skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My feeling is that processor development essentially came to a halt because the fruits of Moore's law were being used to design an ever "better" core that looked for all the world like a single core sequential machine. Was compiler technology holding back the hardware?

I think the best way forward is to tightly integrate simple rigidly multi-threaded processors (where the stages of the pipeline ARE the threads - barrel processing) into the memory itself. Screw all the caching, interconnect, branch prediction, etc. - what has is done for us lately?
> Sure refuse to pay my cell phone bill and switch to one of the 3 competitors.

Unless it's a massive set of charges, the resulting collections activity and credit score hit will likely cost a lot more than you're saving by ignoring the bill.
تحميل برنامج إصلاح وتنظيف الفلاشة بدون عمل فورمات أو حذف الملفات HP USB
Kodak and Apple already collaborated on a camera, back in the early 1990s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_QuickTake
There is a serious social movement in society against nuclear armament/for nuclear disarmament (in Germany at the beginning of the 80th this even lead to the founding of a completely new party). On the other hand there is no strong social movement against patents.
Other hilarious and frightening "business ideas" with US government issued carbon credits:

Dumping giant piles of iron sulfate into the ocean in Northern Canada: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/haida-readying-for-s...

Driving a train full of biodiesel across the border and back again numerous times while never unloading it: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/biofuel-credits-behind-mystery...
I second the suggestion for a specialized sport doctor. Especially for more complex joints, like knees and shoulders.
I worked for Creo when it was acquired by Kodak in 2005 for $1B and then later for Kodak for quite a few years. At the time Kodak still had cash but film was obviously in decline. This acquisition was part of a $3B acquisition spree.

Kodak's mangement proceeded to run Creo into the ground through a series of layoffs, remote micromanagement, shuffling things around etc. At the time of the acquisition Creo was profitable (though definitely with some challenges) and had a few growth initiatives that looked promising (all cancelled). Very capable management, good people, and well run. There were a lot of opportunities to create some long term value in different areas but the only Kodak strategy was to keep cost cutting and milk all the businesses to their death.

What was amazing to me is that the CEO kept his job even after Kodak's market cap went below $1B. I forget what that market cap was at the time of the acquisition but probably in the $10-$20B range. Gotta be one of the top ten value destroying CEOs of all times.

For many many years it didn't matter what management did, film kept printing money for the company. Only when things changed you could tell that management was actually incompetent. Before that you didn't need to be competent to keep making money. Kind of like Warren Buffet says, only when the tide goes out you find who is swimming without their bathing suits...

I just saw something on Bloomberg the other day about Kodak finally getting some anti-counterfeiting technology that AFAIK is the same one developed in Creo over 10 years ago (Traceless) released.

EDIT: Another personal anecdote is that the first "real" digital camera I ever used, I'm guessing around 1996, was a Kodak. It was pretty decent. I think the price tag was quite high. At that point in time Kodak had a good reputation in digital cameras. The problem is digital cameras would never replace film as a business even if Kodak went 100% into digital. They needed to diversify.
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I second this. I moved temporarily to the Bay Area from Australia. The USA has a reputation for awful food internationally but ... well, the truth is more complicated. It has terrible food and amazing food depending on where you go. As my old supervisor would say, the US has a higher standard deviation in food quality than most countries do.

I've lost 8kg (15 pounds) since returning to Australia, but just thinking about deep dish pizza makes my mouth water. Its really something special. I try to go to Homeroom, Zacharies and Fentons every time I visit.
Direct link to the announcement:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2016-07/...
(includes images with the old/new renderings)
>If you're lucky enough to buy in an area where prices are rapidly appreciating, then it can be a great investment.

If you're lucky enough to buy red on the right spin, roulette is a great investment.
Palo Alto did some really interesting stuff back in the day -

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_ciencia/flyingobj...
I've been struggling with chronic issues like this for the past few years. The only consistent relief comes from yoga (I like vinyasa) and physical therapy.

I find there are some things that make it worse but overall feels pretty uncorrelated with anything obvious. Try keeping a detailed log of symptoms along with possible triggers as well as things that make you feel better.

Good luck
BGP looks really complex. Isn't OSPF (BGP's "little brother") a much attractive choice here? It's still complex, but should be much simpler.

Another attractive alternative to Flannel is Weave [1], run in the simpler non-overlay mode. In this mode, it won't start a SDN, but will simply act as a bridge/route maintainer, similar to Flannel.

[1] https://www.weave.works/products/weave-net/
For what possible reason? I'm eternally out of touch with what mainstream front-end devs seem to think is a good idea.
The scary leap from SysOps to DevOps
"listen to al Qaeda" yeah that makes sense, murderers always tell the truth right?

You can't buy a fully automatic firearm at a gun show without a background check. Not legally. And not without an ID card. But listen to the murderers and take their word for it because they are honest people.

