skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That points to Isolating [1] and I think highly isolating may be the more useful distinction to this specific example. (Modern English is rather analytic, having dropped most, but not all, inflections in the Middle English era. Mandarin Chinese is much more isolating than Modern English.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolating_language
This is a great example of not reading charitably. You're reading a bunch of stuff that just isn't in the text you're replying to. Who said anything about big data? Who is trying to write journal publication quality comments? You seem to have an axe to grind that has nothing to do with this thread.

My reading was just that the parent commenter was telling a story by relating an interesting anecdote. That's exactly what I come here for. People won't do that as much if the common response is weird aggression like your comments in this thread. That would be a shame.

You could have just written a little comment saying, "in my experience, you're incorrect about the speed of reading from /dev/zero". The difference in your remembered experiences and your conversation about it would have been interesting to me. Instead you picked a fight, which is not interesting.
> Seriously, is HN fostering a culture where it's OK to spew pseudo-intellectual garbage as long as you're being nice?

Not at all. It's fine and encouraged to correct or contradict someone. It's not OK to be personally abusive when you do it.

The civility guideline has been in place since the very beginning of HN, and it's one of the biggest reasons why people keep coming back.

The commenter was just recounting their own recollection. There's no need to be combative. If they're wrong, just point it out politely. No big deal.
And also a 2500+ year old Chinese board game, generally referred to in English by its Japanese name (Go). Although the ambiguity of the name is beginning to popularize its Korean name, baduk (as in /r/baduk)
It is common in markdown formatting to indicate a command line with backquotes. It tells the markdown compiler to apply special css and possibly syntax highlighting. So, a lot of people who write about shell commands and setup tutorials, or use markdown on something like github will automatically identify it as a command.
Is the keyboard faster than the mouse?
Not exactly Yubikey but USB Armory has some close features:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/inverse-path/usb-armory

The following example security application ideas illustrate the flexibility of the USB Armory concept:

mass storage device with advanced features such as automatic encryption, virus scanning, host authentication and data self-destruct
OpenSSH client and agent for untrusted hosts (e.g Internet kiosks)
router for end-to-end VPN tunnelling
Tor bridge [see this, for example]
password manager with integrated web server
electronic wallet [the Electrum Bitcoin wallet works out of the box on the USB Armory. It has been tested with X11 forwarding from Linux as well as Windows hosts.]
authentication token
portable penetration testing platform
low level USB security testing
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I found the length of the channel in between the rear sights makes a large difference for me in accuracy - compare [1] and [2]. The longer sight nearly eliminates (or at least makes the errors more obvious) the issues being discussed at the end of the article. By having a long sight you are forced to align the front closer to the center - there is almost no gaps between the left-gap-front-gap-right because the length of the sight occludes the front entirely if not aligned.
Some stock sights are now being shipped with long rear aperture.
This may make target acquisition take longer - I would be curious how professional and competition shooters feel about the difference.

1 http://cockedandlockedguns.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/IM...

2 http://assets.suredone.com/1928/media-photos/truglo131gt1y-1...
Why not try ? their chances aren't worse than some of the car companies doing so.

Altough since their skills are in design, if they design a car/shuttle(even with a human rider) that multiple people ride together, AND enjoy that experience - they would have something big on their hands.
Remember that "yes" is the bottom end of complexity here, not the top. As the utility grows larger that stops looking like "asking for trouble" and starts looking like "often the only sensible solution". Expecting people to extend programs in C is often "asking for trouble", after all!

(Lately I've been really tempted to pull a Cato and start terminating my every HN post with "C delenda est." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est)
There are "only" 32 GPUs in the cluster, with 8 workers per GPU.
I believe /dev/zero writes data one byte at a time; that's likely the reason why.

[edit] That's actually inaccurate (and badly expressed), see comments below.
Why do you think he personally prosecuted it? His name's on the complaint, but it's on all the complaints referenced in their press releases. The press release says the case "was investigated and is being prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Fraud Unit".
I think this more suggests just pick one.

I don't think one is particularly superior to the other, and every configuration option is another thing to test, making sure everything else window related renders properly. Also every configuration option is another thing to confuse users with.

I would much prefer a single well thought out consistent interface than a "build your own" grab bag.
How is this going to play out for Apple? Ideally, they'd want to make all the hardware, software and services. Just one model at first.

Yet that was too much of a stretch. So they are focusing on autonomous driving systems which would have to integrate with third parties' dumb cars.

I could see Google or Microsoft executing such a strategy. Not Apple though. They'd need to control all the parts.

