skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I reread UHH recently, and I don't find it has aged well. The humor is very dated, as is much of the commentary. I was keeping notes reading through it about what was no longer correct or relevant, but it became sort of pointless when the notes were, "This whole chapter is wrong, and so is the next. Who even has heard of csh at this point?" It definitely has its place in the hacker canon, but I'm not sure I could wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who doesn't remember the computing scene back then.
That's another annoying thing. OnePlus uses a specific type of charger, the Dash(tm) charger, so you can't just buy any random USB charging unit, or else it will take all day to charge. And the chargers are expensive. The other problem is that the screen is not flat, so you need to buy a curved screen protector. For the OnePlus 3, they've been sold out for months, and have no plans to restock them. Furthermore, there are no good 3rd party screen protectors. So if you have a OnePlus 3, you just have to use it without a screen protector.

These problems are not acceptable for a modern phone company.
What? If you can't get support to fix the battery for you, that's also a problem with support too.
I think lack of an OSS alternative with a solid mobile app is the only thing keeping me on Trello at this point.
You are correct. In my opinion, more eyes on this is a good thing anyway.
While my early computer experiences came later (my first machine was a TRS-80 Color Computer in 1984, when I was in the 5th grade), Byte Magazine and "Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar" were both things I enjoyed then and later.

The same with all the other magazines you mention, including Compute! (for some reason, your name seems familiar to me). I still have most of those magazines from then; and I still peruse them from time to time. One of my favorite issues of Creative Computing was focused on graphics, and it had an article on fractal terrain generation, along with a BASIC code implementation for the Apple IIe and IBM PC. I ended up converting it to run on my Color Computer.

As far as Byte Magazine and "Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar" is concerned, I never built any of the circuits described, but I did love to read about them. Once I became an adult, and got my old computers back from my parents (still have 'em, they all work!) - I recalled these articles, and some research led me to the books. I eventually collected all the books (and a few back issues of Byte). Reading thru them brought back memories of being a kid.

At one point - I think it was the article about how he automated his home with this custom computer system (probably based around a Z80 or something, I don't recall) controlling a heap of relays to switch circuits in his house - I decided to see if he was still around. I found his email, and sent out a message.

He eventually got back in contact with me; I had wondered about his home automation system and his lab, etc. He sent me some recent pictures of his home and workshop. Different of course, but still some of it stayed the same. IIRC, he had replaced the home automation system with something newer, but it was still something he tinkered with on occasion.

I don't know what it is - maybe nostalgia or something? - I tend to like to contact these "greats" of the past (and present) to tell them how I have appreciated their work from the past, and how it helped me to become the software engineer I am today. Sometimes, I'm too late, unfortunately. But these men were my heroes and inspiration toward my present career path. I never intended for software engineering to be my career; it was something I kinda fell into. But I have always been programming in some manner or another, ever since getting my first computer.
maybe if it wasn't a duopoly...
No dual sim :( That's basically the #1 feature I want to look for in a next phone
No need for excuses didn't mean to belittle your project, was honestly baffled. Congrats on the release! :-)
Monero Active Nodes Distribution
Or so people stop emailing them asking what they're going to do.
even more clearly:

webrender is "the stuff that works pretty ok and we can run through CI". In principle enabling webrender should get you the ~same results as not having it on, visually, modulo a few known bugs.

webrendest is "everything we're working on, no matter how broken"

It's a pretty big project so there's lots of stuff in tree that's barely functional (especially true with the layers-free pivot).
> breeding the new super race that sets various people off.

I'm just not convinced that we know enough yet about all the genetic interactions involved in developing a human being to actually be capable of breeding a super race, instead of say, a race with a single genetic point of failure.

High intelligence tends to come with higher incidences of other mental disorders [EDIT: this actually appears to be incorrect, per a reply](and we certainly haven't isolated all the genes involved in intelligence, let alone reliably quantify it).

Sure, eliminating known debilitating genetic disorders seems like a reasonable thing to do - but what if we're throwing the baby out with the bath water? What if that debilitating disorder is a base pair switch away from a genetic superpower, that we'd never discover because we eliminated that gene from future generations?

Personally I think we should take our sweet time with this stuff until we can ethically figure out as many of the ins and outs and consequences as we can. The consequences of making a significant mistake could be species ending.
Side-stepping management and complaining to the HR department. The HR department's job is to protect and side with the company. Often enough they will call or email the manager asking "what's going on with employee XY" and sometimes even forward the full complaint email to management. Unless there's serious misconduct (e.g. sexual harassment, fraud) expect little privacy.
It seems like Golem compute tokens would not be considered securities, but what about obvious joke coins that are only a value store, like the FUCK token?
Youtube does not yet make money. This is such a windmillfight, I just don't understand why Reddit thinks adding a cost-sink will help.

