skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This fantastic. Indeed, this is completely undocumented.

Running `grep -R 1000 .` on `apt-get-source cron` turns up:

./cron-3.0pl1/cron.h:#define	MAX_COMMAND	1000	/* max length of internally generated cmd */

Further grepping for MAX_COMMAND gives you this gem:

/* Everything up to the next \n or EOF is part of the command...
* too bad we don't know in advance how long it will be, since we
* need to malloc a string for it... so, we limit it to MAX_COMMAND.
* XXX - should use realloc().
*/
ch = get_string(cmd, MAX_COMMAND, file, "\n");

XXX - should use realloc().

Really?
"The presentation is designed perfectly. Any inability to navigate is the user's fault." is spot on. It took me a lot of slides to figure out something was terribly wrong.

On the otherhand organizing slides by index/subindex + it is on internets already won me over.
Increasing the # of students per class, increasing reliance on cheap adjuncts, reducing amenities, lowering pay/benefits, firing unneeded administrators. (Last one is a biggie.)

More generally, I could favor a plan which gives the universities "freedom". Specifically, we cap tuition + fees, eliminate most regulations on university behavior, and reduce funding. We should also make a policy that if there is significant student lobbying for more funding, the college president is fired. (That reduces the motivation to run a Washington Monument strategy [1].)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_Syndrome
I would definitely be interested. One the biggest problems is that the barrier for entry to do any type of laboratory science is really high (lab space, equipment, expensive kits and reagents, etc) compared to software. I think bioinformatics is a good place to start.
> You said that fat people should be shamed because being fat makes you sick

Where did Olscore say that?
> It's just a way for people with PhDs to remain in academia, doing research, so that they can build up their publication list to land tenure-track academic positions.

Precisely this. Or also (my case): we have been doing research all our lives and were too afraid or too insecure to try to pursuit some other path. In my case, for a variety of reasons, I landed a postdoctoral position after I got my PhD but never really felt comfortable in it. Took a whole year to build up the nerve to start looking for industry positions until I finally found one that looked like a good match to my set of skills and I finally left academia. I don't regret it a bit.
Synchronization primitives in the Linux kernel, Part 4
> It's not like these features are just thrown in for fun; there is research and testing behind them, and they do save lives.

Exactly, but some of them are designed to be paired with a seat belt - I've heard that airbags can make things worse if you don't buckle up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knox_Box
> The entire reason why Gyms are so profitable, is an insignificant number of people who sign up, actually ever go.

Increase in average BMI and increase in gym revenue/creation of new gyms are probably even directly correlated via bad conscience customers who sign up and then stay home.
Eulogy for The New York Times R&D Lab
Because this isn't just "download this .exe", it's "download this .exe and run it".
It's going to be tough for me to find a wife.
You don't get most of those benefits against a poor or malign postinst script.
11k there. What are your strengths?
Yes, but inside the computer you have the luxury of static, pre-calculated track layouts that optimise for latency, noise and general integrity. A general purpose, variable length, high bandwidth cable and connectors is a much harder problem, thus the kind of issues we see here sending raw video signals of extremely high fidelity between card and monitor.
I'm about a third of the way through the book. It's tough to say whether it covers 'the cooperative model' because so far, it approaches aspects of business quite individually.

Here's the table of contents: https://i.imgur.com/OS9XGhN.jpg
How do you have a 5 year old to play chess and poker?
Why Startup Product Plans Make Poor Business Plans
Cloudy Box: A personal computer on the cloud
> Addicts are going to get fucked up on whatever they can find. If they can't find opiates or whatever, they're going to get fucked up on cough syrup, or booze or huffing paint or whatever.

While this is reminiscent of something Matt Dillon's "shameless dopefiend" character from Drugstore Cowboy said, I'm not sure if this is true.

There is another thread of addiction research that establishes the notion of "addiction as self-medication," in which users seek the drugs that work to alleviate their symptoms, be they physical or psychological. Anecdotally, I've experimented with a lot of substances, and opioids are the only class of compounds that I have sampled that work for me.

