skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Decentralization is always costlier. Netflix is faster

Because Netflix puts their content in the internet exchanges (IXs) (Netflix Open Connect), bypassing CDNs in some cases, thus getting as close to the users as they can given the current internet piping infrastructure [1]. Sure, decentralization (being operated by an aggressive management that can strike background deals with IXs) makes that possible, but we all ought to wonder if it is a good thing in the long run. Netflix, YouTube, etc. have found ways of getting their data faster to the users and the little guy running his podcast stands no chance.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.05519.pdf
But it's not forcing identities, or it wasn't back in the day.

Were you black? It didn't matter. White? So what. Male? Female? It didn't matter.

The words on the screen, and the thoughts behind the superficial bodily stuff was what mattered. How did they think? How did they communicate their ideas? How did they collaborate? What were their ethics and values? -- Those were what mattered, not that someone had a blue mohawk and were bisexual. Those things didn't matter.

Better yet, this method also transcended poor and rich... Yes, you had to have a certain amount to access a computer and the internet. Or you hacked the local university's access. Or used it at the library. Or had a cool friend. Except, now it's what you think, not what stylish clothes you wore, or the jewelry you had.

And this blurring of gender, sexual preference, race, weight, height,.. you name it was distilled down to "what's in that skull". And someone whom you might never walk up to and talk with, you could strike conversations with them, and they you. It also was the first steps of breaking down national borders - I could talk with people who say they live in Europe, or Asia, or Africa, or wherever...

At that time, for a small window, "We" were one peoples of this world. As the Hacker's Manifesto put it;

"We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals."

I await this day to come again. Hopefully the next time, we can meet face to face, and celebrate our differences and come together as one peoples of this world.. But a few of us saw it the first time, for a bit.
Why Mattresses Come with Warning Tags
You might try the imgui/nuklear crates, dealing with generated bindings for something massive like Qt will never be pleasant.
Next step is emulating a more fulfilling instruction set using formulas only?
Because after everything starts rusting and decaying, you're left with just what you're able to maintain as an individual. Which is to say, you'd be approaching iron age technology after, say, 70-80 years.

There'd be plenty of metals all around, but, without a technological society to maintain them, almost all machines will have decayed beyond usefulness by that point.

There's a strong benefit from division of labor and economies of scale that would bite you HARD if you're all by yourself.

Anti-globalism and population decline together would slice and dice up useful populations to the point where you'd get strong negative productivity curves as time went on.

Slight population decline combined with increasing globalism and automation isn't too bad. Until you get to the point where you have an incredibly aged population. That starts to bite hard as it still takes people to take care of the elderly. So either productive people have to spend their time primarily taking care of the elderly (instead of inventing things and building things and growing the economy) or the elderly go without care. Neither are very good.

If we get increasing and arbitrarily good automation and AI, it's not so much a problem. The robots take care of the elderly, and human beings gradually decline in population to be replaced by sentient AI. But I guess that's still a problem if you don't want humans to become extinct.
Just bought a copy this morning funnily enough.
more like a couple months then :) thanks
And [the weight] stays off
for as long as your choice
holds.

It looks like that's exactly what taneq is saying.
Docker Hub Stats and Google Apps Script
Not a firewall, but Firejail is a great sandboxing tool for Linux.

https://firejail.wordpress.com/
We actually handle that as well. If we’ve not heard from a hook we think we’ve installed for a while, we’ll ping it.

After three failed pings (spread out over an hour or so), we’ll delete our record of the hook and attempt to recreate it the next time an administrator logs in.
One of the most well-known political prisoners in the country is Xiaobo Liu, who was awarded a Nobel Peace prize in 2010. He has been a long time dissident there. He participated in the Tiananmen Square protest in 1989 and led the drafting of the Charter 08 (in brief, one can think of Charter 08 as some document in a similar strain as Magna
Carta to early Britain -- but of course, this document was easily ignored by the Chinese government...)

Xiaobo Liu has been sent to jail for multiple times in the past 30 years, and was just released on a medical parole from his latest imprisonment -- as a result of being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer -- 10 days ago.
I'll be that guy too: that's why I used ~ and not = ;)
@kybernetikos definitely already said it, but to be clear:

That doesn't sound like she dismissed the PRs, or that she dismissed them for gender reasons, and there's no mention of race anywhere in there.

> if a colleague would say... wouldn't that raise an eyebrow or more?

Yes, yes it would. I'd look at the feedback, the thing receiving feedback, and then go ask the people who gave the feedback. Then I'd probably circle back around to the colleague for more information, because clearly, something is wrong, but from just that information? Cannot tell what.
> In fact, all Zachtronics games are awesome and programming/logic inspired.

Ironclad Tactics (http://www.zachtronics.com/ironclad-tactics/) is not - and was a commercial failure.

