skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putting it with other words:

Society doesn't allow most to be a genius and most of these potential geniuses will fade eventually.

'I think we have an ideology about talent that says that talent is a tangible, resilient, hardened, shiny thing. It will always rise to the top. To find and encourage talent, all you have to do as a society, is to make sure the right doors are open. Free campus visits, free tuition, letters to the kids with high score. You raise your hand and say, «over here!» and the talent will come running, but that's not true. It’s not resilient and shiny, talent is really, really fragile.' -- Malcolm Gladwell
FYI, there's nothing inherently socialist about what you describe. It's an artifact of countries that tried to implement communism in one way specifically.

Socialism at its core is simply the social ownership and democratic control of the means of production.

It's pretty common to consider social democracy a form or derivative of socialism, and personally I think its the form of government that has come closest to the socialist ideals, even though they didn't fully implement it the way classical socialists or communists imagined.

Communism just replaced the capitalists with a political elite. There's no difference between communism in practice, and simply one big corporation running everything. The people didn't gain social ownership, and certainly not democratic control.

Planned economy was naive. But having a democratic state have majority ownership in large, key corporations that compete in an otherwise free market gets to the social ownership/democratic control part, but without the oppressive government part that inevitably results from the naive approach to achieving socialist ideals.

> you can get some likeminded people together and start a commune

You still have to buy the land. Probably you wouldn't have too much trouble finding relatively cheap and fertile land still, but it might be getting harder. It's not like you can just settle down wherever and live off the land.

I think the main problem here is that if you'd like to grow a non-capitalist economy, you have absolutely no state support. All laws are written with capitalism assumed. So non-capitalist approaches have little chance to grow beyond a single commune. In fact, even if you tried to grow a new capitalist economy (in the sense of doing trade, not in the sense of Marx' definition), which isn't the state sanctioned variety of capitalism, you'd probably get jailed. Try starting a set of communes that trade goods with your own gold-standard currency, see what happens.

So no, you can't opt out. You, personally, if you have enough money, can perhaps do a big one-time purchase which will let you partly opt out for just you and maybe a few other people. But you don't really get to have any economic activity with more than a handful of people.

> or you can go sleep on a park bench and panhandle

I don't think that's what the parent post had in mind. That's not really opting out at all. You're completely dependent on capitalism for surviving that way, even if you don't have a job yourself.
It's because no-one would both to write such a talk.

Game developers have already tuned their engines for the PS4 and Xbox 1 separately, and in both cases apply substantial specializations, designed to take maximum advantage of exactly the chips, the number of shaders, etc. available.

Any cross-platform library has to make some simplifying assumptions, which will produce a small loss of performance. Now, that's an easy trade-off to make if you are developing for PCs, there are thousands of common CPU/memory/GPU triples you might come across, you obviously aren't going to optimise for each individually. On consoles you do.

There have been a number of consoles that supports OpenGL. No-one ever used it, because the performance wasn't good enough.
Yes, but in the era before the reams of printout, we had notebooks produced by local stationery printers in styles that varied shop to shop. I miss that local choice and small scale production.

UK: anyone remember the hard backed board notebooks with marbled covers and canvas spines in around 10 by 8 inch format?
(Future readers can safely ignore the rest of the comment, I was struck by the "did not read the article" disease)

Surprised that software has security flaws? Especially software written in "let-me-use-that-chainsaw-to-trim-the-bushes" C? :)

I know that there will be security flaws in any language, but if there ever was software today that deserved a safer programming language, the init system was it. Or the web browser.
yeah, awesome, i enjoy this systemD shit show. Linux is so doomed.
If you forego waiters that's not nearly as expensive as people think.
How about they start adhering to the practices that made journalism a cornerstone of functioning democracies for so long? Such as reporting all the facts critically, and not approaching each story from the same, tired left-wing liberal agenda. (I say this as a left wing liberal). The guardian and most of the left leaning media was asleep when the DNC steamrolled HTC through. They were asleep to the possibility of a Trump candidacy and presidency, and fell into his trap by giving virtually unlimited media coverage; we may be in a post truth world but we are more certainly in a world in which there really is no such thing as bad publicity. They refused to pay attention to the facts of the Brexit polls. So I don't have much sympathy for their appeal.
I imagine the inebriating substances often consumed at parties probably didn't help either
I'm not sure sure it'll be an overwhelming majority - this is a great opportunity for constituents to write to their MPs to appeal for them to vote in favour of staying in the union.

There was a lot of remorse, particularly when the NHS promises turned out to be lies.
I think Labour's position has already been decided https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/19/corbyn-to-i...
Yeah this issue really has nothing to do with C
Clickable: https://sfyimby.org
Faraday Futures owes the Mill $1.8m
Let's be honest, Labour stopped being a proper opposition a good while ago.
And the GBP goes down again.
May's speech at least brought some certainty now what?

