skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if your going to put 50,000 of them in a data center to run your "cloud."

And therein lies Intel's quest to become relevant again. Make more bloated languages so more processors can be sold to servers :/
IANAL and not in the US but legally 'Negligence' is a tort; it's a civil law matter not typically criminal unless it's Criminal Negligence because you actually kill or injure someone, I think. Someone would have to show how the destruction of the horses caused them damages and if no-one owns them because they are feral, who would this be?
How did they manage it in the 30s (or whenever depending on your nationality)? Are you absolutely certain that criminalization wasn't an overreaction to a problem that after all wasn't all that big?
Jails are a powerful tool, but they are not a security panacea. While it is not possible for a jailed process to break out on its own, there are several ways in which an unprivileged user outside the jail can cooperate with a privileged user inside the jail to obtain elevated privileges in the host environment.
According to the article, back in the 1990s DEC was forced out of business because they underestimated the imapact that PCs would later make on the market, leaving Intel as a leader.

In the 2000s smartphones and mobile devices outnumber PCs. Intel missed that and so ARM dominates the business.

Maybe that same pattern will repeat again with the rising of IoT and wearables, where smaller and cheaper chips become ubiquitous.

The development of Edison and Curie processors might indicate that Intel is betting on this, gearing up for the next "disruptive innovation".
If I could do it open-source and still earn money on it to cover cost of hosting, I'll try. Still haven't figured out a way though.

Someone else is working on something like that: https://twitter.com/bahmutov/status/720316267173810176
No middle-income housing option for young SF residents
What alternative would you recommend?
It's often a non visible part, like something from under the steering column or glove box, often structural and/or leftover plastic from moulding.
>huge infotainment screen in his Model X has repeatedly frozen.

Dont worry, Tesla put CTRL_ALT_DEL right on the steering wheel just for the occasion (not a joke)
Hah, we'll see! Did some initial testing on Circle, Travis and Jenkins but still have a lot to test left.

Maybe I should be more careful with my words in the future...
Why is `$1` missing from title? Does HN parse it as an environment variable?
I disagree with your phrasing but probably not with what you are meaning to say.

Substance abuse should not be illegal. Substance abuse is not a crime. Addiction is a mental health issue and addicts need to be treated as mentally unwell, not as criminals.

Ultimately some substances should be controlled (rather than simply banned) but it's important not to criminalize their (ab)use.
It has been legal in Oregon since last summer. Walking the streets of downtown Portland you wouldn't know the law changed. Really, there is absolutely zero difference that I can see.
The title is currently "Heart Surgery in India for ,583 Costs 06,385 in U.S" but should be "Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S."

...So it's the instances of "$1" that got removed. Overzealous input sanitization?
BSNL(India) began offering 20GB of 3G Data Pack at less than 1 Dollar
Putting it simply, the amount that you pay would be moved from a line item on your pay slip called "private health insurance" paid to Aetna or whoever, to a line item called "medicare contribution" or "national health service contribution" paid to the IRS.

On the back end, rather than Aetna shelling out money to the hospital so that you can get treated for free or cheaply, the government would do so - just like it already does for Medicare and VA.

So it is not $18tn additional burden - it is a similar burden, but not going through the hands of private insurers who take a cut.
Yea, VS Code.
My first response was pathetic :(

Let's consider biology. Physics and chemistry constrain biological processes and systems, for sure. But the number of distinct proteins based on the same set of amino acids, for example, is arguably unlimited (or at least, huge). Selection may favor one protein over another, and yet have virtually no impact on amino acid structure and diversity. Let alone on atoms, nucleons, quarks, etc.