What you can do is buy anything you want in the world illegally, and in any country you happen to be in, so arguing about the black market is a fraud.
I'd guess it helps for people with "unwelcome" citizenship travelling for the UN.

For example, someone from Afghanistan working for the UN Refugee Agency travelling to a conference in the USA might receive less suspicion at the border.
>Using self-identified rich to derive an income baseline for rich still means “rich” is self-identified, no?

I don't agree with this - I know a guy who makes 500k a year who considers himself "upper middle class", but this report would classify him (probably rightfully so) as rich. I think of the self-identified part as a principled way of defining something arbitrary. In my job I do a lot of analysis that needs to be boiled down to easy-to-understand metrics and definitions, and I personally feel this is the best approach when there isn't a good standard definition. A simple percentile wouldn't work here because the whole point of the study is looking at how income/class has changed over time.

>the author’s using the $30K number (from the poverty line) puts us at around the 5th percentile

Note that 30k is a normalized "family-of-three equivalent", which isn't the same as household income. It's actually a pretty neat way to remove size-of-family effects (which changed over the period of the analysis). Figure 2 shows about 20% of people would fall below middle class in 2014, and 24% in 1979.

>Again, thanks for the rigor

No worries and glad to, I love reading these kinds of studies!
Whenever I see close up pictures of the Sun, I'm always blown away by the scale of them. Each one of those granules is ~1000 miles across, and the Sunspot itself is around Earth size in scale. We think of our mountains as huge, and they take millions of years to grow and die. Features on the sun are truly massive, and they are constantly changing, lasting hours to days.
Why have proj mgmt software that doesn’t do the tasks of your project for you?
Turn on 2FA before it's too late
Good point, I missed that. Among others, there's Rojava (feminist anarchists) vs. ISIS (fascist right-wing militia). Those two almost make Bernie Sanders & Donald Trump look identical.
>Or perhaps simply how badly it is failing at taking care of the sick, the poor, and the needy in almost every single 1st world country?

That's quite a bold claim to make. I'm afraid I can't quite see what you mean by that. What I can see is that the countries with the most regulation and state "babysitting", as you like to call it, are the ones best placed in any poverty, development, health or well-being index. I really don't see what you can possibly mean by "badly failing at taking care of the sick, the poor, and the needy in almost every single 1st world country".
A fascinating story, and a great initiative by the town police. The world needs more role models for non aggressive activism - we lack a Ghandi or MLK of our generation...
My dad devised the "Bayer filter" used in digital cameras, in the 1970's in the Kodak Park Research Labs. It is hard to convey now exactly how remote and speculative the idea of a digital camera was then. The HP-35 calculator was the cutting edge, very expensive consumer electronics of the day; the idea of an iPhone was science fiction. Simply put, my dad was playing.

This was the decade that the Hunt brothers were cornering the silver market. Kodak's practical interest in digital methods was to use less silver while keeping customers happy. The idea was for Kodak to insert a digital step before printing enlargements, to reduce the inevitable grain that came with using less silver. Black and white digital prints were scattered about our home, often involving the challenging textural details of bathing beauties on rugs.
Haskell is also very happy to throw "ambiguous literal..." errors at you when it gets a little confused.
>Yes, but you're living in a very popular city. You're getting something for that additional COL.

Well, sure, that's true. But it's also possible the most important thing you're getting is a high paying job that wouldn't be available in a less expensive area. And it's possible that, like me, you would consider living in a dense city to be more downside than up.

It occurs to me a large factor in whether or not I'd consider people on the borderline either middle class or wealthy has to do with how much flexibility they have in then income. If you're getting a quarter million dollars every year from a trust fund and can live wherever you want, you're wealthy. On they other hand, if you and your spouse are grossing a quarter million dollars a year from jobs that requires twelve hour days in a very expensive city you don't necessarily like (and don't see much of in any case), you're middle class.
the site states that openSUSE does not sign it's checksums or provide instructions on how to verify them

Both claims are demonstrably false.
I had a Kodak digital camera in 2003. It was no better or worse than competing consumer digital cameras - i.e. it was a usable but mediocre affordable snap cam.

I think where Kodak lost it was failing to bring high end technology into compacts. Kodak had a big stake in professional digital cameras before 2000. It's completely wrong to say they weren't in the market. In fact they almost owned it. The first professional digital bodies were being sold by Kodak in 1991, and the former sensor division is still going under another name.

But they didn't seem to understand that the same technology was going to move into affordable prosumer cameras, and eventually into consumer snap cameras.

They certainly didn't understand it was going to move into mobile phones, where it would kill consumer film cameras. And they totally failed to anticipate photosharing culture online.

