skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This speaks to a disparity between the first and second (and third) worlds (and yes, I know that these are outdated terms); in the US writ large, we take it technology for granted, and have been marketed to thusly; as such, our products are disposable, obsolescence is as much about culture as it is about cycles of technology, and we are marketed to as such.

Go further afield, and tech cultures spring up around technology we'd otherwise take for granted in the Anglosphere. Sure, there's some cultural cachet around old 'things,' but to my cynical mind, it's cachet for the sake of cachet. The label of useless is applied to last generation's gear, and it's thrown out, recycled, or stuck in a drawer.

If only we had a more open and less, shall we say capitalist/IP-based view of our technology, we could create an ecosystem where 2012's iPhone, with ample computing power for many tasks, could become a valuable part of said ecosystem instead of being a relic. Similarly, instead of trashing broken things, we could repair them; there exist almost a stigma surrounding a broken phone screen. Why repair when you're due for an upgrade in a few months? Don't be so base as to actually fix your shit, that's not what you're being sold; upgrade, advance, incrementalize.
Does Android not allow carriers to control tethering as well?
SLIME is hugely powerful.
At 15 second it shows them firing on ISIS: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/dave-eubanks-free-burma-rangers...

As far as the OP photos go, this one here shows them as a well armed militia: https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2017/07/J9bqC3X.jpg

In Burma they fought for sure:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/myanmars-free-burma-rangers-are...

https://www.outsideonline.com/1910476/jesus-kissed-war-fring...
One simple, practical factor that shouldn't be overlooked in the case of Stanford's rank here is that it is literally in the middle of Silicon Valley. The physical and mental inertia to moving to SV from wherever else you are can be very real. I'd bet the distribution of where those unicorns were started location-wise is like 70% SV, 30% spread across Boston, SoCal, and the rest. Similar to how YC makes everybody move to SV to start...
So his shallow tonal dismissal is fair game, but an identificarion of a pattern which undermines it is unlawful ad-hominem?

Seems like cargo cult moderation to me.
There’s also The Last Ringbearer, a Russian novel which attempts to fill in most of the gaps in Tolkien’s worldbuilding.

http://ymarkov.livejournal.com/280578.html
> to properly do "science" you can (generally) meaningfully only ask a single question at a time.

No, that's not true. There's no rule in science against asking as many questions as you want simultaneously. There's no inherent reason that the same team that is observing Larsen C could not also find and publish evidence that the current calving is caused by climate change.

The reason they have no evidence that the Larsen C calving is caused by climate change is that it is virtually impossible to definitively link any single event, no matter how extreme, to climate change. Glaciers calve, sometimes dramatically, with or without climate change. Climate change just makes it happen more often. (Until all the glaciers melt; then calving happens less often.)

In fact, it is entirely possible that the Larsen C calving in fact has nothing to do with climate change, that it really would have happened regardless. That doesn't mean that it should not serve as a reminder that climate change is in fact happening.
> The original paper of LISP by John McCarthy http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.html

> Or the more accessible explanation by Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html

> There are only few primitives and no such things as RPLACA, RPLACD, and NCONC.

That paper is from a month after the manual I posted. It's pretty open about not covering the entirety of Lisp, too, for instance in the section "The LISP Programming System" it says: In addition to the facilities for describing S-functions, there are facilities for using S-functions in programs written as sequences of statements along the lines of FORTRAN (4) or ALGOL (5). These features will not be described in this article.
One of the nice things about using mmap'd data structures is that you don't have to slurp the entire thing into memory to work on it. The OS's virtual memory system will only load a few pages at a time for whatever's needed. This means that in practical applications you're likely to be within an order of magnitude of RAM speed if you're using an SSD.

Secondly, the other nice bit is that you can use structures larger than the physical RAM on the system. It's kind of like getting a system with enormous amounts of slow-ish RAM.

Thirdly, you can build a whole bunch of these for different purposes and just open the ones you need, and not bother with the rest, again like having even more RAM.

Finally, you can multi-process trivially on these as the OS sorts out the mess and suddenly it's like having a slightly slow multi-million dollar multi-tb shared memory supercomputer from 5-8 years ago at your disposal. Works great on Beowulf clusters if your disk storage is shared on fast links and can handle the IOPS.

The number of applications you can do with a 5-8 year old super computer are vast. I've seen 20tB classifiers built on more or less commodity hardware (<$100k for a cluster of cheap hardware and one big disk) that were previously thought to require a $5 million dollar supercomputer just because of the large shared memory. You can probably build an equivalent machine for <$10k these days off of Newegg and some decent NAS boxes.
Search a little harder.
> The higher level one needs to be fixed before you can fix the lower level one.

well sometimes problems have workarounds, otherwise the poor 100x programmer would have to solve all existential problems first. (maybe a 1000x programmer could do that, when he finally reveals himself)
The way to build a new business complex (like the saucer) is to build apartment towers next to it. Or a transit station next to it. Otherwise, the traffic going to the saucer will be tremendous.

