skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought this said 'Richard Stallman' at first and was seriously shocked.
This is what is important to note; Oracle screwed their consulting partners as much as they could by pulling support and 'dev' in-house and simply taking over contracts of big clients. My previous company was hurt quite a lot when Oracle ate BEA. I still talk to clients from back then who miss our support and products as now Oracle is bleeding them dry providing crap. But it seemed like a good idea at the time I guess.
poop is coming out
Wow this is such a wholesome thing to say. I have no idea who this guy is but I now regret never meeting him.
Oh man, there are so many hilarious threads buried in the Straight Dope archives. I have no idea how that forum managed to maintain such a high concentration of genuinely witty posters for so long, but it was a great crowd for years. (Might still be, I dunno.)
I use a Thinkpad X1 Carbon for work and when I unplug the external monitor I never know if it's going to sleep or just freeze.
Well I suppose my statement was a little strong. The Linux kernel is essentially a monorepo: it contains the kernel and many, many dependent projects (drivers/modules). They do what Google claims to do with their monorepo: change all dependent packages at once if they change an internal API.
As the value of Bitcoin grows, transaction cost grows relative to other currencies. Really transaction costs in strictly btc/byte have decreased.
Pretty much everyone agrees the block size will need to grow at some point, including core devs. It is the current proposed method of introducing this change (via hardfork) that is questioned and scrutinized.
Either way "on-premises licenses" sounds weird so I'm likely to stick with "on-premise licenses" regardless. Sorry.

Downvoted for expressing contempt for the English language and common decency, but then failing to add in the obvious "irregardless."
Yale Renames Calhoun College After Grace Hopper
> Where is all the money going in SF with all the highly paid devs? A big wedge to the landlords. Because all productivity gains flow into land because that is what the banks use to create new debt.

But you don't have to live in SF. You live there because that's where employers who will pay high wages are. Therefore, you decide to live there instead of working remotely or living somewhere with a lower cost of living.

Landlords are not the problem (although, they are a symptom). Tech employers who demand you live in SF are the problem. And as long as employees continue to flock there despite the real estate cost, employers will continue to push the externality of housing costs onto them.

When non-tech workers complain its too expensive to live in SF, everyone says "market forces". When tech workers complain its too expensive, its a housing crisis.
Knights and Knaves
The problem with complicated "call to action" pieces like this is that they make great points but amount to nothing. To make a real change is going to come from big business leaders who pursue wealth and a market opportunity (like Uber, not to say that I support them.)

It's simply not going to happen if a few hundred (or hundred thousand) people read this article and try to "ride their bike more" or "vote against that new highway". The system has too much momentum. Your best bet to make a real impact is to found or be a part of a team that is founding a brand new city with this new mentality. You're not going to change Orlando in the next 50 years with wishful thinking and good points.
This is amazing and oddly comforting at the same time.
No, it does mean Rust has no useful safety properties. To do anything, you have to trust a lot of code. The reality is that one of the core selling points of the language was discovered to be unsafe due to some particularly complex combination of library features right before the 1.0 release. Was that patched? Sure. But the idea that it was the only unsound bit of code is absurd. There are almost certainly more in there, many more.
I don't think people get the reference. Your post was in good taste. For those who don't understand look up the hardest logic puzzle.
You can very easily have all the sorts of memory unsafety you have in C, in Rust.
They are not losing money, they get the block reward to sell. This in turn makes all Bitcoin users pay indirectly due to deflation but that is currently not visible because there is money flowing into the system.

But you can just do the math for yourself - the network hash rate is currently 3,160 petahash per second, 300,000 transactions are processed per day, an AntMiner S9 - the most efficient currently available miner as far as I can tell - consumes 98 joules per terahash and you can buy electricity for 5 cents per kilowatt-hour. With this numbers you end up at 1.24 Dollar per transaction and that is as optimistic as it gets when looking at electricity costs. Then add costs for hardware, rent, cooling, labor, profits, ...
I'd view their numbers with some doubt, given that there has been a whistle-blower lawsuit related to it: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-oracle-lawsuit-accounting-...
It's a foolhardy assumption that matter and energy are the only forms of existence in our universe, let alone all possible universes.

