skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that kind of drives the point home. Maybe it's my display or my vision, but I still can't tell a difference between the "Before" and "After" pictures. That's very impressive to me, looking at the compression ratios.
I have to +1 this. Whilst I have never specifically dealt with Human Utility. A couple of times when I had an inquiry or an issue, I have been offered to be called back later rather than wait and eventuall call back myself. Each time I appreciated the phone call.

Something so simple, yet great for customers!
Non-UK after non-EU already? the brexit hasn't happened yet :)
Interesting, I assume you're referring to some extension of eBPF that happened in the 4.9 pulls. AFAIK eBPF already is pretty functional in 4.8. What got added that allows full dynamic tracing? (And what is full dynamic tracing?).

EDIT: Parent is probably referring to something mentioned here: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-10-27/dtrace-for-linux.... Apparently timed sampling got added, I quote Brendan:

> Timed sampling was the final major piece, and it landed in Linux 4.9-rc1 (patchset). Many thanks to Alexei Starovoitov (now working on BPF at Facebook), the lead developer behind these BPF enhancements.

This is indeed something possible with DTrace that was difficult (or not very efficient) to do with eBPF before. I assume one could've hooked into one of the kernel interrupt/... functions and used that as a ghetto timer, but the gymastics to convert that to real time might've been daunting.
You don't have any preferences regarding which ideas to have in your head?
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This reminds me a little of the "nosql is faster than sql" argument a few years back, or "Firefox is faster than Chrome". Let's just add a "now" and we're fine. Most programs we have now are so complex that none of them is really optimized to the max. Therefore the question is basically who spends more of his ressources on optimization.
> Do you just lose a new contact, or corrupt an essential database?

How essential are we talking about here?

What I mean is, your smartphone is a device that can get lost, stolen or destroyed any day. All the data that is physically stored in it should either be expendable or synced elsewhere.
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Extending BART is very expensive ($billions), esp. in a city that is already "built out", like SF is. On the other hand, we managed to fund High Speed Rail at over $60 billion.
There are a limited amount of things in the wide-world you should be informed about. I care about climate change because that is something that will affect me and my lifestyle in the long run. So I prepare for that and plan ahead. Knowing the state of Italy's economy, whether it is flood, drought of earthquakes killing people in Asia, and if California is still becoming a desert spotted by game-of-life like wildfires, does not benefit me at all.

What does benefit me is what is going on in my local (as in town/municipality) government and community. Living in a European capital, even that is too much. I just don't follow those news either. I do follow cultural events, bird rescue fundraisers, local IT meetups, farmers' markets.

You see, you may be saying I am spectacularly ill-informed by some third-party information that is even less trustworthy than the so called "official channels", however, you probably live in the same sort of informational bubble. You argue with people on Facebook, you read your left or right wing media outlets, you are getting biased google search result and go with those. Maybe you are aware that others are affected by these cultural glass-walls, but not you, since you are aware of these issues. Well, you are probably just another brick in the wall. Sorry, no ad hominem here whatsoever. I simply wish to raise your awareness that

1. On average, you are not better than the average,

2. What you think really matters is probably not what really matters to me.

3. What do you care if some people are oblivious? Chances are, you know nothing about nutrition and go with the usual recommendations, just to end up being fat, diabetic or a cancer patient. What do _I_ care about that, though?

I'll be here, reading books on programming, organic farming, evolutionary biology and micro-brewing fruit wines. Oh yes, and dinosaurs, because dinosaurs and paleontology are real fucking entertaining and interesting to me. You do your thing. But don't force your "informed" standards on other people.
Yeah I thought about subscribing to a weekly newspaper. The problem is that over here (Portugal) all the weekly news papers are of a particular political "lean". To get a balanced view I would need to subscribe to at least 2 of them.

But I guess as the kids grow older they will inevitably come into contact with the mother of all noise machines... the internet. Then the problem will be to teach them how to filter...
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The ads on the street haven't teleported into my private property, so I can't do much about them.

The web content that my browser fetches and displays is a different matter, obviously.
Two houses on our street (outer London) were up for sale. The first sold for an astronomical amount of money just before Brexit. The second was under offer at the same time, also for silly money, but the sale didn't complete before Brexit. The offer was withdrawn by the buyer, and the second house is now (6 months later) still on the market.

The lesson I take from this anecdata is that the market has slowed right down, but sellers haven't yet needed to accept lower prices.
It holds my git-signing key. That's all I do with PGP atm.
The basis of this article makes no sense. What developers love about Macs is the OS and the nice integration between OS and hardware. Even if you hate the new hardware, it makes sense to continue juicing your current one and see what comes along next year; it makes zero sense to install Linux on a fringe hardware (Mac).
Ah then I've misunderstood the architecture all these years. I had always thought it was modeled on complex nervous systems.
I'm partner of a B2B business.

