skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do pretty traditional gov-funded stimulation of science/tech industry. I heard on the grapevine most of the money goes to high-paid former-industry executives who are consulting to help accelerate existing companies. That plus support mostly patent-based research.

I've been there a bunch of times and it definitely doesn't have the culture of small nimble SF-style tech startups you'd expect. Feels much more corporate. Mostly a place where suits get to talk excitedly about 'innovation' and 'entrepreneurship', with nary an entrepreneur around.
I think there is really something to this - I barteneded my way through college, and for a couple years after (in order to travel and take care of some youthful exuberance that was incompatible with a standard job). As a result, my "money shifts" were Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, and my days off were typically Monday and Tuesday. A lot of my friends and social circle were in the service industry as well. As a result when I decided to do the career thing, it took several years to get over "Tuesday is a day off" and "Saturday is super productive" type thoughts. Similarly, I still find evenings to be more conducive to work than mornings because my schedule was bar hours - 4 or 5 pm - 3am, and relaxing after work makes no sense, I prefer a relaxing, slow start to the day.
True, but as with advanced rendering techniques, not everyone wants to use off-the-shelf engines. In a simple application, there's something to be said for writing your own, simple graphics code.
Facebook acquires mobile data plan firm Pryte
Hasn't it been used for binding in LISPs since the early 1960s? Swings and roundabouts.
Xeon Phi seems to be targeting two markets at once - many-core (x64) server computing and GPGPU with their 512-bit SIMD. For general server the memory limitation to 8GB is too low, which is however very competitive in GPGPU market.
You don't understand what Opt In means. In any case, EU law is pretty clear on this.
A Method swapping between objects in ruby (method swizzle) (A Ruby Script)
objective C has a weired feature, it can swaps 2 methods between objects, so if you are trying to call a Method1 from Object1 it will call Method2 from Object2, i created a solution for that in ruby as there is no native implementation in our lovely language, but Matz Gave us a great dynamic language to hack in to.
first i aliased the two methods in the classes of the two objects then i reimplemented the two methods in objects to call the other method.
this way you can swap methods between objects and as Classes itself is an object it self we can swap the new method or any other class method :D

Full script with docs : https://github.com/blazeeboy/RubyScripts/tree/master/2014-06-03
> Only if the tasks are trivially parallelizable

Which is a very common scenario on web and application servers, specially if you design your web applications to be scalable.

> Multiple browser tabs or open office documents are trivially parallelizable

They would be if I could pay attention to more than one tab or document at any given time. In reality, I spend most of my time with full-screen apps and there is little point to keep other tabs or documents running.
Why and how to avoid hamburger menus
SOA: Sample Apps and Their Development and Deployment Flow
Yes, I read the continuation… the title's just completely misleading. "How Caller ID works" … "oh, I'll tell you in another post please subscribe lolz also see OpenCNAM my paid caller id project"
Ask HN: Any solutions for connecting to iCloud Drive from Android?
For Mac and iOS users, it's great to not need a separate App for basic Dropbox-like features. However it also sucks if you have a single Android device that needs to mix in.

Does Apple lock-down the APIs for iCloud storage or are there open-source projects (or even third-party Apps) that can interface with it in a typical way?
Nice -- didn't know that Intel now had a serious remote management offering. These AMD mobos do wake-on-LAN, and that's it. They don't even have serial BIOS.
I don't have any examples off the top of my head, but I am fairly sure that I have seen text built out of drafting tool imagery in the past. As a relatively uninformed outsider, my thought is that Apple likely "copied" nothing, and just happened to make something similar.
Is planning and taking vacation really a problem for most people? In nearly 20 years, I've never had to delay a vacation, much less cancel one. Perhaps it's not a function of the company, but rather the worker, valuing work more than rest? The ability to forget work and recharge is critical for creative workers, something companies should be more aware of.
GameOver as FBI places cybercrime leader on most wanted list.
Media plus Co-Working FTW
If you'll never program in Lisp or Haskell, is there any value in learning them? Those who do learn them say yes, that doing so has changed for the better the way they think.

