skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i agree he fucked up, but it strains credulity to think that the timing of this has anything to do with that. so, your first point is correct, but its not a good move for the country because, in all likelihood, its just a way for trump to protect himself from getting busted. i think you are blinded by partisanship if firing Comey now does not raise suspicion in you. if trump is guilty of money laundering / collusion / bribery / ??, which seems reasonably likely to me, it would be better for everyone if that came to light and was punished yes?
This is an interesting card to play if that's indeed his goal. Trump doesn't get to appoint an "acting" head of the FBI AFAIK, he can only recommend a new director, and you can bet your ass that the DNC won't let that slide without a bigly fight at the confirmation hearing.

This move really doesn't make a lot of sense, I don't know what Trump gains here other than a few weeks of pretending he won.
You mention Java again; so I'll mention JRuby and Clojure again. "It will cause some issues" is a serious understatement, and this is a clear violation of the (social) contract the JVM had. Enterprises use Java in no small part because they don't randomly break the billions of lines of Java code out there. s.m.U is a perfect example: they've wanted to break it for a while but aren't doing it until they can actually replace it.

A lot more software is broken by Jigsaw than would've been broken if s.m.U went away. Plus: there's an escape hatch: for better or worse, if s.m.U went away, you'd start seeing a whole ton more JNI.
LOpht’s warnings about the Internet drew notice but little action (2015)
I don't think that's the right way to value a world ending flaw.

Say whatever flaw allows the attacker to extract value somehow. In that case, the value of the flaw is whatever they can extract before getting noticed. And it's illegal.

Say it just makes bitcoin not trustworthy in an obvious way. In that case, the value probably depends on trying to blackmail the big miners. But it's hard to blackmail them without letting them know that you are going to destroy their business. Illegal and probably otherwise dangerous.

Extracting value gets easier if bitcoin are worth more, but people also start paying more attention to smaller amounts of bitcoin.
Yes, I understand this argument. %CPU, as we know it, tells you OS CPU utilization (what I called non-idle time), and you can look at the kernel code and how it is calculated and conclude that it's not wrong. It is what it is. It's non-idle time.

Your point that we can't utilize those cycles, so therefore they are utilized... Well, I have a production instance running with an IPC of 0.11 (yes, seriously), and system-wide %CPU of 60, and idle hyperthreads. If I added a high IPC workload to those idle hyperthreads, do you think I could recover those stalled cycles? Probably. So were those cycles utilized or not? :-)

As for using CPU counters for free: sure, they basically are. Just instructions to read & configure (WRMSR, RDMSR, RDPMC), and the OS can do it on kernel context switch, so that they can be associated per-process. It'd cost very very little: adding a few instructions to each context switch, and some members to task_struct. I'd be a bit annoyed if the kernel started doing this everywhere as it'd tie up some PMCs (physical resource), so I'd rather that behavior be configurable.
In this case, it seems to mean "deputize somebody else who can put their name on the letters instead of me".
The more hurriedly they rush it through, the more political capital they're putting at risk. This (as in the whole ball of wax) is already shaping up to be a larger political upset than anything in most Americans' living memory.
On what market? I don't think there are any on CBOE. I'd be skeptical of a market run by a bitcoin company even if it raised VC because:
1) The failure rate of VC in general, and especially in fintech bets.
2) It's probably "pre-revenue" eg. not profitable company
3) It will probably be a low volume market & therefore have few counterparties.
the appointment needs confirmation, so at least we can hope that some people will say no to obvious patsies.
Someone is astroturfing anti-net neutrality comments to the FCC website
I think there's a difference between learning composition, and learning to play an instrument.

In my view, learning an instrument has a lot in common with learning to code, in that some people take to it, and others don't. And we probably know some of the reasons, but not all of them. Of course teachers and teaching programs vary, as do kids and their family milieu. But nonetheless, music education has huge attrition.

For instance, by way of anecdata, I took string lessons as a kid and loved it, and my kids have gotten pretty serious on violin and cello. They actually like classical music, and it probably helped that both of their parents also enjoy it. So it definitely works for some people.
How childish is it that they had to put in the termination letter something about "thanks for telling me three separate times there's no investigation ON ME"? It's almost like this administration is run by 8 year olds.
Does this mean that we're close to being able to use CNNs for text-to-speech?
Trump also complained that senate rules were unfair to him and congratulated Erdogan on seizing more power and is meeting with Duterte. He just wants to be a strongman and is not afraid to remove obstacles.
The structure of the FBI is created by the Director. To remove the Director of the FBI, is to essentially force a restructure of all the top agents and top management of the FBI. Those top agents run investigations.

If that's not an efficient way to stall an investigation, I don't know what is.
People used to say the "world is SUPPOSED to be flat."

