skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
implemented a compressed instruction extension (the most common instructions can be represented in half the size), and found a performance gain.

...which makes me wonder why they didn't just make that the standard. x86 is dense and that's partly where its performance comes from.
Thanks for an excellent list of examples!
Or better still, simply give them a single choice. If your committee/jury/council/etc. are making the call on what actually constitutes information or mis-information, why not have that body simply limit the choices, rather than limit the people making the choice? After all, they will have to decide which side of a disagreement constitutes truth so why even allow the option for those nasty false ideas to be voted on? This way you can simply limit your choices to who is the most competent (or popular, or intimidating) and which of the more trivial details of implementation to choose. Sure, you won't be able to show very open minded ballots (being voted on by a very homogeneously minded electorate), but you do get to avoid those unfortunately allegations of disenfranchisement. Naturally, this could be applied not just at the ballot box, but also for speech in the public square. Why allow misinformed ideas and facts to breed in the minds of those poor, unwashed masses that don't think so clearly as we do? I propose then also licenses, which must be renewed periodically and even subject to snap reviews, for publishing, public speaking, and any other transmission of ideas/thoughts where there is risk of misinformation leading our society astray.
I started visiting twitter.com for the first time about 2 months ago, due to the presidential primaries. I do not have an account. Every time I visit the site, I just want to search for interesting things people are saying about politics. I don't want to create an account. I don't want to visit some recomended profile which comments on some sports team in which I have no interest. But for some reason, there is no search box. So I always vist www.twitter.com/r and then there is a search box at the top of the page.

Why are they so against new people poking around?
I do agree on the fear of failure part. I've really procrastinated hitting the gym because I saw very little gains the last few months I went hard.
Is ISIS actually related to Islam?
EFF's misleading summary aside (EFF's gonna EFF), I have a question about the substantive issue here. Specifically:

How could the FRCP work otherwise? They're in effect saying: if the evidence pertinent to a crime is online, and is either (a) on Tor or some other service where we don't know precisely where it is, or (b) on a botnet or some other environment where it's spread across 100 different jurisdictions, a judge can issue a warrant to obtain that evidence.

Judges can already issue warrants to obtain electronic evidence in, I think, exactly the fashion EFF describes here. The limitation they have today is procedural: they can only issue those warrants in their own court district.

But if you don't know the right court district, or a search would effectively require you to get warrants in every district, procedural rules make it hard to get a warrant today. That seems... stupid. The fact that evidence pertinent to a criminal case is on a Tor hidden service shouldn't make it inaccessible to the courts.
It's absolutely common. In fact, it's quite rare for the source code not to be included in the deliverables.

No matter if the client directly sells the software you built for them or just uses the software internally for managing / organizing his business, it's essential for clients to be able to make changes to the software without necessarily having to draw upon the person who originally built it.

I can't think of any reason for keeping the source code from the client other than shady and unethical business practices.

From my personal experience, there were only two occasions where the source code wasn't required and even in those cases I gladly supplied it.

I've been burned before by the original developers of an internal CRM software not supplying the source code (which in that case happened more out of laziness rather than malice). That original dev shop went bankrupt along the way and several years later the client called me because he needed a few vital changes to the software to keep his business running.

So, I took up the task of making changes to a Windows 9-something application that was written in VB5 and an Access backend without access to the actual source code. I did it using a hex editor and several work-arounds. It certainly was an intriguing challenge but nothing you'd ever want to happen to any of your clients' businesses.
There is only so much work to go around, before cache misses turn into waiting games, even with branch prediction and micro-code piping.

What is your suggested alternative metric?
I think you're dead wrong on IoT being fad but agree on the popular consumer examples you've provided. There are some gems out there now, but most of the rest are worthless without the internet. These products will wind up getting skipped over eventually and companies will begin making their products more robust in order to maintain presence in the market.

As (home) automation protocols settle down, devices will not need the Internet directly themselves, they'll communicate exclusively through a hub (like my house and Z-Wave, at the moment). These devices won't/don't need the internet to perform their basic functions, but you might lose some advanced functions without it, and that should be okay.

The only IoT devices I have in my house that actually talk to the Internet are my home automation hub (for the app on my phone) and the Nest Cams I've got. Had I not gotten them for free I would be using something else not directly connected. I didn't perform some wizardry to make this happen, I know the space and learned what was available and how to piece it together. I bought half the stuff from Lowe's/Home Depot and the other half from Amazon. This is all consumer grade stuff, nothing fancy. When the internet goes out my whole house still works, but I lose fancy features like chained events (or scenes) and I can't use my phone to control the house. Everything else works just like the house should.

