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I'm curious of how many of those 50 million visits are people like me who click on the links hoping for instant information occasionally or accidentally if it's top result but then leave because it's Quora. Then we go to StackExchange or some other Google result.

I'd like to see page views from logged-in members and number of active users instead of general hits. I think that would give us a more honest picture of its uptake. Anyone have that information?
> 2012 called. If you had disposable income that is.

One of the points in the article, near the end. We've hit a crossover point where these small form factor computers are both cheap and capable, rather than one or the other.
Just for reference on this kind of system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-21#DF-21D

"This is the first ASBM and weapon system capable of targeting a moving aircraft carrier strike group from long-range, land-based mobile launchers."

The asymmetry of a single missile strike sinking a huge vessel brings to mind the Exocet that sank the Sheffield in 1982 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Sheffield_(D80)#Sinking).
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Does anyone know how the Google TTS voices in the example are exposed by Google? Is there an API / service for these? I haven't been able to find it.

I was able to use them on PageNodes via the "espeak" output just fine, but would like to use them directly in my own apps.
Do you have any statistics on why they leave tech?

From my experience, in a big tech corporation, there are two major issues:

1. Women starting out (fresh out of college) don't appear to want to be software engineers, yet do it to pivot to another job.

2. They decide to have children, which often means they leave work for a time, and decide never to come back (although the offers are there)

Everyone should take diversity seriously, but I am curious if you have any hard stats on why women leave in the first place? That'll actually allow this problem to be solved.
> [T]he quality and design of recent Thinkpads has gone utterly to shit. The new keyboards are particularly atrocious.

I've never owned a Thinkpad until recently. I purchased a Thinkpad T450s and I love it. I also think the keyboard is quite nice as well. Now I'm curious how the older Thinkpads were. Were they considerably better? Did I buy a bad product and not even know?
> Which of course still leaves OS X, bsd, Solaris AFAIK.

AFAIUI OS X has launchd, and Solaris has OMF[1]?

... so basically the BSDs are the ones left behind?

[1] I think that is the acronym for Solaris' XML-based standardized system service files? (I don't care that they're XML. It care that they're standardized.)
Or maybe calling it an "Amazon Echo clone," which insinuates it covers almost all the bases Echo does, was a bit premature? It could have just been called "voice controlled PDA"

I don't think it's "shitting on" it (although text is notorious for making things seem far more serious or critical than they actually are), just clarifying the remaining differences.
What kind of places would be looking for native Android developers? I was learning Android a year ago but decided to switch to web because I figured there would be more opportunities.
This might help you: https://github.com/monteslu/pagenodes/blob/7388ce58726836cf6...
What I got from the article:

* ~5.5 TFLOPs on FP64

* "About 2x" performance on FP32 (so 11 TFLOPs)

* "Up to 2x" performance on FP16 (compared to FP32, so about 22 TFLOPs).

* FP16 is also aimed to neural nets training, because when the weights of the net are FP16, it's a more compact representation.

* 3840 general purpose processors.

* More/better texture units, memory units, etc. So it's not about raw power, but also about a better design.

Guess that's about the important stuff. I just skimmed the article over the top, reading a bit here and there, but that seemed to be the most remarkable stuff.
If one wants Ubuntu and GNOME, there's

https://ubuntugnome.org/
Yeah I have very big (somewhat "Knightian") concerns about that, per my other comment [1], in that it's very easy for us to hit a tipping point. We have massive unfunded obligations coming due, and it's it's not that easy to raise taxes, despite sanguine dismissals that "oh, just some small tweaks and it'll be fine".

But the tipping point comes when you have to take too much from present workers for past obligations, and some of them say, "wait, screw this, I'll just take my labor somewhere else", which means they have to tax a bigger incentives, which scares off more workers, and spirals out that way.

Relatedly, I have grave reservations about prodding the entire economy to have a huge nest egg in 401k-eligible investments, which can distort the voting base into favoring government interventions that favor the largest companies over smaller ones that don't get publicly listed, changing the playing field.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11537585
> You may increase the wages of the parents, but not necessarily by as much as the family has lost;

1 year out, maybe. 10 years out after the children have had the benefit of education? Dead wrong. Remember also that the local economy scales with prevailing wages. They would experience a period of deflation but that's fine as they have virtually no assets to speak of.

> Remember that this is not a power game played by a group of companies on the one side and a bunch of laborers on the other; there are many other factors including mechanization, productivity, consumer demand, etc.

In sub $10/day situations mechanization is a tiny factor at best. That machine has to be built in a factory in Germany by highly skilled and expensive engineers it's going to have to be amazing efficient to pay for itself. Then you need skilled labor to work on and maintain it.

