skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"outperforming Linux in network throughput" I'd like to see some numbers, I'm pretty sure Linux is as fast or faster than Dragonfly BSD in any scenarios. When you make such a claim you need facts.

Also Linux TCP stack is lockless since 4.4.
They cite a study showing that a novice in word is faster than an experienced user of LaTeX.
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What is the exact sea-level that is perfect and should be maintained --or returned to-- by all means?

I have a similar question about the perfect amount of atmospheric CO2. We do know that the long-term trend of CO2 was headed down to a dangerously low level (plants would starve and land-based plant life would have catastrophically ended by 150ppm).
Because Ukraine wasn't a member (only applied for membership, but hadn't met requirements) when "separtists" "freed" the Crimean peninsula to "protect" the Russian civilians "trapped" there. Shooting down MH17, a B777-200ER with 298 aboard, 50km over Ukraine using a SAM was provoked by NATO?

I think I have an idea of who will be invading, escalating, and hoping there won't be consequences.
He really wasn't a liberal at all. Here, let smarter people than me explain:

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2014/02/to-noam-chomsky-...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/revisio...
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Labeling Something Social Media Doesn't Make It So
It's not really about the values of constants but about where they appear and about their size.

So imagine we have some Physics setup were certain laws should hold. There is some magical formula called Lagrangian L = stuff. When you construct this L from scratch, you add everything you have. That is some e for the Electron field function, some phi for the Higgs, some m for its mass etc etc. At first this sounds like an insanely long and random equation. But because of all the constraints in your setup its 'only' one page long for the Standard Model case. Oh yes and then there are some stupid terms which must be really small to only _softly_ violate the constraints. E.g. CP-symmetry for strong interactions - violation of this symmetry hasn't been observed in nature "Strong CP problem". That's where fine-tuning has to happen at the moment...
I’m sensing just a bit of sarcasm, and an implied, “no you paranoid noodlebrain.” Honestly, I don’t blame you, my head is actually full of noodles.

Al dente, baby.
Here's the problem, every non subject specific media company I've tried getting my news from is guilty of being horrifying wrong like this on one story or another. Generally they seem to do so with fairly high frequency. So my alternatives are read and to some extent trust them anyways, or just not get news on topics I'm unfamiliar with.
Dockless Bikesharing Gets in the Scooter Business
There is a nice interactive graph of the Jason series satellite data at: https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/products/ocean-indica...

You can see the acceleration by shifting the time sliders to choose different years.
I was actually looking for something like this, good to know a product like this exists.

I use a combination of Trello and Google Drive for most things, everything from my personal life, to hobbies, to side projects, and work items. I love Trello but sometimes I want something a little bit more. I think I'll to duplicate things I'm working on for a few weeks or so in here to see how I like it. Maybe I'll replace Trello or maybe there are some integrations out there already to sync somehow, or maybe If I'm bored and have time on my hands I'll try writing something myself.

The app looks great but hopefully they add Kanban support for iPhone soon.
It exists, but it's not so formalized and reserved for YC
In general, States from the deep south tend to treat their inmates with far less care than their northern counterparts whether you agree or not.
Developer Jokes for Fridays
I used to work on the comp-app team at Microsoft, which was semi related to service fabric. It's not a bad little platform will be interesting to see how it fairs in open source.
this opus should be included in https://standardebooks.org/
GitHub wikis are just git repos themselves, and I clone mine. It's easier to edit them locally, too.

As for issues, I've suggested to GitHub that they make them available via git, and they said simply "I have passed your suggestion on to the team to consider adding the ability to clone Issues". I don't think they realize how nerve-wracking it is to put any data at all in GitHub issues. Even their recommended backup software is out of date and doesn't back up Issues completely.
The Automated Under-Reporter Program is not a "sufficiently advanced compiler" for tax returns. It does simple match: did your brokerage account say you made $30k in dividends on a 1099-DIV to the IRS last year? Cool. Do you show a line item which matches $30k in dividend income on your 1040? No? Add an item to a work queue.

