skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snapchat has an entire generation of Americans spending a large portion of their day in their video entertainment ecosystem. Reddit is basically a bunch of circlejerk communities and some funny pics. Facebook is dead for this upcoming generation, Snapchat is used to communicate with anyone.
If a guy falls off a roof building a nuclear plant, it doesn't poison the land for hundreds of years either. A more fair comparison would be if a PV manufacturing plant had an industrial accident and hundreds of thousands of gallons of nasty chemicals o to the land.
I don't think there's a lot of benefit to this. People would still debate whether or not they needed to disclose. Some people believe that if their posts are their personal views, they don't need to disclose. People might be more likely to use throwaway accounts for personal opinions or posts on unrelated topics. Since HN doesn't mandate any of this be provided (or accurate), it becomes useless. I usually don't disclose my employer on my profile... but I don't work at a startup or major tech company and no companies discussed here have any sort of relationship with mine.

I think people should disclose they work for a company they are defending the position of online. But I don't see a way to force that issue in an environment that permits anon accounts.
There isn't an interim CEO and the company is currently managed by committee.

The board is waffling around and doesn't seem committed to finding a replacement, even interim.

I'd say that Travis K isn't the only one planning a Travis K comeback.
We're still finishing up a few things (documentation etc) and planning on releasing more stuff tomorrow.

You can also sign up for the mailing list if you'd like us to email you when the repo goes live!
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> Never mind that nuclear weapons have the possibility of making our species extinct. Likewise for nuclear power accidents.

Please elaborate. How can nuclear power plants make our species extinct?
An ex-github employee who used to give talks on Github scaling challenges revealed they shifted from Rackspace.
See yourself - https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553
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O crap I meant to say GitHUB Enterprise. That's what has trouble. We also have Gitlab Enterprise and that's fine. Sadly for reasons internal we are mostly stuck with GitHub E.
Reddit, after the great Digg exodus:

> You chose to grow with venture capital and you’ve no doubt (I hope) taken some money off the table in your Series C round. I say this because this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling. It’s cobbling together features from more popular sites and departing from the core of digg, which was to “give the power back to the people.”
> Personally I'm of the opinion that going all nuclear would be a mistake but on the other hand it's a great way to move away from coal and petrol while we're still figuring out how to scale renewable energies (and maybe fusion, but that's still a moonshot). It provides cheap, reliable and reasonably safe energy with very little CO2 emissions.

The last time I really looked into it, it seemed like nuclear energy was a pretty way to combat global warming. It has numerous issues like cost, construction time, production bottlenecks, etc. Renewables seemed a lot better (particularly when you factor things in like the cost reduction as production ramps up), but it would be a mistake to simply think about energy production. From what I recall, things like improving energy efficiency were at least as important.
Yeh the font on meatball is generic. Worm is iconic.
I agree, against prepared adversaries. I am more worried about it being used against civilians.
No need to wait, the recently announced Broadcom wifi vuln discussed here[1] can be used to spread to nearby devices (see the section titled "The First Wifi Worm" near the end).

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14859602
I've made very clear when i speak for Google and when I don't, and i pretty much never do (except on some licensing issues).

If you want official statements from me, go elsewhere.

If you want HN to be a place of real discussion and debate,
it's stupid to try to tie people to their companies. I think very different from my company on quite a lot of issues, and i happily point that at too.

To your point, however, I didn't hand wave away anything. I said the real issue is "people can get this data". Are you really so naive as to believe this isn't being done by every damn company that can get the data?
Saying the real issue is that "Google" got this data, is, IMHO, missing the boat. I don't want Facebook to have it eithre! So to me, like I said, i don't give a shit about that part. You are more than welcome to have a different opinion!

I also worked in DC long enough that a random PR release by an organization devoted to lobbying on certain issues just doesn't bug me or make me care. Quite literally. So I said that.

They are more than welcome to file whatever complaints they want, and i hope they get some sort of response.

While i tend to disagree strongly with his views, i'm much more in favor of folks like ocdtrekkie filing complaints with whatever specific feelings they have on an issue, because at least i don't believe that's being driven by PR

(I know it may be shocking to learn that,in attempts to get funding, etc, non-profits do large coordinated PR campaigns the same way politicians submit bills they know will never pass so they can go home and talk abut it at a stump speech. Much like everyone else, they must stay relevant to be useful.).
I don't like flashy Facebook/Twitter UI either but I wouldn't mind as long as they had an option to switch to "simple/text only UI" or something similar.

"Please select the interface you want: New flashy Facebook-like mode® or Boring text mode®."
Perhaps not, but the waste from solar panel manufacturing might.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/solar/solar-energy-isnt-...

