skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he's trying to distinguish between someone with poor ability to pick up on social cues (from someone with poor ability to communicate their wishes/feelings) and a sexual predator. That seems like a reasonable distinction to make, though both can have the same moral fault and/or commit the same crime; motivation is important when we look towards someone's character.
I wonder about that. Obviously the future of internet connections is wireless. Why are we still bothering to hook up individual houses. Apartment blocks, perhaps. Houses ... why ?
I find it interesting the US jet was an FA-18, which entered service November 1983 (USN) is actually more than 30 years old as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F/A-18_Hor...
OVH have a beta RDS-like service. https://www.runabove.com/index.xml
There's a lot of pessimism in the comments here, and I feel like I'm the only one interested in where this will go. I can identify with what some of you are saying, but it is still interesting regardless. Distributed tech has some of the most fascinating projects right now. Here's a few examples:

Distributed file storage: Sia [1] and Storj [2] are both using blockchain tech to form a dropbox-like atmosphere where you can rent space for as little as 2c/GB. Renters can rent out their extra storage, while miners can mine and sell their units or use them on file storage to pay rent for their data.

Decentralized Content Platform: Steem-it. Very interesting concept here about compensating content creators with the currency that the platform surrounds. It bears somewhat of a resemblance to Reddit. [3]

Private yet fungible cryptocurrency: Monero (XMR) is a cryptocurrency on the rise that has privacy baked in, with the ability to opt-in to making your transaction public. It uses Ring Confidential Transactions [4] to mix the transactions and reduce the chances of the participants being identified to an almost 0 chance. It is ASIC resistant [5], has solid governance and dev team, and can even be used on hardware wallets like Tresor with a bit of hacking [6].

[1] - https://www.sia.tech/whitepaper.pdf

[2] - https://storj.io/storj.pdf

[3] - https://steemit.com/steemit/@panenka/what-is-steemit-and-how...

[4] - https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1098.pdf

[5] - https://monero.stackexchange.com/a/138

[6] - https://forum.getmonero.org/4/academic-and-technical/2495/ex...

Disclosure: There could be some bias, because I'm long on all of these except Storj, so I'm including sources that hopefully will allow you to make your own decision without me being preachy.
It is correct that you don't need a math degree to detect data b.s.

However, the suggested "red flag" method is only part of the solution. You learn to detect the red flags and you understand, if red flags accumulate, to start worrying about the truthness of what you are presented...

and then you hit a bullshitter or lyier who, through skill or pure luck, starts validating things that you know are probably wrong but really really hope to be true. And suddenly you yourself start to support the b.s. thesis because you really want it to be true. Then, what do red flags help you? You will actively try to invalidate them. They may stay objectively true, but in our poorly structured, limited way of thinking, they won't.

The true art of survival is to detect when something is pulling your inner optimist. You need to learn to recognize when this guy wakes up. And when he wakes up you need to assume that you are being cheated, that someone is actively trying to sell you something you wouldn't buy otherwise. Because if there is a person with malicious intend all other ways of thinking will make him win. But if it's just coincidence it doesn't hurt to protect yourself.

Defending yourself usually means to ignore your pride and ignore logic and simply look out to not invest anything. Not your time, not your money, don't give signatures, don't stay on the phone call [1], drop the book.

So the true solution to b.s. is: Learn to recognize when somehting pulls you in, and when you detect it start defending against it by not giving in.

[1] i.e., https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/6ix0jy/irs...
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Can someone explain why it is necessary or useful to have a RESTful API for a database that is never exposed to the Web? If I am going to use a library to access the database, why not just use the native driver? Why the JSON indirection?
cough space shuttle cough and its boosters cough
It's a 14-year old missile.[1] It's a variant of the Sidewinder missile from the 1950s. The Sidewinder has a good track record partly because it's so dumb. Classic versions are tail-chasers; the pilot must get on the opponent's tail before firing. Newer versions are supposed to be "all-aspect", but they still work better if they can see the hot end of a jet engine.[2]

[1] http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/aim-9x/
[2] http://www.donhollway.com/foxtwo/
This thing is powerful enough to put a capsule designed for 7 people into orbit. Not being one of the biggest ever doesn't make it small.
TLDR version: they don't use double opt-in, they did some A/B on not having sidebars and use Slack and Trello.
I'm not sure how these have much to do with growing traffic.

So I guess their actual strategies are click-baiting headlines and beefed up filler content with as many excuses as possible to cross-link to other articles in your blog and the service you want to sell.

