skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm taking the general case of the question, admittedly.

I think a lot of the von Neumann detractors think that there's going to be this revolution, where one day they'll wake up and omigosh, stream processors have suddenly taken over the market (or whatever your favorite non-von-Neumann architecture is) and That was the Day that Everything Changed.

That's not how it's going to be. It can't be. Too much inertia. And that inertia isn't just a vague mass... it's everything you do now, browsers, video games, everything. It's going to be gradual. No, it is gradual, since it's actually happening now. From that perspective it's not a surprise that GPGPUs are still "mostly von Neumann", and are the first things out of the gate that have become wildly popular.

I think it also demonstrates my "familiarity breeds contempt" point fairly well. I remember around the time the PS3 came out, there was a convergence between the Cell hype and what-became-CUDA hype, and I recall a small legion of fanboys running around claiming that in five or ten years, GPUs or Cells would be the dominant form of processor. Which ignores the fact that von Neumann is not all disadvantage; if all we had were non-von-Neumann processors, von Neumann processors would be hailed as a breakthrough when somebody invented them, because wow, look at these workloads they just tear through compared to the competition! Even heavy-duty FP programmers will dip into true imperative programming on certain data sets without shame, using the FP system to confine the side effects but freely using them within that confine.

We'll get there. But it'll take time. And as always, initial naive ideas and wild promises will give way to surprising practical problems and performance that wasn't quite as good as we hoped, but may still be advantageous for certain problems.

I... think we're vehemently agreeing?

On the plus side, once these architectures get proofed, if they're in conventional silicon they'll have very swift access to the very-small-number-of
nanometers chip fabrication processes.
He's wrong about coffee and refrigerators. It's true that some places tried to ban coffee due its stimulant effects, coffeehouses spread through Europe pretty quickly in the 17th century.
Standard General bought Radio Shack and it's assets and has been working with moving Sprint into some of the stores (like the one here in Santa Cruz).

http://www.businessinsider.com/standard-general-buys-radiosh...

At least locally, we have Santa Cruz Electronics which has a decent assortment of components. It is no Quement's, etc. though from back in the day.
They're not investing. They're getting their money out of China. A loss is still a gain for them.
> open antisemitism into the mainstream

has Trump done that?

Cruz pulled his "new york values" thing and got called out pretty quick.
> Read the article. Received chats are executed only after the victim has run the script provided by the attacker.

I did read the article, which is why I said that this was big security issue that the chat could be interpreted as code. This should have been tested against.
Probably a kiddie with no expertise in real-world projects yet, then.
Everybody's trading nowadays.

How about just investing :-)

I.e. focus on periods longer than a year, which so few people/professional market participants do. And on actual businesses instead of the crazy antics of a line.

I wonder if you could use something like Zipline/Quantopian to screen huge amounts of consolidated balance sheets for markers of undervaluation. You could reject 1000s of companies and focus your “manual” vetting on the few that remain.

If you can find the dollar selling for half a dollar and you can understand why it's selling for that price (e.g. because the entire market is down), you may have identified a winner. Then all you need is a little guts and lots of patience. And a predefined set criteria that you would constantly monitor to decide if your thesis is still valid.
Agreed, HFT has become a catch-all term for anyone trying to make a marketing/political statement about trading. Like the term "big data" - it's been used to describe so many things that it no longer describes anything.

Another thing that gets ignored is the the difference between a trading strategy and an execution algorithm.
I really enjoyed the Getting Started in Electronics when I was 12. I still have a copy from Radio Shack.

There is a newer version you can buy on Amazon.
Take away Vancouver and Toronto, and the price of a house in Canada is nowhere near the asking prices currently in those two cities.

Wealthy foreign inflation on Canadian real estate is quite evident.
A while back Microsoft said that Windows 10 will continue to be free for customers who will benefit from it's assistive technologies. I don't know how they plan to implement this. Many assistive technologies are sometimes helpful to individuals that would not typically be described as 'disabled'.