Also "The Bureau of Steam Engineering" (http://www.zachtronics.com/the-bureau-of-steam-engineering/), of which Ironclad Tactics was planned to be a commercial spin-off also only partly satisfies this criterion.
Show HN: Maintainerd, taking the busy-work out of OSS maintenance
Not sure what you mean by "more fulfilling", but I don't think any new techniques would be required. I encourage you to try! Maybe build a Forth? That would be extremely cool!
I prefer glamorous, CSS properties as JSX props is so much nicer.
Hooli is the fictional company from the show Silicon Valley.

Perhaps the company name the questioner meant to write got autocorrected but their username also contains "hooli" so I guess it's use is deliberate.
This is an example of the filter effect. It's like how people turn on the classic rock station where they play only classic rock hits and assume that music today is just worse - the classic rock station doesn't play the stinkers that were also on the radio and popular, so you get the illusion that classic rock has always been solid gold hits.
United Church embraces startups as it updates its social mission
> I asked, as any sane person would, something along the lines of "why isn't everyone and his dog laying bricks?". And the reply was very intriguing. He said essentially that younger people these days (my age) don't want to lay bricks every day now, or don't have the stamina. They want to go on their phones and become world-famous and important and work on new gizmos and apps every day and be looked at by everyone and be payed attention to, etc, etc.

This sounds too familiar, like an employer talking about how they can't find anyone while plenty of unemployed or underemployed workers are willing to do the job.

There are plenty of people out there willing to this type of work, especially if the pay is that good.

Where are these jobs, and how does one get them?
you also have to remember these javascript files are then cached and used for ALL amp pages across the board and only gets invalidated once a week. there is also a stale-while-revalidate mechanism in amp if service workers are available so users never experience the delay of fetching new javascript binaries
"Still"? I met him like three years ago. And the Israeli Xero/QB hasn't changed in like 20 years.
If you assume that there were rational designers of Bitcoin, why would they put in a useless, expensive computation?
Doesn't "try" imply intending? But the universe isn't a someone who can intend to do something.

Your statement sounds like mysticism, trying to soften the emotional coldness of the materialist view of the universe.
A kernel network manager with monitoring and limiting capabilities for macOS: https://github.com/iadgov/netfil

A userland network manager with monitoring and limiting capabilities for macOS https://github.com/iadgov/netman

https://github.com/wokhansoft/WFN/ src: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3896749
My son and I went through this excellent interactive 6502 tutorial after completing HRM: https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/
Not that hard. Allow me to recommend NAND2Tetris, one of the best courses I've ever tried, that has a great practical lesson on exactly that.
Nothing much (some OpenGL bindings and such).

They use it for systems software and backend services.
Not really. I mean, there are such things, but the technology isn't good enough (yet?).

Text-to-speech generally works well, it produces good results almost always. If you try hard (or really need to), you can understand even if it tries to "speak" the text assuming the wrong language.

Speech-to-text works somewhat well under certain conditions (e.g. known speaker to which the system is adapted, known domain of text, no accents, no background noise, etc), and even then it gets quite a few errors; if you're just running it on random youtube videos, the results often are totally off.
I think he's abstracting a level: advertising and fake news are both instances of misleading information. Sure, there are differences: fake news tends to be completely fake; advertising in the West is usually true to the letter but incomplete and often implying that the product will bring you more than the seller can really promise. Any good salesperson knows you sell lifestyles not features. Hence the scantily clad women we used to see draped over the cars in the ads (though at least in the 21st century we seem to have got a bit more tasteful on that front).

Given sufficient information I would buy a car based mainly on internal dimensions, fuel economy - yes the manufacturers are known for honesty on that one aren't they - reliability and price.

Reliability is exactly the kind of missing information he's on about imo. (Startup idea there, somebody please steal it!). Even for used cars it's hard to measure directly as nobody collects enough stats to do so. Example, what proportion of VW 1.9TD engines have failed due to conrod piercing the head unit? Is the risk any higher for engines with codes starting BXE? How does the risk break down by mileage and by age? If VW know these things they certainly don't tell us, and plenty of BXE owners want to find out (do a search...)

For new cars it can't be directly measured as there aren't any instances with 300k on the clock to evaluate. You'd have to make a proxy model based on component quality. What we do in reality is assume that brands previously known for reliability will continue to be reliable, but it's not exactly unusual for companies to trade their reputation for a quick buck.

If consumers were rational this would all be highly relevant. If, as you say, we aren't rational as a group then that's because of the car industry's success in marketing.
> "TIS-100", which both give a similarly visual insight into how computers work.

You know that TIS-100 was originally planned to be a very different game:

> http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/244969/Things_we_create_t...

'The story of how TIS-100 came to Early Access this week starts where many development stories end: with an idea for a sprawling, grandiose game that proved too impractical to live.

