skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[Experiment] Fiber-like DIO in 4kb
They might be consuming some APIs that drive the choice.

\shrug. Hard to know.
Snapchat rating 'one star' on App Store after Spiegel's comment
This get's into questions of what is an is not a good proxy for actual intelligence. IQ tests are more likely to become arbitrary rankings once you looking at ever smaller population sizes and thus relative poor proxy's for g.

Still, Roughly one third to one half of the billionaires (45.0%),
Fortune 500 CEOs (38.6%), Senators (41.0%), and federal
judges (40.9%) attended a school requiring standardized test
scores that likely places them in the top 1% of ability. https://www.psychologytoday.com/files/attachments/56143/wai-... Further, why that's only a proxy for intelligence, those with different backgrounds may also have unusually high IQ's.

Granted we are now using a proxy for g to estimate IQ. But, as I was saying intelligence not scores on IQ test IMO it's a valid approach.
Page Rank is named after Larry Page (not, as some erroneously believe, after web pages). Google is unique among the companies named in that it did actually grow out of original search engine research.

With respect to Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon, you are more correct. For instance, MS-DOS was originally QDOS (Quick 'n' Dirty Operating System) and bought off of another Seattle company by Microsoft.
This is a demonstration that messaging is really screwed up. It's like email in the 1980s, when people had MCIMail addresses, Usenet addresses, ARPAnet addresses, CompuServ addresses, X.400 addresses, and maybe a cable address. People put all of those on their business cards.

Somebody needs to gateway messaging, whether the vendors like it or not.
"Sure, except the wealthy were doing just fine when taxes were significantly higher for them. They weren't suffering--they were still extremely wealthy, far more than everyone else."

Income taxes were never significantly higher than they are now in the United States.

You are thinking of the anti war profiteering tax brackets that were put into place after the entry into WW2. This was not a tax increase in the way you think of it and it was not designed to generate revenue or redistribute wealth - it was a patriotic act to ensure that nobody benefited financially from the prosecution of the war.

If you compare tax rates and use those as an anchor, you don't know what you're talking about.
Good to know. Next thing the he was going to say they started educating children on the pleasures of France's great wine production while in kindergarten.
>Depending on your hardware, the entire page should load and render in under 3 seconds.

And this is an achievement?
That cuts both ways, in that open academic exchange can also be evidence that strengthens your own case. Although I guess the real risk is that lawyers would get end up involved in that process.
I don't get people who just parrot second-hand opinions about something they haven't tried, but I'll apologize if I mistakenly pegged you as one.

Ever since the launch of the new MBPs, it has become sort of a meme to rag on them, and it's almost always by people who haven't even used one. Nobody seems to be able to really come up with a reason WHY they're not good. When pressed, those people just resort to inane hyperboles and grasp at flimsy straws, like "emoji keyboard" and "over 9000 dongles!" When offered the fact that the new MBPs have outsold everything else out there [0], they pooh-pooh it with "That's only because of the long delay between releases!" pff.

Other than the fact that you may need at most 1-2 extra pieces of equipment to plug in your legacy devices, the 2016 MBP can do everything your 2014 can.

I'm a power user and consider myself an inspired person who likes to build things; I have the 2016 15" MBP, and it appeases me. So your point in the original comment is invalid, unless you want to play the "I'm more of a power user than you!" game.

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecrothers/2016/11/08/new-20...
They say because of CP, but I highly doubt it. I'm assuming a three digit organization didn't like the conversations going on there.
Remind me again how allowing large corporate entities to own farmland improves farm output over allowing farmers who... you know... farm to own the land.

In the US, corporate farms = animal abuse, complete indifference to pollution, and a general lack of accountability to the communities the farms are a part of. Furthermore, it has decimated rural communities across the US.
Wikipedia, We Have a Problem
Editor suppression, misinformation, sock puppets, trolls, and impersonations - case studies into wiki wars.
Is this not standard almost everywhere?

If anything, the soup is missing.
You'd have to be pretty ignorant to assume they are exactly analogous, but to assume that there is no transfer is equally ignorant. Artificial neural networks are much closer to neurons and brains than economic models are to markets, yet we bet the farm on forecasting (with pretty bad results, I might add).

The repeat after me meme is really condescending by the way, might want to avoid using that.
Yeah, I know, I was just trying to show that I have a broad set of interests and enjoyed learning Go and C++. I use "rclone" for most of the backup-related things.
My understanding is that this is just a qsfp28 transceiver using a new optical format. There have have been 100GbE server NICs for almost two years (Mellanox ConnectX 4, using mlx5 driver) using QSFP28.

We've been using them with great success at Netflix in our flash storage appliances. We are able serve well over 90Gb/s from single machines with these NICs using our tuned/enhanced FreeBSD and nginx.
Your definition of basically spending what you make would end up with subsistence fortune 500 CEO's. People who don't directly farm are by definition not subsistence farmers.

