skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not an upgrade if your old stuffs stop working. Man, 1.0 used to mean something.
> So were all premodern doctors idiots who couldn't practice empiricism? Well, no - many of them are extremely intelligent, inquisitive people

You also have to accept that even extremely intelligent people view evidence through the lens of their preconceptions. This can be a difficult thing to escape.
Actually, Google Does Know About Their Skydiving Senior VP
Musk warns of 'summoning the demon' with AI
I had to resubmit this because the first post got missed. This is one of the best startup stories I've heard. Good luck with AnyPerk, guys!
There is so much regulatory capture here. These companies might as well be government bureaus. And we know they are in bed with the NSA (not their fault, they are forced to be).

If somebody is screwing somebody with regulation, it might as well be that the public screws the shareholders, not the shareholders screwing the public (as it currently is).

edit: After further consideration, maybe I should just buy stock in these companies. If somebody's screwing someone, I guess it's preferable to be on top.

Though in the long run I think I lose either way because political influence-peddling is so destructive to the market and society we all live in.
Google Wallet and Apple Pay both have special status on their phones.

The CurrentC app will be just another app I assume, and so will be trickier to use than Wallet or Pay. I'm guessing the retailers disabling NFC at the moment are just trying to stall things until CurrentC is ready. i.e., they don't want people to get comfortable using alternatives before they have a chance to launch their app.
Can you elaborate on why the quote about Facebook is laughable?
You hit the nail on the head here. We're not really talking about random people being capable of writing profitable books; we're talking about expert consultants having the ability to productize their consulting into info-products to provide them with recurring revenue.

It's somewhat the same idea as an expert engineer inventing and patenting a machine design, then licensing it: they take a bunch of knowledge they would have sold once, and make it into something they can sell over and over.
Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required
Wasn't there a previous discussion/article on this (or at least something very similar)?
You can use a significant portion of Rust with only libc (i.e. no different to C) and this will be increasing. Things like "constructors" and destructors do not need the support of a runtime at all, they're entirely just conventional static function calls.

That is to say, the only overhead/problem with calling using C vs. using C and Rust is the increased binary size of having additional code included. There's no loss of flexibility (as long as you're not trying to run on a tiny microcontroller).
I'm curious how much experience the author had at the time of hiring.

While I'm not familiar with the hiring requirements for web dev, in the iOS development world in particular, it's quite easy to learn how to build basic apps with storyboard. But to master Core Foundation, GCD, Core Data, Core Animation, building good API, laying out UI in code, that takes a tremendous amount of time. And what I've heard from dev who've been through interviews, employers are very demanding. One person in particular was asked to build an app from scratch in one day without using ARC.
...because it's an American company? With Americans as their primary market?
Out of curiosity, what's the problem JVM-based languages as a safe choice? (I'm legitimately curious here.)

It's certainly not the right solution for everything, but there are plenty of cases where I'd think it could be an excellent choice. Most of Android (except the kernel) is written in Java, as an example.
You say that Wave was just an experiment, nothing more, implying that it was never meant to be a product and to attract users. It didn't appear this way when Google announced that Wave would be discontinued. Instead of saying "hi everyone, thank you for participating in this experiment" they provided this as an explanation of the shutdown: "Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked."
Well I tried it on an IvyBridge Xeon E5-2680-V2, gcc version 4.4.3 with -O3, table size = 32. Single table at a time ends up being faster:

155 M searches / sec for one table at a time.

108 M searches / sec for two tables at a time.

88 M searches / sec for four tables at a time.

The interleaved version of the code looks like this (for two at a time):

#define LOGSIZE 5

unsigned dsearch (unsigned key, unsigned * vector)
{
unsigned size = (1 << LOGSIZE) / 2;
unsigned * low1 = vector;
unsigned * low2 = vector + ((1 << LOGSIZE) / 2);
unsigned i;

for (i = LOGSIZE - 1; i != 0; i--) {
size /= 2;
unsigned mid1 = low1[size];
unsigned mid2 = low2[size];
if (mid1 <= key)
low1 += size;
if (mid2 <= key)
low2 += size;
}

if (*low2 == key)
low1 = low2;

return low1 - vector;
}

The compiled code ends up branch free (gcc does a good job), but is 30 instructions instead of 18.

Oh well, was worth a shot..
> I re-wrote strings a few years ago in C#, worked great. That was at Microsoft, and sadly the code can't be made public.

You sure about that? If it was a re-implementation in non-cleanroom conditions, Microsoft likely don't have that right.

Even if that's not the case, I'm curious what commercial gain Microsoft believe they would have be keeping it private.