The same applies to societies and cultures vs peoples.
Yeah, that article also served as inspiration before my first feeding day. :)
Go 1.6.2 released
Although this is pretty far away from the Arduino-style boards, you may want to have a look at the Sensortag from Texas Instruments: http://www.ti.com/sensortag

It is based on a single-chip wireless microcontroller that has both support for both BLE and IEEE 802.15.4 (6lowpan/ZigBee). It is supported by the Contiki OS (http://www.contiki-os.org/). The learning curve is probably quite a bit steeper than that of an Ardiuno, but the board and the chip can be readily included in commercial products. There are reference designs with design files, BOMs, schematics available from TI.

Since it has both BLE and 6lowpan support, you can do some pretty nice things with it, such as providing both quick discovery via smartphones and secure remote access: http://www.thingsquare.com/blog/articles/proximity-control/
We had a shooting range in our school basement (and it was a bog-standard Soviet school). Those were the best lessons ever.
Is the US system really as kafkaesque as the article makes it sound? I.e. arbitrary decisions by individual officials can ruin peoples lives without a fair due process, and that the officials have a strong incentive not to be charitable?
I last looked about 6 years ago, right enough, but then £120 a month was the maximum charge I could find, that was with zero excess and get paid money for any nights in an NHS hospital, etc etc. I'm not sure what I'd need to add on to get it up to £200 a month - a free chauffeur for any time spent sick? ;-)

I suppose prices could have increased a fair bit since then. Also, I note you're in London. I'm in Scotland, so we actually have a different NHS, and it does generally get rated higher than NHS England.

I can compare public healthcare spending as that's the money that comes out of your taxes. Americans are taxed more for their public healthcare than we are in the UK for the NHS. They also pay more for private healthcare than we do in the UK. So your claim that it's more expensive here is simply wrong.
Documents Reveal Secretive U.K. Surveillance Policies
> I don't understand what the author is trying to say with "wiring it in backwards" in the last paragraph.

The author is just marveling at this novel / nonobvious form factor, and referencing this bit as elegant / cool / new:

> The + and – markings on the PCB indicates (this is important, read carefully) the positive and negative poles of the battery we are pretending the AAduino is. [...] Also note! If you want to power the AAduino from a bench power supply, connect the power supply’s black negative lead to the + marking and the red positive lead to the – marking.

Typically your electronics have polarity labelings based on which end of the battery they'd connect to - e.g. you'd have a red wire going from the positive terminal of the battery to the positive terminal of the device being powered, which this paragraph is warning is not correct for the AAduino because it's labeled as a battery would be instead.
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Can I try this out in images myself somehow?
If Lyft ever expands to Australia, I will make a concerted effort to use them over Uber.
Actual gathered statistics say you're wrong. Profile guided optimisations can easily add 20% performance or more. And for that to work, the easiest path for the developer is a tiered JIT. More concretely, you can disable the tiered JIT on the JVM and find out what it buys you (and there are people who have done this).
Looking that way!
There are fast, optimised Java apps as well. IntelliJ is actually a good example - on my laptop it starts in a few seconds, the UI is snappy and responsive, it looks native. Back when I used Eclipse I thought the same as you; Java apps must just inherently suck. The difference in performance between IntelliJ and Eclipse put that idea to bed for good.

The real reason Java apps are often associated with being big and heavy is less to do with the technology and more to do with the fact that it's so often used for bespoke enterprise apps where there's no competition and so little incentive to optimise (vs add new features).
But that's just the problem. Who goes and seeks it out? Most of the country does not, but at the same time does not share ( or doesn't have the wherewithal to follow through on) the skepticism in this thread.
What Can Our Craziest Dreams Teach Us?
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"Crazy idea: let's not try to put innocent people in jail"

Man whoever thought of that is a fucking radical and needs to be stopped /s
I'm more intereted in why would you need to test against 32 versions of node.js? Doesn't it maintain backwards compatibility? Shouldn't testing against one version cover it?
You can use a NextStep style object pool.

try (ObjectPool pool = new ObjectPool()) {
...
Foo foo = pool.register(new Foo());
...
Bar bar = pool.register(new Bar());
}

When ObjectPool is closed, it closes all its registered objects too.