It doesn't (and can't) divine "Did the expense on this business return factually happen? Was it for the operation of the business? Is it standard and ordinary?"
> A good hypothesis results in the same experiment as its negative: "There are more supersymmetric particles at higher energies" is the same hypothesis as "There are not more supersymmetric particles at higher energies" because you test both hypotheses in the same way.

Actually, no, they are not the same. You are excluding the middle, as it is necessary for an experiment to disprove the null hypothesis before any conclusion can be made. Just because you don't prove your hypothesis doesn't mean you prove its negation. Typically, an experiment will find no result at all.
He claimed the $600k as a (deductible) business expense; a false deduction has the same effect as concealing taxable income.
This is the second part of a 2-part series on using the Hugo static site generator. Part one is here: https://forestry.io/blog/up-and-running-with-hugo/
Unless people are doing shalow clones, almost everybody uses git as DVCS.
None of those things are native to git. The command line git tool’s help options open up the git manual. It is pretty comprehensive; so if the topic is missing, it’s probably a github feature. (Also, things like ‘git checkout --help’ open up subsections of the manual)
Unless I missed something, their plans start at $25mo (annual billing) with min of 20 users, maybe in same space but not very appetizing to get your feet wet. but i'm sure their pricing is designed with that in mind.
The fact you have to do this to make a fork, fork, is problematic. You could also download the fork, and then upload it again as a new root, but in both cases it entirely defeats the point.

A lot of people are coming up with workarounds or blindly defending Github in this thread. I think I'm the only way that sees this decision was done for commercial reasons ($), and has nothing to do with people "maintaining control of their private repo."

Frankly if fork doesn't, you know, fork due to some quirk in some random article you aren't going to read or find that to me is a massive black mark against Github. That's all I care about, Github working like Git, in most major ways.
Well, maybe not every IPO, but yeah. Good, armchair capitalist strategy.
Not really. "Flight recorder" does something quite different than a "jogging tracker"; what a "JVM Recorder" does is a mystery (yes, yes, it records something) - the metaphor of a FDR helps.
but it just happens to a single key. i think it's defect rather than os settings
Statistical errors may taint as many as half of mouse studies
If it's factually correct it wouldn't be libel.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's illegal somewhere in the world, but in the US, publishing factual information you have not signed away the right to publish via an NDA or similar contract is usually legal. I don't know that motive is ever involved as part of the test of determining whether or not you are allowed to write something.

I'm not a lawyer, this isn't legal advice.
Thank you for interesting comment.

Can you give me rough time scale for how quick neurons learn (synaptic plasticity)? I have a recollection that the time scale is in order of tens of milliseconds but I might be wrong.
Why does it matter? They don't charge fees.
More like lame.

You should have contacted their support before bashing them in public.

There rationalization for this (owner of original fork is the owner) seems pretty reasonable as long as the repo is private.
Are You a 'Wizard' or a 'Prophet'? Dueling Visions for How Humanity Will Survive
I'm not sure what you mean by "PR/Issues are native to github", there are other choices for code review for self-hosted git:

https://www.gerritcodereview.com/

Incidentally Gerrit predates github.
I did a lot of work on authorship attribution for natural language.

I found it was easy to get mind-blowing results on a single dataset - e.g. 99% accuracy for working out who wrote which emails in the Enron [0] dataset.

The moment the test set was even slightly cross-genre, results became bad.

So this is great in theory, but I would love to see a test set from the same authors outside the context of the Google Code Jam. I'd be surprised if the results were anything like as good.

There are very few real-world cases where you have a large amount of same-genre data for the questioned author. (No one writes a thousand suicide notes / ransom demands / scams)

[0] A large email database often used for authorship tasks https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/
I am reading about microcode updates, but I'm wondering if Dell doesn't update the BIOS for my (early Core i3, admittedly pretty old) computer am I SOL regardless of what Intel does?
AI: The Next Big Thing
That's why I've been migrating my Github/lab projects to IPFS as well. I have a few cheap VPSes I have my stuff pinned.