Long ago when I worked at Boeing, so many people would leave at the same time that it would take 15 minutes just to exit the parking lot. This was despite Boeing staggering the shift ends to alleviate it. People would run to their cars in a desperate attempt to get ahead of the wave.
If you don't mind me asking, what exactly is the role of a developer advocate?
Haven't a bunch of companies relocated from Silicon Valley to SF specifically because employees preferred to live in SF and not commute for hours? I think people are "voting" for that as a priority, to the extent they can.
Marty: Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?

Nigel: (pause) These go to eleven.
Neither of those are the problem I'm referring to, which should be obvious based on the thread we're in...

But to spell it out, the problem is that the winner-takes-all aspect encourages people to overwork themselves or their employees, despite the diminishing returns that brings.

Maybe you're just so convinced of capitalism's good nature that you were blinded to what we were talking about in the first place? ;)
Check out MIT 6.824 which contains lecture notes and coding labs on Raft. (They used to teach Paxos but phased out a few years ago)
>"No single event can ever be definitively linked to climate change."

I also doubt this is what they meant. They said "there is no evidence", which presumes that there could be evidence. Your interpretation denies that it would be possible to get the evidence which leads to self contradiction.

The most likely interpretation to me is that they think this breakup is just something that was bound to happen, probably because they believe the process began hundreds of years ago or something.

That one doesn't lead to any self-contradictions or presume bizarre behavior from the people who study this ice shelf (like the other one suggested here that they have failed, for at least years if not decades, to ever investigate the relationship of the breakup with climate change).
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I knew about them and the copy of Android I had installed on my phone included compression.

Like most things in that OS it's very buggy, one day it just dumped full volume noise into my headphones and that really hurt. After that I hardly trust anything in Android to handle audio and don't like plugging headphones into my phone.
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I agree, it also needs a lot of memory. Unless i use some debugging facility of drracket, i just use emacs with racket-mode.
I'm not talking about the implementation of LISP 1 by Steve Russell, but the original idea of LISP invented by John McCarthy that shows its purity, and that is before the implementation by Russell.
Just because your users don't use www doesn't mean that there's any value there above if you had a www only site.
I left Silicon Valley and went back to my home country because I couldn't stand suburbia, and couldn't stand the idea of commuting from SF either. I now make 1/3 as much money, but live a comfortable lifestyle and commute to work in 25 minutes of public transit.
The battle for Aleppo is over. I returned to my hometown to see what’s left
Some employees do. While making it totally untenable for many others. Which may be fine depending upon the demographic you're targeting.
Or some other consideration; it doesn't have to be monetary.

For instance, maybe the fact that they heavily refer to the architecture switch as "Intel" vs. "PowerPC" instead of "x86" vs. "PowerPC" was enough to assuage Intel from a marketing standpoint.
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I wonder how much they pay per sticker?
Yeah, that's why there is AMD and Intel, NVIDIA and AMD, Apple and Microsoft, Google and Facebook.

> the red car may be cheaper if lots of people want it.

Also see the pharma industry, right? The US government isn't all governments either, in some countries parties actually rule together, compromise and whatnot. And considering getting money out of elections isn't even attempted in earnest, the question really is what is the tail and what is the dog here.
Incandescent bulbs certainly don't care about frequency, and I can't think of a frequency-dependant component in 40s florescent lamps. The starters and ballast from that era were pretty simple, unless there's some difference for 120V operation I don't know about.

Florescent lamps became really popular during WWII, so there were many around in 1945.
How did you start that network?
>I think the truth of how these things go is probably somewhere between where your typical anti capitalist and your typical social Darwinist would expect it to be.

What isn't between those two poles?!
No. You just gave up a bunch of co-marketing dollars. (Probably a bit more complicated than that but basically you left the money associated with the stickers on the table.)
I manufactured plastic sheeting and all product was measured in inches, leading to a huge amount of conversion (24-3/8 sheet with +3/64 tolerance) and to me learning what a mil is (1/1000 of an inch). 10 mil plastic runs and stacks totally differently from 15 mil, and 40 and 60 mil take different amounts of time to cool and shrink, so there truly would have been switching costs going to meters (plus all the people who ordered 48x96 sheets, and rolls on 6-inch diameter cores, and so forth).
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I've yet to find a valid use for a shared_ptr. A unique_ptr is great to use for polymorphism but I've always thought if you can't figure out what owns what in memory in a program, you haven't planned it very well.
Steve was right. It really set the MacBooks apart when all of the other computers were literally festooned with a dozen cartoonish stickers all over making them look like cheap toys.

