skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" I think there's a difference between what really motivated him to leak & what he's leaked out of self-preservation"

It could also refer to, what he did NOT leaked.

" Who else could he need self-preservation from?"

To not land on a certain list, some people openly joked about wanting to put him on?
I also do remember some remarks, how he did not leaked everything he had, so he had some backup(at his lawers/friends) to be leaked, in case he suddendly had a heart attack, car accident or simple explosion.

And in case he actually did give some information to russia out of desparation, why the harsh judgment

"but I don't think it can ever justify them"

without actually knowing what kind of information?
Especially considering the good things he did revealing the treachery of the secret services?
As terrible as it is for GitLab, it's doing some good here as well.

I'm using this as a great example of a reason to bump up some of the fixes to some of our backups and replication issues up the priority list. And it's much easier to sell to some of the "higher ups" when you can point at a concrete example of how badly a misstep here can hurt.

I'm floored with their honesty and openness, I can honestly say I wouldn't be able to put this out there like they have... But i'm really glad they are doing it, and I'm really happy at the outpouring of support they are getting for it from people like 2ndQuadrant.
Having filed suit before the FB acquisition, I am a lot less perturbed.

But a lot of the negative posturing from ZeniMax during the case still rubs me the wrong way.
Whoa, hi Mads! I hope we see you more around here, there's usually an HN post corresponding to big C#/.NET announcements and it would be great to have your input.
That's the ideal setup really. Golang's concurrency is pretty decent as well but IMO Erlang/Elixir are much easier, quicker to code in, and more reliable than anything else I've ever used.

So basically use Golang as a modern C for specialized tasks which require [almost] the best your hardware can do, and use Erlang/Elixir for everything else.
> That's essentially like South Carolina selling US citizenship to boost its budget

I get what you're saying, but the reason it's not is important. South Carolina cannot issue citizenship independent of the federal government. Those rules were agreed to up front. The EU's weren't. So Malta will be Malta.
Machine learning powers Bizible’s new custom attribution solution
No reason they couldn't put a touch screen on a MacBook or imac, though I guess they can't guarantee one on a mac pro
There is a reason for this: it's getting to be so hard to sell cigarettes in Australia that the tobacco companies have stopped trying, and they're going after the Indonesians and Timorese instead. Four Corners reported on it a few years ago.
Multiple cursors! Cool! That beats screen -x
Advertising as it exists is kind of evil. The majority of ads try to create want (which is a form of unhappiness) so that you are motivated to buy their product. Even if they don't do this, they attempt to subvert your decision making process to make their product more appealing - usually, to the detriment of your ability to make a good objective decision.

The simple answer is to stop direct advertising, and instead focus on things like giving out free merchandise to socially well connected people in exchange for public reviews. Additionally, if you want me to associate your company with good feelings, don't try to force it with advertising - go out and do good things like feed the hungry, provide medicine to people in impoverished nations, etc.
With respect, it was not advice, as I am not a lawyer. It is my opinion.

If the entire legal profession chooses to hold a different opinion, and enforces it upon one another via their cartel, that is their prerogative. It will not affect my opinions upon what I would consider to be fair or just. Sharing my opinion may well put you on the losing side of a lawsuit, but I don't judge my value as a person according to my victories and defeats in court, and neither should anyone else.

My advice would simply be to not do business with Gigster--not as an employee, and not as a customer. They have at least one asshole in their upper management, and it only takes one to ruin a company. And further, I would advise re-examining one's previous opinions on collective bargaining organizations. If software professionals had a real labor cartel, it could blacklist companies that try stuff like this.
Why do you do that?
There's a story in Masters of Doom where Carmack and Romero do just that. If I recall correctly, they would take company (Softdisk I believe) computers at night because they were more powerful than their home computers, and use them to develop their own games. I think they even worked on their own games on company time. I might be getting the details wrong on that one, but sounds like Carmack dgaf (or just doesn't think about how these things could potentially be wrong/misaligned).
They'll probably follow what they just did with the A10, at least in the near term. It has a low power mode and a high power mode, but doesn't run them simultaneously. Too complicated. It actually has 4 cores (2 low, 2 high) but can only run one pair at a time.[1]

So while that is similar on its face to hybrid graphics, I'm not sure it would be feasible to offload background tasks to the low power mode as it would be constantly switching modes every few milliseconds. More likely this architecture is better suited to Power Nap where the whole device enters a low-power state with restricted functions. That also sidesteps the issue of having to compile every third party app for two architectures. They can just implement the Power Nap stuff for ARM.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A10
Browser.html tab grouping
> It's time to start fresh with a new architecture if they want to maintain their reputation of having the most powerful technology.

