skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Were there laptops with Athlon64s back then? Maybe the huge ones with desktop parts.

However, at that time, on the desktop, AMD was 80-90% of the performance for 50-60% of the price. Fine with me, I was using one.
There are obviously differences. The point I am trying to make is that there is no one answer. It is not like the flaw happened to be that the US has 5% too high corporate tax and if you lower that somewhere will become Shenzhen.

Shenzhen is special because it was the first area in China to liberalize. The US have already have those features, including special economic zones in form of states.

So if Shenzhen is successful because it is special shouldn't the US make some areas special as well? It essentially already did in the form of e.g. the bay area.

But Shenzhen didn't stop growing. California has plenty of space in the Central Valley, but no infrastructure.

Shenzhen built ~200 subway stations in 15 years. The US is trying to build that rail line between SF and LA. (The line between HK and SZ is delayed because of HK though).

So there is no one answer. It is all there. Sure, you could say that the government should step in, tax the tech companies, build infrastructure and allocate land for these cities to expand. But that wouldn't be very popular with voters.

Or one could move to Wyoming (?) and pay little tax. But what makes that place special in comparison to other places and what is going to keep people there as living costs go up? And once the companies succeed and the state wants to invest in infrastructure why wouldn't the companies just leave?

The best I can come up with is to find some underutilized university and build an incubator where the state (or a company, probably a non-profit) invests in companies for equity while offering some cash, free living and office space. The profits are then used to execute a long term development plan of the area. But that is of course as hard to do as anything else.
the new system in Paris allows this now.
What's your use case for that? If it doesn't have file system access, does that mean it can't run any programs?

I believe Oil will be able to do this, because the architecture is very modular. See the last point in the post using the LLVM / GCC analogy.

(This type of feature isn't a priority now, but I'm interested in hearing use cases.)
> The articles of confederation failed because they couldn’t ensure adequate funding for the federal government to guarantee internal and external security. Reading more into it than that is ahistorical. The Constitution sought to remedy that, but decidedly did not intend to grant the federal government power to carry out “any function necessary to the success of the country.” Education for example is necessary to the success of the country, but was then and still is now a state issue.

It was meant to give the federal government all the powers necessary for the federal government to have to make the country successful. Hence the "necessary and proper" clause. You're of course correct that many functions have been successfully left to the states.

NATO would not work without the United States. It has the same issues the US had under the Articles of Confederation where members try to weasel out of their commitments:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/08/news/nato-summit-spending-co...

The EU is not stable, has a terrible problem with border security, and the lack of economic integration is certainly a problem (e.g. look at Greece), so I don't think that's an example to aspire to.
It's interesting how big companies like Xerox and Bell invested a lot into the future (PARC, Bell Labs) and even created new inventions that we use every day. How do such forward-thinking companies grow irrelevant?
> The C++ you wrote in 1996 is basically a different language from the C++ that you're encouraged to write today.

We can differentiate between (a) what the language spec says, and (b) what various individuals advocate.

The code we write is generally constrained by (a), but we can usually substitute our own best judgment for (b).*

* Except when the people mentioned in group (b) have sway over the C++ standard.
But with JS you don't need to wait for your code to compile so you can test it much quicker. If you write tests then this is almost never a problem.

With typed languages, I often lose my train of thought while waiting for the compiler. When warnings come up, I'm like a robot, I don't actually think, I just follow the line numbers.

Statically typed languages make me lazy. I feel like I spend all my time and mental energy catering to the compiler. I like dynamically typed languages because it forces me to consider everything and keeps me on my toes.
Square Rolls Out Bitcoin Trading to Almost All Cash App Users
eg, at the waterfront, not uphill.
I love that there are currently two replies to you, both implying you're an idiot for not knowing how to do this, and both presenting different solutions.
Surely this has something to do with the sheer number of users they have, right? There's only like 8 billion people on Earth and Facebook has 2 billion monthly active users. If you take away 1.5 billion people in China who can't/don't use Facebook, this means that it has 2 billion out of like ~6.5 billion possible users. And many of those people are either children (<13 years old), don't have reliable access to internet, and/or have no use for social media. So it really doesn't seem that bad to me (unless I'm missing something important).
Well, to be fair, Intel HD graphics is a lot better than GMA. With Crystal Well, it's actually pretty close to something like a GTX 750 and outperforms even the new Vega APUs.

But this time they're actually making a play for the discrete graphics market. They've hired Raja Koduri and everything. Not the first time they've done that either (see: Larrabee) but they do look to be making a serious attempt.
In another thread here we are learning how much of this "daily active users" is actually bots run by corporations.
I for myself have shown myself out of Facebook and enjoy real live interactions with human beings like it's the '90s.
The same reason you fight tooth and nail for pennies on the BoM, because at scale every cent matters. There's also the inverse where if the jump to the next chip is small(see XB One/S/X) you may migrate early and EoL a product before planned leaving a chip production line with no product.

