skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like the vector proposals aren't tied to any particular implementations and could be used to help extract parallelism via SIMT, VLIW, microthreads, or various other techniques in addition to the SIMD units you'd find in x86 or ARM.
I used to drive a lot and and would regularly become extremely, and indeed dangerously, sleepy. I recall reading at the time that sleeping for around 12 minutes would relieve sleepiness, but that any more than that would actually make you more tired. After doing no research whatsoever, I put this into practice, and it worked, remarkably well. And it still does, 15 years later, though I drive a lot less now. I recommend it to anyone with the same problem.

[edit] when I say it worked well, I mean that after that short sleep (using an alarm of course, without which I would have slept for hours), I could continue driving for several hours without feeling sleepy again.
My company is developing a product that does just that. We've been very focused at making bookmarks and links more useful and easier.

It's going through a lot of development and currently in a private beta. If you're interested my contact info is in my profile and we're looking for all the feedback we can get.

Edit: We're actually also very close to having a pretty good full page archiving solution as well. It's not 100% yet, but there is still a lot of good there already.
Well if it's between auto vectorization or intrinsics...

Lately I've been rather disappointed in how minimal the gains are in reducing register spills from intrinsics on modern CPUs, with their wide decode/issue, 16 registers, and dual load pipelines - by the time a loop is complex enough that a compiler spills, extra load/store uops are almost free from a micro benchmark perspective. The macro gains from smaller code and reduced cache usage are a bit bigger, but still depressingly minor for the effort expended.

But if you care about 32-bit x86 that's another story of course.
Do you consider Nike admirable? Would you eagerly link 'evidence' trying to prove that Nike is one of the most 'admirable' companies out there?

If yes, well... okay then. I don't understand you, and I'll stop here.

If no, then maybe you can see how maybe you've not fairly contextualized the conversation? This list of 'admired' companies does, indeed, completely miss the original posters point.
Stories about hot social and political controversies reliably attract both a lot of upvotes and a lot of user flags. This, together with how the software interprets votes and flags, explains the effects the OP is describing.

On hot social and political issues, many people find it irresistible to conclude that HN is biased against the side they favor and favors the side they oppose. They perceive this bias in all things HN: the community, the software, the mods, etc. But the truth, as far as I can tell, is that on most of these issues the community is divided. That's why the threads on them turn into flamewars.

Users reliably flag threads that turn into flamewars on HN. (By "flamewar" I mean angry arguments over predictable positions.) Moderators do so as well, though not to the same degree. But this isn't a bias against social issues per se, let alone particular social issues—the same pattern holds on threads about, say, basic income, or high-frequency trading, or even something like static vs. dynamic typing in programming. It's a matter of how divided the community is and how strongly people feel. It's more noticeable on any issue where one feels strongly.

What I do think it makes sense to call the bias of the site is a bias against the low-signal/noise discussions that inevitably result when people angrily disagree, especially when they do so through the filter of a pre-existing ideological battle. This is biased in the sense that HN's guidelines are biased: they call for certain types of stories and discussions rather than others.

Sometimes people argue that HN should abandon its anti-flamewar bias, because after all these are important issues and they need to be debated. But this fails to consider systemic effects on the site. The more ragefires burn, the more thoughtful users leave. That selective process, repelling the users HN most wants and attracting those attracted to flames, is a vicious circle that (a) is hard to get out of and (b) would turn the site into scorched earth. For all HN's flaws, it would be nihilistic to just let it burn.

That doesn't mean we aren't open to ways of balancing these things better: they're hard to balance, and if we're missing something we want to know.
I'm a Muslim and can tell you it's wrong. #1 mistake most people make when they find contradictory facts in the religion is not taking the context of the verses or quotes they are examining. Arabic is a very rich language and a direct translation in most cases does not yield the full meaning. We believe in Jesus' _original_ teachings as much as the other prophets. I think the onus is on you to demonstrate why you think that. Also remember that the actions of a terrorists that claim to be Muslim does not reflect the actual substance of the religion.
> girl cant even do anything of her choice

This varies by region and sometimes quite drastically so. In India you do have matriarchal societies, although only in pockets. If a woman walks into a beer shop in Delhi and takes a swig, chances are high that it would attract some unpleasantness. If the same plays out in Kohima or Shillong ... people there couldnt care less. That aside, intrusion into women's freedom follows the same gradient as that of which century the region lives by.

On the rest, couldnt agree more even if I tried.
There is very good documentary how Machu Picchu was made on youtube. It goes into extensive details about water drainage, securing terraces against land slides and so on.

And there are similar stone walls all over Greece.
It's definitely a concern when using some of the more far flung google products that this can happen. My company is developing a similar product (though it's going to be going beyond what is here).

