skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came across code in a legacy web application one day, on a page that was probably the most used part of the application that was really nothing more than sleep(1000); I went through the version control history and found that is was a previous employee that would go in periodically and lower it any time he wanted to act like he had been working - he had started around 3.5 seconds.

Which reminds me of being a kid and mom telling me to turn down the tv - I would "accidentally" hit the wrong button and turn it way up for a few minutes, then just turn it back down to where it was.
This is an excellent response. I agree with his message; his might not be the most important cause to address, but it must be the first one, because without it no meaningful changes can follow.
> there's no money in building "dumb" anything

Historically, there have been many successful utility providers that earned a lot of money producing simple products. Telephone companies, power companies, and oil refineries, neither won a stronghold by producing "smart" products. Most however did produce illegal monopolies.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Air-Retina/Apple-MacB...
> the fact that she's a political appointee is what makes your petition moot. They'll just appoint someone else.

If they had sacked her, that would have been an important signal to other prosecutors as to the limits of what is appropriate.

And mootness or lack thereof is irrelevant in this context. It was a petition for redress of grievances not a pleading in court.

That the grievance is still not redressed does not make the petition invalid or irrelevant.

And the larger point here that should concern us all is that prosecutors have unchecked power and regularly exercise it in unjust and corrupt ways. If you draw the attention of a United States Attorney; it does not matter if you committed a crime or not, you will be ruined financially and most likely put into a position of pleading out so as not be in jeopardy of multiple lifetimes of prison.
If a cartoon puts Google employees in a position where they could be targeted by threats or violence, it would be an awful move.
Twice the maximum speed is "negligible?" Hmm. Certainly at sequential tasks it should be marked, maybe not so much in random.
Does apple pay you by the post? or hourly?
We had already Lisp running directly on a CPU:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine

Java runs directly on hardware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card

Pascal MicroEngine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_MicroEngine

And some more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:High-level_language_co...

And the x86 instruction set is CISC, but (modern) x86 architecture is RISC (inside) - so your modern Intel/AMD CPU already does it. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13071221/is-x86-risc-or-c...

Backward compatibility aside, we could have CPUs that support a ANSI C or the upcoming Rust directly in hardware, instead of ASM.
I knew some people who wrote a graphical demo at a small, local demoscene party. One of their effects had a static, vertical tearing artifact that moved around based on their parameters but which they weren't able to entirely get rid of.

One of them noticed that the projector screen that the demos would be shown on had a vertical splice. He eyeballed the location and tweaked the parameters to make the artifact line up with it.

No one noticed.
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With one exception, you could use them for a synchronised random number generator.

It's not as useful as you'd hope, since a cryptographic PRNG theoretically does the same thing (and you need to individually transport the bits ahead-of-time), but you can at least be sure the numbers are random and no-one is spying. Whether or not that counts as communication is up to you.
I think one of the big problems with the app store model is that it creates this idea that you only pay once for software, ever.

Your software doesn't have bit rot, it's just old. It was useful at one point in time and it is just a bit less so now. Consider the value proposition of a Magic Maps 2.0 to your users and what sort of feature list you could create. Decide an upgrade price point, and send an email to your users and create a newsletter allowing them to sign up for the new version. If you get 500 sign ups, cost out the features and have a freelancer develop them. If you get no sign ups, pack it up or sell it to someone.
I don't want my comment to discourage you from exploring what Assembly has to offer.

They could very well take projects in varying stages of completion and provide services, and maybe the costs can be worked out or something.

Reaching out to them and asking how they handle your use case (someone with like 80% of a project done who really wants help for a final push + release), should be education for both parties.
“All Martian weather, all the time”
That isn't how I, or any atheists I know, define atheism.
Agreed.

It would be nice to see a set of slots for both RAM or an SSD. So your laptop may have four slots total, and you can mix and match RAM or drives as you see fit.

The technology to do this is already commercially available in servers. Just need it to come to laptops or PCs.
Do Not Call List

The Bush Era FCC was fining people for swearing on TV and Radio.

Both parties support SOPA and 6 strikes.

The FCC regulated phone sex lines in the 1980s.
I first heard of "The Speed Up Loop" here: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop
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They are already announced: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/overview.html
'No Wrong Moves' in the sense it always plays +EV hands. This is exactly what 'grinders' do -- you just play the hands that have a long-term positive expected value. You play that way long enough, your risk goes to zero and you normalize out at a regular return.
Thank you! Justin and I teamed up on this after independently realizing that there was really no solid resource out there for helping marketers learn useful technical skills.
That's clearly fake, they wouldn't ditch Thunderbolt entirely.
France has been a Google v. the traditional press ground zero for some time [1]. One hopes the press will react to Google's gracious move positively. I expect denouncements.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jan/21/france-goo...
Google's homepage isn't a satire magazine, and this would affect users who had no hand in these events. I don't think an escalation of adversity like that would be productive.