> The paper’s investigation, published in March 2008, profiled a Chinese polysilicon facility owned by Luoyang Zhonggui High-Technology Co., located near the Yellow River in the country’s Henan province. This facility supplied polysilicon to Suntech Power Holdings, at the time the world’s largest solar-cell manufacturer, as well as to several other high-profile photovoltaics companies.

> The reporters found that the company was dumping silicon tetrachloride waste on neighboring fields instead of investing in equipment that could reprocess it, rendering those fields useless for growing crops and inflaming the eyes and throats of nearby residents. And the article suggested that the company was not alone in this practice.
I don't think the exact numbers matter at all.

What matters is that solar is generally perceived to be safer, easier, and cleaner than nuclear at any scale. I feel confident that I could set up my own solar installation safely, and that makes me more likely to do so, regardless of the fatality rates of using ladders or driving to the hardware store.

Because it's easier for clean energy adopters to take small steps towards solar than large steps towards nuclear, I think that's what they will do.
It seems like the alternating of irreversible moves makes the 5870 shorter than it could be. The pattern of (49.5 + b) + (49 + w) + (49.5 + w) + (49 + b) + … could be replaced with several moves in a row by black, then several in a row by white, allowing some of the 49s to be 49.5 instead. Is that where the discrepancy comes from?
Maybe direct profitability is a red herring and the investors actually see the site as a propaganda and public sentiment modification engine.
We would be in a better place with respect to greenhouse gasses. But we're also subject to long term disposal of waste products and high risk of pollution of groundwater, and other water sources. Some of those risks will be risks for thousands of years.

The typical answers from nuclear proponents never cover what to do with the waste product.
The Cast SDK is not at issue, the Google Cast app likely is. (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...)
On the contrary, 10 years after HS football and I still have nightmares. I never want to remember those days again.
Yeah and I also worry about shrinkage - they're saying ~15%, which would be a massive issue with some profiles. I don't see how a lot of parts would work very well without distortion.
it's not irrational to prefer probabilistic, long-term problems to maybe once or twice having to evacuate new york or tokyo
Not true. In the short run, solar is the safest. A massive spill of solar energy is just called a nice day. In the long run, it's the most dangerous. The sun may eventually consume the Earth and much later, go nova.
Adding Chromecast support to their devices is what this blockage is about. Amazon doesn't want to sell devices that won't be supported by their Kindle Fire line of products.
And GHCJS is quite good these days as well.
Define "supercomputer". Most these days are just massive parallel systems, so anything regarding high-performance parallel processing would seem appropriate.

Some are GPU-based and there are specific techniques, compilers, etc. for that.

Both areas are relatively easy to get started with. Regarding the last question, it kind of depends on the team, no?
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I don't usually argue with downvotes, but I'm going to make an exception. The board decided that a change of CEO was requiered. Who has the power to decide a change in the board is required? HN commenters?
Adding numbers to an absurd argument does not make it magically not absurd.

On one side, a nervous public is concerned with Fukushima and Chernobyl, cities made suddenly uninhabitable by nuclear accidents. On the other side, someone counts people falling off of ladders while putting panels on a roof, and declares it some sort of rhetorical victory.

Arguing that nuclear is safer than solar because solar is so dangerous is a terrible argument. It makes you look like a fanatic who doesn't stop and listen to reason, like someone who cherry-picks "facts" to support a nonsense argument.

edit, to be perfectly clear: I am not saying nuclear power is unsafe.
I dunno, either people are there companies or they aren't.

I am not my company, and a lot of people elsewhere aren't either. I don't think who we work for is really relevant at all unless they are trying to make offical statements.

Either engage on the merits or don't. "Ignore this guy, he works for X" is not a useful line of argumentation.

The only thing putting company names next to things would create, IMHO, is an echo chamber.

(This is very different than journalists being paid to write specific articles or funded to do specific research, or even people paid quite specifically to astroturf)

If we believe it's some magical generalized conflict of interest, why stop at company names.

In any article about NIMBYism, should we require people post whjether they rent/own/own a home > 2 million/whatever.
etc

IMHO it's completely irrelevant to the merits of their argument. The merits don't change one way or the other.
It seems the only usefulness would be able to filter/confirm biases. At that point, why bother having a discussion.
Totally agree - though I wish they would show files > 2Mb though on the web editor.

I develop directly on github - I even make all my commits to the Master branch, as this allows me to code with a nexus 7 tablet if necessary.

So this outage was a PITA for me. However I have plan B and started up tomcat...

Saved the day!

P.S. Thanks github for the free hosting! I can't really complain .
Nuclear energy is only as safe as the people operating it. Admiral Rickover demanded a high personal standard for reactor personnel, and there was ZERO reactor accidents[0] because of those standards.