If they want to call art 50 before March it will require a rush vote that may be have a different outcome.
And even then the EU might come and say well sorry but the referendum was binding in our view so better call it anyhow.

This can turn into a very Kafkaesque shit show.
The 128bit pointer intermediate code is used on what IBM calls "midrange systems" (ie. AS/400), not mainframes. IBM mainframes execute their machine code directly and the ISA is designed such that it allows for efficient virtualization since beginning and is extensible and backwards-compatible. Otherwise the IBM mainframe magic is in IO offload and truly immense memory bandwidth. On the other hand, Unisys systems use architecture that is significantly different from what today's programmer would expect, with completely different memory model originally implemented in hardware (which essentially combines the memory protection model implemented on AS/400 in software with lisp machine-style pointer tagging).
Which is why I can't use chrome at work at all. Google's services and DNS are blocked by admins, so when you try to open any site you get DNS_LOOKUP_FAILED error.
It's not the logic of hammering my own fingers that is flawed, it is my choice of a hammer!
Yeah when Wikileaks was reporting on Hillary the Guardian was a puppet of the Clinton campaign! Just like with Snowden, that Obama lackey!

Oh no, they actually reported constantly on the emails leak and Snowdens revelations, which were highly damaging to Obamas cause of strengthening the intelligence agencies.
There is a significant problem in the US with essentially extortion of financial companies by various Federal and State agencies. The risk of a conviction for financial misconduct is not the financial penalty, it is the consequences which would essentially destroy the company as the regulators would lock them out of markets.

Companies may very well be in the wrong and deserve punishing - but all they get are massive fines. Agencies like it because it looks good and money is always handy. Companies don't mind it as it removes risk (share prices often go up in the aftermath) and individuals don't get punished. That last part is the important bit, the individuals at fault here are able to continue to operate in regulated financial services roles, they can continue to be directors of companies etc.
The house of commons represents many more people than those who have voting rights in the referendum.

Residents are also the constituents for MP's.
Correct. This is a win/win for May IMHO. Any MP who votes down the deal will be committing political suicide if they are in a leave constituency (which they most likely are outside of London). Brexit will happen no matter.
Having looked around a bit now that seems like what I will end up doing.
It genuinely saddens me that a strategic decision like brexit was triggered and decided on based on local politics and grievances.
> they also seem to think that a local DoS is not enough for a CVE

Some vendors do not consider local DoS as security issues. I tried to discuss these kind of issues in oss-security but even MITRE refused to assign a CVE.
> That is not how professional game developers see it, attending a few GDC would help to understand this.

Do you wish to enlighten the HN community with the perspective you keep teasing? Or should we assume it's simply a narrative you wish to support?

Many companies have invested a lot of money into building various types of middleware as far as I understand it. But no matter how you slice it if you want to support multiple graphics APIs you do have to pay a tax in doing the QA and possibly custom development for each one.

I'm not sure how you get around that but...

> Or if you don't want to pay for a ticket, there are plenty of talks available for free at GDC Vault.

This isn't helpful and does not add to the conversation.
Disclaimer: I'm not a computer programmer.

Suggestion which may not be practical: get up 1 hour earlier? So move the sleep time forward so you get some but can do some personal work.
You can, but that results in a ton of UI where the user has to navigate between "allow" custom protocol and then selecting what applications are allowed to launch via this protocol.

Currently it's a maze of dialogs only technical people are able to navigate successfully. Expecting people already in need of support to manage to bypass this deliberate inconvenience is simply unrealistic.

The company I work for used to maintain a solution based on this approach. It worked well until browser-vendors started tightening up security.

After that we had to come up with a different solution all together, because almost no users managed to configure our integration successfully.

(And that rewrite was a lot of work, so I can see why Cisco/WebEx has been postponing it as much as possible)
TBF there's been zero polling evidence for this. This is just wishful thinking.
Some people will still want to own a car, some won't. However, parking is going to be a lot less of a problem.

1. Some people will used shared ride services, so the shared car rarely needs to park.

2. Cars will be able to much more densely park. Autonomous cars that can communicate with each other can pack themselves in on the side of the street bumper to bumper. In parking lots with rows, spaces can be much narrower since people don't need to open the doors, the car can just pull forward itself. Even the rows between cars can be filled up. You see this at the facebook campus now because they don't have enough parking, but it takes an army of valets to move all the cars around.

3. People will own and drive smaller cars on average. Even for people who do own a car, the ability to have a larger vehicle available on demand will tend to make them buy smaller cars.

