skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"retooling our entire tech stack for that isn't going to happen. I mean, look at x86."

I wonder if today it's easier than people imagine, but the lessons of Itanium are used as a signal to not try.

Sure there are plenty of apps which make low-level use of x86 features, and those probably aren't going to be updated. However a lot of modern software is written in languages that go through interrupters. Java, C#, Python.. if you can update the runtime, in theory the apps can be supported anywhere.
Having read through all the comments and your responses it appears your son is capable of controlling himself, but knows he can get away with his behaviour in private. There is only one solution which is for him to learn that his private behaviour is not going to be tolerated any more. How you do this is up to you and your wife, but once you go down this path do not turn back.
No, just training with someone better than you, which is the point they were making. A higher weight class has no bearing on skill level.
Take note that it is an opt-in Test Pilot project.
Right. There's a niche where it excels, giving you lz4 decompression speed combined with zlib-esque ratios, but it accomplishes that by having significantly slower compression than either of them. It's not really breaking away from the pack in any way that I can see.
Manual Testing, the Art That Cannot Be Lost
This is a really a hard place to be. It's great that you recognize that there is a problem, are working to fix it, and are moving your schedule around to give your wife a break.

Somewhere in our firstborn's terrible twos, my wife and I also were trying everything, and nothing was working. Here's the big thing I figured out:

I'm used to working with computer programs and computers. If you give computers the right input, you get the right output. Right then and there. Kids are not nearly that deterministic. When you have a big issue like this, you can do the exact, perfect, correct action, and your son would still likely respond badly. This makes it really hard to judge how good your actions are when you naturally measure your actions by your son's responses. This results in a desperate flailing around trying to find something that works.

With our son, I finally realized that I had to just make a plan with the best I knew so far, stick to it, and keep a good humor throughout. A change in my child's thinking will pretty much only happen when they decide to change. You create the conditions where there's obvious, immediate feedback, avoid turning it into a personal fight, and one day they'll wake up and stop battling.

(If you'd like to talk specifics, or anything else, feel free to email me.)
Funny I get the opposite take on this article in terms of meaning, yet I still think it is off base.

"Technical Debt" is a dangerous analogy because most of what people call technical debt would best be called "ignorance" or "wishful thinking". Debt is a complex social invention that includes methods of accounting, a repayment schedule, etc.

MBA types will have to negotiate with banks, senior executives, the board, etc. about the debt taken on by a corporation.

Worse yet, ignorance often takes the form of overengineering, so what is done in the name of "saving time now" is often completely wasted.
It is just a Test Pilot experiment, not on by default. People have to install Test Pilot and turn on this experiment.
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> I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it is of some habitual relevance to a mathematician, since he mentions the identity function (not really relevant here either), but that the material he actually explains here doesn't do anything to justify its appearance.

It's worse than that; he mentions the identity function only to make a gross error about it. The identity function on (a, a) is (a, a), not a.
I don't have any vested equity yet (very early career) but have decided upfront on a strategy of "sell every share the moment you can, reinvest in diversified index funds."

Being long on your employer just seems like a really stupid idea. I don't consider myself likely to be fired for incompetence and I'm not high enough on the ladder to be fired for political reasons. If my income stream ever goes away, chances are it'll be because my employer stock is doing the same.
Yes, and they're right. People change genders or aren't part of any; there's gendered dress codes which societies enforce (or people beat you up, you can't get a job, etc); and so forth. Hell, Alan Turing was basically killed by the state for not adhering to gender norms.

With the concept of "gender," people refer to a huge social infrastructure. With "biological sex," they're trying to refer to something else.
Opposite to Tech: Why 91.9% of nurses are women,gender discrimination
Maybe, but I doubt it. I've had no problem getting interviews and navigating them. But I don't really know because most companies don't respond to follow-ups asking for feedback on why I didn't get the job and what I could do better.
Ah, this is not the quality content I like to see on HN but was written with such... charm?
I think you have completed misinterpreted my point to fit your preexisting bias.

My point is that homelessness severity in any given area is correlated with renter density.

Whatever homeowners you think are blocking new developments, think about the homelessness in their specific area. Is it severe?

Think about the areas in SF that have the most severe homelessness, how many homeowners do you think live in that area?

On the causes of homelessness... I don't think it's due to scarce housing. Even if there were more housing available, I doubt a homeless person could start paying for it. Getting out of homelessness is a more complex issue.
Quantum computing is still in the "researchers are playing with a handful of Qbits" stage, approximately where transistors where a hundred years ago. Scaling quantum computers is really hard. Even though Qbits can be encoded in single atoms, the machinery that keeps the quantum states stable and manipulates them is most definitely not easy to shrink.