IMO Natural Gas/BioGas powered turbine generators are better option to augment wind and solar power generation. The GE LM6000 [1] gas turbine (based on a 747 GE CF6 engine) can produce 40MW+ of electricity. They could even recycle a surplus CF6 engine to reduce manufacturing resources required.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover#Safety_recor...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_LM6000
I use earplugs in our workspace--find myself using them for sleeping, on the train commute, airplanes. Much nicer for concentration. I don't know why these aren't handed out at the door of open workspaces.
I hated getting fitted for a suit, so it follows that I'd hate getting fitted for everything else. I'll take mass-produced, all else being equal.
>regardless of age you should get it checked out. (not just if you're 40+)

Ah, yes. Guess I should have expanded on that a bit. If you've got chronic acid reflux, the ongoing symptoms of that aren't much different from the initial symptoms of esophageal cancer...even if you're being treated. So, suggesting that you ask about it specifically if you're 40+.

Anything unusual or new, though, yes, don't wait on that.

>(finish up my chemo/surgery/chemo+radio this friday... whoop!)

Congrats!
True, but your data also supports the view that the redesign hastened Digg's death, and seems to correlate with increased growth at Reddit.

I.e., Reddit was doing something right, and Digg was shrinking. The Digg redesign fiasco accelerated both trends.
We're talking about a guy who was so paralyzed by the fact that the woman he was having sex with whispered sweet nothings into his ear that he dedicated three paragraphs to unpacking the discomfort it caused...
The fact that you are a parent makes your position even more incomprehensible. If you truly know "exactly what it's like" then you would have sympathy for the parents who experience these tragedies and would be offering preventative solutions instead of demonizing them and demanding punitive measures.
It's easy to get massive upvotes on anything that jibes with the HN groupthink. It can also be instructive to "troll" with anything that the groupthink will be appalled by no matter how true or rational it may be. That's the surest way to compensate for undeserved karma.
TensorFire is up to an order of magnitude faster than keras-js because it doesn't have to shuffle data back and forth between the gpu and cpu. Also TensorFire can run on browsers and devices that don't support OES_TEXTURE_FLOAT.

We will probably release it under an MIT license.
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For $1500 I don't want to regularly spend 5-10 minutes fixing my trackpad, and the anguish of that task relative to the turning of the cosmos is irrelevant.
Giving every kid the same trophy does not tell them they are all special. Every kid gets the same, so they get told they got the same thing as other kids. So, chill. Your conclusion that trophies in niece room means tennis prodigy is just you having incorrect assumptions about different culture. They are happy memories of event, not proof of skill.

I guarantee you that American high school Football players train damm hard, participation trophies or not. So do chearleaders, although and I admit that I had to see them do stuff to realize that the thing is truly hard.

Occasionally, trophies or t-shirts or whatever engage kids that would not even tried knowing they cant win anyway. Which is about the effect. The idea that these symbols are bane of civilization is as wrong as opposite obsession that lacking them would make kids crumble.
Well with the intro of UEFI, the last remanins of the original IBM PC, the BIOS, have been relegated to an emulated mode.
> I find the resistance to even a little humor to be hilarious

There is no resistance to humour. Funny comments get upvotes.

There is a resistance to unfunny comments, and most attempts at humour are just bad.
I think many of Shapeways metal offerings are castings from prints in wax, e.g. "For Silver, the minimum supported wall is determined by our ability to successfully print your product in wax and then cast it in a plaster mold. Walls that are too thin will break in the mold-making process." [1]

1: https://www.shapeways.com/materials/silver
It was available on sci-hub, but a quick soon didn't find the claims the article made, although I could have missed it.
Gmail is several orders of magnitude larger than Github will ever be, and in recent memory I can only recall it being down once, and for a very small subset of users.
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Yes, I would buy custom tailored or mass produced clothes.
That's not a particularly good argument, though. Are companies manufacturing solar panels breaking environmental laws to cut costs? Probably.

Are companies manufacturing nuclear power components with exotic materials not breaking environmental laws to cut costs? Um.
"And at the core of all this we have the issue that radiation is a silent killer. We can't smell it, we can't see it, we can't feel it. This amps up the fear element greatly."

As well it should. Dangerous things that you cannot detect with any of your human senses are rightly to be feared.

This behavior is well-preserved in humans for a reason.
E.g., if I had a device that could take fairly-accurate measurements and custom-make/-order clothes based on those measurements?

Sure, I'd do that in a heartbeat. It'd be great.