Only Tesla can make the car that Apple would be proud of, but couldn't make on their own. So I predict that Apple acquires Tesla for its brand, products and heir-apparent.
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I built a Messenger bot after not coding for a decade
10k was just sufficient to get actual differences. Of course I went crazy and did something like 10M, but waiting 10 minutes to get the same relative differences didn't bring anything.

Remember this is without any printing: C is fast, if I remember correctly it was something like 0.015 or 0.03s while at the other end of the spectrum I had to wait 0.1s for JavaScript. C results varied from simple to double because of the OS I guess because it was so quick.

It isn't a really significant benchmark though, for any language. It was one of those nights. Ah, and I remember a large difference between go run and go install.
For manufacturing their own products, perhaps.

Apple has a history of bringing things in-house (see P.A. Semi and the A* chips).
What does Apple stand for and why does it clash with a speculative future outlined here?
even with a rifle, in a stable position, shooting a moving target is extremely hard while popular culture makes it look trivial.
"Is it time to call it quits?" -- Yes, if you're tired now, it's only going to get worse before it may eventually get better. If you have an opportunity to make some money and move in another direction with your life, TAKE IT!
This is innificient. Why do the argv check in every iteration of the while loop? It's not going to change between iterations.
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You got my point in your first comment in this thread. Unless that comment was the result of hours of striving, it doesn't seem as if the point was hidden well. If you did spend hours working at it, then I apologize and commend you on your success.
I'm not going to say yay or nay but for those who want to see both sides of the coin check out

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/6gtrmd/free...
This is a bit suspicious...
There was a concept of "db-fs", whereby rather than files in a hierarchical folder structure, you just had blobs/collections of data you could search via the usual search-queries. I suppose similar structure to the average no-sql/JSON db, but as a file-system.

The problem is, it isn't even compatible with the usual interface for a fs driver (read/write, permissions etc). There is no "search" concept in the fs conceptual model. The model assume, to some extent, a finite-size mount, duplication/multi-reference is only poorly supported/emulated via hard/soft links.

plus, existing tools would, as you mention, have no support for what would now be build into the fs - functionality such as provided by 'find' would be now built in, such that you would need a shell syntax/dsl to utilize.

My best guess would be a 'special' query command that would result in a virtual folder popping up on a special virtual fs mount, e.g:

> mk_qdir *some-search-query*
/proc/srch/023013/

but if ls'ing the folder kicked of a proc in the background that initiated the query, you would have to be careful no process (a mount counter for 'df', for example) crawled the partition.
The article says it may be delayed but it also says this.

> Some critics are skeptical that millennials will ever catch up. Prolonging car-buying, they say, means fewer cars purchased during one’s lifetime, a problem for the auto industry.

and

> millennials are looking for cars from manufacturers that integrate seamlessly with their smartphones and sync with other technology

Which actually is in line with what Apple is doing. Either way, I agree it's not a stupid move.
Probably. CompSci has been doing similar stuff for DARPA and NSF under banner of "moving target," "security through diversity," and various forms of the word obfuscation. I know you'll get at least one Googling survey moving target security.

Anyway, it's doable down to the ISA. The state-of-the-art last I checked was individual programs having keys that CPU used to descramble them or something with key's memory isolated from everything. Others just encrypt and authenticate RAM at CPU level giving specific sections to processes. There were compiler-assisted versions of each before that with big, performance hit.
The C example has three includes, two conditionals, two loops, and one function definition. The python example has a single include, conditional, and loop.

For readability purpose it is easier to go through each lines of the python program than the OpenBSD C code. Its not massively different, but its distinguishable enough that I would choose the python version if I wanted to maximize readability, minimize syntax requirement and did not want to use shell script.

The Shell function is in my view the superior choice if the audience is a programmer than know the shell script syntax. It is just a single loop and is written in the environment that the program is intended to be used in. The only drawback there is the speed.
1. Wait for a big AAPL stock dip, like in the last week

2. Buy high-leveraged CFDs on AAPL

3. Release the news

4. Profit
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> This sounds conspiratorial.

It needn't be. It's a plausible survival strategy, given the incentives (economic or otherwise). This doesn't require anyone to consciously decide on this strategy, let alone do so collectively. Evolution ensures that those who just-so-happen to follow this behaviour (by whatever reasoning, which may be very well intentioned) will survive; those who don't will move elsewhere.
The story can also be told of one quite innocent of a such a nefarious crime, who dreamt and believed he/she could actually fly, and dreamt/believed but only half as often that he/she is sorry for some such crime he/she committed. Then, coming across a fellow before-learning-to-talk victim of circumstance, but not negligently taken to task for being a victim of circumstance, puts two and two together and both types of dream vanish into thin air. Leaving just grim ironic burnt-corpse dream(s) of one's pre-schooling loved ones...
I wonder if `taskset -c1 yes | taskset -c1 pv > /dev/null` would significantly change the throughput.
I'm getting the impression that he wasn't actually telling you to "cry him a river".
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This work certainly has value but it is frustrating to keep up with everything being changed. And if changes affect me do the fashions and attitudes of those making the changes have synchronicity with the way that I use computers?

