skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I was thinking about that problem too. (It's not safe to blindly write somewhere unless you can be sure that nobody else is going to simultaneously clobber your data. You can't do any kind of atomic test-and-set or compare-and-swap operation on remote memory, so you don't have the usual building blocks for things like queues or semaphores.)

The problem becomes a lot easier if you can reduce the multiple-writer case to the single-writer case. One idea that occurred to me is that since you have 1024 cores, it might make sense to dedicate a small fraction of them (say, 1/64) to synchronization. When you need to send a message to another process, you write to a nearby "router" that has a dedicated buffer to receive your data. The router can then serialize the with respect to other messages and put it into the receiver's buffer.

Basically, you'd end up defining an "overlay network" on top of the native hardware support; you pay a latency cost, but you gain a lot of flexibility.

EDIT: I may be completely wrong about the first paragraph; it looks like the TESTSET instruction might actually be usable on remote addresses. I assumed it didn't because the architecture documentation doesn't say anything about how such a capability would be implemented. But if it works, it would drastically simplify inter-node communication.
First Mercedes decided they'll be the leader in EVs, then Boeing decides they'll be first to Mars. How will Elon Musk's companies cope with so much imaginary competition?
On that note, I've decided I'm going to be a billionaire. I don't know why more people don't choose that.
No, it verifies your DUNS number at the moment you click "next" when going through the process.

How do I know? I'm still waiting for two weeks to get apple to see my company DUNS number that was generated for me pretty much instantly. I try every day, but so far nothing happens.
I believe that was the assistant. I meant as a product it was gone, it's just now part of Google Assistant.
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You are correct --- I was mistaken about WhatsApp. Thank you for the reply.
unless you have a language which allows you to express that knowledge of the data
Organic food is pseudoscience. The only good reason to buy organic is that it is often a proxy for higher quality in general, but that's not universally true.

Modern inorganic farming methods are necessary for feeding the world. If the whole world switched to organic farming, there would be cataclysmic mass starvation.
I cant help but think that rather than a race against each other, Boeing should be focused on just making this happens. A coalition of support across these companies (and others like Airbus) is surly better for the human race than pure capitalism, in this case.
Ask HN: How do you deal with boredom at work?
Is that verbatim?
> The only real question in my mind is whether we are the first generation to live forever, or the last generation to die?

Really? Right now life expectancy for people in their 80s is increasing by substantially less than a year each decade, and that rate is slowing:

http://i.imgur.com/7J2BPqA.png

Your hypothesis is that rate will increase from abou 0.6 years per decade (down from ~1 a decade ago) to 10 years per decade, within 20-40 years?

This is what that looks like:

http://i.imgur.com/4eS78VU.jpg

Immortality means a slope like those yellow lines. You're saying the curve is going to either turn up sharply like line A or line B, and there is no chance of line C continuing for the next few decades.

In other words, something dramatic would have to change. But there are no current indications that this is likely.
Third choice: buy advice/services from an expert with similarly aligned interests.

If the walled gardens charge 50% on top of the manufacturer's price (or 33% what the customer pays), there is plenty of room to undercut there.
In the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, the characters live in a fictional world where they have to deal with such issues. Longevity treatments have moved people into very old ages (190 ~ 250 IIRC), but as they age, memories become a huge issue. When they start dying again at very old ages, despite the treatments, it's quite unsettling.
More than half of drivers would prefer a Flying Car to a driverless vehicle
Our product is the API and we’re very much focusing on letting developers build on top of it. Comparing shipping APIs is like an iceberg, you need to look below the water to see the difference.

Let's start with the technical stuff.

1. We've actively taken the route of having deep, certified carrier integrations with each of the shipping providers we support. For instance, we are an USPS ePostage partner, being one of the only 3 companies with a direct connection with the USPS (http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y16/m03/i17/s02). This means that we don't rely on any other APIs to generate USPS rates, labels etc. ensuring that our uptime is more stable (https://status.goshippo.com/) and less dependent on other systems.

2. We've built out an internal engine that generates shipping rates (and soon, labels) locally. This means that even if carrier APIs go down, you can
generate rates through Shippo.

3. Being partners with carriers and forming good relationships means that we are able to get our customers better support with them. For instance, we're able to help connect customers to local USPS and DHL reps to help them better manage real-life ops. From a developer perspective, issues that we bring up are also expedited because we know who to go to.

4. We aggregate shipping volume across our platform to help negotiate for discounts with carriers. When you start with Shippo, you don't need an account to start shipping, we set you up with master accounts immediately (but of course, you can plug your own in).

The big picture stuff.

Our goal is to be there from a business' first order, all the way to being directly connected to their system and warehouses as they grow. This means working with both business/ops people and developers.