Similarly other subjects in math that do not, on the surface, seem to be relevant.
Glance: A smartwatch that you can use with your existing watch
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Might be a good use case for Penflip (https://www.penflip.com/), which is like GitHub for writing.

A Swift Korean translation effort popped up this morning, and is in full swing: https://www.penflip.com/jjuakim/swift-korean

Disclosure: I'm the Penflip developer
When I was in the military and stationed in Germany, I received orders for a base in California. I explained to my German friends that it was 3000 miles from my parents house (where I was going to spend some time on leave), or 5000 km. And I was going to drive that distance by myself.

They had a difficult time comprehending that, until I explained it was like driving to Munich and back ... five times in a row. Then they got it. And were stunned that I would and could do something like that.
But if you have only 10 processors, you'll only get a 5× speedup. 36 processors will get you an 8× speedup. (After that point it's really diminishing returns; you'd need 81 processors to get a 9× speedup.)
The BBC obituary on Shulgin[1] calls him the "Godfather of Ecstasy"[2], but he was far more than that.

He synthesized and carefully chronicled the effects of hundreds of psychoactive compounds on himself and a small, dedicated core group of explorers of human consciousness.

His efforts were published in two massive, definitive tomes called PiHKAL[3][4] and TiKHAL[5][6], the titles of which stand for "Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved" and "Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved", respectively.

These volumes contained detailed chemical synthesis instructions for the compounds he created, along with "trip reports" and ratings[7] of the compounds' psychoactivity, ranging from:

PLUS / MINUS (+/-) "The level of effectiveness of a drug that indicates a threshold action. If a higher dosage produces a greater response, then the plus/minus (+/-) was valid. If a higher dosage produces nothing, then this was a false positive."

to

PLUS FOUR (++++) "A rare and precious transcendental state, which has been called a 'peak experience', a 'religious experience,' 'divine transformation,' a 'state of Samadhi' and many other names in other cultures. It is not connected to the +1, +2, and +3 of the measuring of a drug's intensity. It is a state of bliss, a participation mystique, a connectedness with both the interior and exterior universes, which has come about after the ingestion of a psychedelic drug, but which is not necessarily repeatable with a subsequent ingestion of that same drug. If a drug (or technique or process) were ever to be discovered which would consistently produce a plus four experience in all human beings, it is conceivable that it would signal the ultimate evolution, and perhaps the end of, the human experiment."

His chemistry lab was DEA-licensed to handle "illegal" (scheduled) compounds, though he often synthesized entirely novel compounds which were not scheduled because neither the compounds nor the laws scheduling them existed yet.

Shulgin tirelessly educated the public and the law-enforcement community on the effects and value of psychedelic and psychoactive compounds, and wrote a highly informative Q&A column.[7]

Shulgin's pioneering work inspired generations of chemists, self-experimenters, and explorers. He was well known, loved, and respected as one of the most highly accomplished psychedelic chemists in history. His presence and guidance will be deeply missed.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shulgin

[2] - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27676669

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIHKAL

[4] - http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal.sht...

[5] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIHKAL

[6] - http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/tihkal/tihkal.sht...

[7] - http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/shulgin/blg/index.html
I Build Supercomputers in My Spare Time
My apprehension is more about finding a good quality source than about the actual legality. Given that so much MDMA is cut with meth, and that I have pretty hardcore social anxiety problems, I don't want to have to look around for a good source. I want the benefits of quality control that a legitimate market would bring.