I'm not even sure they are distinct except in mode of perception. They may both be emergent properties of a universe that is a) functional and b) lazily evaluated.
I agree. I think it is a natural consequence of the censorship. If you censor comments and ban users that dissent people take the hint pretty quick that diversity of opinion isn't welcome and look elsewhere.

The one hope I have for this whole thing being resolved is that historically there are examples in Bitcoin of groups that were once very influential being superseded. Most notable is probably Ghash.io which had so much hash rate at the height of their power that people were afraid they could perform a 51% attack and that Bitcoin was doomed. Today they don't even register a percentage point.
Thank you! In school we read Kafka, but it was The Metamorphosis. Any clue which Philip Dick books are dystopian?
Here's at least a start: http://www.slideshare.net/embeddedvision/tradeoffs-in-implem...

As you can see, ~10-1000X (the scale is logarithmic) more is spent on compute rather than data movement, and that's with DDR, not even HBM2, let alone on-chip!
It certainly is possible in Rust. Rust is not memory safe.
I know it sounds trivial, but the sheer size of these vessels never ceases to amaze me. Wow!
Do you have any idea how impossible it is to do anything useful without unsafe in Rust on a microcontroller?
Documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHOMRsHS6no

Compare with the interior as imagined in "The Hunt for Red October" :-)
A half-mile ice cap means that the ice has accumulated at a rate of 8 meters per year since the last major eruption 99 years ago. That's equivalent to several dozen meters of snowfall per year.

I wonder if the caldera really gets that much snow, or if the last few eruptions were too small to melt all the ice in the caldera.
Microsoft has a license to the UNIX APIs from AT&T via Cal BSD.
One day that whole new level is going out to the outer planets to have a think.
It is true; we have tunneling, VPNs, ssh, Tor, FreeNet, I2P. None of these things have been criminalized, so what are you thinking about when you say "its" usage has been criminalized? Do you have some examples of when privacy tech has been criminalized in the past? I might be naive, it probably has happened, but I don't personally know of any privacy or security software or hardware that is illegal to use in the US.

People being physically surveilled doesn't land in the same camp as mass digital surveillance. It requires a warrant, even if they can be obtained for petty reasons. The government doesn't have the bandwidth for physical surveillance of everyone. It just isn't the same thing.

20 years from now is a long way off, long enough for us to make it better. If you give up and don't think about it, people who care and work for what they want will probably get what they want. Money and government power certainly do want to watch what you're doing, if they can get away with it. But if the public, on the whole, really truly started to care about privacy, enough to vote on the issue and enough to make purchasing decisions based on privacy concerns, it would get better. The only reason it's bleak right now is the majority of the world is still giddy about joining Facebook, rather than concerned about the implications of digital public over-sharing. Give it time and get your friends & family to care, and it's more likely to improve than not. If we all look the other way, then we get what we get...
Man phenomenal.Engineering. Metal. I used to be obsessed with submarines. Russians have some nice ones, Akulla class... the g Americans and their Seawolf. Of course the iconic German u-botats there's one in a smithsonian museum in Chicago I think, it's nuts. Those 12' long torpedos or longer with contra-rotating propellers... nuts.
In other words you're just writing Rust the way anyone competent writes C in the first place: being careful. You think that the language forces you to be careful, I think what's more likely is that Rust is so difficult and aggravating to use that it discourages the sorts of morons that introduce those errors from using it in the first place.
Firstly, what do you think HTTP load balancers are, if not HTTP servers?

Secondly, why would anyone use a load balancer? Almost every website in existence doesn't need a load balancer.
Surely it's related to communication interception? Either for the Pacific/Southern Ocean or on the Antarctic continent.

