skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't VRAM already used as system RAM in the AMD-based PS4?
Well, as someone alive and politically aware during the period, and who's studied that event, no, that Manichean world view doesn't match what happened in the cultural '60s in the least, a period which includes much of the '70s.

For one thing, "those pesky anti-vietnam protesters" had burned down the ROTC building a couple of days before, there was quite a bit of violent rioting prior to the shooting and the National Guardsmen had already had to use their bayonets to manage it (when bayonets get fixed and bloodied you know things got very serious). Today's "campus protests" are utterly farcical by comparison.

In general, violent civil insurrection was common, and the authorities management was very mild by the international standards of the time, and there was plenty of pressure from the bottom up for much more strenuous measures. Note it's the only major incident of that type in that period, and is a trifle when compared to atrocities like Waco.

McCarthy? Please, if you don't know what the phrase "submit to party discipline" means, and that it resulted in every member of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA), back when it was popular and selective in admittance (through the '30s at minimum), was a self-declared traitor, well, read up on what the other side was saying, or things like the Venona decrypts which eventually revealed just how accurate McCarthy's raw information was.

And note how the authorities' flaccid response to GRU and NKVD spying through these traitors like Hiss paved the way for crude men like McCarthy. That's a lesson you'll see from the Weimar Republic to a lot of what's happening today, and there's plenty of history of this sort of thing in pre-modern times.

Hoover was a bad apple, I'll grant you, and the rest of the barrel remains rotten to this day; has the FBI Hostage "Rescue" Team ever actually rescued anyone? Latest is their shooting in the only fatality resulting from the Bundy Oregon mess, and then trying to cover that up.
Sharp response! Yes, the "external to us" caveat is very powerful because it is contextually ambiguous and its scope can potentially reach the location of every atom in the universe. Every atom in the universe is not trackable because they are not self-tracking. The only way out is retreat into, "we're in a simulation..."
How are the serial numbers on banknotes tracked?
That depends how far back you go. You are talking PC probably; most 'desktop' computers before that had so little memory this was common place and even mostly impossible to do 'useful' business applications without it.
"mobile" as in Wi-Fi, not 3G/4G.

Seems awfully expensive for its specs. You can get pcDuino3 for $66 with the same CPU/RAM.

EDIT:

Raspberry Pi 2 has Cortex 7 and 1GB of RAM too, and it's like $34.

Banana Pi also, and it's around $31.
Honest although tangentially related question: why node.js?

I honestly really don't get why someone want to use js serverside, and I say that as someone who did create cool things with js client side and wants to know why I should spend time on this new cool stuff.

Edit: automatic upvotes for serious answers as long as I see them before going offline :-)
Forget IDE, an interpreter could be interactive, i.e. a language itself could require an online connection to a service, let you type things that are ambiguous, take a guess (or ask you) and then record your intent interactively, while sending back to the server what you ended up meaning.

Then you could finally type something like "double k" and have it make sure you meant set k equal to k times two. (yes, of course.) but maybe one guy means append k to k as a string, that one guy in a hundred can pick that.

Today, thousands of people a day go through Google as part of this process. Why should Google be part of my actual workflow experience, without being part of the IDE experience or, well, language - or using people's feedback in any way? It doesn't make sense.
We need people operating mixes for cash and SIM cards.

Dump $50, get a random bunch of notes that add up to $50.

Dump a prepaid SIM, get a new prepaid SIM.
"Raspberry Pis do not have built-in Bluetooth or Wifi"

Time to update the page. http://makezine.com/2016/02/28/meet-the-new-raspberry-pi-3/
>You can certainly practice improving your mechanics, by which I mean your IDE/development environment whether it's keyboard shortcuts or workflow improvements.

Maybe practicing this allows you to get into the zone more easily since you won't be thinking about the mechanics. Getting into the zone more easily can lead to getting better and deeper understanding of the material.

