skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, "I had no idea it wasn't considered a solid measurement" does not mean "I am asserting it is a solid measurement". It is quite obviously not the same statement (use of the past tense, for one - they make no claim about what ideas they have now), "from the words in the exchange". It is true that sometimes "I had no idea that X" is used to mean "I don't believe you that X." It is also frequently used sarcastically to mean "obviously X". But from context, I think the statement was quite literally a statement that they had no idea. This was relevant because, again, you had just asserted to someone else that it was unreasonable to have no idea.

Lastly, charity has a role in any conversation - particularly those involving disagreement. If your conversation partner might be saying something stupid or something reasonable, taking the reasonable interpretation or checking what they meant produces better conversation. I myself would sometimes do well to remember that, in the heat of discussion.
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Presumably you don't have to "print" all parts there.
In general, rating systems where the top vote is the "normal" vote are fucked up. There's always noise in how each party perceives the transaction. As the supplier, the only thing you can do is kiss the ass of everyone in hopes of placating the overly negative ones. And as a buyer, you're unable to reward truly above-and-beyond service.
as someone who knows next to nothing about cpu architecture but has watched most of the videos, it seems as though all the concepts are broadly familiar ones to experienced architecture people, but the details of every corner are slightly rearranged.

the position of the translation lookahead buffer is one example of this. that portion of the memory talk goes something like

Ivan: usually the TLB is located here [points to slide]. in the mill it's here [flips to next slide].

Audience: gasp!
I never said anything about Bitcoin. I responded to the comment which said "I thought you could spread a new currency in the US, but no one has to accept anything other than the official US currency."

And yes, I read about his convictions. 18 U.S.C. § 486 is the section I pasted in my previous comment.
Google Wins Everything Part 2: How to be a Partner
Go to main.js
line ~184

In reset()
add:
SPEED = 300;

and it feels closer to the game.
Yes, of course.

One should assume nothing. However, an even dumber idea is to advocate for a system to have more control, actively or by remaining silent, and then later stew in fatalism to the point of thinking that using a smartphone in a revolution is "dumb."
Now that we don't use CDs to install software anymore, what does AOL produce?
Thanks. So I'm still not clear why a vacuum in a thermos is superior then?
Is there a way to mute the game? If not then it would be a nice feature.
I disagree that Enterprise is "broken". Enterprise is simply a different set of priorities.

It's important to be able to look at software from a business perspective (where software is simply a tool to accomplish a task) as well as from a developer/maintainer perspective.

For example, I'm currently rewriting a major system that has been in use here for many years. Our estimate right now is the total time for the rewrite will be about 2700 person-hours over the course of about 18 months.

Supporting the existing system takes about 10 to 20 hours per month. The existing system uses deprecated libraries, unsupported 3rd party components, monkey patched to hell, tightly coupled and has many issues. We can't even rebuild the entire thing from source code because we have unlicenseable components!

But, from a business perspective, the current system has run for many years and is likely to continue running. At 10 to 20 hours per months of support, it would take 15 years to add up to the 2700 hours we're spending in less than 2 years on a rewrite. And a rewrite, like any software, won't be zero-support.

In addition to mapping those hours to dollars, they also map to other features in other applications. Every extra hour I spend on this rewrite is a feature or improvement on another application that could have been done, but was deferred.

In the end, from the business perspective, the new application and the current one are basically identical: the serve the same business purpose! So why spend the hours on a rewrite? Why not just continue to support the current system.

So, as a software person, we hate certain badly broken software that we want to bulldozer and start fresh. But from a business perspective, the only concern is value, cost, and ROI.
What if I don't have any grandiose goals? I'm a simple person who likes to come home and be friendly with my significant other and occasionally get laid.

Also perspective is different for people in healthy relationship. We don't have a word friendzone mean anything.
A light, maybe. Now it's not uncommon for a frequent night biker or city bike commuter to have several very visible LEDs on their bike and gear -- a far step up from the dim battery powered lights of 30 years ago.
Like Google,Facebook,Yahoo they produce ads / eyeballs, nothing more, nothing less.
Some kinds of code will benefit from this - long calculations and deep nested procedures. But lots of hangups on consumer applications are in synchronization, kernel calls, copying and event handling.

I'd like to see an architecture address those somehow. E.g. virtualize hardware devices instead of writing kernel-mode drivers. Create instructions to synchronize hyperthreads instead of kernel calls (e.g. a large (128bit?) event register, a stall-on-event opcode). If interrupts were events then a thread could wait on an interrupt without entering the kernel.
If I'm working I would be in 11-30 or even 61-100. But since it's "right now", I'll go with choice A, less than 10
We have tons of actively used and maintained COBOL systems (including new features/requirements). The cost to rewrite and test these systems would be extremely high, since there is a tremendous amount of business logic embedded within them. In most cases, it is cheaper and makes more sense to continue to supporting the existing applications.
How Crowdworkers Became the Ghosts in the Digital Machine
It's depressing because it needs to evolve and fix its problems. IT is unregulated, security flaws and bad practice will one day generate so much loss the government might try to impose more quality standards and practice regarding to the law and insurances.

