skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure whether today's coherent caches, atomic operations etc. are a poor fit for what you want to do leaving much room for improvement (I'm sure someone familiar with say the Go stack will be able to say more; I can say that for computational parallelism everything is fine with current hw but there 100K tasks would map to dozens of threads, tops and if you want 100K concurrent actors maybe things look differently, at any rate I don't see how the shared-nothing part creates a problem hardware can solve here, I think maybe there are problems in the (lots and lots of concurrent actors) part but I'm not sure.)

Incidentally, IMO shared-nothing is an inherently inefficient model for multiple actors cooperating to perform a single computation, and nothing done in hardware can fully eliminate the cost introduced by the model (and if something can be done is can be done by code analysis transforming the code into a more efficient shared memory model.) This is not to say that there's no value in such a system - far from it, just that it's a poor fit for something things which can only mapped onto it with some overhead that hardware cannot eliminate.
With a functional regulatory framework, you wouldn't need private entities handling this; public ones could.
i think public pressure of the board of directors is the right approach here:

Shervin Pishevar, John Gurley, David Bonderman, David Drummond, Arianna Huffington, Garrett Camp, Ryan Graves

some of these people have reputations that are worth more than their stake in uber. the desire to uphold their reputations may be enough to get them to truly act on this matter.
Another article with some fake name and pull the woman card to justify slandering....Uber probably did not meet your expectations but for sure they aren't much worse than most companies in this field.
Can't understand the attraction to ATP.

Just seems it's 3 guys complaining the Mac isn't like it used to be for 2 hours every week.
Well there's a Mozilla employee posting in this discussion thread, so you might start by reaching out to him. He'll likely have some suggestions.
> it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.longs.Long2IntOpenHashMap?!?

That's just a library that provides data structures without boxing of int,double... in Java. This eliminates a lot of overhead.
sorry alphapapa, it may not be obvious on the site as it is currently, but you are able to save 1 link to multiple lists
Some behaviors are generally considered unethical, regardless of whether a victim complains. If you murder someone, that's (generally) unethical, even if the victim's family doesn't seem to mind. Saying the victim was too apathetic to care will not change the verdict.

Sexual harassment in the workplace is unethical, even if the (wo)man pretends to like it.
None of the stories coming out of Uber sounds remotely like high achievers making lesser beings feel left behind. It sounds like a toxic culture with lousy management.
> If you cant express your own discomfort, its not anyone but your fault youre uncomfortable.

Forgive me if I don't buy your bleats of "strawman". You not only believe it, but you believe it so much you wished to express it in probably the grossest way I've seen somebody express an idea around here who wasn't literally advocating "race realism".

It is always the asshole's fault for being an asshole and making others uncomfortable. It is no one's responsibility but their own. Put this victim-blaming nonsense back in some dark hole where it belongs.
I think you are right on the first part. I don't view racism and sexism as exactly the same type of thing. Racism is just evil, and sexism is sometimes just ignorance (he hits on her and doesn't know it's not wanted). But, same ignorance could be argued for racism, even though I think it's different. I dont think uber wants or cares for my opinion, but if it's beyond the pale, in both case, fire on first offense. Else, one warning and then out.

Your second paragraph suggests an ideal that we should aspire to but it's not the reality for startups and high growth industries. If we seek out this part of this industry we shouldn't bellyache about the hours.
Is a "ubersurvivor" hashtag really what's needed?

WARNING: this comment is not a safe place and contains my opinions.

Victim praising will do nothing to change Uber's behavior. Expecting Uber to change anything as the result of your words is a fools errand. The more likely outcome is Uber will only harden it's shell. Do you expect one of the most highly praised startups of the last decade to suddenly find religion and say, "oh we were wrong, you are all right? (and actually mean it)"?

People vote with their feet (Milton Friedman). Talk is cheap (Fat Tony). If you want to start a revolution, don't try to change others, change yourself (Jordan Peterson).

Uber is suffering for its transgressions in the form of talent loss. Susan Fowler indicated the number of female engineers at Uber significantly reduced during her time there. The nice thing about employment at will is that it works both ways. It's scary to leave a high-profile high-status job and go into the unknown; it's also a very powerful action.
But the OP's point stands generally: If this were a smear campaign by a competing company, how different would it look?

I sympathize greatly with Ms. Fowler not least because she put her reputation out there and claimed to have documentation of the specific offenses, which a decently respectable journalism outfit like the NYTimes could fact-check. Fowler's story could be exaggerated, but I have reasonable doubt that it's true, or true enough to merit scorn toward Uber.

As inexcusable as this "Amy"'s story is if true, we have to keep our heads and recognize when we have a falsifiability problem on our hands with the current facts.
Same here: http://www.trustedreviews.com/raspberry-pi-zero-w-review
Even in the ideal case (inert gas, no anthrax rocket, the first stage duly recycled), the energy usage would remain as a consideration.

