skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to switch back also. But 3 counter arguments:

1. dtrace (I don't see systemtap improving that, and there's the unhealthy NIH syndrom)

2. wifi reconnnection time (10x slower)

3. power (always behind, always have to patch or recompile kernels or kernel modules. this actually broke my last linux laptop)

OS X is getting worse and worse, almost to the state of systemd. But do I want to switch over to systemd? No, hell no.
Preemptive PSA:

No nobody reads all your email, the files are flagged by an automatic system and sent to these guys for manual inspection. Its in their EULA when you sign up.

Not sure if Google and Apple do the same.
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I'm asking myself the same question, with my diesel car It costs me about 110 euros to do 1400km $64 for a tesla is extremely expensive.

In italy home electricity costs about 0.20 euro/Kw I don't know how much it costos on a Tesla supercharger
Even grown ups.

For me playing has mostly moved into the phone and tablet as I am often on the go.

RTS games are great for touch interfaces.
Depends on the parents and the kids. Some kids love to play on their tablets and others prefer 3DS or similar.
You can't say that no kids (or teenagers or adults) play on tablets.
The writing's on the wall. Apple computer hardware and software have declined/been neglected the last few years. It's obvoiusly not a priority anymore.

After almost 10 years I am leaving the Apple ecosystem, and my next computer will not be a Mac.
It really can't, at the end of the day, which was the major point raised during the QA. Also, you don't need Admin rights, seeing as Chrome installation works without admin rights, and all user data is maintained on a user-directory structure.
Oh man, games like F-Zero GX, you just don't get this stuff on Sony or Microsoft consoles. Also Metroid Prime, Super Smash Bros Melee! Stuff of legends. 4 player support on the same couch? Damn. Gamecube might have been the best console from Nintendo in my view.
This is basically the reason I visit HN at least once every day. What a fantastic article. Like the author, I've always had a fascination with ND games and especially the Jak & Daxter series (a fascination which only augmented when I learned how much of them was coded in a Scheme and I understood what that meant). Unlike the author, I've never had the perseverance or chops to disassemble the game like this. Props, and thank you!
Is it that hard to understand that `git add` adds files to the list of files tracked by the repository (which is updated when changes are committed to it) and `git checkout` checks out a version that has been previously committed?

I mean, that's pretty much how all version control systems operate. Is it that hard to wrap anyone's head around the basic functionality that is common to any version control system in use?
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Best thing of systemd is that it's putting people behind alternate systemd-free Linuxen. Devuan, Alpine, Gentoo, Void (and particularly the BSDs) come along nicely.

I can tolerate systemd on desktops as long as I don't have to deal with it. The moment it craps out with Java-esque error traces in binary logs I'll install Slackware (or is there a modern desktop Linux without systemd I'm not aware of?).

Other than for desktops with complex run-time dependencies (WLAN, USB devices, login sessions), what are the benefits of systemd for servers that warrant a massive, polarizing, tasteless monolith which puts you up for endless patches and reboots, especially in a container world? (Re-)starting and stopping a daemon isn't rocket science; it's like 10 lines of shell code.
I see you failed yet again to provide any example to substantiate your baseless claims.
With drives, you are typically checking every few hours that data is readable. If it becomes unavailable, you create a new replica right away.

With tapes, even though they might last longer, you typically wouldn't scan and check the data as regularly. That means, if it does go unavailable, there is a larger window of time for other replicas to fail in before re-replication completes.
Isn't it really "the justice system through legal trials" instead of "the government"?
Looking for a job is a full time job in itself. Start looking immediately, get up early as if you were going to work and keep looking until it's time to "go home".

The release you've signed is pretty normal, nothing to really worry about (Unless they've done anything illegal, in which case you're not obliged to adhere to the release but I don't think that's the case).

Just get back on the horse. This happens to the best of us.
https://lwn.net/Articles/707616/

"Thunderbolt controllers consume about 2W even when idle"

For a laptop, that's crazy.
> The graphics look equivalent to Elder Scrolls: Morrowind (2002).

What?! Okay so it might not look quite as pretty as The Witcher 3 or Uncharted 4 but it still looks modern. The explosion/fire/smoke effects are beautiful. The art style isn't for photo-realistic but to have a unique-yet-familiar style that allows them to make use of exaggerated/cartoon-like presentation.

