skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My armchair prediction is that this is a pro-Clinton move. It will be used as an event that can absorb a lot of the confusing and harmful information spreading from the leaks.

It will then be clearly refuted in a tidy 6 o'clock news bite next week. The goal will be to give average voters a sense of closure that will also encompass the negative buzz around the wikileaked emails.
I thought Straubel said that the Powerwall was meant not for offpeak storage but for emergency backup.
If you generate more electricity than you use during the day, you all of a sudden don't have an electric bill... or a drastically reduced one.

The funny thing about solar... it's not constant. Half the day is night... then clouds/rain/etc. 24/hours of electricity is for those dry periods.
Cannot comment on Moleskine as I've never used one. I am loving TWSBI notebooks [1]: the paper is thick, and does not feather or bleed with fountain pen ink. There is very little ghosting which makes it possible to use both sides of paper. Here [2] is a review I found helpful.

[1] http://www.twsbi.com/collections/notebooks

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RJkNfiP_ys
"EXCLUDE people who match at least ONE of the following:

African American (US)

Asian American (US)

Hispanic (US - Spanish dominant)

The lack of top-level oversight that allowed something like this to make it through to a public-facing app is really quite staggering.
Thank goodness you shared your opinion.
Tesla solar roof tiles video
It's a good question. Apple$ iPhone business alone is bigger than all of Microsoft.
There's the single biggest problem I have with people complaining about this on behalf of all professionals everywhere: we're not all programmers. I don't step through code. I don't. Never have.

There are some valid complaints. I use Ethernet and VGA a lot, and the dongles I already bought are useless with the new machine since it doesn't have Thunderbolt ports. Kind of annoying, but everyone kind of accepts that Ethernet and VGA are gone now. No one sheds a tear for them, but I still have to use them. No one sheds a tear for serial, but I still have to use it.

I really think it's hilarious that the one thing everyone seems to agree that we like about the Mac is that it's Unix, and Unix is all about small, single-purpose modules that work together. Yet when Apple creates a laptop that's the embodiment of that philosophy, it's the end of the world.

So yeah, you can keep acting like it's not a pro machine because you can't step through code with your function keys (which I'll remind you, still fucking exist), or you can realize the "pro" world is a lot bigger than your needs. At least your function keys are still built into the laptop. I have to carry an Ethernet, VGA, and serial adapter with me everywhere. It could be worse.

But I wouldn't saddle your machine with my particular needs, because not everyone needs what you need. Pro doesn't mean "specifically tailored to your particular needs".
> Of course, there are ways around this such as returning a struct, but then that's no longer compatible with the error interface.

Which your struct can easily fulfill. That's the beauty of Go interfaces.
Magic leap is way beyond designing low latency display drivers (hardware or software). They're designing and fabricating their own many-layer photonic crystals with complexity rivaling that of VLSI chips from a couple decades ago (except not on silicon, meaning they've had to reinvent a significant fraction of the process).

Latency may be an issue for them in terms of making seamless AR, due the limitations of existing camera hardware in terms of latency (existing camera hardware is not designed for low latency), but I suspect they're partnering (or will be partnering soon) with major players in the CMOS imaging realm. As far as display latency, I doubt it will be an issue for them. They're already having to design the entire display from the ground up---I suspect they have the forethought to design it as a low latency system.
Something doesn't need to be beneficial to be conserved, being not too harmful is enough. Or even being harmful but pointlessly crosslinked with something essential such that it's hard for evolution to escape the local minima.

More over, human values are not the same as the objectives of evolution, nor should they be.

> but I hold the opinion that if we don't continuously pursue optimization cycles

We can undermine the optimization of evolution just fine, without ending death from aging--

I seem to recall that both of us wear corrective lenses, thus largely excluding the selective pressure for naturally better eyesight that we might otherwise be subjected to. :)

With that in mind, it's something of a false choice that you present: It's not like mankind is subject to the full force of evolutionary pressure with aging and completely free of it without.

Besides, I seem to recall the the rate for accidental death in adults suggests that we'd end up with a roughly 500 year life span even if we completely cured all aging related issues. A lot longer in human terms, but hardly anything for evolution.

Another perspective would be that the biggest threat to mankinds survival isn't anything evolution is well equip to protect us from-- us killing ourselves with phenomenal weapons and bad policy. Because our bad decisions could wipe our mankind worldwide evolution has no real chance to fabricate less problematic future humans. ... But perhaps humans acting in their own perpetually immortal interest might just behave a little more prudently.
What is binary stripping?
No-one has to die (game)
In my experience you are still getting single-to-double-digit millisecond pauses on average using CMS (even with some attention/tuning). Do you really think Hotspot can offer a GC where pauses longer than 100us are considered interesting enough to look into?
Not according to this bug. :( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/10958
The rise in failures and fall in funding for startups in India this year
He's just covering his ass as Assange is going to release some very incriminating material for the SoS (and POTUS) in the next few days.
Certainly not the impression I've got from media reports of demos and Uber Eat strike days etc. The reality is probably somewhere in the middle.