You may have a point regarding the public perception; don't really care to weigh in.
"Recently"? They're in deep public relations trouble recently. They've been ethically reprehensible for ever.
Probably a few years before they finish developing the flying machines that can be anywhere on the planet within 20 minutes to drop a bomb and obliterate the entire building you're in. Those jet engines they're talking about would be hot enough to melt tungsten, this is just math, it's trivial in comparison.

Edit: and don't get me started on the "cruise missiles". 1000 km range and they hit within five meters, and with unit cost less than training for a single infantryman? Total bullshit, I can't believe anyone buys it.
One doesn't retain Eric Holder to investigate. When a company has a race problem they pay a high profile member of that race some dough to appear to set things right. Does anyone know of such a case in which things were actually set right? I'm willing to believe that I've never heard the story because it's boring news, but still
There are games that do good, like Fold-It[0] and Mozak.

That is, they are manual research aids packaged as games; playing them fills a genuine need.

[0] http://fold.it/portal/
Have you seen who is President these days?
When people say that they want to "remove Pocket from Firefox", they don't mean just hiding a toolbar button or disabling it using about:config.

They don't want it there at all, in any way. They don't want it using any of their computing resources, no matter how minute this usage might be.

They tend to see it as something that should be available as an add-on that's installed on-demand by those who actually want the functionality.
Did some more research, and yes, Apollo 13 was indeed the furthest in geocentric distance as well.
OP has been blatantly asking for upvotes in Twitter and attempting to bypass the voting ring detector using the /newest trick:

http://imgur.com/4M1NNXz

http://imgur.com/DYnJOcB

While this is a good submission and likely earned many upvotes legitimately, that doesn't justify gaming the system, which is why I am highlighting it.
> To clarify, any time I in any way praise floating point, I'm always talking about double precision.

64-bit fixed point solves a lot of problems too :)

> I think single precision floating point should never have been invented, and given that it unfortunately was, it's best to behave as though it doesn't exist. Don't get me started about half precision.

A 4x memory bandwidth & storage penalty for HDR buffers would be absolute murder (bloating a single 4k RGBA surface to 265MB if I've done my math right), so I'm glad we have the option. And in the historical context lower precision options were invented in, RAM wasn't nearly as cheap as it is today. Tradeoffs.
The Dolphin systems seem more expensive than just buying 4U servers.
Never seen anything like this in NYC
I currently work in tech in the (east) bay, formerly in NYC, and have yet to encounter these frat types in technical roles.
Virtualizable hardware-assisted message passing is awesome. (MIPS for instance had a big fat ISA extension for hardware-assisted message passing and cheap hardware multithreading which Linux couldn't use and they then threw out the window exactly when they introduced hardware virtualization of the entire set of processor resources.)

As to software-based queues dying a fiery death - in what scenarios? As I said in a sister comment, I (think that I) know that things work out in computational parallelism scenarios where many tasks are mapped onto a thread pool, TBB-style, that is, I don't think the hardware overhead is ridiculously large in these systems. Where do things go badly? 100K lightweight threads communicating via channels, Go-style?
Tax dollars, yes but not as any kind of subsidy.
Unfortunately, as but one option, yes.

Assuming it gets to that. Your tape won't see the light of the courtroom because it'll be ruled inadmissible (fruits of the poisoned tree).

It'll be sealed by the court over the felony hearing because it contains statements that could be materially damaging to be released (that the person said them is not in question, unfortunately, more their 'expectations', right or wrong, when they said them). Won't get out that way.

Oops. They got leaked, overtly or covertly? During one of those trials? Look forward to contempt proceedings.

After the trial, look forward to defamation proceedings.
Do i believe what you quoted? Obviously. You'll have to explain to me how what you quoted is even remotely controversial.

Do I disagree with this?

>If one is so utterly devoid of empathy as to be unable to pick up when they are making others (caveat: unnecessarily) uncomfortable--which is to say that an uncomfortable conversation about job performance is different in kind from being a shithead sexist--then they should be nowhere near a position of authority in the first place.

Not at all. Your indication that I do is still dishonest, and I think anyone whos reasonable would find your behavior wholly worse than mine.

Also, gross? How was anything I said remotely gross? Maybe you should take a step back yourself, because it seems your response is based on what you imagine i believe rather than anything I said.
> plus mars gives nice tools to actually land, like an atmosphere.

Actually Mars is a pretty difficult place to land. The atmosphere is just thick enough to require heavy heat shields, but too thin for parachutes to be sufficient.