That is where we will get to for everyone.
Double Headed Bird
https://blog.engineyard.com/2014/pets-vs-cattle
They (I believe, although it might be the other guys) have a video up on YouTube demonstrating it on a Vietnam movie trailer. It looks appalling: aside from the usual averaged colors and saturation, the coloring is highly unstable and changes from second to second.
> The first part makes sense to me, although I don't think I've ever personally seen it happen. What percentage of companies would you say operate in the fashion you describe?

Ever worked in a chain restaurant? Camaraderie among coworkers at a site under a manager (so hierarchy) and not as much peer connection across sites.

I'd argue that you are using a narrow definition of hierarchy that is centered on ideas about power rather than dynamics in emergent systems. The arterial structure of a leaf is hierarchical. So are airport connection patterns. Whenever you have preferential attachment or costs associated with material or information transfer there's a force toward hierarchy, designed or not. Systemic effect. No primates needed.

The interesting bit to me is that if we considered something non-sentient, like a network router that controls flow over a set of nodes, it would be easy to anthropomorphize it purely based on its behavior and see it as exerting dominance when it makes its routing decisions if they don't align with what we want at that moment. Although there can be abusive hierarchy, there's something deep to be considered in that scenario. We might be inclined to see all hierarchy as bad because that sort of conflict of interest can happen, willed or not. That's why, where there are power relationships in employment or even representative democracy, systemic integrity and human values depend upon gaining and maintaining consent.
I might have gotten this wrong, but it seems emacs open a browser window with the given query, then it's ok

I was thinking it would do a curl/wget on the url then show the results on emacs
In Lem's take on this in The Futurological Congress [1] people are unknowingly kept in a state of bliss by constantly being feed "mascons", drugs that make people see the deteriorating world around them in the most beautiful images.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Futurological_Congress
hmm, they both talk about quantum computing? the guy in the video says one phrase about it. the article says a bit more.
strange question.
Another reason why the bullshit about working remotely is 'great' is not that simple.

Smell is an important part of the workplace.

So is touch and 3d vision.
I view SoA vs AoS (with SoA frequently being more performant) as a choice to maximise the efficiency of the cache, while this article is more about how reducing data dependency makes caches less important. Two different means to solve the same problem.
I've always called those "parallel arrays" --- and they were around long before Service Oriented Architectures:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_array
The key to get magic from Alexa long term will be get unsupervised learning working on it, and then shared back across the entire Alexa user base. The Brazilian real to USD is a great example. If by the 3rd try it gets the right answer, it should notate that and equate the first 2 questions as similar ones. I am surprised it couldn't catch the first 2. The word2vec output should be fairly similar.
I like to think of it in terms of garage door openers.

Very few people will retrofit their garage door opener to be connected for $50.

Almost everyone will have a connected garage door opener when there aren't any being sold that do not have connectivity.
> Here is a list of papers and writings of what I consider are essential Haskell reading

Most of those papers are really not "essential" for getting things done in Haskell.

If you want to dig deeper into Haskell's type system or Category Theory in general, then yes, there are a lot of good papers in that list.

If you just want to write safe, conscious and understandable code, then you are much better off reading the excellent "Haskell Programming from first priciples" [1] or the slightly outdated "Real World Haskell" [2].

[1] http://haskellbook.com/
[2] http://book.realworldhaskell.org/
The Linux Command Line has basically taught me everything I know about using bash.

I've never read The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy, but I've heard so many good things about it. It's on my to-read list.

The Bug Hunter's Diary is really interesting, although someone reading it now might feel like it's a bit outdated (it got released in 2011 if I remember correctly). I didn't particularly enjoy reading The Art of Exploitation. It was a bit dull for me.

Edit: spelling
It might be someplace whose laws don't recognize the authority of that court---say, Beijing. And now the US FBI has put a NIT on a non-US computer. That's a problem.

It might be someplace that doesn't let governments use NITs at all.

There is another way to go: warrants for the Tor exit node, then middle node, then guard. And if you can't justify those---especially hard for the middle node---that's not just a procedural issue, but a substantive problem.
reading lots of BLDBLOG definitely gets repetitive.

some people have a problem where they bury their ideas in lots of low calorie writing. you know these people, they take ten minutes to answer a question like "did you commit that change?"

some replace their low calorie filler with small chunks of high calorie writing. however, equally popular is to use lots of high calorie writing instead, which is what BLDBLOG does. each sentence is so rich, but tells you so little.

although maybe your problem is that you have ADHD or want "just the facts" writing. it's comforting to sit and let yourself be carried by a familiar voice. in a "just the facts" world what is the point of stories? you can re-write most of shakesperes works to be in three or four sentences. would that be better?
- An investor telling his new portfolio co. he just invested in that it was ok to poach from us.

