skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Phenom II X4 940 on the desktop machine is still going strong. I couldn't yet justify replacing it because it just isn't that bad yet. I think I'll put off replacing that rig for another year.

Some desktop AMD processors support ECC memory which would need a Xeon and more expensive mainboards from intel for replacement. This tunes up the price quite a bit when switching. That ECC support was the deciding factor back then.
Yes, this! Also (being from the smaller EU country), half of those listings on amazon.de now greet me with "This doesn't ship to your country.".

Of course, no filters to what does ship to me. One year ago that somehow wasn't even an issue. It seems that Amazon is turning into same crappy service as Ebay :(
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How Crowdsourcing Can Change the Exhibition Industry – 83rd Ufi Global Congress
Keep in mind the author isn't exactly a hardware engineer:

> Working in IT retail for 10 years gave him great experience with high-end, custom-built PCs.

So treat the article with a slightly smaller grain of salt as you would a salesperson at your local Best Buy pushing AMD chips.
The problem with the US model is it leaves no room for other/different ideas. It is all consuming. Now that it has no competition to keep itself in check it is well on the way to consuming itself.
I live in Miami and streets were full of pots and pans being banged around. Some fireworks too.

A lot of cubans and venezolanos are my neighbors, and there is whistling going on.
I wonder if your parent has an answer to this. It seems the US putting weapons in threatening positions to other countries would be justified somehow.
Just because it deletes your all accounts doesn't mean the skeletons of your internet existence aren't there for all to see for eons to come.
Simple responsive CSS scatter plot chart
I like it. This is JQ with a graphical interface?
> Just to put a concrete point, Per capita GDP of Cuba is 4 times the largest democracy country (India).

I'm seeing it at closer to 3x based on <http://www.tradingeconomics.com/india/gdp-per-capita> and <http://www.tradingeconomics.com/cuba/gdp-per-capita>.

But even granting 4x, notice that it was 5x back in 1970 (which is as early as the Cuba chart in this dataset goes). And if you look at numbers from right before the Cuban revolution, it was about 6x...

Of course the embargo, the Soviet subsidies, the removal of those subsidies, and the sugar price crash in the 90s make it hard to make much practical sense of Cuban GDP per capita and its evolution.

I _would_ like to respond to your "normal characteristics" point, though. The "people aren't allowed to leave" your country _is_ a normal characteristic of communist states, but that doesn't make it OK. And I would argue that it's not necessarily inherent to "communism", and _is_ "evil" in pretty basic terms: it violates the right of freedom of movement. See also UN declaration of human rights, article 13. I understand the practical reasons such a restriction is instituted, and I can even make some moral arguments for it (e.g. owing a debt to the society that provided your education and hence not being allowed to take your skills elsewhere), but I still don't think the outcome is OK.
Good luck with that.
I'm still hopeful. If there's a country where people would be genuinely putting up barricades over privacy issues, that's Germany.
My vision might be a bit biased by the fact that I live in Berlin, where people are much more politically active then elsewhere in Germany, but I still think that it's a theme that strikes the average German's interest
Scrum is a great hammer, but not every process is a nail
> What is this useful for?

I suspect it may be used to enforce custom fonts in an old-fashioned way, but nowadays you would simply deliver the font with you site, or use a font service.

Or, it could serve as some kind of "copy-protection", but it would not protect against OCR.

Thinking more about it, this may be a diabolic way to collect strings from people who want to make them "copy-protectable". So you don't need OCR anymore, but fetch them from the source. ;-)

Either way, it's a nice project with a good execution!
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That's actually my favourite part of C*. I think the CQL interface makes programming against it extremely easy, and I dare might say enjoyable.

It makes getting standard, and understanding what's going on a breeze.
It will probably beat intel in the performance/price ratio when not considering the cost of electrical power.

That low difference (<10%) between turbo and sustained clock speed is a bit troubling, though. It indicates that these processors are not limited by the TDP but by the transistor speed. Combined with the high TDP, this means that AMD is still much behind intel in their manufacturing process.
I'm using list from http://pgl.yoyo.org/as
The instruction set is finely tuned to make interesting puzzles. Most of my time in each puzzle was spent trying to cram 1 more instruction into a chip here or there.

Since real instruction sets have to be practical for production use, I imagine it would be harder to get the same effect.

Plus you wouldn't get cool features like being able to conditionally execute every instruction.
Thanks @patio11 -- curious to know if Stripe has ever approved an aggregator outside the regions where Connect exists? Seems to me this limitation is set upstream from Stripe
Religious beliefs, cryonics. (But then I repeat myself...)
Yeah, people are divided over this. Some people (me example) like this random element. Some don't.
With rowhammer reality this should actually be a deal breaker for the conscious...
The best thing of this was the link about "Spirit of C", which shows that even ANSI agrees thrusting the programmer is no longer a good idea.