Here's a Wired article that talks about some of the issues - https://www.wired.com/2011/11/landing-on-mars/
After reading the original blog post I went to remove my account from the app. It asked to provide always on access to location and when I refused I couldn't even reach app's menu. I removed the app and used the same link you provided to remove my account, and mentioned my experience in the comment section. Now they sent me an email saying that my account is still active and they'll fix the app. The fact that process of closing my account is not a single button press and is taking me more than two days is beyond ridiculous and infuriating to be honest.
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I might have given the wrong impression, see my other comment below. "Clowntown" is almost always directed at ourselves, in a self-mocking, playful way.

Also see answers to this Quora question:
https://www.quora.com/When-people-who-work-at-Facebook-say-c...

> It's a way to bring much-needed levity to the process of solving hard problems.

> It's a playful, tongue-in-cheek, self-deprecating term to describe a situation in a company whose motto was "move fast and break things."
Yea I was thinking the bandwidth limitations would be on the CPU because of data decryption... your points are valid though even with that. It's not a great example. I still think that varying degrees of security are fine with these types of things.
> Pocket makes money.

Just pocket money though.
Sometimes I get really annoyed with it, as it can be three guys complaining about Apple in general, which I don't care too much about.

The real good stuff comes when they talk about programming, gaming, and cars, which happens every episode. They also had a good interview recently with Chris Lattner that is worth the listen.
Pretty sure this kind of capability exists on the highways as well, particularly between heavy trafficking corridors like Philly to Montreal.

IIRC, there was a NY Times article a few years ago (which I cannot find) that mentioned that it started with LPR cameras, but was capable of capturing faces as well.
This^

I don't care if it was done under Obama too, it doesn't bless it and shouldn't make it okay with liberals.

Trump is still worthy of criticism by association because of his immigration policies clearly back this kind of behavior. And Obama is too if he condoned this.
Yes but:

- I believe lowering the population density will not annihilate those benefits. Paris was still Paris with the half of its population, but you could find a pre-school much more easily 50 years ago.

- the benefits of the current density can be achieved with a lower one given our current knowledge and technology

- accumulating wealth is probably not as much as linked to population density (in our modern countries) as that we have added science (machines and software) to our optimized slavery and theft.

- With a smaller population, we may be able on concentrate on quality of life. And education, which could lead to limit our current huge amount of wastes and appetite for superficial things. This could balance what we loose for a higher density population.
I agree, the Chris Lattner interview was really interesting.
So as a rough straw man sketch of how such a thing could work:

1. Consumer grade routers include a secure VPN endpoint. Whenever the router connects, it registers its internet-facing address with some vendor-specific DNS service under a name unique to that router but persistent at least until the router is factory-reset.

2. Devices on the local WiFi network can request a VPN access token. Optionally this requires a separate password set in the router, or pressing a physical button on the router a la WPS. As part of provisioning the token, the vendor-specific DNS name is also provided to the device. The provisioning process requires connecting back to a listening socket on the client device.

3. Devices (eg your mobile phone / tablet) provisioned with a VPN access token can then connect back in to your local network remotely. Each VPN access token is time-limited, configurable on the router but generally something in the range of 7 to 60 days. After the token expires you must connect back locally to the local network to renew it - renewal is blocked over the VPN connection itself.

4. The router interface can be used to list and manually revoke access tokens.

5. The client device can automatically connect to the VPN, eg when requested by an app for one of these IoT devices. On operating systems like Android and IOS, access to the VPN should be restricted to a specific granted permission.
> had the capsule been fitted with them, it would have stayed entirely clear of the event. It'd be a rough ride, but it would have been a survivable event.

Safety isn't defined by, 'did it work out ok?', but by the risk. In this case, the outcome the parent describes is hypothetical; among other things, it assumes the emergency escape system would have worked perfectly. I assume NASA wants to evaluate the risk of the helium tanks, not the hypothetical outcome.

For example, some people have survived plane crashes; the fact that it worked out doesn't mean that the risk was acceptable.
The Stanford eCorner[0]. I particularly like the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series[1].

Startups For the Rest of Us[2]

Entreprogrammers[3]

[0] http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts

[1] http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts/etl

[2] http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

[3] http://entreprogrammers.com/
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Not really, you can run unmodified Debian on either of those boards, same for Arch & most other distros. The chip in the Zero will never be able to do that since its ARMv6, plus your paying a premium for it.

My last experience with a Raspi 3 and all the broken packages in Raspbian just killed the idea of buying anything requiring I use closed, broken stuff, as its a nightmare to work with.
Why is it important to remove the weight a word carries?
> ... two private citizens ... have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission. Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind ...

Except that these two private citizens are presumably absurdly wealthy. Whereas the nationalize space program which brought forth the Apollo mission gave all private citizens, as well as schoolchildren for generations, hope and aspirational outlooks.

Whereas the current national situation in the US, with respect to primary-school education and government-supported science is quite dire. So things are not at all hopeful right now, and many of us suffer nightmares of violence and deportation.

