skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really dislike the whole "starts kids with toy language" thing. My first language was 6502 assembly, and I genuinely think it's a good place to start. I'm not saying that to try and elevate myself, none of the "I walked uphill both ways to school in the snow" type shit.

An assembly that is fairly simple teaches so many fundamentals and at the same time is about is easy to learn as it gets. No crazy syntax, no OOP bullshit, no ceremony and boilerplate bullshit. It's as simple as it gets. Instructions and data.

I know so many people who learned Python and Java in early CS classes and then had their fucking minds blown and experienced so much pain just understanding the concept of a pointer. I remember my packed highschool "Intro to Programming" class where we started with VB and that was a struggle so they switched to one of those "Visual Programming for Kids" which became even more of a hassle for everyone.

When I try to learn anything new I want to distill it down to the most basic, core concepts and build from there. Doesn't matter if it's learning a framework, learning bass, or woodworking. Whatever happened to "keep it simple stupid"?
They need to implement support for the Dockerfile format if they want to win. People value inertia. The switching costs have to be low if you expect anyone to switch; this only become non-true when the incumbent becomes intolerably useless to the general userbase.
Rackspace offers most of the services Amazon/Google/Microsoft does - but you're right, they did start out as Slicehost which is a Linode competitor (back in what...2009?)
That's pretty scary. We spend a lot of time talking about AI taking over (like in the Terminator films), but the grey goo scenario seems much more realistic!
" A subsequent request for re-parole (for up to three additional years) would be considered only if the entrepreneur and the startup entity continue to provide a significant public benefit as evidenced by substantial increases in capital investment, revenue or job creation."

How will they measure this? It's so subjective.
What about a stand alone platform that is deliberately not development by committee, but rather collaborative, mining a pool of great minds for cross-discipline, deep integration on big ideas? I'd help found/build.

Google, Apple, Microsoft Next all do this internally...It would be interesting to do it in the wild without all of the secrecy (which might be the competitive advantage).

Tesla evolving to a modern renewable energy company from a strategic consumer product offers a practical example/case study of what I am talking about. However, only recently have they "come clean" about their intentions.
> The asset also has depreciated in value by then.

Just to be clear, that's a GOOD thing. You want depreciation to happen NOT on your watch, BEFORE (or after) you own it.

Something that starts at $20,000 will lose a lot of value on your watch pretty quickly. Something that starts at $2,000 has already lost most of its value on someone else's watch and by the time you sell it you may only have lost say, $500 on depreciation. There's just not as much room to go down, and frankly if you keep replacing parts you can usually keep it going very economically for hundreds of thousands of miles, till the engine fails and needs rebuild/replace.

It takes a hell of a lot of savings on all those things you listed to make up the $18,000. It is especially common for people to way overpay for better MPG, when it would take decades to make it back (by which time they have another new car again)
The article mentions airplanes and trucks, but what about trains? So much of the design is made to reduce air drag (look at ICE and TGV) and friction.

I bet plasma could find some uses there, too, even as an upgrade to those old and slow models that are still in use.

Would love to have a company selling upgrade to freight trains.
It's true that at least some energy must be expanded to lift the plan, even were there no drag; otherwise planes would lift themselves.

Drag is more like vacuum than friction.
Dell going private with it's original owner is very different than a portfolio company taking a company private.
How is this not called the Voltron Virus?
One reason for release of Open source software is testing.
My side project is Genni.

Genni is a JavaScript file generator using ES2015 templates. To help automate component generation.
There is a similar thread at lobste.rs AFAIK every start of the month. It's a bit more generic, "what are you working on this month" or something similar.
Craigslist has offered direct-to-consumer sales of cars for years. Car dealerships are a relic already as far I'm concerned
Thanks for the feedback! The template comes from Pixelarity (https://pixelarity.com/) which I would recommend to anyone. CSS is not my strong point, but I've attempted to modify it to bring all the links into the header -- I'm not completely happy with the result, but I'll keep playing with it and hopefully for now it'll leave less viewers confused.
Parole is a terrible experience on the ground. Yea you get into the states, but you'll be sent to secondary every time you cross the border while they validate your parole status.

It seems to be a trend for the US to make the immigration experience more and more demeaning in practice.
Might be strange that we have sexes. Might also be strange that we only have 2 sexes. Many plants have two different generational types (haploid and diploid). Meaning each "generation" alternates between two different organism types. Fungi have both sexual and assexual reproduction [2]. But their sexual reproduction occurs when two cells directly fuse and then undergo meiosis into haploid spores instead of a diploid organism. Haplodiploidy occurs in insects where males are haploid by females are diploid [3]. Sex can be much more complicated than what it is in humans. Alien species may have even more complicated systems for genetic recombination.