PS: Yes, subsistence farmers can include minimal trade, but not support more than local governments as that would imply a significant surplus.
It's easy to get away with it if you don't have an extradition treaty with the US. But as soon as you go on vacation to a country that does have a treaty...

https://qz.com/954265/russian-hacker-pyotr-levashov-arrested...
Was checking to see if anyone has posted this. Am in the middle of the lectures and they are absolutely fantastic.
Not a game programmer, but do a lot of multithreaded work. There's about 100000 ways to pass messages in c++, for some c++ is faster (purely bounded by cache communication), some erlang is faster, and for some it's hard to compare (send latency, receive latency, throughput, can all vary greatly).

That only applies for two processes running on a single machine, Erlang can automatically distribute workers (I believe) and in that case it's probably more about networking hardware than language.
Regulators tend to get unhappy when you do things that directly circumvent the intent of their regulations. AFAIK, this is primarily an EU thing.
Sure you do, but only when it's the other team and they're losing.
Just for fun, I was able to get your contact page down to 75 bytes. It is now an inline HTML 5 element you can include on any page, for example in the footer. It is semantic, responsive, cross-platform and mobile optimized, and plays well with screen readers. It can be served with a single http request and can be included statically by any web server. It should be served and render in 0.001 seconds plus the single http request latency. Try it:

<a href="mailto:contact@shkspr.mobi?Subject=web%20contact">Send me mail</a>
I think Google Spreadsheet had something similar

https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093339?hl=en

I use it all the time for better sorting, filtering, etc.
> Usenet addresses

Sorry to detract from your main point with minor nitpicking, but I don't think there were ever usenet addresses. Usenet used people's email addresses.
Neat! I've heard you can get line rate on slightly bigger packets without bypass using IPVS with direct return since it bypasses part of handling.

In a lot of scenarios the big pipe is right at the load balancer so this is useful.
Thunderbird user for over a decade here, on both Linux and Windows, and have not seen this happen, ever. Firefox, I'd agree and it still does on Linux. Never had a problem with Thunderbird other than the disappearing Outlook calendars.
and you can emulate various NeXT with the Previous emulator http://previous.unixdude.net/

Discussion forums: http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2642&sta...

previous-ly on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8745943
I don't think anyone (at least I hope not) would claim to be an expert after watching some documentary.

When reading your reply it does feel like you're suggesting that people shouldn't be allowed to watch light information on the subject that you work on. To me, that sounds similar to me suggesting that anyone interested in computing shouldn't be allowed to make a basic web page unless they read SICP first.

If you are complaining about the state of science reporting, then I agree with you. It's really terrible. But, the solution isn't to get rid of it. The solution is to improve it.

I think that people should be allowed to learn about the research they are paying for through their taxes. And it's the job of the scientists to share that information.
I remember something about European agencies (UK and France IIRC) giving specific warnings a few weeks or months in advance to the US agencies and the US agencies doing nothing then later scrambled to justify this inaction.

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here: https://cpj.org/2007/12/french-journalist-investigated-over-...
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Then again 9/11 is not a valid excuse as the US has been orders of magnitude worse for decades, had been preparing for such an event but did nothing and even the contrary when it actually happened and then used it to go to war to unrelated countries for unrelated reason (access to oil). So please just stop brandishing 9/11 as a justification for doing more of what the US have been doing all along.
I think extemes in general are bad, but off the cuff I would suspect no parenting to be better than overparenting. At least you got to see the consequences of poor choices, and that the world really doesn't give two shits about you (or anyone).
There must be some kind of law, like Guido's law or something, that the more hardware improves, the slower and worse software becomes, so that due to poor software, one ends up with exactly the same speed as one had in the 1980s.
The Busy Entrepreneur – Medium
is it beyond facebook's capability? no. Is it beyond their will? Yes.

I was once naive, I joined Google to make a game engine. My belief at the time was like yours. It's Google, they're a giant company with infinite resources. There's no way this won't take over the game engine world.

it wasn't until about 14 months in I realized that competing with Unreal and Unity wasn't just a mater of 30 people building an engine. to actually succeed it would take more like 300-400 people and a mandate for those people to form an everlasting division within the company of support. people to make an IDE, people to continually update the engine and IDE, people to hand hold devs. people to make 100s of videos. people to run classes. people to organize conferences. people to organize game jams. people to do bizdev. people to woo the top devs. people in all the major game dev hubs in the world, people to localize docs, etc...

this works for unity and unreal because selling their game engine and services is their core mission. for Google (and for Facebook) all it would ever be is some open source code of some under featured engine they ship once and forget. Unity has about 1000 employees. Unreal has at least 250. Their entire missions are to make, sell, and promote those game engines. That will never be facebook's mission which is why it would never succeed.
>prestigious award for scientifically gifted high school students

I find this somewhat offensive. Gifted kids should be encouraged (cautiously & organically) - not be turned into a beauty pageant style competition.
The markup that's generated by browsers in rich text areas is not standardized. Sort of a deal breaker for cross platform compatibility.
There's a lot good about this point of view, but it comes from a fundamentally privileged point of view.

