skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who went through that era and worked on a cross-platform title.

The issue wasn't that the PS3 was heterogeneous, it was that the X360 came first so everyone wrote for a system that had relaxed memory constraints. When the PS3 came along all of a sudden things that weren't vectorized didn't run slow, they just flat out didn't run at all.

Fun fact, the few engines that were developed for the PS3 first and X360 second ran circles around everyone else because all the vectorization work for PS3 meant they fit in caches really nicely and had zero cache misses. Easily 2-4x faster than titles doing equivalent work.
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> Crypto wallets changing hands is a non-event for prices.

Surely the point was more: "Why doesn't the obvious risk events like this represent affect the price of the commodity?"

I mean, at this point I have to believe that the likelihood of a given dollar-equivalent of crypto currencies being stolen is much, much higher that it is for literal paper money. And paper is uniformly considered too risky to use as an asset.

It's insanity. This is the way bubbles look before they pop. I can't tell you when it'll happen, but it'll happen.
Theft from the bank doesn't take money out of anyone's individual account, so individuals don't need to be insured against it. Most bank thefts are small relative to assets, but if the theft is so large that the bank fails, then the FDIC insurance ensures that customers get repaid. The same is informally true for cryptocurrency exchanges: theft from the exchange's own wallet doesn't directly affect customers unless it causes the exchange to become insolvent. Then the customers will wish they had insurance.
If people in meetings need dopamine hits every 30 seconds to avoid falling asleep then they probably have a lower performing brain because of chronic sleep deprivation.

Most people are sleep deprived, and if they can't focus for a 30 second meeting then they should head to the nap room.
My ISP rotates through ipv6 addresses now (and frequently, at least several times a day). Makes that tough
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What happens when your hardware fails or is destroyed?

Or someone just forces you to give up the info?
Your link states that UTC is the international standard. Maybe for humans.

Unix time can represent roughly from 1902 to 2038 in 32 bits. That's the usual intermediary between the clusterfork of records in zoneinfo. To convert between time zones, you convert to the simple second count of Unix time, then convert to the target zone.

Much easier to store the time as the simple count and just make the UI do the work to display it in some user-friendly fashion. When the machines communicate to each other, there is no confusion, because they do not carry any assumption baggage regarding time.

We really need to fix time representation before 2038. Julian day plus second count is a decent intermediate step to a time representation that is agnostic to the cycles and orbits of specific planets. The least disruptive end game is probably a 64-bit integer representing a simple count of the number of milliseconds elapsed since the Julian Day epoch.

That would make now about 212383579680000, and we'd have until 9223372036854775807, or about 292 million years from now, to even decide whether to go another 292 million years by making it an unsigned int, or just expand it out to 128 bits, because chip architectures have been able to handle that much for 292 million years already.

The simple count is rather easy to convert into a human readable time. Subtract an epoch constant, then modulo by some cycle-length constants. Adjust by a custom rule set if necessary.

Besides that, why would I want to call Uncle Steve in Melbourne? Why couldn't I just send an asynchronous message to him? That asynchronous message can even include metadata about when I am available for synchronous communications. So yeah, I can "publish my 'waking hours'", as summarily dismissed by that apologia for time zones. I don't know when that was written, but now that every phone can be a computer, as well as a pocketwatch and personal calendar, the built-in assumptions that were necessary beforehand are no longer required.

I don't need to know that people are typically awake in a safe range between 9 AM and 9 PM as expressed in their local time zone. I don't really even need to know when they'll be awake to pick up. I can tell the computer assistant to give their user a message, and the assistant might or might not sound an audible alert that the user has new messages. I don't even really need to publish my own waking hours. If I don't care about that aspect of my privacy, I can let my computer assistant tell other computer assistants when its user is typically receptive to synchronous communication requests, based on usage history. It can advertise my "online" status for me, or lie about it for me, such as if I tell it to say I'm "away", but I'm actually on my phone, playing a few levels of Skinnerbox 5: Revenge of the Lootbox.
Can confirm, I've used Google Wallet multiple times recently, including last night. My experience matches what they document here, except that I've never personally seen the rare upper bounds for debit card transactions or for sending via bank account:

https://support.google.com/wallet/answer/6285486?hl=en

There was some rebranding news recently; you may see them consolidate various payment brands into the term Google Pay. But they're keeping their p2p payment feature.

