skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well being a layman, I had no idea if I was joking or not. :)

Actually the idea of negative mass made me wonder if this would open the possibility for FTL space travel...Ran into a comment on the internets somewhere that said "no, because the mass is squared in the relation with energy, but the existence of imaginary masses might"

Thanks for the link.
If you actually think you run a high risk of being raided for your behaviour, is it ethical to put some poor saps running your data center in that position instead of you?

Admittedly, I guess data centers run this risk automatically by the fact of providing data storage/transfer services.
Not the OP, but I personally expected it to be a metaphor, and to colorfully describe a perpetually-impending disaster re: widely-used multithreaded applications, similar to the "horrors" of IPv4 exhaustion or Y2K-class bugs.
I'm hoping the shooter gets locked away. Little chance.
So have I - fun trick to play at a bar or wherever they have the (now defunct?) MegaTouch games. Although, when you ran into a dim or out of focus screen (the old ones used a CRT) it didn't always work that well. And you'd also find the bugs in the game where certain images didn't have the differences correctly marked!
Western Governors University is a choice in the US, too. I am currently attending, and it's different from any other college I have gone too. All of the classes are competency based and self-paced, meaning theoretically you can get a Bachelor's degree in 6 months.
That's something that affects me strongly even knowing full well that it is fiction.
One of the reasons Threads worked because it felt like a documentary about ordinary people. That bloody voiceover with its calm measured tones describing the absolute horror that was unfolding...brrr.
Funny, last I checked, even billionaires are a bit scared about financial security in the crazy world we live in today.

But, I have other things to do and trying to bridge whatever communication gap exists here is not the best use of my time ATM.

Best.
We fall into a business category you describe and have a 1.5% cash back card...with a current balance of just over $1.3m, which we will pay off in full later this month, and then do it all over again :)
The possibility of preemptive nuclear strike is still looms. There is also the possibility that the person with their finger on the metaphorical button is not all there, and maybe shouldn't have that power. There is a movement to remove the ability for the president to call preemptive strikes. There is also a movement to remove ICBMs from the Triad. If enemies launch toward the US, an ICBM counter attack launch only allows a 6 minute window. (Assuming they targeted our ICBMs.) A side note: Military doesn't man the ICBMs. They are controlled by civilians. This is by design because the past administrations didn't trust the military to control ICBMs. The fear that they would use them without hesitation was too great.

Nuclear attack subs would pick up the slack and don't require the 6 minute response window. This would greatly reduce the currently great risk of thermonuclear war we live under.
Even with an embarrassingly parallel problem, you need to have enough compute work per memory access to achieve anything like full utilization. Suppose you're doing a pairwise multiplication of two huge arrays. That's as embarrassingly parallel as it gets. Even better, it's a perfect fit for SIMD. But as the article shows, you'll get nowhere near the theoretical throughput of 4 instructions/cycle since there's not enough main memory bandwidth. You could add infinitely large issue and retire queues and infinitely many execution units to the out-of-order core. You'd still be bottlenecked by memory bandwidth.
That does seem to be a concern here. They are replacing Octane with what amounts to a-collection-of-stuff. Without a specific workset (ie. a benchmark) there is no clear way to measure one thing against another.

This seems like a mechanism to hide where you stand. Now they can just say "That's not what we find in our tests".

I'm inclined to agree that becnhmarks do become obsolete as workloads change and development targets benchmark pointscoring. The solution is to make a new standardised benchmark, or indeed many of them. If they are clear about what they are measuring then the relative perfomance of different JavaScript engines can be understood by developers to give a nuanced view of what performs well.
Yes, also the fact that you have to find out that the server is down, and open a ticket or it won't count as an outage. I just thought it was weird they claimed 100%.

I guess everyone goes down. I'm building a GlusterFS cluster. I have 2 nodes with Digital Ocean, 2 with Vultr in Amsterdam, and 2 in Frankfurt. Hopefully the whole Vultr infrastructure won't go down for a long time or the 2 Digital Ocean servers will get a lot of load.
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You jest, but the strategy worked for our glorious leader ;-)
Exactly, same is applicable to Facebook Messenger that leverage the growth of Facebook.com
One thing I like about Flow for small projects is that you can use the Flow 'comment syntax' so that you can start using Flow and leaning on the typechecker without adding any transpilation setup at all. Flow's inference means many type annotations can safely be omitted, too. Example: https://github.com/jsdf/they-live/blob/master/handler.js#L11...

I find this especially useful for node projects, where there is less of a case for using Babel etc (node 7 supports all the JS features I want).
I guess we agree on the main topic, I just want to point out, in case you ever want to go into politics, or some other public position ... never phrase a sentence like that:

"I'd rather have some more child abuse "

media would lynch you cheeringly and totaly ignoring everything after.
Kind of a sad world we are living in, though ...
Zoom out?
> The thing with infosec is that no matter if you're a consultant pen tester or an in-house member of a blue team, a high proficiency in technical writing is required.