(Apologies for the negative tone)
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> But I wish structs had destructors

In C++, structs are just classes whose members are public by default.
I'm very happy my fiancée didn't take ’no’ to be my definitive answer. You really can't reduce these things to binary operations.
You have to replace the shock adsorber anyway, the chutes could be as well detachable and replaceable with a ready to go packed one, while the spents are sent back for repacking
FWIW, I've anecdotally had pretty much the opposite experience. I've played and written music my entire life, but I'm not very well-versed in sound systems. My roommate has invested several years and several thousand dollars in the sound system that we currently have in our living room.

After he and the sound system moved in, I listen to music (of all kinds) quite a bit louder in our living room: My earlier crappy sound system just didn't sound good at high volumes while this system sounds beautiful as high as we care to crank it before we decide that we're being too unreasonably inconsiderate to our neighbors.
One of the points Sirer brought up was exactly this - without an external feed, the Bancor network will never know if things are working correctly. A malicious party could very use the public nature of the transactions and manipulate prices such that they get cheaper coins or ensure the "asymmetrically price discovery" end up marking coins for hundreds of ETH.

OT - Thanks for your illuminating posts. I am a software engineer by profession so most of my learning have been from trying to trade stocks at my country's local exchange so it is interesting to learn things from someone who worked in that field. I was checking your profile and had a question - What is a PE/VC trader? We can talk offline if you want :)
> I just can't imagine one has to go through all those books to be proficient in one language.

I don't know if you know the meaning of "proficiency", but if you are trying to argue that it takes work to become an expert in a subject then it seems you aren't aware of what being an expert actually entails.

Moreover, Those books appear to be a lot mainlyl because the subjects covered by half of them actually overlap.
and then you hit a bullshitter or lyier who, through skill or pure luck, starts validating things that you know are probably wrong but really really hope to be truey wrong but really really hope to be true. And suddenly you yourself start to support the b.s. thesis because you really want it to be true.

There's a word for this kind of person: politician.
The storage offering was way way less than that when everyone here signed up, though it was still vastly greater than anything anyone else offered if memory serves.
The TMS34010 wasn't RISC by any normal definition.

It was nice though, I wrote a backend for GNU binutils for it and wrote an X11 driver for the chip.
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Are you sure you are not thinking of the AMD 29000 ? AMD 2900 series parts were used to build microcoded CPUs.
The STS was reusable in name only.

They discarded the fuel tank, and the SRBs landing in the ocean required a dive team and significant refurbishment before they could be reused. Even the shuttle itself required significant refurbishment before it could be reused.
> "If you have fewer than 5 years' experience with C++ and think you are an expert, you just don't know how much you don't know.

That pretty much applies to any subject. Some bachelor's degrees take longer than that, and no one becomes an expert with a bachelor's or even a master's degree.
IANL but insofar as sexual harassment exists within the context of a company with employees, my understanding is that his behaviour, while deeply immoral, is not illegal — he has admitted to being wrong, not to having done something illegal.
Too little, too late IMO
If I'm not totally mistaken, similar concepts are still applied today. IIRC POWER 8 offloads some of its registers to L1 when running at higher SMT modes like SMT 8.
I think chutes big enough to save a worthwhile amount of landing fuel would make the vehicle too vulnerable to unpredictable lateral translation due to wind and variable aero braking. That would necessitate using more fuel or bigger and heavier control surfaces to correct for lateral motion. It just doesn't work out.

Also the braking burn just above the atmosphere is already a long high thrust burn. They run three engines for quite awhile at a time when the vehicle has more fuel in it than during landing, which is a single engine burn. Extending that three engine burn significantly would require a lot of extra fuel and as we can see from this landing it isn't needed.
Emulation of that processor was a bit of a challenge. Fortunately the fully general bit addressibility was only used in gzip decompression and the drawing instructions (circles, rectangles, that sort of thing) only came up in test mode. So not all of it had to be implemented and only the normal 8/16/32 bit addressing modes had to be fast.
Thank you for this very detailed write-up and also the specific product recommendation.
Only semi-related but nonetheless interesting:

Calling BS on people claiming to do big data. Ask them how big exactly their data is and then point out that it fits on one machine, so it's not "big". This is independent of their usage of Hadoop.
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That's a very cynical (though not necessarily inaccurate) paraphrasal of his text. I am wondering: what kind of statement could he make, according to you, that is not amenable to such doubts?
We need to factor the two cents per gigabyte download somehow but I agree that the latest cut from five to two cents made it much more appealing.

But it's very funny how it is practically the same 4 EUR a month a terabyte as the rent-a-server-for-its disks solutions.
Well, yes, but that's just one machine and you are responsible for keeping it running.
This is equivalent to say a couple years old Ford F-150 is a truck from 1975. The branding is the same, the shape is similar, but it ain't the same plane.