One wonders how much other code of public interest is hidden behind closed doors (and not just Microsoft's).
Nevada puts stop to ridesharing Uber for now
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Anticompetitive goes both ways, though. Currently, on iOS, there is no NFC API at all; you might be able to accomplish something similar with iBeacon, but you can't replicate Apple Pay's single-touch flow (AFAIK, you'd have to swipe the notification, fingerprint to unlock, and then fingerprint again to confirm payment once the app had launched). Now, Apple is not a monopoly, and admittedly this is all brand new - opening up the secure element would be an implementation challenge, and it's possible that a new extension point will be added for lockscreen NFC handling in a future version, although not adding it would be nothing out of the ordinary for Apple. But the net result, for the time being, is that the retailers' payment system looks essentially doomed from the outset, since it can't compete with Apple's system on Apple devices.
What do you mean by the original discovery?
if you just want pure positivism: with joy of discovery and thrill of exploration; dive into the one piece manga where the main character is his own living ideal

if you are talking specifically about spacey futures..

i'd suggest Space Station 76

it is a very stylised future that the tin might describe as space as the 70s dreamt it,
but retains all of the social trappings of the day and contemporaries

its 'positivism' stems from the most real hope there is: hope in the next generation;

it is only bleak for the characters in how common everything is for them, and a child seems to be the only one on the ship who remembers they are all in space

it failed to get picked up for theatrical release so it went straight to dvd after SxSW; amazon prime is the only web service i know of that has it

even with its completely fun crutch of staging in a past's future, it is strangely some of the best futurism i've seen recently
Asimov, particularly in his "Robot" and "Foundation" series, famously had a rather up-beat outlook on the future and technology's role in it.
"Buying a spot" is hyperbole, but that's the direction it's headed (not saying that will be the exact iteration). The point of the article is that Google is moving / transitioning businesses into areas where they can effectively monetize it (and gmail is a great tool, but doesn't bring in the desired cash flow atm).

> and selling an advertising email slot guaranteed not to fall into the spam folder would be the dumbest move an email provider could possibly make.

Explain your thinking here?
> seems to use thread level speculation

If the software is compiled into a normal single threaded program then what else there is left except instruction level parallelism?

And if you can compile it to work with two threads then we have Hyperthreading to take advantage of that even with a single core.

Their [Soft Machines] latest patent is about basically an OoO method in overdrive, it abuses only instruction level parallelism. And based on that their claim that their pipeline would be short is not really valid.
Came here to say exactly the same thing. I get that you could create a fabric of hard cores which could be combined into a complete execution pipeline, and I love the idea of imagining something like an FPGA with integer execution units rather than complex logic blocks as building blocks. But it feels like the Lego Technic kit that builds a motorcycle, sure you can build anything you want with the parts, but the motorcycle is the only thing that makes sense. In the same way I wonder if a programmable fabic layered over a series of chip building blocks wouldn't resolve down to a 'best' (or 'least bad') solution and nothing else, at which point why not just add a metal mask and make the chip non programmable?
Note that it's currently impossible for third party apps to support NFC on iOS. Could change, of course.
Ruby on Top of Graal (JavaONE 2014)
Eating burnt food is a risk factor in intestinal cancer. Those gladiators should look out for their health.
I assumed that you did not find the tracker here acceptable.

What I find tiresome is insisting that the use of some license or the other is a statement of values (your phrasing also implies that history clearly agrees with you, which I tend to find tiresome).

If the readme and other materials made repeated attempts to invoke some set of values and the source was contrary to that, fine you have a valid gripe, but the readme doesn't mention the license and the homepage ( http://google.github.io/flatbuffers/ ) keeps it to "It is available as open source under the Apache license, v2 (see LICENSE.txt)."
Athletes tend to stick to the same ritualized routine for months and years, which minimizes variables and helps them figure out which remedy really works.
You do not necessarily need to start in the Valley to become successful, especially if your situation there imposes additional hurdles to success. Living out of a car or tenement is generally detrimental to one's ability to focus on the business.

It's always amazing to me that as tech entrepreneurs we largely sell to others the idea that technology enables us to do anything from anywhere, but simultaneously believe that there is exactly one place on earth where we must phyiscally be to get anything done. The ideal place to start a startup is anywhere that your day-to-day life issues can take a backseat to working on your startup.
Living in a Mission dump trying to sleep three people to a bed is not how you should be starting a business. Why do people think this is how you optimize for success?
...does she learn how to write clickbait headlines?
Not true, very small percentage of the fights ended with death.
This should also provide defense lawyers with adequate evidence for motions to dismiss due to excessive force used.

Frankly, I'm as happy about this as I am about cameras on police officers. it should dramatically lower abuse of authority.
Your Willpower Is a Muscle: Here’s How to Train It
I stand corrected. thank you.
This has been the case for a long time. The IRS works on a guilty-until-proven-innocent basis. Take the case of collectible gain tax, if you do not have evidence to prove the value of the item on the date it was acquired, then the IRS calculates the tax based on the total value of the item, not just the profit. So if you buy something that might increased in value at a later date, you better keep the receipt.

