skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny that this article does not even mention once that East Germany is pretty well known for right-party extremists - and this might be one of the reasons of its shrinkage, instead of further development.

As a non German native, I find this one of the main reasons not to live in such a city. As far as I know ( but please don't take my words for granted ) Germany is investing pretty much to develop and to grow in this region (lower tax rates/fares for mortgages, lower house prices, and so forth), due to the fact it was deeply underdeveloped compared to the rest of Germany before/after 1990. However, my understanding is that this region is destined to be the "cheap" region with low paid salaries (companies like Zalando hire there). It would be a cool idea to attract cheaper workers, but first they need to solve these "right-party" problems - but this won't change any time soon, considering the political situation in Germany.

This is the region you hear about in the news when they mention people with "molotov against refugees camp" or similar episodes; this is the region Pegida comes from: exactly the cultural hub of Germany. Seriously? Germans are not like that (and if you talk with many of them, you'll realize it).
PM7 platform reduces expenses for growth and boosts retention with a flexible system of rewards for users. It works like a word-of-mouth marketing when users keep spreading the word about apps getting bonuses for installs and for friends' purchases. It goes viral and never stops.
Canaan's 28nm chip (Avalon A3218 in the Avalon 6) does a lot better than what you quoted: 0.3 J/GH at the wall.

As to electricity costs, I was personally running a small 10 kW GPU farm at $.02/kWh back in 2011 in Douglas County, Washington where most Public Utility Districts are basically non-profits due to historical reasons in the region. Most smart large-scale miners are paying $0.05/kWh or less. If not, they are dumb and go bankrupt like KnCMiner did 2 weeks ago.

So 1 TH/s of Avalon 6 gear costs $0.36/day, however at $0.05/kWh it mines $1.74/day right now (or $1.00/day 2 weeks ago when BTC was around $400). Certainly profitable.
Because they're too busy chasing the QER.
> reasonable hardware should have the performance margin to load a reasonable number of pages from a SSD without dropping a frame

My disks are usually encrypted though and sometimes I can choose faster or slower encryption methods (thus affecting throughput when loading). I don't see how this can work reliably without forcing the user to reserve specific disk areas just for GPU assets.
International law has always been very careful not to proscribe the bombing of enemy leaders just because they're not in a conflict zone, never mind going so far as to require soldiers to wait until they're under fire before shooting enemy soldiers. There are serious questions about the adequacy of the intelligence reports and whether - as with many conventional military operations - the tendency to cause civilian casualties means the strikes do more far harm than good, but on the other hand more research has been put into identifying that the intended targets were responsible for "obviously bad" things than virtually anyone else killed in warfare.
Inheritance is the Base Class of Evil
Do you consider this an assumption?
> It is a small cost to pay to get back in business quickly.

Theres no guarantee by paying the ransom that you receive your data.
Is TDD dead?
>"But remember, C++ has a good 10 year head start on java, and java gained a lot of traction because of all the tools they didn't have to build"

The thing is... I don't think Java took over C++ developers. Most likely they took over Pascal, Delphi, VB, Perl and other enterprise developers.

Every decade there is a language that claims to kill C++ (Java in the 90's, Go in the 2000's) offering features that are not bothering C++ developers and end taking off by attracting developers from other communities (like Go with Python devs).

I believe that memory safety or manual memory management is not the mainly concern for a C++ developer. On the other hand, if you give the same tools that C++ has and reduce complexity and then you might got into something, until then...
Can you add asp.net into the technology filter please?
Who leaves the tv on when they wash the car and feed the cat?

:)
This is anecdotal, but in my experience, the complaints about "everyone working long hours" is usually a sign of either:

a) Poor planning on the part of management, resulting from not enough resources or hires

b) Poor market performance, leading to having to squeeze more out of the existing resources to get the results originally projected to the investors

Certainly there are people who like to work long hours and there are jobs that will give them all the work they can want, but those typically aren't the people complaining about it.
In that case, the blog post was explicitly comparing Rust and C++. It is not surprising that the comparison goes both way.

I am talking about the HN topics like "How to implement a packet tracer in C++" or "Optimize std::vector with C++14" where invariably a comment like "Who use C++ in 2016 when you have Rust?" spawns. Rust is amazing, but that doesn't make it the de-facto answer to all the projects. Some people might still want to increase their skills in their day-to-day language like C++, even if they are aware of Rust awesome features.
Psychology of Design Pt3 – 9 Startling Facts About Memory
The US stopped having wars with nations and instead has gone onto wars against ideas and things. The war against terror and the war against drugs being two of them. This way they can pick and choose which country to war with those elements without warring with a nation.
Find love overseas: simple ways to make people outside the US love your product
If the developers cannot afford housing, who can? Is the world getting awash with QE-printed money?
Just from watching the trailer I got the impression of this being another 'Dungeons and Dragons' disappointment (if you haven't watched that movie, you totally should. It's beyond of being horrible).

