skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm more concerned about how the lack of investment in science and technology (a career in scientific research is pretty bleak nowadays leading to infamous posts like this: http://katz.fastmail.us/scientist.html ) is meaning that our greatest living minds spend their time optimising ad revenues or product monetisation.

As Hammerbacher said: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads, that sucks."
You can easily change "Theoretical Physics" to "Economics", "Politics", "Management".
I had a pigeon
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concurrent_and_paral...

The best besides Pony was Midori for Singularity, but it is not maintained anymore. I think this went into Maestro/Axum, which is now TPL Dataflow.
Is it ok to ask for more info on the work or any reading related to such work, thanks
... by way of apology for working all the time and neglecting her... It’s a big circle.
Smart kids eventually grow up
Does this work with netflix, for example?
Yeah, all o-kay; my comment was not meant as a dismissal but rather as a clarification. Because of various social and soap-opera-like-drama reasons in the community, I was super surprised and electrified to see such content assuming by default it was recent news (2018), given it was unmarked. Once I realized it was from 2007, as much as love the content itself, it became mostly not-news for me, and I cannot deny feeling to some extent misled by this omission.
That's an interesting theory, but it ain't the way I learned music history. When the music store in my home town was closing out 78 records, my dad went in and bought a big stack, a couple of hundred 78s with mostly classical music on 'em. At closeout prices.

As a little kid I was allowed to play those records any time I wanted to. And I listened a lot. Listening to that early music helped me, right away, to pick out what was good pop music on the radio, and what was bad. Cuz, I mean, the music on those records had stood the test of time for two centuries.

Happy father's day, pop. Thanks for the memories.
What is the difference with TBB?
> If you are thinking this is the life, please don't, the boredom from not having intellctually stimulating work and responsibilities is very real...

Like most software jobs these days? :/.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17316267

Gist of it was, github stars is a poor usage metric as React is way ahead in NPM downloads, etc.
Interview: Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++
Why should it, if the input is skewed?

Suppose administrating Harward requires high economics and management skills. Only say 10% if total population has those skills and 1% is black... How do you know if the input is biased? Easy, check it. Then fix the problem at the source if possible.
More Robust Features in Updated Devart ODBC Drivers to Tap into Data Seamlessly
It almost makes you wonder if bot-programmers and their related marketing team have never seen a bathroom wall before... Anonymity paired with a publishing channel seem to bring out a certain kind of creativity...
SMS number on Twilio => Your webhook => Telegram API to forward message to you and you can reply via same (he receives SMS)

Another person can simply install Telegram

This way you can communicate to both using Telegram, one can talk to you via SMS and another via Telegram.

(Telegram or any other IM supporting API access)
> India and China combined now account for roughly half the world's undergraduate degrees in the sciences

I wish this amount of man power is converted into productive outcomes.
What accounts for the difference in these figures? Is it understandable for someone without in depth knowledge or not really?!
Real-Life Polymer Models for Simulated Tumor Treatments
I'm not the original commenter (and on mobile, so this response might be a little terse), but I think what he's talking about is polymorpism. For an example, if you have two classes, Int and String, and you have a method special_fn you want to implement for both in different ways, (e.g. "addition/concatanation"), you can either make a bunch of special_fn_* stuff, or simply create an interface SpecialFner with the special_fn method, and implement it for Int and Str. This lets you use this interface in other places without worrying about all the different versions of this function.
What's triple- and quadruple-tracking?
Does it mean that using a vaccine with a killed microbe could expose the person to danger if he or she already has the non-pathogen variation of the same microbe in their body? What if they acquire the non-pathogenic microbe some time after the vaccination? Is there still a risk for DNA transfer?
“The working class have never yet had a voice in declaring
war,” Debs declared. “If war is right, let it be declared
by the people – you, who have your lives to lose.”

Those were dangerous words in June 1918.

