skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In comparison to modern reactor designs and the alternatives. Do you think that water heaters are unsafe? Do you think that skyscrapers are unsafe, or bridges, or kitchens, or factories, or electrical wiring? All of those things were, at one time, horrific. When was the last time you seriously worried about your wiring burning your house down?

Asking for "perfectly safe" is idiotic. There's no such thing. There is always a chance that you will get wrapped up in your sheets and strangle in the middle of the night, or that you'll accidentally stab yourself in the wrist with a pencil and bleed out at your desk. Safety is relative. What we have today is better than what we had twenty years ago. What we had twenty years ago was better than what we had forty years ago.

I'd take Fukushima over coal or oil or hydro every day. It took every variation on malice and incompetence that humankind could devise to make it do anything bad, and its "anything" was honestly kind of pathetic compared to the "anythings" for anything else. I'd take a modern reactor over it, but it's take it over the alternatives. And, yes, I'd probably take whatever people have come up with in 30 years over today's technology. Science marches on.
Trump is much dirtier, and most of that, including outright bribery illegally using charity fund, had come out without needing anything like WikiLeaks.
> What is Hanlon's razor for including an anti-Semitic key in their tweet?

That they'd never heard of the key? (I hadn't, as the slate reporter seemed to anticipate with their "might be a little hard to follow" comment)

> http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/08/09/wikileaks_...

Offering a reward is not the same as "[posting] wild conspiracy theories," which is what you claimed they did. Posting a wild conspiracy theory in this case would be openly accusing a specific person or group of people of murder with no evidence.

I would call this "wanting to fact check a conspiracy theory," which I view as a good thing generally, and especially good in the case of wikileaks.

> Intentionally misleading/lying isn't being incompetent. They could know or think that it was an accident, but intentionally spin it as foul play to reinforce the narrative they've been spinning.

They could, but this would require them to assume no one would figure out the actual cause -- aka a lot of cost with no benefit. Seems surprisingly stupid/pointless/shortsighted.
The manufacturing of ceramic seems fairly intensive though.
I disagree with this. The j key is the most used out of hjkl, and it's under your right index finger. I do most horizontal movement with left hand (primarily w and b) anyway.
Wait, why do the British courts care?
I keep getting back to this thought that a lot of what Peter does is to make a point about contrarianism - that is to stay a consistent contrarian (publicly atleast).
You are reading too much into "internet cut off." There is no indication that mobile or satellite connectivity is blocked. Hell there is no real reason to believe that the fiber was actually cut off.
See what happens when you change HALF_OF_BUFFER_SIZE from 1M to 1M+64. Or 128 or 1024. I think what you observed is the result of loads and stores hitting the same cache set at the same time, all while misalignment additionally increases the number of cache banks involved in any given operation. But that's just hand-waving, I don't know the internals enough to say with confidence what's going on exactly.

BTW, changing misalignment from 1 to 8 reduces this effect by half on my Thuban. Which is important, because nobody sane would misalign an array of doubles by 1 byte, while processing part of an array starting somewhere in the middle is a real thing.

Also, your assembly isn't really that great. In particular, LOOP is microcoded and sucks on AMD. I got better results with this:

typedef float sse_a __attribute__ ((vector_size(16), aligned(16)));
typedef float sse_u __attribute__ ((vector_size(16), aligned(1)));

void c_is_faster_than_asm_a(sse_a *dst, sse_a *src, int count) {
for (int i = 0; i < count/sizeof(sse_a); i += 8) {
dst[i] = src[i+0];
dst[i] = src[i+1];
dst[i] = src[i+2];
dst[i] = src[i+3];
dst[i] = src[i+4];
dst[i] = src[i+5];
dst[i] = src[i+6];
dst[i] = src[i+7];
}
}
void c_is_faster_than_asm_u(sse_u *dst, sse_u *src, int count) {
// ditto
> in other words: i want the dirt, too.

100% agree.

