skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not winnable, it was won, "Peace With Honor" and all that jazz, the North had given it their best shot after we'd withdrawn our troops and got skunked. Then the Congress threw away the victory. And the end game happened while I was politically aware, so I don't exactly have to read historical accounts, although I've read plenty. Note also that Vann died a little too early in mid-72 to have any final words on the subject.

Grenada as moral warfare: it was the first time the West had ever taken back any Communist territory since the Korean War (which was ultimately unsuccessful), and by force of arms at that. Many then living in the Soviet Union attested to it being a shocking action.

In general, you could say that Reagan himself was "moral warfare". There's a huge difference between an opponent who's merely trying to delay your victory, and one who's determined to end you. One of the things that made George Washington such an effective and feared leader in our Revolutionary War.
We tried for centuries to make both airplanes and perpetual motion machines. Eventually we succeeded with one and proved the other physically impossible.

A long series of failures only proves that those specific things didn't work. You need more than that to come to a final conclusion.
Xmos mainly sells development kits to showcase their chips - that's why they're that expensive.
AFAIK this is the conventional wisdom but not a proven fact. A smart 51% attacker could profit and go unnoticed:

> And contrary to commonly-repeated assertions, a monopolist can engage in subtle attacks that are hard to detect.

http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/06/16/how-a-mining-monopo...
Well their citizens have the option of using an alternative currency such as the USD or Euro or whatever if their leaders really screw up, and it doesn't seem right that you should lock out policy tools from developing countries just because the occasional despot or incompetent screws up fiscal and monetary policy. Eventually many of these countries or regions, with luck, will mature into stable states with competent civil servants that should have the full suite of tools that our civil servants use and employ. Not be locked into a limited child's toy tool set just because their predecessors were less than competent.
RIP you prolific genius. He left us with so much.
Another interesting tidbit, this version comes with

Cephfs v10.2.0 Jewel: "This major release of Ceph will be the foundation for the next long-term stable release. (...) This is the first release in which CephFS is declared stable and production ready!"

http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/release-notes/
No the implication is that that's not how you manage female engineers, it's just how you manage male engineers.

He says later that female engineers will go get promoted into non-engineering roles soon enough anyway. The implication there is you don't need to worry about retaining them as engineers as they won't stay that way.

BTW this isn't an endorsement of either his views or his approach. I mean the general thrust of the presentation could be renamed "ways to stiff your staff".

There are bits of it that ring true e.g. the different motivations between newbies, lifers and the rest. The majority though is clearly intended to be provocative.
I don't remember quora coming up in search results for me recently at all. I kind of assumed they were dying. Seems not
Yes, it can not be "killed" but, as other dangerous/infectious particles (like viruses), it can be destroyed. The immune system is able to naturally develop defenses against both live and inert foreign bodies, but only if the given body is over a certain size. The small objects (relative to cell size) do not trigger antibody creation and that is why this abnormally folded protein is so dangerous. There are, however, methods in which the organism is trained to recognize and develop natural defenses against bodies as small as a molecule, say, to prevent relapse in drug addicts:

http://www.doctortipster.com/11968-new-vaccine-against-metha...

http://www.livescience.com/21132-cocaine-vaccine-cure-addict...

http://www.voanews.com/content/scientists-develop-experiment...

This method may be a little bit costly (relative to promised returns of solving a problem that does not directly affect humans) and with limited effect, but still, it may be a way worth investigating.
Now is the time to lobby the Unicode Consortium. Love Symbol codepoint now!
As of the mid-80's, they were designed to take 10 anti-ship missile hits and possibly survive with good damage control crews operating. Not sure what direction they went with the Gerald Ford and other ships after the Nimitz class.
British law is very restrictive on the use of camera-equipped UAVs. Without specific permission from the CAA, it is unlawful to use a small unmanned surveillance aircraft within 150 metres of "any congested area" or within 50 metres of "any vessel, vehicle or structure which is not under the control of the person in charge of the aircraft".
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/05/americas/brazil-wrong-directio...
seems to be the story you are referencing.
It's nice. I like that you don't need to log-in, or create an account, or anything like that to play.

A bit more feedback on illegal moves would be a good addition. Even better would be feed-forward, such as dimming the places that the current chip cannot be placed. With a tool-tip explaining why, even better.
This statement is wrong for a large class of users

This is more power than a typical desktop user would know what to do with, by a pretty large margin -absurd overkill for just running an office suite or video editing or gaming or whatever.

