skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Makes sense. My concern really is if Linux gets any better for these use cases. I think a lot of Linux development is to much software and to little real world "science". You hear a lot how powerful Linux is, but in a lot of cases powerful things are run by XP as you say.

I kind of gave on Linux a couple of years ago when at the same time when Apple had totally neglected the Mac Pro all you could find from the Linux community was how cool the latest 3D effects on the desktop where and chromium was much better than Firefox. Trying instead finding something like say a 2D library more modern than Cairo and there's a deafening silence.

Yes, I'm exaggerating a bit and there is some good developments. Like CERN making waves in electronics by hacking on KiCad. Though I'm sure they would be happier if they could replace Wx with something more modern, which I'm not sure the current alternatives are.
Check out SDL, Allegro, or SFML.
http://libsdl.org/
http://alleg.sourceforge.net/
http://sfml-dev.org/
Wow, so you didn't bother reading what I typed about my accident earlier. I'm sure people that disregard the law completely will just suddenly start paying for insurance and you'll never have to bother, say, paying more for uninsured motorist. So once again, if you want insurance, pay for it, don't act like involving the law suddenly fixes everyone's problems.

Just another example of the short-sighted mentality of the supporters of more laws and enforcement.

I'm still +12, so I have a bit more "karma" to burn before I create another account. Thanks for the fun guys.

... and as a reflection, take your tongue-in-cheek-"I hope you stay healthy"-shit and shove it. Everyone dies you ignoramus.
I agree with you say but I just want to emphasize how much that is NOT what Adams says in his book.

In the book, he dismisses science because it's just looking at things and our eyes can deceive us (he uses the example of thinking the earth was flat).

At the same time, he calls for expanding our "perception" of the world. But the many, many ways in which science/technology have legitimately expanded our perception of the universe are dismissed by him, because it's all "just looking at things." A readout of a signal from a radio telescope is just looking at things with our fallible eyes. A measurement of the voltage of a battery is just looking at a readout of a voltmeter.

That is what is supremely frustrating with his view of science.
An extreme oversimplification can be expected to get the technical details wrong but the conclusion right. This article gets the high-level consequences wrong too, and claims that there will be benefits to things that are completely unrelated.
Consumers want better iPhones, not cheaper ones
To nitpick, The End Of Life We Care About on Earth is only ~800 million years off[1], at the outside, barring some unforeseen catastrophe or some truly astounding planetary engineering. Still a long time, but no 4 billion years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future#Fut...
Attention Cannibalization
I'm not sure that's the case; the latest Mars lander required some pretty incredible engineering - I mean, they basically built a rocket-powered hovercraft, something that's never been done before.

I'd wager that the real reason is that Mars is more interesting to explore than Venus's atmosphere. Mars has the potential to have (or have had) life, and it has interesting geological features that may be directly applied to what we know about Earth.

Plus, the whole "we might go live on Mars!" mentality doesn't hurt, and Venus is only recently getting this kind of attention.
Soft of, it only runs on Windows.
There is a potential dark side to this kind of automation:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/13/us/starbucks-w...

There could be a lot of turmoil in the next few decades as society adapts to this new world of increased automation.
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Yep. Although I originally saw it as a perl script.
yes it is working at my end
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This really has nothing to do with tech but globalization as a whole. It's more of a matter of increasing income inequality & wealth.

Wages for skilled labor has increased slightly since the 80's (doctors, lawyers, tech workers). While wages for the middle class has fallen and the market for unskilled labor been gutted.
ntpasswd isn't a pentesting tool; it's a recovery tool.
Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor
You're right that you'll (practically) always have more than one feature in a product, so counting features doesn't really make sense. You should approach it from the other end: identify a segment of the market, a narrow set of customers, and aim to build a product that is clearly the best option available for them. Judge every feature through this lens, and don't stray outside the focus until you've won that niche (if ever).

Easier said than done, of course...
I'm remote. I'm not sure without counting if it's more or less than 50%. Not many are outside the US, but some are. I believe we require overlap with NYC afternoons, but I defer to whatever they tell you when you apply.
>> a water utility where the product has little variance.

