skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you ever pick this up again, I'd recommend starting with llvm's libunwind library, which is an import of Apple's libunwind + support for other operating systems. As far as I can tell it's the only fully functional unwind library that's actually maintained at the moment. We discussed porting whatever functionality it is missing (probably linux support and the basic assembly profiling heuristics we added to our fork of Apple's libunwind) and just using it for julia on all platforms.
This makes the formatting look atrocious, which is even worse.
4 and 1 Startups Tackling Real Problems in Africa Accepted into Y Combinator
I wonder which would be more effective at countering ocean acidification, since sea plants need the carbon dioxide in the water in order to create oxygen.
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> Who here is a feminist? (Two, three hands go up, timidly.)

> Wait, let me ask another way around: who here thinks that all people, regardless of gender, have the same rights and should be treated equally? (All hands go up.)

> Congratulations, you are all feminists.

It's too bad that current feminism/SJW movement has so corrupted the feminism "brand" that I do not feel comfortable identifying as one and probably who more hands don't get raised. The definition given doesn't match what currently feminism is about.
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Great shout, you're right. I think it's about finding a balance between standardising the listing as much as possible but allowing for people to post any item they're after.

Cheers!
Oh hey, somebody else feels the pain! It's not only the crazy number of interfaces you have to support (not to mention that some of the interfaces are not particularly well defined, e.g. GDB's interface), but also what happens after. Most of these interfaces were not designed with very many JIT functions in mind and have O(n^2) behavior. One of the Julia core contributors recently worked with the GDB folks to fix their O(n^2), but libunwind still has it (to the point where one of the julia tests takes 15% of it's total runtime just having the unwinder try to find the JIT frame). Library support for JIT code is surprisingly bad.
Many of the situations Fry is complaining about were actually people doing the exact same thing. e.g. just not showing up to a debate or lecture by a person that they don't want to engage with. When a random student decides not to attend a debate with a national celebrity it's labeled as "no platforming" (in the words of Peter Tatchell) and condemned in the national media. When Fry chooses not to engage with people (which he is perfectly free to do) his critics have no such platform to publicly moan about him.

So there very much seems to be a double standard here. If you are an older feminist or gay rights campaigner or celebrity you can take advantage of a platform in the national newspapers to complain about the activities of students. If you are a student all you can do is not attend, but even doing that can get your name dragged through the mud in newspapers because people like Julie Bindel, Germain Greer and Peter Tatchell are given a huge platform by newspapers.
"refers to white people’s low emotional tolerance for discussing topics of race and racism"

We can't really discuss race. As soon as we do and anything is brought into the discussion that does not conform to the current progressive narrative, we are called 'racist', shouted down, and ignored. This might have to do with the low 'tolerance' when discussing 'race'.

Having these discussions online with your name attached will most likely lead to your firing or a relentless group of 'activists' that go to your boss, your friends, or your co-workers and attempt to ruin your life. There are countless examples of this behavior happening in the last couple of years, all in the name of 'tolerance'.

Sorry, but this will never be discussed openly and honestly until we stop giving the online/offline bullies the power to ruin a person's life because they are unwilling to have an actual adult discussion and are offended by anything that goes against their own personal views.

'safe spaces' is a perfect example of this pervasive and destructive cultural shift.
imo it's basically kids starting at a young age getting told how special of a snowflake they are and always getting what they want.... and once they grow up they still want to have their ways
Wow that looks a lot like softice
We were thinking of expanding into something similar eventually related to group buying. Were you focused B2C? We were considering looking into B2B but as you say, I can imagine the complications involved!
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And because of that, a serious lack of personal accountability and introspection and having the feeling that they are not the issue here
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> If you believe that people should be free to say things without fear of censorship

You can believe that but also still believe that people shouldn't be free to cause wilful offence under the protection of "free speech" (which, as we all know, isn't guaranteed anyway.)
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It's nice to read a story in which Steve Jobs is wrong
Disadvantages of code reuse (2009)
Do read Stanislas Dehaene: Consciousness and the Brain
Most of the "safe spaces" and "no platforming" debate is actually the same thing - leaving a place that you don't like.

It's just that when a public figure like Peter Tachell is on the receiving end of it they can use their media presence to complain, unlike the people Fry didn't want to engage with on Twitter. In the Tachell incident all that happened was a student decided not to attend an event with Tachell. He was not being censored or "no platformed" in any way. The result was he threw a tantrum and wrote articles attacking the student in national newspapers (where the student was given no opportunity to reply).

