skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the main reasons I prefer pairing w/junior developers over code reviews. Giving lots of small pieces of feedback feels a lot less harsh than a monolithic dump of everything that's wrong.
Allocating memory can be as cheap as adding to a number. Even if you want a concurrent allocator, atomic increments are pretty fast compared to any typical malloc. It's allocating and then freeing that's slow.

A copying-compacting GC has very fast allocation at the cost of very slow freeing (you have to walk memory).

DMD has very fast allocation and never frees memory.
We though they were speaking to us in code, but really it was just emoji.
I'm not too familiar with FPGAs, but isn't the tradeoff that since they are flexible they are usually much slower than CPUs/GPUs and it is usually used to prototype an ASIC? How is FPGA-in-CPU going to be a good thing?
This is even less likely to happen. A constitutional convention would be terrifying, because literally everything is up for grabs.
This seems interesting hopefully someone will pick this up and make even the mysql_* and other sync functions async too. This could be final nail in the coffin.
You can create some pretty high frequency transistors (BJTs) with Indium Phosphide (InP) (ft > 600GHz, fmax > 1THz). See page 33 of:

http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/Faculty/rodwell/publications_and_pre...

...for examples of some 600 GHz circuits, and:

http://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2014/OCT/NORTH...

...for a >1THz circuit using InP HEMTs.
As a BS in bio as well I learned everything in biology arises from chemistry which arises from physics which can be explained (mostly?) with math. If that isn't abundantly clear on graduation your teachers did you a disservice.

You don't have to design anything, it should just show up if its an accurate enough simulation.
Great, another extension to the ever-growing instruction x86 instruction set...

I'd question why, but at this point, we're just going to keep bolting things on to an existing architecture.

"Microcode it. Why not?"
I live in a country which doesn't extradite its own citizens and the concept of my own country extraditing me to another one seems very strange and ungrounding.
Mistakes happen. I can deal with that.

People lying about their progress however, that is hard to deal with.
I don't doubt that eventually our chips will be structured carbon circuits on a diamond substrate. I find it amusing that should a sentient AI arise post transition, it could reasonably think of itself as a carbon based life form :-).

The question I have not seen addressed is how we'll pattern the circuits. The ability to convert silicon into N-type and P-type material by doping is so "simple" compared to trying to induce the formation of CNTs of a particular geometry with the precision needed to develop a particular circuit. We are at the 'Bell labs' point where we can make individual (and volumetrically large) transistors out of CNTs or Graphene. But as we know from history, the revolution didn't really get underway until we could pattern a complete circuit on a substrate in the form of an integrated circuit. I'm still watching for the folks who come up with that breakthrough.
Uncoordinated (Or, NL Playoffs Score Uber 1, DC Metro 0)
Right? We called it the Mack Truck Factor back in the day.
Are we sharing this on a weekly basis now?

One of the previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12628921
It's also worth noting that the iPhone was released around the same timeline that you're talking about, which led to some shifts in industry focus.
Thank you for responding! I like hearing solutions. Listening to my own whining is tiresome.

To your point, I left my large F-50 employer this summer and started at a smaller company. I am strongly considering contracting. Your response is encouraging.
There's a difference between laughing at your own mistakes and laughing at someone else's. People who are ridiculed for making mistakes are incentivized to hide their mistakes rather than learning from them.
Should I make a chatbot or a better FAQ?
Amazon Cloud drive is great for the price (I use it) but they also have filesize limits (anything over 5GB seems to simply error out without warning), so I end up RARing my larger drive backups. Also the software backing it is severely lacking, besides the auto-upload of photos from my iPhone.
The answer is dedicated UX people. If a company decides UX isn't important to hire expertise in then I'd say it's not a company you want to work for.

Every product is designed, but if you have no UX people then the design is done either by product managers or by technical people, neither of whom are qualified to be doing that.
> Nobody is talking about one-size-fits-all.

> I would love to be able to say ini_set('sanitize_rest', true) and deal with errors that might result from that knowing at least the strings are safe.

How is a magic ini setting to "make
Strings safe" not a one-size-fits-all?

> People are talking about mitigating some stupid default behavior in a language.

What stupid default behaviour? Giving you data as its received and tools to validate/sanitize it as required?
Giving military "intel" from 4chan is absolutely insane. These were the same people that thought they'd conclusively identified the Boston Marathon bomber, but were totally wrong.
> Lots of smart people are simply abandoning front end development altogether. The Javascript community needs to face up to this fact

First, I'm not sure who these people are that can afford to just not work because they had a bad experience with a Javascript framework or two. Second, I'm not sure the onus is on the community to take their (or anyone else but their own) feelings into account.

