skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has always been possible to use an fpga and program it like a cpu and it's software. In other words the chip can be loaded to look like another chip when switching "apps". This post shows a clever use for this. They can load in different old CPUs as needed.

This trick was done in a video processor long ago. An fpga was loaded with a different hardware accelerator for each video transition only when the transition was needed. That was the good-old days when video had crazy wipes and dissolves way too often. Thank goodness those days are gone.
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I think the trick is either to work from multiple locations (based on task), or to have a reconfigurable space.

In my next office, I am going to do a team-based pod system. Teams of 4-8. Single large room to start (2k SF or so), broken up however they decide (could be one huge room, or individual offices, or some combination, or smaller offices plus one big room, etc)

The thing I really want to try is offices with openable walls on 2-3 sides. One side opening into a shared team room; the other opening into a hallway or open plan space.

(The other trick is doing this somewhere with <$24/mo per SF real estate.)
Inflatable habitats actually scale worse than ridged structures. The problem is as you inflate a structure the air pressure is constant but the surface area increases. And you must carry the load around the edges.

The advantage is actually in mid-sized structures where you can more easily compact them for transport where rigid structures are sent up in a single piece for strength.

PS: This is also why you need buttressing around above ground pools. For comparison 1ATM = 33.9 feet of water. Above ground pools rarely go above 1/3 ATM at there base. Granted, they are also not made out of Kevlar, but the same basic problems apply in space.
For some definition of "available".

If I actually want to use fresh water, Antarctica's ice is not available at all - at least not until we start towing icebergs to Saudi Arabia or something...
As devices become more secure, Apple will no longer be able to unlock them.

If you put a backdoor into your phones, you should expect to have to use it.
With this tool I don't see why you wouldn't want to be on the Windows Store, if you can deal with the sandbox.

UWP is another story. With UWP, you have to deal with the mobile-like app lifecycle of getting randomly suspended and/or shut down. This is a hassle to deal with but understandable on a mobile device. For something as heavy, complex, and background-processing intensive as an IDE, it doesn't make sense to me.
Antarctic Sea Ice is at record levels:

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reache...
Looks like GitHub used to support Notes, but they removed the functionality in 2014.

https://github.com/blog/707-git-notes-display
I'm not assuming a whole lot.

The problem is not fundamentally unsolvable because Obama had one of those phones. The solution existed and at least one of them was produced.

The US Government spent $4 trillion in FY 2016. I can't imagine that a secure blackberry for the Secretary of State would have costed more than a negligible fraction of a fraction of a percentage of that.

The "lack of resources" was someone /deciding/ that they didn't want to spend the resources on securing the US Secretary of State's phone -- not some kind of law of nature or economics.

The person who made the judgement that there were "no resources" to accomplish the task ALSO needs to be held accountable for that decision.
Unless you were planning to transport a giant iceberg with a boat, it doesn't matter that there is a lot of fresh water in Antarctica.

Water is very cheap, people need it. The important thing is to have available water near the people that is easy and cheap to process. So it's important to keep the big rivers as clean as possible, and use that water efficiently.

If tomorrow all the ice in Antarctica magically disappears, it would not change the problems of the people that need water to drink or cultivate plants.

(If the ice magically disappears, it will create other problems changing the climate patterns. If it just melt instead of truly disappearing, it will cause floods.)
I think you might be right. Even with the old-fashioned PHP it is easier. I think the difficulty arises due to JS being more client-side focussed.
lmaoooooooo
It kinda makes me regret my MBP purchase last fall. I really wanted a Surface Pro but I couldn't deal with developing on Windows.
What was his vision?

I know that Dave Cutler was heavily involved in designing NT, and was earlier the same with DEC VMS. (Had read the book Inside Windows NT.)

But don't know what vision you refer to. Was it about the personality subsystems?
As long as people are flying private jets to climate conferences I cry foul.

If they want anyone to act they would do as the king of Nineveh:Jona 3:6
"For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes."

The moment I see climate scientists starts to switch to teleconferences I think I will give it a second thought.

(Yeah. I know many, possibly most of you don't believe a thing of that but it is still a good example.)

(FWIW: I make a living making solar cell technology, I previously programmed recycling machines. I just happen to be tired of hypocrisy.)
Even if they do interview a candidate who perfectly matches the job description they can just claim "not a good culture fit."

This isn't even a secret, an immigration attorney posted a promotional video on their own site explaining how they do this.
Any plans for it to become more than that?
Heard an ad on NPR popcast show about "invest in solar" with 10% guarantee return.

Wonder if that's related to this?
Yeah virtual desktops are nice, I am not generally in the habit of using middle click anymore though.
So, how did you get to where you are today?

I’ve always been passionate about coding, starting from my early days at Olympiad teams in high school and ACM teams in college.