Disclosure: Although I used to work at Google, I don't now and have never worked on their payment tech. I'm just a satisfied user who finds PayPal/Venmo a shady enough company to avoid when decent alternatives exist to accomplish the goal.
Is that C#? So it does have optional interface implementation? TIL.
The Cyclical Composition of Startups [pdf]
I wish I'd included Meditations in my contribution- speaks directly, wisely and usefully even to the modern man's condition.
Sounds a bit like Yudkowsky's number[1] (your main step is the first one, everything else is salad), which is a computable version of Rayo's number[2])

[1] http://googology.wikia.com/wiki/Yudkowsky%27s_Number

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayo%27s_number
Just look for tangible damage vs. mere words being exchanged. If I'm intolerant and have a pattern of keeping black people off my team, then I'm in for consequences.
Growing a Facebook Link Preview Editor to $1,600/mo
Sure. The question as phrased is pretty suggestive though. I wouldn't be surprised if you asked that question, and the reverse question, and a gender-neutral version of the question, you would get results that look contradictory.

Really, you would have to ask just one question to each individual, because I suspect if you asked all three questions you would get different responses than if you only asked one. I'm not denying the effect, just that I think the question is leading.
its free on facebook to transfer money instantly, can immediately withdraw the money from an atm.
How Technology Is Creating a Generation of Adult Babies
This is the site I normally use:
http://heavens-above.com/main.aspx

There's lots of similar websites and apps now if you search around.
MIT VP for Research on the importance of funding science
As far as I know, the transaction amounts have never been visible by anyone except the parties to the transaction.
Minute MBA has a really good explanation of their set-up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvxRePIv85Y
You don't need a hardware wallet, you just need to CONTROL YOUR PRIVATE KEYS AND NOT KEEP YOUR MONEY IN AN EXCHANGE.

This gets repeated over and over, but people just don't listen until it is too late. Keeping money on an exchange is the antithesis of why crypto-currencies were invented in the first place.
"im standing at the atm, can you wire me $20 quick, ill pay you back tomorrow"

"i just overdrafted and dont want to get hit with a fee, ill pay you back tomorrow"

etc etc
This is really useful, especially since you can view satellite images. Here in the Pacific NW, just having clear dark skies is not enough.. you also need a clear-cut on top of a hill!
Interesting! Any relation to Private Set Intersection?

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/tags/private-set-intersecti...

For example: an airline trying to determine if a passenger is on the no-fly list, without having the no-fly list, and without the authorities knowing which passenger the airline is inquiring about.
The rule of thumb in Germany is "half speedometer" which corresponds to 1.8seconds. For example, if you drive at 80km/h, keep a 40m distance. The reflector posts [0] on streets out of towns have a 50m distance, so the distance between two posts at 100km/h.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitpfosten
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So in the future, someone might pay off the Mt. Gox debt for shits and giggles!
Thunderbird was moved to "community development" with Mozilla providing only stability and security updates. https://web.archive.org/web/20161003075603/https://blog.mozi... In the interview it says that employees might only work on the project part-time.
My default is Groovy, based on a myriad of different factors.
I suspect I'm one of the few readers here (@cstross being another) for whom this is genuinely important professional information. And it's fantastic.

Sadly no mention of license there, though - kinda vital if one is intending to use some of the imagery in remix works - although given the texts are thoroughly out of copyright I'd assume that's not too big an issue.
Internationally?
No, but “write out a paper check and have the other person photograph it with their bank’s app” is still the only universal and free peer to peer electronic payment method in the US.