I get your frustration, but if there are problems, you should try to craft new solutions instead of complaining.

I think IT sucks in general because there's a big lack of proper skill in programming skills, available tools, law and how businesses stimulate and reward innovation.

History showed humans overcame many technological challenges, but I think there's always more to do, but it just gets harder and trickier. I think ancient mathematicians and scientist were as frustrated, yet we know now about DNA, we have programming languages, lasers and GPS. In short there will be awesome, crazy solutions in the future one day, but they're so awesome that you don't know about it yet: science fiction and futurology are jokes compared to what real inventions and discoveries end up to be.
My use case: I used Wine to let our advertising representatives use a PDF markup tool wit some specific capabilities they wanted that turned out to be Windows-only. It took less time to set up than it would have to even find a good alternative.
What opinions does infosec in general have of correctness? What about languages like Haskell which focus on separating IO and pure functions?
New clue to Voynich manuscript mystery
He claims to have his own free email service (linked from his blog). He also claims (remarkably) that it is a "secure" email service, right next to where he complains about Levison's failure to kowtow fast enough to the FBI.
You're promoting a false dichotomy: "If you're fighting for victory, you can't be fighting for survival".

In WWII if you weren't victorious, you didn't survive. The governments of Hitler? Mussolini? Antonescu? Even Tiso? Japan did keep it's emperor, but he was always a figurehead and Japan's governance was heavily reformed.
It's not often someones actually makes my skin crawl.
The compiler part seems to be a core part of the mill's strategy: the representation and design seems to be oriented towards making it easy to compile for (the guy who gives the talks is a compiler writer). If the performance gains are half as good as advertised, and porting is not a complete pain (and it seems it won't be too bad), then they will have little difficulty attracting market share, even if only in niche applications at first.
Maybe "dick" was too harsh. Maybe we can agree that labour divide is hard and when one side tries to only do things they perceive as manly (when other side doesn't limit herself) he may run out of things to do.
How about getting rid of the bonuses and just mandate a certain number of posts per month, with support for reporting posts filled with garbage for example?
Need some advice
I'm looking for a job, and I want a programming one, which languages are the ones that could get me in an interview or which sites can lead me to learn and then find a job into that area?

I know some Java and python.

regards,

the lord of the poros.
> Specifically, if men did all of what the researchers characterized as feminine chores like folding laundry, cooking or vacuuming — the kinds of things many women say they want their husbands to do — then couples had sex 1.5 fewer times per month than those with husbands who did what were considered masculine chores, like taking out the trash or fixing the car.

1.5 times fewer per month... is that statistically significant?
This law is intended to mitigate the escalation in armed robberies for smartphones that is hitting urban areas in California.

Armed robbers are aware that many (most?) people of even modest means are carrying around devices that, once stolen by force, can be sold (probably to a fencing operation) for a few hundred bucks.

The ability to render smartphones worthless if stolen would go a long way toward reducing the incentive to commit these particular robberies, which constitute a large part of the recent increase in California's armed robbery (and by implication violent crime) rate.

Recently in the Bay Area, where I live, an armed robber held up several people at once, and took all the phones ... except a feature phone.

EDIT: wording.
Enough people need Crossover that they employ several people to work on it and Wine full time. Others find it very useful, so they help out. What's the problem?

It's probably a project that is helping at least hundreds of thousands of people (maybe even millions), and it is getting quite mature, so I don't see any reason not to do it.
gladly :)
> It stops plenty of piracy as without it piracy could be as easy as a single click from a place like Netflix, Google Music, etc.

It... actually is already at this point. I can find any song, any TV show, and any film, available to stream instantly on Youtube of all places. This isn't a shady torrent site, it's a Google-owned property.

In the music sphere, Grooveshark has every song you could think of, and is claimed to fail to comply with the licensing requirements of the copyright owners, and is thus being sued over it.