A guitar player practices repetitive drills that aren't creative to help improve.
$79 Remix OS Laptop on 64bit Allwinner A64 Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A53
GP might be referring to that http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/megastorms-could-d...

Megastorms Could Drown Massive Portions of California

Huge flows of vapor in the atmosphere, dubbed "atmospheric rivers," have unleashed massive floods every 200 years, and climate change could bring more of them
The that only insurance companies felt the price is an audacious lie by Shkreli and his people. Documents that were subpoenaed for the congress hearing revealed that people with insurance got stuck with 30%-50% co-pays. At 75.000 a bottle a 40% co-pay is still a 30.000 out of pocket expense. Regular people have to remortgage their house to come up with this kind of money.

Shkreli basically lied about everything. He lied about his business model. He lied about the availability of the drugs. He lied about his programs that supposedly made the drug available to people who could not otherwise afford it. The guy is a real piece of work.

Watch the hearing on C-SPAN if you don't believe me.

http://www.c-span.org/video/?404183-1/hearing-prescription-d...
http://www.c-span.org/video/?406885-1/sudden-price-spikes-de...

Found the timestamp, starts at 00:41:00 (second hearing) where victims of Martin Shkreli talks about their attempts to mortgage their house in order to pay for the drug for their sick child.
Schools tend to pick the worst plays. Try as you like it, taming of the shrew, and other comedies.

They are also setup for live plays, and it loses something when the actors are not trying to get there lines in over a laughing audience.
Ask HN: Why is assembly language skyrocketing on TIOBE?
In April 2015, the TIOBE rating % for assembly language was 0.656; and for many years it has consistently hovered around the 0.5 mark.

In April 2016, that rating was 2.193, even making it to #9 in the programming language rankings for January! Number 9. Assembly language.

What's going on?

http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=Assembly%20language
Whatever one chooses to say about the truth or falsity of mathematical statements (& imo, calling them all false is ludicrous), it is hard to refute the argument that they are quite effective. See Hamming and Wigner[0,1]

[0]http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Hamming.htm...

[1]https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.htm...
The thing with surveillance is that it creeps up one step at a time and very few people realize it at the beginning. By the time the masses wake up (and care) it will be too late. In the coming years, I wouldn't be surprised if more governments follow Kuwait's DNA style, even democratic ones :(
Without an inflationary era in the early universe, you would be left with having to explain 1) the fact that we see very few (none so far) magnetic monopoles; 2) the cosmic horizon problem; 3) the flatness problem.

Without inflation, how would you solve these?

Inflationary models make predictions about higher moments distribution of fluctations in the cosmic microwave background. These can be measured; so specific models can be falsified.
Douglas Rushkoff Deconstructs the Digital Economy
Thanks, I really do appreciate it. The thought that it could have meant televised audience never crossed my mind and surely wouldn't have for some other portion of the audience as well. I was out googling for largest concert size records to make sure I wasn't crazy.
The article mentions:

> "Top of the list for me is that Bill did not engage – either himself or the company – in the political process early enough. When Microsoft’s competitors were effectively lobbying the government, Bill’s attitude was the government should just go away and leave Microsoft alone," Silverberg wrote in a Quora Q&A session held Friday.

And then again:

> Silverberg writes Gates didn't engage the government and politicians early on because he believed the company was competing fairly and creating enough value for the customers. But that approach was a "disaster," he writes, as it essentially made the US government and the EU to "declare war on Microsoft."

This is totally insipid and futile news, what knowledge do we gain from this? A news company that takes an article and digest for us?

This goes on to show what it really is: just a place to exhibit their ideology, just take a look at how they use fear to instill on the (or wannabe) businessman the idea that you must lobby to be successful.

Which is the most ridicule thing in the world, as these people are just the ones that defend the neoliberal stance, which they are just refuting (which was the original Bill Gates ethos).
Our upcoming .NET mocking lib has up to 32x performance improvement over legacy
I would very much like to document these things with my iPhone. The TV has not done anything strange lately, this is all years ago and I'm just sharing it.