Note that this would be a lot easier with a language like Scala or Kotlin.
Am I wrong or you are a western male that is speculating about issues of indian women? I think these problems are so far away from my (perhaps also yours?) understanding (gender + cultural gaps) that I could not suggest any solution. Especially after a couple of minutes thinking.

This guy spent years into finding a solution, almost lost all he had and improved lives of many (both from sanitary and economics points of view). And he didn't this because he wanted to create the next unicorn. He deserves all our esteem and he certainly has mine.
The writer thinks in terms of human loves, excluding the fact that birds and other species thrive on mosquitoes. If you remove one step of the foodchain, you will hurt everyone, including us.
The Amazing Blog Project (Update 1): 6 Lessons to Creating a Blog
I love the last one.

"But you didn't say what colour it was, so I made it a red truck."
I use Lyft (as a rider) exclusively, and have never been picked up by a driver who did not also have an Uber phone on their dash.
If every other sole proprietorship in the city has to pay a registration fee, why shouldn't an Uber driver have to? The "rules for thee and not for me" attitude is a big part of why people dislike Uber as a company.
You can do manual memory allocation in Java using the "unsafe" API. It's relatively common in high performance libraries.

There are actually three implementations of C on top of Graal/Truffle by now.

TruffleC was the first and it maps malloc to the JVM's Unsafe malloc equivalent. So if you double free you trash the VM basically.

ManagedC ignores calls to free() and garbage collects the C programs heap.

Sulong interprets LLVM bytecode. I don't know how it does memory management.
In 1985 programming wasn't considered prestigious at all. It started after the first bubble (2000). The free software that partly made the bubble possible was almost exclusively written by male volunteers, many of whom likely had low social status.

Even today, many male OSS progammers have low status. Women in general (there are counterexamples) know this perfectly well and thus shun work in open source.

Don't tell me that it's about their treatment in OSS. Men treat each other badly in OSS, if anything, women are treated more politely (if they appear ...).
Megacities, not nations, are the world’s dominant, enduring social structures
Intuitively one might think so, but in practice the drug tourism money isn't as important as you would think. I would even go so far as to say that legalizing prostitution in other countries wouldn't impact the Netherlands' tourism much either.

It's mostly just part of the country's (and Amsterdam's in particular) reputation. Let's put it this way: you can legally obtain cheese and wine in most parts of the world -- even French cheese and wine -- but that doesn't stop people from associating France with cheese and wine (whether when in France they actually consume it or not).
I don't think many people were killed in e.g. Slovenia (and the rest of ex-Yugoslavia). Yet we had communism and almost perfect sex equality.
> “There has been fast urbanization in India that’s brought with it a change in dietary patterns and lifestyle,” ... “It’s leading to this huge jump in cardiovascular disease.”

I'm guessing that urbanization means less exercise and more stress. But I'm curious as to how the diet has changed in India lately? More meat, more refined sugar, and more unhealthy cooking oils?
Ask HN: How do you keep informed?
Hi,

I'm trying to understand how tech people get informed and created a real small and interactive survey.

It only takes on average 1 minute and 12 seconds.

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You make it sound like alternatives are an either/or thing.

Here are other alternatives:

- nobody runs a panel for fear of backlash
- panel entirely of telepathic octopods
- a mixture of men and women biased towards men
- a mixture of men and women biased towards women
Apply HN: ROLLIO
The phone is beautiful, but the OS is a weirdly ham fisted attempt to make android look like iOS. In the case of notifications for example they've restricted them to a single line and no in-notification buttons. Then they've added a bunch of apps that can't be disabled. I regularly get a notification that one of my sim cards (with no credit) cannot be activated, so they're trying to link to something I haven't asked for, and there's a loud daily notification that there is something called hidden folders which I should definitely want to know about. All of this is still stuck on android 4, even though the phone was released significantly after 5
Opera's browser comes with a free VPN service baked right in
Well, even if it doesn't change much, you're still stuck with the absolute worst part of drug prohibition – unregulated and unclean drugs, turf wars and violence, and hundreds of thousands of murders in less fortunate countries.