Adults are more productive than children, and consumer demand would likely go up if you did not use them to produce your goods.

The western nations didn't get rid of child labor for altruistic reasons. It's a fools errand.
Is this the same case with threading (like multiprocessing.dummy)?
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I wonder if git would be better served by a more modern language.
The source for pagenodes is here: https://github.com/monteslu/pagenodes and you can look at src/editor/nodeDefs/core/espeak.js as an example.

Also MDN has some pretty good documentation on the WebSpeech API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_...
The second amendment was crafted with the express purpose of allowing American citizens to defend themselves against a tyrannical, oppressive government, using that force as a last resort to maintain their freedom.

I don't think "LOL the internet is a series of tubes" quite qualifies.
That data is already centralized and interlinked. There is no 'slack' (ambiguity and leeway) as far as government is concerned.

I am not arguing for using government-issued IDs for non-government services (as in original post), and consider enforcement of such use a direct attack on citizen freedom, but only for having single ID for use in state-person relations.
Well hypothetically if the Earth was destroyed by grey-goo or something, the disc would still be there.

But the other answer is that it's much easier to find. Where would you put a ceramic copy of wikipedia on Earth to maximize it's probability of being found? Anywhere you put it could get destroyed, buried, or stolen. Who knows what will happen to it over the Eons.

This disc will be on the surface of the moon forever. Anyone surveying the surface of the moon for unnatural objects will find it. Although that might take some advanced technology, it would be easier than surveying the Earth.

And while they might find many artifacts on Earth, locating that single copy of wikipedia out of all the other junk we've left behind is a bit improbable. We haven't covered the moon with much junk.
There are two really good rules for building teams that have worked well for a bunch of companies I've observed and been a part of.

- Only hire people better than you

- Ensure you create a workplace with high alignment and high autonomy

Management's job is not to dictate solutions or to be "the people with the answers". It's their responsibility to make sure the constraints are set properly, and that the environment allows smart people to do their best work.
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Done? This implements the Freedesktop specification, so is compatible with what KDE and Gnome do.

https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli
Unfortunately yes, which is why you get founders awkwardly trying to answer questions like.. "How does your product compare to X and Y that are dominating the space right now?" when they've never heard of X or Y.
I accept the premise that many people elected to Congress act in their own interests before their constituents.

But I think long before violently overthrowing the government, people would first try electing different people.
This to me makes too many assumptions. I'm sorry but experience doesn't mean wise. And in many cases experience can mean complacent or scared of change.
The Quora experience is very polarizing. Some people have the exact opposite reaction from yours. My take is that a lot of people in SV view it positively and that's why it's always been such a VC media darling, but that the your view predominates in the rest of the world and that's why it hasn't really been successful.

FWIW, I agree with you; I find it a little gross and fawning with a lot of appeal to authority.
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Hasn't half precision (16-bit float) been in NVidia GPUs forever? I could swear it was available back in the very first shader-capable Geforce FX days already.
One idea here is to adopt a recent generative approach: a CNN which starts with two noise image inputs, and then repeatedly tweaks it plus a new noise image over multiple inputs until it does one last tweak to a final version. The noise serves as a RNG for making choices to the built-up image, I think. You could apply this recurrent idea to movies too: for the first BW frame, pass in a noise image and the BW frame, get out a C frame; now for the second BW frame, pass in the BW frame but also the C frame from before. The CNN may gradually learn to transfer colors from the C frame to the BW frame, thereby maintaining temporal coherency.

(Or you could just try to use a RNN directly and keep hidden state from frame to frame.)
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Toasty.
so Chyna doesn't even rank? where is your artistic compassion?
Part of my assumptions also revolve around my experiences with African American (and African) colleagues. We've talked of similar issues, WRT race and culture, and they have expressed similar problems.

Those are most certainly single data points, but they also tell of pervasive issues: being a good student was "bad", book learning was "white", males be a player rather than a father, sexual abuse and general abuse proliferate in their music, movies regularly play to "black" stereotypes....

Obviously all don't ascribe to these. That's the problem with stereotypes. But when the culture gains a critical mass of these 'problems', there needs to be a more critical discussion about the actions.

I'm perfectly fine that a great deal of laws through the last 300 years has caused a great deal of their culture to go a direction. And that falls on us all.
miners do more than just burning energy, and without this mechanism, the price can't be justified. a really forward looking perspective is, how a structure on top could be created to leverage bitcoin without mining. if you figure out something clever, you can call yourself the saviour of the planet :-)
Sure no yeah, all of the things you talked about in the talk are valuable things to know. You didn't talk at all about why they are that way, nor did you admit that you don't know (and neither do the language creators know) why those problems exist. Nor did you disclose that the most important thing to know was that these are undefined corner cases, of which technology is full of. Now there are millions of retweets out there that do nothing to further understanding.