Really? Don't you remember the big lawsuit a short time ago when apple/adobe and others had a no poach agreement? Collusion at any level is bad.

If you can't pay your employees enough, or they don't believe in your product and want to work somewhere else, thats something YOU can fix, and if you can't then you need to re-assess what your doing.
Make sure you disable an ad blocker. I temporarily allowed the site, but the checkout system didn't work. After I globally allowed all sites, the modal popped up.

Edit: I'm using Script Block.
Could we change the title to de-capitalize "ZERO"? It sounds like the sky is falling as presently written.
What Web Project Managers Need
If only the writers [0] of Silicon Valley had experience with the software for ground support equipment on aircraft like the F/A-18.

Actually, most of the F-22s still use i960MX [1] processors and I've heard funny stories about the techs raiding old laser printers to find spare chips for the ground diagnostic equipment.

[0] http://www.wired.com/2014/04/mike-judge-silicon-valley/

[1] http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/print/volume-12/is...
Sets a good example to MEASURE things rather than just relying on "old wives' tales" of programming that everyone believes because everyone believes them. So many times, I've asked someone why they used some weird algorithm, why they wrote their own linked list, or why they unrolled that loop, and it's always "But it's faster!" Well, did you measure it to actually see if it's faster?

One nit: Please, please, stop perpetuating the use of the non-word "performant." I cringe every time I hear it (now even in person at work!) Using it just makes you sound dumb, and clearly the author is not dumb.
I think this -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-drpViV5LSw
I wish that video continued so we could see whether or not he remembered and addressed the real question. That would have been impressive.
Last dozen images in the article are mis-distributed. They don't go with the local text.
If I was still a student, I would definitely go in quantum computing. So much opportunities for innovation on a very cool subject.

I often wonder what will happen at the 0-day quantum machine where it's not just a few qbit but the real deal.. I think anyone in possession of such technology will be able to crack any SSL certificate, and thus gain access to almost anything online. I wonder if criminal organisations aren't secretly investing in such thing? And, not to be paranoid, but we're almost certain it will be possible to build them, wouldn't it be prudent to start investing in the defense against such things? What kind of security could we have to counter a quantum computing? Would it only be possible to use quantum computing to defend against quantum computing?
I mean, when you say that "women (in general) are attracted to [X]," since youre ralking about half of the world's population, that's a pretty extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary evidence to support it.
I'm curious if there is a similar relationship with farts. I find those of my family particularly unpleasant.
it's more like the skillset for being a getaway driver.

running over people doesn't require that much speed, but lots of agility. if you're driving really fast,a person will get out of the way, and you won't be able to turn fast enough to intercept them.
Just so I understand you here, your position is that simply by dint of having used a Tor hidden service, you are entitled to having your information shielded from a warrant unless the court can deliver and execute warrants to the entire Tor infrastructure?
I can't fix this guy... he's off in the weeds doing his own thing.

However I can provide constructive input by providing broader perspectives and alternate viewpoints. This technically weak, mis-titled post sat at the top of HN for most of a day. It's now a top hit on Google when you search "Neural Net Compression" -- ranked above classic research papers from the 80s and 90s. That's the depressing part.
I don't know what the hell is going on at the author's house, but I have both an Xbox One (with active Kinect) and an Amazon Echo in the living room, along with two kids, and I can count on one fist how many times either of them have activated accidentally. That is to say, zero.
It has an even bigger problem in that even remotely mediocre employees are leaving. No one is sticking around. Morale is low.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
Driving as a "task" is obviously different than voting; I was referring to the fact that to drive you need to demonstrate some basic knowledge of what is involved.
The 'guy in the video' is the prime minister of Canada- the question had value as it asked about someone's understanding of quantum who is in a position of political power.
If the EFF was able to write posts that weren't full of gross hyperbole and flat out untruths then every comment thread about an EFF statement wouldn't require discussion about how the EFF is misleading people.

