skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVJInwekSl4

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\BIBLE.TXT

ing,
and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt
offering.

4:26 And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the
sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement
for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.

4:27 And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while
he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD
concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty; 4:28 Or
if his sin, which he hath sin
ROVER – Lego SELF DRIVING CAR AT MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2014
> The end of the neutral internet.

"Neutral" is a vague term that in this circumstance conveys no actual meaning.

Settlement free peering is the exception, not the rule. Almost everyone pays for access to the Internet, whether it's buying transit or peering with settlement.

Nothing new to see here, move along.
So are you saying that the term "graph generator" is misleading here?
Thanks @acoustic, it's always nice to see bunk-busting. Just looking at the quote makes the statistic sounds hard to believe. Did the story include drop-outs like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg?
There is a checkbox on the site before you start the download, but of course it is checked by default. It's like the Ask toolbar that Java wants to install on every update.

"Hey, we have insecure products that people hate, let's add some more crap"
Paging is not fast, period. I think it's a reasonable assumption that the machine is not paging. That said, if you rely on paging, then your comment holds.
Bitcoin spikes on mt.gox withdrawal rumors
The Need for an Open Barcode Database
you don't need separate stacks to do this. each machine is the other's gateway, on separate ip addresses.
I thought that too! :-)
Il lato b di Natalya e delle Bella Twins – Divas and Knockouts
We can assume that all Apple devices have now been backdoored.
Russia was a leading world power long before the creation of the USSR. Your "backwater" was:

"One of the largest empires in world history, stretching over three continents, the Russian Empire was surpassed in landmass only by the British and Mongol empires."

(Wikpedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire)
Not really. The unbundling is restricted (you have to use BT equipment) and there is no price cap that BT can charge. See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/02/bt_fibre_eu/ from the time. Eventually we will get full LLU. Ofcom does claim http://media.ofcom.org.uk/2013/04/25/uk-broadband-competitio... there are 80 providers of fibre, but the terms are not attractive that I can find. I dont mind paying a bit more for non BT but not if its capped and has the same congestion as BT as its on their equipment...
OMD is an easy to implement open source monitoring solution
Math is not my field of expertise, but I think I get your point. My point was based on a social and economics perspective. I think these other causal paths are fundamental, because they are empirically verified (computing power vs health and life quality).
Thanks, I was worried we’d have no Reddit-style threads mucking up an actual discussion. Then you swooped in! Thanks!
Austin is the best case scenario in the country.
Hi, Docker 0.8.1 was released last week, it fixes several old bugs as well as all known regressions spotted in 0.8. Would you mind trying it out, and letting us know in an issue if we missed your bug?

Thanks!
It'd be great if it were declarative, thanks.
A lot of this is driven by historical concerns of large institutional installations that don't really apply to most Linux users today. We're set up for the possibility that /usr is a read-only NFS share for use by multiple processor architectures. This is an increasingly rare scenario, but it's the justification for why /var was split from /usr and /usr/share was split from /usr/lib.
I think it is much simpler. 4 KB pages are small today, and 1 GB is still very large for most processes. 2 MB sounds about right (gut check, how much memory does the average process allocate, and for those small processes, is 2 MB that much overhead really?). Unless the number of TLB entries drops as page size increases, then larger pages make sense. It's simple: 1 GB risks wasting memory when the process doesn't need that much. 2 MB is good in 2014.
Facebook needs to charge different click prices depending on the quality of the profile. clicks from 10-friend profiles that are only a year old and like every page they hit, aren't as valuable as clicks from profiles that are more organic and have been around for years.
For everyone in Europe:

Monday evening there will be a vote on net neutrality. CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE

http://www.savetheinternet.eu/

(dutch) https://www.bof.nl/2014/02/21/maandag-d-day-voor-netneutrali...

Explain your concerns to them.
Beyond Numeracy (John Allen Paulos) is another great book.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/067973807X
You are missing the cooperation of the other prisoners, they have agreed to only give information to the counter once no matter how many times they are sent into the room by the guard.
N.Y. Becomes Largest U.S. Prison System To Curb Solitary Confinement
Rather than following the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard like most Unix-like systems, each program in a GoboLinux system has its own subdirectory tree, where all of its files (including settings specific for that program) may be found. Thus, a program "Foo" has all of its specific files and libraries in /Programs/Foo.

http://www.gobolinux.org/
I'll bet it's fine if you have ad-blocker and similar, but it's atrocious, bordering on unreadable, if you don't. If you write for the web, and you care about your readership, you need to look at your own pages with browsers they are likely to use, and no extensions. And with extensions as well, because while some of your readers will use vanilla browsers with no extensions, some will have heavily personalized setups.

