skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably so they can see how long it takes to handle input events, because that's a good proxy for whether the application is responsive or not. What they don't want is the game freezing. But that's harder to measure directly.
I got a crazy feeling of irrational exuberance when I visited the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. I called a friend to tell him "I kid you not-- I am standing here looking at _the_ Utah Teapot." Getting a chance to see these early Ethernet devices would probably evoke similar oddly irrational (albeit pleasant) feelings.
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Microsoft management happened to OS/2. There was plenty of hardware that worked, OEMs just couldn't get away with selling a complete system.
> Having your kids contact the police in an emergency situation could also be life-threatening.

That's very very unlikely. You are probably failing to take into account that an interaction with police only makes the news when it goes bad. You don't hear about the 99.99% of interactions that go fine.

Here's a list of the known police killings so far in 2016: http://www.killedbypolice.net

There are just over 1000 of them, out of tens of millions of interactions with police. Pick about 20 of those 1000 at random, and click through for the details. You will almost certainly find that the overwhelming majority of those are ones where the person who got shot was actively committing a serious crime, or threatening imminent harm to someone.
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Whenever looking at these pictures, it's worthwhile to consider how white (or any other color) Americans living in Japan were treated after war was declared.

Oh, that's right. There weren't any! The American government had some unique challenges in maximizing their chances of winning the war against a zealous and absolutely ruthless enemy (Japan). It would have been extremely irresponsible not to at least attempt to neutralize the threat posed by the population of first-generation citizens.

American authorities acted within their rights in making a reasonable effort to neutralize domestic saboteurs or collaborators by interning these people. Of course it's sad that it happened, but remember that battles such as Midway were won through superior intelligence and code-breaking. A single Japanese acting as a spy might have overturned that. It would have been very bad for east Asia had Japan won. They were committing numerous, documented war crimes and would have continued to do so.
> nobody calls it for what it is anymore.

Because it isn't. What about the DMZ between the Koreas, the Berlin wall, the Taiwan strait? If a country leaves the Schengen area, does their citizens' race change? And which race can stroll into the US without a visa?

Some countries make it easier for people of the right ancestry to apply for citizenship, but it's more complicated than plain racism.
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Didn't you get the memo? We ran out of names about 10 years ago, so now everything is fair game
Is it "rule of law" when the law is written to allow what would otherwise be unlawful?
My oldest son thinks in pictures. He had a really hard time learning to verbalize what is in his head. It has gotten better, but he still sometimes makes errors similar to non native speakers, because he literally does not think in English and things sometimes get lost in translation.

I homeschooled him. I worked with him to help him learn to verbalize and I still serve as his sounding board on a regular basis. I also get a lot out of communicating with people. I do that a lot on the internet. Saying it in writing to other people gets fairly rapid feedback as to how effectively you expressed what you meant. (I went down in flames online a lot for a while. It isn't the most fun I ever had, but I learned a lot about what not to do.)

So, you need to find some means to more effectively access your thoughts and train up your ability to more rapidly translate what is in your head into spoken words. Because my son thinks in pictures, we used a lot of image rich sources to help him with that. He read comics and other illustrated works and we used educational sources like Grammar Rock and Vocabutoons to help him work on individual pieces of the language puzzle in isolation. He couod not cope at first with trying to put it all together.

So, find an educational source that resonates with you. It may not be image rich products. Maybe you will do better with audio sources or something else. But find something that clicks for you and start working on individual pieces of this.

If you can find a person to serve as a sounding board, that might be a good thing too. One means to do that might be to get a jogging buddy. Talking side by side is a very different experience from talking face to face. My sons and I live without a car, so we spend a lot of time walking together to get around. It fosters good conversation.

You see this phenomenon as well in cars. People sitting next to each other are more comfortable being chatty than people face to face. You see this phenomenon play out with how people talk with cab drivers, for example.
> The broadcasts seemed entirely innocuous to me.

Well, the point was that he did them at all.
A blood sample? The only fields they ask for that might be too much for someone is a phone number and prior email, and neither is required to make an account.

I take my privacy very seriously and understand a lot of the apprehension about Google's tracking, but I think you are being a little ridiculous.
Wonderful story!

My walking mentor — John McBride — walked Shikoku when he was 18 (nearly 30 years ago) as well. He stole some money from a temple (he was doing it with no cash). Felt so guilty he went back a few days later and confessed. The priest made him clean the temple for a week and taught him how to beg for food in the traditional pilgrim way: standing out in front of houses and announcing your presence.

He completed the entire pilgrimage that way. This last December we did 10 days of Shikoku and went back to the same temple — the priest was still alive! In his 90s. He didn't remember John, but John had a photo of the two from 30 years prior. Incredible to see him be able to trace back and close that loop.