It's a pity if you have watched the CGI animations in Blizzard games. I think that was what most of the people were waiting but they decided to use real humans (which small bodies don't match at all with the overbuild bodies in CGI) with a terrible acting instead.
We've barely started touching the security of things like WebGL, I really don't want to see DMA attacks coming to me via the internet just yet.
Ask HN: Anyone else excited about Ethereum?
True - it's deceitful and spreading misinformation.

This is tangental, but I also think that posting open job positions online when there isn't one should be considered fraud as well. Same with recruiters who do the bait and switch. People invest time from their lives into those, only to result as a record in a database somewhere when there was never any intention to hire.
You're right that mmap is not free.

It's just a lot better than current status quo. Loading more or less full scene assets to GPU RAM regardless whether they're actually present in current frame or not.

Even if some texture is visible, it might be only a tiny fraction of some particular mipmap level is actually needed.

TLB flush cost is pretty insignificant here. A bit like accidentally crushing your finger with a sledgehammer and complaining the hammer was a bit cold. Besides, you'd be talking about TLB flush cost on the GPU. Maybe GPUs can just hide all of that latency with a high number of hardware threads, just like they've hidden RAM latency for over 10 years.
The abject failure of weak typing
New gamification API was released
As an aside, how do you do to find such old posts ? Is there a search function I haven't heard of ?
Author here: just wanted to reiterate the final point from the article: being aware of country-specific stuff doesn't mean you have to spend massive amounts of time in IFDEF hell.

> Know what your largest non-US markets are, and put a little effort into the things that will make a big difference for them.

The reverse is also true: if you know you can't properly cater to a market - in our case some governments are particularly difficult to work with when validating customers for EVs - then save your support staff time by filtering those countries out in your sign up process.
Often, "I couldn't tell that this was a parody" says more about you than about the thing being parodied.
Introducing KOSMA: collect your friends travel recommendations on one map
I had a Volvo (in Europe, so not an expensive import, but 'domestic') and it cost me a fortune. It was so boring I could feel it sucking at my soul when I got in it, and the engine timing could only be set by Volvo using specialist tools. There is something wrong in the car industry that regulation is not addressing, imo.
Yeah re: price tag, someone check my math, but NY rents are about $55/sq ft/year [0] and the apartment profiled is $106/sq ft/yr!!

[0] http://www.elliman.com/pdf/eed565a3adc1c94a4ccc9243ad0b932f6...
Don't forget if you're on a system with DTrace, Ruby supports a nice bunch of probes for various events: http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.3.0/doc/dtrace_probes_rdoc.html
The importance of team identity
After reading all the comments here I think developers and users should arrive at a compromise; we (the users) will accept WebView apps and put up with their clunkiness, but developers should pledge to make native versions as soon as they can if their thing becomes popular.

Acknowledge the WebView versions as a beta, because that's what it is; a less than optimal experience for the users.

Treat WebViews as a prototyping tool and please don't sugarcoat it as "indistinguishable" from native apps because they aren't.
How to get rid of spam from indians?
I have my own domain with an email where I constantly receive plenty from indians offering me their super services for $5. Website for $5! Programming for $5! Anything else for $5!

Apart from setting up better spam filters, what else can I do? Can I complain somewhere?
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Maybe this would be better done outside the US?

Since BTC etc, the fed seems more interested in interfering with financial disruption...
Spying on the DOM – unit testing front-end code without a browser
ZaZaZoo Motorized Animal Rides
Smoking (or drinking) is horrible for many reasons. Being unreflective is not one of them. You could even consider it as some kind of meditation. I also think the comparison with the rock and roll argument is totally wrong. When the older generation complained about r&r they did not adopt it as the current old generation has adopted smartphones and the internet. When somebody of 40 years compare current and older ways of life has a good grasp of both of them. That said, I totally agree with your last paragraph.
Leon and SPARC are nice to have. OpenRISC also looks appealing.

http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=13234...

https://speakerdeck.com/asb/lowrisc-plans-for-risc-v-in-2016

https://kevinmehall.net/openrisc/guide/

https://github.com/riscv
For me, the DB Navigator. The app of the German railway that has timetables and connections for all sorts of public transit in the country.

