skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not deleting Snapchat myself at this point in time --- I use it to chat with a few people who I'm more likely to get iMEssage/SMS from; mostly have it installed to study UI/UX changes --- but I thought this was worth reading/thinking about.

Particularly since I did not read the Recode article linked (http://www.recode.net/2015/6/8/11563322/snapchat-ceo-evan-sp...)
Flood of comments on student loan forgiveness rules
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I'd personally go that route.

Best of luck with the project!
really looking forward to the next generation of distributed internet. I think those IPFS addresses need to be a bit more human readable though :)
Reading the slides now, my goodness a lot of things just became clear to me. What a wonderful collection of pearls. Thank you for "giving back" to the topic in this way.
Do you remember when Internet Explorer was the only kid on the block, and then Firefox came out and was a breath of fresh air? I know a lot of non-programmers who cared about that, and that's a direct result of the ability for anyone to modify software. Remember that Firefox was based on Netscape, which had previously been knocked out of existence by IE. The difference between Netscape and Firefox was freedom to distribute modifications, and that made a lot of difference to a lot of users.
Virtual dispatch per se is not terribly slow, as long as the branch is predictable by the CPU. The problem is that virtual dispatch prevents the sort of aggressive inlining and interprocedural opimizatios that C++ compilers are known to do. C# and Java JITers get around that via runtime analysis and speculative inlining, but that is done at runtime and eats away some of the precious little time available for optimisations.

Edit: spelling
Being a VC i suspect he was talking from the economic point of view. There is likely to be a higher ROI on wireless than wired networks, as they are usage billed rather than flat rate.
I too found the landing page a bit lacking. The video's(which I don't normally watch but this looks like something I may use so I made an exception) main two use cases were literally "...like if something happens, do some action" and "...advanced users can use integromat to setup complex and very advanced integrations".

To the power users that are your target market these examples are basically vacuous and not useful at all. After watching the video I felt like I was no more informed as to the possibilities of the product. I assume this product integrates disparate products into a web based version of automator(apple's version of this locally) so something like "If someone praises or blasts you on twitter, have it posted to your slack 'way to go' channel or your customer service line instantly" or something like that. as the old saying goes... sell the sizzle not the steak.
OCaml and Cordova = more secured, typed and hybrid mobile applications
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He is. Any clue where to start?

Edit: maybe here? https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PortingPolicy
Interesting that the author does not cite anything describing the resounding success of psychiatry...
I follow people that I idolize like Bill Gates(Microsoft), Nas(Rap Music), Steve Wozniack(Apple), Kevin Rose(Digg), Guy Kawasaki(Apple), Satya Nadella(Microsoft). I also follow Microsoft leakers like Wzor. What is your Twitter I follow I will follow you but make sure to follow back? I am really chill.
Actually, insurance premiums are designed to pay 100% of the losses the actuaries predict will occur over a large pool of people. There is a number commonly discussed by insurance companies called the "loss ratio." A loss ratio of 93% (i.e., $93 paid in claims for every $100 collected in premiums) for a year is very good. On the other hand, a loss ratio of 105% or even 110% in a year is not good, but not unheard of.

Insurers make their money on investments of premium dollars, not on loss ratios. Sure, they might have a good year or two with low loss ratios, but that means they're collecting too much premium compared to competitors and so may lose market share if the others lower premiums due to more accurate forecasts of losses (closer to 100%). This is one reason insurance marketing and advertising work so hard to drive customer loyalty and retention.

So your rates went up even though you didn't have an accident? Better look to see what the stock market has been doing lately.
I think the general difference is, in AWS you provision your own "private" little loadbalancer instance, and they have logic on how little or big (in terms of compute, bandwith etc) this specific loadbalancer needs to be, and resize it constantly for you.

Google runs a single gigantic distributed loadbalancer, and simply adds some rules for your specific traffic to it. All of the compute and bandwith behind this loadbalancer is able to help serving your traffic spike.
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I'm pretty sure people working in defense would disagree.
gigabo's account has been rate limited, but he wants to say:

"Well... we made it through the first hour or so of HN traffic on a single t2.medium instance in ec2 before we started seeing errors. We're now on three m4.larges with good head room. Not too bad, I think?

