skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose they could beg the Chinese government to enforce their IP rights and crack down on counterfeit manufacturers.

Or they could crack down on end-users. Or let the counterfeit manufacturers free-ride off their driver development.
the last I heard, Linux on the IBM Mainframes were driving > 50% of their sales.
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I would be extremely surprised that you would need 30 x86 boxes to reach the performance of a P8 box, on any type workload. By my experience with P5-P7 they can be faster for certain workloads then x86, but not that much.
As they have a lot of material of other important physicists too, I would be very interested. They have some voice clips online, so I hope they will release the full interviews one day.
"I have a long, long record of successfully working with women, working for women, and having women working for me."

This is the "some of my best friends are X" defense, for X = women.

Given that women make up 50% of humans, this is somewhat less convincing than when X = gay or X = black. And it's been shown to be totally unconvincing even then.
I find it curious that people seem to think "freedom of speech" somehow equates to "freedom from consequences." You can say what you want, but if you tweet racist, homophobic, and sexist remarks, or say them out loud for that matter, don't be surprised if your employer, friends, and family decide you're a jerk and unceremoniously dump you.

It's not a "liberal elite" enforcing their will. It's that you're offensive and people don't like you.
If assets (CSS/JS) aren't loading for you, try this: https://dev.twitter.com/products/digits
I'm guessing this is being upvoted to give everyone a voyeuristic glimpse to a slow train wreck
Twitter Powers of Ten (data visualization)
A bit more detail in this article.
Gmail integrations just don't work with some accounts and will never work with the primary account. Email integration will ignore some forwards/catch-all accepted emails but work fine with others. It seems awfully flakey.

I have an entire GApps domain that I can't even turn Now on for, and I have no idea why.

Edit: Ahh the standard HN, "someone said something about Google that isn't glowing" flag instinct. Sorry that my experience with Now has been negative and you don't like that, flag away. Amusingly, the video comment (id=8493719) was flagged down into the negatives rather quickly, partially recovered and is continually being flagged.
Wow. That is seriously uncool.

I'd never even heard of FTDI before but they can rest assured that if I ever need a USB-to-UART chip that FTDI won't be the company I choose to buy. FTDI's drivers refusing to work with the fake parts is understandable, purposely reprogramming them to make them non-functional isn't.
`TextRecognize` is clearly not for equations.
Google just made their launch look this cool http://youtu.be/6n1vtZR16RY
Both are great, but for a beginner, I too feel that Mercurial is much easier to get started. You don't have to spend any time 'understanding' how it works, just 3-4 commands is all that it takes to use it.

> Mercurial will get a lower and lower percentage of the market place over time

Lots of big projects continue to use Hg, some even switching to it from Git (e.g. FB)

https://hg.python.org/

https://hg.mozilla.org/

https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...
IF this is on purpose and can be proven so, it is most definitely illegal!
Yeah, it requires Android 4.0 or newer to run. It was a decision we made at the beginning since we don't own Android devices running those versions and didn't want to spend all of our time making the app compatible with all android versions (or at least starting at froyo).
I live in Croatia, and it makes me uncomfortable there is a Pro-Russian and unusual regime popping up in Hungary. This thing needs to be acted upon and taken care of quickly.
I had trouble parsing this. "People are okay with not being paid (for charitable effort). People dislike not being reimbursed (for charitable effort)."

Reimbursement seems a non-sequitur in the context of donating blood. Without an alternative market for blood, framing it as foregone reimbursement would be actively antagonistic on the part of the charitable recipient [within the culture in my area]. eg, "we could pay you, but you shouldn't want us to."

Unless you are referring to a situation, expressed below, like not reimbursing significant travel expenses for mr blackfan-anemia. It's not clear to me.
Twitter posts are serious business, and this guy is a good example of how you can fuck yourself by forgetting that Twitter is a public medium.

Having said that, I think we should consider whether the dude really deserved the incredible backlash against him. Being retributive can give us a sense of righteousness, but in the end all this comes down to is punishing a guy for embracing the "wrong" subculture.

edit: I can understand being uncomfortable about his comments, and possibly even wanting to fire him over them. What I take issue with is the hateful attitude people have taken towards him. It's (imo) hypocritical to call someone a "fratboy" while deriding them for derogatory comments.
I haven't tested it, but watching the video with no sound it looks like making email more like a social network. Either way, how about going back to the way email used to be? I dislike composing e-mails inline, I dislike having to dig through a menu to pop out a modal, or having to memorize everyone's icons because apparently text isn't cool anymore.. how about giving me a page dedicated to composing, instead of adding another layer to the current page and hiding the options from plain sight? From what I've seen on this so far, it appears that this moves in the opposite direction of that
I had no idea. Haven't looked it since many years ago.

