skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, I know I owe you a response; you posted just as I was going out for the evening last night. :)
> we do not understand and deem inferior to our own

Of course, those two things don't have to go together. It's perfectly reasonable to understand something and deem it inferior. And deeming it inferior isn't necessarily an indication that something isn't understood.
Sorry, Elon Musk Boeing says it will win race to Mars
I just got a funny email last week... welcoming me to the NRA. I was like... but I didn't join the NRA. I sent them an email about it, but I'm probably going to have to CALL the NRA to tell them to remove my address from their database.
Consider an algorithm that perfectly predicts defaults. If such an algorithm existed, non-defaulters would be able to borrow at the risk-free rate. Some people who would be unfairly denied loans in the current regime would be able to get them. This is clearly desirable.

Improving your ability to predict defaults is simply moving in the direction of that perfect algorithm. The inputs you use, whatever your emotional reaction to them, are irrelevant.

By not optimizing your predictions to the fullest extent possible, some people are worse off just as some others are better off. There is always such a trade-off. There is absolutely nothing special about the status quo. The idea that one side of this trade-off is somehow more ethical than the other is completely absurd.
The Shuttle's main engines also had to be disassembled, refurbished and reassembled, rocket engines are complicated
I would love to see the unit tests!
As I've mentioned before, one way to fight these on a budget is to throw away data. There are no mandatory data retention laws in the US https://www.eff.org/issues/mandatory-data-retention/us

It looks like Signal has more or less applied this policy to their implementation.

I can attest to how abused gag orders are and am happy that Microsoft is trying to do something about it.
This is actually a cut down erlang otp running on the Epiphany cores. It's not ready for production, but it's interesting research. See the README.
PS3 SPUs had 256KB, you'll want to vectorize your data anyway if you want to take of advantage of this.
I agree with your spec needs... I find my (cracked screen) Nexus 4 hits a sweet spot.

> I hope it flops.

That, I don't get. Let it succeed. It could be the Nexus4/5X for someone else.

While I wont buy the Pixel at this price range, I actually like the idea of the Assistant. So Google Home ($129) is probably something I will look into. I see the TV as a valid visual endpoint for Google Home + Assistant actions/interactions. I would like to consume content, replay trip photos, or even plan trips using the TV as a first class endpoint.
I'm curious how managable this in practice.

On the one hand, Linkerd brings some real technical solutions to the table that Kubernetes can't solve right now — K8s' L4 load-balancing can only load-balance entire connections, not requests. For that reason, K8s can't do anything to assist you with timeouts, retries, rate-limiting, tracing or metrics collection. I like the idea of a semi-transparent middleman that handles these things for you and lets your applications be small and simple.

On the other, this setup replaces a core K8s concept with its own, less proven components. As I understand it, Linkerd's daemon replaces service lookup entirely; it will talk to the API server to get service endpoints, which means it needs to invent its own logic to keep up to date with changing pod configurations. It had better be solid stuff!

To reduce surface area, I wonder if running one Linkerd per pod in a sidecar container is a viable option, or would that be crazy?

As an aside, can anyone explain why the example needs to start "kubectl proxy" in a sidecar container? Kubernetes already has a perfectly good way for apps to talk to the API server through a service account [1]. Seems iffy to me.

[1] http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/accessing-the-cluster/#...
That reminds me of the TNG episode where two sides of a war long ago switched to simulating attacks. When there's a strike the casualties are required to report to termination "centers" to comply with the simulation.
I'm tired of seeing CAPTCHAs, redirects, those awful Google "I'm not a robot!" tests, and being forced to fork over my phone number every time I register an email account (it is no longer possible to get an email account at GMail or Yahoo without giving them a phone number). It seems like no one just wants to serve regular web pages fast any more.

In my opinion, anyone who puts this sort of stuff in front of their blog is overly paranoid (unless they are some sort of high-profile victim, like Brian Krebs). Just avoid reading their blog.
Computational chemistry (and/or computational solid state physics) is a field with 50+ years of history and a ton of exceptionally active research groups.

Your most likely starting point is density functional theory; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_functional_theory, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohn–Sham_equations. Classical molecular mechanics is even older than that.
>For example, we have bunch of white only elementary schools and then we have some with black majority ones. Also putting my son through this system convinced me schools like to keep this segregation.

Does London not have school districts? If you have a neighborhood that is predominantly black then that's going to be represented in school demographics. I believe that's how it works everywhere in US.
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Safety-critical industries here and over there are regulated by standards. They're an exception. Average, embedded system can use whatever it wants so long as it produces code to run on target board. Making your tooling generate C as output is easiest way to cheat. It's what I did with my BASIC 4GL. People were none the wiser.
The default configuration is the damned problem.
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The odds of these competing interests working together are about zero.

