skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to be the same journalist (this isn't that uncommon) but she doesn't appear to be the swedish Alex Jones either..

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulina_Neuding

The LocalSE (linked above you can search for more by yourself I've had people mention to me that it apparently is a neonazi site but i'm pretty sure were to the left of Corbyn so make up your own mind) and Radio Sweden (which is Sweden's official broadcaster) all have the same stories.

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&art...

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&art...

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&art...

(these are the 3 first results retrieved by searching "radio sweden shootings" (without quotes) on Google.co.uk in incognito mode. YRMV)

Sveriges Radio is essentially Swedish NPR or the BBC (pre television) so I have very high doubts that is pushes some highly contentious political agenda....
I think an argument could be made that we've passed a point at which technology is required for our species to survive.

We can still hunt, farm, eat, and reproduce without it, but not at present population scales. As a result any technological failure would trigger an apocalyptic Malthusian scenario that would probably climax with global thermonuclear war over remaining resources.

I'd say we passed the technological point of no return on July 16th, 1945:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)

The giant "kaboom" heard in the desert that day was the sound an evolutionary ratchet clicking. It is no longer possible to go backward without catastrophe.
There's a pretty wide chasm between "cutting costs" and "literally doubling your staff," the latter being a death knell for small businesses.
Well that's really cool. How is React Native coming along? I see it's still pre-1.0, but given that they've been going 3 years, I assume there's been a lot of progress.
Thank you for the clarification. Re 2), I didn’t read the whitepaper in full but rather grep’d "blockchain" to understand how you used it.
Great! I use desktop Linux regularly and I have some ideas where the Linux port could start off. Would you drop me an email at pauli@lacquer.fi and let’s talk?
From my understanding of the GDPR, no I really don't think that they would be able to argue that, actually. Particularly when I'm not logged into their site.
Indeed, a more disruptive construction method is likely to drive costs up, since it gives unions more extortion material to work with.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Labor_Standards_Act_of_19...
In the labor market, that's true. ("We offer unmatched benefits, including your choice of wide-mouthed bottles or adult diapers!") But in politics, the defections must be measured as a proportion of the total population.
Depending on how many games he later bought for that xbox, MS may well have been the ones that came out on top.
You're being downvoted for profanity.
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Yes, for the two days of high dose IL-2 every 8 hours, it was pretty bad. My experience was limited to nausea, fever, sweating, and bed-shaking rigors. I've heard that some patients experience hallucinations.

Note: IL-2 was administered after I received my lab-grown white blood cells. It acts as signal to one's immune system to activate. It was used to jumpstart my immune system after it had been replaced.
>People still have to do financial calculations in JS.

No, they don't.
Good summary!
The nuclear waste problem can be solved by further burning it in fast breeder reactors. The problem is they're quite expensive to build and operate.

The VVER PWRs have a good track record, yes. It is the RBMK reactor that is an irresponsible design.

Just about every major nuclear power has a sub graveyard:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-28157707
Costco? A bit apples and oranges.
Android webviews are WAY better. Not only in terms of performance but specially in terms of standard behaviour.

I've been dealing with UIWebView and WKWebView problems for over 3 years now, but Android webviews have given me zero problems.
> How do we get "free" services while also having great privacy control in a way that the company can operate at a scale like Google or Facebook?

Can you justify why we as a society should want companies to operate at a scale like Google or Facebook?
Piggybacking on what you were saying I don’t disagree from a purely business sense. But I find it ironic society seems to have this constant droning fear about actual robots becoming sentient and dissenting but doesnt fear the droves of these sudo-robots who are already able bodied and sentient and being actively antagonized (piss in bottles, etc) to dissent.
You also have 20 security nightmare apps running
Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!
Yes, the treatment was obviously totally worth it. And, I'm extremely grateful for being in the lucky 30% of patients who response completely to it.
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I rather liked Sanderson's portrayal of Mat. He was actually shown to be a trickster, not just described as one. Up until Sanderson, the only character-defining actions taken by Mat are throwing a rock at a Whitecloak and stealing a dagger. Not at all the trickster described by others, but just a common fool.
He complains about buying a Mac but what about Mac people who want to develop Windows DirectX games? They have to buy a PC (realistically you don't want to emulate a PC).
Ah. You've not lived the experience that's Toronto transit:

1. Eglinton Crosstown started in the 1990s. They started boring, and when Mike Harris became premier he cancelled the project, so they filled in the existing tunnel.

2. Sheppard subway (aka. the Stubway) built despite objections of planners, who said that it would be woefully underused. Built anyways because of political pull. 16 years later, still woefully underused.

3. Transit City proposed and supported by provincial government. First, funding was reduced by the provincial Liberals. Then, Rob Ford, claiming a "war on the car!" cancelled it, pushing all the money into...

