skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I look forward to a future in which we are all wearing ridiculously walled-garden tech on our faces, and a future in which we've gotten over it. I feel like just as we're slowly recovering the art of making food from the excesses of the early 20th century, our children's children will have to recover the art of being a social human being from the excesses of the early 21st century.

I recognize that otherizing an inevitable technology (ubiquitous connected vision) is taking the wrong side of history, but I hope my grandchildren make fun of my children for it.

I think it's interesting that the article did not describe the device's capacities at all.

In the meantime, I think Snapchat's marketing angle is ingenious. They decided to build trust, but not in the community of makers as Google did, they built trust in the community of shameless consumers (I mean that non-perjoratively). Google's mistake is understandable when you think that they are also trying to be respected in the cloud/app maker/developer space. Snapchat does not have that problem.
It can mess up _any_ file system. ZFS is, under some conditions, more likely to _tell_ you that you've had a problem.

That said, if a bit flips in the wrong place in RAM, even a checksumming file system will not protect you. The file system will happily write out the corrupted data if the checksum is calculated after the bit flip occurs.
First with the P100, lets see if they can be the first with full IPv6 support at the instance and/or container level! (I'm not holding my breath)
8 Financial Reports Every Every CFO Loves
Perhaps we can recycle the concrete to build Donald Trump's Great Wall
> It is an identity you can't get rid of, and which is often misused, or accidentally used, to create a lot of complexity. No, you can't override '==' in Java and other OO languages. You can override .equals() which defaults to ==.

Using Java as an example to prove something about OO isn't very useful IMO. It'd be like holding up rust as an example for how functional languages do things - yes, it's fairly functional but hardly canonical.

In ruby, for example, you can indeed override ==.

> You mentioned it yourself: structs or records, a.k.a value semantics. Here is a resource from people with more authority (esp. Guy Steele) http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/values/values-0.html

I think you're conflating structural equality on the one hand, and reference semantics on the other. The two aren't related in real OO. For example, here's a class that defines equality the same way an ML record might:

class Value
def ==(other)
if other.class != self.class then
return false
end

self.instance_variables.each do |v|
if instance_variable_get(v) != other.instance_variable_get(v) then
return false
end
end

return true
end
end

Then we can use it to define a simple point class:

class Point < Value
def initialize(x, y)
@x, @y = x, y
end
end

And there you go - structural equality, but still passed as references.

Point.new(0, 0) == Point.new(1, 2) => false
Point.new(0, 0) == Point.new(0, 0) => true
Issue #8: Learning
To be fair to the context here, neither is:

1. JavaScript reliable like C, nor

2. Elm an addition of "whiz-bang new footguns" to JavaScript.
You got downvoted but I somewhat agree with you. I almost never give less than 5 stars unless I think the driver is really endangering people out there.

In any other situation in the world when someone is rude to you as a customer you just shrug it off, maybe you tell your friend "The guy at the shoe store was so mean today". And I know at all of our jobs we have some days where we just half-ass things or are short with people. But suddenly in the "sharing economy" I get to constantly vote whether or not people should keep their jobs. It just seems so unfair to me, like I'm the emperor in Gladiator or something. I would hate to give someone 2 stars, they lose the gig, and now can't make rent or something.
Perhaps... to cover my rear-end, I intentionally avoided assuming an intent and worded my post to comment only on the story itself.
Clarity: Open Source Angular 2 UI Components
Nvidia got a massive bump in share price. I was quite sad because I sold all my shares after election downfall. I think this announcement might have caused the huge peak. Could have made 10% in one day.
Tesla and SpaceX aren't worth that much for much the same reasons you've outlined - they have massive capex requirements, high employee overhead and retention costs, and really real technology risk (it's literally rocket science).
Your best bet, other than building your own, is probably a Steam Machine. For around the same price as this workstation you can get one with a better video card.
It'd depend on the shared hosting provider and your site.

Having hundreds of MB of content that people are going to want to load, even if it's all served statically, will probably still have you in a bad way with the cheapest of hosting providers.

But it'll have a much better chance of surviving than someone running wordpress or something that's got zero caching and needs to do a ton of calls to a shared MySQL host.
Clarity Design System for Angular 2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12962853
Thanks for this. I've grown tired of discussions with these HN armchair skeptics, who typically have no publications in the area and a shallow science background relative to the complexity of the issues they raise.

As you say, there is no way to refute the claims advanced by the comment. It's just an abstract argument about forces and tendencies.

