skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The call with Andy established a relationship between NeXT and Intel, which, while not bearing fruit immediately, lead to the Apple CEO's decision years later to acquire NeXT.
There are multiple parts. Keep scrolling.
> are we safe forever on Earth ?

and that's why Mars exploration is more important than curing cancer. Cancer is unlikely to kill everyone of us all at once.
To be fair, dealing with radiation induced carcinogenesis is already on NASA's radar (https://humanresearchroadmap.nasa.gov/risks/risk.aspx?i=96). Any long-term space mission will require mitigating cancer risk, which is probably about as close to a cure that we can reasonably hope for. So the two (space travel and cancer) are actually very closely linked.
This is a garbage article. At least link to the original press release from CBRE: https://www.cbre.us/about/media-center/tech-thirty-2016.
It's a multiple part post... read a bit further down

"I closed my office door, picked up the phone, and asked for Andy Grove. I wanted to know why they weren’t in the conversation. I guessed it was because we used the Intel i860 chip on one of our graphics boards and it didn’t impress us. But what were Michael Dell, Bill Gates and Andy going to do about the Intel 80486 facing the same fate as Motorola’s 68040? I had to know."
My guesses are that:

1. Integrating the development environment on their host PC (for example connecting RStudio in R's case, or connecting their web browser back to a server running in the VM in the case of Jupyter) is another set of skills to master.

2. Many data analyses are memory hungry unless you want to resort to coding practices that optimize for memory consumption. The overhead of running a VM is a bummer for some scientists.

3. Many scientists are not using Linux top-to-bottom, and therefore don't have a great way of virtualizing a platform that they are familiar with (e.g. Windows, macOS)

Can people think of others? I'm sure I'm missing some.

(EDIT: To be clear, I think VMs are a great path, but I do think there are some practical reasons why some scientists don't use them)
My experience has been that Monty Python and Douglas Adams references are the clear exceptions to the no humor rules on HN, though I don't suppose you'll find that written down anywhere.
The story stretches across several "posts", just keep scrolling
Xbox Adaptive Controller: packaging that disabled gamers can open without teeth
Sweden uses conventional aerial bombs to extinguish forest fire
AMD never had meltdown to begin with. That was an Intel exclusive. Spectre is the one that affects everyone
However, I don't care how different or secure their security division is. If they're happy to run it under the Verizon brand they I will continue to assume they are incompetent monkeys and they deserve to loose business for this.

Either up your security so Verizon is finally considered a credible brand, or spin the security business off as a separate entity.
Welcome to GDPR. Processing of any personal information ("any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person") requires "clear, free, specific and unambiguous" consent. GDPR requires that you inform your subscribers of the existence of data processing operations and its purposes.

Cookies, for example, may track identifying information. Thus, websites are compelled under the law to inform you of their practices actively and directly. Even requesting one page.
What’s Next for Cortana?
How many generations down do you care about? Do you think fixing global warming is a waste of time, if it might affect 3 generations down?
* Henry Spencer and Geoff Collyer (1992). "#ifdef Considered Harmful, or Portability Experience With C News". USENIX ’92 Proceedings. pp 185-197. https://usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/s...
whops, of course, mixed them up.
Yes, that was my point. :)
> Labradors are toys, being bred to be playful and loving. A half breed of a pit bull doesn't count much either.

Interesting that you'd say this -- I think there's always exceptions to these rules, and here's mine:

I had a half-laborador, half-pitbull. Like a lab, she was very aware of people's emotions, and like a pit, she was strong, aggressive, and had a very high pain threshold. (She barely reacted when we pulled porcupine spines out of her nose with pliers.) Unfortunately, this was a problematic mix. If I was the least bit uncomfortable with somebody, even if it was just social anxiety and I wasn't in any danger, she would start growling and try to make them go away. And she viewed every other dog as a mortal threat, to which she would react with murderous fury. I have no doubt that if I had felt physically threatened, she would have done serious and possibly disproportionate damage.

I wasn't able to take her out much.
I think the "senior" web developers with less than 5 years work history seem to be earning $90K/year, which seems low.

Any thoughts?
It's actually a very attractive option for people who are stuck in the EB-2 GC queue in the US. For instance, you could wait in the US for 15 years on a H1-B unable to open your own business, or you could move to Toronto on Express Entry and try and build a company.
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U.S. cord cutters to reach 33M this year, faster than expected
Nope. I'm saying that Americans are unfortunately missing out on what is elsewhere a great, modern transportation system. If the federal government hadn't used massive war-driven budgets to replace rail with highways, and continued to massively subsidize highways, you'd be there, too.
Maybe my understanding is wrong but with smt though the kernel.is not informed of which virtual CPU is in residence at any given time. IIRC, With smp only, the kernel is responsible for scheduling onto the processor so it can invalidate the cache exactly when it needs to.
Also, for now, pipenv handles badly custom pipy with authentication
> you should never allow other people to feed or pet it.