They know perfectly well what they are doing. They know it leads to people talking about the stuff they exaggerated rather than the actual issue. They know that it turns away reasonable people. They are gambling that they can whip up an ignorant mob as with SOPA. The difference there was that a bunch of high profile corporations and capitalists had a financial interest in that fight and were happy to fuel the outrage machine to get their way.
Inline assembly in Linux
I don't want to be elitist but really? The company that is well-know for being a body shop that takes all the grunt work that US companies dont want to do, is doing AI work? I have to give their marketing dept props.
27 Search Boxes with HTML and CSS
It works here, with ublock origin enabled.
the moment you impose ANY different limit than age on voting rights it will get abused. gender, race, social status will all get used against people.

by giving voting rights to everyone you keep the system in check, you cannot ignore certain parts of the population as you need their votes.

the under-class in highly developed countries has been raped by free trade (see the recent articles in bloomberg about this) - hence the rise in new populist movements on both the right and left to cater to their needs.

and yeah, good luck with your definition of misinformed. for powerful pieces of society galileo was misinformed (god is the center of the universe). MLK too (blakcs are not equal people). gandhi ditto (the superiority of the anglo-saxon populace is clear and evident).

the only way to even be able to argue like you - you have no clue about history, hence you are misinformed. really should not be allowed to vote, eh?
Five Years of Show HN
Interesting. That's good to know. One reason I have held off on buying one b/c I keep on hearing from folks it wakes accidentally.
They assert that scalpers are an example where the free market isn't liked. I'm fine with the free market there, so that's a relevant point to make.
the most natural thing to do with a car isn't to run people down though, it's to travel from one place to another.

target practice is to racing, as shooting people (or hunting) is to a road trip.
Well, if you really want to push it, you can have a smaller, faster L1 cache, like with 32 words or so, and a set of special instructions, shorter, but only capable of addressing this small memory space...

Instruction fetching and parsing is an important bidimensional bottleneck that does restrict your architecture. It's not a bottleneck for run-time performance because it's predictable and optimized at design time.
It's looking like the next decade is going to be absolutely insane for solar power, and it's no wonder that everyone wants a piece of that.
I worked in ad-tech for the past 4 years, this is a very accurate write up. I think exchanges have had their day - the quality of traffic is just too low, and due to their incentives the exchanges put all the burden for detecting fraud on their clients.
Without weapons you cannot have an army, and without an army you are instantly conquered by some raging lunatic despot who happens to have one. Having more advanced weapons than the loonies is a blessing IMO.
> But how can you conclude that such a society won't progress in isolation?

Don't know. We aren't bees or ants - we're tribal hierarchical apes - so we don't have a lot of isolated (or even positive) "everyone is equal here" examples to study.

The socio-biologist E.O. Wilson, when asked about such altruistic-sounding theories, responded: "Right theory - wrong species".
Both were not predictions of their immediate future, but fiction which have a message for today.
I and a few entrepreneurs I know have build $4000+ a month software business, most from downloadable software, some from SaaS.

On average it has taken 5+ years to build it to that level from first try, you might need to find a little patience ;)
Twitter needs to allow advertising to your existing following.

There's lots and lots of Twitter users who follow hundreds of accounts and an option to stand out in their aggregated feed would totally be worth $. But what's extra cool about this is that users will also end up seeing tweets that they actually want to see (or they would've not been following you in the first place)!
There are plans to fix this next year, i.e. starting from mid-2017 you are going to pay home tariff [1] (i.e. 30 cents per SMS to France) wherever you are in EU.

[1] http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2015/10/27/news/parlamen...
Consider that Google and Apple get those questions right at the first time; so it's not that we need to wait for science from the future to have a "working" digital assistant in the home; we just need one from one of those two company. And if that still paired with my Amazon account for the shopping pat, it'd be great :)
Agreed. I also see something similar in academia, which might be why the general public tends to view it as 'aloof'.
(Context: I used to teach American Literature at a Carnegie Mellon R2 university, and I can recognize what other humanities scholars would identify as good writing.)

From the point of view of a belles lettres/liberal arts reader (as opposed to an audience interested in journalistic reportage) Manaugh's writing is engaging, thought-provoking, and compelling. Manaugh makes his points through his style and, in my view, his style is superb.

From a purely informational perspective, I can see how such a dense and somewhat repetitive style could be annoying and uninteresting. However, from the perspective of someone, say, interested in cultural studies as a humanistic discipline, Manaugh's cultivation of his ideas using a richly detailed metaphorical scaffolding is aesthetically pleasing and informationally satisfying.

In terms of the level of engagement and in a domain more familiar to people develop software, I would compare Manaugh's style to Paul Ford's style in "What is Code?"[0]. Ford is himself someone quite experienced in the world of humanities, and his "What is Code?" is a highly-detailed ethnographic window into the world of bespoke software creation.

tl;dr: "The Burglar With His Very Own Mac Attack" would be considered by many humanities scholars as well-written, even if they did not agree with Manaugh's conclusions.

[0] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Thank you for the hint!

Found a video [1] colorized with the approach by these guys with the unstable coloring.

There are some other videos [2][3] colorized using differing approaches, that don't seem to have as much color unstability though the color in general appears more off.

Could of course also just be a property of the underlying source.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__kcHbzSNC4
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MJU8VK2PI4
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQSViqdd0tU