skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not saying that their policy is good or that I agree with it. I just think there are two sides to the picture.

Many countries have protectionist policies, in particular in the automotive industry. The United States even had limits on Chinese parts imports[1]. China had an interesting policy to allow its automotive industry to grow through joint ventures with foreign companies (e.g. Hyundai[2]). They have done somewhat similar things with tech companies like Google and Microsoft, to nurther talent and guanxi[3].

Also in regards to Malaysia, the government has threatened to ban Facebook before[4], however not as a mean to allow local competition to grow.

[1] http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/protectionism-cannot-save...
[2] http://repository.brynmawr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...
[3] http://www.amazon.com/Guanxi-Art-Relationships-Microsoft-Gat...
[4] https://globalvoices.org/2014/08/13/malaysian-government-thr...

Edit: Changed tense in regards to America's policy on Chinese imports.
>>> Hacker news seems to do a pretty good job of at least up voting the majority thoughts...

And therein lies the problem. Echo chambers are only good at making you wish to be deaf, if even...
I wish more devices used easily replaceable standard size cells of rechargeable and non-rechargeable variety. You can walk to any shop or service station and buy a bunch of AA or AAA batteries if it's urgent. And keep a spare pack at home, in car, etc.

In most devices, the size & weight benefits of proprietary li-ion batteries mostly aren't worth it for me once the battery goes bad and you have to look for a replacement (which can be quite expensive, if you can find one to begin with). Forgot to charge the device? Forgot to bring a charger? Don't have a usb battery pack in place with no outlets? Sucks. Can't walk into a shop and get a fix.
Don't even bother. Lots of Atlas Shrugged believers here.
Mo' data mo' problems
Commenting to learn is orthogonal to doing so in a way that "can come across as a bit of an asshole". The first tends to make Hacker News better. The second more than negates any benefit.
well it is the same in one way, those in government or heavily connected to it are the one percenters. It is not a wealth thing, it is a power thing. I don't think any form of government is different in this regard

In the West the politicians are adept at playing the public opinion game and between that and laws can keep those who earn their way through work to the top paying those in government. That last part may be sarcasm, trouble is when I read the news I am never sure
Yes, apologies, I did mean lzo. zlib seemed perhaps too much on the CPU side of the IO/CPU calculation. I am excited to see how btrfs snappy and lz4 support compares when they are added, however.

To the point of lzo performance though, btrfs is a tad smart with compression, it tries to compress an initial 128KiB and if the compressed segment is not smaller than the uncompressed it adds it to a list of no compress files, and will not try compression on that file again (unless of course you force it).

This was for our Hadoop use case, comparing to ext4, so nodatacow would work because we have no desire of snapshots in that environment. It still seems like we're better of compressing within the Hadoop framework (as jamesblonde is doing) and sticking with ext4 jbod, for now at least.
No? Ruthless and arbitrary slaughter of civilians is instead justified by the presence of a military objective spatially located in the vicinity? The result is always the same: in order to obtain some result, you knowingly sacrifice civilians. Be the result destroying infrastructure, forcing a reaction, or producing a deterrence. Some armies have the means to hit the best military objectives directly, others have to rely on indirect effects. Would you qualify the Dresden bombings as military acts or terrorism? Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Somebody said "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy". The relation between war and terrorism is approximately the same.
Is there anyway to find papers without the references and suggestions in books?
I wrote a tool a long time back for testing PowerShell remoting connections that started with name resolution, then tried ICMP, TCP, HTTP, WinRM, etc. to figure out what layer was failing. Ping was critical to start out with because if it worked but IP-based protocols failed it was nearly always an IPSec problem. If ping didn't work, it was the firewall.
During Morsi's presidency, people protested and mocked the government in the media without fearing for their lives.

You may not like the Muslim Brotherhood, but they are far more tolerant of dissent than military dictatorships.
Scripting apis are a possible use too.
Why bother with the commit and then revert? Put it on a branch.
For comparison, I would normally define an 'x' developer (depending on specialty) as anyone who writes code and a software engineer as a developer whose job description involves engineering, per the American Engineers' Council for Professional Development [1]:

"The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation or safety to life and property."

In my ideal world, every developer would do what you're describing as engineering, and the software engineers would be those who far exceed those requirements.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11696311
I did understand your comment. I know someone who works at Google is called a Googler. However, from the context of the subject, I knew a person who worked at Google would not have such a worry, while someone who learned how to program by Googling would have such a worry. Many programmers are self-taught. It's gotta be quite common to wonder if you know enough to do a particular job if you're Google'ibg your way to proficiency.
Canonical is doing so anyway and it seems they have a legal disagreement on the interpretation of the law with the Software Freedom Conservancy.

