skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my defence, on the question of header typing, I did mention that these were not things that couldn’t be done in dynamically typed languages, but rather that they were more dangerous in such languages, that it was the assurance of correctness that languages like Rust get you. A strongly typed header scheme is absolutely possible in Python, but the risks are considerably higher.

I certainly agree that there were a few points that I didn’t substantiate or provide sufficient evidence for—I was deliberately intending to be broad and wanting people to think about these things, rather than going down rabbit holes. I’m afraid that half an hour really isn’t long to talk about such things in detail.
"Monopolies are good for the businesses that have them" is so ridiculously axiomatic I wish he would just stop making it the focus of his talk. We know this, and we know VC's get drastically bigger returns on those. The reasons we don't like Monopolies (if you're a person who doesn't like them) isn't because they're bad for those businesses or the market cap of those markets, but because they're bad for consumers and the economy as a whole.

Thiel's IMPORTANT point is that small monopolies lead to bigger ones and you can not start by going after a big monopoly. That is his point that is not only spot on but really, really important and actionable.
@OP: A really good read and performance find. I wouldn't have expected those kinds of gains, but I wouldn't have considered the impact on CPU optimization. The improvements are fantastic! Could you speak a bit about how the vectorized approach benefits more from CPU features? Does it work better with the cache?

Aside: This is a good concept to keep in mind when using channels in Go as well. When you have an overhead to moving a single unit of work through a process, and you're doing MANY of these shipments, there are savings to be had from ensuring your unit of work is large(vector/slice of items vs a single item).
Exponential growth is awesome! However, I was curious about the maximum theoretical lumens per watt to determine when the growth will fall flat. A current LED bulb gives about 60 lumens per watt. While an ideal monochromatic light source could give 683.[1] So it looks like there is _only_ one order of magnitude left in efficiency gains.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_efficacy
Really, that stuff is small potatoes. Look outside at night time and see how much power goes into lighting. Then heating/cooling, large scale manufacture.

It was fashionable a few years back to turn off your devices 'at the wall' so stop so-called 'vampire use' - which was TVs and other equipment on stand by. It sounded plausible - but in reality is just noise in the overall consumption picture, and is just window dressing to make people feel like they are doing something.

I'll agree that idling PCs and monitors should go into sleep mode like laptops do, but that stuff is not going to make the slightest dent in consumption anyway. Compare the power consumption of an electronic device with something like an iron or a stove or a clothes dryer and you'll see why. And that's before you start looking at heavy industry and large-scale building temperature control.
if the kindle app for ios is the same it does, highlight speech and tap the speaker icon at the bottom right
There are companies that re-populate cookies. The company formerly known as Rapleaf did this. You use computer A, the you go to device B, log in to some random site that is a Rapleaf partner, and they dropped a cookie connecting you to your other device based on your email address. Not particularly shocking anymore, certainly not as Facebook's new cookieless multi-device ad network rolls out.

It is going to be very interesting 10 years or so out when we have physical billboards running facial recognition delivering targeted ads. Perhaps 20 years out, a very customized AI salesperson creates a demographic profile and knows exactly what to say to maximize the probability of us buying.

The curious thing about advertising law is that this big data & super targeting stuff has become critical for political campaigns. Laws which throttle back on the privacy encroachment would likely neutralize a lot of the effectiveness of a modern US Presidential campaign.
Kano Lets Kids Build Their Own Computers and Learn to Code
You make hiring decisions off of a home-grown security "course", right? You've found that valuable -- would others?
San Francisco Legalizes, Regulates Airbnb with 7-4 Vote, Lots of Amendments
I never implied that sama's actions were doxing. I would however, like to a clear statement from mods regarding actual doxing, whether by them or other users.
news:yc is the best I have found. Just wish it has collapsable comments.
Bitcoin popped in my mind too. Though I was thinking that the power generation companies could setup the mining farms, so that they can make money from that excess energy rather than paying others to consume it.
Bitcoin-tech by itself is worth nothing;interview with DarkWallet's Amir Taaki
It's also a long term capital investment problem. Power generation is hugely capital intensive, and there are disincentives for investing in such a volatile market.

However, the demand is nowhere near as volatile as the supply can be, and you can't keep power as inventory, so it's anyones guess how this all plays out. Certainly we can't become reliant on solar/wind supply as this would be disastrous.

