skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally rooting for AMD to be the AVIS to Intel's HERTZ. The early Opteron/x64 days were great when I actually had a credible alternative to the status quo. Go AMD! Competition benefits everyone, everyone, even Intel.
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QUIC replaces TCP and is on IETF standards track.

HTTP/2 replaces HTTP/1.1 (and is a direct descendent of SPDY, which has origins ~2009).

HTTP/2 on TCP gets you some of the benefits that QUIC provides (multiplexing, reduced roundtrips), but HTTP/2 on QUIC is the best of both worlds.

IMO, there's not much noise about QUIC mainly because most people don't care enough about latency to care, and the current lack of production-quality QUIC server software makes caring more complicated than "just enable it", so low demand all around. This should pick up when it gets closer to a ratified standard.
I'd go one step further, and blame our growth obsessed startup culture. So many incentives to get people to share so a product can go "viral". Strava has a number of anti-patterns that make it difficult to do what you want with the app, rather than what they want you to do. (Share! Tell your friends! Brag about how fast you just ran this! Compare yourself to others!)

I think this news-event and some of the struggles Facebook has are highly similar (they're experiencing the pullback after years of inducing users to help them game their numbers).
Like in any nuanced field, there are good and bad apples. At the end of the day, attention is valuable, and Instagram influencers are driving attention like crazy.

Does it work? I don't have any hard science to back it up, but I've worked with many brands who see a ridiculous return on it (despite paying between $50-$2000 per post). It doesn't work for every brand though.

I'm a dev, I work in the industry (I run a startup in this space, check profile if interested), and I consider myself minimalist and not materialistic. Yet when it came time to purchase my first watch, I went with a nice, minimalist looking brand I'd seen advertised on IG constantly. Same with when I needed to buy a new set of t-shirts.

We constantly ask for recommendations on HN and accept them without verifying who the poster is or if they have ulterior motives. I've bought _so_ many books off of HN suggestions because I give the average poster a respectable amount of trust. It works the same in IG influencer marketing - those who follow a particular influencer grant the influencer a modicum of trust and are willing to trust their recommendations more than a banner, billboard, or magazine ad.
Indeed: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/editorials/sdut-...

But hey, SF does it too. And many other cities: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
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Star Trek and the ideas we must reject to save our future
The reference to Java/Javascript Ham/Hamster was to give examples of two things which share syllables, but are actually completely unlike each other. Ham doesn't come from a hamster and Javascript only borrowed Java's name, not its features.
4x 1920x2160 ... is that the same as 2x 4k screens?

My 1080TI is only reasonably happy to run 1920x1200x2 (60hz) + 3440x1440 (95hz); it won't fully idle the clocks, resulting in higher temps.
I'll agree that the whole thing will depend on exits.
Regarding Android I am surprised it even worked, unless OP has rooted their device or was using an old version.

Starting with Android N, Google has been locking down what is possible to do via the NDK and apps can no longer directly read outside their own sandboxed filesystem, so no /dev.
I came here thinking that "they again mistake game designers for game creators". And found out that this is actually by a main programmer of the game - I was pleasantly surprised.

From my experience programmers influence the way a product looks like, they are not merely "engine creators". They have too kill some "features", create new ones that designers didn't think of.

Programming is not a simple assembly line, where designers create the whole product and workers do it as they are told.
I've seen it in action - it works but you have to be quite careful when building it. There's a bunch of gotchas and it changes over time so you have to be very very sure you're looking at the instructions for your actual kit. Also it isn't self-contained - you need a computer attached to it the entire time you run it. Still, the price point is amazing and it does what it says on the tin. (I don't own one but I've seen it in use).
Wow.

This is the tool for Alexa. Fantastic.

https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/post/TxEQV5K754YS77/Annou...
http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html maybe?
Here is another company doing this:

https://www.earplay.com/
That is very much a statistically significant thing, yes. I'm Danish. Get along fine with Brits and Aussies, deadpans, understatements and poisonous sarcastic barbs translating well enough both ways. With Americans present, experience has taught me to shift into a far more cautious mode. And often these days, what Americans describe as irony, I fail to recognize as such.

A very broad generalization, of course, but has served me well enough as survival guide.
you can turn windows into an adult computer by using cygwin (maybe mingw), autohotkey and something like window manager.

the illusion is almost real, because sometimes i also run linux in vmware/docker/... and when i am not paying attention i forget easily which os i am on.

the unix subsystem for win is quite boring as you can't mix windows applications with linux ones, for example running visual studio build from bash.

powershell would be probably worth learning, if i'd have to, but i do not. it may be godsend to win sysadmins though, as classic cmd is a 40 year old joke.
Oil syntax looks pretty much like Tcl and Th[1] so the author could have probably just used Th. It has saner ways to copy arrays than

b = [ @a ]

which pretty much looks like Perl with added line noise. Why are the [] even necessary when it's clear @a is an array?

