skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As aside, I watched "A faster horse" documentary on Netflix a couple of months ago. It is a documentary on the evolution and the design of the 2015 Ford Mustang. The passion of getting a car from concept through to Job1 is infectious.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3762974/
And where do you put your system that directs traffic to one cloud and/or another... and what happens when that goes down?
In general, OS X infrastructure looks more like Linux than Windows. If the overall complaint is that it's not built into the OS, well, welcome to UNIX, island of isolated, uncooperative, and sometimes broken toys.

I like UNIX, don't get me wrong, but some of the API design is truly appalling.
I concur with the author, it's an absolute mess. And I would love to see a single unified API for this. It's been a wish of mine for many years.

Here are even more interfaces than the three the author listed (libunwind, __register_frame, GDB):

- oprofile has a JIT interface: http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/doc/devel/jit-interface.html

- perf has a JIT interface: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/tools/perf/Doc...

I wrote a blog article about the craziness around unwinding a few years back: http://blog.reverberate.org/2013/05/deep-wizardry-stack-unwi...

One of the questions I answer in my article which isn't addressed as much here is: why do we care about generating backtraces in the first place? It might seem obvious, but I identified four separate reasons which are all important: to support runtime exceptions (a la C++), to offer backtraces in debuggers, to sample the stack for profilers, and to print a backtrace from the program itself. So if you have a JIT and you don't offer proper backtraces, your users are going to be annoyed when they use any of these tools.
http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html

No YC, no Sequoia, no Andreessen Horowitz or other major VC, despite VC-backed companies often using OSS exclusively, and VCs being awash in cash and likely also being clued-in enough to actually realize just how much they rely on OSS: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Marc-Andreessen-The-Clock...
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Yeah, I didn't expect it to blow up that much, and that line left me feeling a bit too vulnerable than I would've liked to be.
They don't need to hide it offshore when America is just about as good a tax Haven now (ahem, Arizona, Nevada)
Is Torvalds going to support this? Given some of his comments on security in the past, I don't think he'll consider it a good idea...
There's quite a few Google tricks like this; https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#safe=off&q=do+a+barrel+ro....
If I were a cynic I'd say the result of such a plan would be more articles like the one we're discussing here. Thinly veiled PR pieces.
I should probably dust of my Zotero subfolder on subliminal stimuli, too.
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It may be a fad, or a realization of 'software is eating the world'. Each year more industries are moving from software enabled, to software being key component and differentiation.

Unfortunately software is also fastest moving and most labor intensive of all components, it is also permeated across business. So you have to build a culture for it. So a company moving earlier will have key advantage over a company trying to acquire software and its culture at last moment.

We have seen it happen earlier in industries, and it will keep on happening. Will Ford be able to pull it up a question, but there is no other road to take.
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Saying it's ineffable is being accurate. The human language is clumsy, and I'd argue our normal consciousness and ego lack the mechanisms to convey this experience in any tangible way to a person who hasn't also been affected by it.

LSD is quite possibly the most powerful thing I've ever experienced. It really is like describing color to a blind person.

You're going to be frustrated if you try to understand it without actually trying it. I just wouldn't recommend it for anyone who doesn't respect it appropriately.
Also, 20 minutes every 3 years is 5-9s anyways.
I submitted my Apply HN here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11463027
And I put a tracker on the url: it tells me who and when the website was accessed. I got 16 hits.
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So I guess this was a comedy piece? Some more serious issues I've noticed:

#1. They don't teach you that teachers are paid to put up with you. Employers aren't paid to put up with you. They're paid to fire people who waste their time and interfere with the work that needs to get done.

#2. They don't teach you how to not waste people's time. Some of the group activities that force mingling are the worst. Most real work does not require communication, especially at entry level positions. Take instructions once, and just deliver what is being asked of you.

#3. They don't teach you what's being asked of you. Students show up at class, deliver homework and take exams, with the occasional project maybe. Work is all exams. It's about your constant output that is monetarily valued by your employer, which is always being examined. Homework and exams have no value. But the degree has value, right?

#4. They don't teach you the degree has little value.

The list can go much longer, but even if you're a Harvard PhD, until you get this, you're a fraud. And even if you're a high school dropout, if you get it, you're in business. Employers don't really care where you're from once you're in the building. They just need things to get done.

(The degree acquiring experience can be spectacular for you regardless of where you go actually, but degrees just aren't worth what they used to be, for sure.)
Ugh, those people. I bet they think that "turbos don't make real horsepower" too.
A student of mine just finished building a benchmarking tool for applications [0]. For example, it warns if your sample size is too small. Here is an example, where he compares GHC performance over the last years [1].

