skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what i've seen elsewhere - make sure to run nmap on a different machine, because running nmap locally isn't going to go via the NIC.
Although I'm a bit skeptical of its security, you might want to check out Authy.
> "... that will change how you think about coding” is clickbait

Nonsense. The article's premise is explicitly that the listed paradigms will change how you think about coding. The author may or may not be correct about that, but the original title was not random hyperbole to entice a click - it was an accurate description of the article's premise and content.
Intel doesn't make 8-core consumers CPUs because their 4 cores are roughly as fast as 8 AMD cores. So doubling the core count would produce too much heat.

https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+7+1800X&id=29...

https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-7700
It could mean much tighter integration with open source kernels (Linux, BSDs) and the software that runs on them.

The processor could benefit from crowdsourcing development to some extent.

Also, in countries that aren't America (and for many entities in America) there could be huge value assigned to knowing with a higher confidence that your vendor isn't handing over a backdoor to three-letter agencies

Finally, FLOSS enthusiasts will go crazy for it, which might not be a huge boost to AMD/Intel but is at least something.

It may be an indirect way to get more talented and idealistic individuals going to AMD versus Intel.

I don't know much about the subject, so these are all my guesses as to the biggest advantages. Who knows if they outweigh the perceived disadvantages from their perspective.
Funny enough, I also have had a Q6600 quad, it just turned 9 a week ago. Great chipset.

...And I also just jumped on the Ryzen train. Finally a good time to be a consumer in CPU-land.
With the best MP3 encoder, most music @ 256Kbps are pretty much transparent. Or you can up it to 320Kbps. With the increase of storage capacity, these shouldn't be an issues.

But the world has move to streaming.
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Funny, I just finished building mine - same Ryzen 7 1800X, switching from MacBook Pro/iMac to Ubuntu as well, got 3200MHz RAM also, which booted into 2333MHz as well (will need to wait for motherboard update to get full speed I guess), M.2 SSD... I wonder if it's becoming a trend (to move from macOS to Linux)?
Former intern here: they don't do SF internships as far as I know. The office is made of <10 engineers and can't support an internship program.
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Hm. Never heard of Amp! But it looks promising! Thanks.
TripAdvisor recommendations get dated fast and are only for a niche audience. In my experience they tend to stick to the most popular places rather than the best places, and they miss a lot of local spots / dive-y spots / places that families wouldn't go etc.

In cities like SF, NYC, etc, I've had much better luck with recommendations from Foursquare and Yelp. Especially with new places.
"is it free?"
This technobabble reads as some of the most horrifying dystopian cyberpunk fantasy I can possibly imagine
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Big fan of their SMS bot Marsbot as well if you haven't tried it yet. For some reason it's very low key and they don't promote it at all, but it's a pretty sweet product.

https://marsbotapp.com/
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>> Every application on the phone is sandboxed

Note that you are trusting this app with your private key. While other apps are sandboxed away from having access, all it takes is one update to the app to sneak away your private key to any remote server. You have to trust the publisher of this app, including their entire chain of source code repository management and app build/release process. It takes a single instance of a malicious person inserting code that steals all users' private keys (disgruntled employee at this company, or social engineering attack to gain access to commit to their GitHub, etc.).

It's the same reason I am horrified that anyone trusts password managers from for-profit companies. Those companies have unfiltered potential access to your entire online identity, including critical logins like your bank and government services. The app is sandboxed, and the company promises that your (unencrypted) credentials never leave the local device. But it is impossible for them to offer an absolute guarantee that their app will never be the target of an attacker slipping in code that steals information.

In this particular case, you're giving a single app access to potentially expose your key to theft. Less risky than storing your key in the default ~/.ssh/id_rsa, where any app running on your desktop machine has access to read it. Also likely to be less devastating of a loss compared to the compromise of the contents of a password manager.
I do think it's having some impact now. Google, for example, did not used to use ML for ranking sites. So they had a reasonably good handle on why sites would end up ranking where they did.

They then introduced several different ML add ons, like Vince, Panda, Penguin, etc. They know roughly what the algorithms are doing. But, as I understand it, it's still opaque enough that they can't explain exactly why a specific set of results is what it is. Especially since they don't all work together. They run one after the other, like a pipeline.

That is, there are some amount of false positives or negatives they can't explain. If you report something, they can guess and experiment around a bit.

