skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't run Linux on my MB's, so I can't say how same-same hardware performance would compare between the two. I always have a Linux machine around, though, and have for the last 20+ years (Slackware on floppies!) -- and it always runs faster than Windows. Much of that probably has to do with the fact that it's simply running a lot less code, and that a lot of what I would do with an app you do from the shell in Linux.

Regarding the narrow question of memory usage, I'd be surprised if Linux uses as much memory as MacOS, again because of the more extensive set of system services that runs in MacOS.
Enough with the Trolley problem, already
8 studies included, each with small sample sizes, with a combined OR estimate of only 1.26 makes it hard to draw any conclusions from this.
> So my advice: don't try to understand. Do, and do again untill you have learned. Not the other way around.

This is so so true so some level I think our desire to understand everything beforehand is just a lazy strategy. Probably either to learn only what is easy or what is useful. Sense of wonder and discoverablity which makes putting the effort in a joyous activity is gone from us. Our profit mazi

On the contrary Children just keep practising until they learn. I wish I can go back to stage where my 2 years old daughter is.
I'm completely out of my depth here, but couldn't we develop some kind of force field to do this? I'm thinking something along the lines of a Faraday cage, but for the GCRs.

Is anyone researching this line of thought?
Wasn't it done on purpose to push 'pied piper candidates', so dems can have a slam dunk. Trump was identified as one of the 'pied piper candidates' in podesta emails. Even pravda ran story on it [1]. Those 'and tell the press' emails would make even Stalin blush.

1. http://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign...
The right curriculum is also important. I don't know why so much emphasis is placed on calculus. Why was my calculus class filled with nursing students? Why weren't they off studying statistics, logic, set theory or any other of the more applicable fields of mathematics?
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OpenWrt 3MB
Trying not to venture too far into a political discussion, I think the majority of the coverage of both was negative. Towards the last couple weeks, the quantity of coverage was very disproportionate depending on the source of the news [0]. People of the same political affiliation tend to gravitate towards the same news sources, and those sources appeared to be appealing to the affiliation of their viewers with the selection of information given.

The particular example I have provided is from Fox News because it was quick to search for, but I suspect you could find similar elsewhere about other news organizations.

[0]: https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/787078152895901696/photo/...
Philadelphian here.. understood it perfectly.
It is incredibly easy to throw in "climate change" at the end of any list of factors to explain this or that event. Indeed, who is ever going to dispute it? Climate change is, by its very nature, everywhere- so everywhere it can be used as an explanation of something.

The links you provide follow this rule, listing many good reasons for the Syrian water scarcity (and not for the Syrian conflict)- such as dramatic population increase (83% increase in 23 years), land and water resources mismanagement, bad economic measures, wasteful agricultural practices- and throwing in climate change in the end, just to be safe.

Anyway, this is a 2015 article by Mike Hulme debunking the link between climate change and Syrian war:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/29/climat...

In general, one could question how much sense does it make to even cite a far and dubious cause like climate change when more obvious causes are perfectly evident. My favourite example was a WHO report which calculated the future global health impact of climate change as an additional 250000 deaths per year. A huge number. And the method to get it was the following: given the current total number of deaths due to diarrohea, malaria and undernutrition (about 7 million deaths yearly- all of which in developing countries, therefore due to poverty and perfectly preventable), multiplying them by 3.5% (the projected impact of climate change on these issues) and voila... an excellent case for spending some 44 trillion dollars to switch from fossil fuels to clean energy. Or not?
To be clear, I'm an actual investor as well, but I don't specifically invest in YC companies.
The effort to make existing life sustainable could be spent making life more comfortable, slapping an excuse for caring the environment on the way. Meat can be improved by giving them more land and organic food sources, car transportation can be improved by a better designed electric cars, and that's what we are getting, instead of research into artificial meats(which do exist in an inferior state) or improvements to public transportation (public transport in many cities is neglected).

One could always go back to a life of eating meat once a week, riding bicycle to and from work, living in a developing country with broadband internet, electricity and clean water and thereby remove almost completely their carbon footprint, but who is in the mood for that, let's make life more innovative and even more comfortable than before, while telling ourselves these innovations are for the environment also! We eat organic and drive electric and pay $1000 a month for health insurance! Go us!
Strong crypto is the only crypto. Everything else is an imposter.
I don't think anyone finds you looking at the screen inappropriate because it looks like you're looking at their chest if it were real life. Maybe someone who's never seen a camera or screen.
+1 for Bitbar. Great tool, capable of displaying any console output in your menubar, so really easy to script in any language.
OK, you had me at "because we can" :)
Wow this is crazy. I remember PayPal used to freeze your account when they detect a pattern they're not familiar with, and make you send a fax of your identity and all the documents and you wouldn't be able to touch your own money for a while.