I find decriminalisation to be a pretty egoistic way around the problem. Sure, it makes lives better for people at home, but it completely ignores the massive amount of suffering countries (including Canada) has brought on supply and transit countries.
There are quite a lot of systems out there with real-time requirements, where the system is not running a real-time predictable operating system - instead the likelihood of a missed deadline are averted simply by over-provisioning. You can get away with murder pretty much this way by just making your processor several times faster than is strictly necessary, provided you don't have any really long pauses in processing (like for instance having to swap in a page from disc). It works well enough most of the time for video playback.

In essence, a job that requires 90% of the CPU time on predictable hardware can often be solved by just throwing faster hardware at it. If the RasPi can do it using 5% CPU, then it's probably fine.

YMMV. Don't do this on medical equipment, space rockets, or self-driving cars.
Can we get some instructions on how to actually use this. I want to test it out on pictures from:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/
Especially considering that a polygraph has about the same accuracy as a Tarot card reading.
More time eating junk food outside and less time cookin at home.
Many of the big software firms have the cafeterias open for breakfast, lunch and dinner and many people leave quite early to catch the company bus.

And it's not necessarily the healthiest food either.
It was written by a white person in a country which is still assumed to be predominantly Caucasian. Hence white people were the baseline.
Humans have learned a lot of things. However they still have to learn about the universe because there are non-naturally-observable physical phenomena and we have no evidence that we discovered them all.

Edit: These so called "laws" are laws in our minds and things like EmDrive show us that our minds can expand forming new "laws".
Along with that, more people are eating food that their body is not adapted to. Indians don't work out enough to compensate the high calorie intake from McDonalds, KFC, TacoBell, etc which leads to these heart problems.
Finland shouldn't be at the top of the list. There is still self-censorship going on, especially related to opinions about Russia. It's called "Finlandization": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization
Strange that you use a hockey stick for your analogy when most would visualize it the opposite; flat and then a steep incline. As that's how it's held.
I'd apply it to an old B&W film to show off. Imagine Ben Hur or Citizen Kane in color!
> Trust that the people doing it know what they are doing.

Science does not require trust. The wonder of the scientific method is that any old nutty crank (given the ability to convince a small panel of his peers of the merits of his crank cred) can get an article published. Then it's up to the community of malicious and slightly less nutty cranks to gleefully prove him wrong.

That's why the method goes wrong when you trust someone. Which is really hard when it's not your field, and you're just looking for someone with authority on the subject. But the reality is that the loudest voices with a lot of media time often also tend to be the nutty cranks, rather than the slightly less nutty cranks.
Self-driving cars, meet rubber duckies
Post PC never meant "no PC," it just meant the end of the PC as a growth market. There is still money to be had in the market, but it is all rather predictable and boring now. When you are a company looking at getting your profits and stock price up, that is important, especially for Intel.
It's only a holdup if the government wants it to be a holdup.
The Chinese billionaire behind Faraday Future just unveiled his own electric car
The reason might be that people used to die earlier of other now curable things.
GoodReader has a good internal file manager and it can download and play MP3s from a URL.
Nope, just tried the title "$0,120 to $1,200", it worked perfectly fine.

Probably OP used some plugin to post this which is faulty.
> There will be an environmental impact, but it will be from hundreds of millions of humans not getting malaria and climbing their way out of property, not from the lack of mosquitoes in the ecosystem. It's still a significant problem, but our current solution of "let all the poor people die" is not a good one.