One thing is for sure, we need to level the playing field and remove all subsidies and regulations so that cost effective power can be reliably created. I fear the direction we are going right now is in the complete opposite of how things should be going.
Edited title for fitting.
Yahoo lays off hundreds in India
It checks out, I put in TempleOS and got out Genesis: "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it."
Sadly no, but I'm looking into how to make that happen! It's a result of my particular implementation, not a fault of the API.
The Higgs boson could destroy the universe in the wrong conditions
On a related tangent, since you mention modernizing the markup, can we please have markdown support in comments?
Thank you for this. I thought I had noticed less expired links, and figured something was changed on the back-end, but this was very informative.
I'm still bummed that OnLive died. Seemed to me like it would have been the PERFECT platform to kill cheaters for MMOs that weren't twitch-based.
AT&T Says It Fired Employee Who Gained Access to Customer Data
The change in navigation position you're seeing when navigating between pages other than Explore is caused by the browser displaying a scroll bar. The nav bar on the Explore page (for whatever reason) has an entirely different style applied.
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Okay. "Patient's cancer is in fucking remission!", said excitedly and happily is nevertheless possibly indicative of generally unprofessional behavior, which was quite obviously the point. But I guess discussions bereft of pedantry and hubris are sadly absent among the HN population these days.

None of us is personally offended by this language. We simply understand that it has no place in professional communications, because it can only really harm perception vis-a-vis just leaving it out and so probably isn't a smart business move.
I think several people live in a vacuum and forget how 99.9% of companies would have handled this. Granted forcing people to relocate to San Francisco will be a cultural and major geographical change but they are getting 3 months severance if they decide it isn't worth it. I don't know what promises were made to the NYC employees prior but if living in NYC is seen as a higher value than taking the leap to the San Fran that should be enough time to find other employment.
It would be a much larger deal if the office was based in a low cost of living area and asked to move to San Francisco where it is much more expensive.
I don't mind Affinity Designer at all, but it's still missing a lot of functionality I've become used to in Photoshop. I enjoy the speed and the interface, but the lack of in depth bitmap transform tools was a bit disappointing. They were however very responsive in the Beta and I imagine they'll keep that momentum up. If they manage it they might be a very capable alternative to Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
> Despite our dislike of DRM, we have come to believe Firefox needs to provide a mechanism for people to watch DRM-controlled content. We will do so in a way that protects the interests of individual users as much as possible, given what the rest of the industry has already put into place. We have selected Adobe to provide the key functionality. Adobe has been doing this in Flash for some time, and Adobe has been building the necessary relationships with the content owners. We believe that Adobe is uniquely able to bring new value to the setting.

Well, no, they added DRM to Firefox. They say so as much in as many apologetic ways that they can.

But agreed. There's a spectrum between DRM-only software and DRM-capable software. Adobe is DRM-only. Firefox is DRM-capable. Whether that's good or bad, and whether they could help it, is guaranteed debate and rabbit hole we want to avoid getting into.
Great choice to use Ember!
[Spoilers]

Each theory has its champions. Theoreticians at Philipps-Universität Marburg support Auger recombination [...]. Meanwhile, Hadis Morkoç’s group at Virginia Commonwealth University seconds Schubert’s support of electron leakage [...].

Well, the consensus has progressed quite a bit since: In recent years there's been increasingly convincing evidence that Auger recombination is the dominant effect behind droop after all (see for instance [1]).

[1] http://spie.org/x108666.xml

[/Spoilers]
"This becomes a strong disincentive for the construction and operation of these plants that are vital for steady, dependable electricity supply."

They are only vital if there is not enough storage.

If it is a disincentive to build new base-load generation due to the change in the market, doesn't that mean that the money is going to funnel more into storage, given there is unlikely to be a reduction in overall energy investment?

Also, storage is a buy low sell high business that depends on owning suitable real estate, which makes it look pretty attractive in markets where the price sometimes goes negative. Anyone with a big flow battery, or even a decent hill with a bit of railway up it, could have done quite well there.
doesn't work for me on Chrome. What exactly is this emulator supposed to emulate?
Is there a place to comment on gameplay design?
As looking at the current rules, if a 'Coward hero' just sits at a health well hitting it ever turn they can't be killed by a single enemy hero attacking?
If I'm reading the rules correctly the attacking hero can hit 10 from 'moving' at the coward and 20 again at turn end for a total of 30, which the coward can heal by simply moving at the well?