We send cards and/or gifts on Christmas for every client. I and my partner write all the cards. We always thank the client for being with us another year and we ensure them we will do everything possible for the next year to be even better.

We haven't lost a client in the past two years. We have about 30.
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I have also been interviewed by CBC (about floppy disks, oh well) and they were great. They put me in the best possible light, made me sound coherent, and got the facts correct.
Just taking this argument to its logical conclusion: Can I be held liable for theft if I load an article on my smartphone, and it loses connection before the ad can be requested and loaded? :)
I think you meant "dn" - dos navigator[1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_Navigator
I don't have a TV and quit most news and replaced it with

- edx.org

- coursera.org (now less that it has changed)

There are others like Udacity but I found that I ended up taking almost all courses on only these two sites.

Over 70 courses thus far, most of them completely outside my own field (I'm an IT consultant with a CS masters). Currently open courses (all edX):

- Soil4Life: Sustainable Soil Management (https://www.edx.org/course/sustainable-soil-management-soil-... - I want to learn something substantial about agriculture, not a lot of courses compared to other subjects but this seems like a good start)

- MITs truly excellent Introduction to Biology - The Secret of Life (again, I had to stop in the middle last time I took it): https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-biology-secret-life-...

- First Nights: Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring: Modernism, Ballet, and Riots (https://www.edx.org/course/first-nights-igor-stravinskys-rit...)

Examples from the past: Western Civilization: Ancient and Medieval Europe, Pet Birds 101: Introduction to Avian Care and Medicine for the Pet Bird Enthusiast, Medical Neuroscience (huge course - >30 hours lecture videos, Coursera), A Global History of Architecture, Cellular mechanisms of brain function, Human Anatomy, Introduction to Physiology, Principles of Biochemistry, Solid State Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Statistics and R for the Life Sciences, Networks, Crowds and Markets, Introduction to Big Data with Apache Spark, Vocal Recording Technology, Horse Nutrition, and many more.

I think this is closer to what the article advocates. You just replaced relatively shallow news sources for others.

Try taking some courses. I have the advantage to work from home, I know if I worked 9-5 in an office I would be way too exhausted to do much of the above. But you can still find pleasurable easy courses like the History of Architecture or the entire First Nights series about five pieces of classical music which don't take much mental effort. Each time I read news now it feels like eating a McDonalds meal when you are actually used to real food. It keeps your mind occupied but it feels like there are no "nutrients" (in the news), nothing of substance.
In a similar vein, one idea that has often crossed my mind (and offered free to any taker): In most tropical coastal areas, there is an abundance of both humidity and sunlight. So why not use large banks of solar powered dehumidifiers to extract moisture from the air as water?
The danger of developing a qualitative metric for work/job performance, is you now have a recipe to game the system for anyone that is so inclined. Of course, if this metric is used as an indicator for promotion and raises, nearly everyone will be inclined to game the system.

It might not even be as overt as that. It is a well known phenomenon that what you measure, you improve.

So as soon as you have a quantitative metric for work performance, almost by definition, it can become problematic to use, unless you are very careful how it is used.

This is not to say that finding a qualitative method is useless, far from it. It can lead to valuable insights and improve overall quality of the team/business.
To better understand changing house prices in London you first might want to look at longer term development of prices - one UK estate agents chart at http://www.winkworth.co.uk/articles/30-years-of-house-prices and a newer but shorter term overview at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/house-prices/the-state-o...

Don't forget all these charts provide averages across all central London areas - some more real-life examples:

A terraced house in Earls Court cost you about £150-£200k early 1990 - now £1.5M+ - similar in Fulham etc.

A double fronted house in Worlds End (now considered to be part of Chelsea) was about £350-£500k at the same time - now about £4-6M.

Many people working in central London until about 20years ago bought themselves property from bonuses - these properties (first time buyers) were mostly used for self-occupancy - now there are very little bonus payments for younger people working in the City and a large proportion of people working in offices in London commute between 2-4h each day (when the 9-5 becomes 5-9).

Now (since at least 6 years) most property is cash-bought - i.e. no mortgage was taken out. You are looking mostly at "investment buyers" and with these, prices are far more sensitive to changes like the Brexit. Look around in central London and you will realise how much residential property is actually empty - for some of these "investment buyers" it is cheaper (tax) not to rent and the government is not doing anything about this since many years.

Most property development - to my knowledge - is now "to-rent" vs. "to-buy" - what we are seeing is a reversal of policies supporting people (latest Thatcher) to become property owners back to pre-WW2 when only the rich could afford not to rent.