His "Great Beast of Malvern" custom computer (http://www.catb.org/esr/hardware.html) is under powered for high end gaming and doesn't meet Virtual Reality minimum specs (http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/vr/system-require...). It is fair to argue that gaming, and especially VR or 4K gaming is a niche market that isn't a relevant consideration in his arguments, but he does explicitly mention desktop computers as overkill for gaming.
and no better reason there is
I use a Samsung flip phone. I still prefer the flip ergonomics to a touch-screen one (for ordinary voice call use obviously). Someone calls me, I pick up the phone, flip it open to answer if I want to, talk, close it to end the call, all with one hand, without having to even look at the thing (I can check the outside lcd to see who it is before answering it also). When I want to call someone (I only call about 5 people regularly (wife, mom, dad, sister, closest friends), I just flip it open and press the corresponding speed dial button. For this kind of use, a touch screen doesn't come close.
Cited Journal "Cell" publication here :
http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674%2816%2930278-1?...

Whole Genome Sequencing of a Healthy Aging Cohort.

Key quotes:

"The top region is a large linkage block at MHC locus 6p22.1 ... This region contains a handful of SNPs that have been replicated and confidently associated with cognitive traits, including rs1056667, associated with cognitive performance"

"The second sub-significant region included lead SNP rs156033 (p value = 1.7 × 10−6), in the 5q31.1 region, which contains SLC22A4 and multiple variants ... strongly associated with carnitine and carnitine-related metabolite levels"

"third sub-significant region included lead SNP rs10209741 (p value = 7.0 × 10−6) in the 2q36.1 region containing KCNE4 and nearby (11.4 kb) rs895767, which was previously associated with cognitive decline"

notes:

MHC = major histocompatibility complex, a set of cell surface proteins essential for acquired immune system to recognize foreign molecules in vertebrates.

carnitine = eukaryote specific nutrient involved in lipid metabolism

KCNE4 = a voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channel

SLC22A4 = integral plasma membrane protein , ergothioneine transporter. Foods found to contain ergothioneine include liver, kidney, black beans, kidney bean and oat bran [ wikipedia ].
Pascal won't be cheap so comparing to a top-end Xeon E5 v4, it's about 7x the theoretical FP64 performance (assuming the Xeon is 2.2GHz * 22 cores * 8 avx pipes per * 2 for FMA per socket, given the price range). Similar story at FP32. However, the GPU wins on FP16.

For historical performance, just pick one of the machines that did x teraflops. E.g. the first teraflop computer used ~6000 200MHz pentium pro chips around 1996.
Yes, in my opinion the Thinkpad peaked somewhere around the T43 or the IBM-made T60 (which was also made by Lenovo). Good keyboard layout, travel distance, spring distance. Even silly stuff like the shape of the key and the precise type of plastic were somehow better.

And everything apart from the keyboard was solid too. How many non-Macbooks can be picked up by any edge or corner? How many laptops have a metal hinge for the screen? A magnesium rollcage inside? Clever drains that divert water out of your keyboard and out holes on the bottom, all without damaging the electronics? Easily user-accessible battery, RAM, HDD…even more advanced components like the screen and the wifi card?
> Sounds like a slippery slope argument. [...] it is the other way around: government has instituted a law saying they have to do it.

Yeah, that's the point. When the technology has been demonstrated to work (even if badly) in some areas it's suddenly mandated in other areas.

Now we have a technology that was so-so at blocking unwanted porn being used for everything from catching pedophiles to checking for intel leaks. A false-positive in porn blocking was annoying, in pedo-detection it can ruin lives. Worse, when functioning properly it can prop up repressive regimes.

> Are you saying you don't want any laws at all, and people should just be able to do anything they want?

Is that the only choice? Egregious laws that harm innocents and don't actually solve the issue versus no law at all? Well in that case, it's clear. No law is better than being stuck with bad law that doesn't actually help...

But thankfully those aren't the only options. We can push back against bad laws (useless, abusive, etc) and accept the good ones.

> "I don't want a law that says drones are banned by default from controlled airspace, because the government might change it's mind and also ban drones from places that embarrass the government", which is just another slippery slope argument.

No, we don't want useless technological measures mandated that claim to block drones from airports, but fail to actually help in a real security context. Because those useless security rules have only one real purpose - banning civilians from inconvenient things.

Laws, like lines of code, have a distinct cost and we should only add the ones that will actually help.
Looks like the author is using a server side route and controller just to render the initial view - and then beyond that he has two channels: one for players to join a game and one for managing game mechanics.

I'm just learning Elixir and Phoenix myself. Looking at the source of this it is apparent even to me a newbie that a two player game where game state is managed as a supervised process - and the server manages many games is a nice example of the power of Elixir/Erlang to facilitate concurrent development.
Only temporarily. The closed source ones are legacy now, afaik. I believe AMD has said they want to only use open source drivers with closed source plugins; i.e. hybrid drivers.