If I have to go somewhere and get all measured up, meh: I can usually guess between M/L/XL based on the manufacturer and reviews and for a lot of clothes, that's enough.
Lawsuits from people who don't want to lose their government housing subsidies because they have an irrational fear of negligible radiation are the epic consequences?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/10/japan-fukushim...
I think it's difficult. That 100mb of cache has to be streaming in for X amount of shows / channels at once. If you start flipping through it has to cache your current show + some amount of the shows you're flipping though.

It's not always easy to transition an analog UX over to digital and not have it appear slower or worse.
I wasn't talking about now. I was replying to api's assertion that "Java was slow and immature in the 90s but it was a huge step up from PHP, Perl...".

So that's about how Java was back then, and whether it was a "huge step up" from Perl. It wasn't.

Yes, Java improved greatly over time, and yes it's more popular now. Whether its current popularity is deserved or not is debatable, and a separate issue.
Pedant!!!1!
Do these general Github outages affect GH Pages as well, or is that service portion segmented to some degree?
Perhaps someone dropped a banana. The average exposure was 8 millirem (equivalent to a chest X-ray), and the peak outside the facility was 100 millirem (average annual exposure).
If it were that simple Facebook would have tried it by now.
Hey HN!

We're really excited to finally share this with you all! This is the first of a series of demos that we're working to release this week, and we're hoping you'll keep us to that promise :)

Sorry if it doesn't work on your computer! There's still a few glitches and browser compatibility problems that we need to iron out, and we're collecting some telemetry data with LogRocket (https://logrocket.com/) to help us do so (so you all know what kind of data is being collected).

We'll open source the library under an MIT license once we finish writing up the API docs, and fixing these bugs.
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How many deaths as a result of exposure to nuclear waste products do you project over the next 20,000 years?
How is living in Shanghai?
I'm not calling those people out because I'm not reading the riot act on everyone I disagree with regarding Uber's search for a CEO, I'm disagreeing with the person who commented above me. I think there are arguments to be made that appointing female CEO could culturally disrupt Uber in a way that might encourage more equality, but I agree that those arguments can't base on the idea that being in X demographic immunizes you to X prejudices.
Isn't it obvious that Voat would be filled with the more extreme forms of speech given that they are the ones not allowed on Reddit? Faulting Voat for that reason is kind of a clueless thing to do. If walking your dog becomes politically unfashionable tomorrow I'm sure they would be the next to migrate to Voat.
I always assumed that google shows the result page long before the search algorithm finished its work, making that number at best a guesstimate.
This list seemed to miss almost all modern deep learning tools... with the exception of theano, for which the version info here is years out of date. But this small detail at the bottom of the page explains it:

This page was last modified on 10 November 2014
I don't understand why this would have any effect on domestic nuclear power production in the nations that already have nuclear weapons. Probably the most important question: why don't the US and China get more of their domestic power from Nuclear?

Also, I need to some source for the claims that Atoms for Peace was meant as a cover to transfer nuclear technology. I believe the program was created as a way to provide civilian nuclear generation capabilities to friendly nations, in return for a guarantee that nations would not use the technology for making nuclear weapons (India was probably the most famous "rogue": they used the know-how from the research reactors to build an actual nuclear weapon).
> The concept that "solar and wind will save us all" by themselves is fundamentally incorrect, and actually they make things worse in many ways.

Sure, this comes up a lot in these discussions. We don't need to rely 100% on any one type of plant, and we don't even have to eliminate coal plants completely. In the end, we're going to have to use a variety of options to fight climate change, and some of the major ones (like increased efficiency) aren't even going to deal with energy production.
Ecologists against nuclear baffles me too. You'd think they'd be booster #1. Worst-case, Chernobyl still worked out pretty darn well for the local ecosystem.
https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/05/31/what-is-a-big-innodb...

Not who you're responding to, but this is a good overview.
Mechanically we have the perfect solution to storing power - reverse hydro. Pump up into a reservoir while the grid is full of renewables that you drain through turbines when the renewables drop off. All the logistics are solved problems, it is mostly a matter of just paying to transition to it:

* The grid itself would need a dramatic rework. It needs renovation for renewables in the first place, but introducing a hydro base load solution increases pressures on existing infrastructure.

* You need enough solar / wind volume to justify a sizable centralized investment in such a power solution. But broad wind/solar causes problems involving peak grid load well before you even start building these things, along with the aforementioned grid updates, make a real chicken and egg problem.

Hydro storage facilities are also vulnerable to extreme climate, take a long time to build (especially in countries where bureaucracy makes building anything take 10x longer than it should) and aren't expandable.

But they would work, easily, to solve the power storage problem. Hail potential energy!
Well most of the internet and internet companies continue to exist because of military tech, and military strategy. It turns out the internet is a wonderful tool for psy-ops, and social influence, a la Arab Springs. Even Tor, and decentralization technologies are/were military tools.