skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The formet FBI agent was lying through his teeth, and that's why he caged by adding the line about the judge. The FBI believes (as do criminals and defense attorneys) that whatever they do is legal unless they are caught, tried, and convicted -- facts in the court, not facts on the ground. And the FBI gets the privilege of being mostly free from law enforcement oversight in the first place.
It's a pretty picture, but it doesn't really seem to mean much. Not one of those companies is in the 50 largest by revenue [1]. This seems to be a picture of what food and health brands are related to each other?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...
The irony is that the grsecurity folks complain of limited time and unwillingness to do that work. But, had they done so back then, they wouldn't still be maintaining a huge patchset against the massive moving target that is the kernel. Once a patch is in, it becomes the onus of every kernel developer to not break it. As long as it remains in a silo, nobody has an obligation to not making breaking changes.

I don't have a lot of sympathy for that position. I respect the work, but not the hostile-to-collaboration approach.
You just repeated the Home Office's mistake:

> They cannot [withdraw their consent] in interactions with the police.

> The collective needs to consent, but the individual doesn't need to

Do you see how you contradicted yourself?

The police can act without an individual's consent. That doesn't mean they have the individual's consent.
FoxTales sounds like an interesting book; thanks!

http://amzn.com/dp/B005KUH4GI
This. The author of this webapp/service should consider leveraging Wikipedia for the "things" in a curated way.
You're reading "unlimited rule" into my comment. All I said was that the police are, by design, empowered to do some things ordinary people are not empowered to do.
This is a very nice website. Thank you!
The title is funny when you remember how open is supposed to free us from bondage. ;)
Obama may be anti-4th, as nearly every President is (being an Executive whose rights are limited by the 4th), but his SCOTUS appointee isn't, at least as seen below:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
Monopoly on police power is not a radical statist perspective. It's fundamental to sovereignty which is itself a very basic concept.

A radical statist perspective would be, e.g. suggesting the state has powers that the founding document of that state says it does not have (or doesn't grant that or a superseding power).
I'm pretty sure being a nerd puts you on a threat level of 5/5.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nsa-linux-journal-extrem...
Tensorflow on Azure Using Docker
Spent a couple of days in Seattle since I wrote this and was surprised to find that several of the restaurants in which I dined have banned tipping, instead adding a 20% service charge (that they state goes to pay the service staff). Progress.
Hackers Claim They Can Read Encrypted WhatsApp and Snapchat Messages
> I find it unlikely that without a free/open software ecosystem like linux or bsd

In Taiwan and China, it's common to use Linux in university and to work on Open Source projects (see OpenWebmail and Linux Virtual Server projects, for impressive successes.)

The Chinese government was pushing their Red Flag linux, but I'm not sure where that is now. Certainly Linux would be used in their home-grown CPU and superconductor efforts.

However, once students graduate, their employers are less likely to understand making Open Source contributions at the business level.
The government is taking a very active role at developing startup "infrastructure"

Could you elaborate on this statement? Are you referring to financing of startups, or more? Thank you for the offer to answer questions!
Left pad was both.

The ultra small single function library approach prevalent in npm is caused by fundamental limitations of javascript in the browser.

The political issues that surfaced it all was a people problem.
Helix is the name Perforce is using to rebrand their set of tools. Just an FYI, I'm not saying that means this should not be called Helix.
Seriously, the entire first screen is empty space and "Common Lisp". Haven't these people heard of "the fold"? Please, someone, anyone, tell me what the point is of having no information on the entire first screen. This is a web page, not a PPT with an intro slide!

Whenever I see this pattern, I usually hit the back button, because it tells me that the site is a waste of time, put together by someone who doesn't critique their own work and has no attention to detail (not that something as enormous as the big, blue, empty first screen is a "detail").

The entire first page could be filled with useful information, key points to get people's attention, show Lisp's advantages, and convince people to give it a try. Instead it's useless, and visitors have to dig through screen after screen to find anything.