We meant to get cloud front set up before we got this sort of traffic, but glad to be surprised with an early bump. :)"

This is me saying this: I think we are thoroughly over-provisioned now for the load we are seeing, but we wanted to avoid any more hiccups while you all are trying to check it out.
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A world where most people don't use debuggers?
Exactly. And hand written function objects were already common in C++98. C++1* lambdas are just (very sweet) syntactic sugar.
I fully intend to write this science fiction, but the fact that this COULD be reality (and I think the biology is tractable) should be sparking some sort of policy debate. There is actual capital flowing into these ventures... Speculative fiction is ten years behind where the money is.
Psychiatrists are a bit like chiropractors. They want to be seen as "doctors", but none of what they do has any scientific basis. Ever notice how psychiatrists just prescribe you random medications without knowing how, or even if, they work? The most damning fact is that I've never met anyone on psych meds who is doing really great.
It is still difficult and expensive to do true 1 Gbps line rate (FDD) by microwave PTP, although the $18,000 to $20,000 equipment cost for that can be a great deal less than the $200,000 to dig up the street in a major urban area.

However it is REALLY difficult to accomplish 6 Gbps to 10 Gbps of capacity between two routers via PTP microwave. Whereas it's really easy with two $250 1550nm SFP+ in two strands of dark fiber, if you have an optical path from point A to B.

Or even with one strand of dark fiber using bidirectional 1490/1550 SFP+.
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Is this related to that whole -1/12 business, which they talk about in this Numberphile video[0]? Because the video suggests it's ongoing work in mathematics and that it shows up in unexpected places in theoretical physics.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Oazb7IWzbA
Anecdote: Three weeks ago, I needed to debug what might have been a problem in a compiler. A small change to the packaging of some libraries had caused a test program to fail, and there was no obvious relation between the small change and the failure that was reported by the test.

Experimentation showed that I could make the problem appear or vanish depending on the presence or absence of a small amount of additional read-only data to the link step of the test program. But I couldn't add any code to the test to try to isolate the root source of the failure by printing intermediate values or "hey I got here!" messages -- it was a true Heisenbug that vanished if I got too close to it.

Long story short (if still possible): I ended up having to write a debugging tool that would drive the ptrace(2) API to fork and exec two binaries, let them run for a certain number of system calls, and then a certain number of breakpoint hits, and then single-step a certain number of instructions. Bisection on these three parameters allowed me to eventually find the point in execution where the PC registers of the two images first differed. Working backward from a trace found the conditional branch that first diverged, and then tracing register values helped nail down the address of a memory location whose load first yielded distinct values.

(And yeah, it turned out to be a compiler bug that had caused the right value to be stored into the wrong address much earlier in the execution.)

Anyway, thank goodness for ptrace(2). It's pretty easy to use and it's a very powerful tool.
Arguing about whether a 30% difference is "significant" isn't really interesting.
Any employee can take home a copy and publish it, no?
If you were immortal, you could pay off a loan over hundreds of years. Imagine a mortgage of $500K being paid off over 3 years. Suddenly, paying $1M-$2M isn't such a barrier.
Still it was more honest than the forensic odontologists' assessment of their profession.

https://theintercept.com/2016/03/25/in-las-vegas-embattled-f...
On the contrary the position of most people seems to be knee-jerk opposition to any possibility of extending life indefinitely.

It's always a good idea to apply https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversal_test. Given you lived in a world where death was a choice, would you prefer to take that away?
As frequently happens, Bruce Sterling was there. Pick up a copy of _Holy Fire_.
The first time through, i thought you meant implementing a compiler. That was the one thing that completely, ruthlessly eliminated any "magic" in the computer.

But, no, your point is, it doesn't really matter what crazy theory you have about how computers work, because running code is the ultimate arbiter of success. If you can't pass the compiler, you can't even start.

neat.
thanks, Good luck to you guys!
I assume you're talking about the not wanting to afford the area. You can run the numbers on rent vs rent + hotel + airfare, or I can type that out later if interested.

The median rent for a one bedroom place in SF in January of this year was 3400. (http://sf.curbed.com/2016/1/5/10849608/whoa-sfs-median-rent-...)

Now, when you graduate from college, getting 100K+ a year sounds exciting, except when you're plowing 40K (after taxes) a year into rent.

I can't speak to the value of making connections, but I'm already pretty advanced in my career and have plenty of connections (not a humble brag, just stating a fact). Maybe when you're just starting out, it helps a lot to be surrounded by a zeitgeist of tech, where everybody knows a least a little something about software and startups, just for an initial career boost.