Also the music player.
For those who won't/can't make it through the article:

- overarching theme is that "Silicon Valley is Rome in the time of Caesar"; things are good now because the winners win so big that they slurp up money from all over the world and get to spend it suing Gawker into bankruptcy.

- minor theme is that "The Donald Trump phenomenon has been largely fueled by voters angry that their jobs are getting reamed by technology"

- SV companies are swinging so much influence and money they're competing with nation states;

- 12/20 of the most valuable tech companies in 2015 are in SV (representing 87% of the revenue); none outside of America, China and Japan. 11/12 in America are in SV.

- the top 3 phone apps in India are owned by Facebook, and the vast majority of the phones run iOS or Android

- Uber takes 20% of every fare back to SV, wherever it operates

- Alphabet controls 12% of global ad spending

- "Atoms" America is in trouble; "Bits" America is doing really well

- when smart people anywhere in the world want to build a tech company, they go to SV; some investors don't even bother looking outside of SV anymore

- tech makes things cheap/free, which means people can't earn money doing those things anymore; there used to be lots of map makers and map sellers, now there's just Google

- "If you put all the current trends together, it seems obvious Silicon Valley will become the most powerful place on earth at the expense of just about everywhere else on earth. The one thing that might derail the Silicon Valley express would be something like the Russian Revolution, in which the workers rise up against the autocracy."
> And then there's Dutch

Yes, it is really funny to see our swearing translated to English, as well as the other way around.
I can say 'cunt' (kut) casually at work when something doesn't work as expected. However, saying 'cancer' (kanker) will raise eyebrows.
Maybe. I worked for a time with Epic Systems, which is an EMR company that saw record growth in the 2000's, and they're still privately traded today because they didn't want to focus on the bottom line.

Anyone in the know could possibly argue that the CEO is also a control freak, but she's used that control to keep the company focused on a high-quality/safe user experience for patients, which isn't a bad thing IMO.
Public company management is in need of some innovation, namely when it comes to communication between companies and stockholders. I see two avenues where technology enables evolutionary leaps:

1) Accounting: Accounting, today, is mostly the same as it was a century ago. Namely, from an engineer's perspective, it does not contain the notion of error, which is obviously essential. If you go look at, say, Coca-Cola's financial statements, you'll find a value for their brand defined to the second decimal point. I know one thing about that value: it is wrong. It should be X(+/- error at 99% confidence).

2) Governance: Communication between management and stockholders is limited to the annual meeting, complemented by the board of directors. This model is flawed, the board of directors band-aid is ineffective, and there's room for much much fine grained communication and hence better governance.

Since stock exchanges mandate over these aspects of listed organizations, there is space for innovation, hopefully attracting investors and guaranteeing the spread of the next generation of business governance.
Ask HN: Financial resources for IT certification course, exam, or otherwise?
Any programs out there either federal, state, or local to Kentucky, USA that can provide financial assistance in IT Certifications? (Specifically Cisco CCENT, but anything is welcome)

I have fairly easy access to the training material but more is always better. I'm more specifically worried about the exam cost itself. Even though it's only roughly $150 that's still a lot when you don't have that.

It may not be helpful but I wear two hearing aids and receive my hearing aids through Vocational Rehabilitation services locally and plan to ask them as well. I was just curious if anyone knew of anything else possibly?

I'm not looking for personal loans, student loans or anything like that. Just simply maybe organizations or government programs that are out there.

Thanks in advance guys!
Things like downvote and flag privileges would allow botnets to censor HN and spin comment threads their way.
Once a day should be enough. Anyone who needs you more urgently than that can phone or perhaps even drop by.
Mondo bank crowdsourcing name change
At least there was a good trailer ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m59oTieJFF4
I mean, the guy does work at Facebook. It seems churlish to complain that he uses his company's product to share material.
> it's not their role to be the researchers, just the approvers of the people in command of the research.

Poor Abdulah dies. He was just buying some groceries for his family, and was taken for Muhamed, who really looks like him, but they just were once in a bar drinking tee, just by chance on the same place at the same time. Somebody fucked up.

The gatherers of information on the field are not responsible because they are just collecting facts, which could be used for anything, so they have nothing to do with the death of Abdulah. Errors happen all the time when collecting information, and anyway who would know this one little fact would be used to assassinate poor Abdulah?

The intelligence provider is not responsible because he is not taking any decission, just passing information higher up the chain of command.

The approver is not responsible, because he is just vetting intelligence provided by others.