We intend to stay in operation for a very long time! It's a product we need ourselves and we pour our blood, sweat, and tears into it. We're in private beta currently and if you'd like to try you can contact me (info is in my profile)!
As nbuggia pointed out above, it's likely he's talking about the circus that was Microsoft under Ballmer.
Without endorsing the GP's trolling, Postgres generally substantially outperforms MySQL on queries with any complexity to them. Its query optimiser is enormously superior.

The idea that MySQL is much faster than PG is largely a relic of the era of MyISAM, which was very fast for trivial queries, but also terrible in basically every other way.
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What about the ability to collaborate with other users on a shared bookmark folder? It would be useful if multiple users could add bookmarks to the same shared folder.

Also how do I access my bookmarks if I am at a friends house and don't have my computer or phone on me. Do I have to login to my chrome account on their chrome browser? What if they don't have chrome installed? It would be nice if they had a basic website I could access from anyones device, where I could login and view all my bookmarks.

I think the auto folders is the most innovative part of the app. I will have to use it more but I feel like I would stop creating folders and just add links.
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Right. When I added default headers, the score went way down.

Probably libevent2 is the bottleneck and no way to make it faster without switching its backend (the cl-async's author is working on rewriting it with libuv now).
Your privacy policy page returns a 404...
There's not that many places where you end up biking through deep snow, on ice, in -20F for a long part of the season, right? Normally its one of the other (really cold, or ice) - if you have long periods of -20F then you have packed snow on roads, not ice, at least we do back home, and packed snow is fine to go on.

I'm from Sweden, and when I lived in Gothenburg I had no issues biking in -10 - -20C or so (which is what it maxes out at in that area, and even then only for a few weeks at most).

Snow is fine to go on - the worst is like 0C when its been melting and freezing so you get slippery ice, but even then you do fine most of the time as at least the car parts of the roads tend to be maintained with gravel. Assuming you live somewhere that regularly has cold weather your roads are most likely decently graveled too.
And yet, Obama didn't take action against the civil rights of LGBT people, did he?

Do you hear that sound? That's the point whooshing majestically over your head.
I use the AirDock[0] as a wireless charger. It has a magnet in it that holds the phone at any orientation you desire.

[0]: http://theairdock.com/
It is fascinating to compare & contrast chess, Go, and backgammon, and how quite different approaches are needed to program in each. For chess, 'pure calculation' is most effective, while the author suggests MC is good for Go & others. In backgammon, TD-gammon used a rather naive neural net approach and trained itself, optimizing its own play over time! It is also interesting how computers' success in these areas feeds back into how humans play the game (at least in backgammon and chess opening strategy).
Thanks, gotta keep pushing :)
Worth noting that Go has been able to generate Android-compatible binaries for some time -- Linux ARM binaries -- however they are executables, not libraries. Still possibly usable, but more awkwardly.

So now they added the ability to generate libraries. Which is interesting because, to my knowledge, they still don't support building libraries on any other platform. It would be useful.
The sources of the articles I get recommended on Now are always really spammy looking blogs.
Prior to the "Secure Enclave", only a very small amount of certain data was encrypted on the device (past the alive-time of the device and where data _could have been encrypted_), the encryption keys were based on information about the device that Apple knew or were accessible through access to the device (which Apple would provide) in tandem with ~12 bits of entropy provided by the user, and Apple served up encrypted data as well as unlocked the device and provided unencrypted data for law enforcement.

Now that Apple does not have access to the UIDs built into the "secure enclave" they can not provide decrypted content directly. However they will still hand over encrypted data and manufacturers do have these UIDs. The user can still provide ~12 bits of key entropy.

Apple currently makes it extremely difficult not to store most information on iCloud, sets the default to store data on iCloud, and this data is provided to law enforcement. This data is encrypted but Apple will decrypt it for law enforcement.

CALEA (and others, as discussed in the thread) _do__ apply. It's why Apple needs to claim that they don't have the keys "unless ... the carrier possesses the information necessary to decrypt the communication."
We built http://filr.io for the same purpose. You can follow feeds from various content sources. These feeds could be based on rss or any kind of content that changes over time.

Everything you read is tracked as read/clicked so that you can search using those filters. Also tagging and creation of own channel(invite only) is allowed.

Examples:

http://filr.io/channel/hackernews

http://filr.io/channel/Wikipedia-Picture-of-the-day

http://filr.io/channel/imdb-posters
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My company is developing a product to make bookmarks useful again. Sadly, this is an area that hasn't seen much work.