Or a giant ruse to divert attention from elsewhere.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

― R. Buckminster Fuller
Ask HN: Magic Wand in hand: which futuristic idea would you bring in instantly
Remember: With great power, comes great responsibility. Choose wisely.
I've also been keeping tabs on the debate and I agree with you except on one account: Not everyone want the Bitcoin to be the next Visa or Paypal, some are perfectly content with a 10 minute confirmation delay as long as the blockchain remains fully distributed and anonymous, whereas others see a business opportunity that could make themselves rich and influential down the line.

The entire narrative about larger block making the network more centralised is a red herring. The network has been going in that direction for quite some time without a block size increase and in any case, going from 1MB to 2MB or even 16MB isn't going to change the economics of running a full node that much, which is to say there are no incentives for non-miners to host a full node at all, regardless of the alleged computing and network overhead (and worse, it can make you a more likely victim of DDoS attacks[0]). The entire point about keeping the 1MB limit (which was meant to be a temporary cap anyway) is to artificially create scarcity in transaction capacity and coerce people into accepting SegWit and eventually fully functional side chains.

This is probably fine for those who believe that A. Bitcoin will become mainstream and B. the ends justify the means, but I find this to be a very unethical position to take.

Disclaimer: I don't own a single cent in BTC, nor do I have association with anyone involved in the Bitcoin scene.

[0]:http://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/the-lates...
My favourite C compiler most certainly is not written in C++.

Many people write programmes in C++, unfortunately. Any Qt programme is written in C++, all performance-dependent modern libraries are written in C++.

Whether people write every layer of their programme in C++ is irrelevant.
Ah, you mean if you divide the block reward by transactions per block. Yeah in that case it's about $7 per transaction right now. That is why we need to increase on-chain transactions so that those fixed per block costs are amortized over a larger number of transactions.
I'm sure you theoretically could run everything on Windows. But you don't, because doing so would be a bad idea.
I'm guessing you went with the open source drivers that have transitioned from horrible to merely inferior without much help from nvidia. The official drivers from nvidia, which you would install as a matter of course with windows, both work better and come with a gui to configure your settings and multiple monitors.
The link I provided in my first response to you clearly shows that segwit can result in much lower transaction throughput.
Install Firefox then.
Containers don't provide additional security, nor do they provide additional ways to restrict resources. If you want to restrict resources or sandbox programmes, you can do so without containers.
Again, no, you are wrong. You cannot do continuous deployment and quality assurance. The entire point of continuous deployment (or delivery or whatever they call it now) is that you are deploying constantly from master.
Coming across The Tao is Silent in college changed my life forever. I've subsequently recommended it to select friends who seemed like they'd benefit from it and they've reported back and told me the book has had similar effects within their life. When I introduce Smullyan to people I explain that he is basically an IRL gandalf math/spirituality wizard.

I just picked up A Spiritual Journey and Set Theory And The Continuum Problem several weeks back. Both of these books feel like they are personal, and direct mathematical and spiritual conversations that are directed towards an audience very much like myself. I told my dad (a practicing amateur number theorist) a few weeks back that the set theory book in particular made me feel like I'd found a mathematical topic (foundations of logic) that really spoke to me and even the first few chapters had clarified some confusion within the area that I'd been carrying for years.

This feels much like I felt a few weeks ago when I found myself regretting that I'd never sent Obama a letter during his presidency and would never get the chance again.

Godspeed Professor Smullyan and thank you for everything you shared with us along the journey!

PS thank you to everyone in this thread who has shared their connection to this wonderful man, it's really heartening to find some community amidst this loss.
Well it isn't a drop-in replacement now. And it wasn't a drop-in replacement before either, on the platforms they needlessly removed compatibility with.