It seems like such a wide open backdoor to continued free upgrades that it almost looks intentional...
Baby steps. Install Arch Linux. /s
Yeah that is a very straight-forward sequence, however some people just seem to be more comfortable with numbers. Either approach could be taken as long as it is mapped out like you did above.
Olympics all set from 5th August
Marcana Stadium in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) will be hosting Olympic Games from 5th till 16th August 2016. About 206 countries have send over 10,000 athletes who be taking part in all the games. Brazil got the rights for the Olympics 2016 way back in year 2009 and then it took about 7 years for the government to set up all the facilities for the games. As per the inspection teams, the arrangements are perfect and secure and the organizers will set up a great show.
So far in the history of Olympics, the most successful nation has been The United State of America. The country has some of the best athletes and water sportsman as well. Currently the best swimmers and water sportsmen. Mark Spitz and Greg Louganis are undoubtedly the two best water sportsperson of the world right now. When it comes to producing quality swimmers, no one can beat America. Michael Phelps is one of the most successful athlete of all times. The 32 years old, Michael Phelps has taken part in three Olympics so far, winning 22 medals in total and he surely will get few more this time as well, but at the very same time the athlete has announced that it would be his last appearance in the Olympics.
As per the stats, USA has the most number of medals than any other country. According to records, 29% of all the medals belong to America. And when it comes to the field sports, So far Australia has a total of 168 gold medals which is the second highest number in Olympics. This time Australia is expected to get the Gold medal in hockey for the fourth consecutive time in both men and women hockey as well.
No one can beat France when it comes to cycling. Then comes the team England which is having a decent track record and is having great athletes in all department. They have managed to have a total of 46 top prizes across all disciplines and 28 silvers and 29 bronzes.
We on ghanalive.tv will update you from the latest ongoings regarding Olympics.
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I think this fills the bill:

http://fernbankpartners.com/files/mungermisjudgment.pdf
Facebook realizes that it's smarter to be a communication company rather than a communication platform. Brand management is a key to P&G's success, and Facebook is smart to emulate this in the tech. sector.
> Essentially they're saying that the modern human evolved in China

I think they mean Asians, not all humans? Which looking at a few points on this interactive map may have a point - IF I interpret that map correctly (which may not be the case, I don't completely understand it):

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0214/14022014-inter...
VNC on silicon? Do you have sources for that?
A white noise generator placed over the microphone, perhaps?
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In Canada, Bell purchased Radio Shack and rebranded it. It has pretty aggressive cell phone upselling, and we missed out on the arduino/makerspace stuff that the US Radio Shack was embarking on a few years ago.
I mean, that's why you read them reviews, instead of just looking at the overall score. For the cases when the thing reviewed is actually shitty according to criteria you share, saving you the time and money.
an app where I can select a bunch of pictures I took on my phone and batch delete them.

The phones have gotten so big in terms of storage, that we just take tons of pictures without thinking. Later on, when we want to remove some of these, its a painful process as you have to go through each one, one by one to delete.
Any thinking around the expected impact from locals who bought despite the prices? Sounds like they could be royally screwed if prices plummet as a result.
I understand that WoW doesn't execute all received chat.

My issue is that this exploit was possible AT ALL and that this wasn't tested. As a web developper, this is the kind of exploits I keep in the back of my mind every time I develop something.
Likely no impact, because no facility on earth has the capacity to filter and find information on this scale, especially when simple techniques are employed to hide the meaning of communication.

The methods needed to reduce attacks (geopolitical unrest resolved) is probably not within the capacity of the police forces we have, and even pretty good safety is so expensive no one is willing to pay for it (even if we did all agree to register every action we took with the government.)

There is no government action which can promise results when it comes to motivated attacks, so when you hear "oh if we allow this police action then terrorist attacks will stop." you are hearing purposeful naivete at the best, and power grabs at the worst.
Actually, does anyone know where an amateur could buy/download quarterly balance sheets/income statements for the broad stock market universe?
I think they'd have to monitor and restrict thoughts or at least be able to extract memories. The frightening thing is: if there ever comes a time when such technology is available, they will try to use it.
Sure, the rebinding could still happen. But, the remote execution is prevented (right now, after rebinding the trim function, the attacker can enter script in the chat window to be executed - this part goes away with a separate console).
Most cell phones have pretty low-quality microphones. My guess is that a basic white-noise generator in an inaudible frequency would render the microphone pretty much useless. That being said, there is the problem of then having to maintain the white noise generator.
Debugging the Production Web (Front End)
Late to the party, but my 2 cents.

If I'm ordered to avoid a certain house or small non-social website, I can do that easily.

Facebook on the other hand, goes out of it's way to make contact with me. I have to use special browser add-ons to keep it from tracking my web behavior across other sites. Is this contact? What happens if 3rd party sends me something that is Facebook related and I accidentally click on it?

The order to not contact Facebook reminds me a little of an order to stay away from any physical location where post or shipping activities are conducted or offered. Potentially so broad an order that would preclude me from visiting any location in my community (grocery stores with post offices) or any website online (www.momandpopwebsite.com with integrated FB social media stuff).
Superior Performance Commits Kyoto University to CPUs Over GPUs
[Saw a response here, but it disappeared before my reply. Posted here anyway in case it clarifies my first paragraph.]

