skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most asp.net workshops rely on SQL Server, which up to version from 2012 did not support MVCC and relied on locking on writes and reads. The problem is, it had problems with web-kind load. If something was writing into a table X, and there would be a parallel query for table X join... (especially including index seek and not just lookups), you'd get into territory of heavy locking. Add ORM to that, which wouldn't let you influence the order of the joined tables and you've just got yourself a deadlock. This happened on a few occasions in a few different projects I've worked on. The real problem is: there is lot of technicalities you need to know and understand, to use it. Some NoSQL solutions (including MongoDb) try to abstract away those technicalities, and that was the point of my comment.
They're dynamic checks.

Static checks for stack overflows are infeasible.
Growth rate is a nonsense metric. If you're starting from nothing and invest a shitload of money in sales you'll have an amazing growth rate. IBM and Oracle are both way behind azure, google and aws.
Facebook doesnt hand pick anyone to its api.

just create a facebook app (no approval needed), have users sign in to that app to get their access token. then use the api posts endpoint to get all posts from any page. its that simple
I wondered, "Why does GFK_of_xmaspast feel so strongly about this person?" I hadn't known (or recalled) anything about John C. Calhoun.

Calhoun himself writes in 1837:

> But I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding States between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good–a positive good.

...

> Compare his condition with the tenants of the poor houses in the more civilized portions of Europe–look at the sick, and the old and infirm slave, on one hand, in the midst of his family and friends, under the kind superintending care of his master and mistress, and compare it with the forlorn and wretched condition of the pauper in the poorhouse.
Planet labs is a us company so they are subject to ITAR and the commerce control list.
The news feed is non-deterministic. You can refresh and see something completely different

This always struck me as intentional. It gets you to refresh more and stay on the site longer hoping to get a little bit of something new.
The NDK doesn't expose Android frameworks other than via JNI, games do their UI via OpenGL and use very little features from Android itself.
Mantras, christian chants, and others. Repeat ad infinitum.
I second that. I recently moved from San Francisco, where I was for four years as a founder of a seed-stage company, to Denver. What's great about this place is that there is tech-company density. Google, Twitter (data team), Uber (maps team), IBM Watson, Sendgrid, Homeadvisor, Gusto, Zillow, Opentable, Inspirato, Sphero, Techstars, and many others are all here.

You can satisfy your ambition to "change the world with video-compression software" and buy a house while you're at it.
This is a common fallacy, although the architectures themselves may be changing (quite a bit!), the basic computationally intensive operations, such as convolutions and matrix multiplies aren't. The simple way is to switch from FP32 to 16-bit fixed point, and you're good to go, and you just saved almost 10X power. This is the strategy Nervana/Intel, even Nvidia, and other startups such as Wave are pursuing.
I'm not referring to Wikipedia's written definition of NPoV, I'm referring to its application. Many Wikipedia articles in their various states (past and present) don't fit into any kind of "neutral viewpoint" ideal. They may appear as such, of course, to one who shares the bias; in that case, Wikipedia's content must seem like a bastion of truly neutral rationality.
Version 2 posts "true" to the timeline.
We don't need to give things up, just be willing to pay more for them or go without.

We pay 1000s for a car and don't complain. But we need cheap portable supercomputers?

What the price of something should be is as much psychology than anything else. Diamonds and gold are a case in point.
Do you have to pay if you're unemployed?
Also consider jsonbin, a "pastebin for JSON" service. The aim of the project is to provide a simplified data store for tinkerers.

https://jsonbin.org/
I guess their primary target isn't generating keys on the fly, but rather using already defined keys (set / get value). But I agree, it would make sense to have the ability for reusing an existing UUID.
Sure, that too. Both of which however had little to do with Java.
But the solution to that should be decoupling money that goes to department from fines, not dismantling of speed limit enforcing altogether.
How to stop brain cancer–with rabies
The best definition I can come up with is hardware that implements neural network architecture directly, especially McCulloch–Pitts spiking neurons (which have a temporal component). In neuromorphic chips, neurons are an actual component in the hardware, you can ask questions like "how many neurons does this chip have?". Contrast to how neural nets as we use them today which are actually implemented as a computation graph on tensors. It turns out that a special kind of neural network can be abstracted well as a series of tensor ops (dense feedforward layered networks[1]), but this is not necessarily the case for any neural network. So neuromorphic chips have a possibility of being far more general.