“Years ago, I came up with this game idea called The Second Golden Age,” says Barth. It was basically a cyberpunk thriller set in a future Middle East crawling with nanotechnology other weird future tech.

“You'd be an engineer, and you'd be dabbling in all these different technologies; you'd be designing all these tiny little devices that could like, go into your bloodstream, and it'd be a super-cyberpunk engineering game,” says Barth.

The idea was to build an open world filled with different kinds of puzzles for the player to solve, a bit akin to Myst. Multiple systems of puzzles would be in play -- all of the chemical engineering puzzles in SpaceChem would be akin to one distinct subset of puzzles in Golden Age, for example -- and players could learn things about the world and advance themselves by mastering various puzzle mechanics. as the player could explore a virtual world filled with different kinds of puzzles to solve. Recently, Barth took a shot at making his idea a reality.

“We were really deep in production on Infinifactory, and I really wanted to ‘go indie’ -- even as an indie developer -- and make something on my own, to prove I could still do that,” recalls Barth. “Because now I don't make anything by myself, right? We have between 4-7 people on our team full-time, plus a bunch of external people. I wanted to see if I could make something -- not by myself, because I still didn't -- but at least with a smaller team.”

So Barth set out to try and recapture something of his past by crafting his Second Golden Age with some collaborators, designing a game with a story and five different puzzle games within it before realizing "Oh god, I can't make another game. There's so much work here! It doesn't make sense, it will cost a fortune to make the art, I just...I don't have time for this."

But out of that aborted attempt came a piece of game design that would become the foundation for a game he could actually make, a game about solving puzzles with assembly code.

“One of the puzzles I designed [for Golden Age] was exactly TIS-100,” says Barth. “The original story of The Second Golden Age was going to involve, as you're going around this future city in the Middle East, you can stumble into this junk shop where you find this old computer.'

(see also https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TIS-100&oldid=780... for a shorter summary).
Awesome. You guys are spot on
WFN: Windows Firewall Notifier
Those integrations with other languages look awesome! I just wish there was a good one for Python.
This is a concern orthogonal to our work. Today, there are commercial chips with a large number of cores / processing elements today, e.g. NVidia's Volta has ~5120 "cores", Intel's Xeon Phi has upto 72 cores. And there are approaches and active research to handle thermal concerns in such large chips. Maybe someone who is more knowledgeable can shed light on those approaches. I do not think Fractal introduces any new thermal concerns.
Co-Founders Sought
Looking for two equity partners / “co-founders” for ready-to-go online solar marketplace trademarked Solar Payoff. The Solar Payoff website (www.solarpayoff.com) is based on a four-scenario finance calculator that typically shows ownership (as opposed to leasing) delivers highest return to an investment in “rooftop” solar. "Realize The Value Of Solar".

Solar Payoff is also a hub for a network of local, smaller contractors, trademarked The SunCrafters Alliance. A second website (www.suncraftersalliance.com) is equipped with state-of-the-art SAAS contractor bidding tools.

Python/JavaScript programmers in Barcelona, Spain. Accountant, database manager here. Neither interested, ready for equity partnership role.

Ideal candidates would be

• EE with Python/Javascript (or similar) web programming experience
• Web marketer who can help solve our web traffic road block

Open to other skill sets if you come with web and renewable energy experience. Probably prefer younger to older, only because I have older covered. Absolutely indifferent to gender, race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. Only interested in the talent you can bring to this solar start-up.
That's a somewhat scary problem for cryptocurrencies. Basically if 51% of the network decides that they don't like you then they can essentially take all of your currency(or, rather, make it worthless)
There's a lot of plot points where the cops break laws in service of their investigation.
Yep, this. I look at something and it recommends it to me for months. I buy something and same thing. It's quite obtuse. Maybe there's something to it, maybe it does a good job growing revenue, but there's noting elegant about it.
Entirely agreed. He loves to set lofty goals, and he does not always achieve them, but sometimes he does! Either way, he's unafraid to challenge virtually any status quo or existing understanding of things. This is why industry experience while relevant, doesn't always matter. Also, he moves his top talent between his companies at will, giving him an edge over other companies.

I've got a friend who has worked for Aerospace Corporation for close to 11 years as a structural engineer. He people when they have to stop removing things to prevent rockets from exploding (aka a rocket scientist). He told me ~5 years ago there was literally no way SpaceX could land orbital class rockets. Yeah, he doesn't say that anymore.
Thanks for the response, now I feel like I was, in turn, overly harsh, haha.

I can see where using Brainfuck would have its advantages, sometimes that unfamiliarity can help you focus on the underlying abstractions rather than the syntax.
> You, too, don't understand the fundamentals of Bitcoin.

> The nonce must be brute-forced to prove that the computing power was expended. It is precisely this expenditure of computing power that makes it expensive to cheat.

