skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every large tech company has very diverse interests. I mean even Microsoft doesn't just make Windows, they bought minecraft. They all know that technology changes quickly and tech companies can die overnight. Most don't even do what they started as - IBM doesn't make punch card tabulating machines, apple makes phones now, and Google does tons of stuff other than search. Imagine if Adblock became ubiquitous, Google's advertising business would be fucked. But many of their investments could adapt and live on.

I makes perfect sense for Google to invest in robotics. They are already heavily invested in AI which will benefit robotics immensely. And with the coming robotics revolution, whatever companies get in early stand to make billions.
My two cents:

- The hit boxes on the toggle switches is very small and finicky. I tapped three times before it worked.

- Some of the controls look disabled, like the slider and toggle buttons. Combined with finickiness, it's a real UX frustration.

- The box shadows make the animations very slow. On my nexus 5x, I get maybe 5fps at best. It would be worthwhile to explore ways to improve them, like using SVG instead of box-shadow.

Otherwise, everything looks very clean.
I had been at my first developer gig for about 6 months when we hired a new team lead. He was a good leader and a talented developer. I wanted to learn as much from him as I could. In my first 1:1 with him, I asked him to be as brutally honest with me as he felt I could handle, in his feedback, be it code reviews or whatever. There were many moments in the next year that I regretted asking that. But those were the moments of weakness, moments when my ego was taking a beating and I didn't think I could handle one more PR comment. If I had deferred to my ego, if I had intimated that I couldn't handle that standard, that would have been a mistake.

Hubris is great in the binary. This thing is going to happen. Or like you say, "I'm going to win." It may be less helpful in the gradient.

Feedback may not be painful for everyone, but it is for me. And it takes reigning in my ego to be as receptive to feedback as I should be.
v7x86[1] has some phenomenal x86 assembly code by Robert Nordier.

[1] http://emma.nfshost.com/v7x86/index.html
More specifically, this was the title at the time that DrBazza made that comment. It was changed to the current title afterwords.
If you want to improve your C knowledge there are probably more efficient ways to do it instead of randomly reading OpenBSD sources such as reading more advanced C books or reading source codes of projects which are known for their good code quality (sqlite maybe?).

One of problem of static source code analyzers are false positive. Soon or later you will have to reading code and understand the context. I assume it's better way to improve your C knowledge because you REALLY must understand the code . And besides that the positive effect are more valuable.
Study hints at possible lepton universality violation
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At the time I found my Buffalo N300, it was pretty few and far between (at least for consumer grade hardware, probably more widely found on enterprise).
Thank you for this. As someone interviewing with a handful of companies in SV and considering relocating, this whole thread reenforces a whole host of misgivings I have of the area. Maybe I'm too Midwestern, but most of the comments read as a big "eff you - don't even bother." Does everyone hate it there so much? I know it isn't perfect, but what city/metro area is?
Google's approach resembles the old Microsoft "embrace and extinguish" playbook [1]. Sure users could disable Chrome adblocking and install something else, but how many will? Especially if Google builds a better adblocker (but one that coincidentally doesn't block anything Google cares about).

There's already a strong push from the security community to use Chrome over other browsers, because it's more secure. This puts Google in a very powerful position of setting the terms of the debate over web standards, web advertising, and tracking. But Google's interests are not necessary aligned with those of their users, who are also NOT their customers. I don't see why the same dynamic wouldn't play out for a Google ad-blocker.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
>I know multiple people who invested considerable time and energy into building up Facebook pages only to suddenly be cut off from fans who had followed them when fb decided to go the pay to play route.

An anecdote on a similar note, there's a comedian I'm a fan of who had an Instagram account he used to post funny boudoir style photos as a big, bald, overweight man. All of his posts were well within Instagram's terms of use, in that he never showed full nudity or anything overly suggestive. Basically he was doing the same thing thousands of "butt models" do on Instagram. These weren't just cell phone snaps, either; they were staged and professionally shot images.

He gained a few thousands followers with this, until one day when he was locked out of his banned account with no explanation. With the help of a friend he managed to contact someone who works at Instagram and was told his account was removed for "harassment". Since no other explanation was given the only conclusion that seems reasonable is that people reported him for "making fun of" plus sized female models by doing the same thing himself, which is absolutely ridiculous, as he was always positive about what he was doing. He just happened to be a bald fat man while doing it.
Diversity in Tech Conferences, and ElectronConf
Mobile Dapp Browsers: The Consumer Interfaces for the Decentralized Web
Partial (selected) truth isn't truth, it's bias.
I've owned eight or so over the years, 2 of them had it, one of which was the most recent one I bought explicitly for it. YMMV
Maybe the money taxed from that said corporation could be channeled to pay for universal income.
Out of curiosity what country are you in?
processors with cheap and limited local memory and costly and scalable external memory are also not new....and that doesn't really make them non-von-neuman except that it doesn't make sense to execute out of global memory
Silicon Valley, Failed startup CEO on fraud after refusing 2 pay
[edit] Crap, false alarm, the paid license is still the same garbled, unclear, non-professional nonsense that all of us complained about a year ago and that makes your pro versions completely unusable by real businesses, it's only the free versions that have a real license attached to them[/edit]