(Cash requires trips to the teller window during banking hours if your transactions are not all multiples of $20).
NYT desperately needs some fresh blood in their op-ed stables.
Does this mean we're no longer allowed to make fun of renowned author Dan Brown[1]?

1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/dont-make-fun-of-re...
> It almost certainly would not contain a virus due to the prohibitive cost of getting it on a shelf

Boop

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

Edit: But yes, I too miss "the old ways".
I doubt someone who actually understands crypto currencies is keeping their money on an exchange, since this exact thing can happen.
I also am using opensmtpd, and have been for years. Even setting up starttls encryption and a DKIM proxy were simple. I have never had an issue with accidentally setting it up as an open relay or anything else that would place me on a blacklist.
Incidentally he's been dead long enough that his works fell into the public domain this last new year. So you don't have to pay Gerald Suster or whatever Thelemite fork that last had the copyrights any more.
Let's see next quarter once all of the lawsuits start getting filed.
DarkSiteFinder is a great tool in addition to this website:

http://cleardarksky.com/csk/

Ex: Sierra Vista, AZ: http://www.cleardarksky.com/c/SierraVistaAZkey.html?1

Which uses various models to calculate night sky visibility. Avoiding light pollution is only one part of the game.
Ask HN: Have you gotten any leads from alignable.com?
Recently I have been getting a lot of invites from customers of my saas product to alignable.com. Has anyone here ever joined the site and gotten any tangible benefits from it? Or is this a lot of spam e-mail?
There are no plans to migrate all of GitLab to Go. The main Rails app is going to stay a Rails app for the foreseeable future. There are a few reasons for this. For one it'd be such a huge project, but also Rails is working well for us, it's great for our pace of feature development.

We are working on moving the git layer to Gitaly[0] which is written in Go (and is what this blog post is about). It was one of our major bottlenecks and we've seen a lot of benefit from having made the switch. It's not done yet, but a lot of the calls to git that the application makes are now done through Gitaly.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly
I actually must use Parcel these days to avoid being left-out, joke aside, Parcel is extremely easy to use, I spent 10 minutes to read the instructions and one article about how to use it, and have been using it ever since
I've been having fun following along with Leela Zero, it's a great way to understand how a project like this goes at significant scale. Good luck with Leela Chess, I'm excited for it!
In Germany it works well. I actually think the lane indicators for navigation on the Autobahn are superior to Google Maps. If only I found a way to always have north up. I get super confused and lose orientation if my map is not properly aligned with north up.
501(c)(3) literally means the Mozilla Foundation is tax exempt. That is what the section of the law establishes.

That places limits on what sorts of commercial agreements the foundation can make, among other things.

Mozilla isn’t trying to tax dodge like certain other companies; the Mozilla Corporation is taxable, hires engineers, and enters into search agreements.

The corporation being owned by the foundation means it is obligated to follow the foundation’s public benefit goals.
Do I understand correctly by interpreting that to mean:

"Mozilla is allocating funding to The Thunderbird Project to hire a developer to work on Mozilla Thunderbird"

i.e. the distinction is only relevant in terms of the direction of day-to-day work on the project. Or are Mozilla not funding this at all?

The following quotes seem to indicate that the distinction isn't really relevant in the context of the hiring process at least:

> send us your resume with a cover letter to apply@mozillafoundation.org.