This feels like a website version of that same bullshit process.

More and more I don't like how these "open" projects are coming from some of the largest companies. It's a huge conflict of interest, and people should know more about this.

It's important to realize that: The primary goal of Google AMP and the friends is NOT to make the web better and faster.

It's to become the AT&T/Verizon/Comcast of the content distribution. Facebook (Facebook Instant) and Google (AMP) and Apple (Apple News) want to own the low stack distribution channels as well as the application level (facebook.com, google.com, iOS devices) If one of these companies manage to control that level of the stack, they can use that as their huge advantage in competing with others.
Nuclear stockpiles (and MAD) arguably reduce the number and likelihood of military conflicts. If it wasn't for nuclear weapons, we would've had third world war, possibly dwarfing the second in terms of casualties and destruction similarly as the second dwarfed the first.
I see. So basically they wanted to open it, but changed their mind. How does current PathScale handle the GPL though? Or they never updated the compiler since then?
Did you follow mainstream media during election? If you did you wouldn't have to ask that. Have a look at the Podesta Wikileaks. MSM colluded with Clinton campaign creating the narrative of Trump being 'crazy racist'. Seriously look at the emails its all there.

Fabricated Fake news about Trump raping multiple people and 13 year kid certainly didn't help Trump to win.

Edit: Downvoted by the bots already.
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It is much better when the hole throws money at you, instead.
Do you seriously think that any of the following global political challenges:

- convince everyone on Earth to implement changes that are bad for them, like not eating animal-based foods, with only the promise of "maybe in 200 years your descendants, should your line not be extinct by then, will benefit" as compensation

- reorganise every single human settlement and/or social structure on Earth to put people closer to their workplaces

- implement a global wealth redistribution scheme that doesn't start with North Korea conquering the planet through nuclear war

- successfully convince every NWS to destroy their nukes and institute a worldwide ban on nuclear weaponry

Are easier than the engineering challenge of building a colony on Titan? If yes, please let me into whatever politics-free, single world government utopia you're living in.
You may have changed my life.
It's an interesting technical exercise, but I don't think this is the right approach for optimizing HTML load times.

If the goal is to reduce latency for small images, wouldn't it make it more sense to extend data URIs so the same base64 string can be referenced in multiple places?

Actually, as HTTP2 can effectively return multiple resurces in the answer of one request, do we still need embedded images for latency reduction at all?
Is there any plan to support two-factor authentication?
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The level of discussion is not as high as here though IMO.
I'm pretty sure that Bitcoin has dealt with this issue for its base58 encoding. It might be worth checking if their algorithm is generalizable to other radix sizes.
It was very easy to setup. I like the interface. My only complaint is the annoying signature that I can't figure out how to remove[0]. It doesn't appear to be listed in the settings.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/512ZG2F.png
Not sure what your idea of "not much less performance" is. When craigslist switched from postfix to Haraka they went from 20 email servers down to 7 for the same load.
Smart criminals will use strong encryption anyway and won't give the passwords to law enforcement both for data at rest and sent over the Internet.

I'm encrypting my disk now, but I'll give the password to police if they have a search warrant. I'm encrypting so if somebody steals my computer they won't read my data. I think that almost everybody is like me.

Weakening that encryption doesn't help me and doesn't help investigators. Sure, seeing strong encryption over the wire will ring alarms and identify sender and recipient. That works if they actually decrypt all the data sent over the Internet. The workaround for the tenaciuos criminals will be steganography. Narrower band but good enough in most cases. All that effort and damage to honest citizens for nothing.
Simple way of managing Terms of Service documents
do you have contact information?

i want to do something like this for a niche career

basically people in this career would come to a site like this and bitch about their work.
Errr, have you actually paid serious attention to "televangelists"? I benefited from growing up Catholic in a strongly Pentecostal area which I've retired to, and I can assure you they aren't exactly preaching the Word of God anymore, but something much more temporal. Fast forwarding, I'm told they're fully on board with feminism nowadays.

Now, there is some distance from "radical libertarian think tanks" and the rest, but, for example, can you find any serious distance between any 4 of these groups on immigration? Use of marijuana? And libertarians are a relatively small, and in the US, a disintegrating group.
Surprisingly interesting content for the clickbaity headline: Some excerpts from a questionnaire about how law enforcement deals with encryption answered by various EU governments, with esp. Poland calling for backdoors or weakened encryption.

The full answers are here: https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/input_provided_by_ms_on_...
As a developer type, I don't like AMP for a variety of reasons. As mobile browser user...