For some spaces, they are basically king makers or breakers. So ML decisions are driving real world consequences. To the degree, though, that the results are "good enough", it won't ever get looked into. The acceptable error rate is the one that doesn't affect Google too much. An actual flaw could go unnoticed for quite some time.
I was a bit disappointed to hear that Libreboot will likely never support AMD hardware :(

https://libreboot.org/faq.html#amd
dynasties, culture, math, ancient lore, dragons these are the articles I want the most. Technology is boring, another doo dad that does X. Give my heart the struggle, pain, love all the emotions or let me die without seed for you to take as spoil
I'm surprised you had it in the Southern U.S. since only in the last 5 years or so has it started appearing in grocery stores here in Texas. Growing up, my mom used to serve rhubarb pie to guests (she got the rhubarb and froze it when my grandparents visited from Wisconsin) and unless the guests were also from northern states they usually treated it like a curiosity they'd never encountered before.
4 cores are enough to write multithreaded code and catch the majority race conditions.

You would not run it in production on your desktop though no matter the core count.
The slide deck contains words like ideate... I wonder if these slides will _inspire_ VCs in the bay area and/or the show Silicon Valley... as I understand it they did raise a lot of capital and even if they are forced to give 1/2 of back that's a pretty good return for not doing any actual work.
> TripAdvisor makes most of its money off of hotel booking referrals

Somewhat surprisingly this is the case for a lot of travel POI type sites (hotel referral commission rates are so high). Even a site like Kayak gets a significant portion of its revenue from hotel bookings.
Cisco scoops up San Jose software-defined networking startup for $610M
8 core / 16 threads CPUs for sane prices are tempting. Building big projects in less time is useful.
Five years ago I signed up for Angie's List because I liked the concept of a paid membership to keep the reviews legitimate and of high quality (I figured the type of person that would pay for a membership would leave better reviews). Angie's List itself would highlight this in their advertisements at the time.

After using the site for a bit I realized that they were giving preferential sorting to "coupon baring providers" (and to have coupons your business has to pay Angie's List). They were taking from both ends and compromising the one thing they were supposed to be better than their competitors at. I specifically stated this was why I was cancelling and actually got back a seemingly personalized email saying "I have passed along your feedback regarding this issue. While I cannot promise that our policy will change, I will personally see to it that your idea is discussed with other Angie's List personnel and that it will be seriously considered."

Fast forward four years and I get a notification of a class action settlement in my email because of this very issue (and some other shady stuff they were apparently doing). I guess the Angie's List personnel didn't consider what I wrote seriously enough...
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Not necessarily. Like CoffeeScript, it depends on what features you use.
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cpubenchmark's multithreaded results tend not to scale well with additional cores; comparing results between the two on other better-scaling workloads shows the 1800x blowing the pants off of the 7700k.
But at the very least, you can open a socket without external modules in those languages.
While the solution here works, the alternative is you can find a used Intel S2600CP from some random data center together with one or two E5 CPUs. You can get much more possibilities of upgrading the rig this way.

I recently built such a PC with roughly $950, it includes one used E5-2650c2, used S2600CP board, 750W power supply, 32GB DDR3 ECC memory(I'm buying CPU, motherboard, power supply and memory from one vendor so I didn't know if the memory is new), brand new GTX 1070 and a brand new 128GB SSD. The good part is the board has 2 CPU slots, 16 memory slots and 6 PCIE slots, so if I feel the need, I can easily by another E5-2650 CPU, or 12 8GB memory sticks to make the total memory 128GB(or more if I choose to upgrade current 4*8GB memory sticks as well), or add more graphics cards for machine learning purposes.

Of course this won't cover all use cases since server CPUs tend to have more cores than high frequencies(mine has 8 cores, and 16 threads after HT, but only at 2.00GHz), which might be bad for high end games, but for programming tasks as described by the article here, this might be a better choice
When I first saw this site a few months ago I got quite excited. I was looking for a solution to Sybil Attacks so I liked it on github and read the whitepaper.

The "Human Unique Identifier" is supposed to solve Sybil Attacks. But I don't see how if the enrollment of new users is decentralized bad actors can't simply generate new retinas / HUIDs and enroll them in the system, then use those identities to sway online elections, commit fraud, mine disproportionately more coins, etc.

I'm always looking for fun sci-fi, but the book by Dan Jeffries doesn't contain much of this tech, which was disappointing. It was an OK read otherwise. I think "Infomocracy" was better and contained more novel concepts.
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I really agree. Every time I notice that a title has been changed lately, the edited version is always blander, vaguer, and gives less of an idea what the article is about. There's another example on the front page even now ("esoteric programming paradigms").