For drivers I don't understand the appeal of being self employed there's nothing to gain by it.

If they still want to show they're operating as self employed they can with a b2b relationship with Uber, website and advertising, exercising right of substitution, and all the other HMRC indicators of being in business.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12811728
"by MIT"
Sure, if they implement barriers for stack references like Go is. But that's a significant throughput hit.
Important News about Vine – Vine Shutting Down
Normal shingles have a lot of overlap right. Wouldn't most of that moat be the overlap?
DOW's CIGS was pretty garbage compared to Certainteed's Apollo II system, which achieved 13.2% efficiency. [1]

There are also up-and-coming competitors such as SunTegra that hit 14.6% [2].

It seems like asthetic options and possibly efficiency improvements is what will set this apart from previous stumblings in this space. We'll see how this looks in the real world!

[1]http://www.solarelectricsupply.com/apollo-ii-solar-roofing-s...

[2]http://www.suntegrasolar.com/suntegra-tiles
Quora Session with Ryan Holiday
What do you mean by offline wallet? The only times I've heard of offline wallets is in the context of preventing your bitcoins from being stolen, not of avoiding being caught by police.
That in a nutshell is why I said Java is a horrible language.

That said, people with a strong preference for a particular language are comparable to religious fanatics. A good engineer doesn't let language preference and emotional attachment to something get in the way of building something better.

If learning something else is too uncomfortable or seems unecessary to you then you are no better than a religious person.

btw, before I get downvoted the "religious person" analogy was what a senior developer said of me when I was a .NET guy a long time ago.

note: the same applies to the religious sects who worship libraries and frameworks (Mostly front-end Javscript web developers)
The New MacBook Pro Touch Bar and Apple's T1 Authentication Chip
For $3000 this would be easy to justify just to keep my computer and network operating. I work at home and our power goes out too frequently. Is usually just for 10-20 seconds and my UPS takes care of that. But sometimes it is out for several hours - I'll say several times per year. If I can't work, I can't bill.
Encrypted Messaging Apps Wire and Signal Turn to Ephemeral Messages
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12806324
Former recruiter here. It is hard to help a hiring manager who insists on getting emails directly to their inbox, as it cuts the recruiter out of ths loop. As soon as you aren't on top of your email, it breaks. Think sync vs async.

Sharing an email account (devjobs@mycompany.com) scales is nicely for a few jobs with light candidate flow. It can start to break down when trying to organize things in a meaningful way for all parties, but mildy disciplined use of a Gmail account is pretty solid when compared to much heavier solutions, like Taleo.

Due to the large number of administrative tasks (posting ads, scheduling interviews, etc.), the walled garden platforms that refuse to give you (and each other) decent API access, and the number of relationships to stay on top of, there's really no substitute for good someone who stays on top of it all.

As a hiring manager, if you insist on managing the process end to end, you're the recruiter, too :)
Yes. Come to Puerto Rico, where I'm working in coffee. Never in my life have I had so much human contact.
Seriously! Once they've fully upgraded .NET and the GC, we'll all sigh in relief.
Is anyone else having trouble with the tesla website? - bunch of words are in a different language and the prices are in a foreign currency.
English Letter Frequency Counts (2012)
I saw that one item on a website was not displaying comments when it should have, and decided to see why. It turns out someone posted a comment ending with at :\ smiley, and the comments were passed in JSON with backslashes not being escaped. So the \ escaped the ending " causing it to fail. I quickly used the unescaped backslashes to insert < and got an XSS.
It's not unusual in completely terrible code.

The difference is if the memory management is manual, you have the ability to clean it up and reduce that overhead toward 0%.

If it's a system-enforced GC, you are limited in what you can do.
Did he ever comment about Von Neumann's memory? There are many claims that he could read a book once and recall the whole book perfectly down to the page even years later.
If WHO YOU KNOW counts as being creative, then yes, it is a creative challenge.
From my research they have never really been competitive to the point of getting any traction in their installation. They cost a lot more and provided a lot less power compared to standard panels. This seems promising especially if it is available so that it can be installed directly by home owners.
Interesting. I've got a couple of points or questions to put forth if anyone cares to share.

Did the abolishment of slavery in the United States directly lead to any sort of economic depression? From one perspective they were eliminating what the article says was 16% of household wealth at the time, compared to 10 trillion dollars today, so you might expect a corresponding hit to the economy, but whatever productive capacity there was in the form of the slaves labor still existed, more or less, after they were freed. So to non-slave owners it might not effect them at all economically (maybe it might help them in some way, perhaps slavery drags down the market value of labor?).

