skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mass is energy. As I understand it, the waves are created because of the rapid acceleration of large masses, either black holes or neutron stars. These waves do transmit energy and the final resulting body will be less massive at least partially because of that.
I'm referring to the Gawker case, although I think his political donations are harmful to the nation as a whole, too.

Also, you meant alluding, not eluding. :)
I bought a Thinkpad specifically because Dell refuse to sell me their Linux laptop here in Australia. Thinkpad was better hardware for the money, but I would've bought the Dell if they'd supported it.
There is no problem in having billionaires, there is no problem in an income gap. If we are all billioniares, fine. If the lowest income can buy everything they want, fine.

The problem is that billionaires buy politicians, people are too poor to live in western countries despite working, sometimes two jobs, and people with income from work pay for social security and income taxes while billionaires with income from capital gains don't pay relevant taxes and don't pay for social security or their fair amount for health care.

So focusing on billionaires is a distraction. We need to focus that people have meaningful income - especially with the coming AI/robot revolution - and meaningful lives. Capital gains and companies need to be taxed the way people with income from employed work are taxed and need to contribute the same amount to health care and social security.

But this will not happen, because see "buy politicians". There is only one reason that billionaires and celebrities hang around with boring politicians. It's the best investment.
Apparently from 1 AU you might just be able to hear it! Even that close the stretching and squishing would be on the order of micrometers but the eardrum might be able to pick it up. The frequency would be comfortably in the audible range as well. [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/45n0sz/how_clos...
I use both filesystems, but for databases I found XFS concurrent writes handy.
I've come to the same conclusion but the guy in the blog is absolutely right.

Just look at khan academy. It is literally a guy drawing in something similar to MS paint and explaining stuff.

There is a lot of technology that exists which could be applied to education but it isn't.
Nah, if you make slanderous or libelous statements, suing is a perfectly fine remedy.
Weird, because in Gawker's case, he didn't have a case for libel or slander. They outed him as gay. I considered their actions despicable, but they didn't lie and that's why he didn't have a case. And that's why he had to use Hulk Hogan to exact revenge, which goes to show that a single guy with too much money can essentially reign unchecked in today's America.

That's not good, no matter if you happen to agree politically with said guy with too much money at this particular point in time.
I think of myself as a software craftsman. Just like a master carpenter, the things I make should be not only functional but beautiful as well. Of course we should "care" about our work.

However there are other metrics besides performance that are worth caring about, e.g. readability, maintainability, etc...
explain please?
UC Browser pulled from Google Play for shady activity
Which it is for most of internet infrastructure.
Mozilla terminates its deal with Yahoo and makes Google the default in Firefox
Should we perhaps try to get the "cookie law" fixed :)
And he's done a brilliant PR job. https://www.liberationnews.org/real-agenda-gates-foundation/
It's not that speculative. It's predictable from the direction the company I work for is going in.

> Moving a significant part of the infrastructure is no joke, and requires extremely pressuring reasons. Licensing of course is one of those, but it's not necessarily the general case.

"Extremely pressuring reasons" can be as simple as "we don't like that clause in the contract with supplier X, so we now have to move to supplier Y. Yes, I do mean everyone." We've gone through precisely this in another part of our estate, and it triggered a 10 month migration which is still in flight. IP constraints combined with "we must only pay once for a given function" is easily enough.

> I also doubt that there are so many companies with large projects on GH and small, "wildcat" projects on GL - GH dwarfs GL for hosted services.

I can only talk about what I can see: an enterprise, where external GH and internally hosted GL both started very small, and have now consolidated into a single GH org and two (or three? not sure) internal GL services. I'd be pushed to guess where more projects currently live.

Relevant to this conversation: as a company, we looked at GH Enterprise, and decided against it. Or probably more accurately, didn't decide for it. I don't know the reasoning (but I suspect cost).

> Pointy hairs are not really relevant, since they may take any decision (even the opposite) for any whim.

Since they are the ones making the decisions, their reasoning is extremely relevant. There is a logic to how they work, it's just not the one engineers on the ground would pick. So, for instance, they probably won't care about speed of forking unless it actually gets in the way of delivery.

Interestingly, one place GL is winning internally is GitLab CI.
But why? What's wrong with Venmo?
Algol was a real alternative.

Burroughs, nowadays sold by Unysis as ClearCase, was developed in 1961 using ESPOL, later improved and renamed as NEWP. Both Algol variants.

IBM research on RISC was done with PL/8, a PL/I variant, later used for writing IBM z firmware.

IBM i (OS/400) was initially written in PL/S, another PL/I variant.