Now why, exactly, do you think that is?
Radioshack to shut down all stores, sell to Sprint
> in the US even those who don't use GPS technology are subject to taxes

There is no way you don't benefit from the GPS system if you are a US Citizen. It's an infrastructure technology that means your roads are safer, your package delivery cheaper, your maps more accurate, your emergency services more effective; and a million other subtle benefits that you would have difficulty quantifying.

As such it makes sense to fund it from general treasury; and to charge taxes on everyone in proportion to the benefit they get from society ( represented as income, including capital gains ). Since public infrastructure benefits the whole of society.

That's the nature of public infrastructure. And the decadent libertarian fantasy that someone should be able to opt out of taxes because of their rugged individualism is just that; a fantasy. There is no such thing as individual success in an advanced technological society and anyone who tells you there is is a parasite on that society.
Uber Opening Robotics Research Facility in Pittsburgh to Build Self-Driving Cars
I believe that is true but I haven't seen this exposed via DX. Does dx12 expose this functionality? Does cuda or OpenGL expose this type of xontrol.?
If you ever get a chance to visit Pompeii, I definitely recommend also making the trip to nearby Herculaneum. Pompeii is grand and impressive in its size; Herculaneum (which was an upmarket, beachside town in 79AD) is boutqiue, compact, less touristy, and for mine a much better experience and view into both life in 79AD and life the day of the eruption.
There was hope 20 years ago, when NeoCAD wrote an independent partition-place-route tool for Xilinx chips, but then Xilinx bought them [1]. No action since then.

I've thought about this over the last 20 years. In my opinion, designing a free FPGA from scratch and writing the requisite tools would have to be be a serious option for someone considering taking on the task of reverse engineering and tracking the development of existing FPGAs. It probably wouldn't be much more work for a person with the requisite knowledge and the result would be "more free", by not having to follow the silicon manufacturer's elephant.

Then again, buying an FPGA and spending a heap of time reverse engineering it is more accessible to the average hacker than designing and building an FPGA chip.

[1] http://www.xilinx.com/publications/archives/xcell/Xcell17.pd...

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Good luck! Yeah -- that was fun.
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Makes you think I remember a few years ago reading about some on who had a allergic reaction to the same drug I was on at the time and died she was only on 20mg a day more than I was.
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Introduction to Cataract Surgery
Abbreviation for “fucking autocomplete”?
Can you talk to the new icon style you guys are going for? I'm not a huge fan of the new Alien Blue icon, the Android AMA icon, and this redditnotes icon looks kinda shitty too.

I'm no designer, and I don't mean this in an insulting way (besides the fact that I think the new icons look shitty) at all. Just curious.
I guess someone will eventually build one and start selling it to those rating-fraud companies.
This seems like this should be easy to source... should we call the robotics institute? Cleaned out seems a bit hyperbolic.
You can't just pigeonhole fats into three categories and be done.

Butyric acid and stearic acid are both saturated fatty acids, but they serve very different roles in the diet. Similarly, ALA and LA are both essential unsaturated fatty acids, but they compete for the same desaturating and lengthening enzymes in the body. So if you eat sufficient quantities of those fatty acids in the wrong ratio, you can still see symptoms of dietary deficiency. And different people produce different quantities of those enzymes or different variations with greater or lesser effectiveness.

The AHA made insufficiently informed recommendations, and the nonscientific population followed them, often by replacing animal-based fats with vegetable-based fats with vastly different fatty acid ratios.

These were sometimes chemically treated to turn them into trans-fats, which in a key-keyhole model of body chemistry is like bending a kink into the key to your front door, then jamming it into the lock with a hammer and forcing it with vise-grips every time you wanted into your house. The trans fats resembled saturated fats enough to be used in the same way, but that kink in the key would cause persistent damage.

And foods manufacturers also replaced fats with sugars and sodium salts, which caused different problems.

Different foods have different fat profiles, just as they have different protein profiles. Eggs and milk have amino acid ratios that very closely match what humans need, whereas beans and rice are insufficient in isolation, but complete in combination. Similarly, beef suet, pork lard, olive oil, coconut oil, and soybean oil have different fat profiles.

We still don't know what the "best fat" food is, like we know that poultry eggs are very nearly the "best protein" food. And "fat quality" might not even be as homogenous between individuals as it is for the amino acids.