Why Can't People in Mental Hospitals Use Cell Phones?

I would have liked to record the TV in a mental hospital when I was involuntarily committed years ago using my iPhone, but it was taken away from me without a jury trial and without being allowed to use my own lawyer.

If you agree, please sign: https://www.causes.com/campaigns/99841-allow-patients-to-use...
The whole point of making public posts is because they want lots of people to see them. So who cares if the school sees them too? That's part of the public. It's not spying if the spyee is intentionally broadcasting the information and wants everyone to see it.

Imagine if a teacher walked past some kids bullying their classmate in the hall. She overhears the insults they're shouting and then calls the bullies in to tell them off. Isn't that what we want? Do we want school staff to turn a blind eye to bullying and stand by when they know who's doing it and what they're doing?
In Japanese, your name is デイブ, which sounds more or less like "deibu".
What good does a block chain add to a chat app?
Good article. However, there is one thing that is never mentioned in the mainstream press when discussing why some countries are doing better than others: the intelligence of the populations. The average IQ in Brazil is 87, while it's 98 in the USA.

http://www.rlynn.co.uk/uploads/pdfs/Intelligence%20and%20the...
Indeed! In Java or dynamic langauges you are forced to always use a reference. Which means you'll get cache misses pretty much everywhere.
Battling Zika with Hacks
And I'm saying it's not crap. It's desperately needed for people to hear this, make their own decision, and hopefully support Intervoice. Patients should be informed about Intervoice by doctors when they experience voices. I had to find it on my own.

Who you gonna trust a new account 3 hours old or my account?
As an "old" person (I'm 32) it blows my mind that younger generations might not be familiar with Prince's work. Unfortunately these "damn, I'm old!" moments keep cropping up more and more just lately. ;)
>planning a fight or physical confrontation

Oh no, not a physical confrontation! Before you know it, these kids will be overseas in some dessert shooting people.

Sometimes getting physical is the only solution to bullying.
Here are those links:

http://andytriboletti.tumblr.com
http://surroundedbyspies1.tumblr.com
Didn't look at your numbers closely but I agree that prices for cellular internet are very, very high in Europe. I moved to Germany 2 years ago and I currently pay 37 euros or so for 2GB (horrendously slow, on Edge most of the time). Contrast this with when I go back home (Morocco). I pay 10 euros for 12 Gbs of extremely available access (and many hours of calls for few euros more). I rarely finish it even when on Apple Music for hours a day.
I think you're missing the issue.

We have 3 choices:

1) Provide opportunity for street children to survive, and then ban exploitation of those children.

2) Ban exploitation of children, and ignore them as they die.

3) Leave it alone.

I'm saying we must choose 1 or 3. We must not pick 2. It is criminal. However, in developing countries in Africa, we have picked 2! Picking 2 is the "worst" we can do out of all possible options. It's sickening, and far too many people are still advocating for it.

Authorities in Africa and Asia no longer turn a blind eye because of grant money linked to abolishing child labour. People like you have forced that on them. And the children are now suffering far worse than before. You've made yourself feel better at the expense of those you wanted to help.
Actually Gladwell presented the idea pretty well in "Outliers". However, it quickly became a watered-down meme. People latched on the 10,000 hours and forgot about the deliberate practice part.
So what do elephants use all those neurons for?
> Ofcourse Google and Facebook can stop being robotic slaves to advertising revenue and go the Wikipedia route. But that would be like expecting the big banks and rating agencies to do what was right at the peak of the subprime crisis

The big companies are not the scariest parties. While I don't like what they are doing, Google, etc, kind of protect my data. What worries me most is what the government does with my data. They can do almost anything they want, track my every movement, see what I like and save it forever. While Google does the same, they need to protect that very careful because if this data is misused (and it gets publicized), they could lose billions (which they could not afford to do). If a government agency screws up, there is an "investigation", and, after a few weeks/months the media stops reporting.

