skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You store the data in an open lossless format at the highest quality that makes sense, then transfer the digital copy from storage medium to storage medium as they are developed.

So for your example you'd transfer from floppy disk to bluray.
It's interesting, but it looks like it has a loooong way to go before reaching feature parity with PyPy, which has itself a number of challenges to overcome before becoming mainstream. I would be interested to read the rationale for starting work on Pyston vs using/improving PyPy.
Which is basically the same XP striped out of some packages and services, am I wrong?
Are you using GMail Meter – would you recommend I use it?
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Percentages are for suckers. If you're not optimizing your code with actual use cases then you're just wasting your time. Id say 90 percent of code any one would ever write would not provide any benefit if it "ran faster".

No one will ever know or care that a 5ms operation only takes 2ms because of how "savvy" you are. No one knows or cares what language you used. Its just a program.

If you can produce a working program in a high level language but chose to use a low level one.... whyy?
This kind of bidet (not talking about the squat toilets) is pretty common in Turkey aswell. It definitely gets the job done. Using paper to dry up only is causing far less skin irritation too.
Always has been. We're speaking English here, last time I checked.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/discouraging
Don't you need to be an expert to use ASM?
No way it's mine - I just found it hilarious and wanted to share. I don't think anyone on this site would take it seriously.
Thankfully, it looks like there's only one backer.
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> I believe there is no distinction whatsoever, in principle, between computers and humans (our brains are just big, complicated calculators).

Our brains seem to be primarily an I/O processor attached to a device micro controller.
The difference is, I trust Colin. Aside from djb he's one of the few people on this planet I would trust to write crypto/security software and get it right.

SpiderOak? Only heard about them because they're "hip" on here, given the state of technology in the average startup, I wouldn't trust them with my data ever.
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Also the CPU re-orders everything. Also there are 4 CPUs and 8 threads. The threads run at different speeds. Also division will take a variable amount of time.
So you're basically saying "why do anything without a valid reason"?
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Don't try to learn things, unless you want small minded people to get upset.
Automating child supervision will be the next great liberation of human labour from drudgery[.]

Brave new world, indeed - here's hoping your kids will never read this!

Unfortunately the downside is accustoming children to automated surveillance and potentially automated child discipline.

Really now?
Some one get this guy an email account.
I think you got downvoted because you implied the community is protecting something you don't agree with, therefore there must be something wrong with the community. (I didn't think it deserved downvotes at all, it was just a question)

It was silly for OP to pick on the Catholic church when all throughout history, from World War 1 and 2, to the African Genocides, and the inter European wars, and the Mongolian & Muslim invasions, and the European colonizations, and the Japanese massacres, and the Chinese wars and communist caused famines.... Hundreds of millions have died needlessly. We should look past it and be glad we as humans have evolved past those points. Human beings take advantage of large groups, infiltrate them and use them as their personal armies. Sometimes to do good, sometimes to do bad.

The OP got downvoted into unreadable "grey hell" for a broad comment that brought nothing thought provoking.
It seems like it's already becoming public.

But yeah, I'm not a fan of how acquihires work at all - if you own 20% of the company's stock, you should get 20% of the payout upon acquisition. Otherwise, those employment and investment terms are significantly less meaningful.
This has been true for a long time, even when the x86 architecture was much simpler. I worked on an SDK for an 80386-based platform back in '97, and it was unusual for me to do better than the Watcom C compiler.
"Furthermore, in practice it is not enforceable, since you would have to know someone's entire ancestry to know whether they were eligible to marry another person."

Not true! Knowing someone's entire ancestry since the beginning of H. s. sapiens may be impossible, but less-rigorous standards of discrimination are practical to implement.

Nazi Germany defined how Jewish someone was based on their number of Jewish grandparents. This means checking genealogical and religious records back two generations. I've heard that some positions, like the SS, required proving your ancestry back to 1750. I don't know how many people were certified, or how extensive the research was -- could someone walk into an office with a few badly-copied baptismal records and get their "I can marry a German" card stamped? did it require checking government databases? -- but it must have been a large number.

The existence of terms such as quadroon and even octoroon show that people of centuries past seriously considered and even legalized notions of how 'black' people were, but I have no idea how well-implemented they were in practice. (I imagine there was a lot more "yeah, you look white enough" and a lot less "please come back tomorrow after I've telegraphed the Census office".)

My brain kind of needs a shower now.

Edit:

My knowledge of these subjects is limited to about 90 minutes of reading Wikipedia, by the way. I was vague enough that I don't think anything I stated is actually wrong.