Amazing little moments abound on walks like these.
This is actually slower than previous art, but with proven complexity. Namely the algorithm in http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/474.pdf runs in time 2^0.72n and constant memory, but is heuristic only.
Sure, but even as a White person living in Omaha, the advice you get is "Don't go to north O[maha]. You're gonna get shot." (For those who don't know, north Omaha is predominately Black. Check it out on the Racial Dot Map [1].)

[1] http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/
Try signing into your Google account in Chrome. It will track everything you then search in the address bar, even if you have paused Google history.
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It's a work in progress, and the page you got that from is an overview chapter that points to a later chapter that goes into the topics in more detail.
Easy, the mass genocide of Native Americans long before and after the ink had dried on the Constitution.

You're welcome.
haha! Fork it ;)
I personally believe the approach proposed by Daplie is the way forward, not only because it allows users to take back control of their own data, but also because you don't have to give up on a friendly user experience to do so:

https://daplie.com/
Depends on what you mean by "from a network perspective". Bandwidth? Sure. Network processing? Not so much: multicast is expensive for routers.
Ah yes, the movie that replaced Travis Kalinick with a random jealous girlfriend. Still, fiction aside, it was compelling. Sorkin is a master.
I can tell you this is not the norm. I took and TA'd a computational physics course when I was in Uni. There was a lot more in that course. Euler's was taught but quickly went to using RK4. Lotka-Volterra (predator vs prey modeling) were discussed in depth, PDEs, monte-carlo (had students calculate pi), lots on SHO systems (common equation type in classical and quantum mechanics), various fitting functions, and even basic signal analysis. This served as the introduction to computing for our physicists too, where they could use MATLAB or Python. Above course seems lacking.
A hundred years ago, border enforcement was extremely controversial. In most places, customs cared about two things - goods, and keeping criminals and people of the wrong skin colour out of their country.

Passport-based travel was introduced in most of Europe as a 'temporary' measure, for the purposes of fighting WW I.
It's teaching them a survival skill.
Yes, some Native American tribes treated the settlers badly too. (Even then, there was conflict within tribes regarding how to deal with whites.) But there was an order of magnitude difference in the amount of violence perpetrated and the amount of harm caused.
Yessssss... can just turn people and environments down... love it! WANT!
This comes to mind every time I see something a news story about government malfeasance enshrined into law:

"The feeling will pervade the Galaxy that
only what a man can grasp for himself at that moment will be of any account. Ambitious men
will not wait and unscrupulous men will not hang back. By their every action they will hasten the
decay of the worlds."
Can you create a new account on every visit? If not you essentially volunteered to uniquely identify yourself.
Heh, I wonder how I'd react in front of this teapot, I was a CG head for many years. I'm not sure electronics would throw me off like that. Even though I got depressed for missing a Grid Laptop on an auction. I've exhausted that feeling since I think.

But, spirits of times, still does affect me. It's like an invisible book, I'm sure I'd love to walk between big IBM mainframes, and consoles.

I digress, I recently went to a flea market. And I took a time travelling slap in the face. I may be jaded by cult historical electronics, but seeing 18th furnitures, 19th tech of the day, magazines. It did something to me that is above the best VR today.
Yeah, I'd say Shannon's master thesis was the start of the modern computing era.
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This reminds me a bit of work stealing algorithms implemented (almost 10 yrs ago, now) in Java with dequeue data structures and the fork/join framework [1].

[1] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp11137/
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Didn't know about the QC30s. Amazon review mentions that the noise cancelling is not as extreme as QC20 or QC35 (by design, according to Bose).

My guess is that the new buds will allow the iPhone as a 3rd microphone, with Apple's "Live Listen"
It worked for me but I'd forgotten what not having it was like, and I'm not sure I actually enjoyed the reminder. It was fascinating though.
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When people around you can't do something you consider simple, you can think of it in two ways

1. "I'm a normal person surrounded by idiots"

2. "I'm really good at this, surrounded by regular people who I can help this way"
That last sentence is key. Rather than force the user to structure their input based on the computer's constraints (and probably waste time learning/misunderstanding the computer's constraints), they forced the computer to (generally) output meaningful results given arbitrary user input.

Can anyone thing of examples where the free software community has successfully created software that does this? I'm thinking of VLC trying-- and often succeeding-- in playing most of the damaged files I've thrown at it. But I'm drawing a blank otherwise...
For people scanning, this is a repeat of a previous comment answered elsewhere.
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Its always good to have yourself checked from time to time. But there is nothing you can do about sensory hearing loss, hidden or non hidden (apart from hearing aids). That's why you should be careful to start with.