In the old days I think we would have left yes in c because the compiler will build it on any platform.

My first experience with Linux is porting land.c to one of the commercial Unix. Now I first met TCP/IP on a 3B2 and later met systems sold by SMI and DEC and SCO and we all mostly constructed packets the same way and a guy called Stevens had written some nice books about this that everyone had. I think I recall the commercial and free BSD also did things the usual way. But whoever figured out this interesting phenomenon land.c demonstrated happened to be a Linux user and this platform had some different ideas about it. I saw rewriting the relevant parts as an annoying, menial task.
You are certainly an outlier in the discussion.

There are range extended EV options (the Volt/Ampera, for instance) to at least use battery for part of the trip.

It certainly doesn't have to be all or nothing right now. You are enough of an outlier you might never be satisfied, but that shouldn't stop you from trying for a middle ground.
> I'm sure Apple has been working on car tech for far long than Samsung ...

That's not true, unless you define "car tech" very narrowly. Samsung has been in the car business since 1994:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Samsung_Motors

"In the early 1990s, Samsung's Chairman Kun Hee Lee recognised the automotive industry as the culmination of several others. For the Samsung Group, this would allow to leverage resources and technologies from the entire group including Samsung Electrics and Samsung Electronics."
where are you defaulting? do you need to add an api to let the app developers know the window direction so they can create apps consistent with the env?

Options are a cost, are the user going to be irritated or just have a few laugh at their muscle memory for a few days (that was my reaction when I switched window control position from gnome to unity)?
I use Time Out app for OS X. Spend some time reading articles about this topic and you'll understand that the most important is to take breaks and avoid long hours in same position. I set it up to lock my screen with postpone button for normal breaks and no button at all for micro breaks. Normal breaks are 2min every 2h and micro 20sec every 30min-1h. While on break I try to move eyes in different directions which is like going to eye gym :D
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IIRC the statistics, according to cop teaching my CCW class:

90% of handgun shootings are < 3 feet

Takes 7-15 seconds to bleed out from a direct shot to the heart (i.e. drugged up people are still dangerous after multiple shots to chest). The only instant stop is a 2" band around the head.

15% of handgun shootings are fatal (mostly due to quick medical response these days).

In the one second you have to draw, the bad guy can cover 18 feet from a standstill; have done this drill.
Sure, you could, but then you need to fork the Go compiler too (and hopefully eventually get your GOOS target mainlined, which seems unlikely unless your OS gets popular) or you could do your userspace in something other than Go and implement what you need for that.

My point was just the memory allocation and paging isn't significantly different than it would be writing an OS in any other language, it's once you get to the part where you need to implement other people's interfaces/standards to make a viable product that it starts bogging down (if you go that route. If you go your route, then you have two major projects instead of one: writing an OS, and adding a new OS target to an existing toolchain.)
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This article does address some common hurdles in onboarding that, in most cases, shouldn't be there - like push notifications permissions.

But I usually find myself talking people out of getting an app made, versus a mobile-friendly website, unless all of the following are true:

- Your users would be able to access and use mobile apps on their devices.

- Your competitors’ apps are getting a lot of use (or you have no competitors).

- Your app would have key functionality (not just nice-to-have features) and benefits that a mobile website couldn't provide.

- You've verified that people need this key functionality via rigorous user research. (Asking loaded questions, like "This would be a good app, right?", is a trap. Don't do it!)

- Your user research has shown that your customers would be convinced that they should use an app for this. If it's a tough sell, take the website / web app route instead.

According to an article I saw in Recode last year, around half of mobile users no longer download a new app in a typical month.
> inhuman US judicial system

Exactly this. The US is a remarkable country, but how can they suffer such unjust and downright pernicious justice and health systems? That puzzles me.
One point in favor of this simple version is that it's immediately obvious that it doesn't do the same thing as the OpenBSD version. In OpenBSD `yes a b c` will only print "a" while in GNU it prints "a b c". I did not catch that when I was reading the more complicated modern version.
That link is always marked as already visited and yet I always forget it exists.
I'm convinced one of the issues with Tim Cook era Apple is failure to focus. Trying to do too many things at once is what leads companies to be mediocre at all of them.
Keep your secrets and dreams always with you (Android App)
at 18 months, you are either a rocket ship, or should be financially and mentally equipped for the long haul of a 10+ year bootstrapped business.

but it sounds like you are neither, so you should take the offer, and maybe try to get some contingencies in there like a modest signing bonus and health coverage so you are not financially over-stressed on day 1 of starting a new job, which puts the work and yourself at risk.

if they are asking you to work on the same thing, try to get some performance-based bonuses also. it will motivate and rejuvenate you to continue your work (literally).

paying back your investors in full is probably wise, in case you forget all about this fun little experience and decide to do it again (you will).
> Sometimes, I enter random phrases.