There is little or no reason that a similar service could not pop up for video, aside from the fact that bandwidth is costly, and I'm sure that could be resolved to an extent through some form of torrent-over-WebRTC system.
And this is why you're on Hacker News and not a billionaire, because you lack certain skills like understanding basic user experience and interaction.
Rightful owner is the person with title, a concept well established in law in other contexts. I think this is a terrible bill, but the notion that the kill switch is going to be operated by the state seems like a complete misreading of the bill's text to me.
So the best thing anyone could do is to buy some BTC from time to time to make a stash, to have real money when fiat money goes down :)
I mainly use Mac OS and Linux, and the application the Tax Office in my country makes for you to file your tax return for many years only ran on Windows. Only last year they brought out a Mac version, but still you need Wine for Linux.
The latest talk on their website mentions the LLVM status in passing at the end. Essentially they're moving their internal compiler over to use LLVM, but it requires fixing/removing some assumptions in LLVM because the architecture is so different, and the porting effort was interrupted by their emergence from stealth mode to file patents.
As another post says, it likely came from http://www.marksteve.com/dtmb (hopefully with permission?)
They have changed the title a couple of times, it was not this title when reuters initially published the article.
It's not about not being careful with your devices. In many places in California, people are routinely having guns pointed at them and their electronics are being taken by force, even when the devices are not being visibly used.
Actually, the Mill is designed to address this; it has TLS segment for cheap green threading, SAS for cheap syscall and microkernel arch, cheap calls and several details for IPC which are not public yet.
>* It's trivial to point out all the ways some existing system is broken and how much better it could be given a imaginary greenfield to recreate it.

Yeah, it is literally the same as saying "I have an idea for a web service/site."
Why would you want to 3D print a car part when you can just make one with a CNC machine? CNC machines are cheaper, more precise, and are already established.

The advantage of 3D printing comes with making very complex shapes. As far as I know, most parts in a car are pretty straightforward (gears, shafts, pistons etc.). Am I off-base?
He doesn't sound like the kind of guy who would have a problem handing the feds his SSL keys or whatever else they ask for, so even if his system is reasonably secure I wouldn't trust him as a steward of my information.
Borderline BBS – the only dial-up BBS in the world running on a Commodore 64
Parallel computation of Mandelbrot set [golang]
I think their first to third talks go into more detail on this. IIRC it's something like ops per second per watt (and not completely theoretical best-case either: based on running realistic code in sim).
Go para Pythonistas [spanish]
Someone seems to have fixed this. The pro-gay strip is up on the above link now.
> Right now, everybody's needs are being met by the combination of x86 and ARM (with some POWER, MIPS, and SPARC on the fringes).

I'm not sure. I think that a hard port to a new architecture must look a lot more like a worthwhile effort now that the wait-six-months Plan A no longer works, especially for single-threaded workloads. Provided the new architecture can actually deliver the goods, of course.
I was really annoyed to get to the end of this article and not find any information about frequencies, bandwidth, power, or anything else that would enable a practical consideration of the problem. Not only am I annoyed with the journalist (who I presume has a science degree), I'm even more annoyed with NASA for omitting this basic factual information from their statement in favor of pablum that appears to be tailored to small children.
That does say something about how political HN has become.
Your point is valid, and you gave suggestions as well.

I agree with you that machines should not talk on the HTTP level, it's over kill. Machines only need very simple protocols to exchange current state if they do need to cooperate. To me, if devices can transfer state with the controlled program should be good enough so that the program will send the states to other machines for them to determine what's going to be the next step or directly give them instruction on what the next step to go.

I know it's a lot fun to build this type of cute machines, but it's not economic.
Etcd 0.3.0 – Improved Cluster Discovery, API Enhancements and Windows Support
I still want to know how to implement fork for it.
104, in four tab groups.
Win7, FF 26.
What a coincidence. I found out about cgit 30 minutes ago when looking for `pulseaudio-module-raop2`/ I was wondering about the CSS theming that gitweb instance so I looked at the source and cgit is now being compiled.
That ratio is just an interesting coincidence. From page 38 of the report† (page 13 of the PDF), it's plain they are asserting a reduction in frequency from 4.8 times per month to 3.2 times (a delta of 1.6, not 1.5, as in the article):

To illustrate the substantive size of these
effects, Figure 1 shows predicted values for
sexual frequency, varying the share of house-
hold labor performed by men while setting all
other variables to their means. As the figure
shows, shifting from a household in which
women perform all of the core household
tasks to one where women perform none of
the core household tasks is associated with a
decline in sexual frequency of nearly 1.6
times per month. Given a mean sexual fre-
quency in this sample of slightly over five,
this is a large difference. The figure repre-
sents two extreme values, but even house-
holds in which men do 40 percent of core
household task hours report substantially
lower sexual frequency than households in
which women perform all core housework.

†http://www.asanet.org/journals/ASR/Feb13ASRFeature.pdf
The GoPro is normally used in situation where some preparation was already done (e.g. register for some activity, prepared your gear, trained for the occasion) and the "best camera is the one you have with you" adage doesn't fit as much.

Putting you mobile phone in some hardened case and using it as a camera would be OK, but you might want to keep your camera running while you use your phone for other purposes (GPS, actually calling someone, listen to music...), and you wouldn't want to lose your phone in the middle of a mountain.
Until Virgil3D is mature enough this approach is no starter for games.
PinnedURL API: API Shortening URL – 3scale customer
What's happening here is that Uber and your favorite pizza taxi are littering. They know that a fair share of their drivers do not carry a commercial liability policy.