Intel used PL/M extensively.

Xerox PARC moved from BCPL into Mesa, where Wirth got his inspiration for Modula-2, followed by Mesa/Cedar, which again influenced Wirth to create Oberon.

Mesa/Cedar designers went to DEC Olivetti, where they ended up designing Modula-2+ and Modula-3.

Apple started with Assembly and Object Pascal, only moving to C++ with PowerPlant due to market pressure.

During the early 80's C was just yet another systems language only available in expensive UNIX workstations. On home computers, on CP/M we only had dialects like Small-C, competing against everything else for attention.
Any credible source for your bold statements? Otherwise we can conclude the Russian trolls have also infested HN.
Luckily, I never claim politics has nothing to do with me.

Politics, sanitation, planetary orbits all affect me, and I contribute. But I don’t necessarily care about them all.

Your central thesis, that there “is no neutral”, is unworkable. Examples that fly in the face of it abound. Carve out the special cases, like you did for children, and there will be nothing left.
Sure. I've been through this though. See the link.

I recommend a certification programme, with manufacturers justifying the access their device needs. A little signed JSON blob of hosts and ports it plans on connecting to. The device communicates this to the router. If the signing certificate is still valid and the manufacturer trusted, the router could just allow that access, or prompt the user to just let them know that device is trying to connect. No confusing detail. And just once, at the same time you're setting up network stuff, so it's not weird or extra hassle.

It's leaps and bounds better than what we currently have. The vast majority of us have zero idea what the devices on our network are actually doing, all while we're each throwing dozens of these cheap internet-enabled things online.

For legacy devices, a more iterative approach might be needed but it can still be prompted: "Dell computer is trying to connect to clearlybaddomain-dot-com. Allow, Allow All, Deny, Quarantine". You could even layer on some "known bad" hosts or traffic patterns via centralised lists to automatically quarantine devices at the router level.

Nothing here is rocket surgery. One developer for a few months. An entity like Google could do this in an afternoon. There's just surprisingly little appetite for it.
I would suspect that looking at his investment portfolio rather than is political statements will give a better clue as to why he is doing what he's doing.
You're supposed to be safe in jail. Just in case that had not sunk in yet because of your experience but whoever runs that jail should be in jail themselves.
Come on, all reasonable ARM have NEON and VFPv3 (including cortex M) about the only place I saw something that didn't was an old internet router. Hardware completely unsuited to maths.

Softfp does not preclude the use of floating point math at all. It means you pay an extra cost when passing floats as arguments. (Which means you should rather use a hardfp math library if possible.)
> now this thing filter anything that is against the party rule

Explain, did you read the text?
For the modeling I've wanted to do, I haven't run into any limitations through openscad. As a programmer and not much of an artist, it's perfect for me.

I also love that I can use it as a core part of my math curriculum, which I couldn't do as easily with most other modeling software. Students are learning measurement, geometry, and most importantly relationships through the use of parameters. It also makes for a great segue into more general programming languages.

I recently started working with polyhedrons for a terrain modeling project. Could you convert svg data to a polygon and then extrude it?
The addon supplements it IIRC.
When you (not personally you, every one of us) see such a discrepancy, we have a choice: either label the person who displays it as "stupid" or "lying", or question our assumptions about their beliefs or actions.

In particular, a lot of people who align themselves with libertarianism quite commonly have their views simplified to an absurd extent. If a person advocates for "free speech", do you necessarily think that they advocate for everyone being able to publish anything at all, without any repercussions whatsoever? If a person says "capitalism rules", do you honestly think that he believes that no company should be regulated in any way?

I think that at the point where you simplify a person's political views to two-word formulas, you may have already lost most of the knowledge of what they actually believe in.
No, it looks more to do with blocking scamming sites.

"where no other effective means are available", hence, sites with representation in the EU, or owners who can be extradited to the EU, doesn't seem to be at risk.
> but it's under threat of depreciation because the bootsrap build with MPX has been broken for so long.

Huh. Even MSVC supports it (currently experimental though): https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/01/20/visual-st...
I vaguely remember that Microsoft offered version of Windows Server for HPC environments at one point.

Are the reasons for not using Windows purely financial (in a cluster with thousands of nodes the licensing costs can become substantial) or are there technical reasons as well?
Containers are different from profiles. Firefox has both. Containers are within a single profile (and thus can be opened within the same window) and let you do things like ensure certain sites get opened in certain containers only (at least, I think that feature is still there). Containers are a first class feature as well, however there is an addon for supplementing their behavior.