4. The Scarborough Subway. Originally estimated at a 3-stop 2B line, it's now a 1-stop 3.5B+ line - and its cost keeps climbing. All politicians support it because Scarborough is vote-rich territory, despite its ridership projections being lower than that of the Sheppard subway. It's a frickkin mess.

5. Meanwhile, the Relief Line (which everyone acknowledges is needed) languishes because of the perception that it'll serve the "downtown elite".

I mean - it's not all doom and gloom I suppose: the Crosstown is finally being built, again, 25 years later.
> Reduce your use of the first personal pronoun.

This seems out of place. Expressing my beliefs as a function of my experiences and understanding, is a fundamental step in adulthood (along with pragmatically taking charge of your life). Many of the other steps, listed, require the understanding that your views are that and not some other abstract truth.
Yeah when it's a pristine beautifully structured code base people are more cautious about weighing in because they can't code as well. When it all looks like shit no-one worries about hacking their own.

WordPress has both it's own forum bbPress and it's social network buddyPress. As far as a hackable system for everyone it's an attractive start. WP is based around the concept of everyone installing their own. Their 5-minute install is still the gold standard as far as I'm concerned.

So as controversial as it is on HN I think the idea of using PHP is still a sound one. But as a geek I'd much rather go down the Python route in some kind of homage to the foundation of reddit.

Python is a great language for beginners to learn and it's designed for them. Plus it's still a very relevant skill to learn.
Cofounder of Hack Reactor here.

Austen is hella right about his thesis: bootcamps are not getting enough students across the finish line right now. They need higher admissions bars, more classroom hours, and/or other good ideas. Hack Reactor is (imo) one of the high-water marks of this line of thinking. Lambda and Holberton are others.

I think he's miscast the three variables though -- partly because he's got a bit of a dog in the race. (As I do -- "we're not a bootcamp" is something many bootcamp founders, yours truly included, have said.) Anyway here's another perspective on the matter:

#1 is mostly right -- bootcamps are limited in price, and this is a huge constraint. It's wrong in an important way: it should be "How much can I charge before a student picks another bootcamp". This problem gets easier, but doesn't go away, if a bootcamp uses a deferred-tuition model. Evidence for my formulation here: App Academy and Hack Reactor have the same kinds of student outcomes problems, because we're both facing the same demon, which is the low-cost bootcamp that prevents us from charging more and spending more on product quality.

Austen's #2 and #3 are both about specific ways to tweak the bootcamp's expense : quality ratio. This is an interesting topic that goes really deep, and I think Austen's reduction is (honestly) pretty heavy on the marketing content. If I were to boil it into two bullets it'd go like this.

#2 "Can you run a good program, online or offline, that isn't classroom-based." Here, by "classroom" I mean "15-40 students and teachers that know each other personally", and it can and does happen online. (Viking Code School, and Hack Reactor Remote, do online/classroom-based programs.) Classroom programs are very challenging to operate: they introduce discrete start dates, fill rate problems, etc. But it's hard to reproduce the quality of a classroom-based program in eg a mentor-driven or community-driven program. I think the answer here will be "kind of", and hybrid classroom-like programs will win.

#3 "Can you get students to pay $10k+ for an online program". Online can be better than offline -- Hack Reactor Remote is our top-performing campus right now. However, few people want to buy it, despite the fact that it doesn't involve moving to SF. Perhaps Lambda has figured something out here -- I don't know about their growth numbers. I hear Thinkful has. Generally, I think the bootcamp space will mostly become hybrid online/offline. I bet half of Lambda's students are in SF, they meet up in person already, and Lambda does or will facilitate/market this.

My #2 and #3 are also poor formulations of the fundamental challenge here -- the quality : cost ratio. For instance, my favorite recent innovation in the bootcamp space (evidenced by Holberton, and maybe Lambda?) is to offset tuition costs and increase grad expertise by bundling an internship and taking a bite of internship income. This doesn't pertain to my #2 or #3 (or Austen's) but it's a way to solve the top-line problem Austen mentioned.

Anyway, TLDR: another bootcamp founder agrees with Austen's thesis; quibbles on details in ways you might find interesting.
Whoops! Sorry, was messing around with my blog while apparently everybody was trying to read it. Should be fixed now.
And even if they claimed exactly otherwise, I wouldn't trust them. I'm not sure there's anything that can be done at this point to undo that distrust.
Unfortunately waste of users' computer resources is an externality and developers are more expensive than ever. Revealed preferences show that customers would rather buy more hardware resources than pay higher prices for efficient software (within reasonable limits).
> Can you justify why we as a society should want companies to operate at a scale like Google or Facebook?