In addition, while it's certainly true that, if you attach two acetyl groups to morphine you end up with something 2-3 times more potent by weight, I wonder if people's conception of the "hardness" of drugs is somewhat artificial.
Out of curiousity: how do you find out about new stuff then? I know there's a lot of messy incentives, but if a company wants to at least show that they have a new drug, how could they get you to read about it?
maybe its time for all the people everywhere to start to act like secret agents, and thus we can achieve equality. Never talk about yourself, fake your CV or dont have one, mount recording cameras everywhere around you,use SSL, dont care too much about the borders that governments make. You will not suffer that much as real agents do sometimes. No more ambush sufferings either, as people will avoid meeting in public crowds.
Arria 10: http://www.nextplatform.com/2015/08/27/microsoft-extends-fpg...

600 images/s inference (highest ever publically reported), projected to be as high as 900 images/s. ~$5000 per FPGA.

Compare and contrast with TitanX/GTX 980 TI now topping 5000 images/s. GTX 1080 will only be faster than this and $600.

https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks

And so far, no FPGA training numbers. But here are some distributed training numbers for $10Kish Xeon servers:

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/caffe-training-on-...

64 of them train Alexnet in ~5 hours. A DGX-1 does it in 2. Don't have/Can't get a $129K DGX-1? Fine, buy a Big Sur from one of several vendors and throw in 8 GTX 1080s as soon as they're out, implement "One Weird Trick", and you'll do it in <3. That ought to run you about $30-$35K versus >$600K for those 64 Xeon servers.

FPGAs OTOH are fantastic at low memory bandwidth embarrassingly parallel computation like bitcoin mining. Deep Learning is not such a domain.
Ask HN: Front End Developer Burnout
I've been working as a web designer/developer for about 10 years. I have always loved my work with it's immediacy and it's accessible combination of design, usability and problem-solving. My workflow has evolved and become more automated through the years to keep pace with what has come to be known as Front End Development among other titles.

Lately I have found myself utterly burnt out, frustrated and demotivated. I hate my work.

The constant issues, seemingly endless, complaints that something or other does not work on some flavour of browser X on device Y. I often feel a suffocating paralysis and loss of energy or will. I work on two teams as the sole front end developer, Neither of these teams has any consistency in their workflows and neither use any kind of repository.

Things are constantly regressing and breaking and as the first sign of any issue is often cosmetic I am the one who looks bad. It's impossible for me to articulate my frustration in any way that does not make me look petty or as if I am shirking my responsibility.

I have constantly asked for a more stable environment but my attentions are already thinly spread across a range of issues. Sometimes I just sit and stare at my screen for 10 minutes unsure of what to do - which fire is burning hottest.

My focus is too fragmented. I am the single point of failure in so many different streams. I feel like I am spinning 100 plates when all I want is a couple of things that I can master and take pride and responsibility for.

I feel the demands on me have gradually become unreasonable over the years. I'm unsure if giving up on 10 years experience and moving into a new field as a junior is wise. I'm an engineer at heart and I'm grateful for the years of rewarding pleasure my work has given me but I can't do it anymore.

My sense of perspective is making it difficult for me to think clearly or to trust my own judgement so any advice is greatly appreciated.
In my experience, the American workforce is managed in a tight hierarchy, and management would not be happy to see their workers seeking out outside collaborations and coming up with ideas born out of random conversations. If any of those things happen to you, I would imagine you are more likely than not to get in trouble.

Another issue is that most Americans work from cubicle farms where conversations and unstructured meetings are actively discouraged. This is probably related to the previous point.
Is there a good reason to have a 999 length command there though? Put it in a script if it has that much going on and then call the script instead..

This should be documented but I don't see the big deal.
Show HN: S3io.com – File sharing and note-taking tool based on Amazon S3 buckets
Hello, HN!