It's also completely unclear whether quantum computers would make your Javascript engine run any faster.
My understanding is Quantum computing isn't the next generation of computing, it's more of a new type of computing. It's an improvement on a certain class of problems (such as optimization algorithms).
Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer on Selling a Company While Trying to Turn It Around
Warner Music Group's Losses Shrink, Digital Continues to Drive Bottom Line
>Digital recorded revenues grew 21.3 percent and made up 47 percent of overall revenue. While Warner doesn’t break out download and streaming numbers, Billboard estimates that streaming totaled roughly $230 million and downloads produced about $115 million during the quarter.

Very interesting to see how the tides are turning regarding revenue.
Andela Co-Founder Christina Sass Is Coming to TechCrunch Disrupt
asserting their rights by allowing a hunted seal to rest on its belly and helping it remain there by using its fins?

Did you read the article before commenting?
Genetics is a factor, but based on my observation of top math students environment (at home) is a much bigger factor.
Swing is cross-platform in the sense that "HTML5" (i.e. HTML-plus-JS-plus-CSS-plus-Web APIs in a browser) is cross-platform. The "Native" part about React Native refers to React Native using native components of the operating system (like SWT, I think?).
Maybe, but at some point a hungry orca starves.
I hope people also mention that fact when talking about social/political issues in China.
Well @dang didn't notice or care.
Yes, that's true. But it came into being as part of the actions taken to satisfy the initiative.
Episode 17: Waze. Navigating Waze’s $1B+ Acquisition by Google
I was referring to society, not the Swiss state. I don't think that they could have spend that money better individually. The tunnel will be there for a while, so you have to write off these billions over decades. After you divide the remaining by a few million Swiss people, there isn't much money left.
"No More 404s" has been a long time coming, I remember it was one of the original projects announced with the launch of Test Pilot.

You can find more upcoming projects and information on Test Pilot here: https://testpilot.firefox.com/
Time is money. :)

Also, this tunnel probably increases transportation capacity as well.
Can we stop calling Orcas killer whales? Thanks.
I think it's targeted at the game industry, so the slow compression doesn't matter. It just needs to decompress quickly for the user.
The picture you link to is probably exactly what the original author had in mind. It has mostly wooden bodywork and a metal subframe which in the event of a collision is given to riding up onto the carriage in front and killing everybody. They were literal death traps.

In practice there were half a dozen non-structural reasons to move to less doors including automatic doors being much safer, disabled accessibility and simply that those trains were cold.
its very easy to forget that humans are animals too.
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> a phantom quadcopter

So, it was imaginary?
Last time I used retropie it wouldn't correctly render vibrato effects in the music, so all of FFVI's wonderful score came out flat and awful. That was over a year agohowever, maybe its been updated.
Angular 2 vs. React
I live in Brooklyn. It's twice as dense as San Francisco. It doesn't have very many high-rises. It is getting ever-more packed with rich people.
edit: lol nevermind, I always forget the nerd collective doesn't like humor on their precious HN.
They do, and this Agreement specified that the ROFR was the only practical limit on transfers. Indeed, the sale passed the scrutiny of outside attorneys who looked at all documents that had been given to the employees.

It wasn't until a buyer had been found and the company had been notified that they pulled out the company bylaws and revealed this extra clause deep in the bowels of that document--a document which had never been furnished before.
GCs are complex and require lots of end-user tuning -- just look at the performance articles on Java.

Beyond that, however, there are many uses for ownership beyond controlling memory resources. Closing a TCP connection, releasing a OpenGL texture...there are lots of applications of having life cycles built in to the code rather than the runtime.

EDIT: fixed typo
Why would it be a risk though? Police don't care about stolen phones.
Some employers will cover their employees' LWN subscriptions.
>Rust, I think, suffers from a lack of empathy with a novice audience.

The borrow checker is the simplest thing once you internalize it's rules. Just the road to breaking all the bad habits C/C++ teach you are fine over the years takes a while. And most these rules are mostly excessive and unnecessary coming from a C perspective. The borrow checker is kind of like type systems. It prevents a whole class of errors, but you lose the ability to express some perfectly valid code.

It is really a kind of mental-quantum-leap. Once you internalize it's rules you really lose the ability to understand how other people can't.

Also to deflect some blame from The Rust-Community. I'm just kind of a horrible person on the internet. I'm working on improving :\ Sorry for the coarse comment.
I find most timestamps useless. It's rare that they include the time zone, so I'm always left wondering if they mean my browser detected time zone (through some JS), the TZ that the server uses, UTC, or whatever.

"N minutes ago" is compact and does not require any client-side JS to provide an unambiguous value.

At least LWN includes the timezone, which is a step ahead of most of the sites I've used.
It already has that with FileVault
Or credit bureaus selling your information
Squash and science: A new pathway to STEM success
> Please don't link to The Young Turks. They're on par with Fox News even if they're politically on the opposite end of the spectrum.