And of course, anytime the government freezes your asset and property, it takes a tremendous amount of time and effort to get it back. Meanwhile, you won't have any means to hire a good lawyer.
jailbreak iOS 8.1
Apologies, I wasn't meaning to say I prefer 'softer' music, only that I can't stand Aphex Twin and love The Black Dog.

Just a personal preference!
Taro, two questions:

1. What was your thought process when pivoting from a dating site to AnyPerk? They seem to me like two unrelated things.

2. You say that your burnout was very low, but living three guys in a motel room, surely it has to be hard from a mental perspective, how did you guys cope with that?
It just makes a good story feeding into the mythology of SV. Not to take anything away from these guys for their actual achievements, but the article itself is nothing more than color-by-numbers startup porn clickbait.
Duels to the death were rather rare[1] during the Imperial Era.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator#Combat
Food is an incredibly ideologized topic, and closely linked to identity. This can affect how we deal with information contradicting our beliefs and habits in this regard.

(Science Daily should take that into account and provide context, e.g. avoiding to imply one way is better than the other and provide context by giving a summary of current knowledge on diet...)
It is linking to a video from 2009, so I would say it actually does.
> If 'strings' were written in a safe language, compromising the system would be extremely unlikely.

Shellshock was a parsing bug, the memory safety of bash helped nothing.

Bugs are bugs. When you get an out of bounds exception that leaves your program in an inconsistent state somewhere halfway up the call stack in a code path with poor test coverage, "safe" is not the correct word.
Elite gladiators vs. the newly arrived cannon-fodder... I would imagine they had very different qualities of life. After all the elite attended social functions with high society and were pimped out...
Ada (and I guess the other ones) are unlikely to be memory safe in the presence of arbitrary pointers without a GC. That is, having a pointer/reference deep into a vector or some nested element of a tree requires a garbage collector or is unsafe (runs the risk of becoming dangling). So, while they are possibly better than C in many ways there are others in which they are lacking.

This lack of references means code is forced to do more copies or data-structure lookups.

(I dont actually know Ada or those other languages, but I did do some research a while ago and discussed this publically here and on /r/programming a few times, and have never been corrected, so I guess it is close to correct.)
I was specifically implying Russia in my comment. Russia uses patient, shady, and asymmetric tactics. Look at recent history. They annex small regions without waging outright war. Random undisciplined artillery commanders shoot down airliners without orders. Oops, we shot down your plane. Oops, we annexed the eastern half of your country. Oops, a bunch of Non-Russians guys with Russian equipment just invaded your country. They are getting clever. The structured processes of the UN and NATO are left paralyzed. Small, cheap, fast moving tanks might be useful against this gang warfare methodology.
Posted earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8507786
Ask HN: I'm a Rails dev who wants to learn to comfortably deploy apps to AWS
Hi,
I'm a new Rails developer, who came from an iOS background. I have a couple of test Rails applications that I deployed on Heroku and AWS using Elastic Beanstalk.

However, I want to learn more, and go deeper into the world of sysadmin/devops, and learn how to deploy Rails apps directly to EC2, and set up all the configuration myself, instead of Elastic Beanstalk abstracting it away from me.

I've heard about configuration management tools like Chef etc.. but my UNIX and Linux skills are almost non-existent, so I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction, on what to begin learning first, and any resources you found useful.. thanks!
I agree with most of what you're saying. It's just another point of view, and it might only even seem "bleak" because Gibson is so nonchalant about the worlds he writes. They're futures that the characters just accept as normal, whatever they are. As another poster says, only the children realized that they were in space.

If you read them with a sense of wonderment, and put aside the narrative, you see things like (in the book I'm reading) an SUV that can survive a flood and a massive accident with impressive safety technology. That's pretty cool.

The rest of the book isn't about a bright, shiny happy future. Life isn't like that for anyone, and it's not something I could see being enjoyable to read or watch, as a style in a dramatic narrative. A comedy, maybe, but they tend not to be ground-breaking future-predictors.
Trucoin begins it's soft launch to over two dozen states next week.
The premise of this conversation is flawed: A language isn't "insecure" or "secure." It's placed at a certain point in a safety spectrum ranging from "Do anything with no safety" to "Safely heat the room and achieve nothing."

What I'm saying is not that you can't write software that can be abused in memory-safe languages. I'm saying that you're much less likely to have extremely serious code execution vulnerabilities if you write a program in Go instead of C.
I wonder if Twitter did this just it shut them up.
Right. Nothing against this company and all the best to them, but what is the larger narrative this story is building? Its really exploitative to tell young people that they should come to one of the most expensive places in the world and sleep in their cars so they can have the privilege of giving equity to Y Combinator.