We've though about getting streams of data (RSS feeds, etc.) that automatically come in, but we haven't really decided which direction we'd like to go with it. We're currently focused more on core functionality, just making sure that it's insanely fast to save and find links (and to make sure they stay out of your e-mail inbox).

Would love to hear your thoughts, or if you'd be interested in trying out our private beta we would love the feedback. If you're interested my contact info is in my profile.
I don't understand how your comment relates to mine.

Are you saying that if someone wants to "know god", they are likely to conclude that god does, indeed, sit around saying "This one is gonna be gay! and this one will be straight!"?
Maybe I'm too engrained in the American way of thinking, but why in the world if you are sick on Christmas (when you're already being paid while off) should you get paid again in the terms of additional sick days? It doesn't make any sense to me.
Ask HN: What's a good reliable local replacement for Dropbox?
I'm looking to replace Dropbox with some local servers, using rsync on the software side.

(I don't need the sharing-between-computers feature of Dropbox, just the backup feature.)

So, on the hardware side, what are some reliable long-term options?
On a medium-long timescale, it has to be basically even, right? If the amount of carbon captured in the soil were secularly increasing at 10% per century, then we wouldn't have any carbon anywhere besides the soil -- even if it was all released at the last ice age.

If the amount of carbon in the soil is secularly increasing at 0.01% per century, well, that's maybe interesting geologically, but for the purposes of handling climate change in the next century or two, we can treat that as equivalent to "it's steady state."
No worries, I agree with you 100%

I'm referring specifically to low-quality consumption, but didn't want to fill up a long spiel about that since it was another topic. I should've been more specific.
I think this is what they mean when they call it a "layer2+" device.

110ns is the device in its capacity as a full layer 2(+) switch. The "warp span" equivalent would be using the layer broadcast groups functionality which runs at 5ns, 10x faster.
Afaik, I thought the engineers running the machine were reprogramming during the game to handle changes in Kasparov's technique. Please someone with more knowledge chime in, but from my memory it was more like he was competing against computationally augmented human opponent. He wasn't beaten by a computer, he was beaten by a team of engineers using a computer.

some corroboration on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer)
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I can't think of any real industrial uses that seem like they scale up and do not release the used CO2 into the atmosphere.
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I agree. The hockey and baseball Twittersphere is awash in conversations. I've made a number of real-life friends through Twitter in these communities.
Isn't blogging a form of "broadcast"? Twitter was a originally a "micro-blogging" service after all.

I don't necessarily disagree with his point about the levels of abuse on Twitter, but the medium with which he is expressing his message (his blog) seems to disprove his point.

Why do blog posts seem to be (mostly) free of these levels of abuse, while they're so rampant on Twitter?
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I can't speak for other people, but personally, when I find a good article, I link to the source I found it through, rather than bypassing the source and linking directly to the article. (I don't do that when submitting stories to HN since HN considers that "blogspam", but personally I like finding new sources of good content, as well as sources of good discussion, rather than just the content itself. And in any case that's a heuristic for what to submit to HN rather than what to link to from elsewhere.)

At a minimum, I would tend to put something like this: interesting article (link to article) via HN (link to HN).

Though I'm certainly less likely to do that now that I know that HN does not like such links.

I don't think it's appropriate to post something like that about one's own story, but for a story you found interesting and want to share, I think it makes sense.
404 for me too.

Manually changed the URL to http://fetching.io/privacy/ (guessed) and it worked.
It is not at all one of the fundamental tenets of our political system. You have to take social context into consideration when generating social laws. People in oppressed and minority groups need more help because they are starting from a position of less privilege. And this is what we do: Laws like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 exist solely to protect the rights of people who are being oppressed and to restrict the rights of people doing the oppressing. Society acted to defend against intolerance, by being more intolerant of intolerant people.

The basic slippery slope you envision is "if we restrict rights, from what principle do we decide where to stop doing that?" The fault in the argument is that it is totally reasonable to not tolerate intolerance, and again, uncritical tolerance is not what we desire here, but rather tolerance of viewpoints which are not intolerant.
"Second, the permanent inhabitants of mental asylums do not usually produce creative masterworks."

But how many sedatives are they on?
They can all choose to block him, though. And they don't need to include him in their replies.
Social change at this scale takes a long time. really long spanning life times. There are precedents like women voting rights, segregation etc. It's easy to criticize taking a snapshot. There's no easy and quick solution. Haven't you heard how people that said earth is not the center of universe were mocked and even killed? The society will get there eventually. In India, I guess we won't live long enough to see that.
Right, flagging is another issue. But as to "those discussions don't accomplish anything", what does any discussion on HN accomplish? On the more technical stories, the discussions often educate. Thing is, HN isn't /r/programming, and there are many stories about company culture, startups raising money, SV superstars etc.. What do the discussions about that kind of stories accomplish? It's just people schmoozing for entertainment. What's wrong with that?