Vim introduced features that had been being worked on since before NeoVim, in a way that actually made sense in the context of Vim, and which fit into Vim nicely.
>NATO bombing of Yugoslavia

One of these things is not like the others
The "average" cost of a Bitcoin transaction is just that, the average. It's not (part of) the true cost. The "true" cost is specific to the transaction. The last time I sent around some Bitcoin, it was around 20$ worth and the fee was whatever the client recommended me. It didn't amount to anything near the average. Why would I care about the average?
Why would you possibly want to do that?

Hell, if you want to do that, you can do it. But there's no reason to want to do that. Partitions are an implementation detail of the filesystem. You shouldn't care whether /home is on the same partition as / or not.
> "I've never felt alone,' he said. "It's been a lot of thinking for years, sleeping in the open. It's very simple to live, we do not need many things."

I'm getting this positive feeling that nature must have cured him off schizophrenia.
While lower house prices would be great for "millennials", the real problem is the gap in income[1] that started a ~25 years ago. Housing prices wouldn't be nearly as bad if incomes were at their proper level relative to productivity.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Producti...
I wouldn't call the developers of Plan9 the 'original UNIX designers'.

For that matter, I think it's naive to say that containers and namespaces are the same thing.
6 through untouched land is nothing like 6km on a paved road.
Reporters who go deep-something we need more of in a time of national divisions
There is at least one prominent core dev that recently seriously proposed _decreasing_ the block size to 1/3rd of what it is currently. The problem is that the block size needed to be increased last year. Agreeing that it needs to be increased at some unspecified point in the future minus any specifics is just a stalling tactic.
If (s)he uses the box for GPGPU computing, you can be pretty sure that they are using nVidias drivers. (CUDA doesn't work when the Nouveau drivers are loaded.)
> 7. SQL functions rarely perform well.

So SQL Server is not good at SQL.

How does it compare performance wise between alternative SQL DBs?
All of the things you listed are basically pennies compared to the over all cost of the home.
The controversy about systemd is that while it has some good ideas, it presents itself as being the only modern init system, when that isn't actually true. All the stupid things about it are defended on the basis that it has all these cool modern features, and its defenders continually compare it to sysvinit rather than other modern init systems (over which it has no advantages).

Its designers are also very anti-open-source, disliking any element of choice. They also seem to care only about desktops.
This post should r updated to link to the CBC post. The DailyMail is unreliable to the point that it is banned from being used as a citation from Wikipedia: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/money/2017/02/09/me...
> What makes some people more vulnerable to accepting things uncritically?

To add to this, I think an additional problem is academia.

So much of success and even prestige in academia is garnered through skills that do not involve critical thinking.

Who hasn't had a conversation with someone at the top of their field who has strong, factually unsupported, convictions about another?

Entire fields are subject to self-interested ideologies, rather than facts (i.e. my undergrad degree in economic science was more propaganda science at all): http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/12/13/economics-scien...

Just to clear up any notion that I'm being bitter, I graduated at the top of my class.

There needs to be entire coursework in critical thinking, starting in primary school. Unfortunately, most of my primary school education outside of maths and language was just rote memorization of facts.
What is it missing? Styles is something I think OO/LO do reasonably well already, and have done so since the StarOffice days. I am specifically talking about paragraph styles so I wonder if there is some other type of styles OO/LO is indeed missing.
I can't think of any really big programmes written entirely in a single language. Every single programme out there is dependent on libraries written in C, kernels written in C, libraries written in C++, etc. Emacs is full of Lisp.

Maybe Chrome? Chrome is written entirely in C++.
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Yeah, I find it so strange that the Google Authenticator setup includes a step to download a recommended 3rd-party scanner scanner, given that GA is pretty much the most important app security-wise you can install on the phone.
> The most obviously missed type would appear to be dystopians characterised by extreme disparities between rich and poor, where the dystopic regime is generally so much better off than the underclass it doesn't need to bother with enforcing or influencing worldviews beyond basic security measure

In Atwood's Oryx and Crake, we learn of a society where the better off live in employer-owned compounds while the less fortunate live in cities referred to as "pleeblands":

“The house, the pool, the furniture – all belonged to the OrganInc Compound, where the top people lived. Increasingly,
the middle-range execs and the junior scientists lived there too. Jimmy’s father said it was better that way, because nobody had to commute to work from the Modules. Despite the sterile transport corridors and the high-speed bullet trains, there was always a risk when you went through the city.”