I'm constantly amazed at how some ordinary citizens can be mad at Snowden or Assange for releasing information. Wouldn't you want to know? Even just for interest sake I like to know what government and politicians around the world are up to.
Seems like a lot of people don't understand the noob part. Let me explain:

Imagine you pay a lot of money to attend a conference. And I'm not even talking about flight+food+hotel as some conferences' cover are pretty high (blackhat). Now you go in a talk and discover that the speaker is just horrible. The topic might be interesting but you get nothing out of it because the speaker is just bad.

Now this is a problem because as an attendant you're no happy, and this is the responsibility of the judges of the CFP. They need to work to protect you from these kind of talks.

I'd much tolerate beginners at smaller conferences, or meetups. This is where you can get experience before going to a bigger one. A one that might even give you money and pay for your travel+accommodation.

By the way, I think most of you people have no idea how bad talks can be. In more academic conferences, foreign speakers make a big chunk of the talks and some of them can't speak english at all. It's painful for everyone to sit through that kind of talk. (Note that I'm a foreigner myself, just saying that some of us are EXTREMELY BAD AT ENGLISH (not going to point fingers).)
Cleaving off 40% of America is not a recipe for progress. When Trump shows his people how they're getting blacklisted from the economy, that isn't going to make them want to riot less. Our culture of progress has become entirely about excluding dissenters until they submit, and it's not working anymore. We've given up on convincing the people who have all the weapons, and now we're going to start hurting them economically. Good luck, y'all.
I know it's a mirrorless camera. The point is, the advantage of a mirrorless design (over an SLR) is that the viewfinder doesn't need to be centered in the body like every SLR and DSLR has been for the last 60 years.

However, even with this design advantage, in this instance Fujifilm chose to make it "look" like an SLR. From a marketing standpoint I understand this, but from a usability one, I don't.
If it had been anyone else I would have read with more interest and sincerity. I'm not arguing with her message, I'm stating my opinion, that Ellen Pao has zero credibility in the tech community, and should be just as disregarded as Trump.
Acquired, acquihired or hired?
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The practicality of access to such rights changes when you make the choice to become a "refugee"/"fugitive", however.
We know how to do a lot of number theory stuff quickly on quantum computers that we don't know how to do quickly on classical computers. Some of those things underpin all asymmetric key algorithms in use today. We have to develop asymmetric key algorithms that don't use things we know how to compute quickly on a quantum computer.
I'm anything but a fan of Assange, but it's possible his tweet was misinterpreted. To me, it looks like he was referring to people who put (((echoes))) around their own twitter handles, which is not uncommonly done in solidarity by non-Jewish Twitter users.
Thanks for the reply. I will try out a side projects of my own and then decide on the fields. That is great advice with the money part, I will actively look for more meaningful roles in a startup in the future. Really helpful.
I assume Google ads that are served through AMP will still count. In that case, you can think of AMP as a high-speed static host where you still get paid even though you didn't pay for hosting. But I agree it's very surprising behavior to the actual owner of the website.

The usability downside of providing a link to the actual webpage should be obvious - Google is trying to pretend this is the actual webpage. Why would they want a redundant link just to confuse the users?

That said, ever since Android separated google results view from chrome and added that strange "x->back" button thing I keep getting tripped up from a usability perspective. That's more the Android team being silly again, not just AMP, I think.
> but we draw a line at individuals who fund violence and hate.

(removing video as valid concerns were raised)

Although, isn't there evidence that more violence has occurred against trump supporters than anyone else?

I am not a supporter by any measure (for one, I'm form the middle east), but I'm trying to understand Paos quote.
Instead of asking these questions, observe their behavior when you share a "solution" to the problem with them. Even if nothing is built, you can see if they bite. If they do, you can interpret the level of signal.
That's not a serious argument. People you dislike can be right. Hypocrites can be right. Hell, even Trump is right on some issues. That doesn't mean I like him or will vote for him.
Ad hominems?