Super Hornets are still being produced, upgraded and improved and will probably still be in the assembly line in 20 years. A 30 second Google didn't show the year of the F/A-18 in question, but I assume it is from the mid 2000 or something like it.

This was even more true for Soviet tech. The American B-52 are ancient, but the Soviet Bears were produced, upgraded, replaced and improved until the very end. Cost-plus programs like the F-35 with enormous upfront R&D are good for the manufacturer, suppliers and lobbied politicians, but iterative designs, like evolution, also just works.
And a lot of problems. Read lowendtalk, there are reports of disks mailed in and not hosted for weeks or months.
Actually it was super hornet. It has so few common parts with the original, that many people consider it completely different airplane. The program costs we're also big enough to hint new design if I recall correctly.

The reason it is called "hornet" and why it shares so much external similarity is some kind of domestic propaganda reasons. To make people think that US Navy doesn't have modern equipment when they actually do.
At the moment people are wary of putting payload on a reused rocket. There will soon come a tipping point of being wary of using a rocket that hasn't been flown before.
Take a soda can, glue a lead weight to the bottom. Now scale it up to 15 stories tall. You have roughly the design of the Falcon 9 first stage.

As mentioned, it's designed to take stress in one direction, when empty the vast majority of the weight is in the engines, which will make it want to fall bottom first anyway.

It's not designed as a lifting body, so doing things like attaching wings would require additional reenforcement. For each 5KG you add for landing/recovery equipment/structure, you take 1KG off the maximum payload

The upright landing, landing legs, and grid fins is the most efficient trade-off they've been able to come up with so far.
Thank you. I appreciate you responding personally, taking this seriously, and providing a quick fix.
You can have a microsat today, they're not that expensive. About as much as a used car.
I'm a huge fan of cryptocurrencies and related decentralized technologies, but that is immaterial to the fact that anyone
who acts obsessively focused on the blockchain data structure
is missing an appreciation of what the actual underlying innovation is - please re-read my previous comment, it seems clear you didn't spend time thinking about the actual words I wrote.

> the interesting part is how you can bootstrap issuance of a new asset by incentivizing participants to assist in maintaining a specified computer network in exchange for cryptographically-{verifiable|enforced} units.
>There's someone out there for everyone.

Sorry, wrong.
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His attack came on the 29th April - yet there were Snort signatures on the 21st April (42329, 42332, 42340) for DoublePulsar, and before that 14 March (41978) for one of the vulnerabilities.

Despite his much lauded protection, I find it odd to believe that he's not running Snort, and the lack of actual specifics make me believe this is really a piece for the mentioned Israeli security company with a "blackbox" IDS.
In Italy we comment and compliment (or criticise) each other's attire regularly. It's widely known (for example) that I abhor exposed feet and will therefore call out and/or criticize sandals, flip-flops, or peep-toe shoes. Female workers do this to make workers, male workers do this to female workers. We successfully share same-sex toilets if the need arises. The regimented gender-divided situation the US seems to subtend is utterly alien to me and seems to be far more awkward than you realize.
Because XP patches only worked on valid licenses. A ton of XP in China is pirated. So Qihoo 360 created custom patches for all those pirated versions of Windows. Weird Alice in Wonderland situation.

https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/15/pirated-windows-china-ru...
Please remind me of the time the space shuttle's boosters and fuel tank ever landed (as opposed to splashing down).
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Is that a reason we shouldn't expect better?
Tight muscles in the face, jaw, and neck, and shoulders are the most likely culprit. It's almost certainly not nerves. For me it was "forward head" posture which needed to be corrected through strengthening exercises and a careful reassessment of my desk work and driving positions. I'd highly recommend visiting a good upper cervical chiropractor.
Note the reusable part. That sort of tracking is much easier if you don't need to resuse the hardware afterwards.

Anyway, anyone else who wants to be able to compete with SpaceX on price is going to need to start doing this before too long, so we'll see how difficult it is.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity."

There are things people don't know. I find xkcd's attitude a useful one to keep in mind:

https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
Probably not, since modern air defenses are effective against small missiles and even mortar rounds. Here's a CIWS in Afghanistan shooting down incoming mortar rounds.[1] (Read the comments for more explanation from people who have been there.) The CIWS has radar which can track not just the target, but its own bullets. It makes quick adjustments until bullets and target are in the same place at the same time.

On one occasion, a US ally shot down a hobbyist-sized drone with a Patriot missile. Very expensive, but it hit the target.