Incidentally, apparently Nazi Germany had a scandalous number of women who suddenly admitted under oath that their children were the product of an extramarital affair with a conveniently non-Jewish and dead family friend. How well this worked may have depended on how well-connected you were. The senior Luftwaffe officer Erhard Milch is a prominent example.

Edit again:

If your point was "in practice it is not enforceable", mine was that it was enforceable enough that a lot of people put a lot of effort into trying, even if they didn't pull it off perfectly.
I think the lottery analogy is perfect, and that is what my wife and I call it when I work on games: "What are you working on?"

"Buying more Ocean C'Motion lottery tickets"

So far my lottery tickets are losing money, but it is fun for the same reason buying a Powerball ticket is fun.
> I don't understand what was so upsetting about my previous comment thatgot so many downvotes.

Didn't downvote but I think the ones who did did so because they found your comment misleading. I happen to agree with them but chose to explain the reasoning behind it instead of downvoting.

Read einhverfr's comment again, espescially the "the less restrictions on the code f r o m a big vendor, the better.".

See, some of us has had to work within and around various funny and not-so-funny licenses for years. Both commercial but open source as well..
Just another form of Knuth's
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming."

Or my personal variant
Most optimizations will end up in things being slower.
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Yes, but I'm not in England, and first degrees are 4 years here (for an Hons).

Getting a first degree and then an LLB is the more traditional route to qualifying as a solicitor and indeed the government department where she trained had it as a requirement - they only looked at trainees that had two first degrees.

Mind you, in reality the first degree was a mistake at the time but when she did learn how the legal system actually works (not written down anywhere, of course) having two degrees was regarded as a very good thing and more "respectable" than doing it as a first degree (can't think of a better term). It used to be pretty common - and was frankly a class thing.
I have not been at imo recently enough to say. Georges talked to Time about it[0]. My guess is that nobody has been given $19B for making the world more open and connected, only for making yet another walled garden.

[0]: http://time.com/13461/why-imo-dropped-third-party-im-support...
Exactly what happened to me. I interviewed with a company from a position of weakness (I had been out of school for several years and worked as a recruiter then Katrina hit, so I was flat broke and out of a job for a year) and I was looking for my first real programming job. They had me build something for them that they decided they needed but that no candidate had been able to create so far. I built the tool in a couple of hours, learning the language along the way. They turned around and used the tool in production without compensation.
VS plugin support is crucial for applications like GPU computing or Qt.
From the site: https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/04/introducing-pyston-an-upcom...

Why a new implementation

There are already a number of Python implementations using JIT techniques, often in sophisticated ways. PyPy has achieved impressive performance with its tracing JIT; Jython and IronPython are both built on top of mature VMs with extensive JIT support. So why do we think it’s worth starting a new implementation?

In short, it’s because we think the most promising techniques are incompatible with existing implementations. For instance, the JavaScript world has switched from tracing JITs to method-at-a-time JITs, due to the compelling performance benefits. Whether or not the same performance advantage holds for Python is an open question, but since the two approaches are fundamentally incompatible, the only way to start answering the question is to build a new method-at-a-time JIT.

Another point of differentiation is the planned use of a conservative garbage collector to support extension modules efficiently. Again, we won’t know until later whether this is a better approach or not, but it’s a decision that’s integral enough to a JIT that it is difficult to test in an existing implementation.

The downside of starting from scratch is, unsurprisingly, that creating a new language implementation is an enormous task. Luckily, tools are starting to come out that can help with this process; in particular, Pyston is built on top of LLVM, which lets us achieve top-tier code generation quality without having to deal with the details ourselves. Nonetheless, a new Python implementation is a huge undertaking, and Pyston will not be ready for use soon.
The English do not hate the Scots - and if you look at the number of English people who have houses and holiday in France they don't really hate France either....
In the UK smoke alarms are generally permanently installed to a ceiling. Moving it isn't an option.
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Typical data journalism. Find someone with better data and a better article, and appropriate it.
Most people would call that a strategic alliance.

And as for "their dominant media position".. An alliance between Fox, NBC CBS and ABC would have a "dominant media position". A random internet forum.. not so much.
Google V8 is certainly a brilliant piece of engineering, but by no means Method JIT ( V8 is based on ) has won or the best. Because the King, LuaJIT is based on Tracing JIT.