"Cloud" (read: someone else's server) is unreliable at best, or malicious at worst like this case. The people may not be bad actors, but the tech definitely is.
Ask HN: Is there any service which concludes stuff based on SEC filing?
Alexa’s new ‘Brief Mode’ replaces verbal confirmations with chimes
I'd agree there - but that doesn't stop AMD from advertising this as a function these CPUs provide, so if you've taken them at their word, this is a big deal.
Forks of a private repo can't be made public through the GitHub web interface.
> If I buy $10k of Intel, it grows to $15k and I sell it to buy $15k of Google, I owe tax on the $5k gain.

For someone who knows nothing about tax law, if I draw the $15k back from Google to USD, would I pay taxes on the full 15k?

This gains growth tax thing seems to make sense, if there is no taxes when converting it to USD. Eg, if I take 10k and make an additional 10k converting from BTC->ETH and pay taxes on that new 10k, that's reasonable to me if I only pay taxes once on those gains. If however, I withdraw the 20k ETH to USD, and pay taxes on the 20k, then effectively I've paid double taxes on the gained $10k.

Is there a way to handle that in tax law? Or are trades among stocks/etc supposed to be double taxed like that?
PlanC: restore local CrashPlan Home backups after Code42 shuts it down in Oct 18
A poor workman blames his tools
Not sarcastic! I think your suggestion was quite reasonable, I was just offering another suggestion that I found interesting. Albeit a slightly-more implausible one :)
> 1. For my case (yea, they are kind of required audit data)

What kind and required by whom? Most of such things are "if you have all,
good, if half an hour is missing, we'll do without those", not something akin
to transaction data in relational database where you cannot lose even a single
byte.

> I need the log to be able to not loss when sending to logstash or kafka

What is "not to lose logs"? Is losing a single record OK? Is losing 1% of
logs OK? How long network problems should be tolerated? What to do if such
network problems are longer than anticipated and disk buffer is running out of
space?

You have said virtually nothing about what your logs consist of and what
kind of reliability you require from them.
Serious question, isn't the stream just batch in transit?
I'm going to be worried until I hear about a way to detect an actual Spectre-based attack carried out against a random user in the wild...
I don't think ends justify means, noble as those ends might be.
Shelly the Tortoise Is Here to Stop Kids from Beating Up Robots – Motherboard
I disagree. People need to be aware of this before it becomes an issue for them. Git is distributed and yes, relying on one resource is a risk in itself, however - if a fork isn't a fork it should be made clear.
AWS λ tips
it's the top-level domain for Anguilla
Because I believe that Common Lisp is a better language than Clojure. I'd be happy to discuss specifically what I believe the most important differences are in case you're curious.

Clojurescript was chosen on the client side because its integration with Om was very nice and matched the idea of immutability in Clojure.

Now that Om is no longer well supported we have a problem. The client side needs to be rewritten, but none of us have the time to do so. We'll see what happens with the project.

This highlights another benefit of Common Lisp. It's very mature and I don't have to worry about the fameworks that I use becoming obsolete after a short period of time.
If that were true the article author would not have encountered this issue
I'm always shocked when I discover something tech-related that "millions of people are using". How did I miss this?
thanks so much for taking the time to explain!
printf(“hello, world!”);

Please, find the vulnerability in that code, or quit making wild claims
>Look for an anonymous non-logging service preferably outside Turkey

what's the point? DNS isn't encrypted, so it's trivial to log/intercept your queries.
Related to that: if a private repo is forked, the target account doesn't need a paying subscription. In that sense, it's the root repository holder that is paying for the new private repo.

I'm not arguing if it's a good or bad thing, it just seems consistent in that regard.
Grow by Creating Markets, versus Killing Competitors
> so the semantics are much closer to Rust's references.

Not really; I see Rust references (enforced in compile-time) ~= OP's "naked pointers" with limitations on scope. 'soft pointer' is an alternative to long-living pointers (can be replaced with a refcounted ptr a-la RC<T>, but TBH I don't like refcounted stuff for several reasons).

