skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember the last time the Airforce butted heads with NASA? They almost lost their entire space program. To better justify the Shuttle during its development, NASA demanded that all air force payloads ride on it. The air force pushed back because they needed polar launch and wider landing capabilities. NASA knew the Shuttle design would fail to meet its performance and cost promises, so it agreed to modify the Shuttle design (making it worse in most ways) for the Air Force in return for locking down Shuttle political support.

The airforce was forced to wind down its space program until, the Challenger explosion. Then they were forced to scramble to restart it.

Now the Airforce is advocating for a technology that is directly counter to the interests of NASA, its funders in the Senate, and the SLS, which is the main reason for that funding. NASA and its congress critters aren't going to like this, they still want to pour massive amounts of pork into their districts with the SLS and any government employee publicly pointing out its missions could be done far cheaper is going to get whacked.
If you mean the thirty years of big brother style over governance, gestapo style drug wars, killing our children slowly with sugary foods, and crushing the poor with debt, then let what you call democracy die a horrible lonely death.
Exactly what I want, exactly how I want. This way lies relative poverty, but I'm happier than I've ever been.
That's not what I am saying. I am saying that if you are competing against something that has already been built and has 50 years of fixed costs already sunk, the hurdle to surpass it is enormous, far more enormous than competing against new marginal construction. I am also saying that energy infrastructure is a thing that costs trillions. We literally do not have the capacity to replace it in a mere 10 years, even if we built 10x the solar and battery factories and ran them 24/7. Current trends extrapolated forward have no indication that this will happen.

(For the record, I am very bullish on solar power, having worked and consulted in the industry. But I am also grounded enough to realize that the revolution will be gradual, not done in 10 years. 10 years is not much time for something so capital-intensive. It's not like phones or computers.)

I regret even commenting in the first place, because I hate feeding the dynamic of giving attention to poor quality and ill-founded comments. I wish I was discussing something constructive instead.
Sure, but you dictate when you sell and must take the dividend whenever it is offered. It is always easier to plan for something you trigger manually rather than something forced upon you.
May 3 2016 would have been better
Related anecdote: to this day, in Japan access to the Pill remains limited because of vague "safety" concerns, despite decades of use. However, when Viagra appeared, it was approved in months...
Good steaks are more expensive than chuck, too. And yet people consume both.
About the 4th part, there are some cities that didn't give up their trees and plant life. Growing up around Atlanta I never really got the whole, why go to the city where there are no trees. Then I went to NYC and realized why central park is so necessary, plant life barely exists outside of it in NYC.
Ok. But as a single OS user I'd prefer the space used be in the writeable area of the firmware rather than taking up my disk.
I honestly regret not buying some AMD stock a few years back, even though I was confident that it wouldn't be abandoned after the Mubadala acquisition. Just like I regret not buying BTC when it was I first heard about it (~$6/BTC). Oh well haha :P
Hi OP here:
I am building a music sharing app i.e (you paste any URL from any* streaming site, you get all other streaming sites links to the same song/album). I managed to make this work as a proof of concept (using Bing Cognitive Search) but the rate limit is quite low at 1k p/m, i'm looking for alternative ways to get the different urls. Check working example of site here: http://www.musicshare.ninja/artist/Kendrick%20Lamar%20/album... if by the time you hit this link I've hit my quota, believe me it works.
the type of people that prefer the generic browser facilities over custom search aren't "average people".
Not the parent poster, but going to the first Discourse forum in my history:

http://imgur.com/BoPPL0i

72 requests, 50s load time, 3.5mb data. It would have been smaller if you'd served the screenshot of the page.

HN for comparison:

http://imgur.com/a/8qaIN

6 requests, 50kb, 0.72s

Now how about your contemporary forum competition.

Here's a Xenforo forum:

http://i.imgur.com/tlzZ5WN.png

19 requests, 2mb, 5s

And that's with the massive background image you can see, which is 1mb in size by itself.