They still are. Little has changed in the past 100 years. The war is still declared by the rich, and the poor dies, on both sides.
Thanks for the suggestion, I didn't think of Twilio=>webook.
Telegram is one of the platforms I use daily and something that would distract me but i guess you can replace it with anything else like an IRC client.
Deutsche Telekom is currently offering 24 hours of real unlimited data for free in Germany at every World Cup game of the German soccer team. (Their usual plans offer single-digit GB data per month.)

I would expect that to be a near worst case scenario from a bandwidth perspective. Everyone all at once suddenly has unlimited data during roughly the same 24 hour window. Apparently their existing infrastructure is good enough to handle such a spike.

This is limited somewhat in that this is a manual process (you have to click a link on a website to get it and then click a link in the confirmation SMS), but still. I think they could offer unlimited data at a price well below what they are currently offering (€80 per month for unlimited data – actually that’s not so bad, only a couple months ago the situation was much worse).
The Nuon was designed by the same team (Flare) as the Atari Jaguar. Have been trying to get one on EBay just for Tempest. What exactly are you working on for the Nuon?
>The type of %1 is %struct.MyType* and not %struct.MyType [1]. In the case of references and pointers, clang actually transforms them into double pointers. This is the first indicator that lvalues (all these C++ variables are lvalues) are translated into pointers.

This statement can confuse those who never did assembly. The fact is that CPU has only few fixed-size registers and there is no such thing like struct/array value without an address [2]. So, when you write “struct MyType v”, it will have an address on the stack, which will be loaded into the register for further access. But naming it a pointer (and a pointer to it a double pointer) is vague move. It is like naming an array a pointer too, since you have to know head address to index elements beyond it. “v” is an address at low level, but not a pointer, and while author is technically right, the terminology is mixed and thus misleading.

[1] author wrote * here, but probably meant none.

[2] unless it is small enough to be completely optimized into registers.

Edit: punctuation
More American Exceptionalism and Navel Gazing (tm)
This is not history, but rather rhetoric and nationalistic propaganda.

As an American by birth and upbringing, I really wish that these people would travel and realize:
1) every nation has their "unique and special history"
2) every nation uses that mythology to boost national pride
3) this nationalistic "but we are special" tone only functions for a given domestic audience, given that this is its intended target
4) It therefore contributes NOTHING to international relations & dialogue.

Imagine the silly world of 2018 where Belgians would still go on and on about the Belgian revolution vis-a-vis the Dutch. Get over it. It's literally history.

While the "reformist" historians that the author decries may indeed turn things inside out and distort the lense in an effort to expiate our national sins (which really were sins and shouldn't be defended ad nauseaum)
the author himself seems to have divorced himself from any concept of academic dispassionate truth-telling and be actively engaged in defending nationalist propaganda to a laughably obvious degree.
The author should visit nations where actual dictators former and present have created similar "Gods Children" mythos and realize the banal stupidity of such a position as adults in a world we all share.

God does not prefer any grouping of humans to another, and most definitely does not approve of politics nor nationalism. God told me this just now, so you can rest assured that it's true.

The author and his myopic defenders may accuse me of being a "Left Wing Radical" (tm) to which I may response "indeed" given another context. In this particular context I'm merely
1) right
2) being the voice of reason in the face of emotional rhetoric defending a belief system with the full force of a religion, quite a dangerous belief system, when you consider that.

Please, no operating heavy machinery under the influence of "I am the son of Amon Ra" nonsense...
Cryptocurrencies: looking beyond the hype [pdf]
Me. Exactly the LA Times.

I've probably clicked links to the LA Times half a dozen times since they started blocking the EU.
Well, yeah, exactly, but that's why it's the law. Stealing is a competitive advantage (for the thief), but a net negative for the society, which is why it's illegal and persecuted.