Either way cool game/site will give spin up a Hero soon.
I thought the same thing. There certainly have been Scheme systems developed that can serialize closures and continuations (e.g. I found [1], and the systems they cite in the related work section). But it seems tricky to get the garbage collection to work right... somehow you need to tell the program which data should be serialized, and which should be stored in RAM and somehow marked as still being live.

For the security aspect, maybe the server could have a secret key and store a MAC along with the serialized string?

[1] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley/papers/PierardFeeleySW07...
The popularity of Rails proves that there are many developers who "think they can get away with undocumented voodoo in their web development".
It seems the book has been taken down now, returns a 404.
One problem with current popular LED bulbs:

They emit more blue light than incandescent bulbs [1]. If people light their households with LED lights at night, it might shift their circadian rhythms [2]. Screwed up circadian rhythms can have all sorts of negative health/productivity effects.

[1] http://www.designingwithleds.com/measuring-light-quality-phi...
[2] https://justgetflux.com/research.html
1) That's a terrible source for data.

2) Being worth $1m is still terrible for having done everything he did.
Back in the '80s, I used a VT100 long enough that a substantial portion of the matte finish was worn smooth where my palm rubbed when using the cursor keys, as well as half of the space bar. I still miss having the cursor keys where I could reach them without bending my wrist or raising my arm.
You can't, actually. Consider things like the ATMs that suck in the entire card, or things like Metrocard vending machines that require you to insert the credit card in a slot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extropianism
Netflix moves into movies
Bitcoin can't handle any more good news or it will plummet to zero!
The Kitchen Network: America’s Underground Chinese Restaurant Workers
Here I though someone had made a digital speedometer attached to a wheel that an actual live mouse ran upon...

That would have been cool.
That's essentially how Apple Pay works.
>you can't keep power as inventory

Well, you can, you need batteries or suchlike.

One of the most interesting effects of adoption of electric cars could be that their batteries could be used as energy banks, charging when power is cheap and feeding power back to shave peaks off the demand.

Also... Let's build a battery gigafactory in Australia!!
Does that mean HN runs in a single process and doesn't do any concurrent request processing? That's pretty impressive if that's the case.
>Now just imagine if everyone had a huge battery rack

...or an electic car!
> The market simply does not value science.

Not true. It values science.

It just doesn't value most scientists. If you produce high quality science on a consistent, constant basis ... trust me, you'll get the big $$$.

But if you get lucky because you stumbled on something great, that's not science. That's winning the lottery. And you didn't win the lottery, your employer did. Your employer knows it had nothing to do with you and had everything to do with luck.

If Lipitor guy had a convincing argument that he could have another $135b breakthrough, that he could be consistent, do you really think everybody would tell him to screw off? I bet they would easily lay half that amount at his feet.
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Google: We probably won't update Toolbar PageRank in the future
Amazon chooses to offer that option. They're big enough now that they could get away with, for instance, charging a larger fee to publishers who apply DRM, or reducing their fee iff you don't apply DRM.
I don't think many people on HN would say "He deserves exactly what he got because he didn't negotiate for equity" or "That sucks. I'm glad I'm not a scientist!"

edit: I think I may have just been proven wrong, nevermind...
The insane conspiracy theories of Naomi Wolf
You could get it! cloud.digitalocean.com/user_payment_profiles and put it in at the bottom!
MVP Video on a BOOTSTRAP
I have no connections within the film industry,and am a recent college grad. No connections in film industry. Where would I GO about obtaining a videographer to create a LIVE-ACTION commercial 1min long for the startup for about $1,000. Any tips?
> Get 1000 entries and process them.
> Take the timestamp of the last entry.
> Requery the API, asking for articles made before that timestamp

Repeat.
The money in your savings account decreases in value with inflation, so that's not a risk-free strategy either. Maybe inflation-indexed treasuries are what you want, but those are also not risk-free!
UI seems to be broken http://s15.postimg.org/p26vhk2p7/Screen_Shot_2014_10_07_at_9...
Eve Set to Make Programming Easy
So we know that Dunbar's number is really, REALLY important when it comes to human interaction.