They tried that, though. It was called Itanium and it went nowhere. Now, Itanium had all kinds of other problems and I wouldn't call its failure incontrovertible evidence against "Intel should make a new architecture", but I can understand why the company isn't eager to try that again.

Backwards compatibility exerts an powerful gravitational pull that is extremely difficult to break away from if you're not started a new platform ex nihilo (which Apple did for the iPhone).
Your evidence is Arpaio? lol.

I guess the newspaper announcement was faked 60 years ago too?

Seriously dude, drop it. It's pathetic and sad. Hundreds of experts have looked at it, of course there is 1 racist goon who will say otherwise.
I feel like they've been doing this to osX, starting with 10.9 it seems like a lot of the visual flair of iOS has filtered into the macOS environment.

I fear that this will dumb it down too much for the power users, and conversely over-complicate it for the average iOS user. I'd love to be wrong...
Ask HN: When and how should I release my open source tool?
I'm very new to the open source world, but I built a command line tool for myself that I think other people could use too. I'm in the process of building a few new features that I think would be helpful to people (and to myself). Should I hold off on telling people about it until I finish those features? Or should I market it and then see which features people want? How do I find out what makes a tool "good" for other people?

Also, what's the correct way to tell people about a tool like this?
Noam called it manufacturing consent and it's been a thing for quite a while[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
In retrospect, he came out smelling like roses.
Maybe I should put it this way... what do we gain by accepting qbism?

For example, accepting many-worlds gives parsimony of postulates. The number of postulates goes down, because the Born rule is derived from decoherence and unitarity instead of being postulated from directly.

Accepting a collapse interpretation gives easy translation between theory and practice. You don't have to justify squaring the amplitudes, you just do it and it works.

Accepting a pilot-wave interpretation gives you deterministic rules and an exact single state.

Accepting a qbism interpretation gives you...?
Assuming the bootloader isn't locked down
If he does, he's come a long way from the John Carmack that consistently open-sourced his 3D engines and followed up with developers who failed to abide by the GPL [0].

(I don't think he works the way you describe at all).

[0] https://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=1&time=200002...
Sorry, I plant both. I can plant harvested heirloom seeds (but find it more convenient to buy them). The Early Girl tomatoes, whose flavor I really like that I mentioned are hybrids which don't re-plant well.

I agree, that heirlooms are more difficult to keep happy - they're just more sensitive to "stuff".
Definitely check out Elixir. It's extremely easy to pick up. I also looked at Erlang but decided I don't want to learn it. I only gradually learn its stdlib because it has amazing things in there by default (like a state machine, directed graph implementation etc.). But you can use those freely from inside Elixir anytime.
About two weeks ago I commented on a post here (a concept design for a new mac pro) joking that the next mac pro would probably run and arm CPU and have the ram soldered on.

Looks like I was on to something
So we had this security app that needed to know what version of Windows it was running on. And the Windows detection worked flawlessly... until Microsoft came out with a new version. Our program detected the new Windows as the previously-most-recent version, even though we were calling the standard Microsoft-approved which-version-are-you function.

Turns out Microsoft detected that our specific app was asking, and lied to it, because telling it the truth broke the previous version of our app (because the previous version didn't know about the new version of Windows). It was annoying, and yet still incredibly impressive that Microsoft knew who we were and was going out of their way to try not to break us.
Cast iron? Pah!

Tinned heavy-gauge copper with brass handles works the best (for me, ymmv). There are drawbacks - they need re-tinning every now and again, and you have to be careful with metal utensils, but the heat distribution and evenness of cooking is amazing on a 3mm copper pan.
Quite ironic that comments are being shadow banned, i.e., censored considering this site. Sure, you're smugly satisfied with yourself that you've blocked that meddling opposing view point, but you have no idea in your abuse of power that you are just causing more problems. You're no better than nazis or any other dictatorship, precisely why it is immensely dangerous to give anyone the power to censor "fake news"
Of course you would. In fact, it doesn't have to be in response to anything they say. I think both questions are valid for both interviewer and interviewee.

There's only one of me to go around, so I'm pretty particular about where I am.
A Trip Around Saturn
Cops Raid San Francisco Dronemaker Lily Robotics
They implemented the list, and the fact that you've found an argument why it could be reasonable is enough reason for them to use it - to slow you down. It doesn't matter to them if it's effective or sensible or not.
Standard disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.

This seems like the sort of thing people would be able to sue you for. As far as I can tell, Hacker News doesn't do anything special with copyright of comments. As with all text you write, as soon as it becomes "fixed" by being recorded, the author has the copyright to it. Since the author decided to publish it in a Hacker News comment thread, that basically implies that Hacker News has permission to copy their work and publish it in the standard ways that it does.