[1] http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Ferns/Sci-Media/Animatio...
[2] https://www.boundless.com/biology/textbooks/boundless-biolog...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplodiploidy
> People like drugs and alcohol just like every animal [2]. It's totally natural. However, certain other people in power have taken it as an opportunity to exact control over the entire world.

The trouble with these theories (I nearly said "conspiracy theories"), is the evidence doesn't fit the theory. If there's a secret cabal of "certain people" deciding this stuff, who are they? Where are they?

A more plausible explanation is to take politicians at their word. They really do thing "drugs" are "bad", that only bad people do drugs, and won't someone think of the children? And they've not really thought about the topic beyond that.

There are cabals, like the alcohol industry which infamously funded an anti-ecstasy campaign in the UK, but they are not hidden.
I'm far more interested in why his girlfriend Alix changed her name after she and Stallman broke up. :)
> even God can’t read them

How do I find out which data erasure tools are deity-proof?

More seriously, does it perturb anyone else that Gowdy is invoking fictional characters to assess the behavior of other politicians?
How about a rule to welcome anyone who isn't a criminal?
Google Photos
Hi,

My question is specifically regarding Google Photos backend & upload process -

Does anyone know what the MAX bitrate is, on videos uploaded to Google Photos?
Also, does Google Photos store at original FPS? Do they transcode into a lower FPS on previews?
Finally, are videos first transcoded into the lowest resolutions and then over time transcoded to the higher resolutions up-to 1080p?

Would be great to get some insight from someone who handles the cloud infrastructure & transcoding backend at Google. I have searched all over the internet without luck

Thanks!
Speedracer
One problem with pgrep is it has no option to ignore case.

Yes, I do sometimes have processes with camel-cased names which I may or may not remember exactly. So you:

ps auwx | grep -i {lc-version-of-camel-cased-name}
I'm a big fan of this build system: Meson
Now that the code makers have run far beyond the code breakers, hacking is all entities like the NSA have left. So of course they are hording vulnerabilities. That's all they can do.

Cracking systems probably isn't going to lead to anything worthwhile. It isn't targeted enough. The thing that the NSA fears the most is the perception that they are not worth the money. It's a legitimate fear.
> Your model seems to involve people with no desire to save money, willing to spend every last cent if only the right shop would open on their block.

So, sounds like the model should work well for Manhattan then? ;-)
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I've seen such thread on reddit's r/startups. But doing it here could bring a different flavor of projects ("hackers").
Thanks for the feedback! As I'm running this solo and on the side for now, the priority for me is experimentation and to see if I can find even 5 people who would be keen on the idea. If it goes well I'll definitely completely change the pricing page and add a call-to-action on the main page.
>> Not sure if people are aware, but China doesn't have any sub-28nm (or 22nm?) fabs.

>That isn't true, SMIC has a 28nm process

I don't understand your comment. 28 is not sub-28.
C89 v. C99 difference IIRC

edit: I was wrong: http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ANSI-C-grammar-y.html#initialize...
This is really a huge difference in the enterprise space. Projects are won and lost on the most trivial things, and having very intelligent people in presales is so critical.
How would you order the operations?
It also depends on the kind of PE firm. The vulture firms will buy a stable firm and load it up with debt doing stock buybacks and then cash out and let the company crater.

Other firms, like Texas Pacific Group, are turn around specialists that take struggling firms and fix their business processes to make them run better and raise the stock price by actually building a better company.

There are a lot more of the former than the latter, mainly because it takes some uncommonly smart people to run the latter kind of fund and just a bunch of bean counting jerks to the run the former kind.
> They spend much more on marketing.

This is my pet peeve. If you are going to regurgitate a talking point, please regurgitate the _right_ talking point. They spend more on marketing and administration. You know, useless stuff like HR, IT, etc. What company need stupid stuff like that?
Those look remarkably like some anti-static bags that we bought by the thousands in China for less than a dollar a piece. I'll check on Tuesday and post back here.
If "cloud" is AWS, you should join the kubernetes slack sig-aws channel. Lots of community people figuring out those kinks together.
America's prices are a subsidy for the rest of the world, whom relies on American medications that they often outright infringe ownership of.

Say what you want about America, but it can't be denied that the majority of drugs in the last few decades which the world depends on has been thanks to the American government, American companies, and the American people.