Any recommendations at this time are almost certainly unfounded or unsupported by rigorous and repeatable research. You really have to do your own homework on this one, and avoid making any conclusions based on insufficient evidence.
Landis Calrissian
You have heard of powershell?
Apple's original business plan
This is hand wavey bullshit. I'm happy with my water and power companies. I hope my ISP dies in a fire. They're product is subpar, overpriced, and their customer service is predatory and combative.
FYI, our CalDAV support has been in full production for almost a year now.
They tried to catch the home hobbyist movement again -- they really did. I remember being excited about Arduinos showing up and guaranteed component stock.

Then I needed some parts on short notice. Their supply was present but incomplete enough to be frustrating, and when I asked one of the employees about their inventory, I got "I'm sorry; I'm not sure. You're likely to know more about that than I do." I really appreciate the employee being up front with me instead of jerking me around, but it's disappointing that Radio Shack couldn't (or wouldn't) commit to having at least one employee educated in the hobbyist electronics section.

Now, I pay a monthly fee at a hackerspace and have better access to component stock and knowledge than I expect any brick and mortar store to provide.

The community finds a way.
The biggest problem with Science is that it usually doesn't answer the questions we actually want answered. The problem happens when we try to extrapolate from scientific results. When we make claims about human nutrition based on experiments with rats. That's when we run into trouble.

Usually the scientific answer should be "we don't know".

(That's also the reason why people run to some quack doctor and start taking homeopathic remedies. You'll get answers there. Unfortunately, people trust those giving answers more than those saying "I don't know".)
I've done a few stints in jobs like that - I think how you deal with it depends on how/who you are. With time I found the endless repetition of simple tasks very calming, harmonious and peaceful - I'd hit a "zen zone" and kind of meditate over the machinery / pieces I was making. When you repeat a task long enough, time ceases to exist.
The Mixed Reality of Reduced Global Inequity
A good technique would be for the US and UK govts to just slap an extra 10% of income tax on all employees of an evading company (upped to 20% if they're found to be employed by a subsidiary for the purposes of tax evasion). That will bring them to heel overnight.
>> Politicians must think the tech community is a frustrating beast to work with.

Spoiler alert: the tech community is made of people. And yes, they are frustrating beasts to work with.
The leap to self-driving cars will be a massive and painful and complicated one. Way too much faith in tech in these here parts.
I meant 3D
Yes, I am sure that those who say mercury is a highly toxic element don't know what they are talking about. Or perhaps they do.
VSphere 6 Features: New Config Maximums, Long Distance VMotion and FT for 4vCPUs
No, this is something the GPU front end controls.
Google could cut Uber down hard by pulling Google Maps API access. Ballsiest play Google has ever done if they execute on this. Love it.
Your Agile Project Needs a Budget, Not an Estimate
Depends on the timescale. Mars obviously has an atmosphere half-life much shorter than Earth's. At the same time, if its lifetime is a million or even a couple thousand years, it might be entirely suitable for terraforming for humans, depending on the rate at which we can replenish it.

Of course, at some point we have to ask questions about how renewable a resource various elements are...
Uploads are already done asynchronously, that's driver optimization 101 level stuff. It's also one of the very few operations that has an independent core to handle it (the copy engine)

Rendering shadow-maps in parallel would be pointless. If you render 2 at the same time, then each map gets half the GPU so an individual render takes twice as long, resulting in the same total time as if you gave each render 100% of the GPU and rendered in sequence.

> I wonder is there already the OpenGL equivalent of this? One of the main hurdles of OGL was issuing all the calls from the main thread, if that is gone now, that would be awesome.

Yes, NV_command_list extension:

http://www.slideshare.net/tlorach/opengl-nvidia-commandlista...
In my experience a lot of this isn't becuase it can't work on windows, but because the developer didn't take the time to make it work on Windows. I also had my fair share on build and dependency problems on Linux when wanting something custom.

I think this is much more a ecosystem thing than a systems thing. Which do count of course.
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Everyone Moved on to the Cloud, How About Your VoIP?
How to optimize your social media profiles for SEO
Sorry I should have said to set up central single sign on mobile accounts for laptops you know basic small office functionality.