I agree with you, that the law should be as small as possible, but you're missing the second part (just as important IMO) - that the law (small as it should be) be enforced fully and applied fairly.
Yes, I occasionally go look at the guides on Hackintoshes, but the difficulty with macOS upgrades puts me off.
For some color, watch Mark Ruffalo read Eugene Debs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuGp-0G1p4M
My experience is the exact same, I so want to be able to have a snappy low latency desktop experience in Linux and it is just not happening. Today I run a "lightweight" Ubuntu Mate workstation with an i7 + dedicated GPU and it's still worse latency wise than my Windows XP PC was more than 15 years ago. Not good. Really not good.
physical buttons are hard to debug!
emergency-only cellphone looks like the better alternative for now even if it would require me to use two phones or swap sims.
It's not a life risk situation, more a (business and peace of mind) life risk situation so i don't think ~life alert could work
Internet content went from small forum where people were actively talking about a subject, asking questions and answering them, gathering knowledge together, to facebook pages where you just absorb content (usually memes).

People have become passive on the internet
Thank you! :) Let me know how is your experience with the app itself!
Rose colored glasses. You remember all the good stuff with none of the bad stuff. Remember programming in that time? HTML, CSS, JS? Internet Explorer 6?

As to how to make friends in your 30s - pick up dancing. Salsa, bachata, salsa cubana, kizomba all are build on idea of social dancing. You go to a party and dance with random people. Try it.
Russian Escort Week: Όλες οι Ρωσίδες μέχρι 24/06 στα 120€
AT&T, Time Warner, and the Need for Neutrality
Why don't you whitelist the important contacts on your phone and set your phone into do not disturb mode?

For iPhone see: https://www.imore.com/how-receive-messages-specific-contacts...

For Android see: https://www.greenbot.com/article/2995581/android/take-contro...

If I recall correctly HN User Patio11 used Twilio when he was in Japan to filter messages/calls from his contacts. See: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/01/how-patrick-mckenzie-bui...

Edit: Of course http://ifttt.com/ could be your friend and relay SMS to your app of choice ;-)
This was one of a clutch of related cases before the Supreme Court that gave us the pro-censorship cliché about "shouting fire in a theater."[1]

The Espionage Act that they were convicted under is, of course, still on the books, and now primarily used against whistleblowers and leakers.

[1]: https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
That is basically what the "loudness" button on older stereos did.

Bump about 100hz, another at 10khz or thereabouts.
Oh, my favorite "attempted rhetorical device" is definitely a line from one of the first paragraphs:

"but since patriotism doesn’t have the appeal it used to have, Arnold’s treason seems not to matter as much anymore."

Patria, patriotism, authors particular definition of it, true patriot, false patriot, other interpretations, etc.

Wanker.
A 40-minute algorithmic riddle, may give you a gist of what the candidate is capable. But, you never know for sure, if he/she will perform well in actual work environment.

You have to understand what your technical challenges are and what you are hiring for..? Do you need a generalist or specialist? Does you product require a lot of new algorithm?

I have seen candidates that are extremely good at algorithmic puzzle, but lack the overall approach to build stuff, candidates that have a lot of projects and not so good at algorithmic riddle excel. Also seen the pretenders that show they have done a lot of projects and domain expertise, but when you dig in, you come to know that those project where either trival or they where just lucky to be a part of a team good team.

You will have to be very careful on getting candidates that actually are interested in building things and not just for the sake of interview and a job the prepare for the algorithmic riddle...but you never know for sure, until he/she start working on the project.
The 7 worst landing pages ever
Loads of comments regarding what "I" want or someone else wants. I think it's irrelevant and perhaps even dangerous to have the focal point on such popularities because the matter at hand is far more simple.
Copyright grants a distribution monopoly >> Monopolists makes money monopolists style >> Internet breaks the distribution monopoly >> And now: copyright distribution monopolist buys ISP's ( distributors ) in order to regain control of the market.
This is not about you, me, "people", it's simply business.
> it's possible OP really is saving money by renting their hardware instead of owning.

Is it, though? Other than the special case of Netflix, it strains credibility that any cloud provider would be willing to give enough of a discount to match, let alone beat, ones own hardware. How would they make money?

