skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting, for a network engineer that really does sound like heaven, full layer 3 all the way down to the hosts!

I recently did some Cisco ACI/Nexus work with virtualisation, however the client was only really interested about having massive layer 2 bridge domains spanning across two DC sites to make their App design/failover easier.
I'd be curious what AWS/DigitalOcean setup would be able to run HN. Any educated guesses?
I don't think i picture it at all in the same way that synasthetes literally "see" other senses, but I do picture a year as a 2d row divided into rectangles. I don't see it as a circle because I see no connection between the end of December and the January of the same year. The next January starts at the beginning of another row entirely unconnected to the previous year.
This one seems as though it has more sounds available, but that's definitely still not an excuse.
> They sink so much money into big action packed CGI pieces of rubbish when they could make 10 movies which have a decent story and longer shelf life for the same budget.

10? More like 100. With high quality video, it's become cheaper than ever to make a movie; the major expense could be the talent (but instead, it's the marketing, special effects, and graft.)
Playing with the F7 key in your command shell (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...) will likely help you gain insight, if only temporarily.
What is the catch?
Ontario is not winning anything, it is circling the toilet economically, with a government hell bent on making things much worse. There is no chance any significant number of people or companies will come back to Toronto to make less money because you think "we're progressive" is a selling point. So is San Francisco, and you can get paid there.

>This country is already winning with it's social policies and adopting multiculturalism

The current trend is towards more and more people opposing those policies. Ontario, Alberta, and the federal government being hyper progressive all at the same time is resulting in a significant push back towards traditional values and people are rediscovering their Canadian heritage.
Messing with paranoid people is not a good idea.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080925012857/http://archive.ga...

https://web.archive.org/web/20060223153949/http://archive.ga...
Is 2015 a worthy tag? This is from October.
I think the problem goes deeper than "don't publish sex tapes".

I have had a substantial number of news blog stories written about me, and I think among the general population of news bloggers there's a lack of professional ethics of the kind journalists supposedly used to have. Certainly not all bloggers are bad; some of them are upstanding, but really the majority are not.

When the incentive is just to get the most hits, it is very easy for a blogger to present a quote or situation out of context, or even for an editor to slant a headline in a certain way, in order to make the maximally inflammatory result. When this happens, it is parasitic behavior -- they are degrading your reputation in order to make money. But the amount of money they make off that article is small compared to how much you value your reputation, so the result is massively net-negative to the world.

This has happened to me A LOT so I have a pretty well-tuned sense for how it happens. I also have a pretty long list of journalists and outlets I won't do interviews with ever again.

The issues get pretty subtle. For example, it is common for them to take a one-or-two-sentence aside from an interview and write a ehole article about it, making it seem like you called a press conference just to say that one thing -- which is a massive distortion of your intent (and usually your personality). Because they want the most hits and people being enraged makes hits, it is usually a negative distortion. And it's intentional -- they are trained to look for these opportunities. I think it is very unethical, though of course there is nothing illegal about it -- you did say that exact thing.

I think as long as that is happening, it is hard to take these sites seriously as producing "journalism".
Show HN: A JavaScript emulator of the Synthi A synthesizer
...when citizens successfully petition their government for a redress of grievances?
> Maybe the original asker and I should have done ctrl + f for r% — but that didn’t occur to me, so I assume it didn’t occur to them either.

Great, so you've learnt something for next time.

> Beginners need guidance. They’re dumb and they flail around and they get stuck on “easy” problems. That’s why resources like Learn Python the Hard Way and Stack Overflow exist in the first place.

Sorry, but no. "Stack Overflow is for professional and enthusiast programmers, people who write code because they love it." Stack Overflow's biggest problem is that frequent contributors are getting fed up with the torrent of newbie questions from people who haven't programmed for a month.

Imagine joining Math Overflow because you're an enthusiast mathematician... only 19 of every 20 questions are about how to multiply two digit numbers. Imagine joining a DIY group after years of practice only to find that you spend most of your time building cubes out of playdough and sticks. Have you tried reading the new queue on Stack Overflow? What does this[1] even mean? (I'm actually kind'a shocked about how good it's looking right now; only about half of the questions are utterly irredeemable.)