With images, it made sense -- Imgur was trying to become Reddit and hosting was a means of shoring up defense against that.

No one wants reddit video. Reddit is an aggregator whose core strength is discovery; Youtube cannot so easily become Reddit like Imgur could.
> We spend so much time worrying ourselves sick with every possible downside, debating in circles and not getting anywhere, while China is bravely pushing ahead with a bet that's 90% likely to pay off.

This is one reason on why we tread cautiously. I'm sure others can provide more examples

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoultella_planticola

"In the early 1990s a biotech company set out to solve a problem: how to destroy crop residue safely. Some crops' residues harbor plant pathogens. Burning is occasionally used to destroy the residue and pathogens, but this is a fire hazard and can be dangerous for the environment. This company realized that, because R. planticola is an aggressive and abundant soil bacterium, it could be genetically modified to destroy crop residue and also create ethanol. Testing of this process, however, was limited to sterile soil. Ph.D. research conducted at Oregon State University, supervised by Elaine Ingham, obtained a sample of the genetically modified organism for assessing ecological effects through the German Institut für Biotechnologie and, testing it in non-sterile (ordinary) soil, found that the modified bacteria caused mass plant death from the ethanol production. R. planticola is ubiquitous, found growing in the root systems of all kinds of plants everywhere. Therefore, some have speculated that without the independent test, the genetically modified bacteria might have been introduced in nature and then could have spread to contaminate the biosphere where it would cause worldwide plant death."

We need to know as much as possible about the wide ranging effects of anything non-trivial that we are introducing into the world. Yes it will slow down progress and innovation but it's also nice to avoid potentially world ending disasters as well. This is definitely not an area where you want to have a 'cha bu duo' attitude.
Targetprocess.com had all these features - I loved swim lanes for projects - but the UI was unusably slow (clearly not designed with an app framework at the core) when we tried it two years ago. I've been looking for something better ever since.
This article argues that you should assume positive intent in lieu of negative intent. I'd suggest that you remain neutral and avoid making assumptions of any kind.
No, the difficulty can be adjusted at fork time so it doesn't matter. Literally anyone can fork.
The cryptocurrency community is hilariously bad (well, it would be funny if people weren't getting fleeced) about putting blog posts through Latex and acting like they've written a "paper".

The people who have written dozens of real papers that end up in a dustbin somewhere are jealous. The funny thing is most of these docs would be more accessible as blog posts, but those don't provide the same faux-academic thing con men need.

Not sure if they're actually that amateur or it's more cynical and they know it's the way you do business - probably both.
I wonder whether there was a point at which computer science departments began to become independent of math departments, and when that occurred?
Being a snob, I'm already bored by the incoming generation of bland, obedient.. hobbits. Eugenics to life to me is like pitch correction to singing, it's missing the point entirely.

edit: am I not allowed to my opinion? How is that less constructive than someone they're worried about being rendered useless? That's also just some random person giving their personal outlook.

But okay, I'll also give my 2 cents on leaving the planet as well: yeah, genetical engineering or transfering minds to machines would surely be necessary if you want to spread across the galaxy. But the shit non-skillfull way we treat ourselves and other life on this abundant Earth so far makes this also a more boring prospect to me than I wish it was. As people pointed out in the article about software bloat, there is no pressure anymore -- why not go all the way and go back to emailing BMP images? Similarly, if we "solve" our problems by leaving Earth, instead of mastering the lessons we so shamefully fail so far, instead of reaching a whole different ballpark of skill and tradition, letting that sink for another 100000 years, and then embracing technology to its full extent and blooming all over the galaxy -- it will be boring and lame compared to what we could be. It's like betting on aliens all being schmucks, too; if they aren't, they will not be impressed.

I like tightness, beauty, skill. Sue me.

> Ah, yeah. We're gonna go to Mars. And then of course we're gonna colonize deep space. With our microwave hot dogs and plastic vomit, fake dog shit and cinnamon dental floss, lemon-scented toilet paper and sneakers with lights in the heels. And all these other impressive things we've done down here. But let me ask you this: what are we gonna tell the intergalactic council of ministers the first time one of our teenage mothers throws their newborn baby into a dumpster? How are we gonna explain that to the space people? How are we gonna let them know that our ambassador was only late for the meeting because his breakfast was cold and he had to spend half an hour punching his wife around the kitchen? And what are they gonna think when they find out, its just a local custom, that over 80 million women in the Third world have had their clitorises forcibly removed in order to reduce their sexual pleasure so they won't cheat on their husbands? Can't you just sense how eager the rest of the universe is for us to show up?