Now there is the concept of "Fair Use". Hosting interesting comment threads may or may not be "Fair Use", but either way that's the sort of thing you find out by getting sued and seeing if it works as a defense. If you host it without any commentary, that's less likely to qualify as Fair Use than if you summarize stuff, say what you like about the thread, add your own commentary, etc.
Sure, and I never said all of them are used all the time, but parent comment specifically did say "all the safety features". I wanted to make the distinction clear that safety features in planes can and are used actively during flights, whereas backups are only used when there's a catastrophe.
That's super clever
"Religious/Conservative people simply don't trust Mainstream media. To them, all of them are liberal and highly bias."

People on the left don't trust the mainstream media either. To them, the mainstream media is way too far to the right and highly biased.

For many examples, listen to CounterSpin, a show created by media watchdog group FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting).[1]

Also, though it's not specifically media-focused, Democracy Now! often reports many instances of right-wing bias in the mainstream media.[2]

[1] - http://fair.org/counterspin/

[2] - https://www.democracynow.org/
He's an extremely explainable phenomenon. Scott Adams has explained it multiple times. I'm just pointing out that the standard party mechanism was not even used in this case.

I am sure there is a better term than "hijacked".
Matroska brain confirmed. But seriously, I was looking for a tool like this.
Tesla Is Testing Self-Driving Cars on California Roads
How about:
In ordinary discourse we say that "the earth orbits the sun" – not that "the sun orbits the earth", and we feel very strongly about this distinction.

It just seems like discussion of "what causes what" is missing the point, just like the above argument. That one persisted for centuries (millenia?) until it was pointed out the answer is neither! It depends on your reference frame.
Relieved to see that this is not about open source developers murdering each other over whose fork of a project is authoritative.
Good book.

No deep insights or actionable for everyone, but a good source of information about things you didn't know you didn't know.
That would probably be less power efficient than just running a single core alone at reduced clock.
Does Apple even need to own a majority ownership to control the company? Couldn't they just purchase 49.9% of the company and set up the board of directors in their favor? With that much stake getting the company to do what you want it to do wouldn't be that difficult it seems.
Academia.edu | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite

Academia.edu is addressing two problems:

- Open access. The goal here is to put every academic pdf ever written on the internet, available for free.

- The reproducibility crisis. It has emerged over the last few years that 65-90% of the scientific literature is not reproducible. What this means is that if you try to reproduce the experiments described in a paper, 65-90% of the time you will not get the same findings. This is known as "the reproducibility crisis"

With regard to open access, Academia allows academics to upload papers to Academia, and make them freely available. Academics have uploaded about 16 million pdfs to Academia.edu, and upload about 1 million a month. About 30 million people come to Academia each month to access and share papers.

With regard to reproducibility, we think the way to solve the reproducibility crisis is to build a new peer review system that (a) crowd-sources peer review from the academic community and (b) provides credit to material that journals don't publish (data-sets, code, replications, failed replications).

Academia has built a recommendation system which is the basis of our approach to (a) and (b). We realize that addressing reproducibility is a huge challenge. We need mission-driven engineers to come and help us. We have raised $28 million from Tencent, Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital, and True Ventures. Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital writes "We believe open science is really important. We believe Academia.edu is going to have a profound impact on the world."

We are looking to hire full stack software engineers. Technologies we use include Ruby, Rails, Postgres, DynamoDB, React. Our office is in downtown San Francisco. For more information, visit http://academia.edu/hiring. If you are interested to learn more, please email Richard Price at richard [at] academia.edu
Location: NYC, NY

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Haskell, Ruby/Ruby on Rails

Résumé/CV: https://alexeyzabelin.com/assets/resume.pdf

Email: zabelin.alex@gmail.com

Hi, I am a self-taught developer. I used to do Ruby/RoR stuff, then switched over to Haskell in 2016. So far I've built an API wrapper for Shipwire, you can read about it over here: https://alexeyzabelin.com/haskell-api-wrapper

For my latest projects and open source contributions, take a look at my github: https://github.com/alexeyzab

I am looking for a junior Haskell back-end role or something that has to do with FP. Thanks!
Causal inference in Python
New study: enterprise mobile apps do little to exceed users' expectations
Please, please, please don't think this.

It's not bold, it's a perfectly reasonable question. In most parts of the US, it's a developer's market. Exploit that while you can.

FWIW, every time I've asked this question, the response is always for the interviewer (sometimes with a slight smile) to try to sell me on working there. Never have I gotten a response like you predicted, and I'd be very surprised if I ever do.

You're not a fungible assembly line worker; you're a highly skilled individual in great demand. Even if you don't really believe that, find a way to convince yourself of it temporarily before the interview: it will have positive results.
From my favorite etymology website, the etymology of the word literally:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=literally
You've just killed me saying that was 15 years ago :(
The actual HotSpot JVM itself is about 10mb, but that includes 4 GCs and 2 JIT compilers.