To be fair, I think almost everyone underestimated mobile. I had a Nokia 9500 Communicator with a camera at around the same time I had the Kodak. The quality was pretty bad, and there was nowhere near enough bandwidth to consider photo sharing.

Now I have an iPhone with a camera which can give an old SLR a run for its money, and photo sharing is no problem.

The difference is that Kodak were creating products - technological artefacts for a single purpose.

Jobs and co were creating a culture - a set of experiences that include hardware, software, marketing, and media attention.

Culture companies are much more likely to kill product companies in the same niche than vice versa.
Privacy Shield Will Let US Tech Giants Grab Europeans’ Data
The C/C++ standards require that two pointers to the same inline function are equal, even across translation unit boundaries. Therefore, in the worst case you need to pick a single implementation of the function in the linker. Of course, you could use different implementations in translation units where the address of the function is insignificant.

A similar issue affects the C++ template compilation model used in most compilers. If template instantiations weren't merged at link time, C++ binaries would be incredibly bloated (and C++ binary size is already a problem).
Who’s afraid of the deep, dark web?
I think it's just the scale of the place. California is larger than Italy, in terms of area, although less populous. If you were going to say that the US has awful food, you can't cherry-pick Italy as your standard. It would only be fair if you lumped Italy together with Estonia and Ireland and took the average.

I've travelled a lot and I've never been to any place where there wasn't good food. The desire to cook and eat delicious food is universal, and the practice exists wherever there is enough wealth to support it.
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> We’re talking 3 orders of magnitude better performance for GPUs, about what a decade and a half of compounded transistor count for a multicore architecture would predict.

> I wonder if something like an ARM or AMD with a MIPS instruction set aiming for more cores like the Teraflops or Kilocore that ran OpenGL (and TensorFlow and other AI libs had they existed) natively might have done for computing back in the day.

Intel tried to replace the GPU by lots of cores in the Larrabee project. This project was not as successful as imagined. It was realigned and the result is the Xeon Phi.
Depends on your definition of leader. For example, in Germany the President can only serve 2 terms, but the Chancellor has no such limit, and the Chancellor appears to have a much greater role in day-to-day politics. Many people in Europe are familiar with Angela Merkel. Same recognition for Joachim Gauck? Not so much. His role appears to be more of a figurehead.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Gauck
Aarhus is the second-largest city in Denmark. Copenhagen is only ~562K. But still, that's a lot of people for what most countries consider a small city. "Potential radical" can be anyone who goes to a mosque with a militant iman. That may not be a meaningful designation. Only about 1 in 10,000 tried to join ISIS.

About 250 Americans have tried to join ISIS, says the FBI. That's about 1 in a million for the US. Around 100 made it to the battle zone. NBC has a profile of 15 of them.[1]

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-uncovered/americans-15...
Want the best text editor (Emacs) when shelling into heroku instances?
Precisely because of what I said: people aren't 100% rational beings with full information. People, especially in third world, war-torn, poverty-ravaged countries don't have the power to make the "best decision" in to a libertarian free-market approach as you suggest. Some things aren't solved by capitalistic competition.
Nitpick: Google's managed Kubernetes is called GKE.

However the OSS Kubernetes has code to configure routes on GCE same as it does for AWS.
How Secure Are the US H-Bombs in Turkey?
That's true, but it is a fairly small portion as far as I'm aware.
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One other cute side note. It looks like all passports seem to span the colors of the rainbow!...save yellow. Gold seems to be the standard color of the type/designs, so I suppose yellow or orange[0] as backgrounds are out.

Most have dignified, darker tones. Singapore and Switzerland have the brightest backgrounds of brilliant red while a few have pale but not over-saturated greens (Niger, Guinea, Saudi Arabia). Actually Fiji has quite a cyan passport too.

[0] The red Singapore passport comes close to orange, although that might just be the way they scanned it.
Some research finds that growth has limits: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth
Point taken. I wish the decision was done to standardise tabs rather than spaces. But since the convention is now spaces, at least in Python, it would do well do follow those conventions.
https://software.opensuse.org/ offers the GPG fingerprint over HTTPS. A bit curious that they don't enforce HTTPS for this page, but it is there.

And the key has been the same for years, so there are quite a few independent sources quoting it, which helps to verify it.
But they didn't. Berkeley RISC predates MIPS and simply punts on the issue of unaligned loads. Other contemporary designs handled them in microcode.
You need to subtract the rent you're saving from the interest and also need to take into account if you can deduct the interest from your taxes [1]. If that interest rate ends up lower than inflation, you're realizing gains.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_mortgage_interest_deducti...
I think your anecdata is right on the money!

(Pun unintended, but now that it's there I'll take credit for it...)

