skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Gigabyte RX 470 on Arch Linux. The mainline kernel `amdgpu` driver works fine with only minor issues on Xorg. My current setup is a RX 470 with two LG27UD58s via DisplayPort and 4k@60Hz works fine. I do mostly desktop productivity stuff, but have fired up games briefly(Dota2, Cities: Skylines). There are RX 460 variants that are fanless and can be had for a good price with the RX 500 series release.

Known issues:

* DisplayPort + HDMI audio bitstreaming is in the 4.11 kernel, I believe I saw the ALSA audio devices on a 4.11 release candidate I ran briefly for another issue.

* HDCP isn't implemented yet (can't confirm though)

* FreeSync isn't implemented yet (can't confirm either, not sure of the utility other then gaming and maybe video vsync improvements)

Follow the news @ http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=AMDGPU The "AMDGPU" driver is the OSS and the AMDGPU-PRO is the proprietary driver.

Side note, I moved from the Radeon 6870 I bought years ago (or Bitcoin mining, I have two blocks in the chain to that card's credit... a different time). I dropped it not for performance but for deprecated driver support because of the the `radeon` driver. Review this table[1] and try to pick a card that falls under the `amdgpu` driver to avoid support issues in years to come.

[1] https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/#index5h2

[2] https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/#index1h2
I'm open-minded, but I'll always go with the data. As Dr. Kim Williams the president of the American College of Cardiology said "There are two kinds of cardiologists: vegans and those who haven’t read the data."
LittleBits: Science Flavored Chocolate [video]
I try to eat animal flesh from farmers that were nice to them.
Cool thanks for sharing the name. I've been thinking a lot about functions that operate across multiple modalities (modalities as in visual, auditory, etc) lately. Good to know someone else has thought about it too, and looks like went much further.
>That pushes the burden of having empathy for anyone onto the legislature writing the laws. And they decide for all cases, independent of potentially mitigating factors.

The legislature is supposed to be burdened with this. Empathy for the people living with us is the reason why we all left the wild and came together in the first place.

> Practice rationality in determining the facts of the case. Practice empathy in deciding whether to convict or acquit, and in the sentencing for the convicted.

I think I disagree. Once we've come to the facts of the case, with the proper (empathetic) laws, it just becomes a matter of execution (no pun intended).

>Cold rationality is how Jean Valjean gets 20 years in the galleys for stealing bread.

Don't think what you're saying is falling on deaf ears. I definitely get it. I'm a black man in the US. I know what strict mandatory minimums and culturally deaf laws do to people. However, I think that if we fix the laws, the rest shakes out.
I am partial vegan because it is just better for your health. I started with a book called Vegan before 6

After 6pm you eat what ever you want
Lots of people are working on this, but there are also lots of moving parts. It sounds like you know how large the health industry is, do you have any idea how hard it is to change a multi-trillion dollar market?

Evergreen suggested reading: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...
> The Syrian case aside, another sign that we’re entering into a danger zone, Homer-Dixon says, is the increasing occurrence of what experts call nonlinearities, or sudden, unexpected changes in the world’s order, such as the 2008 economic crisis, the rise of ISIS, Brexit, or Donald Trump’s election.

Unexpected or rather unexpected to those on the far-left of the political spectrum, who very much like their far-right counterparts often live in echo chambers.

Growing dissatisfaction against globalism and feeble governance didn't happen overnight.

Those who failed to notice it simply were not looking in the right places.
>instead of getting behind the fact that the US is essentially subsidizing drugs for the 3rd world,

Could you explain more about what makes it a "fact" ?
Facebook Chat Extensions
You can basically do that now: just don't quit. If you start Atom and it discovers that it's already running, it tells the running process to handle the request. It even honors environment variables and flags like --dev.

For example, starting Atom cold on my medium-sized project (by running `atom .` in the base dir) takes 6 seconds. If I close all windows but leave Atom running, do something else for a while, and then run that command again, it takes 3 seconds.

(That's still a disturbingly long time... but it's quick enough once launched. I like Atom enough that I can live with it for now.)