The Avian JVM can statically link an entire program and widget toolkit with itself and produce a 1mb binary.

It's not that big a deal. The space gets taken up by all the libraries. But then you'd want to compare a JVM against e.g. /usr/lib on a fresh Linux install ...
Looks superb but I am a bit iffy as to whether or not I can trust this piece of software. It's proprietary and from China :/
Ah, it was JamVM.

http://jamvm.sourceforge.net/

Alas, the last release looks like it was 2014, although it does claim to support Java 8. The actual interpreter core is under 100kB (class libraries extra, of course).

It plugs into the OpenJDK! Look for the openjdk-8-jre-jamvm package in Debian.
I mean, I'm not a fan of the new MBP myself, but I don't think they're ignoring professional users. Didn't their MBP sales go UP?
why not launch these companies outside US in first place....then you wouldn't have to bother
Show HN: Recordar, a Spaced Repetition analysis library
I'm no fan of Thiel, but don't take revocation lightly. It's basically a life-destroying event if you're not fantastically wealthy. Being stateless is far worse than having citizenship even from a troubled nation, and your proposal would endanger anyone who enjoys (or wishes to enjoy) dual citizenship.

Also, the only relevant part of that quote is " and with the intention to give up U.S. nationality " - is there any reason to think this was his intent?

Disclosure - I may be biased because I would like to attain a new citizenship without necessarily giving up that of my home country.
None of the examples you listed in the GP were illegal.

The first two you listed here are, if it is proven in court that they were discriminating based on sexual-orientation. If the baker doesn't do bespoke decorations, fine. If the photographer doesn't shoot weddings, fine.

If you don't obey the law A) you're not a good Christian B) you don't get to engage in commerce in the United States of America.

Also please show me in your holy book where it says "thou shall not participate in commerce with homosexuals"
I think you are confused.

The best thing to happen to OSS is GitHub, not GitLab. GitLab is just a fast follower and likely wouldn't even exist without the former.

I for one am happy to throw money GitHub's way for their role in so dramatically changing how we code.
"Anyway, if you look through the documentation, every time he wanted parts in the ‘70s he would hand draw the part. For example, a light bulb or a brake caliper, or whatever it might be. The sketches are so intricate they look like a photograph. He’d make multiple copies of his sketches and mail them out, asking shops if they had these parts."

I would love to see those!
Please continue, this is a highly valuable comment.
I've also found https://twitrss.me/ which doesn't require a Twitter login.
I don't know if I'd class that as a capitalism-paradigm problem. If the press is free, choices exist and you can find news that tells you what you want to hear.

I think if we compare today's new to a decade ago's, the change is not more capitalism (ie, for-profit, corporate, quarterly-report focused...). The change is more choice, more information, more volume and the chaotic, many-to-many distribution systems of the social internet.

The clickbait imperative has got a quasi-capitalist single mindedness to it, but I think we'll be chasing down the wrong culprit by characterising the problem as a capitalist one.

In fact, I think it's best if we try not to jump to conclusions at all. We're hitting some problems with the way our democracies work and I haven't really heard a narrative yet that feels satisfying. Lets not jump to conclusions. We need to be right about it.
> But the benchmark is not fair when only one server supports pipelining.

Anyone know why go went from 45kreq/s to 150 when pipelining was enabled - without supporting pipelining? Or is your last run with yet more concurrent requests?
Log into the machines to your heart's desire. I never said we never log in.

I said we never directly change code on production because it's bat-shit insane. That's why this thread was started. You can trace it back.

I never acted superior, but I really don't get the "me and some people I know do this so everyone must be doing it". No they're not.

And what I described in all my responses (not just to you) can be scaled down to this:

1) Do you know how to install a Linux machine?

2) Do you know how to install a DB?

3) Do you know how to take backups of your DB?

4) Do you know how to change your DB's config so that it points to other machines?

5) Can you write a shell script no more than couple lines?

You answered yes to all of the above? Then congrats you can already do what I'm describing. Yes, you can go crazy later with configuration software(ansible/puppet/etc) and better infrastructure, but the above will suffice as a first step.

So all this "haha, this guy is in his own SV bubble, haha"... yeah really not getting it, sorry.
Can there be a scientific theory of collective intelligence?
You're thinking too much into it. Just say "because I rock and your team's life would suck without me." And leave it at that.
Trucks or ships for goods transfer. The later would be a huge environmental impact and potentially significant cost reductions given fuel can account for 70% of shipping cost. Combined with a skeleton crew (or unmanned) via simpler electric engines, autohelm and automation someone is sure to disrupt this area soon.
Excellent! Thank you very much