When an Uber driver has an accident, the next thing that will happen is that their insurance denies the claim, and you have to claim against your uninsured motorist policy. Good luck to anyone who doesn't have such a policy because they don't own a car!

Hey, uninsured motorist rates just went up! I wish they didn't do that, and instead Uber fares and pizza prices went up because I don't use them. They have no business imposing externalities on me.
How does it make coal or atomic energy more efficient than oil? You get electricity by burning them. When you burn either coal or oil, you loose 70% of energy. Then, you loose delivering the electric power and charging the accumulators. Finally, you have losses in the electric car. You are left with at best 10% of what the coal has supplied. Oil is higly concentrated energy. It could provide you 30% of the energy it contains into kinetic energy of the vehicle.

So, which efficiency are you talking about? Is it the efficiency of warming the planet up? You are on the right track! Burning more carbon fuel is what we crucially need in our age of peak-everything!
I don't know... In 2001 I used to play war craft 3 with wine and it worked great
PinnedURL extension – Opera add-ons
Try playing it on the iPhone in Safari; it is tougher than on the PC due to the smaller screen. (Although the original game made with this code is quite playable on mobile.)
The instruction encoding talk starts with comparison between Mill, DSP and Haswell and tries to explain the basic math. The Mill is a DSP that can run normal, "general purpose" code better - 10x better - than an OoO superscalar. The Mill used in the comparison - one for your laptop - is able to issue 8 SIMD integer ops and 2 SIMD FP ops each cycle, plus other logic.
Well, the first thing we can observe is that we're not getting attacks by these highly nonsuspicious types, so we can safely assume that for whatever reason they're not cost-effective (we do know that in fact nonsuspicious types get much less screening than suspicious types, so, theoretically, they should be 100% of attackers).

The real beauty of this logic is that it doesn't actually matter if it's correct. If it is, great -- we need to harass suspicious types even more than we already are. But maybe it isn't. If terrorist groups are sending suspicious attackers for irrational or idiosyncratic reasons... that doesn't matter to us! We're trying to defend against the people they do send, not the people we think they should send. So we need to harass suspicious types again.

That said, there are plenty of heavy costs associated with kidnapping foreigners from around the world and using them as hostages:

1. The language barrier. If you want to coerce someone, you need to be able to make them understand what you want them to do.

2. Security. Your target country will hate you and make great efforts to root you out. These groups survive in countries where they have popular support. Pakistan might be willing to look the other way while you hang out and make trouble for the US; they're much less likely to look the other way while you kidnap and threaten to kill Pakistanis.

3. Public relations. Again, these groups survive where they have a certain level of popular support. But the same populace that doesn't really care when bad things happen to the Great Satan might not feel the same way about randomly kidnapping and killing bystanders from around the world.

4. Morale. The internal reflection of public relations. Most of the people in the group are there because they think it's the right thing (or can be talked into it). Kidnapping and killing peaceful foreigners from around the world could be a blow to that. Telling 80-year-old women to kill themselves just doesn't feel like the right thing.
What boils my blood is this woman going to jail for doing something that was accepted practice and approved by PwC, where seemingly no criminal intent existed.

Laws that are that opaque, where interpretation and enforcement can change at the whim of regulators and their bosses, are not morally justifiable. IIRC Steve Jobs did the same thing at Apple and they (predictably) got a slap on the wrist.

When this was going on I was running a small public co. and our counsel (outside but on BOD) was dead-set against any options dating shenanigans, despite what others were doing, so I guess I agree with OP's main point -- that having the right reporting structure can save your ass.
With the winter we've had in much of the US, a Wrangler would be a great taxi
Entering the Era of Private and Semi-Anonymous Apps
If you want to learn the nitty-gritty of machine learning and optimization, I highly recommend his book, Data Smart:

http://www.amazon.com/Data-Smart-Science-Transform-Informati...

It's one of the few books on the subject that doesn't get bogged down with mathematical notation, nor does it cheat with "And Then A Miracle Happens" library calls. The book is primarily aimed at business analysts, but programmers can get a lot out of it too.
Most large companies do as it is cheaper.
Way too loud at default volume

No volume controls
They probably just call each other up on the phone. If two hawaladars know each other well it would be pretty difficult to impersonate one to the other.
Does the actual iphone also game have such poor physics, sounds, and production quality? I haven't played it.
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To be fair here, unless you're driving a luxury car like a Tesla, your depreciation, gas and maintenance costs are still probably $5/hour or less. So, call it $16/hour, and it's still well above minimum wage and most living wages. You're adding extra danger due to potential crash concerns etc, but I don't really know how to best quantify that.

http://commutesolutions.org/external/calc.html
Startup to Facebook: Want the security flaw we found? Come and get it yourself