Edit: just tried the beta. It's a little quicker: 4.5ish seconds and 2 seconds. Still OK for long-term coding but too slow to be $EDITOR for things like `git commit`.
I'm pretty sure they also added it to head off other people "helpfully" implementing naive word filters and filing bugs based on them.
I can tell you for a fact though that at least some of the senior Engineers who developed Picasa are still at Google.
>A quick third take away seems to be the unprecedented rise in non-cash government aid (food stamps) during the Obama administration. The data is there, needs more analyzing of course.

I'm not sure you can say it like that. It went up 2.13x from 1980 to 1990, 1.43x from 1990 to 2000, 1.93x from 2000 to 2010, and 1.07x from 2010 to 2015.

There was a big jump of 1.93x from 2000 to 2010, but that is only 2 years of Obama's first term. What really happened there is likely the housing crisis/market crash in 2008. I don't see how that's related to Obama. It only went up 1.07x (the lowest amount for each of the 10-year segments) for the remainder of his term, and it made a higher jump from 1980 to 1990.
Now i want though a machine learned fighting game AI. Maybe it would even be a challenge for the enthusiasts?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xSGW7CwD5GM
Only for the tiniest of steppers. So basically no.

In my experience you can judge a stepper driver by the size of its heat sink.
Yes. There was a piece on 60 Minutes a few years back where they had a big (~20 ft. wingspan maybe), loud drone circling overhead a few thousand feet up. It was inaudible and invisible. What's the point in solving a hard problem like hi-res imagery from space when you can just fly one of these over the target practically at will? (With a Hellfire missile attached, no less.) Range and airspace issues notwithstanding, the drone future is a scary place.
After you signed up for B2? We're dropping prices for everyone - you too then ;-)
Did he think real art wouldn't be left vulnerable to knife wielding crazy guys?

That's an interesting debatable idea, a good kind of idea for a professor to have.

Edit: Is debate important to you?
Not being privy to the details of Intel's R&D budget I don't really have an opinion on how their dollars are allocated. I will say that development tends to benefit from large teams more than speculative future research. I'm sure a very large proportion of their R&D budget goes to where revenue is going to come from over the next few years.

It's also the case that Intel has become less forthcoming on their semiconductor research directions so I wouldn't necessarily expect there to be a lot of information on their website.
Just one simple example would be that there is an untaxed amount, let's say $25k (or whatever the poverty level is) and everything above is 20%.
No, most scale up from a 3 or 6 node cluster to an N node cluster.
I know I know stupidity beats malice .. but when I first saw that same message I thought: nice marketing stunt, well played Google
Glad to hear it; I'm visiting BKK in August and this was one of the things I was really looking forward to.
> The flat tax being regressive means that the poor would have to actually pay more in taxes than they do now, which is very little. That's seen as a bad thing.

It is a bad thing. In low-income households, there is less disposable income. In that case, taxes eat into the cost of necessities (or near-necessities such as broadband for those with slightly higher income). On the other end of the spectrum, for those with large incomes that income is largely disposable.

Dollars are dollars, sure, but there is a distinction to be made between taxing someone's food money and someone's Rolls Royce #2 money.
That really rather sounds like from within the atmosphere - heat shimmer alone should make this sort of resolution very difficult indeed from space.
Yep - quitting cold turkey works.
True indeed!
Why moralize though? I'd rather have a brilliant, fair-minded, functioning alcoholic on a jury than a teetotaling nincompoop.

Being on a substance isn't in and of itself a good marker of whether someone is capable of holding their position.

Arguably lack of sleep might be as bad or worse as being drunk. But culturally we don't moralize about the former.
What stops you from trying?
I always wonder how those statistics match reality.

What we want to know is the integral of U(t) for t in [0, inf), the rate of users joining at time t integrated across all time.

But U(t) = H(t) + E(t), where H is hard to measure (feedback, effects over time, etc) and E(t) is some "simple" to measure function.