4. Even when it's hard to find parking in an area, the car can drive itself to areas where parking is less scarce.

Overall my guess is that all of these are going to effectively increase the amount of parking available by 4-5x. Parking simply won't be a problem anymore, unless of course this induces demand, we build higher, and without parking garages...
I switched from Crashplan to Backblaze a few months ago and at least in my case the Backblaze client uploads a lot faster.
8 hour drive even as a passanger on a bus is a hassle. Self driving car will:

- still shake on bumps,

- make reading uncomfortable for many,

- not be quiet,

- be too small to stand up and stretch

- not have a toilet so you still have to stop somewhere

- not make eating on a run any easier.

It is certainly more comfortable than driving for few hours so it can extend commutes, but not by that much.
You can compile and deploy the app yourself onto your devices with a free developer account. If the one-inch wall around the garden is too high, then maybe the garden isn't a place for you.
How many companies would love to be as successful as the apple watch alone.
> Software workers are among lowest class of people in society.

I don't know where you live, who your friends are, but I feel bad for you. I feel that I'm respected as a developer, people think I'm sort of wizard doing this (which I certainly don't agree with) but I rarely experienced looked down upon. Try to re-evaluate where are you at the food chain, because you are certainly not the lowest building block.
No-one claims that gamedevs see lock-in as something positive; only that very few AAA gamedev shops care about lock-in - especially for a relatively small part of the production pipeline as a graphics API.

What you see as locked-in API, others see as a great feature set to build on, probably with access to driver developers to help reach even further, past publicly available APIs.

A game engine is not something you can switch out of easily anyway. Everything from game code, to years of asset libraries to decades of source control repositories - all of those are very rigid parts of the production pipeline.
I found the headline quite misleading: it sounds to me like "Court orders that Parliament give Article 50 the go-ahead", but it's actually "Court says that Article 50 cannot go ahead without Parliament's approval".
interestingly, the antenna optimizer (AO) software uses genetic algorithm to find the right the antenna topology, therefore, this antenna is not designed, it's evolved. more details can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna
Also check out http://pubmed-watcher.org/ for biomedical domain
No, it's $100, since the egress traffic will cost ~$0.09/GB.
What hypocrisy to even consider bypassing the parliament in the first place. Thank god the Surpeme Court still stands up for the Parliamentary supremacy [1]. Have a non-binding referendum and then the government bypassing the parliament altogether would have really put the UK in a constitutional crisis and created lasting damage to the very institutional stability that is behind the success of UK governance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kin...
Amazon Cloud Drive + rclone, truely unlimited[] uploads, mobile apps too, so you can backup your phone camera roll there too.

[](People at /r/datahoarder have petabytes of crap uploaded...)
Its interesting, I vaguely remember reading a report I think by the NHSTA that discusses how, despite the ability for accidents by users not using the features properly, these features still result in a net gain in safety
Would care to share what website is it?

Also, do you think this service would be of value to you? https://www.bugmuncher.com/

I am helping the founder with some marketing research. Thanks!
> Using rsync almost implies that the remote will be unencrypted

Not sure if you meant the protocol or the service rsync, but neither one implies you store unencrypted data.
> Surprise surprise...

About as surprising as seeing completely content-less anti-systemd comments like yours popping up, really.
As KeePass uses a single (encrypted) file, you can use any hosting service that you want. Just make sure you save the new version back into your storage when you edit entries. You can use Owncloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, ...
Newsmap visually reflects the landscape of the Google News news aggregator
Honestly, as a programmer/ops knowing git and always having a terminal somewhere around, I see no reason to use something else than https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store

It uses a git repo as storage, gpg encrypts passwords, provides perfect completion and there is an android app. Everything is dead simple and open source.
> There was a lot of remorse, particularly when the NHS promises turned out to be lies.

Poll after poll has shown people who voted leave are happy. People who voted remain are unhappy.
v228 is too new for Debian stable. Unstable had a update on feb 11, 2016.

Ubuntu never ran with such early version, since their first uploaded version was 229.
No no, you only get arrested for commandeering next to another server and then boarding it.
It doesn't know who it's playing against, so it accounts for the behavior of ALL players it played against, no?
> May be you can develop an engine for all APIs at once for the cost of one?

Because as anyone in the industry knows, the portability of APIs like OpenGL only happens in theory.

To expose the hardware features that makes the game shine and stand out over others, one needs to make use OpenGL extensions.

A different set of calls for each card model, manufacturer and game consoles if they expose an OpenGL wrapper API.

Then there are the workarounds for the API calls that are supposed to be part of portable OpenGL, but then again behave differently across graphics hardware and drivers, leading to additional code paths.

The shading language features are also different across OpenGL versions and graphic drivers.

Finally OpenGL and OpenGL ES are common just in the name and a few overlapping APIs, leading to rewrites between desktop and mobile platforms.

In the end, the development effort of writing "portable" OpenGL, while taking advantage of vendor extensions and working around bugs is bigger than use exposing an common abstraction layer on the games engine that takes advantage of each native API without piles of workarounds.
> Apple is losing marketshare every year in the smartphone segment.