People from the outside don't see this. There are filters in place and people who care to make them work. So all you see is the hostility and none of the reason. But please believe me when I say that it's not just us being cronies. We really do care about the site, and we just don't want to lose it.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37779153/how-to-enable-di...
Maybe they should make better movies, instead of endless sequels to movies made when "millennials" either weren't born yet or were too young to care.
Website has unemployed profs writing students' essays
Circular dependencies are different than duplicate symbols, though, yes? Anyways, my point is not that it's impossible, but that I'm already working at the edge of my knowledge, and I picked the lowest-risk/smallest-chunk pieces of work to get started.
Well, I'd argue (and I think I mentioned it in the comment) that you generally don't buy a motorcycle to save on gas. You do so to enjoy the road. :o)
Problem is as have been pointed out again and again: there are so many amazingly useful questions closed as "not constructive". All while IIRC quiz-type "trivia" questions seems be more OK.
Err, yes. Thiel was completely out of order backing legal suits in order to achieve a "political" end.

If he was not suing an unsavoury gossip-monger the discussion around this would be vastly different.

Irrespective of the legality this was a spiteful campaign at odds with the stated case(s) involved.

Yes he should be held to account for it.

Edit: change to clarify middle paragraph.

Is this a UK/US thing? Being outed in the UK was a political action for sometime in the 80s but has more or less had its time - it has no shock value and little political value. Or is the focus on the supposed cause of thiels actions the irrelevant part?
Our next shuttle run is on 16nm... Depending on a bunch of different options, it is "only" ~2-4x the cost of a 28nm run (and should be declining in the next year). Doing a full mask set is still extremely expensive though (~$5-10m range)
Ideally you want L3 to be fast, but it's going to be somewhat slow just by the nature of being large. And talking to ram is going to be slow even if the intra-chip pathways are infinitely fast. An extra few percent off-core latency isn't the end of the world if it lets you fit ten times as much computation on the die. L2 and L1 won't be affected.

And encoding video is nearly the platonic ideal of not caring about memory latency. You could easily make memory requests ten thousand cycles before you need the results. You just need throughput.
Well, he shoots assault rifles with scopes and tosses poker chips in your face. How can you argue with that?
it seems like a lot of people here are in a feedback loop, only upvoting / listening to what they think fits. Everyone's quick to believe they know it all, when in fact that is the very issue the arguments are about.

I get why you used a throw away. I'm not against civil discussions, I just hate when people don't use logic and take all evidence with a grain of salt. I don't for a second doubt parts of the govt. are hiding valid evidence for the conversation any more than the media is lying to sell their narrative too. Bottom line is the media has the upperhand, they can make baseless claims and choose what to say knowing damn well that the Govt. can't refute it.
This is something I've been working on the past few months. It's still got some quirks but is mostly feature-complete. See https://github.com/AlexNisnevich/synthi-js for more details.

Chrome 45+ or Safari 7.1+ highly recommended - Firefox doesn't perform very well for some reason.
Welcome to the programming community! People are generally kind and willing to help, but there is one caveat: there is frequently little patience for questions which you could have resolved yourself.

With time you'll both learn to identify these and to write your questions in a way that it reflects that you've "done your research."
If you were moving to the US and were worried about cost of living, Seattle would be a great option. You'd probably spend 2k on an apartment there, making the math much more enticing to move.
panic_fmt can be as simple as (C pseudocode):

printf("...");
kill(getpid(), SIGABRT);
while(true)
/* In case kill(ABRT) returns, halt. */;
Yeah but like 4chan, Terry Davis is super-racist.
so how does the orange Prince of Orange fit on this tale?
Okay, I tried to graph out taxes between Toronto and SF.

check it out:
https://github.com/bsurmanski/TorontoSFTax

It looks like between 60k-200k, taxes in Toronto are actually lower. Between 200k-700k, it is cheaper in SF. At 300k, Toronto tax is about 1.5% more, and at 400k, Toronto tax is about 2% more.

But being realistic, most people in tech would pay less tax in Toronto.

edit:
This calculation also does not take into account any other taxes (such as sales tax, or property tax), and is not adjusted for cost of living. SF has an edge in sales tax (8.75% in SF vs 13% in Toronto), but Toronto has a huge edge in cost of living (according to [0], Toronto is 32% cheaper), and property tax (1.14% in SF vs 0.7% in Toronto).

[0] - https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/san-fra...
Really? Was there a referendum where the citizens of Austin were able to cast a ballot? Nobody I spoke with mentioned that.
Where are we supposed to get opinions from? Would we have a success if we started "OpinionStack.com"? I believe if we did so, we should outdate the votes, so the top answer would be the most fashionable nowadays.
This article is confusing an industry with its primary distribution method. The movie industry isn't yet in trouble, it is the theater industry that is in trouble.