Webmasters: you had your chance and you blew it. Your website is completely unusable on my phone. AMP exists because of your indifference and incompetence.
No, VAX instructions are much easier to understand. You have one byte of opcode which specifies the operation in it's entirety which is followed by an adressing mode byte and (depending on addressing mode) an immediate value for each operand. It's not quite as neat as the PDP-11 instruction set but still pretty nice. x86 otoh is just insane imo.
And then there's the price difference to the US. For instance, the cheapest model:

- $949.99 in the U.S.
- $1323.07 in Germany (1249 Euro)
E3-1240 v5 3.50GHz single core perf worse than E5-2650 v2 2.60GHz PHP 5.X
E3-1240 v5 @ 3.50GHz performance is worse than E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz for PHP 5.X. For PHP 7 (and everything else) the E3 is better.

The test setup is Xenserver 6.5 w/Centos 6.8 kernel 2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64 HVM guests. Each VM has 2 cores assigned. The test is using siege. PHP 5.4, 5.5, 5.6; are all nearly 50% slower for E3. PHP 7 is 200% faster for E3. Varnish is nearly 300% faster for E3. Sysbench tests are 150% - 300% faster for E3. Only PHP 5.X is faster for E5.

I've torn down and rebuilt the VM's several times and confirmed they are the same. I've even live migrated them across to the other host/proc and confirmed the same results.

I've tried strace, but it isn't going to work because it adds overhead to every call and the E3 executes that overhead faster. In a browser the E5 TTFB is 167ms; the E3 is 318ms. Stracing the call on the E5 is 548ms; E3 557ms. The E3 executes the overhead of strace faster and the execution times equalize.

What is different about PHP 5.X that it would run so much better on the older generation, slower clocked, E5? Is it the larger l1/l2 cache making the difference? Or something else, instruction set related maybe? What another tool could I use, that adds a little overhead, to see the php execution performance?
Author here, open for questions :)
You keep alluding to some cataclysm but that's not enough to make your point count to say you have some paper in the works.
Seems to be mandatory on the free plan: https://www.migadu.com/en/pricing.html (search for signature) in there.
I've just ordered it with Ubuntu in the UK.
The coverage of Hillary tended to criticize her actions (e.g. regarding emails). The coverage of Trump tended to criticize his character. Objectively speaking, one was more of an ad hominem attack, which reflects poorly on the media.
This seems to be on the free plan only (see pricing plan). Which makes sense to me - if you're not paying, you might as well be advertising.
The substantial energy source is a benefit, not a drawback. It's much easier and cheaper - and therefore faster - to power a single building than to extend the grid to every house. Remember, less than 20% of Uganda homes have electricity.

As for the building, it costs $55k to build a full school in Uganda for 325 kids, complete with library and offices. Assuming it lasts for 20 years with minor repairs, that's ten cohorts of students, so 3250, which means $16 per student.
Killer use of Caps Lock and broken English. Proud of my country.
On a serious note, I really do hope that we won't follow USA steps this time. But I'm afraid that the average person doesn't really care for or understand cryptography. Maybe a dickpic approach à la John Oliver could be useful as a way to raise awareness on the matter.
The problem is:

How do you handle cases where data appears to be encrypted but it isn't?

Or, the data is encrypted but the suspect has forgotten the password?
The polls Huffington Post was using weren't conducted by them [1]. They were using the same polls everyone else had access to. Their model was probably worse than 538's though.

[1]http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-general-el...
They should have done something like this, but it's Dell, not Apple.

I've used a number of their top of the line products over the years, and they've always been riddled with cost-saving compromises like this. If they put the bezel on top, they'd have to invest more money into the display hinge as well instead of whatever cheap plastic parts they currently use. That would eat into their profits, so it won't happen until the competition forces it.
> I think that, before colonizing other planets, we should start by realizing that Earth...

How about we do both?
It was meant as a half-joke picking on how everything is now "modern" on C++.

The half-serious part is that there has been a trend in the last few years in the "modern" C++ community against Copy-On-Write, heap allocation, shared pointers, etc. Immutability kind of brings new life to these concepts...
Non-SOI is more common than SOI. IBM uses SOI. There's also a lot of use of it in chips with RF functionality onboard as it's supposedly better for that. The original company behind that sapphire variant is also still around:

http://www.psemi.com/technologies/ultracmos-technology-platf...
Hi, not at the moment, but we will bring it up for discussion! May I ask why do you consider it a worthy addition? Thank you!
The machine is an i486, it's not "that" old so I'd like to get it running with debian or preferably arch. If I can get something to bootstrap the network ISA card I've got in there and allow me to build a linux environment I can bootstrap the other OS over a small one (like this).
I don't think anyone is suggesting we stop taking care of the planet and just find a new home to exploit once the Earth is used up. All we're saying is that we want to explore, colonize and seek out new places. It's what human's do, and it's good for our survival as a species to become an interplanetary species. I'm sure we can do that and take are of Earth at the same time.
The problem is that the culture is what makes a city appealing, not the architecture.