Firefox also has profiles (about:profiles) but with less UI around it so it's annoying to use.
Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with writing code in Basic or Z80 assembly language, for a very limited device with no proper keyboard, 24K of user-accessible memory, a 96x64 pixel 1-bit display, and no other sensors or output devices, but I’m pretty sure the time could be spent more effectively in some other programming environment.
Mastering bot analytics: Why do chatbots love logs?
The later you do it, the more expensive it gets. In this it is similar to testing.
See link or my other reply for implementation detail. This can be both very secure and simple.
> code line count is a hilariously inaccurate way to measure the complexity required for a portable OS kernel vs a userspace application

I never said that. My whole premise is that you can't say anything like this by just saying code count on two very different projects. Maybe you didn't read my comments properly.
It was great, Oberon had a kind of REPL.

Basically modules are loaded dynamically and any procedure that obeys to a specific signature could be called from the UI, via keyboard and mouse like the ACME editor on Plan 9.

The way they get their input, depends on the signature.

It could be like command line parameters, clipboard, or any selected UI element in another application.
You don't have to quit FF to do this, and you can use about:profiles.

> Containers are really bad at saving your workspace: tabs with a profile so I can just shut down work at the end of the day or on a weekend.

Sure they are, ensure your "open tabs from last time" pref is selected in settings.
Sending money to your debit card was free for a time, and I had no problem sending 400-500 bucks to a friend same day as a result. At this point, it’s just a matter of “why switch?”
That's a straw man. He doesn't "attack anyone who disagrees with me".
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Sure, if you can make up the rules after someone breaks them, then Arch is wrong...

From the linked PEP (emphasis mine)

> end users should be aware that python refers to python3 on at least Arch Linux (that change is what prompted the creation of this PEP)
Niiiiiiice.

Suave microservices with Owin plumbing running on dotnet core containers is one heck of a nice platform.

I know it's going to take a minute for all the niggling issues to get worked out, and the community to catch up, but I see this as a major watershed moment.
Calm down. I'll happily provide proof, I simply didn't want to overload my initial response with quotes and links:

> Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam -- famous for "Bowling Alone," his 2000 book on declining civic engagement -- has found that the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects. In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings. The study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that virtually all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse settings.

"The extent of the effect is shocking," says Scott Page, a University of Michigan political scientist.

http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/...
I bought an XPS 13 9360 and immediately installed linux on it and it's been running flawlessly. After shopping around for a good linux-compatible laptop, I found that nothing beat the dell in terms of support.
I couldn't be happier! I love what Dell has done with their premium laptops and I hope to replace this machine with a future XPS when the time comes. (I bought the windows version because it was $50 less than the developer edition for some reason.)
I wonder what makes C so different from Ada where static verifies are used successfully. Is it because typical C code uses way too many pointers making full static verification much harder?
Maybe he was kicked off the board for 'wrong think' - he certainly was chastised by members of Facebook's board for endorsing & contributing to Donald Trump's Presidential campaign (Trump's victory vindication of said endorsement & contribution).

While Thiel was endorsing/investing who would ultimately win - YC's President did the opposite.

While Theil's endorsement/investment in Trump was based on principal - I don't know if the same can be said for YC's endorsement of Hillary. At the time, it came as a surprise ie- a prominent tech company claiming to invest in 'hackers' endorsing a candidate who had just been exposed as technically incompetent (and/or corrupt) via thousands of leaked emails.

It also came across as contrived. Because those same emails revealed Eric Schmidt's role as technical/marketing/search consultant for Hillary's campaign and so it was not a stretch to assume Eric was leveraging his prominence & connections in tech to solicit endorsements from SV 'leaders'.
Luckily for haskellers, GHC does a thing called fusion, which is an optimization that pipes together different operations on data, and avoids allocating intermediate results.

(https://www.stackbuilders.com/tutorials/haskell/ghc-optimiza...)
I don't think there's a degree for supercomputer admin, it's mostly on the job training. And to be fair, a lot of it is similar to generic Linux sysadmin stuff. Especially so nowadays with the focus on devops/infrastructure-as-code/etc., or generally the idea of how to administer many nodes in a scalable fashion.

If you want to play around, go to http://openhpc.community/ , fire up a few virtual machines, follow the installation instructions, and start playing around.
Unfortunately, no matter how you twist and turn it ordinal data is going to stay ordinal. You cannot try to make it meaningful regardless of how you aggregate it.
Huh. IIRC, black hole mergers are also a likely source of short gamma ray bursts. So I suspect at 1 AU, one would need a lot of shielding to not get fried by the gamma rays.