-- George Carlin, "Complaints and Grievances"

Look at George Carlin, and look at China, and tell me they're not a bunch of pussies. Heh.
I did some work with a simple energy management system for a large retailer that had 4800 stores. The amount of money that can be saved with simple things like delaying HVAC start at open based on ambient temps, or using sunrise calculations to know when to turn on/off lighting is pretty ridiculous.
It's hard to fight with lawyers who have the full-time job of doing things like repealing net neutrality. This is even more true when they don't care about public opinion, have strong industry ties, and literally run the FCC.
> many peripherals flapping around

headphones and charger

A usb hub also doesn't fit into my pocket. What if I'm walking around and want to plug two things in? Well fuck.

EDIT: Also that is not a relevant xkcd. I'm not suggesting to break other peoples usecase in favor of mine. I just want two ports.
What's so good about Ethereum that would make it the future (serious question, I don't know much about it)?
> High intelligence tends to come with higher incidences of other mental disorders

No, lower, with the single exception of perhaps autism spectrum traits: see the signs in the papers reported in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_correlation#Intelligen...

> (and we certainly haven't isolated all the genes involved in intelligence, let alone reliably quantify it).

You don't need to, many have been, and the quantification is reliable enough.
No responsible disclosure needed. The method of gaining access to this key is on-device, not on a server, so so patching would only prevent future use while a device remaining on the firmware which allowed decryption could continue to decrypt the SEP firmware for all future revisions on existing hardware.

I don't see why xerub would release the method for this yet, unless it is now burned/useless.
One of Wikipedia's main behavior guidelines is a fairly similar idea, "Assume good faith": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith
If I had the option of being paid by Bi-Rite I would take the payment in the form of ice cream, and thus wouldn't have any stories to relate of standing in line with the plebes ;)
aligned with that is heavy reliance (built out of educational exposure mostly) on objectivity/objectivism as a core organizing factor of knowledge - this comes with expectations of generalizability or shared assumptions/beliefs that doesn't always hold or holds in warped ways
RDP does.
This thread has become comically meta
Yeah false positive vs negative is really critical when you tell people they might have cancer... people will do crazy stuff.
If this has to be a car metaphor, surely it's automatic vs manual transmission.

And there have been no mass market cars with joysticks but there have been a number of phones with keyboards.
The winters aren't too bad and I'd say pretty mild actually. You get more ice storms than snow in KC. It's not like Chicago or Minneapolis by any means. Lightrail expansion is coming in the next few years, which I think will officially take it out of the "toy project" state it is in now. I also think with the addition of the new airport KC will just blow up. It's already growing pretty rapidly.
For the time being its going to be more of a "I'll know it when I see it and so will you" type of situation. Preventing scams and things advertised as investment opportunities appear to be the focus without trying to pin down an exact framework for detecting it, but I wouldn't say they are being vague about what it is they're are going to limit. If they tried creating an exact framework with the information available today it would likely miss the mark in terms of a balance between restrictiveness and protection to investors/purchasers.
Good point, so in your view Zish shouldn't have any comments at all? I don't think they're allowed in JSON either.
sounds like Kyle got lucky not spending time with "friends" like that
I pay people to ghostwrite books for me. I then list them on Amazon and market them. I started 2 years ago and have been putting out about 1 book/mo.

Last month I made ~$4.5k
The author discusses how people saying "math isn't for girls" was part of why she didn't go into a computational field.

I'm surprised there isn't more discussion in the comments here of how women are discouraged from entering tech by the assertion and defense of the notion that "women are biologically unsuited for software development".
- One of the benefits of our system - as opposed to other more traditional video-based approaches - is that we never send any raw data off our devices. We have a light-weight neural-net model (about ~10MB) that runs directly on the devices, and only reports back on detected events (so things like “person detected”, “door-entry passed”), etc. This also has a side-benefit in that our devices can operate on low-bandwidth networks (and makes it economical to backhaul detected event-data over a cellular network).

- We include a gateway device with our product, and if anything goes wrong (sensor or gateway goes offline), we cover this as part of our service contract.

- Warehouses are another potential vertical, provided we have access to training data to train up our models. For example, if someone wanted to “count” things like boxes / forklifts / etc, our sensors can be configured to detect them.
In the game Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, there is no threshold to how fast you can go backwards. Keep accelerating backwards and you will drive straight off the map. Continue to accelerate and you will be at world coordinates where the details of your truck's model are far smaller than the distance between two adjacent floating-point numbers (which grows with increasing magnitude). This causes your truck to be rendered with bizarre geometry: the details subtly wiggle and change size slightly at first, then warp all over the place and become completely unrecognizable.

Your xcalc screen shot made me think of that and smile a bit.
It won't always be a tiny community. Virginia an New york where both once tiny colonies.