I don't understand why. They're just commenting on something that someone else reported. Are you suggesting that they're lying? Are you suggesting that they're reporting "X happened" when X actually didn't happen? I wasn't linking for their opinion, but for what they report.

But if it makes you happier, I'll link to the original source instead:

https://youtu.be/O13kaQAg5KE

Can you please do me a favour and watch that?

> He's controllable

Ok, now you're just trolling me.
How many people are in Test Pilot?
How contactless cards are still vulnerable to relay attack
Songwriter and Publisher groups amp up their dispute with DoJ and Digital Services
The Bus Test: A simple test to see how disaster-proof your business is
[X] site loads instantly
[X] doesn't download dozens of frameworks or ads
[X] puts focus on content rather than appearance

You're right the LWN site is utter trash. It's 2016, why aren't they embarrassed of their own incompetence? What comes next? Are they going to tell me to read a book?
now I wish I had a vagina...
You created a strawman argument (y'all want it to be 900gb!) and then counter it yourself with some reasonable suggestions that others here have made as well.
In other words, the friendship paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox
Could XCINEX Solve Hollywood's Biggest Issue with Screening Room?
1. Do you need to know how to invert a linked-list (with pointers "yo") to pass a basic programming competency test? No. No you don't.

2. Why point out that it is "easy"? Is it so you can feel superior to people who might not know this?
Most people here are commenting about the look and feel of LWN, I really don't have any complaints about the UI/UX so far, I don't expect to read LWN on my mobile phone.

I think the main reason of the drop in readership is firstly kernel development is very involved and detailed, LWN mostly reflects the kernel mailing list and associated events and tech talks.

I guess what I find most difficult as an outsider of the kernel community, is trying to keep up. Jonathan Corbet is doing and extraordinary job summarizing the activities of the kernel community in LWN. But the kernel doesn't maintain any main "Epics" that we have in software traditional development, so take for example fair scheduling. AFAIK, the kernel community does not decide to tackle fair scheduling on the next release of kernel, ie 4.7. Then say power management in 4.8 etc...

LWN ends up with a smattering of various articles under common themes like "Kernel", "Security" etc...

LWN has in the past explained long running topics like scheduling when key updates are happening and I commend them for that.

None of the above is a negative reflection on the kernel community or LWN in how they operate but it feels kinda hard to keep up and stay vested.

Anyways just a few thoughts, will renew membership now.
If you read the article there's a whole section on how Seattle had a similar problem. That's why all the new condos look so similar, there are very few materials that don't leak.
> You've almost described ISPC verbatim.

Thanks, I've read about it before, but haven't spent too much time looking at it.

However, this "single program, multiple data" isn't exactly what I'm looking for (it would solve the sin4f vs. sin8f issue mentioned above, though). I need explicit, low level access to SIMD, coupled with genericity over vector widths. This means doing almost assembly-style SIMD code with explicit shuffles, blending, etc as well as access to intrinsics where needed.

I also need portability (ispc is from Intel, it probably doesn't support ARM NEON) and targetting GPUs.

I'm very well aware that my needs are very specific. I need to do math stuff for 3d graphics and physics applications.

All I need is for a lot of free time to appear from out of nowhere and I can write a prototype compiler for this myself :)
Ask HN: Thought Abouve Google Cloud DataStore
Hi All,

I am working on 1 user facing web based application in public domain and as a db i was looking for managed database solutions (i looked at MongoDB solutions but they are very expensive > ~20$ a month) so i was thinking of hosting it myself with Digital Ocean. (Btw this product will be free so no plans of earning from it, hence idea is to get cheaper db i don't have any preference for DB but with mongo i can easily structure the data (saving python dict))

Today i came across Google Cloud Datastore (https://cloud.google.com/datastore/), it seems like a good solution and its affordable for my needs but i am not able to find much about it on net. has anyone used this DB? any issues / features i should be aware of before spending my time evaluating for my needs? [i need to write adapter for this DB which could take significant time but it will be good in long run]
> There is no reason we should spend extra effort on kids that have that much difficulty learning or hate school that much. The kid isn't likely to come out that much better in the long run.

Source needed if you want to make that a fact...

I disagree. While I want to best students to get help to be better (they are the ones who can handled difficult but important fields, and can make the next breakthroughs to make my life better), I also do not want to be supporting the worst students in Prison or Welfare, as both are a drain on society. I'm willing to accept the kids with Downs syndrome (to name just one) will never have the mental capacity to amount to much, the next level up can at least support themselves if we give them help.

Low skill manufacturing jobs are gone and they will not come back. Robots are too cheap (even in places like China or India where labor is much cheaper than the US robots can still out compete humans for some tasks). The only chance those below average kids have is if we give them enough education now that they can handle a the simpler tasks that require a brain.

