skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. For example, I wouldn't call Native Client a success. asm.js and WebAssembly won out over it. Here's the Native Client deprecation announcement:

https://developer.chrome.com/native-client/migration
In my codebase we put our configs behind if (CONFIG_TOASTER) { ... } statements, and then #define CONFIG_TOASTER true/false.

I think this is a pretty good middle ground, where we still get compile errors to help against code rot, but also keeps code needed for special configs disabled/isolated.
Does he have any relevant to the topic in the first place?
> Unfortunately, Twitter has no concept of "but no simpler."

I would extend this to most of modern Western civilization. The world is an incredibly complex place, but it's pretty hard to find anyone on either side of the numerous partisan debates that realize it.
Interestingly for Google, it didn't add up to much in terms of missing out. Much like Russia and Yandex, the odds were slim that Google was going to beat out Baidu on their own turf for various reasons. In the case of Baidu, they ended up being a non-threat outside of China. As China gets a lot more aggressive on censorship and content control in the coming years, Baidu's chances of truly going global will dwindle to zero. Lately Baidu has been looking at search as their past, because they know they've lost and hit a wall there in terms of any global search ambition, so they're burning their resources on trying to play in other categories vs Alibaba and Tencent.

Meanwhile since Google was pushed out of China, they have become a near trillion dollar juggernaut. Since fiscal 2009, Google has grown from $23b to $109b in sales. They're about nine to ten times the size of Baidu and growing as fast. That's the cost of being stuck inside of China, while Google is stuck outside of China.
More like a legislator or judge
Type systems.
It's also equivalent to someone that makes $50k/year (roughly the median income in the US) spending their entire salary on a dog.
Wow. I actually remember playing your game when I was 17. I can't remember details about the virtual currency though.

The '838 patent was filed in 2000 (which is the effective date, 2007 is just the processing date). Did Achaea have virtual currency before then? If so, that would help us a lot.
"Sinophile" is a pretty standard word with no perverted fetish meaning, see wikipedia:

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

> A Sinophile or a Chinophile is a person who demonstrates a strong interest and love for Chinese culture or its people.[1] It is also commonly used to describe those knowledgeable of Chinese history and culture (such as scholars and students), non-native Chinese language speakers, pro-Chinese politicians, and people perceived as having a strong interest in any of the above.

That the combining form -phile is also used for perverted things doesn't negate its rather benign meaning.
Because this is a development of a production version of an already-existing and -tested prototype.
Graphics API is not the only, or even primary bottleneck for portability. You see this in every hackernews thread about Vulkan, but most developers are using portable engines where the graphics api (among many other things) is entirely abstracted and they still don't do day one ports because porting to a new platform is rarely free, even when all technical challenges are solved.
Here's one: "The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
When I was in high school I created a website just to annoy my cranky teacher, Mr. Davis. The concept was simple, I got people to constantly ambush the teacher in the middle of classes and hug him while I took pictures. Then I posted them to the website, Hug Mr. Davis, along with really dumb text.

It got a little out of hand, there's a picture on there of a football player tackling Mr. Davis in the middle of a lesson (I think he got suspended).

Mr. Davis threatened to sue me if I didn't take the website down. I left it up, but became the only student at my high school banned from bringing cameras to school.

http://www.oocities.org/hugmrdavis/ (click picture to enter)
somebody from Amazon want to say where the customer obsession is that in blocking product ts that have good reviews?
Of course she can afford it, that isn't the point.
I suppose corrupt dealings are personal details, so exposing corrupt dealings (in a credible way, with details) is likely to involve publishing the personal information of others.
QM is a mathematical model. Many worlds is an intuition to understand that model. There is a pedagogical question on if many worlds is a useful mental model to have. There is also a philosophical question of if many worlds better captures the essence of the model relative to Copenhagen.

We can also flip it around. Why should we think of QM in terms of the Copenhagen when it makes to testable predictions.
In this case it does because someone with insurance is a poor target for patent trolls. Assuming it becomes common you get 'herd immunity' as patent trolls become less effective which also lowers the cost of the insurance.
RIP Missi and Adam's pages :'(
No healthcare provider or energy distributor has as large a share of their respective markets as Amazon or Facebook do theirs. They're in the best position to abuse their market dominance. If this ruling is upheld, their ability to do that is directly affected — specifically, strengthened — significantly. Perhaps irreversibly.
I can’t control anything beyond my home, but that’s an ancient fact of life. I can monitor what’s being sent and received by my phone or computers, but Alexa or whatever Google has?

This is more than the “next shift” and I can feel the water getting too hot for this frog.
That doesn't mean that $50K couldn't be put to far better use.

As a self-professed dog lover, that money could save a lot of dogs from euthanasia in a shelter.