"12. Trust the programmer, as a goal, is outdated in respect to the security and safety programming communities. While it should not be totally disregarded as a facet of the spirit of C, the C11 version of the C Standard should take into account that programmers need the ability to check their work."
Apple's objective C runtime is not portable. There's a lot of assembly code and platform specific code. This is trying to fix that.
Thanks! Mine is 144 ;D
The author says to be able to write objective-C in the future. I can get that. I did like objc. He also lists some good technological goals like speed, portability, and the rest on the page.
Next move is on Amazon... Google took the first deep dive with their TPU, Microsoft is a bit more future ready now using FPGAs. Amazon is currently mostly offering Nvidia GPUs, of an older generation. So I'm curious when they will come out with their own custom chip.

All of this is not great for Nvidia, who are betting big on AI to move out of the gaming market. So if everyone goes cloud and every cloud goes custom hardware, they will not have much of a market left.
Death Note is a favorite. If you enjoyed that you should definitely watch Liar Game. It is a live action.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0978076/

The first episodes with the Teacher are okay, but it really kicks into high gear when they being playing 'minority rules' later on. Really marvelous!

If you enjoy a real challenge read The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. It's the most rewarding puzzle I've ever tangled with. I was up for days, weeks, thinking about it afterwards.
And Batman, they're both heroes built upon technology.
Its too late to edit my prior post so I'll just stick these Castro quotes in here:

" They talk about the failure of socialism, but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?"

" ...I began a revolution with 82 men.
If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15
and absolute faith.
It does not matter how small you are if you have faith
and a plan of action."

Fidel Castro 1926 - 2016
It feels like news should run with [unverified] tags until multiple sources are found.
Cap rate is the net cashflow divided by the purchase price. In other words: the current cap rate is a function of the price you paid (ie : appreciation up until now)

Another investor will not buy for a higher price unless the rents also increased (ie: cap rate is in a certain acceptable range)

The statement "...property doubles in value but I don't increase my rents...." Is misleading since presumably no sane investor would pay double price for the same income stream. If the cap rate is 5% for a 1 million dollar property then it earns 50k per year. The property price that other investors are going to pay will be a function of a cap rate they are OK with ( which bakes in the price and earnings ratio). 2.5% cap rate means 2 million dollars still earning 50k year. No thank you

Additionally, the equity in an investment is not wealth... yet. It has to be sold to get money that can be used to put food on the table.
Interesting question. I think that depends on how you define "their people". In some sense, all dictators improved the lives of "their people".

Nelson Mandela for instance made life better for black South Africans, but he's implicated in violence against white south africans.

Hitler made life better for many Germans, especially given the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles.

Turning back to the US, you could argue that those descended from native americans have not had their lives improved by an ugly history of genocide. The US also enslaved people who our citizens today descended from. There was also internment of Japanese-American citizens. And to this day, high incarceration rates for the poor/minorities.
In the death of Gareth Williams (he was the ex GCHQ spy who was found dead, enclosed in a locked bag in his bath) the authorities brought up the fact that he'd visited BDSM porn sites as a way of explaining the unusual circumstances of his death.

This proves that the government is willing to selectively present out of context information from someone's browsing history in court in order to further their agenda. If you believe every employee at all 49 agencies who have access to this data will never misuse it, well, you're more trusting than me.

And I haven't even touched on any of those agencies being the conduit of leaked information, and the ramifications of that. If the NSA can't even keep a lid on confidential information when it's staffed with some of the most experienced and intelligent techs in the world, what hope does the Department for Work and Pensions have?
In Portugal we have opt-out, while here in Germany it is opt-in, I never understood the decision, exactly because of what you mention.
It's like PhotoShop. I used to play with pictures and obtain those effects 10-15 years ago. But I think we can do many more special effects with HTML5 Canvas.
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So what's the deal? How does hiding homeless people from your kids help anyone?
Theoretical communism is useless and this "no true Scotsman" argument is useless, at least for the foreseeable future.

How is communism going to handle malicious parties, since there's no ownership? How is communism going to handle needs for abstract needs, such as those for services? Marx didn't really think things through. You don't need strong AI, you need the singularity to centrally plan humanity. Until then you need to allow freedom of action for individual actors, i.e. rule of law + market economies.
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Ask HN: Rate my idea – Instagram for 9gag
I was discussing with a few friends and concluded we might use something like this - would love to hear what you guys think?
Here's the idea: You get a daily digest (in email inbox or through fb messenger) of 9gag posts that people you follow upvoted.

I don't spend much time on 9gag since there's too much content for me, but I'd like to see posts that were picked by my friends.

What do you think?
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Hardcore porn replaced CNN for a half hour on Thanksgiving night
Finding unbiased numbers is hard, obviously. Maybe we'll know more about it 50 years from now, but at the moment our knowledge is approximately what it was for the Soviet Union right after Stalin's death or so, yes?

