skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks jacques! Keen to know if there are any gaps between concourse and Jenkins that we could be doing a better job of filling.

Edit: oh right you work for Pivitol ;)
This article is kinda of empty. Lots of implication, but it never actually says anything.

At best as I can tell Boston Dynamics wanted to just try things, and Google wanted a household robot? Yet it also says that Boston Dynamics was worried about generating revenues in a reasonable timeframe.

Very unclear.
Would love to hear how you are going with it. Perhaps post your thoughts to the user mailing list? https://jenkins.io/content/mailing-lists/
It does sound a little off. "M'a t'en crisser une", "M'a t'en calisser une", and "M'a t'en sacrer une" all sound fine. I'd use "tabarnak" to finish the sentence: "M'a t'en crisser une tabarnak!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism is not the same as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-fascism. Part of Fascism's basic tenets is to create a one party state and rule over a large empire. Only way to do that is remove every other party and then start a war.
Computing power absolutely does matter, because it allows us to run more complicated experiments in a reasonable amount of time, which is crucial for moving research forward. Today we work on the low-hanging fruit so that tomorrow we can reach for something higher. As a side note, your comment about runtime complexity does not make much sense when there exist problems which provably cannot be solved in linear time. It is dangerous to discourage research on that simplistic basis; we could have much more powerful POMDP solvers today (for instance) if people hadn't been scared off by overblown claims of intractability fifteen years ago.
I like how detailed the caption for the (stock) header image is

A coaxial cable is displayed for a photograph in front of a Time Warner Cable helmet in Manhattan Beach, California, U.S., on Monday, August 12, 2013.
Anything you think we could do to shorten the gap between the two?
Those are exceptions that prove the rule.
for all definitions of government
Cardiac was also implemented in Python: http://www.pythondiary.com/blog/Oct.15,2014/building-cpu-sim...
I don't see how they equate Thiel's participation with Gawker's gutter journalism. Whether Thiel is funding the lawsuit or not is irrelevant; a lawsuit is won/lost not by who's funding it, but by what are the merits of the case[1]. If Gawker had done nothing wrong, they would have won.

[1] The exception being defense, when government is suing. With enough money, you can usually buy your way out of jail from the government's lawyers.
I call BS - they're not keeping up with real inflation (rents in particular are going up far faster than nominal inflation), people are living in cars because Key's people are pandering to those who are raking it in from the property bubble rather than looking aftyer those who really need help
Thank you for the insight, as a man I don't quite understand viscerally the struggles that trans folks face but I want to, and to help where I can. Even if that's just being a good listener and sounding board.

(By calling myself a man I mean no disrespect, that's who and what I am)
Police Now Using “Pre-Crime” Algorithm to Target Innocent Citizens as Criminals
Careful. There are many people over 60 that would like to work though maybe not full time. Personally I know my father would love to work but really can/should not as he has dementia. My mother wouldn't but volunteers as a dance instructor 10-20 hrs/wk and loves doing it in her retirement.
It's a terrible shame what happened to Mali -- until the collapse of Libya it was a stable, if terribly poor, democratic state. The return of militant Tuaregs (now armed with the weapons Qadhdhafi had outfitted them with as his personal militia) and the merging of al-Qai'da in the Maghreb with Algerian tribes created a fertile soil for extremist violence.

Timbuktu was once a great center of learning and commerce, at the heart of a sophisticated West African empire. These neo-Kharijites have nothing but contempt for history.
@tamana

I'm a great interviewer because I have a bit more empathy and interest in understanding other people.

You can downvote me if you like but my words still ring true.
Show HN: Simple plugin manage them all for fishshell =2.3
Netflix is the canonical example.

A few years ago YouTube got similar treatment on Time Warner -- they funneled everything to a YouTube point of presence on the TWC network that was over saturated. You could modify DNS and use and alternate URL and watch 1080p video with no lag.

