skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked there for 7+ years, I'm not a bad person, and I don't feel bad.

If you're opposed to a surveillance state, you should care deeply about preventing future terrorist attacks. I was someone who spent a lot of time thinking and caring about privacy and overreaching law enforcement in the '90s. When the original PATRIOT act was passed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, they weren't based on a deeply nuanced understanding of the intelligence failures that lead up to that event. They were a laundry list of things that the FBI (and others) had been proposing for years that they immediately dusted off and rammed through a congress terrified to say no.

If you want to roll back the surveillance state, you have to actually empower people carrying out anti-terrorism to intelligently correlate data gathered through lawful and privacy-respecting means to succeed in their mission so that lawmakers and voters trust their own safety to allow that to happen -- and prevent as many massive terrorist attacks as possible, because every one that succeeds will lead to more demands for more data and whatever it takes.

Palantir was specifically founded to give the authorities the right tools to solve anti-terrorism based on a focused dataset. The tools aren't designed around mass surveillance nor is anyone I know who works there interested in or motivated to solve that particular problem.
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Not very often, mostly when someone sends a merge request with a new piece of software (like varnish).
not the ammunition. The bug out bags, food and water, bed rolls, escape strategies, family emergency plans. Those kinds of things.

Yeah ammo and guns is just scary.
If anyone wants to talk to the company building these microgrids in East Africa, because you would like to work with them, or even for investment, feel free to drop me an email:

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I'll put you in touch with these guys.
Someone mentioned something like this in a reddit thread as well [0].

What conclusion would you be hoping to make from that? According to census.gov median household income was $78,378 in 2014 if that's interesting [1].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/4i7wmt/sf_hom...
[1]: http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/0667000,00
From the slides in Nvidia's presentation, it looks like the max power consumption is about 180 W. That puts it squarely between the GTX 980 (165 W) and the GTX 980 Ti (250 W).

Idle power consumption is an order of magnitude less. For the 980 Ti, you're looking at about 10 W of power consumption while running outside of a gaming application. Maybe 40 W if you're doing something intensive. [1]

[1]: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-t...
If you have the config or required format for config I'd be happy to add it. Create an issue with the config,, I can do the code then
I recall the prolific, ubiquitous but apparently benign form virus and the surrounding speculation as to its true nature and specifically whether the payload was only malignant under a 32 bit OS (which would not exist yet for 20+ years)? I thought it was just a Norton false-positive.

Any progress on this?

I also recall these viruses taught you about terminate-stay-residents, self-modifiers, boot sectors and how to manage your 8k of memory... everything really.
Nope. Pretty much any nonpublic silicon valley companies aren't -- some public ones too. They are spending more money then they have, in the short term, in order to become bigger and more successful in the long term. That's why the venture ('building something') capital ('with money') industry exists.
The huge trend towards React/Angular/etc on the front end, means that this list can be discussed as:

- Rails-API is exciting. It means better defaults, including less bloat, for developers taking these options

- Turbolinks is even less exciting than it wasn't a few years ago.

- Several other changes boil down to "better performance". Let's hope that pans out.
I think you have that backwards. The way to prevent large forest fires is to regularly have small (preferably controlled) forest fires. Otherwise, forests accumulate undergrowth which makes the inevitable fire even bigger.
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Yeah, going with Mongo was a choice that would really save everyone from headaches.
I have many years of experience with GAE, and still love it, the point is to use it where it fits.

Agree about slow web console, especially for logs. Datastore viewer got better, though.

I don't know about Python ecosystem, but I think that if you need C-libraries, then you shouldn't be running it in GAE. Low-level stuff sounds better fit for GCE, or AWS.
Our team lives in Java world, and pretty much everything there plays fine with GAE. There are some low-level areas (like Unsafe memory management) where it doesn't -- but it's not web-serving part anyway, so it doesn't fit in GAE, IMHO. For example, we offload our recommendation regressions to Docker container engine.

Recently they released so-called Flex environment which is basically container engine (Kubernetes) for any Docker container that listens on port 80. And they have several pre-build containers for different languages and with stubs for Standard environment, so you can throw-in your existing GAE app there.
I didn't like Flex environment for my web serving part, though, for two reasons:

1. Too slow to deploy a new version, like 10 minutes. Really? It seems to upload all the files (Standard uploads only what's changed), and after that they spin up a GCE instance to build a Docker container from the files. And that takes time.

2. I now must care about serving static files myself. In current Standard environment, statics are automatically served by Google's servers, even if my app has no instances running. For Flex env they suggest to upload statics to GCS, but it's additional ops work.
Timing is a "problem" completely in your control - just don't use it.

Also applies to the other problem of it being bad or you not liking it - just don't use it.