1. For SMBs/business/ops people, they can use our interface, which is built directly on top of the API, to access all the awesome things. They can manually upload orders, CSVs or use our shipping app on platforms like Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, etc.

2. For developers, all shipments created through the API automatically are synced to the dashboard. You won't need to build your own interface from scratch. Anyone can start manage shipping right away.

We want to make shipping easy for everyone - no matter what size your business is, or who you are at a company. Building an API to make this happen is the best way to do it at this day-and-age, but we believe that it's important to also make the power that the API provides accessible to everyone.
If I had to guess, I'd say there might have been a copyright violation with respect to downloaded docs.
Nice work. I think we are doing somethings correlated.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12647348
>It sounds like the question is really 'who does not use X server for their day to day computing?'

On Linux, you can cheat and use the Linux framebuffer for graphics without needing X. You just need to find software that supports it. Mplayer, a couple image viewers, and several of the lighter web browsers do.
hammer looking for a nail in terms of healthcare applications yes but I am sure finance or government are better nails for the hammer.
Generalizations are necessary for communication, cognition, general human understanding. If you try to reject them you will be rendered incapable of discussion, communication, thought about nearly any relevant or interesting issue.

Positions (1) (2) (3) are nearly axiomatically true -- if we are to generalize at all, and we must, we need to look for positions and people to generalize from. The very purpose of a professional organization is to aid us in doing this. Members of these organizations use it as a mental model to generalize "my professional community" and "the leaders of my professional community".

If you look at her resume, she is the former head of this and about 4 other high-prestige psychologists professional organizations, and a high ranking member of nearly every organization she is eligible to be a part of as a psychologist. She is the very definition as "well-respected representative of her field". She is a fine target for generalization. What you have not brought to the field are conflicting reports from other psychologists contradicting her or suggesting she is not an appropriate representative. Jimmy Carter and John McAfee are readily directly contradicted -- if you ask me to provide sources for numerous professionals in the field suggesting they are not the standard I can do so easily and so can you (though Jimmy Carter is a weird selection -- he is not a professional, and both are telling, since neither of them work in their field anymore)
> Nobody has managed to find any documents labeled as classified, let alone Top Secret.

Really? So you can just delete all the classification labels and send the document to a yahoo account. Look no labels, so it is fine? You better ask your friendly Security Officer about that (actually don't you'll be highly suspicious doing that).

She had 10 or so TS/SCI satellite images in there. Other people would go to jail for that...

She deliberately set up her own separate server, that wasn't an oops I slipped, one doesn't accidentally stumble and end up with a separate email server. Then classified documents up to TS/SCI were found on that server. Imagine an NSA or NRO employee doing that.

"So yeah, Jim, I just set up my own work email server at my house, just send work email there". "Oh, you found some satellite images there? You think you got me, however, see, classification markings are not there so it's fine"
> People are not supposed to communicate only via papers.

That we use written communication that persists through generations is the basis of science and society in general. If we cannot communicate sufficiently via papers, we're in a world of trouble.
> The only other differences are environmental.

That's true.

> Since other animals that do exhibit senescence share the environment of the lobster

Not entirely -- the environment through the whole lifecycle, including at the microscopic level, matters, and things that aren't lobsters differ in the environment in which the genes are embedded from a microscopic level from lobsters as well (there is, of course, a complex two-way cause-and-effect interaction between this environment and genetics, but that doesn't change that it is a different thing than genetics.)

> we can conclude that the lobster's environment does not confer this property.

It may, perhaps, be a reasonable conclusion that the environment (at any level) alone does not confer the property, but it is certainly less reasonable to conclude that the environment is not relevant to the property and it results from genetics alone.
For some reason us humans (speaking generally) get extra motivation out of competition. See: the previous race to the moon.
Yahoo Was Ordered to Search Email for Digital ‘Signature,’ Source Says
This is interesting. The obvious problem is it's natural to ask successful people how they became successful. That said, taking advice with a larger grain of salt and asking more difficult questions as you suggest and about "why, did this really work?" is definitely valuable.
We get that data from the carriers directly at the moment.
They are working on a new version that for sierra: https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements. I'm using it. It works, but you have to configure it by editing a json file, and there are some bugs still
What is the most crude Unix tool you've ever used?
Something with million dark command line switches, something that makes you cry and poop, but something that you know has the functionality you need and you're too busy or lazy to reimplement it as a legit script. Something that makes you cringe and is ugly as one liner. Something that is super useful.
Whataboutism is annoying as hell.
Have you been to Denmark before? I can't speak for the rest of the country, but Copenhagen is SERIOUSLY expensive.
The case for 'slow news'
Bacterial molecule trains the immune system to tolerate infection
Current events translated with the Orwell language filter

Secret courts and secret processes - Police state

Gag orders - Authoritarian

FISA court with 100% approval rates - Kangaroo court

Surveillance of citizens - Totalitarian state

Zero accountablity to people - Despotic regime

Elections is not equal to democracy. I think by now we have to concede the US fails the democracy test. There is no way for citizens to effect change peacefully and these actions are in no way consistent with a democratic state.
The story of how Target discovers and targets recently pregnant women is a good example [1].