The right to free speech doesn't justify bad manners.
No, not really. It would likely commoditize the service of providing Internet addressable IP routing and set it on a path for cutting all of the margin out of the business for the ISP, while likely doing nothing to cut the overall cost of the combined service to the consumer. The companies that own the lines would still take the lion's share of the profit under a title II scenario - they'd just take it in different ways than they do today. Line sharing rules weren't effective for DSL, and I don't see how the same dance played out 15 years later would have any different results.

We need to do something, I just don't think title II is the right way to go.
Seen this a few times before, but I am always entertained on reread and enjoy the reminder that sometimes you need a scalpel and other times a sledgehammer.
Edward Kmett: Learning to Learn [pdf]
None of you are Charlie. You did not stand up to firebombs and death threats and keep on working.

You're not Charlie, sorry. And neither am I.
"Je suis Charlie" is on the homepage of https://www.google.fr/
I will be sure to read the book that you suggested, as this topic is of great interest to me.

A few thoughts:

1. Astroturfing has been the norm for a few years now-- probably more years than I suspect, but the biggest difference was pre-2011.

2. Most people don't even have astroturfing on their radar, and if the public ever did get any ideas, you can be sure they would be astroturfed into actually believing that astroturfing is a legitimate marketing technique rather than repugnant lying.

3. Astroturfing varies wildly in quality, and I'm sure that some people could spot the weaker campaigns-- the most recent major campaign that was weak was probably the pro-Russia astroturfing of Reddit during Russia's invasion of Crimea.

4. The quality of astroturf is inversely proportional to the time and thus money it requires to produce. A cheap statement "X is great, support X" blasted into every topic is easy to spot, whereas custom tailored shilling and misdirection is often far more insidious.

5. I'd expect that most governments engage in astroturfing and shilling heavily-- if not on their own population (which is extremely likely) then on other populations. As evidence, consider that Eglin AFB is the "most addicted to reddit" community. I'm not sure what to do about this other than call it out when I see it, which is woefully ineffective.
I see variations of this, in French and English, every 3 or 4 months or so appearing on some friends posts. Every time, I point out that it is a hoax ... and it doesn't prevent some people from reposting it again some months later. I guess it depends to some extent on how tech-savyy your friends are.
No wonder why I haven't made it with my wife since I put a Miku Hatsune poster on the wall.
There's nothing to steal on my phone that isn't already accessible on someone else's server, and it's unlikely that any software that I could download from the Play store can interact with Android with the kind of permissions that a real antivirus would need.
The answer here is to stop supporting the old app. If you're like me and can't turn your back on something you've invested so much time into, you're in a predicament.

I had a similar situation, and went the route of open source. The product died, as no one but me really wanted to maintain it. It was effectively the same as turning my back on the project while maintaining sales, except without the $$.

I'd recommend you ignore it and focus on your new app for long periods of time. Don't fix any bugs for months on end, then take a little time to knock out the big ones. Ignore the edge cases and focus on the big picture, that this app isn't your big thing, the next app is.
Yeah, well, hate speech laws are themselves a pretty bad idea. Today it's "say nothing blasphemous about the Prophet" and then it's "say nothing blasphemous about the leading scholars".

The cartoon controversy was started by Jyllands-Posten not because they wanted to offend Muslims, but because they believed that discourse about Islam and its role in society was being constrained by self-censorship and fear. Their purpose was to open that discourse by re-establishing the right of free speech. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02...

The effort might have been dismissed as a juvenile stunt and an unnecessary provocation if the response had been a lot of angry criticism. The violence that has instead followed demonstrates the validity of their concern, and the necessity of their provocation.
The idea is that you can daisy-chain many devices without using a hub. Among thunderbolt devices, I believe most screens and high-end hard drives provide the two ports necessary for daisy-chaining. USB also supports this quite well, and high-end USB hard drives also generally include a port for this purpose.

It's an interesting comeback for the concept - it reminds me of daisy chaining PCs on their serial ports for playing Starcraft:

http://www.angelfire.com/nt/startupage/sc/FRAMES/SERIAL/3OR4...
I think they used the methods described in http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rbg/papers/r-cnn-cvpr.pdf
Interesting figure. In Google-land, why $300K and not $1M?