You also always have multiple vendors bidding so if one of them offers a sliding scale you're going to use that as leverage against the other vendors.
Seems you were downvoted a bit, but I think your comment is hilarious ;^)
It's not Google's fault. It's the people buying the ads who are too lazy or don't know how to do proper targeting.

I've met three people in my life who were employed primarily to place ads on the internet. All three were glorified secretarial drones who fell into the position because nobody else wanted to do it.
Maybe it's slowing because they hit over 1.4B people? I doubt people are concerned about societal impact, regardless of what the media would love you to believe.
Brilliant stunt. This is the correct way to use pranks/humor to make political protest. Props to that guy.
That's just lazy programming, and if anything, we should have more incompatible shells so that developers will start to write their programs to stop shelling out and run individual programs, or if they do shell out, actually declare the shell you're using at that point and don't assume it will be sh compatible.
You can simply erase the types with TS and it’s ready to go. I think tsc does this automatically, but I’m not really sure because I always wait for the compiler to finish out of habit. It doesn’t seem to be incremental at all yet, so compilation times noticeably grow longer as your project does, unfortunately.
What could they possibly be doing with 25,000 staff? That is insane.
Diablo creator David Brevik is back with a new game: It Lurks Below
I think you are mixing up freedom with expectation that work should be done for free.
I almost assumed there must be such people employed but then concluded there cannot be because of the problems mentioned in the article. I'm happy to hear this is how it has been planned and very unhappy to hear that the theory is apparently not working in practice, maybe because of sheer incompetence from (at least) DWP's part.
I used Donkey Republic in Munich and rather liked it; the bluetooth lock functionality was pretty cool.

I used another vendor in Vienna but the experience was very 3rd world. The location of the bikes was only approximate (the first 2 locations I looked had no evidence of any bikes; thankfully the 3rd location had 2 bikes). They weren't maintained, and the app just gave you a code to a cable lock which means I could lock it after ending my ride, then someone else could come along, use the same code, and the vendor would assume I was lying about where I left it. Billing was handled through some sketchy place in Florida. I wish I could remember the name.
I have a company page/account where I daily automatically post updates. I guess that counts into this number.
I have been using SSB for a while now. Great community vibe so far, and no ads!
That thumbnail is priceless: A man with a goal!
How is TLS email not decentralized and/or privacy-preserving?
This is a bit of a pain for .net devs on 4.5, as it by default has TLS1.2 disabled.

You can fix it with

System.Net.ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls11 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls;

but note that its a somewhat global setting (for your appdomain?) so don't just set it to Tls12 and wonder why some of your connections don't work anymore.
But you do test new things you install on your servers somewhere else, at least, I hope so.
Thanks a lot. I will read them as soon as possible.
Apologies, I haven't heard of either of these things before. So you'd know more than me!
If you brew beer from scratch at home and share your recipe then your beer can be both libre and gratis!
Microsoft’s Azure revenue nearly doubled year-over-year in its second quarter
Do all command line / API utilities support TLS 1.2+ now? Many linux distros ship really old libraries, is why I ask. Then there are the older unix systems with even older libraries.

Based on their stats about 5% of connections will fail. I presume some of these are bots. I am looking forward to how this plays out.
But in the 90s we were all watching 4-6 hrs of TV a day.
Page seems to have been moved:

"Sorry, we couldn’t find that page
We’ve moved a lot of stuff over the years, and it must’ve gotten lost in the mix. Please try retyping the address or just head back to our home page."

This is the best link I could find with a quick search: https://jumpbikes.com/uber-bike
Plus parking issues, plus...
Turn any WordPress blog to audio podcast with this plugin
... and if you're going to disrupt existing shells - why would you not use JS? (I don't care for JS, but it is the lingua franca du jour)
https://www.uber.com/ride/uber-bike/ -- doesnt load anymore.
I know it was part of the appeal for some (most?), but I hated the breaking weapons. My method of playing was to use the crap weapons, hoard the nicer ones and try not to use them. But the unfortunate side effect is the crap weapons had poor durability so you'd be mid-fight and break.
Where do you live now, if I may ask?
Twitter is quite excellent for some communities. For Javascript and politics, for example (and also javascript politics), Twitter has become the place where the news actually happens, instead of just being disseminated.
The answer is in the title: TLS for Email Submission and Access

Email providers can still read your email.
Is it possible to have an external GPU via USB-C that would be competitive to one via Thunderbolt? I understand that there may be nothing interesting as of yet.
I use !! maybe ten times per day. !$ can be implemented in your PS1 easily.
The US didn’t make special economic areas, they just arose organically. There are big differences between a command and control economy (China) and a more liberal one where things just happen (or don’t).