On current central London price level you will have to have best at least £500k cash for a down-payment and then earn at least £200k p.a. to be able to pay your mortgage for a family size property.
This is the sort of situation Google books was made for. It's perfect for finding a citation from a bit of text you remember.
Regarding 5.

From talking to brits, there seems to be this idea that the UK is pulling Europe along. Europe is just a dead weight pulling them back. I shit you not. I think this is why so many brexiters believe that in the negotiations the UK has the upper hand.
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I don't have one 'yet'; I read accounts of people living in the countries I want to know (most recently the Turkey failed coup), you get a lot more details. You also have more than one viewpoint. In the case of Turkey, Gullen movement which is depicted as repressed political opposition in the western world, is seen as scientology in Turkey. It's harder to conclude, but I prefer to have many sources of dense data to handle rather than one shallow conclusion.
>The second issue is that flash card creation is the absolute rate limiting step.

Supermemo has a very simple Q&A text format that you can import. I typically write everything I want in Vim (in a format that makes sense to me) and then run a script over it to write it into "Supermemo format" that you can just import from the GUI. There is a more advanced XML format but the simple Q&A text format has always worked fine for me.

I really wish Supermemo had a Web interface though. I'd love to use it from my mobile while I'm having lunch.
Please don't make the mistake of thinking that everyone in the UK thinks this way. The country is very sharply divided down the middle about open vs closed. In London, the majority want free movement of people, goods and services, and realize that Brexit (even "soft") is going to be a catastrophe.
>aren't we distancing ourselves from how a majority of the world lives and thinks

If I wanted to know how majority world lives and thinks I would go and sample this information in real world by traveling and talking to different people, and not getting this info from people who have their own agendas to push onto me and who call themselves journalists.
BBR congestion control is amazing. You can read about it here: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3022184
That was the rhetoric. But the reality was that it was just a big kludge. That is why subsumption-based robots can't do anything more today than they could 30 years ago. Subsumption pretty much tops out at wandering randomly without bumping in to things. But that turns out to just not be a particularly hard problem.
What I'm trying to say is that that the language is different is irrelevant. It's a word that you hear ALL THE TIME, and so you use it, like all words that you hear all the time independently of the language. If you're German, those words are the German words, plus a couple of English words like "shit", "fuck", "yeah".
Interestingly, I took this quote to mean both that reported news is biased, but the decision of what events to report upon is biased too. Being a skeptic solves the first issue. For the second, filtering what you read doesn't help if you aren't reading stories that are valuable to you but aren't tragic / scary / interesting enough for the rest of the news source's readers. Since news sources are biased, how can you know what you aren't seeing?
Yep. we do this too. Whenever we develop a web service for a customer, we set up uptime monitoring on the server where the app is hosted, but I also set up ping uptime checks on most of their other server infrastructure as well.

Just last week, I was alerted at 5am that a client's email server had gone offline. Nothing to do with us, we don't look after their emails at all, but I immediately texted their IT guy to let him know.

He texted me back at 6am - their own uptime monitors somehow failed to detect the DNS issue. He managed to fix it before their staff got to work that morning, and was extremely grateful that I had given him advanced heads up on something that was totally outside the scope of what they had engaged us for.
Can anyone ELI5 this for a normal users?
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One thing to add: the only source I loyally follow is the No Agenda Show (http://www.noagendashow.com - a podcast which I help out technically, fully pro bono) because they are the only source of media that has no advertisers to keep happy, they get 100% of their income via donations, and they don't even digest the news as much as analyse where the news comes from, and what the interests and hidden agendas are of those that bring it. The show is interesting, fun, informative and thought provoking, so worth mentioning in its own right.

That being said — as it, despite my intentions, might be considered a plug because I am a volunteer with them (i.e. I am not benefitting from more listeners, though do get a kick out of seeing the numbers increase), it feels more appropriate to detach this bit from my parent response.
I once saw that particular confusion in a security audit report that a company was using as part of their sales materials.

I did flag it up as indicating that there might be something a bit fishy about the security audit if they made such an elementary error but I suspect the CEO (multi billion pound company) had already made the decision so what I thought was irrelevant :-)
> Except for things like volcanoes and earthquakes

As someone who lived and worked in Japan for 6 years, lived not too far away from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant (Koriyama city), and went through the M9 quake in 2011 I can confirm this 100%. Life got rather wobbly.

If you live in some location prone to natural disasters, inevitably you will become the news, or at least live in the news.
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Oh, no, not quite. It's just you who doesn't understand the OS, that's all.
It's sort of funny, given that you post it under monitoring tool umbrella.

> Let's see an example. Execute this in a shell:

> while [ 1 ]; do ls -l /tmp >/dev/null; done

[...]
> As we will see below, none of the console performance monitoring tools can
report that this command is using 100% CPU.