It is natural that Bitcoin works differently than our existing notion of currency because it IS new. So when you say "Currency isn't SUPPOSED to be this volatile", that's nothing more than saying the currency you know works that way.

I also think it's inconvenient, but I don't think that's how it's "SUPPOSED" to work.
Quoting myself from a couple weeks ago:

> IMHO, Bitcoin is a more brilliant scam than GP gives it credit for. It was a scam that was designed to end up not a scam. IIRC, Bitcoin being a pyramid scheme was explicitly stated in the original design doc from Satoshi. The problem was that even though bitcoin could work well once it was widely adopted, it had a chicken-egg problem in the beginning. It had no value until it was widely adopted, but no rational person would adopt it until it had value.

> The solution was to prime the pump with a pyramid scheme. By structuring the system to highly reward risk-taking early adopters, Bitcoin motivated millions of dollars of high-risk early investment which is worth billions today.

> But, return on investment was only a nice side effect on the way to the end game. The end game was to get Bitcoin up and running as an exchange medium --only coincidentally as an investment vehicle. As an exchange medium, Bitcoin is not yet 100% solid. But, in general the plan has already worked. Someone in Haiti can exchange value with someone in the Ukraine and for once there is little that the games of the politicians or the banks can do to stand in their way. That was the real goal. A bunch of nerds gambling was just a necessary bit of fun on the way to setting that up.
None of those other package managers have had their issues (mostly the same) addressed either; it's a lowest common denominator: people are complaining that _not even_ Maven has been addressed.

Even if it were true that somehow Maven isn't the de facto package manager (I disagree), it is certainly more than big enough that the JCP doesn't get to casually ignore its existence.
We're so concerned that Comey might have messed up the election that we won, a victory that we remind people of at every available opportunity. Bad James Comey! Very naughty!
What’s so new about news?
Comey was a political appointment rather than the guy who will temporarily replace him as Acting Director (who has civil service protection) and can't be dismissed as Acting Director, only replaced by appointing a new Director of the FBI.
Bills before the California Legislature would crack down on NIMBYs
>Can someone explain to me why Bitcoin is compared to a Ponzi scam so often.

The early adopters are paid profits based on new "clients" incoming funds, who then sell to even newer "clients". A ponzi relies on the greater fool.

I doubt Bitcoin is a Ponzi, but of all the things people call a Ponzi scheme nowadays, it's a reasonable analogy.
had an idea to scan semi convex objects using a web cam and a green screen (something like this has probably been done before Im guessing). Just trace the outline of the object at various rotations (i.e. using a turn-table) and produce a model from the result. Probably do two passes, rotating the object 90 degrees on its side for the second pass.
Personally I wouldn't sign up because I don't use Visual Studio Team Edition. In the past I've worked at Visual Studio shops but even then we did not use Team Edition.

I am sure there are Team Edition users out there but I think they are a small part of the set of HN users. Thus, your marketing has to be highly targeted to be effective.
i have copied this to http://ncomputers.org/news
Thanks for the feedback, this isn't the first time we've heard this exact comment, I'm going to try and start a constructive dialog.

> Wow. I have to say I hate this. This dumbs it down for sure.

I can see how this dumbs it down for people in the beginning, but where does a beginner learn how to play an instrument with a 90% failure rate in the first year? It's clear that the problem hasn't been solved, otherwise more than 6% of the US population would playing a musical instrument.

> This is just one step up from guitar hero, which is at least premised as a game.

Partially correct, it's as easy as Guitar Hero in the beginning, but the only correlation is that there are buttons instead of strings on the fretboard. Otherwise, it's an entirely different product. We're a computer that is shaped like a guitar.

> It sounds like there is just no room for nuance and personality in that guitar.

While it's fun to think that guitar made of wood with tensioned strings and metal has more personality vs. a guitar made of plastic and metal, without trying the instrument yourself I beg you to defer your criticism until you try it.

Kind of like electric cars vs. ICE cars. I'm a car geek through and through and there is nothing like slamming your foot into the gas pedal and going fast. The smell of petrol and the noise from the engine/exhaust are the visceral traits people talk about when they drive their ICE cars. Does Tesla lack personality and nuance because you don't smell and hear the same things? I like to think it's a different personality because I still get the same goosebumps when you switch to insanity mode and floor it.
There are already a few cracks showing in their ranks. A few senators might defect, it really depends on whether they believe that the short-term toxicity will wear off before 2018 rolls around. And considering how well the Democrats have been doing with these fights over the last couple of months, it's very possible that a few of them will care more about their 2018 plans than about getting on Trump's good side. Especially if there's writing on the wall we don't know about.
I've found it pretty hard to just say "I like this song, show me more like it" and then to be able to listen to each one, and conveniently add ones I like to one of a small set of playlists.