Let children and elderly pet/feed and you suddenly have a well behaved protection dog.
> I can't speak to how common something like this is but you do typically need to be served with the summons, or the plaintiff needs to show some sort of proof that you received the notice

I can, somewhat. I also had a similar situation (although much less serious) where I was supposedly "served" paperwork.

Basically process fraud is endemic in the debt collection "industry" - from the brief research I did years ago. I won my case mostly off this and the judge being sick of having to grant default judgement to these "pocket filers".

Some states are far worse than others due to laws such as pocket filing, etc.

The real problem is there is no real fear of punishment from a process server lying to the court. The worst I've seen happen is someone lose their job.
Ask HN: Which license for a language for take over the world?
So I'm ready to start serious with my toy language, and of course, I'm already thinking how will take over the world :).

So, I'm thinking which license? Is clear must be open source, and because I wanna it to be usefull for iOS and closed source project not GPL, but which else ?
> A likelihood that is 100% informed by a choice you make.

No, it's not. The status quo practice of plea deals not only encourages false guilty pleas, it also encourages false testimony that confirms prosecution narratives against other people who do not plea guilty, because the extent and effect of cooperation with prosecution is often a factor in getting a plea deal and the sentence received in it.

(Now, it probably does more to encourage true guilty pleas and true incriminating testimony, and so in net probably makes justice more accurate than would otherwise be the case; but it toys the balance in favor of the prosecution for both the innocent and the guilty to do that, which can be seen as violating the principle that protecting against wrongful convictions is off greater priority than assuring the guilty are convicted.)
I don't get what your point is then, sorry. That the UK should stay in the customs union?
Massively incredible photos.

After my wife sees these pictures I'm going to have to figure out how to fit a drone in the budget.
It strikes me as highly significant that a large portion of the questions here are along the lines of "what the heck is this thing?" I'm certainly in that boat: as far as I can tell Knative is some kubernetes based cloud something something that maybe let's you host your own FaaS? Like Openwhisk? Or maybe it helps you deploy or something (isn't that already what k8s does?)?

This is hopefully received by Knative devs (or marketers) that the homepage needs a major overhaul, as it's not at all clear what the product is to the average visitor.
Within the confines of his own blog, the author should have every right to make this kind of post. Promoting any company to your audience means putting your reputation on the line. Any recommendation you make yourself is within this social contract, which is why it’s non-controversial.

“Native Ads” OTOH present themselves as something they are not. They are controversial precisely because they break the contract the author or editor have with their audience.

As to the inclusion on HN I suppose it is a little weird, but I think it can be explained by name recognition, for example from a recent Joe Rogan’s podcast, which I think is quite popular here.

I suppose your point is that the article doesn’t quite deliver on the title. I would agree, but my contention is with the pejorative connotation of calling something a “native ad”, which I think is undeserved.
Great story. All too often - and particularly when it comes to Apple - there is a mythology that a company grows based solely on the decisions and leadership of one individual. The reality is that the vast majority of critical decisions are rooted in stories like this. Apple, Dell, MS, Sun, Oracle, etc.
Interesting. UK is also weird: food is weighed in metric units, people in imperial; Drinks bought in supermarkets are measured in metric, pubs use imperial (by law in both cases, IIRC); Distances on signs can be meters or miles, both initialised as “m” (context being the only clue); fuel is sold by the litre, fuel efficiency is miles per gallon.
Or just decrease the insane US defense budget.
Ask HN: What should I do with these stock options?
[Asking for a literal friend, but I summarized his story/questions in first-person to make it clear...I thought HN may have interesting input, and I figure other people here may benefit from this discussion too]

I've played a crucial role (primarily on biz dev/org dev) as a VP at a startup for the past 2.5 years.

There's no doubt among folks on the team that I have been key to our big revenue growth (arrived to a sale org of 4 people doing $250K/year, leaving a sales org of 20+ people doing $5M/year). I know for a fact that the founders are in awe at the business I've brought in, and a huge factor in that is my very deep network in the hard-to-breakthrough industry we operate in.

But, I'm leaving. It has become clear to me that professionally I don't have much room to grow here, and I was offered a dream job (not even remotely competitive with my current employer, and probably one of the potential acquirers of my current company.

Exercising my options would cost $50K, and they are worth about $500K on paper today. I have the cash, but that is a huge amount of money for me and is obviously risky.

My questions:

1. Given my deep relationship with the founders and the fact I can likely be of tangible value to the company going forward, is there any hope of getting them to let me take a $1/year role that either lets me keep vesting or (obviously way more likely) halts new vesting but prevents my exercise window from opening, so that I can keep the options without buying the shares? If so, how would you approach that conversation?

