skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're thinking of Doug Bowman. http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html

Yes, it's difficult. It's less that Apple needs to hire a famous designer and more that it has to give a designer (there are many badasses in-house) serious authority. Apple has to realize it's lost the software leadership that it used to take pride in for that to happen.
Also closes the doors on the auto shop next door. Proclaiming you can either go through the bar to get to it, or climb over the barbed wire fence out back to get in.

Others instead use abandoned tools from said auto shop to set up a new one across the road, and get daily ridiculed by the systemd patrons for it.
Economist Removed from Plane for Algebra
I can't help think that initramfs is a pox on Linux. It seems to lead to all kinds of "solutions" that are bothersome at best to maintain unless you have big dollars at your back.
I am waiting for the Nvidia GTX 1070, and sincerely hope NVidia doesn't fuck it up again like the GTX 970.

GTX 970: It was revealed that the card was designed to access its memory as a 3.5 GB section, plus a 0.5 GB one, access to the latter being 7 times slower than the first one. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_900_series#False_adver...
Ah, did not know that. Nevermind.
So for OpenSSL's RNG vs. the operating system's CSPRNG is there a difference between forking and multi-threading?
Huh, that got a bit convoluted near the end.
To add a bit more of context to TwoBit's answer, since the mid-90's, the only C++ compiler that was really visual is C++ Builder[1].

It is great for GUI applications, you get to develop C++ applications as if they were Delphi, VB ones, with all the power of C++.

For Microsoft, the lame MFC was already visual enough. To be faire to Microsoft the original MFC was much more powerful, .NET style, but many didn't like it that way, hence the thin layer over Win32 APIs[2].

However since Windows 8 and the introduction of Windows App Model, Visual C++ has actually become Visual. When developing Windows apps based on the new APIs introduced to replace Win32, you can develop pure native applicatins in C++ using XAML and the exactly the same RAD tooling as .NET WPF applications.

[1] https://www.embarcadero.com/products/cbuilder

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.vc....
I think Einstein did pretty well with quantum mechanics, as judged against his contemporaries. At least he knew something was wrong with the statistical/Copenhagen view. I think if he were told the Many-Worlds interpretation, he would find it beautiful and in line with what the character of natural law is supposed to look like.
Yes, it's consulting. Palantir has done an amazing job branding itself as a product company even tho it's mostly not, and for a long time, up to ~1000 employees in 2012, branding itself as a startup. A surprising number of my friends and classmates (Stanford '12/'13) ended up working there.

Stanford emails out a jobs summary for each graduating class. For 2013 graduates the #1 most common job title was Forward Deployed Engineer lol

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Calling Palantir a "sweatshop" when the starting salaries are six figures is ridiculous.

There are 8 billion people in the world, and a lot of them actually do work long hours for a few USD a day with next to no rights.

Say you took a job at Palantir because you bought into the hype about fixing government. Now you work with some smart people and the pay and perks are pretty strong, but you find yourself doing consulting type work and feel unfulfilled. Maybe youre helping some large fund manager migrate off of Oracle DB or something.

The solution is to find more important work. Something you really care about. Something that directly helps at least a few of the 7.9b people out there who are less lucky than you.
Thanks for the kind words and believe me when I say how disappointed I feel knowing that there are many people like you who would like to work at SpaceX that aren’t afforded the opportunity simply because of where you happened to be born. I can definitely understand how under your circumstances you may feel that the USA chants are exclusionary and I certainly harbor no ill will if that is how you feel. I would probably feel the same way if I were in your shoes.

Speaking of introspection, your comment highlights for me just how lucky I am to be able to work here. I say this as an immigrant who, while growing up in the US from an early age, wasn’t granted US citizenship until adulthood, so I have some first hand experience with the overly complex US immigration process.

ITAR is a tricky issue seeing as a Falcon 9 isn’t all that different from an ICBM aside from payload but I do generally feel that the US tends to over classify programs. And while I believe the US should make the process of immigration much less burdensome, I am nonetheless inspired by how many foreign born employees I meet at SpaceX. I wonder if the percentage of non EU born workers at Arianespace approaches the number of non US born workers here. I would be genuinely pleased if they were better in this regard than we are. I could be wrong but I doubt that Roscosmos, JAXA, ISRO or CNSA employ very many foreign born citizens. Having said that, I don’t mean to dismiss the very real concerns you have expressed with the difficulty of immigrating to the US, particularly if you don’t have a great deal of wealth.

Again, I’m very sympathetic to the feelings that others have expressed with regards to the USA chants being exclusionary, even if I myself don’t believe this to be their intent. My main problem with some comments in this thread have centered around equating the chants with a Nazi rally or describing those who engage in them as classless or devoid of dignity. I find those statements a tad extreme and the fact that some of those statements went unchallenged suggests to me that there may be many people here who hold similar views, which I find surprising.

