skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At current population growth, 'post-scarcity' will never come.
Yeah.. I trust you, thats my VPN is already in place.
Out of interest, for those who have been in the Bay Area for a while, when was the best time to live there?
Happiness and Life Satisfaction (2017)
The last set has all sorts of FOIA obtained photographs, documents, audio, etc., presented in video format, not just videos. As per the crappy video frames, that is my understanding as well.
Google Gnome – Google Store
SourceForge are still going, they were bought up (along with Slashdot) by BizX last year. SF President, Logan Abbot, does a fair bit of outreach on Reddit.[1]

They do seem to actually care about the two properties.

Supposedly there's a big redesign of SF in the pipeline, and more importantly, the first thing they did when they took over was cancel that malware hijack monetization bullshit which the previous owners had embarked upon. They scan for malware now too apparently, added 2FA and are offering HTTPS downloads. Regaining trust is an uphill battle, but they're giving it a damn good go.

Searching HN to see if he'd done similar to his AMA-type thing on /r/sysadmin[2], it's sad to see their blogposts have been posted and got no love. I didn't even know SF had a blog, and it seems to have some cool content.

(He didn't do an AMA-style post here, probably wise, but the Reddit post was submitted here and he showed up in the comments [3]).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/user/loganabbott
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4n3e1s/the_state_...
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11860752
Hey steauengeglase!

>> A likely "better" internet isn't a world of several thousand descending on a single comment thread.

I cannot agree with you more! We have been thinking about this problem for a while, and recently started https://www.commonlounge.com/ because we genuinely believe a community-based approach is the right way to win the battle against trolls.

Most people don't realize how much care a community moderator needs to put in a community to keep it a healthy place, and building tools to make their job easier usually takes a back seat at most "community platforms".
There's a decent amount of developmental psychology research on the subject:

https://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/documents/seccyd...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200704/daycare-rais...
It's April 1st somewhere.
I tell my kid not to run in the street for a reason. On the Internet, you can run in the street all day, and if someone hits you, it's not your fault because "victim blaming is wrong".
So there might be specific products that hit certain market segments(FWIW I really like Lattice's offerings). It's just that Watt to Watt GPUs should be more efficient since they can use the latest process and don't have to carry around 4-LUT + SRAM.

On the DSP side, you're using a ASIC DSP(can't change the width for instance) anyway on most modern FPGAs so you're comparing ASIC to ASIC at that point.
I wouldn't advise illegally immigrating to Singapore, because they probably wouldn't let you back in if they found out :)

For me specifically, I applied to a program for young professionals to intern in Singapore, to see how they like it and see if an employer will offer a work visa for in demand positions.

You could also come here by starting a company with a relatively low amount of capital/revenue/employee count requirement.

Additionally, they don't seem too too strict about visa runs to Indonesia, Thailand, etc. It isn't a long term strategy though and doesn't give you the right to a CPF or legal work in the country, or medical insurance (though there are fine clinics here compared to the US).

Of course you can also marry a Singaporean. You'll likely receive a Permanent Residency, which in my opinion is better than citizenship. Unless you are Malay. Then you might be one of the 35,000 ethnic Malaysians who married a Singaporean and were denied a PR anyway for (political!) reasons.
I do recommend clj-ml if all you need is a set of sensible ML algorithms (in this case based on Weka):

https://github.com/joshuaeckroth/clj-ml/

The only reason to tolerate a language as terrible as R is that it has such astonishingly broad library support - there is basically no algorithm you can find on Wikipedia that doesn't have some sort of R implementation. Incanter will never have this, and tbh it's very difficult to create outputs as pretty as themed ggplots. For very simple statistical analysis Incanter's okay (and I've seen smart people build lots more on top of it), but even really basic model-fitting stuff isn't built in, and if you're not smart or just don't have the time, it'd be mad to commit to that environment.