1. http://www.sqliteconcepts.org/THManual.pdf
In the spaces you mention not hearing about fish are ones where you generally don't look for interactive applications/features. You also generally don't take a dependency like another shell when you are likely installing ruby or python already.

The two shells target different use cases. Hopefully they are both successful in attracting a good audience.
Learning representations by back-propagating errors
Macrofab(macrofab.com) is pretty close to this, as is SeeedStudio (SeeedStudio.io).
Apple actually discontinued their Thunderbolt Display in 2016. The LG 4K display is their recommended display.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Thunderbolt_Display
Can someone clarify, does this do paste? Or would I still need to cut stencils
NASA lost contact with a satellite 12 years ago.An amateur just found its signal
No, you have to cut a stencil and apply paste before you put it in the pick-and-place.
Amazon Wants to Disrupt Health Care in US. In China, Tech Giants Already Have
Ha - that would require some time travel plot twist, IIRC the cow level got added late in the D2 development as homage to the fans - I wrote the code for the Horadric Cube UI and the triggers to call the level/item changes (other programmers wrote the level stuff and item stuff separately). The gem that did nothing in the Battle.net chat was added just to spur rumors.
Ellen Chisa on how product prepares you to be an early-stage startup founder
I'll be interested to see if they are using it a year from now. Everyone I know who got the previous generation of similarly priced machines (like the Neodyn TM220/240A) no longer use them. Mostly due to the accuracy being not good enough for 0603 or similar sizes.

Computer vision really is the answer, but from reading the article it sounds like the CV on the CHMT36VA isn't great for parts that aren't 0603 and it's not open/easily hackable to be better.
Did it respond with Zalgo if you asked about Regex and HTML? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
I don't blame strava for this incident because it's obvious that your information is being sent to them and there must be some onus on users, maybe there should even be some pain until the message sinks in.

What isn't obvious is if they are retaining the information or who they are sharing it with, etc. For my non-social uses there is no reason that the data really needs to leave my phone but it does anyway. We need much better consumer laws here and these things need to be made obvious and with explicit permission given by the user for each step.

In any case, I've found tech like this is more of a distraction and offers no real value. I'm a lot happier now that I've deleted strava, stopped using fitbit, removed my bike computer and gone back to basics. It feels like I can just go for a bike ride again without having to start recording and analyze all the feedback. It's like that feeling when you throw out all those kitchen gadgets you never used.
I've done both as well, and while engineering does require real and serious thought, the traditions, literature, and science behind what you're doing is a trillion miles ahead of where programming is.

To put it in perspective, programming has barely had its Archimedes and its Da Vinci by this point. Best practices are a joke, and are usually based around superstition, personality cults,
and faith instead of actual empiricism. Standardization is moving backwards, and computer 'scientists' rarely solve the problems software 'engineers' actually have.

It's a mess. Engineering can fall back on the basics, but programmers, at the end of the day, are mostly relying on instinct.

Edit: I'm not saying programmers are smarter or better. The opposite, in fact. The mistakes and oversights we get away with would likely get a real engineer arrested.
Can We Instill “One User, One Vote” in the Distributed Web?
Ai Weiwei and the Art of Protest (2012)
OpenPnP is awesome! I enjoyed seeing you guys at the Bay Area Maker Faire last summer. We were about four booths down.
One Year as a Software Developer – A Retrospective
Thinking back, Facebook was really a face book...
I mean the embedded systems where Assembly and C89 still rule, and there is very hard to change, because the problem of adopting anything else is cultural.

Basically, while there are projects being done in C++, and many companies are finally migrating from C to C++, the large majority is sticking with C.

If you prefer to listen to someone actually relevant in the C++ embedded community, here is what Dan Saks has to say about it.

https://youtu.be/D7Sd8A6_fYU

http://cppcast.com/2016/10/dan-saks/
Because you don't want it to phone home on every boot.
What do you mean by "obviously AMD is not the same company as Intel"?
Alleged GoGet Hacker Arrested After Stealing 33 Free Rides
It is all context oriented.
Lets see how these things develop.
Lets ask a computer who just laughed at a joke "Why did you laugh? Or what made you laugh? Or Why did you find it funny?", and see what replies we get :D
I would love an interactive shell that applies a type-checker to my input before running it ... is that really an infeasible desire in 2018 ...?
I will never use this service and think Uber is a negative for society. It's unfortunate that people don't see it.
Because of broken interception proxies. In many cases, these prevented connections from being established at all if either side of the connection even just announced 1.2 support.