[0] https://github.com/parttimenerd/temci
[1] https://uqudy.serpens.uberspace.de/blog/2016/02/08/ghc-perfo...
I concur. The response was first rate.

Behind the scenes, I'm sure they will iterate on failure prevention and risk analysis.
Regarding #1...
I'm pretty sure that to digest 100kcal worth of chicken breast requires more energy for the body to do, compared to digesting 100kcal worth of Coke/sugar. It also has a different impact on your insulin levels.

Living on a 3000kcal McDonalds diet will give you a different body shape compared to living on a 3000kcal diet of home cooked, organic meals.

No?
> so that backups are useless too

It can hardly be considered a backup if it's easily compromised from your every day computer. In a good backup configuration your computer only have read and "append only" privilages for the backup so past snapshots
are safe.

Having said that not many people have this kind of config (including me).
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I found it very interesting that in Italy the corresponding dept is called the "Department of Clemency and Justice".
If you're using something like Cassandra (C*), it's pretty easy to have replicated data to multiple zones in multiple clouds. RethinkDB has a similar replication system... there are many others as well.

Not all data models fit into a Non-SQL database though, and may work better in a more relational.. caching and read-only partially up, can be another approach.

Designing your data around this may be impractical for some applications, and on the small scale, likely more costly than necessary. Most systems can tolerate 15-30 minutes of downtime every couple years because of an upstream provider.
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People need a compelling reason to switch from the tried and tested to something new and unproven. So you need a compelling feature/benefit. But I cannot see what it is.

Is your approach going to significantly improve performance? Doubtful. You really need to prove this.

Is your approach going to make it easier/faster to write code? Definitely not, multithreaded code is many times harder to get right than single threaded code.

Is your approach going to be more robust? Definitely not, deadlocks, race conditions etc. are a nightmare to fix.
I disagree (until they do it better). The Microsoft PP is especially horrible. The way they force strange MS Branding onto laptops takes away quite a bit of immersion for me.
I also hate forced dialogues that only serve PP (PlayStation in House of Cards comes to mind).

But once they do it better it becomes rather problematic ethically. What good is a "this contains PP" label if it's the standard and you can't identify it. I guess once we cross that bridge my only recourse is non consumption. I guess there might be a disruption opportunity there somewhere where you can pay for content without the PP which requires shooting TV/movies/sports broadcasts in two different modes. Doubt there would be many customers for that though...maybe the other way around, dynamic programming with custom tailored PP.
OK. I've seen this work so often, but it could be that this is not efficient if you are actively looking.

I think I understand your dilemma with male-dominated hobbies. Most of the things I do are male-dominated as well. I met my girlfriend in high school, and for a long time it annoyed me that she showed little interest in my stuff. Until at some point I realised that it's not necessary to like all the same things. It doesn't matter that we are different in many regards; over the years we've still found a lot of things we both like, and deep down we seem to have a similar world view despite being superficially completely different.

So maybe you should stop looking for women that are similar to you, and accept that your future partner will not care about the majority of your interests. At least in my experience that's really okay; as long as you have respect for another.
We could do a lot better than planting 1 per second. How about planting 900,000 trees per day via aerial bombardment?

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/sep/02/paulbrown
I wasn't expecting to see Microsoft being a gold sponsor in 2015. Good on them. Glad to see The Core Infrastructure Initiative supporting important projects beyond Linux as well.
I found it strange that the person in charge would bother to make a statement which seems totally counter to reality. What is he playing at? Is he saying they will disband Lincoln soon, as they did Mercury? Or is he putting forth a brand vision which sounds nice but carries no weight? If the former this is big news. If the latter this raises questions about the vision for the "separate but connected" FSM LLC.
I tend to agree I'm afraid. The amount of reinventing of screens that don't need redesigning seems to me to be rather out of hand.

I hope I'm wrong, but what does Gnome bring to the table that makes it better than anything else? Why would I want to use it over Gnome 2.x? Genuine question - hopefully I don't get downvoted too much...
It's bad because it concerns all their regions at the same time, while competing providers have mitigations against this in place. AWS completely isolates its regions for instance [1], so they can fail independently and not affect anything else. That Google let an issue (or even a cascade of problems) affect all its geographic points of presence really shows a lack of maturity of the platform. I don't want to make too many assumptions, and that specific problem could have affected AWS in the same way, so let's wait for more details on their part.

The response times are what's expected when you are running one of the biggest server fleets in the world.