Most people will not bother. If they were interested enough to put that much effort into it, they'd probably already be using Lisp.
My car broke down the other day and I immediately started doing my prayers and sacrifices to the car healing gods. 2 weeks later, my car is running smoothly with no signs of issues!

Of course, my mechanic also replaced the engine, but I wouldn't be surprised if my process helped.
I think in some part it's actually a part of a bigger American cultural trope. We also have this unique obsessions with zombies and pandemics etc. etc. Kinda thinking I'm special, the rest of the riff raff die and I'm left alone to "make it" from a feral rock bottom.

My guess is it's American individualism and it's unique inflated sense of self worth (not to knock it =] it's got its plus sides!) + fascination with the biblical apocalypse. I'm not as familiar as I should be with the faiths of the founders of the colonies, maybe it's something that traces back to then?
RFID implants
Simple html and CSS, Zurb Foundation(super convenient, has all the elements I need, takes care of 80% of the design), deploy to Digital Ocean, serve with nginx.

Just made myself a homepage like this:

http://rayalez.com
It may fade. Instagram may fade as well.

BUT even if they did, this is why investing in acquisitions makes sense. Theoretically everyone could stop using Facebook itself but it wouldn't matter as long as FB owned the platforms where everyone had migrated.
Not sure this would focus much on the OP's favorite features but this sounds like the same software (starts around 11:20):

https://archive.org/details/VirtualM

This program looks at several early examples of virtul meeting technology. Demonstrations include Cross Ties for Workgroups

Much better luck searching for the software company: https://www.google.com/#q=crossties+software+corp

Buy Crossties today for $55: http://www.amzn.com/dp/B000LUXSH6

An expired patent, cited 26 times: http://www.patentbuddy.com/Patent/5787440
What about just you know pedaling, (for most commute under 2 miles obv)
This is a scam, pure and simple. People die from this shit needlessly all the time. Doesn't uterine cancer have a very high survival rate with proper treatment? But no, this "microbiologist" treks off to the Peruvian jungle to spend a measly $5k for a magical herb that cures cancer! Doctors hate this one weird trick!

If you or someone you know has cancer, go see an oncologist, not a freaking shaman.
https://github.com/jsrmath/sharp11
> Oncologist told her they have to remove her womb, otherwise she'll die in a couple weeks.
The performance degradation is likely from full meta slabs and maybe from gang blocks, although ZFS does a fair job at preventing gang blocks by using best fit behavior to minimize the external fragmentation that necessitates them. The magic threshold for best fit behavior is 96% full at the meta slab level. This tends to be where slowdowns occur. On spinning disks, being near full also means that basically all of the outermost tracks have been used, so you are limited to the inner most tracks, which can halve bandwidth.

Anyway, it would be nice if you could provide actual numbers and meta slab statistics from zdb. The worst case fragmentation that has been reported and that I can confirm from data provided to me is a factor of 2 reduction in sequential read bandwidth on a pool consisting of spinning disk after it had reached ~90% capacity. All files on it had been created out of sequence by bit torrent.

A factor of 2 might be horrible to some people. I can certainly imagine a filesystem performing many times worse though. I would be interested to hear from someone who managed to do worse than that in a manner that cannot be prescribed to the best fit allocator protecting the pool from gang block formation.
I really did not need to read this right now...
> If not eating sugar could slow (all) cancers, then not eating at all would clearly cover that case, and should have slowed the lung cancer.

Umm.. This sounds to me to be very simplistic thinking. What about the effects of complete starving on the immune system for example?. Or for that matter, the proposed no sugar diet triggers some mechanisms from here. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_immunology)

I do agree, it's not yet accepted through experiments via the scientific method though.
> 26 percent of internet-using American households [self-reported in US Census survey] avoided buying goods or services

The retail giant [Amazon] tallied $23 billion more in U.S. e-commerce sales in 2015 than 2014, the report found. [1]

The difference between reported behavior and actual behavior can be very large.

