skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a total straw man. The issue here is about tracking by advertisers seeking to discover personal details about you. Avoiding this is not simply a matter of just not using one product. It's pervasive across all major services on the internet.

Having a severely curtailed access to the internet is most definitely a sacrifice in modern life.
No. It's both biased and true.

The author goes deeply into related price fixing by Samsung, but never mentions the price and wage fixing that Apple has done. The author is clearly espousing a specific and deceptive narrative.

Both companies engage in anti-competitive practices. However, you can't compare the two if you don't engage in an honest exploration of their business practices.

Really? I don't understand the debate. The fact that these companies have been 'borrowing' from each other has been great for us consumers. If nobody was competing with Apple, the iphone would be worse than it is today.

The size and cost of the legal battle between these two companies should really inform us about the changes we need to make to technology patent laws.
After reviewing comments and having a small break I think I didn't explain to idea well. When I said hairdresser I meant the salon.

So when customer submits a request salons respond with offers matching the criteria. But booking can be must have feature.

Cheers.
I'm not sure about Buffet's advice, but John Bogle (founder of Vanguard) recommends bonds so that you can rebalance your portfolio to your desired asset allocation when stocks are down by simply selling some bonds to free up capital.

So if you have 90% stocks and 10% bonds but the market takes a dive and now you're at 80%/20%, you can sell enough bonds to bring you back to a 10% bond allocation and use those funds to buy more stocks.
Let me remind us of the original claim I was refuting: "If someone doesn't like the political system, then you're acting immorally and violently by forcing them to abide by it."

This is the claim we're discussing (to the extent we're not off topic).

You've agreed several times in the post above that this claim is hogwash. You'd just prefer individuals to be setting rules about their property (e.g. roads) instead of the government setting similar rules. But at some point, any reasonable system allows someone to force someone else to do (or not do) something.

>If you're curious, I can point you to some resources/books regarding anarcho-capitalism and related topics. There are some nice introductions out there; some of which detail all the possible combinations of problems you can think of.

Maybe. Here's a problem I want the answer to.

I believe it's inevitable that tons of power will become concentrated in a few hands.

When this centralization of power happens, it's always abused and lots of people get screwed. It seems that democratically elected governments are easier to exert pressure on than privately held corporations.

Therefore, I prefer for vital resources -- water, food and the energy/transportation networks necessary for providing them -- be owned or at least heavily regulated by a democratically elected government.

I'm only willing to entertain something like anarcho-capitalism if it prevents centralization of power and/or considers itself subservient to democracy. I believe that the former case is impossible and that the latter case is incompatible because most people prefer significant government involvement for lots of reasons, mostly based on self interest (see status quo).

If you have resources addressing this problema which are well-grounded in behavioral or social science research methodology, I'd be interested in reading them.

(p.s. thanks for the civility)
Vico is amazing, I'm currently working on contributing to it. Highly recommended, and it's simple to build too. Go get the version from GitHub, it's now open source and managed by the community.
She uses much the same logic that slaveowners used to defend slavery, so no I don't think he'd be interested in that book (published in 1973).
Dark silicon or even CPUs in general are orthogonal to Moore's law.

There are other domains that can eat up as many and as small of transistors are you can throw at them. FPGAs are a great example.

New fabrication technology will allow for new paradigms that we perhaps cannot sufficiently even predict right now.
"Normal kerosene" is a nonrenewable resource which will be running out by and by. Hence the interest in synthesis.
We still have a magnitude order or two of computing power that we can squeeze out iff the semiconductor density/price stops.

We don't implement many optimization possibilities in each hw/sw layer because the "layer below" keeps changing all the time and we need to keep compatibility. Once we could say "this is it, this layer is as good as it will ever get", then (and not a day before) you can start to re-architecture everything above it to maximize performance by throwing away flexibility that won't be needed anymore.

E.g., instead of transistors being spent on translating x86 to the underlying microcode and cycles being spent on translating JVM/CLR bytecode (or javascript) to x86, we'd be able to define a single standard and adapt both processors and compilers to that. You can't break compatibility at every technological change - but if you have a reason to believe that it will finally be stable (which hasn't ever happened yet) then it does make sense to make a single final switch that disregards all compatibility and legacy issues - even if the benefits are small, they accumulate for each such layer and you only have to do it once.
Thanks, as you did it.
> Traditionally, China doesn't have a strong open source culture

Not "legally/officially open source" at least, but for some other definitions of "open", the culture is definitely there. :-)
Unfortunately, all the humans who knew how to do custom VLSI design are dead, retired, or doing something else

Well, sort of. The ol' DEC guys are still out there, many at semiconductor companies.