Thanks again for sharing your perspective with me.
I've had a quick look on 3.0 changes and didn't find major features related to protocols. I'm thinking of things like more complex generic type constraints, or a mechanism to better code against protocols ( see all videos that talk about swift protocol oriented in "real life" and how annoying those limitations).

Did i miss something ?
A smart contract for monthly allowance
We have several hundred million Americans which are all willing to work very hard, but there is not enough work for them, and what work there is, is not paid sufficiently to be able to live comfortably, or even normally.

And here is where the entire concept of if you work hard, you will always succeed shatters: there are roughly 300 million Americans. The industry in which they could have (and many have) worked hard has systematically been outsourced, destroyed, under the idea that "we're going to design it, and they are going to build it, somewhere else, cheaper". Capitalism, except that most of those ~300 million people do not really have the means (intellectual, financial, you name it) to be scientists and engineers.

To make matters worse, the American culture has a strong bias towards low-brow making fun of engineering and science (a prominent case in point: "The Big Bang Theory", or shoving sports, in particular "football", down everyone's throats at the expense of more intellectual programs). For instance, "geek" and "nerd" are very American terms which I'm not aware of existing in Europe, where being an engineer or a scientist is celebrated and prestigious.

It's the perfect storm, and one which has been systematically brewed for the last 60 years of American history. Anthropologists and sociologists rejoice, for you now have a lifetime opportunity to observe what happens when you have a laissez-faire, hardcore capitalism system without checks and balances.
Of course it's not right. The Many Worlds interpretation is a much more elegant explanation that does not privilege humans or consciousness.
What really blew me away is that they went straight for Displayport 1.4 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#1.4) that was only announced on 1st of March 2016. DP 1.3 was approved on 15th of September 2014 and as of today there are no cards supporting it except this one (with backwards compatibility).

The bad news is that there's no news about new gen displays that could take advantage of this graphic card. I'm talking about 4K 120Hz HDR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-dynamic-range_rendering) displays. This is a total WTF - we have a graphic card with DP 1.4 and we don't even have a single display with so much as DP 1.3...
What you've just described is a completely insecure hardware platform. Giving out a second private key that can still be used to install third-party updates is just as insecure as giving out their normal private key, the only real difference is if anyone actually looks at the code signature they can tell the difference between third-party and first-party code. Allowing the user to lock out that second key doesn't fix anything because 99.99% of users will never do that, or even know it exists.

> If Apple is behaving that way, it's Apple's own fault, not the GPLv3's. They could have chosen to design their software in a way that would have given them better options if they are ever forced to comply with the GPLv3, but they chose not to.

That makes no sense. What you said is basically equivalent to "That's Apple's fault, they could have just designed their hardware platform to be completely insecure".

GPLv3 is fundamentally incompatible with having a secure hardware platform. This is absolutely GPLv3's fault.
It's observers all the way down.
Gobolinux still house the old layout for compatibility.

Heck, i think it could adopt any any FS layout it wanted as long as some defined place to house the "Programs" tree was provided.
This is a major VC we're talking about here, it's not like they just gave their last $20k to charity and some other company won't get into YCF because of it.
Google BigQuery now lets you analyze data from Google Sheets
I have a GTX 970 and have not yet noticed any issues as a result of that memory issue. Maybe I'm not pushing the card hard enough...
While I'll defer to you about what people you know, I don't understand how that doesn't sound like any Palantir product you know. It's the core product. When it's sold commercially it's used to find people committing fraud, and those people could be arrested, put on trial, and if found by a jury of their peers to have committed the crime beyond a reasonable doubt, thrown in jail for a number of years. When it's sold to militaries and intelligence agencies it's used to make kill lists.[0] Don't delude yourself into thinking that it's founding wasn't to algorithmically create kill lists, because it founded in 2004 with funding from the CIA specifically to bring "big data analysis" to the "War on Terror".

It's a scummy company. And if there's any doubt don't forget, they were implicated with HBGary in a dirty tricks plot against Wikileaks and Glenn Greenwald after the the scope of NSA mass surveillance was starting to be uncovered.[1][2]

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/11/leaked-palantir-doc-reveals...

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-wikileaks-apology-20...
[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-wikileaks-2011-2?op=...
Here’s a link to the paper http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103116...

Decent discussion at reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/4i75i0/study_shows...
It looks like a really well thought out language, and the willingness to break some things that looked like C holdovers in 3.0 for future clarity is also interesting.

I'm wondering if Swift will hit a sweeter spot than Go (GC, weird takes or delay on things like packaging, generics) and Rust (complexity) for userland systems software.
Cool, thanks.

It just gives an income-adjusted figure to be able to compare with other cities in the US, and around the world [0]. It also gives a rough idea of how long a typical household would have to save in order to buy a home (though this depends on tax and other spending).