How about "large chunks of the population see scapegoating, fear mongering, and abusive treatment of minorities as problematic and wish to signal that to others"?
I disagree that opposing SOPA is just political, supporting SOPA threatens innovation which threatens the startup community which in turns threatens YC's bottom line. Therefore opposing SOPA and denying investors access based on their support is a business decision.
The "Tunbridge Wells" line is a contemptuous descriptor for traditionalist ("small-c") conservatives, generally used by people who regard themselves as progressive. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgusted_of_Tunbridge_Wells for a discussion of the phrase's origins.

As with all such derogatory epithets, the wielder either doesn't realise how powerfully and instantly doing so undermines their chances of changing hearts & minds, or doesn't care because they only wish to preach to their own choir.
Tl;dr

>We agree that people shouldn’t be fired for their political views, but
That's a twisting of language. He's perfectly able to. He _chooses_ not to.
I am disappointed with Thiel's decision to donate money to Donald Trump, but I don't care what Ellen Pao or her organization thinks about it. It's their prerogative, but I laughed at the tagline 'Sometimes hard decisions aren't that hard after all'. I don't believe an attempt to pressure outside parties into severing business ties with someone because of their questionable political judgement should be treated as if it is some sort of noble crusade e.g.

> We have hope for YC;... Today it is clear our values are not aligned.

And make no mistake, it's either an attempt to pressure YC or a PR play for the organization (possibly both)
"if someone has a proposal that is worthy of presentation, they should be given the opportunity to present -- regardless of their age or experience"

At the same time, it sounds like they had many, many submissions that were worthy of presentation, and this was a bigger conference. There are smaller conferences which are not as inundated with presentations to which newer speakers can apply, and from there apply to the bigger ones.

It's just like everything else in life, where you have to prove yourself on a smaller scale before being allowed on bigger things.
How can you distance yourself from Thiel if he has shown no interest in being connected to you?

It's never going to be this easy to delegitimise someone when they are widely known as being more credible than yourself.

If YC was to pull out it would be a loss for their startups. It should be the founder's choice whether they wish to deprive themselves of Thiel's money or insight to make a political point.
Speak for yourself, not for the tech community.
> However, other crypto types (elliptical curve cryptography) doesn't depend on prime factorisation, but other things. Those other things have no known nice fast quantum algo.

This is wrong. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography#...
The science behind the twisting alien linguistics of Arrival
YC should have cut ties with EP.
Based on the awful things Trump has said and (apparently) done, it should be blatantly clear to anyone remotely following the election that isn't your usual political rivalry. Pao is right: "this isn’t a disagreement on tax policy, this is advocating hatred and violence." Quite literally at times! (I might give a pass to the people following the party line or acting on incomplete information, but Thiel knows exactly what he's supporting.)

And yet, in the previous HN thread on the topic, I see dozens of voices loudly defending the right for Thiel to prop up Trump's demagoguery without consequence. To them, supporting Trump or Clinton is equally bad, even though the things Trump routinely says are downright terrifying[1] and dangerous to the fabric of our country. For the first time in my life, I'm actually expecting to see violence on election day.

This fledgeling authoritarian streak within the tech community really disturbs me.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/4teoxl/a_f...
Apparently. I was really shocked to see UC Berkeley being discussed in City Journal for budgeting problems (http://www.city-journal.org/html/how-uc-berkeley-can-dig-out...). I never heard of such craziness before. To think tuition went up year after year, it's like the never drying well. I think when money flows it's not very hard to convince folks to go crazy during the heyday to ride the wave as long as it lasts. Cant' blame folks for losing to temptations during such windfalls I guess.
wow this is crazy...
UEFI support may be new to some major Linux distros, but all the necessary components have been lying around for years. I booted Linux on my Mac through EFI before UEFI support was common on PCs.