Anyone know if it's going to be the same on Windows? Open source with proprietary plugins?
The Other Closed-Door Agreement to Compromise Users' Rights
Keep in mind they have to understand the text and image encodings. The concept of glyphs themselves, even. Words. Language. Bytes (why 8 bits). Bits. Knowledge expressed as sentences. How to read the media. Compression would be just another thing.

There's a pretty big hurdle to comprehension even without compression because we are thinking in human terms. Imagine all of the prerequisite human knowledge you overlook to even approach the concept of an encyclopedic article describing something. Aliens might share knowledge by hitting each other with telepathic darts for all we know, having a completely different understanding and implementation of information, and words might require years of study on their part to comprehend. Even the golden record carries a lot of assumptions. What we know about the universe is not necessarily final, even with rudimentary things like information theory.

In the end it's a bunch of bytes, numbers really, on a disc. What are numbers, even? What if they have a totally different non-numeric system to quantify and explain their existence?

Think about finding an extraterrestrial storage device like this from our perspective. I'd safely predict 20 years before we even extract one byte of data, and a lot of that time would be arguing over it, probably. Although thinking about an alien Nobel ceremony for cracking the "extraterrestrial ceramic Wikipedia" is a pretty amusing thought.
The Naval treaties of the 20th century were so ironclad and effective! (Not!)
You could use a shell that magically handles all the escaping for you either while typing/pasting for some programs (curl, grep etc) when not in quotes and tab completes with a selector so you don't have to think about spaces, special chars, etc:

http://paste.click/VfUUWv
How the French learned to love their police
Financial institutions won't be making the decision as to whether the technology is widely adopted or not in the long term.
If there is another financial crisis, then people will eventually work out the existing financial system (esp the role of central banks) is fundamentally f#cked.
Alternative currencies may then boom in popularity. It's a high risk area for startup investing, but someone, somewhere is going to make a ton of Bitcoins (?) out of this.
actually i would use the managed vm's or 'App Engine Flexible Environment' but actually it's not possible inside the EU.
I tested that and I get an error on deployment.

However after creating a new project everything in gcloud started to work.
Does the App Engine free tier apply to 'App Engine Flexible Environment' ? That would be great since that would make the site really really cheap.
The old keyboard wasn't merely "quite nice". Apart from the short travel (which was still quite long by notebook standards and rather easy to get used to), it had a feel very like a good full-sized desktop keyboard. No, it wasn't a Model M or anything, but it was head and shoulders above most of the crop. I used the old USB Thinkpad external keyboard with my desktop as well as my laptop (when it was on the docking station). Unfortunately, it's been discontinued as well.
Interesting. The hashes seem to be sha512crypt ($6$) in two flavors: One specifying 5000 rounds and using a fixed salt of 'usesomesillystri', and the other is... odd. It's in the format of '$6$rounds=50$....', which I think means that rounds=50 will be interpreted as a salt, but I'm not sure. Most of them are the latter format.
email is awesome, but I do miss receiving long letters from friends far away. Man, do I miss that. I only have two friends left who still write letters. I would give many parts of the internet to have that back.
Bulk Personal Datasets Challenge
Nonetheless, the amount of hype in the original news clearly show the state of paranoia the contemporary society is in.
Railguns with inert slugs. The things will have a 200+ mile range and you can store and reload without having to worry about explosive propellant. Lots more bang for the buck. Lots more ammo storable onboard.
Are you trying to imply that this project is copying your name...?
The only thing he's missing is a graphics card, and that's because his use case is different (it would be easy to plop in). High end workstations and High end gaming are identical except for that. My rig (with very close specs to his, plus a 980TI) runs my Rift just fine.
Unless you've actually tested it with a shell other than bash, you should be marking it as bash. Otherwise it's likely it will not actually be portable between shells, and you will have made your software less reliable.

I've encountered many scripts written by developers on Fedora that totally fail over when run on Ubuntu specifically due to using #!/bin/sh when they really required #!/bin/bash.
30g.

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/wholesale-price-1575-4...
A nice writeup by the LAT in 1996 about how much Prince strove to have things his way when it came to publishing:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-prince-a...

> Tensions between artist and label first came to a boil in early 1994, when he decided to drop the name Prince and asked that people start identifying him by an unpronounceable symbol--thus disassociating himself, in a most burdensome way, from the guy who recorded some of the most popular and acclaimed albums of the '80s.

> To further express his frustration, he stopped performing Prince-era material in concert and began appearing in public with the word "slave" written on his cheek. In 1994, he also released "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," a successful single that was distributed not by Warner Bros. but by the independent company Bellmark Records.