There are some indications that people with damage might be more at risk for the hearing loss to get worse. Maybe because they where more sensitive to start with. So everyone protect your ears!!
I have the same. They said it was hyperacusis. It's different than tinnitus.
It's a statement of fact. The regime considered those citizens to be undesirable.
Sometimes events are a little too recent or close to home for some to talk about and this seems to exacerbate things.
Down here in New Zealand a WW2 POW camp was established and during some a period of unrest New Zealand guards shot and killed 46 Japanese prisoners.
More recently someone ripped out trees that were planted to commemorate the atrocity.

https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/massacre-at-featherston/

http://i.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/65751556/pow-deaths-...
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This happens to me as well. I'll walk into a restaurant and there is a high pitched ringing coming from the HVAC on the ceiling, I ask anyone else if they hear it… no one does.
As for outright starvation, no there's none of that but in Appalachia and other rural communities where children and adults are underfed. Believe me this is a problem of the first world. And the fact UBI is being entertained means were finally at a point that we can abandon capitalism. It's just a stopgap measure to prevent that eventuality or at least slow it down.
Pinterest and Twitter really bug me. I usually hit Pinterest when doing a google image search looking for a product page to buy something. By hitting Pinterest I'm clicking through to the product page (which I would have preferred if that was my result instead), so it's not much different to me than blogspam. I really liked the idea of Pinterest and could see myself browsing and maybe eventually creating one, but the casual experience is so user-hostile I avoid it.

Twitter has been similar because their landing page has been useless (when not logged in) and no search box. Usually I hear about a tweet I want to see for myself. I'll go to twitter.com, then leave and go to Google to search for it. Looking now twitter.com has changed dramatically and now has a search box.

I, like most people, are lurkers and consumers. I lurked here for awhile and I lurk in a lot of communities. At some point I may sign up and contribute, but if my lurking experience is terrible I won't make it that far. I realize this isn't what companies want, and I guess I'm not the "normal" use-case because if I was they wouldn't have anybody sign up. I have a Twitter account, but don't see the value in signing in on every device for my casual use.
10k requests/s is the standard I expect to achieve with a HTTP load balancer without any challenge. (HAProxy or nginx)

It may be less with HTTPS, depends on how efficient the CPU is at cryptographic algorithms and how many cores.

fastly is a CDN. I assume that they're talking about the performances of their CDN servers. Not the web servers of the clients that will process the request, and is indeed a lot slower operation.
The Linux kernel does not have stable internal kernel APIs.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense...
"Better" is in the eye of the beholder. It creeps me the hell out, which is why I block the data flows that feed them.
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Or we can take the means of production and hold them in common for the workers? Automation would be the added benefit of not having to slog through 50+ hour work weeks.
Black Mirror shows AR prominently in about 1/3 of it's episodes.
A password manager is also going to be more accurate at protecting from something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
Right. Pictures of what people see through the goggles seem to be either carefully posed against dark backgrounds (Meta [1]) or totally fake (Magic Leap[2], Microsoft[3]) It's amazingly difficult to find honest through-the-lens pictures of what the user sees. When you do, they're disappointing.

[1] http://media.bestofmicro.com/V/H/563597/original/Meta-Collab...
[2] http://www.roadtovr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/magic-lea...
[3] https://winblogs.azureedge.net/devices/2016/02/MSHoloLens_Mi...
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I have a degenerative hearing disease called otosclerosis so my hearing changes pretty frequently. My contract includes yearly adjustments to change the amplification vs frequency curve of the aids to compensate for my personal hearing loss profile, and free batteries for 3 years (zinc-air batteries that last ~5 days).
Only I should protect my freedom. If I give it up for the slightest inconvenience then I don't deserve it.
You do.

They chose you.

You belong there if you want to be there.

You have an amazing opportunity, be inspired!

You got this.
Maybe I shouldn't say 'often', but when I'm in a room loud enough that we're both leaning in to shout at each other a bit. But I've left enough concerts with my ears ringing that I wouldn't be surprised to have a bit of hearing damage.
This is when governments need to step in and just seize the property of those who ran the companies. If their employees don't deserve pay, then neither do the owners.
Steam supports any game from any publisher, including self-published games. Steam is exactly what you get when you try to solve this problem, because none of the big companies want to be involved, since they see it as competition. Blizzard and EA are the only two big companies I know of that are not on Steam, and they both have direct competitors to it that are vendor-locked.
bugmenot.com still works. Although an even better solution would be a browser plugin or add-on that, with one click, creates and logs in via a fake account populated with fake, throwaway info, changing every time you visit the site. Don't just avoid tracking, poison it. I'd help fund that kickstarter.
Don't forget about uBeam! https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/16/05/14/1548248/former-em...
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I haven't really looked at what this start up is offering, but I want to point out that you can delete your user history, disable personalized advertising and disable tracking by Google by going to myactivity.google.com. I would encourage everyone who cares about this issue to do that. The only disadvantage that I have seen is that the maps app does not autocomplete past queries anymore. I would also recommend you install browser plugins that prevent tracking by other companies.