I built a web-interface app for Amazon S3 buckets (not for all of them, unfortunately, buckets in Frankfurt or buckets with dots in their name will not work for now) that will turn your bucket into a file sharing and note-taking tool. It’s been quite useful for me, so I decided to give it a try and share it with others.

This app allows you to post notes (saved as JSON files in your bucket) and upload files directly from the browser while the app server only stores metadata and knows nothing else about your files and notes. It also lets you view uploaded photos in a slideshow kind of a gallery and share your notes, individual files or entire folders.

This is still an early beta and has not been actually tested by anyone else except me, so browser support is limited to the latest Chrome for now, although it seems to work fine in Opera and Chromium, not that good in Safari. The situation will get better in the future. If you are interested in testing or using something like that, please sign up for invitation.

The service is free for now but eventually it might get some paid options. I’m currently unemployed, so this project is basically my full-time job right now and I will happily continue to maintain it if it gains some interest.

Would like your feedback. Thanks!
Huge Panama Papers search database goes public Monday
do you ever download an .exe which you will never run?
There are lots of jobs besides jobs where strangers get into an automobile alone with you. I am against vindictive employment and voting restrictions on felons, and I'm open to having my mind changed by statistics like the recidivism rate, but I think if you commit a sex crime you don't get to be a taxi driver any more.
Of course, if the company leadership doesn't care, then you will have a hard time convincing them why the upfront effort of "doing it right" is worth it. When dealing with this situation, I found it useful to compare IT security people to lawyers. Wait, hear me out before you shout me down. :)

To the non-initiated, lawyers and infosec people are seen with nearly-equal amount of both dislike and trepidation. They are seen as a force of lawful evil that descends on your team and starts telling you that all those cool things you're trying to do cannot actually be done, or must be done in a non-obvious roundabout way. When asked for reasons, both lawyers and infosec start talking about concepts that are entirely unfamiliar to most devs (code provenance, license agreements, trademarks, patent litigation, IP isolation, containers and namespaces, RBAC policies, multifactor authentication). All you care about is that this is a person who is telling you that your project, 99% complete after your team worked multiple 60-hour weeks, must be delayed until a bunch of things -- that you don't consider broken! -- are fixed.

However, this is where things usually go differently. If a lawyer comes to management and says "this project cannot launch because a bunch of code was copy-pasted from stackoverflow and links with an incompatibly-licensed library," the management is likely to listen even if they don't understand a word of what was said -- because they know the importance of lawyers and know that, in the long run, litigation is extremely expensive. However, if an infosec person comes to them and says "this project cannot launch because they have a PHP script running as root that listens on external port 80," management will not value this input nearly to the same degree, even though, in the long run, a bad security vulnerability can have just as much of a detrimental impact on a company as litigation -- and probably worse, because you won't be able to hush-hush and "settle out of court."

The reasons for this are multiple -- infosec is in infancy compared to the legal field, and, sadly, many IT security practitioners tend to look and act in a way that makes their recommendations carry so much less weight with upper management.

So, where I'm going with this is -- if you work for a company in an infosec field and you genuinely want to improve things to the point where management actually starts to listen (which translates into $$ for your team and your projects), then you need to both convince them that your expertise is equally as important as the lawyers', and probably present yourself with the same amount of gravitas as those working on the legal team.
The question is why is this limit good, but a different limit is bad?

We are all aware that the law has various (mostly arbitrary) limits. The question being asked is what consistent limit should be applied in general?
I love AMD and I'm rooting for them, but I'm not sure we are going to have another Athlon run here.

AMD is still having trouble beating out nVidia, and Intel. The Zen architecture could in theory have HBM for the system CPU/APU, but I'm guessing they won't.

Finally A lot of Intel performance comes from compiler optimization and design, and last time with Athlon it took years for that to roll out. Unless Zen is years ahead of Intel, I don't know if they will be able to edge that far ahead. Intel has been doing CPU-GPU pairs now for more than 5 years, and they are getting better.