> In one breath, he'll say, "If I knew the things I know now before, I wouldn't be in the music industry." In the next, he'll talk about his craft with such passion that it's impossible to imagine him working in any other field.

I suppose few of his independent ambitions here sound that crazy today...but this was in 1996, 5 years before the first iPod.
As someone who walks through or along-size the DTES nearly every day, this is a fantastic response and summary of the situation, Jim, capturing the complexity of the situation nicely. The DTES is not as simple a problem as many people would like to think, nor can it be ignored, as more and more external pressures are put upon it. It is, however, a fundamental part of living in Vancouver, for better or worse.

As for the parent comment: on a minor note, no one who lives in Vancouver thinks the issue is weed by any stretch. Jim's assessment, above, is entirely accurate. My personal hunch is that legalized weed would have absolutely no impact on that part of Vancouver at all.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Released
I was about to mention this. Interestingly enough, I found this out the hard way, as I was struck by a sudden urge to listen to Sign o' the Times late one night in college.

Upon signing into YouTube, I was surprised not only to not find any of his songs uploaded, but to also find several articles about his extreme distaste for digital music after Googling the topic. I ended up going to the record shop and buying a used copy.

And as far as the topic of whether this story should on HN, I tend to treat this news in a similar manner as the death of Bowie. Both artists were really creative, and were fiercely passionate and intelligent (at least from what I've seen and heard), not to mention they were masters at marketing themselves. These are attributes anyone who values innovative technology and startups might be interested in — at least in my opinion.

Regardless of whether it is on- or off-topic, the world lost a great musician who blended genres and broke rules, and that is a shame.
Exact failure and bin rates for most semiconductor companies are considered deep dark internal trade secret. Other than pure scale, yield rates are one of the biggest factors in semiconductor cost and profit margin.

And the answer is it depends. If you lose some transistors, you expect to lose the entire chip. But the vast majority of the transistors on each chip are part of cache or many many duplicate GPU cores, which if they fail to pass tests, can be disabled or downclocked and then the chip is binned into the appropriate product line.

With GPUs this is much easier than other types of chips, because the level of functional duplication that exists allows a lot of flexibility. If a core is bad, you use a different one, and GPU cores are small enough they'd be stupid not to put some spares on each chip. Same with memories.

Generally one can safely assume:

* Most chips that come off the line are binned into a lower category and do not function at max spec for everything, which is why the price jump is so high at the extreme upper end of a hardware series.

* With ASIC lithography most transistor malfunction isn't correctable, you mostly have to either downclock (some types of faults) or disable (the rest) that piece.

* Rates of transistor malfunction is still incredibly fucking amazingly phenomenally low. Like with 15B transistors on a chip, you have trouble affording a failure rate of even one in a billion.

So your line has to be, as the kids say: on fleek.
I'd guess they've found a great match: never have I seen a community so prone to irrational hypes around random new technologies as the international development and humanitarian aid communities.

The whole blockchain narrative will be a feast for them, probably with the end result that some overworked local medical workers will now have to deal with semi-broken blockchain apps to buy fresh toilet paper.

Many lives will be improved (in Brooklyn, NY).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0lLDyknUjw
This article has at least one inaccuracy - they claim he died in his "Paisley Park home", making it sound like Paisley Park is a city. It isn't, it's just the name of the studio he built. I drive past it often.

The statement from the local paper is much more useful: http://www.startribune.com/authorities-investigating-death-a...
Hopefully at some point they'd get too dumb to be able to enter the congress and something a bit cooler will ensue from the imminent anarchy... In the meantime, say "hi" to Trump.
Does anyone know the origin of "usesomesillystri" as a salt? Googling that string found more results than I expected, but most of them are from password files with no explanation.

I found some PHP example code that tries to use "usesomesillystringforsalt" as a salt, is this just the aftermath of people writing real websites based on online examples? It seems a bit more pervasive in password dumps across the internet than I would expect unless it's in a really high profile example somewhere.

edit: It appears to be used in the official PHP documentation for crypt[0].

[0] http://php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php
Can You Tell These Real Crispr Projects from the Fake Ones?
should the title be changed to reflect this?
how's the audio jack working, I got my XPS 15 last week, and planning to install ubuntu LTS once released. I read that audio jack is tricky to get working
I guess the only way to find out if that's true is to try and use the black market first?
I don't know, but Phantom have been doing it for years, so you could see how they do it.
Not exactly a counterpoint, but maybe a more interesting vantage:

http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-scooter-computer/
Also something the US Navy has!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eObepuHvYAw