“Jimmy had never been to the city. He’d only seen it on TV – endless billboards and neon signs and stretches of buildings, tall and short; endless dingy-looking streets, countless vehicles of all kinds, some of them with clouds of smoke coming out the back; thousands of people, hurrying, cheering, rioting. There were other cities too, near and far; some had better neighbourhoods in them, said his father, almost like the Compounds, with high walls around the houses, but those didn’t get on TV much.”

“Compound people didn’t go to the cities unless they had to, and then never alone. They called the cities the pleeblands. Despite the fingerprint identity cards now carried by everyone, public security in the pleeblands was leaky: there were people cruising around in those places who could forge anything and who might be anybody, not to mention the loose change – the addicts, the muggers, the paupers, the crazies. So it was best for everyone at OrganInc Farms to live all in one place, with foolproof procedures.”

“Outside the OrganInc walls and gates and searchlights, things were unpredictable. Inside, they were the way it used to be when Jimmy’s father was a kid, before things got so serious, or that’s what Jimmy’s father said. Jimmy’s mother said it was all artificial, it was just a theme park and you could never bring the old ways back, but Jimmy’s father said why knock it? You could walk around without fear, couldn’t you? Go for a bike ride, sit at a sidewalk café, buy an ice-cream cone? Jimmy knew his father was right, because he himself had done all of these things.”

“Still, the CorpSeCorps men – the ones Jimmy’s father called our people – these men had to be on constant alert.”

Excerpt From: Atwood, Margaret. “Oryx and Crake.” Anchor Books, 2004-03-30. iBooks.
This material may be protected by copyright.

Check out this book on the iBooks Store: https://itun.es/us/f5Qiz.l

I'd highly recommend reading it, it's a great book.
Why '100% in C++'?
1. Casablanca the movie was timed to open in 1942 to benefit from the publicity surrounding the just-completed Allied takeover of Casablanca the city. Until November of 1942, this port city in Morocco, which was formerly a part of the French colonial empire, had been under the dual control of Nazi Germany and the Nazi-puppet government in Vichy, France, that the Germans had installed after occupying France in 1940.

2. Nowaday, the situation of Hong Kong looks like Casablanca during World War II.
Wilson was racist even by the standards of his time.
Anyone can make any case appealable to the Federal Circuit just by throwing in any claim arising under the patent laws. You can add an obviously bogus and unrelated patent claim in initial filings and then drop it in pre-trial and still guarantee biased CAFC jurisdiction.

You could probably force a random criminal trial into the CAFC with a little creativity. It's really easy to go to CAFC if you want to. And if you're abusing intellectual property law, you really want to because they're corrupt like a Venezuelan payday loan used car dealer.
Is there a breakdown of the costs of the cleanup?
>The "next generation" of developers equals SQL engines with "old and bad", and when forced, it ends up with Postgres anyway.

Anyone that equates SQL with "old and bad" is, not to put too fine a point on it, ignorant and/or stupid.

>Except for Java, that is. The current tech is powered by Linux and there isn't really anything as big as Java on Linux. Python has been pretty significant and Go is making inroads, but the default is all Java. It is going to be interesting to watch how this will play out.

I don't know where you get this idea from. The most popular languages on Linux are Perl, Bash, Python, C and C++.
Lovely series, but first thing I thought of when reading the article was The Americans, it's about two spies in the Soviet illegals program living in a DC suburb.

Would definitely recommend it if you liked Deutschland 83.