligent.

In the linked article, Yudkowsky even says "On the right side of the scale, you would find Deep Thought—Douglas Adams's original version, thank you, not the chessplayer." The implication is clear that these programs playing chess/Go are nothing like what he is talking about - general AI.

Or so I assume, from my less-than-complete understanding of Yudkowsky's writings.
I really like reading most code from John Carmack, e.g. Quake 1-3. Much of it can be seen here: https://github.com/id-Software
When the tiger has killed it, it's dead & is then meat, yes