Worse still, as you used the computers in real life, all of those stickers degraded into a gluey mess that got all over everything when you touched them.

I still have flashbacks of using a heatgun and alcohol wipes to un-sticker 2 dozen new HP laptops before rolling them out. Ugh.
Yikes, there are a lot of grievances being aired in that thread. To clear up any confusion:

Yes, I have forked my work on Storj and have given it to
Counterpoint to help raise some money to continue to develop
it. Please note that this project is not a competitor to
Storj as it is fully distributed, there is no business model
(because there are no bridges), and it is managed by a 501c3
organization.
Edit: see https://orc.network
DUPE! Previous Discussion => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14727169
Esperanto is probably the most successful attempt at language standardization so far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
What is an ethical framework that respects a candidate's motivation to promise impossible things in order to get elected? You can say, "duh, politicians lie," but this would seem to me to be well beyond that. Think of the implications, when the winner of an election can just say "lol jk."
Unicorn startups seem to tend to be things with mass public appeal, and also often tend to be losing money and fail to ever turn into a sustainable profitable business.

If you broaden this to look at startups in general, then the list of top schools is a bit different. UCLA is at the top [1].

They have a lot of startups that most of the public, and probably most of HN, would never have heard of. These are companies doing things like cancer therapy or treating industrial wastewater. They come out of the biology or chemistry or civil engineering departments, not the computer science department.

Caltech has a similar startup profile [2]. That link gives a big list of Caltech startups and what they do. Most of them are working in areas I don't think I've ever seen mentioned on HN. I read somewhere that when size is taken into account, Caltech is at or near the top in startup creation rate.

I think MIT is similar.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ucla-startups-20170707...

[2] http://innovation.caltech.edu/startups/
I think you're inventing a problem. I don't know many capitalists or employees who believe they must work themselves to death because of some presumed winner-take-all aspect. In fact, I don't know any.

Few define business success as erasing all competition. Success is making a good profit.
The point about fractions is actually somewhat interesting. The fractions thing seems to be a uniquely American thing to me. When I grew up in Germany people rarely used fractions other than half and third. You'd never here 1/8 or 1/16. I still remember being surprised when I first encountered a quarter. I still don't think in fractions but in multiples of ten. Now you make the point that even the imperial grab bag of unrelated units lends itself somehow better to that. I wonder where that cultural difference comes from.
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BPF was initially added for packet filtering, iirc. Compiling kernel modules for each filtering rules you'd add would not really work out very well.

Since then, BPF has grown to be used by more subsystems, including tracing, and allows user programs to do advanced (and fast) things. See for example https://github.com/ahupowerdns/secfilter . AFAIK, this doesn't require privileges, which loading a kernel module would.
I think the argument for untyped languages is their simplicity. There are lots of things that are trivial to express in a dynamic language but that require extra features on the type system to be able to write on a statically typed language (parametric polymorphism, subtype polymorphism, datatype introspection, and so on). Sure, there are type systems for all of these things but it is hard to have a single type system that does everything at once because things quickly become very complicated and type inference gets harder.
> Anecdotally, on my own site of about ~1k daily
> active users, the no-www urls were used almost
> exclusively.

Not sure what this is supposed to prove. You should be redirecting one to the other, so it doesn't matter if people find it more convenient to manually type in one form over the other unless you're telling me you're trying to optimize out the redirect, which seems just as specialized as using www- for TFA's DDoS concerns.

I type in "google.com" every time and don't care that it redirects me to "www.google.co.uk" every time. I don't even notice.
One point I'll agree with is that a lot of times, people use the argument that working 40 hours a week is actually the most efficient to mask their real argument, which is socially unacceptable in today's business climate (particulary tech):

People ought to have more to their lives than their jobs, and working 50, 60, or more hours a week makes that difficult.

Personally, even if people had inexhaustible energy, I still would think it would be wrong to spend more than a third of your day at work. It so happens that it makes sense from an efficiency standpoint to, but I want people working under me to be able to have hobbies, families, and something other than their career.
The paper you cited is dated 1960 and bears McCarthy's name.

The Lisp 1 Programmer's Manual is dated 1960 and ... bears McCarthy's name.

The paper you cited has a section titled The LISP Programming System which says:

"The LISP programming system is a system for using the IBM 704 computer to compute with symbolic information in the form of S-expressions."

The Programmer's Manual's Preface begins:

"LISP 1 is a
programming
system
for
the
IBM
704
for
computing
with
symbolic
expressions."

Looks like they are about exactly the same thing to me: an implementation for a specific computer (IBM 704), described in the same year by the same author, with an a nearly identical sentence in the intro.
To be fair, they intentionally rotate slow enough as to have no perceivable g forces.

