skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be warned that this (by default) only looks at part of the file. Seems like a poor default.
It seems to me that Americans have a huge blind spot that lets them focus on Fidel Castro, without reference to the many dictators that the US government installed or supported (Noriega, Pinochet, Karimov, Sadam, Shah of Iran,...) often by helping to overthrow democratically elected governments. Seriously, are you guys not aware at just how hypocritical this appears?

Bottom line, as has been posted already, and much to the chagrin of demagogues and their supporters, the world is not comprised solely of "goodies" and "baddies". Realpolitik is shades of grey. It's possible for leaders, governments, regimes, parties, to have done both good and bad things. This applies as much to "us" as "them". Sorry to rain on your[1] patriotism parade.

[1] 'you' collectively. Not erokar individually.
I'm not saying that the term "evil" should have no currency at all (I used it later in the comment). I'm questioning the usefulness/honesty of the metaphor for describing political actors. If we call Fidel Castro evil, it is either for essentially propagandistic purposes or, if used in earnest, it leads to a slippery slope. Heads of state always wield the power of life and death over some group of people--since, in the words of Weber, to be a state is to have a monopoly on violence. How many people have to unjustly die or be imprisoned as a result of a leader's choices for that leader to be evil? If we try to avoid this sorites' paradox (how many grains of sand make a pile) by psychoanalyzing the leader, then we must talk of pathology rather than morality. But psychoanalyzing a head of state leads to wild speculation/sneaking the assumptions back into the question (well, he must be a megalomaniac because he killed x people). So, we discover that neither morality nor psychology are particularly useful conceptual tools when addressing essentially political/structural actors (as Gramsci observed).
In practice, calling people that the USA doesn't like evil is just lazy, and usually justification for making the population of said state even more miserable than already were under their "evil" leader.
So our options are having civilization collapse, clean up all corruption everywhere before trying anything, or trying something that "some research" says might be ineffective? Seems like that's a pretty easy choice.
Go sigma.
The names Knights Corner (KNC) and Knights Landing (KNL) are easily confused. KNC was designed as a plug-in card as you describe, but the current KNL generation has standalone systems running a standard operating system. While there are differences in where the bottlenecks are (see Agner's report) you can/should/must optimize for these standalone KNL systems as you would for a CPU: http://www.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc27/...
> Your mailman can read your mail and steal your packages

Exactly.

If my mailman edited one of my letters he would be instantly fired and hopefully prosecuted.
I just read one of her blog posts[1], not knowing who she is. Unless you want to claim that Google translate deliberately mistranslates her words, she's incredibly fucking racist. I'm not a fan of Islam (and criticise it myself), but saying that all Arabic and Turkish children should be sent back to their home countries to protect German children is undeniably hate speech.

[1]: http://ursula-haverbeck.info/richter-staatsanwalt-und-polizi...
Can a pid controller do facial recognition? That is one of the applications.
That sounds like something a KGB agent would say.... Comrade....
The Pi3 has an improved audio output . A cheap $5 usb audio interface from amazon will bring the quality up for older Pis to a normal computers audio output. If you're looking for higher fidelity than that you can use lots of the usual prosumer/pro usb interfaces. If you're trying to keep it small something like a HifiBerry board or similar addon will work.
nothing is a big word, of course it had an impact. but totalitarianism, oppression, indoctrination, etc. were not caused by outside factors, they are direct actions by the dictatorship.
"Did something change regarding development in SF? Or was the NIMBY effect always a bit over-stated? Anyone care to speculate?"

No, not much at all has changed and the "building boom" consists of 5 or 6 high rises and a small handful of quarter-block sized rental apartment complexes.

Think of the normal background level development that is always occurring in Denver/Minneapolis/Portland ... that suddenly happened here for a few years. "Boom".
China throttles lots of foreign websites that it doesn't block. It wouldn't be surprising if they target all foreign ssl traffic for throttling too.
And you think if you remove the incentive to invest, thus reducing the capital available to corporations, the same number of jobs will exist for those young poor people to work in?
Poland and The Netherlands are both members of the EU, so immigrant workers from Poland are legal by definition. As for illegal migrant workers I suspect that it's just not that big of a problem, quantitatively speaking.
I was just wondering about local/regional eyeglass manufacturing. Is there anything proprietary about the process?

I'm ignoring scale, for obvious reasons.
>A nuclear exchange would put us in Mad Max territory pretty quickly if you ask me. It's one of a number of unlikely but far from impossible scenarios that we should consider.

