skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was actually a big problem with PS2 emulation - some parts of the system were hardcoded to wait only a certain amount of time for a function to finish - because that function was ran on a different chip, and would always take the same amount of time. Now emulating that behaviour was incredibly difficult, especially if all of it had to run on a single CPU. The problem has been mitigated somewhat by multi-core CPUs,with each core emulating a different part of the PS2, but it's still far from ideal.
I think Mozilla is making a mistake. I've met Brendan several times and I don't think he'll be a good CEO. His political views are not aligned with Mozilla's views as a company and that might come up as an issue at some point later.
Yep; I have the hypermac as well; it is very great. I buy new ones all the time. The magsafe thing is a bit (not much) of a hassle though. Curious as well how that will be handled.
It's actually not that time consuming to make the charts once you've got the templating down. :)
You should though.
Well he was motivated enough about the issue to make a sizeable political donation (although I will concede it's perhaps not a sizeable amount of money to a millionaire).

The idea that you can have a "political sphere" and then a sterile world outside that is free of politics is just totally bizarre to me. I can't even begin to imagine what that would look like or how it would work.
A ddos usually have many clients committing the attack and they are often unknowingly part part of the attack (E.g. regular users being compromised by a virus or similar). It would be impractical as well as unethical to counter attack them.
Big yawn maybe as I can't see tablets being used to create large complex docs. I know all the arguments about modern 64 bit processors making tablets the future computational device but that is not how people are using them now.

Anyone remember the little "Office" apps on Windows Mobile? Of course not but even us early mobile adopters who used and built apps for such devices did not use Office on them. Again the counter argument is going to be that using Office with the toothpick that you used to operate those devices was just silly but I am not at all sure that my fat finger makes it any more straightforward.
Is this even really such a specific issue? Good businesspeople will not throw away enormous potential value, regardless of its origins, less competent businesspeople will make the less competent judgements of ageism, racism, sexism etc. at the cost of their business.

There are a lot of crappy businesspeople willing to toss the plasticity of young employees, and the experience of older employees away; these are the people we hopefully aren't giving venture funds until they figure things out.
It is a bit hard to believe. As another person pointed out that equates to 16 users for each $1 spent, assuming she ran the ads for 3 months or so. Must have been very viral to maximize the return on each dollar spent.

Damn good value when you consider the price per user Facebook paid for WhatsApp...
Arent there people (like me) who will pay good money for a version of the Go compiler without that check ?

Does anyone know if I can disable it in the source code somehow and build a Go compiler (I doubt it though - if Go was never built with things like deadcode optimization because of this enforcement)
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One thing worth considering is that this could, potentially, open up Mozilla to a wrongful termination/hiring discrimination/harassment lawsuit in the future. Mozilla's CEO is on the record expressing a belief that gay people deserve less rights than straight people, and sexual orientation is a protected class in the state of California.

I'm not saying that such a suit would win, but this issue definitely falls under the category of "public statements to be careful of making if one is going to be in a decision-making position".
Not making someone CEO is suppressing freedom of speech? Can I be CEO of your company, or are you trying to suppress my views?
MODS: This would be a damn fine thread to try out that new comment widget pg was talking about the other day.
Likely they will continue building the product described on their website:

"A battery management system (BMS) that increases battery capacity and cycle count"

I'm sure they can apply this to devices other than the 12% of laptops sold that are made by Apple.
Yeah I read that a long time ago. That article is really dated...
Put the request in your profile, maybe? A lot of people won't look there, but it's not like you need a high volume of feedback.
Flight 370 "ended" in southern Indian Ocean, prime minister says
The Air has I think a 50 WHr battery and will last 11-12 hours for Wi-Fi surfing. I think the idle load is just a couple of watts. Peak load is of course higher.
> runaway inflation ....

You say "runaway inflation" like its a bad, immediate prospect. Right now we are so far away from that boogie man.
I don't trust Google because there are too many people in there coming up with new ways to fuck with my data.
Their CEO doesn't want homosexuals to be able to receive benefits that straight couples do and be able get married.

I'll recommend anything that doesn't give him more.

Lucky thing, his kind would be laughed at in Sweden.
"Removing peoples civil liberties? Preposterous".
On the one hand, he's homophobic, but on the other hand, he's a great technologist. I guess they sort of balance out, right?
Sorry but no one is supposed to tolerate intolerance.
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> It won't be getting more funding or effort from Mozilla.

Correction: There aren't any more employees being paid to develop Persona. Mozilla is still paying for the infrastructure, and the community (which includes paid employees like myself who want to work on Persona on the side) is still working on it. I actually got a pull request merged just yesterday (my first!). There's also ops/IT staff who will be helping to deploy and respond to service disruptions.

