skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my coarser language might have prompted the downvotes, but I didn't see another way to get the point across. It's really hard to explain how it works to people who haven't lived it themselves. A lot of people are also entirely too optimistic about politicians doing what's good for the people without any checks and balances in place, and I don't mean just people here or there, this seems universal.

Also, in fact, lots of people liked central planning. Yes, you didn't have a choice, but you had a completely guaranteed life. As long as you remained loyal to The Party and as long as enough raw resources were being mined, theoretically the entire supply chain was planned and guaranteed. You just had to do your part. UBI is talked a lot about these days and central planning is UBI on steroids. Sort of a Uniform Total Income scheme. Some people really like that idea - they just want a stable secure life. I'm sure you can think up of many more examples where people want their life to be guaranteed and are willing to give up choice for security, and they really are happy in that environment.

It almost kind of worked out in practice, if you didn't mind queuing up at 5am at the general store to be one of the first in, so you could grab one bag of milk (one allowed per family per day, bring your daily coupon if you want it), because we didn't actually manage to produce enough milk for everyone to have a bag of milk. Even though we actually have enough land and cows to do so. Because some higher ups are skimming part of the milk, because they want more than one bag per day. Sorry, I'm starting to go bitter again.

Even though I've seen the tail end of what central planning causes, I'm still up for UBI, actually. Social programs are needed for a healthy society, it's just that anything taken to extremes usually ends up badly. Mostly because you can't take it to the extreme without the use of total power. This can be the central argument against many such extremes: "If your idea requires or results in a person or group of people wielding total power over the rest of the population, then it will inevitably end up in a form of serfdom/slavery".

Years after communism ended a colleague of my mother's travelled to Spain (IIRC) wanting to see how oppressed the people in a capitalist country are. Before he left, he still believed in the central ideas of communism and central planning. After he came back he pretty much said "Fuck central planning, we didn't lose because the dirty capitalists fought us, we lost because our shit doesn't fucking work".
Even if it was clearly documented, it's still a terrible idea. The OS should try to make it difficult, ideally impossible, to accidentally introduce vulnerabilities.
Nice summary. I'm pretty sure there is a new default GC as well.
This just means that it is broken by design and will probably never be fixed. Nice.

Does anyone know about similar AMD vulnerabilities?
No, deprave and dragonwriter are making opposite claims. Deprave is claiming that Google created new brands like Waymo and Alphabet so that the (claimed) distrust of Google would not negatively affect these ventures. Dragonwriter is claiming that Google created new brands so that if the new, risky ventures failed, those failures would not negatively affect the well-liked Google brand.
Who knows if the feature is not still present in silicon but just software-disabled?

It's not really new that Intel and AMD do binning to get more yield.
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Or he turned for immunity.
A lot of the time, "breaking the API" means "breaking the response that comes back", which in turn means that the client doesn't know what to do with the response (can't parse it, missing fields, different schema etc.).

If I change my API so that "POST /widgets" does something different on the backend but returns the same response, then from a client compatibility perspective this isn't a breaking change.
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Especially if the 100 numbers are distributed randomly every time you open it.
If it is practical in your case, perhaps using a voice-recorder is a useful option.
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I don't think it goes far enough, I don't have any incentive as an individual to change my consumption patterns. If my price was continuously variable I would almost certainly change my behaviour to lower my energy costs.
Yes, AMD chips have almost exactly the same features as Intel ME.

The cynic in me thinks that some execs got FISA orders.
+1 for DigitalOcean and docker containers.
Install a content blocker in disagreement?
Catalonia will never be an EU member and it's awkward that articles are missing to emphasize that, but slighlty less awkward than the fact that majority of those who would vote for independence think they will remain to be an EU member after declared independence.
I'm so weird. I talk to myself all day! But it really helps to structure your thoughts. However it can be quite annonying for yourself: sometimes I can't listen to myself no more and start working. and your environment: my wife complains about me being nerdy, I stop then and start focusing on a good discussion with her, which helps.

I even find myself talking to myself (in my head) when I'm with my kids playing... which is not good at all, but I have the feeling I need the time to think to solve problems.
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Could you elaborate? What does it mean to have non free market capitalism, or non capitalist free markets?
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this, particularly as the "normal" search engines in Firefox don't sync. I think this is in the works but it's been held up by some kind of issues with their search partner deals.
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Some of the times they're harmed, some of the times they're not. There's no correlation, ruling out the slightest possibility of causation. Is it risk management, then? No, because a product with a well known and trusted brand has much higher chances of success. Is Google internationally reducing the success chance of their billion dollar bets? No. The only reasonable conclusion to make is that Google doesn't want to taint their new offerings with the existing brand.
Docker containers running on hyper.sh

I love their docker-like CLI.
I was a long time Opera user up until 12 and still use the mobile version. I can't seem to use keywords on mobile though. Are you sure it works? How do you set it up?
Multiple cursors, nice!