EDIT:

Since Jeff stated the comparisons weren't apples to apples, xenforo.com/community vs meta.discourse.org . Both boards running in basically stock configuration from their own sites:

* Xenforo.com: 43 requests, 1.4mb, 4s

* meta.discourse.org: 73 requests: 3.2mb, 4.5s

http://imgur.com/a/SihGh

Definitely a better showing than the ACEO forums, but still loses the comparison.

Too lazy to take more screenshots, but reddit is 50 requests, 1.3mb, 3s for comparison.
The Benefits of Introducing Assignment (1985)
'Exercise pill' could deliver benefits of fitness in tablet form
Rather, they taxes on it when they sell. Of course, the cost is that you don't have anything in your pocket today. And gains written on paper are just as easy to erase.
Riddle: if I purchased on May 3 2016 I'd be worse off selling on May 1 2017 than holding. Why?
Indeed one does. One also needs to brush up on argumentative fallacies. It's quite bad to criticize the author's reasoning whilst yourself engaged in bad reasoning.

To be clear, your original post was mostly reasoning along the lines, "My experience was different therefore the author is wrong." And your second post didn't specify why you think your experience was normative. Merely that you think in a band of a few years you know how others benefitted or didn't from HBS. This is especially bad reasoning as the article talked about HBS influence over a much broader range of years.
The most practically interesting part:

>FMA4 is not officially supported on Ryzen, but I found that the FMA4 instructions actually work correctly on Ryzen, even though the CPUID instruction says that FMA4 is not supported.
2017 forecast... Microsoft acquires Canonical.
Here's net neutrality preventing millions of people in a developing nation from accessing the internet:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/08/india-fac...

> HN is a community with a lot of technical expertise, experience, and economic knowledge.

ahahahahaha, no.
I do not think that was advocating chromebooks as an alternative.
> fish is generally pretty boring and bland

That depends entirely on the type and quality of the fish. The most obvious example is salmon, which has a great, unique flavor and texture if cooked properly. White fish tend to be more bland on average, but there are some that are very flavorful; for instance, ling cod is absolutely delicious grilled (or seared) with nothing more than olive oil and salt/pepper. And then you have oily fish like herring and mackerel that are generally not cooked, but rather cured, pickled, or smoked, that are flavorful enough to be eaten on their own (but also make fantastic accompaniments in dishes like dressed herring).

In fact, you could say that a lot of lean cuts of beef are "boring and bland" as well: they don't have a ton of flavor unless you add herbs, spices, and/or fat.

(All that being said, I don't disagree with your other points about convenience and safety.)
And indeed it was: qsort() takes a lambda as a parameter, and it's probably as old as C itself.
Digital Ocean, Linode, LowendBox community just to name a few.
It's 2017. Pope converted to Islam and Trump got elected. Didn't you hear?
It's a nice idea, and if people actually agreed to it, things could actually change for the better in the tech industry. However here's the issue:

Only a small percentage of people in the tech world care about this stuff.

It sucks I know. But it's true. The vast majority of people out there simply want a paycheck and don't really care how they get it. As a result this means that anyone who does agree to the pledge will most likely be sacked in favour of the person who doesn't. And there are millions of people in tech who will throw everything and everyone under the bus as long as management says so and the money ends up on the table.

So how do you solve this? Well, good question. In a lot of fields, they solve it by either requiring accreditation or a union membership or god knows what else, which causes those who go against what's seen as 'ethical' in their field to have a very hard time finding new jobs afterwards.

That's not really a likely thing for the tech world, and I don't think most people would want it to be. But as a result, it means pledges like this are pretty much useless at the moment.
How's this?

> Cap’n Proto is an insanely fast data interchange format and capability-based RPC system. Think JSON, except binary. Or think Protocol Buffers, except faster.

https://capnproto.org/
Well, obviously you remember the times you passed on buying something that turned out to be worth a lot... there are probably lots of times you passed on buying something that turned out to be worth nothing.
> Namely, even with bloody awful markdown, HN still delivers 1000 comments in 1/4 of the bytes.