Instead, I have to right-click a song and choose "play a radio-station-thingy based on this song" (which usually is a stretch anyway and most of them are nothing like what I'm looking for), and for the few songs I do want to keep, I have to right-click them, find the "add to playlist menu", find the submenu item for the right playlist and click that, and try to re-find my place again in the song queue to start this all over again with the next song.

Maybe it's because I'm used to 90s software still and so I just don't know where the right buttons are, and I'm just clicking the wrong things, who knows.
>polished boardgames that you can play on your own with a computer, and I think it's worked out really well.

Paradox is also in the business of making boardgames, albeit with way more elaborate rules.

> your own with a computer, and I think it's worked out really well.

I don't think it has. The AI in Civ series is just bad, and only gets by through rampant cheating. Civ V was out for years, and they haven't managed to do anything decent with the combat AI. Nor prevent the AI from doing stupid things.
Open source database developer MariaDB picks up $27M from the EIB
Scientists Want You to Give Them Money to Study Psychedelics
but he didn't know of the FBI investigation at first, and is not privy to the details of that one.
Comey's book deal is going to be enormous. His great, great, great grandchildren will be buying Maserati's with the proceeds. He just needs to withstand another six months of testifying on the hill in front of at least two standing committees and probably a special committee.
How long exactly did tulip mania last?

How many crashes did the tulip price recover from during this period?

Did the tulips have a well known price before speculation started?
> So when you say "Currency isn't SUPPOSED to be this volatile", that's nothing more than saying the currency you know works that way.

No, the point of currency, as a medium of exchange and more particularly a unit of account, is that it should be stable (it can have a long term change trend, but it should not be volatile.)

Volatile but appreciating may be an acceptable thing in a store of value, but not a currency.
Why does he use language like "We did not include any evidence in our report"?

Does this imply that there was evidence and he did not include it?
> Another way to look at it is that the current notation system isn't the best overall, it's just the most tolerable trade-off between a bunch of mutually-incompatible requirements.

Isn't most tolerable trade-off between multually-incompatible requirements another way of saying "best overall"?

Totally agreed there are useful local overrides of standard notation. Tablature is one example, and there are others. I wouldn't call those replacements for standard notation though. Both notations exist, both serve different purposes, neither is going away, there's no either-or question to be resolved.

The lattice videos are super interesting! Thanks for sharing that. I want to watch a few more and understand his layout choices -- I think I kinda get it, triads form triangles. These don't encode anything temporal though, so this is a visualization that helps understand harmony spatially, but is not a musical notation and can't encode a song, right?
I wonder if in the future "bitcoin miners" might be a more literal name, for those digging through landfill looking for hard drives like the one you threw away.
Your point is not without merit, but this was an abrupt firing rather than a regretful request for resignation. I believe it would be a mistake to judge this by the normal standards of administrative decision-making.
He's neither. He, like most other members of the U.S. government, is someone simply interested in doing their job to the best of their ability. He's not immune to making mistakes. But, he's also not pushing some partisan agenda.

Once you get a degree of separation or two away from the politicrats, you end up with regular, ethical and moral people actually trying to make things work. That may be surprising to some, but, if you think about it, it's already pretty obvious that the people at the top do a poor job of representing anyone else, including their subordinates.
Your argument would be a lot more plausible had Trump not done absolutely everything in his power to look guilty as hell on a daily basis. This whole thing could've been shut down months ago with the barest modicum of transparency, integrity, leadership, and honesty from the administration.

Trump could have cleared this up in an instant if he had made even a token effort to behave like a responsible, competent, sane adult professional who cares about his his country and the people who live in it. Instead he has escalated this situation at every opportunity, culminating in this moment, which so far is the low-water mark for how low Trump is willing to sink.

None of what I wrote above has anything to do with whether or not Trump is guilty of treason- if he were 100% innocent and the victim of a political witch hunt, every scrap of the criticism above would still apply to him. However, if Trump is as guilty as he appears to be, this whole situation is infinitely worse- not just for Trump himself but for all Americans. I have often disagreed with aspects of my country's governance (under leadership of both parties), but the last 6 months and this moment in particular is a level of shame, embarrassment, and disgust that I have never felt in my 45 years as an American citizen. I love America and the principles upon which it (at least in theory) was founded, and this is just a fucking disgrace.
I would think so. Self driving cars don't align well with what they are trying to do and everyone and their dog is working in that space, so margins will be slim.

Drones let them ship things much faster to customers for cheaper than existing techniques and its easy to see how that helps their business. Margins of existing players in this space are typically much higher, which is something Amazon likes to go after (just look at pre-AWS hosting costs).
This man cannot help making everything about him. If it was anyone else it would elicit a rueful shake of my head and a comment about a gross display of childishness and saying Na Na Na Na to the bullied kid. But as it comes from the president of the United States, it's terrifying.
I tried a semi-random sample of new users on this thread. 10 of 10 I tried were created today.
Comey was leading an investigation into his campaign and was fired by Sessions who was forced to recuse himself from the investigation after outcries of corruption. You think it's good for the country for him for Comey to be replaced with Trump's replacement?
I wonder why the NIH isn't funding the work. That does seem surprising. Presumably due to stigma, but I'm not sure.