But nearly everything in the near past has to do with flouting it, creating huge institutions which absolutely, positively make Dunbar's number look like a joke.

Perhaps that is why there's a lot of trust eroding in the big institutions. When size >> Dunbar's number people have the anonymity they need to start doing less great things and get away with it.
Price is per night. I guess we need to message that better!
So far I've seen very little evidence that this will work. Unless some true mechanism can be found for remotely verifying that you are loading your code into a known environment then there's no way to know that you're running in a secure enclave in the first place.

The best attempt I've seen is sending a computation to be performed by the remote side and trying to infer the state of the CPU cache based on how long it takes to answer. If the timing is off then the cache must have been in an unexpected state and therefore unexpected code must have been executing on the machine. It's clever, but not practical.

What has Intel come up with that's any better? What's described in your link could simply be emulated in software. How would the remote side know the difference?
$8.1M will buy you everything you need for the rest of your life. I'm glad that this was the outcome, and I hope that he's now leading a happy life!
Yup, I'm stoked on Affinity Designer. It also nicely promotes Serif software as an alternative to the Creative Suite. Serif has a lot of educational customers and casual users and probably would have more if people knew about them and their prices. I'm going to revisit their stuff. It's been about 10 years since I checked out their page layout program. But Affinity is fantastic. They put in a lot of great ideas into it in the UI. Xara on Windows and Affinity on Mac will be my go-to apps for vector drawing. Illustrator for me is basically just an app for conversion to make sure a file is ready to share. I hate working in it, clunky app.
Scientists Have Discovered What Happens to Us After We Die
So long as we can insert a [Xen] Hypservisor between the OS and the processor, I'm confident someone will find a way to make it do what someone else doesn't want it to.

Hypervisors aren't just for virtualizing servers, you can use them for all sorts of things, like intercepting system calls.
Yeah, there are some suckers in this post who do nothing better than complain.
Author did not copy anyone's content rather simply linked and compiled the list.
By that logic you should also complain about Google because all they do is show results for query and link to other people's content.

Does anyone have link to cached version ?
If you want to get data for a single user through Algolia's API via the commandline, you could also use https://github.com/jaredsohn/hnuserdownload. It uses the same technique as minimaxir's code (a post of his was the inspiration.)
We try to show the same price as the site we're linking you off to. The common practice of 99% of the sites out there is to include the taxes in the price for non-USA destinations, but for USA destinations the taxes are added later. Of course it's ridiculous and doesn't make sense, but the logic is that since everyone else does it that way, you have to as well or it looks like your prices are worse than everyone else's.

There's also the question of fees, and we haven't handled that as well as we need to. For example, Airbnb adds fees on during checkout that aren't included in their landing pages. When we include those fees, which we do right now, it looks like our prices are too high. But we keep them there anyway so that there is a fair comparison with other accommodations options.
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In SGX, each processor will have a non-extractable private key and certificate. The certificate isn't emulatable.
Gavin Andresen Proposes Bitcoin Hard Fork to Address Network Scalability
There's a long technical discussion in the first reference given in the article. Remove the space in the link.
When a scientist makes a new breakthrough that adds a lot of value to society, X by definition is large (X = value created). "Value" doesn't necessarily need to be monetary, it could be lives saved or some other metric, though eventually I think most big breakthroughs do become monetizable in some form, and his point is that the inventing scientist generally captures very little of that X.
And of course it's illegal to install other operating systems on smartphones and other devices.

Citation required?
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*Note: The way to beat the Coward is by collecting diamonds. The Coward won't collect any, so won't be contributing to the team's score.
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Amazon has no reason to do that. Their mission there is to serve their publishers, and if the publishers want to DRM it up, that's on them.
"San Francisco legalizes Airbnb"

Uh, was it illegal before?
Thanks for the note and the screenshot. Should be fixed now.
The short version is to look at the early twentieth-century work on formal systems, languages and metalanguages, etc., and then notice how those particular sandcastles got kicked over by the incompleteness theorems.

By the way, personally I tend to look at type systems in terms of the tradeoffs they make. It certainly seems to me like the diminishing-returns point -- where writing verifiable code within a "more expressive" type system becomes more work than writing unverifiable code in a "less expressive" system and dealing with any bugs after the fact -- has already been passed by some of the popular FP languages.
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"...to get a decent UI..."

Do you mean that you can install something other than Unity?