On behalf of myself and all the other commenters who asked for a real license last year when your material UI kit hit HN[0], I'd like to say a big THANK YOU for ditching your old home-written license and going with something real so we can actually use this release. Can't wait to see what you'll build next!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12101122
I don't think bringing up someone's past behavior is at all irrelevant or a cheap tactic. The main issue I had wasn't that there is a paper that has holes in it, but that the sites that have been covering it clearly didn't do any referencing first. Even if the journalists and people covering this paper weren't scientists, they could & should have evaluated it for significance. I don't know what to say other than that there are a lot of things here that should stand out to non-experts as suspect. People who cover this should make even a cursory effort to find out if what they're reporting on is real. A part of that is determining if the source is legitimate, and a part of THAT is looking at their source's past behavior & claims.

[edit] specifically, the personal-website-masquerading-as-real-organization-page, unheard of journal, and exaggerated credentials are all the hallmarks of people who come up with proofs for perpetual motion, ways to trisect an angle with a straightedge, and how time travel is possible. If you work publicly in science, or are just listed on the faculty page of a university department, your email gets bombarded with these papers constantly.
Dense RISC-V will eventually happen, although its supporting chipset will probably have its own vulnerabilities.
For companies, it's often enough if you're legally bound to not touch data, or else cough up a sufficiently high compensation.
Britney Spears' Instagram used to control malware
Here's a list of nerdy sites to visit in Silicon Valley:
http://siliconvalleyguide.org/

Disclaimer: I made this.
For a midwesterner, Denver is pretty sweet and techie.
I was introduced to the Twitch app through some gaming friends and I was surprised at how solid it is. It's actually really good.
(1) Sure. Pay more for mail and it goes faster. Amazon helps gets that increase in speed subsidized.

(2) Generally incorrect.
See this question on the Intel forums. Seems difficult to actually disable it. https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-business-clien...
From my class of 25 only two are not in technology anymore. Probably 20 are employed as developers. The other three moved to ancillary tech roles (product management, sales engineer, etc...).

This is 2.5 years out. Part of the issue too is that "bootcamps" is too nebulous. Some are 7 months full-time, some are 6 week night classes. It's not always apples to apples.

My program was Galvanize, six months full time.
It didn't even dawn on me that that figure was supposed to represent graphs until I read your comment (and then the caption), I had just assumed it was supposed to represent Big Data.
More than that even, the article seems pretty heavily biased against Google. They bring up a good point which I hadn't considered before, but the way the article is written is awfully slanted. For example, this paragraph:

> So this is a way for Google to crush its few remaining competitors by pre-installing an ad zapper that it controls to the most common web browser. That’s a great way for a monopoly to remain a monopoly.

It seems like the author is really trying to paint Google in an unflattering light. Maybe that's how it is, but the facts should speak for themselves.
No, they could not "adapt". Ballmer's "one trick pony" comment is as true today as it was years ago. They derive the vast majority (90%+ iirc) of their revenue from ads. If ads are fucked, Google will be fucked too.
Well, apparently I won't be able to call landlines anymore with it (e.g: my family abroad). This was the last piece of Microsoft software I was using, but you know what? fuck it...

~ sudo dpkg --remove skype
Removing skype ...

I am removing it from my phone too.

Microsoft <3 Linux, yeah right.
What are you going on about here? I have never once heard someone confuse "race condition" with "high CPU usage."
On a Sunday afternoon, go to open houses in some city to see how the typical homes for sales are like.
Can anyone suggest a Linux video calling app that auto answers calls. That is from a headless server. I use mine as a baby monitor and Skype has a great feature where you can allow it to auto answer from know callers (only myself). It seems to already be broken with newest Android app.
When Steven Van Zandt Convinced AZAPO to Take Paul Simon Off a Hit List
> Labour's vote share is 9.6% up on 2015 - the largest increase from one election to another, for any party, since 1935-1945 (9.8%)

That's pretty impressive, especially considering the vigorous campaigns from DM, and the Sun, against Corbyn.
This is 100% anecdotal.

I'm from Minneapolis as are a number of my friends.
Some of them moved out to CA (Irvine) and some later moved to Seattle.