That said, I have yet to see anything resembling a credible source that claimed more than 10,000 direct deaths caused by the Castro regime. I've seen much higher numbers (50,000 or more) in terms of indirect deaths: people trying to get out of Cuba and drowning in the process.

The population of Cuba around the time of the revolution was about 7 million; now it's around 11 million. The population of the Soviet Union in the 1930s was between 150 and 200 million (good statistics are hard to come by; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Census_(1937) for why). Even if we take the extreme 7 million and 200 million numbers, 10,000 Cuban deaths is equivalent to about 285,000 Soviet deaths on a per-capita basis. And that's over a 50-year or so period. So yes, Stalin killed a lot more people no matter how you count it. Of course, "leader who killed a smaller percentage of the population than Stalin" is a _really_ low bar; pretty much everyone except Pol Pot clears it.

In general, the "Cuba under Castro" numbers for political violence don't seem any worse than other Latin American countries in the 20th century. Again, this isn't _good_, just like it's not good that we can end up talking about "oh, that's equivalent to hundreds of thousands of deaths on a per-capita basis, which is _tiny_". :(
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If we can't or won't find such an answer, we then have the question: how many lives are we willing to subsidize who are contributing, by our best measures, a net negative to society?

If you are posing this question from the implicit position as being one of those who are a net positive, reflect on how trivially chance could intervene and turn you into a net negative.

I imagine a future where 90% of the population must become shills for themselves to make a living, and I do not like it.
The right of Germans to access data about themselves (which this proposal would apparently weaken) is what Malte Spitz used to get his cell phone location data from Deutsche Telekom in 2011, leading to this pretty striking visualization:

http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2011-03/data-protecti...

In that way, it's been useful for making concerns about what others know (and can deduce) about us more concrete and specific.
I am sorry others have been dismissing your comment outright. But please understand what OP is saying does not seem to imply that we philosophize the 'complexity of life' of Fidel Castro the individual, but rather the set of people he belongs to: popular revolutionaries who became dictators hated by their own people.

What happened in Cuba after Castro came into power is similar to what happened in other countries after the revolutionaries won. We should try and understand if these sorts of people were evil to begin with or became evil as a natural transition after tasting power following a successful revolution.

Simply terming them as evil (honestly, Castro and others did many evil deeds), and not trying to understand and learn from the pattern is going to be a problem that humanity as a whole will suffer from.
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I'd say TIS-100 is the better game. But I think that's just because it favors a style of optimization that I really enjoy. Ultimately that's what I think it will come down to.

TIS-100 felt more like building some interconnected pipeline but Shenzhen feels more microcontroller-y
Well, you didn't actually link to it ;) Seriously though, that is a shortcoming of the study. If a member mentions it without the link, it does not count.
And yet there are plenty of people who feel positive about Stalin. It's good to at least understand why.
This is a good point. The tests in the game are integration tests, and only mediocre ones at that
If you're applying non-destructive updates without quorum, you would not get monotonic read consistency, because stale reads would be possible. You could write a row, immediately read it back from another replica and find out the row is not there, because that replica didn't get it yet. You'd have only eventual consistency.
Why not compare to the Dominican Republic, say? That seems like a much closer comparison in so many ways - capitalism under a ruthless dictator, a long history of US intervention etc.
Make you perform a challenge that's possible with two hands but impossible with one.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aMXEOAvfb4
I read the manga of Liar Game a long time ago, actually. It was also a favorite of mine.
Consider that despite many natural disadvantages Cuba had higher standard of living, better educated public, better healthcare system, etc. than any of the countries in Latin America which started at similar level but were left under the control of US-backed right wing governments. I’d much rather live in Cuba of the 1960s–1980s than in any of Washington’s pet quasi-fascist police states or in those Latin American states undergoing active civil war with US-trained paramilitaries genocidally slaughtering peasants.

Arguably the US embargo, cut of diplomatic ties, invasion attempt, repeated assassination attempts, piles of money illicitly funneled to opposition, etc. had as much to do with Castro’s entrenchment/radicalization as anything to do with his personal ideology.

Just after the Cuban revolution, Castro was interested and open to US relations, but ideological prejudices and commitments by American elites made friendly relations impossible. Then a feedback loop ensued by which mutual trust was destroyed and both sides were increasingly radicalized.

Many things Castro did over his long career were reprehensible, but the same certainly can be said for pretty much every US president, and most other national leaders in similarly political turbulent situations.
The obvious symmetrical question is whether there has been a pro-American dictator who actually improved the lives of the citizens. But 'improving the lives' is extremely vague. Measured by what? Literacy, GNP, health care, growth of a middle class, civil liberties, respect for contracts, life expectancy, public safety, etc.?
Yea, it's just Socialism. It's horrid. It's always bad. Capitalism hasen't worked out in the little bit of history we call modern society. So--lets just throw all of the theory out the window. My hands are covering my ears.