I don't really see how Intercooler is any better than vanilla jQuery; you've just offloaded explicit promises and event assignment into custom HTML attributes that don't translate to any other framework. After doing some reading, it looks like you were frustrated with Angular's AJAX calls...did you try one with jQuery?
So this is pretty interesting (especially as a Forth programmer), however was this ever open sourced, or even still available?
America's innovation crisis
Technically, a "pump and dump" is the opposite of what's being described here. This would be a "poop and scoop".

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/poopandscoop.asp
Quick tip about your site: put up some photos, not just videos. I'm on a mobile phone and want to see this thing, and playing video is annoying, and sometimes unfeasible.
Since when is a Russian Orthodox church-promoting website a neutral source on this?
I think you're right, but $20 - $30 is waaay too big an estimate here. I think its more like $20-24.

...maybe a foreign company at this point...
Your comment represents some of the best of HN (detailed, illuminating, informative), but is incredibly depressing for someone with an idle curiosity in FPGAs. This is what I've long suspected, and it seems that the barrier to entry is generally a bit too high for "software" people.
Most yogurt (even plain Greek) I see in stores has a lot of sugar in it. And the whole point here is that we don't want to make things ourselves.
> Why does the VP have that kind of access by default?

Two common reasons. First, because the VP or someone in a similar position resented not having such access; it's sometimes hard for people to accept that people who work "for" them hierarchically have permissions they don't. And second, because either they or the person who previously held their position had a legitimate reason for such access in the past, and didn't drop it when they no longer had such a reason.

But yes, even if they have a legitimate reason for such access, they shouldn't have that permission all the time, only when they intentionally don that hat.
There's a burden of compromise that will always be there. Right now, since it essentially requires us to choose between two candidates, the burden of compromise is mostly on the voter - we have to sift through a lot of thinking and decide which choice is better than the other.

If that burden were lifted from the voter and we were able to vote multiple parties into legislative bodies, then it just shifts that burden into the legislative body. Voters would find their representatives engaging in various alliances with other parties that the voter might not like. For the voters who dislike compromise entirely, they wouldn't like it - it would be trading one problem for another.

The other thing is that proportional representation governments are generally seen as being "more responsive" - they change more quickly, yielding larger effects from year to year (probably back and forth as different parties gain power). This means less stability.

The founding fathers found our slower, less responsive form of government more of a feature than a bug. They were aware of parliamentary forms of government but chose otherwise. Switching to parliamentary system is not a panacea, it has its own set of problems.

I think the problem with the US system is just that over time, partisans have discovered that lying about their beliefs is in their best interests. When you have a bunch of politicians claiming that they believe one thing when they know otherwise, their followers are encouraged to actually believe the falsehoods. I don't know if there's a more academic word for "shitposting" but that's basically what it is. (I believe this is more common on the right than the left, but that's beside the point.)

I'm not sure how to adjust the system so that the incentives are aligned more towards truthful debate, though. I think this is ultimately about a philosophical struggle that we used to have settled. Back in enlightenment ages, there was broad consensus that reality was an objective thing and that truth was a guide through it. But now it's pretty popular to believe that reality is just what we make it, by continually repeating whatever truth/facts we believe. I think that basically mirrors philosophical history in that romanticism came after enlightenment, but I don't know what that means about where we are now.
> and "web applications" which are non-trivial interfaces to complex data

I'm yet to see these non-trivial interfaces to data that justify megabytes
of JavaScript in actual production use. There are several cases when it makes
sense (e-mail client (but not that much, and can be just fine without any JS
whatsoever), text processor or spreadsheet, chat), but those are rare.
Programming 101: scope your objects appropriately. If you have an object whose state is bound to the scope of the request handler, initialize it in that context ("don't use global vars" is just a special case of this rule). In other words, everything initialized outside your request handler's scope should have its state reused across requests. The PHP community never entirely learned this, so you guys are building workarounds. This isn't intended to be PHP bashing; just objective criticism.
From the article: "causality between an increase in metastatic disease and the use of active monitoring versus treatment was established."

The notion that monitoring PSA levels can per se increase the risk of metastasis is ridiculous. It's far more likely that some other factor caused the increased incidence of metastases.
Introducing Zaius, Google and Rackspace’s Open Server Running IBM POWER9
Open Source Is Ceasing to Be Cool
MyLG 0.2.5 released: Quick NMS(Cisco/Juniper), HPing, real-time trace and etc.
"shift from a two major party system"

Would require a change from our first past the post (FPTP) voting system to something like approval voting. (Or proportional representation for assemblies.)

Duverger's Law suggests that plurality systems (like FPTP) results in a two party system, because candidates (belligerents) all try to form the smallest winning coalition.

FWIW, I strongly prefer approval voting. Easy to explain, tabulate. A lot more fair. Preference-based systems discourage mudslinging.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting
k. But in boogie2988 case, did the hacker got access to his actual cell phone or just cell number? That's not clear.
Thanks for the info.