This, I think, is different from the question of oil. When you abolish the use of oil the oil doesn't go on to produce on its own accord. Any economic gain you once had from oil would presumably vanish completely. And it wouldn't just be the oil owners that lose out, I'm pretty sure I have more wealth because of the economies use of oil even though I don't own any shares of oil companies.
Also:

nft add rule nat ip saddr {10.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/16} tcp dport {http, https} dnat 1.2.3.4

vs.

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -m tcp -p tcp -s 10.0.0.0/8 --match multiport --dports 80,443 -j DNAT --to 1.2.3.4
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -m tcp -p tcp -s 192.168.0.0/16 --match multiport --dports 80,443 -j DNAT --to 1.2.3.4
Enterprise Drupal is huge.

As a Drupal frontender, I still get suprised when I discover another common site I use is actually on Drupal.
> Things like touchId were amazing features in their own right though.

Touch ID is cool and all, but in 2016 calling it "amazing" is a bit of a stretch. ThinkPads first got a fingerprint reader more than a decade ago: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/37017.html
UWP is dead imo. Microsoft is ignoring the signs that can tell it to accept it gracefully. There is not one uwp app that I use. They are just not reliable. A splash screen will show up, and then disappear. The app won't launch. You open the fb messenger app and then switch desktops to work. 2 hours later the messenger is nowhere to be found. It just disappears. No error no notification. Nothing. First I thought it's fb incompetence. But this happens with the built in photos app. The built in mail app. Even shell elements (start menu, notification shade) are buggy. Windows 10 is a great os as long as you avoid any interaction with uwp stuff.
Compiled programs sometimes contain the names of the functions.

To reduce binary size and/or discourage reverse engineering, the names can be stripped out.
The biggest story of the year, and it's not trending on Facebook nor Twitter. Fairness and journalism is dead in the U.S.
Nanometer Confusion-Searching for order when comparing nm
As much as I like the idea after reading about the Note 7 and then a battery fire at DARPA I'm not fond of a giant battery lithium-ion battery in my house.
Interesting how they chose not to actually show any emails by themselves, just through wikileaks iframes... perhaps a CYA thing.
ECC isn't really the golden solution. It will likely just turn rowhammer into a DoS instead of something which is exploitable (and even with ECC it can still be exploitable just harder). While this is an improvement I wouldn't call it a golden solution.
The linked FAQ specifically talks about returning pointers to structs that fulfil the 'error' interface and why it's a bad idea.
> Cliff Stoll

There's a word for incidences where you hear something once, and then see it everywhere. I just looked him up[1] the other day because someone linked to this article[2] elsewhere, and I happened to decide to look up the author of the article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll

[2] http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirva...
That's true for GC vs. manual heap-based memory management, but most GC languages don't do stack allocation at all or only for primitive types and stack allocation is much, much faster than any sort of heap-based memory management.
OH, I just realized you probably saw the post-edit title "Linux Only BIOS Update" which I agree with you IS very editorialized (it was copied and pasted from Lenovo's page that was linked by OP).
Yes, they even used TLABs. I believe the issue was that Xamarin was more interested in mobile performance at the time when SGEN was seeing heavy development and preparing for release, so they optimized for memory usage instead of throughput. The generational part was probably more of a hindrance than a benefit at that point in the process.
Actually, no, you were responding to a post about a hypothetical future "Lifetime Employment Contract", not about historical American slavery.
But half the point is audio?
> You create a cool project and your company lets you open source it.

Why would you need to ask for permission to open source your side project? Is that always the case?
But my electric bill is like $30-40/month, Why would I want to shell out $12,000 for something that will become old tech in couple of years like the 1 powerwall.
I personally only see the utility of the notebook as a demonstration tool of a finished product. Kinda goes to your comment on the notebooks and code maintenance. It's a good teaching or presentation tool but not (IMO) a development tool.
Yes but IIRC most of the userland and many of the libraries are from FreeBSD.
The problems with those batteries are that cell phones pushed the limit such that they were dangerous due to thin walls between part of the battery(ies), and hoverboards didn't keep batteries from overcharging, which causes a chemical reaction forming spikes that penetrate the thin walls between the parts of the batteries that cause fires. The batteries tech itself is not a problem; it's the design around it.

And if you think this is bad, just wait until batteries get more powerful and there are problems. Be thankful that it only starts a small fire!
Vickrey Auction (2nd price auction)
you know where the source is
From the Wikipedia article on memory refresh [0] for DRAM describing distributed refresh techniques:

"For example, the current generation of chips (DDR SDRAM) has a refresh time of 64 ms and 8,192 rows, so the refresh cycle interval is 7.8 μs."

Sounds like your idea is already a thing! That's cool! Unfortunately it seems like the performance-cycle period tradeoff is difficult and Rowhammer is taking advantage of that.