The great capitalist country, the great experiment, the almighty America is the only way. I think about our great experiment when I step over the ever increasing number of homeless.

And yes, the great American experiment is still kinda working--for some of you.

But maybe, someday, somewhere, a country just might find a communistic model that does work?

Then, maybe, we won't be so smugly dogmatic about the rightness of our supposedly Capitalistic system?

Hell, my America doesn't feel free anymore. Yes, I can run my mouth, but that's about it.

My ecomonic prospects are dwindling yearly. I'm being fined, and fee'd when I open the door to my for great profit apartment. A chit hole where I am forced to live. I'd rather live in a tee pee by the coast, but I can't legally, without paying huge sums of money. Oh, wait--I might be able to live kida free in Alaska? I can't get a loan. My only successful friends are from wealthy families. I'm not yahoo American anymore. And no, I wouldn't live in any of the other chit holes, with the exception of a lot of European countries, Australia, and maybe Japan.

Yes--we are still winning the war, but some days our experiment doesn't work for dudes like me.

It's always worked for the rich kids though. Why? I can't recall the last Horatio Alger. We had a lot of examples up until the early 80's? We seem to be on the downward slide since though?

Sorry, about venting. It's the holidays the paid dude keeps telling me.
I looked at the code.

var lineLengthOrder = lines.slice(0).sort(function(a, b) {
return b.length - a.length;
});
ctx.canvas.width = ctx.measureText(lineLengthOrder[0]).width + 25;

Ok, written by a beginner. A few tips:

1. Sorting all the lines just to get the longest is pretty wasteful. Try an explicit loop that iterates over the array once, keeping track of the longest line seen so far.

2. Using measureText to get the visible length of a line is a good idea, but doesn't mesh with using the .length property to find the longest line. Some characters may be wider than others, so a line containing fewer characters (shorter .length) could actually be longer (using measureText) than the one with the most characters. Try copy-pasting some Chinese from https://zh.wikipedia.org and compare with a line containing the same number of Latin characters.

To also say something positive: At least it looks nice!
The biggest change so far seems to be a new memory management style called AAM, "Always Autorelease Mode". It's described on the compiler's Github page:

https://github.com/Codeon-GmbH/mulle-clang

"The transformed methods will return objects that are autoreleased. Hence the name of the mode. The net effect is, that you have a mode that is ARC-like, yet understandable and much simpler."

This is like a halfway house between traditional Objective-C's "semi-manual" memory management, and the modern ARC (Automatic Reference Counting). Autorelease pools were a cornerstone of the traditional model: autoreleased objects will typically stick around until the end of the event loop cycle, which was a reasonable way to do garbage collection in mostly UI-centric Obj-C apps.

ARC replaced this model with static reference tracking in the compiler: instances are freed when the compiler knows that the last reference has gone out of scope. This is obviously more memory-efficient than the autorelease pool, and that was probably a big factor in Apple's decision to go with ARC (as the primary focus of Obj-C had shifted to iOS).

In summary, the Mulle compiler tries to combine the programmer ease-of-use of ARC with the simpler compiler/runtime implementation of traditional Obj-C memory management. The tradeoff is memory usage and incompatibility with some modern code that assumes an ARC compiler.

Here's a list of language features that the compiler will support:

https://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/weblog/2015/mulle_objc_pres...

Personally I agree with the author's positions in principle, but not entirely in practice. In particular, not supporting the property dot syntax will make it unnecessarily difficult to compile most Obj-C code written since about 2009. Same goes for blocks -- they're very integrated in Obj-C APIs by now, even though it does add substantial runtime complication.
Putin did actually improve the lives of his people. Problem is, it was all largely based on exploiting oil exports during a boom - basically, pocket a hefty chunk, but spend the rest to improve the economy and quality of life. So when oil prices went down, so did the prosperity.
Apple used to be the sponsor of Objective C for a long time. Was Apple's focus on Swift prompting this? From his documentation page:

> About mulle-objc

> When I wrote the Optimizing Objective-C Article Series, Objective-C had pretty much weathered its first hostile obsolesence attempt by Java. Now a decade later, it looks like the time has come, that I have to save Objective-C - at least for myself.
Sounds like your friend went through a half-assed ad-hoc diet & exercise program, which unsurprisingly didn't yield results.

Extracting any useful data from "I have friends who..." is impossible. People are notoriously bad at self-evaluating things like their food intake or exercise regiment, and on top of that they're prone to present themselves in a good light.

You'll find few people who'll say "Yeah I could have lost/gained weight, but I lack the dedication and impulse control to manage my diet & exercise", even though that may be the description that best explains the situation.
No competition? Look again, this is not 1990 any more.