I do agree that OneDrive sucks and is the worst syncing software available.
Yep, Medicare is very efficient. Medicaid, on the other hand, is state by state, and is oftentimes run very poorly. I would love to have Medicare for all.
Datatables are not gonna make 1.0, and I think it is underestimated how much they are still in use:

Longread which gives I nice overview:
https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/1039

DbProviderFactory:
https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/4571

Schema stuff:
https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/3423
https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/5024

I don't care that much for schema as I'm not an ORM writer, but I do have used Datables a lot as a convenient data-mangler type for importing legacy data, converting data etc. They may be "dirty", obsolete or whatever but they get the job done.
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Note that in terms of pure compute performance the new 16nm Nvidia GTX 1080 (2560 shaders at up to 1733 MHz = 8873 SP GFLOPS) barely equals the performance of the previous-generation 28nm AMD Fury X (4096 shaders at up to 1050 MHz = 8602 SP GFLOPS). Of course the 16nm chip does so at a significantly lower TDP (180 Watt) than the 28nm chip (275 Watt), so it will be interesting to see what Nvidia can achieve at a higher thermal/power envelope with a more high-end card... I am waiting impatiently to see how AMD's upcoming 14nm/16nm Polaris chips will fare, but from the looks of it it seems like Polaris will beat Nvidia in terms of GFLOPS per Watt.
Medicaid is managed by the states, Medicare is the Federal one. It would likely be Medicare for all.
I'm Burundian in East Africa and there is a saying in my country that "free things make you stupid". NGO had been giving almost free loans to households ( $50 to $100) and some have been addicted to free stuffs and now that most NGOs have left the country, that's when we find out our true poverty : poverty starts in the head. We were stupid.

But naturally, The Pareto principle [1] made that 20% of clever households acquired business minded practices and they're economically independent now. But the rest is still begging and waiting the return of NGOs.

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
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That's been my experience. I had a white-collar job, quite well-paid, which I lost due to layoffs and the business moving to a cheaper part of the country. There's a huge industry downturn just now, which forced me to look into retail jobs. I did, and it was really, really difficult to get one because the people interviewing me knew that I'm only there until I can get back to what I was doing before.
I'm calling it quits on this thread in its entirety - we don't seem capable of communicating in this medium. I find myself several times again wondering "how could he possibly have gone from what I wrote to that" and you seem to be reacting similarly.
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For what it's worth I thought it was amusing, in a slightly trolly way ;)

Just to remain slightly on topic, you can't really compare an entire application stack like Rails with a language like Go. Maybe you could do with something lighter like Sinatra.

For me Rails big win isn't that it's high performance (although done right it can handle a decent volume of traffic), but the fact it's configured out of the box. You can be productive on day one, rather than wiring together low level libraries for database access and the like.

Finally having said all that I'm having a really good time with Pliny, Heroku's Ruby API stack, which feels like I imagine Rails might have done if it were built specifically for REST APIs rather than full applications with a UI.
Sometimes people ask questions when they really mean to make a statement. It's tough to be direct without blaming.

Your buzzwords, and the rest of this industry's buzzwords, are basically meaningless mumbo jumbo to all those people you are trying to sign up around the world. Equally guilty, I've used the word "container" in a thousand sentences if I've used it in one. I've also used the crap out of your service, but bailed to one of the other ones because of video quality. That's the reality of GIFy playthings.

Users should dictate what software is created for them, including and up to how it benefits from their use. If an application requires hurting a long time user to be more "successful", then it should rethink how it presents itself to the users during the marketing growth phase. I'd rather pay cryptocurrency transactions to a GIF API aggregator that does auto-bids on quality and compression times for services like this. That way, I'd get to pick what TYPE of service I wanted and the services themselves would optimize on feature quality instead of founder and VC equity.
We have a clear market leader, but it's by no means a monopoly.

People constantly switch network providers here since we have number portability.
My wife, me and many of our friends switched to Vodafone cos they were offering a really great Internet package.
Free Whatsapp, Facbook, Twitter, Instagram,and Snapchat plus 3.5 GB for what's essentially $9 a month. Here that's unbeatable and unheard of. http://support.vodafone.com.gh/customer/portal/articles/1813...

I doubt all these services are paying for for Vodafone to do this.
I don't disagree with your points, but given that, shouldn't all this have been resolved before it even got started with a quick: "This is for idea and prototype stage companies, sorry"?

YC decided to let it move forward when it clearly didn't fit the criteria; having done so they then changed their minds and disqualified it on completely different grounds.

> I think the original response to the voting, etc was handled very professionally

I'd have to disagree. I think the professional way of handling this would have been to nix it quietly at the start.
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"ON! TO! MARS! ON! TO! MARS!". I would sooo much love to hear that chant next time.