Are you sure this is correct? I count 700kb of total content (including the actual HTML and CSS), not 4mb, so I think your comments are premised on a number that's off by almost 6X?

http://imgur.com/a/gPiEb
It's also sometimes called adjoint mode. See this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation#Reve...
> Their customers prefer ...

Sure they prefer it. I prefer a soup-to-nuts high-assurance personal laptop, or a private 747, but I'm not willing to pay for them. I know my laptop can be exploited. My point is that it's an economic question, not one of technical specifications.

> Intel knows their dominant position with lockin to x86 code lets them ignore customers' preferences if they deliver something useful. It's an oligopoly effect.

To a degree. Customer could use their TPMs for many of the same functions as ME, or get third party devices for out-of-band remote control like AMT. Intel just needs to make it good enough, but that's the 'intentional', so to speak, design of marketplaces.

I would love it if AMD took the opportunity, and security became a competitive arms race between them.
Long term capital gains vs short term?
This is nowhere near the "This is getting tangled up in the FDA" phase. Funding speculative science is hard, and expensive, and this is the type of innovation we exchange for wanting more certain returns on investment, and nothing more than that.
Why is this so much weaker than http://neveragain.tech/ ?
They've gotten better at culture, as in, trying to understand different cultures and branching out their own interests and experiences beyond what is American.
catered to the current winds of buzz
Silicon Valley Hires Mostly from These 10 Universities – None Are Ivy League
Windows has had the option to upgrade editions from within the OS for many years, without requiring an OS reinstall. The first version I recall having it was Windows Vista, but it may have existed with Windows XP as well. Within a few minutes and a reboot you could go from having the Basic version of Windows Vista to Ultimate.
They aren't using it for advertising purposes right now, but they can still collect and store the data on children thanks to outdated privacy laws. Once the child comes of age all of that information is fair game according to their own policy (once the child becomes an adult, if they continue to use their account or link it to a new Google account, they are automatically under Google's normal privacy policy which we all know allows them to harvest everything you do within their services).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/12/28...
There is a design for one that will replace the cellular card. You need a BIOS firmware that will not whitelist PCI-E devices.

https://github.com/polysome/aggregate-1/blob/master/README.m...
Put simply, the cure is worse than the disease.
"HOW I USED R TO WIN AN ARGUMENT WITH MY WIFE"
Even if software didn't have tremendously higher cultural barriers for usage than manual equipment, the rapidity of exchange is a very small component of the exchange value for the means of software production (which is primarily hardware anyway). The value of both hardware and software is measurable by the amount of labor needed to produce them, so it's not even comparable--it's identical.
Ah the joy of roaming profiles where a user has a giant file on his desktop, gets bored waiting for his laptop to sync on shutdown or his battery runs out, and then turns the machine off. What happens to the profile in this situation?

I say this because I have had numerous times this happened to a colleague that I had to fix - the desktop would break. Broken user profiles were a real pain.

Thankfully I don't do this anymore but the thought of roaming profiles and broken syncs brought back a harrowing memory.
MacStories has nice graphs comparing this quarter to past quarters: https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-q2-2017-results-529-bi...
I'm pretty sure identified the specific state that has the policies I described, though there are some other states with similar or better paid family leave provisions and/or longer allowances for job protected leave for either pregnancy disability specifically, or general disability that includes pregnancy.
This is correct. Everybody I know in the biz has said his work doesn't pass a wide range of sniff tests.
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At the cost of having none of that money in your pocket until you sell.
Windows 10 S will run on other devices besides the Surface Laptop, most of which will cost closer to $250. The Surface is just the flagship device for it.
After hours trading is often very different than the market the next day. Two percent in after market just means there won't be a very big jump tomorrow.
I live near the Great Lakes, so there is literally no such thing as a safe fish to eat. Every fish has a limit to how much you can eat and how often -- that is if you are an adult male, if female or child you are far more limited yet.

