skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still using 2011 Lenovo X220 i7-2640M. Excellent Linux (NixOS atm) support, best keyboard imo, kinda lacking 768p screen. Only had to replace battery, one ram stick and cpu fan. Dunno what I'll do when it dies, considering laptop mods from sites like 51nb.
It is. Amazon Prime Music's selection is dismal. I've discovered some great new music with it, but not a lot, and it takes a long time to filter through all the shovelware to find good stuff that I don't already own.
With the first, John Regehr found many, many examples of it in real world code, and in some cases the bug he filed was closed without fixing it because "no compiler currently will do the wrong thing with it." I'm not aware of any compiler that emits a warning for this with default compilation flags.

The second is based off of code where an operating system call would get the mapped ranges of a shared memory region. For whatever reason, it took a MemoryAddress which was essentially a pre-c99 uintptr_t defined by the system headers (an unsigned value large enough to hold an address). The casts were there because the compiler warned about incompatible pointer types.

I was never able to convince the engineer who wrote the code (~20 years of C experience) that this code was wrong (it worked fine until intermodule inlining was enabled). Instead we just enabled the compiler option to disable optimizations based off of aliasing rules.

You are both greatly overestimating the degree to which programmers understand C, and overestimating the degree to which programmers who do understand C do not make mistakes. I've had lots of people say that the code in the second example "looks bad to me" but the commit still made it through code review and was being run for 5 years before optimization flag changes caused bugs to appear.
That goes without saying, but what are the exact mechanics?

To your edit:

> Curling on ice used for other purposes too leads to shitty ice

Certainly skating ice is a whole other beast to curl on, but I'm talking about club ice: Ice that is only used for curling.
Bitcoin's electricity use isn't due to transaction volume, it's due to mining. A 1kb block takes about the same amount of energy to produce as a 1MB block.
Holy server hug, batman! (Chief Blur Buster here, I noticed the traffic spike).

BTW, GPU is a problem, but we're expecting Frame Rate Amplification Technologies to solve the problem. Basically improved versions of Oculus Spacewarp that can do large framerate multiplication factors with zero parallax artifacts (unlike today).

I covered this topic near the bottom of a different article about the journey to 1000 Hz displays at https://www.blurbusters.com/1000hz-journey

The gist is that within five to ten years, we'll have many tricks to increase framerates with the same number of transistors, without needing to reduce detail levels or make textures/edges blurry, without input lag, and without interpolation artifacts.
I'm not convinced that removing sensor placement or wires is a huge problem. It's not any more involved or awkward than a big home theater setup is.

As someone who has had an oculus since the consumer version was released, my main problems are:

1) Eye strain. Even though you have a 3d effect you're still looking at something a few inches from your eye and that disconnect causes eye pain and headaches after playing for more than an hour or so.

2) Locomotion. I've yet to find any way of moving around in VR space that doesn't either make you nauseous or pull you right out of the realism of the experience.
Doesn't Bitcoin need mining to handle transactions?
$700M is a pretty big scheme, what's the likelihood Elizabeth Holmes gets jail time?
A Usable C++ Dialect That Is Safe Against Memory Corruption
>Those kinds of notifications don’t pop up on Kindles, either, so that’s not to say that Kindles contribute to our distraction problems. Kindles are also wonderful for making books and all kinds of text immediately accessible to people, a digital consolidation of that stack of books sitting on your nightstand.

That's why I absolutely love this thing. I have the cheapest and simplest model, hope that Amazon won't put some stupid messaging service suddenly there after update. Paper books are great also. Doesn't discharge. The best thing for deep learning session.
What are Smart Contracts?
I like Matt Levine very much, but exactly what nuance is he adding in this specific case?
I feel self driving cars need to do everything humans do and then 10x better to succeed. Indicating that they see you is something that humans do now.

Here's an article saying eye contact is the reason the amount of window tinting is limited.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/ontario-limits-amount-...
How can you not understand black pride? The story of the Negro that survived the racist horrors of white oppression, the voice of the enslaved person that became La Marseillaise sung at the Haitian revolution, that became jazz, that became hip hop. The impossible resistance against the whitewashing and cultral genocide, the freedom and liberty earned by wielding the spirit of the Enlightenment channeled through the black experience. Black identity is more American than America. Freedom from taxation against the freedom to exist. There is no comparison. It's worthy of pride.

There's dignity in guilt, and it's essential for growth. You really don't seem to understand the human condition.
Bain looked at the target company and thought "I can reconfigure this company so that it would be worth a lot more than the stock market currently says it is." Bain has successfully done this before, so they convince investors to loan them a bunch of money, and they buy the company with the loan (this is the 'leveraged' part), taking it off the stockmarket. The plan is to reconfigure the company and then put it back on the stockmarket at a higher price.