Climate change does not and can not create nuclear war. People create nuclear war.
We needed to "get used to" typing with our fingers quickly on a touchscreen as well. Now >95% of the people I know are incredibly proficient.
I didn't, but you may have missed what I was replying to.
Just to add some anecdata: I tested the keyboard for 10 minutes with TypeRacer in an Apple Store and I found it to be OK. The clicking certainly does provide enough feedback and since I am used to mechanical keyboards it also does not bother me how loud it is (I actually like loud keyboards). I also liked the short key travel.
OP - I've been working with the Game Closure team on the HTML5 devkit for quite a while now, and we have yet to find an engine that gets better performance out of 2D JS games on native. The view hierarchy, rendering, and animation are written in both JS (web builds) and C (native builds), connected by a Java Android stack and an Objective-C iOS stack. The docs are a bit out-of-date but the tech is really powerful. It supports WebGL and canvas rendering in web builds, but there's no 3D support yet.

Github: https://github.com/gameclosure/devkit
Docs: http://docs.gameclosure.com/
The browser has a bunch of behaviors that get in the way. The Ionic team could speak better to what is preventing them from implementing these gestures, or you could browse their issues to get an idea too: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ge...
All chargers are Chinese, not only the ones which suck. Let's leave cheap shots at other countries out of here, thanks.
In Beijing currently. I set up a SOCKS proxy through an EC2 instance and it seems to be throttled after 10 minutes of use -- to the point that Edge on my smartphone is faster.

Unrelatedly: I was very surprised that the GFW lets through Amazon web traffic.
The Castro family can travel the world and enjoy a lavish lifestyle while most of the population lives in poverty and are not allowed to leave the country. Your naivete is cute.
This is quite old. MetaOCaml has been rewritten since (the new version is linked in another comment)

A better ressource to learn about multi stage metaprog in OCaml is Jeremy Yallop's course on advanced functional programming:

See "staging" sections: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1415/L28/materials.html

Interactive notebook: http://ocamllabs.github.io/iocamljs/staging.html
I totally agree with you about the value perception, and don't take your post in the wrong way at all.

But seeing people put even $10 into the 'hole' project just highlights that someone, somewhere, thinks that giving their hard earned $10 is better value to them than an app that costs $3. More than 3 times the worth, really.

That kind of thing really sucks, to me. I've spent a few dollars here and there in the past to support people whom I think deserved it for their efforts - be it a small trinket at a craft fair or a CD from a busking musician in the street. To me, spending money on the efforts of their craft (even if it is on things I didn't really need) rather than a cup of coffee, or a hole, says to them "I think that your efforts and creative energy are worth something, and I am willing to give you some of my hard earned cash to prove its worth". Even giving a few dollars to a homeless person is leveraging the money for the betterment of humanity.

The sadness here is the fact that I live in a society that thinks a hole in the ground is worth more that someone's creative output. All the worse for the fact that they are prepared to make a statement about it by quite literally throwing away money to make their point. Is this the every day person's equivalent of lighting up cigars with $100 bills?
I am glad to hear that other industries area also slowly learning about the benefits of "Agile" and "Cloud" :-)
> Doesn't seem to have had much success in destroying Swiss cities. Maybe the neutrality helps prevent bombing-like effects?

When talking about policies like price floors and ceilings (ie, rent control), scale is critical.

The city of New York has a population roughly equal to the entire country of Switzerland. The largest Swiss city (Zurich) is smaller than the smallest borough of New York City (Staten Island), and about one-fifth the size of the Bronx (the borough mentioned in fennecfoxen's comment).

So comparing the effect of rent regulation in New York City to the effect of rent regulation in various cities in Switzerland isn't really meaningful, because the economies of cities in a country whose total population is roughly 8 million can't be compared with the economy of a city whose metropolitan region is two and a half times that size (20 million).
Some of the specific ideas for demonstrating high status included not moving your head when speaking, speaking and moving slowly, beginning statements with a long 'uhhhh' (a short 'uh' sound, however, demonstrated low status), and taking up space.

I'd recommend moving it to the top of your reading list; it's one of those incredible books that i get something new out of every time I read it. It goes deep into human interaction, learning and education, consciousness - so much of what it means to be human.
I find most poetry manifestly idiotic as the self-help books.

The reason self-help books are written the way they are written, is because that's all there's to it. They have a formula that's pretty logical and people find it "idiotic" because in the inside, they already know what they have to do, yet for some reason they resort to these books.

I mean, for example, any given how to startup book:
- Find a problem
- Develop an idea to solve a problem
- Get your hands dirty

Abstractly, that's pretty much it. There may be some other insights, but in general, that's what you get. Again, most people, by common sense already know that, but they keep reading self-help books. I have yet to find the reason.
PSA: if you're looking, be on guard

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"customers were complaining of older version of IE that actually block HTTPS requests that originate from HTTP pages"

What what what? I've never heard of that particular IE weirdness. Do you know which versions have that problem - and is there any documentation anywhere?
No, sorry, the new MacBook pro sucks for hackers. It's great for prosumers who like gadgets and benefit from USB-C. Hackers do not benefit from a closed box with non-expandable performance.