I'd rather take a smaller check and save money for retirement. Or, you know, blow it on ponies and whiskey - just not live hand to mouth, worrying about every little expense you're incurring. What's good about living in San Francisco when you're worried about affording everything?
The resounding success being "still depressed but at least not suicidal?" I guess it's all relative.
Toshiba is on 100tb and a lot of others are in pursuit ... hopefully in 8 years the top end will be in petabytes, tb's could become much more affordable.
The other concept that GP needs to understand the title is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_and_promises

So the title/TFA is about "futures" (in the sense of my link) that have "zero cost" (in the sense of steveklabnik's comment).
This won't be a popular comment, but I'm posting it anyway.

I'm annoyed by all these comparison posts that only harp on speed and benchmarks. The biggest benefit to using Rails is its ecosystem and maturity. When speed and benchmarks matter, you won't use Rails unless you're ready to throw money at hardware.

In the second sentence, "Phoenix is Not Rails" yet it goes on to compare ActionCable to Phoenix Channels.

All these posts on Phoenix vs Rails really confuse me. How does Phoenix, apart from MVC (and perhaps the folder structure?) compare to Rails?

Speed, benchmarks, and scaling aside, how does it really compare? Rails scales just fine if you throw money at it (a great thing!); Rails also has the Ruby ecosystem — I can guarantee is vastly superior than Elixir's ecosystem.

I digress.
Native markdown support is planned -- in the meantime you might like this tweet :)

https://twitter.com/overleaf/status/763395560682364928

and for something more light-hearted, here's a D&D template in LaTeX!

https://twitter.com/overleaf/status/763524947339800576
That's 60,000 hours of Netflix Standard Def.

That's 6.85 years of 24/7.
I haven't seen a benchmark of huge numbers of native threads vs. a userland scheduler, but I have a hard time imagining that a userland scheduler will beat the kernel's scheduler. The kernel scheduler has a much more global picture of the system compared to userland.

Doesn't using kernel threads imply lots of context switches? Doesn't that tend to be expensive in terms of time on modern architectures?
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but Hypernova has the javascript rendering siloed as a separate service. Which can be really useful in some cases (especially if you want to render React components from a Rails app).

But if you want it all in one place (reduced complexity and overhead), React Server looks pretty promising.
Zinc and Copper belong on that list too.
Zinc: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3868572
Copper: http://www.naturalnews.com/047834_copper_toxicity_depression...
Moving average as an annual or monthly run rate is a decent way to express it.
You could run a VPN, you could give each service you have its own address, you could expose every docker container to the world as its own address, etc.
I wonder if it is information used by the compiler to do error checks. Keep in mind that one of the goals of Rust is to catch common errors in C like languages at compile time rather than run time.
Its a new RTOS...

Basically that means more than just cell phones as you have embedded systems in vehicles that use RTOS, watches, medical devices, etc.

Its the operating system that runs the baseband cpu/chip other wise known as the BaseBandProcessor.
This book has been on my shelf since forever (my Amazon says Sep 2005) and maybe I will actually read it someday :/

C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software By David R. Hanson
Drew Magary beat you to it.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10673576-the-postmortal

(It's a good read)
The US Census Bureau has a TIGER database of street information. They use the "block face" as a primitive. A block face is one side of a street bounded by an intersection or the end of a street. This works even for streets that dead end. Not all block faces define the outlines of blocks. Addresses are associated with block faces.

The original post was trying to do it for Riga, Latvia, so they can't use US TIGER files.
Tel Aviv is just one hour away if you can get into the country. I don't know about Egypt specifically, but I know some countries in that area aren't on the best of terms with Israel...
Previous discussions on 'artificial leaves':

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=artificial+leaf
What client webserver can't handle this though?
This is an awesome example of real down in the dirt science communication.

I'm impressed
Yes, but that could also be used in just a marketplace, for example, and still does not merit a crypto currency. The neat thing here is that it's programmable and freely accessible to anyone. As others have mentioned, that allows this to be used in smart contracts, etc.
I have noticed. Multiple times I've gone to a Psychiatrist and they have decided to try something because it's new and supposed to work, when the reality is they've only ever put 2 or 3 clients on it and it has been working for a few weeks, and the medication itself has only been out a year.

In addition, the worst times in my life were the times when I was taking psychiatric medications.
Pandora's Star is the first book of a series that explores many of these themes as well.
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I was barely able to understand what the Internet would do to the world, and still don't. You're asking me to successfully imagine the consequences of ending death, and then apply a 'reversal test' in that society? This methodology is too difficult.
So why are firms locating in SF rather than the valley or east bay where their workers actually live? The commute to SF is long and parking fees are ridiculous.
For some reason I misread this title as "How to Prototype a Game in under 7 seconds" and I was like, FINALLY!! Someone gets the web. I was so ready to click and spend not just 7 seconds but 30, 60, 90, 120, hell, 20 minutes if that's what it took.