[1] https://youtu.be/KsVUISS8oHs
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Does it really have to use a blurry canvas? I'd be much more interested in a normal HTML version.
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Also these animations in a spectrograph:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxx6Gqf1Q4w
Those aircraft only operate with air superiority, and for some decades air superiority already dictates who wins and loses a war.

In that regard, the only innovation that is brought by this project is that pilots no longer need to be on board of these aircraft for them to operate.
Yes but INX is 2 cycles and the zero page versions INC $55 and INC $55,X are 5 and 6 cycles, respectively. These regs are 2.5x to 3x the speed of ext mem. So having no internal regs would just be a disaster.
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You could choose that the memory accesses be at any bit size from 1 to 32 with both unsigned and sign-extended register loads. In fact, I think you got to pick two sizes and for most normal operation you'd choose 16 and 32 bits. There were some load/store operations that always operated at 8 bits so you'd get the usual complement of data sizes. Pretty useful feature for something that was intended to be a graphics processor. I've also seen the different bit sizes used for fast and simple Huffman decoding in gzip decompression.

The auto-increment/decrement addressing modes were aware of the bit size. Thus you could have polymorphic subroutines where the same code could be used to sum an array of bytes, words, 13 bit quantities or whatever size word you wanted (up to 32 bits).

Since the processor had built-in circuitry to help drive graphics displays it took a high input frequency of something like 40 or 50 MHz and actually divided that down to run the processor at around 10 MHz or so. The opposite of what we're used to now and made the darn things look scary (well, scarier) from an emulation programmer's perspective.

The memory interface was designed to work with shift-register VRAM. The idea there being that the VRAM chips had a built-in shift register 512 pixels wide. The display circuitry would make use of it by having each line from the frame buffer dumped into the shift register as the raster was moving down the screen. And then the shift register would clock out the pixels as the raster moved across each line.

During VBLANK (when the video circuitry is waiting for the raster to return to the top of the screen) you could use special instructions to load and store the shift register which would be as fast as any load/store operation. The entire frame buffer could be filled very quickly with any repetitive pattern or erased entirely by copying some fixed line to all the others.

Lotta cool stuff in that beast.
I believe the parent meant that cyberweapons can be used to launch nuclear weapons without authorization. Which I'm not sure is actually feasible...
From the benchmarks, it appears that something fishy goes on with the Himeno Benchmark v3.0 test.

It's very weird that throughout all benchmarks Ryzen processors are either on-par with the high-end Xeon and i7 processors or overperform them by a considerable margin, but in the Himeno Benchmark v3.0 test the same processors are held back and forced to halve their performance regarding Intel's least-performing processor.

The performance hit shown in this particular benchmark is simply too high, particularly when compared with all other benchmarks where Ryzen processors are repeatedly the top performing processors.
One of the links on that page points to this fascinating memoir by Gary Kildall: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/in-his-own-words-gary-k...

As an erstwhile CP/M user, I have of course known Kildall's name for decades, but never had a sense of who he was as a person. This somewhat autobiographical recounting is very illuminating in that regard.
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True but the claim that Space X was the first company to ever think about reusable space vectors is laughable at best.
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>As a man, I will never truly understand what it feels like to be the victim of these transgressions. //

Do you think that's true? Like women/men can't harras men sexually?
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The authors regret that as Victor Timmers did not carry out the research under the auspices of the University of Edinburgh, nor in collaboration or consultation with any personnel at the University of Edinburgh, the affiliation of “University of Edinburgh” has now been removed from this work at the request of the Institution. In addition, subsequent to the publication of the Paper, Victor Timmers has disclosed a potential Conflict of Interest with regard to the work, namely: “non-financial support from Innas B.V, during the conduct of the study”.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231016...
Some people on HN like to read both sides of a story:

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/06/23/why-the-cop-who-shot...

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/07/16/philando-castile-got...
The Visual Studio options menu is an abomination of a GUI. The things you need to change to do any particular task, like integrate a library, are scattered around multiple different pages. It's also very easy to screw things up, so that only debug or only release mode work properly.

I lived the pain of hunting for binary downloads that match my exact Visual Studio version. Even if you were lucky enough to not need to compile from source, you'd still need to manually configure each library and include path for both debug and release mode separately. And, when you later move the project onto a new computer or share it with a friend, you're likely to discover that hidden somewhere in that mess is a path that's no longer valid.

By comparison, adding a library on Linux is usually trivial. Call 'apt install foo', call 'FindFoo' in your CMakeLists.txt, and use the variables FindFoo provides. Done.

The Visual Studio debugger, Intellisense and plugin integration are great, but project configuration is atrocious and nobody should be emulating Microsoft's approach on that.