2. What else should I consider here? I know I have the clear options of putting up the $50K to buy my shares or not putting up the money and losing the shares...are there other options here? Could I sell 10% of my shares "under the table" for $50K, use that money to exercise, and then keep the other 90%?

Thanks!
Google releases new and updated enterprise focused security tools and services
So it's like Serverless framework for k8s?

https://serverless.com/
YubiHSM keeps an audit log of all the data it’s been asked to find. If you find it’s been used to improperly sign a certificate, you can add that specific certificate to your CRL.
The tl;dr of the article.
If the oceans conveyor belt currents stop it could lead to an even warmer Earth rather than an Ice age as is often predicted.
> 100% of innocent people can choose not to take a plea deal

But innocent party A can't choose not to have a third-party B take a plea deal in which testimony that reinforces the prosecution of A is rewarded with a lighter sentence for B than a guilty plea without such testimony would get.
So much difference between annual bill and monthly bill. How do you explain it ?
Donald Keene's Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World is probably the most complete work on that period of time. It's an enjoyable but very dense read.
A note slightly related: Mars reaches perihelic opposition with the sun on July 27, 2018, which means observers on Earth will have their closest view of the planet since 2003. Great time to borrow a telescope.
Took a fast read at the article. Its a pity he is so angry at Georgism in his writing, and dismissive, but nevertheless he presents a case worth hearing.

The indifference vote thing is a fantastic idea, so now I know I'm a Geo-Libertarian.

A fatal flaw in this essay is that it mentions LVT as a single tax. It is a bit unfair because originally, when Henry george proposed it, total public spending was very low (under 10%), not the 35% of GDP that it is today. LVT can account for 5-10% of GDP, and thus in our modern times it is only applicable as a local tax.

The second issue is that it talks about the disadvantages of taxing this way, or the consequences, of which there always are some, but he does not weigh it with property taxes (which exist today), or sales taxes. There are no perfect taxes, its just the "least bad tax".

Granted that a state like california already has an issue with property taxes themselves as they are not collected how they should be.

Nevertheless, its the best piece I found yet against LVT.
I fully expect us to find something like a bacterium somewhere else. They might even be very common anywhere where there's hydrothermal activity. Prokaryotes seem to have evolved _twice_ on earth (archaea and bacteria), albeit from some common proto-cell thing. So there's some chemiosmotic 'recipe' which can make them.

What I don't expect is anything like a eukaryote and certainly not like multicelular life. I think that kind of life is either vanishingly rare or non-existent elsewhere.

There was almost 3 billion years of life on this planet before eukaryotes arrived, and they arrived only once and in a form likely almost identical to what we see today. So it's really really 'flukey' and not something that 'just happens' in some necessary teleological fashion.

Nick Lane gets into this in his book "The Vital Question" -- it's quite convincing. And maybe depressing if you grew up on sci-fi like myself.
I'm betting on Europa. Lovely little moon, so many mysteries. Can't wait to see what we uncover from there.
> There are just so many complex systems in play.

That opinion is better suited to gender than climate for some reason.
If anyone else doesn't recognize the author, here's a CV:

https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp...
"waste of money" is strong. Live with a loved one as they progress through rounds of cancer therapies and I suspect you will identify unmet need. It will change you.
It's not a cancer vs infectious disease/clean water situation, both goals are valid and possible within reasonable means.
We have already spent $500B on cancer research[1] and it hasn't cured. This also isn't an "either/or" proposition. As I mentioned, people travelling in space are subject to a lot of radiation which is known to cause cancer, so part of the research is going to be figuring out how to fix cells that are cancerous.

Cancer is a systemic problem, it isn't measles or polio or TB. You have to understand the system in order to fix it and pushing humans into new environments will give us better insights into the system we call human life.

[1] https://bigthink.com/devil-in-the-data/the-never-ending-war-...
Of course, there are always exceptions.

What I wanted to say is that you'll have a much higher probability of success with a race that's known to be aggressive, if that's what you want, then with a race that was bred as a companion dog. And half-breeds can be very aggressive or very friendly, but it's essentially a lottery.
I don't know any Canadian developer with less than 5 years of experience earning $90k/year. Most developers I know with more than 5 years of experience earn less than $90k/year.
Not in absolute terms, but it's closer when you compare housing cost vs compensation, I think.

The cost of rental housing has jumped up quite a bit recently, too. When I was looking for a place to live in 2015, I saw quite a few condos for rent right downtown for $1700-1800 a month. Now I see units in those same buildings renting for $2300 a month and up.

Still cheaper than SV, I suppose? And if you don't mind a bit of a commute, you can find more affordable accommodation.
It really is. On iOS I use 1Blocker X [0], which does a pretty good job of cleaning most of it up; I added a rule to block loading the infinite scrolling-like script on TC that auto-loads the next article.