Don't take it for granted that what you see is what everyone sees. It's just not true.
That's a dark pattern if ever I've seen one. It looks like an ad on the page, thus triggering my ad blindness.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=rhetorical+question
The whole article is about optimizing a 1) large memory 2) single process that 3) dominates the CPU time on one machine where 4) the entire working set fits in ram. If any of those FOUR conditions are not met, then the conclusions do not apply.

That being said, we have an in-memory custom content db where this tweak might really make a difference..
This worked for me, thanks!
I can't tell if you are being serious or not.

Environmental issues include visual and noise pollution of the property and town. There is no clear line between 'pollution' that is bad for your health and 'pollution' that is just there descreasing the value of your land.
How WebKul Bootstrapped and Sold to 20,000 Customers Around the World
One way to make this ugly real fast is for content providers like Netflix/Amazon to completely block subscribers from ISPs that apply QoS to negatively impact them.

Say something like "we can't provide a great experience so we think you should have no experience at all because it wouldn't be fair with us and with you. we are sorry." and make it explicit that it's because of the ISP they are using.

The ISP think they are selling gold when they are more likely selling a commodity. Sure, at some locations it's indeed like gold, but how much of that is artificially enforced?

These pipes aren't worth much if there is no content flowing through them.
For a business...it was $300 cheaper to install Comcast with TV than without as of Oct 2013. I pay $2/month for TV but got free install and I can cancel TV in a year. It seems to me they need another mouth to feed.
Android's new floor is 512MB of RAM and that ain't happening in a $25 phone. Firefox OS will run on 128MB, fitting into an entire category of phones that modern versions of Android simply cannot.
If enough users press "unsubscribe" to a sender, and that sender doesn't stop sending them emails, this is a high quality signal that the sender needs to be blocked altogether.

If GMail's response to this kind of signal is aggressive enough, it also gives an incentive for legitimate-ish senders to offer one-click unsubscribe links, to decrease the number of cases where someone presses 'unsubscribe' but then doesn't jump through some second hoop.

So yeah, I'd say this has some advantages for dealing with a wide range of scum.
It already is. Just more, idk, COBOL than Python.
I think you missed the part where he said "In the version where one prisoner is taken in per day", in which case it _is_ possible to know if you are the first to go into the switch room.
U.S. now bugging German ministers in place of Merkel: report
That's quite a different posture though. BT was a government owned corp, and when it was privatized, investors bought it subject to the restrictions in its license. In comparison, the cable companies built their infrastructure against the backdrop of deregulation, in which it was illegal for them to be granted exclusive franchises.
If this defense had any merit, then there should be far better options in large American cities. This is not the case.
We need to stop using OpenSSL. A new crypto stack coded in a provably secure language is sorely needed.
Goodbye Net Neutrality :(
You have to pay extra for a vestigial cable TV subscription because your broadband subscription isn't sufficient to access websites on the internet. Or you have to switch from a perfectly good ISP to an ISP that cooperates with the cable TV mafia.
Money doesn't spoil, money reveals.
Site's down? I thought it was making a point by making the page 1 GB to download.
Oh come on periods do not necessarily imply scope.
Originally Flash ran in the browser process with no sandbox. Then some browsers started running plugins in separate processes, but still not in a sandbox. This allows the browser to survive Flash crashing, but doesn't improve security. Some browsers have gone further and added a sandbox to the Flash process, but I believe that each browser uses its own sandboxing mechanism, with different security properties. Additionally, some browsers now use their built-in updating mechanism to update Flash binaries, instead of relying on Adobe's questionable updater.

I'm not too familiar with what other browsers are doing, but I know Chrome's version of Flash is different from other versions and specially built for Chrome. It does not use the NPAPI plugin system. Instead it's built on PPAPI which is designed with multi-process and sandboxing in mind.
Just some food for thought here....Many proponents of green energy (e.g., the Kennedys) in the form of wind farms throughout the Midwest put up a huge fight when plans for a wind farm off of Nantucket Sound got a little too close to home for them as well. This doesn't excuse the behavior taking place here, but it happens on both sides of the aisle.
zmitri, i upvoted but sometimes words are needed - keep up the good work!
Can you write a program that would require for you to write the program forever?
That interaction is not required, and therefore does not meet the stated criteria for spam-button retribution.
As long as it's not slower than a J2ME feature phone.
Coca-Cola Social Media Guard
Soundcloud works without flash. I uninstalled flash a long time ago and I have no regrets. Youtube works fine with the addition of an extension that forces it to play in html5.
> Germans are especially sensitive about snooping due to their experiences in the Nazi era and in Communist East Germany, when the Stasi secret police built up a massive surveillance network.