Saying it looks like a 15 year old game is extremely unfair and totally wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_technical_specific...

vs

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~dherring/cgt141/project1/comparis...

http://www.giantbomb.com/super-fx-chip/3015-7544/

Take a look for yourself. They are nothing at all alike.
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sorry i did not have that feeling with last.fm, i had the premium feature of last.fm ( before they removed it ) so you could not request a song but you could play a playlist based on tags or artists ( if i remember it correctly )

the suggestions where great, i loved that feature. i still scrobble from my desktop to last.fm and im in 98 percentile of all users. i listen to a lot of music and with spotify i get the felling its always the same , it cannot learn my preference so i have to manually search for playlists that im ok with.

i would say i listen to deep house mostly, but there is also rock, and hip hop, but i get only the latest edm tracks in my recommendation playlist in spotify, with lastfm i would get indie rock and hip hop artists.
According to Square programmers about the power of PSX vs N64, (source from the recent excellent article about Final Fantasy 7: http://www.polygon.com/a/final-fantasy-7)

"I kind of had a suspicion that things weren’t going too well for the 64 at that point, because … one of my responsibilities … was to write performance applications that compared how well the 64 fared against the prototype [PlayStation]. And we’d be running parallel comparisons between the [PlayStation] where you’d have a bunch of 2D sprites bouncing off the screen and see how many polygons you could get within a 60th of a second. And even without any kind of texturing or any kind of lighting, it was less than 50% of what you would be able to get out of the [PlayStation]. Of course, the drawback of the [PlayStation] is it didn’t really have a z-buffer, so you’d have these overlapping polygons that you’d have to work around so that you wouldn’t get the shimmering [look]. But on the other hand, there was no way you’d be able to get anything close to what FF7 was doing [on PlayStation] on the 64 at that time."

So, at least according to the square programmers the PSX was more powerful when it came to raw polygon processing power. Of course N64 was doing much more with it's hardware, and also having a Z-buffer for real depth information, so these numbers are not really directly comparable.
Can somebody shed some light on it, why embedded companies (speak Microchip etc) have not switched to clang/llvm? It must cost them quite a bit to maintain their own compiler stack and it is not very good.

Fun example: a customer of mine initialized a variable within a loop and that resulting program just didn't work as expected (which it did with the same code on my desktop with gcc). As soon as he moved the variable out of the loop the program worked as expected.
IMHO the biggest problem with commodity hardware is IPMI BMCs, a problem so insidious and widespread as to limit the utility of implementing trusted boot. (I designed datacenters for a major bitcoin exchange.) I would hazard a guess that Google's custom hardware has a more intelligent/limited/secure (and crypto-validated firmware based) IPMI implementation, and this contributes far more to security versus commodity hardware than cryptographically secured main processor / system boot.
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That may be true, but Signal offers almost an equal value proposition (unless I've missed something amazing about Telegram) whilst remaining the better option.

I know too well that not enough people care about privacy, sadly.
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Do I understand correctly using keytransparency I'm backing Google to be the authority to verify that a key is indeed 'me'? Why would I want to do that? Why would anyone want to do that?
MongoDB has learned the lesson and will no longer listen on public IP by default ...
For a while it was common for ISP's to install a router on the customer side, basically creating a firewall because of NAT. But now it's usually up to the customer whether to install a router or not. And most people do not run a dedicated firewall. And with IPv6 rolling out there's really no need to have NAT as there are plenty of IP addresses. With IPv6 it's also possible for one interface to listen to many IP's. You can not assume something will only run on a private network! As a security practice you should assume all networked machines are connected (and accessible) to/from the Internet because 99% of the time they are!

Having something listening on a public IP without any password protection is irresponsible whether it's a database or security camera. Last time I installed mySQL I had to both set a root password and specify socket to listen on, and it took five seconds and no documentation reading was needed, so it is possible to both be user friendly and have good security. With mySQL you also have to explicitly set from what IP a user can connect from.

Secure should always be the default! Making it not secure should require messing with config files, not the other way around. Most people will just stick to the defaults. There are plenty of examples where you do not need a password, for example opening your fridge or turning on your TV, both being connected to the Internet. Being able to connect to it from your friends place should ring a bell, but I don't think most people try that. Just like people don't regularly port-scan their networks.
Because we have extensive samples of the Neanderthal genome extracted from bone fragments, and before that from morphological studies of the Neanderthal skeleton which display far greater differences from humans than any differences in skeletons between human races. Even 18th Century observers were able to see that.