Verizon also started limiting aggregate Netflix traffic. Through conincidence, it happened to start happening when they launched a video service.
Thiel can't hide its bad behavior behind wealth freedom.
In Argentina -also catholic- is not uncommon to hear "Me cago en Dios" (I shit in God) or "La concha de Dios" (God's pussy/God's cunt) not to swear another one but to express disgust with some event -e.g: the rival team scores a goal-
"We'll make great pets, we'll make great pets."
Tech Giants Allegedly Behind 11th Hour Push to Gut Face Recognition Law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...
This isn't about the "workplace" this is about the Tech industry. And really about investors and founders. Given the small percentage of women, especially holding high level roles- I believe that it would be almost statistically impossible for women to be the main perpetrators
video from the day https://youtu.be/XJ5p-V3pjHY?t=177
If "communism" can mean "whatever the hell I want it to mean when it's convenient" then I think we can speak of neo-fascism and other philosophies in the same breath.
What is "white trash" in Germany? In USA it refers to rural people who wealthy urban people hate for looking poor.
Upvoted for the philosophical discussion, not because I agree.
Airbnb hosts have finally found a way to indulge in their obnoxious hobbies
My choice right now is to build a small Django site with a sqlite db backing it. This way you get a free admin dashboard for updating the site. For the theme, grab something from www.html5up.com
Almost makes you wish Apple, Facebook and Google would team up and buy them.
"How edgy to you have to be to try and argue about the morality behind slavery."

How brainwashed do you have to be to mimic the beliefs of people around you?

"When you prove that animals are self aware and conscious to the level of humans you can start to try and make half of this point"

What do vague labels like 'conscious' and 'self-aware' have to do with slavery?

"...but you're taking it way too far with this whole energy molecules thing."

Are members of homo sapiens species not clusters of elementary particles? Have you studies physics or chemistry at all?

"What's next, comparing the Holocaust to fish farms?"

Absolutely. Why is it fine to enslave bio-chemical processes known as 'fish', but not okay to enslave 'humans'? Is it objectively wrong to enslave members of homo sapiens species? If aliens came to Earth and used humans the same way humans use fish, what would be wrong with that?
If you share their ideas, it's charming, believe me. I can assure you hate unites more than love.
Ah, the Java is slow argument. When were you doing Enterprise Java? It must have been around the pre HotSpot years.

As for applications that are huge, memory hogs, complex and non elegant, well, congratulations you just described the majority of enterprise applications.
One of the labs in my school's second intro to CS course does some paper computer stuff, and I found it pretty fascinating.

http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~cs121/2015W2/Labs/Lab9/lab9.pdf
http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~cs121/2015W2/Labs/Lab9/playcpu.p...

I think this kind of knowledge is pretty important for when you're writing code, even if you work exclusively in the JVM. It helps to understand what goes on under the hood and the fundamental limitations of what your computer can do, so you know where you need to optimize.
Page pinwheels on load for me (FF 46.0.1), OSX
Business, especially marketing and sales.
> They have overridden mysql-python with mysqlclient

I am aware of this, but the fact that the tool is reporting MySQL-python as 3.0 compatible, when it is not, is worrying.
You can offer them a loan at a reasonable interest rate, and profit from their future.
Sadly, the problem is too widespread to blow off. I already have women asking me for the clause because the fear is real and so is the damage.

We are not talking about a workplace romance, this is a very specific relationship, between founder and investor and it shouldn't be so hard for investors to know and clearly get the message that it is inappropriate.
I am not following.. Using the same logic they could have stopped support for 2.x the moment 3.0 was released.
The title of this article doesn't seem to accurately represent the contents of the article itself.
DO YOU KNow  COMPATIBILITY OF THE UNJ
It's not exclusively some modern invention to be against slavery. There were people during the era of chattel slavery who thought of slavery as wrong too. Lots and lots of them. Almost 100% of the African-American population, for example...
This gets dug up once a year. Someone somewhere in the world gets their research funded looking into this.
http://www.squawkpoint.com/2014/09/correlation-does-not-impl...
A runaway domesticated animal may stand a significantly higher risk of injury than its wild brethren.