Protecting subsets of memory is an interesting idea but what bits do you choose? What if I could Rowhammer the memory frame behind a COW page belonging to a setuid binary? I feel like it might be an all or nothing kind of thing in this situation. Who knows though, maybe there's merit in specifically protecting kernel owned frames, it's difficult to say for sure.

0 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_refresh
The moment that copywrong stops us from keeping a full and accurate record of history, it's time to eject the broken and destructive system entirely.
They want the word version so they can strip your contact information and sell your resume.

I once interviewed myself for a position via a pretty large company's body shop subsidiary. Not really sure how they got my resume.
Would "by Berkeley" make you feel better?
Any idea why the solar cells aren't packed more densely? It looks like there's a lot of wasted space on due to a square cell centered on a rectangular tile.
Dick Proenneke: The Simplest, Wildest Man
They've long solved that challenge. After a few generations of phone (read: a few years), all new iOS upgrades simply refuse to install on your old phone. Then, after a short while, your apps auto-upgrade themselves and then stop working, one by one, because they won't run on such an old iOS. You then have no choice but to buy a new phone.

I found this out by getting stranded on the side of the road somewhere after I discovered that Uber had auto-upgraded itself in the background, and the new one refused to launch on my old phone.
30-40$ is probably a very small apartment. A house (2 levels) in Quebec during winter can go easily around 500$ because of the constant heating required.
Taxis have existed forever. The "problem" Uber solves is the revenue stream cities have gotten from taxi services.
It's known as the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.
Where are you seeing $3000? When I set it to 1 Powerwall it tells me:

One 14 kWh Powerwall battery $5,500
Installation and supporting hardware starts at $1,000
Total estimate $6,500
Requires $500 deposit for each Powerwall
Nodio Introduces Blockchain-Powered Wifi Router
> No they couldn't, because they don't.

The numbers were deliberately exaggerated to make the point. The fact stands though that until you know what the numbers are, the best answer is not easy to come by.

> I am asserting that for this specific 80% of perfect conditions, humans are still terrible drivers. And that being better than them is EASY, because of just how terrible humans are at driving (even in "perfect conditions").

And I am asserting the opposite: that the appearance of safety of autonomous vehicles is the result of highly selective conditions with near laboratory levels of control, the likes of which are so monumentally easy to handle that even humans, as shitty and inattentive as they are at driving, can handle with comparative levels of safety. And I certainly think it's possible that computers will lag behind humans for another 20-50 years while we slowly develop the massive body of fast-heuristics research necessary to make NP-complete planning decisions with the speed and capability of even below-average humans.
> I went and dug up where I had read Green talk about this and it turns out it was in a conversation with you.

Ha!

> It seems you and him disagree, he says ZCash couldn't/wouldn't have happened in Bitcoin and you say it could.

Yeah, I'm just surprised he feels so strongly about that, given how little I remember him actually doing along those lines. Like I said, I actually was hired by him on a monthly retainer to do consulting... and he did almost nothing at all with that contract. :(

> Is your blog post about this still coming?

Yes, although holy fuck I have a lot on the todo list. :( I also need to writeup my part of the trusted setup ceremony too.

And a blog post on that isn't paid work, so doesn't get as high priority as paying rent. :)
Suppose you need a new computer for work. Your other options are Windows or a Linux desktop experience, both of which are vastly worse in other ways. (No, I don't want to dork around with spending days compiling kernel patches and installing soundcard drivers before I can use the computer.)

I'd gladly buy any other laptop that was simple and just worked out of the box in the sense that a Mac does. But there aren't any.
The dongle situation is a little out of control especially considering how Apple charges nearly 60$ for each adapter.
New MacBook Pros Don't Include Backlit Apple Logo or Power Extension Cable
There's a guy called Octavian Rasnita who's a blind perl developer who I've met before. We basically never agreed on anything but he always disagreed with me intelligently. You might be able to contact him by emailing user teddy on domain cpan.org. No idea if he's a good person to talk to or not tbh but I've always found him worth arguing with.

If you do contact him please blame me so he can shout at me, not you, if I made the wrong guess here.
I remember him mentioning that the two were having a conversation where Von Neumann was writing out a complex mathematical formula, at which time he was interrupted by a phone call that lasted about 30min, and upon his return picked up writing out the formula as if there was no interruption. Robert found was just amazed at his powers of thought!

So many anecdotes that he related about all the prominent scientists involved during the Manhattan Project.
Sorry if I am being naive, but who is making sure these e-mails don't have sensitive information in them? For example, password reset requests or I don't know... perhaps national security information.
> If you have an offline wallet that has always been offline it is very, very, very easy to get away with criminal activity and take Bitcoin.

Taking Bitcoin isn't the part that gets you caught, it's the spending it somewhere that does. This is often the same with real money.