IANAL so I have no clue what is technically correct, but the fact is that Ubuntu is distributing zfs.ko in 16.04.
Well, you have to pick an option - there are many names that are used by both genders, but in unequal amounts; and it's better to get e.g. 10% of pronouns wrong than 90% of cases by using "she" for Tony (if you have nothing else to go by except that name) or 99% of cases wrong by using "they".
They really shouldn't be encouraging people to think of this as something that will help when lost in the wilderness (see the image on the page). There's a strong possibility that there'll be no reception. That's a situation where you need an EPIRB-type rescue device.
Not so much to savor, especially since the entire country is a train wreck in slow motion, with a soupcon of garbage fire. It only exists because China is desperate to see them exist, and not experience the flood of refugees into their border region. They already have a couple of million ethnic North Koreans living there, and millions more would rush across to join them the moment the DPRK looks like real collapse.

The problem is, that collapse is inevitable, and this reprieve is just giving them time to brutalize their people, and to build and sell nuclear and missile technology.
Why would you do that rather than just splitting the patch first?
Canvas Cycle
> Change the level of prestige and you change the influx of new recruits.

Who can change the level of prestige? Upper and middle classes. Why would they do that, when the system works just fine for them? Nobody is legally coerced, and still cannon fodder is overwhelmingly provided by the "right" people.

From a certain perspective, it's a beautiful system.
Broadband service tends to stop at the poverty line in the US
> Or get a phone charger that runs on AA batteries

This.

There are cellphone chargers on ebay that cost $1 and take AA batteries, which are quite capable of charging any phone that supports the USB charging interface. I bought one to use when I travel abroad and it works very well.
Then you are a believer into what NK propaganda says, mba-ha-ha!

Kidding, have the same question :)
What does blocking ICMP get you? (other than a broken network) Blocking ICMP fragments is fine if you are worried about DDoS attacks, but don't blanket block everything ICMP (especially ICMPv6).

Just curious as to what problem you are solving by blocking ICMP.
Could we start with asking you what kind of evidence would actually satisfy you? How much effort are you prepared to expend in questioning this?

Honestly. What do you need to just to consider the small possibility that your view of things is the incorrect one?

Do you want macro/micro/historical/current evidence and do you expect such evidence to be easily disseminated here or are you just asking without any of these things in mind?

I guess we could start with the fact that it's proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that very few people control the economy in modern times - https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354-500-revealed...

We could also prove that for historical times.

The evidence is there. It just takes a little work to dig through and a lot of reading. So, I suggest trying to look around on your own first. Read about the United Fruit Company. 1950's Iran. Rand Corporation. There's just so much out there already that I think anybody who hasn't read about this stuff by now must not really care.
Yes indeed, and using this approach you can also write Python plugins for other applications if they don't have Python scripting support already.
Sadly, no link to free eBook, which is not surprising because it seems that the book is still in print, having been released as recently as 2004, and updated in 2005 and 2013.

This post links to the website supporting the book and provides links to errata, code and data. The links on the page to Springer and Amazon are broken: Here are valid links:

http://www.springer.com/de/book/9780387402727

http://www.amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-S...

Here is the Google Books link:

https://books.google.ie/books?id=th3fbFI1DaMC&printsec=front...
This seems like an emergency device for people who aren't actually experiencing an emergency. As vosper said, this is fine if you're lost in Central Park, not actually in the wilderness.
Reminds me a little of http://openfoodfacts.org
Or he could be someone who has kids who he needs to feed, clothe and house. :-)

At this point, I'll be happy when I get a job.
Awesome thanks for the link! Love how it applies to mathematics. "learn by doing" that is so true not just for mathematics but for almost every field. And that is why I find Udacity's model of projects and getting feedback on them quite fascinating.

You can study, watch videos, read, do exercises but doing a project/proofs from the ground up can teach one a lot of skills that they directly implement in a work environment. Thanks again.
You Can't Dig Upwards (2014)
Come on!let's grow beyond this decade of "being offended"
“You are not born with a fixed amount of resilience”: Sheryl Sandberg
There's interesting overlap between tools like `cffi` and `cython`.

This is one of the approaches I am pursuing to polish off something I put together recently: rapid prototyping of LD_PRELOADs in Python.

I presented an early approach at PyData London last week using LD_AUDIT and `cython`:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3j2qw9XZCc

It doesn't seem that amazing to be able to write:

@preload
def open(pathname: 'const char*', flags: 'int') -> 'int':
return __open__(pathname, flags)

After all, this is only slightly more convenient syntax than in C. However, imagine how much functionality you could quickly develop with access to the Python standard library.