This can be especially true if one "unfairly" compares a cloud provider's relatively expensive hardware choices to ones own cheaper choices. For example, AWS with dual 10GE motherboards and CPUs that weren't the best performance-per-dollar when they bought them, if all you need is single gigabit (and don't need particularly high single-core CPU speed).

> the rate will go up to match what renting something similar would cost from a competitor, plus slightly less than whatever they think it will cost you to move.

Fortunately, there's an upper bound, which is the public price, which has, at least historically, been coming down. Also, AWS has the spot instance market, which can provide downward price pressure from even that ceiling.
Thanks! It solved the problem for me, so hopefully you will get your solution as well :) Import is already on our todo list as I know it's a huge facilitation in onboarding. Thanks for kind feedback!
Of Particular Significance; Matter and Energy: A False Dichotomy (2012)
They need to resort to the mechanism agreed upfront to prove identity. Usernames, emails, numbers + passwords, keys etc.

At this point I see this practice mostly as deterrance with a little cya mixed in, possibly with a pinch of data fishing in some rare cases.

However in the future I'm all for providing IDs as a requirement to use webservices if that makes people more conscious about what data they share.
Great to hear! If there is anything I could improve for you, let me know!
Have you been blind since birth?

I had a few blind taxi passengers. One could click her tongue to echo-locate walls. What are your superpowers - skills that people don't expect you to have?
GCP arrives in the Nordics with a new region in Finland
I don't think unlimited data is a technical issue, it's a competition issue
Because then I have no advantage over the casino. With a hand shuffled deck, you get clumps of high cards together from the last set of hands, which gives an advantage to the player. If you can ride out waiting for the clumps, you can beat the house.
It is just socialist, anti-capitalist, not anti-war:

> “I know of no reason why the workers should fight for what the capitalists own,” ... “I will never go to war for a capitalist government,”

It is ironic how later “socialist” country manage to kill their own civilians.
Thanks, great to hear :)
What If Everyone On Earth Jumped at Once?

Allain found that our jump would push on the Earth ever so slightly, giving it a recoil speed of 2.6 x 10^-13 m/s. That is, in one second, Earth would move about a hundredth of the radius of a single hydrogen atom .

https://www.livescience.com/33383-everyone-on-earth-jumping-...
The RPi GPU and display subsystem have fully open source drivers in Linux and userland (Mesa). If you are using the old blobs it's out of ignorance.
IMHO being convinced that there's only one true and correct methodology (TDD, Scrum, etc.) or paradigm (functional, objective, reactive programming, etc.) is a sign of being a bad programmer.
Lead up to Iraq war for example.

The only difference between media like RT and for example the NYT is that RT is directly controlled by the state while the NYT is played like a puppet.

The blatant way RT is influenced is not acceptable in the Unites States however that does not mean the NYT and others are not used for propaganda.

Just think about it from the other side. If you were at the white house or working at the CIA and you needed to push your agenda (what ever that might be). How would you influence the media? What would prevent you from having some of your agents actually work a media outlet, or even for you to pay journalists directly? Or leak via trusted sources that the media loves to use? The media has a strong fear of missing out, how can you exploit that?
How does shared_ptr work? Reference counting?

No wonder that's slow and wasteful of both cache and branch prediction. What's wrong with using a proper generational moving garbage collector?
Well, you could do it with a black powder motor if you calculate the burn time such that during the landing phase the TWR of the entire rocket dips below 1 until a descent velocity is achieved and then stays at 1 until landing where you need a bit over 1.

TL;DR extremely (impossibly) hard but not completely impossible if you solve the above problem.

You need atleast a hybrid motor IMO, something where you can control the thrust atleast partially (below and above 1 TWR).