A point I also wanted to make is that contrary to popular opinion Google's business model is not build on collecting user data. Google actually makes most of it's money on search ads. These don't really require a lot of information about the user since advertisers are advertising to a specific query.

Disclaimer: I work at Google. Opinions are my own and not that of my employer.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13137878 and marked it off-topic.
It would be nice if Google offered a paid set of services that:

1) Would use a public cryptography key to encrypt for storage any messages sent to you in the clear.

2) Not index or advertise to you (since you're now a customer).

3) Provide some reasonable support.

4) Have 'opt out' for ads elsewhere in their networks too.

5) Provide access to a fully anonymous (globally shared profile, no search/user matching logs of any kind) search system.
I'm surprised because I wouldn't have said that Framadate's interface for voting is particularly ugly or unintuitive, compared (e.g.) to Doodle. The mobile version of the interface is crappy, but so is Doodle's.

However I have to say that Framadate's interface to set up the poll (in particular, choosing voting options) is quite unintuitive and unpleasant to use.
I need to get a hearing test, but I can often hear things that people around me can't (TVs, radios, bad speakers, etc). But put me in a noisy bar or restaurant and I'm at a loss. I figure it's my ADHD as well.

On a related note, this is why people talking during movies is so infuriating for me: while they're talking the movie is basically turned off for me.
In my limited experience this is science, art, and craft. I don't think there is a specific method to do this in an automated way.
maybe being their drug dealer is.
Full employment is a meaningless metric. If 90% of the workforce is working meaningless minimum wage jobs and barely making ends meet, the economy is at "full employment", but that doesn't mean we're doing well. Full unemployment also doesn't take into account the labor participation rate, which has been on a downward trend.
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Many dyslexics use their own fonts in their web browsers, because they like to be able to read the sites more easily.

It isn't just bloody-minded fanatics who object to web fonts.

(full disclosure: I am a bloody-minded fanatic and also object to web fonts)
1) How does your feature set compare to SiFive's?

2) Where will your funding come from? Corporate or academic? Will it be enough to scale compared to SiFive?
Security hole: This could leak hash preimages that the user has in cache but are sensitive.

Solution: Using a sha256="..." attribute should only allow you to access files that were initially loaded with a tag that has a sha256 attribute, and this attribute is only used for resources the developer considers public.
Funny how the tiny BeagleBone Black they're using to restore the Alto has more computing power in it than the Alto itself.
Those are the ones I have - they make loud concerts much more enjoyable actually, since sometimes the volume seems to be adjusted for people who are already half deaf, as a result of going to loud concerts... it's a vicious cycle.
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But AMD doesn't. GPGPU is already supported on nvidia drivers with their opaque blob. AMD has a more-transparent blob. People who want this to work already have a solution. This kernel change is probably important to some people, but those who simply want to run a GPGPU cluster on linux already have workable solutions.
> it was his generation that helped bring in the modern era

I'd argue that Dorian Yates et al ushered in the "mass monster" era we're currently in.

Steroid use in Arnold's generation was mild (a little bit of Dianabol, no PCT) and most of those guys didn't start using until they were already at an elite level.
The DSM disorders are all 'syndromes' in the sense that there is no necessary 'underlying cause' for each diagnosis listed. We basically don't understand mental health enough yet to have a reliable, consistent categorization of mental disease.

If you look at how the DSM has changed over time, new entries are often added that reflect new 'syndromes' that appear prevalent in society, while older ones are dropped.

Basically there's no particularly strong reason to view a mental health issue as being 'less real' just because it's not listed in the DSM, because the DSM itself is just a (out of date) grab bag of common syndromes that are seen in the wild. [1] [2].

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/psychiatry/#DsmConMenIllC...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3101504/
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What if this is one guy at the school working hard to raise it's profile and you dissed the effort without evaluating it's merits?
shit man i snapped a cylinder bolt into my L-series head attempted to drill it out, went off center, now i gotta get Helicoil to repair it...... I should have just MIG welded another bolt onto the end, but that poses risk for warping the head.
Driver fired up Facebook Live. Moments later, everyone in her car was dead