Also, the monitored usage thing is more about finding someone capable of guiding me to talking about various traumas and stuff that trigger me in my day-to-day life. I've had bad experiences in the past of being the person to guide someone when trying to deal with their own demons, and have triggered my own in the process. I want someone I can trust, but is a relative neutral third party, who I can trust to guide me and help start to heal some deep-seated wounds. This is hard given the current framework, and something I do deeply want to help with my own healing process.
OpenGL 2.1 has VBOS and shaders. I've never used immediate mode with 2.1.
The next use you described came from yourself. The rest of the thread is emerging with a consistent theme, "what are your customers saying?"
I don't know what network effects you mean.

But I agree with the imbalance of power, at least in the common case. However, the more specific and difficult your job is, the more the power leans towards the employee.

Still, I believe any kind of power inequality will manifest itself somewhere whether you fix working hours or not.
Thanks Shankysingh. Looking forward to see you there. Don't hesitate to get in touch if you need assistance. Good luck with the startup.
BTC.com: “Something Amazing is Coming Soon”
That seems to have a peculiar and unlikely assumption that they would have produced less by working fewer hours, while almost all human experiences show those at the top of their profession rarely if ever got there by merely punching a timeclock more than the next tier down.

I will never be a world class ballet dancer or world class basketball player simply by putting in a little more time than the next guy.
I had a very similar experience when I tried it a few months before you.
"As a result of this and other runaway incidents involving locomotives with dynamic braking, the Federal Railroad Administration reversed its mandate that dynamic braking be disabled when train brakes are placed in emergency. The mandate now is that they must all remain functional."

What was the original rationale behind the emergency brakes disabling the dynamic braking?
Bitcoin Versus Electronic Money
Source : http://cryptocurrencylive.com/item?id=8832
Should You Minify Resources In Cordova/PhoneGap Apps?
That might have been banned for making an in-app purchase without giving Apple their cut.
The problem is that jetliners don't have all that space you calculated to play around in. They actually have a few well defined corridors and altitudes in which they can operate - the straight lines drawn from one VOR (effectively equivalent to a major airport) to another at 1,000 foot intervals.

Detours are costly due to time and coordination (air traffic control, other aircraft), and reacting to seeing a balloon and moving the aircraft isn't that easy when you're traveling at 300+ MPH in an aircraft which turns like a cargo ship. And that's assuming you can even see the balloon in time to react in the first place.

And that's just the commercial jetliners. Private jets go higher and faster (about 50,000' and 700mph), while GA aircraft fill the skys below 14,000'.

Granted, this still leaves a lot of room in between these major aircraft corridors, but if a balloon should ever intersect with one of them, it's going to cause havoc, even if there's never an actual balloon/aircraft incident.
Its been discussed on this site that competition for remote work is fierce. That would suggest a lack of bargaining power.
There is a lots of interesting work on building office suites and browsers that can take advantage of parallelism. But the general consensus is that we need to invent new lower level tools first. See Rust + Servo and MSFT + M#
How to become a software developer
Command line interface to JSNice
Same experience. I'm in the US and every employer I've worked for has allowed me to take my 2+ weeks off, no questions asked, no calls, no expectation to respond to emails (I don't have work email on my phone).
Source: http://cryptocurrencylive.com/item?id=8832
This whole thread is talking past each other.

Servers absolutely can have sequential dependencies, especially if there is a shared resource (eg, databases, IO, etc). If your application can make full use of all your cores without any inter-dependencies, great -- but that is not always the case.
Thanks for giving it a try. If you're ever thinking about trying it again, we (MAAS team) would be happy to help.

Truth is that the problems that MAAS is trying to solve are hard, and it's taken us some time to solve them. We're spending a lot of time in this development cycle working on the robustness of the MAAS node lifecycle.

MAAS 1.5 is significantly better than 1.3, and getting stronger all the time. Similarly, Juju 1.18 and 1.19 are leaps ahead of 1.13 – the local provider is now in a workable state and gets used a lot internally.

We at Canonical eat our own dogfood as far as MAAS and Juju are concerned. We're using MAAS extensively in our DCs (though I don't think we use it for 100% of machines; I'm not privy to that knowledge) and the vast majority of our core services are deployed using Juju.
Thanks for the explanation and websites!