What people actually measure is E(t) over a short time window, say t in [0,1], because H(t) more or less contributes a constant in such a small window. This is then used as a proxy for U(t), to adjust their strategy.

The problem comes in that H(t) might dominate E(t) over the "lifetime" integral of U(t), while seeming irrelevant in the short term you can measure. (Think users from establishing a reputation.)

If your optimizations from your measurements increase E(t) at the cost of H(t) (as they often do -- knowingly), then it's possible you've actually decreased the "lifetime" integral of U(t) while making all "positive" adjustments.

It's the stats equivalent of leaving the trail up a mountain that passes through foothill valleys -- just going "up" without a plan is unlikely to climb a mountain, you need some broader vision.
The one-word answer would be "don't."
I enjoy a lot of animal flesh. I have no idea how I can find out which bits came from nice farmers. I imagine that most of it comes from terrible places. I am eager to see a substitute.
second time I'm reading this. Where did this rumour originate?
That still makes no sense.
> Seems like if people are willing to trade real assets for paper, we should do that as long as there are willing counterparties.

That's why it's a good thing. Because we don't want to run out of "as long as."
>Must every thread about VSCode and Atom start the same way

If many people believe this is the case, why not? All articles get some common types of responses based on the topic, this is just one topic/response combo that you happen to disagree with.

>It's a trade off: performance for a cross platform JavaScript app development.

It's an unnecessary tradeoff.

If a single developer can create ST from scratch for Windows, OS X and Linux, then surely GitHub or Microsoft (for VSCode) can create a cross platform native set of UI components in C or C++, wrap them, and have the rest of the development (plugins etc) happen in JS (to keep the familiar language, easy access to npm modules, etc).
First person to achieve arbitrary code execution on the simulator gets 100 internet points.
It's good to know that some folks are getting use out of the builds. Hopefully the releases can be a bit more consistent once it's in the main repository (sorry about that!) :-)

How do you find the performance of the Pine64? I looked at it previously and was interested in getting one, but wasn't sure of how well supported it would be with drivers etc.
Just the flesh? No muscle?
Oh, it's not just me then?
The son, and new king, Vajiralongkorn is one of those classic fuck-ups only wealth, royalty, and inbreeding could produce. I don't have high hopes here. He's already abused his powers and has made a mockery of his station:

However, for the most of his first marriage, he lived with actress Yuvadhida Polpraserth. The two, who later wed, have five children. Vajiralongkorn filed for divorce, alleging that Polpraserth had an extra marital affair with a 60-year-old air marshal. He allegedly put up poster across the country, accusing her of the affair. In the wake of the scandal, Polpraserth fled the country with their daughter.

In response, Vajiralongkorn, abducted their daughter and brought her back to Thailand, later elevating her to a rank of Princess, while sending the rest of family into exile.

His third marriage - as per records - was to Srirasmi Suwadee in 2001. The marriage ended with the prince throwing her family into prison for two-and-a-half-years on charges of "royal defamation." Srirasmi courted infamy after a 2007 video of her went viral. In the video, she can be seen topless and celebrating the birthday of Vajiralongkorn's beloved poodle Foo Foo.

While the prince appears in a sports shirt and smoking a pipe, his wife is naked but for a fringed G-string, serving birthday cake to the couple’s miniature poodle, Fu-Fu, as white-gloved servants wait on the royal couple. The pampered Fu-Fu has been assigned the rank of “captain” by the crown prince and sometimes accompanies its royal master to formal state dinners.
Loans are so cheap it's not surprising, what happens when interest rates stay low for too long.
oauth to the person's email account. Authorisation to use someone's email is sufficient authentication.
Well, for me it looks good: market price is $20 less than RX480 [1] (or 10% lower) for 7% more performance. Near silent operation and 7% more power draw at full load (less power draw at idle and video playback).

It is as if Kabylake was cheaper than Skylake.

[1] https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681412...
At the time he claimed he had no problem with women running, as it's public property and anyone can run down the street, but they weren't allowed to officially sign up as the event was run by the AAU and they didn't allow women in long distance events. Sort of a "I don't make the rules, I just enforce them" excuse.