Anyone who's made it onto an Olympiad team[1] of any significant geographical scale, in any category, shouldn't have to deal with this whiteboard nonsense. Maybe a few lightweight-to-medium rounds to verify that they are what they say they are. But that's about it.

[1] We don't know if that's the case with Alibek; the article didn't drill down into that aspect of his background. I'm just talking to the fact that generally, there are plenty of easy ways -- albeit somewhat subjective, and in any case not uniformly applicable to all candidates -- to be at least 87% sure that the candidate isn't a a self-deluded poser, or outright liar about their coding skills (which seems to be the default stance many interview teams take).

And the due diligence one should do to remove that 13% of uncertainty can be made far less time-consuming and grueling than it generally is. Really, if you know how to read the signals, you can much more -- and much more easily, for all concerned -- about someone's coding skills by giving them a single medium-hard, but short-and-sweet exercise... than rounds and rounds (and more rounds) of progressively harder ones, as seems to be the current craze.

EDIT: Overall this is a very heartwarming piece; if a company like Booking -- known for having had several exceptionally talented programers on its staff over the years -- can not only take on someone like Alibek, but apparently consider him to be something of a find -- then that's a pretty damning indictment of the filtering processes used by the 38 of 39 companies that rejected him.
Microsoft wasn't trying very hard to make their Kerberos compatible with MIT Kerberos, at least in the mid '90s. I think you'd still be laughed at, especially since Windows was ubiquitous, Unix was niche, and Linux was a niche within a niche.
Also the more recent https://github.com/wishstudio/flinux
While it was pretty bad, I remember Safari for Windows rendering text much nicer than any Windows browser (or app) at the time - particularly, the font smoothing. I recall using Win Safari to take "marketing" screenshots of an web app.
If this has shared home directories, I will literally tongue kiss any Microsoft employee that requests said service.
Yes with insurance subsidised by the state.
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Please GTFO. It's going to be awfully hard to extinguish all of their major technology When's it's developed in the wild and MIT licensed.
I don't see why it would matter, just because you release something under a free license doesn't mean you should accept contributions.

Otherwise all our software would be capable of reading email.
I think the "missing element" probably is risk - even though I never personally feel like I'm in danger. The real, tractable elements that are difficult to simulate are G-forces, the "inertia" of the car throwing you around, the "wind in hair", and sounds/smells. Surprisingly - car simulators really "phone it in" with the sounds.

In terms of remembering the experience - I have much fonder memories of my slow laptimes and small improvements on a trackday than "relatively quick" laptimes on a simulated track.

I've thought about it a LOT (as I've recently had to sell my fun car) and I can't say there's one element that I can put my finger on.
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Thank you for raising my attention to the missing attribution links, I have added them for both pictures including the correct license type.
To nitpick: On Linux, glibc implements fork(3) in terms of clone(2). Linux still has an independent fork(2), but nothing uses it.
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From the Foundations of Security book:

Q7. Rewrite the serveFile() method such that it imposes a maximum file size limit. If a user attempts to download a file that is larger than the maximum allowed size, write a log entry to a file called error_log and return a “403 Forbidden” HTTP response code.

c. Implement multithreading and a mechanism that allows a maximum number of concurrent downloads for a particular IP address.
> Importantly, WSL doesn't ship with a distro - we download a genuine Ubuntu userland image at install-time and then run binaries within it.

So can we use WSL by itself and pick a different distro, if we'd rather use say Alpine or openSUSE or Arch's userland?
That's a strange way to define failure. If you think that a student cannot make it through your curriculum why drain your available resources and waste their time? Should schools have sub curricula with different rigor?
How many people per year would you estimate ISIS kills?

Is it more than 150,000 people [1]? Because that's how many people the WHO estimates currently die right now as a result of climate change. And the number is expected to go up to 250,000 by 2030-2050 [2].

Other estimates have been even higher, e.g. [3] which came up with 400,000 extra deaths due to climate change per year already.

[1] http://www.who.int/heli/risks/climate/climatechange/en/

[2] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs266/en/

[3] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/27/climate-cha...
You should care about china if you care about CO2 levels. US CO2 levels are already going down, china's are accelerating up:

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/a-fresh-look-at...
> You don’t get to use to your own IDE, you have an absurdly limited amount of time and you’re in an incredibly high-pressure environment.