Yes there is no one universally agreed definition of species, but Neanderthals were vastly more different from living humans than and differences between living human populations.
Without boot level security, it's easy for the NSAs of the world to slip in a hard drive or two with extra "surprise" software on it, later engaging in active/passive surveillance or credential theft. Always assume that any one single employee could be compromised.
https://app.net/

When a service shuts down, it'd be really nice of them to keep a mention of wth they were doing on their frontpage.
True they are genetically different but that's not the definition of a 'species'. There is a level of politics in biology over what constitutes a species and what does not.

Technically a 'species' is something that interbreeds but does not breed with members outside of it's species and mating produces reproductive offspring. (at least this is the old mayr definition that everyone uses)

The problem is that neanderthals and humans matings produced viable offspring. So is 'neanderthal' a species or not?

The same issue is a problem with the Galapagos finches, which are the holy cows of darwinian genetics. By Mayr's definition they should not be able to interbred and produce viable offspring. However, apparently they can interbreed and therefore are not technically different species.

No one in science want's to badmouth the masters, so Darwin's theory of Galapagos finch species will quietly be put back in the Victorian cabinet while we invent a new 'genetics' based theory of 'species' that makes everyone happy. However, life is not easily classified. Viruses? Species? Bacterial plasmid replication?

There is a lot of politics in the life sciences. Naming a new species or having your name on a species is a big deal. It reminds me of Cope/Marsh and the dinosaur finds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_Wars) of the early 20th century. They both screwed up the identification of many species so that they could out publish the other and left the mess for future scientists to clean up.

My feelings on this is that we still don't have enough evidence about the genetic makeup of humans to really make any conclusions on anything. Example:
What is the blood type in the reference sequence for the human genome?? We know that there is A, B, A/B and O which represent 4 different genotypes (an AA sequence, a BB sequence, an AB sequence and a missing sequence from both alleles).

If I sequence a neatherthal with blood type A and a human with blood type O, are we genetically divergent?? How can you come to this conclusion unless you know the plasticity of each genome. (i.e. I can't identify a nucleotide change in blood type gene for a type O human because the gene is absent)

It looks like most of the research has been on mtDNA which is passed from mother to child. If we can't find a mtDNA match, it might just mean that there is no maternal linage that can be traced back to that sequenced individual. (i.e. all the children of that mother died out at some point)

Different species? That's a question for politics imho. I personally think that life shuns classification. BTW sorry for the ramble :0
Start-up internships and GSOC are the best use of a summer vacation, I agree.

And regarding software education, I believe MOOC is going to play a very big role in the near future especially in countries like India where hard working and deserving students lack quality world class education.

And given the Indian affinity for certificates and credentials, I believe this could be a great start up idea too.
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> They slowed down making those sorts of radical changes, and to this day you can still browse Twitter with a 3rd-party app like TweetBot and never see cards or ads.

TweetBot is older than the API cap, so did they roll that back? It was 100,000 users (or 2x current users if that was >100,000 which TweetBot probably was). So if they didn't roll it back I guess TweetBot would have stopped adding clients.
My advice is don't burn any bridges on your way out.
Surely for this thread, Digital Compact Cassette is even better?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette
The entire Christian theological claim is that Jesus of Nazareth, a "son of man" and the "son of God", walked among us in history, and that these things should and must be tested and verified according to the historical method.

See Paul of Tarsus (a former persecutor of some of the first Christians) writing to the Corinthians circa 55 AD:

"And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead."

See Luke the physician writing to Theopilus:

"Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught."
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No it isn't google takes your data to tapes as well as offline long term storage.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNliOm9NtCM
I'll be sign up to a VPN and they won't see any of my traffic

Don't even need to go to that much effort because this is DNS level blocking. Using openDNS[1] or Google's DNS 8.8.8.8 will work.

1. https://www.opendns.com/setupguide/
A few bonus images, useful for messing with people's heads:

FBI "This Hidden Site Has Been Seized" https://i.imgur.com/Ovp6VEa.jpg

ICE "Domain Name Seized" https://i.imgur.com/6667N7b.gif

There's probably a Tumblr page somewhere with all these but I haven't checked lately.
Apparently they are. I can't find the source anymore but I read it was going to be open for everyone. Dev kit is supposed to be $3k.
I think what he meant to say was that the Wii U has been mostly underutilized.
Pretty lecture-y but correct sentiments.
Same can be said for Google Play All Access.

And you can fill the gaps in their catalog by uploading your own music.

Tldr: I really don't see the case for pandora in 2017.
One of the reasons I still use Google Docs and not LibreOffice is the UI.

This looks promising...
It still happens.

They "suggest" by default to try out Macafee and Intel True Store (not sure about the name).
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Ask HN: Which game would you go for?
I'm making a game and can't decide of a title..

