skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep hearing this sentiment from, what I suspect are, people rooting for the underdog that is AMD. And there's nothing wrong with that, competition for Intel is a good thing, but it's pretty naive (at least in my opinion) to think Intel doesn't plan product lines out more than a few months.

I can believe Intel might change prices in response to competition, but I don't get why people are acting like Intel can magic up a chip line because "AMD finally made some competitive chips"
Shoot. My apologies about any confusion on the sign up process. I have reached out to you on email.
I look forward to the day, some years hence, when people on HN complain about the bloat from all of the C, C++, C#, Python, Lisp, Lua and weird hobby language - powered apps running on top of the bootstrapped Linux VMs running Node.js instances in their browsers, and why can't we all just go back to plain, simple, stupid javascript?
Question: I believe it's "well known" (I could be wrong but I've seen it enough times and I think it makes sense) that building more roads or widening existing ones does not solve traffic problems in the long-run (because people adjust their behavior to the presence of new roads and therefore drive more).

So I guess my question is...is there any evidence that building more housing will alleviate home / rent prices? Fundamentally, the prices are high because people really want to live in these places. If you build more housing, won't that just enable more people to live there, which will re-establish a local equilibrium?

Going back to the traffic analogy - the solution isn't to build more roads; it's to add mass-transit options, increase density, reduce people's desire to drive, etc. Is there analogous stuff that can be done for housing? Maybe building more housing is a part of it, too - I'm not saying it shouldn't be done. But it does seem like there are feedback effects in play that will prevent increased supply alone from solving the problem. Manhattan has twice the population in half the area (so, about 4x as dense) but they don't exactly have affordable rent.
So I tried to sign up for the $300 credit.

Max password length 20 characters.... um ok.

Fill in details, hit sign up button.

Network busy please try again later, for your sign up form, really?

Not what I want to see when onboarding a hosting provider
The full text PDF with detailed data appendices is at http://www.commonwealthfund.org/interactives/2017/july/mirro...
Did they really "just drop the old one"? Angular 2 was announced over 2 years ago, and initially was released 10 months ago.

Meanwhile, Angular 1 has continued to receive support this entire time, with the latest release 11 days ago and the latest merge to master being 4 days ago.

And, if you're on Angular 1 and want to upgrade, they've published an official migration guide.
As much as I like slagging the Internet of Crap, smoke detectors are not a great example because smoke detectors are remarkably complicated.

They have to work. For years. They have to detect disgustingly small signals. Reliably. And, by the way, the chips have to survive in close proximity to a radiation source. And generate an alarm loud enough to wake the dead.

If I remember correctly, Qualcomm nee NXP nee Freescale nee Motorola used to keep an old 2" aluminum gate fab line around because every time somebody tried to make a new smoke detector chip something failed. So, they kept the fab open and simply printed money.
> Lighten up guys, it's just a joke!

- some misogynist, probably
Even some software do that. You can connect to a SAS server using your hashed password, which is stored in an XML config file on your computer when using EG.
In fact, I have a machine specific GitHub specific key.
The only situation where I imagine that could happen is if you need to apply a small number of instructions to a massive data set that's fully loaded in memory. What sort of application are you running? If you can say, obviously.
Memory fragmentation can be avoided by construction, e.g. using trees allocated in linear storage (e.g. like std::map is implemented, or the maps in libsrt [1]). For strings a binary tree (or a B/B+ could be faster), and it would not require defragmentation nor rehashing (and worst access time would be log(n), instead of O(n)). Make growing the tree using realloc() is "free" on systems with virtual memory map/remap.

[1] https://github.com/faragon/libsrt
That's exactly the case.

I run dedicated gameservers. We preload "phases" which you can affect and transition to/from as a player.
1. No they don't. Some may want it, but no one "expects" it and will gleefully accept your invalidation of their previous purchases so you can provide a feature they didn't ask for.

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxXs0Yy5-0Y
For 2, yes, users may get mad when some vulnerability ends up leading to a leak of PII or worse, but to claim they "expect" it, again, no.
"Is not at all unheard of for a SFH that was worth max 500K on the SFH market to be bought for over a million by developers when an area has gotten upzoned."

Yes, but that's only for holdouts, which is a game of chicken. And after the developers build around you, you're done, your home value plunges as you're surrounded by traffic and apartments.

"Now, going back to jobs, in practicality, allowing upzones, also tends to bring way more jobs - more coffee shops / corporate towers etc."

The two are unrelated. Cities have a lot of exclusive-use commercial or residential areas. You can increase the same jobs without having more residents, which increases value for the home-owners.

Which is exactly what is happening in the US.
So, I have clinical depression, which I take medication for. I've worked in neurology, my formal education is in psychology and neuropsych, and growing up I've known more than my fair share of people with some form or other of mental illness. In short, I live it, I've studied it, I know it.