[1] http://s831.us/229QeKz
One of the great things about Mac laptops... The default 16:10 everywhere (with the exception of the mba11").
http://www.downthemall.net/the-likely-end-of-downthemall/
I followed your interactions with the core devs, at least the public ones. I think the core devs handled the situation with an enormous amount of patience and tact.
All 5s on the AP Chem test for 10+ years? Absolutely not possibly. If it happened there would be many news stories about it.
Let me try to identify which ones Rust catches:

"#1: Using a shared pointer where an unique pointer suffices."

The Rust analog would be using Rc or Arc when Box is enough. Rust has the same problem.

"#2: Not making resources/objects shared by shared_ptr thread safe"

Rust does NOT have this problem! You have to be explicit about which objects are thread safe (via Sync), and Rust will not allow you to transfer objects across threads without it.

"#3 : Using auto_ptr"

Naturally, Rust does not have this issue, which is strictly legacy C++.

"#4 Not using make_shared to initialize a shared_ptr !"

"#5 Not assigning an object(raw pointer) to a shared_ptr as soon as it is created"

"#6 Deleting the raw pointer used by the shared_ptr"

These are the same issue: in C++ you can construct a shared_ptr from an object you allocated with new; the reference count must then be allocated separately. Rust does not allow this, and avoids this issue, at the cost of some flexibility (like custom deallocators).

"#7 Not using a custom deleter when using an array of pointers with a shared_ptr"

AFAIK Rust doesn't have this issue, because it doesn't have C++'s array-decays-to-pointer semantics. In Rust the size of the array is part of the type; to be fair, this loses a bit of flexibility, but C++'s semantics here are insane, so point goes to Rust.

"#8 Not avoiding cyclic references when using shared pointers !"

Rust has this problem!

"#9 Not deleting a raw pointer returned by unique_ptr.release() "

Rust has an analog in Box::into_raw(), which is the same issue.

"#10: Not using a expiry check when calling weak_ptr.lock()"

Close one: Rust has the same issue, in that you can call rc::Weak::upgrade().unwrap(). unwrap() is often used with some impunity, especially with locks. However you do have to be explicit about your use of it, while in C++ it's easier to forget. Let's give this one to Rust.

Let me give one more point to C++:

"#11: Accessing an object through a Rc/Arc/RefCell while a caller holds a mutable reference."

This is strictly a Rust problem: because there cannot be more than one extant mutable reference to an object, you have to be careful to not call out to something while holding a mutable reference. This is a doozy.

Total score: There are 7 unique to C++, 1 unique to Rust, and 3 that are shared.

Note that none of this has to do with the borrow checker! Indeed, the whole point of reference types like Arc/Rc/RefCell are when your lifetimes are dynamic, and you need to avoid the borrow checker, which assumes a statically knowable lifetime.
"Everything not being 4:3 screens. I found it better for programming than everything being cinematic screens."

It may interest you to know that there is a new, modern, 1:1 screen for sale from a reputable company, today - the EIZO FlexScan EV2730QFX:

http://www.amazon.com/FlexScan-EV2730QFX-Monitor-1920x1920-E...

Please, please buy one (or three) of these, as I did, and place your dollar votes for screen innovation like this.
The United States has no such system. Neither residents nor foreign travelers are required to register their address with anyone when in the US.
This is not the way most hybrids work. Ford, honda and toyota vehicles have power-split or series parallel where the power delivery is some percent electric/gas. In other words most hybrid cars can drive 0 miles on electric only and require some combination of gas and electric power.

The series hybrid that you describe is available in the chevy volt and an option on the bmw i3 series. The electric only range of these is 53 (volt) and 81 (i3) miles. These are very much "mostly electric" cars.

Most hybrids, in split/parallel mode, are essentially ICE cars, but with significantly improved gas mileage. This significant improvement in gas mileage (going from ~30 mpg to ~50 mpg) is a good reason to include them, but it does mean a half-assed parallel battery power system could be used to game the system.

There should probably be some minimum torque delivery or percent power required.
It's not clear if many of these things are good or bad or if they're any worse than silicon valley. I wouldn't count any of them as serious obstacles for Beijing tech success.