As much as I admire people who show the courtesy to the trash bin that will eat their report, before any human reading it, of not feeding it "bad" reports: The OPs point of "sense of false security" unfortunately already sets in once someone is hired to "take care of security". This anecdote from about 2000 illustrates that:

A friend was hired to do black box penetration testing on the DMZ and internal network of one of the largest travel agencies in Europe. He, of course, found a lot of problems. He wrote a nice report. Like really nice. Point for point "this is your problem, this is what you have to do right now and this is a user-friendly policy you could implement to prevent such issues in the future." It was very pleasant to read, he knows how to handle language. And somewhere on page hundred-something "the first one to claim it, will get a bottle of champagne!".

The bottle was claimed a few months later by someone 3 levels above his position. By some high-level manager who did not know anything about IT. But he was the only one to read it (and he only claimed the bottle to figure out whether anyone below him had actually read the report). Two years later company politics allowed those 2 illiterates between my friend and the one manager who could read to be removed from the company. My friend was hired as their chief of security. His first task: work through his own report to fix the 90% that had not been fixed since he wrote it 2.5 years before (the report listed passwords to core routers in plain text as examples for "very stupid passwords" - they all still worked).
Point-free programming would be extremely useful if the composition primitive allowed introspection.
You would then compose functions that would have run-time homoiconicity as you would be able to edit the "ast" embedded in the point-free function.

I use this to modify the parameters of the composite geometric transformations of fractals. This allows me to generate animations for any kind of fractals without having to reimplement the animation code for each fractal :
https://scientific-coder.github.io/Playground/2017-03-20-fra...
(cf stepify multi-method).
This would be useful for web servers in Clojure as we could have our cake and eat it too : while currently one has to pick either easy with ring handlers that are simple function compositions and vectors of interceptors for pedestal that can be modified at runtime.
It's actually remarkably tense waiting for the blast to happen.
Literally was about to post exactly this (I was thinking Fibonacci). The article's solutions seems like way too much work for something that shouldn't be half as complicated.
I'll leave the sources up to other people, but the general idea is that the more dualistic parts of later Jewish theology might have originated with Zoroastrianism. Heaven, hell and the devil as God's antagonist supposedly weren't part of the story originally: the devil used to be an angel with a job description that placed him in opposition to humanity, but not God, and everyone went to Sheol after death.
I can't believe I've never used this trick on those stupid games! I've known about it for ages (good trick for visually diffing a bunch of hex on screen) but it never occurred to me to use it for those silly, silly games.
> everyone just ignores that while they bitch endlessly about sexism

the economist is probably aware of the existence of female partners/co-founders; from the article:

> 6% of partners at venture-capital firms are women

> 40% of the top 100 venture-capital firms have a female partner charged with investing
Why couldn't you have provided the same kind of mentoring over email? If you had a guide detailing the steps of the setup your junior developer could follow it. If he or she had any additional questions then he or she could have mailed them to you.

I would understand if you said you didn't like typing or that you enjoyed being in proximity of others. But I don't buy the claim that methods other than face-to-face communication would be objectively inferior.
Yeah, "full disclosure" would have worked fine.
Sel4?
Looks like someone at Google realized that Servo (Quantum) is coming
I did look at it, but the API appears to be completely undocumented, there aren't any precompiled libraries for it (the ordinary binaries don't contain the API), and it's painfully complicated to build.

The nicest renderer I've found, API-wise, was OSPRay, which was simple and elegant to use... but doesn't support volumetric rendering in any way. I have in the past got this working, more or less, with Mitsuba with some custom code but I'd rather like to avoid customisations. They're too much work to maintain.
I tried to rewrite a WPF app when WinRT came up and it was hopeless. I'll admit I haven't looked at it again so maybe things have improved since then.
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On that note: create an alias accountspayable@ or something equivalent and use that for all invoicing. Absolutely disallow signing up for services with individual user accounts.
Hi, Scotty here - the guy that made the video. bspn pretty much nails it. I don't really know for certain, but I think a lot of the parts are used/refurbished from original iPhones, with a couple parts that are really good copies mixed in. Everything is pretty top notch quality as far as I can tell though.