What people like Bindell and Greer and Tachell and Fry are demanding isn't the ability to say things without censorship. What they are demanding that that they can go onto a campus and force student to listen to their talks.
It's not a media flatrate. It's a tax by any other name to maintain publicly funded television and radio channels while maintaining a separation of state and media (because of bad experiences with state-controlled media in the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic).

The reason many people don't like it are:

* it feels like a third-party license fee due to how it is charged (e.g. you have to pay it yourself and it is charged per household rather than per citizen)

* prior to the simplification of the rules in 2013 many people would be subjected to "inspections" by the media companies, with ethically and legally dubious behaviour like peeking into bedroom windows and rummaging through trash cans (in the days of tv magazines)

* it costs money, unlike most private channels (via satellite or antenna)

* you have to pay even if you don't use it or don't want it

* despite being something you have to pay for, there is no obvious way to influence the programming

* although they are the only channels that are required by law to feature a certain amount of educational and cultural programming, in practice a lot of it is basically "entertainment for the elderly" (like telenovelas and cheesy romance flicks) or game shows

Personally I'm also extremely annoyed that they give free airtime to the dominant religious groups (Catholic Church of Germany, Evangelical Church of Germany and sometimes Jews or Muslims) "because culture", to the point that they always invite religious ministers or monks for ethical debates and frequently give them more weight than secular arguments (though to be fair: the religious representatives usually come off as fairly progressive although their arguments are of course still entirely based on theology).

Plus, of course, the fact that while BBC subscribers get Terry Pratchett we only get Rosamunde Pilcher -- and German actors, who are mostly horrible and take themselves too serious.
I believe the core of the problem is as you described. But then there's a lot of political gain being made on top of it. Universities are at risk of seeing their education throughput diminished.
There's an interesting link in the story to something out of the university I attended (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/03/student-accused-o...) that I think sums these issues up:

According to the association’s rules, student council meetings should be held in a “safe space environment”…This includes “refraining from hand gestures which denote disagreement”, or “in any other way indicating disagreement with a point or points being made”.*

That's just utterly baffling to me. I don't understand how any form of real debate can be had when participants are subject to being excluded for actions like, say, shaking their head in disagreement.

This entire issue seems to reek of a desire to stifle debate under the weight of bureaucracy, to save having to consider complex issues. Naturally, this will involve the kind of selective enforcement of rules that is such a hallmark of corrupt legal systems worldwide. I like to think that there will be enough rebellion against this from inside student bodies that we'll reach a more sensible compromise, but who knows?
funny you mentioned that - http://www.kansascity.com/news/state/missouri/article7113446...
A hint may be somewhere here: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
It reminds me of the emacs gdb mode.
Well put mate. Thanks.
I don't think students are necessary worse than previous generation. Throw a stone at the French or Italian parliament and you are almost certain to hit a politician who supported Stalin or Mao in his youth. In comparison this "safe place" melodrama is rather cute.
What. Universities stifling free speech? Please educate a person fairly clueless of daily issues in UK and USA - is this really happening at a scale?
I see an analogy with free/cheap IT conferences: you go there (naively) expecting content, but it turns out that almost every talk is an advertisement of the product or job openings.
Hard to say without knowing what you mean by "if two tasks try to access a variable concurrently it gets marked atomic and they contend for access." People who have worked in depth with multithreaded programs know that there be dragons here, and so unless you've proved your code correct for all cases, the assumption will be that it's broken. Do you handle the case that Thriqon brings up safely, for example? Do you take all locks in a consistent well-defined order? (If you don't, you're inviting deadlock.) What counts as a variable? If you mutate an array element, do you lock the whole array or just that one object?

These issues are why Python has a GIL and why Java has separate "synchronized(monitor) { ... }" blocks, and Java programmers still get it wrong all the time.
Yeah but if you use it frequently you will.
NFL taps into the power of VR as tool to combat racism, sexism
I thought their BSD-style license was already a pretty good reason :)
Mastery of big data cuts a competitive edge
Obviously running a TOR node will attract interest. It can be debated whether acting as a TOR router/carrier should impose on the operator at least some requirements to divulge connection logs to the authorities -- not that TOR would actually produce any meaningful logs in the first place. That's roughly what physical ISPs need to do if one of their IP addresses is associated with child porn. There's also the argument that if TOR nodes were given a guaranteed free pass when it comes to illegal content then why wouldn't people just run a TOR node and an open wifi on their home network just to cover their ass should they intend to use a torrent of shady network services.