Even using my clumsy `cython` and `LD_AUDIT` approach, I was able to rapidly develop libraries that interpose file-handling library calls and implement:

# `less` is used as an example of a libc programme with no concept of Python, git, &c.

$ COMMIT_HASH=abc123 gitit less test # interact with files as-of some commit in a git repo via pygit (libgit2)

$ runit less test.py # redirect read() so that the contents of the file appears to be the results emitted of having run the file

$ zipit less test.gz # redirect read()/write() to transparently handle gzip files

Each one of these took about half an hour to throw together, which is substantially faster than I could reliably develop them in pure-C (not to mention how much code I avoid having to write myself by relying on Python's rich stdlib & ecosystem.)
You're assuming that if "true AI" existed, it would be in total control of all the infrastructure needed to maintain it's own existence.
Surely the doctors who wrote this know more than you do and have considered this possibility? That doesn't mean they're automatically right, but your first reaction should be "what studies was this advice based on?" rather than "this advice is clearly harmful, I'm offended by it"
The reason why airport security takes so long
If everyone is keeping their stack small, everyone is doing the same thing over and over and over again. Why shouldn't we copy best practices over without understanding it?

Should you really spend an hour vertically aligning an element in a compatible way, when you could copy and paste in 30 seconds and go straight to testing the code you didn't read, write, or understand - and see that it does exactly as advertised?

Why shouldn't programmers have a division of labor? Why should everyone understand everything?
Actually, imposter syndrome is more common at Google than most other companies. This makes sense; imposter syndrome comes from a mismatch of judging your own talents versus that you perceive from your peers, so you are more likely to feel unsure of your own abilities when your coworkers are world-class leaders of their field than if they are just random average engineers. A lot of attention is paid to raising awareness of imposter syndrome during new employee orientation, and all new employees are assigned a mentor to help guide them through their initial months, again with lots of emphasis placed on ensuring that people feel like they belong.
Bing is really reasonable for dev search results. Honestly not sure if the people bashing it have ever tried it for that purpose.
Just as other languages continue to take ideas from Lisp!

C.A.R. (Tony) Hoare said of Algol 60 that it was such a good language that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but an improvement on nearly all its successors as well. The spirit of that statement rings true for me[1], and I feel that the same could equally be said of many Lisps, especially when I think of things like read/write, CLOS, streams, conditions, (delimited) continuations, hygienic macros, etc. Common Lisp has been virtually static for over 30 years[2] not because it's "behind the times", but because it was so far ahead of the times that everything else is still playing catch-up!

[1]: I feel as though Algol 60 was, with few exceptions, the best language available until around the mid-to-late 80s.

[2]: Not to mention that it really hasn't been totally static: now we've got ASDF, QuickLisp, {U,C}FFI, CLIM, SLIME, etc. And loads of libraries.
Article is from Datamation in 1981.
We are moving into a world where everything you do is monitored all the time.

This is driven by technology, and legislation can't do much to change it. It's possible other technology can, but until then, assume you are monitored.
The Torah Code – The Hidden “Word of God”
I'd say it's very much alive now-a-days. If it wasn't for protectionism, the American auto industry would've collapsed long ago (not adopting international safety standards, inferior product line for NA market).
Feels hackable, I wonder what kinds of things people will come up with. Do they still charge monthly for service?

I think some kind of wind-up cell phone charger would be more useful for people than a separate cell phone powered by AA batteries ("Hey, where'd I put those spare AA batteries...?")
Why batteries and not a dynamo?
Communism, ostensibly about eradicating class, seems to end in wealth distributions that make ours look egalitarian.

Maybe we need an experiment in a society explicitly founded on elitism. Would it turn into an egalitarian paradise?
Amazon charges $0.65/hr for a single GPU, 4x that for a 4x cluster.

Either a) you can only address one customer at a time, meaning it won't scale or b) you charge a high price to make a profit, which will dissuade customers
Only if you treat downvotes as bad. My own comments on this thread have received a fair number of both upvotes and downvotes. I consider when that happens (assuming I haven't been overly antagonistic, which I don't think I have been) that I've hit a raw nerve. I could be wrong, but alternatively I could've said something someone isn't willing to hear. That can be useful feedback in its own right (though I prefer the clarity of comments over votes).
It's not just Outlook.

Exchange adds this mush to emails which were sent in plain text.
I'd recommend taking the full unix dive and ditch your GUI centred apps for MPD. You can any of dozens of GUI clients to interact with the daemon (http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients).

Keyboard shortcuts can be done via your DE, by shelling out to 'mpc play', and such.

My concern for music is less playing it (that's easy), but more about organizing it, for which MusicBrainz Picard wins.
Good developers are good Googlers.
Yes, this is very easy.

