skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" “What did you do in the Great War, Daddy?” The recruiting poster deserves ridicule and contempt, of course, but here its question is embarrassingly relevant, and the problem is one that touches on the dirty little secret of social class in America. Arthur T. Hadley said recently that those for whom the use of the A-bomb was “wrong” seem to be implying “that it would have been better to allow thousands on thousands of American and Japanese infantrymen to die in honest hand-to-hand combat on the beaches than to drop those two bombs.” People holding such views, he notes, “do not come from the ranks of society that produce infantrymen or pilots.” And there’s an eloquence problem: most of those with rsthand experience of the war at its worst were not elaborately educated people. "
I'm sure they can get more ad revenue if the contestants are forced to compete above shark-infested waters, too!
SpaceX's Falcon 9 first stage has landed (again)
The "without affiliation" aspect is a dealbreaker in many fields. Lots of journals won't even acknowledge you if you're not at an academic institution.
Or a private lending library that is technically open to the public, but no one ever goes there, because all the books are about dental drills.
It absolutely can get expensive with lots of threads running. And you are also right that this code ends up making each thread reach a synchronization point. Luckily Objective-C is targeted towards clients which generally don't have a bazillion threads running so it's generally not a problem.

There was talk at some point of adding a single syscall that got all the PCs of all the threads at once to cut down on the overhead, but it looks like that still hasn't happened.

What's going on here is something like this:

1. objc_msgSend is Obj-C's method dispatcher, and it depends on method caches to make method lookup faster.

2. Sometimes the method caches become out of date. For instance, maybe the method cache filled up and the Obj-C runtime needs to allocate a larger method cache.

3. This old method cache has to be GC'd at some point, so it's added to a freelist.

4. This GC function (the "write" you're talking about) for these caches runs once the size of outdated method caches grows beyond a certain threshold (garbage_threshold in the code). So it shouldn't run too often. The GC function works by checking if any thread is currently within objc_msgSend. If no function is in objc_msgSend, then the runtime is sure that none of the method caches on the free list is in use.

5. It is definitely optimized for reads. The "read" in this case is literally a method dispatch so it happens all the time, and it's important for the read to be lock-free.
Ok, but I feel like you may have missed the part where the "looks threatening" bit here is "is a black man".
I don't agree. I think the first-mover advantage gave them a big leg up, but people wouldn't have kept using the platform for 12 years if they were relying entirely on that. Competitors like Origin might have had a fighting chance if Valve hadn't constantly been creating a superior suite of products.

You mention issues with Early Access and Greenlight, but these seem like trivial problems when compared to how solid the platform is overall. Steam as a platform is just far and away superior to any other choice in the gaming space. I can play any PC game at my desk or in my living room. The interface scales great to a TV screen. The Steam Controller is innovative and incredibly customizable, and it's supported by virtually any game in Steam. SteamVR is very fully developed itself and supports both the Rift and the Vive; it even goes so far as to support Chaperone with the Rift despite the Rift not having any room-scale-tracked controllers yet. It has honestly grown into one of the best software ecosystems I've ever seen by offering functionality that competitors can't even dream of.
The point is that metrics are a fundamentally awful way to measure someone's value since they lack the empathy to observe nuance.
Again, I don't see how that is supposed to work. How long are people going to pay attention to "the big picture" when they still are only very rarely required to do something? If they don't have to do some action to actually keep the car on the road or to avoid getting honked at every 30 seconds or so, their minds will drift off.

This is just regular human nature. Sure you can do it for a while, but after a while you stop doing it.

I am quite sure that Tesla et al will discover soon enough you can't rely on people to step in like that. They just need to get their cars to work better than humans, all the time. (or as Elon Musk said, they should be at least an order of magnitude safer)
As I said, I'm a huge fan of tmux. I would be concerned if they broke tmux, but it does not seem to be the case.

I've seen people run "nohup [program]" and logout, not even run it in a tmux. If systemd killed their program, I would be quite happy about it.
>My opinion is that if you don't want to pay US taxes, don't do business in the US.

The do business in the US and they pay taxes on the business they do in the US. The US tax laws are absurd on this issue.

> there's nothing stopping Congress from enacting laws to tax stockpiled funds.

I am sure that would be help up in the courts for so long it would never see the light of day.
If anyone was wondering about repeatability I think they're well on the way to putting that to rest.
I agree. It seems like a lot of people are profoundly unable to be physically uncomfortable. It's disheartening to think about people who are so scared of sweating or having achey muscles that they'll avoid any experience that requires physical exertion.
And you will be able to use the same python tools for years to come. Good luck with JS frameworks there!
If the infrastructure being built isn't disposable, then it makes a lot of sense. For example, building a new transit line to the airport would make a lot of sense.