Simply building a new city doesn't do anything to create a viable culture.
Dumb people believe this is about whether encrypted data from criminals can be decrypted or not. It's not about that. It's about being able of charging a criminal with something just for using encryption. That way it won't matter if he refuses to give up the key.
Polls are mainly a way to influence people to vote certain way not show who people are actually voting for. Social proof.

This will be obvious if you look at the weighting and questions 'Would you vote for Obama or Trump'. Reuters/Ipsos and other outlets had to change the way they did the polls after Trump was leading.
If the only thing sitting between you and life in prison is murder evidence on your drive, vs. a few years for obstruction of justice for not handing over a password, you'd take the "life in prison" door? I don't think most defendants or lawyers behave as nobly as that.
Human population through time[video]
Colonizing other planets is _way_ easier than doing any of the things you listed. The hardest thing is getting people to cooperate, especially against their individual self interest, as they themselves see it.

Colonizing other planets requires getting a much smaller group of people to cooperate, and it will be in their individual self interest to do so.
The x86 version seems to be 6MB.
> We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to them seriously[1]

Most important part of the sentence: 'and tell the press'

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign...
As usual, HN commenter served as a mouthpiece for an ass.

no one is watching CNN looking for news. who are you talking to? who are you trying to convince? what research did you do leading you to assume you could make any change in the world whatsoever?

you're all idiots.
Here's how you solve the cosmic ray problem on Mars: put sandbags on the roof. Done.
For the people struggling with the coupon code, here's what I did.

Sign up for the monthly version of the mini plan. You will be charged $5. Then enter the coupon code in the coupons tab from the left pane. You can then immediately upgrade to the annual version of the plan. You will be charged $19 brining the total to $24 for one year (the half off price). It should save the trouble of paying full price for a year and sending an email for the manual refund.
Ugly architecture to blame for housing crisis
Does Paddle have a Ruby gem for Rails?
Wow are we still in 2003 with the security fud still?
Ask HN: How do you search for specific hn.algolia.com content on iOS
Unfortunately hn.algolia.com/?q=example in my iPhone iOS (10.1.1) Safari browser seems to be broken.

For any HN search I made a white screen will be shown.

I was wondering do you use instead. Maybe an app or other browser?
> To limit a good education to "It doesn't take years to check if a child can read and write." is condescending.

It would be condescending if anyone had actually said that. Saying "one part of the education is easy to measure" is not the same as saying "no other part of the education matters".

The question is not whether these schools "work". The question is whether they are better for the students than the alternative. Measuring the ability of students to read and write is one useful way of assessing that. If it is dramatically worse or better that would be a helpful indicator (although still not the "whole story").
A country under severe economic blockade is hardly a fair example. You could have also mentioned Cuba :)
> I'm intrigued by the idea of IMAP on the phone though. Are you able to sync sent mail this way? If you send mail from mobile, will the PC client get a copy of it?

Nope, I use phone mostly to browse mail, and send from there if and only if inevitable. And if the sent mail is too important to keep, I BCC myself and sort it out on the PC later. If your mail provider saves sent mail, I guess you could just fetch that; mine doesn't. Also I guess depending on your phone MUA, maybe you could fetch it from its storage. WRT IMAP, I just use it like POP3 w/ keep on, used it b/c was easier to set up. Phones are incredibly inconvenient for typing anything that's not a whatsapp blurb, so I mostly use it that way.

It seems smart to keep the mail on the server for a while, I'd be glad to know how you do that.
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> Alright, so currently we can't even predict how bad osteoporosis becomes after a flight to Mars

This is not true. We have multiple examples of astronauts and cosmonauts who have done 1 and 1.5yr stints in microgravity.
One's surname is omitted when it's been stated already. If they're a public figure being discussed in an academic or press setting, yes, usually the last name is used. In less formal circumstances, it's perfectly acceptable to use first names only, especially when they're as uncommon as his.

The sort of proper-name forcing that you suggest is better gets really obnoxious in interviews when the interviewer continually addresses the interviewee by their full name.

e.g.

>So, Elon Musk, what do you think about Blue Origin's rocket design?

>That was a really great answer! Elon Musk, do you spend most of your time at Tesla or SpaceX?

>Elon Musk! Elon Musk! ... etc.
Ah, but remember that post-structuralism is a _critique_ of structuralism....

(and yeah postmodernism and post-structuralism are related, but like everything in this area, It's Complicated)