For first generation college students, the goal is to get a return on the substantial investment they are making. Achievement in abstract notions is fine, but paying off loans and escaping the career trajectories of their parents and neighbors is paramount.

Maybe the "advancement of humanity" education needs to be more distinct from elite vocational training.
Awesome. We need resources like this to get people into low level programming.

The best class I ever took when I was an undergrad was a class where we built our own OS for a Data General Aviion workstation. Our systems staff was already under contract to help port 4.3BSD to the Aviion, and they had tons of test hardware and docs. So one of the group taught an OS class where whey basically turned us loose with a cross-toolchain and a manual and let us hack all semester. I think by the time we were done, we had something that booted and interacted with a very basic shell (but could not fork, no multi-tasking, no mem prot, etc).

If it were not for this class, I think the more theoretical OS class that I took later in grad school (all dreadfully boring queueing theory style stuff) would have turned me off to doing OS work. Instead, I've had a career doing lots of low-level stuff (drivers, OS ports to new CPUs, network stack improvements, etc).
>>It was proven that the CIA had knowledge about the attack before it happened...

>They didn't. To suggest they did is to allege a massive conspiracy.

Please be smarter than that, claims of conspiracy to discredit something is just making you look like an uneducated fool.

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Ladin_Determined_To_Strike... and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_intelligence_befo...

> It's pretty absurd to suggest we would kill people just because we caught a spy agency snooping on us.

The US kidnaps, imprison, tortures and kills innocent people. I will not say all the time, but it happens often enough to not be a rogue agent or an isolated case, more like orders and policy.

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_site and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_by_the...
Pdf uploaded to Google drive. They're not in any specific format, but I don't mind that. A tablet in the kitchen is for displaying them.
There is a significant degree of might makes right here. But you know, the world opinion is that it wants a world police man, just not a world bully. Important but sometimes its a small distinction. And the U.S. has been a bully (Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam) so there's trust loss on whether the next instance is generally for the benefit of Americans and the world, or only Americans and only in a superficial way?

I mean come on, U.S. decries chemical weapons use in Syria, the official spokesperson makes a Godwin statement about how even a certain bad guy in history didn't drop them out of airplanes on civilian population, and yet umm hello?? Napalm?? Courtesy of Dow Chemical company...

And as for bad things going on in the world, it's approximately a genocide (that it's in the not so gray area, means we've hit the "never again" line in my view) what's going on in Yemen. We looked the other way from genocides in Sudan, and Congo, and Timor. Only so many resources for things like that when there are only so many resources available to recoup the cost. That's the reality.

It's to a great degree U.S.A. Inc. and about the best you can hope for is to not repeat the vicious events of the past. The last Korean war, where no one was really ready for it, wanted it (except Kim), and weren't fighting with today's Weapons Inc. let alone nukes, yet it still got more than a million people killed.

So yes there's a lot about the U.S. to be irritated at, but the world is complex and you have to judge each case.
It's worth reading an ex-CIA Head's take on why we spy even on our allies in Europe, not just our potential enemies in the Middle East: http://cryptome.org/echelon-cia2.htm

"Why do you bribe? It's not because your companies are inherently more corrupt. Nor is it because you are inherently less talented at technology. It is because your economic patron saint is still Jean Baptiste Colbert, whereas ours is Adam Smith. In spite of a few recent reforms, your governments largely still dominate your economies, so you have much greater difficulty than we in innovating, encouraging labor mobility, reducing costs, attracting capital to fast-moving young businesses and adapting quickly to changing economic circumstances. You'd rather not go through the hassle of moving toward less dirigisme. It's so much easier to keep paying bribes."
Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but I think the use of herbicide in no-till farming is to kill the cover crop before you plant. There are several other ways to do it. The way they do it in SE asia is that they grow a cover crop that mats together. You can think of it a bit like a lawn, where the roots and runners of the grass forms a sward. With a knife, you can pull up the mat by hand. This achieves the same result without the herbicide.

There is also some research for devices that will work. One way is to disc the cover crop. This is reasonably effective, apparently. Another thing I've seen is a device that kind of rakes the cover crop without disturbing it -- a bit like the manual method.

Finally, you don't necessarily have to kill the cover crop, depending on what it is (and depending on your crop). You can disc where you intend to plant, or you can even just drill to plan the seeds. The is apparently very effective in dry soil rice production in the southern US, but I haven't really been following it.