I'm talking about what's happening before the escape has happened. Why is domestication(slavery) allowed in the first place?

Domesticated animals also so often have a much higher standard of living than in the wild;

Slaves in USA had higher standard of living than if they had stayed in Africa.

it is hard to argue that an owned animal is deprived as much as an owned human.

How is a enslaved human more depraved than a horse? They both are under control of their master and get basics to survive. The difference between them is that horse and human are a different species. In terms of deprivation, it's about the same.
So, having never heard of shellcode before, I assumed it was just another way of saying shell script. But I scroll to the bottom and see

(*(void(*)()) shellcode)();

and suddenly this looks way more interesting. Is it really possible to literally just execute random bytes stored in a string like that? I mean, sure, you'd have to guarantee that it's running on the right platform with the right type of assembly, but still. This is fascinating! Plus, I don't even see execve actually pushed anywhere! Is that because of int 0x80? Wow this stuff is neat! I'm whelmed.

Aside, is there any using HN syntax to write that code inline (i.e. not in its own paragraph) without the asterisks insisting that I mean italics?
Top 20 collection framework interview questions and answers in java
Well, you could use 2 timers with the same period, if they are accurate.

You would plug in timer 1, so that its output (output 1) is on. You would set timer 2 so that output 2 would turn on as soon as timer 2 receives power. When there are only 30 seconds left in timer 1's on cycle, you would plug timer 2 into a separate outlet.

Since they are synced, but only overlap by 30 seconds, they will only both be on for 30 seconds. You would then need some kind of AND that would only turn on the pump if output 2 and output 1 are both on.
As it happens, there've been a bunch over the years. Including a hardware implementation of BF, I think a stack machine at one point... At least one that was pipelined, and since I largely stopped following the scene, a bunch built using command blocks. (Tho that's a bit cheaty if you're looking to understand how they're built instead of just the instruction set.)

I tried building a compiler for one particular computer, the RedGame 2. Which in practice meant an assembler + installer, lol. Somebody else also built an emulator and the other assembler for that computer. Also remember Ohm's computer, a 16-bit machine which was... practically vertical. There were lanes for 16 bits side by side, all of the ALU functions were stacked one above the other, and all of the registers were likewise stacked beside the ALU. It also had an assembler, and an emulator (in Bash, IIRC).

Among the interesting / odd things about Redstone computers, is just how slow signals propagate down wires compared to the gate speed. By in large, small is the only form of speed. That, and small is kindof necessary, via the sheer space constraints imposed by being inside a game. The one 64 bit ALU I saw once... was sufficiently wide that you had to stand close to the middle to keep the entire thing in simulation range. Corollary to that, is the low speeds can make the operation of the chip substantially intuitive. With the RedGame 2, a few times I would try to follow ROM reads, instruction decode, register reads, ALU ops, and right back to the condition in time to select the next instruction. That was a bit of an oddity of the RedGame, every instruction contained a conditional branch. You would use... 2 or 3 bits as an operand for what condition to check, list out two (!) instruction numbers to branch to on true/false.

I've (much more) recently mulled over building my own CPU, tho it'd be a couple months worth of work. Most recent sketch was of something of a Mill-alike. It'd be an 8-bit, with 8 belt positions, one ALU, 12 bit instructions with ~30 ops available, and maybe 128 program instructions in ROM. Not sure I could actually fit any RAM, tho... With RAM being positively huge, and any mildly compact part-analog storage taking around 5-10 seconds per read. I'm also not sure something so small it can only fit one ALU really benefits from a belt architecture, rather than a 3-operand register machine. For that matter, most Redstone computers use quite wide program ROMs instead of a Von Neumann architecture, so instruction bits are practically the cheapest part of these computers.

Not sure if that's more informative than making a more-capable ISA and writing an emulator in C.
It may be possible, but perhaps not, to just lower the pump output so that it takes 30 minutes to water the plant. That might be too little output to work though, because that is 2 orders of magnitude longer.
> Moving from independent to employee is another one.