By volume, not by profit. cf http://fortune.com/2016/11/04/apple-smartphone-profits/

> Apple's iPhone secured 103.6% of the smartphone industry's profits during the third quarter, BMO Capital Markets analyst Tim Long said in a research note on Thursday.
Look on the prime landing page, or google "amazon drive" or "amazon cloud drive"

e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/clouddrive/primephoto or https://www.amazon.de/clouddrive/learnmore/
Hmm. I guess I thought ramping up the number of polygraph tests and re-evaluating which systems are accessible by people with various roles, responsibilities, and clearances would be a much higher priority.

Background checks are obviously a necessary and useful tool, I am just not sure I understand which dotted lines (regardless of their logic or illogic) connect "Snowden" to "more background checks" in a knee-jerk reaction.
Show HN: Userflow Pro – See how design problems are solved in popular products
Please don't be put off by this being on Wikileaks. This is not just some disgruntled British soldier dumping a few hundred secret documents. This is a single, very thorough report he wrote himself, describing in detail all the horrible lapses in security and safety he personally witnessed around Britain's nuclear deterrent.

He has censored some of the most sensitive information for security reasons.

This is not about "I have a right to know", this is about the risk of a nuclear accident or terrorist attack because of gross negligence, and the chain of command attempting to silence it.
Two options that I'm aware of:

Self-host Nextcloud and use the Keeweb app with Keepass encrypted databases - https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/keeweb

Run your own Firefox accounts server, and let FF store all your passwords - https://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-fxa.html
> It's also worth noting that DX12 development has nothing to do with Mantle, it's a continuation of the Xbox 360 API and effectively the mature version of the API developed for the Xbox One.

... significant parts of DX12 are a carbon copy of Vulcan. Are you saying they ended up with the exact same solutions, including things like error codes that are entirely arbitrary choices, by accident?

DX12, and the Xbox One API was NOT developed from the Xbox 360 API. It's based on Mantle. As is Vulkan.
The failure lay with David Cameron's government, by not putting any legal effect in the bill that authorised the referendum. One paragraph was all it would have taken. 'If the referendum carries, the Prime Minister shall be authorised to invoke Article 50'.

Why didn't he? Because Cameron never considered for a second he could lose the referendum. He was an idiot.
Electromobility: Test of overhead line trucks on two routes [german]
It seems likely that ministers were fully aware that they couldn't change the legal framework of the UK, the rights of UK citizens, as well as armfuls of other issues without an act of Parliament. That would suggest this was something of a delaying tactic.
Rarely, assuming you can read the docs enough to understand what pre-built library to use.
Don't you find it annoying having to switch to a terminal to log in to a site in your browser? I personally love LastPass. It's free for my use case and there's plugins for popular browsers, mobile apps, and a CLI app if you really want it.
An insurer is a business it can make money, that makes it a profit center, it does not mean that they will make a profit. A public healthcare system get a budget, they cant make a profit only manage their cost. So no i am not wrong i am fully inline with the very definition of those two terms in this context. Yes an insurer can have cost centers too but they are again in this context able to make money.
Why would EU say that? The referendum wasn't even binding in the UK, why would EU say that it is for them?
Poll HN: Smartphone choice
What smartphone do you use? Please explain why you like it (details on camera, lag, battery life please). If the phone has already had a comment, just reply underneath
A single taxpayer owes 11% of total tax paid by all Indians in 2014-15
I hadn't tried tern/company-tern before, that worked quite nice :-) I didn't have any problems getting tern to do multi-file completions/navigation though (just had to put "loadEagerly":["assets/js/*.js"] into .tern-project).

For refactoring, there's js2-refactor, though I tend not to use auto-refactoring much so don't really know how that fares.

Individual test-running ought to be possible in Emacs; you get that in python with nose-tests at least.
Nice selective quoting.

Millions of cars spend their entire existence confined to US highways, cities, and suburbs. In what way is a car not self-driving if it can successfully drive you on you everywhere you go in your daily life?

You don't "obviously" need a human driver if the car is used entirely in that "special place" (ie. where most cars spend their entire existence).

Your argument makes about as much sense as claiming cell phones aren't truly mobile because you can't use them in Antarctica.
AMP is not good thing says the guy making money off ads on his personal website and wants the ability to track users.

What about the value of seconds amd bandwidth saved for millions of people who get pages a bit faster due to a project like AMP?
That would be very stupid on the EU part and extremely unlikely to happen. Article 50 explicitly calls out that the formal intention to leave must be given in accordance to the constitutional rules of the leaving nation. The UK supreme court just clarified those rules.
Thanks for giving more background to my vague hunches!
You can program touch() to create files with 0777 rights in any language, not just C.