That represents a median multiple of ~16.4 (1.285m / 78378), second only to Hong Kong (19.0)[0], which has topped the survey since its inclusion.

[0]: http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf
Yep. I have bad personal credit (< 600) due to a cash-strapped entrepreneurial background and a strategic default, and it took over 10+ apartment tours before we found someone willing to rent to us--at any price, and with any amount of up-front deposit--once the credit check came back.

I doubt most of the folk we dealt with would have taken us on even if I had offered to pay a full year's rent up front. It's just not worth the bother when there's a dual-income, no-kids couple with good credit next in line.
This is why I unconditionally support https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_around_the_world
What your link shows is the usage of the channels. My post was about how to actually implement a similar thing.
Sometime back I intended to go for http://www.canadavisa.com/alberta-provincial-nominee-program...
That should make no difference at all. Having Erlang packages alongside Elixir ones, incorporating them seamlessly into mix, is a massive plus.
There is the Software Freedom Conservancy: https://sfconservancy.org/

It allows donating to free software projects without burdening the developers with the administrative cost of accepting donations.

It currently supports about 40 projects: https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/
CERN IS FULL THROTTLE AND MAGNETESPHERE IS OPENED
What? My 2011 MBP shipping with 16GB, yes I chose it over the 8GB option but it shipped with it! My desktops both have 32GB because... RAM is really cheap and it really makes a difference when you're running a lot of VMs / Containers etc... or you know, any of the web browsers available in 2016 that are all awful thanks to javascript and friends
Yeah because for all the flak it gets, Buzzfeed's "trash" content is very benign. Cat GIFs might be annoying, but they are nowhere near harmful, unlike the kind of crap Gawker pulls off
I completely agree. They should change the chant to exactly as you describe.
What are all those other buildings around it that look just as big, if not bigger?
Yes. This should work. Maybe even in Poland, surely east of Poland.

In the west I think UBI won't work well unless people who own a lot of real estate are incentivised to sell some with progressive real estate tax.
Perhaps you haven't taken enough time to observe and understand the conditions of those who are on the receiving end of Americas military-industrial aggression...
Yeah, it will be interesting to see how good AMD's Polaris chips will be, especially when it comes to energy efficiency. Fury was a step in the right direction (I'm wondering how much of this can be attributed to HBM's lower voltage etc.). But I'm even more interested in AMD Vega - the high end competitor to Nvidias GP 100 that is equipped with HBM2. Especially if AMD has an advantage over Nvidia when it comes to implementing HBM, since they developed it together with SK Hynx and have previous experience with Fury, or if this doesn't make a difference.

Vega is also exiting because it should be released when AMD's Zen CPU's will be released, and there were rumors about a HPC Zen APU with Vega and HBM.
sometimes I think its better to leave out the details and just let the experience be, not everything needs a how-its-made blog post and the lack of that here feels refreshing in a way.
Bitcoin project blocks out Gavin Andresen over Satoshi Nakamoto claims
That's what I was thinking in seeing all of these photos/videos. What kind of controlled burn strategies does Alberta province have in place? I know that before these kind of policies were implemented in the Pacific northwest of the United States you would semi-periodically have disastrous wildfires, which are now largely mitigated by way of controlled burns to limit the extent and intensity of fires. I would like to think that similar strategies have been implemented in Alberta/BC but don't actually know the facts. Anyone want to chime in?
I think you are referring to a “Season 7” interface by which a PC could emulate a smart card for pay TV encryption.

One side was a PCB the shape of a SmartCard, only slightly longer. The part protruding from the satellite receiver/TV decoder had a single 74hc driver on it (I think an open collector driver of some sorts to handle the half duplex, bidirectional, data pin of the smartcard interface).
I'm wondering if Swift will hit a sweeter spot than Go

I think Swift will be a Go killer.
The article does a great job of it, too:

"Caveat: The study was relatively small and involved children who were still learning how to read."

Your only take-away isn't supposed to be some editor's choice for the title.

Added after original post:

This is why I don't like the "tl;dr" meme. If people would take more time to absorb the information related to topics we care about, there wouldn't be this desire to have a random person on the net distill that knowledge into something you can consume in 20 seconds or less. It's like getting all of your political opinions from Comedy Central. You're willingly getting your information through yet-another filter, but this filter is presented as unbiased.

Edit: parent comment ninja'd what I was responding to, now this looks super off topic.
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It not only seems that boys do better when told it's a game, girls do worse when told it's a game.
Since I commented on the previous ones, here is my take on this.

Dang and YC have done well and played their part. Maciej has not.

I am with @nickpsecurity in stating that Maciej is misappropriating the money invested in his company. Of course the argument can be made that

1. The money did not get to him at all.

2. Too much bad blood has made participation untenable.

Irrespective of the above, the spirit and intention of those that voted him (I did not) and those that insisted he be given the money (I did) for for Maciej & Pinboard to participate in YC so we can see what happens and how it will affect the product. .