Hopefully these colonies are far enough apart on the planet that their bickering won't turn into some kind of war.
The real solution here is that the blog owner needs to turn off security for their RSS feed URLs.

Cloudflare could make this easier if it detected that they had an RSS feed and offered a suggestion, via email or the browser (or both) that was like "Create a security exception for your RSS feed"
When you publish something, how do you let your followers know about it? Have you ever compared how much traffic your RSS feed generates compared to your tweets?

On the flipside, how do you discover things?
Perhaps people should be required to post a notice on their front door if their house has a Google surveillance device in it (or I suppose, verbally inform every visitor). It's common (and often required) for businesses to post notice that people on the premises are under video surveillance.

I have a couple of cameras, and at least one visitor has been uncomfortable with their presence, despite the fact they're not sending the data to a third party.
Having seen that the $99 price point was too high, is one of your goals still "supercomputing for everyone"? Or has that dream been dashed?
Orrin Hatch is still alive and meddling with things? Ugh.
I was hoping to read about the scientist who had reduced language to a simple mathematical formula

This is a good place to start: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12626.On_Language
PlayStation VR review: When good enough is great
I think many would rather tell it when to start instead. What's hard about telling it to stop is when you can't tell it's started because it's something more nuanced than the obvious diet plan.
Not from what I've observed with Atlanta having been involved deeply in the Atlanta community for a number of years while also being involved in other communities. But everyone is welcome to have their own opinion.
When are dev-boards coming out?
Yes. As these things go, every day existential threats generally trump threats to our liberty. I can't fault anyone for that.
> You're making it sound as if lenders don't apply criteria such as race out of high-minded civic duty and a commitment to ethics.

I work for such a lender. Yes, that is precisely what I am saying. Although I might call it "basic ethics" not "high-minded civic duty".

Typically now "you" (someone raising this issue, because I don't want to put words in your mouth) point out that corporations are not ethical and simply act to seek maximal profit. Then I point out that corporations have a culture, which may have values other than just profit, and that corporations are made up of individuals who ALSO have motivations other than just profit.

The company I work for also has resisted the urge to open accounts that customers didn't ask for (as recently revealed of Wells Fargo) and many other ethical deviations. I am sure we have our own sins, and should work to improve them. I agree that laws constraining corporate behavior are ONE good tool for managing corporate behavior, but it is not true that absent such laws there would be no other constraints.
It gets a tad inconvenient to compute with a numerical system that goes XVII... Computation and algorithms are sorta important. Vaishali was a republic a long time before.

> Property Law? check. Marriage and Divorce? check

Are you really saying that these ideas originated in Roman empire ? I think expanding your reading repertoire will help get a more informed perspective.

All I can say is that your comment does not come off as particularly knowledgeable or educated.
Whilst trying to remain as politically neutral as possible, isn't this basically what Clinton did?
Assloads of cash
My understanding is that a lot of the molecular interactions involved become exponentially complex to model using classical computers --- so this would be one of the major new areas of exploration with quantum computers.

People I've spoken with in the industry are excited about simulating fertilizer synthesis processes (which are super energy inefficient the way we do it at scale, but are theoretically much cheaper to perform, since anaerobic bacteria do it in the soil at normal temperature and pressure)

And also excited about simulating battery design -- being able to test millions of molecules without actually having to make a battery.

Of course, these are the early-stage speculative things, I'm sure more fancy nanotech could be explored with quantum computers as well.

http://blogs.microsoft.com/next/2015/11/13/with-quantum-comp...
CloudFlare has page rules for a reason. It's trivial to configure no anti-bot protection on your RSS feeds.

In fact, it's possible that the person he was hitting was in "I'm under attack" mode or similar, which would try to reduce bot hits to the web server by any means necessary to prevent a layer 7 attack from taking the site offline.
Is Rethink and Horizon Dead / Abandoned?
I wonder how many people still use RSS to subscribe to sites, even the HN crowd.

Personally I stopped using "traditional" RSS readers years ago, and have stopped using more "modern" RSS readers like Flipboard or Feedly last couple of years, since they're just a subset of what I can find on Twitter.

Most people who own a blog have a Twitter and they share all their posts on their feed anyway, so I just follow them on Twitter and use Twitter as "RSS reader".

Before you open web standards advocates throw rocks at me, I am not an open standards hater either, I have built a couple of RSS related apps as projects in the past and still believe that's the way to go in the long term, but in 2016 I can't really find a reason to still use a RSS reader.

In fact the scenarios like what OP mentioned in the article is exactly why I would rather use Twitter. Why deprive of yourself of an opportunity to read content from someone you like, when you have a totally free option?
I imagine that the classification or definition of 'well' is somewhat specific to the role in this discussion.
You refer to the per-CPU SRAM as "memory" rather than "cache". It's just addressable local memory?