I've heard/feared this as well, but in light of the statistics on startup infant mortality it seems crazy to stigmatise.
Man after man (Wikipedia)
TLDR - the pigeon problem coincided with high-decibel infrasound from sonic booms from the Concorde SST. That suggests they were temporarily deafened in that frequency band. (At 11 octaves below middle C, they're sensitive to anything over 0.1 Hertz.)
I said you need a citation. It appears you don't know what that means, because this is not a citation.

Here [1] is a citation which quite explicitly says:

"A Persian rug is one that is made specifically in Iran by skilled artisans. [...] A rug made in Turkey, Afghanistan, the Caucasus, Pakistan, India, or Nepal is not considered to be a Persian rug."

So, please do your part to stop spreading false information.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=are+persian+rugs+made+in+ind...
> a lawsuit is won/lost not by who's funding it, but by what are the merits of the case

I think I have a bridge to sell you...

Your statement implies that the quality (and cost) of the legal team does not matter with respect to winning cases, and that's just not true. More importantly, DEFENDING against cases, even if you are not in the wrong, is extremely expensive. It is very possible to use the legal system in the US as a weapon if you have enough resources.
What do you disagree with?
Esprit de tabarnouche de p'tit vlimeux de caline de saint-cibole de crime de péteux...
I would not be too quick to blame the authors of the website. It seems likely to be the same Firefox bug as all the other cases of HN comments complaining about bad scrolling performance in Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1250947
What happened with netflix wasn't covered under net neutrality anyway (as the links above point out), and they weren't being charged for prioritization, nor were they discriminated against.
Are you serious? Take a look around eastern europe. Take a look at international pharmacies that ship prescription drugs into the US. Take a look at chinese labs that ship research chemicals (recreational drugs) into the US.

There are tons of examples of this happening in practice, in the real world, right now. All you have to do is look.
Your numbers are way wrong, even if we discredit another commenter's point about city vs metropolitan areas. The top FIVE cities in the US total over 19 million people. If you instead use the top FIVE metropolitan areas you get just shy of 70 million. That's 20% of the US population living in or directly around the top five cities. Furthermore, there are over 300 cities in the US with populations over 100k. I'm too lazy to do the math to add it up, but I'd venture a guess than 50% of the US population lives in a metropolitan area of over 100k people.

(Edit: fixed 25 for 19, accidentally added a city twice)
PyThalesians: Python Open Source Financial Library
Much better implementation and good indicator of death if they haven't tweeted.
> Almost 100% of the African-American population

Well, no. Africans (before they were captured and sold to the Dutch slave traders) had slaves. A lot of Africans were sold into slavery by other Africans, the ones they lost tribal wars to. Slavery was very well known in Africa, just as it was everywhere else in the world basically from the moment civilization was created.

Like most things, people were ok with it happening to others and only had an issue when it happened to them.

The idea that all slavery is wrong is a far more modern idea. Unlike the OP I do not present that as a bad thing.
Is this a real project or a side project that you're going to kill in a month?
You can use a custom domain with github pages so nobody would know the difference, plus the housing is free. I use this in conjunction with CloudFlare [1] for free partial SSL and Formspree [2] for free static email capabilities. I would make a simple medium/markdown styled page and all you have to do for blogging is reuse the same frame, write your content, update the meta tags, and add a link to your blogging page. It may take about 5 more minutes per post you make, but in the end I think it's worth it considering how much faster your site will load with the static content.

[1] https://blog.keanulee.com/2014/10/11/setting-up-ssl-on-githu...

[2] https://formspree.io
Holy smoke, I think I've been virus'd. Here it is in the article:

The just-published book “Concrete Sewage dynamics,” by University of California-Berkeley professors Brad DeLong and Stephen S. Cohen, needs an expanded sequel -- 900 pages long, with charts, data, theory and an exhaustive list of historical case studies.