I'm not saying what either party does is good, but Google and Facebook are not as worrying to me as a government who will only use the data in my best interest and has a perfect track record of safeguarding my data.
My favorite is the OS/2 2.0 fiasco, and I think it was Bill Gates that also partly made the initial decision in the first place, right?
I actually decided to take more time to answer your comment more throughly than others. Also, I TA'd twice the class from where you linked the article below, so I know about it :).
On Ambiguity, as a Software Developer
I don't know if it is due to various fork implementations being slow on Windows, but programs that spawn a lot of subprocesses like build tools can be really slow [1].

I would love to see some numbers for those from Bash on Windows.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/jibsen/7ebeddde3bc2bfd421b96ae53a824...
There are many reasons, but I think the simplest is that using a language in house has a very real and non-trivial cost. Expertise, coding standards, library vetting, etc.

By using Node.js in a Web shop, you can eliminate one language.

Other benefits include re-use of client side code, async everywhere, and popularity.
Sorry I missed your reply - I was using AWS G1 insances (on the spot market) plus my own password cracking cluster (the old one had 6 ATi cards, building a new one now)
I guess that raises another question: how do they calibrate the barometer at all? I assume by taking one up a mountain. (And how do they know the height of the mountain? Using a sextant and simple trigonometry).
Is it for Team Foundation only or can other VCS be integrated into this?
>>There is also the political pressure from some such leading luminaries as John "I can't feel my feet!" McCain to throw weapons at every problem.

omg, it took me a while to decode that bunch of words, super power-packed words indeed. Hilarious and witty.

Thanks for making that comment. It captures the sentiment of some section of US which is very much eager to use weapons no matter whether it makes much sense or not.

Edit: quoted properly.
What makes LeWitt interesting is the ambiguity in his instructions. Give the instructions to 100 different groups and you'll get 100 different works with no way of knowing which, if any, match what LeWitt had in mind. "calculate z_{n+1} = z_n²+1..." on the other hand will always give the same result no matter who implements it.
Getting a nice case that encloses everything might already be a very valid argument for everyone who doesn't want to tinker with that. Integrated storage would also be a plus for me, because my PI corrupted lots of SD cards.

The other typical competitors would be NUC style products, but the differentiation point here is the included battery. So it seems to have something unique.
Except that students don't know what is public. They often don't even care if the whole world can see that because they don't know how it affects them now or later.

While it has gotten better (I've noticed that more and more students use s private profile on Twitter, they still accept every follower). It is kind of like if teachers start disgusting as students to invade their privacy, which they have no right to do.
[video] Nick Szabo on Blockchains and Smart Contracts
Flight actually scales up really well. Double the volume means less than double the energy required. So, larger craft can get a better cargo to energy efficency and or more speed.

Solar impulse is large, but light and can carry two people plus stuff. Keep scaling it up, ditch the pilot, and you can have something between big slow boats and fast, but expencive jet aircraft. A full 50,000 lb 20' shipping container and 1 week China to US is probably viable. (Boats take 2 week to 1 month and unload at ports.)
see also https://taskwarrior.org/ for a similar tool
Localhost goes from 127.0.0.1 through 127.255.255.254. By binding each connection to a random IP in that range [1], one could get a better mileage.

[1]: https://idea.popcount.org/2014-04-03-bind-before-connect/
Is there a reason operating systems don't/can't do this automatically? It sounds like a faster swap space than disk.
The best way to understand Bill's lobbying error is to take a look at the current 800 pound gorilla Google.

Now, imagine Google's founders remained geeks, avoided lobbying at Washington. What do you think would have happened once complaints from its competitors started pouring in?

Microsoft was hammered because it bundled internet explorer with its operating system and other anti-competitive practices.

Google mandates Google some to be installed by its OEMs. It also bars them from releasing phones with forked android versions.

Google also tried to leverage its dominance in search to cut a slice out of Amazon's biz.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/android-oem-requirements-unveil...