The simple (and inevitable) solution is to break up Facebook. No need to even get that complicated, at least to start: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp.
Pretty much all the elevated train lines in London were built a long time ago - often before any of the houses which surround them. I don't think any new elevated lines (with the exception of bridges and the occasional longer section to join existing elevated lines) have been built for decades, perhaps significantly more.
Isn't it always?
Is the Swedish media being silent about these things, and hence why the other Swedes here are denying these things?
Oh, friend. You are missing out.

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Really? I absolutely will not pay 8$ a month to read the occasional NYT article. I will not pay 4$ per episode of TV shows I watch (I have tried this multiple times and it sucks). I would absolutely pay 5 to 25 cents to read an article. I would absolutely pay 1$ per episode. Unfortunately, no one is offering their content at these realistic price points. Nor could they with credit card processors taking 30 cents per transaction. We need a new model that makes costs realistic. I bet a lot of people would pay 1 dollar a month for social media to avoid ads and tracking.
Yes, harnessing the patient's immune system to fight their cancer is a very promising technology and is saving the lives of many patients, even more as the processes and meds get further refined.
I guess by honest I meant "law abiding". Obviously someone that committed and was convicted of a felony does not qualify.

From your example, it sounds like the real issue would be behavior from law enforcement / public officials that encourages criminality. The issue there is not "no food stamps". It's a bad system. Fix the system that you think is broken, and then you won't need food stamps, no?
my 2012 one has an Ivy Bridge i7 in it and it is still plenty fast for build tasks in my (fairly price-conscious) environment.

That's the point: the current mini is worse than what you could get in 2012, due to removing the quad core option and upgradeable memory.
What scenario do you envision where the whole species (or even large populations) wouldn't be able to have children without technology or approval?
The problem is that you can pull articles from early 2017 that show the same thing just talking about 2016, while every year seems to be an election year in some places it doesn't really seem to be a made up story.

I don't really understand the "counter arguments" presented here are the statistics wrong? because these seems to be official statistics reported by all Swedish media and produced by the Swedish government.
Love Tantek's point, and all the indieweb efforts, but the fact that the existence of these technologies needs to be pointed out, even on HN, kind of illustrates that they're currently "lost" from the standpoint of mainstream internet users.
We had a "DBA" show up like that./ He didn't even seem too concerned that he looked nothing like the guy we interviewed over Skype.
The unnecessary verbosity of these books makes me so mad I could just tug on my braid.
This seems awfully skewed. Not sure it belongs here
Lol USA 🇺🇸
1. You can’t. They didn’t have an incentive to prioritize this on product roadmap, at least not until now.

2. Most likely to jump start new accounts. They’ll be able to target ads at your new account better if they already have years of data about your interests.
It's too bad, because I sure wish I could make the homepod use a different phrase.

The homepod knows to activate when I say hey siri, but my friends phone activates instead of the homepod whenever they say 'hey siri' about %50 of the time.
I just tried 'Hey Siri where is 'Isle of Dogs' playing - and it got it first time.
No, there is a lot of original research on decentralized systems and consensus happening thanks to cryptocurrencies. It's just surprisingly hidden compared to ML research and other popular buzzword areas. Maybe the noise from scammy ICOs drowns it, I don't know, but if you're a researcher or developer interested in decentralized systems then you definitely can't complain about lack of innovation.
Looking at their home page, they say, "Paid email is already one of the first truly useful applications of the blockchain."

Does that make any sense? If I wanted to set up paid email, how does a blockchain help? It seems technically unnecessary.

And if I really wanted user adoption, why woulnd't I just pay people in their local currency instead of trying to get them to take part in something much less directly useful to them?
Amazon warehouse workers should consider moving to China and work at the factories where they will be treated better.
At least Siri is easy to say internationally. I never manage to use the proper accent when I say "Okay Google".
Good luck with this! My morning commute is hungry for more podcasts!
> where before the Japanese brands were perceived as cheap knock-offs to where the Japanese brands were perceived as superior quality wise.

There is a famous Bollywood song from 1955 where the lead actor, the even more famous Raj Kapoor , plays a beggar-like character who sings about "Japanese shoes", which at the time were seen as "cheap knock-offs" only worn by poor people. Here's the song on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdQwPwmsUC0
What does it look like with people?

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-sept-14-2010-long-beach-ca...
Yeah when you put it like that it sounds bad, but Facebook really are right that literally every other advertiser on the planet does exactly the same thing.

Honestly I think the bigger issue is that Facebook tracks you on third party sites when you are logged in to Facebook - in those cases they easily know your exact identity. Most advertisers can't do that. Google could, but I'm not sure if they do or not.
When asked question 2 before the US Congress, he repeatedly said that it's for security reasons, something about identifying attackers. It sounded to me like a corporate version of crying "national defense!" They really need to give a full accounting of what those are used for.
I was testing some Alexa stuff for work the other day and named a light "Lighty McLight Face". All Alexa would ever hear was "lightly lick my face".
If Facebook need to answer this question then so do Google, Twitter, Amazon and basically anyone else with a big enough footprint.
> And now it's finally getting close to actual Windows

Security probably hasn't been tested very much but it probably will be as secure as most other OSes? (i.e., not very secure)
I'm aware it isn't uncommon, it's just less remarkable that a couple outfits would carry opinion pieces by the same person than it might be if they were opinion pieces by different people.