I get it that prosumers like to think of themselves as "hackers", but ...that's just not how it works. Come on.
In Japan a lot of traditional shopping districts are the ground-floor component of elevated train tracks.
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: It's of interest to me how much you seem to know about that world.

Shepherd Book: I wasn't born a shepherd, Mal.

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: You have to tell me about that sometime.

Shepherd Book: [pause] No, I don't.
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C is always going to be faster than almost anything you compare it to, of course. But the V8 interpreter is also not 5000% slower; for computationally intensive tasks it's not actually significantly slower. The problem in OP's case is that JS lacks an interface to interact with the display and render that is as "close to the metal" as their "native" counter parts. You are drawing sprites on a html canvas which is then rendered by a web view, which just not that great no matter what language you use to get there.

What I'm getting at is that it's easy to blame Javascript, but really that's not the whole picture, and if Google and Apple chose to support Javascript natively it wouldn't have these dramatic performance issues.
> You can buy tiny little USB-C adapters like this by the handful on Amazon for cents

But beware of the really cheap ones, they can burn your "legacy" USB ports:

http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/how-to-find-safe-usb-type-...
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The new 13" MacBook Pro is actually 12% thinner than the MacBook Air, but it does not have these beveled edges.
Yes it is happening I know, I remember a 99% Invisible podcast episode talking about it. Also there was a documentary on London millionaires doing it.

I find it striking it is not done even more. I recognize the technical difficulties but the costs are surely lower than the potential value of easily doubling the sq ft.

There are interesting tricks you can do with fibre optic cable and mirrors to send daylight down there. Not to mention CoeLux and similar products.
Sometimes when you question you'll find that the person really has the chops :-)

I'm sure you'll agree however that for every one of you, there's ton of developers who are less programmers and more assembly line workers gluing framework pieces together :-)
Not. Good for knowledge transfer but not much else. The people who don't what to work will just hide in back and the ones that normally do the work will spend lots of time explaining it to the people hiding.
And then the 1% will start complaining. "Why me?"

The team behind Brew is doing a great job and if analytics can help them do a better job, then be it. Nobody is forcing you to use it and opting out is simple enough.
We complied 100% with the GPL, and, Path64 includes 100% of the code, including the parts that didn't have to be released under the GPL.
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If TLS/HTTPS was easy to use from userspace C, HTTP could probably phase out very soon. Node, Go, Python, and other web tech actually makes this easier, because I don't have to call OpenSSL myself. So, even though I really love C, it's not in the best place for the modern network.
Oceanic-next-purple color scheme ready for ES6
>I like the idea of 'economic canaries'. There has been a bipartisan effort to ignore fundamentals for the past 36 +/- years [1]...

I can only pray the new administration manages to at least get something right with their supposed dedication to the Rust Belt.
I have one of those: Lenovo Yoga Book - the virtual keyboard uses haptic feedback, and I actually like it less than the new MacBook Pro keyboards.

That said, while I feel that the new keyboard is slightly better than the last new keyboard, the sound of it makes me want to rip the keys out - it is very loud in a not-so-good way.
Seems to be, especially among younger developers that learned Rails, and even more so among boot-campers.
Studio "luxury" apartments here in Nashville have long term leases at $1200/mo for a studio. I was not impressed when I did a tour across the city; I asked the occupancy rate at a few places, and was floored when they told me it was only ~25%; these were 1yr+ old developments, which is apparently common place. I've been telling people the city is in a bubble, but no one believes me. Everyone says now is the time to buy, I think they're insane.

A lot of people from out of state that had higher real estate values could sell their $400K-$500K home in California and come to Nashville and live like a king. Now they are just poaching people knowing they'll pay up. Our hotel rates are higher than New York City's on average. It's insane, and everything thinks this will last. We'll see. Nashville wasn't mentioned in the article, but I have a very hard time believing the city will sustain its current rent levels, with such low occupancy rates.

It's actually cheaper to just buy a condo outright (which I think is still too expensive $300K for a studio,) than to rent.
There are technical difficulties but you're doubling the sq ft! That is huge. Have you seen London's iceberg buildings?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLJ0zZQb9x0

I admit I just want this because the idea of hidden labyrinths behind our cities is just intrinsically appealing to me. There could be shops! Neon signs! It would be cyberpunk and then I would know the future has arrived :-)

The monetary payoff does seem to be there. I wonder if the delay in transformations of this sort might have a lot to do with a lack of 3D expertise among builders.
Of course it's properly functioning. There is a ton of demand and a lack of supply. Of course prices are going to rise and that's perfectly okay. But they can't rise ad infinitum. I think we're seeing the limits of how high prices people are willing to spend, and rising interest rates are going to limit that even further. I'm expecting a precipitous plunge in >$2M houses and the sweet spot will be houses in the $750k range after interest rates limited the crazy market.
Obviously webapps are a thing apart because browsers only support JS. But otherwise...
C++.
.Net-based languages.
JVM-based languages. (although I am not aware of any tool that works on iOS)

Hell, in most of the platforms you can use your language of choice and P/Invoke C++ components.
Actually their example of iterating over an array and making WebGL calls is very close to exactly what you need to benchmark.
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Ironically, rent control may have been the single biggest factor leading to the consolidation of ownership of New York real estate by the ultra-wealthy.

