skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reran the std::sort vs. qsort benchmark:

Visual Studio 2015: 1.79x

WSL gcc 6.2: 1.92x

WSL clang 3.8.0: 2.08x

Ubuntu 16.10 VM gcc 6.2: 1.68x

Ubuntu 16.10 VM clang 3.8.1: 1.89x

All in favor of std::sort.
1) Company communication
2) Signing critical commits, tags
3) Encrypted-mail-to-self
4) Encrypting critical files
5) Communicating about security vulnerabilities

I don't use it for backups (I use Borg), or for SSH (25519 keys).
For Cyc, see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11300567
The US should care more about Europe. There are nations in Europe that do not want to be so tightly integrated with EU are very much open to cooperate more with the Americans and Commonwealth.
But they are weak and need assistance first. Help them and they can help you.

China is going to remain to be a world within a world. Too few people will be willing to learn Chinese anyway.

There are literally millions of Europeans that are culturally more compatible with the US than with the germans / french.
Car company offering red light-reading vehicles in Las Vegas
Amazon seller’s account suspended after changing profile name on Kindle Fire
Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker
I call dibs on "Cloxure."
Ask HN: What happened to YC Macro?
Apparently, Macro, which was supposed to be a publication, just redirects to the YC Blog.

(http://themacro.com/)
How I Used Proxy to Implement Lazy Infinite Lists in JavaScript
Easy Drive Data Recovery 3.0 Crack and Serial Key Download
This Super-Springy Robot Can Do Parkour
> Just make like an HTML page with every possible detail about your history. Then, in e.g. Chrome, you can easily hide the different sections

I do this in LaTeX. I have the full document and just comment out in the code what I don't in each case before compiling the PDF. As it is a plain text file I have it in a git repo so it's trivial to look for older versions or attach tags to specific CV versions I've submitted.
Yeah, they were probably already aware that real estate bubbles are dangerous for the economy.
Nice game, but as others have mentioned, the game area is way too small, and you need to able to move the entire graph as one, as you often get points placed towards a corner when you are trying out different positions of points.

Also the "restricted area" link with the "Bonus" alt-text feels like it takes you on a bit of a spammy ride. I tried it, and it took me to a site that said something about randomly generated music and a link with the text "show me something cool", which took me to yet another page, in yet another window with a bunch of animated dots.

Completely irrelevant and distracting.
But not really...They are culturally and linguistically not that similar. They are held together by an authoritarian regime.

USA is successful because of other reasons.
This is awesome!

I would love to see a qemu image for any of the following:

1. E2 (Erlang OS)

2. TempleOS

3. That new OS Google is supposedly working on
> At current power ratios, not soon, and believing otherwise betrays utter cluelessness.

Why is this? Is it because of increased power requirements of 3g, 4g etc? Or all the extra useless processing devices do? (Ignoring the screen...)

My first phone was a siemens c30. Apparently the battery capacity was ~600mAh and gave >10 days standby where the Apple watch has ~200mAh and gives ~18h. So the c30 lasted over 3 times longer on the same charge?

Is it really unfeasible to expect us getting back to that same efficiency by cutting back in some areas?
Knowing how it feels to have a broken arm does not make us to a doctor and this experience is irrelevant if we talk about healing a broken arm.

A short story [1]:

George Dantzig was a graduate student at UC Berkeley. Near the beginning of a class for which Dantzig was late, professor Jerzy Neyman wrote two examples of famously unsolved statistics problems on the blackboard. When Dantzig arrived, he assumed that the two problems were a homework assignment and wrote them down. According to Dantzig, the problems "seemed to be a little harder than usual", but a few days later he handed in completed solutions for the two problems, still believing that they were an assignment that was overdue.

tl;dr: You can deal with hard problems if you think that dealing with them is your job and your own responsibility. Calling negative emotions "depression" and labelling as an illness means offloading responsibility and giving up the fight. You define yourself by the fights you pick and not by the pills you take.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig
Not true at all. China has lots of local dialects and nuance, but is over 90% Han ethnically and believes strongly in "one China," and has for literally millennia.
4.3.3 In the Document covers this scenario.
Sadly, genericity is death for product margins. Profit comes from lockin, like HP's ridiculous cloud ink services.

I don't think there's a market for a more open printer, not at the price you'd have to charge for your small production runs.
We are. SLAM, LAM, same thing as far as building a 3d model of your environment is concerned.
YouTube's $1bn royalties are not enough, says music industry
iMessage and Feeday
You need to do more research. Corporate debt in the USA peaked in 2008-2009 at ~200%.
Someone hasn't seen Startup yet.
And yet, if everyone is aware not only of company policies, but the underlying principles, everyone also has the authority to deny something. Hardcoded values, for example, would violate a principle about maintainability.