[1]: Which are wired something like this: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/images/tikz40.png - Notice that dense connections and layered architecture. For all intents and purposes, this what neural nets look like today because of how easily it is to treat a NN with this specific wiring as a chain of tensor computations and thus execute on more conventional hardware.
I mean the courts aren't exactly robotic in this sense. It has to be a creative work, for the same reason you couldn't try to copyright a trivial sentence you wouldn't get copyright protection on a method description that adds two numbers. Also, it's the whole work that's copyrighted, not its individual parts. It's not that Google just borrowed a few method signatures, it's that they took all of them along with their relationships and meanings.
Grace Hopper on nanoseconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8 (excellently presented use of a visual aid to scale)

As for the renaming, when people are honoured by having things named after them, from time to time it's appropriate to see whether the things they did would still be considered honourable. Otherwise we'd still be referring to Stalingrad and Leningrad.
"Grace Hopper invented the concept that computers should be provided instructions that look more like human language instead of forcing programmers to translate their instructions into numbers manually."
This looks amazing. Thank you for making it available as open source -- I can see how a vibrant community could ensure quality and up to date modules.
Platforms not Applications
Given Google's standing policy of requiring a search warrant for access to user confidential data, as detailed in their Transparency Report[0], my reading is that law enforcement needs to go to the same legal effort to access your data-at-rest stored with Google as they would if it were stored offline in your own house. (And results in the same level of notification to you, modulo NSLs, which are a practical worry for some groups but not others.)

[0]: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/l...
> Very few existing EBS customers are reimplementing in Cloud because of the time, cost, and loss of customizations.

Also, maybe Oracle's "lock your customers in and then extract as much profit as possible" history is guiding decisions? If there's a rearchitecture cost to migrate to cloud, then why would you do it with a company who already $&#@ed you over?
That's my point. I don't understand how is this recommendation any useful, if I'm not missing anything.

Maybe there is a better security guide for a bit more technical people? With why's and how's, explaining what are the real issues and causes of some practice being bad, and what are the possible solutions to it. Why is Android bad? Is it solved by stripping out google services? How do you do it properly? Is it solved by replacing an Android phone with iPhone? Etc. Without any of "jumping into the snake-pit is so bad, that jumping straight into the fire is probably better". Probably better, huh.
>What did you do to get out of rust and how did you do it?

By understanding that "making big bucks" involves a fair share of luck. By not defining my life by my career or money, but instead valuing time.

I mean, I'm still working on it to. But that's what I'm trying to do.
That categorization encompasses what.. 98% of everyone?

Your bar for sympathy may be a bit high.
Yep a developer in that location. The market puts a high price on that. Regardless of same quality people being cheaper elsewhere. If you think the market is wrong then go try to arbitrage it. Maybe you can...
it sounded like he was saying that POSIX compliance was more likely in "modern" applications

Yes. Part of this is because more operating systems are approaching POSIX-compliance; but the number of patches we need to port random Linux code to run on FreeBSD has dropped tremendously over the past 20 years.
I think there can be many rational reasons for 're-writes' that preclude any assumptions about 'bad code'.

New infrastructure requirements, languages, performance considerations, markets, customers etc. etc. - they all change.

An expanding and adaptive business will likely have to refactor code that was 100% perfect in 'context ABC' because they have some new 'context XYZ'.

There are so many examples to think of.

When they went from one datacenter to many, whenever they replace the hardware architecture in their datacenters or change newtworking configurations. When they decided to integrate G+ into everything. When they decide on using a new common UI framework.

The 'roll on' effects may necessitate refactoring of other code.

And this is not including more opportunistic things in a given area.

Maybe they started doing some stuff in 'Go' and wanted to refactor other modules into 'Go' for greater maintainability?

And I don't think anyone will be 'blindly copying' Google's processes.
Made the jump from Southern California to Salt Lake City, Utah this last October. I believe Utah has the fastest growing economy in the nation currently, and is palpable living here. Cost of living is nice, and there is a treasure trove of nature to explore.

The city itself is nice, but definitely not a 'big' city, and you can definitely feel how conservative the area is once start to get outside of the greater Salt Lake area. But if you stick either in the metropolitan area, or outdoors it is a very pleasant place to live.

In summation: I wouldn't settle down here, but it is a great place to position yourself financially, with plenty of wilderness enjoy.
Visa Checkout is, just 20 years too late, finally attempting to solve this problem. I'm way more copacetic about Visa have access to my account information since they already do :)
If implementing an interface is against copyright, then every Java program is infringing on Oracle's copyright.
Facebook's attitude - "when Facebook forces itself on you, it's just good parenting".
> Index funds, 401k and some stocks exist only in the USA.