Especially near me, where the waterways are also toiletways. You'd have to go out into the lake to escape the toilet and dioxin-laden water, where the fish should never be eaten, and even then you have, like I said above, a limit depending on how much toxic fish you feel comfortable ingesting.
The only difference of using Hy instead of Python are the macros though. What can you do easily with macros that is cumbersome to do with regular Python?
No, the value of RH is in the clients they have, just like every enterprise software company ever.

Oracle is notorious for buying companies for their clients, even if everyone quits (eg, hostile takeover of Sieble)
I think this will make a fine build machine for aarch64:

http://b2b.gigabyte.com/Density-Optimized/H270-T70-rev-100#o...

With 372 cores and 32 dimm slots you can put your whole Ubuntu source tree in tmpfs so you will not have to wait too long to recompile your distro.
> How about making your argument without shifting it to the other side of the globe.

Because most lifeforms are capable of observational learning.

> The brand new regulations that have been fought by the same people introducing this bill haven't been effective? Duh, they weren't even in existence long enough.

I don't know what alternate universe you live in, but the government has been meddling in the telecom industry for a long time.
"Records exist about the consumption of long slices of raw fish as early as 500 BCE. Many others indicate that long before the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 CE), people with economic where-with-all ate many raw foods, not only raw fruits and vegetables, but also raw fish and raw meat."

- http://www.flavorandfortune.com/dataaccess/article.php?ID=40...
Public Universities Send More to Silicon Valley Giants Than Ivy League Schools
What did you do in the very early days to promote the app (apart from Flyertalk)?
It is not.

When it comes to learning anything, we humans have a massive tendency to prefer that which is familiar. This means that when a human is faced with an obstacle and must choose between:

- An unfamiliar tool or paradigm which is custom built to solve this and all future problems (should they arise) such that time and effort is saved

- A familiar tool which has been extended this one time to solve this one problem, and which can be inellegantly extended to solve future problems potentially at the cost of time and effort

People will almost always pick the later.
It runs noVNC, an HTML5 vnc client
https://kanaka.github.io/noVNC/

It's really running VNC protocol over websockets, where guacamole has a custom protocol.
Really? Awesome! What is the flag? I couldn't find it when googling about for information a few weeks ago.

EDIT: Found this: https://mobile.twitter.com/nolanlawson/status/71266809721643...
Why would you think (1) is exclusive to rural people? I know many urban people who have inherited houses/condos (sometimes worth quite a bit) yet can't afford to fix them up. Can't move either, since the commuting costs would rapidly eat up the sale margin.
I dedicated a significant fraction of my life to the idea that gene therapy would become a viable medical treatment. It seems unlikely to really become a high-impact treatment.

Being able to change DNA in cells is one thing; actually being able to show your treatment does what it's supposed to and didn't have negative effects is hard. There are a limited number of diseases where gene therapy should work great, but there are a wide range of others where it won't, until solve multiple grand-challenge class problems.
Twilio stock plummets as major client Uber distances itself
What does the S stand for in this instance? Scuppered? Slow? Substandard?

Hopefully Speedy, Superior or Sublime.

Reminds me of the RT version - Reduced Throughput
We use Workflowmax for this job and many of us dislike it because it's frustrating to enter time. Based on the images on the https://www.timepike.com/#keyfeatures page it looks like this follows a similar pattern - which is a shame.