I envy you. I try not to spend much money by walking or cycling, buying groceries at reduced prices before they're thrown out, buying used stuff when possible, and so on. But I don't know if I could make the jump to being virtually moneyless. One reason is having a partner; I imagine living such a lifestyle is easier when you're more independent and can move around easily.

Do you ever find yourself in situations where you don't have a place to stay for the night, or not enough money to pay for a meal?
Well "we" aren't waiting, lots of people set this kind of thing up themselves with a few Raspberry Pis and software like the one you linked.

The reason people wait for commercial alternatives is obviously ease of installation, support, etc., but there are also some features the big guys can offer that open source just can't compete with. Voice recognition is one, what if you want to talk to your TV or set your alarm while you're lying in bed? Open source speech recognition is passable, but there is no open source package that lets you do a hands-free "OK Google" trigger word type of thing. You'd have to pay thousands for that, in which case maybe you'll just wait for Google or Apple to integrate it into their home automation products.
A high-profile fork: one year of Blink and Webkit
There should be a College of Computing, offering several different majors: "Computer Science", "Software Engineering", "Human-Computer Interaction", and, damn it I want this even if there's only 3 or so people qualified in the world to teach it, "Computer Science Education". They should also offer a 3-credit general elective named "Computational Thinking" that's comparable with an English 101 course.
earth :-)
Show HN: Swift extension to give Dictionaries support for map
Can you expand on your home automation setup?
I'm pretty sure they didn't. My concern though is that OpenGL will fade away.

OpenGL isn't exactly a product. There's no company that "writes" the OpenGL software. Rather, it's a specification published by a consortium. "Writing" the OpenGL libraries is a task that each GPU maker does independently. So you have a bunch of different implementations of the same API.

For a long time, GPU makers have focused their attention on DirectX and done a lackluster job with their OpenGL implementations. If APIs like DirectX and Metal continue to proliferate, there will be less and less time and less incentive to maintain a good OpenGL implementation.
Their new models are 16GB, but you are exactly right that the model is very similar to the GPGPU (less memory, but what it does have is incredibly fast), albeit fewer but higher performance cores than something like a Tesla.

Knights Landing is when the model becomes a server unto itself, with 384GB of addressable memory, albeit still maintaining the ultra-fast 16GB of local memory per CPU.
Because it's the 25th anniversary of these events... which a younger generation, especially in China, may not be fully aware of.
I'm a little biased through once having developed on Sun's Niagara processors. Early versions of these had pretty terrible single core (thread? I forget their exact terminology) performance. The theoretical power of the processor was huge but any time you hit a single-threaded program you felt it. ssh logins were slow, for example!
FYI, these do not allow you to specify a wildcard, and SSL protect your subdomains.
So Earth-centric! Won't someone think of the post-human Andromeda colonists?
Watch a Ph.D. thesis dissertation being written in (somewhat) realtime
>Their potential return is simply greater.

Sire, but potential and actual are very different.
Isn't that exactly the point I made? You mentioned that people who rant about people being late annoy you. You don't have the power to change them, but you can adjust your own action and be on time.
I am not saying you should btw, I am just saying your argument could be interpreted in this way as well.
8 hours in a car is an eternity.

(I've regularly done a 5 hour drive for family visits and dislike that experience)
Seems like he's given up on listening. No wonder it seems so hard to do. He's got his way and he's sticking with it. Oddly, even whilst plugging his ears and ignoring others, he says he thinks we too should be like him. So we should not follow his example and ignore him; we should pay attention to his message.

Shedding the unimportant is actually a really good idea, but I think OP has taken it too far here by a mile.
Why would someone switch language if the familiar concepts have been given different names for no good reason?