Ecosystem-wise, let's not forget mosquitoes and their diseases are as much threat as they are content. Hawaii didn't have mosquitoes until the 19th century, they did a number on native bird populations. Mosquitoes negatively affect any species they feed on, not just humans.
Now give it a picture of a bike shed.
I've read that US regulations required no additives outside of regular service intervals.
There have always been the recalcitrant "that's how it's always been done around here" types that often push back even when confronted with evidence. Take, for example, Ignaz Semmelweis[1] - he had the evidence that it works but he couldn't explain how washing hands could decrease mortality in hospitals. Few people took him seriously, he suffered a nervous breakdown and died. Afterwards it took Pasteur and Lister to get people to actually accept the theory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
"Evolution's reaction" to malaria was to give people sickle cell anemia.

Evolution doesn't care for happiness, strength, health or anything like that.

It only optimizes the number of copies of genes in given circumstances.
Treasury official says Harriet Tubman will go on $20 bill
In SF it's quite different. Many Lyft drivers only drive for Lyft and those with both badges on the window typically favor one service.
I see a potential problem with moving pictures - the neural network might decide that while red was an appropriate color for the truck in the last frame, blue is more likely in this frame.
Funny Amazon acquired a startup for millions that did just this sort of thing.
There's no such thing as bare metal any more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode - the CPU itself may at times spend some time doing "other things" such as changing the spin speed of the cooling fans, or interpreting the signals from the USB keyboard. The OS (running in ring 0) has no control over this - the CPU effectively just pauses for a little bit every now and again.
I think it's worth noting here that the hex grid makes the devil's job significantly easier, since a square grid space borders 8 other squares for a 1-angel, and 24 squares (or 16 outer squares) for a 2-angel, where the equivalent hex grid figures are 6 and 18 (or 12).

For a strategy based on constructing a perimeter and filling in its gaps as the angel approaches, it should be obvious why a smaller perimeter for the angel is an advantage.

Also, it's pretty unsatisfying playing against that cat, since I can't shake the feeling that it's making some really dumb moves. I'd feel like I was actually learning something if I thought the cat knew what it was doing. :/
How to turn Node.js projects into AWS Lambda microservices easily with ClaudiaJS
Ask HN: A feedback on UDOO X86
Hi. I'm part of the UDOO team, we build open hardware single board computers.
We recently created a new project on Kickstarter (see https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/udoo/udoo-x86-the-most-powerful-maker-board-ever).

Do you have some feedback on it? What would you expect from that?
A few hours ago we released the first stretch goal (PCI express over M.2). What whould you like to add as a second stretch goal?
I have friends some of whose ancestors died on the Trail of Tears. It's about time.
Yes, all major mobile OSes have followed mainframes and have settled in CPU-independent bytecode, for most part, as long as C or C++ code isn't used.

Currently iOS is the only one that also supports having C and C++ as bytecode (LLVM one).

Android and WP, only support it for Java, RenderScript and .NET languages.
Hierarchical Deep Q Learning: Temporal Abstraction and Intrinsic Motivation
> banning UK nationals from having anything to do with companies in tax havens at all

What if I buy a few shares in a publicly traded overseas company, and that company in turn buys a few shares of a company based in a tax haven? Short of making the UK an insular economy, this is not going to happen.

My take would be that the ease of setting up a business in the UK is a great thing for the business people, the general public, and the economy. It is sad that people end up with debts that will never be repaid when a company folds, but without the institution, there would be much lesser chance of a cheap product, gainful employment, or profit in the first place. When a company shields criminal activity, the courts readily bring the people behind it to justice, as the fine article itself mentions. The only going concern seem to be the undertaxation stories repeatedly reported in the press — good rage fodder for the financially illiterate, but they never hold much water under scrutiny.
"Piper says that though they know these kinds of tests can be unreliable, being confronted with the chance to take one can filter out disingenuous defendants. Regardless of the results of the test - which are inadmissible at trial due to issues with the reliability of the technology - the assistant state's attorney (ASA) in charge of the case would also perform a [...] review of all the evidence."
On the Death of White America
Drats, you made me look it up, and found this: http://twofriarsandafool.com/2010/06/a-team-gandhi/

Thanks ;-)