In my opinion, Google's founders would have made exactly the same mistake as Bill if not for Eric Schmidt. His two lost battles with Microsoft taught him many things two of which were:

1. How to prepare for the upcoming battle with Microsoft

2. The importance of lobbying
I hope it would be earlier, 25-30 years maximum
Hmm, that seems like a fairly banal observation. Of course you can't tell whether someone has free will looking from the outside. In the general case the behavior of someone with free will will be indistinguishable from random behavior. If free will was just about patterns of behavior then it wouldn't be a very interesting philosophical issue.
I suspect that the escape analysis lint will never be as powerful as a human looking in a reasonably small region of code to remove specific allocations, so it wouldn't be able to help here. Probably. Its power is in that it can find unnecessary allocations in a large codebase.
Why the Way We Work and Play Is Changing
There's OverlayFS.

It does exactly what you want, although it was created for different use cases (Live CDs, layered images as used by Docker, etc.):

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
practice makes permanent
Agreed. It seems beyond a certain amount of users, enforcing guidelines becomes almost impossible and the quality of content gets subjectively worse, if you belong to the original group of users. Reddit is a victim of its own success.

The only real problems I see with Reddit are political censorship in default subs and corrupt mods.

When you add all that together, Reddit (or at least the most visible part of it) really has become a bad place for open discussions.
Anyone know if you can replace RemixOS with Linux?

I'd probably buy one if you could just for taking when I don't want to take my massive Dell.
ECMAScript 6 equivalents in ES5
I use "Tinfoil for Facebook" on my Android phone. It's a wrapper around the mobile site with some extra features, and you can tell it to use "Orbot" (Tor client for Android), and you can tell it to use the onion address as well if you want (which I do). Which means I can use Facebook over Tor without using the official app which steals god knows what data from your phone.

You don't get mobile notifications this way, so I just get my notifications via email instead. And I uploaded my public PGP key to Facebook, so the emails they send me are encrypted. Getting notifications via email also means that Facebook doesn't even know if or when I've read a particular notification.

To read those encrypted emails on my phone I use K-9 Mail with OpenKeyChain. My Yubikey Neo acts like a smart card reader to my phone over NFC so I don't need to give my phone direct access to my secret PGP key.

This setup works for me because I try to limit my Facebook usage, keep my number of "friends" on there to a minimum, and lie to Facebook whenever they want me to explicitly supply information.
I created a bot that blurts out marketing bullshit
Any ideas of how to improve it are welcome. Thanks.
Ask HN: As a front end developer, how can I charge by value?
Looks like you shouldn't charge hourly or by time since that's not fair to you or your client (conflict of interest). And instead, you should charge by value.

How can I determine my value as a front end developer? I build custom single page applications that work like native-applications in the browser.
I manage various RPis and had more than a few mini-devices acting as Linux server (ebox 2250, bifferboard, etc.).

I would give a shot to this one if it had an SSD, dedicated GBit Ethernet and/or GPU unit, in short if it resembled closely a mini-scale real linux server somehow.

When that doesn't happen I'd go with a device that's more open, cheaper and has better support and bigger community, such the the RPi.
I had something like this last time, and my wrist starts to get more and more painful everyday.

Turns out that I was not typing on the keyboard, but was pounding on it. Later when I change the nature of my keystroke to be more mild, it starts getting better.

Not sure if this will be relevant to you, but its worth a try.
The key decision there was made by IBM previously, they'd told their legion of CIOs that the PC-AT was the last personal computer they'd have to buy for a long while. Which required the foundational OS/2 1 to run on the brain dead protected mode of the 286; much of the ensuing mess resulted from this requirement....
> Social justice is good

Honestly, I don't even think there is consensus on what social justice is. If you asked ten people who love social justice to define it, you'll get twelve answers, especially if you ask about specific reforms and initiatives.

And you'll get glaring omissions. Complex tax codes and opaque regulations are great for the powerful and awful for the little guy. Fixing them isn't considered social justice for some reason, though.