But, in these cases, when they got down to the hard work of re-configuring the target companies, they found out that they had done their sums wrong and that the interest on the loan was eating up all the money that was supposed to be used to make the target companies better and more valuable. Oops. So then they ran the companies into the ground and filed for bankruptcy so that they don't have to pay back the loan. This makes the investors mad, and Bain might not be able to play the leveraged buyout game any more, but they collected hundreds of millions of dollars in 'management fees' so they don't really care. And, hey, maybe some investors will still give them money because they certainly know what not to do next time.
Using Kotlin in a Serverless Architecture with AWS Lambda
Humans, on the other hand, have all kinds of biases (intentional and unintentional, conscious or not) that creep in because they do have context.

The important thing is that we build systems that account for the process-based problems, not that we build components that are perfect. Things that matter more are how frequently these mistakes happen? What's the impact? Can we eliminate these errors with multiple layers of processes designed to identify the exploits?
So the real problem, then, is not the coding system, but rather that humans are involved at all.
What do you mean by round?
Mining Mimecast: brute forcing your way to success
Waymo mostly drives in ideal conditions. You should expect human drivers to perform much better in those condition than on average.
To be fair, there was a flurry of non-good news about autonomous cars about 2 or 3 months ago. Actual bad news, in the sense that things had been overhyped prior.

But hey, these things change fast. I have a Dreyfusian[0] prior on autonomous agents (some people think we're on the way to have robotic soccer referees) -- I'm skeptic about what currently passes for reinforcement learning, for one -- but I'm not above changing my mind. Suddenly even.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Dreyfus%27s_views_on_ar...
Right, but using a "virtual" money that doesn't have counterparty risk, and cannot be counterfeited by anyone.
From what I underst and this fixes variants two and three which are cross ring and cross process data extraction. I believe their hardware mitigation is to separate the caches between those (or something to that effect). So there will still be a minor penalty hit for running multiple identical process compared to before.

That's my interpretation though, I don't know enough to say that's the correct interpretation.
Kevin from FOSSA here -- I hope it's clear that this would be completely against our policies and business model. However, if you're truly worried about this, you can install a fully on-prem version of FOSSA. Use of app.fossa.io with fossa-cli is also an opt-in feature, so by default you're not sending us any data.

Secondly, we deal entirely with 3rd-party code, so the licensing issues and risks are already completely public. If there was truly a malicious actor, they would just scan popular third party modules and reach out to companies that had job postings or github pages that were active in those environments (i.e. scan npm packages and target JS developers).

But in the spirit of good development practices, "security by obscurity" hasn't proved to be an effective strategy. We'd prefer not to promote "legal by obscurity" either. :)
If you replace "country" with "city" or "province", then pretty much everyone is in fact free to leave, legally. Yet we still consider it bad when such governments censor things.
How would one use integers as jewelry?
So that you can roll them down and don't need to run the air-conditioning/heating all the time? Examples:

1. Good weather, sub-freeway speeds. Large parts of the US (and the world) have good weather for most of the year.

2. Going uphill in hot weather, where running the AC would put too much strain on the engine
Yes, that's the idea. Force specialization in the attack sphere, reduce the attacker population with prerequisite knowledge as an entry barrier, simultaneously shrinking the targetable hosts.

Yes, I get that electronic signaling is electronic signaling, and none of it is actually different, at the transmission layer. It's just more DSP and more fast fourier transforms under the hood.

Yes, technical barriers can be eroded with adapters and facades, but it's an added cost to attack, and reduces detective work in that you have to know someone to jump the learning curve and enter the attack envelope. That means detective work can happen within a smaller social graph, and that alone becomes a deterent from sharing information, because everything becomes need-to-know, and insider awareness is a give away for inside jobs.

It's also easier to stamp out, and ostracize insiders, if they have loose lips or have a tendency to lend and give away the car keys.

Not everything needs to be as cheesy as Encryption DRM for optical movie disks and video games. For critical infrastructure safety is important enough to warrant independent military-grade safe guards.

Do military protocols fail? Yes, we have the enigma machines sitting in enough museums to prove it.

This in not an XKCD "too many standards can be solved with one more standard" concept. Isolation and specialization can be effective defense concepts.
I was already in a magnet school at the time, in the gifted program, but it was in a small ethnically homogeneous town.

The things that do make it better: (1) moving to a larger, more diverse city / population center, (2) not being the only Asian kid in a class (better if you're > 5% because having only 2-3 in a class still 'others' you).
It also takes a borderline impossibly strong will to have someone look at you, say "You're brilliant, and I want to give you money", and reply "No." Especially when there are others around you who (for their own profit) are echoing the same things.