The scale of a ship to mars today is not so dissimilar from the scale of boats across the Atlantic then.
> if a user is reading a table right now,
> no one can write to it

In 2010 SQLite came out with a mode that keeps the writer from blocking readers: https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html

> > 99% [...] SQLite would still hold up
> an IRC bouncer

I would consider a chat client one of the 1%. Although there are many chat clients, and other examples that we could think of, there are thousands of websites and apps of the "small to medium" size that SQLite might be a good fit for.

https://www.sqlite.org/features.html
White nationalists flocking to genetic ancestry tests. Don’t like what they find
RDP supports networked DirectX, with the GPGPU on the server or client side.

And DirectX offers so much more than downgraded OpenGL ES 3.0 (aka WebGL 2.0).
Hey! Author here. Happy to answer any questions or go into any details about our approach. I know this post was pretty broad, but we'll be publishing more deep dives with code examples soon.
These seems likely to me too, but until someone demonstrates it, I'm less certain. GANs are notoriously unstable and it is still quite hard to produce useful models with them.
> nothing, what so ever to do with the laws against being a Nazi

You are very poorly informed. The laws against "being a Nazi" are generic "no bad speech" laws. Nazism is just their most well-known application. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung

> Spoiler: it's a lie.

A lawyer went to prison, for statements she made, in court, in defense of her client. That's not supposed to happen. It's not a feature.
'Self-loathing plutocrat' with 6 homes wants to help those with none
I currently use a Nexus 6, and I run into issues with the battery as well as general performance when the battery is low (despite turning off battery saver). Otherwise the phone is fine (if a bit too large and less sexy than an iPhone). I'm also becoming more concerned about privacy, and in that respect I think Apple will probably always care more than Google.
We have found bugs in both AMD and NVIDIA drivers but nothing that didn't get fixed or that we couldn't work around. More difficult are the "special" quirks in some embedded GPUs. I keep an eye on Vulkan etc but right now OpenCL looks like the right choice for portability.
I was talking with a maintenance supervisor for a large facility and he was saying that they were able to modify the amount of make-up outside air cycled into a facility based on occupation (think O2 depletion, lol). Is that something you folks have run into? Seems like if you could avoid exhausting a couple (hundred?) thousand cubic feet of cooled air per hour, you could save a good bit of money.
The key to shoes lasting long is taking care of them. Don’t wear them in the rain. Give them a break evey couple of days. Most importantly you have to keep polishing them. At least once a week. If you take care of the upper leathers of a shoe, they can last pretty long, not to mention that any shoe with good arches is worth it.

For throwaway shoes that you cant resole, I like Ecco. Excellent!!
I bought a used 2012 Mac Mini for $450 and added some RAM and an SSD for $100. It probably wouldn't work great for large projects, but has been good enough for something a single developer can create on the side.
I'm not convinced that facts are even necessary right now. You can literally just make stuff up and make up arguments around it, then scream about it until people start getting onboard.
That would ALSO be a hard fork though.

IE the legacy chain would be dead.

Yes, the legacy chain people can create their own new fork, but then it has to deal with all the disadvantages of being a hard fork, and the old chain will be dead.
I loved the different ideas to throw the bot off like pulling creeps in a way that would not work for a human. Slacks' courier strategy was entertaining as well.

I don't know enough (no more than a layperson) about AI to have any meaningful comment there. Do they need to train the bot on every hero the same way or does it only need to relearn the hero specifics (and not items/strategies)?
If you want to lose weight, Christensenella minuta is worth examining. The research[1,2] is preliminary, and I wouldn't trust any commercial preparations without validation, but it is compelling.

1. http://www.ctl.cornell.edu/events/celebration15/posters/Wate...

2. http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(14)01241-0
From the Blackhat presentation:

Runs its own operating system (SEPOS)
* Includes its own kernel, drivers, services, and
applications

OTOH, the enclave is a separate processor entirely, unlike (AFAIU) on Android phones. And applications on the processor run outside the TrustZone, so there are really two enclaves: the outer enclave (the security processor), and the inner enclave (the TrustZone on the security processor). The hardware restrictions on IPC (both ways between the main processor and security processor) also seems really nice. And they're using an L4 derivative for the OS.

So, yes, it seems like a better design. Very nice. Still, I hold to my criticism. At the end of the day, complexity is anathema to security. If you build an OS, people will use and abuse it. The presentation also mentions that most Apple drivers have now moved partly to the enclave,

* Most drivers have a corresponding app in the
SEP

There's a tension there, like with DRM. The more people rely on the enclave to run sophisticated software, the more pressure there'll be to add more features and more complexity. Again, Apple may be better positioned than most to push back, but being smart will only get you so far.
Robot Chef That Can Cook 2,000 Meals Set to Go on Sale in 2017
Reminds me of Dogecoin.
I still Wayland is a titanic mistake and that X could have been extended indefinitely instead without a flag day, without weird breakages, and without any loss of core features.
Here’s Why We Need More Open Source Software for Buttplugs
How long until, like Twitter, reddit puts the bulk of its content behind a login? It's transforming itself into another walled garden like everything else, because that's the way to get paid.