I would like to search the term and understand how they can achieve 200ns latency. Maybe am I the only one who thinks 200ns latency as completion latency?
I agree about the Adafruit, etc. buying jellybean parts from Alibaba, but Digikey's prices being close? No. At least not in smaller volume. I can buy Arduinos on AliExpress (qty 10 or so) for less than I could purchase even just the AVR chips alone.

If a part is critical, I'll buy a known, characterized, device made by a reputable manufacturer from a reputable supplier. (I don't expect that an Omron 50A relay on Alibaba for $5 is real) But for generic LEDs, non-critical switches & connectors, it's Alibaba/Aliexpress all the way.
I have seen people that react positively to feedback.

But some people take things very personally, even if you try to be very polite and respectful.

Sometimes people, especially people with narcissist traits or people obsessed with rank, will not accept any feedback coming from a someone from a "lower rank".
You can get high speed internet in many parts of the developing world for less than 20 dollars a month - its amazing really.

You can buy food, pay rent and utils - live near a sunny beach for less than 50 dollars a month.

Of course if all SF software engineers cut their debt shackle - and used global inequality for their advantage it would wreck havoc to the current pecking order of tech capitalists.

It would allow tech workers to turn into entrepreneurs and work full time on their own ideas, create new competition and scare wall street that is dependent on recycling your wage through rent so that you actually keep a small amount of your real income.

Ofcourse no one is going to do it besides radicals like Glenn Greenwald since freedom is not useful as prestige to the average person.
Interesting, but found this:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.forth/XCtQPZ...
thats awesome. I didn't know there was a name.
This reminds of important lessons I've learned from the classic How to Win Friends and Influence People - never ever criticize people and you will get the best out of them. There are countless other great lessons in this book about being a leader and dealing with people.
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If the Mormon church were any other church, I'd agree with you. But the Mormon church doesn't act like any other church when it comes to politics. They dangle temple recommends over politicians heads, the possession of which is required for salvation in their theology. And they do it mostly without officially registered lobbyists...all they have to do is make a few phone calls to bishops and stake presidents and all of a sudden political positions change. They tend to stay out of most political decisions, but when they decide to take a position on an issue the entire devout mormon political spectrum falls in line immediately. They've done it countless times in Utah, most recently with the medical marijuana vote (where an overwhelming majority turned into a minority in less than 48 hours after the church made their position official), and have done it so much that Utah is as close as we could come to a theocracy in the US.

There are plenty of cultural mormons (New Order Mormons in our special lingo) in US politics (Harry Reid, for example), for whom the threats of the church do not hold sway. But devout mormons actually believe that their prophets talk directly with god, and actually believe they will never see their family again if they don't heed the counsel of their prophet. Anybody who believes in the virtue of a separation between church and state should be terrified of the prospect.

I'm at the very least grateful that mormon values would not tolerate Trump, our generation's Andrew Jackson, but while McMullin holds a much better image and temperament, he still has shown that he is as married to the mormon church as he is his wife. When mormon politicians like Gordon Smith state they are willing to trade in their professional ethics in exchange for their temple recommend, you should take that as a threat.

http://www.anamericandreamrevealed.com/2015/03/the-role-of-l...
This is disturbing to say the least. Which group of "rebels" is this? There's a lot of factions here in play, some of which are downright scary, but others of which are just fighting to survive.

Not that 4chan cares about these things. They just want to see people blown up.
Php has an entire extension devoted to sanitising and validating input data.

It can't be a simple on/off because php can't guess what your inputs are or what you want to use them for.
Sure, it's orthogonal to static typing (I wouldn't quite say "in spite of"). I wasn't trying to weigh in on the general topic, just to clarify what was happening where.
Well, imagine he wins Utah, and his electoral college votes are what Hillary or Trump need to become president: the guy could negotiate anything with either. Secretary of State? You got it.
Probably, under SEC Section 9, but its hard to prove. You'd have to show that specific people started the rumors, rather than merely repeated them, and a chain from them to those that profited.
Can anyone comment on Salesforce future as a company? It seems like they've topped out as a sales tool. I doubt people are going to use their 'IoT Cloud'.
The current hyperloop company has deviated substantially from Musk's design - now it's just narrow train in a semi-evacuated tunnel.
As and aside, it also disgusts me that male-male rape is used as an additional punishment in prison, and is seen as a wide positive side effect in the "law-and-order" types.