<hope>We could very well find that after Firefox Accounts is up and running that focusing employees back on Persona is the right thing to do.</hope>
The Tesla fire situation makes me the most worried here, because the facts on the ground don't matter. The press ran with the story because it was explosive. So even if you had a much more confident estimate, you think the press is going to grok your math?

The analysis I did was horribly incomplete, as I mentioned. The branding and marketing for the startup is going to matter a lot because of how emotional this whole robotic story can be.
Not sure where you are in China, but 8.8.8.8 is not blocked for me here in Beijing and everywhere I visited - Shanghai & Hubei province.
The real issue for some folks is that "marriage" is a word defined by their religion. (not for you or me, but some folks)

If government ditched the word "marriage" and said you can designate a person you "cohabit" with for purposes of taxes, benefits, etc, how many of those folks would be against designating someone of the same gender? Those people I'd call "homophobic".
Perhaps. But corporate America is filled with tons of leadership that in their private lives go to evangelical Christian churches, many of which oppose gay marriage. In private, those same CEOs probably express similar opinions. The only difference is that BE donated a paltry sum in support of a public law. That's the only issue. Discourse around this will change only one thing: the next time they'll give the money to a cousin to make the donation.
https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/community-and-diversity/

... the donation does not in itself constitute evidence of animosity. Those asserting this are not providing a reasoned argument, rather they are labeling dissenters to cast them out of polite society. To such assertions, I can only respond: “no”.

There are other reasons for opposing things, religious reasons for example. Not saying they're well thought out or even remotely valid, but thinking in such a black and white manner isn't beneficial to decent conversation.
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I really want to contribute to open source projects but am anxious about making pull requests and the entire settled community burning me down for low quality contribution or poor code.

What's it like?
Are you saying that a boss of gay people shouldn't get called out for effectively saying, "Hey, you people don't deserve the same civil rights the rest of us do"? That he should be able to just coast along?

Because that sounds like horseshit to me. That gay people can now get married in some minority of American states is progress, sure. But I'm not seeing why that means people, gay or straight, can't call a bigoted action a bigoted action. If somebody is obligated to be graceful and persuasive here, surely that's Eich, who started this out by doing something a lot of his employees find obviously hostile.
The scary part is that with the recent restructuring of the internet law, the new telecommunications communications directorate (TIB, yeah kinda redundant) is supposed to be starting deep packet inspection, which is rumored to be the reason why the internet has been slower recently ...
A bunch of people here seem to be wondering whether this will mean a substantial change to Mozilla's strategy. This seems very unlikely – Brendan has been on Mozilla's steering committee for many years, and involved in many key decisions in the past year. I expect him becoming CEO means more of the same – if you like what Mozilla is doing, then you should be happy, and if you wish it was doing something else then you should probably look elsewhere.
Can you make an attempt at quantifying the ROI? Obviously will be easier to do at +6 months and +12 months but can you speak to your expectations?
I too have a hard time accepting that in our Enlightened Year of 2014, an individual is allowed to commit such brash thoughtcrime with impunity. I presume that shortly they will be checking his standing with the parties and that's the last we'll be forced to hear from him! I, for one, am looking forward the remainder of his ilk finally being liquidated so that I can think my own thoughts in peace.
You know what I would love to see; a zone which is dedicated to ONLY pedestrians AND small robot cars (golf-cart-sized) which one can hop into, give a verbal destination and have it roboticize your ride to that location.

This would be great in, say, an area of Vegas to shuttle people around between casinos.
I'm guessing that a big part of that is the combination of the potential for huge damages, and how big and public Google already is. One nasty accident followed by an ugly, drawn-out lawsuit could cause huge financial and PR damage to them. On the other hand, if you're a small start-up with no reputation to protect and not much capital to lose/go after, then worst case, you don't lose anything more than what's already been put into the single-purpose business.
I strongly disagree with Prop 8, and therefore presumably his views on gay marriage, and I believe not supporting gay marriage does obviously make him a bigoted; but for what it's worth, I haven't seen any reason to believe he's ever "raged" about any of those topics, to anyone.