It's something really dark in California's culture (I have lived my entire life here). From '49 to Hollywood to now Silicon Valley, its a reverberating call for people to come here and get rich quick. And in any gold rush, its always better to be the ones selling the pics and shovels than the ones buying them.
I'd definitely rather have a 5x7 or 8x10 than a 4x5, but film availability for 5x7 seems...limited. I only know of ten film stocks available in a 5x7 format[1] vs. 25 for 4x5[2] (including some C-41 and E-6) and 19 for 8x10[3] (again including C-41 and E-6).

And then, of course, 4x5 seems moderately impractical, and 8x10 only more so ;)

[1] http://www.ishootfilm.org/film?utf8=✓&film_size%5B%5D=size_5...

[2] http://www.ishootfilm.org/film?film_size%5B%5D=size_4x5&utf8...

[3] http://www.ishootfilm.org/film?utf8=✓&film_size%5B%5D=size_8...
Working by itself, Apple isn't being anti-competitive under US law. Anyone can be as exclusionary as they like on their own. Several of the largest retailers in the country working together to specifically block Apple Pay (and all other contactless payments), in favor of their own payment solution, is clearly anti-competitive behavior under US law.
Likewise the price to pay is yet another template language. ReactJS uses JavaScript as its template language. No more exporting filters, weird looping and conditional constructs. Just use Javascript. It just makes sense.
I made something like that, too, but it's not currently online and just a short derpy chip-ish tune anyway.. though the image I embedded was little heart shapes, and they went nicely with the music, so there's that haha.

I used this for it: http://victorx.eu/BitmapPlayer.htm To imagine we can that with moving images in the browser now, well, whoa.
ExcelPlayer
additional info: http://np.reddit.com/r/excel/comments/2jtd2f/worked_on_a_completely_locked_down_machine_time/
Thank you - a really good post. With no real knowledge of books of the period I learned two or three things about why medieval books in popular culture are as they are. Wrapped in oilskin, heavy bindings with thick clasps, are a product of the parchment not some weird idea of securing books with locks. Throw in some notes on the Ecoasystem of parchment and a few mentally ill scribes and I am in hog heaven

Brilliant - I did not know I was intellectually curious about parchment till you piqued the interest and satisfied it in one go. A real HN post

Cheers
Related: https://github.com/eliben/luz-cpu -- real MIPS-like CPU simulator. Includes an assembler and a linker, so you can write assembly code and run it on the simulator. Everything implemented in pure Python.
Discovery? That face was planted intentionally by the artist, and the knowledge of its existence has been passed around fans since its original release.
I'm assuming it was because they didn't have any money at the time, not as a business strategy. Personally, I'd stay home and build software that solves a real problem, but I'm not in YC...
Throughly trained gladiators were expected to last several years because the training was expensive. Blood from being wounded was usually enough, as soon as a gladiator was wounded he would have to plead for mercy because his chances against a skilled opponent were now nil.

There was also a referee. On occasion a gladiator would be killed or not receive mercy from the crowd. Most gladiators showed healed wounds on their bones.

Untrained people were thrown in the arena with the expectation of death. It was a favored form of execution.
Saved you a click (from the top comment the last time this was posted):

The three points from the article:

> [1] Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting.

> [2] High School students are sitting passively and listening during approximately 90% of their classes.

> [3] You feel a little bit like a nuisance all day long.

People wonder why high school aged students are unruly, unpleasant, and filled with deep negative emotions (anger, disdain, need-to-rebel). I look at this list (especially [2] and the lack of autonomy that follows) and the reason seems really clear. The basic model seems broken.

Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8442067

Original source of the story here: http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/a-veteran-teach...
You might want to have a look at Mithril, it's extremely minimalistic and fast: lhorie.github.io/mithril/mithril.html
I used knockout in a previous project, and it was really good, but (going from memory of using knockout), Angular has quite a bit with respect to managing your entire app and modularizing it. Knockout seems more like react to me, and I suspect it just didn't get as much support because it was from Microsoft.
> mostly ate a vegetarian diet. There is virtually no difference in terms of nutrition from the local "normal population."

I would consider that to be a normal diet, even today I know I don't each meat everyday. My mother told me her family on the farm in the 1950s only had meat once per week at the Sunday dinner, sometimes not. This was normal for this region people were not called vegetarians it was just a normal diet; meat was expensive and hard to store.

>drank ashes after training as a tonic.

I wonder if it was an ancient belief of gaining the power of the item you were consuming in this case a volcano similar to eating tiger or bear would give you their strength.
Although perhaps not in this case, it's generally true that one person's bloat is another person's functionality.

BSD tools are simpler. They're also generally less useful.