I like the idea of more of a 'painting' style where I colour in different blocks of the week for different projects.
Hmmm turn a song into a minecraft level that would be interesting
Freedom of choice.
the weird thing is that in general (outside of programming) there hasn't been a gender divide in entry level roles, and the separate paths of life and career development become apparent later on yet are so extreme that it tilts all the demographics.

so courting more women for entry level roles that happen to be programming isn't going to change that.
That can't be right. I basically don't eat fish because it's too bland. Salmon's a little better than white fish, but it's all just a vehicle for whatever sauce you put on it. Chicken at leasts tastes umami.
I imagine as such. Though, if its timed....could they even trace it if done right? you'd be long gone by then.
> If your business model requires collecting data that would not be conscionable to hand over to the government upon demand, you should seriously reconsider your business model.

This is not reasonable in many cases, though. It is surprisingly hard to build many useful services on top of strong zero-knowledge crypto and have them operate in the real world where things like users forgetting their credentials are common occurrences that consumers expect you to be able to recover from. It is also actually impossible to do so when part of the service happens in the physical world (e-commerce, car dispatching apps, etc). In practice, until we solve a few long standing security and HCI problems, I can't envision a world where a large set of private parties doesn't know more about me, collectively, than what I would be comfortable with a hostile enforcement agency knowing and correlating in a single place.

Don't get me wrong, I think there is a lot of value in being mindful of which data we are collecting, why and if we can get away with building our software so that we do not need that data. I also think keeping infinite records just because "big data will make them useful in time" ignores the 'toxicity' of huge troves of private data laying around. But even in a world where every company takes extraordinary data handling measures, even against market incentives, I still would want the companies to be very careful about sharing the data they did absolutely need to collect...
Spammed AdSense with fraudulent clicks, and impersonated other apps in the Play Store.
I agree on all points; well-made. Thanks.

> I just wish ... I could completely disable ME

You might find this useful:

https://puri.sm/learn/avoiding-intel-amt/
I've witnessed this phenomenon multiple times.

1. Person buys or is gifted a Fitbit because it's inexpensive
2. Person retrains themselves to wear something on their wrist
3. Person is convinced that fitness tracking is beneficial
4. Person is fed up with the low quality of their Fitbit or it has out right fallen apart
5. Person buys an Apple Watch
A reminder:

It's nice if your company commits to something. But what's vital is that you commit to things, and that you organize around those commitments. As a profession, we have to stop looking to management and owners to own the ethics and conditions of our work.

Things like this are fine, but don't lose sight of where the real power is. It's the strongest market for tech talent I've seen in my entire career. Your company cannot survive without people like you. Don't ask them to do things. Organize with your peers and demand. You'll win, a lot of the time, and your wins will be durable.

This pledge is pretty clearly a response to NeverAgain.tech (look at the issues it cares about). NeverAgain.tech is about what members of our profession commit to doing; that pledge doesn't give a damn what companies say, because if employers contravene the pledge, the signatories have pledged to leave as soon as possible. That's meaningful. This is window dressing.
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14245951
I think a lot of people on HN are anti-Cloudflare because of the way they portray themselves in blog posts. Every blog post makes it sound like they are saving the internet.

In addition, their response to the memory leak issue a few months back left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. They attacked Google unfairly for not purging their leaked content fast enough, while trying to downplay the severity of the mistake they made.
The problem with any platform like Facebook (though Facebook happens to be have the richest seam
of user data, at scale and across devices) is that the segment with the highest clickthrough rate will inevitably be one which draws on shady factors.

It will be the segment deliberately concocted to find that most vulnerable / subsceptible to buy. If you're looking to ship garbage self help books, you're going to target people who like garbage self help book writers. Rinse and repeat for preppers etc.

To prevent this you essentially either have to ask marketers to hobble their own search terms even when they know there is likely a higher CTR out there (like payday loan companies willingly deciding not to advertise on daytime TV), or asking Facebook to hobble its own platform.

Until there is some kind of regulation or FTC pushback I can't see the situation improving.
Which means there are rare bugs in the FMA4 they've not been able to iron out. So they decided to turn it off at release time using a chicken bit.
Only if you believe that the capital gains rate will not be different when you sell.

Personally, I prefer dividends rather than buybacks from Apple.