How many DRAM ports?
What I would do if I was 18 now
You left out this part:

> The gist of her article was that she feared too much of the criticism of past work had been ceded to social media, and that the criticism there is taking on an uncivil tone.

So it seems to me, her complaint was not that research shouldn't be criticized. It was more-so that research should be criticized well, and that social media is a poor place for it, because it favors personal attacks over thoughtful criticism. (I'm not saying I agree with her. Just trying to understand her argument in the best light.)
Relevant part of the report:

"As these examples show, the STEM syllabi explored in this study demonstrated a view of
knowledge that was to be acquired by the student, which promotes a view of knowledge as
unchanging. This is further reinforced by the use of adverbs to imply certainty such as
“actually” and “in fact” which are used in syllabi to identify information as factual and beyond
dispute (Biber, 2006a; 2006b). For example, “draw accurate conclusions from scientific data
presented in different formats” (Lower level math). Instead of promoting the idea that
knowledge is constructed by the student and dynamic, subject to change as it would in a more
feminist view of knowledge, the syllabi reinforce the larger male-dominant view of knowledge
as one that students acquire and use make the correct decision."
Sure, but philosophical musings on the nature of free will aside, there's a practical worry about the amount of power a private company has over your actions. I'd rather be ordering burgers because they taste good than because a company wanted me too--I expect this will lead to greater happiness for me in the long run.
I wonder if the Erlang/BEAM VM could take advantage of it. Erlang would be a beast. if any of the pure functional languages get running on it (for easy parallel), watch out. Nice work!
Some questions:

1. Is this supposed to be run by me (an individual?) or run for my by somebody else (some existing community?).

2. Is there any information on what makes this decentralized? How does it "discover" other users?
The latest generations of IBM Power processors have >64MB L3 caches on chip. The Power 7+ has 80MB per chip, the 12 core Power 8 96MB, according to Wikipedia the Power 9 will have 120MB.
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>I have NEVER lived, and rarely visited places (including Europe), where someone hasn't used the "if you don't like the weather, wait an hour" joke, non-ironically.

That can't possibly have been a common occurrence in LA... Our weather changes about half a dozen times a year.
How to integrate your admin system with your helpdesk
Even when I have performance to worry about, intrinsics are usually an option - possibly even a superior option - when writing performance sensitive code. But here are some of the cases where I resort to looking at program disassembly - I'll note a theme here of debugging optimized code (because who doesn't love heisenbugs):

1) Diagnosing a crash which turned out to be the result of a 1 byte vtable pointer corruption bug in an older codebase, which turned out to be a bad static_cast in relatively removed code (a good case for boost::polymorphic_downcast!). Simply understanding which pointer was bad in the first place required looking at the disassembly - when you can't rely on your debugger's results thanks to optimization.

2) Figuring out the actual values of variables in crashes and crash dumps of optimized builds to properly root cause a bug, when the debugger gets confused - or simply aggressively inlined and reordered everything so aggressively that there's no sensible values to even display (so, most crash dumps.)

3) Noticing when the optimizer has reordered code "unexpectedly", alerting me to the fact that supposedly thread safe code is in fact nowhere nearly remotely safe and is in fact missing many memory barriers (possibly because their portable macros "helpfully" defaulted to a noop on whatever new and previously unrecognized platform I'm porting to.)

4) Noticing when the optimizer has removed or rewritten code in an "incorrect" manner, helping me debug code that would've worked if it hadn't technically invoked undefined behavior, so I can a) fix it, b) attempt to explain to my coworker that, yes, it's really undefined behavior, and yes, it's actually a problem (typically with a combination of citing the standard and linking INVALID WONTFIX-ed "bugs" in some compiler's bug database), c) be reasonably certain I've actually found the real root cause of a bug and fixed it.

Now, yes, I'll admit this isn't 100% of my debugging sessions. And perhaps I'm an outlier. My coworkers generally learn that I can (eventually) tackle pretty much any weird bug they might be struggling with and that I'm happy to help. All the porting I've done reopens a whole codebase's worth of wounds - latent undefined behavior that another compiler's optimizer didn't take advantage of.

But on the other hand, I've been lucky enough to never encounter a codegen bug in all the compiler and linker bugs I've found. So far. That I know of. And while "rare" by incidence, these are the debugging sessions that can eat weeks at a time for a single bug, when sufficiently nasty and novel.
I think a heterogeneous product was implied in that post, but I don't blame you for the confusion. The Epiphany-V is still homogeneous because of the time/funding constraints.
The article sadly doesn't report on the false positive rate of statcheck. I assume the paper does?

I mean, it just uses a basic regular expression, I can see it easily performing bad checks. I assume the authors take this into account.
Calculators provide you a completely fair assistance with your query. There is zero bias in a calculator. If you ask it what two plus two is, you're going to get four.