I think for AMD to win this round, they would need to have a power ratio that allowed them to dominate the laptop space, with APUs and eliminate the GPU as a component, and right now AMD and Intel are both on 14nm, so I think it would be hard to win there, but we will see.

nVidia is on the 16nm process, so if AMDs chips are equal in performance, they might draw less power. However, for VR, nVidia has been working very closely on the software with the various companies and I think they will have a strong software advantage for a while.
Children are definitely quicker, and in my experience with Chess... tactics are king. And tactics favor the quicker minds.

Strategic chess can be taught with words, and adults will naturally lean towards the strategic parts. We respect our predecessors, we seek knowledge that has already been discovered. Alas, heuristics and such aren't worth very much to a Chess beginner, who will regularly make "simple blunders" (like putting their own pieces in a knight fork) until Elo 1500+ (a moderately skilled beginner club player).

And even then, Elo 1800 to 2000 will regularly put themselves in a position where they can be forked in two or three moves.

If you can manage to play a blunder-free game (much harder to do than it looks), that's when strategic thinking comes in. Knight placement in the center vs edge, or backwards pawns here and there, or whatever.

In part, I think children do best at chess because they aren't distracted by any of the myriad of books and research on the subject (which are... hopelessly irrelevant to beginners)
I don't see any conflict between anything you said and partiallypro's statement.

How does campaign spending from one special interest to get rid of an ordinance prove the ordinance wasn't designed for an opposing special interest?
+1

This negative press followed by positive press happened to Tesla so many times, I can't help but think that it is just some guys found a way to make a couple extra bucks.
When two medical residents visit the 99U design conference
> You're not a philosophy professor though. To steelman the OP a little, it's possible that spending your entire life grappling with seemingly unanswerable questions and not really getting anywhere could be pretty depressing.

I would expect philosophy professors not to believe such questions are unanswerable, and in fact to believe that they possess, at the very least, a solid start on coherent and true answers.
Of course it does. HDI and obesity correlate quite well. Of course our definition of obesity is also completely arbitrary so...
I use voip.ms but many others exist. Anveo, Twilio, Vonage, etc. cheapest might be a service that uses Google, but only for as long as Google offers free calls.
Yeah, I'm currently running at 2014 Retina model so I'm hoping it won't be that bad. Thanks for your advice!
If you want to compare with react for example or angular it lacks a mobile framework.
I've never used it, because the official demo site was incredibly slow. If the resources of google can't even make their own library feel responsive, then I'll spend my time hitting my head against a different platform.
Anyone know when the Mobile Fiji, Polaris, Zen, Pascal hardware is coming out?
> Using your example that "zones and SmartOS" are preferable to "SELinux and Linux Containers"....that's not going to happen.

That has actually already taken place, and is taking place. There is unlikely to be one winner-take-all.

Following the money does not mean that the application cannot be programmed from the ground up to support SmartCards and roles, or that it has to be full of security holes.

> I suspect if enough talented, security minded engineers descended as contributors for docker, rkt, etc.

Depends on what is under etcetera. Docker and rkt are not the Silver bullets everyone who has not gotten busted by them think they are, they are just a trend. With all of those you instantenously lose lifecycle management, because they are just images of massive file dumps, not images of software and configuration installed with packages. When you use Solaris zones in SmartOS, Docker and rkt become completely superfluous, because you suddenly get a fully working yet completely isolated UNIX server, running at the speed of bare metal no less. Add some OS packages on top of that, make them into an image for imgadm(1M), and in few seconds you're done. What does one need Docker for in that scenario?

And I should certainly hope that perfect is the enemy of good, because life has taught me, the hard way, that good isn't good enough. I absolutely hate being woken up during the night because of an incident, and will go out of my way to get as close to perfect as possible in order to be able to sleep through the night.
AFAIK he does not owe his livelihood to anyone. He made his FU money from Tumblr, and a bit more from selling Instapaper, but since then his output (which, yes, has been iOS-focused) has been more like hobby projects that at worst keep him busy but at best may have made him a little extra on the side. The stuff he does now looks to me like someone following their bliss, not someone trying to make a living.
Viktor Korchnoi gave his expert opinion that most chess grandmasters hit their peak around age 40, maybe a little after. He also tried to analyze what gave various people the drive to work hard enough to become a grandmaster.