China is still way behind on infrastructure if you divide it by the number of people to serve, they are still catching up. We are reminded of that in whenever it rains all he roads flood or freezing my butt off in southern china in winter because indoor heating is too luxurious.
There's actually a support page for this, outlining the steps to make sure that this doesn't happen (basically: have Google Home installed on your phone). It doesn't work.
when you already have a large percentage of the online user base you are going to have to
1) wait for that underlying user base to grow
2) offer something new to capture people you dont have with your current product

They have reached the point where its a lot easier to lose someone then gain someone. I dont think its societal impact ... its people getting older and dropping off while at the same time its really hard to replenish that use base when already have so many of the young people already on your site.

So maybe they need to understand user rentention vs aging , I think that would be a place to look, societal impact ... no one uses or drops a product becuase of societal impact.

How many diamonds and how many electronics or clothes do we use that have a dubious labor practices. Its the product quality that speaks loudest.
I know it's a joke, but the thing about sourcemaps is already do-able. If you have a sourcemap describing A->B, and a separate sourcemap describing B->C, then there already tools for composing the sourcemaps to create a sourcemap for A->C. (This is similar to a thing that Browserify and Webpack have to do when you're using a transform like Babel on each of the individual input files.)
Oh boy. This will be fun for me. I am forced to build some binaries in a dockerized Centos 5 currently to make them portable. No support for TLS 1.2 in it.
Isn't 1.2 like 10 years old? Why would it be disabled?
I find it interesting that Apple actually downgraded to an older version of bash at some point to avoid the GPLv3. I reference it in a post about Open Source and business I wrote two years back:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/the-philosophy-of-open-source-...
Grocery Automation Startup Takeoff Technologies Raises $12.5M
"More people have been inconvenienced by the pro net-neutrality protesters than have been harmed or inconvenienced due to ISP action post-repeal."

As I understand it, the repeal order hasn't yet taken effect. If nothing has changed (yet) then of course no one has been harmed or inconvenienced by it, which would make your argument pointless.

My understanding is that there was a vote to repeal in December. The final order was published in the Federal Register on January 4, 2018. It then takes 60 days until the repeal order takes effect.
The page loads for me.
They could be international ... thats the kind of staff you need.
Blacklists are double hashed, so they aren't useful for finding 'bad' content.
I hope I wasn't predicting a population bomb. What I was suggesting was that the existing population level is sustained by organized human activity at a scale that can't be managed by independent individuals or small groups. Thus a proposed restructuring of society requires a credible plan for maintaining or replacing some specific activities such as the Haber process.
Strong forecasts with Spectre still around seems very optimistic.

Can AMD or Intel release another generation of chips with Spectre vulnerabilities?

Do we think they're going to have a solution to Spectre within a year?

Can x86 survive without out of order processing? Can any architectures perform at modern levels without it?

Is x86 relevant in the server if you use Linux/BSD and can recompile your deployables?

Without Spectre I'd be very bullish on AMD. With Spectre, I'm bearish for the entire sector.
Mostly because it's extremely agglutinative.
Squid proxy! (Dockerized!)

We do this for some enterprise shenanigans where we need to MITM M2M. YMMV.
Time spent on Facebook reduced by roughly 50 mil hours every day.
Amusingly, though I played only very little AD&D in my youth, I presented it to my teen boy and it clicked instantly, and since then for many years he's been an avid DM, buying all the rule books and building large dungeons to trap his friends inside :)
Samsung enters crypto-currency chips business
As I've said many times before:

"Free Software" and "Open Source Software" refer to almost the same sets of software; but the "Free Software" movement/ideology and the "Open Source" movement/ideology are very different. And if we're talking about giving money to a foundation that does advocacy, it's the latter that matters more.

Because FS and OSS do refer to almost the same set of software, they are allies (more OSS means more FS and more FS means more OSS), but that doesn't make them friends. You are correct that OS does refer to more than just visible source. However, the OS movement/ideology does not care about user freedom as an objective, the OS ideology is based around the belief that user freedom leads to better, higher-quality software, for less dev cost; which is good business. Within the OS ideology and movement there is room to believe that there are situations where that isn't true, and that it can be the right decision to restrict user freedom. In the OS ideology, user freedom is the strategy, not the objective. In the FS ideology, user freedom is the objective; it is never the right decision to restrict user freedom.