That would really do justice to this kind of historic event. A chant like this would celebrate progress and claim this for what it is, an accomplishment of/for humanity. After all, space travel does focus our attention on how we are all humans and on earth.

In that context, the below seems at least somewhat relevant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalism_(politics)#Mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_citizenship#World_citiz...
Uh, I don't see how this is related to UsrMerge? You can still have separate /usr/bin and /bin directories, you just need to make sure /usr is mounted and accessible during boot. Requiring /usr be available during boot has long been the case for Linux, even before systemd came along.
# % & are permitted characters on Windows, but don't work on OneDrive and SharePoint/Office365

Win32 doesn't support: \ / : * ? " < > |
Everyone seems to be either not considering or unaware of the tar sands relationship with the fire - surely ripping up millions of hectares of vegetation, which helps drive rainfall, has had some impact towards the severity of the fire.
The economies of scale have nothing to do with the size of the finished cells. When I'm talking about containers, I'm talking about, like, the size of the conveyor belt taking in raw ore. Or the depth in meters of the pools used to do reactions.
HN sentiment is that startups are only worthwhile if you're a founder.
So, as Linus controls the kernel, Lennart wants to control userspace?
Wind power is still largely a greenfield industry.

It's not. There are a limited number of good onshore wind sites near big loads. California has only four good sites, and they all have big wind farms. There are lots of sites with enough wind northward from the Texas panhandle, but no big loads within a thousand miles.
And to that end, the elite degrees confer a sense of authority and prestige. Additionally, "sounding smart" is a skill that such students have cultivated over the years in addition to but independent of possibly also being smart.
Just the other week I was talking to the director of Poverty, Inc, Mark R. Weber, about UCTs. He's skeptical of cash transfers, for most of the same reasons that he's skeptical of goods transfers.
Sorry if I disagree.

If the solution delivered is within the time constrains required by the customer, any time spent optimizing ms out of the application is just wasted money.
None of the use cases you mention are 'multiuser' so I'm going to take this as just a helpful hint to the internet at large.
In many cases, post-modernist philosophers (theorists) don't make arguments; on the other hand the effect their ideas have had on mass culture has been immensely pervasive. I would rather use the word insidious but that's another matter.
Yet, the replacement of Win32 API model is with everything being written in the original design of .NET, with AOT native compilation and classes being COM objects.

What killed Vista was politics between OSDev and DevTools units.
SAP-like scam. Highly refined, Oxford-educated sales and execs, selling with high-status deceptive techniques grossly overpriced, lovest quality outdated by a decade crap, for support and maintenance of which they are billing their victims for each hour spend by expensive suit wearing nonsense talking consultants.

BTW, the guys who went there for sweatshop positions are those who barely managed to graduate. But in sales there are top tier liberal arts guys, with refined speech and behavior.

These kind of enterprises is a classic social pyramid, modeled after an organized religion, especially Catholic Church, with exactly the same deceptions, dogmas and loyalty for lower ranks.
Ah the timing thing is not actually an issue because you simulate or emulate the entire system, including timers and even the PLLs that drive them. There's a globally consistent timeline. Of course this places constraints on the things you can simulate (e.g. networking is out the window).
The Ubuntu document is from 2012 and the merge is not done on 16.04. How can we know if the change is still planned, and when? Is there a roadmap somewhere?
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Whether it is legal is tangential to the real question, whether it is right.

Many college administrations are pursuing a very contentious social agenda against single-sex private clubs, at the expense of students' liberties. A lot of it is driven by large SJW/"Safe Spaces"[1] contingents at these colleges. Fraternities and sororities are popular targets for those who hurl accusations of racism, sexism, etc. at every opportunity.

There's also a campaign in some parts of the media to smear these institutions by publishing unsubstantiated allegations. You might remember the article about an alleged gang rape by fraternity brothers and how it blew up in Rolling Stone's face. A few years prior they had a go at my own alma mater by publishing the lies of a disgruntled student who had several run-ins with the law, including an assault on a security guard (throwing a chair at her) and witness tampering in a case where he was originally charged with drug possession. As a result of all this, he was suspended from the college and expelled from his fraternity. That didn't stop the hacks at Rolling Stone.

It doesn't help that the leadership at universities is pitiful. At my college, part of the administration was happy to impose their political agenda by controlling student's lives and destroying any other poles of power. The rest were too scared to make a stand, lest the witch hunt turned to them.