However, the question that pops into my mind is that given how easy the trigger finger on child porn actually is in the current climate, then why are the producers and consumers of child porn still on the regular internet and not in the TOR darknet? If consumers are already willing to use TOR to access these sites there's no barrier to switch at all. The producers could even offer a legit site with no illegal content hosted there but which just redirects the browser to the (current) TOR address. I suppose there's a market for consumers who aren't using TOR but I would suspect that segment to be continuously shrinkin in the form of being prosecuted.
Infantilization continued from Gen-X, but that is only half the story.

Gen-X though was verbally harsh, sarcastic and IMO more idealistic than Gen-Y. Gen-Y (as a whole) begins to show a strange mixture of extreme political correctness, anti-individuality, self-promotion and right-wing and business values when it suits them.

The Orwellian thing Fry mentions is not so far off.
Reminds me of visual studio
Speaking of documentation - it was rather cool that when you purchased a Sun at that time (or maybe it was when you purchased OpenWindows) you can a set of official Adobe PostScript books (blue/red/green?).
MacLane was too heavy for me, but I can wholeheartedly recommend lectures from Steve Awodey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF6kHD1DAeU
Yikes... That tablet makes the cheapest, crappiest Chinese Android tablet I've bought look like an amazing feat of engineer in comparison (though that's probably mostly because almost all of them are slight tweaks on Allwinner or MTK reference designs - most of them, regardless of manufacturer look almost identical).
LSD and psychedelics are the next frontier in science IMHO.
And I don't mean just neural science, psychology or psychiatry.

It seems that these substances hold the key to how the brain "produces" reality and that could open doors to areas such as computer-brain interfaces, transfer of consciousness, fully immersive "life-long" virtual reality and so on.
But that's just peanuts.

There's the social aspect - psychedelics have had a strong influence on millions of people when they became popular in the '60s, shifting their worldview, which in turn lead to new directions in music, art, film, literature, science and society in general.

Then there is the "ecological" aspect. Many people report "feeling one" or "connected" to everything including other living beings when tripping on psychedelics.

That metaphor persists after coming down and many people become aware of their place in nature, what they eat, how they treat animals and plants and eventually other humans.
"Flower power" might just be what's necessary to curb humanity's most stringent problems, such as "climate change".

"Make love not war" hippy slogan will also help given how armed the world is right now. I would add "use condoms !" to it though - there's too many of us here already! :).

The MRI images are a confirmation of the "mind expanding" term used so often in conjunction with these substances.

Maybe "mind expansion" is what's needed in order to combat the "mind shrinking" that is so beneficial to the few, who, with their ignorance and greed, are about to run this ship into the ground.

I'd love to see more research, a lot more research with these substances.

Understanding these links is very important, because right now there is a new, larger, global wave of psychedelic use which is unprecedented.
An 'untraceable' currency for buying digital kink to be consumed in the privacy of one's headset. Sounds like the future to me.
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> I think that's a little unfair.

Have you read any of Fry's autobiographies? He is triggered, as the kids would call it, by the mere reference to warmed milk. He demands no-one speaks of, say, bread and milk in his presence. And then he complains rape victims are over-sensitive.
Why would it be any different to working at a brewery or distillery?
Indeed, my first reaction to that statement was that that is not typical. It happens, sure, but for me it is always so fascinating that the MDMA / Ecstacy trips just kind of switch on and off, and everything afterwards is as it was before. Perception of colors, shapes, people... phases back in, but there is no real down phase. The next days are a little drab, maybe, with the serotonin level being rebuild, but not really down, just maybe less party feeling. I never took too big of a dossis though, maybe that's the reason?
What people like Bindell and Greer and Tachell and Fry are demanding isn't the ability to say things without censorship. What they are demanding that that they can go onto a campus and force student to listen to their talks.

That's just completely false. Lindell/Greer/Tatchell/Fry are pointing out, in my opinion entirely accurately, that there is a trend towards stifling and opting out of discussion under the guise of safety, in place of engaging with debate.

Who do you think invites speakers to campus in any case? Obviously some people are interested in what these people say. That's absolutely not 'forcing' students to listen to talks, and I am speechless that you could honestly think that was the case.
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> If you believe that people should be free to say things without fear of censorship, even if they're things that you don't like, then "safe spaces" are a really bad idea.

So unless you're forced to listen to me, even if you'd rather not, I don't have free speech?

Bullshit.
Yep, multiple Spark->GPU projects already happening.
Regrets of the dying
The clickbait quote in context:

"We’re still stuck in some very naive thinking, with the idea that people consuming media means that’s what they want – it’s like, well, we put junk food in front of them and they ate that, so that must be what they want.”
Yes there is. macfixit.com.au and mushtato.com.au both stock anker. Unfortunately, because of this Amazon has stopped shipping the brand to AU and the prices here are twice or more that overseas.
Rabin–Karp Algorithm
Seriously?