EDIT: What I meant to say was: It would probably be quite awesome to experience such an event up close, provided it is possible to do so safely. ;-)
In other countries we have political parties that say: "we don't want harsher sentences" and the like.

The US have political problems. They are unfixable as long as most of you have given up.
This is a bit patronising and doesn't address the interesting question: why the technological expectations of 50, 60 years ago didn't materialize.
"Everybody that disagrees with me is a Russian troll".

I weep for critical thinking.
I’ve a dual boot set up on one of my machines with Ubuntu 17.04. I’m consistently having Ethernet issues related to having two network cards, and the multi monitor support is lacking. I can’t use my triple monitor setup, and if I forget to disconnect my third monitor I have to reboot with only one monitor attached to get it work. Meanwhile, on the same machine, windows handles it in its stride.

There’s still some improvements to be made
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Yes. Updated my comment.
Putin and Xi must be relieved to hear that Gawker going bankrupt is “one of the biggest attacks on freedom of the press in recent history.”
The absolute irony of a post on an account whose handle is "facts are sacred" that just declares that "multiculturalism and ethnic diversity erodes trust and causes social strive" without providing any form of justification, proof, actual study about the subject, without thinking about the pre-existing bias that might exist in society to make that all of that difficult on a daily basis. Weak sauce.
You have a bit outdated info here. Both are generally fine considering recent hardware. The drivers are upstream now.

(The problem is nonredistributable blobs.)

Ralink is fine too. In fact most trouble is with new Atheros chips after their latest corporate takeover.
Please let us know if you'd like to see the devtools improved!

Also, the devtools are actually a React app (https://github.com/devtools-html/debugger.html), and this means that you can hack on them using ... your devtools (and any other HTML/JS/React tooling you like)! And you can hack on them in any browser, and use them to debug any browser (however some browsers may not support the same debugger protocol features the Firefox devtools support). They're super easy to work on and it's really fun.

(Of course, there's also a devtools "server" on the firefox side that responds to the queries of the React devtools client, and hacking on that is harder, but a lot of the stuff can be done without needing to touch this)
It's uber slow for me too. Similar specs. Several hundred millisecond tab switches with a clean profile. Typing into slack is like typing into an SSH session over a bad dialup connection. Adding Tree Style Tabs kept my CPU over 20% and my fans running permanently. Maybe it's faster for people on Windows or Linux, but on macOS it's a major regression.
I doubt licensing costs have much to do with it, it seems like flexibility would be the driving factor. Supercomputing centers, vendors, institutions which use supercomputers, etc. all frequently modify and contribute modifications to the Linux kernel and associated userland. You have to imagine they are making changes which Microsoft could not afford to care much about, nor turn around in competitive time.
I believe that black hole mergers are dark in the entire electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. This is why the recent binary neutron star merger was so groundbreaking -- it emitted both gravitational waves and a broad spectrum of EM waves.

Indeed, though, it would be awesome to witness the collision and resulting gwaves personally, if such a thing was possible :)
I mean honestly at this point I wouldn’t be surprised if the koch brothers adopted him.
> I sense once again an attempt to shame Thiel for his views

You say that like there is some sort of hidden agenda. Personally I think there is nothing even remotely wrong with shaming Thiel for his deeply intolerant views. In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I hope you don't use cryptography then, or networking, or image/file manipulation, or do anything with untrusted user input.

If you're only doing algebra on an air gapped computer then why do you even worry? Programming languages and tools will evolve but nobody is forcing you to. Keep a local copy of what you need and be happy. Just don't assume any new libraries you might need will support your stack forever.
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I would say that you should really just start. Start building a very basic prototype. Check out the founding story of Airbnb for motivation and an idea on how simple a prototype can be built https://getpaidforyourpad.com/blog/the-airbnb-founder-story/. Next, get it out there. Post it to your social media channels and try to get a few interested people that believe in your idea - get tons of feedback. With the prototype and valuable feedback from your potential customers you can go and look for a co-founder. Here I can really recommend pitching your idea before a large group of people in an accelerator or co-working space. There you usually have like-minded people and if you don´t find a co-founder usually you´ll get lots of additional feedback. It´s quite a long process but if you don´t give up on the hussle, you´ll find someone..eventually.
I mean, if you think you can get max diversity of ideas without also pulling people from different cultures, you’ve been around way too many white men.
I mean, if you use GCC does recklessly optimize away (some) security/safety code. This is one of the reasons why we don't use it for code we ship. I work in a safety-conscious industry, where an overeager compiler can literally kill people.