I find it curious how this comment seems to appear often in NSA related articles. As if Germans had a degree of sensitivity (with regards to privacy) that's exaggerated. Makes no sense.
It still confers a negligible advantage. If the attackers have gotten into your data server, why shouldn't they be able to get into your application server just as easily? All you're doing is slightly inconveniencing the attacker before they can derive your salt wholesale.

Always remember: a secure system is secure even if the attacker can see your source code. Any work you do based on assuming the opposite is a waste of time.
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I had to check just now, because I had no firm idea (although, a suspicion), and I don't have flash installed. You won't miss it.
When and where there was such time?

Now in many cases: farmworker housing, worker barracks in some industries, particularly mining, energy, and sometimes forestry or other remote work (say, employee compounds for US oil workers in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Middle East). Factory barracks are commonplace in China and other developing nations. Railroad workers, sailors, and other travelling employees are often lodged by their employers. I've also seen more than one startup in which there was a corporate apartment, though that was usually used on a fairly short-term basis by new hires, or in some cases, by founders or remote employees when travelling to other sites.

One of the earlier examples of this was the Fuggerei in Augsburg, Germany, though more strictly it was an example of social worker housing: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/germany/bavaria/augsburg/sights/...

The "Company Town" Wikipedia article offers more information on the practice. Within the US it's largely associated with extractive industries, as I noted, arising in the mid 1800s and largely dying out by the 1950s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
The end of the open Internet - Netflix paying Comcast for direct traffic access
When they say "450 million monthly active users worldwide and over 320 million daily active users", it's probably safe to assume that they have discarded inactive users. That's also depending on what their definition of inactive means (e.g. have not used whatsapp in 3 months?)
WhatsApp's Journey From Being Ignored To a $19 Billion Exit
Would you recommend that a novice programmer learn C++ these days? Just seems like the ROI is too little in terms of new concepts that'll be learned. I mostly suggest C -> Java/C# -> Some functional language and also Python/JS on the side.
+1 for Inside the C++ Object Model. Understanding the mechanics of abstractions like virtual methods (along with stack/heap, pointers, but those are less C++-specific) makes you much more confident in what your code is doing (and why you might do it that way).
> woman … is the most polite and neutral possible

Probably true!

> can’t really go wrong

Hahaha. ha.

I really wish you were right, but the thing about ladies/women/girls/females/dames/womyn/gals/femmes is, being individuals, they have individual opinions on the matter. And being human, they just may have specific fears and wishes regarding their perception. So some girls hear “woman” as “old!” and some women hear “girl” as “object!” and so on and so forth.

Just as in anything else messy and human, there isn’t an easy answer.
Interesting, if one ever needs to boost a memcache/Redis instance, this might actually work.

But what about virtualization? Can I use 1GB pages in a guest OS, or will the host OS still handle everything with 4k pages, nullifying any advantages?
You use your own domain with fastmail. You can switch to it now, migrate all your gmail to it, set your gmail to forward to it, and if you later decide you hate it, you can switch to self-hosted by just changing your mx records.

Before I went to gmail I was self hosted and I had so much trouble with people not receiving my email because my server wasn't trusted, and me not receiving emails occasionally because my server would occasionally be down or busy. Not to mention the spam filtering was much better on gmail than my own server.
The WhatsApp Story Challenges Some of the Valley’s Conventional Wisdom
People don't _think_ about it, but a sense of our time limit is part of our 'human condition'. e.g the phrase 'you only live once'. 'You only live once, but for 700 years' has quite a different feel to it.
I'm confused at the claims about low memory. Fennec had previously abandoned 256MiB devices: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792131. Is Fennec not the core of Firefox OS? Does anyone know how much RAM this $25 phone has?
Funny, I was just thinking of that when I read this article. This isn't really so much a matter of hypocritical energy company CEOs as much as it is a reflection on the behaviors of the rich and privileged.
Nice quote:

When should I stop bisecting?, is when there are no more floating point numbers between your lower and upper bound
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Those are Fortune 50, not Fortune 500. Note the extra digit.
Neither Comcast nor Netflix are trying to operate a non-profit, it's a payment dispute between two large companies who disagree over who should pay. You could just as well argue that Netflix was letting Cogent / Comcast fight it out instead of directly peering with ISPs which benefits customers.
Hardware support for virtualization is actually one of the main things driving huge pages. For a TLB miss in a guest, you end up doing a nested page table walk. This is much more expensive with 4 KB pages (i.e. as opposed to 2 MB).