[0] 1Blocker X by Salavat Khanov https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1blocker-x/id1365531024?mt=8
Jane Austen’s First Buyer Was Probably a Prince She Hated
Yep, basically this. I had naively assumed a drivers license and address change (along with utility bill) would suffice. I was exceedingly wrong.

My situation was I moved out of my home state for about 3 years, and moved back. About a year (or two? been a bit) after I was back the past-due bill came.

I will also say that due to those actions I made it a life plan to leave this state permanently as soon as my kid is in college. I will not give another dime to them willingly if I can help it.

Edit: And just in case this is helpful to someone. I was "double taxed" by both states, but since these states had an agreement between them I was able to deduct the state taxes of the first state, and simply pay the difference. The difference wasn't extremely substantial, but 3 years of taxes plus 5 years of penalties/interest gets rather absurd quickly - where those fees end up being well over half of the total bill due.
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What you are missing it is the human factor.

At CppCon 2014, if I am not mistaken, too lazy to search the exact year. Herb Sutter asked the audience how many use some kind of analysis tooling. About 1% of the audience say they did.

Joe Duffy has a remark almost at the end of his keynote at Rustconf where he states even with Midori running in front of the Windows team, they weren't accepting it as possible.

At least on Solaris, regardless of its future, those protections are now on for many executables.

https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/default-memory-allocator-se...

Likewise Google has been locking down what native code is allowed to do on Android, including compiling everything with FORTIFY enabled.

It seems pressure must come from OS vendors for habits to change.
Is it sync or async ?
https://sites.google.com/site/kjellhedstrom2/g2log-efficient...
That they are not wrong that the standard of living for the average person in a lot of ex-soviet (which I assume they are talking about) countries did indeed decrease sharply after their "liberation".
I think it is a little ridiculous that they expect us to entirely wipe our devices before they'll acknowledge that there might be an actual issue.
People aren't as helpful as one would think during high stress scenarios either.
Absolutely. And others like Dr. Valter Longo. Some are in fact building companies around this because they believe it's important to create solutions for the masses. For the same reasons, dialysis clinics have built up over the years.

Hopefully the tide will shift. Look for resistance from the established clinics, though, as they've made HUGE investments in recent years.
This looks great! I've often wondered what the best way is to get a well-written privacy policy, etc, even though I haven't needed to yet.

What about their own privacy policy?

> Third-Party Advertisers. We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Site. These companies may use information about your visits to our Site and other websites that are contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. See our Cookie Policy for further information.

> Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.

> Business Partners. We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.

Maybe these clauses are very standard, but you would hope that a company peddling privacy policies wouldn't have one that's as user-hostile as most. Maybe I'm not understanding it properly?
A Breakthrough Way to See Distant Planets
Garbage Clickbait Strategy for 2018:

1: Find a year old apolitical article from respected publication.
2: Figure out a way to make it about Trump.
This is peculiar logic if you break it into its most fundamental. Dealing with cancer's entire purpose is extending the average human life expectancy. Right now cancer is the cause in about 12.5% [1] of all deaths. And the average years of life lost from cancer victims is 15.7 [2]. So if we completely eliminated all cancer we'd expect to extend the life expectancy for everybody by 0.125 * 15.7 = 1.97 years on average. In the US 22% [3] of deaths are from cancer, so it would be .22 * 15.7 = 3.5 years.

So we change our life expectancy in the US from 79.3 years to 82.8 and now suddenly we can become a space faring civilization? Doesn't really make a whole lot of sense does it?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rat...

[2] - https://www.progressreport.cancer.gov/end/life_lost#field_mo...

[3] - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
My thought is, why take the job if you aren't happy with the compensation?
I mean, if you divide the population of the US by 10 then we'd probably get full, above-average coverage for everyone too.

ETA: Maybe not, given less tax revenue and all. The US healthcare system has a lot of waste and bureaucracy after all.
Looking at an old computer magazine last night (Byte's LISP issue), there was an ad for a storage device about the size of a small filing cabinet. I did the math, and my cell phone has 8,800x more storage.
Conway's Webcam of Life
Fast Vector Broadcasting in Java, CPU and CUDA
Any example code? (in Rust?)
xoshiro's response: http://pcg.di.unimi.it/pcg.php
Rome's Subway Expansion Reveals Artifacts From The Ancient Past
Google Titan Security Key
A sufficiently sized meteor could wipe out all life on Earth as we know it - or play "Pick your end of days scenario" between WW3, superviruses, or whatever. Having a few backup humans on the Moon or Mars is more beneficial to the survival of the human race than curing cancer is. Curing cancer saves individuals - establishing an off-Earth colony of humans could save all of humanity. Are the chances of a mass extinction of humans slim-to-none? Yes, but currently all of our eggs exist in a single basket: Earth.