It's a shame because structurally it's quite nice, and I did buy into the idea that Lisps were well suited to this sort of work, especially being very REPL focused.
The content of this article, and the reason for such articles, has been covered before:

http://web.archive.org/web/20140625080831/http://thelastpsyc...

As ever, trolls are not who you should be worried about.
Huh? On Win10Ent I've got both of my displays set to different scaling factors and changes take effect immediately (like, as soon as I release the slider).
I like Singapore too, but it's also one of the densest cities in the world, with the highest cost of living. In fact, I don't think even Singaporeans would describe their city as being "cheaper, less crowded and friendlier."

https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2017/03/29/singapore-retain...
"considering leaving in the next few years" as stated in the poll is not the "want to leave" used for the headline (and even further from the "likely to leave" needed to justify the claim of a likely exodus.)
Reprising a Lobste.rs comment:

I pulled the indictment from PACER. The story is oversimplifying the case.

The indictment is far more concerned with Huddleston’s affiliation with Zachary Shames, who was convicted (apparently dead-to-rights) for selling a keylogger called “Limitless”. The indictment mentions Limitless more than it mentions NanoCore. Shames wasn’t very smart: the DOJ has records of him providing tech support to users who were clearly using his keylogger to harm people.

Huddleston has two big problems. The first is that he sold licensing software to Shames for the Limitless keylogger. The second is that the DOJ apparently has Huddleston and Shames in a Skype group together talking about this stuff.

The Beast article snarks about the indictment mentioning HackForums repeatedly. But the Beast article doesn’t think it’s important for you to know about the HackForums Skype group Huddleston and Shames shared; in fact, Shames himself gets only a tiny sliver of the article, despite being the fulcrum of the indictment.

RAT software theoretically has legitimate uses. But, obviously, we all know that most RAT software isn’t legitimate. NanoCore sure wasn’t. It has a DDoS botnet tab, for Christ’s sake. Huddleston’s attempts to position it as legitimate software are about as compelling as the “no copyright claimed” comments on a Youtube video.

But having said that: it’s unlikely Huddleston would be in the amount of trouble he is in had he simply written a malicious RAT. His problems are his connections to a criminal conspiracy that got busted.
Strictly speaking, Coherent wasn't a V7 port – they wrote the code from scratch rather than using any of AT&T's code, and they never paid AT&T any Unix license fees.

AT&T was suspicious, but even after a careful investigation by Dennis Ritchie himself, they couldn't prove any of their code had been copied.

Given both the V7 source code and Coherent source code have now been released, you can compare them yourself and form your own opinion, if you'd like.

V7 source code: http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7

Coherent source code: http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=Coherent4.2.10
‘Your animal life is over. Machine life has begun.’
Libreboot X220: A GNU+Linux Laptop That Respects Your Freedom
But that most exclude Muslims and Christians, right?
Is there any Google apps made using Flutter at the moment?
You keep blaming the military for the Shuttle, but to justify the Shuttle NASA forced the air force to cancel its own space program to fly on the Shuttle, so NASA forced itself to modify the Shuttle to meet Airfirce requirements.

And your confidence in their big project budgeting i misplaced. The air force didn't force them to miss their 50 flight a year commitment, they greatly underestimated refurb times/costs for the engines, orbiter and SSRbs. They rstinated $15M a flight and actually cost $1.5B a flight.

NASAs own estimates are over $750M a flight over first decade with development (pad costs are dev costs). But they don't even have missions for all those flights, it's extremely unlikely they'll do 4 a year or control their costs when congress is involved.

"During the joint Senate-NASA presentation in September 2011, it was stated that the SLS program had a projected development cost of $18 billion through 2017, with $10 billion for the SLS rocket, $6 billion for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle and $2 billion for upgrades to the launch pad and other facilities at Kennedy Space Center.[12] These costs and schedule were considered optimistic in an independent 2011 cost assessment report by Booz Allen Hamilton for NASA.[79] An unofficial 2011 NASA document estimated the cost of the program through 2025 to total at least $41bn for four 70 t launches (1 unmanned, 3 manned),[2][3] with the 130 t version ready no earlier than 2030.[80]

The Human Exploration Framework Team (HEFT) estimated unit costs for Block 0 at $1.6bn and Block 1 at $1.86bn in 2010.[81] However, since these estimates were made the Block 0 SLS vehicle was dropped in late 2011, and the design was not completed.[82] The Space Review estimated the cost per launch at $5 billion, depending on the rate of launches."