I don't want to say that it's not a lot of money, I'm just wondering how someone arrived at this sum.
I see. As a prime member my perspective only shows me how I use Amazon. I always use the Prime filter and try to buy things that are Shipped from and Sold from Amazon. For 3rd party merchants than this definitely sounds impactful.

I wonder if there's any room for Jet to satisfy those who seek impulse buys, convenience, and speed.
Thanks, I am the unaware!
That's what I meant, though maybe with a different spin. The cultural adaptation to a grossly over-aggressive police force is the major cost: fear, oppression, distrust, etc.

As far as Singapore goes, I don't have a ton of experience there to comment. If their standards end up leading the police to proactively treat people like criminals, then I suppose I wouldn't like that very much.

Worth noting that Asian culture in general seems to have much more of a "compromise the individual for the good of the whole" component, though. Nothing wrong with that, but it's a poor fit with our cultural expectations.
Turn off JavaScript on my iphone
> What does the OS or network config matter if it's "airgapped"?

Fundamentally, you're still moving data on and off the machine. The software implementing the communications protocols can still be vulnerable. So the procedures for maintaining the airgap matter. Schneier has some good pointers on this.

> What do you consider an "airgapped machine"?

A machine that, once set up, never sees a network. At the limit, set up one machine, scan that disk image for viruses, then install it on a second identical machine.
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1) Utility providers have historicaly been legal monopolies. I.e. in return for rate regulation, they get protection from competition.

2) The telephone network was a marvel of engineering at the time. Same for the power grid, power plants, oil refineries, etc. That infrastructure is the product of huge amounts of "hard engineering."
Interesting note I haven't seen mentioned, the Alt mode negotiation is only possible for directly connected devices as it does not traverse hubs.
You're better off just finding and OEM 256GB drive on eBay or something. You can use any 2010 or 2011 SSD in the 2011 Air, but the 2012, 2013/2014 Airs are not interchangeable.
It's awful what happened to them . But they are racist/bigot cartoonists . Imagine if someone attacked Rush Limbaugh it would be bad for freedom of speech but it won't change that he's a bad person like these cartoonist.

Here are those girls that were kidnapped in Nigeria
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Wj8pQ_7T...

here is black Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--2Ea5CAgX...

Freedom of speech and all that stuff ,but these people are awful
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Skylake will be able to run external 5K displays, more (smaller) CPUs will be quad cores and it has support for DDR4. By then you'll also get a lot more machines with the new USB Type C connector.
Ah yes, the Israeli shills. They're well documented in various NGO and also official formats, and any discussion of Israel on popular message boards is certain to draw their attention and attendant misdirection. You are correct in identifying that the Israeli shill army comes out most frequently during Israeli geopolitical moves, most recently in their invasion and bombing of Gaza.

The rabidity of the Israeli shills isn't even the problem-- they're easy to spot, and their attacks on almost anyone discussing the issue are transparently biased. The real problem is that even when Israel is not in wartime, the shills still operate at a reduced level, trying to shape a public discussion milieu that is pro-Israel and refuses to recognize any kind of subtlety.

People notice that they get attacked when they criticize Israel online, and eventually they keep quiet.
You can ask that question about any sum, making the answer "why not 300K?"
It's €250,000 ($296,000).
Agree. Charlie Hebdo was a small shop. Everyone understood what was happening and had visibility into what was going to be done. Charlie Hebdo could take risks with its team because they were so close to each other. Google's senior management taking that decision on behalf of its vast and global team may be less tenable.
Having quantum entangled particles stored in some crystal sounds better than requiring direct optical cable connection between peers for some kinds of quantum computer resistant communication.
Don't underestimate the value of having a different train of thought to turn to now and again. It may stave off burnout on the major project. Consider hiring the work out for now.
Just to clarify, the original response was to the original posters claim that God does not exist. My request for him to present his proof to me was not meant as an open attack on atheism or even a critique of it, I was simply speaking to and about one persons beliefs. In any event, I begin to suspect I should have said nothing with this being such an emotional issue for people.
These clients think that Google Chrome is the one tool to use for Google services; that is to say, if you want to access Gmail, Google search, Google whatever, they must use Google Chrome to do it. Internet Explorer isn't to be used for that kind of thing. They consider Chrome to be an app to do purely Google things, and use IT for everything else.
"People think Facebook and Google are sucking up all their personal details so even people who don’t have anything to hide get quite worried. "

https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/you-may-have-not...
It would be a bad idea for reasons mentioned upthread. It would not be a bad idea because of the reasons you mention.