Here's a good interview tip that's helped me out with my last two job moves: Whiteboard code almost always comes out looking like crap because once you've fleshed out the idea, you can't easily insert lines. The solution is to bring a laptop with the IDE of your choice ready and say "Hey, I'm not really good at whiteboard coding. Do you mind if I write the code on my laptop here?"
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How does it differ from CoLinux from 2004? http://www.colinux.org
Huh, no I haven't. Although the package support appears to be more narrow than with Kubernetes/Docker, but DCOS is a possibility too.
Seems like a flaw in POSIX -- there should be a bit in statfs (?) for something like this.
Nope (as far as I can tell)

http://nautil.us/primeuser

But you get absolution from ad-blocking, and it is only 1-2 bucks a month

(also, curious about people downvoting you... Why are you guys downvoting parent?)
It is parceled by teritorial claims. Any inhabitants would have to fight Nato, Russia, Argentina and othrr countries.
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I guess you could implement GLES on top of it.
They implemented a renderer for quake maps...
https://github.com/jbush001/NyuziProcessor/tree/master/softw...
You are referring to the extent of sea ice[1] much of which is formed and melts on an annual or slightly longer cycle.

Sea ice is incredibly sensitive to warming.

According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center the Maximum winter extent of sea ice is now at the lowest recorded in the satellite record.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_ice
[2] https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
As r0muald and nitrogen said, reducing pollution definitely is not something that "makes no difference at all". But...

The other problem is that "makes no difference at all" is a good outcome. A bad outcome is that we reduce carbon usage drastically, which reduces economic output drastically, which causes many deaths. (This is not hyperbole. Take China, for instance. They're polluting like crazy, but even with all the pollution, people are better off. They're moving to the cities to get out of rural poverty. That poverty shortens life spans more than the pollution does.)
Maybe I'm missing something, but what does that do for us? It's not like you or I are drinking antarctic water. For it to get to us, it has to melt into the salty ocean, evaporate, and then rain.
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For the past 15 years or so, Germany has been pursuing an aggressive plan to switch entirely to renewable power, which includes building out lots of wind and solar. Some say it's not fast enough, but it's still pretty impressive, especially for a country so far from the equator. I think the country is around 30% renewable by now.

Bear in mind, this is absolutely necessary for the entire world at some point. Fossil fuels will not last forever. Best start now and not procrastinate.

In terms of specific policy to pursue: basically lots of subsidies.
Gives me some confidence in uBlock & Privacy Badger... The first time I ran it there was 1 site tracking me (adbrain).. I adjusted my PB settings accordingly and got 0. It's a useful site for calibrating those tools!

http://i.imgur.com/hdReODM.png
People who lose their children to curable or preventable diseases might hold a different view.
The links to the python notebooks fail.

Here in the emotion API, look for the link to the jupiter notebook on github
https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/emotion-a...

Here in the vision API, same thing-jupiter notebook is 404.
https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/face-api/...

I know, real coders use C++, C#, or objC. But I need to understand something before I code it.
If ubuntu can run, you just need Xming to have all GUI applications.
Hah, yep! I'm now doing freelance remote Linux work for HFTs because of that fact. :)

Another guy I know wrote a hugely profitable HFT equity system without a degree at 20 years old.
I remember getting my first cell phone back in the late 90s and hating it for anything other than texts. I used to do conference calling, long conversations on the phone with friends and family but the cell phone ruined it with asynchronous communication. A few years later I was in Bangkok and called my parents with the phone I brought from the US, crystal clear, latency free, it was amazing, it literally was the best cell phone call I had ever had to this day. I don't have an iphone but iphone calls seem to be pretty good so maybe I just need to get over myself and get an iphone for the quality?
So, if that Boston map is correct, then MIT, Boston University, and chunks of Harvard will all be toast by the time my youngest is the age of her great-grandfater. Crazy.
>"typically (at their worst)"?

>I'm not even sure what you mean by that.

Then review the original usage, which should have made it clear -- I was distinguishing operations where (I claim) the worst case is insurable from the cases where it isn't. I remarked that the worst case is rarely uninsurable, and gave the example of nuclear operations (which means nuclear power and nuclear weapons).

So, typically (across the set of environment-risking things), the worst case (within one of those things) is not beyond the reach of insurance.

Sorry if that whole "typical extreme" thing threw you for a loop, but I thought it was clear from context. Let me know if you know of a better way to communicate this concept. You seem to be deeply familiar with these kinds of considerations, so I bet you have one.

>(1) I don't agree (nor do I think most people would agree) that all environmental or human disasters have measurable impact (let alone have a dollar value -- even a very high one -- which would suffice to repair or compensate for the loss the incur).

Well, then you've inserted infinities in your model, which fundamentally breaks things and renders further debate pointless. The moment you say "this outcome is so bad that it dominates all other outcomes", then even small probabilities of it are unacceptable -- the Pascal's Wager dynamic. But that equally cuts against regulatory approaches, and it's not a reason to favor top-down regulation vs the insurance system advocated in the thread.

Generally speaking, the moment you refuse to quantify the damage, it's no longer in the reach of reasonable debate. "This thing is infinitely valuable" makes for nice platitudes, but not sound policy.