Anyway, design is not the biggest lever right now, and it stabilizes last. When architecture & process slow down, design will probably see increased focus as you finally have more time for squeezing out 20% extra speed- and without everything being tossed the next go-round.
I think the ability to make these contracts is inevitable, with or without TruthCoin, and it's futile trying to censor them.

You can get these contracts settled by any trusted party, or any combination you choose of trusted parties. There's already someone out there who is offering to escrow money if you want to assassinate a politician. The next logical step is for them to use multi-sig and act as an arbitor, but without the need to hold the funds. It's inevitable that someone will do this, if they're not doing it already.

If anything it would be better to have this activity happening on a public network so that law enforcement can find out who somebody is trying to assassinate etc.
I really want to start playing around with D but my biggest concern is the number of available libraries. That's not going to stop me from using it but it is a concern of mine.
In unconfined spaces, CO tends to dissipate. It's fairly reactive (binding with O2 to form CO2) and will be pretty short-lived. Not something to worry about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide
This read much more like an advertisement for GreaterThanZero's services than an article whose conclusion actually addresses the title's question, but the author seemed to do a good job accounting for the differences between Warren Buffet's estate and a regular, living person's money (namely that the person sometimes needs to spend it).

Actually, come to think of it, I don't think the author explained why Buffet's estate should be treated as if withdrawals will never be made from it, but I assume it's because the 10% of his money that will go into short term savings bonds is still a ridiculous amount of money and should be sufficient to cover any expenses in the foreseeable future.
Here's a comparison between Berkshire Hathaway and Vanguard for the past 10 years: https://i.imgur.com/yHVY0qP.png (data from morningstar.com).

Overall, very similar, but if you went in and out of the funds at different times you might have had a different net result.
>There is historical precedent.

Of what? The Wikipedia article only indicates that there's a historical precedent of people talking about the idea, not its actual implementation at scale.

There is a one sentence mention of ethnic self-rule in Roman times, but it's complete hogwash. We've done exactly the same in the modern era by not doing the whole conquering other ethnic group's land and colonizing it thing.

> The vast majority of laws are useless.

I agree, but prefer this inefficiency to something which makes exploitation easy.

> politics has nothing to do with finding an acceptable set of laws. Politics is the practice and theory of influencing other people on a civic or individual level.

These statements are incompatible in democratic societies; in fact, that's the chief innovation of democracy.
Sounds like, ahem, a browser based RSS aggregator and reader.
You should check out the dub registry (at http://code.dlang.org/). I've found that pretty much everything I've ever needed is there, and everything else can be found via a quick google search.
Update the title.. This is a compiler/assembler, not a disassembly tool.
Valuable Humans in Our Digital Future
Ok, an interview would make sense then.

My thoughts are basically, as an outsider I don't know the things that are "not fact but pretty much accepted as true". So it is valuable to me to learn about those things in an article.
The other problem when you try to censor this is that the illegality and immorality of these contracts actually depends on the intention, which you can't see on a public network. TruthCoin (or any other anonymous system for doing this) wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a payment to somebody to burn down the lighthouse and an insurance contract to help you rebuild the lighthouse if it burns down.

Likewise, for all you'll know looking at the transactions, a payment conditional on someone's death could be a will, a life insurance policy, a political bet or an assassination contract. These all look the same to the network; What matters is the intention behind them.
Synapses turned out to be more complicated than we thought. Single cell organisms did all of their sensing and data processing through their membranes. Guess what synapses evolved from?
A People’s War in East Ukraine
Why would you put this under a different license than Vim itself?
Agreed, but in this case it looks like he was responding to Buffett's quote:

>My advice to the trustee couldn’t be more simple: Put 10% of the cash in short-term government bonds and 90% in a very low-cost S&P 500 index fund. (I suggest Vanguard’s.) I believe the trust’s long-term results from this policy will be superior to those attained by most investors—whether pension funds, institutions or individuals—who employ high-fee managers.

Then he compared his 401k results with the Vanguard Target 2040 fund. Seems pretty straightforward.
Wow, that Tofugu site exemplifies the Hipster Phenomenon, with an always-there menu bar that takes a third of my browser window's vertical space!
http://entertainment-on-the-end.blogspot.com/2014/05/mayweat...
@Matt Cutts, is this the kind of sites that Adsense runs on? http://entertainment-on-the-end.blogspot.com/2014/05/mayweat...
MarketRiders has been providing similar advice to invest in low load index funds and EFTs for some time [1]. The real issue is that if you are paying 2% fees or if the account is being churned (or both), you're getting screwed.

Suggestion: show all calculations.