Focused on the local market. I often run into SV companies that I'd like to use as a customer but can't because they only serve America. Either because of IP restrictions, money transfer, shipping, or they just haven't figured out other countries yet.

Having people in it for the money is a sign that something's really happening. It's not just hobbyists doing it for fun. I'm sure most SV startups are in it for the money too. Nobody really things a pick-up laundry service for rich people is altruistic or fun.

Young smart engineers getting management responsibilities. Sounds like every startup with a 25 year old CEO.

Lack of good leadership? Maybe they're effectively doing flatter organization structures. That's a cool trend in SV.

High cost of living. SV is famous for its wildly inflated house prices but that's not stopping it.

Bad internet: Crippling if you're a foreigner and depend on foreign services. Hardly noticeable for locals using Chinese services. American's equally have no access to major Chinese internet services because of the language barrier yet that isolation isn't stopping them.

Underhanded business practices. America has patent lawsuits which a big company can use to stomp out pretty much any small software company they want. Everyone's infringing somebody's patent but they mostly survive because they're too small to matter.

Long hours and no time for family. SpaceX is famous for that and they're doing pretty well.
The average person has way more to fear from government. Ever known a company that started a world war? or genocided people ? concentration camps etc etc etc.

Governments have killed way more people than corporations and statistics prove it, thus the average person has a lot more to fear from government.
One of the worst things about cancer is hearing stories like this all the time. It's really unhelpful and very draining to have your body undergo hell and your mind besieged by well=intentioned idiots telling you to expel toxins/ pray the cancer away/ stop eating this.
Sorry, I've heard all this before. My family is packed with people who "know someone" who amazed all the doctors by curing their cancers with weird diets, herbs, and prayers. I don't buy any of it. Unless you have some data, it's basically worthless noise.
Agree. Maybe this is all a coincidence they both survived and the other guy passed away. Have no idea. Shared what I know. Nothing less, nothing more.
The magic threshold is 96% per meta slab. LBA weighting (which can be disabled with a kernel module parameter or its equivalent on your platform) causes metaslabs toward the front of the disk to hit this earlier. LBA weighting is great for getting maximum bandwidth out of spinning disks. It is not so great once the pool is near full. I wrote a patch that is in ZoL that disables it on solid state disk based vdevs by default where it has no benefit.

That being said, since rsync.net makes heavy use of snapshots, the snapshots would naturally keep the allocations in metaslabs toward the front of the disks pinned. That would make it a pain to get the metaslabs back below the 96% threshold. If you are okay with diminished bandwidth when the pool is empty (assuming spinning disks are used), turn off LBA weighting and the problem should become more manageable.

That said, getting data on the metaslabs from `zdb -mmm tank` would be helpful in diagnosing this.
make_shared allows the shared pointer to be constructed with its memory and metadata in a contiguous block. This improves cache efficiency and locality and mitigates heap fragmentation. Although make_unique primarily serves to improve readability, make_shared can reduce smart pointer performance overhead dramatically.

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24779929/what-happens-whe...

You are right in pointing out that the library determines whether using make_shared will improve performance.
Native Beijing guy here. I'd like to answer any question about the city or the startup ecosystem.
You remind me that I have a NoviiRemotr license. Should see if I can find a T|X or something.
This does work.
> In the more general sense though my first impression of the phrase "route energy through metabolic pathways that cancer is disadvantaged for" is that it sounds like random word salad.