And that's the part of the article people are responding to, the opinion, the stuff that isn't in the Sveriges text, about how Sweden should be afraid of what it has done to itself. The Sveriges piece does mention that the homicide rate is still lower than Finland...
I don't think THP is a good example, because its not considered very stable actually.

https://oracle-base.com/articles/linux/configuring-huge-page...

> That sounds like a good idea, but unfortunately Transparent HugePages don't play well with Oracle databases and are associated with node reboots in RAC installations and performance problems on both single instance and RAC installations. As a result Oracle recommends disabling Transparent HugePages on all servers running Oracle databases, as described in this MOS note.

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Anyway, the very point of huge-pages is to gain ~3% to 5% faster program speed by keeping more of the memory-management units of the OS inside of the TLB-cache of the CPU.

Running a background thread to defragment the physical memory system of your computer WHILE your critical tasks are running... very most likely kills the performance benefit you were trying to get.

Linux's raw Hugepages work fine, but have their own set of drawbacks as I described in the previous post. For the moment, it seems like a better idea to use "normal" Linux Huge Pages than to use the THP. Indeed, I'm seeing reports that some people get 10s of millisecond pauses when their application does a 32-byte malloc with THP enabled (Linux Kernel decides to garbage collect + defragment + turn your pages into a Huge Page). A lot of programs don't expect a tiny malloc to cause such a major performance hit randomly (ie: video games).

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mechanical-sympathy/...

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1560893

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Best practice (in both Linux AND Windows) is:

* Code your program to accept Large Pages if possible. But consider the failure case, and fall-back to normal 4kB pages if you fail.

* If performance is CRITICAL (ie: servers), then allocate the large page at the beginning of the program, and NEVER LET IT GO. Start the program early when the OS boots up to ensure that Large Pages are available.

* Linux's alternative is to have the human / SysAdmin manage large pages manually. Divy them out to the programs as needed. Which works just fine, although its a bit of a hassle.
Another thing is that actions malware take and actions legitimate "power user" software takes are separated only by context. Thus automated behavior analysis is always going to produce false positives.
They may not know everything about everyone, but they are working on it.

$500B market cap: the market thinks they will succeed.
> Labor and capital are on the same side, they are both producers of wealth.

Neither labor nor capital independently produce wealth, generally, it's produced by the application of labor to capital; the suppliers of labor and capital are on opposing sides of the fight to capture the wealth the two are used together to create.

“Capitalism” was named for the side it specifically favors in that fight, by people who found that a fundamental problem.
What I fear is when science gets us to the point that humans are no longer necessary for reproduction
As for 1), I've had several recruiters and my former professors say it's better to Google it than admit you don't know.

Our industry needs to professionalize with some kind of standard certification that proves holders are at least minimally qualified. Like the bar exam for lawyers.
For what you're doing, a dynamic is a good call--they'll eat the bounce off the walls. Don't worry about a tight pickup pattern so long as it is generally cardioid; with dynamic mics' general falloff, a wide cardioid pattern is not going to hurt you much. Consider the AT2005USB or ATR2100USB; both microphones are USB/XLR so later on you don't have to dump them if you want to get fancier and they sound very good for the price.

Feel free to e-mail me if you'd like to chat about this; I do a little bit of audio wizardry on the side (and I'm building an open-source podcast serving platform at the moment, as it happens, so I've spent time in the weeds--maybe it'd be a good option for your hosting).
I fully understand direct exposure can be lethal nearly instantly.

It looks like what I didn't understand is radiation-blocking of a material (lead, concrete, water) is actually a decay function (half of the radiation makes it through X feet) rather than an absolute function (no radiation makes it through X feet).

In other words, given an infinitely radioactive source, you would require an infinitely thick lead barrier to protect you.

Really, I should have guessed given everything else about radioactivity is the same way.
Since FB owns WhatsApp, I'm sure it's pretty explicit, not implied.
The bad news is: users don't like amazing, rare, or incredible things (at least along some axes of those concepts). MySpace was an eyesore of anything-goes color scheme and design that made for a headache-inducing trip. Facebook brought uniformity to that information set that was a welcome change.

There were good things about MySpace, but there's a reason FB and its ilk came to dominate the user adoption numbers.
Costco is a good example of a happy medium. At least they treat their workers like humans, and have proper amount of staff & checkout lines.
I would say it "skwir-rul," but that might be a northeastern regional pronunciation?