There isn't even a method for converting from stand alone users to a network one! - looks like those that say that Apple is abandoning osx users for ios have some validity
Similar in spirit, yes, but Facebook's clause seems to be much, much broader, even though both operate by the same mechanism (using license termination as the penalty).

Contrary to the stereotypes about "viral" licensing, the GPLv3's patent grant seems to be very narrowly tailored. It says that if you redistribute GPL'd code while "knowingly relying" on patent rights that you own or were granted, then you must arrange to grant those specific patent rights to the recipients. It's equitable, in the sense that the rights you have to forego are the same ones that were granted to you: only those that would necessarily be infringed by using and distributing the software.

Facebook's terms are similar to the extent that they cover patent claims "related to the Software." But the real difference (to my layman's eyes) is in the application to other patents. You're not allowed to enforce any patent claims against Facebook or its affiliates, whether or not those patents have anything to do with React. And in the reverse direction, if Facebook accuses you of infringing a patent of any kind, you have to forfeit the right to challenge the patent's validity.

That's taking a relationship that's already heavily skewed towards big companies with huge patent arsenals, and making it even more lopsided.
It is my understanding that Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is a cash benefit. Do you not consider TANF in the U.S. to be "welfare" in the form of a cash grant?
Like on many websites, there is just too much clutter for me here to stay longer then a second. I made a screenshot and marked everything I hate about that page. I wish all that noise would go away. Then I would read the text.

http://i.imgur.com/aUH3CjM.png

Am I the only one that feels this way?
Both LLVM and gcc suffer from the problem that they're vast underdocumented code bases with Internal Platform Syndrome and mostly-but-not-quite-finished internal tools which generate undebuggable code. The actual working set of knowledge which you need to do serious work on the compiler, such as porting it to a new backend, mostly exists as tribal knowledge only, and the only way to find this out is to either investigate the source yourself or to try and ask for help on the mailing lists. LLVM's is significantly more helpful than gcc's, because LLVM has more people participating and more momentum behind it, but you're still not guaranteed to get an answer. Actually producing a working backend is an enormous investment of time and effort.

By way of example: I'm interested in the Broadcom Videocore IV processor, also known as the main processor on the Raspberry Pi. I bounced off both gcc and LLVM, and for much the same reason --- after getting the port about 75% complete I ran into blocking issues that I couldn't fix on my own and couldn't get enough assistance on the mailing lists to fix. Which is a shame. (I should point out that prior to that I did do a VC4 backend for the ACK compiler. It generates terrible, terrible but working code.)

I have run into commercial compilers which were easy to port, and generated good code, to boot. Volker Barthelman's vbcc even has a VC4 backend, which produces amazing code, and his compiler is a tiny fraction of the size of either gcc or LLVM! But it's not open source. Maybe one day we'll get a similarly good open source small compiler...
In fairness, people who buy this stuff generally know what they're doing... I'd be happy with a full parts bin that's organized sensibly.
GlNext will be presented on the upcoming GDC 2015
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Or you could be like scheme and make all functions red.
The major roles of middle management are

1) Communicate the vision

2) Allocate resources

3) Set criteria for decisions of unequivocal data

4) Make judgement calls on equivocal data

5) Facilitate the voice of the worker being heard

Computers can only do 2 & 3
This guy should see how a Google datacenter works.

Need something done in a datacenter? Open a ticket and people respond. Common tickets become standardized by making them API calls that schedule the people. The most common API calls are eventually automated completely.

I saw this for requesting a machine be power cycled (ticket -> API call -> automated).

The people that work at the datacenter are great, but I feel sorry for them because their job becomes less and less interesting as time goes on.

When Google opened a datacenter in [redacted] there was an article about how local people were signing up for Community College classes on computer science topics. I felt terrible... the skills that datacenter would be hiring for were more akin to a warehouse than a startup.

-- Tom
-- Ex-Goolger
The very definition of being a victim of their own success
Omg, THANKS for sharing this!
there was no pathway across to engineering without getting a degree.

DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation, makers of the PDP and VAX computer series) once had such a pathway, and electronic technicians could advance to engineering. That wasn't retained after they were acquired by Compaq, then by HP, then downsized.
'Subsisting' does not include 'artificial cities floating in the sky'. Similarly, getting a computer to run on nothing by carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and sulphur, none of which are metals or semiconductors, is a massive task, if doable at all.