Google is designed to sell ads, and subtly influence your behavior towards the most profitable results. Please do not confuse a fact-based tool with an ad generator.
In capitalist terms, a perfect market will optimize for the world as it is. Many people think of businesses as simply animals that compete in an immutable environment and may the best one win. And then, especially in the US, somehow that observation takes on the weight of moral certitude and now we think it's somehow right for businesses to do that.

But the world is not immutable. And if we silently allow companies to optimize for the unjust world of today, we make it harder to build a more just world for tomorrow.

Denying loans to people of color may be price optimal today, but that's true only to the degree that the world of today sucks. We should fix that, not optimize for it.
G Suite vs. Office 365 and the Meteoric Rise of SaaS Applications
Exactly my thoughts. The headline "Boeing vows to beat Musk to Mars" literally translates to "Elon Musk wins". His whole goal in founding SpaceX was to foster competition in the stagnant space vehicle industry, just like the Tesla's purpose was to get other auto manufacturers to work on electric vehicles (and to convince consumers that EV doesn't mean it has to suck).
I've yet to have ever heard of any of the companies in the daily "this startup is shuttering its service" posts. The spectrum of reactions always amuses me.
I think it depends on the intentions of the buyer. If they think they can grow like Facebook, I think they are screwed.

On the other hand, if they work from the assumption that Twitter is done growing and now it's time to focus on existing users rather than potential users, they might do okay, depending on the purchase price.
> If we instead mandated that police guns had cameras, we wouldn't have that problem.

Police use of force isn't restricted to firearms, and even when it does, the contentious issues related to context and justification often include events that occur before the gun is drawn.
I want out of Windows patch hell
You'd have to convince Elon Musk. Me, I'd go large geosynchronous space station first.
Mostly the same for me, except baseball. I get to follow teams, reporters, and players. I learn about charities the players are involved in, statistical reports on the sport and games themselves, etc. It's pretty useful.
How come they keep putting the fingerprint thing on the back? Seems awkward that way.
Sure, except the recipient will read your email in Google Chrome, while sitting on a Google Sofa sipping Google Coffee? :)
if its a computer access break-in FED law states 90 days notice..while not directly applying it would seem if someone was caught on illegal access after 90 days FEDs would have to let both the criminal know and theri lawyer so arrest would no longer be secret at thatpoint.
The article does a good job going over the Pirahã controversy. It also has this quote, which is a good Chomsky quote:

"There is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals, and [it] is language specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called Universal Grammar"
This only works if you're aware that race is even a factor. If you're not aware of the problematic factors, then you can't correct for them.
Six years ago a Scala spin-off got going, aiming for developers' mindshare
This is about the closest I know. Kx does a lot with utilities for metering and IoT stuff, but I haven't really kept up with that side of things as much as I do with the finance side. However I do know there are some using it for geospatial, and they are always eager to push into new areas so love the challenge. If a new datatype/index type needs to be done to support geospatial and be the fastest there, they are always up to the challenge.

There were a couple really, really cool tech talks I've been to. The title alone gives it props :)

"where Rumsfeldism & Kx collide"

https://kx.com/2014/12/07/visualizing-really-big-data/

in case you're curious about one of the other: a polymer hypergrid with an absurd amount of real time updating data:

http://openfin.github.io/fin-hypergrid-polymer-demo/componen...
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Here is a paper by the AWS team that describes their approach to formal methods and which you could find 'tangible' : http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/tla/fo...
The Epiphany core is a co-processor, and the "main" processor is a couple of ARM cores to run Linux/other.

Maybe in the future they will offer boards with Risc-V main processors, and Epiphany co-processors.

I'm not sure how feasible 1024 Risc-V cores would be (although it sounds awesome). Epiphany cores were designed for this sort of thing.
It's, perhaps unsurprisingly, in the diagnostics arena.
I have made that same "enterprise grade DB" argument at numerous places. Telcos just love Oracle salesdudes, even if that's less true than it used to be. Congratulations on your success.
Why are we allowing these on airplanes?! Are we waiting for someone to leave one of these devices in their checked luggage so it can start a fire that downs a commercial airliner before banning them?!
No. Her concern in that case was that a predictive model that measured the effects of racism on some people would then be used to increase the racial discrimination against them. That is absolutely an ethical question. Her task was not merely to find out facts about the world, but to build systems that would impact the welfare of people in the world—and people in a very precarious position, no less.

Race is not a valid biological category; it is a social construct and a salient social category. & as such it remains the site of many unethical uses of power. At times measuring them can reify those injustices; at times it is essential in combating them.
The last quote, which is the most extreme response, seems like it's not entirely within the same context as the article. I got that it was talking about _human_ online critics, and especially (only?) those who have an "uncivil tone", which is something I agree with.