I am not sure whether you are European making fun of the financial system of the USA or an American thinking Europe somehow lives in the stone age.

Of course we have those things. Also there are these things called stock exchanges, were even people from poor, underdeveloped nations like Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands or Germany are allowed to buy stocks. Even fancy American ones.
Exactly - evolving network architectures suggest using a non-neuromorphic design (such as Xavier, Lake Crest), which trades less precision for more cores given the same power/real estate.

Neuromorphic designs like IBM's True North are more hardwired, and that's the limitation towards general purpose use. Yann LeCun's remarks on True North:

https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10152184295832143
Key evidence against Musk's claim:

> Considering the employee in question has been working at Tesla for four years and this is the first evidence of “agitating for a union”, it would truly be a “long con”, if true.
> I'm so tired of this meme. No one owns an article

Over 1000 hits for "ownership" on ANI: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&pr...

> What's this about rule lawyering too?

Nearly 1000 hits for "wikilawyerng" on ANI: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&pr...
Well, if I can't "mischaracterize PayPal as a payment method" then how can I "treat PayPal's payment mark at least at par with other payment methods offered"? Their use of "other payment methods" would imply to me that they consider PayPal also to be a "payment method" though I suppose they might want to call it Bob instead.

I can just see it now: "PayPal is not a legitimate payment method! If you doubt this, see their Terms & Conditions where they explicitly state that you may not 'mischaracterize PayPal as a payment method.'"

Someone did a really crappy job of phrasing.
Being a startup employee is a burnout generally, for the most part most startups will fail so you're getting extreme hard work plus generally undermarket pay and possibly no benefits at all. As an employee for an establiished company you get nights and weekends off to ironically have time to bootstrap your own products and start having extra income streams. In a startup even if it succeeds your equity won't really be on par with what you can earn with your own bootstrapped product even if it takes years to find the right idea.
Sure, if people look under the surface. However it is still sugarcoating history, hiding the bad people, and making it seem like the good people were always appreciated.

Maybe it is a fair sacrifice for the sake of redeeming the past.

It certainly is an interesting new kind of cultural war.
fsharp |> welcomes all alienated Java veterans and newbies with open arms!
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Ask HN: Meeting New People
I have an itch to start something new, and want to meet new people who are interested in technology and entrepreneurship. That's something that's easy to do when you are in college or postgrad, but what about when you live in the middle of the desert in California (Next to Joshua Tree) and are in your early 30s.

Short of moving to a place like the Bay Area or LA (something my wife and I are considering), any other recommendations. Thanks!
> Internet comments fundamentally suck

No, internet comments are fundamentally sound. Unfortunately, a few people fundamentally suck and ruin them for the rest of us.
eBay stockholders got PYPL shares 1:1 when they split. People who own lots of the former (eBay insiders & higher ups) have a large stake in the latter.
You're right. Sorry, merit is a loaded term in copyright discussions. I don't mean that they would have to argue that their choice of images has artistic merit, but that the artist would probably think it does to pick it out of the billions.
"All I do is get up, go to the work, go to gym, work again and sleep. No wonder that I am lifelong single person and despite being in shape no woman has shown interest in me or agreed to date me"

you just described a large majority of men who already have a signifcant other.

why do you think you need 300k to be in a relationship?
It can only be parsed different ways under incompatible assumptions about whether PayPal is a payment method.

If it actually is a payment method (as their lawyers undoubtedly take as a given), then it limits mischaracterization to aspects of PayPal that do not involve its character as a payment method.

Only if you already believe it is somehow "not a payment method" does the other reading make any sense.
"At all your points of sale (in whatever form)"

Does this not mean that any bricks'n'clicks business has to offer Paypal at their physical counter? And that they can't levy variable card processing fees, at least not where the fee for Paypal is higher?
But hey, they freed a country!
Your password is, in a weird US Constitutional sense, speech, and your 5th Amendment right not to be forced to self-incriminate protects you. Your fingerprint is not speech, and not protected in the same fashion.

(Once more for the folks in the back: fingerprints are usernames. Passwords are things you can rotate.)
could you maybe run an android fb app in a vm then sniff the traffic?
That source code was a 7 line range check method that was developed by the same developer that coded it for Sun (Joshua Bloch)
Presuming absolutely no shared financial interests and pretending there are no remaining synergies. The people who run ebay have to be close with the people that run Paypal...

The strategies that built paypal were in line with the ebay ethos.
You aren't wrong, but the fear is that copyright trolls would immediatelly take massive advantage of this new opportunity as well as that it could have a chilling effects on open-source projects.