All I've seen is a donation to a bigoted cause (which is disappointing), and then a matter-of-fact public statement that Mozilla's mission is bigger than any one person and their political beliefs, and that he's only willing to discuss this issue in more private channels, which seems totally fair.
It works like having neighbors who voted for the other guy (or god help them, even gave his campaign some money!) but still come over for dinner and let their kids play baseball with your kids.
Bingo. This. Most people who are not mad about the twitter ban are those who are like "what is he supposed to do, let people perpetuate lies?" and "it's libel therefore it's okay to censor". But when they are limited in the same way, they get extremely angry (for example, when bloggers delete their comments, a practice I disagree with for the most part).
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It's marriage. It's a tradition, not something which you can derive rationally. Let's hear your rational explanation of the role of marriage. Be sure to explain why it follows logically that it should only apply to groups of two or more.

If you're honest with yourself, you recognize all of this language about rationality as rhetoric in a culture war in which you're attempting to shift cultural norms.

I'm for gay marriage.
How about just comparing it to Money vs Not Money?
"maxes out at under $140K year in DC" - you're missing the executive pay schedule (same site), critical position pay, special rates, performance awards, days of leave, and their health plan is much better. Also, the security of a government job with all of the stops to keep you from being fired.
Satellite Ping modelling confirms MH370 headed south (& crashed)
Just how could they do that?
The difference in power draw between idle and 100% utilization on a modern computer is enormous.

The power adapter needs to be able to handle 100%, but the sort of usage where you get 6-12 hours of use while on battery is very much near idle almost all the time.

I have a 15" MacBook Pro, which has a 95Wh battery. Apple claims 8 hours of battery life on it, and in my experience that's an understatement. It also ships with an 85W power adapter.
I figured this was how it worked. What ways did you use to get an accurate model of the rules? Did you just use wikis and a stopwatch to figure out how long builds take, what can be built when, etc. or did you actually memory watch or decompile the game itself to figure out the algorithms and loops used?

I made a Tic-Tac-Toe GA in undergrad as my senior project. It was horribly stupid, but I didn't reduce the problem space down, and I could have easily implemented rotation and flip mapping to reduce the search space by a significant amount (just over 7% of the nieve search space), but the algorithm still worked pretty well and served as a great learning experience.

The genetic part is ridiculously simple, IMO. The hard part is figuring out how to define the rules of the game, break them out, and figure out what maps to the genome and how it maps. Evolution from that point is simply modifying the genome in different ways.
Even if it wasn't, and it is, equality of opportunities is definitively a right.
Ever since I started working on BarSense, I've been obsessed with computer vision (one of the most important subsets of robotics) and I think there'll be a wealth of products coming from that field.

One of the ideas I have is a type of smart dashcam - take the footage of one or more cameras (ideally 360°), apply CV and give the driver essential real-time info like cyclists or cars coming into the blind spot, sudden changes, lane drifting etc.

The hardware is cheap and easy to work with so the project is small enough for a startup, yet it's also something you can build upon and eventually scale into a full self-driving vehicle.
"No one ever changed their opinion on account of being subjected to a lynch mob or encountering a glass ceiling imposed as a result of it."

That's the most unfactual thing I've heard in a long time.
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Why is it acceptable to limit the range of political views someone in this position is allowed to have? I lived in CA in 2008 and voted against Prop 8 but I didn't dehumanize the people who disagreed with me, I couldn't have handled the irony of it.
Apologies for this, I was trying to be brief and lost most of the meaning in that one last night. I've updated it to better communicate the potential problem folks can run into.
You start on monday, they said
High end laptops are a good place to start when you are selling a ~$140 accessory.

I would be shocked if they didn't have plans to expand to other products/devices. My guess is that they are betting that Macbook owners are most likely to pay right now. I'm not certain, but I'm willing to bet that Macbooks have a majority chunk of the high end laptop market.

So if I were in their shoes, I'd probably start with macbooks in order to gain a foothold.
OK, I get that they developed a new algorithm for this field, but can anyone shed light on how you could use satellite pings for this aircraft and other flights to work out it headed south?
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Why should Brendan Eich or anyone else who supported Prop 8 share any of their views when they have already been pre-judged as irrational?

Stuff like this is why the secret ballot exists.
the 12 day PTO is applicable to sick time, or vacation, or what ever. The fact that they've split the two of them, make me think you'll need to read the employee handbook very carefully to determine if either, or both, are subject to use-or-lose, accumulation, and/or payout on separation. Otherwise That's not a terrible deal in general.
Good point, I didn't think to check the capacity of the Air's internal battery.
What do you gain through a separate search field, anyway? Like, if you started with a unified search/address bar, what would be the arguments for separating the search bar out into a separate bar?
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If you like this, you might like my Code Guide: http://mdo.github.io/code-guide.
And, in the meantime we continue to deny an entire set of people rights they should have and bury our head in the sand to the current real world problems this poses.