Building a gigantic temporary stadium does not.
Race isn't even a well-defined concept, so I'm pretty sure your evo-psych hypothesis doesn't apply.
Yes, teacher's stuff containing a ton of other people's SSNs and other personal info and sitting around for anyone to access without any barrier! Totally cool, just hope no one does an rummaging!
Glad I'm not the only one tearing up to the Overwatch cinematics!
the better we get at keeping people alive, the older they will get

I'm generally not a fan of people either but there are kids with cancer that I feel should get some time to enjoy their lives outside of dying in a hospital if at all possible, someday.

Besides, there are still many, many millions of people in the USA who can't get insurance so even if there was a "cure" or life extension, they couldn't afford it. Don't worry, they will die for you because emergency rooms don't treat cancer. For example if I got cancer, I'd be screwed.
Bruce Schneier has done so much for security, including by his ability to explain issues so clearly to the IT community and to the public.

If someone in the community of professional cryptographers and crypto-based security is reading this, what is his position in that community? Is he as prominent? A leader? A leading engineer?
Congrats again to SpaceX!

They had some live footage of the first stage reentry which was pretty cool.
As a 30-year old white guy, I had more success when I changed my profile picture to include me holding a baby (my cousin). Better to look like a family man than a partier.
> Not wrestling specifically, but you certainly wouldn't be the first to feel a sort of alienation from... I don't know: call it physicality. There's a general sort of malaise you can see present in the US at least, it's why (or possibly because of) we see so much shit marketed to us via faux authenticity.

I used to wonder why people would talk about running in language reminiscent of religion and addiction, until I started feeling the malaise you're describing strongly enough. Unrelatedly, I left my job around the same time (this was about a year ago) and lost the use of their onsite gyms, and started running for the first time since college.

Something was different between my college runs and these newer runs. In college I would bang out 2 or 3 somewhat tedious miles and come home feeling nothing more than satisfied that I had done my required amount of physical activity. I'm not 18 anymore so I've had to be careful about stretching and warming up, but with these new runs, I was up to ten miles within a week and a half. "Getting exercise because it's healthy" is almost incidental to the reason I run now, which has a lot more to do with the feeling of pushing myself as hard and as long as you can.

It's a pretty potent antidote to the general feeling of malaise; it seems that something hardwired pretty deeply in us considers difficult physical activity as worthwhile in and of itself. I'm sure there's more to it (the agrarian-utopianist/yearning for authentic experiences that you're describing), but hard physical activity alone gets you some of the way there, in the same way that you can access some of the surface benefits of meditation without delving into all of its traditional philosophical baggage.
A Call for a Temporary Moratorium on the DAO
Shareholders get nervous when companies hold too much cash, because they fear that management will blow it on stupid acquisitions. This ultimately hurts the value of the company.

Management is usually granted stock and/or stock options, which aligns their interest with the other stock owners.
Ah oops indeed. Skimmed too quickly :)

The replies from other people (A. Borzenkov) seemed OK.
False. If you're going to let your house out for short-term rentals on the market, you are obliged to follow the same rules regarding who you rent to as the hotels are.

If you don't want strangers in your house --- and I sure don't either --- don't try to capitalize on it on Airbnb.
C technically has consensus on what is and what isn't undefined behavior. You don't have sufficient tooling around that though, which means that while that consensus exists, it's hard to take advantage of it. Additionally you don't have consensus at all on what should and shouldn't be undefined behavior.

In practice that consenus has little to no meaningful impact.

In Rust on the other hand you have people that deeply care about problems like this, demonstrated not just by what they say but what they do. I think you can therefore have a lot of confidence in them not just reaching consenus on this issue but creating meaningful solutions based on that consensus.
It seems like there are a laundry list of reasons not to have the Olympics in Brazil this year:

* Zika
* President was impeached, rampant corruption farther down
* Crime and social unrest arising from the massive amount of money spent on Olympics vs social programs
* Reports of pollution making watersports unsafe

But the Olympics will definitely happen there, of course. Too much money already spent or planned to be spent.
"Race" is a fairly arbitrary name for one axis of socially constructed perceived in-group/out-group distinction, but the hypothesis suggested above can equally plausibly apply to any perceived in-group/out-group distinction regardless of whether the basis for it is in a "well-defined concept", so I don't see your challenge as particularly effective.
Right, the question is "how is that different from a statically-linked application?"
Yes. I'm on my phone so I can't find a link right now, but I've seen multiple people mention that it's OK to re-post until it hits the front page. Sorry for the lack of sources.
> race baiting

Knew this would be in here somewhere.

You could also just offer black people the same level of trust you do anyone else when they share a negative experience they've had with a product or service...
Vive doesn't have any real exclusives. You can already play most of the stuff on Rift with an MIT licensed Razer Hydra driver adapter that Valve released for free. Valve are treating headsets more like monitors, Oculus is treating them like a gaming console.