They didn't just have an IP address. Police had an IP address and timestamp of a video of child-rape, as provided by 4-chan, said IP address belonging to an ISP as provided by MaxMind, and said ISP confirming its ownership of the IP and providing a subscriber name and address for that IP and timestamp, indicating that the posting originated from a cable modem at a residential location.

If you don't find child rape to be compelling, substitute an email plotting a bomb attack, a suicide note, etc. etc.

Police are supposed to ignore that, and what, ask for a signed confession? They don't need proof beyond a reasonable doubt, they need probable cause that there is evidence of a crime. Tor is deliberately designed to frustrate what police call "evidence." The police are perfectly justified in searching that location for evidence that might lead to the source of the criminal activity.
GPU databases are around for a while, but not much has changed.

I think bigger thread is cheap memory and raise of in-memory computing. Today you can have a workstation with half TB RAM for fairly reasonable price. Hadoop is already being crushed by Spark.
Looks like a nice operating system, but it seems to lack a decent editor..

Edit: Downvoters, can you care to explain? I would actually like someone to reinvent Emacs (or Vim, for that matter) as something more general.
I'm using the original BBC title, but it's lousy.

> Campaigners say a stately home where captured German generals were bugged during the Second World War should be preserved as a museum. Trent Park in north London is due to be developed into luxury flats.

Trent Park is used as an example of an alternative to torture. You put captured soldiers in comfortable surroundings, and listen to what they say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Park

> During the Second World War, Trent Park was used as a means to extract information from captured German officers. During the Battle of Britain in 1940, captured Luftwaffe pilots were held initially at Trent Park. The rooms at Trent Park had been equipped with hidden microphones that allowed the British to listen in to the pilots' conversations. This provided information about the German pilots' views on a number of matters, including the relative strengths and weaknesses of German aircraft.[6]

(The BBC have had other audio from people working at the park, but the BBC website search is terrible so it's not possible to find these programmes.)
On a tangent but I just got a small pop-up saying "You can only ship orders to Tunisia from our EU shop.". Why don't all the stores have this? Instead of letting me find out at checkout that they don't ship to my country they could just let me know from the start.
If we are in a simulation, this is probably the case.

It's sad to think that we're just a side effect and being left unnoticed.

In that case, are we special (i.e. unexpected piece of code questioning about its existence)?
This problem of 'triggering' and 'safe places' has been something I've recently become acutely aware of. It seems to have strong ties with the 'Social Justice Warrior' and I can't help but feel it is detrimental to a liberal and free, loving and open society, despite trying to champion it.

I call it oversensitivity, Fry calls it infantile. I don't disagree with him. It's a childlike lack of acceptance of the world, followed by an attempt to shape the world into something they are content with, displaying childlike reactions when the world doesn't heed to their demands. Unfortunately this behaviour supported by a community of people who also behave the same way, or at least, feeling a moral sentiment behind the actions of the other, support them believing their actions are noble.

If you pretend rape, race, homosexuality, transgenderism etc don't exist by not allowing these words to be spoken, or acts and circumstances to be portrayed, you create the environment for these facts of life to rot in the mind of society.

It's healthy for us to talk in society, just as it's healthy for individuals to talk about their issues - it's unhealthy to pretend they don't exist.
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The future of information is NOT in for-profit organizations.
I cringe to think that I used to use xhost to allow access from any client - don't think there were many firewalls on JANET so anybody could have been connecting to the Sun (later DEC Alpha) I used.
I hadn't noticed the lack of activity, but it works. There's also Websharper, but that's not really just an F# to JS compiler.
so am I (I'm YC alumni) .. but RDS is too important for us to move away from it.
Let me put it this way - if you had an RDS equivalent in Docker Cloud, lots of people would switch. Docker is more popular than you know.

Heroku should be an interesting learning example to the tons of new age cloud PAAS that I'm seeing. Heroku database hosting has always been key to adoption.. to an extent that lots of people continue to use it even after they move their servers to bare metal. The consideration and price sensitivity to data is very different than app servers.
it seems the original video submission was removed from HN, I was looking forward to an in-depth discussion of the issues raised as I think it is both funny and brilliant. I hoped to achieve a discussion through this blog post :)
Every time AR is discussed, I link to the CC-BY-NC comic Vision Machine.[1] As all good SF, it describes current trends with a veneer of future technology; I find that it offers insight on a lot of use cases for AR and VR.

[1] http://visionmachine.net/
AR's killer app might very well be instant communication. That's why Facebook took such interest on it, to avoid the next Facebook being a different company that displaced them.