Yeah, when I said "everyone I know looks at reviews" I meant "at least some of the time". :-)

So my list of cellphone characteristics I didn't post - I was thinking of things like this:

Size, shape, and weight. Battery technology and capacity - removable or not? Display technology, size and resolution. Resistive or capacitive touch? Stylus? Physical keyboard? Processor technology, how many cores, what instruction set, what GPU? Memory size? Storage size? External storage (SD)? Charger standard? External audio and digital ports? What kinds of sensors? Operating system and application software. What programming languages are used. How software is distributed. Who is allowed to write software.

I don't think many of those are specified by a government agency. At least I hope they aren't!
The internal OpenDNS docker system, Quadra, relies on BGP for a mix on of on-prem and off-prem hosting:

http://www.slideshare.net/bacongobbler/docker-with-bgp
"Switching to the new mode might take some getting used to though, so if you think your fonts are suddenly fat, fuzzy or weird, give your brain some time to adjust."

This is true, and IMO it's the reason font rendering is much less important than people think. When I got a new pair of glasses I disabled font anti-aliasing to make the edges as sharp as possible. I did this so I could more quickly learn to focus my eyes correctly with the new glasses. By the time I had mastered the glasses I was used to the font rendering, and I have not switched it back. I now prefer fonts with no anti-aliasing. If you'd told me in the past that I'd end up preferring that I might not have believed it.

The most legible font is the one you're used to. People can read Blackletter or Spencerian like it's a normal font if they're used to it. I think vector fonts were a mistake. It's a lot of software complexity for very little value.
World’s Most Powerful Radio Telescope Discovers 1300 New Galaxies in Trial Run
If you assume none of the ~30 that went to Syria joined IS, that leaves ~300 "of other potential radicals in Aarhus".

That's an enormous amount of _potential_ harm even with low tech attacks like knives in crowds.
That's fine. Plenty of mathematical theories still have theorems left to prove. It still doesn't change the fundamental and theoretical nature of the discipline. I'm trying to drive the point home that much of hardware and software design is a lot like "a^2 + b^2 = c^2" and patents in that context don't make sense.
Just moving between Maine, which has not-particularly-onerous state income taxes, and New Hampshire, which has none, I had nearly 10% more going into my bank account each pay period.

It amazes me that Texas and Florida professional sports teams aren't overwhelmingly dominant, given that the contracts that they can pay athletes are effectively 10-25% better than other states, due to lack of state income tax.
Not very, apparently. The US had power cut to the base and a no-fly zone including the base was called.

I don't think that would deter them from taking off if they really wanted to but that would strain US/Turkish relations even further than they are already strained at the moment, which is just before the breaking point.

There have been quite a few calls in the last couple of months to remove the weapons from Turkish soil due to perceived (and apparently correctly perceived) instability and an accelerating slide into a dictatorship.
Robots building houses wouldn't solve the problem. The cost of construction makes up a small part of the price of a house or apartment in attractive cities like SF, NYC, London etc.

Separately, I'm not sure I understand your point about price vs. value. In SF or London, apartments have high value (evidenced by people willing to pay high rent to live in them). Maybe in some places (Beijing?) apartment prices are hard to justify based on rental yield. But what makes you think home prices in general are divorced from home 'values'? What would make prices go down that would not also not decrease whatever measure of 'value' you're using?
Author seems to have missed that Calico also depends on etcd.
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I dare you to out of the blue ask your boss the definition of a predicate, and then respond with this comment.
OT: Is Finland a Germanic nation? Their language isn't afaik.
> I'm guessing what you meant to say was, all things being equal, investing principal payments is worse than some tax-deferred savings account.

Correct.

> But I'm not really sure that's ever really the tradeoff for most people?

It's a lot harder to separate out rent from the various home owner expenses involved in a 30 year mortgage than anyone, including myself is willing to engage in in this thread. And it's rare that you'll find enough chances to either rent or buy the exact same property to come up with a solid formula for which side is better.

> The following is a tangent. I regularly come across people who are huge proponents of savings for retirement as a priority 1. I'm in my 30's and am on my path towards independence already (though I have a way to go). The idea that I should defer risk and investment today, so that I can reap the benefits when I'm 67, is beyond comprehension to me, but it must be a personality thing.

You're assuming a retirement date of 67. My spreadsheet projection suggests my investments will be earning more at age 40 than I currently live on, and at age 47 will be earning more than I currently make gross. To get there I actually have to take defer some pleasures and take risk today -- high exposure to equities volatility, etc. I personally view buying a home as the "normal," "safe" option.

The important thing to me is that the money is liquid; it's not locked in a house where transaction fees are 6 percent of the asset. I can pull a chunk of money out of my Roth IRA for anything I want at any time, and the earnings are also lootable for a downpayment should the math turn in my favor. I can also take out loans against my 403b, for down payments or for a variety of causes. My 457b is doesn't have a minimum age for distribution, I just have to employed elsewhere, providing early retirement access.
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