And the screen repair booth art is totally legit. As is their workbench organization scheme.
Why dont they just go ahead and ask google to order a burger, saves the trouble.
Another data point, possibly unrelated: conversion to Judaism. I don't have a source for this, but I have heard (and it has been my personal experience as well) that religious observance is correlated to acceptance of converts. In other words, more religious Jews tend to be more tolerant of converts than less religious Jews. I think this is because you really can't "convert" to cultural Judaism, and the cultural Jews I have known have found the idea of it kind of repellant, similarly to this article about Rachel Dolezal I just read[1]. But in the case of Judaism, if you're culturally Jewish and don't see any value in the religion, all you have is your experience of day-to-day life as a Jew. You can't convert to being picked on for being Jewish. Or black, or Hindu. But I think that attitude is more about building walls than empathy. If someone comes to you saying they're a huge fan of your whole situation, kicking sand in their face and shouting "YOU DON'T KNOW ME!" doesn't make the world a better place.

The situation in Iran is complicated. Zoroastrianism is a protected group there, but it's extremely dangerous to be seen as welcoming converts in the Islamic republic. Simultaneously, to convert away is basically to accede a small amount of political power. I've heard (especially in Religion in Iran[2]) that there may be a Zoroastrian movement taking shape; as converts, those folks would certainly be welcoming of converts, but it's likely to make the established group anxious because if it gains too much attention it will lead to persecution of all Zoroastrians in Iran. So you have two overlapping marginal groups each trying to exaggerate the figures in opposite directions—which is sort of thematic for the kind of contradictions you see in Iran generally.

[1]: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/byblackscom/rachel-dolezal-is-n...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Religions-Iran-Prehistory-Richard-Fol...
Sounds like Soylent Green.
"Purchased by" is a clickbait lie.

Please can we use the actual title of the actual blog post.

Edit: Thanks!
I wonder if this is a sign that freenode is returning to their old ways http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/01/29/buy_a_piece_of_net/
The UK's refugee approach is one of the few policies I think they've got right recently (notwithstanding the government's shameless treatment of child refugees already in Europe, which is/was indefensible). Another idea behind it is it limits the horrendous impact people smugglers have on refugees trying to cross over to Europe.
why not pickle :) :)
That was the case with my discover too
Oh it is, and the tension built up through the whole first half is exquisite. I'd certainly recommend everyone watch through from the beginning for the full, sickening experience.
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“Would you feel comfortable letting a doctor be your primary care physician if all it took was to pass a written multiple choice exam?”

Doctors have to go through extensive certification in order to be hired, and constantly have to re-certify. The difference, though, is that a doctor's certification is very rigorous and well-designed.

The difference is that a medical certification proves competency. Certifications in our field do not.
They might have a quota to fill.
I wonder if it's possible to trigger one of these smart speakers from its own output. If so, the last track on your album could be the command to "play album <unique name part n+1>".
HATEOAS + Server Push would be beautiful.
I like it, but I think if I'd sent out save the dates via SMS for my wedding I'd have been sleeping alone for quite a while.
Title: Y combinator, X chromosomes

Sounds like a great lead in for "Hey, didja know that one half of the original team that actually founded this is really a woman who kind of isn't getting the credit she really deserves while people run around talking overly much about Da Menz."

Furthermore, Y Combinator seems to do a fair amount of stuff in terms of promoting female founder conferences and participating in them, and they have a regular thing here on HN here lately where they do something like "Ask a female engineer." So the title is basically smearing Y Combinator for what all of SV is doing instead of actually recognizing what is going on here.

It is sort of like saying "We are going to hang the only guy in town who is not a member of the KKK because he is white and we need a scapegoat."
Sure, but it's one of the biggest go/no-go reasons. Preexisting codebase, available libraries suitable to the problem domain, platform limitations, desire to obfuscate code, developer experience, desire for speed of development, and whatever else I'm forgetting would be other reasons to choose a particular set of technologies.

But the comment I was responding to was about performance implications, and whether or not development was "close to the metal", so my response was too (using C++ and Python as examples of lower-abstraction and higher-abstraction languages).
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Interesting perspective, indeed i hear people saying that gathering around snacks makes people talk more. But would they talk about work though? And are people going to think about those snack runs in the same way when the culture would make them "small meetings"?
If you're considering personal cards, USAA has 2.5% cash back on everything if you have a bank account + $1000/month direct deposit with them. http://usaa.com/limitless (limited to certain states)
I think it's disingenuous to ask for the proof of non-existence of something so obvious that if it existed, it would have caused a huge uproar.

There has been no proof of election fraud in Indian elections since EVMs were introduced, apart from the usual whining of the leaders who expectedly lost.
Thanks for the link. I may give this a try and see if people use it. I think I have more drive-by readers than regulars, so this probably makes more sense than Patreon.

BTW, kudos for writing the "Survival Guide." I ran across it at random awhile ago, and it has some great advice.
Does not invalidate his main point: the developers have a conflict of interest into releasing features for the open source version that competes with the paid version.
Your intuition is badly formed because it ignores how crappy real peoples computers are. The world is full of really bad computers that people don't upgrade because their computer is a low priority item for them and they have lots of other more important things to put their money towards like food shelter, and medicine.