Did you check out the link? https://godbolt.org/g/aaC4B7

My surprise is that none of clang, gcc, or icc give any warning on this with -Wall -Wextra:

1 void copy_const(const int * const arg) {
2 int *copy = (int *)arg;
3 (*copy)++;
4 }

I agree that the cast on line 2 is legal and requires no warning. My surprise is that there is no warning for the write on line 3, since I think this is undefined behavior according the quoted part of the spec. Isn't this trying "to modify an object defined with a const-qualified type through use of an lvalue with non-const-qualified type"?

I realize that the compiler has no obligation to issue a warning here, and in fact is fully entitled to my first-born as soon as it encounters undefined behavior. Still, it seems like it would be a useful place to offer the user a warning just as it does in the case of direct modification:

1 void write_const(const int * const arg) {
2 (*arg)++;
3 }

clang: "error: read-only variable is not assignable"

gcc: "error: increment of read-only location '*arg'"

icc: "error #137: expression must be a modifiable lvalue"
The big limitation is that you only get 96MB of RAM. But still, it's a pretty reasonable choice if you want a big-endian test system on the cheap.
As in pay for Win10 or stare at this upgrade modal?

I can't tell if your serious or sarcastic.
well, they were right on coffee
What's the point of that? Why would Apple want to make such a huge bet on an industry they have never been in just to create an incremental improvement on cars already billed as luxury items?

If they proceed with the Apple Car, I would imagine it would be a disrupting concept that Apple would be uniquely prepared to handle.
Find ways to foster self-direction, experimentation and facilitate the experiments.

There is enough material for free on the internet. Buy her stuff if its practical though.

But she very soon will need to be self-motivated for her learning and making a living. Encourage her to work on 'real' problems or projects that interest her. Encourage her to work with others as much as possible.
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> The tax will apply to buyers who are not Canadian citizens or permanent residents, as well as corporations that are either not registered in Canada or controlled by foreigners.

Aren't we still letting people just buy permanent residence?
Leaving aside the question of how many profitable day traders there actually are, there are profitable professional poker players out there but no bot can compete with them. Now scale up the complexity of poker by at least an order of magnitude and you end up with the financial markets.

Sure, it is possible to to program very niche behaviour, but we are nowhere near any sort of program that can act as general "day trader".
CouchDB is awesome. We evaluated it some time ago¹ and we all thought that the way it worked, the performance, the management are light years ahead of everything else in this space. We ended up not using it because it looked like it was dead. I am so happy that it is not, and I hope this 2.0 release will bring in some more community love. It absolutely deserves it!

¹https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11757015

(couchbase sales people came answering, even if couchbase is a completely different product that covers different usecases)
Marissa Mayer's payday: 4 years, $219M
Personally I wouldn't use "confirmed" or "proved" to discuss any hypothesis. However, I think confirmed could be acceptable in some cases. Usually it would be some kind of cheap screening test followed up by a more expensive (but more reliable) gold standard test. Sure, the gold standard may still be wrong, but at least everyone knows what you mean by confirmed. I find the use of confirmed here to be highly misleading.
Distillery vs. Exrm vs. Relx
This "doomsday hearsay" may encourage people to ask FEMA about real situation and therefore is useful.
This looks interesting. It would be nice if you had some video/photos of the dashboard / features so you can see what it all looks like before making an account.
what are your opinions on http://www.clash-lang.org/ ?

It's different than what you describe because the language is explicitly aware of the fact its running on an FPGA. However, it's seemingly pretty declarative and functional and has an FPGA as a possible target.
Ain't called the blues for no reason
>that's mainly political work

I was hoping to inspire thoughts of non-political solutions involving input and new ideas from economics, finance, sociology, etc.. Maybe some of these new ideas could come from someone with a software engineering background looking at things from a new perspective (networking theory, distributed systems, machine learning, etc.).
cereal boxes that you can actually open without ripping apart
I've used plain Stripe for SaaS product payments with two products (most recently https://assertible.com)

Stripe is very simple and has a very high quality API. They recently made some improvements to their dashboard for subscription management.

I've never used a service on top of Stripe for handling payments but I'd love to hear what others use.
I don't know for sure, but I'm hypothesizing that Qualcomm's Quick Charge actually works this way, as the presence of their hardware/firmware/secret sauce is required in both the charger and the device end to negotiate the upped voltage.
Ultimately that has to happen. Housing prices that high (and rising) are a dumb intergenerational transfer of wealth from the young to the old.
Or the monetary explanation; they were sad when they had financial difficulties, needed money, so wrote more compositions.

"Negative emotions appeared when they fell on hard times financially, when their health became poor or especially when a close relative died."
I don't think it's inertia. I think RAM is fundamentally very useful, and that's why it's not going away. You want to store data somewhere if you access it more than once, it has to be a large array of cells if it's a lot of data, and accessing data in the array by address seems to me more useful than accessing it by something else (such as by key/content.) Similarly, a file of registers addressable by number is very useful, etc.