> You can have either shared-memory concurrency

You can, but it doesn't work, suffering from all kinds of problems (from being _crazily_ error-prone, via being _fundamentally untestable_!, and all the way to being fundamentally unscalable, and sucking Big Time performance-wise - the last one unless we're speaking about RCU etc., but probably we aren't).

> And explicit asynchronous API (à la JS or C#) are dreadful.

Did you see C#'s await? And BTW, as practice shows, synchronous alternatives are MUCH more dreadful than even OO-style async handling (fundamental non-testability of shared-memory stuff, even if taken alone, is already enough to rule shared-memory stuff out for good - which BTW is already happening; there is a Really Good Reason for Go's philosophy of "share memory by communicating, not communicating by sharing memory").
From fluffy pillows to concrete: The uses of captured CO2
JavaScript Algorithms Challenges – Part 1
Another potential problem with regexps is that the underlying finite state machine can grow exponentially in the size of the expression.
Absolutely. I've been a Rust lurker (and later user/advocate) since ~2012/2013, I think, and the visible WASM support strides being taken right now coupled with my trust in the Rust community gives me great hope for Rust on the front end.

It remains to be seen to what extent and which problems it will be suitable for, but just as Rust despite the fears of some is (again, IMHO) turning out to be ergonomic enough to write all kinds of end user apps in (although some areas are still lacking, but give it time), so too I think it might surprise people with how widely applicable it may turn out to be on the front end.

And I'm hopeful and optimistic. I feel like we're seeing some tides turn with respect to how important software correctness/robustness really is perceived to be and -- importantly -- what we're prepared to pay for it. We're still a "young" industry compared to a lot of engineering disciplines, so it's not surprising that we're still maturing with periodic waves of change. Of course, many will disagree with the direction, but for me it can't come fast enough.

Sorry, I hadn't ranted in a while, and it is Friday afternoon. =o)
Blockchain Key Terms, Explained
This is only a partial solution, right?
Services such as Backhub.co also backup your issues:
https://backhub.co/features/backup-github-issues/

(we have 1000+ closed issues in our project, nice to preserve)
What kind of 'stuff' are you looking for conclusions on?
If you wish to hide, you could always go for abandoned mining works etc. - most satellites won't see that. (Of course, you need to get energy in, so a massive new power line that disappears down a shaft would betray you again ;))
This seems to be an edge case, affecting only private repositories. I can see how this can make sense in that context. Can we do without the pitchforks? (pun intended)
That is silly either way. Once you have a local copy you can just push that copy to any git hoster and thus make it public. Forking through their web ui is just a convenience feature.
Parenting Doesn’t Matter – as long as you don't do anything “super-weird”
Show HN: Gradoid – Ask and Explore Nearby
Kasparov apparently continues to believe that his expertise in chess transfers to other disciplines. This isn't an uncommon phenomenon, even for people with more serious qualifications in a not totally unrelated field. I also shouldn't forget Hollywood actors - their views on scientific matters and foreign policy carry a lot of weight because they're, ummmm, famous.

For the same reason I'm not rushing over to Amazon to snag Garry's books on how to succeed in the boardroom, I won't be spending any time trying to digest his musings on AI.
Hello HN!

I am Shmi from Serbia and I have left my 3 years job as a software engineer to finish an idea I had in 2011. Gradoid was finally released in March on Play Store. It is an app that lets you ask questions and share information with people nearby and find places and events around you.
I would like to hear your thoughts and feedback and hopefully you will find it interesting and helpful :)

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If GitHub wants to implement DRM-like copy control, they should implement actual DRM-like copy control, and leave fork the heck alone.

Part of the problem is that instead of being explicit about how things work they're being implicit. Instead of users being told a fork is not a, you know, fork they're lied to only to have the fork vanish later.