Minimap enabled by default is curious to me. The scrollbar already shows repo changes and searches, making it easy to seek a line and jump to it, the minimap doesn't really add anything but clutter.
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"Modular code"

I thought Jigsaw was rejected.
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72% of 18 to 25 year olds, which is much higher than normal.
I like slides that "just repeat the information that was said". It makes it easier to think about previous point (because it is in front of me) and easier to catch up if I lost attention momentary. It makes it also easier to remember what was said afterwards (I can either remember speech or slide visually and having it in two forms help).
Perhaps you are correct.
That applies to both sides.
Very sensible. I wish OS X featured a even more "rootless" mode where "root" only gives you sandboxed write access, and read access to files it creates.
>In case you want to prank the scammers, feel free to call them to +1 (208) 501-0873. The phone seems to only work during US business hours - call a few times and you will get these bastards :)

It occurs to me it might be funny to try to get the scammers to call each other. Give them all each others' numbers somehow.
See how you compare to with devs in your country
What do Britain’s election results mean for tech?
None of this would be un-feasible with a built-in service on any of those OS's.
Example of conjectures proven wrong for 'very large' numbers
Baity title? I isn't really retiring the app completely, it's only retiring a version and substituting it with the latest one...
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What level are people entering Goog/Amzn on this path? Presumably not the same as a college graduate...?
In any case, I would be happy to get your detailed feedback by email (julien at algolia.com). I see it as a good opportunity for us to improve ourselves
Elon Musk tells how he started Tesla due to General Motors
It does not mention internals, changes in Unsafe or concurrency are pretty big deal
It almost destroyed Sony as well. Having a balance sheet per department and letting them compete is the fastest way to crash a company.
https://interactive.guim.co.uk/2017/06/ukelection2017-data/s... shows the results, not sure how long it'll live for, but it exists for now!
I guess the next release is the one that should support Python 3. At least as a non-beta feature.
> Everything we've seen about this program indicates it is implemented as a blacklist of undesirable behavior and not a whitelist of known-good as formats.

Here's a thing: as a user, I'd much prefer them to implement it as a whitelist. We really don't need more "innovation" in ad space - because it always means more dishonesty, more annoyance and more tracking. Ads have already maxed-out their primary feature - informing consumers about things available on the market. Everything on top of that is malicious in purpose. And I think it would be better for everyone if companies would spend money and innovation effort on improving their actual product instead.
Ditto. Dedicated hardware at packet.net, OVH, ServerStadium, HostVirtual. Recommend WebHostingTalk.com forums offers sections for good deals on dedicated servers, VPS.
Using docker / dokku
It is, but some of them appear to be a lot of bots talking to bots e.g. https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/dbmnabnq/
As strange as it seems we may not have had brexit if UKIP had had representation proportional to their support. The reason we ended up going down that road is a large number of Tory MPs feared UKIP. In a proportional system that may not have mattered so much.
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At least they try. And honestly, the whole anthropomorphization or SV is silly. (How [some] people attribute arrogance to all startups and all of SV.)
Apart from selection bias of readers, there is completely different kind of selection bias, by which the person posting here has some very positive or negative views for bootcamps. It is well known in surveys and reviews. If the person reading this post has gone to bootcamp 3 years ago, they are much more likely to write their experience if he/she have failed 100 interviews, or if they became CEO of the startup, rather than say work as an average programmer which is the most common outcome.
If you aren't accustom to receiving wires and most normal people aren't you might not realize they generally only take 1 business day to clear. Scammers often find benefit in areas that aren't commonly well understood.
>"The sad truth is, there are recruiters who will throw out your resume if you associate with bootcamps.Why? Because the quality of the programmers they generate is low.

>Code camps run like mills. From stories I've heard, they pay instructors as contractors below market rate (20-50k, long long hours) and throw them away with no severance."

Bootcamp grad here who mentioned it prominently in my resume and blogged my experience and put up a YouTube video once a week while I was going through. I'm not sure who filters out bootcamp grads, but I can say Google, FB, Apple, Netflix, and many many YC companies reached out to me repeatedly and I ended up working at a YC startup.