Technically Switzer was not the first woman to run the marathon, Bobbi Gibb finished the year before but wasn't an official participant because they had denied her application for a bib.
You're assuming all the bombs will be dropped on population centers. They won't. Most weapons will be used on military targets. Removing your enemy's ability to wage war will always take priority over non-military targets.
Emacs Lisp in GNU Emacs has now lexical scoping...
>Utilitarianism is fundamentally rooted in the human as a platonic ideal and not just some clever animal. Once you invite other animals on to the continuum, what do we do?

No, it really isn't. Peter Singer is both the leading utilitarian philosopher of our age and our most eloquent advocate for animal welfare. A utilitarian calculus that includes animal welfare really isn't very complex. You simply expand "the greatest good to the greatest number of people" to include all animals. That might lead to a lot of uncomfortable and counter-intuitive conclusions, but it's not some sort of moral alchemy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer
IMHO, Docker Marketing has been always been very confusing. I have only looked at Docker very casually over the years. I remember the first time I was browsing through docker.com to figure out what Docker is exactly. It would have been so much easier to understand if they had used the phrase "Linux applications" instead of "applications".
Didn't receive anything yet, South East Asia passed midnight here but only 11am in Mountain View.
In the common English vernacular, flesh is inclusive of muscle.
Ask HN: Service to handle demo-to-paid upgrades in a desktop app?
My team's B2C desktop application currently has an embarassingly long purchasing funnel. To go from the demo to a paid version requires that the user go to our web site, buy the product, check their email for a product key, then input that key into the app. We'd like to shorten that to just inputting your credit card info in-app, and having the app take care of the whole product key song-and-dance automatically.

Our requirements are pretty simple: we need to be able to charge the card, receive a product key (from a list of pregenerated keys) back in the app, and also fire off an email to the user with their product key for future reference.

Our best (bad) idea for how to do this is: Integrate with Stripe. When a purchase succeeds, have Stripe call a webhook on our server with Stripe's success token. Our server would then send the email and await contact from the client. By providing the Stripe success token, the client could ask our server to get their new key.

(There are obviously a lot of moving parts to this, and writing the server code, plus maintaining the live server is more work than we'd like to do if we have a choice.)

This seems like such a simple thing that a product must exist to solve it... I just can't for the life of me find a service that already does it.

Any ideas?
>In my experience all languages are essentially the same.

That's the problem: you don't seem to have enough experience.
Pharma takes from publicly funded research (globally) and then turns around and milks the public while lining their own pockets. I work tangentially in the pharma world, and much of the complicated biochemistry, assays, fermentation protocols etc have been figured out at universities. The value that Pharma companies' R&D brings in, is primarily in jacking up the downstream product yield so they can make money, and sometimes, lower costs.
I'm pretty sure it was NRO that was our customer. Any idea if around the late 1990's the NRO was run by a woman? If so, that's the agency we were working for (as mentioned in another comment).
The amazing results coming out of a low carb diet? Just look at the recent news of The Biggest Loser trainer Bob Harper's heart attack. That's what low-carb will get you. Watch Forks Over Knives. Read The Starch Solution by Dr. McDougall. Look at any data not funded by the meat, dairy, and egg industries. It all points to the opposite of the popularized myth that starches are bad. I wish you the best of health!
This is a rewrite, not a recompilation.
If I understand this right it sounds like Moby will be a grab bag of components you can use to create your own container platform. This means the Docker that we know of before today is an implementation of Moby plus some other things (GUIs, SDKs, etc) that they hope to strip out.

Like others, I found the press release incomprehensible so the pull request linked to in the docker/docker README is where I'm drawing this understanding from: https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/32691

As far as why I think Docker might be doing this:

It seems like a continuation of a similar strategy that they did with containers in the first place back when they were known as dotCloud. Rather than continue to compete with Heroku as a PaaS they found it better to open source their container technology and start a container movement (for lack of a better word).