The scientific motivations leading to this calibration to eliminate systematic effects have a lot more internal checks than the comment acknowledges.
Secret Back Door in US Phones Sent Data to China
I still use Messenger and occasionally Groups (for events I don't plan) so I opted to block my newsfeed instead using a browser extension. I've found that to be a very manageable and in my experience healthy option.
How do you define a crisis? They're useful for projecting power against countries that have difficulty defending themselves. They would not be useful against Russia, for example, a country that possesses cutting edge missile technology.
They announced very good results for the quarter, i think that was the reason for this spike. Their datacenter/compute revenue grew by >150%
They'll probably create different models for different price points. Capturing the teen market is more important than the tech yuppie market, but if you can gouge a willing audience, you probably should.
Switching development from Subversion to Git – The journey we had to endeavor
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12957206
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12957206
The Marines ran Helmand a bit differently than how the Army ran everything else.

The Army loves their t-walls. So much in fact they give out little awards that are shaped like t-walls.[1]

[1]: http://uswarriorsoutdoors.org/us/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/...
No problem, just bring back the Bigfoot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bigfoot
It's unbelievable how far behind the technology curve most car companies are.

We recently test drove a used 2015 Suburban with a touchscreen console. The MSRP for it in 2015 was almost 90k, and the touchscreen was laggy, unresponsive, and terrible resolution. 20 years ago I worked on a touchscreen point of sale system that was better than that shit.
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Pilot and Computationalist
Or even better, actual bools and strings like a real API.

I don't know what the Go library looks like in terms of an API, but the pipes are already requiring serialization. This at least makes that hookup slightly easier, although CGO bridge has some overhead to it, so it wouldn't completely surprise me if a FIFO unix buffer was in fact faster especially if there's serialization in both situations.
iPad app with sync and same sort of keyboard shortcuts would be great (and would pay for handsomely). Clearly a lot of effort and intelligence went into TaskMator, but for me it somehow didn't translate the simplicity of TP to a touchscreen interaction.
Unfortunately, news today isn't meant to be as accurate as it is meant to be popular. Sure, accuracy will provide stability in the long term. But for immediate popularity, appealing titles are what creates viewers, which is revenue in terms of ads.

It's the sad reality of click bait, and it's hard to place blame. Is it the ad network? The"news" outlet? The viewers?

Maybe it's all three, but what I do know is that there is a problem with news on the web.
Stanford researchers send text messages using chemicals
This is an awesomely elegant little short story.
Their training dataset is almost certainly biased towards 'formal' Chinese sources, e.g. newspapers, news broadcasts, and so on. This is probably true for every language translation dataset, but at least anecdotally I can confirm the massive disconnect between spoken and written Chinese.

It's really interesting culturally, since modern written Chinese is split between Simplified (PRC) and Traditional (HK/TW/etc), because Mao thought Traditional was too difficult for the proletariat. Yet official national news sources in China are almost always given in formal Chinese, which nobody outside of the elite really speaks!
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Can you please explain what issues are you facing exactly ? I might be able to help.
League of Legends rank distribution over time
The large recent bump in share price happened while the market was closed between last Thursday and Friday, when they announced earnings: http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial...

The Google announcement didn't move their stock much at all.
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The US has the trade deficit of mere ~2 billion with India. The US can try to stop moving the jobs to India. But surely it will backfire in some other way.
Right sure, I was just picturing a static HTML page measured in KB.
Four times the size can also be tremendously counter-productive, in terms of having a big empty space that air swirls around in. Cooling is a pain in the arse.
http://archive.is/AsTk6
Who Invented Mechanical Television?
Duh. OP suggests liquid cooling would give some benefit to acoustic performance.

Really, it just adds complexity and bulk; it's not some magic solution to efficiency or increased performance. Especially in a compact form factor.

If volume is not a constraint, sure the availability of added surface area to dissipate the heat collected from a smaller surface area is beneficial. Most high performance, low resonance liquid cooling systems take advantage of increased surface area using oversized radiators and multiple low-speed fans.

I have successfully designed and implemented my own custom water cooling loops to pull concentrated heat from multiple components, but there is most definitely no benefit to the volume occupied by the entire system.
Hey. I live there!

But seriously, this could be a big deal.
Paperspace looks awesome, but I found the pricing on the homepage misleading.

It says in big font "Starting at $5/month". Then I clicked "Pricing" and the cheapest I see is "$15/month". What's the $5 plan?
.lol domain extension!
Short stroking helps get more performance from the disk, at least in terms of latency. The bandwidth change occurs because the density is fixed and there are more blocks on the outer rings per track compared to the inner rings so in one revolution you can read more tracks and you don't need to change tracks so often.

You parent comment is right though, there are only small changes in bit density on the track in recent years so the bandwidth is not improving by much.
Ask HN: What's a tolerable network latency for development?
Hello

I'm changing VPS providers and I have a couple of options. I can have the VPS located in either Frankfurt or Helsinki. Frankfurt gives me ~40 ms and Helsinki ~5 ms latencies.