Maybe the companies tossing out non-traditional candidates are actually the same companies that wouldn't be that great to work for to begin with.
I also run on DO but haven't deploy with docker. What are the greatest benefits in your opinion? (I only run little experiences for now, but would also like to run small client backends).
I think it is not similar. I think followers that I buy and sell are fake. It is 15,000 usd per month, but they included twitter, instagram, facebook, youtube, etc... services.
Do ARM cpus have this?
Seriously... profanity here
PyPy is great -- while I still use CPython for our more complex webapp and associated tools that have heavy dependencies on C-extensions; I increasingly use PyPy for the more mundane cpu/data heavy lifting I do. It's typical to get 2X the performance (comparable to some compiled languages) and still use much of our utility code, configs, etc.
Correct, but he will eventually be replaced by somebody who can produce the same output and ask for less. It makes all business sense. Opposing market pressure is unsustainable in the long term.
Non-free market capitalism or heavily restrained free market capitalism is basically the programme of the far-right these days in a lot of countries. On the other side, you have Market Socialists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism).
How about Fuck Google.
Cars don't do much in the way of general purpose data transforms for you.

In my day we had computational complexity, and we LiKED it! So say all of us who claim Knuth as our homeboy if quantum computers ever work better switched on than off...
> don't remember the name

PSP: Platform Security Processor
I like the prospect of DApps with the client-side code served out of IPFS, and the backend on Ethereum.
I think it just keep causing delays due to complexity.
To those downvoting, I'd love direct feedback. I'm not precious about my parenting style. Well, no more precious then I am about anything else I take seriously.
We use a combination of Lambda, ECS (for slightly larger services), and Heroku to host them. And, we use Mashape's Kong in front of them for authentication / authorization, and logging (see https://blog.arachnys.com/how-we-solved-load-testing-scalabi...). We found it far easier to configure than API Gateway.
VS Code has had multiple cursors for the better part of a year. Here they're just adding another hotkey for it.
Bit hard to think positive when all of the bad things have been replaced by worse things.

If things continue on this trajectory its going to be even worse,
Free markets do require capitalism, but capitalism (as defined by using monetary capital as the primary resource) can unfortunately also operate in various less than free modes.
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German aluminum smelters are already doing this.
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What are you doing now?
SWE at Google

Do you feel that the bootcamp prepared you for the jobs you got?
Yes! I had some background coming in and I learned a ton about the web, how to break down problems, and how to be productive.

Do you think most of your cohort are still working as developers?

I think so, but I haven't stayed in touch with all of them. I definitely think the market for juniors has gotten more saturated and I was very lucky to get in when I did.
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Graduated from General Assembly in London 4 years ago. Now working for a Robotics company as a software developer.

Bootcamps are great in teaching you the foundation of software engineering (mainly in a web development role).
The biggest learning experience I received was learning how to learn.

During my time I have needed to venture into lower level programming and having more CS knowledge really is a big plus.

I feel like bootcamps could spend some more time teaching general Computer science topics, however you can pick the experience up during your career.
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Probably Japan's central bank doing quantitative easing ... but, no, it comes from investors (Apple, Qualcomm, Foxconn, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Larry Ellison, and so on)!

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/20/softbank-vision-fund-first...
English is the official language of Nigeria.
Aaaand I think this is the first public disclosure of malware using the Intel Management Engine / AMT's network connection (that uses SMBus, i talked about it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14309557 and gave links to appropriate datasheets). Welp.

AMT/ME being used by malware created by well-resourced adversaries is no surprise, and is why Intel needed to give an irreversible and verifiable way of completely disabling it.
Machine Learning Comes to Chip Design
I try to use following definitions (of course, both are fuzzy and apply only to some extent in real world):

Free market: A system where the goods are distributed based on prices set through the market mechanism. In particular, anybody can produce and buy anything.

Capitalism: A system where there is a private ownership of capital and human labor is being sold/bought for a price.

So yeah, in theory, you can have free market without capitalism (for example everybody works for a worker cooperative), and capitalism (almost) without free market (there are distinct capitalists and worker classes, and market is heavily regulated or subsidized from the state).
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>You can't plan innovation.

This. And by the end of the century technological gap between capitalist countries and USSR was enormous.
Awesome news, congrats to the team :)
On an unrelated note, I wish Google gave them money to make it work with Tensorflow.
I think journalism itself should go away in its present form (and in the form it has been for the past centuries). Because as it is today, it's held to ridiculously low standards.

I mean, consider how would you handle any kind of factual investigation that actually matters to you. Say your production server suddenly overloaded and died, and everyone in your company is trying to figure out what happened.

Would the search involve interviewing engineers and management, and then writing biased stories about their life and decisions? Would you treat "investigators inherently choose which facts to report" as an acceptable standard for their work?