One way to fix the price would be simply to stop giving away our inventions for pennies, and get the rest of the world's governments to actually pay a fair price if they want to use our products.
This looks great! Any chance this book is available before then via O'Reilly Early Release etc? Even just the ToC would be nice.
i read this book, it's good. i got the overwhelming feeling that once started, the buyout process is outside of any one person or group's control. it takes on a life of its own.
Thanks for the feedback! I don't have the resources to take on more than 5 customers at the moment, so for now it's really about getting feedback and seeing what people think (even if they're not a perfect sample of the final target market). But I'll definitely be revisiting this comment in a few months :)
Yeah, it's not set up for https. Do you see the same thing with http://www.jonathanturner.org/?
There are generic Epi-pens, which are much, much cheaper. You -do not- have to buy the name brand. Non-issue made big by the media and anti-capitalist hordes expecting more free stuff.
Finally! This was one of the reasons I stopped actively using Nextdoor. My neighborhood in Denver is composed of a large group of elderly white people (who all seem to use Nextdoor somehow) and then a diverse group of people who have moved into this lower income neighborhood as the old people have passed away. The amount of profiling was painful. We had a black mentally handicapped man get picked up by the police because he asked a neighbor to borrow a ladder and she posted to nextdoor that she thought her house was getting cased to be robbed (and the police and Nextdoor have a partnership in our area). Hopefully this helps some.
Whoops, my confusion came from the fact that the article was talking about it being made on a 28nm process, and I thought the criticism was China would be unable to fab it.
"As a broad generalization, [my] stance in any controversy will be the opposite of Chomsky's" - Mencius Moldbug

Is Chomsky the archbishop of the Cathedral?
I can't go into details on our use case, but if it can work for you, I highly recommend the new --tmpfs flag. If you know exactly where your application writes data and are okay with it being in memory, you can reuse your containers with a simple stop and start rather than waiting for the full setup of a new container.

With runC you can mount whatever filesystem you want, but it is up to you to setup that filesystem. So yes, you would need some kind of shim to set up your filesystem.
I was wondering this myself.
Perfect, thanks. Been wanting to contribute to Python upstream for a while now, but it's overwhelming every time I take a look. :)
From: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/history.html

> parallel dates back to around the same time. It was originally a wrapper that generated a makefile and used make -j to do the parallelization.
You'd consider turning a $1000 investment into a company worth $500 a success? OK, sure. You can have whatever opinion you want, but you're gonna have a hard time finding other people who see the world the same way you do.
And isn't that usually the case with PE? Are there any good examples of them NOT doing this?
That's an understandable feeling to have, but you see how it sort of sucks all the oxygen out of any discussion you might have about issues or policy.
This.

Most users do not think that their favorite website is broken; the believe the browser is at fault. Therefore, they find a browser that renders said website correctly and stick with it. The problems are manifold, and it's the browser that supports both the standard and many non-standard ways of describing content that wins out: Chrome today; IE before the "second coming of web browsers".
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Actually, thread-local pools predates tcmalloc by quite a few years. Cribbing from the related work section from a paper I'm a co-author on from 2006 (http://www.scott-a-s.com/files/ismm06.pdf):

"Streamflow uses segregated object allocation in thread-private
heaps, as in several other thread-safe allocators including Hoard
[3], Maged Michael’s lock-free memory allocator [18], Tcmalloc
from Google’s performance tools [10], LKmalloc [15], ptmalloc
[9], and Vee and Hsu’s allocator [25]. In particular, Streamflow
uses strictly thread-local object allocation, both thread-local and
remote deallocation and mechanisms for recycling free page blocks
to avoid false sharing and memory blowup [3, 18]."

[3] E. Berger, K. Mckinley, R. Blumofe, and P. Wilson. Hoard: A Scalable
Memory Allocator for Multithreaded Applications. In Proc. of the 9th
International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming
Languages and Operating Systems, pages 117–128, Cambridge, MA,
November 2000.

[9] Wolfram Gloger. Dynamic Memory Allocator Implementations
in Linux System Libraries. http://www.dent.med.unimuenchen.de/wmglo/malloc-slides.html.

[10] Google. Google Performance Tools.
http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/.

[15] P. Larson and M. Krishnan. Memory Allocation for Long-Running
Server Applications. In Proceedings of the First International
Symposium on Memory Management, pages 176–185, Vancouver,
BC, October 1998.

[18] M. Michael. Scalable Lock-free Dynamic Memory Allocation. In
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2004 Conference on Programming
Language Design and Implementation, pages 35–46, Washington,
DC, June 2004.

[25] V. Vee and W. Hsu. A Scalable and Efficient Storage Allocator
on Shared Memory Multiprocessors. In Proceedings of the 1999
International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and
Networks, pages 230–235, Perth, Australia, June 1999.

The earliest appears to be Larson and Krishnan from 1998. It appears that in the late '90s and early 2000s, it was SMP focused, for servers. Then in the early to mid 2000s, people (including my advisor) started realizing this whole "multicore" thing was for real, and system software would have to change.
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> Sex can be much more complicated than what it is in humans.