> The successful applicant will be hired as freelancer (independent contractor) through the Mozilla Foundation’s third-party service Upwork

> By applying to this job, you are agreeing to have your applications reviewed [...] by staff members of the Mozilla Foundation.
I like it but i want to know that the colors represent. For instance, what is eliminated from view in the night sky because i'm in a white, red, or green region.
Revenue from PCs: 9B$ (52.5% of Total Revenue)

Revenue from servers: 5.6B$ (32.7% of Total Revenue)

That's ~85% of revenue from products affected by Meltdown and Spectre.
I do the same thing, though my site doesn't look as polished as yours: https://www.benovermyer.com

But yes, you should really write something new!
There's a popular spot north of LA where a lot of the amateur astronomy groups meet up that sounds similar. It's the top of a mountain, but the viewing is severely limited because of the height of all of the trees surrounding the area, but it's the only/best place within a 90 minute drive of downtown LA. Beautiful drive up to the location too.
Despite all the negativity, as a filthy degenerate, I missed the previous ability to get a Paypal debit card and instantly withdrawal money sent to my PP acct with it. This should be useful..
Numberphile video on this topic, including 3d-printed examples of some higher-order slicings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_VydFQmtZ8
App Academy Alum Spotlight: Custora Engineer Lora Lee
There's a parser text game called Hadean Lands in which you're on board a "spaceship" fueled by alchemy. You start the game by learning some basic rituals, then progressively you have more and more components missing for what you have to do next and have to hack together something based on concepts you learn progressively like planetary or elemental associations.

As weird as it is, everything makes perfect sense as you internalize the connections between things like planets, scents, classical elements, and other concepts. Within the world of the game, strange alchemical connections are as much a science as physics is in ours.

It's definitely a different experience to dip into that mindset, even just within a game.
Just a small nit that the PS3 and X360 had the same amount of RAM, it was just split on the PS3. X360 had a unified memory model which was a lot easier(PS3's is closer to a PC and X360 your mobile phone).

We still did clever things like putting music in GPU memory and then streaming it back to system memory since the bandwidth wasn't large and read patterns were very predictable.
Even though CPUs have been made more power efficient the last decade, I've read that there'll be a performance reduction of 30-50% on the intel ones.
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo has life changing philosophical implications when applied outside of simple home life.

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu is a classic text on harmony and humility.
Eager execution is appealing for folks new to learning TensorFlow. The deferred execution style is powerful, but if you just want to tinker in a REPL it's nice to have imperative programming. https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/r1.5/tensorflo...
Thanks ! You can also have PSI with OT-based protocol, actually, I think that the OT-based protocol is one of the fastest for PSI. ENCRYPTO has a very nice library for it: https://github.com/encryptogroup/PSI if you are interested, paper here: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/930.
How do you read the memory maps of a Mac process?
I have my opensmtpd setup relay incoming mail to a Citadel IMAP/webmail server. It works a treat. I'm paranoid, so I don't allow external IMAP, force SSL on the webmail, GeoIP block it to only 3 countries and have a simple auth prompt on it as well just in case the landing page has an exploit.
beautiful boy - david sheff

crime and punishment - fyodor dostoevsky

the trial - franz kafka

catch-22 - joseph heller

how to win friends and influence people - dale carnegie

mindset: the new psychology of success - carol dweck

I really enjoy novels a lot more than self-help and business books, but lately everything I read is about some business concept or backstory.
Any outgoing mail will almost certainly be spam-blocked if you send from a residential IP. Also, most ISPs block port 25.
> Kernels

Mesa/Cedar at Xerox PARC, Topaz at DEC/Olivetti, Oberon at ETHZ, JavaOS at Sun, Singularity/Midori at Microsoft Research

> Game Engines

Unity is slowly rewriting parts of their C++ pipeline with C#, after their IL2CPP compiler got mature.

Then there are game engines like Xenko being done.

Also being with one foot into games since the 80's, I remember the transitions "Pascal/C are too slow, we stick Assembly", "C++ is too slow, we stick with C", now we are in "JavaScript/C#/Java are too slow, we stick with C++" phase.
Moved to Feedly from Google Reader (I miss Google Reader). But likewise, I get more value from that than social media. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the instant gratification of someone-liked-and-shared-my-post just as much as the next person, but if I'm going to learn anything over the course of the day, it's more likely to be in my Feedly time than Facebook time.
Here's George Hart's daughter Vi Hart making a Mexihexaflexagon, which is a kind of three-sided flat quesadilla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTwrVAbV56o

That family must have the best picnics!
The Social Brain - Michael S. Gazzaniga

(Relays a bunch of super interesting experiments done on 'split brain' patients with important consequences for normally functioning brains. Not at all gimmicky, doesn't read like a popularization—I think my dad said he read it in grad school for cognitive psych. But I read it as a teenager so it's generally accessible, and it'll likely change the way you think about people and their brains.)