So, there's that.
We were specifically talking about government recognition of same-sex marriage. Can you explain again how that infringes on your religious liberty?

Everything else in your comment is basically offtopic.
Not startup-y, but tech podcasts...

I like the SANS Internet Storm Center daily podcast because it's short, to the point, and gives just enough detail that I can use to follow up on if I need/want to. I listen to some BSD Now episodes that sound interesting. I previously liked TechSNAP but had to quit listening after they recently changed hosts.
Of course, and I don't disagree about any of this (nor does anything I have said so far). I think you're missing my point here.

Also I'd appreciate a response in the other threads we have!
Ask HN: Would you pay a consultant for this service?
If you have an app, software, or IT solution applicable to law enforcement needs would you hire a consultant who had law enforcement and government IT experience to review your product, make detailed compliance requirements for your product, and connect you with prospective clients? How valuable would this service be to you if you are looking to break into this market?
> They are indeed still missing. I postponed them for when I have a good idea on how to handle both a SSD and a M.2/PCI-E SSD without adding another static Box. Guess it's time to add them to the SSD section for now.

Sure. Or maybe add them, SATA SSDs, and hard drives to a multiple-selection "Storage" box? I definitely think it's time to add them, they're similar in price and much faster than SATA SSDs!

> For 3: Are you still talking about the swap page there?

No, sorry, the "Advanced" tab, which is where AMD/Intel is selected.
it makes a lot of sense. Americans are taught PC behavior. It is incorrect to assume that our local fetish is considered a universal good. In my experience it is one of the peculiarities of US culture that foreign born, especially Asians, initially struggle with
We do not know what the truth is. We can only speculate. If those allegations were true, I wish uber will come out and address them.

Uber itself is a victim here. They are going after some other big monopolies in the industry. It could be as simple as their mistakes are blown out of proportion to smear them by their competition. We see similar big co is bad stories once a while its not like Uber has a monopoly in treating employees badly.
with an example answer like what was linked in an earlier comment [1], i will answer as many as i can for free, if you reply directly to this comment

[1] "hey yeah, i don't really understand your product, but a few law firms you could google might be interested... also notice my lack of a warm intro for you... thanks"
> If I were to do this in C++ … I would use the C++11 std::unordered_map<> …

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#contribute
I was at the time of writing and still am an accelerator architect and I'd gladly use someone's idea in a mass market product (ASIC) if they didn't mind. However, it is also true that working on any real product means that many valid ideas useful in some contexts will not be useful for me, and I guess this is true for many ideas for speeding up higher-level programming models, and perhaps it was misleading of me to fail to point this out. (As I said I don't love the tone of that article, it is unfortunately very effective as my articles written in that tone around 2008 tend to resurface more often than articles written in nicer, more balanced tone and with way more technical details from around say 2012-2013. What is my takeoff wrt future writing I'm still not quite sure.)
You work with the agencies you are beholden to, to determine if you are working within the parameters they set- this should not be an antagonistic relationship. Uber apparently does not believe in that sort of thing and are arrogant enough to just go it alone. They will pay dearly for that hubris now.

Uber is just a disgusting company that I wish didn't exist. Fortunately they have far more ethical competition to choose from.
It's not stretching the definition at all.

You can hardly be a large business in any developed nation without having substantial business relationships with various world governments.

See: Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Boeing, Caterpillar, Lockheed Martin, Ford, GM, 3M, Berkshire Hathaway, General Electric, etc.

Might as well pretend Medtronic, Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson aren't private, because they do so much business with government healthcare systems.
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I thought his mention of Holy Grail was more in line with the definition "a thing that is being earnestly pursued or sought after." [1]

I don't think his eschatology was at all a part of his argument.
How can you be so sure it was Uber? Susan's tweet was intentionally vague [0].

You are forgetting that some past and present employees that could be directly implicated by Susan's evidence may also choose the smear campaign route to save their hide.

This could range from the women in HR* who might get thrown under the bus by Uber for aiding and abetting, to the men that perpetrated the actual harassment.

*Of course this scenario playing out is highly unlikely given Uber's history.

[0] https://twitter.com/susanthesquark/status/835193441814392833
Edit: on second thought, you're probably right. I think I was too off the cuff in responding. Left original response below.

If by best fit you mean minimizing sum squared error, that's fair.

But to be sure, if someone said t-test, and they only had one group, I would first guess they were doing a one-sample t-test.

Even with two dependent variables and one group, I would think over whether they did a dependent t-test.

I figured it was a simple linear model (in this case a correlation) because they mentioned that they tested the relationship, and it makes sense, but it seems important to sanity check the use of the term t-test, which can be highly ambiguous (and I have seen used in very surprising ways).
Might find some useful answers at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9836023