Still, a very promising field.

Also is surprising that no "burning man billionaires" seem to have eased their fundraising issues. Larry and Sergey from Google, Eric Schmidt from Google, Elon Musk, etc are all notorious burners, and burners are notorious for loving psychedelic drugs. I guess there's a boundary between loving something and wanting to contribute $10 million to get it approved as a medicine, though, even if you are a billionaire.
On the other hand building a system out of a lot of small processors tends to lead to very complex systems in the end, since the different parts almost always need to communicate at some point. In the end it doesn't buy you much since you end up having to write message passing systems and their associated handlers everywhere.
How did he answer the phone? Something like:
"This is Mike Smith with Widgets Corporation"

My greeting is usually short: "Hi, this is Mike."
sure, he bungled that during the election, but the reasons for dismissal are total nonsense given the timing. im sorry, you really dont find it suspicious? betting markets had comey at 95% change of being FBI director on 6/30 before 3 hours ago. this is a total shock to everyone, please dont act like this makes perfect sense.
You critique your political opponents without using tabloid language.
See also the Lindy Effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
The worst part is I actually thought about the fuel/dual thing when I wrote it but still picked the wrong one.
I have to agree with this, and I want to believe that was the needle Comey was threading. I am concerned, however, that his tone in the last hearing (eg. "mildly nauseous", Abedin email forwarding mistakes, immigrant investigation mistakes, etc.) was so flippant that he was almost asking to be fired. By design or by accident, he's departing more independent now than ever.
Along the same lines I would recommend Aconcagua. It isn't really touristy, it is a trail hike for all intense and purposes as it is not at all technical.
> I always wondered why musicians keep up with the conventional musical notation system, and haven't come up with something better (maybe a job for a HNer?).

Me too. But you think about it, all you really is a graphical representation that describes the pitch of sounds relative to each other as well as their duration relative to the beat. And the conventional notation is not bad at it !

The current system is essentially:

a dot on a coordinate system representing the pitch, duration, and position of the sound in a sequence of sounds.

- a horizontal position axis: you draw an invisible x-axis representing the position of the note in its ordered sequence. It gives no indication on its duration.

- a vertical pitch axis defined by western notes (do, re, mi, etc): You draw your pitch lines, y-axis with y=Do, y=Re, y=Mi etc.

- a duration axis (let's say it points towards you): We can't draw it for a 2d representation of music, so we'll project this coordinate on the time-pitch plane which is your staff. We'll decorate the dot representing the note w.r.t. to it's duration coordinate: say it's duration is half a beat, the the dot is a black filled circle; if it's a full beat then it's a white circle; it's its a 4th of a beat the it'll be a black filled circle with a hook. Etc etc etc.

And then you start making all the addition of music notation: blank for 1/2 beats, vibrato, tempo, etc

Now there is this choice not representing note position and duration on a single axis. That may very well be so it's easier to standardise and read probably. You could also choose to represent the duration coordinate with colour, would that make it easier ? :)

Maybe the problem doesn't come from the notation, but the system in itself. The half step between B and C, the 12 notes but really it's more, etc. That's why solfeggio is hard ! I think some greeks considered the study of harmony to be at least as intellectual as that of counting ! I wonder if there's an algebra for harmonie. An H-Algebra why not ?

But really, it's not the only notation: guitar tabs, guitar chord representation, etc
In my opinion the market is still very much in price discovery, but the month to month price is entirely dominated by short term speculation.
> The implication of this comment only holds if the replacement FBI Director drops the investigation.

How can you possibly trust the authenticity of an investigation headed up by someone hand chosen by the person being investigated, who knows the person they pick will immediately be in charge of the investigation?

If Trump is truly innocent, this is literally the worst thing he could have ever done for himself. This action will form the basis for doubt in plenty of people who could otherwise have been convinced nothing happened.
That deputy AG letter seemed to imply that the reason for the firing was Comey publicly berating Clinton last July, against policy -- the act that Trump praised Comey for at the time. And lets not forget Trump hugging Comey at their first meeting after he took office.

If these were the actual reasons, they would have been triggered months ago during Trump's early firing sprees. There's clearly an unnamed (but obvious) proximal cause.
Fast-something. Nixon created the EPA, trump is on rewind there. I think nixon was more his own person, this guy seems a sponge for whoever spoke to him most recently. In that way he is more similar to many historical kings than modern presidents.
Are you talking about Bush or Hitler?