It's not a command. It's a shell loop, meaning it's many commands,
executed one after another.

> They do report of course that the CPU is busy, but they fail to identify the
process that consumes so much CPU.

Actually, they tell that the busywork is in kernel space. Which usually
means heavy syscall workload. What quite often means some idiot runs plenty of
fork()+exec() in a tight loop.
Affirm was initially supposed to be an alternative credit rating system based on social signals, and I believe credit ratings are highly regulated, so they pivoted to money lending, which is not as nice of a business. Levchin seems pretty desperate to be a successful serial entrepreneur and compares himself to other ex-Paypal people who have gone on to do big things[1]. This is despite having made a ton of money via investing in Yelp. He did manage to exit Slide to Google, but I don't know how successful of an acquisition that is considered within Google. There was that Sarah Lacy book called "Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good" in which he was pretty prominently profiled, so successful serial entrepreneurship must be a prestige thing for him. I agree with you that retail money lending seems a bit desperate and unseemly, and definitely not on the same level as SpaceX or LinkedIn. It feels a bit like Square getting into payday loans to gin up revenue.

[1] https://pando.com/2013/08/08/with-another-6m-glow-is-max-lev...
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The writing in this article was so spectacularly unclear that it warranted this update:

> Update: Intel Global Communications wants to make sure you don't think the latency issue from Intel's Puma chipset is related to the malware-infected router problem. It's not; the chipset causing lag is a big problem of its own. Also, he says the fix “is being deployed.” Hopefully it won’t take months to roll out via ISPs.

It's obvious why this article is trash - it's a shameless rewrite of two other pieces that don't really have anything to do with each other (hence that update) and awkwardly spliced together probably because someone was up against their deadline and hadn't met their word count for the week.

If you want to know about the first half of the article, go and read the original:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/03/intel_puma_chipset_f...

If you want to read about the second that the headline here talks about, reads the actual Motherboard article:

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/hacker-claims-to-push-mali...

I'd ask the mods here to consider changing the URL in the submission/title of this post to the Motherboard one as this ComputerWorld article is low quality.
Yes, I was just curious if ease-of-use was one of your primary goals.
> it is default stable

But it isn't. In order for two layers to interact properly you have to specifically engineer them that way. If a higher layer starts or stops subsuming at the wrong time you can get catastrophic failures.

Also, smart houses are a very different problem than autonomous mobile robots.
Yeah, fake news is a narrative being pushed by the mainstream media to try and discredit alternative news sources (like say, popular YouTube channels, independent blogs and social media profiles) as well as to solidify their role as 'gatekeepers'.

Heck, it's basically the non gaming equivalent of the 'gamers are dead' stories that become suspiciously widespread after GamerGate took off.
Anecdata. I.... don't know how to feel about that.
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I'm trying to setup a vagrant box to develop a JS website using Vue.js. I've got a node running Nginx and another running MariaDB!

what are your setups like? how do you set up your development stacks and virtualization?
It's still brilliantly more efficient and elegant. Plenty of other goods and services are taxed that face this same problem.

Cap and Trade has provided subsidies and rewarded some of the biggest polluters.

There's a very strong, fair and efficient case to be made for it. It would do a lot to reduce GHG emissions and raise tax revenue in a more socially just way (better than taxing jobs).

Further reading:
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/19499/gores_...

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/a-rorschach-on-...
Some of the arguments here remind me of the puritanical strains of religions. For eg: I am against Wahhabi Islam.

They're just like other Muslims but they take percepts that are valid in Islam and run with them to the ridiculous extreme.

Same goes for cutting down on Social media or regulating your consumption of news. There is nothing to be gained by turning into a puritan. It makes you feel good about yourself for a while but you're just cutting yourself off from vast dimensions of human experience.

Its possible to read HN once a day just to keep up instead of refreshing it every few hours.

Its possible to stop visiting twitter every hour and perhaps use it a few times a week.

Its possible to restrict your reading to good long form articles in NYT or WaPo or The Economist.

If we started completely cutting out anything and everything that had a remotely negative influence the logical conclusion is that we end up turning into Puritan Wahhabis who don't drink alcohol , ruthlessly suppress sexuality and generally lead colourless lives.

EDIT:

Downvoters , I'd appreciate if you gave your reasons.
socat is great. You can also use OPENSSL-LISTEN and OPENSSL to replace TCP-LISTEN and TCP to get an encrypted SSL connection.
quite nice yes, you always have to think people that will monitor statistics etc and how long it will take them to do so. If you can make their life a lot easier thats a + and of course they'll appreciate it.
My (London) mortgage is up for renewal next month. Would it be a good idea to free up some equity while valuations are high in order to invest in the next year or two?