1. http://marketriders.com
U.S. States People Most Want to Flee
> One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. —Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone December 15, 1977, eventually part of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Zeta_Acosta
Actually, we do. It's not that frequent, but the march of time has seen big changes in water quality, waste water treatment and waste water discharge strategies. Housing densities are increasing fast so bigger pipes are required (more bandwidth?). Dumping waste straight into the sea is no longer acceptable and mixing storm water and waste water is slowly being phased out and separate systems are now utilized. It's not exactly the same, but the dumb pipes that come and go from my suburb are slowly being smartened up. Auckland, New Zealand.
Is this an open source project? Where can I download it?
This is quite a good informal high-level explanation.

A thing I can't understand is why this isn't made automatic.

If there are 100 companies, you don't want to create 100 tables, then add 100 FOREIGN KEY constrains, and then again each time a new company appears, do you? Wouldn't a "syntactic sugar" like "PARTITION BY company_id" that does all this automatically be possible?

Just asking if there is a reason something like this is not implemented.
And GPL3 at that...smh
Thanks! I removed all of the ALL CAPS words to eliminate many instances of character names and some stage directions.
Thank you very much and thanks to everyone that helped me build this. You, carter, and the others in the Haskell/Haskell.au IRC channels were a big help. The thank-you list would be huge if I tried to list everybody that made a library I used or whose blog post helped me along.
A couple transistors may be enough to do the job of a synapse - and it would do that "job" many orders of magnitude faster.

A modern CPU has some 100000 times less transistors than we have synapses, but it's effective frequency is at at least 1000000 faster than synapse firing rates. So on "volume" ratio our CPUs are already more powerful than our brains, we just don't know how to wire those transistors properly.

It may well be that the power of such a neural network is nonlinear to its size, and a tenfold smaller/tenfold faster network is much weaker. But we do already have supercomputers that have a similar number of transistors than our brains have synapses, while still having the millionfold speed advantage.

Our limit is in our [lack of] ability to build brains. If we knew how, then our current silicon tech would be enough to run ubiquitous stronger-than-human AIs - but we don't; and "bruteforcing" a brain emulation without a better understanding is so inefficient that it requires currently unfeasible resources.
The Drinkable Book
It's hard to generate a strict apples to apples comparison -- not only do the numbers depend on operating parameters, but pure adiabatic operation causes both very high temperatures, imposing strict materials constraints and very difficult heat exchange and heat storage challenges, and very low temperatures, causing icing.

This means no working pure compressed air energy storage tech is in existence today -- a couple exist which add heat via combustion, one product used to exist which used an electric heater to keep a heat store warm. Both are thermodynamically non-ideal.

Based on pure theory, however, running two stages of compression to 200 bar (14.1:1 each), running perfectly adiabatically during compression and expansion, temperatures would reach to about 600 C during compression. If one didn't recover the heat of compression, and let the temperature of the compressed air drop to ambient, the temperature upon expansion would get to about -170 C. Pure thermal efficiency would be about 34%.

The results are so extreme / bad that one would choose a whole separate set of parameters and compromises. But that should show you the power of direct contact heat exchange.
Author here: all of the comments are spot on. This is what I love about Hacker News.
Not so fast! I must object to the loophole you claim to have found.

I said the wafers would be free; testing ~100 trillion of them to find the best costs extra :)

I never even thought of that angle - do you know how much better such a part would realistically be? I thought binning was mostly a matter of defect reduction (where some defects are slight). But at that extreme level, it could be a different game altogether.
Not yet, currently developing our systems to be pilot ready for field tests next year. It's a long, hard business developing new energy tech. Our first genuine products are likely to be our pressure vessels...
i suspect this was the simple solution that the postgresql team could implement easily.

that is actually why i wrote the partitioned gem (which this explanation is apart of): https://github.com/fiksu/partitioned
the lack of automatic table management is pretty painful and the gem helps you manage such things.

there is some support for redshift also:
https://github.com/fiksu/activerecord-redshift-adapter

(this is all for rails)
People don't seem to understand this. If you are doing lots of IO Python threads are fully performant and the GIL isn't an issue at all.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ace-subido/pouchnote/maste...

https://github.com/ace-subido/pouchnote

Pouchnote is a really small accounting system; an income and expense ledger. It's good for quickly jotting down income and expense entries without thinking hard about excel sheet cell computations and following formats.

Worked on Ansible deployment scripts and more unit tests for the code. Open-sourced it on Github.

I'll make it into a Docker image if the need arises.
Go Twitter!
Author here. The `xor a` was important - it pretended no key was pressed. I'm familiar with conditional RET.

Thanks for the rest of your kind words, though.
It probably will be. There are two primary reasons it hasn't happened yet (in my opinion):

1. It takes a while to get widespread agreement on the semantics to make sure it really solves the problem in a comprehensive way.

2. The existing mechanism is "good enough", so nobody is quite experiencing enough pain that they dedicate the effort to solve it.