So it was disabled by default and in consequence it remained niche which didn’t exactly improve the situation with broken middle boxes. It also made implementing it in various SSL libraries somewhat low priority (see OpenSSL)

Only as the security of pre 1.2 started really crumbling and once the Snowden revelations moved security to somewhat higher priority in the public perception, it started to at least become possible to enable 1.2 at least on servers.

Frankly, I'm impressed we actually got to where we are at now. For a long time between 2008 and maybe 2015 it really looked like 1.2 was dead in the water.

Now we're transitioning to 1.3 and history is repeating itself: despite going great lengths to hide the differentness of 1.3 to existing middleboxes, they are still breaking 1.3 connections causing more and more bad hacks to be added to the protocol. A protocol which supports version negotiation since the beginnings in the early 90ies btw.
There is something called Peddle by Zoomcar in India and it is amazing.
Hi, yes that's it ! I have a "HAHAHAHA" label right now

http://www.mathieupassenaud.fr/gmail-auto-labels/img/hahahah...
Australian Bank NAB to allow Xero customers to make payments from within Xero
For one, they don't make it for Linux. If they did then I would buy it.
What kinds of things do you use it for?
http://www.ubu.com/film/niblock_movement.html
The Movement of People Working (1973-74)
Director: Phill Niblock
That's a very interesting stat. Bezos has 5 houses that reporters know about [1].

They are in Medina (WA), Beverly Hills (CA), Van Horn (TX), Manhattan (NY), and D.C.

Of these 5 known places, his Beverly Hills, Manhattan, and D.C. houses are close enough to the HQ2 finalists.

If we assume the rumors of Amazon wanting an East Cost presence, then we can narrow it down to NY and D.C.

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-owns-five-massive-...
There are two kinds of product people: those who can't design and those who don't understand statistics.
On the Road: The Language of Street Markings
They're not expanding it for experiments. It's just an old model that costs too much to refurbish, and they've got a new one coming up which will be a lot cheaper and easier to refurbish than the current (which is one model ahead of the just-launched rocket).

And once you're throwing it out, might as well do some experiments.
In my experience, life events are one of the few things that do show up.

I got "engaged" to a girl for a laugh a while back. Everyone saw it, it had almost 200 likes before I took it down. It was really awkward to explain to my grandma that no, I'm not actually getting married and it was all a joke.
I think it was a great choice to choose Heap/Segment as data providers.
Bulma: A CSS framework to consider
Oh, forgot to say, I'm not based in the US. Not sure if you know, but there are other countries out there...
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CoreOS Acquired by Red Hat
It's quite a serendipitous surprise to be able to meet the creators of one of the most played video games of all time (or at least me) on a random thread here.

What are you working on these days? Are you still in the games industry?
This is still playing the game / i.e executing the instructions. Exactly the same instructions on same hardware that were distributed to everyone...

This is just the extreme form of the fastest way to complete the game, using the (broken) logic of the game itself.

Exactly the same situation as comparing play at home with kids to any elite world record setting play in the same game... "This world cup is not at all how I play at home ..."
Blood test finds toxic Alzheimer's proteins
Facebook's weighting there makes sense to me. Why do you need to see your misso's posts? You see her all the time.

The posts I actually want to see on Facebook are from my friends that are far away. For me though, FB weights posts that are geographically closer to you higher. When I moved to Australia, I discovered through Facebook that I had 3 or 4 friends from high school here in Melbourne, purely because their posts started showing up on my newsfeed.
Sorry i did not completely understand your comment. You mean to say, to implement a subset of C. I have already answered that question. Before we implement a real language or a part of it, implementing mathematical expressions has to come in place with actual code. Reason is, before we jump to implementing an actual language, we can learn all the phases of a compiler, simply compiling expressions into assembly. Extrapolating, we can implement a subset of C, which is not easy to begin with, but with experience, it is achievable.
I think in 4.6.1 (maybe 4.6), the default was set to TLS1.2 as well, so the problem was mostly solved a bit earlier. Much cleaner solution to listen to the OS though.
Yes, I made that example because I think that if a bigger share of their revenue came from notebooks, they would still make their own displays.
Nearly every printer/copier with a scan-to-email feature in a small-to-medium size business that has moved their all their servers and email into the cloud.
1) "We shared this result with a QUIC engineer, who subsequently informed us that the QUIC team is experimenting with dynamic threshold and time-based solutions to avoid falsely inferring loss in the presence of reordering."