Talk about policy and it's politics and escalation and such. Talk about principles and it becomes a moral issue.

Alternatively, think of it as breaking a specific law (such as the speed limit) vs being immoral in a more general sense of the word.
Sigma Designs revenues lifts almost 2% in Q3
I didn't know Google Cloud Print before, so I made some research on their site: https://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/

"""
Using Google Cloud Print, you can make your home and work printers available to you and anyone you choose, from the applications you use every day. Google Cloud Print works on your phone, tablet, Chromebook, PC, and any other web-connected device you want to print from.
"""

Ok, so my printer is supposed to be registered to google cloud to make me print from anywhere. Ok. But my files?

https://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/howitworks.html

"""
When you print through Google Cloud Print, your file is securely sent to your printer over the web. Because it’s the web, Google Cloud Print works whether you’re in the same room as your printer, or on another continent. It also doesn’t matter whether you’re on a phone, a traditional desktop, or anything in between (like a tablet).
"""

So if I'm in my room, on my laptop, at 3 meters from my ubersupercloudenabled printer, I can send my file to it via the web. Securely. Ok.

"""
Documents are transferred over a secure HTTPS web connection. After a job is completed, the associated document is deleted from our servers.
"""

The file is sent via HTTPS. But the file itself...is it encrypted? (Maybe the printer generates a keypair upon registration, and the same does every devices, etc etc...?)

https://support.google.com/cloudprint/answer/2541843?hl=en&r...

"""
Who can see what I’m printing?

Google Cloud Print jobs are submitted and retrieved over a secure connection (https), and are only available to you and the printer you’re using.
"""

"""
Any document you send for printing is kept strictly confidential. Google does not access the documents you print for any purpose other than to improve printing.
"""

"to improve printing" may be the "metaphor" behind the functioning of Google Cloud Print itself. This can be read, after removing the double negations and the other usual tricks as "Google access the documents you print to give to you the comfort to print your files while staying 3 meters away from your printer, by passing them to the cloud and our automatic eyes and godknowswhat".

NO. THANKS BUT NO.
> Whisper to siri, no one will notice.

no one including siri
This doesn't mean anything. Most of those (the good ones, at least) are Chinese grad students at western universities. The cream of the crop are grad students at American universities (or Montreal). Most would jump at a chance to work in US academia or at Google/FB.
FYI it's "power cord" not "power chord".

Power chord is a music thing.

Power cord is a cord that supplies power.
Ask HN: Synthetic data for machine learning
I just started working on machine-learning project involving the interaction with a home appliance. You can think of it as a sort of Nest Thermostat. We do not have data that we can work with, so I'm developing a model of human behavior to generate synthetic data and bootstrap the process. I'm now asking myself how many of my fellow data scientist would like to use a service that generate synthetic data sets with well-known statistical properties or well-know underlying physical process, to test, calibrate and validate models. Would you use it or do you always prefer to cook it by yourself?
Pretty interesting concept! I'd like to be able to add variables that are used throughout snippets, so changing designs doesn't require me to re-enter a lot of information.
Or take it further and have a few different levels of verbosity for each section and have some weighting to which get shown when generating new CV's
Oops.. not sure what happened there. Wasn't even in this thread.
Argentinian Ministry of Industry Hacked by Kapustkiy
From the article:

Cook's comments followed a report on Monday from technology research firm IDC estimating that the tech giant sold 1.1 million units of the Apple Watch during the third quarter of 2016, down 71 percent from the year-ago quarter.
It's great when it happens with Uber and you're outside, with a crappy 3G connection.
Yes, but with JavaScript frameworks every year or so
I read the "ideas" as having the business ideas, not the implementation detail ideas.
About Scala enumerations
This is very interesting research. I'm interested in anything that goes beyond Survey data to what actually happened. (VCs may say founding teams matter most, but I also say that I eat less than 2000 calories a day - memory is suspect) I'm also interested in how this would look weighted on firm size or returns. There are lots of small VCs out there who don't make money. How do the VCs who funded Google/Facebook/Apple/Oracle invest?

There's a ton of academic research on public equity investment decision theory. It's great to see private market investment get some focus.
The most recent figure I could find for US corporate debt is $51 trillion: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/20/crexit-warning-as-corporate-d...

The USA's most recent GDP is $16.7T, so slightly over 300%.