The one pulling the drone's trigger is not responsible, since he is just following orders.

The drone is not responsible, since it is just a machine.

The politicians designing the whole system are not responsible, since they were doing their best and, you know, shit happens, we can not make perfect laws which cover every possible eventuality.

In fact nobody killed poor Abdulah. I wonder if he is still alive?

> Too many degrees of separation

By design, if you ask me. Now you can bomb anything and kill anybody, since nobody really did it.
The one in NE Colorado is likely oil extraction from the Niobrara shale formation.

The street view is from 2007. If you switch to aerial view (from 2016) you'll see many identical looking installations which are likely oil wells installed during the previous 10 years.

http://archives.datapages.com/data/mountain-geologist-rmag/d... says that since 2009 some 4400 wells have gone into Weld County, CO.
I've been unemployed for a long time, despite working hard on a job search.
Whose soldiers? Whose civilians?
Voting rights tied to the length of time one has held shares? That cannot fly. It certainly sounds like a great deal for founders, who would have owned their shares longer than anyone else, but is totally unworkable for outside investors. How does one value a share that, if sold, would immediately diminish in value? How is a lender to grant credit based on such collateral? Options would be massively difficult, leading to a secondary market for shell contracts in order that shares need not officially change hands.

I see massive instability. Say everyone votes on some matter on day one. If that same vote occurs later in time the results may shift, even if nobody sells any shares. So any decision taken by shareholders is time-specific. That doesn't promote long-term thinking. Rather, it promotes gamesmanship and trickery to ensure that votes happen when most advantageous to whomever is in control of the schedule.

Markets are not some invention that can be re-invented overnight. They are the result of a thousand years of contract law, codified recently but based on long-standing principals. Altering those principals to suit the desires of founders cannot happen overnight. Don't like it? Don't take the windfall. Don't go public.
For years Blizzard has let their success go to their head.

They no longer report their subscription count due to the massive hemorrhaging of players to better games.

One only needs to look at Game of Thrones to enjoy a good story. Warcraft entirely missed the mark in that regard, and the CGI scaling issues could easily be forgiven if the company would listen to anyone at all.

But they still have their heads locked firmly in their asses, so we can expect a couple more films and some tweaks to their process but nothing more.

Short of bombing at the boxoffice, wow will plod along ruining a genre.
The biggest difference between RAII and other approaches based on higher order functions and closures is that RAII is bound to object lifetimes, while other approaches are bound to scopes. They compose differently.
Godwin's law or not, it's very tempting to see analogies with the Nazi Germany in an era where we are seriously and casually asking questions such as for the difference between "execution" and "combat" -- or re-legitimize torture...
Indeed. One search, and it's all in memory in the disk cache - the files involved are typically small so it should all fit.
And sometimes, if your goal is to actually test viability, the MVP is in fact quite large.
Racketeering Lawsuit Exposing Nationwide Vote Rigging in DNC Primaries
It was awful. It washed the cat and fed the car.
Here's the TV episode from "Cheating Vegas" on them: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CiWHcpU6snM . This show was pretty interesting if you're into finding out how people tried to get an advantage on the casinos.
Clinton approved a number of controversial things during her tenure, but who approved this article at Salon, knowing full well that the major search engines would not curate it? We can be fairly certain a satirical piece from the Onion or NYT's Borowitz on Trump ordering drone strikes via Twitter would be far more likely to make search engine news.
Ask HN: What is a good salary for Senior software Engineer 7+ years in Amsterdam
Hello,
I have recently been offered a job at a startup in Amsterdam and would like to know what is considered a good salary for my experience.
Pirates Get Game of Thrones Early, Again
"So sorry!"
Integer Factorization: The Holy Grail
I am actually worried about myself for spending too much time with the smart phone. Even at the bathroom, while I stand peeing I browse stuff that I actually don't care that much about. It is a compulsion. Probably should get treatment. I find that I've started to lose the ability to read and concentrate on longer pieces of text. I hardly read books anymore, which goes into things at any depth.

I used to take long walks where I thought about difficult problems and found solutions. I would ponder these problems on the bus, or subway. I never mined being alone with my thoughts before. I never understood how people could be bored when there are so many things one could be thinking about.

Yet here I am in 2016 incapable of being alone in my own thoughts for more than 5 minutes before pulling up the iPhone. I starts to feel more like a bad drug, than a usable tool.

If anybody has good suggestions for phones or ways of configuring the iPhone so that I can only read email. I am not addicted to email. It is the browsing functionality which is so addictive.

I also wish I was not wasting my time on HN writing this comment ;-)