Also, Anand would arguably be world champion right now if he had the stamina. His knowledge of the game is probably the deepest of anyone, but he runs out of energy as th game progresses.
What I learned from eight years of tracking my life statistics
Gmail disabled access when JavaScript is turned off
I'm using Firefox on Android, and it seems I can no longer access Gmail without JS. I disabled JS and images to save a little mobile bandwidth. Can anyone confirm ?
"Oops, Gmail wont work because..." Response.
>Steve Jobs was lucky he met Wozniak

Luck here seems to be the lazy way of explaining events.

Rather, Steve Jobs likely felt the need to pair with a very smart engineer in order to do what he wanted, and came upon Wozniak.
Here's a problem for you:
How do you make it easy to find a close by doctor or specialist and make an appointment? I had to make a Saturday appointment and it took me about 12 phone calls to find a dermatologists that come in on Saturdays. So the current process: search via Google Maps, go to local (ugly) websites, manual calling...

Maybe there is an app for that, didn't bother looking for that...
To curl|bash or not to curl|bash
Κέρδισα την κλήρωση Free Fuck στην έκθεση
I'm sure we are all beautiful people, which is why I omitted that part. :)
Pay is between top grad student assistantship and assistant professor. That would be below industry pay in a hot field like CS.
You would expend more than 800 calories from breathing alone at the weight of 125lb.

The Base Metabolic Rate in the cited paper is still much higher than that even for people whose metabolism slowed down.

Normally, it's calculated as
(9.99 x weight_in_kg) + (6.25 x height_in_cm) – (4.92 x age) – 161 for women.

So for her (assuming she is 5' tall and late 20's), to remain at normal weight and not move at all it would have been
(9.99 x 56.699) + (6.25 x 152.4) – (4.92 x 27) – 161 = 1225

This is without any exercise. She must have missed some source of calories.
Until your embedded device running cron, say your pacemaker or "smart" fire alarm, chops off a part from the yearly `0 0 1 1 * very-long-command-to-stop-service; start-service`.
DisplayPort 1.4 can support 8K UHD (7680×4320) at 60 Hz with 10-bit color and HDR, or 4K UHD (3840×2160) at 120 Hz with 10-bit color and HDR. 4K at 60 Hz with 10-bit color and HDR can be achieved without the need for DSC. On displays which do not support DSC, the maximum limits are unchanged from DisplayPort 1.3 (4K 120 Hz, 5K 60 Hz, 8K 30 Hz). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#1.4
I would expect the Gmail to not work at all if you disable JavaScript. Is there a valid reason for doing so on gmail.com?
Success imho is the art of not fucking up any single aspect of what you're doing, plus doing some aspect really well. You can have a "lifestyle" (meaning you do pretty well, but not exceptional) job/business/... by simply not fucking up any of it.

Grit is like this : fuck it up and you're dead in the water, but you'll be fine at "normal" grit if you excel somewhere else. Exceptional grit is useless, counterproductive even, when for example market fit is not there at all. Or when the required knowledge simply isn't there.

The one exception I've seen in practice is that on rare occasions a particular combination of skills was a necessity to achieve exceptional success. But it sort of looks like equivalent to winning the lottery. It's never an obvious combination of skills that works like this, it's something stupid that you wouldn't normally combine, and that's exactly why it works. But there are a huge number of possible combinations, most are not worth anything exceptional.
Finding your passion
Fair point. The market is working properly.

The problem is mostly academics selling lies about that market to impressionable young students. They're supposed to be mentors looking out for their students' best interests, but are actually just pushing up the labor supply and pushing down prices.

forgotpwtomain's comment is highly indicative of the way academics do that. "Ignore the reality of terrible job options in academia. Industry is dirty and being a penniless researcher is the only noble path through life."
Hacker Experience 2 – open source location-based hacking simulator