Imagine my disappointment when it turned into 7 days.

This article is on the right track. But "Rapid is a State of Mind" can be a state of mind.

I am exaggerating with the 7 seconds - but only a little. People need to go much farther in the direction that this article, correctly, advocates :)

EDIT: the downvoters are on the wrong side of history and I'm not changing one word.
the guy is a "Top Neuroscientist", which apparently means he doesn't have to do menial things like work at the bench.

That said, Adderall == amphetamine salts == amphetamine. I'm surprised that the world needs a Top Neuroscientist to point out that A == A and B == B. Although since he fucked even that trivial point up, maybe we need fewer of them.
It may be retired, but Sparkfun still sells it[1].

If you're looking for other faster microcontrollers with Arduino toolchain support, there's a bunch of stuff out there. See the Wikipedia page on non-atmega Arduino-supported boards: [2].

Additionally, if you're willing to learn how to use the ARM CMSIS HAL and write raw C++, there's the STM32 series of microcontrollers. Those also support Mbed, if you want to learn that instead (it's much easier than using CMSIS with C++, it's basically the equivalent of arduino for many 32-bit ARM microcontrollers).

[1]- https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11589

[2]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arduino_boards_and_com...
seems like a natural pick, no? The OS for the TEE from Trustonic is based on L4 since around 2010 ("mobicore" from G&D).
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EV certs don't stop domain hijacking + cheapo SSL cert attack vector?
I shall go an have a re-listen to this! Many decades ago, I had the CD boxed set of the radio series, and we used to play it as the 'on hold' music on our office phone system.

Most customers would ask us what the hell they were listening to when they came off hold, whereas a few would demand to be put BACK on hold again so they could finish listening to that part.

Sadly, one day some creep broke into our office at night - about the only thing they took was the CD player next to the receiption desk that played the on hold stuff, along with HALF the collection of HHGTTG. We found one CD smashed in the stairwell of the building.

I wonder if there is a way to covertly download the BBC stream so that I can enjoy the series in its entirety again in the future...
Judging by prices, we have gluts of both labor and capital, a systemic shortage of aggregate private and public demand, and yet consistently increasing employment and rock-bottom productivity growth. To me it seems like cheap labor is being used to substitute for capital.
> I've never met anyone on psych meds who is doing really great.

Of course you have. You just didn't know it. People don't wear placards around their neck announcing "I'm on psych meds!"
The space overhead is significantly worse for native threading in the presence of many threads since each thread needs both a user and kernel stack.

For M:N, there are N kernel stacks.
A large portion of this is dependent on the software stack you end up working with and the associated communities. The Ruby on Rails and javascript communities heavily advocated open source work so many developers have open source work and/or a blog. Then you look at .Net. The amount of open source work is significantly smaller. Most software stacks have communities somewhere inbetween
> Can you explain how the process-level sandbox is broken using webviews?

Sure thing. It's the node integration that's an issue. To let the render processes import node's APIs, the process-level sandbox had to be removed. Whether node-integration is enabled or not, that process-level sandbox is gone. The javascript sandbox is still present, but the os-enforced sandbox is gone.

This situation isn't totally unsafe, but it's not as safe as it can be. The process-level sandbox acts as a strong second-line of defense against API compromises. For a project that doesn't need node integration in the browser (such as Beaker) then it'd be best to re-add it.

> I hope y'all don't have to fork Electron but instead can upstream your changes.

That would be nice! The team that works on Electron is superb, but they've explicitly stated, in conversations with the Brave team, that they're not interested in supporting Browser projects such as Brave or Beaker.[1] Their position is reasonable - though obviously I'd prefer they changed it. I'll stay in touch with them, and do my best to contribute upstream when it makes sense. If I don't have to fork, in the end, I certainly won't.

1. https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/5210
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@pfraze: This browser is a great idea! I'm getting more and more into decentralized web stuff, and this browser is exactly the kind of thing for decentra-newbies like me to keep diving in! Kudos!

[decentra-newbie or decentra-newb: a term i just now coined to refer to newcomers or novices utilizing decentralized digital technologies. ;-) ]

Also - off-topic - but I just checked out the patchwork project, and wow, very cool! I'm in the midst of running an internal/family-only experiment running my own matrix.org server...but when i have a free chance, will definitely check out patchwork.

Keep up the great work!
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Does anyone know of an access protocol (like pcoip) that supports multiple users to have concurrent 3d accelerated sessions on one VM ? Each just 720p
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