[1] Does anyone have a better name for this movement? I really don't like "Social Justice Warriors". It's too ironic and dismissive, and detracts from serious critiques of the movement. "Safe spaces" just refers to part of their agenda, and parrots their Orwellian phrase.
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You can justify any biases with that attitude.
They hire like a consultancy. Your topline scales linearly with the staff you can ship out to client sites.
> OTOH there's that quantum mechanics idea (that I don't understand) that a waveform only collapses into particles when observed by a conscious "observer"... seems very anthropocentric. Surely it can't be right.

It's not right; it's a nonsensical (yet common) misinterpretation. It's not possible to measure quantum things without affecting what happens - no consciousness needed, just really tiny experimental subjects that are affected by influences from outside the system being analysed. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics) and its Quantum mechanics section.
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I have to agree about the name. Here are some other ideas:
CircleDo
Taskround
Ringdo
Circler
BubbleDo

No idea if any of them are taken.
> good enough for Windows right?

Only in the minds of people who don't know much about Windows.

The Windows model is, after all, for globally installed individual packages to be largely rooted at "/Program Files/%COMPANY_OR_PERSON%/%PACKAGE%/" with "%USERPROFILE%/AppData/Local/%COMPANY_OR_PERSON%/%PACKAGE%/" as a root for per-user data. The former dates all of the way back to Windows NT 3.5, the latter "merely" dating back to Windows NT 4 (where it was "Application Data" rather than "AppData").

* https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cjacks/2008/02/05/where-sho...

Unix and Linux people will recognize this as akin to NeXTSTEP's ~/Apps, /LocalLibrary, /LocalApps, and so forth from the early 1990s; and to Daniel J. Bernstein's /package hierarchy (for package management without the need for conflict resolution) from the turn of the century.

* http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage.html

* http://cr.yp.to/slashcommand.html

And a few years after NeXTSTEP introduced its directory hierarchy, SunOS 5 (a.k.a. Solaris 2) introduced the System 5 Release 4 /usr merge.
It's currently the most requested feature request: https://servicestack.uservoice.com/forums/176786-feature-req...

Which will be our top priority after it's officially released, unfortunately .NET Core has been a continuous stream of breaking changes since RC1 that it's pretty much radioactive until we can be sure of a stable and complete surface area that we can bind to with confidence. We have a strong focus and expectation of frequent, incremental and backwards-compatible releases that trying to chase the .NET Core roller-coaster of breaking changes isn't an option for us.

The volatility is also holding up a lot of the .NET ecosystem and 3rd party libraries we depend on who are also waiting until the dust settles before committing to a port.

The end goal and promise of .NET Core is alluring, but I'm expecting the interim transition to be messy and confusing of what 3rd party libraries is/isn't supported and how stable /complete the support is. I'm hoping after .NET Core 1.0 is released that the focus will be on providing the necessary Framework features and support in order to make it easy for existing .NET libraries to support both .NET 4.x and .NET Core platforms in parallel as there's a real fear it can fragment the ecosystem in the same way that's plagued Python 2.7/3 over the last several years. It looks like .NET Standard will be able to simplify the effort required in theory, but given how unstable everything's been thus far it remains to be seen how complete/stable it will be in practice enough to be able to rely on it to support existing .NET 4.5 Customers.

Anyway I hope .NET Core can deliver a stable platform and enable a smooth transition with the necessary support to enable the quick uptake of the surrounding .NET ecosystem. Not being able to confidently run production systems on Linux has hindered .NET adoption and limited it's appeal to the vibrant Startup/Hacking community (like this one) for several years. If .NET Core can deliver it will be one of the best engineered development platforms available for the most popular platforms, but it needs to be great in order to compete with the momentum that the JVM, LLVM and Go have.
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Charities and donations will not truly solve the problem.

United States needs major reforms:

1. implement what I term socio-capitalism (private property and enterpreneurship is protected, but there is a social safety net in the form of universal health care and unemployment benefits) -- U.S. already made the first step with "Obamacare", but there is a lot more to do;

2. reform the government to reflect the Swiss model 1:1, and institute direct democracy, as well as make lobbying highly illegal.

Admittedly reforming the government will be a very difficult task, for those in power will fight by every means available to preserve it. The good news is, it could be done through the current political process.
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I'm not sure Torvalds care about control either way, he just wants to build a kernel to be proud off.
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> The GP104 Pascal GPU Features 2x the performance per watt of Maxwell.

And

> The GTX 1080 is 3x more power efficient than the Maxwell Architecture.

I think that someone get carried away by imagination.

I found that 980 has 4.6 TFLOPs (Single precision)
And assuming that 1080 performance (9 TFLOPs) is also for single precision and new card has the same TDP, this is 1.95x increase, so it is ~2x

EDIT: I found that 1080 will have 180W TDP, where 980 has 165W, so correction it will be 1.79x increase