Why is there no banner at the top of the repo warning you this is a fake repo? Why is there no ability for the original owner to delegate a full fork to the children? If this implemented this correctly you'd expect to have control over how it works (or turn it off).
It’s also not as fast as C/C++ in all cases, only in some.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/rust.html
A fork on GitHub is no fork.
The media's coverage about topics we know about is a good reminder that it's probably roughly as good on topics we don't know about :)

I'm optimistic that the internet will allow small, topic-focused media to flourish.
Google Pay for Wear OS Devices Comes to Canada, Spain, and Australia
For those unaware, all scientific press releases in the UK must express areas in football pitches, and volumes in double-decker buses.
Thanks. This answers it. It looks like whenever git is introduced to someone is always through github. I think this is why most people assume a different picture of git than what it actually is. I think this demarcation between git and github must be clearly stated.
SXSW 2018: Energy and Tech Executives Envision the Carbon-Free Future
A retaining wall in my backyard has a growth of Cynanchum laeve (honeyvine milkweed) and English ivy - it looks rather nice, and every year I find a handful of monarch caterpillars happily munching away at the leaves. While the vines can spread and be very invasive if not controlled, they co-mingle with ivy very well. I greatly appreciate them being part of my garden.
Ask HN: Student, finding a summer job without side projects?
I'm a computer science/software engineering student in Sweden. I'm currently in my second year in a 5 year program. I have not yet done any side projects. Would anyone know what my chances are of finding a summer job in this context?
I totally share[1] your feelings on the lack of financial education. In defense of my friends, they already knew to fund their 401(k)s. The question was what to do with their free cash. And considering the risk of losing money, any amount of friction (like a bad UI) can make it easy to procrastinate.

[1]: https://twitter.com/dannyguo/status/961684866285924354
I have a question about self-driving cars (SDCs).

Some time ago it was mentioned that SDCs can't use deep-learning because it is not sufficiently reliable, and that instead techniques like LiDAR should be used to recognize objects.

However, this made me wonder: how does the car recognize road-signs and traffic lights?
Git is to GitHub what e-mail is to Gmail. GitHub is a specific service that offers git hosting and some extra goodies.

As for what is part of what, anything you do with the ‘git’ command is part of git. Anything you have to do on github.com is not.
"GitHub PRs/issues are native to GitHub". If you switch to Gerrit, the code commits themselves follow, but the PRs and issues don't. They're only on GitHub.
Not rude at all! Thanks for commenting. I've spoken to devs who haven't taken the time to learn this tech due to its initial lack of browser support as well as not knowing what's beneficial about CSS Grid. The post is geared toward them.
I agree with you that per-user pricing doesn't make for an ideal SMB experience. We specifically avoided it for our SaaS tool for the reasons you mention.

That said, the costs of SMBs getting away with one login do not outweigh the benefits of getting to charge enterprises per user. Most of these tools with free tiers and per-user pricing (Slack, Airtable) make most of their money from enterprise, not SMB.

Therefore I don't agree with you that it's "stupid" or "not smart".
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>> the issue of taxation from the issue of spending allocation

Yeah and I think that mismatch is exactly how it's gotten so bad. How is it that we still have "the war", undeclared, after 16+ years? It's because everything is now enabled through whether or not there's a budget for it, and you can pretty much accept the budget or shut down the government, and everyone keeps choosing to just accept the budget and not hold their party responsible for promising shit again.
You could run DNSCrypt and use a server that supports it:

https://servers.opennic.org/
The genes did not change, the expression did.

The blueprints for building a classic Ferrari doesn't change, but depending on the handcraft of each person who touches the car, it changes. Easiest way to explain that.
> We do seem to have different value systems. I believe applying energy to make human lives better is a great thing!

Your conclusion that we must have different value systems only shows where you stopped thinking.

We differ in the timescale on which we consider the betterment of human lives.

And we differ in the subset of human lives we consider the betterment of.

If you remain convinced we have different value systems, then it's not about energy or the betterment of human lives (or straw lives), but about placing a low value on short-sightedness and egotism.
Wow, thank you for pointing out these resources! Definitely looks beneficial.
Capital gains taxes are paid only upon the gains, not the principal.
Hindsight IS 20/20. I think you meant if foresight was 20/20.