And nothing about the SLS is reusable or hard to duplicate except the blank check they s paying for it. Its reliance on SRBs is low tech, and risky on a manned rated vehicle. It's a far less impressive launch vehicle than the SaturnV.

Raptor is already in testing. The BE-4 is on the way. The Russians built Energia. If NASA bid out its heavy launch capability they'd cut their heavy launch costs by at least 70%.
I think it may be an April Fools joke. It is dated for tomorrow. It says in the page source that they sold for $1.1 Billion, but is that real or a joke?
> I have nothing in particular against the Bay Area

Really, because this seems pretty particular:

> Why would you want to live in a crowded, VERY expensive, a bit smoggy, overly regulated city with a long daily commute-
Question to all: is there a ycombinator for open source projects? Is it even possible to have one without profit as a motivator?
Not the "if you are willing to be manipulative" statement. That is what defines a troll. A "troll" is simply an entity (of race human) who is willing to remove choice from others by tricking them into removing choice for themselves.

So, what is choice? I hypothesize it is work. Work done and saved on one hand. Work to be done on the other. Some of our choices are based on what has come before regarding the choice we must make. I like German beer, so I drink one each day. Some comes from other humans, however, who choose to remove our choice for us. Advertising does this, for example. Sometimes choice is removed from use of logic, or rationality.

It is my belief that our choices are, in part, governed by our visualization systems. I'm talking about that thing in your head that allows us to visualize images similar to what we see while using compute devices, such as this monitor, graphics card, computer I am typing on now.

If someone else, besides you, can get you to visualize something, I'm asserting that this is actually a choice of removal of choice by yourself.
This chatbot adds people on all social media
Leave me out of it
I'm honestly shocked a warrior monk like Mattis took the SECDEF job. I am sincerely concerned that upon meeting Trump, he decided to take the job simply to keep it away from real crony.
Yeah buddy we should lock up anyone who makes fun of your wise blogs.
It isn't "perfectly normal." It's very much not normal for adult professionals to cram 2 people to a bedroom or a "converted" living room into small (these aren't "spacious") apartments.

That's not even normal for college students who live off campus. Maybe it is for 2 to a bedroom, but definitely not to have a converted living room.
viral hacking - they want you to spam for them. It says $1.1 billion in page source. It is also dated for tomorrow. April 1.
McDonald’s Canada says info of 95,000 job applicants compromised after hack
Author here - I'm advocating the latter.

I agree with you to a point. However, I believe that those things that have been with us for decades: sound cards, 2D graphics adaptors, network cards, etc. can be done in FPGAs, and should be.

The speed is there, and the power used by the southbridge and peripherals is eclipsed by the processor and the screen backlight, so I don't think the power consumption is worth worrying about (I'd be interested to see evidence to the contrary, though).

Put another way: much of the foundational chips on motherboard are no long performance-sensitive, so we shouldn't be paying a compatibility price for it.
I didn't know traditional houses over a hundred years old existed in this country. The sole exception that have witnessed are western style building in Hakodate, however they are anything but traditional.

More importantly, when you speak about these throwable houses, are you sure that is a "desirable feature"?
That fact is, there are no more trolls than before. No really. There aren't. Not even since the time of Socrates, and we all know what happened to him.

There are however a lot of people who'd like to silence pesky individuals and organizations who have recently started winning even more pesky debates, such as all those anti-establishment rednecks, patriots, anti-immigrationitsts and right wingers who got Trump into power.

Can't have that. Must put pressure on Google and Facebook to censor (wait, I'm trying to come up with something suitable - hm... Yes, let's call it...) "hate speech" and "fake news". Yeah, that's it!