"Eat food that cancer/tumors don't like as much as sugar."
Or you could just use lisp and not have to worry about any of this stuff ;-)
You don't really know anything of value about this though. Are you an oncologist? Did you see her scans and test results? Have you been to her follow ups? Talked with her doctors? Do you even know the name of this magical herb that cures cancer but has somehow eluded the attention of thousands of researchers desperate to save hundreds of millions of suffering people, including their own loved ones?
Needing an alarm clock to wake up is a sign that you don't get enough sleep. You should sleep until you naturally wake up.
That search, restricted to the past month, returns some interesting results. You can damn well bet I didn't click through.
I could not agree more. After being in Beijing for most of 2015 on a project the city has mostly not much going for it.
The pollution, the traffic, the noise. Living quality is something else.
Working hours generally suck and even the additional income is quickly consumed by buying overpriced imported goods.
You have surely heard that success has many parents and failure's an orphan. The proverb is of course cynical, but there is more truth to it than it seems. Success often needs many parents, while failure may come from a single factor among many. Or simply because there were not enough parents to make it succeed, in which case, you could say only half-jokingly that the failure happened for no reason.
Unfortunately a const shared_ptr is like a const raw pointer: you can't change the pointer itself, but can still modify what it points to.
You should learn how to code.
Ask: Sugar is bad for cancer, is it also bad for other growths like psoriasis?
Sugar is bad for cancer, is it also bad for other growths like psoriasis? From what I understand cancer cells use sugar as their fuel for rapid division. With psoriasis skin cells rapidly divide and grow out of control (1000X times more than with healthy people). Can reducing sugar from one's diet somehow improve the state of the illness?

I couldn't find any evidence or research in this field, though I'm not a professional.
Doesn't it strike you as incredibly shady or selfish that these scientists who had their cancer cured haven't bothered to tell the world about it?

Or if they're currently researching it to help others not die from cancers that can be easily cured, please point us to their work.
Google wants to manipulate you into buying things and hading them over more information. If you know even a little about marketing/sales you know how powerful these forces are especially when targeted at a whole nation. On an individual level we never feel like the CocaCola ad makes us buy more coke, but it does.

"your life will be made a living hell until you are rendered neutral"
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sorry, but that just doesn't match up with reality. Maybe your fantasy of the future?
The Born rule isn't an interpretation it's a fundamental law derived from observation of how the probabilities work out. If you've got some interpretation of stuff that explains the Born rule I'd really like to hear about it.

And, are you saying that your brain isn't entangled with an experimental result after observing it (at the latest)? If so, what is special about brains, that shields them from it?
Why Aren’t Hiroshima and Nagasaki War Crimes?
Milo Yiannopoulos challenges Zuck to a debate
From what I've heard the more mature startups with interesting end up moving to Shangdi for cheaper office space. That kinda leaves the has-beens and never-will-be's behind, but I guess that's to be expected. Even the founder of the place has started another venture a bit down the street.

We met some interesting people during their anniversary party, but then we met an equal share of idiots, so my guess it's 50/50 right now. The was this one guy drilling us on the market for phone cases in the US/Europe (f..k if we know, you're trying to compete with local retailers or something?), who didn't understand the concept of stealth mode, for example.

Not to say that there aren't promising founders out there, they just don't go to the events. Probably better that way, since the C2C attitude isn't just restricted to copying from abroad.
The improvisations are really cool!
See also "What is Map Algebra?" http://gisgeography.com/map-algebra-global-zonal-focal-local...
Is there something like SPARC or other RISC architectures?
On my SSDs, I can go to 96% full without issue using ZoL. ZFSOnLinux is patched to disable ZFS' LBA weighting on solid state storage though. Non-solid state storage tends to reach 96% in metaslabs early due to LBA weighting, although I would be fine with filling a pool to 90% with the recent code. Going much higher than that is probably not a good idea though.

I have yet to see evidence that 60%-80% causes issues unless the system is so overloaded that having performance drop a small amount is noticeable. On spinning disks, such a thing is only natural because there is not much space left in the outer platters.

That said, older versions years ago would enter best fit behavior at 80%, which is where the 80% talk originated.
Yeah, it did get some buzz going iirc. Gmail doesn't rely on network effects tho.
Documents are not obviously confidential if there is an established process for removing confidential documents, but the documents still show up in a simple search.

Your position is that you viewed everything that Google thought it could publish in regard to your query. It is ridiculous that someone could be jailed as a result of clicking a link on a Google search result page.
Just guessing - you read The Amazing Maurice?