Yeah, I just use a passphrase generator in keepass.
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Hey, can I ask you a quick question (and I understand if you can't respond). I'm using React + TypeScript for some server-side stuff, but because I'm using style-loader/css-loader, I have to use webpack.

Everything works, including sourcemaps, but when I debug using VSCode, setting a breakpoint puts me in a 'read-only' version of the file. It's not a lot of 'work' to switch to the actual file, but long-term it's hella inconvenient.

Is there a way to get VSCode (or another editor) to drop me into the actual file, or is this just a consequence of using webpack?
Indeed. To emphasize '1)' you could mention most astro- related fields: astronomy, astrophysics, etc, which are almost purely observational.
Some people sure. But it's nowhere near the number of people that UTF8 solved for.

It would definitely make people's network connectivity simpler and less error prone, but I just don't see it as a huge pressing need.

If NATs didn't exist at all, then this would have been such a huge issue that it would have been needed. For most though, NAT is generally good enough.
I believe this pure split you refer to is the fault of the gun control advocates. In the mind of the 2nd amendment folks every compromise they have made has led to that being the new normal to build the next compromise, thus sliding down the slope. Both political parties would do well to soften their purity tests.
Interestingly, I saw a white "Apple Maps" branded van in my city recently, with four (Velodyne?) LiDAR heads on the roof, one on each corner, along with cameras in the center. Such a system would produce way more LiDAR data than they need for routine mapping, but perhaps enough to build a database for autonomous driving. I live far from Silicon Valley, so they must be confident that data will be useful eventually—enough so to justify the cost of driving around the country and storing an immense volume of LiDAR data.
I feel like there is a race right now to be the first serious autonomous car maker because the nature of highways and infrastructure is such that it's hard to compete with what is already there. They want to set the standard and be positioned to profit accordingly.
Does writing it in a different language suffice?
> Otherwise, you get to irritate 40-60% of your users.

The survey says nothing about how strongly folks hold that preference. I may prefer Schwepps Ginger Ale, but I'm not going to be irritated when offered Canada Dry instead. That "40-60%" number is a ceiling, not a floor.
Here in the UK, police aren't routinely armed. We rely instead on specialist firearms officers who usually perform a rapid-response role but sometimes patrol high-risk locations.

Over here, it's actually much more common to see a police officer equipped with a sub-machinegun or a carbine rifle than a handgun. Firearms are used as a tactical resource to be deployed as needed, rather than an insurance policy for ordinary officers.
Do you know if your talk going to be online afterwards?
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Excellent answer, do you have a timeline for the AES-NI support?

I was previously really impressed by how it improved my IPSec performance.
Tesla's current market cap is 61B, compared to Ford's 45B. There's a lot of growth expectation baked into that price already. No matter how much money they burned on trying to make a car, it will pale in comparison to trying to buy Tesla.
I think it's too early to know how it will play out but I suspect comparing car manufacturing to phone and computer manufacturing is like comparing apples to... well, you get the idea.
clearly, we just need /dev/yes
What I got from the previous reports is that Apple thinks that self-driving tech isn't that far off and that it's going to be a major differentiating element. They probably want to get this tech right and then build a car around it.
Given their market cap they could in theory try to buy Tesla, though I'm not sure if they could succeed at this. Surely would be a good way to use their cash hoard from abroad in case there should really be a tax holiday that will allow US companies to repatriate their overseas money in a tax-free way.
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Also, most mobile carriers have been solving real device addressing problems with IPv6 for a few years now. In the mobile space IPv6 is the present, and the transition has been mostly seamless enough most people haven't noticed outside some early hiccups.
No need to compile GTK, etc. yourself. Homebrew has you covered.

brew tap caskformula/caskformula
brew install caskformula/caskformula/inkscape

Mentioned at the bottom of the page [1].

[1]: https://inkscape.org/en/download/mac-os/
from what i can see it's already in a large iovec buffer
Thank. Unfortunately, I need something suitable for embedded hardware.
While I'm not so interested in mouse support, I am intrigued on the UX with RDP apps. My next device will either be a new Surface Pro or an iPad Pro.