I decided in undergrad that Honors programs exhibited a lot of the same characteristics. Kids in those tracks are treated with velvet gloves by professors, come to believe their own superiority, are inevitably unprepared for the real world / a colleague proving them wrong.

Hype trains create their own RDFs that effect even the subjects.
Building an Awesome Magazine App with Internationalization in React
Yeah. That is exactly what convinced me to buy. I hadn't even cared about any of the stuff that I listed.

Now that I have it, I love those features and would not want to go back. And I use the LTE less than I expected. But I am extremely glad to have it.
Don't forget

* letting foreign students do PhDs here then not letting them stay due to a broken immigration system.
Really? Her posts strike me as sophomoric at best. Just enough knowledge to seem rather than to be.
OP, you should correct the first line

> I recently came across the paper titled Talent vs Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure, by A. Pluchino. A. E. Biondo, A. Rapisarda, on Hacker News on Hackernews.
Hey HN. I've been hacking on this for a while so I could unify the infrastructure for the different web services I was running.

Deploying a modern infrastructure is complex and takes time to learn. The common denominator is that you usually just want to run code on those machines. Coherence makes that as simple as possible by integrating into the language itself.

This is just the base and there's much more to come!
"Theranos made direct use of its positive press to raise money: It "sent investors a binder of background materials," which included "articles and profiles about Theranos, including the 2013 and 2014 articles from The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and Fortune"

I can't decide if the investors were foolish for trusting in news articles, or if the news articles should have been trustworthy.
If you want to shine a light at a particular spot, just use whatever technologies are used in video projectors. Except for the fact that you are aiming at different distances, it's the same problem.
I'm getting very comfortable with plain Go without any frameworks for the backend. Postgres for databases.

For a quick prototype, I'd use Vue.js and Spectre for CSS. I suck at frontend anyway.

Deployed behind nginx.
Those still have limited precision, and the precision varies depending on how big the number is, which isn't suitable for money
Yea, I hate the "hegemony" part of this. It seems very childish and egotistical to take a stance of "We have to be #1 or else we won't be happy or let anyone else succeed". I understand there's sentiments of politics at play, but purposely trying to hold someone back or undermine them to maintain a position of being able to look down on others is damn petty.
If only it was possible to do a LBO of Bain Capital...
Amazon Go Might Kill More Than Just Supermarkets
> Can you give me an exact, explicit, description of exactly how use of blockchain would have prevented (eg) the oft-cited melamine milk poisoning scandal in China?

I can't give you an exact, explicit description on __exactly__ how smiling more could have prevented one specific argument. But I can tell you that globally it will improve your relationships.

The point is that the track records are not only visible, in a standard format and accessible by all, but also with a permanent impossible to alter format.

So the data is more visible, more easily to a vastly greater number of people. And people can't rewrite history afterward.

You don't need to request papers to some kind of administration.

You don't need to scan thousands of papers.

You don't need to fight the PR trying to tell they never said that.

Again, it's not a silver bullet. But if you ever tried to do a citizen investigation, you knew that the process just to get the administrative data is excruciating.

The block chain helps with that, and so help citizen be part of their democratic process.

In turn, globally, this will help diminishing the number of problem than the one you describe. Not a specific instance, but the global number.

> It's basically by-passing a lot of bureaucracy

> That bureaucracy caught the problem.

Not the same bureaucracy. Besides, the chinese bureaucracy probably knew the probleme since day one and just "caught them" because they stopped paying something.

> Physical testing of the product uncovered the bad actor. How on earth would blockchain have helped?

By giving an easier opportunity to the public to have basic data to compare to the one they get if they choose to investigate.

Democracy is about having the people execicing power, not relying on institution to do everything.

It's like saying "how a knife is going to solve my hunger problem?". Well it won't. But it will make it easier to engage in the process of solving it.

> cut some of the news reporting middle ware

Data journalism is a thing.

> give a central source of truth (or lie) for a given issue

> There already is.

You never tried to investigate obviously. It's a maze of offices that don't talk to each others using incompatible format they make very hard to obtain. And that's just the official, potentially faked record.

You can't bust institutions all the time when they make bad move. But you can make it easier. The block chain can help with that. It makes fact checking easier, because half of what you need, the official story, is in one place, one format, accessible by all.

> What good does it bring if the lie is more visible? And if there's no bad actors then there was no problem anyway.

Visibility is everything. Try to ask your company to reveal salaries of each employees, including bosses. What do you think will happen ?

> Hype and money also go hand in hand.

That's not mutually exclusive with usefullness.

> I don't think you've refuted my point successfully. As always, I want to be convinced otherwise, but I'm just not hearing anything compelling.

It's my last attempt. It's ok. Not everybody needs to understand everything.
For me once I scrolled to the bottom it just auto-navigated me to some other article. Scrolling up didn't take me back. UX Fail.
Wear 1 wasn't bad. Had some warts, but wasn't bad.