Science fiction can tackle the problem of what do we do when AI is "smarter" than humans. It is an interesting problem. The reality for the next half lifetime at least is AI will not be able to beat humans in many of the jobs that require an education. Thus I want everyone who could get an education to get one.
Correct--these things are spelled out in the Stock Purchase Agreement each employee is given. I can tell you, however, that all limits imposed are spelled out clearly in that document, and not hidden in our bylaws.

But you're right--we should put it in the handbook as well, because that's our living document for past, present, and future employees.
It's spelled out in the footer: "® 2016 Cable News Network."
Chakra JavaScript Engine from Microsoft Coming to Node.js for Mac and Linux
PlayCanvas vs. Unity WebGL
Protectionist policies hurt the "protected" countries the most.

Smoot-Hawley
Sounds like better left for a browser plugin
They are indeed. I find myself inadvertently typing "loose" when I mean "lose" and it's absolutely maddening.

Similarly, I do a double-take when I see "effect" used properly.
Ray Casting Algorithm – determine if a point lies inside a polygon
A Beginner’s Tutorial for Understanding RESTful API
>> And if you go in on a Saturday afternoon, I can tell you which startups will succeed, without even knowing what they do. Being there on the weekend is a huge indicator of success, mostly because these companies just don’t happen. They happen because of really hard work.

Do people still think you can get away with 40-50 hours when the next guy is just as good as you and putting in 80?
Haskell, compiler/FPGA/GPU engineer | Cambridge UK | ONSITE/INTERNS/VISA

Myrtle is currently working as part of the UK government’s autonomous vehicles program and we are looking to hire more Haskell developers to join our expanding team. You will be working directly on our technology that translates high-level signal processing code into efficient hardware designs. Applicants should have a deep understanding of Haskell, modern compiler technology and should be familiar with git and CI based development. We are targeting GPU and FPGA backends so experience with either of these would be advantageous although we’re happy to consider strong developers without direct experience of these two areas. Similarly, a familiarity with an HDL, such as VHDL or Verilog, would be viewed positively but is not essential.

Applicants should send a resume and covering email, stating your suitability for this role, to jobs@myrtlesoftware.com

Myrtle is a software company based in Cambridge UK with a long history of working at the forefront of computer graphics and compiler technology. We are best known for having helped produce computer generated images for over twenty major Hollywood movies including the Transformers franchise. Myrtle’s clients have included NYSE and NASDAQ listed companies in LA, Vancouver and London.

Closing date for applications 5pm, 27th August 2016

https://www.myrtlesoftware.com/vacancies/
Did you stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night?
News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12217719
Papers of their findings can be found at http://www.interactivedynamicvideo.com/publications.html
Health Secrets of the Amish
I think they should improve the general information architecture. Make content more discoverable. Categories, tags, overview pages, or just a better layout of the home page, which is not only date-based.

Essentially increasing the visitor time for new visitors, then increasing the recurring visitors, then increasing the sign ups.
I had a first interview with a company where an engineer walked into the room with an eight page C++ exam. No interview. No meet-and-greet-tell-me-about-yourself. Just write, using pen and paper, several complete C++ programs for really hard academic-style problems (combinatorial optimization, dynamic programming, machine learning). Oh, and you had 1 hour. It wasn't an interview as much as a graduate level final exam.
New England Journal of Medicine article (free download) http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1508749
Lesson learned: When you set up the equation's terms to get the most dramatic results, you get dramatic results.
What the Fellowship of the Ring can teach early stage startups
Crystal aims to replace Ruby but at Railsconf and Ruby meetups I go to Elixir/Pheonix is mentioned 100x more than Crystal is.
Okay, you like R6S. But there is no need to shove that like down our throats. It's no more time for me accept that R6S is the best multiplayer shooter ever than it is for you to accept that Quake 3 is the finest multiplayer shooter ever made. Your claim that it's a "shooter for the MOBA generation" just makes me suspicious of it.

In short, your opinion is fine, but it's not time for the rest of us to accept anything. Just state your opinion, don't tell us what we should and shouldn't think.
I have a five-year-old with a big defiant streak. Every kid is different, and what works for one kid or one parent won't necessarily work for another.

One strategy that works sometimes is defuse and distract. When the kid is fighting against you and not listening, go to "oh, so you want to be tickled" and get them laughing long enough to forget that they were mad or defiant.

Or suggest silly alternatives -- put his pants on his head if he fights getting dressed, or pretend-feed his food to the teddy bear, and the plant, and the microwave, etc., if he won't eat it.

Timeouts with the kid alone don't work well for us either; but sitting with them and waiting until they sit still and settle down does sometimes.

The hard part is always time. With enough patient one-on-one grownup time we can get through any one defiant fight well enough, but when you are in a rush and the other kids need attention too... it is hard.
Basically in a social graph, you are more likely to be in the edge (because there are more vertices in the edge) than in the center (visualize how in a balanced binary tree there are more leaf nodes than inner vertices).