They amount to me taking a screenshot of your comment here and saying things like "Oh, look, he typed into a text box and the computer didn't format his sentence properly with a capital at the beginning or a period on the end! Computers are so stupid but how could he have known that it wouldn't do that for him?"

Instead, the real explanation, that this is what you wanted, is rather mundane and boring. And it is unrealistic to expect a feature like I'm suggesting because it assumes so much about what is wanted, and would be tied to directly to a general use case of English and may not work right all the time anyway.

This is a subtle nuance that can be extrapolated into real understanding of the limits of system design, and you personally continue to push this mindset that we should all point and laugh and retweet because it is a funny in-joke and I'm sorry it just doesn't help.

I will give you that it does have an element of striving for better, more descriptive error messages, and better interactions and interfaces. But I don't see anyone outside of Bret Victor really trying, and we need a million more people a little less ambitious than him to make it happen.

This all being said, you do an absolute ton of great work that honestly I can barely understand because it is either more advanced than I am, or outside my purview, but I know it is worth it to us all that you do it, so thank you so so much for that.
Except upstart actually allowed shell code in its configuration files[1]. Now, it did have the "exec" stanza which was far cleaner, but if you look through what Ubuntu actually did in practice, I think you'll find quite a lot of "script" stanzas in there.

[1] http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#script
Don't forget about electronic countermeasures.
Ah, thank you for the clarification
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I'm pretty sure a UCS report was the single most bogus "scientific" study I've ever heard of, based on my memory and what I was just able to look up with Google:

It postulated that the entire battle would have to be fought by a single space battle station (ignoring for example that the Earth revolves), and therefore a huge number of huge stations would have to be built, and that we could only loft them into space at current Space Shuttle costs (as opposed to spending a fraction of the cost on building some cost effective rockets), all of this costing "hundreds of billions of dollars" (that's the key phrase to look for, and note the dollar has lost about half its value since then).

Bottom line would be that no one denied that the UCS could design an entirely impossible strategic defense system, but the construction and destruction of such strawmen are entirely uninteresting to those who care about the truth.

Marginal cost analysis are entirely irrelevant to a discussion of the real Cold War as I noted above, the Soviets simply didn't have the money to do it, even if it would have been cheaper for them.

They'd spent several fortunes in equipping North Vietnam with three complete mechanized armies (1st used up piecemeal, 2nd crushed in their first invasion, when only 40,000 of the 150,000 men committed even made it back to the north, and of course the 3rd succeeded after the Congress stopped supplying ammo to South Vietnam), building their Strategic Rocket Forces, all their other military expenses, vast armies and air forces to invade Western Europe (including maintaining up to date lists of "future war criminals", about 10,000 for France), their vast borders guarded to keep their people in and us out, in such a way that even the rather distant and not precisely strategic territory KAL 007 overflew generated a massacre, the money they had to spend to buy grain every year they had "a bad harvest", etc. etc. etc. etc.

Combine that with things like our support of the mujahideen, our economic warfare, our moral warfare including capturing Grenada (our denial of the Brezhnev Doctrine was a shock to the system), and it was game over. Funny how after the US President to decide to actually end the Soviet Union started the effort, it went poof in one decade....
I didn't find it particularly confusing. I feel as though most people would take "midrange computer" to be what the author intended. Might just be projecting my own ignorance of the IBM systems however.
Both this comment and the parent comment appear in some form when a celebrity related articles appears. Neither one takes into account the fact that Hacker News is a site for new of interest to hackers. That means occasionally, there will be articles that aren't focused on either technology or startups.

Prince was an extremely talented musician, and many people of all walks enjoyed his music. For many people, his music was a part of their development. I'd say news of his death is of interest.
In general the slippery slope is not actually a fallacy.
For those too lazy to go read: biggest rocket available + very light probe = very fast travel

Another interesting read in this aspect is the Dawn Spacecraft, which had a big delta-v because of its ionic thrusters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_%28spacecraft%29#Propulsi...
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Different genre of art.
I second the asyncio endorsement. I started using Python 3 just to try out asyncio and never went back. It works like a dream.
Is there any particular reason you picked 3 years as your lower bound? I haven't been as fortunate as most in that I graduated and got a job as a Java dev but the pay isn't at all appealing. I'm planning on jumping ship after a year in order to get a modest salary boost (we already discussed raises with my boss and I will be getting a pittance at the end of this year).
Here is a link to the board design files.. everything is open source (apart from the processor itself)

https://www.arduino.cc/en/uploads/Main/Arduino101RefDesign.z...
> There's really no pretense that votes are the only factor in ranking stories.