Now that the container movement has happened there are a lot of competing tools at the container runtime (Docker, rkt, systemd-nspawn, lxc, etc.) and management (Swarm, Kubernetes, Mesos, Nomad, various ones that delegate to AWS ECS, etc.) levels. Rather than compete with all of those they are pushing themselves up a layer of abstraction to make it easy for companies to create their own container management tools specific to their needs.
From what I understand, it depends on jurisdiction. It's allowed in some countries.
I've been peripherally involved in the restauration of a Mondriaan after it was damaged by some knife wielding idiot and I can guarantee you that the art is real.
I for one just don't give a shit and will completely admit I just eat whatever's cheap and tasty. I doubt many people will admit this, but I bet there are many in the same boat.

If we can get lab-grown meat below the cost and/or of improved taste to dead animal meat, it's likely to do very well and open people up more to the moral argument which will cement it. Right now it fails miserably on both fronts.

And I'm sure there will be pushback from the "organic"/"all natural" what-have-you crowd which exists now about how lab grown meat has evil chemicals or some equally silly thing.
The answer in SO is just a more elaborate instance of this same thing: allocating stuff and forgetting to delete all references to it.
Are those numbers inflation adjusted?
The world isn't one ecosystem. Some ecosystems, like the Great Barrier Reef, will collapse, but this sort of thing won't put much of a dent in global commerce.

Lots of people's livelihoods are threatened, but humanity isn't.
> This seems destined to go the way of emacs.

Hilarious. Emacs is one of the most successful programs of all time in my book. If I ever made an editor I'd pray every night that it'd be at least half as successful as Emacs.
MITRE Publishes Updated DTN Development Kit
Is compiling to WebAssembly an option to you?

Better than relying on memory snapshots.
Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes
Oh man, I will never forget that Erlang meetup with Julia in 2014. Man oh man. Julia didn't want to be there, naturally. BlackRock is a Julia shop now.
How about portals as in "Portal"?
The Things Network is currently building an open, federated LoRa network: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/

They already have complete coverage of many cities and everyone can contribute.
That article is long and completely without substance. I don't know why I didn't turn back sooner but lesson learned.

Anybody who thinks the drug industry charges so much for "innovation" is just dumb. Like all sellers the drug industry charges exactly what buyers are willing to pay. When the buyer is the federal government (and make no mistake, the federal government is indeed the biggest purchaser of healthcare and healthcare has been thoroughly "medicalized" [1][2]) then there's absolutely no limit to what you can charge. This situation thoroughly accounts for the high drug prices unique to the US and there is no need to crap out a bunch of words about innovation.

[1] http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletters/was...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_finance_in_the_Uni...
Sqrl "squirrel" looks promising. Probably need passwords too though.
I guess "source code protection" is for distributing plugins for Atom without distributing the source so the code isn't accessible. So I would call this "source code concealing". In any event, this could be done with WASM.
Internet points redeemable for anything with a working exploit.
Both Katherine Switzer and Bobbi Gibb defend him. The explanation is that Boston was an accredited marathon and that Switzer had obtained her entry via false pretenses. He was conerned that if he allowed her to finish with her bib, the entire race could be discredited. So he was defending his race. It wasn't that she was running it that upset him, but that she was trying to do so as an official entrant against the rules.

At least, that's the explanation I heard from Bobbi Gibb on Sunday.
Oh cool how did I miss this? https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DynamicBindingVsLexicalBindi...
And it could be changed so gradually that no one near retirement age or who has started planning significantly for it is affected. Even a glacial rate of change would help -- one month later every year for the next few generations. And delay the start by a few years.

Point is to make changes without giving any cohesive group a strong reason to organize opposition. Or to have a strong moral argument that it was promised them.
Interactive modelling of the human voice
PayPal teams up with Android Pay for mobile payments
Unicorn Frappuchinos launch day after YC interview announcement
You should, the street food is one of the best parts of Bangkok!
If he is programming for _nix, but has not kept himself current with developments within the _nix ecosystem, that is even more worrying.