Cloning a dog is purely for personal vanity.
No, not for her.

But $50K could be life-changing for lots of people.

$50K donated to a battered women's shelter would probably do more good than $50K spent cloning a dog.

And I speak as one who has a dog whom I love so much that if I had Streisand's wealth, I'd be seriously tempted by the cloning option, but wouldn't do it.

If tech progress brought the cloning cost down to $1K, I'd rethink the matter.
Just wanted to note it was filed Apr. 21, 2000. 2007 is when the patent was given.
> That’s... terrifying.

In what ways? How do you think people will be harmed?
MS RDP Add-in to show client's battery level
>I understand feelings but death is part of life. We don't like it but there are things we just can't change.

And cloning isn't even a way to escape death. One could argue that even if her dog could be perfectly physically cloned and even if its consciousness could be mirrored to the clone, it's still not the same being, and the original is still dead. And of course, what happened here is far away from perfect physical cloning (let alone consciousness copying).
impatient with colleges, employers design their own courses
For the rest of the HN community, how do you fight patent trolls like these? How much does it cost ballpark to defend a product?
I wonder how much damage to Amazon’s bottom line Google could do by simply suppressing it from its search results.
Huh, it has the modes in there too. Nice little tool.
I would argue that expecting QM to satisfy a human need for ontology is about as useful as expecting general relativity to satisfy a human need for sexual gratification.

It's easy to find a way to be dissatisfied: just want more out of things. But it doesn't make sense to always expect to get what you want. Some things simply won't provide. As long as QM is providing a means to achieve accurate predictions and precise language, it is doing its job perfectly. It is not responsible for satisfying a (potentially irrational) need for ontological interpretation.
Is it important to the dead creature? Or the rest of the universe that experiences that creature?

Star Trek: death at every transport and your “clone” carries on. Worked out okay. A bit of a queasiness factor to get passed.

Disclaimer: I had my dog’s genome sequenced (for free through a Harvard study) for cloning later in my life after he’s gone. Because why not. A lot can change in 50-100 years. Plan accordingly.
This might sound stupid but hear me out. Can you sell physical rubies that people can print on a paper or you could ‘ship’ them to the buyer? Meanwhile users can use their digital equivalent just like a gift card works. This would bypass the system.. brilliant isn’t it?!
That's why she gets to spend her money on what she wants, and you get to spend yours on what you want. That way you each get to decide what "a far better use" would be.

Or are you open to other people telling you what you are/(not) allowed to spend on?
> I am also panicking over edits and fearing missing the mark

Maybe you’re already doing this, but if not—having somebody read a draft of your post ahead of publication might help. Sorry about what you had to go through.
I think a lot more sites should follow Tumblr's lead here, but I fear Tumblr is going to be shut down within the next few years and it'll be the last platform to adopt this approach (at least for a long time).
China has great influence in Hollywood, where major studios edit their films to meet Chinese censorship demands. When Disney made a film about the Dalai Lama, several years later the CEO of Disney traveled to China and apologized in person, saying it would never happen again. The Chinese government is literally censoring political content in the United States and other Western countries.

Here's a cite for the Disney story. I've read about Chinese censors reviewing films, and Hollywood self-censoring, but I don't have time to find those cites.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/business/international/ch...
Google, Samsung, and Apple have already got these companies to make changes. Android Pay, Apple Pay, and Samsung Pay are all supported widely and offer arguably higher security _and_ faster speeds than existing credit cards.
You don't need to search a DB for chords. It's a purely mechanical process to generate the notes from the symbol.
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Re...
Suddenly Silicon Valley progressives hate Taleb as they realize he doesn’t share their views. It’s almost comical.
If you want good performance on xbox you still have to use console specific APIs, in every engine I've worked with xbox is a special platform. I haven't done xbox development post dx12, but afaik xbox one still has console specific apis with dx12. Most PC games are not uwp (steam can't host uwp games), so extra work needs to be done to support both uwp and win32 as well as console specific direct3d.
I think this might also be due to the fact that the compute for neural nets and the complexity of the networks are still in their infancy. The neural nets in these cases are all simple classifiers, working on a fixed image resolution with fixed training data. What do you expect? You can't train an intelligent machine if your architecture is dumb to begin with.

If you showed me an image of a green field with a bunch of fur balls on it. I'd go "Oh look! Floofy Sheep!" but then maybe upon closer inspection, i'd go "heeyyy.... thats actually a herd of cats!" But a neural net isn't designed to make decisions, to say hey maybe I should investigate further, etc. Its just a black box that spits out probabilities of classifiers. I think if we want to get more sophisticated with judgements and something nearing more realistic intelligence, we would need something like nets of neural nets, and for ways to interconnect them. Like here is a model for sheep, it also has interconnections with environment, and here is another model for a sheep's facial features, etc. And maybe a net for decision making or asking questions if confidence is lacking or ambiguous.