Now we have the means to shut them up once and for all. Let's softly censor all people saying bad words on YouTube with things like (hm find new ideas here) demonetization and restricted mode, and let's cow these people once and for all so our narrative can win. Meanwhile let's use our corporate power for, let's say on behalf of the people, to put pressure on the governments to back down on the things that they were voted in for in the first place.

There's only one problem. When you make peaceful dissent impossible, you make violent opposition inevitable. Not my words. JFK's. We absolutely must have democracy and freedom of speech. One doesn't work without the other. If you can't win an argument, then accept it and move on. Or try to find another angle. Limiting free speech to win debates is not the answer.
Smart TV hack embeds attack code into broadcast signal–no access required
OK - I should have not mentioned Flint, MI. My intention is not to play-down funding for fundamental research. But really, I think the NSF would agree with the non-urgent nature of funding "reducing potential risks from advanced AI". They probably get proposals for things that are much more immediate, say algebraic geometry research that produces quantum-resistant cryptography at the similar computational complexity of existing methods.
> Neither of those things are forbidden by unions.

They can be - and most unions do prohibit negotiation with employers. SAG-AFTRA is the exception, not the rule, due mostly to the temporary, part-time, and gig-based nature of their work.
Could you elaborate why google calendar is horrible for you?
MongoDB DAO plugin for Para, 1.24.0 released
> At the time, there weren't a tremendous number of good options for hosting projects.

Are there now?

Don't get me wrong, I love github but honestly, I wouldn't want everything to converge into a monoculture we're slowly moving toward.
You article about hiring a C++ developer made me chuckle on the interviewees' answers; apart from the "virus" one I've also heard all the others - and had the same thoughts. You'd think that one would prepare a bit more before being interviewed, but I guess that's more common that I expected.

By the way, I really liked your interview questions; very straightfoward and to the point.

Something I usually ask when interviewing is the difference from C and C++ - specially if the résumé lists "C/C++" instead of separating both - as many people view C++ as a "C with classes".. which is not a fifth of what modern C++ really is.
It's largely a historical accident now, somewhat like "National Biscuit Co." (Nabisco) or "American Telephone and Telegraph".

"WikiLeaks was originally established with a "wiki" communal publication method, which was terminated by May 2010.[34] Original volunteers and founders were once described as a mixture of Asian dissidents, journalists, mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the United States, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa.[35] As of June 2009, the website had more than 1,200 registered volunteers.[35][36][37]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks
[tor-dev] Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam
As someone with very little knowledge or understanding of fusion, I'm aware that it's very unlikely to become practical in my life time, if ever.

This is a nice video explaining fusion power:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZsaaturR6E

The interesting thing to me is the need for Helium-3, which we'll need to harvest from the moon.
Postfix definitely predated that by at least several years, and I think qmail may have been out a little before that as well...
> Another reason why I don't think "manners" matter is Japan; isolationist until the Meiji Restoration, rapidly modernized after despite the "manners" remaining intact.

Japan abolished social classes (or pretended to) and nobody gets killed for insulting a samurai these days. The voluntary-then-forced Westernization was a pretty major changes.
Why do people here try so hard to be condescending sometimes? Laughing and mocking does not help when prior to it others tried to provide earnest replies, based on experience and presumably reality. Please save the vitriol for arguing with those reason does not work on.

Your points do have merits in showing Java is imperfect. I would even say that it is deeply flawed. I would not agree it is impractical.

The simple fact about the practicality of Java can be shown in the millions and millions of lines of code powering much of the boring business infrastructure in the United States. If Java disappeared overnight Banks, Insurance companies and much of the rest of the financial sector wouldn't open the following morning (And then we look at our phones).
Someone else in this business says they see 1 minute for 1 page faxes, but faster for longer faxes...Because the first page has the initial handshake.

http://www.faxage.com/learn_faxing_by_minutes_versus_faxing_...