Do you have some other figure?
I looked in the 7z manual but couldn't find anything obviously related to this functionality. Would you mind giving a reference?
The #1 problem, beyond the usability issues, is that most users still just do not care. They are willfully ignorant (a mentality which is actively celebrated these days in some influential countries), and cannot be convinced in the value of privacy or security.

I have tried without much success to get people to move to ProtonMail. I have tried without much success to get people to move to Wire messenger. (And incidentally, the author mentions Signal and WhatsApp... I wonder why he doesn't use Wire?)

So without consumers who care, the only audience for PGP and other security focused tools are the geeks who too easily tolerate bad interfaces.
I had the opposite problem recently: how can they know that things are not malware?

My dad complained that his laptop would pop up "strange pictures" and ask if he "liked what he saw" and that they kept coming up even though he always said no.

I thought he'd acquired some sort of malware popping up fake dating site ads, but it turned out that he had upgraded to Windows 10 and was referring to the scenic photos it now shows at the login prompt/unlock screen...
SAXO BANK PREDICTS ‘OUTRAGEOUS’ BITCOIN PRICE OF $2,100 NEXT YEAR
GPIB plotters. I still have one of those. It still works. It is the only "printer" I never had a single problem with. It runs on a now over 50 years old computer bus.
That depends on how much you value your own personal time setting their system up and maintaining it. An iPad might have a greater up front cost, but the time savings could make it a comparative bargain over the lifetime of the device.
As often is the case, SO has an answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9478023/is-the-git-binary...
> Made With Love in Khartoum , Sudan

No download links to be found on the Downloads page with places left blank for Dropbox and Mega links.
I'm very much not in the know (my personal experience tops out at renting gigabit lines at 95th percentile), but it's my understanding that at extreme scale, you're doing peering arrangements directly with ISPs, and provisioning a fixed amount of bandwidth with them.

It wouldn't surprise me if Google was scheduling the majority of updates to take place in off peak times, when the bandwidth would simply be otherwise unused. If so, the cost to Google would be a rounding error of your estimate based on GCE traffic prices.
> Made With Love in Khartoum , Sudan
Super easy until you upgrade your operating system and suddenly you can't use your mail client for months while the understaffed open source project is trying to reverse engineer whatever Apple changed...
China has spent billions on lots of different things, some of which made a spectacular flops. From the Fortune article quoted as a source:

> The government is riding on the hope that entrepreneurship will help boost the market, but not
> everyone agrees the plan will work.

> “They have a fantasy that if they give everyone money they’ll create entrepreneurs,” Gary
> Rieschel, the founder of Qiming Venture Partners told Bloomberg. “What it will result in is
> catastrophic losses for the government.”

> Rieschel’s comments could have some merit: the funds are experimental and China has no
> standardized method for its 780 funds to be managed or funded.
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I'm not sure the Y axis in either chart gives any truly meaningful implication. The first one gives USD$ millions spent and the second gives just the number of publications. Lets look at the first one. Lots of article state that the efficiency of capital use (ie: how much return you get for putting in $1) in China is much lower than that in the US. Googling even shows that China's capital efficiency, because of the lack of transparency and a command-control government-economy, is even lower than competitive developing countries like Vietnam, India and Thailand. [1] , [2] .

The number of publications, I'm going to have to search to find backing statements but I believe that it is not reflective of true contribution.

[1] https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-outlook-beyond-capit...

[2] http://foreignpolicy.com/2003/07/01/can-india-overtake-china...
No, not relevant. I wish someone would invent an ad blocker that instead blocked all gratuitous references to xkcd (i.e. all of them)
> ... (formerly HyperDev)

HyperDev sounds about right
Psycho Guy with Stone Prank (Shocking Reactions)
For me Hacker News is the only source of news. I know that major events are surfacing anyway - I want them to keep surfacing.
In Sirius XM Lawsuits, Settlement Might Cement Digital Music Monopolies
MapAnt: Gigantic Orienteering Map Covering Finland
I think you are being very unfair to the co-author, who wasn't co-author of the book, mind you.

The big discussion on this research also happened partly because of the book tour, so I see no reason to suspect malice for the public denouncing happening in the wake of the idea becoming popular among the general public

Here's a link to the statement: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/dana_carney/pdf_my%20positi...
US Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages
Most of their other articles follow the same pattern. It's like reading Grubers blog.
I just keep reminding to myself that all known predictions (expectations) of future price changes are always already "baked" into the current price of a commodity.
> It's not the company's fault if I unthinkingly subscribed to their newsletters - they shouldn't have all their emails forever tagged as spam for my mistake.

It is. Default checked "subscribe" boxes during sign in, hidden settings, new lists which you are auto subscribed to; it's a never ending battle and the incentives are wrong. If there was no unsubscribe link but only the spam button, publishers would be much clearer about these things.