They /can't wait/ to move back to MN.
For a while, I didn't understand them (usually, when they tell me this in the winter). But the music scene, culture, and comparative lack of traffic make a big difference.

I've yet to go to CA outside of layovers, but I still want to experience it for myself.
I think the comment is referring to this story:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/26/politics/james-comey-fbi-inves...

I missed this exchange in the livestream, relevant bit:
"BURR: Were there other things that contributed to that that you can describe in an open session?

COMEY: There were other things that contributed to that. One significant item I can’t, I know the committee’s been briefed on. There’s been some public accounts of it, which are nonsense, but I understand the committee’s been briefed on the classified facts."

We obviously don't know what the classified facts are.
This also seems to be in reference to the announcements in late summer vs the disclosure right before the election which I haven't found anything in the transcript about.

Full Transcript: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/politics/senate-hearin...
(Aside: linking to NY times because it was slightly less ad heavy than other sites I could find. Couldn't find a single one without auto-play video...)
Use of load shedding or generation shedding to balance load and generation on a grid are a different mechanism than the continuous adjustment of generator output by the governor in response to changes in frequency that occur as mismatches in real power demand and generation result in changes in the kinetic energy of every synchronous machine.

Load shedding is triggered by underfrequency and undervoltage elements, generation shedding is triggered by over frequency elements.

I am aware that in New Zealand the distribution utilities (especially in Christchurch) perform 'peak shaving' to reduce the peak demand on some substations by turning off people's hot water tanks using a ripple signal injected on to the power system, but that is to alter the load profile not perform frequency regulation.

Every large system operator attempts to balance the positive and negative frequency errors from 60Hz to zero over a 24 hour period so that clocks are correct, that is not unique to Australia.

Can you provide any links to how voltage is used to regulate the frequency in certain parts of Australia? A magnetic amplifier is not a term I am immediately familiar with. It almost seems to me like a normal synchronous generator, where a current in the rotor causes a rotating magnetic field, which then induces a voltage in the stator that is much large (magnetic amplifier).

I am an EE and program power plants including turbine governors that regulate the system frequency so I am curious about any methods that differ from what we are doing in North America.
Do You Have to Be Technical to Start a Software Company?
> I'm saying that it's delusional to say "I live in" instead of "I sleep in".

He has his desk in the bedroom. I don't see any reason to assume he uses other rooms unless he mentions them.

> It sounds like you forgot to divide by two.

It seemed like you were unimpressed by the space itself.

> The article really just sounds like a kid showing up to the same small university dorm that millions of other people went through and thinking that he's a special genius because...what...because he bought a corner desk through Amazon? Please.

I won't disagree there.

> And then I further said, from experience, that 80ft2 is just plenty of space for one person's bedroom. And I described the experience showing that even two people can fit in that space without problems relating to storing things.

Okay, that's fine then if you were calling your experience comparable. It really seemed to me like you were saying your past experience was significantly smaller. If you weren't doing that, then I apologize and have no further argument.
Useable? What do you mean? Bit Torrent, iTunes, Amazon are all "useable." Netflix is hardly the only game in town.
Developers, swallow your pride and just do stuff
The website is one of the things we need help with. If you want something more detailed than the About GNUnet paragraph there's the key concepts[2] and user handbook[1].

[1] https://gnunet.org/user-handbook
[2] https://gnunet.org/concepts
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Welcome to sf
You make it sound like uranium nuclear reactors vs thorium nuclear reactors. Because of the arms race, uranium ones were developed first even though they are merely a (as one HN commenter put it) local optimum. And I remember I was one of the happy guys, rooting for AMD and enjoying cheaper processors.

Was I foolish ?
Also they say the processor will use "1000 times less energy". Incredibly confused thinking goes into writing a sentence like that.
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Make sure to catch a Giants baseball game if you can - AT&T is the best park in the major leagues.
> LSP does not specify how to do general code generation.

Don't quick fixes cover this?
> Russia embarrassed us with their sophisticated cyberwarfare capability in the last election

I'm still unclear how "sophisticated" these attacks were. Per the unclassified information, all I've heard mentioned is:

1. social media manipulation

2. traditional media manipulation (RT)

3. email spearphishing

None of the above strikes me as particularly sophisticated, even if it's potentially effective. (I don't know if it was effective or not in the case of the election.)