You have to dig in a menu and click a "scare toggle" to even run third party software on Oculus. On GearVR they don't even have the toggle. It will only run Oculus store apps.

and apps that you have signed to your individual device, making them impossible to distribute broadly
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. Especially not a thread like this, which is full of people relating specific experiences.
A unikernel isn't really much more than a weird system call ABI, though. There are some APIs that are better performing than standard (eg, virtio vs sockets) but that's a design issue, and operating systems can provide similarly performing apis. For example, netlink.
It's almost like this is becoming a regular occurrence. I'm looking forward to the next generation looking back on this and being incredulous that we used to completely throw away boosters on every launch.
3% * 10 years = 30%, wait 20 years and well you get the idea. The point is by keeping large foreign holdings you simply gain an ever larger tax burden until you need to bring money back to pay it off. After all foerein holdings are not a problem the problem is the unlimited tax dodge until tax holiday.

Also, the ability for companies to have subsidiary's as separate entity's is all down to law and can change at any time. US courts regularly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil
I hope the next SpaceX technological breakthrough is cameras that don't fog up on reentry.
Millions of middle-age spam writers unconcerned.
Conjectures are mathematics too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjecture
That doesn't make any sense... How does having one screwed up system justify another? Maybe we should start paying twice for groceries too, because we pay twice for toll roads and research papers...
SpaceX successfully lands a Falcon 9 rocket at sea for the third time
Stung by Yelp Reviews, Health Providers Spill Patient Secrets
Next thing you know, the NYT will be reprinting the late Gore Vidal essays where he talks about the "two wings of the owners' party".

Whew, real nutcase there. Ah ah. Ahem.
Well, what are the numbers for the others sectors: energy and finance? Would like to know for the sake of comparison.
you must be really be upset about the Fair Housing Act then. This just happened in my hometown: http://mynews4.com/news/local/36k-settlement-in-carson-city-...

$36k fine because a landlord "preferred to rent to adults".
In all seriousness I hope they release the full feed from that camera. It's got to be a hell of a view to see it bearing down on the drone ship from above.
Companies have these massive cash reserves because they are massively profitable each year and need somewhere to store the excess. So I fundamentally disagree with your argument that they have projects they want to fund and don't because they can't easily access the overseas cash. We're talking about tens of billions of dollars here for many companies, not $100M to sink into a new department or research project, which they can either easily fund out of operating revenue or get a loan for at less than 5% interest.

As I stated in another comment, the only winners of the 2004 repatriation holiday were shareholders and executives, not the American public. That's a big reason why people don't want a repeat.
This is a very strong endorsement:

> I am better Swift programmer after a year and a half in Swift than I was in Objective-C after 26 years.
Do you check ID at the door? No. You make sure it matches the picture.
There's No Tomorrow (limits to growth and the future) (2012)
I've often wondered if that would work. How big a market could that district be? If you made some documented effort not to sell your product there, would that be enough to argue that the case should be heard in a different venue?
Without downvoting, please remind me again why we need Olympics in this modern day and age?
Not true - Zika is spread by a specific mosquito species (Aedes aegypt) that is not found everywhere[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedes_aegypti#/media/File:Glob...
I think it's more than just fog and water condensation, IIRC the lens broke last time.
It allows developers to operate like they have a statically-linked application without having to undergo the cognitive dissonance of questioning the received "wisdom" that they are bad.
The idea isn't to end the hosts' racism, it's to prevent them from discriminating.

Ending racism is a complex and perhaps ultimately unsolvable problem, but mitigating it's effects is something we can and should do.
Good idea, but good lucking finding wide enough support for it. I think national and commercial interest will fight fiercely to keep the event moving because otherwise how would they "keep fostering investment" (producing lots of waste)?
That the press poisons people by excessive and irresponsible overreaction.

They are definitely dangers but instead of calm, logical, limited presentation of the problem, the press goes insane and turn people off to the issue.
Woman uses two LG cordless vacuum cleaners to climb a skyscraper
There's a huge flaw in there. When I rent a unit, I will do some client research and to the extent I can I will block the rental based upon my findings. For example if I read their blog and they come across as a risky customer (a profile photo with machine guns, money, and drugs or postings showing a they have a lack of character). Now it could be they also happen to be black, but when they create a fake profile and then get accepted it does not mean I blocked them due to race.

At a minimum you would need to make sure you fake both profiles to ensure everything but skin color is the same.
My point is just that there are a lot of people who reward known racists - so putting a label such as "I'm an anti-gay bigot" would reinforce people who think this is appropriate, which can result in even scarier things - things like having a person who is "overwhelmingly perceived as a con artist" being nominated as the Republican party's presidential nominee.
"In the sprit and dedication of the ever so relevant +Fravia, I might have hidden some other fun stuff out there in the world for thise that sill remember how what it means to search."