I'm planning to move some of my development to the VPS and would like to know your opinion about a tolerable latency. This is of course very subjective, but any experience would be very appreciated. Like is 35 ms a total turn-off in your opinion or something like that.

I will of course try them before committing to anything, but I usually believe it's hard to make a reasonable decision on things like these in a short testing period (then again, if the performance is obviously intolerable, then it is and that's that).

I use SSH, tmux and vim.

Thank you a lot!
I think the branding is brilliant. It's unforgettable. It's a statement of purpose. It hits their target market (engineers) perfectly.

I sympathize though. Entomophobia must be a bummer.
I think I prefer the US way. I know many people smile just to be polite, but I just like looking at smiling people I guess.
And at that point I'd ask what are you optimizing for? Chances are JS is no longer your bottleneck.
If it's static, which is really recommended for content like this, I'd opt for Netlify (we love it for our projects) or a comparable service.
A traditional shared host will likely run into trouble once you reach a significant traffic spike, which is exactly the moment when you absolutely don't want to experience an outage.
Netlify, even on their cheapest 10 bucks/month plan, will let you use their CDN network and offer performance that is far ahead of shared hosts, let alone database backed websites.
That's a lot of do this/do that. With native apps you get all that for free with no effort and there is always a lot of room for optimization. The web on the other hand is hostile to apps.
As a die hard Noir buff, I love that there is someone who has retired from the SV scene and now dedicates their time to not just noir film history, but specifically as it pertains to San Francisco.
Haha... exactly. today I didn't even have time to eat lunch at my desk. How do people have time to create and view that many random snaps?
Do they use DIMMs or do they use SO-DIMMs?
PIBM – Pioneer Convergence 2014 – Mr. Raman Preet – 1
To me, aircraft carriers represent the first line of casualties that will never make it back home during a major war.
I built a Chrome extension called `Popup my Bookmarks` (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/popup-my-bookmarks...) to solve my pain from switching from firefox to chrome :)

source code: https://github.com/foray1010/Popup-my-Bookmarks
The issue is that we look at MAD as the end of the world.

It's not (for countries).

There were battle plans in place for an invasion of NATO/Warsaw pact
Fuck popup windows
They are not just outside the mainstream, but fundamentally not backed up by known physics and statistics.
> "Certain minorities"? Which ones? What kind of limits, could you provide some examples?

This happened to me (am black). I didn't inquire about the exact ratio that the owner found acceptable, but he only wanted a certain number in the club at a time. Since I didn't enter and obviously never returned to such a place, I don't know if even 1 was too many.

> I'm not sure however how it is going to help me with knowing about hiring policies.

It is nearly impossible to get any quantitative data because it is illegal to not hire based on race, ethnicity, religion, etc. and it is not a policy. People are reticent to disclose their prejudices and biases to those who do not share them
So why can't Google find it? If it is an article, an essay or a series of lectures , Google should find it.
Did you stumble on to the final scene of "A Star is Born"? I wonder how many films end with people wading in to the surf to take their own life...
Orthokeratology
What's the difference? Biggest sounds more familiar to me. Maybe local cultures differ? For that matter, why would you ever need the word "large"? Doesn't "big" always have the same meaning?
Why not use (free) cloud-flare for static websites?
> But the bone is cooked with the steak.

I've never heard that expression before! Of course googling it I get a million steak recipes. Can you explain what it means?
Er... Linux does use a similar time-based release schedule now, and the minor number has been reset a couple of times to keep it from "getting too high".
Thank you, included!
Almost everyone is carrying a touch screen in their pocket, complete with internet access, navigation, music, audiobooks, everything. Car manufacturers should just solve the problem of how to plug in the phone since they'll never deliver anything smarter or more powerful anyway. And, yes, physical knobs for things that you might do when driving, such as adjusting sound volume. The rest of the effort they should direct at the thing which they are good at; building cars.

Equivalently, TV manufacturers should stop trying to make their TVs smart and leave this to 3rd party devices such as the Apple TV, Chromecast or whatever. Just make great image quality and make the smartness pluggable. Anyway, I'm digressing.
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Retroshare's private messaging tools, upgraded to coco20 end-end and able to be routed optionally via I2P as well as via Tor anonymous networks. Retroshare also has a optional VOIP plugin.
Twitter Expands Mute Feature to Tackle Trolls
In the safety industry everyone knows that bit flips (SEUs) are way more common than laypeople believe.

And that's for embedded microcontrollers and RAM that aren't nearly pushing it to extremely small processes.