Further their machines are full of software that runs all the time for no reason including but not limited to multiple redundant antivirus that are trying in vain to scan everything in real time in a vain attempt to prevent the next malware infection from taking hold.

Various services like file system indexing and virus scans run at inconvenient times and render things slower than before.

Laptops are super prevalent because their portability is more important than power. Its not at all unusual to keep using the same machine for 5-8 years as long as it still works.

Real people have bad computers with bad specs and in a massive number of cases the browser is already using a significant portion of the entire computers resources.
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I'm honestly not sure how that has to do with what I wrote.

In any case, have a nice day as well.
Ah. I was assuming that it was a situation like Ford buying AdWords for "Chevrolet". If it is more like Speedy Plumbing buying AdWords for "snake" and "plumbing" when your business is named Snake Plumbing, then I don't think you have much of a trademark case there.

In that case, businesses exist that can help your business search for and monitor more defensible trademarks. If you are truly hurt by competitors buying AdWords, you really should thrust your hand into the fire and suffer the pain of rebranding now, because it's only going to get worse the longer you wait. Switching from "Snake Plumbing" to "Jessaustin Pipewranglers" would hurt temporarily as you trained your existing customer base to use the new name, but uncommon or newly coined words are so much more defensible.
Do you believe that freenode wasn't "purchased"? The details are a bit light but that certainly sounds like what happened -- PIA now "owns" the non-profit entity freenode (and christel scored a job out of it).
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Really well edited video. Shenzen seems like a crazy awesome place. One thing I noticed was how he would never haggle on the price. He would always accept straight up say yep ok. Either the prices were really good...or being an American he's not so used to the idea of having to haggle the price (or maybe he felt order size was too small to warrant a haggle). However when in Asia always and negotiate, otherwise you're just increasing the prices for the rest of the expats :)
I would be very surprised if it could be "completely hidden" given the political partisanship that exists in India.
The key here is that no one around and you can concentrate alone.
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WebKit is currently king on Octane fwiw.

We still think it's a great benchmark. V8 made the mistake of focusing only on this benchmark, so they didn't know that some of their Octane optimizations were bad for other scenarios. We didn't have that problem because we have always used a broader spectrum of benchmarks.
It would be great to hear (via email) if the tip jar works for you. So far the only data I have is my own.
Ok, title changed from "freenode IRC network purchased by VPN company PIA".

Submitters: Please use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait, as https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html asks.
> Multiple studies and the FBI's own crime statistics prove you wrong.

Cite them, please. Particularly, cite the ones showing that:

- Europe is not diverse.

- Diversity causes increased crime (and is not just correlated, in which case other factors like poverty, which seem to be correlated with diversity in the US, could be a factor).

To provide some evidence of my own, here's some evidence that violent crime in the USA is heavily correlated with poverty: https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5137

And here's some more evidence showing that poverty is associated with being a minority ethnicity: https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acsbr11-17.pdf

So it seems likely that crime is correlated with diversity but it also seems (to me) that diversity isn't the cause, poverty is (you can see in the first link that whites in poverty have similar crime rates to blacks in poverty).

> Irrelevant. Not all European countries are communal and some of the highest crime rate countries in the world are communal.

I never said it was a sole factor, I believe it's a contributing factor. Those countries with high amounts of violence are also influenced by other factors, like poverty and lack of stable government.

Those communal countries also tend to be more "socialist", which leads to reduced poverty, reduced income inequality and hence, I believe, reduced crime.

To provide some evidence, it seems that people on the lowest end of the income spectrum in most of Europe have more income than their counterparts in the USA: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/01/05/america_s_poo...

> Czech republic has just as high a gun ownership rate as the US, but much lower crime. The reason? Homogeneous population.

No it doesn't. Wikipedia puts the number of license holders (and note that a license is required) at 300k: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_Czech_Republic

The population of the Czech Republic is 10m, that puts gun ownership at ~3%.

This puts gun ownership in the US at ~22%, over 6x higher: http://www.guns.com/2016/09/20/how-many-guns-owned-by-how-ma...

Further, you provide no source to support your assertion that Czech crime is lower because of a culturally homogenous population.

> Do you want to make any other arguments that have been debunked to hell?

Nothing's been debunked so far, I've simply made some suggestions and you've thrown "you're wrong" at me without any evidence to support your assertion. I've now expanded my argument, feel free to show that my evidence or the logic based upon it is flawed.
in Japan a delivery with a bicycle (for the last miles) is quite popular and works quite well: http://mamabicycle.blogspot.jp/2011/05/kuroneko-eco-delivery...