An interesting quote: “we found out that as long as a pregnant woman thinks she hasn’t been spied on, she’ll use the coupons. She just assumes that everyone else on her block got the same mailer for diapers and cribs. As long as we don’t spook her, it works.”

There's no reason to believe Google isn't doing the same thing. And I strongly suggest reading the original article[2], if only for the first two or three paragraphs.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...

[2] http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habit...
There are some problems with this article. For one thing, it's from January 2016, and it mentions Food and Agriculture Minister Dan Jørgensen, but Jørgensen wasn't minister back in January, his government stepped down in June 2015, when a new centre-right government took over.

And exactly agriculture is one of the areas that the new government have changed a lot. It was growing into a big scandal around when this article was written, that cost the agriculture minister of that government her job.[0] So between when I am writing this post, and when Jørgensen said that in 2015, there have been three different agriculture ministers.

Given the new relaxed rules by the ministry on farmers and what they can do to the soil, I think it is safe to say that the ambitious plan that the article refers to has pretty much been scrapped.

The article is very out of date right now, but it was even out of date at the time it was written. The plan was published in January 2015. The general election was in early June 2015. The new agriculture law came into effect around February 2016 (but its contents was known by December 2015).

[0] https://www.thelocal.dk/20160229/danish-pm-announces-cabinet...
We live in a world of Privacy Theater. Everyone is always complaining about "their privacy" as if they still have any, and it's kind of amusing.

Your phone's microphone can be turned on remotely and listen to what you say (I know several startups that do this). Security/traffic/drone/satellite cameras are everywhere. You are being watched literally all the time, but to think the watchers actually care about your personal life indicates a pretty inflated view of self-importance. We're starting to complain about it about 20 years too late.
I think you chose a bad example. Imho Uber has waaay to many engineers for what they are doing: to the point where they need to invent work for themselves with no business value.
I have no doubt. I am in Chicago and recently found out about http://www.sockfancy.com and if they are crushing it I'm sure that the rest of the scene is doing well!
Maybe that's what they call speech recognition?
Organic food is pseudoscience.

Really? Care to elaborate on that?

The article lists the many reasons why organic foods are better than non-organic ones. You should read it.
Grew up in Boston, moved to the Bay Area, and I think Boston drivers are worse. Sister lives in Houston, and I think that Houston drivers are even worse. At least in most of the country, they won't fire a shotgun at you because you cut them off in traffic.

Also, I don't know anyone in the South Bay (SF is different) who thinks the weather changes more frequently than other places. Here the joke is "Walk outside. It's sunny. It'll be sunny from April until November."
Not having to enter my credit card info for every mom 'n pop out there that I may or may not trust completely is a HUGE plus.
> The police departments have nothing to gain and everything to lose from this

How about respect?

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Of course, the Seattle P.D.'s implementation of body cameras merely revealed that not only were they incompetent at policing, they were also incompetent at basic IT capabilities. So I guess that's a risk for New York.
Internet Points are to be had.
I know a couple of people who do this, and tried to explain - but they are happy the way they are.
How to save the princess in 8 programming languages
Yup, this is also why I like the metric version. With inches of quicksilver it's hard to know where zero is.
Another NSA contractor has been accused of stealing secrets
I think it might download them for local use.
A quick search shows that a meal at McDoanld's is 50% more in Denmark than in the US.

This has more to do with the cost of labour than that of the underlying food ingredients.
I'll just leave this here.

>CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION

>ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS

>SEC. 2. (a) Every person may freely speak, write and publish his or her sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of
this right. A law may not restrain or abridge liberty of speech or
press.
Note that the version of Dash on the MAS is not sandboxed. Even after the Dash 3 (major update) release, App Sandbox was not adopted.
Yes, I should have been clearer that this wasn't in support of C over Python. I'm commenting on the relative safety of Python and the downstream costs of using it.

C is not typesafe either, and blows up for other reasons at runtime.
That sounds like a very deliberate description of find...
More like $4.
lol. This goes up on my review deck with execs. But yes, a (new) TIBCO & a new TIBCO project :)

(Disclaimer: TIBCO PM working on Project Flogo)
There's this funny thing I've noticed with your posts where the more words you use, the less utility I get from understanding the post. It's almost like you use overintellectualization to bury that you aren't saying much at all.
This is the first time I've heard of this (not a mac user but am a developer).