If you were a landlord, you couldn't afford to pay enough to buy your tenants out of their apartments. But massively wealthy investors and big banks could - and they did. They bought the rent-controlled apartments that were money pits for small landlords, and then paid large sums of cash (under the table) to the tenants to get them to leave. Once the tenants had left, the apartments could be easily converted back to unregulated, market-rate apartments.

Small landlords literally couldn't afford to own the buildings, because they had to spend money to operate them and received next-to-nothing in rent. So, they had no choice but to sell them to the investors and banks who were well-capitalized enough to negotiate these buyouts, resulting in the mass consolidation of real-estate by a relatively small number of owners.

And of course, the original goal of rent control (ensuring that long-time residents would continue living in the same neighborhoods) went completely out the window, because it was in their best financial interest at that point to move. And the secondary goal (providing "affordable" housing) was gone long before that

> We moved out of the city the next year. But in retrospect we should have bought our apt (for about $7,000) when the building went coop/condo.

In retrospect, you should probably have kept living there as tenants. If you were there in the early 1970s, you'd have been grandfathered into rent control, and rent control in New York (as opposed to rent stabilization) is insanely profitable for the tenants, even if you weren't offered the type of buyout that I described above.

It'd have taken you 7 years just to break even on the savings in rent by itself, but between maintenance costs (which your landlord was required to give you for free) and property taxes (easily more than you were paying in rent), you'd probably still come out ahead today if you'd just stayed on as tenants.

Of course, you'd have to live there continuously and never move, and the apartment wouldn't be yours to pass on in inheritance. But the money you'd save would be worth way more than that.
HN discussion of Greenwald's article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13045381
Very true, but I've found that it's easy for those ActiveRecord abstractions to kill performance (I did this on a dashboard that was performing some serious calculations across hundreds of millions of records, often joining other similarly sized tables)
Yes, because a fake Comcast hotspot surely wouldn't display Comcast ads to make the fake complete?

Comcast understands that politics works on money and connections, not facts, and had learned to play that game to great profit for themselves.
I'm not sure how relevant this is to this story but for news in general something which I found extremely helpful in my life has been actually learning how to digest the news (media) through a course that was taught at university (news literacy).

The news media is to a certain extent peer reviewed. Although perhaps not the the extent that scientific papers are but actually non-opinion news media does hold itself to certain standards. These may including correcting factual errors, attempting to contact both/all sides for comments, or if they use anonymous sources if they state a reason why they are anonymous. Furthermore the actual news media should always have the opinion section marked as opinion (which you should generally steer clear of).

Another example which is often brought up is "bias". However actual bias is extremely difficult to prove. Opinion pieces don't count towards bias since they should be under a (labeled) opinion section.

There are courses that deal with news literacy[1] that are probably taught around the country but this is just one example that I'm familiar with.

[1] http://www.centerfornewsliteracy.org/ (SUNY @ Stony Brook)
Maybe...but that's soo besides the point. Plenty of presidents do that - maybe all?

This is not a partisan issue??? It's not the "T_D users complaining" that put it all over HN's.

It's unacceptable for CEO's of social media companies to impersonate users. EVER > EVER > EVER.

He could have deleted or changed the comments and posted a note and most of the outrage would go away, but he didn't. He impersonated and censored users comments. Such a slippery slope.
There are two different kinds of fake news. The first type is just shitty journalism. Stuff that isn't fact checked, doesn't tell the whole story, actively misleads, or what not. Thats the kind that has a spectrum. The second type is "Clinton ate an alien baby yesterday then died." That kind is kinda binary. It seems like facebook can't even tell the difference between those.
Forgive my ignorance, but it's not like that methyl group just becomes a free radical, right? Does it stick to either the aspartate or the phenylalanine, and if so, wouldn't that potentially change the body's reaction?
I don't think it's a problem with JavaScript. Why isn't webgl in the same range of performance as opengl? It need not be 100% closer to native but 60-90% is good enough for use cases like simple 2D games. Of course why would the browser makers do that when both of them are also OS makers who benefit from tighter control of the appstore?
Yep, flawed study. The stuff in Brighton, deep Dorchester, Hyde Park and Roxbury should be thrown out since a lot of it is very much not TOD and you'd barely know you were living in Boston.
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