You are saying "Let's give in to violence and intimidation". You are suggesting that free speech should not be exercised if there is any threat or violence. That is not free speech.
doomification ?
Still not sure what you do in an overbuilding scenario. Those poles have physical restrictions such as weight and volume. You can't have 10 different telcos serve a neighborhood: there would just be too much gear on the pole. So how do you decide who gets the space on the poles? The sensible argument says you put them up for bid in an auction, but then the incumbents still have a huge sunk cost advantage.
> These are good points, especially the comparison with the other marketplaces, along with more informed breakdown of what you guys offer. I think the idea is novel (at least it is to me, I haven't seen another effort like it yet other than the open collective idea I mentioned earlier), and I think it's really interesting.

Thanks!

> If I could put it in a sentence, I might say that this system makes it easier to treat people as cogs.

I appreciate the candid feedback but this is the opposite of what Assembly is about; cogs don't make great products with care and attention.

The internet is best at bringing people together to create something bigger then what any one person could do alone. Open Source and Wikipedia are examples of what can be created this way. I believe this is the case because of an open collaborative model - where people that love what they do can do so with their peers. They are free to create and innovate how they want, on what they want, and where they want to - ultimately leading to our best work.

Assembly is trying to give people working alone on passion products the boost of an entire team of diverse skills and engaged partners - only there because they care about what they do - while at the same time ensuring all those participating can be fairly rewarded with any success that they create.
Sorry but no. Steve Jobs would never made something like this ever. This idea is stupid and weren't you the founder of some Peter-Thiel backed startup? Don't you have better things to spend your time on then make bracelets?
"We are not all Charlie. Much of Europe, which, as a political entity, is not fully grappling with the totalitarian madness of Islamism, is not Charlie. Certainly much of journalism is not Charlie. Any outlet that censors Charlie Hebdo cartoons out of fear of Islamist reprisal is not Charlie. To publish the cartoons now is a necessary, but only moderately brave, act. Please remember: Even after Charlie Hebdo was firebombed in 2011, it continued to publish rude and funny satires mocking the essential ridiculousness of the Islamist worldview. That represented a genuine display of bravery. CNN, the Associated Press, and the many other media organizations that are cowering before the threat of totalitarian violence represent something other than bravery."

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/01/we-...
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> But they are racist

And you're lying
Limited still means having a choice in what to bet. Trivial EV calculations can only tell you to bet or not, so I assume it's using something more involved.
As I understood the article's implication here, the objective is to help the magazine accomplish it's impending much larger print run and cover expenses related to that, so perhaps the sum was negotiated along practical rather than symbolic concerns. Which would make sense since it's the easiest to explain and justify.
Look at UK. The wire is owned by a third party that rents the use of the wires for your service. So we only need one fiber and one copper wire.

P.S. I live int he city I don't have a drive way the street is my park lot :)
http://www.sandisk.com/enterprise/ulltradimm-ssd/

I think this one meets his description and makes actual use of the DIMM for memory transfer, though I've done relatively little research on it.
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If I could go back in my life and do things again, I would have started to learn to code at an early age, and might have gone into CS instead of petroleum engineering like I did. I'm 32 now. I would have probably made this transition much sooner, but I have a narcissistic mom&dad who greatly contributed to my lack of identity, and basically circumventing any autonomy that I ever exhibited. I've done a lot of therapy and exercises to help get over the scars from this, but I still probably suffer from it to some degree.

When I was supposed to be getting my education, I was more focused on acceptance from other people, I was smart enough to get by, even getting my bachelors in engineering without truly becoming educated in the subjects. I always crammed, skipped classes often due to finding them too slow and boring, and always felt like I could learn the material much faster than it was being taught. I was passing classes, but graduated with a 3.1 GPA, not good. I also felt incompetent because I could not teach or even remember much of what I had studied.

I interned for 2 co.'s during college, went to work for the 2nd company I interned for. I worked until I couldn't take the boredom or lack of autonomy anymore. I felt incompetent at work, and got by on my smarts, and being able to figure out problems quickly, but any technical problems usually had me referring back to books. I was promoted into better engr positions, always got the high-end of bonuses and raises, but never promoted into management.

My current $$ situation is ok. I have saved over 1.2MM, and I invest most of it, making close to 60k/year of fixed income, and in 2013 my total income with capital gains was 167k gross. I am currently living on 2500 per month. I am willing to take some money to start a business, but I feel skilless, and I'm just not sure what to do.
BQP doesn't really get you closer to EXPTIME at all. We don't even know yet whether it gets you closer to NP. In general, quantum computers only have a quadratic speed-up as far as we know.
Aha, I found it. The file manager in question was fsn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn
Are you implying that the cartoons were "bad manners"
Specifically, this is for heads-up (two person) limit texas hold'em.