Your comment reminds me of someone on a chat channel who had a nagbot that banned the word 'crazy' (amongst others). Why was 'crazy' banned? Because it might offend crazy people. Being one of those, and knowing people like that, absolutely no-one who would be labelled with the moniker 'crazy' would be offended by the word unless it was directed at them. The idea that a schizophrenic friend would be 'deeply hurt' if I said 'the traffic this afternoon was crazy' is utter nonsense. This forbidden word was forbidden by someone who clearly doesn't associate with the kind of people that were being defended.

And so it is when your black American engineer types the word 'slave', suggesting that their self-identity is so wrapped-up with the identity of a person that their grandparents grandparents barely knew, that they would find a non-directed under-the-bonnet technical term deeply hurtful. It's disturbing that you consider these people you're supposedly defending as being so incredibly emotionally fragile.
Is this actual a legal maneuver available to YC? This seems risky. Why not help fund the women's arbitration fees instead?
Reviewing a restaurant and accusing someone of sexual harrassment are not even remotely in the same ballpark of potential for long long-term damage to someone's reputation, family, career, and future.
Apple Cracking Down on VPN-Based Ad Blockers That Work in Third-Party Apps
This analysis of a report seems pretty bad, even with only the title and abstract available.

Firstly, the report doesn't even cover the entire developed world, just 11 countries. Notably, Japan doesn't appear to be included. To be honest, I found that slightly offensive.

Secondly the U.K. isn't the overall clear "best" of those 11. It's not bad, and does better on some things, worse on others.

In my subjective experience (as a Brit) British people often think the NHS is the best health service in the world. It's not bad, and it's free. Waiting times are often long, particularly for non-urgent conditions. Compared to the U.S. system I prefer the NHS, but there are other options, and the NHS could provide a better service than it does.
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Mainly I was hoping to buy a thread ripper instead of a RYZEN 1700 (for $300) and getting more memory bandwidth. I was hoping that with AMD pushing so far on more cores that AMD would push more memory bandwidth to lower price points.

I'm all for ECC, but the Ryzen ECC situation is a mess. Some boards don't mention it, some boards mention ECC, but don't differentiate between ECC dimms "working" and actually correcting errors.

If ECC is your priority seems like a Xeon E3-1230 or similar is an easier decision. With that said is there a known motherboard + ryzen combination that A) works, B) is available, C) is verified to actually correct bits, and D) talks to the Linux MCE widgets to the OS can track it?
And I am 100% in favor of that outcome, in that case.
You Say Data, I Say System
I know, reading HN makes me feel ashamed to admit my prefered web stack is Spring + Angular.
Because if there's one thing we've learned, it's that developers doing things they're not supposed to do on the App Store always do a great job of keeping their "black hat" account separate and distinct from their "real" account.
People hold grudges against those who hurt them or their friends. Is there more to it?

I don't think we'd want a court hearing to decide if a particular grudge can be held.
Are they going to make it public? This is pretty much a deal breaker if they don't.

People deserve the opportunity to defend themselves.
The $5,000 decision to get rid of my past
20% time was never removed, it was always in place. (there was just some miscommunication about this I guess since people here keep saying it was removed)

And this is something done by Verily, not Google (even if it's an Alphabet company)
its just a matter of time before everyone starts crapping on (insert hottest framework). its a never ending vicious cycle.
Unsurprising. We pay more money per capita, to get worse results, BUT at least we get to, in one way or another, exclude people who aren't paying their own way. And that's what red states in this country appear to want, because they keep voting for Republican governors who campaign on sabotaging health care and then succeeding.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-baker-obamacare-r...

Today on NPR I listened to rural red state folks who lament how far they have to drive to see a doctor. And how many times they've had to change doctors, because their doctor left the area. And most often they leave for cities where they can earn more money. So the red state voter gets conned into this nonsensical "free market" idea of health care as a product, they vote for this, and then when the doctor says "you don't pay me enough, bye" this rural voter is confused. And so now some of these rural areas are looking at forgiving medical school debt if young doctors will do a "tour" (in effect) as a rural doctor. Isn't government paying for school debt socialism?

crickets

And the bureaucracy of middle men and bean counters, it's a major employment sector now. Obliterating it comes with its own economic and policial damage. But that's the way forward, or it just keeps growing bigger until it catastrophically breaks. Medicaid for all. Wipe away Medicare, the VA, and private insurers. Bye.

Apply strong anti-fraud measured funded and mandated by law. And fund it with some variable matching of Federal dollars because, yes, rural areas are going to have to be subsidized, like like we've done with roads, sewers, water, and telephones, since forever, because everything costs more in rural areas. Cities are cheaper in many ways because of economies of scale.