I have to wonder why Python as a communities have always have the interested to substantially speed up Python. While the Ruby Camp has always been about if you want more speed, do it in C. ( Best Tools for the Job manta? ) Although I hope Ruby MRI will one day get its own Google V8 / LuaJIT treatment.
I've always liked this quote from Enemy at the Gates (set in the USSR during WW2):

I've been such a fool, Vassili. Man will always be a man. There is no new man. We tried so hard to create a society that was equal, where there'd be nothing to envy your neighbour. But there's always something to envy. A smile, a friendship, something you don't have and want to appropriate. In this world, even a Soviet one, there will always be rich and poor. Rich in gifts, poor in gifts. Rich in love, poor in love.
Fair enough, though if he was including the raspberry pi for $17 I would be tempted...
In short, compilers probably don't have enough info to beat a skilled assembly programmer.

Isn't that what LLVM tries to solve dynamically?
> I think your view is pretty naive.

Did you take a quick look at his comment history before posting this statement?
Can I inquire as to where you grew up? I've genuinely never heard of anyone using just their hand, but I suppose it makes sense for poorer parts of the world. (no offense intended whatsoever)
I wonder how this compares to PsGet (http://psget.net) - or is it simply a cmd-line wrapper around Chocolatey?
Thinking of a solution for Yelp's anonymous review system reminds me of how Youtube approached their problem of terrible anonymous video comments by forcing G+ integration.

Everyone bashed/bashes them for the move, but I have noticed a striking contrast in the quality of comments now: largely on-topic discussions, people calling out other posters to substantiate egregious claims etc

I would not mind if Yelp iterated around solutions involving public facing identity.
How well did third parties do after Nader in 2000, or Perot in the 90's? This seems like a glaring counter-example to your argument, don't you think?
I don't know why you are being down-voted.

Here's a follow-up and slightly different take on that story: http://blog.figuringshitout.com/the-parable-of-the-fisherman...

Here's an HN discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6602351
I hate the hiring process. I've been unemployed all my life, and an interview feels like pop idol. Everything is about the looks, the communication, what are you flaws, what do you like, why do you want to work here, etc.

Maybe it's because I live in france and that employers can't easily fire people, maybe I'm not the "best and brightest", maybe I'm bad at communication, maybe I can't manage to sell myself properly, maybe I have issues.

It feels like buying somebody to be a friend in a club, not paying him to do some work.

I think employers like to hire people "they can trust", and I find it stupid. It's normal at first, but I wonder why there aren't any company trying to hire people who are not likable and finding ways to make the company work. I mean a company is not a group a friend doing chores and having coffee, of course you need people to behave a little, but I don't understand why it can boil down to simply exclude elements that can create "awkward situations that can put the company in danger".
Thanks for that. Well, I won't say no to open-source R&D :)
Do you use soap to wash your hands? or just rinse them off with water (especially if you happened to get a little on you)?

Do you then pick up your chicken wings or pork ribs with your butt cheeks and stick them into your mouth, proceeding to lick off the excess sauce/grease?

I have just demonstrated why your example has a complete lack of logic or value.

FWIW, I use a baby wipe. This uses less water and about the same amount of paper. it actually does a little better job, is quicker and far more economical. My toilet will last 40 years with about 10% of the purchase and maintenance costs. I also carry wipes around to use in public restrooms so while you may get clean at home, I get clean on the road as well.

I mainly do this because I have itching/chapping issues if I don't.
Seems fair enough - does it report this disabling?
This scandal was really weird from a HN commenter's perspective. For me it was the first time I experienced "wild veering" of comments, where I would write a comment that was downvoted multiple times within a few minutes and then later see it climb to thirty or so positive karma.
I don't understand how the photon thing proves randomness. How did they generate random angles?

I feel like the expirement is saying "we generate random numbers then prove random exists". Ok and a horse is a horse.
Their technique (by-method JIT, LLVM toolchain) is more likely to produce a mature implementation in the short term, possibly with a modest (but welcome) speedup, without major incompatibilities with extensions. If it happens, it's better than "That Perfect JIT VM" that is never finished.
Because people good at writing Python/Ruby/whatever dynamic language might not be the best suited for writing C code (or because seen from a Python programmer's point of view, C definitely sucks).
But to prove that claim OP would have to show that people who just wipe their asses are more often sick than those who wash it each time.
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> They knew that they were playing with a robot, but nonetheless experienced Robovie as something like a person.

This is a sad thing that people still think of person as a synonym of human, there is lot of work to do in that area. I wonder if Hollywood can close the gap a bit, the film "Her" treated the subject remarkably well I though.

Society will change, but it will take time... there still are people who do not think of every human as a person (be it for skin color, religious, sex identity).
Octave is hampered by the fact that it's still basically the same language as MATLAB without any of the reasons you put up with using MATLAB (the toolboxes).
10 years ago Microsoft was unlike any other big company because of their stronghold on personal computing - being able to use their monopoly on one market to crush their competition in other markets and they did so repeatedly. Startup founders for example always had to take into account the "Microsoft problem".