Finally, one of the techniques that's popular here in Japan is to grow a clover cover crop in the winter, but then cover it with the stalks of last year's rice. Then when you harvest the rice, you move the decomposing stalks back where you intend to plan and resow clover again. This has the advantage of reducing fertilisation use.
Not unlike many others, I use Thunderbird and sometimes think about switching to something else (main reasons are speed and usability). But I guess what many of us need much more than better email client is better email workflow. I have dozens of filters and always keep my inbox empty, and yet I think may be the real thing is I don't really manage my emails properly. Maybe I just need to set up this filter to delete stuff instead of moving it (I'm not really keen on deleting stuff in general, always feels unsafe and shortsighted), maybe I need some other system.

By the way, using Gmail web-interface (and Gmail is not the only mail provider I use) feels almost as unsatisfactory, as Thunderbird: ok, filters and search are a bit better, and it physically cannot hung-up my whole system under load, but otherwise it is as needy and clumsy as Thunderbird. I remember receiving several thousands of emails overnight because of some programmers mistake, and deleting it was quite painful: I'd gladly tell Gmail "just delete all this stuff" (by filter), but I didn't find any way to do so, I had to fall back to slowly manually deleting my mail by 200-item batches.

Would be interesting to hear how other people manage their mailboxes.
If you're in SF, the SF Federal Reserve Bank has a display of early colonial and other US currencies. Not sure if it's open to the public all the time, but there's probably a tour. http://www.frbsf.org/education/teacher-resources/american-cu...
Great idea! I'll just leave this here: https://xkcd.com/927/
If it is not and its primary purpose is economic protectionism, in the face of otherwise fair market competition, then I am against intervention. I did not mean to imply that was the purpose for which all those agencies are used, nor did I intend to present a black/white choice in the perception of said matter. In this case, it does appear to be a case of at least limited protectionism; however, my information and expertise here is limited.
Most western countries? I find the produce, especially if it's in season, is much cheaper than the produce in Canada, and it's fresher too. Food in the United States is ridiculously inexpensive.
Here's one startup in a similar space: http://www.brightidea.com/
The OCP link loss is 3.5 dB @ 500m, which would be 9.5 dB @ 2000m.

The MSA is 5 dB @ 2000m, so where is the additional loss coming from in the OCP spec? Different connectors?
No the U.S does not, paying a fine is not the same as criminal prosecution. Nobody in any of those links I provided went to jail. A slap on the wrist fine is not prosecution at all, it is simply the "cost of doing business."

And in the case of HSBC the decision was made to not to pursue the case, and it had nothing to do with jurisdiction.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/07/15/hsbc-j15.html
Message passing in Erlang will be a fair amount more expensive - Erlang and C++ have far, far more differences in terms of performance than just message passing vs shared memory.

You're better off comparing C++ and Pony. At that point, a message enqueue is 3 atomic instructions, not too bad. The benefit is trivial concurrency.
Blockchain-based decentralized cloud storage
Mirrorless cameras still have moving parts, though they don't have the viewfinder mirror.

And they won't displace SLRs until they electronic viewfinders have much higher quality, in several dimensions. I don't doubt that that will happen, but we're a long way from that.
It started in the industrial revolution.
> As a result, I pass down very few rules as a parent, and it's been a joy to watch my daughter's creativity blossom.

I love the idea that you have your own rules, different than your parents, therefore better. And thus you will completely ignorant of the mistake you will be making, and focusing on the mistakes that your parents made.
I knew I would draw some fire with that one :) . Telling people the system failed has them pointing the finger back at you. They've seen the system work plenty of times before so people that don't make it just suck.

I ended up fine and I don't really have a grudge, but that doesn't stop me from thinking the system is broken. I definitely wasn't the best student in the world but I don't see anything wrong with pointing out what happens to the kids that get left behind.
It honestly sounds pretty convoluted and unenforceable, and with little payoff. How are you going to detect and sue someone for what they do on their own computer?
They can hardly successfully sue folks for torrenting. Text and image advertisements aren't affected by this, either.

As far as blocking video ads goes, you don't even need to access the video. EME protected video components still show their length in the browser. Blockers which never actually see the content are entirely possible by just looking for videos less than a minute or so.
He should probably be more specific about what devices and conditions he's tested with. It loads for me in a fraction of a second in any web browser on a 2013 Macbook Pro Retina. So it's not that bad.
I'm not the one that used "problem" to describe kids, btw. FWIW I quite like kids. But saying strangers kids are my responsibility because of "society" is not true at all.
I recommend medium.com, it has content discovery feature to help your posts reach out to others.
UUCP addresses:

decwrl!kremvax!yeltsin

UUCP was also used as transport for Usenet.
Ehh. There's the connotation of spying and then the real world denotation of spying. It connotes just information gathering. But spies are absolutely involved in sabotage.
https://xkcd.com/1810/