The example on that list that I had been to most recently is the Westin in Atlanta.

It's 57M in diameter and it's upper floor spins at once every 30 minutes. Plugging that into Mω²r, you end up with 0.0000354084g.

Not exactly the best example.
Really? Is my hating on practicing cannibals the problem?

If it's really a life choice someone is considering then I'm 1,000% behind them seeking help. If they've already started dumping bodies in ravines, not so much.
> I guess you could argue that that math was irrelevant to physics until Heisenberg and Einstein came along and found it an appropriate expression of their physical intuition.

Exactly.
There have been killers who have plead guilty to manslaughter to avoid the death penalty and spare victims from testifying in a trial.
Some of the only decent writing I ever see on the web:

http://popehat.com

It's brief, unapologetic, patient explanations about specific cases in law that touch on popular topics. It really shows how non-black-and-white the world is and especially how bringing knowledge to it gives you clarity, even when you're not in total agreement.
This somewhat paradoxical approach that you describe has become enormously important to me over the past few years.

It leaves me excited for the future as I explore the possibilities that life may provide, but very grounded and aware of the immense fragility.

As a spec on a tiny ball of dirt floating in space, I shouldn't be surprised when the wind knocks me over. But I should at least try to get back up, as it seems there are many interesting things and meaningful experiences out there awaiting me.
You know nothing about software architecture if you think that you can't optimize a software performance/responsiveness changing the way you store/normalize/retrieve data.
One imperial pint is 56.8 cl, so that is about a pint. It looks like they are shortchanging you 8ml.
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thanks for the info. On a side note, do you know if GCP will ever support preemptible GPU instances?
Yep. I mentioned it's not an issue anymore, but back when VC++ was less modern and GCC didn't have SEH support, life was much worse.

Now it just has the other aforementioned issues.

Obviously, RAII is better with exceptions, at least in theory. It is annoying having to constantly check if the object is valid or not. However, even the standard library does this, so I don't really think it's uncommon - there was definitely some precedent for RAII without exceptions.
Somewhat ironic as Google has been fighting link spammers that use autogenerated content for years. Software like this is popular in that space: https://wordai.com
It would be polite to indicate that on the price list (understatement).

While you're here: the other reason we switched to Hetzner is reliability. Sure we can continue training from the last checkpoint but we still lost half a day on average for the many surprise reboots. We suspect that you've overbooked the GPUs and someone has to lose when too many connect.
Dell tried this with their Adamo line but couldn’t go as far as removing it entirely; they ended up laser engraving it onto the bottom so it wouldn’t be as gaudy: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/First-Look/Dell-Adamo/719/1#s38...
The implementation by Steve Russell includes those facilities, but the original idea of LISP by John McCarthy don't have to include those facilities and can be implemented as a pure functional language and is shown in the paper.
i want the list of algorithms ,this seems like a fun project to implement
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The article does point out that the vast number of parking spaces at these offices is dictated by zoning requirements, and the remote locations away from transit are mostly a result of NIMBYism.
Just give her the remote.
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It's an old idea. In the silent film days audiences didn't know the performers real names so that they did not become too independent or powerful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_system_(filmmaking)#Begin...
It's not just about volume. Tracks mastered with a ton of compression trick your brain into sounding louder than they really are, which is great for a song or two (or if you want pay people to pay attention to your tv commercial), but for listening to a whole album it wears you out. If you have an album you love but somehow never make it all the way through this is probably why. The perception of full volume gets your lizard brain aroused, which is great if you're in the club, but not if you're in the mood to listen to the first three Led Zeppelin records in a row.

On the other hand, older recordings with more dynamic range might sound thin at low volume, but are much richer at higher volumes (you can hear the individual instruments better and feel the space in the sound). If you try comparing older and newer masterings at a good volume the newer mastering usually sounds kinda mushy.
While we're on the topic of reinterpreting The Lord of the Rings, someone speculated (based only on the texts of Tolkien, themselves) that Tom Bombadil was a sinister character.

The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil

Original Post: http://km-515.livejournal.com/1042.html

Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9982237
For experimentation and testing, a kernel module for each rule doesn't seem unworkable. Just hide all the details behind a nice tool.

For production, placing all rules in a single module seems best. If you could avoid the overhead of executing BPF in production, wouldn't you?

I agree with the privilege argument but I don't think normal users can filter packets or add tracing with the current situation either.
> Then again, had SGI not imploded, we wouldn't have NVidia today...

nvidia is basically one of the worst actors in the market, though. Artificially increasing prices and artificially segmenting the market, using anticompetitive methods to gain an advantage (oh how everyone loves gameworks), etc.