Let me just quote IEC 61508, where "FIT" means 10e-9 h:

Causes of soft errors are: (1) Alpha particles from package decay, (2)
Neutrons, (3) external EMI noise, (4) Internal cross-talk. External EMI noise is covered by other requirements of
this international standard.

A soft error occurs when a radiation event causes enough of a charge disturbance to reverse or flip the data state
of a low energized semiconductor memory cell, register, latch, or flip-flop. The error is called “soft” because the
circuit itself is not permanently damaged by the radiation. Soft-errors are classified in Single Bit Upsets (SBU) or
Single Event Upsets (SEU) and Multi-Bit Upsets (MBU).

The soft error rate has been reported (see a) and i) below) to be in a range of 700 Fit/MBit to 1 200 Fit/MBit for
(embedded) memories. This is a reference value to be compared with data coming from the silicon process with
which the device is implemented. Until recently SBU were considered to be dominant, but the latest forecast (see
a) below) reports a growing percentage of MBU of the overall soft-error rate (SER) for technologies from 65 nm
down.

The following literature and sources give details about soft-errors:
a) Altitude SEE Test European Platform (ASTEP) and First Results in CMOS 130 nm SRAM. J-L. Autran,
P. Roche, C. Sudre et al. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on Volume 54, Issue 4, Aug. 2007
Page(s):1002 - 1009
b) Radiation-Induced Soft Errors in Advanced Semiconductor Technologies, Robert C. Baumann, Fellow,
IEEE, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEVICE AND MATERIALS RELIABILITY, VOL. 5, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER 2005
c) Soft errors' impact on system reliability, Ritesh Mastipuram and Edwin C Wee,
Cypress Semiconductor, 2004
d) Trends And Challenges In VLSI Circuit Reliability, C. Costantinescu, Intel, 2003, IEEE Computer Society
e) Basic mechanisms and modeling of single-event upset in digital microelectronics, P. E. Dodd and L. W.
Massengill, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 583–602, Jun. 2003.
f) Destructive single-event effects in semiconductor devices and ICs, F. W. Sexton, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.,
vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 603–621, Jun. 2003.
g) Coming Challenges in Microarchitecture and Architecture, Ronen, Mendelson, Proceedings of the IEEE,
Volume 89, Issue 3, Mar 2001 Page(s):325 – 340
h) Scaling and Technology Issues for Soft Error Rates, A Johnston, 4th Annual Research Conference on
Reliability Stanford University, October 2000
i) International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS), several papers.
If you were convinced that the data and physics undeniably show that we're headed for a point where the global food supply system will collapse.

And you believe all previous criticism has been adequately answered as nauseum.

And you expected your children and even yourself to see the day of the collapse.

And most other industrialized nations are already taking real steps to mitigate, convinced that it's real.

But, somehow, your own country, where media and politics are more controlled by money than anywhere else, is doing nothing.

What would you think the right thing to do would be?
Disagree. Angular is a giant piece of bloated cheap that tries to do everything.

I'm so glad someone wrote preact

By using tools that do one thing and one thing very well it's easy to couple them together in interesting ways.
I don't understand US law nearly well enough, but aren't they essentially suing for future damages (e.g. something that hasn't happened yet)? How does this work as anything other than a PR stunt and a trophy-for-everyone move from a judge in Oregon?
Just in case you care, it is "Es gibt mir Schadenfreude", and "Es macht mich schadenfreudig".
Wow, way too expensive for me. To register my name it is going to cost me $270 per year, no thanks. I'll stick with my .com which costs me like $10 per year.
And companies also push their employees to post good reviews on Glassdoor. Been there, seen that t-shirt.
A biotech arms race with the US?

That's laughable after this election.
The OnePlus3T will be available on on November 22 (US/CA) and November 28 (EU)
It seems unlikely that the earths atmosphere would remain unaffected by human impacts.
SpotOver app for tracking friends on trip
Impact of the US election result
ZFS isn't worse than other file systems without ECC RAM. It's just that it's much better with ECC RAM.
Consumer electronics are designed to fail in 3-5 years. Cars aren't. If my 2012 Honda Accord started failing this year, I'd be really upset. If my 2012 iPad mini started failing this year... well, I wouldn't be surprised given it's age.

I don't want my car's firmware failing or even slow when my ABS system needs to kick in because of an icy road. We must hold automobiles to a higher degree of quality and consistency than consumer electronics and I don't believe these things are on par at all, nor should they be held to the same standard.
Cloudflare stands between a website and a user; you still need somewhere to host it.
Wow, cool idea. Their demo of the glare removal looks nice... well I guess they wouldn't put up a bad example. But still, if it really does work that well, this seems awesome.
Carriers project power.

All trading in and out of China, Russia, or whatever can be dropped to 0 in a day.