The word "sewage" shows up 17 times on that page.

Now I pull up the same article on another computer, and the word "sewage" is absent. I'd been seeing this word in other articles, and wondered if it was some sort of newfangled slang. Now I may have a bigger problem on my hands. Glad I asked.

Looks like I'll be switching this computer over to Linux sooner than I thought.

Update: I am the victim of a harmless prank, perpetrated by my children. How embarrassing that it had to play out on Hacker News.
> So, having never heard of shellcode before, I assumed it was just another way of saying shell script. But I scroll to the bottom and see

(*(void(*)()) shellcode)();

> and suddenly this looks way more interesting. Is it really possible to literally just execute random bytes stored in a string like that?

Well it's just a sequence of bytes somewhere in-memory, no? If the C compiler allows the cast, then it'd compile fine, and the CPU wouldn't know the difference; it'd just execute whatever instructions the sequence of bytes listed.
Here's the main site, link to the whitepaper at the bottom of this page: https://daohub.org/about.html
Why Reading This Article Won’t Help You Become a Better Entrepreneur
The Solar Eye
Out of curiosity, what provider and what advertised speeds and what speeds during actual use?

I'm not doubting your statement so much as just honestly curious, since getting access to the Internet in the US, from my experience, has been significantly worse than other places in the world where I've lived. In most of the EU, Asia, and in Russia, getting Internet was a breeze for my partner and I whenever we moved, and the speeds were usually, if not always, exactly as advertised.

For example, my partner and I live in Russia, and for some time, she did contract work as a chemist in Pereslavl, around 100 km north of Moscow. It was a remote and small town by any definition, but it had I believe 4 different internet providers and the options were all clearly laid out with simple pricing, and the pricing on the sites was the same as the pricing on our monthly bills.

Comparing this to when I've attempted to help friends prepare to move within the US and looking at ISPs, getting Internet in the US is a complete nightmare. The major ISPs often aren't able to give you an accurate pricing offer without first inputting an actual address onto their website, and very often the tool is broken or for whatever reason returns that the property is in the service area, even if the property already has a current connection from said ISP. (checking to ensure my parent's were getting a fair price from their ISP, for example, had both Charter's website and their sales representative inform me that Charter was not available in their neighborhood and address, despite them having used Charter's service for ~7 years.)

After that, it's introductory deals with the actual pricing buried in fine print on another page. Constant push to try to bundle land-line and media services, representatives insisting you need to rent a modem/router combo from the company when their own website has information on providing your own modem/router. While I do realize not all modems are created equal, that was not the pitch given to people I know or to family while I was present and helping them set up Internet.

I don't know, it just seems like virtually everywhere else, even if the speeds in major US cities are comparable, the entire "experience" of shopping around and getting Internet access is just better. The only place in the US where I've lived and it wasn't a pain to get service was when I lived in Tacoma, WA and used one of their municipal services. Aside from some occasionally goofy DNS issues, the service was lovely, competitively priced with Comcast, and their reps were also really fantastic. They also were very good at quickly getting information customers on known outages; their automated support line would switch to a special greeting informing the caller of a known outage, which saved a heck of a lot of time when storm damage or another random event disrupted service.
He bought Motorola. Even if you've made the most widely used OS ever, that's a fairly serious mistake.
Correct. Once you successfully cast to a function pointer, the compiled code will do all of the various register bookkeeping for stack management, then jump to the instruction specified. If it's legit assembly, then you're in business. If it's not, then you probably crash. It doesn't matter whether the instructions are the garden variety compiler-generated kind or some hand-crafted artisanal limited edition bytes. Instructions are instructions at that point.
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Did North Korea Build a Facebook Clone?
Google got everything it wanted from Motorola. A phone manufacturer wasn't what they were looking for.
https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/java.html

Consistently twice as slow, with memory usage between 2 and 400(!) times larger. Java is slow and bloated compared to native.

Your next argument will be something about how micro-benchmarks don't reflect reality for larger programs...