Of course, I have no idea what the classified information says regarding any of this.
Yup, could be, but by the very definition of alpha and beta means things could change.
Good. It's none of their business.
Pandora Gets $480M from Sirius XM, Sells Ticketfly
Now that I think about it, both. But when I posted, more specifically to technical issues. e.g. When a concept was really foreign what did you do.
They still have 20% time for a small set of people, but it's not nearly as widespread as it once was.
So what? It's something you can do from there, and they are in the area for 2 weeks.
Ask HN: How do banks and fintec stay on top of IT security?
I am very pessimistic about IT security, after all, zero day exploits exist. So I tend to dismiss all fintec related startup ideas as unrealistic. Yet, some companies pull it off, and banks stay in business. How?
[edit]False alarm, the pro Material kit still uses the same terrible non-professionally written "creative tim" license HN commenters complained about a year ago (sample link in parent comment)[/edit]

W00t! It looks like you also re-released the material kit under MIT, and have a ton of other stuff available. You might consider adding a link to your list of demos (or a more prominent link or list) on the product demo pages. If we hadn't messaged here on HN previously, I'm unlikely to have gone looking for other stuff and found all your other demos[0]

[0] http://demos.creative-tim.com/
That Toogle Button in the navbar for "White/Orange" makes no sense as an UI element.
There is literally nothing in this list that is in Silicon Valley.
- Statement: "Python 3 is getting slower" (tense: present continuous).

- Proof: a benchmark based on Python 3.3 (Python 3.3 was released in 2012).
This is sadly amusing. Are you making the world in your googly feely image? It's just despotism of another stripe in case you haven't figured it out yet.
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No way. Colorado sucks. It snows all year here. Don't come here. Go to Utah. Utah is awesome. /s
I stand corrected. Reflecting on my own experience you are absolutely right.
This is awesome thank you!
> Are there any open hardware computers of comparable computing power?

IBMs POWER processors are comparable to high-end Xeons and the specifications are entirely open.

I'd love to see a new "Talos" effort in light of recent events: https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-s...
+ "Meetups in San Francisco"

https://www.meetup.com/cities/us/ca/san_francisco/
That I will get burned out trying to pursue my passion while holding down a day job to pay the bills, and that unless I give up my passion I will never have a day job lucrative enough to live a comfortable life (savings, house, car, "essentials").

In essence, I'm afraid of having to sacrifice what makes me happy for living a comfortable life.
There are some good cross-dev C64 graphics editors out there on the PC - I think most of them will let you import pictures, convert them, then save as PRG (etc) executables you can run on a real C64.

PC:

- Timanthes: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=75871

- MultiPaint: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=156376

- ProjectOne: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=86776

- PixCen: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=149752

OSX:

- http://csdb.dk/release/?id=156376
What's the "community detection" benchmark referenced in the article?
Clearly they must be using Lync or Skype to coordinate fixing them too -- just can't find the right tab to resume the conversations.
The Internet needs paid fast lanes, anti-net neutrality senator says
I don't follow. Have you ever gone to a company event where the folks organizing it warn: "Have fun celebrating the product launch, but if you have a little too much to drink, please be responsible and call a taxi."

Is the company setting an expectation that over-drinking will occur?

Is the company necessarily implying that employees have had problems with drinking historically?

Does this message turn of non-drinking employees?
That'd just be RISC-V, essentially.
It seems that is only an resin imprint; bassically without usable DNA
Hey now. Sushirrito is only $12 ;)
I would really have loved to have been a fly on the wall when this decision was discussed. Maybe someone from the U.K. can explain why, if you have a majority and outright control of Parliament, that you might necessarily need to extend that majority?
AWS IAM syntax made easier
"Versus, what? No public funding? No private utilization of public research?"

Versus the taxpayer-funded I.P. being licensed to all parties in the country that funded it with the big corporations being forced to compete on better implementations delivered faster to customers. Big players can try to make billions, small players can innovate on top of same I.P. without a lawsuit, and individuals can even attempt to homebrew their own without a lawsuit.
DUP has a softer stance on Brexit than the tories. Soft Brexit was their condition for forming the coalition.
Software prototyping within a cybersecurity framework
This is a very interesting idea but I am suspicious of the source, and additional corroboration. Perhaps this will spur others to look into it and could turn out to be right. Such is science..
>... such as ... reading source codes of projects which are known for their good code quality (sqlite maybe?).

OpenBSD is one such project.
definitely not a commentary on the work itself!
Do you have a money disorder?
"during a meeting with FBI and FSB, a Russian official came to a member of the Dutch police team, pointed at someone from the FBI and said "he is copying your data". An investigator went looking and saw that indeed the American had a thumb drive in a police laptop and was copying Dutch information"

Funny, but slightly depressing too. I wonder how it's like for security professionals working internationally when you always have to consider that your international partners are likely looking to stab you in the back. Would probably be too frustrating for me.
I don't think it's unusual at all... just not discussed much.