Short answer: huge pages are a big win for virtualization.
Supporting benchmarks that might be interesting alongside the OP:

https://github.com/johnj/llds#wall-timings-in-seconds

Same concept applies, reducing translations for page lookups reduces latency.
I would consider such companies Fortune 10, or Fortune 50 at most.
Cheers to the discussion between pjmlp and sixbrx - classic hn. I feel like computing is such a large beast that one can find two very informed people disagreeing while each being right in wide area.

I don't think you can even call memory allocation "just another OS service", (much less garbage collection). Memory allocation is going to be ubiquitous in any application and if it's performance degrades, so will the application's performance. Further, one knows nothing about "what's behind the curtain", performance will degrade for any medium performance or higher application.

Java is perfect for enterprise code because most enterprise software is more forcused on data-safety and generally playing well with the rest of the data zoo. Enterprise software isn't high performance and thus the costs of c++ outweigh the benefits. Or even more

C++ is needed in system programming and shrink-wrap software where performance is crucial.

On the other, other hand, if a dominant OS forty years ago had imposed a GC model that became ubiquitous, perhaps the sweet-zone where the programmer doesn't have to worry about the allocation process would have been larger and the area where you did have to worry about the allocation process might not have been harder to deal with. Especially, a single ubiquitous program layout model would force hardware makers to adapt and what I understand is that a lot of the need for multiple memory/program-layout models comes from innovative hardware getting the last once of performance through constant novelty in low-level memory access.
Why don't you just use Spotify's native client? They have one for Windows, Linux, iOS, Android and I assume OSX.

Edit: Oh, unless you're talking more about congestion being the problem for Spotify, though you can download playlist via the native clients.
Who agreed to pay for what, where?
Once you pay the danegeld you never get rid of the dane.
We can use TDD. Should we?
PowerPC on Fedora now defaults to 64k pages, I happened to notice the other day, which surprised me. But x86 doesnt have convenient size pages that would work for default, as 2M is a bit big probably.
I'm just going by what I've read elsewhere, and I don't have citations on hand. I'm not a security expert, I just try to listen to security experts.

So if you say bcrypt is as well vetted as PBKDF2, I'm going to defer to your judgment and update accordingly.
I have progressively disabled Java, Flash, and now Javascript from my web experience. It is only a short while longer before I move towards the full rms style method of browsing the web.
The opposition fight is being waged by the third Koch Brother

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/us/koch-brother-wages-12-y...
> There is no clear line between 'pollution' that is bad for your health and 'pollution' that is just there descreasing the value of your land.

It seems you're commenting solely to split hairs. I think Puer is right.

In Mr. Tillerson's case, it's almost certainly a matter of land value. And probably a little selfishness, i.e. "not in my backyard." Indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if his concern was strictly a matter of worth and the dollar value of his property.
The contention was that the change in traffic caused by the Netflix flows put Comcast & Cogent's peering out of balance.

Generally speaking settlement free peering requires that the arrangement be mutually beneficial. If the traffic exchange becomes inequitable then the side that disproportionately benefits would need to pay to cover it.

In this case Cogent was sending vastly more traffic towards Comcast than they were receiving (because of Netflix) so they were the misbehaving party.
The new developer phones have an option to pretend you have 256, so they're probably supporting that. The linked bug is Firefox on Android, where it has to share with everything else Android's doing.
Not really, one reason why Lisp Machines failed was because common hardware became fast enough to run compiled List natively without special CPUs, besides the AI Winter of course.

Besides Xerox PARC, there were other similar research systems like the Oberon and Modula-3 ones, but without industry support, they never left the institutes using them.

If the path had been chosen 30 years ago, the millions poured into Java and similar systems would have been much earlier and who knows what might have came out of it.
That sounds like something a word-terrorist would say.
I think you're stretching this just a tad.
jaw drops

Amazing work by the mozilla crew ! Running a JS-based environment on such stingy hardware is audacious to begin with and awe-inspiring that they consider it production ready ..

Eagerly waiting for reviews to understand what trade-offs went into getting a $25 retail price.
Charles Stross anticipated this in Accelerando:

"Amber scans the READ ME quickly. Corporate instruments are strong magic, according to Daddy, and this one is exotic by any standards -- a limited company established in Yemen, contorted by the intersection between shari'a and the global legislatosaurus. Understanding it isn't easy, even with a personal net full of subsapient agents that have full access to whole libraries of international trade law -- the bottleneck is comprehension. Amber finds the documents highly puzzling. It's not the fact that half of them are written in Arabic that bothers her -- that's what her grammar engine is for -- or even that they're full of S-expressions and semidigestible chunks of LISP...."

Points off for capitalizing Lisp, but otherwise prescient.