OpenBSD is a different topic: it is free software, and considers user freedom to be an objective. However, they disagree with GNU/FSF about whether copyleft/the GPL is a good strategy for user freedom.
Yes, this is the sticking point that frustrates me so much. Fine, trust Google now, I think you're giving alot up, but whatever. But, you cannot predict tomorrow or the day after that.
No, I don't have a problem with those other types of meat. I've spent a lot of time around all those different kinds of animals (well, not deer) and none of them are on the same level of intelligence as horses. Horses are smart like dolphins. Cattle and chickens are just stupid.
Ironically, many GNU manuals are included in the non-free sections because Debian considers the GNU FDL non-free because it allows invariant sections - sections that cannot be changed.
Using Twitter for search/discovery by hashtag or keyword is totally pointless.

I follow specific people that I've discovered outside of the network, or by referral, and as a result my feed is basically "all signal".

This seems like the only reasonable way to use Twitter now..
I never called him an idiot, I just called him out for not researching at all before posting. His understanding of Javascript has not been updated in at least 3 years based on the fact that he called ES6 ESNext, even though ES6 has been released for almost 3 yars.

There's also two different compilers for C, but it's not considered complicated to get started running a C program.
are there services out there which curate the channels available to insure quality and content? Say if I wanted to follow a particular sport or team, are there services which can set it up? Same goes for any subject
I don’t know what that budget is spent on, but chances are part of that $305 million is spent on people who, because of it, aren’t on the street anymore.

If there are many of such people, that amount spent per person drops significantly.
Xonsh: A Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell
It's slightly funny how alternative git user interfaces are their own cottage industry. It's been like this pretty much since day one:

https://public-inbox.org/git/20060210195914.GA1350@spearce.o...

In a way, the default git CLI is just the one alternative git interface that "won".

My favourite one is still hg-git, despite its warts.
I work for a non-profit that has been trying since the beginning of January to get an account at an exchange that will convert a Bitcoin donation we received to USD. So far we have not had any luck, since many (most?) exchanges are not accepting new customers (or explicitly state that reviewing new account applications is their lowest priority) and those that do still accept new customers have multi-week wait times for opening accounts (at one exchange we've been waiting over 3 weeks ago with no reply yet).

As a result, we cannot "literally convert 100 Bitcoin to $1,000,000 USD in seconds", or even 0.001 Bitcoin. In fact, we can't even do so in 3 weeks (and counting).

Could you point us to an exchange that is accepting new signups and will verify an account for a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization within a day (or even a week)?
The issue with typescript is that it relies a lot on external type definitions for non-typed JS modules. And those are plain wrong or outdated at times, leading to lots of compiler errors (but correct code!) which in turn means you can't let your build fail when type errors are detected and you acquire some compiler error numbness over time.

I mean it's better than no type checking at all, but it falls short of languages where it's actually baked in instead of relying on external definitions.
Building the thing called Facebook, to be sure, but also building Oculus VR, Onavo (data collection company), WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, as well as their open source stuff like React, Flux, Relay, and myriad other JS/Haskell/OCaml/C++ projects, and don't forget the people building out Internet.org and content for Facebook Watch.
I really don't understand why they haven't made ZSH the default. It has a much more powerful REPL and a more permissive license.
That link literally says exactly what my comment says. That if you black out on the surface, then, OK, but if you black out in the water then laryngospasm will protect you from inhaling water for a bit (under a minute), but then it will end, at which point you'll inhale water and CPR will become even harder. etc. etc.
This is a chance before the U.S mid-terms for them to prove to the public they've learned from their mistakes..

1). prevent the spread of fake news.. they need a better solution than the user-tagging bs if an article is valid or not. there was a scientologist that had an account that wasn't active for 5+ years, that started posting how puerto rico wasn't that bad when the storm first hit. why is this account not being banned or suspended when people are reporting it and they're reposting pictures from texas claiming it to be all good.

2). prevent outside interference with elections. the first baby step is if they're accepting rubles for political ads targetted at americans, ban it. simple as that. then it'll get more complex and interesting handling proxies doing the dirty deed. the hearing w/ congress was pathetic and makes fb even more untrustworthy.

3). ban fake accounts / tie in a real human behind the account. 100000 fake users means a lot less to me if i'm an advertiser than 10 real people.

even though pretty much everyone i know is on facebook, i'm itching for another platform with better integrity to jump ship to.
I haven't even watched any F-E race at all, but am a bit bothered by your comment. What makes it a scam? It's all fully laid out, and there is a (small) chance the voters can actually impact the results of the race as suggested.
Kilo is a great way to learn how to manipulate the terminal directly (rather than using a wrapper library like ncurses): https://github.com/antirez/kilo (A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search.)
As a cyclist, I'm wary of "blocking" the lane as a form of protest. Many drivers seem to believe that the only reason a cyclist would take the lane is to annoy drivers, and this reinforces that thinking. This encourages thinking that dangerously close passes ("punishment passes") are justified. To these drivers it doesn't matter if a cyclist is avoiding an illegally parked car and is leaving the bike lane only briefly, etc. I would have preferred that the protester made some sort of checkpoint instead.