Whether or not you use the same motor for landing or takeoff is another question, you can use the same motor for both if it has enough fuel and TWR.
Unlikely, expert systems outperform doctors at diagnosis already. Nursing, perhaps not yet. There are supposed to be exams not requiring education, but internship is still a prerequisite and hard to get.
Engineering is mostly mathematics and physics. Doable by machines. You probably meant design instead.
Psychologist, well, first they have to actually be good at it...
lol nope. not unless the sensors were buried less than a foot underground under a really big crowd.
You really don't need to run a full node, that's just decentralization fetishism.

Decentralization is just a means to an end: permissionless p2p digital payments. You don't need to personally run a full node for that.
Not too much of a conspiracy theorist, but what are the chances that part of this is organized by Chinese, North Korean or Russian government agencies?

The incentives are there - disrupt one of the West's biggest platforms, cause social upheaval - and with just a bit of funding an effort like this could go a long way.

Is this option not being considered and investigated?
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Why the Stanford Prison Experiment was wrong about good and evil
If you care to remember, please, why was it bad? Did modern hardware/software solve it or prove it okay?
Cookies: explaining document.cookie and the Set-Cookie header
Real unlimited data is, well real. At least in Austria. Prices range from 20-50 €. It is only usable in Austria though, but that's not an issue. This has been this way even before LTE.
would like to read XKCD response :)
Well actually it happened recently in Peru:

https://twitter.com/alerta_sismo/status/930989560896647169

So either someone saw that and decided to make this story up, or it does indeed happen.

I can tell you from experience that seismometers are ridiculously sensitive- the noise reductions that need to be done after shooting a land survey are a nightmare.
Meet the GitLab Web IDE
Relevant for those who don't want to get rid of infinite scroll sites completely:

When opening such site, go several pages down immediately and work your way up instead of down. That way, you have a clear end and you've decided already how much time you want to spend there and can just quit when you get to the first post.
The site looks great, I love the design and functionality. Is the code available on github?
I don't have all the answers but I'll just say keep it dead simple and reliable. The last thing you want is an unreliable emergency solution.
I always thought the story was that Matter WAS Energy..
Here you go: https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/
Node9: Hosted 64b OS Based on Inferno but Using Lua and LuaJIT
As someone who has done a fair bit of teaching, I agree. Teaching made me learn, but much less than working on actual projects. And the kind of stuff I've learned for teaching isn't very useful for real-world development. It tends to be edge-case trivia useful to reply to "clever" student trying to point inconsistencies in the technology I was teaching.

In my experience, a more valid reason to teach is that it makes you speak and stand up, which can be a kind of physical relief from sitting silently in front of a monitor all day. And also of course the joy of helping students who are interested in the subject.
Voxon VX1 volumetric 3D display
Ask HN: HackerNews for psychology?
Don't know about you but finding some meaning in work or life is starting to get more important for me in my late 20s so I decided to embark in a new journey of knowing myself to a better extent. Some suggest journaling, meditation, personality quizzes or travelling. I would like to read more on this topic and get more depth in terms of how psychology can help with this. Also please feel free to let me know how you ended up doing what you love.
Is there anything credible around WikiLeaks?

Quick google: http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-le...
Breaking down France’s new $76M Africa startup fund
And yet the vast majority of Uber drivers I talk to derive their primary income from being an Uber driver.

And likewise, the majority of listings on Airbnb are properties that aren't normally resided in by the owner.

The whole "sharing economy" is a cheap veneer. It's commercial activities at heart.
South Africa's first blockchain hub and seed accelarator
You make a valid argument; my kneejerk reaction to the grandparent was to go "damn corporations!11", but at the same time, a lot of those hundreds of years old brands wouldn't be around anymore if it wasn't for those. As long as they leave the distilleries to do their thing I guess I'm okay with it.

Plus they can much more efficiently handle distribution. I mean I don't think an independent Scottish distillery would easily send representatives to e.g. Japan to create new markets there. If representatives representing 130 brands at a time goes there, however...
Especially the upload makes it so much better. Usually nobody is uploading much.