>Reductio ad absurdum

It's valid to point out how someone's claim implies an absurdity they disagree with :-p Certainly, you can dispute that the implication follows, but I'm not sure where you're coming from with a categorical dismissal.
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Is it claims about the Artic or claims about the Anartic that you dispute?
I'm not that guy but I followed a similar path. For me, there is no laptop that truly competes with the MBP and runs Linux with no issues (I've never liked Thinkpads). The recent Dell XPS Dev model is the only product that has come close, but before that there was basically nothing.

I always use Linux for desktops., I see no reason not to.
Not the OP, but for me at least I did. And it was unstable and didn't work very well. My OSX laptop "just works", that isn't to say it doesn't have issues but the amount of time I spend futzing about because of driver issues, sound issues or wifi issues is drastically reduced.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

-- Upton Sinclair
Presumably, as it's not a GUI application. Not gvim though.
For the record, I use Xamarin "classic" and not forms, and my comment was in reference to that. Given the age of X.Forms, what you say sounds par for the course.
Antarctica exists basically in two separate ice sheets, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the first of which consists of 90% of the sheet.

The collapse of ice in Antarctica is basically limited to the tinier West Antarctic Ice Sheet, with the EAIS expected to make a more or less neutral balance (perhaps even slightly positive).
CO2 is not a pollutant. Without it, plants, and thus animal life will die. In fact plant death nearly occurred recently on a geological timescale. More co2 = more life. There is no such thing as stasis wrt global climate, and I'm glad the climate does not appear to be moving in the direction of an ice age in the near term, although it looks as though in the long term this is inevitable.
Except cap and trade programs have done nothing to prevent or curb climate change. Oil companies just buy carbon offsets and continue polluting. Solar still depends on billions in subsidies to be viable, as with many other renewable energy sources. Solar is also extremely inefficient. It costs around 8 times more to output the same energy compared to natural gas for example. We've already invested billions in solar, and we've barely made a dent on solar costs. Oil is very cheap and affordable to the poor, which explains their continued use in the developing world over renewable energy.
Luckily in my current job search I've only been told there would be a whiteboard once (this Friday!). This article made me nervous though—as a busy student I don't have time to sit down and review/learn all those tree and linked list operations as well as their complexities.

Best interview I've had was pair programming with a team member and fixing a bug.
https://www.devever.net/~hl/windowsdefeat seems very relevant.

Question to my mind is, are they going to manage to limit this to development and advanced users, or will whole applications that target windows start depending on the linux emulation to work?
The whole point of a good UI is that you don't need to google it to understand how it works.
I care about China of course, I said I'm not "worried" about them. I'm not "worried" about those increasing emissions, that's completely expected, and better than what most people thought it would be in previous years.

Now, India, there I'm a bit worried....
No, you're still making category errors and still completely blind to them.

You slide from race conditions and attaching debuggers, to a policy decision by a bureaucrat not to come up with the resources.

You fundamentally cannot be held responsible for the existence of debuggers in the universe. That is just silly.

The bureaucrat who said 'no' to the request from the state department can be held responsible for justifying that decision. With a $4T budget I can't believe that the US government couldn't find a few bucks under a cushion someplace to dig up another blackberry for the Secretary of State. In fact, its pretty much negligence that they couldn't.

And when you make pure policy decision about security you cannot abdicate responsibility over users deciding to work around those policy decisions when you make bad decision.
This is a bit off-topic, but I'm surprised that the NASA image is listed as CC-BY. I was under the impression that NASA imagery was public domain by default.

Their website [1] says "NASA content [...] generally are not copyrighted." It then goes on to say that "NASA should be acknowledged as the source of the material." IANAL, but I would assume that if the data is not copyrighted, then there's no need to attribute the source, making that "should" pretty toothless.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html
I wrote a blog post about this, but in summary, the most natural way for humans to communicate is through real time chat and people spend a lot of time in chat these days.

https://cloudnative.io/blog/2016/03/chatbots-will-replace-hu...
Reducing particulate emissions and other pollution which harms the human respiratory system is a different objective from reducing CO2 emissions. There are some synergies between the goals, but optimizing for one will negatively impact the other in many instances.
Oh, so it's like a Mac thing. So why do we have to call Windows programs 'App'?
When I say OX is literally UNIX, the emphasis is on the word 'literally'. To be classified as a UNIX system, meaning that an OS maker can use the UNIX trademark, the system have to be certified by the The Open Group.

BSD was UNIX, yet neither of it's 2 prevalent derivatives (FreeBSD and OpenBSD) has applied for certification. They are classified as Unix-like; the same is true for any Linux distribution.

To some people, this may be semantics, but one of the reasons that drew me to OSX was the certification.