I can see a toddler going "oooh sheep!", as well and then a parent going, "no, look closer, those are kittens!" And then the kid learns oh, maybe I shouldn't be so quick to conclude! Sometimes I may be deceived!
People are more than welcome to judge me, and they do. Likewise, I get to judge her. I may be mistaken, but I don't believe I have any actual control over her. Am I wrong? Do I have some secret ability to control her decisions? Because that would rock.
What will it let me represent that extant type systems don't?
What are the options for white South Africans to emigrate? My understanding is that the options are very limited.
My point was that TIOBE is simply more all-encompassing than GitHut. It gives you a clearer picture of the most searched programming languages, which includes both GitHub as well as non-GitHub stats.

Also, GitHut counts repositories, not lines of code. Not sure which of C or JS has more lines of code being written every year, but my guess is that it's C (Java might have more than both though).
You obviously never used Allaire ColdFusion, before it got fancy features like functions.

IIRC, a "tag" was the closest equivalent to a function, but it was basically a parameterized textual include. A "module" was a "tag" that didn't need to be installed into a special directory. During development the only easy way to not have the source code for your entire application in a single logical source file (split across unparameterized includes) was to use modules. Using tags was a PITA because of the need to install them in a special location, but for [reasons] people never bothered using modules at the time.

So to better understand the context, s/modules/functions/.

The fact that I uniquely used modules says less about my competency (or the competency of any particular consultant) and more about the general technical competency of the organization. As I said, some of the technical consultants had CS degrees so they fully understood the concept of functions, as well as more difficult concepts. The senior consultant I mentioned had a CS degree. I didn't mean to imply that I thought I was more competent than he was; quite the opposite. I remember what he said to me precisely because he did have a CS degree (which I lacked), was one of the most experienced consultants at the company who had worked with most every other technical consultant, and was someone I generally looked up to.

And you conveniently skipped my larger point which was that the organization was successful without strong technical competency. All things being equal you want strong technical competency, but especially in the world of ERP systems where everything is highly customized and a tremendous amount of code is ad hoc business logic, functional competency is incomparably more important for achieving project success.
> So cam girl sites are under threat?

That would be a real tragedy...

Seriously though, some of those girls make some serious money for working a few hours a day.
I remember Jolt Cola [0] which was a super-caffienated cola drink, which I drank in the late 80s/early 90s when it was available in the UK (at least I found it in Edinburgh and Glasgow) from a few select delis that did US imports. Apparently a hacker staple in the USA, which is why we searched for it here...

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolt_Cola
Clarification: I've never wanted to do that in a web browser.
I am not a physicist, but this seems backwards to me. If anything, it is the Copenhagen interpretation that comes with the largest amount of extra-mathematical baggage while many-worlds interpretation came out of effort to add the least amount of additional assumptions on top of the math.
Selling young-blood transfusions to baby boomers desperate to cheat death
How to jump the shark on Hacker News: compare a private US corporation who has ample competition to communist China, where people are literally imprisoned for posting "politically-unacceptable ideas".
>If tech progress brought the cloning cost down to $1K, I'd rethink the matter.

Rich people splashing $50k on it when its brand new is exactly how this comes about.

Lots of people with "too much" money buy stupid cars you can hardly sit in and ridiculous mechanical watches that barely keep time for far more. This seems pretty tame to me.
Last I checked, pkg is going away as a compilation cache. As of Go 1.10, the compilation is in fact now stored elsewhere: https://golang.org/doc/go1.10
Angry Birds maker Rovio closes London studio
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There's a bunch: https://screenrant.com/movies-changed-for-china/
The more ruthless strategy would be to continue to sell Nest products but ship only malfunctioning counterfeits.
DNA Sheds Light On Settlement of Pacific
I guess I just don't see the point. Stick my consciousness into a computer so I or my pets can live past our deaths? Sign me up.

But cloning? Who really cares? It'd be like if I were to rush around the globe looking for the person who resembles me the most and pay them money to bear a child just so I can have a son who looks as similar to me as possible... while still not remotely being "me".
> best described as the Onion for Evangelicals.

Yeesh, no wonder it’s such poor satire.
Maybe they can track the hashes and give us subdomains that redirect to the latest update?
It should be clear to anyone that clicks on or reads this article that the link's title needs to be changed.