No. You'd start with a fact database, you'd go on collecting every bit of related information, making it available to see and analyze, you'd gather conclusions and add things, mark some entries as "dead ends", etc. until the real cause reveals itself. Suddenly it's entirely possible to reach unbiased facts. I wish we created our news the same way.
The State owning them is a proxy for shared responsibility. Because in democracies, the people controls the State by means of parliaments/senates/etc.

Besides, the State doesn't have to own everything. There's a middle ground between the flexibility of private ownership and the rigorousness of public management.

In the USSR everything was controlled by the State, and the State wasn't accountable by means of democracy.

I must say that from were I come, I have some pretty good examples of good public management, like healthcare and water management.
> I've given you multiple concrete benefits to end users

There are not benefits since they break software. You can get pretty much all of these by just removing remaining 32b software from your system.
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That looks cool. What part of that project are you responsible for?
Come now. On one hand, tech ensures that things get faster, and we ask why a second could be important?

In yesteryears, no one could compute the things our phones do today in seconds.

But the demand for time has gone up, not down. Now idle time is a target to "get stuff done".

Even on HN, people have complained about how being idle during idle moments is a luxury, since everyone is on a treadmill to see how hard they can perform even in leisure.

The point being that when things just work, other long term issues being invisible, people will go for the cheaper option.

The same way people have burnt fossil fuels because the costs are sent off to the future, they will choose convenience over security.
But the one linked by OP is OCR'ed, or however you call it (the text is searchable).
I think the blockchain helps the transactions overcome trust issues due to fraudulent nodes on the decentralized network and thus there is a requirement of a complete copy of all the transactions to be present on each of the nodes.

In a brain however, we may consider the neurons to be ideal nodes which will never act fraudulently. So if some data is stored on a neuron, all other neurons can completely trust that the data will not be tampered (due to lack of any motivation for a neuron to act fraudulently).

That means we could skip the blockchain database part completely because 'trust' is naturally present in the network.

Also now I'm not sure if there remains any further scope for us to apply the idea of decentralized operations to the functioning of the brain's neural network.
Do point out if any ideas pop into your mind.
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WoW, it's 2017 and Java finally gets a REPL and it's only 30 years behind the market. Congratulations!
A tribute to Alan Turing through his reading list
Nitpick, but God, I hate this hero image. It's "fantasy UI" is so lazily done it hurts the eyes. It's just the same block copy-pasted around and resized multiple times. Did whoever made this picture think nobody would notice?

(Yes, I hate half-assed design.)
I just read hn. My outcome was great, and that is my response to the poster's question. If you have any meaningful contribution about your experience at a bootcamp, please feel free to share.
Intel Fires Warning Shot at Qualcomm and Microsoft in X86 Birthday Blog Post
This site denies access to the article from a German proxy. What a weird reason can be for this?
What I'd LOVE to see is a series/book called: "15 ways to make an LED blink" which explains all the ways you could accomplish this task. By this you should learn a lot about electronics.
> I don't understand why this comment is downvoted.

There is a small but significant population of HN readers who downvote things they dislike. Even if the statements are rational, and based on reality.
A."security deposit plus first months rent" for an apartment that either doesn't exist or it exists but they don't own it.

Plus all the PII you put on the application is a bonus.

So you pay a "landlord" for an apartment, you show up with a moving truck to collect the keys, and the "landlord" is gone with your money.
Running your own RAID on top of a handful of unreliable (probably used) disks is an unusual definition of simple in my book.
> Although not at the expense of the indigenous people of Europe

Just an ironic counterpoint, European colonizers did not give two hoots about that and they benefitted immensely from it. Not all of Europe of course.
I would disagree: just compare MIX with MMIX.

MIX is a 6-bit/2-digit hybrid binary/decimal sign-magnitude machine, typical of 50s-60s machines. MMIX is a 64-bit binary big-endian RISC with 256 windowed registers that resembles a hybrid of SPARC and MIPS, with all the traits of that 90s "RISC dream" that never really went anywhere.

If he were to design it today, it would probably look more like a mix of x86 and ARM.
Dumb questions, why is this a problem?

t.hash(0.00000000000000002) == t.hash(0.00000000000000003)

How often would this cause issues in real-world?
Ooooh, nice one. Thanks for the link!
Good luck with that site. Too many bs ads.
CloudFormation -> RDS + Elastic Beanstalk + Lambda.

Formerly Heroku, but now only for toy projects: their approach to pen testing and the insecurity of their Postgres setup count heavily against them, and they're expensive (I keep meaning to write a blog on these points ...)
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