Hidden in white text at the end there. Sounds fun!
Obviously the bigger issue is the tens if not hundreds of millions of people who use the same password for MySpace and their email or bank accounts.
We are essentially temporary cell colonies evolved to relay life to the next generation, and as long as we are human, there will always be another cancer.

That sentence made that great article awesome.
As far as I can tell none of the vendors are pursuing that sort of aggressive vendor lock. You can distribute binaries through whatever method you wish and have them work with either the Vive or Oculus. The DRM issues stem mostly from content released on the Oculus Platform.

Your point about SteamVR and the Oculus Platform being roughly equivalent is true but I think about it in a similar context to drivers. Both platforms provide an API that you can build against, though personally I have been using SteamVR/OpenVR with both the Vive and the Oculus and I haven't touched the Oculus platform save a couple tests because building against OpenVR let's me use both the Oculus and the Vive.

OSVR is the real shining light of hope in this ecosystem but as of now it just provides a layer on top of SteamVR/OpenVR/Oculus/etc requiring you to run those services in the background.
The only safe way for Theil to come out of this is for him to double down and setup a legal defense fund for all the innocent people who get harassed by Gawkers of the world.
Wouldn't you get an immediate "connection refused" for localhost, not have to wait for a timeout?
Dude really?
Clever, but sickening that you have to do that.
Good launch pace, if they keep it up, they'll surely build up a positive reputation quickly.
Why would Facebook do that?
...or you could just, like, engage in some physical activity. Wrestling is fun, but if you're not still in school and your group of friends doesn't include some adventurous people roughly your size it might be hard to get started. Alternatively, you could just go to a party at which everybody gets really hammered, and suggest wrestling at the right time. Don't be a dick and get pissed off, though.
> I haven't reached a point where a lightbulb went off and I proclaimed "Hey I needed this".

You don't feel more productive in swift? Like a lot more?
Newspapers escalate their fight against ad blockers
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I'm pretty sure they're building it on land and then laying it in the sea.
The sharing economy is based on trust. Unfortunately there is some cultural baggage around this, but it is no fault of Airbnb.
I reserve the right to discriminate who can stay at my house. Similarly, when I am traveling as a solo (white) dude, I expect that it is tough to find a place to stay on Airbnb.

If someone rejects me, no big deal. Sexist? Probably but I understand.
broad != overly broad

It's a balancing act between a patent that is worthwhile to own yet still novel+non-obvious. Overly broad means prior art exists that can be used to invalidate. If none could be found then it means patent is valid.
Not all emotions have equal rights. Sadness elicits sympathy, rage elicits fear and hostility.
Hahaha yeah the meatheads have always bad-mouthed us tool-users.
RC means something
The EU is deepening the problems with non-territorial US taxes with its loony tax loopholes. Still, the USA could just end the problem entirely by going territorial.
The New Social Calendar – Disrupting Events
Is this the world’s most radical mayor?
When will SpaceX actually reuse one of these landed stages? That's the whole point, right?
When I am traveling to a tech conference as a solo (white) dude, I expect that it is tough to find a place to stay on Airbnb.

If someone rejects me, no big deal. Sexist? Probably but I understand. It just means I need to either:
a) try harder to look trustworthy
b) just stay at a hotel
c) stay at an airbnb with guaranteed booking
Robert Warton's collection of largenumber factorization algorithms
We'll put his name back in the title. (It was there before.)
For me, it looks like big mountain is popped up from the hole. IMHO, it happen when Ceres was still cooling after forming.
So far, you're wrong. I have a Vive and four kids. The Vive sees at least two hours of play time a day, with kids often sneaking time at weird hours. They were even getting up before 6 am, dressing and doing chores in order to play before school until my wife halted the practice.

When friends come over, it's the most offered activity; it's a very compelling experience. Not a ton of long form content yet, but seriously, it's compelling.
Building a geocoder in 5 minutes using open data
Absurd why? Just because you disagree with the policy doesn't make it stupid. Personally, I think the US tax laws are perfectly reasonable in intent on the issue, they're just poor on execution which results in the situation we currently have. I think we could both agree that a large chunk of the "business" being done abroad by many tech companies is fabricated nonsense based on shuffling IP around, building shell companies, and other tricks that have nothing to do with where money is actually generated in reality. The big losers here are small businesses that don't have the option to play tax avoidance games, not giant companies with multi-billion dollar profits year over year.

And I agree with you that we're unlikely to see meaningful forced taxation anytime soon based on the current political climate, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
Apple's VocalIQ AI
I think that the postmodern view is that racists are absolutely redeemable, and products of their environment.

But I suspect that the nature of postmodernism means we won't really be able to resolve what views are and aren't consistent with it to any objectively satisfying degree ;-)
3% * 10 years is 26%, not 30%. And later payments are better than earlier payments even when they're numerically equal.