When people talk about the impending death of cable TV, no one equates it with the death of the television industry as a whole. This is because the future of TV has become clear with the Netflixs, Amazons, Hulus, and HBOs of the world. The question is will the movie industry follow down that path of embracing a new distribution model or will it impede progress at every turn and face a fate similar to the music industry.
WGA screenwriting credit system
Main problem is that Hollywood's media strategy is simply not reaching millenials anymore.

Media consumption is split 60:40 on internet<>linear TV in the relevant target group, but media buying is split 40:60, quickly falling apart further.

And where it's digital, it's still mostly old school CPM and "premium" brand traffic that's extremely inefficient and reaching just a fraction of the users. Trailers of relevant films often simply aren't reaching potential moviegoers anymore.

Disclaimer: Currently building a company fixing this for Hollywood.
Your claim was "Very little atom movement = very low chance of an electron hitting a moving atom." That's something you get in a normal conductor. Low temperature, low resistance. A superconductor has no resistance. This is a very different thing. Completely different effects are taking over to make that happen.
> The problem for Hollywood isn’t that audiences are ignoring sequels. The problem for Hollywood is that audiences are ignoring everything that isn’t a sequel, adaptation, or reboot.

I prefer original films over sequels. With few exceptions most sequels I've seen were so bad that nowadays I rarely consider them.

If Hollywood think that X-Men 11 is the answer they problems beyond those mentioned in the article.
Then maybe just maybe add a rule that you must lurk before asking questions?

When the site clearly looks like as a place for noobs to get questions answered for free then maybe don't complain that you get just that.
I think the issue is that no one wants the same old, formulaic, big media any more. It's funny how many of the old fixtures of the American economy develop this rent-taking attitude toward their businesses, as though they have a right to continue reaping profits simply because they were so good at doing it before. Maybe, if they actually kept pace with innovation in technology and content delivery the way that today's audience demands, they wouldn't be having this problem.
>and the people who look like lumberjacks probably are

No, they are the same hipster dufus people as in Portland. There are no lumberjacks in Toronto.
I was wondering about the same thing. Is this one more example of Finnish over-compliance with European regulation?
I think the ratings are targeted there more because of advertising restrictions, rather than any real desire to get younger $$
I think their bald contempt for the legal process had a lot to do with it:

http://gawker.com/a-judge-told-us-to-take-down-our-hulk-hoga...
No they don't. Toronto is two plane rides away for them.
Problem is when you are stumped with some small detail you have missed.

I must admit I have come to the point were I unconsciously just don't ask questions on SO and instead try another hour on my own instead of even trying to ask.
Good summary. Downvoters gonna hate. Doesn't change the truth.
As far as I can tell, the largest single cost in producing a movie is still the cast.

However, I agree with the general idea of this thread, that the cost of production is the driving force causing studios studios to play it extra safe, and make crappy movies that they think will be broadly appealing, because each one is such a gamble.
You got there before me :)

The fact that people using the internet is a more informed might have something to play in there.

Or it might just be that Hollywood are producing crap and crap again for some unknown reason. One could argue that they should be more informed these days, using what i stated above.
If what you're making now doesn't compare favorably to the oceans of stuff already made, why make it? It made sense before video/DVD/oceans-of-zero-cost-digital-distribution to constantly make repetitive pastiche of what came before, but what does that mean when we can watch everything that came before just as easily (or more easily) as we can watch what just came out?

I think it's good that the audience for pointless new expression is increasingly limited. Why should culture spin its wheels forever, remaking Batman? [edit: even worse, earnestly remaking Batman?]

(also, I upvoted you; my disagreement with the concept isn't the aggressive kind, thanks for pointing it out.)
Alot of the oil based D3 supplements are obtained from the fleeces of sheep. The risk with this is what the organophosphates and other chemicals, sheep are dipped in before being shorn that might also be present in supplements, plus some supplements dont even contain the claimed/stated ui/mcg amounts of d3.

I prefer the sun or lying under my UVB lizard flo tubes for an hour a day.

If you do want to get high levels of d3 in your body, make sure you also increase at least your zinc, magnesium, and eating your greens, brussel sprouts, parsely or iodine rich sea food like seaweed will all help, but you really need to be in tune with your body and its cravings to know what your body wants.
http://nutritiondata.self.com/foods-000104000000000000000-w....

Some foods and drink will blunt or dull your food cravings like sugar.

Vit D2 is not as beneficial as D3 to humans, but you get D2 from some plants like mushrooms exposed to UV light.

You have to bear in mind humans like all life on this planet has evolved under the sun over millions of years. Life evolves to cope with the environment it lives in, ie survival of the fittest.