Well, heck, that's great then.
"We did no mathematical analysis of how the stock should be priced; we didn’t have the skill to do that"

Folks may not realize it while doing so, but developing complex gameplay that is perfectly balanced can be considered a feat of linear algebra. So that quote made me smile :)
Hackaday has a good short summary of the situation: http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftd...
I also do inbox 0 the exact same way you do but sometimes it's not enough. For example, if an online retailer sends me promotions I don't care about, I'd like them to be auto-archived for when I actually feel like buying something, but I don't want to miss my purchase confirmations.

Google's new categories help and Inbox sounds promising but I feel like there's too much assumption going on in parsing the emails.

Really, I'd like email addresses to be on the domain level. For example, mail@cool_username.gmail.com and flights@cool_username.gmail.com. Then, give me granular control over how "mail" or "flights" get categorized and give me nested categories.
> Microsoft went ahead and built (by most accounts) a superior programming ecosystem, including a better API.

Many, many, many C# API elements were the equivalent Java elements with the case of one letter changed. That's not "a better API". That's cloning the API incompatibly.
The video on the blog post says that it is separate from Gmail and that you are welcome to use both. I assume they plan on keeping it that way.
Sounds like a fault in the cooling solution. I'm sure Apple could find a way to dissipate 65W in a Mac Mini chassis.

There's also 47/55W mobile processors with Iris Pro, one of which Apple uses in the 15" rMBP. Several historical unibody Mac Mini models had a 45 W processor.
i made a similar list when teaching others programming as well as for a friend so we could do some collaborative literary writing,

i think offsite storage, or publishing, is also of tier one importance and can be distilled to simple instructions:

(0) create an account with bitbucket for free private, or github for free public .. of course you will have to show 'git config --global user.name NAME' and 'git config --global user.email eMAIL@SITE.com', but this step is a one off and can easily be ignored after initial setup which you can be present for

(i) 'git remote add origin LOCATION', and 'git remote -v' if you forget where the repo is being sent

(ii) 'git push origin master', after ever session

(iii) 'git pull origin master', before ever session
I seem to be the only person in the world whose email is only broken since forced to use GMail on a work account (and Thunderbird totally fails at using the IMAP thing).

I mean, searching for "vpn" doesn't give me the mail that contains "openvpn"? Or it's that incompatible to my workflow that not even RTFM works...
The url should probably be corrected to this blog post: http://www.robweir.com/blog/2011/03/twitter-powers-of-ten.ht...
"So Do You Wear a Cape" is an excellent history of the founding and success of Magic: the Gathering and written in a way that you don't have to understand the game to grasp everything. I highly recommend checking that out.
also https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/
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FTDI have been anti-consumer for years - their last several drivers have introduced intentional instability and Code 10 errors for suspected counterfeit devices.

I think this is totally crappy. I see what they're trying to do (create market incentive for consumers to insist on real FTDI chips) but the reality is that it's just screwing over innocent consumers who buy a device.
I think the most important takeaway is that he did not try and screw over the early shareholders, integrity is important. The story about the $280,000 drafting table is relevant, they needed the drafting table it contributed to the success, If you were to go down that line of thought I wonder how much each can of Soda bought for early Facebook employees "cost".
It is one step away from a feminine hygiene ad.
I'm with you. currently i have 3 emails in my inbox. the rest are archived. Like 85% of the population, my inbox is a todo list not a social engagement.
I don't know why you'd expect it to solve hand-written problems. Handwriting recognition of text is barely solved, let alone maths.
I've had a lot of dealings with the "I'm just expressing my opinions" crowd. I think it's a disingenuous claim. You're not being shunned merely for opinions, you're being shunned because your application of those opinions is actively harmful.
This numbers among the worst cases of self-righteous apologia I've ever encountered.

Face it, Pax: This isn't about having your career "irretrievably damaged" for "having fun". This is about getting caught and called out for having been an asshole. Full stop. Those two categories don't have to overlap, and I'm perfectly within my rights not to want to work with, or be around, people who think they do.
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Maybe you don't, but people considering a Mac Mini probably do.

I tried running a Hackintosh, and gave up after the third instance of unrecoverable disk corruption. :(
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> purposely reprogramming them to make them non-functional isn't

Dumb question maybe, but why?
Which one is that plan that allows you to "spend about $1"?
As far as I know there are no actual instances of sexist behavior attributed to Pax Dickinson outside of shitty jokes on Twitter. He might be an ass, but I'm deeply uncomfortable with de-facto blacklisting purely as a response to offensive speech.