Of course everyone else has a better system.
I don't see why you've been down-voted, this is a serious concern. This sort of power can make or break somebody's career. I don't like the idea of somebody who works with me being able to destroy my career with no or weak evidence.

At the very least there needs to be consequence for false accusations if the punishment is so severe (destroying the reputation of a venture capitalist). The process should also be open to scrutiny once judgment is passed.

I personally don't like the way society is going. If I was a good looking woman with a warped moral compass, I would consider ganging up with several other women and blackmailing ourselves a few million dollars. As a venture capitalist with such a claim against you and no evidence to prove your innocence, you'll likely lose or be forced to pay up.
You can use Tor to post to HN anonymously.
I think OP is just talking about the service-layer instead of the rest of the business model.
I have a fondness for Latin myself, but this is absurd. There are lots of languages with a similar case-driven grammar and nobody makes such claims about those. Russian is about as case-driven as Latin and non-indo-european languages like Finnish and Estonian actually have more cases.
Typical standards for these sorts of things are a presumption of innocence until shown otherwise, which can be to varying degrees of certainty: preponderance of evidence (i.e. "more likely true than not"), clear and convincing evidence ("quite likely true"), or beyond a reasonable doubt.

I would hope that at least a preponderance of evidence standard is used, beyond just the leveling of an accusation. Considering the consequences for the accused, clear and convincing is probably a better standard.
San Francisco, checking in. I think tiny starter houses here are around $1.2 - $1.4 million now right?
Time to Invest in GPU Companies Again
> if you keep a vaguely open mind

I would advise you to take your own advice and read the initial article I posted. The solution is not absolutism on either end of the spectrum, but our current system is too far on the over-regulated side with convoluted, "unintended consequence" programs, regulations, and infrastructure.

The sooner we can come to a consensus on that, the sooner we can employ smarter, simpler regulations that the average educated person can read and understand in fewer than 100 lifetimes.
As a fellow Brit I'd agree we're proud of the NHS but I don't think people believe it's the best in the world. We complain too much for that.
Syntax extension plugins are probably going to happen, folks are working on it.
Still one better than the US though.
OK, good for you. I hope my kids can say that someday.
This really is a matter of what variables you choose to measure.

For example, the US is by far the world leader in medical research spending - 44% of global medical research is spent in the US. (Until recently it was even higher). [1]

On the same note, many nations regulate the price of prescription drugs - drugs where the initial R&D was done in the states. (Yes, drugs are sold at a huge markup, but that's to recoup the huge initial costs of research). In other words, Americans are taking it in the chin to invest in pharmaceutical innovations, which other countries then treat as a public good.

An additional point that's often obscured: there's no purely capitalistic healthcare system in the world. Even pre-Obamacare, the US system was about 46% funded by the government. (As with the US education system, the availability of government funds has massively pushed up prices). [2]

On a personal note - I'm a brit, but I've lived abroad, and the NHS is one of the reasons I'm considering settling abroad long-term. I simply don't trust the organisation as a whole to take care of my health. If you get assigned a good doctor for your condition, you're OK, but I have my own stories (and I've heard many others) of conditions being ignored or misdiagnosed, even after multiple visits.

In contrast, I went to a hospital in Bangkok that was of far higher quality than the average NHS hospital. (Granted, this was a private hospital, but it puts things into perspective). One Israeli friend said that walking into a UK clinic was like walking into a clinic in a third-world country. It's shabby, the wait is long, the bureaucracy is confusing, etc.

Strange as it may sound, I trust a for-profit entity more with my health, because their livelihood directly depends on taking good care of me. The common argument that healthcare can't be a market because of information asymmetry and doctors being in a position of power doesn't wash: the same holds true for other complex services, like auto repair, and the solution is simple: third party reviews. (On the moral argument, about affordability, I think with a truly private healthcare system entrepreneurs would be able to drive the costs down for people on middle-incomes, and only the bottom 15-20% would be reliant on government or charity spending).

[1] https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/4233/u.s.-slipping...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_health_ex...
OK, great. Will look for a reply with a link.
This one is pretty cut and dried. When there's a power disparity between two people, flirting's not ok.

Well, there's flirting and then there's flirting.

Real-life example, which I observed from the sidelines:

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Mr. A is a new hire.

Mrs. B is the senior non-management team member.

Someone gets flowers sent to them. Mr. C decides it would be amusing if they ended up on Mrs. B's desk, with a note saying they're from Mr. A.

An hour or two later when Mr. A realizes he's just being hazed and still has a job, he decides to take the joke and run with it. This leads to several years of the most absurd and blatant come-ons you can imagine.

Several years later, Mrs. B is the official team lead and Mr. A is reporting to her. The blatant flirting and absurd come-ons are still exactly the same as they've always been.