Wear 2 convinced me that the developers don't actually use the devices they're writing software for. I've lost count of the number of times I glance and my watch and discover the watchface has changed because something has rubbed up against the screen. Almost everything that happens as part of standard interaction with a device has been put multiple steps away from you.
Lua/Torch backend + Redis + React
Sucks that they don't have a voice in any political party, then.
I stopped reading the paper, thinking it was amateurish garbage, when I saw the graph containing tiny people
"What do you mean by round?"

Because Hashgraph is BFT, a round is a round of voting for confirmation. Its done virtually but you have to have 2/3rds of nodes agree on the state to close a round and have a confirmed state. To have 2/3rds you have to have a fixed and known number of nodes in the round. See BFT for more information.

The point I was trying to make, is that they are very different in benefits and limitations.
If you want completeness, there may be another possibility: we know that venture capitalists (who spend other people's money, for the most part) have used their positions to improve their sex lives (#metoo) contrary to the interests of their investors. It's just assumed none of them have ever actually handed over millions of other people's money to hairbrained projects in order to accomplish this. I very much hope that's so. But this is a risk of having too many male (or worse, bro) VC executives.
All the people I've talked to who have worked on self-driving cars seem to think that Tesla is working blindfolded by not having LIDAR. Time will prove if they are right, but certainly the biggest jump in self-driving car ability was due to adding LIDAR rather than any software or data trick.
The average voter isn't going to read the bill text for most legislation, never mind thousands of pages of internet arguments with those best at brigading or astroturfing (often well-funded lobbyist concerns) at the top.

The draft text is going to be written by the same politician speaking to the same lobbyists adopting the same strategy of tying it to something really desirable like preventing crime or promoting financial freedom, it's just that members of the public supporting crime prevention or financial freedom don't have the opportunity to broker an alternative wording, and once they've voted for it any objections to its provisions is going to be met with the full rhetorical force of accusations of defying "the will of the people". And people not in the pocket of the lobbyists who support parts of the policy for other reasons aren't going to muddy the waters and risk a public defeat for their ideals by arguing to fix the dodgy earmark if it's a big public vote rather than a series of rapid votes on amendments. It might work for vetoing stuff the public really didn't expect and really do care a lot about like tax rises, but in practice, referenda significantly lower the tone of debate, increase partisanship and decrease the effect policy detail has on the outcome of the decision.
I don’t see that as against your business model at all.

You could build up a large database of say, violations of Oracle licenses, then get Oracle to buy out your company.

You’d make a quick buck, and your users would be left holding the bag.

How do you mitigate against these type of threats to your users?
Can you store music on your Airpods? Then you wouldn't need to wear a watch or carry a phone. It could save space and bandwidth by splitting up the songs and only storing one channel in each ear.
Google has to be the absolute worst at putting together multiple brands + having a cohesive naming structure.

This happens across almost every single one of their verticals. It has to be with how they organized teams, right? I mean they have 3-4 different chat/talk programs on their own?
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#green-...
Was there a particular reason to post the same link within an hour?

Two discussions posted by the new account:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16591908

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16591878
That part about due diligence is what gets me. How do you sink $700M into a company without going over it all with a fine-toothed comb? Where were the scientists and skeptics for the investors? They fell for the "here's a single customer saying it's good, and here's us in the news" routine. I could understand if this was a seed round for a few million in some software venture, but $700M for healthcare tech? This is incredibly negligent.
Fair enough. I actually used to use them and the above resonate with me. From my perspective, your solution looks like something that would be worth looking into if I were starting fresh, given that we're a SaaS startup with the added nuances that entails.
Implementing a Key-Value Store

http://codecapsule.com/2012/11/07/implementing-a-key-value-s...

Let's Make a Voxel Engine

https://sites.google.com/site/letsmakeavoxelengine/
Why aren't these downstream investors pricing accordingly then? Less sophisticated than Bain? Or are Bain's successes enough to mollify any fears about their failures?
I never found this to be true in my high school. The people with the best grades were normal, socially adjusted people, playing sports and participating in clubs.

The geeks were always B/C students.
Well, I'll grant you that they are not predictable and not always on the ball, but honestly that argument is thin. Extrapolating from just one data point is not even "anecdata", it is just noise.
And inline functions don't even add stack depth. It's still something that happens manually though. Every item that needs to be done manually and doesn't cause obvious failures when not done adds to development costs.
You know what? All the hops where your TCP/IP connection has gone to allow you to write that message, were provided by devices that had to be online in order to provide you the services. EOM
Madoff said he is happier in prison than he was while fearing his scheme would be discovered. [0]

That doesn't really make me any more sympathetic to his criminal and unethical activities.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-madoff-happiest-ive-been...