1: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-re...
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there's a lot of infrastructure at Google. And claim is correct - GCP and Google is on top of the same servers, same backend systems. Are they on the exactly same servers? No, of course not -- there's a few servers out there :-)
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Reddit admin response https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/4edau1/psa_apple_pul...

>We were asked to update our apps (AB and Reddit Official) to remove the "Safe for Work Browsing" toggle. This is a feature we previously refined with Apple's help. We were surprised by the notice.
We just resubmitted our build. We were not informed that Apple would be removing other apps. We were very upset to see that they did. Honestly, if we were interested in getting rid of 3rd party apps (which we're not!!!), this would be the stupidest possible way to accomplish it.
We suggest all 3rd party apps similarly remove settings for safe for work browsing.
Can you tell us a bit more please? Did you essentially roll your own internal AdWords? How do you manage customers, campaigns, tracking, payments, etc.?
I wonder how large part of "No hookups" is to avoid solicitation and requests for prostitution, as opposed to a genuine wish to avoid hookups.
Try writing a raytracer using a single thread, now try again with multiple threads working in tandem.

Trust me, I tried.
You seem to be suggesting that it's possible for someone to set up an organisation to explore and develop deep space commercial activities without a mass of funding? I would think step one in even contemplating such a gambit would be to acquire several billion dollars. Then, when you've got enough backing to look halfway credible (and hopefully some hint of an actual plan), you can start with the PR and business development to try and get the rest of your funding.
Ford has a deployment advantage. They can make stuff in volume at low cost. Tesla has to learn to do that, and fast. (It's nice having an order backlog, but now you have to produce at a cost where those orders are profitable.) Apple outsources their manufacturing. Google has very little manufacturing capability.
I don't think they really threaten Oracle, even for analytics where this makes sense. The performance increase over in memory on sparc m7 per price point won't be that insane. So just like in memory db the main question is how long before Oracle accelerates it's own DB with this kind of tech. I think they have only 3 years before Oracle will be there.
That note seems so childish.

"We rebranded and if you don't know about it you are just uneducated mongrel on the mercy of media"
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LOL. Someone sold USPS a solution to the traveling salesman problem.
#2. They don't teach you how to not waste people's time. Some of the group activities that force mingling are the worst. Most real work does not require communication, especially at entry level positions. Take instructions once, and just deliver what is being asked of you.

That assumes some sort of weird universe where instructions are always perfect. I don't live in that universe. Every person who does paid work of any sort should be questioning their instructions, communicating with their colleagues about the instructions, and giving their manager feedback if the instructions are incomplete or if the situation changes. That applies to everyone from people writing complex software to people paid to literally just dig holes.

The notion that communication skills are universally important across all jobs is entirely true.
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you are just making it worse. Meanwhile i have memorized your company and can easily avoid it in future.
"When done well, people are not only OK with advertising, they embrace and look forward to it."

Only in the mind of some advertising execs, what on earth makes you think people bought magazines for the adverts?
They are inside objective reality (in that they can be studied scientifically) but are most likely internally generated.

This makes them true in the sense that e.g. dreams are true experiences.
how come netflix is working on IPv6 then, when aws does not offer it?
Do you have any interesting reads about geometric algebra being the "new" thing?
(She speaks Mandarin, briefly, so this is very likely China.)

It's amazing though! Working that fast.

It's also just what the client ordered, if they wanted better quality they'd have to pay for it.
To your last point, this is worse when it's a runtime environment for other people's code... Upstream bugs are extra painful, even in open-source, as getting them fixed and out the door can take time, and your custom branch/fork in an interim may have other bugs, and a "final" solution may not match your own.

Not that it's impossible, but trying to keep certain bits separated is a good thing... I'd love to see proper coroutines/csp in node/js... WebWorkers is similar, but not quite the same, though probably as close as we're likely to see.
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In the video linked above, he mentions several things that ConTeXt can't do, or can't do as easily. On the other hand, the SILE ecosystem isn't as complete as TeX's yet.
That's interesting - are the 64bit versions available for download?
It's funny, when I read "the climbing man had consistently impressed me" I had a completely different image in my head. Rather than a show-off, I imagined a polite and friendly man, that showed genuine interest in the poster, struck up conversations about interesting topics, etc.
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This site wants to be Wikipedia for inferential knowledge - where Wikipedia is a general encyclopedia and catalogs knowledge of all kinds (people, places, things, events, ideas, etc.), this site deals only with ideas that are <i>arguments</i> or <i>claims</i>, and that depend for their plausibility and truth on chains of inference stretching back ultimately to some fundamental axiom. This includes essentially all of philosophy, science, religion, and politics, since all of these make debatable claims about what reality is and how it is likely to respond in given circumstances, and since those claims are all based on some chain of prior reasoning every link of which are themselves debatable.