2) "We find that, similar to the desktop environment,
in mobile QUIC outperforms TCP in most cases; however,
its advantages diminish across the board... The reason for this behavior is that QUIC runs in a userspace process, whereas TCP runs in the kernel." (i.e. putting it in the kernel should help.)

https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2017/papers/imc17-final3...
Oh, okay! It’s just chance. It’s your lucky day!

It’s a probabilistic data structure which estimates cardinality with O(log(log(cardinality)) space, hence the loglog.

Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperLogLog

plasticchris is right, it was because its name was similar, nothing more.
Elon Musk sold all 20K Boring flamethrowers, bringing in $10M
thaaaaaaank you
> There are other bases—very intuitive ones among them, like capacity to suffer or to anticipate the future—by which you could decide in a principled manner how much ethical consideration a certain organism is due.

"Capacity to suffer" is no better defined than "rationality" is. Everything alive has the capacity to suffer, in that there are some states it seeks to avoid. If you try to imbue "suffering" with more metaphysical meaning than that... then you're relying on "rationality" to make your argument.
Sanctuary: An art installation about the importance of migration
You're not gonna be able to pick-and-place anything with hundreds/thousands of parts at a hobby price point.

LitePlacer is almost there. IMHO the key is recognizing that production-oriented machines need to be fast, while hobbyist/small-shop prototyping machines don't. If I need to stuff a complex prototype board with 500 parts, I literally don't care if it takes all day and all night as long as I don't have to do it. Obviously production shops don't have that luxury, but I do.

Really, the only unsolved problem (at least at the 0402 and up level) is loose part pickup and orientation.
As an aside here, I would be cautious of attributing declining growth on Facebook to pretty much anything. They are the first company in the history of our species to take market saturation to such extremes. They have more than 2 billion active monthly users, and growing.

The issue they have is that there are only 3-4 billion internet users in the entire world. Their growth is predictably going to hit an asymptote at some point in the near future - they are simply running out of people.

That also poses an interesting issue from a company perspective. We still live in a world where endless growth is expected. But with a ad-driven service the only way to make more money is to get users to view/click and otherwise interact with even more ads, or to otherwise increase the efficiency of ads. And that in general achieves little other creating a worse user experience, no matter how clever the packaging and delivery.
A/B testing won’t ever get you a Tesla from a horse.

Right. But if you were already selling Teslas, and along came a smooth-talking product designer with a dream to "improve" it by building a horse instead, A/B testing would make sure that change never saw the light of day.

A/B testing is not a way to get out of having to come up with good ideas yourself. It's a way to validate that your ideas are any good in the first place before betting the whole company on them.

A/B testing is most critical when evaluating big changes to a product, because those are the changes most likely to completely blow up the business. Otherwise it's left up to the opinion of the highest paid person in the room, and people are notoriously bad at guessing how customers will respond to change.
Grand Immortal Beast Arena Battle
Let us play amazing Grand Immortal Beast Arena Battle where you play as amazing super heroes, fight with different super heroes fighting skills like Cipher Hero, Saiyan Hero, bat hero, infinity hero and other Beast super heroes.
> The wall was never a good way to do this.

And yet people used it--even after the news feed and well into the reign of IM and email. I'm not sure how it's smart to remove a feature that was creating engagement just because FB didn't understand why.
I've been a Facebook user for, oh, almost 14 years now, and adding all those users didn't make the product better for me. But the newsfeed changes mentioned did make it worse. (And maybe those billion people would have liked it better the way it was in 2007.)

I'm skeptical that tweaking newsfeed weights will make the people I care about start posting regularly again. I doubt the evaporative cooling is reversable.
Uber's Siri and Apple Maps Integrations Have Disappeared
So you’re saying that the people cited in the article accomplished something more significant than the AlphaGo team…?
Based on a few obversations. I do remember Larry Page's "More Wood Behind Fewer Arrows" doctrine a while back as well as they began killing off popular but unprofitable services.
If you were to be thrown into a pot of boiling water and kept there for 10 minutes, would you rather be living and sentient or living and non-sentient?

I'm guessing you'd choose the latter as would everyone else which suggests there's an objective basis for sentience.
Yea but you chose the topmost event that would trigger their algorithm to showcase you for. If a friend of yours got engaged and you weren't notified because of the algorithm people would complain so they probably give marriage/engagements the highest priority.
Is this a security risk? It looks like a Spectre (as in: Reading other process memory) build in by design.
What were they thinking?!
Maybe games need the director concept from movies where one person can act as the face of the project. I think it helps everyone that group efforts are projected through single person who carries responsibility of the outcome.
This is so damn cool my question is, why is this type of shit so damn rare?

Like why don’t we see more instances of cool, low cost, big value hackery? Is it just too creatively difficult to summon these types of ideas idk