Whoever edits titles seems to value brevity and neutrality more highly than saying what's in the article, lately.
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Ahh! Good asked! Mine is Deep Work. Other HN thread suggest this. Its good to read.
If we're plugging things that can benefit from LuaJIT: I wrote a console-based mail-client, kinda like mutt, which uses Lua for all the scripting and UI.

https://lumail.org/

New release will be out in a few days.
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This was around the nadir of tech in general. The dotcom crash was only a few years earlier.
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While I frown upon Google's frequent deprecation of products and services, I really really hope they don't discontinue the Nest thermostat, at least until someone reverse engineers the firmware so I can run my own server it can report to.

It's one of the few digital guilty pleasures I'd rather not part with.
The suggestion from 'pitaj' that started this comment thread was perfect.
Buffett's $86B Cash Pile Has Some Dreaming of a Huge Deal
Math Limericks
I still don't really see the pro to Ryzen in this case. It would be cheaper/better to get a couple used sandy bridge era (or newer in some cases) xeons off ebay with a dual socket motherboard in the multithreaded case, or get an i7-7700 for single threaded performance while still having a reasonable amount of cores+threads to play with.
In all seriousness, parsec is a horrific unit of measurement. It's really annoying how many non-SI units are used in Astrophysics literature. For me the most insane one is that some Asteroseismologists (study of variability in stars) use cycles per day as a unit of measurement as opposed to uHz (the conversion factor is around 11).
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What is the video card in this setup? I missed it if he mentioned it. I suppose he's just using something that was built in to the motherboard? Yes I understand he's using it for editing text.
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We will give it a thought. Will have to consider the fact that we plan to monetize the service soon. It is a paid service with a trial period.
> I've had a couple of people from venture firms reaching out to me about this.

Wow. Indian VCs or VCs from the US? What was their pitch like?
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Intel's gross margin is 60%. And That is including consumers and lower end product like Pentium. I am willing to bet their Server product are at least 70%+ margin. Which means a lot of room for AMD to strike.

The problem is, what if Intel react and lower their Margin. Hence their Mobile and DC First for 10nm. Having said that, lowering Margin is easier said then done. There will be immense pressure from shareholders and investors.

It will be interesting to see how this story unfold. Of course GF is also working on 7nm ( similar to Intel 10nm ), but Intel's 10nm still has a year lead.
Seems to me is that what is for Elon's benefit is to all our benefit.
Liquid cooling is almost at the same price, doesn't make the build more expensive and Ryzen is great for overclocking - I think more than 1% of programmers - especially those who made decision to get Ryzen - will benefit from liquid cooling.
I'm definitely with you on having better categorization and classification and filtering options.

Kevin Rose did a short-lived app called Oink [1] a few years ago with the idea of ranking individual dishes at each restaurant. I really thought (and still think) there's a huge potential for this concept.

Every day I have some query like "show me all of the places that serve falafel within 15 minutes of me" or "what are all of the shops with sandwiches in my neighborhood?" Running those kinds of queries on the traditional POI sites like Yelp or Google Maps is pretty ineffective.

[1]: http://mashable.com/2012/03/14/kevin-roses-oink-folds/
Does Mac OS X have virtual memory?
This was published multiple times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14243400

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14240719

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14239314

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14239294

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14235860

Why another one ???
Who says they aren't going to be high end servers? If their server lineup is anything like Ryzen it will well surpass what Intel is offering in performance.
No, the A in ARC means you don't have to write retain/release yourself anymore, the compiler inserts these calls for you. Very different concept from the optimization you're describing.
Same Stats, Different Graphs: Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Stats
Gave up waiting for a Mac Pro option April last year, built a monster Win 10 machine - run all my dev work in VMs and get to play the odd game in Ultra settings at astonishing frame rates on an Ultrawide. Can't see ever going back to Mac's ... in fact ordering parts for an 1800x machine at the moment.
How can you say they are worthless, if all it would take is one miner to include all of those unsigned transactions in a block for them to have worth again?

It's one thing to say miners aren't incentivized to include them today. It's another thing to say no miner will ever have an incentive on any day in the future.
Totally. For me the main benefit is that it makes for a far more clean build. High performance air coolers make for a very crowded solution.
I figured that, but I wanted to give the chance at clarification, because we were mainly discussing operational expenses, and there's no way data centers even clears 1% of the cost of running Harvard
Given today's manufacturing, which is manufacture cheap, sell cheap, make it last a short time.

Can you price your service such that you make profit and at the same time it won't be cheaper for the customer to buy a new one?