We need a Wikipedia-like central resource that explicitly graphs all of these chains of reasoning, reduces them to their individual links, and lays bare their connections and branchings, so that we can 1) understand the underpinnings of our own ideas, 2) understand the underpinnings of <i>other peoples's</i> ideas (i.e., stop assuming that other people are stupid strawmen), 3) show definitively that genuinely stupid ideas are genuinely stupid, by systematically meeting their bad arguments with clearly stronger counter-arguments, 4) stop having the same arguments constantly all over the internet/tv/congress/world, by having it all out in one place where the argument can be logically organized, permanently recorded, and exhaustively fleshed out, and 5) finally be able to walk through, clearly and completely, exactly what gives us reason to think that something is true.
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You put it in all your clouds, with low TTL DNS entries pointing at all those instances (or the closest one geographically maybe). Then if you're really paranoid you use redundant DNS providers as well.
You probably knew this, but just to add in case others weren't aware: Those reasons are the reasons you want unwinding on Unix, but on Windows it's even more important. The Windows equivalent of Unix signals (very roughly speaking) is Structured Exception Handling (SEH), in which the kernel actually arranges for your stack to be unwound to deliver you signals such as segfaults [1]. So unless you maintain proper unwinding info, your app isn't in a position to receive any signals sent by the kernel (at least, the way you're intended to).

[1]: http://www.nynaeve.net/?p=201
I can still think of a few challenges.

First, like the Apple Watch, I do not think that consumers are keen to wear more objects every day. So this is a first challenge to AR being something we carry all the day like a mobile. The fact that it looks cool to a few techies doesn't warrant wide adoption.

Two, as it is, they require a lot of computing power. Computers aren't really getting any faster. Engraving may get a little thinner but I understand the physical limits are in sight. Will these things really become so power efficient that they become portable?

Then you have motion sickness which has more to do with the fact that we do not move while our eyes are telling us we are moving. This is something structural to VR. Though this should only apply to non static scenarios. But if you are sitting and using VR to work on a peripheral screen, if done well that shouldn't induce motion sickness. I would be tempted to consider the experience of 3D TVs as a warning.

It's not obvious to me VR will be such a big thing, outside of video games for a limited time per day.
I think the enterprise chunk is too small in the info graphic. I envision a pretty huge market, especially for AR. There are very few AR applications that seem viable from a business model POV right now. The ones that are pretty easy to spot tend to be in the enterprise world. It seems like a very valuable technology along the entire supply chain from R&D (for building machines, automobiles etc.) to distribution (try on this dress in AR = less returns = higher margins; we can offer this kitchen sink service online now with AR instructions).
AR is in fact already used and generating value in some enterprisy field, specifically marketing (mostly just "ZOMG cool" branding) and in logistics (dedicated AR glasses for warehousing)
I love the simplicity of and the humor in the Big Clive videos. The methylated spirits video was quite... hilarious. DO NOT try this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep2I3Gf3Sec
I'm not able to read the actual research paper, but the article refers to the "United Nations estimates of global forests." I'd assume they used the model they developed for forests and applied it to this estimate to get a number of trees.
I don't know if this is the actual case but search re-targeting is surely a thing.
Luckily Apple is sane enough to compile its core libraries with frame pointers, so unwinding is pretty trivial. See for yourself (this function is called by backtrace(3)): http://opensource.apple.com//source/Libc/Libc-825.40.1/gen/t...
When you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.

(You yourself actually know your mind best. Don't get attached to any teacher.)
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Ah yeah, it went totally over my head.
Stop trying to be the smartest guy in the room and lighten up. Those are my tips.
Watch one of his keynotes. He sits down with some bullet points on a tablet and then talks for three hours:

https://youtu.be/Uooh0Y9fC_M
They can't have been as far off as Intel (and HP) were with Itanium. Any year now...
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also they are not funding insightful writing, but poisonous clickbaits, that's the real thing that ruined it (and virus served by ad networks)
Anyone ever heard of any apology from UK Government on this?
If you need that level of performance then JavaScript is the wrong tool for the job.

Node is mostly for request/response scenarios such as a web server or REST API server etc.
Why in the name of all that is holy do you want to use my recruiting website, as opposed to the bajillions of other established and startup recruiting companies out there?