No, I understand why it's done. But it has no practical use outside of Bitcoin.
Your intuition on this improving Thread Level Speculation (TLS) is correct. I do want to clarify that this is not just a better implementation of TLS though -- our execution model is more expressive and avoids some of the pitfalls of TLS (see the Swarm paper http://bit.ly/swarmarch to learn more). Yes, you could use our implementation with a TLS-like execution model and improve on the TLS performance. But you are likely to reap more rewards by using the Fractal execution model + implementation.
It's not just the web. I've long been frustrated by the legibility of tiny fonts on laptops with even medium-res screens. Now that Apple has introduced an even higher-res 5K display on the iMac, I find it almost impossible to read some system menus and popups.

When did it become OK for Apple's long-vaunted UI become so user unfriendly? Jef Raskin must be rolling over in his grave. This is definitely NOT "computing for the rest of us".
To me, it's sad that this isn't just called "software design". If you aren't building software to solve your users' problems, why are you building anything at all?
There are notable exceptions (like the New Deal) but it's not a really widespread program. The government can certainly give people jobs, but they're either filling existing demand (like Manpower-type headhunters) or they're creating demand through government work (like road construction).

It's not like Soviet Russia where the government can open a new plant and put people to work there producing private-market goods and then shut it down when supply gets too big.
It would also be great to read about these technologies from a source without the bias of being personally invested in them. It seems impossible to find a writer with any kind of expertise in this field who isn't also personally betting on it's success.
Interesting, it seems you are right and no 64b immediates are possible at all except in MOV.
Warm enough [1]? How about going hypothermic in an hour or so [2] whilst drifting down the California coastline hoping for a rescue from a REALLY GUTSY fishing crew that is trying not to get blown up by a Japanese sub?

[1]https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/dsdt/cwtg/cpac.html
[2]http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/coastal_communities/hypothermia
>This is an example of the filter effect.

Yeah, no. There was a big counter-establishment wave in the 60s and early to mid 70s, documented in myriads of books, articles, biographies, documentaries and such.

And it reflected in Hollywood too.

(In European cinema it was even more extreme with every second movie having leftist leanings).

Were there other, more typical/banal movies? Yes. But that critical movies were far more common in the 60s-70s than they are now is a historical fact, not some "filter effect".

(Also the idea that all periods have the same median quality in arts and same distribution of tendencies is wrong. Some periods do have more/better art than others, or more art of a certain tendency than others, for various reasons).
Related: Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45530.html (Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12426064)
No, you're assuming the regulation is an end in itself and coming to a tautological. Regulation is essentially saying 'wait, let's factor in these unaccounted-for-but-predictable costs (like repairability)' and you're saying 'but what about the costs of assessing the costs?!'.

Yeah, incorporating some product standards is going to raise the cost of all units sold, which represents a loss to the buyer who hoped to get the product at the cheapest possible price and was either willing to take perfect care of it or tolerate it not being fully repairable if it were broken. But that's OK, because when regulating something the most important person to consider is the median user, noth the clumsiest/unluckiest nor the most skilled/luckiest.

If the median user buys a car expecting to drive it for 5 years, and there's a >50% chance that it will suffer some damage to some major functional component during that time, it would be pretty inefficient for said damage to cost more to fix than the cost of replacing the whole car, unless cars were to become so cheap that it was actually cheaper and better to scrap them - perhaps thanks to some breakthrough in large-scale 3d printing technology or so.

That's what happened with computer keyboards; it used to be that they were fairly expensive and if someone spilled coffee into one it was worth dismantling, cleaning, and re-assembling, but then cheap membrane keyboards assembled with increasing levels of automation brought the price down faster and faster, and today you can get a PC keyboard for something ridiculous like $10. A few fetishists still pay out for old-style IBM Model M, but most people will just replace a damaged keyboard.

But while cars remain relatively expensive and hard to dispose of, it makes sense to minimize the economic losses stemming for a lack of modularity and repairability across the market as a whole, rather than seeking to minimize the costs for the stingiest buyer.
Yikes. I don't know how much MongoDB has improved over the past several years but I kinda hope that's not what they're using for their main transactional database.
Indeed - some people have implemented games in it: http://mashable.com/2014/08/27/microsoft-excel-games/
Feature design phase? Sounds like waterfall. Avoid that too.
I think it means deployed on the customer site, for better communication with the customer. At least, that's what I'd do if I were Palantir.
Before you try it out, just know that it will install a webhook on every single one of repositories that you have permissions on, not just the ones under your personal account, but all the organization ones as well. And GitHub doesn’t seem to have a way to easily remove them all at once, even after the app's permission has been revoked.

EDIT: as pointed out by Prefinem below, using the "Logout" feature uninstalls all webhooks: https://www.realartists.com/docs/2.0/uninstall.html