BTW if you want to be naturally exposed to anthrax, get friendly with some sheep.

Thing is though, its not just Vit D people should be focused on, in general its a healthy balanced diet with plenty of sunshine and exercise which is best.

This chap, http://www.creditonparishchurch.org.uk/history/sir-john-de-s... is an example of how long life can be gained even when the life expectancy all those years ago was relatively low due to the statistics and infant mortality which dragged down the life expectancy see back in medieval times.
> I'm not a partner in the business. I have zero interest in seeing fees and other costs "deaggregated,"

100% agreed. As far as I'm concerned, one of the things I'm buying when I deal with a business is minimized cognitive load. Any time I see somebody tacking on a bunch of extra fees that I can't control, I resent it. E.g., the "fuel surcharge" thing, or SF restaurants adding health care costs as a bill line item. Put 'em in the price and stop screwing with me.
Gwern covered ETEWA about a year earlier than Oswalt, but with a different stance. Why should we need or want new media when we already have enough classics to keep us occupied for the rest of our lives?

http://www.gwern.net/Culture%20is%20not%20about%20Esthetics

EDIT:

Also, as of now, you're the only one with anything profound to say in here. Good job.
Isn't this kind of like arguing over which brand of hot dog has more pink slime and factory floor sweepings? They all do.

Anyway, ME is likely to be a much higher value target for hackers. A compromise there would compromise millions of PCs, whereas a UEFI hack would be specific to one vendor.
All true, but the system arguably has some important advantages. The rate of tech adoption (e.g. Interac) and the relative insulation from global banking turmoil are two that instantly come to mind.

I hate the banks as much as any red blooded Canadian but it's important to remember that our system is the envy of many other countries.

It's with good reason that the former Bank of Canada governor (Mark Carney) was recruited to head up the Bank of England and also serves as the chairman of the G20's Financial Stability Board.
This happened before in the late 90s. Before the first bubble. What happened then was some slingshot effect, when Canadians go to SF and make $200K for 10 years, and still can't afford a house and are faced with mediocre schools unless they want to commute (which they don't) they may come back.
Maybe you can write an article on how you traveled the world with free miles during your investing vacation? Where do cheapos like this guy get money to invest in startups? Money laundering?
But the justification of the money that goes to the cast is marketing. You get a star to sell a particular movie.
You can't use it in America.

Data plans are stupid cheap outside of North America
Jesus, we are clearly way off message on this.
Very awkward day to make this claim.
It doesn't matter how much the under 18 crowd spend. It's whether their parents will take them to it and spend money.
> Ever since 7 / 8.1 got telemetry backported in, they're on equal footing with 10 from a privacy standpoint.

I primarily run FreeBSD. But when I run Windows, it's a fresh SP1 install with updates disabled. I am not worried about the safety of it. I have a firewall, behind a router, and I don't install much of anything. I just use Windows for chatting and browsing online, watching streaming media services, etc. If something were to become compromised, I'd just wipe the drive with nothing of value lost or stolen in the process. I have another Windows box that doesn't even have internet access that is solely used to build and release Windows ports of my software.

Telemetry is part of it. I also find the interface ugly as sin (duller than Windows 3.1), don't like how bloated it's becoming (Metro tiles, Cortana, etc), don't like how difficult it is to disable updates, etc.

To be honest, if I had my way, I'd be on Windows XP (classic mode) still for what I use Windows for. The main draw to 7 was that XP's 64-bit drivers were mostly garbage or just plain unavailable; and I have lots of RAM and like the speed boost for 64-bit software too much.

> Love your work by the way.

Thank you very much! But ...

> bsnes/higan is a significant contribution to the human race.

I don't know about all that o_O'

At the end of the day, it's just video games.
I hadn't clicked that link before. The narrator doesn't make many substantive claims that can be tested. He mostly just says a particular person was there, which the video seems to show.

I was thinking of some of the more testable claims made in the article. For instance, the person who claimed that their behavior was being mimicked.
It's so easy to do machine learning and think you're a genius when you are in fact overfitting. It's almost like casino gambling. You tweak some hyperparameter, pull the slot machine lever, and wham, your model says you should be rich real soon...
Because -- and I may be wrong about this -- the FFI has zero runtime overhead, not zero coding effort overhead (i.e., FFI code isn't identical to native Rust code). So you'd want to rewrite again (the FFI code to native code) as you translate more functions.
I generally like Tim (and have genuinely found some of the tips, particularly stoic philosophy, really useful) but I wish he'd take a break from the marketing bullshit.