I don't mind new and original ideas - let's hear new and original ideas, if someone invents a non-round wheel that's better than a round one, great! I do mind a general assumption that wheels are round due to inertia without explaining what if not round wheels we're gonna use once we're past inertia.
When a bubble goes on there is always someone who gets screwed in the end. I don't think there is a way around it.
The Way to the android top list
You're absolutely spot on. You have to remember that this is an employee manual and, as such, is more like marketing and recruiting material than a precise description of reality. While Valves heirarchy is officially flat and very different from the norm, the usual office politics muddy the waters.

A few years ago there was a lot of news articles coming out about a shakeup at Valve where a lot of people were fired, allegedly due to internal power struggles. I'm having trouble with finding them on Google due to Valves name but the gist of it is that Valves culture resembles that of a high school with distinct social "elites" and their cliques [1][2]. There is also a wealth of HN comments that provide some insight [3][4][5].

[1] http://www.wired.co.uk/article/valve-management-jeri-ellswor...

[2] http://kotaku.com/weird-paranoia-at-valve-says-former-employ...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6036385

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5215891

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6015182
Why you can't 'ping' a specific port
It has different names. AMT is one of the earliest implementations.

There is a separate chip with its own OS, connecting to the video chip and the nic. No driver needed. Can not be permanently removed.
Which has been the status quo for Windows. Microsoft admitted very early on that in general consumers only "upgrade" Windows when they pick up a new machine with the new Windows version installed.
Or the Novena, also on CrowdSupply [1]. It's the closest to a "real" ARM computer as I've found. It has 4GB of RAM, SATA, and all the peripherals you'd expect for a laptop or low profile desktop. I've used it to design PCBs in KiCAD - second generation open hardware :)

Though again, it's only 32bit, and while that works great for most purposes, it still leaves the OP's point valid. (I have one of the early 64-bit 8-core hikey 96boards mentioned, and I'd take the Novena over it any day)

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena
I thought it was common to quote weight in stone in the UK?
The fact is, its easier to implement a language without recursion. See early programming languages that didn't. In such a case, you can simply treat the local variables as if they are global variables in the implementation. You've got to do something more complicated if you are going to handle local variables in a recursive case.

The fact it is not an additional requirement to allow recursion is irrealevent, what matter is that its extra complexity to handle that case correctly.
>What I would NOT recommend is starting straight up with traditional coding that is not designed with beginners and kids in mind. Don't throw python, java, C, etc. at them. Let them follow their interests: games, wearables, etc., and learn coding in pursuit of that interest, not force them to learn coding for coding's sake.

No, this isn't the best advice in my opinion. Don't decide for the kid what is for them or what isn't. Let them decide that. Remember, Bill Gates coded at 13 in languages "meant for adults". I personally learned C at 14 from a tutorial that came with a C++ IDE (I had no idea what programming was, I just downloaded the program from the internet). Don't underestimate the intelligence and ability of kids.
Here's an interesting talk that covers some of these topics:

"Erlang Factroy SF 2016 - Keynote - John Hughes - Why Functional Programming Matters" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z35Tt87pIpg
Europe doesn't clearly have a security problem. A few insane people committing political violence doesn't change the fact that Europe is among the safest places on the planet.
There's all the difference between calling you, his son, lazy, and saying "blacks are just lazy in general". Can you easily see your dad telling you: "you're lazy, like all yellows"?
Pokémon GO Trainers and Respect
This was all said very, very well by Machiavelli hundreds of years ago in chapter 6 of _The Prince_.

And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them. Thus it happens that whenever those who are hostile have the opportunity to attack they do it like partisans, whilst the others defend lukewarmly, in such wise that the prince is endangered along with them.
No part of this attack involves exploiting a bug. There is a deliberate feature which lets you enter and run arbitrary code. Tricking people into running malicious code results in bad things happening to them.
I don't think that's good. Knowing FP is not really a competitive advantage if nobody uses it.
I don't think prices will go down as a result. For dirty / at-risk money pouring in from overseas, the 15% tax is just the cost of doing business, and that's assuming they don't find a way around it like using a Canadian proxy buyer or shell corporation. If someone is buying a 50-year-old teardown with asbestos and mildew for $3 million, do you think they care if it becomes $3.45 million with the new tax? They just need to get the money the hell out of Dodge (China).

What the tax can achieve though, is build up a stockpile of money for the government to address the affordability problems by improving mass transit, building affordable housing, etc. This is the realistic best-case outcome. Prices are not going down.