(And since this is deep in identity politics territory I'm saying that as a gay man of middle eastern ancestry.)
With the right software (Opera Mail) filters learn from what you drag into them and out of them. So there's no maintenance necessary to speak of.
Can't you just backport the Java 8 fixes and build from source?
Poor naming of this. What about popular python library and command line application (http://www.fabfile.org/)
I foresee an arms race here.

Next gen FTDI clones will work around this driver detection.
Next FTDI driver has new detection code.

Iterate until the counterfeit chips are indistinguishable from the real thing via software.
> And they [Oracle] have the legal team to pretty much guarantee victory.

Um, Google's got a pretty good legal team, too...
Exact same flow here.
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systems of record, got it.
Make a promo video and put it on the play store page.
> but this guy took 16 months and spent $58K building the app

Wow. $58K is a lot of money for an android game.
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Nothing happened merely because he held opinions. It was when he began expressing them in a harmful and embarrassing manner that it became a problem for him.
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Oops, you seem to be right. Some of the early reporting implied otherwise[1], but that seems to have been in error[2]. Sorry for spreading misinformation!

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/09/16/reports-boe...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/09/16/nasa-awards...
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> You can even teach Inbox to adapt to the way you work by choosing which emails you’d like to see grouped together.

Finally!
I get that judges are resistant to changing something that has existed for a long time, but it still seems like a bad policy. If someone has to be compelled to testify it will almost always be either because the witness doesn't want the perpetrator to be punished or the perpetrator is so dangerous that the witness is afraid to testify against them. Compelling testimony in either circumstance (as opposed to, say, negotiating for it in exchange for witness protection) is very likely to produce false testimony. It's hard to see a government interest in false testimony. Moreover, history is not always right. Censorship is as old a practice as the printed word, that's no excuse not to apply the First Amendment to curtail it.

This is also justifying the lack of a warrant requirement based on something that breaks the analogy to the original case. Witness testimony is no one's "papers and effects", unlike stored data.
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Your game is awesome ! I just took part in a GAME Jam this weekend and it was my first time attempting a serious game. I had written some mock side scrollers in pygame before.

your art work looks amazingggg ! Few quick questions ... Do you have sprites in the iOS world too ? Is your player , coins and enemies all sprites ?

And one more thing is , are you blitting a scene graph ? I am having a hard time thinking about this data structure. Would love to hear you explanation.

Thank you!
I think I can guarantee that none of them are using email to talk to their friends. Snapchat and FB messenger are much more popular among my friend group.

I only use email if I know someone doesn't use or check Facebook very often.
The mistake there was to assume smartphone is a separate category of cellphone, when really it's not. (This is the same trick used to suggest Windows Mobile was ever remotely successful, by pretending it was a category of one). By that measure Symbian only succeeded in Japan where it was free of Series 60 and had whole different UIs stuck on it.

What Nokia achieved with S60 was a UI no one wanted, and unnecessary fragementation and antagonism with the other Symbian licensees (and with Symbian itself). UIQ predictably never went anywhere (too complicated), but had Symbian produced a UI closer to S40 in spirit then we'd be looking at a very different situation today. To this day iOS is closer to S40 than S60 for end users, and this is no coincidence.
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This article didn't do much to answer the question, quite frankly.
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I think it has a great deal of worth, especially considering how much people in his (and most) industries operate with twitter as a public-facing manifestation of yourself.

Secondly, not wanting to do business with someone because they are an ass...sounds pretty reasonable to me.
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I don't get more than maybe 10 emails a day on my personal account. Mailbox makes it fun to take care of them. I don't see myself needing anything more complex.
May I suggest that you stop using the internet until you learn to respect and appreciate the hackers who built it? You should be ashamed of your ignorance. You are launching vicious attacks on hackers, claiming we aren't human-rights activists, that we are criminals, that we are selfish, and that we aren't known for our humanitarian efforts. None of these things are true.
Thanks! We actually did build the current landing page _in_ Broadsheet. The background video is just an animated GIF!

Addding background video support for other formats is on the road map!
As mentioned, Prolific's USB serial driver previously dropped support for counterfeit some Prolific chips, albeit not in quite as nasty of a way.
what was the real crime here?

making off color jokes?

or not realizing exactly how publically he was making them?

edit - I find it interesting to contrast this thread with this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8484312 interesting
Wasn't PowerPC always able to switch between little-endian and big-endian at boot? Maybe they migrated that capability to POWER.