At least as this is software for developers, I reckon most won't mind buying it outside the appstore, it sounds really useful.
I would suspect it might have something to do with promoted tweets and things which drive traffic to their twitter/website. These sites are paying for the traffic (which then earns them ad revenue) and seem to be happy with the results. I have seen very few ads for purchasable items on twitter, just lots of traffic driving.
I've heard this a lot and looked it up. There are some other sources I found, but most seem to be referenced in this wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality#Organis...

Looks like they're not immortal. Eventually they run out of energy to regenerate their shell or their shell stops moulting and it rots.
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Listen to this podcast by the NPR Planet Money guy's Gimlet Media:

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/5-organic-food/
Textpattern CMS 4.6.1 released
Say Twitter gets acquired and subsequently completely fucked up (not that the latter necessarily follows from the former), and there's now a market void.

What're the odds the "winner" of the ensuing fight is the decentralized FOSS platform — that has very real tangible benefits, but ones that are hard to explain to an average user — over the shiny new VC-funded Twitter clone that can throw hundreds of thousands of dollars at user acquisition?
Even from a German perspective Denmark is 30-50% more expensive. Beautiful country and fast Internet, though :)
Those cost of living things never make sense to me. Housing isn't the only cost in our lives. When I want to buy a car, computer, cell phone, or vacation, they cost exactly the same whether I live in California or Georgia (ok, sales tax will vary slightly, but that's it). Whenever I've done the math on moving to a cheaper area, it has not worked - even with cheaper housing, the vastly lower wages leave me with materially less money to spend on the other stuff that's not cheaper.
"... but Apple just randomly removes apps that people have purchased from the Apple Store (thus stealing their money and their product, doing everything short of uninstalling it, but preventing reinstallation), and the EU stays silent?"

That's never been true. If you bought it, you can still download it.
> and made money at the same time

The ecosystem would be a loss leader, simply for the purpose of having lots of market share.

They would make money on their main product.

Same as how google runs all sorts of services without making money on them, simply for the purpose of expanding online usage.

It's basically a variant of the Freemium model.
But that will mean that they can't be too upset when industries that require whatever compliance they won't allow into software moves to another ecosystem. It seems arbitrary to me to ask devs to remove functionality (except for in-app purchases that evade iOS or similar), but it's hard to judge without details.
nvAlt: fork of Notational Velocity with MutliMarkdown
Why the Human Lifespan Ends at 122
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Pony would be even better, but for this we would need a llvm toolchain, not just gcc.
Thanks. I always forget about RowVid...

In frame-by-frame, you can see that the capsule is still descending when the first dust appears. To my eye, seems to be about 1/3 to 1/2 second later that the capsule stops. So, ok, retro-thrust. (But still giving quite a jolt to the poor meat-bags.)
I completely agree. C sucks at runtime. I was trying to point out that Python sucks at runtime too.

I personally wouldn't choose either language for a new project.
Yea, that's what they did say. I sent copies of our laws. No change.
And peace is boring too, so when we're not actually shooting at each other we use the economy as a weapon. This is no different, if only we could evolve to a point where we were better at working together instead of destroying each-others work, we would achieve a lot more in the short time we're on this planet. I get that this isn't reality (today), but when people make statements like that of Boeing's CEO...it just feels like we're not even trying (which i think is rather pathetic).

tl;dr; Jean Luc Picard wouldn't endorse this line of reason.
(Sorry for the non-useful contribution but...)
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It doesn't look bad versus regular C. You still have the C-specific risks in the module and at module interfaces that other language reduce. It's also harder to parse, analyze, and compile in a secure way. With SPARK & formal tools, one can get a strong analysis that the code will always meet the spec. The ability to fully do that for C has only come online in the past few years. It appears to take more work, too.
Really cool dataviz in this story that let's you see populations from 28 different countries age over the last 50 years.
Better for you maybe, but not better for the average user who ended up with malware infecting their systems left and right because they weren't technical enough to avoid it.
What things like apt-get?
Texas Banker’s Game Plan: Ditch Branches, Prosper
Not if the Prion hypothesis is true. Unless we find a way to treat Prion and other protein folding based diseases.
that's the joke...
I have this problem too, and it's one of the main reasons I now hate going to bars. If I'm in a group of people having a conversation I end up standing around concentrating hard to grasp a tiny percentage of what's going on (usually too late to chime in) by bad lip reading.
Lots of nodding and flubbing and feeling stupid when someone asks me something.
Mostly I just hear what could be described as loud crackly distortion - not fun. I can hear just fine without that background noise though. The ambient noise doesn't even have to be that loud either.