But I have a practical suggestion: Instead of having unpleasant discussions about important stories related to technology, innovation and startups (like women in startups, which is a far more important topic than, say, Uber raising another trillion dollars), simply block comments on these stories, and at least let people read them without having them drop due to too many comments. Sure, people will still flag the stories, but AFAIK, the flagging privilege can be revoked if a user abuses it.
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Is parsing HTTP headers a major bottleneck? HTML parsing, sure, especially with the horrors of HTML 5 error handling per the spec and the need to back up after guessing the character set. But HTTP headers are not that big or complex.
There are very few highly populated places where climate would reduce your ability to cycle most days of the year. I'm from Whistler, Canada, I spent a few winters commuting by bike every day, and it's in the Coastal Rainforest, so lots of rain too.

Sure, if you live in Moscow/Anchorage/Montreal/Stockholm/etc, it's miserable for a few months, but the rest of the time, you can cycle.

Plus, cycling in the cold wakes you up even faster than cycling in the heat.
Today’s key fact: you are probably wrong about almost everything
Tangentially related.For long tail queries, Why is there no "research mode" on search engines?

Often times, I find myself searching for some term like "Commute Home Traffic app" on app store (For market research purposes). Google, Apple, Bing, all give a huge list of results but I cannot go through them in a single sitting. So, I should keep the window open and keep clicking next occasionally (Spread over multiple days).

If I do the same search again, these search engines return same order of results I am unhappy with. Is there no solution to this problem? Can't they remember which results I am not interested in and stop showing them? Can't they let me continue my "research" where I left off from?
You'd hope it was because you considered your country (and the world as a whole) a community where we all help each other out, and treat each other how we'd like to be treated. The implication of "user pays" is that the rich live life basically as they always have (because costs of life events don't scale with your wage), and the poor are utterly fucked.

You may believe it's selfish for new parents to demand time off. I believe it is selfish for people who are more fortunate than others to not contribute more tax and help lift those below them when they're in need.
Thanks, I should have done it like that.
Well spoken, thank you.
I'm sorry, but I don't have a demo available at this time. I tried to include a lot screenshots to demonstrate its functionality. If you buy it and don't like it, I'll be happy to issue a refund!

The only data Current transmits is device analytics (OS, CPU, RAM, etc) to DevMate, crash reports to Hockey, and error reports to Rollbar. All other requests made by the app will be generated by the Facebook website or any other website you visit from within the app.

Hope that helps!
I quit it about a month ago. But I seriously, seriously doubt it is going anywhere.
My company is making precisely this product. We have a fair amount of work todo, but we have a usable private beta right now. You can't collaborate quite yet, but it's on the horizon.

If you'd be interested you can find my contact details in my profile!
I have one on my wrist right now, and from the limited amount that I've played with it:

- There's a magnetic connector (like mac boks) that hooks up to USB. It doesn't come with a wall connector, just USB, which is a bit weird.

- It does indeed look like you need to press a button to start tracking sleep.
From the Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/2klhpn/quri_a_uri_libr...

>Right. When I was profiling Wookie, I found URL parsing was the third bottleneck (the first is HTTP request parsing, and the second is libevent2).
I seem to remember reading that in an attempt to avoid "controversial" subjects, posts are penalized if they generate comments too quickly. Social issue are often hotly debated and occasionally some of the most actively commented on posts on the site until they drop off the front page. So while HN might not actively be penalizing these posts, they might be penalized in indirect but still very real ways.
Re: that green pipe next to the logo ( http://hook.io/img/pipe.gif ), isn't that from Mario/Flappy bird?
Also: where was all the carbon hundreds of millions of years ago before it was turned into fossil fuels? I guess "steady state" is a relative term when you get to long time periods.

Your ever-growing compost pile might be analogous to peatlands, but on the other hand it will probably just be returned back to the atmosphere in the next 100 years. The future occupants of your property are unlikely to continue your experiment :)

My guess is that anything we gain in that regard is more than offset by all the land that's covered in asphalt and concrete and also modern farming techniques and general deforestation. Very little carbon sequestration going on in the modern world..
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The surface pro 3 is a masterpiece. I haven't held anything nicer.
I've used CherryPy on a number of projects, and I really like it, but rarely see it mentioned in discussions of Python web programming. It's light and minimal, and seems equally deft for writing APIs as conventional web page driven apps. Flask is mentioned all the time, however. Does anyone have insight into the popularity of Flask vs. CherryPy?