Ive seen plenty show and movies that talk how "Bubba is going to ravage you". Because a prison sentence needs to have a side source of rape.
Write it in 2016: choose a real presidential candidate for our future
So what? He's based in London. The UK has perfectly sane laws and he can be judged there.
FPGAs sound amazing, but if you work with them you learn they can be a real PITA. The vision of the dynamically shapeshifting coprocessor FPGA is a long way in the future.
Today is the first time I've seen it, and it's a very interesting read so I'm glad it was posted today.
Xeon Phi have got more cores, 50 or 60, and the cores share memory. Unlike GPUs memory space is uniform, there is no need to do explicit transfers to/from GPU's memory.
I have no doubt they do, but still...

The question is : are the DOD/DOE (or the chinese/european equivalent) going to risk millions for their next supercomputers on a new architecture or prefer good old intel ?

Especially when we know that the jump to exascale computation will only be possible if we get rid of the buses and have everything on the same chip (which is one direction taken by Intel).

My point is that the conclusion of the article "Intel has to come up with an answer..." is just plain wrong. This new architecture is an answer to intel new developments. We will have to wait to see what stick to the wall.
I'm pretty sure that was Reddit [1]

[1] http://wayback.archive-it.org/3649/20130422194045/http://www...
If you mean branch prediction, then yes, it will end up inadvertently executing the wrong instructions and discard them, but it halts execution of the wrong branch at the first opportunity and reschedules to correct its mistake.

A GPU will execute both branches to completion.
Any plans to add reddit's API under the social category?
Called it.
I was hoping that this would be a contrasting opinion with the same title. Maybe I have to write one myself.
I'm confused by your comment... I'm a recent convert to iOS from Windows Phone, and I've just kept on using OneDrive for my documents. I'm not even sure what "app-to-app sharing" means. Dropbox definitely isn't indispensable to me.
"Obsolete" is overstating it. You could do a lot with HyperCard. People did.

Apple management started talking about cutting it pretty much immediately. It didn't directly generate any revenue--Apple gave it away for free. It didn't fit into any familiar product category. It wasn't on anybody's list of must-have features. Basically, Apple management didn't understand what it was or why it existed.

Apple's programmers and other makers were an entirely different matter. They used it for all sorts of things. So did third-party developers. So did people who discovered how to make software through working with HyperCard. Projects sprouted in Apple that either extended HyperCard or implemented new software in the same spirit with expanded capabilities--but all those projects had the same problem as HyperCard: management didn't see what they were supposed to be for. Furthermore, the other projects didn't benefit from Apple management's promise to Bill Atkinson that HyperCard would be given away to Apple customers.

HyperCard's days were numbered from the beginning; that much is true. But to call it "obsolete" from the beginning misunderstands a lot.
There are quite a few materials which outperform straight silicon, but it is hard to compete with the gigantic amount of existing silicon infrastructure, except for very niche applications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-electron-mobility_transis...
I can't find anything to support this claim, and it is a claim, not proof of anything. Why is this here with such a low quality "source" and misleading title?
There's no evidence so far that FPGAs come anywhere close to GPUs w/r to deep learning performance. All the benchmarks so far, through Arria 10, show it to be mediocre for inference, and the lack of training benchmark data IMO implies it's a disaster for that task. See also Google flat out refusing to define what processors they measured TPU performance and efficiency against.

FPGAs are best when deployed on streaming tasks. And one would think inference would be just that, yet the published performance numbers are on par with 2012 GPUs. That said, if they had as efficient a memory architecture as GPUs do, things could get interesting down the road. But by then I suspect ASICs (including one from NVIDIA) will be the new kings.
Low pressure, vacuum, I doubt physics care (not a physicist), it's just a pressure differential, just a bigger or smaller one. So the effects would just be smaller.
Salesforce Rules Out a Bid for Twitter
I still use several components of KDE3 via the Trinity projects.

So, if they are crazy, they're a kind of crazy I dearly love :)

(The components do, for what it's worth to anyone out there considering using some of Trinity, play nicely with others. I stopped using KDE/Trinity as the actual desktop in favor of i3, but still use a ton of the KDE/Trinity applications.)
Small random quote from the vid:

> More details for nerds below

I'm not knocking the person who said this fairly innocuous statement (I catch myself saying similar things), but it goes to show our unresolved social biases against technical people. Yes, some people care about numbers and details and engineering. Unfortunately, that associates them with a term that implies low social value.

If another country overtakes the US in terms of innovation and engineering, you can be sure that they will be showing greater respect to their technical class of peoples.
I was hoping to do it without any other gems (I'm not a Ruby dev, but I really like Jekyll because of it's support).

I followed the tutorial here[0], however, the issue is, my SCSS is stored into a seperate dir, and in order to inline it...I'd be forced to either

1. modify my entire project dir setup - something I don't want to do
2. start from scratch and create my own css inline.

Thanks to the above, my theme been stuck in limbo (AMP and Facebook Pages being a key feature I had created my theme for)

[0]http://www.kevinsweet.com/inline-scss-jekyll-github-pages