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The only concern about whether this is OK, is if some outsider were to see and take it seriously enough to cause trouble with HR.
I never saw it for apps, only music.
That's the situation for pretty much everyone in northern states. A generator that's wired in with propane tanks is a pretty significant expense and I'm still not sure how reliable it all is if no one is at home.
How about paying people to have a vasectomy after they have 2 kids?

But that will never happen because if birth rates decrease who will support the ponzi scheme pensions? In all seriousness the resources required for the average American lifestyle and population density is sustainable. The growth rates of some developing nations are pretty terrifying though.
Interesting that their console microarch (Jaguar) was really great. So good that even after Intel one-upped them with non-crappy Atoms (Silvermont) they released competetive offering which was basically just an evolution (Puma).
Why?

HN Gender skew is kind of the obvious explanation.
SoundCloud is here to stay
As a resident of the UK and a former resident of Switzerland, I can't understand how they came to this conclusion. Don't get me wrong, the NHS is great and the system works much better than in the US, but health care in Switzerland is just on another level.

Before you say "but in the UK it's free" - considering what I paid for (private, mandatory) insurance in Switzerland, and the National Insurance contribution that gets deducted from my paycheck in the UK, I'm not so sure...
A Technical Hiring Process
Ok. You've now reported that to me, the Keeper of the List. Prove your claim. Prove that you're credible.

Seriously, it's not as easy as, "Someone made a complaint. Ban the subject for life." There will be people who will be evaluating the credibility of the claims.
What is NUS, National University of Singapore?
How to turn the AI Economy into wealth, income, and pensions for millions
It's going to get defunded, either now or when it runs out of money. So you can either raise the retirement age now, cut benefits now, or get totally screwed when it runs out of money in a couple decades.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/science/ticks-lyme-diseas...

> Although deer help spread ticks that carry Lyme, Dr. Esvelt explained to about two dozen residents at the meeting, the disease can also be controlled earlier in the tick’s food chain. Ticks typically contract the pathogen from white-footed mice, which they often feed on while still larvae, passing it on to humans and other mice when they bite again.

> Using new genome-engineering tools, he proposes to create mice that are immune to the Lyme-causing pathogen, or to a protein in the tick’s saliva, or both, to break the cycle of transmission.

In another approach, I have recently been exploring using a Permethrin treatment for
clothing to avoid ticks - apparently in use by the US military, and
able to survive several washing. No results to report yet, though.

https://www.google.com/search?q=permethrin+clothing+treatmen...
They don't feed on people, or they don't feed in general? If the latter, how do they even survive? They eat in their larval form but then not as adults?
How to Become a Real Entrepreneur?
I saw this a few months back when I was researching GPGPU implementations in the browser. It looked like one of the better projects out there. Do you know how much theoretical GPU allocation you can get from a JS implementation vs say a native wrapper?

Worth noting that Clarifai just released an SDK for offline mobile DL training/evaluation. Not browser based but I'd be curious what the difference in GPU utilization is practically.
Daimler Uses Blockchain to Issue Bonds
by cut their losses, I assume you mean lock in a portion of gains. to have an idea of returns Benchmark and other investors experience at Uber's most recent valuation (which doesn't mean that's exactly what SoftBank would pay, if at all), see Uber's Path to IPO: https://equityzen.com/path-to-ipo/uber/

These return estimates are net of liquidation preferences. Even if the transaction takes place and does so at a price slightly lower than the recent valuation, early investors are sitting on a healthy return on investment and internal rate of return.

Disclaimer: I work at EquityZen, the preparer of the estimates in the info graphic linked above.
I'm wildly confused by your comment, Dropwizard is 'all inclusive' but Spring is a micro-framework? Flask is both?
That's only 43 years and it was only 25 GPUs. Bump that up to 12000 GPUs and you could do it in about a month.

It's also an unsalted hash, so you could brute force an unlimited number of passwords at the same time without additional resources. Someone with a budget of a few million dollars could break every password in the world in a month.

So in other words, definitely don't publicize unsalted MD5 hashes of your passwords.
Yeah, so a large part of my optimization is to move from memory to compute bound. But things like matrix inversion, for example, thanks to the hard work of library authors can scale pretty well. This happens on the CPU because the data typically exceeds GPU memory. So, you can get out the box scaling for much of your code.

The 3D rendering is taken care by the GPU.
"Appendix 3: A Simple Execution Environment"

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/programming-e...

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-February/0...

In the book Joe explains that OTP loads 67 modules and starts 25 processes at startup, which makes it slow to boot. Then he demonstrates how to create a single module providing a very minimal subset of what these 67 modules do. This single module can then be used to create scripts that start and run very quickly, since they don't require the whole OTP machinery.

Some of the functionality the module provides are rpc, stdio, and very basic process registration.
It's also likely a copyright violation to use that font file without permission.

Typefaces have never been copyrightable in the US, but digital fonts implementing a typeface have been since the early 90s.