These aren't great reasons, because other databases have had partitioning features for a long time. But they are reasons.
Also, gvim has more potential keybindings available than vim running in a terminal.
I don't know much about Jekyll, but vanilla Github offers a distraction-free editor called "zen mode".
The anti-sugar "hysteria" stems from the fact that everything seems to have some type of sugar added to it.

If you live in USA you probably have too much sugar in your diet if you're not taking any steps to reduce it. When my wife(and her mom) first came to USA from Nigeria, they both complained that everything tasted like sugar. Even dinner-type meals that are suppose to be savory. I also have a relative who doesn't need their medication to control their blood-sugar when they're in Nigeria instead of America.

Also, on my own quest[1] to be healthy and reduce my weight everything ultimately came down to reducing carbs and sugar in my diet. Lost nearly 40 lbs. People always say I look much younger than my age and I have trouble getting into Nightclubs sometimes since I don't look like my driver-license picture anymore.

1. http://smtddr.hatenablog.com/entry/2011/06/19/Wii_Fit_Plus%3...
I don't understand how anything like this could just assume that I'm going to give it access to my private repos. Do people seriously do this?
Luis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada accessories strictly are NOT commodities by definition.

"marketable item produced to satisfy wants or needs" is a neccessary but not sufficient condition for being called a commodity.

Commodities is a subset of all goods / marketable items - those that have high fungibility and low differentiation. It's not a binary classification, but on "commodity <> not-commodity" scale Luis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada stuff is near the extreme not-commodity end.

Actually, the same wikipedia explains it quite well in the sentences after that first line.
Audi's Subdomains Hacked Moroccan Hackers
As far as I know bool filters are preferred over and/or filters (see http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/all-about-elasticsearch-fi...)

Seminearring and Monoid Filter could encourage usage of the bool filters, instead of and/or.

Thank you otherwise, I was longing for something similar when I was editing JSON queries. Going to try that the next time I have to do some ES work.
> it's time to start planning for the end of Moore's Law

Do we? Because all current software runs on current hardware. Even if in the next ten years we only get another 1% increase in speed, then the current software will run at the current speed (something which we are all perfectly fine with right now). I think it's indeed a doom and gloom article.
Profit is wonderful, even more so if earned through other means than tracking users' Internet activity unknowingly. Most users of the Internet don't know that Google sees them in most corners and much of the data collection remains.

Most users don't know how to defend themselves pro-actively. For example we have the disaster of people being connected with their political views in France[1]. The same (not really, hashed emails) vulnerability was then used by the Swedish Researchgruppen[2], an extremist leftwing organization, to publish who said what under the assertion of anonymity and as a direct followup leftwing journalists are now chasing outed "trolls" with baseball bats and cameras[3] for a TV show(!).

1: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-10/29/de-anonymisin...

2: http://torquemag.io/if-you-wouldnt-say-it-in-person-would-yo...

3: http://www.friatider.se/plansch-for-nya-tv3-serien-aschberg-...

Nedless to say these individuals are being directly targeted and harmed due to what they wrote on the Internet. It's not the fault of Disqus or Gravatar, it's the consequence of uninformed users.

Now imagine the hoards of victims that will emerge in the shadows of a Google database leak. For it will leak, of course it will, it's only a matter of time. If data can get out of North Korea it can get out of Google.

The dangers are not necessarily what Google is doing but what Google enables others to do.

Google closed down their service in China in protest againt what they said was anti democratic; remaining in the US is a hypocrisy, although perfectly aligned with other propaganda.

You are right, this is very much government driven. I agree - we should remove the government. Google can lead the revolution by closing down or switch jurisdiction in protest. Their voice is heard, ours is not.
I think 'shaking the box' is more akin to random restart hill-climbing.
Why not reskin popcorn time, add login/auth system to verified you're a paid netflix member, and you're done. Make app versions that work on all platforms.

Or netflix could use anonymous ip's/domains for their servers --who says netflix needs to broadcast to comcast--hey it's me netflix sharing some movies w/ my customers, thanks!
My father once told me that the secret to successful stock market investing was to start investing a long time ago.

It's not as trite as it sounds - what he meant was start investing as a young man, and keep adding to it.
This is great advice, I read the follow-up links in that post and they're very informative! I'll jot down a task for figuring out how to flip the Seminearring over to bool.

The reason for the original design was that they mated to nested And/Or filters which I knew to be less than ideal but figured it work as a first pass.

Thanks!
I never thought I'd see my blog on HN. Hope you liked this post.

FWIW, this is my first venture into kernels, and I've made a lot of mistakes. In fact, this project is on the fourth rewrite and its followers are desperately trying to convince me to leave the known cruft in place in favor of a more timely release. I would love to hear your feedback, though, because I want to polish this as much as possible in the future.