Most of those guides you mention were half-assing it at the time of writing. There have been good reasons to still boot through the BIOS CSM even when a system has EFI, but for the most part those reasons have faded or been entirely eliminated over time: older graphics cards that lack the necessary firmware are less common, 32-bit EFI on 64-bit hardware is extremely rare and since kernel 3.15 isn't a problem any more.
I agree. The key here is: Trump says mean things, Hillary does mean things (and has been doing so for nearly 30 years)

Also, the external links in that sentence you quoted are not hard facts. They are up for interpretation. Especially the one about his speech being anti-semitic is nothing but pure nonsense.

/edit: downvote me all you want. I'm not even voting for Trump, but the media bias towards Trump is real.
This is the kind of knee-jerk dismissal that made me lose respect for the reddit community. What she's saying resonates with a lot of people, especially marginalized ones, and for that reason alone she's worth hearing out.
That is a hoot.
Sorry, this is all old news to us in London who have been listening to the echo chamber freak itself out for 12 hours over a bit fat nothing. Here is a quick pointer to a similar query that went out to /r/London when the first tweets were sent: https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/57w670/amy_truth_th... and people on the scene confirmed that contra the Roger Stone claims there was no 'assault' on the embassy. For chuckles I actually went by this afternoon and there was absolutely nothing to see. Verizon (who provides a lot of business connectivity in London) has been having problems in some places for most of the day, and it is a somewhat wet Monday so it is possible some lines shorted, but so far there is no confirmation that Assange has lost internet access and no indication from the outside that this is anything other than another day here in rainy London.
Oh. That's why Google has the insane "Google and X to back" behaviour. I guess they assume power-users will use the Chrome browser and newbies will use Google and need the redundant X-bar.
It's awesome to read someone else talking about the same thing! I started working on a prototype of language for discourse here:

https://github.com/neyer/dewDrop

There is a simplified version running a protocol called 'the respect matrix' here:

github.com/neyer/respect

http://s3.neyer.me/respect-matrix-slides.pdf

https://twitter.com/RespectMatrix
I will add some of my own opinions:

My feeling is that real value of Vim is its novel approach to modal text manipulation, and you shouldn't let the fact that it has a standalone lightweight reference implementation usefully installed on almost every machine that you use confuse you.

Vim script is not a great plugin language, and the vim runtime itself is not fantastic at doing things beyond the text editing. I think the activity around NeoVim is good evidence for this. The community recognizes the constraints of Vim, and seeks better plugin and runtime tooling to meet their needs.

My issue is: there are loads of great text editors that support the Vim interface. Emacs, Atom, Sublime, whatever, all have very good Vim interfaces and far superior languages and platforms for doing complex plugin work that you need to support IDE-ish environments. NeoVim seems like a bit of a waste to me, because I think it misses the point. Vim is not a platform. It's a unique modal editing paradigm. Why make yet another Vim-binding-having platform?

I guess what I mean is that vim should be left as vim. There are superior platforms that implement the same interface, should you feel the need to expand your tools. Vim does best as a portable minimal editor that you can use everywhere. If you need something with more power, pick a better platform, and run the Vim editing paradigm as an interface.
>When Trump shows his people how they're getting blacklisted from the economy, that isn't going to make them want to riot less.

How are they getting blacklisted by the economy? Project Include has the right to choose who they associate with.
Not sure why your being down voted (if this was a serious comment). The "pro" DSLRs do have speed advantages, both in FPS, and in auto-focus tracking etc. Dual memory cards are also important if you are working paid gigs and want a smaller chance of corrupted image files. When you use flash cards as much as the pros do, they can, and do wear out.
Except there are alternatives, there are plenty of alternatives, and in the year 2046 your successor is going to be writing the same post as this one cleverly pointing out how the assets to be in during the 2010s had comparatively little activity and little liquidity.
I think it's okay to be outright skeptical of some "news" outlets, particularly those who trope in sensationalism and/or have a knack for unresearched, unverified reporting. I don't know enough about the Daily Telegraph, but the Daily Mail is definitely one of those "news" sources that put hyperbole before facts... the Washington Times doesn't have the greatest reputation either.