I don't blame them for bundling IE in Windows, not bundling a browser would be foolish and you can say that Microsoft bundling IExplorer in Windows is what made the web so ubiquitous - I blame them for (1) not making IE cross-platform, which meant that alternatives like, Mac OS, Linux, OS/2 suffered for years because the web was optimized for IE - actually IExplorer was released for Mac OS but it wasn't the same, which made the problem worse as it stopped alternatives for awhile, (2) promoting Windows-only technologies like ActiveX, still in use by many online government services in many countries and (3) after they crushed Netscape with IExplorer 5, which was really good technically speaking, they completely halted the development of IExplorer and of the web in general. IExplorer 6 was a cosmetic release, after which the team was dissolved, many of the members ending up working on Silverlight and other such bullshit. Not mentioning web standards here because the web standards were whatever IExplorer was doing, 10 years ago.

In so far as forgiveness for mistakes that happened 10 years ago - dude, many of us don't have a short memory and many of us don't forgive so easily, not when we aren't seeing signs that a company changed. I'm happy for these recent announcements - it seems that there is interest amongst the upper management to change things, now that Ballmer is gone. And Roslyn (with F# before it) - are the first projects of any significance that they are open-sourcing and F# is finally accepting contributions from third-parties.

But lo and behold - Microsoft is choking Android with patents infringement threats, because obviously, when you can't innovate, you can always litigate, especially when you have a war chest that was built starting in the early eighties. I don't hate patent trolls as much as I hate big companies that are becoming obsolete and with stuffed legal departments that sit on their asses all day thinking of how to "monetize" their bullshit IP, that was built on top of prior art in a time when software patents weren't the norm mind you.

So I'll forgive Microsoft the day they stop threatening and litigating and strong-arm their way into new markets. And don't think that I'm not seeing what Google and Apple are doing. Neither of them resemble the companies I fell in love with years ago. And they should pay attention to Microsoft, as public trust once lost is very hard to regain.
You're seriously underestimating this issue.

- rabbits/cane toads in Australia [0][1]

- Japanese knotweed [2]

- Tumbleweed (yep, not as native as Hollywood suggests) [3]

- Algae [4]

... and the list goes on and on, here's a top-100:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_world%27s_100_worst...

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgPhn4tYxJQ

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toads_in_Australia

[2] http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/wildlife...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_tragus

[4] http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/node/89
Pretty great news to complement the open-sourcing of Roslyn I think - was hoping to hear something about F# at Build.
Breaking up (with) your test suite.
To paint broad strokes, I think it's more accurate to say that the Ruby maintainers have generally prioritized user experience (where the user here is the programmer) over performance. I think the Python maintainers have maybe prioritized performance a bit higher than their Ruby counterparts, but there's definitely still a higher emphasis on ease of use. Given the goals of both languages and the need to make pragmatic choices, I think their priorities are well set. That said, I think a Java-fast Python or Ruby is an incredibly laudable goal, and I'm happy every time I see people working on it.
> Wrong.

Less Dwight please.
Infants and children need physical touch and emotional support in early life. Skin-to-skin contact plays a big role in early infant emotional engagement, and also reduces the likelihood and severity of post-birth depression in the mother. [1]

Not sure if your comment was tongue in cheek, but surely raising children is the one thing that we should really always make time to do ourselves. Otherwise why are you having kids at all?

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/infant-touch/
Which protocol are you referring to - IRC? talkd?

Voice and video are fundamentally different from messaging because they are connection-orientated; I think it's a mistake to conflate the two.

SIP is actually pretty good when the firewall punching works. I suspect there are enough cases when it doesn't for that to be a problem. And of course, if it's hard to monetise then it's hard to advertise, hence the proprietary push.
I think television and now tablets have largely achieved this, sadly.

However I think you have is precisely backwards. Liberation from the drudgery of parenting for what? more work? I think a more productive goal would be to liberate parents from work so they and their children can spend more time with other parents and children building a better world for all.
yeah i agree. I think sharp develop is coming along very well though. It will be interesting to see where they go with it. I am going to start using it for my personal open source projects, but for my commercial work for me and my teams I will stick with VS as we have MSDN licenses and support agreements in place.
This is great news - no more pharmaceutical profit projects getting pushed to the forefront, only to discover a few years later that the adverse affects were buried in 'company proprietary confidental' reports .. makes it safer to live in Europe!