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas S. Kuhn

(Looks at large scale trends in scientific progress [as well as looking more closely at the notion of 'progress' in this context]. Probably the most important features he extracts have to do with distinct phases that scientific work can typically be classified under: 'normal' science and 'revolutionary' science. These concepts are easiest to understand in relation to the notion of a 'framework'. In revolutions, we are developing new frameworks and potentially abandoning lots of old work; during normal science, we are elaborating within an established framework. Phrases like 'the dominant paradigm' in this context are due to Kuhn [IIRC he uses 'paradigm' rather than 'framework']. The book isn't so long and his argument for and presentation of these ideas is well worth reading.)

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy

(Traces the major trends, personalities, and events leading to personal computing as we know it today, starting with IBM mainframes mediated by an IBM employ. Also describes the origin and meaning of the 'hacker ethic'. The hacker ethic, especially as exemplified by early MIT programmers in the book, was hugely influential on how I came to think about programming and creative work generally.)

The Varieties of Religious Experience - William James

(It's largely an attempt at a scientific account of the potential cognitive/emotional impacts of adopting various beliefs, though especially religious/philosophical beliefs. James was an early experimental psychologist and philosopher. The book is mostly a transcription of his Gifford Lecture series of the same name.)

The Philosophy of Physical Science - Sir Arthur Eddington
(Got me thinking about deep issues where we still trip ourselves up by assuming that parts of our own mental makeup are parts of the objective universe instead. Also clarified my understanding of the notions of 'structure' and 'analysis'. Also gives an interesting example of using Group Theory for physics work. Not as scary (or long) as it sounds, though it takes some work.)

Also: Three Scientist's and their Gods, Metamagical Themas, The Society of Mind, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, Chaos: Making a New Science, and Darwin's Dangerous Idea.
Dude Arianne 5 has one of the best success rates of any launch vehicle ever made, I think only soyuz is better. It's ridiculously expensive by today's standards, but that's thanks to Musk's moonshot project succeeding. I'm glad both exists, they're good at different jobs.
AMP seems to contradict the idea that Google is invested in supporting the open web. And Google is a business, not a charity, they're not going to invest in something they can't monetize.
Other than the feeling of 'sitting on a timebomb' are there any other specifics you can cite? Have you looked into contracting someone for a few hours a month to check/update things? I have considered doing what you have done, and your feedback has piqured my curiosity.
As long as Google dose not regulate it for the interest of its stakeholders. There is always a lot of corruption happening at city and county levels that goes unheard because it does not pick national level momentum. Nor do I have time neither do I appreciate my "local" news channels and local newspapers. Most of the time they are writing/producing fluff pieces (kids stuck in an arcade claw machine or local dog gave birth to 60 puppies etc) to fill their news quotas. Having such service around would help me skim through important news at a quick glance.
Metzler's series got expanded a while back, he does have some sections on TREE (though not on SCG, SSCG, etc). IIRC there's a brief bit about ordinal collapsing functions as well, but not very detailed.
Chinese scientist plans a laser that can tear particles from empty space
The other day I learned that ACH transfers are going to become same-business-day sometime around April this year. Not quite instant, but a lot better than before.

Still doesn't hit the use case of cash on the weekend, but at least now the American banking system is only 20 years behind Europe instead of 50 years...
Yup, and when you did that you got a huge perf-bump on non-PS3 platforms since you already had things built in a way that were memory-locality friendly.
Munafo's Laws of Mathematics