Completely arbitrary anecdotal evidence would suggest otherwise.
Matt Levine wrote about this today [ https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-26/herbalife... ]:

"One thing I wonder about is: Even if Block is right, why would you hack someone's pacemaker? It is just so ... mean. And complicated. Like, if you wanted to murder someone with a pacemaker, it seems like it would be easier to walk up to him and shoot him with a gun than to buy the hardware and develop the expertise to hack his pacemaker, get within hacking range, and then do it. Pacemaker-hacking does not seem like an optimal method if your goal is just regular murder. (Not legal advice!)

"I guess one reason to hack a pacemaker is financial: You could short a ton of St. Jude's stock, hack some of its pacemakers, kill some people and wait for the stock to crash. (This is again not legal advice, though it is a free plot for a financial thriller if anyone's working on one.) But if you are a hacker looking to make money by shorting St. Jude's stock, and you have figured out how to hack its pacemakers, actually going and murdering a bunch of people seems mean and unnecessary and really extremely illegal. You should just short the stock and then tell people that you can hack the pacemakers."
Well, even SREs need to get some quality time, what you're describing is living hell - like a startup environment not a corporate one, where you on call 24/7 but you have either premium salary or a considerable amount of stock options.
How is that painful?

I run a service using docker and have your steps 4 through 7 as part of a systemd unit file. Updating the application requires a single systemd restart command.
Looks like the flight range can vary between 100s of feet and as much as 40 miles or more http://www.mosquito.org/faq#far

They would have to only take a blood meal from a single host and you'd have to be able to correlate the data - but maybe?
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Bigger list: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#DIFFERENCES-B...
No, I’m not American. :-p
> punish people for using their property the way they want ...

Take a step back and look at the big picture. "No man is an island" which in this case is, one's actions affect other people.

I'm all for recreational use of drugs, alcohol being mine, however, driving drunk doesn't only affect myself, it affects everyone around me.

Moderate use (of many drugs) probably doesn't affect that many people to an extent that it's a problem. On the other hand, look at the effects of Krocodile (don't look at images if you have a weak stomach), you can't tell me that that drug has no affects on Society.

Therefore, some drugs shouldn't be available without heavy restrictions.
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Drugs also have a large societal impact, apart from the personal body impact. When one or two people are addicted, it's largely "their" problem. But when a larger number of people are addicted, it can have a huge effect on the local economy, society, etc. There are some recent articles that profile small towns undergoing this issue.

(No idea if this relates to the burglary analogy, but I thought it would be a helpful point.)
First, I think there's a lot of truth to the idea that NSA's primary motivation is headcount. I think that's an important and significant point that isn't raised often enough in these discussions. It has implications beyond vulnerability disclosure! (For instance: it's a very good reason to be wary of things like DNSSEC, that make it expensive but not intractable to attack Internet trust at its core).

But I don't know what you mean by your first paragraph, or by the notion that "cracking systems isn't going to lead to anything worthwhile".
If you are really interested in learning more about genetics and DNA, try reading this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21766/

The Central Dogma and all it's exceptions are fascinating stuff. It all acts like a computer in many ways, but since it has to balance on the edge of statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics and has a very angry set of Maxwell's Demons (say, a lambda virus) always coming in and messing it all up, DNA has evolved many very cool features.
I'd say employees certainly value financial things and that "recurring revenue" from their paycheck is one of them. Liquidity events from a transaction would be another. Unfortunately they typically lose the former and almost certainly never get the latter in a PE deal.
That sounds like a good idea. You could use a private key to unlock your password manager.

But the problems of both using 2FA and a private key is that they both rely in something that only you have.

If someone figures out how to steal your phone/hard drive, then they also have their way to all your accounts.

This dial tries to get back to the idea of "something that only you know".

Finally, you could also use a private key with a password, and you would even reduce more the attack surface. But again, the dial is a way to make harder to hear your secret when you're entering it in the computer.

Anyway, this dial is a PITA to enter long passwords, which is not good. Long passwords are very important.
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So we assume that an adversary has dropped some malware that can silently enable the radio, activate the microphone, encode the audio stream and transmit it in real-time - and they want to avoid detection by this case.

Well, all they need to do is modify the malware to record the audio to a file and transmit it when the radio is next switched on, perhaps interleaving it with normal radio activity.

As a malware detector, this case is useless.
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Borrow against your Google shares and make it rain on the State Department!
We have had laws against both suicide and abortion.
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Is this true? See the first Google link:

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/health/epipen-generic/
Analytics for Competitive Gamers
Hey guys,

For the last couple of months, my friends and I were working on a personal performance analytics for competitive gamers. A tool that would help League of Legend players analyze their performance, define their strengths and weaknesses and provide them with a personalized advice on how to improve.

This month we're launching our alpha and before the launch, I'd greatly appreciate your feedback on our landing page and product idea in general.

Also, It would be great to know how many Hacker News readers love LoL=)

However, thank you for your time and the feedback!

Sincerely,
Bogdan