Even if eventually found to be in the right, a random guy with a GitHub repo is not going to have the resources/will to effectively defend himself.
To be fair, original Windows API didn't have any concept of stdin/out/err. In win16 days most development environments had something like that but it was emulated inside compiler vendor supplied runtime libraries. CLI as first class OS APIs come from NT.
Code for OpenJDK can run unmodified on Oracle Java.

Code for Android Apps contain unrelated public APIs so cannot run on Oracle Java.
For XNORnet, yes, but DoReFa has training with low bitwidth activations[1]. I don't cite these papers as proof that few bits are needed, but as evidence that precision is an open question.

[1] "We propose DoReFa-Net, a method to train convolutional neural networks that have low bitwidth weights and activations using low bitwidth parameter gradients. In particular, during backward pass, parameter gradients are stochastically quantized to low bitwidth numbers before being propagated to convolutional layers" (from the abstract)
You can check oh-my-vpn to setup openvpn server in a oneliner command. https://github.com/alaa/oh-my-vpn
I think the Intel neuromorphic computing will be a combination of 3D XPoint and technologies gained by purchasing Altera, including routing, DSPs, and reconfigurablity.
Yeah, I am not saying that I agree with it, just stating the facts.
People can't fix the reliability of the site because of the fucking arseholes on WP that make personal attacks.

Your comments ("Have you tried to correct these errors?") are answered by the submitted article. People don't try to fix errors because of the toxic culture at WP.
Thank you for pointing this out! I have already updated the text for enterprise setup because that was not the intention.

SLA is in progress but the system is planned to be up & free with the current usage.
It might be considered a sort-of subsidy, but ultimately, the people who own land fronting on a road are the main beneficiaries.

I also cannot frame a disparity in mass as "taking away rights." It only gets worse if this is identity politics.

Don't get me wrong - people commuting alone in a car an hour or two a day is simply obscene.

The article does a great job of identifying that the experiment in making all people drivers has failed, though. As long as I live, I'll never understand how people can be so blase about such high risk behavior.
What exactly do you want in life? Why do you want more money? You just complained about wanting to escape the grind, but then you want to double your salary and mention fb and google, two places notorious for high hours where you'll have to grind.
"Early Retirement May Be The Kiss Of Death, Study Finds": http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/early-retirement-may-be-...

"Study: Later retirement may help prevent dementia": http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/15/study-r...

Other references are easy to find. Giving up the structure and purpose of one's life and building a new one on your own is not an easy transition to make, regardless of what young people think.
They are a chip architecture that communicates similarly to how neurons do - i.e. spiking behaviours. Makes it easy to approximate some neural systems (such as a neuromorphic retina).
Thank you for this. Really. Means a ton to me.
An errant comma.
60 minutes produced a segment about him. Here is the transcript: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-kgb-spy-jack-barsky-steve...
Why are people still putting ads in their apps?
The message from unicorns like Facebook, Uber, Google to the world is "We will be as absolutely dickish as possible to establish and secure our market dominance and wealth."

It's always like that. Power seeks more power, and users be damned!
Also, huge shareholder suits: http://digitaljournal.com/pr/3229427
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They're runtime checks, but they're inserted by the compiler at compile time. So yeah, if you link in code that wasn't compiled with them, then that code isn't protected.

You're right that a summary seems hard to find; http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/gcc/gccint_124.html has some decent stuff in it, but given that it's random GCC docs, the details may not be 100% accurate today, I dunno, I'm on a flight layover right now, so that's all I've got at the moment :)
I worked in Montreal for a while. It has a fully self-sufficient downtown, and world class public transport.

But if you drove to a WalMart in a suburb, there would be 20 checkers open with ten or twenty people queued up for each.
Yes as usual everything the world is built on top of is totally wrong. POSIX, C++, any conservative principle, any majority race or sexuality etc.

It's easy to criticize everything endlessly, much more challenging to make things better without tossing out the babies with the bathwater.
Just like IBM is the leader in cloud solutions, did you hear? It's smoke and mirrors to make sure that when the next quarter rolls around, they have some growth to show in what the market believes is "the next big thing".
the dude is 28, if he cant figure it out by the time he's 15...... maybe he needs more guidance.....
This is turning into the Bleak House of copyright cases.
The guy looks happy now, though. His kids tracked each other down, he spends his time dead-dropping cookies for later.

I wonder what might have become of him had he become a chemist. Nothing remarkable, maybe. Might have been even more mundane than the reality of spycraft.