I'm sure some pages take longer, but it doesn't seem odd that most pages aren't complex.
It is, in context of the average TLC viewer. TLC is the same network that aired Here Comes Honey Boo Boo for four seasons. Something had to drive those ratings.

Granted, I loathe executives that peddle the trash far more. There's something morally bankrupt about it, especially considering viewership can be in the millions. It's analogous to a software company with zero regard for craftsmanship; kicking garbage out the door because they know it'll sell.
Patrick Rothfuss: How to “Fund” Your Passion Projects
BTW: Falcon Hesvy is 100k lbs for $100M. If the SLS is able to pull off $750M launch costs (doubtful) that still 3x more per pound.
To what extent are Wikileaks actively soliciting inputs from Russia or China?

Why, for example, was the Panama Papers leak (or other major financial disclosure leaks) not handled through Wikileaks?

(Edward Snowden's disclosures would be another example, though that did target the US.)
For most people, $1200 is a lot of money to spend on a laptop. I think for Canonical it might send the wrong message to their users that Ubuntu is trying to be the Apple of Linux rather than trying to make computing accessible to as many people as possible.
We are going to argue against the entire industrial revolution because some white dudes are upset that they have to work for good jobs now?
Interesting:

>the more their teachers later reported that they do not work independently, did not use their time wisely, and did not complete their work promptly in grade school.

I'm not raising kids to do homework. Real learning isn't copying from a book. It'd be interesting to look at this at a later date. Looks like these studies should have this data by now, since it started with kids in 1991.
I've always been a fan of the Fast Inverse Square Root hack.

float Q_rsqrt( float number )
{
long i;
float x2, y;
const float threehalfs = 1.5F;

x2 = number * 0.5F;
y = number;
i = * ( long * ) &y; // evil floating point bit level hacking
i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 ); // what the fuck?
y = * ( float * ) &i;
y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) ); // 1st iteration
// y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) ); // 2nd iteration, this can be removed

return y;
}

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
IMO even a no kill animal shelter is better than this but whatever though it's not my money as genuine as openai's goals are nothing will prevent the final consolidation
Your first sentence points out the problem. Those people allowed themselves to become the focus of a trolling campaign by putting themselves out there in the first place. It would be fairly easy to avoid that if your identity online was just a name not linked to anything else. If you put your life online it's expected that someone who has nothing better to do and is hidden behind anonymity will make it harder for you.

I prefer it this way to be honest. So many people want more rules to protect them. We have enough, leave the internet alone please. Any rule that someone comes up with is most likely going to be a power grab and make it more difficult for those that know what they're doing.
Well, for a lot of the world, Facebook is synonymous with the internet as an idea. In India, FB has negotiated with a lot of mobile carriers to exempt themselves from being counted towards data usage. This means that some double digit percentage of the world thinks that FB is the internet. How can you expect people to not be in a filter bubble when their idea of the net is FB and FB only?
Is that Windows 10? On my Windows 10 Ent desktop I'm able to set the scale factor of each display independently.

http://imgur.com/a/5378F
> "Filesystem" is the universal IPC layer. But implementing a filesystem usually takes quite a lot of effort.

It needn't be. A file system is just a set of nested hashtables. The complexity of traditional file systems comes from the durable representation, but that isn't necessarily needed for first-class namespaces. You can just serialize and deserialize a namespace as needed on top of an ordinary file system.

> Do you know of any systems where this can be done easily enough for it to be used ubiquitously?

Plan 9 obviously. The Plash capability secure shell [1]. There are probably a couple of others, but not too many overall.

[1] http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~seaborn/plash/plash-orig.html
> It's utterly unenforcible otherwise...

and

> ...but they should be prevented from discriminating against you because you're jewish

You can't have it both ways. Either a business can be regulated or it can't.

And why does it have to be the business itself only must be prevented from discrimination? It's certainly possible for a single employee to send likely names of Jews to hate groups, even if the business doesn't condone his behavior.