True, however the HN front page has always given me the impression that votes matter the most, and that the front-page is largely reflective of the interests of the HN demographics. The question I'd ask is: why is there no explicit indication (written in the footer, perhaps) of the front-page being vetted by a handful of moderators?

A subtle form of pretense is not speaking of the truth.
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Is what the other researcher did (collecting usernames and passwords) in scope? Is it impossible to use these credentials to get above standard privs on any part of facebook?
My point is that while you keep saying something is wrong, the evidence shows otherwise.

I'm pretty sure you're already aware of that. Your account is new, perhaps you've been here before but you don't seem very capable of participating in technical discussions. I'm going to end this conversion for obvious reasons.
And while I am sure there will be a lot of "why is this story on HN" comments, Prince was an occasional news maker in the area of digital music.

He was a bit of a curmudgeon when it came to digital music in that he wasn't a fan of it or the services that provide it.

Interesting, however, that he was a fan of SoundCloud.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/957510/prince-the-int...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110624/12140014847/princ...

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/02/prince-pulls-mu...
When the stakes are treason and/or Guantanamo Bay, you are still bold no matter how many precautions you take or maybe just stupid.
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It's unclear to me why they think it was a drone or a bag instead of a bird.

This whole thing seems overblown. They have no idea what they hit, and it didn't cause any damage to the plane.
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I felt that way too. I think she has a lot of issues to work through regarding her father, and it may be a lot of that which are fueling her rage. Not saying her arguments are wrong, but I am concerned about her impartiality.
good point, but a mining monopoly would destroy the value and hence it's in the self-interest of miners to be diversified. that's an economical self-correcting mechanism on top of this technical mining/reward feedback mechanism.
Yeah, for things like that, I have a wrapper function and/or aliases which get loaded with PowerShell. The over-verbosity I'd imagine really helps the "click next-get cheques" guys who are a little intimidated by the command-line. (I on the otherhand bleed Hayes 9600 baud and VT220 green cold cathode.). 'ps aux' wouldn't really cut it. Just like one customizes their bash, fish, zsh or whatever shell, you customize your PS shell with modules (the Powershell Community Extensions (PSCX)) and other such things (SQL Server integration with Powershell? Yes please!).

So you effectively can do t foo, which your alias to a wrapper script around Measure-Command and get the same effect. But, wait, you also want to log the outputs, just to keep track of the progress as you refine the memory allocation on my_malloc.cc. Pop into ISE[1] stock with Windows 8+ (or your favorite Powershell editor) add a few lines and now you can have a log that associates each revision with it's performance. Keep it open like you would your editor and your .bashrc or .zshrc or whatnot.

The great thing about that is I only have to write the verbose command once and it's entirely clear what that command does. I can share it with anyone and they can run it, assuming they have .NET 4 or higher. They know immediately what it does.

RE: Other software - All the unix utils (grep, awk, etc) are in a downloadable "Gow". Windows has a package manager "chocolatey" which is basically like the apt repos. All the software is vetted. Heavily. They run every binary through VirusTotal which is 57 engines from the enterprise Sophos type stuff to the less-good-ones.

I've run into one bug in 18 months (multiple python installs 2.7.1 / 3.4.x + the env var of PythonHome conflicting references. I'm sure there's a solution but I don't care enough about python to research it).

[1] https://i.imgur.com/dXmT2MX.png
IIRC what's new here is native support in the ALUs, etc. I think the older support was probably in software.
> The latter part is true, but BTC cannot provide that. It's nothing more than a nifty hack. It kind of works, which is impressive, but it is horrible inefficient and impossible to scale due to its inherent limitations. So far the only solutions that have been proposed were to tack on even more complexity. To make matters worse, all of these solutions have remained vapourware for quite some time.

It is not a given that Bitcoin cannot scale, even though a select few in the ecosystem repeat this as if it is a fundamental truth.

Bitcoin is proposed by many in the ecosystem to scale as it has been before: By scaling up transactions on the chain. See http://www.bitcoinclassic.com/
This is great!

Feature request: When a component pane(code snippet + preview) is open, allow escape key to close the pane.

Is this code open source? Would be happy to submit a PR for this feature if it is.
AFAIK The part will be sold through the usual distributors for people to be able to make your own boards.. It wouldn't make any sense for Intel to do all this work and not make the processor available for sale.
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Because here is a quick list of just over 100 things that have to be considered to port and maintain compatibility between the two:

http://python-future.org/compatible_idioms.html

Python3 is a different language than Python 2.7 and there is no compelling reason to move from 2.7 to 3.

Most of what would have been compelling reasons are being handled in PyPy. PyPy is the present and future of Python and that future is 2.7.