Use different syntax and naming for the things that are genuinely different about your language.
Actually Nota uses Iframe to display the site. The widget can not be accessed directly form the site unless you have selected the "Widget on" option when creating you project.
This is defiantly save in production. There is almost no overhead of having the snippet in place.
C# is "open source", but the CLR is not.
The chip is vaporware. They've been talking about it for two years, but to quote the article, "Cavium has yet to share performance figures for the chip, which is not yet in first silicon."

I will be very excited to see some hard numbers when (if) this thing is ever released.
I have to say, Swift is a lot of fun… compared to Objective-C.
> MDMA is growing more and more popular as we speak, quickly replacing cocaine's position as the most popular party drug in my experience.

It's also worth mentioning that MDMA is manufactured from Sassafras oil which comes from an endangered species of trees. There's a risk of the Sassafras trees becoming extinct because of MDMA manufacture in clandestine chemical plants in the jungles of south east Asia.
Time Tracking Apps for Mac
Yeah, we were psyched to use it as a private cloud deployment tool and to manage some development environments. It represented a interesting middle ground between a container like setup (docker) and a distributed computing model like Storm/Disco.

A stack was run on it, however it lacked the polish, support and flexibility required to make it a platform worth investing in.

That is not to say that we thought the idea was bad but that it was nowhere near mature enough for production last year.

Given how Tahr has rolled out, we suspect most development effort was put into the mobile platform and a close integration of MaaS with the cloud in a box.
Micro Python – a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3
Poorest Countries with the Most Beautiful Girls in the World
Are we allowed to talk about this? Isn't this still under NDA?
Niagara included a crypto accelerator. Its successor chips had fancier ones.

https://blogs.oracle.com/ningsun/entry/cryptography_accelera...
I'm a pure Apple-basher, but most times when they have their big to-do, and especially if they release something as significant to many computer people's future plans as Swift, IMO HN should have a lot of Apple on the front page. I don't miss the Gruber at all, though.
Agreed, MaRS definitely doesn't have a small SF feel of tech startups at all. Waterloo is where it's at really if you're looking for a place that supports really early stage stuff.
> Which is a very common scenario on web and application servers, specially if you design your web applications to be scalable.

Doesn't matter. You can (and probably will) still hit horrible bottlenecks in the network stack. Another flashback to developing on the 64+ Niagara cores. We were running an embarassingly scalable web application - loads of independent concurrent requests - but the Solaris OS just couldn't keep up.

Has your NIC driver been optimised to scale for tens/hundreds of CPUs, I wonder?
The simple two-part question to identify when a meeting is worthwhile and what the scope of the meeting should be (and what should be in other channels): Is simultaneous, interactive, many-to-many communication necessary, and why, specifically, is it necessary? (A followup, to make sure that people are ready to have the meeting -- another common problem that makes meetings a waste of time and results in inappropriate things being done in the meeting venue -- is to ask: "what needs to happen first so that people are ready to engage in that many-to-many interaction"?)

Lots of meetings, IME, are held by one person to gather information from many people or to distribute information from one person to many people -- these kind of one-to-many or many-to-one scenarios are the easiest thing to see doesn't require a meeting (many-to-one being the more inefficient.) There's even some cases of many-to-many communication where there isn't any real need for interactivity. And plenty of cases where a meeting that is held for a many-to-many interactive purpose spends much of its time doing top-down, one-to-many communication for much of the meeting because something that ought to have been distributed to be reviewed by participants to be ready for a productive meeting was instead distributed for the first time in the meeting, wasting most of the meeting time.
Thanks that. 300+ welcome email and you are the first who got that one !
So my choices are "perfect for securing low-volume e-commerce sites" or "great for securing small- to medium-sized sites with limited traffic".

How do I choose? What happens when I exceed a limited amount of traffic?
You can't at the moment, but you will be able to soon: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24003918/does-swift-have-...
Probably it was about ability of third party apps to register itself as default handlers of protocols, mime types and file extensions.
Maybe I'm OCD but I really hate starting work with the expectation of soon being interrupted.