This really isn't a liberal or conservative thing; while it's not a Daily Mail I'm often skeptical about The Guardian as well. Actually I was a little surprised to see the Wall Street Journal in the OP list because I thought they had a pretty decent reputation for quality reporting. The main complaint I've heard about Mr. Murdoch's ownership is more that he tried to add too much general interest stories in an effort to attract non-business readers, not that he's tabloid-ized the Journal.

For this article, it was pretty easy to Google a blog of a family lawyer / barrister who added quite a number of counterpoints to one of the cases. (http://www.pinktape.co.uk/cases/i-am-calm/). Whether you agree or not with her counterpoint and what happened within the cases, I personally found the blog article more sober and with more data backing it. You knew you were in trouble even with the headline of the Telegraph article. (Britain's "most secret court"? Citation needed!)

The problem I've found with most sensational articles is this sort of pattern: light on facts, heavy on emotion, many weasel words designed to tug your heartstrings that probably aren't justified. They usually aren't worth reading.
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"We have to stop this fearmonger who will nuke the world, put people into camps, and start a holocaust! Did I mention he is a fearmonger?"
Sublime, at least, has a duplicate line command. I believe you can also use the copy command with no text selected to copy the current line. None of your examples seem nearly as effective as pressing yy to copy the line and p to paste below.
That would be the Trump who called for Edward Snowden to be executed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4DjrBC4K-Q
Yep. My thoughts exactly.
The estimate on Linux was at least a billion. That's what IBM alone was willing to commit to defending it against Microsoft/SCO suits if I interpreted the reporting correctly. I'd love to see how much money people saved on IIS, etc. thanks to Apache deployments. We'd first need to know what percentage would've paid for a server in the first place as many will only set up if it's free. Then, convert that to even half IIS + Windows Server licensing I bet it's a fortune.
> Because of [Peter Thiel's] continued connection to YC, we are compelled to break off our relationship with YC.

What exactly was the relationship between Project Include and YC prior to this?
How is that different from "the law is whatever a judge says it is?"

Once you have some flexibility in a logical system, it's no longer a logical system.

The way it seems to work at present, we have the worst aspects of a law in vernacular (not much clarity, hard to predict outcomes) as well as laws in a formal language (sometimes there's intense ridigity that leads to conclusions nobody wants, see: minimum sentencing laws, judges saying "my hands are tied")
You can look at the newly-released FBI reports. Here's a few key parts: https://i.sli.mg/Ykms8I.jpg
Having to pay taxes and being burdened by college debt sucks, but it's not comparable to real actual enslavement. Your excuses why people might make that absurd claim (desire to engine in hyperbole and disdain for the Boomer generation) don't change the fact that slavery is worse.

Your post is also bad history.

Firstly, a full third of households held enslaved people in the south. Not just the rich elites.

Secondly, enslaved people couldn't just run away. Of course some tried but the risk of getting caught was very high and the consequences dire:

> The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 strengthened provisions for the recapture of slaves, and offered them no protection in the justice system. Bounty hunters and civilians could lawfully capture escaped slaves in the North, or any other place, using little more than an affidavit, and return them to the Slave master.

> Many escaped slaves upon return were to face harsh punishments such as amputation of limbs, whippings, branding, and many other horrible acts

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_slaves_in_the_United_...)

Not exactly comparable to the burden of college debt, wouldn't you say?
The fool's reproach, it is a kingly title. I like how YC let her feel like it was her decision. Well played.
> so what exactly will this accomplish other than lending support to Assange's stated reasons for hiding in an embassy to begin with?

When a system is failing it enters a death spiral where the pool from which it can hire people gets shallower and shallower (less people are interested in working for the government) until the only persons left are either morons or sociopaths (who want power)
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