Even if you hold the position you stated and wanted that change, we can't deny someone rights in the current system for some future better situation. There is an immediate and real world problem that needs to be addressed while you strive to implement your preferred system.
There should be some sort of penalty for re-inventing language for gain. This reminds me of the Columbia Accident Board Report, which pointed out that NASA & contractors redefined the meaning of "foreign object impact" to exclude foam from the fuel tank.
> If I'm a customer of Basecamp it looks to me like 37Signals is couching this

Basecamp is actually the name of the company now, they aren't 37Signals anymore.
You do realize what free software is right? You're not giving him money by using Firefox, and you're completely free to use a forked version of it like Iceweasel if you don't want it to be counted as an install or whatever.
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Most people (I hope) were only commenting on the title being misleading and not trying to ridicule you or the presentation.
That's actually our greatest hope. If foreign investment dries up as a result of political instability, enough people might stop voting for him that he might be outed in a semi-democratic process (if he doesn't rig the elections as usual, that is). Otherwise, things will end in violence.
I https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7219745

told https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7219745

you https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6116875

so.
Didn't see any cached copies, so here is this: http://i.imgur.com/6o5rBLV.jpg
I would prefer an outright request instead of just letting the pull request lie idle.

Perhaps you can implement a bug fix before submitting a pull request for a new feature. Start small. It is hard to tell since every open source project is different.
Yeah, I don't have any Android anythings but this concept is immediately compelling and good. One of those things that should have been obvious, really.
Your writing is crucial
I've had really negative experience with these type of criminals.

I was hired as a CEO at an <unnamed> company ($200m+ revenue) and we were hit by this type of attack.

Every second of being down cost us literally $10k, so we quickly negotiated with criminals for $5k one time payment and they stopped the attack.

Unfortunataly a few weeks later we were hit by 3 new attacks. Apparently the word had spread and these new attackers demanding $50k.

We were not going to pay $50k but I was also unable to stop the attacks. I was let go a few days later as we had a down time of 2 days and I wasn't able to fix this problem.

Crap.
I'm in favour of abolishing State-granted marriages too. But that's no reason to support the abolishment of gay marriage, since it will do nothing for the cause, just maintain an inequality of rights.
The easiest way for staying in touch with my friends and family, love the simplicity.
Being equally bigoted towards bigots without even attempting to understand their viewpoints is a bit odd don't you think?
But might actually increase the amount of people who create their own business. That isn't a bad tradeoff.
Battery storage will be absolutely huge in a few years. There is so much potential that has gone unexplored, since batteries have traditionally been heavy, low-capacity and short-lived. At least some of the people in this space who are in the right place at the right time today, are going to win big. Someone will have to build all these batteries.

Everything from cars to renewable energy to light aircraft is going to be battery-powered in the future. It will be very exciting to see what happens in this space, and I'm bummed that I'm largely unable to invest in this space myself. Best of luck to the YC-backed companies :)

(Case in point: Tesla Motors have announced that they're building the world's largest Li-ion battery factory, to the tune of $5 billion).
Factors: 1. Growth rate 2. Competitive analysis 3. Work required to run.

If you have a demonstrably consistent growth curve, you can ask for a high multiple of revenue.

If your competitor really would benefit, you can ask for more to the right buyer. If your site is easily whipped together, and users aren't sticky, then you get a low multiple designed for the buyer to get his principle back ASAP and hopefully make a profit.

If the site requires active management, subtract time costs from potential revenue.
Not outraged, just disappointed with the state of reporting. While I might not agree with your theory, I don't disagree with the need to pore over the crewmembers' backgrounds, or the plausibility of your overall point.

What bugs me is just one point that is not fact. Would you consider reading this:
- an NYT story on the pilot's background and how it got twisted out of shape by tabloids (http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/pilot-of-missing...), and
- a WaPo story with a named source who clarifies that his wife "moving out" was her normal practice of staying with their grown children whenever he flew (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/agony-mounts-for-familie...)

- and see if it changes your point of view? or at least, how you might describe the pilot's state of mind the next time you share your thoughts?
To be clear, those are just example class names so you know exactly what element I'm referring to and where it resides in the markup.
I see a vision of the future... where Turkey plays "whack-a-mole" with the worlds DNS..
Just in case, he did a previous talk on this project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSQ1dqqINrQ‎
Was the computer you're using made in a country that allows gay marriage?
So can I be intolerant of that? Or can the irony only go one level deep?
Nope. Not like that at all.
I don't remember the details, but IIRC they are Apple proof.
Are you growing fast enough?
Actively contributing to anti-gay causes is not the same thing as being on the fence about gay marriage.