The article's actual title is "Britain must intervene in SA land debate‚ says member of European Parliament"

The Member of European Parliament is Janice Atkinson who according to the article, "represents the right-wing and pro-Brexit Europe of Nations and Freedom Group - the smallest party represented in the European Parliament"

Further, the word "genocide" does not appear in the article.
Hello, I'm Irena from the Networking Engineering team at Atlassian. I have been directly involved with this incident and wanted to provide some answers to the questions.
We’ve built our architectures based on the AWS Direct Connect service because it’s the most reliable and scalable solution based on our customer and network needs. The AWS Direct Connect service we use in the US East Region has multiple redundant links (4x 10Gbps) optimized for data throughput requirements and availability, and to our knowledge the AWS Direct Connect transit facilities have power backups that would help contribute to its reliability. But, as we saw from today’s event, something still failed.

I should note that we have both publicly and privately reachable resources in AWS. The publicly reachable resources have fail-overs built in for situations like these (it happens automatically), but the private reachable resources with our architecture depend solely on AWS Direct Connect. For example, our Bitbucket failure today was due to the fact that we rely on AWS Direct Connect to link between the Bitbucket Cloud components that we host in our data centers and others that we host on AWS. Bitbucket could continue connecting to services in our own data centers and the public Internet/AWS, but could not talk to the privately reachable resources in the Atlassian infrastructure hosted on AWS.

We understand the importance and the impact for our customers, and dedicated several teams to this issue as soon as it was reported. AWS has resolved the issue, but we will look into ways to help prevent and better mitigate these types of issues in the future as part of our incident review and improvement processes.
Flash was infamous of it's constant security vulnerabilities. I don't think that JS virtual machines have nearly as many
That's not the reason this was posted?
And if QM and GTR agreed in their predictions I’d be right there with you, telling people to suck it up. I’m a bit there with you anyway, because nature has no obligation to us, and the predictive power of QM is just incredible.

But... in the absence of a complete theory including gravity, there are huge gaps. It’s just human nature to try and fill those gaps, for better or worse. For worse when people stuff those gaps with god, but for better when they’re uncomfortable with overly pat explanations like objective collapse.
No...I think the parent was arguing that the problems are around plea-bargaining, not plea-bargaining itself. I personally think the biggest problem is the inbalance between prosecutor's ability to threatening absurdly large sentences. That distorts the expected value of the risk analysis in the favor of prosecution. But if the worst-case penalties were more reasonable, then plea-bargaing could be a reasonable way to reduce risk.
It's free hosting from the 90s, so no money for me! They inject that ad in exchange for hosting the site. Hopefully they're getting their money's worth today.
I applied on your website for the data scientist role but never got even a confirmation email. Can you please let me know if anyone saw my resume? This sounds like a great opportunity, and my wife's family lives in Ann Arbor, so I am extremely interested.
That's roughly the same price as a mid-tier luxury sedan.

Ethics of not-adopting and of cloning aside — not to dismiss either — is this really any worse than paying extra for a nice car?

An argument could be made the dog provides a higher marginal utility to its owner in this case.
I wanna say neocities already builds on top of IPFS. https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2015/09/08/its-time-for-the-...
This is just me soapboxing, but I would argue that situations like this illustrate a need for online social platforms run by the state. I realize the obvious vulnerabilities of such a setup, but if we believe free speech to be an essential element of our societies then we need social platforms beholden only to our own laws even if they simply exist in parallel to private platforms. The internet, and social media in this context, have become just as fundamentally important to discussions and grassroots politics as the street corner once was.
Baseball and airplanes? Awesome! If I'd made a site when I was 12, it probably would've looked a lot like yours.
How messed up is it when elected officials can openly talk about genocide of their citizens without repercussions? People need to leave while they can.
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Disgust is an emotion; lack of disgust is not. You can only really measure how highly a person responds to disgust, not how highly they respond to anti-disgust. This article does not even use the term "normal", however? I agree that it would be problematic to describe a population's response as "not normal" but I don't see it here.
Surprising that this came up. I am a Keralite myself. Is the Kerala land reform well-known?
'Cause when my dna evolved and hunger engendered the desire to see if there was any food beyond the hills, there were no cars or supermarkets. Or domestic animals or farms. Might have been clothing, not sure.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-04/australian-sovereignty...
Mine just made IE crash or blue screen... Like most pages did, I guess... But mine was intentional.
Thanks for sharing those! I'm having a lot of fun going through all of them.
Perhaps so, but they haven't seen a design win for a discrete GPU on the Mac since 2013 for the iMac, and 2014 for the Macbook Pro.

That happens to be not terribly long after Apple started offering rewrites of their pro apps that went all in on OpenCL.

Nvidia did put out a driver for the cheese grater Mac pro so it can use Pascal based cards, which is nice, but I imagine that's motivated by a desire to maintain CUDA dominance.
Stalin didn’t say it: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/02/22/rope/
champion of the 99%

In practice, she's most comfortable with the 1%.

http://www.malibutimes.com/news/article_bdc5ada0-dd0e-5c38-b...

Hence the term, "The Streisand Effect"

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