(It's been a long time since I last typed "PowerPC", gave me a strange feeling of nostalgia...)
I do exactly this as well. Some things need the user to spend time organizing them because search can't operate on it well (i.e. photos), but email is not one of those things. 99.99% of the time email search gets me what I'm looking for in a mater of seconds. Spending time organizing emails is going to be a complete waste of time for the vast majority of people.

This is also the reason I've never been able to use any 3rd party email clients and rely solely on gmail in the browser. Search is so much faster/better when done directly in gmail.

I'm curious to try Inbox and see if it provides a useful added layer of aggregation of messages above and beyond the current "conversations."
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> I can't remember any feature that pulled me to gmail [...]

Their anti-spam was stunningly better than all the existing web-based providers.
OK, that makes sense. Not my scenario but I can see the purpose now.
I think if you look closely at the specs, I think the Xeon has about 2.5MB of L3 per core, while P8 has about 8MB of L3/core. There are bigger differences than this. But the examples above have both processors set at SMT2 (~30 seconds vs ~10 seconds). Differences are greater for SMT4 and SMT8. Of course, if your code fits nicely into the L3 - e.g. if your hot code consumes 3MB, then Power8 will be a bigger winner since there may be more thrashing for the x86 chip - unless, of course, the prediction routines is straight forward and the cacheline can be prefetched (think sequential access vs random access).

From what I saw elsewhere, highly parallel code runs faster on P8, where as single thread perf is faster on x86. So if your HPC app is basically single threaded on one of your compute nodes, then that would be faster. But if your HPC code is highly multithreaded on the core, then P8 may surprise you.
From his website:

In the mid 90s I had bad hand pain, so bad that most of the day I could only type with one finger. The FSF hired typists for me part of the day, and part of the day I tolerated the pain. After a few years I found out that this was due to the hard keys of my keyboard. I switched to a keyboard with lighter key pressure and the problem mostly went away.

He still hasn't coded much for years, choosing instead to promote free software usage through writing articles and giving speeches.
They are Pro-Putin regime in a devious way and Russia is basically in war with Europe. I think they should face some kind of heat.
I haven't gotten into the DIY/Hacker/Arduino stuff but it seems like there would also be plenty of consumer devices that may be impacted that don't have correct supply chain control (or care about the source of their chips).

I wonder if Windows will pull the driver.
I think you're still trying to do too many things at once and mixing concepts. Simplify: If an email requires a followup, label it with "todo". Don't archive email (except as an alternative to delete), don't try mark read things as unread, etc. Then, in order to check your current list of actions, have a view of only the emails labeled with "todo". I try to review this list twice a day or so. As you work off the list, remove the label from email when done! This workflow is almost identical to the Outlook flag system which I also like. In this way, the goal is only to get your todo list to zero, which is a very small subset of all items that are arriving in your inbox.

I think the key is to use one system consistently, and to have a concise view of your current open items with minimal manual effort.
Anecdotally, I haven't seen an issue around me with malware on Windows either from 2010 (except one person complaining about the Ask toolbar bundled with Java/Flash).

I guess you haven't been looking at the news about Android Malware.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
Great idea Fletcher. We <3 ElasticSearch here at Lanetix as well and I think some of our developers that haven't worked with it as much will give your challenge a shot.
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I think a lot of people are in the same boat. Would I use this after seeing how Twitter have treated people using their API in the past? No way.
I felt like the text of the blog post did a pretty good job of explaining the goals of the product without much fluff. If guess if you're the sort of person who watches the video instead of reading the article, you get the marketing content designed for the people who don't read.
When I saw the name I was expecting a full mobile app framework like ionic or something that combines ui with build tools like cordova.

Looks just like a collection of backend services that you can include in your apps today without this framework if you really wanted them.

Hopefully more info will be released because I am not seeing anything here..
Bloom filters and genetic algorithms seem to be subjects of perennial tutorial articles on Hacker News and /r/programming. They're easy enough to understand with a background in the classically-taught data structures and algorithms. Yet, they're usually not covered in many courses, so they're still novel.
Fortunately, most of the newer Arduinos have moved to firmware implementations of USB-to-serial that use one of the standard USB device classes and drivers, but there's all kinds of stuff out there with FTDI chips in.
Is there any tech product today whose creators would say it is not "designed for mobile use, on the go, for a diverse array of tasks"?

> Young urban people fit that demographic a lot more than a suburban commuter would, since that lifestyle comes with a pretty set routine and a limited variety of schedules

Yeah, no way a person with three kids and a full-time job has a hectic schedule.
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Check out plus addressing! Not part of any standard, but supported by Gmail and many other email providers.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-m...