Ironically, the unsubscribe link has probably led to more spam, rather than less.
On first glance Google Cloud Print looks like nothing more than an Internet version of networking printing, a technology which has been around for a long time; so one is naturally a bit surprised that Epson could get something like this wrong, but then I dug a little deeper...

https://developers.google.com/cloud-print/docs/devguide

...and the protocol involves HTTPS, OAuth, JSON, and XMPP(!), so rather more complex than existing protocols like IPP; although much can be said for having simple-to-parse protocols especially for embedded devices like these, some error occurring in the GCP part of the firmware shouldn't cause the whole printer to become unusable.
Demography is destiny. Almost. You can fight it like India does, but China surpassing the US in absolute numbers (which numbers? All of them) was inevitable.
“Google Docs” for life sciences accelerates discovery
That's global corporate debt. Half that article is about China's ballooning corporate debt load.
From the Article:

> “I’ve been in this game 27 years. Not once have I come across an animated singing virus.”

Clearly never used an Amiga during the 1990s.
Artists who survived brain injuries but found a new craft
Click filter, add rule to delete from domain.

But really the problem got so bad I had to stop using gmail alltogether.

Moved over to mail.yandex.com and now I do not get interrupted anymore in my life.

Thank you email and IM and "notifications" but no thank you, if I ever receive a notification of any kind, that account will either get nuclear delete option or disabled forever.

Time to move to new email providers and new emails, and stop pretending email address is an ID, because its not, its a mailbox, when it gets full create a new one, and only people you care about and when you care will receive its attention.
But has there been any proof of life yet?
Musical.ly defends its handling of young users
I think that order takes into account revenue not volume.
> Frightening... but why?

I asked myself the same question when I saw a documentary about analphabets. They quoted a number of about 8 million total and functional analphabets for Germany (among 80 million population), which is absolutely staggering.

To witness, people who cannot use a computer are often called "digital analphabets" or similar.
I have worked on a few mobile games where there was a big developer push for reducing the app size but it was shot down by management to add more new features instead. A lot of features had expected performance targets to hit before they got the go ahead and it was hard for reducing the app size to have a sizeable difference on KPIs until it got to critical levels.

I think there is also a certain amount of developer apathy towards application size.I was recently talking to a colleague who had worked on a new banking app and they saw no problem with developing, what was essentially a web front end, with the Unity game engine. When I asked if he was concerned the effect on the app size including a game engine would have he said it was what they where used to using and that was more important.
> It's not the company's fault if I unthinkingly subscribed to their newsletters

If they're not confirming your opt in they're spamming you, especially if your opt-in is the result of a default-checked check box.
Half the time, clicking the unsubscribe button leads you to another form that is almost impossible to comprehend, which results in (maybe) unsubscribing you from one list, but subscribing you to fourteen other newsletters and update and special offer lists, for a net increase in spam.
“Let China sleep; when she wakes she will shake the world.”

- Napoleon
Most of HN is still repeating the mantra "china can't innovate" et al. For all the talk in HN about this idea of the incumbent not seeing the faster startup until it's too late, you'd imagine you'd wisen up faster.

Below I'm collecting from this thread examples of people just repeating the "don't worry guys, they still aren't doing that well"-type talking points:

> china can't innovate

> ah, but the best chinese students move to the US

> oh, but their corporate debt is really high!

> they are held back by an authoritarian regime

> they are culturally and linguistically not homogenous
...seems reasonable.
Code: Learning to Communicate with Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Microsoft already does that with Windows 10 [1]. They also let you run (almost) full desktop apps from the phone, including Office.

This is extremely cool. The problem is, nobody really needs that.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/Continuum
It might be out of memory. I'm not sure if that model can be upgraded, but that used to be a pretty common thing to do for HP lasers.

There is an interesting discussion on that exact model here:

http://superuser.com/questions/758561/when-does-a-laser-prin...
With 16k RAM, you won't get much. But the ESP8266 has 64k + 96k RAM and runs things like Lua and MicroPython. So now imagine what you can do with the ESP32, which has 416KB RAM.
Drill Glitch Brings Mars Rover Curiosity to a Halt
So we're using a gist now to share news?
Science Museum's maths gallery soars with stunning Zaha Hadid design
Do you even actually have "important" notifications you might want to receive?

Is any automated system more important than your focus?

What I have is, disallow or delete the app or "service" as soon as I receive a "notification" from it, only my wife and family is allowed to light up the led on my phone.
Thanks, yeah it is similar but quiet different. I invite you to go to http://guggy.com and play around with it.