"SuperDash" or "Speedy Doggy"

Which game would you go for if all you had are those 2 titles?
Heat pumps have greater than 100 percent efficiency when compared to a regular resistive electric heater (which is already 100 percent efficient, when measured as heat out / energy in).

Everyone always forgets about the part where you're cooling down the outside...
Here's a study that finds that the inverse was actually impossible/exceedingly unlikely (homo sapien females carrying neanderthal male babies). This outside of my field, but wouldn't that mean then that it would have to be neanderthal females carrying male homo sapien's babies in order for the genomic remnants to be observable?

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/modern-human-females-...
Productivity growth has not recovered from the last crisis very well, well, basically everywhere

Found a primer (Google link in case paywall)
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=/amp/s/...
I'd play "Speedy Doggo"
> Just get back on the horse.

But if you have some funds to tide you over I wouldn't recommend jumping onto the first horse you find. Go for some fun pony rides first.

Most people have a list of "minor aspirations" that are constantly deferred due to the pressures of work. Now's a good time to achieve those. Much better than going on vacation, which I believe is a bad idea after a lay-off as your mind constantly replays what has just happened and you come back to the real World having achieved nothing but self-criticism.

They don't have to be World-changing aspirations, just something to achieve on your own schedule. For example I kept reminding myself to schedule time to take photos of some derelict local buildings as I passed them every morning en route to work, but I never found the time and eventually they were demolished and rebuilt as anonymous apartment blocks. I wish I'd taken one morning off work to photograph them.
Doesn't using a VPN make you liable in two jurisdictions instead of just one? (The exit point of the tunnel, and the location where you are actually connecting to the VPN)

I understand that it is technically more challenging to detect and prove the user is participating in privacy or whatever it is that they're using a VPN for, but really it's just a matter of applying pressure to the VPN provider to cough up any details they have, or in some cases to install tracking functionality in their virtual network.
clearly we are more superior than neaderthals or else they'd still be alive. So he's not wrong.
What's the thermal conductivity of soil?

Wouldn't you have to insulate your pond from below as well as above?
Just wondering on this bit:

> it can be difficult to see at a glance every place in an app that a single bit of state is being used

What problems has this caused you? Personally, I find being oblivious to what specifically needs to update is useful but I'm interested in situations where that's not the case.
> Looking for a job is a full time job in itself.

I agree, it can be a full time job and you should take the job search seriously. BUT it puts you also a very needy state if you are not careful. If you apply 24/7 30 days in a row, I am not sure if you will get that more job offers than if you just spend, let's say 2-4 hours every other day. It's more about being efficient and creating many job opportunities while spending little time on the actual job hunt.

Reason: If you are in a needy state everybody can feel, smell and see that you are needy. Actually, they don't need to see you in person, your voice and the chosen words on a phone call disclose your level of neediness already. If you spend 24/7 for job hunt, you MUST be needy or you will get needy at some point. And who wants to hire a needy guy (who just got fired)? Nobody.

Besides, the activity of applying (writing always the same emails, doing minor tweaks on your CV again and again, doing interviews with HR folks asking about your weaknesses, getting rejections or no responses) is not really fulfilling at all, therefore I suggest in the other answer to spend also some time on personal projects, they give you back your state and let you be perceived less needy.
Thanks.
I'm currently taking the OS course this sem and we plan to build a minimal OS for raspberry pi from scratch using the linux kernel, writing system programs on top of it.

For internships, I believe start ups are the best bet to gain experience and maybe gain a mentor for life.
First of all, NSA hardware attacks of this ilk are supposed to occur through mail. Operations the scale of Google can acquire hardware in a secure/monitored fashion that bypasses public shipping facilities which would largely frustrate this type of attack. Also, I would hazard a guess than Google building their own hardware makes attacks on their boards far more difficult than for the rest of us. As for disks, they would be acquired in serial numbered batches from known suppliers and could be quickly tested to match known performance and sensor (eg. heat) metrics at the time of ingress. This is not very difficult, and assists in protection against tampering. In addition, the use of commercial grade disk hardware acquired in large batches means that the ultimate internal destination of a given disk in the organization is very difficult to ascertain, therefore the workload would be unidentifiable. Careful internal distribution processes would add stronger protections. Regardless of a compromised disk, proper architecture in a large-scale system mitigates the impact and data exfiltration capacity of individual compromised machines. Removed hardware would always be destroyed.
I was amazed by Pandora's recommendations too. That is, until it gave me the error "We're sorry, but we couldn't find any more music to play on your station right now. Try switching stations."