If we are looking for who YC should make charitable donations to, we would mention that.

The aim of this scheme by YC was to engage and bring the community together and it has brought a lot to awkwardness. This is mainly on Maciej and doesn't look good.

To Dang and co, keep up the experiments. Not everyone will turn out as planned.
That was discussed by Apple Dev Douglas Gregor in a massive post here:

https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mo...

It's not clear what the schedule would be but I suspect a number of the constraints changes will be in Swift 3.
My problem with that is that they mitigate the issue, they don't end it. As great as against malaria is, there will always be another family that needs nets, no matter how much you donate it will never be enough. One a feature has been added to an open source software, it is available to all those who need it.
In addition to what doublec described: I use Freenet for confidential communication with friends. Encrypted Freenet traffic provides a cover which not only masks when we talk and what we talk about but also whether we talk at all.

For details and how to do it, see http://www.draketo.de/english/freenet/connect-speak-freely
What is the "founders edition"?
Above the Law – instead of law and order, a sheriff brought chaos
There seems to be a lot of confusion here so let me clear up some things from my former several years at Palantir.

1) Palantir's product is a legitimate product that works quite well for many graph analysis use cases. If you can model your problem as a graph, chances are that Palantir will help you find some solid insights (if there are insights to be found) across your 15 disparate datasets. Software Engineers build the core platform.

2) Forward Deployed Engineers customize and extend the platform for specific client use cases and get client data into Palantir. If these customizations end up being useful, they get rolled into the core platform(ideally).

3) Palantir works their engineers very hard and the performance bar is very high. Calling it an engineering mill/sweatshop is a bit much considering you get 3 meals/day, massages, chiropractic, nap rooms, excellent events, laundry, etc and 6 figure salaries or massive stock or both.

4) Lots of people have been leaving. Part of this is because lots of oldies are hitting their 10 year marks and part of it is because Palantir went through a massive growth spurt over the last 4 years or so and now the fat is being trimmed/people are leaving after concluding that it wasn't a good fit/they don't want to work that much. If you can get into Palantir, you can get into Google: Why not go to Google?

5) If you want to see the actual product, just look around. Here are like 150 examples: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCA98B156F7EFD6A0

6) The bookings vs revenue thing is pretty deceptive but everyone knows that the money isn't real until its in your bank account or there's a signed contract for it to be in your account.
Introduction to Latent Dirichlet Allocation(2011)
> Increases in the prices of goods in a 1:1 fashion with income

For locally produced goods should be fine because producers are poor too.

For imported goods it might be harmful because UBI cash could get sucked back out of the poor region really quickly. What I'm hoping is that sucking cash out with imports will correlate with increased volume (that it won't be 1:1 exactly) of imports of useful equipment that is not manufactured locally.

> Creating a dominate telco market where having a phone is necessary (and therefore phone prices will be disproportionately higher?)?

Don't they already use phones for small banking like money transfers?
Nvidia didn't release as much information on the GTX 1070, but we know it will have 8GB GDDR5 (not GDDR5X) and offer 6.5 TFLOPs (vs. 9 TFLOPs for the GTX 1080). It will have a $379 MSRP and officially launch on June 10.

Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10304/nvidia-announces-the-gef...
One of the things I noticed was that there is no rationale listed for the ssl_session_tickets disablement.

I assume your concern is something like https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/06/27/botchingpfs.html which for most general use cases you're correct in saying that it should be disabled, but, it definitely deserves a nuanced explanation.
dumping != giving money
I don't want photos. I want an article. Tell me why this fire is happening.

Pine beetles? Yes, well so much for investigative reporting, but if you just search for "pine beetles alberta" you will see photos that show the area that is burning was attacked about 10 years ago by pine beetle.

welcome to global warming.

wait a sec... Alberta? Fort McMurray!? I don't believe in karma, but I could change my mind. After all, the alberta tar sands project -- one of the most ecologically destructive projects on the planet is right there in Fort MucMurray.

Amazing
time for this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna but with fields of turbines as a system
It's about time that the Library of Babel had a Web presence.
Both Vega and Zen are supposed to be due sometime next year, correct?
Brilliant indeed! I'd been a fan of Maciej's writing and I was somewhat aware of pinboard, but never bothered to sign up. But after following this highly entertaining and, IMO, worthwhile situation, and after reading tptacek's endorsement [1], I immediately got a 'premium' archive account. I'm probably not the only one...

I do wish there was a demo version or free trial though. I think many people I knew would be happy paying users, but there's no way I can convince them to get an account if they can't try it out first.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11442595
What cable transfers 4k 120-144hz? What are the benefits of DisplayPort 1.4 over something like Dual Link DVI or the newest HDMI?