One of my favorite features of my olde Palm IIIxe PDA was that it ran on batteries you could buy at the drugstore, and I wanted that for my smartphone, so I have an AA-to-micro-usb device ("AA power bank charger") that get me there. Ten bucks on Amazon, probably you can do better if you shop around.
It's trivial to run R5RS in DrRacket, for example, or other Scheme implementations as well. So it shouldn't really be a problem if R7RS becomes bloated, as you can stay on R5.
We're still talking about the elite of a failed state, they aren't global elite. A middle class South Korean certainly has a more elite lifestyle.
Morsi was democratically elected.
> some of what they write is great, at other times it feels like they'll write anything that makes the US look bad

It's called being critical. A journalist job isn't to make the govt (any govt) look good. There are a bunch of publications dedicated to do PR for the USG so you're in luck.
Article is from 1986.
My immediate first thought. Although, the Vim is large and our brains so very small.
See the RISC-V User-Level ISA Specification v2.0 [1]. It's more detailed but still fairly easy reading.

[1] http://riscv.org/specifications/
well cia and nsa has managed to create so many terrorists and destroy national reputation. that along with the direction fbi and local police is going now a days, i dont have much hope. i used to think USA was a good country. But the more I see how US grossly violates human rights, supports Israel destabilizing the middle east, massive surveillance even on its own citizens I wonder if its even a democracy. Everything is im secrecy now a days and wondering if US is still a democracy, as democracy is supposed to be of the people by the people for the people. sadly people are less aware of the situation they are in, like a frog in slowly boiling water. Too much power with far less accounting.
So what is going to be done about it? with each revelation that has no riot it looks more and more like the average person is silenced into submission to just 'deal with it' rather then correct it.
For those who had never heard of this setting before, there is an interesting blog post about it on the JetBrains blog: http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/08/experimental-zero-lat...

tl;dr: Add "editor.zero.latency.typing=true" to the "idea.properties" file.
I think this statement is hilarious. You tried to make fun of conspiracy theorists, but I have never heard a conspiracy theorist say that they "have evidence, but it's secret".

The reason it's funny to me is because the only time I ever hear bout "secret evidence" is when I read about secret courts and prisons that the US government runs, such as the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. (LOL! It's so funny that people around the world can be prosecuted, killed and tortured because of secret evidence, isn't it?)
Effective security know what assets they are defending, what threat exist, and what the cost benefit is of applying a defensive measure to prevent the threats. Assuming that you have identified some assets you want to protect, is the threat that someone might tunnel traffic outside of monitored channels?

If yes, again assuming that all traffic is either monitored or blocked, have you done cost-benefit of monitoring ICMP for tunneled traffic vs blocking? A blocking rule need to be maintained, and it prevents diagnostics tools. If you have or will have a outside service that use heartbeat, such usage require whitelisting and maintenance for handling the permissions. In contrast, monitoring ICMP should just involve the same work as adding an additional protocol to the existing monitoring system.

One should also give some thought to the most common forms that adversaries use to tunnel traffic. TCP port 80 and 441 is a commonly used method to break through firewalls and nat, since those are considered outgoing ports which companies can't afford to block. (a small remark, where I work we do block those ports in some situations, and it has caught several intruders). Ports used for email is of course even more common to see malicious use from, and it is not uncommon that ISPs block all outgoing traffic on those ports. No one should consider blocking ICMP at all unless the more common traffic channels are monitored or blocked, unless they just want to create a false sense of security.
You might find these size-optimisation challenges more fun:

http://www.hugi.scene.org/compo/compoold.htm

The 256B and below categories in the demoscene are also sources of interesting x86 Asm programs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7960358
I was shocked I got 5 in physics, doing well in multiple choice made up for skipping two of the five word problems. It seems weird to have the best possible score not require answering all the questions correctly.
Yes, you described the problem very well. Nice to see you are aware of contributing to it.
> I don't understand the real value in this. They take a bunch of BGA parts + passives and put the dies in a bigger BGA that approaches the same PCB area?

> (...)

> Only thing it seems to do is enable quicker prototyping by avoiding having to get things like the DDR memory traces correct. And a shorter BOM.

My guess is that this sort of bundling may help in terms of driver support, as it provides a very specific bundle of hardware components and features.

Perhaps someone knowledgeable on the subject can chime in on the subject.
Microsoft laid off 7,800 employees within the past year: http://fortune.com/2015/07/08/microsoft-layoffs/

Qualcomm laid off over one thousand employees within the past year: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/sep/17/Qualcom...

Here's a large list: http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/warn/WARN-Report-for...

And here's an article with more: http://www.businessinsider.com/its-been-a-bad-month-for-tech...
Maybe it's me, but it's rare that my comments get more that 10 votes (up/down) - and as such, I don't make anything of votes to my comments; statistical significance, poor sample, puppet accounts, etc.

What I do make something of is meaningful responses to my comments.