skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So at first I totally agreed with you, which is why I didn't post anything right away. But now that my subconscious has had a day to chew on things, I think I don't agree quite as much.

The really interesting thing about the Mill is that it does away with a HUGE portion of what a CPU does: out-of-order execution (OOE). These days the amount of die space that's dedicated to reordering and dependency checking and the commit engine is substantial, and that stuff really slows a processor down because the thing that are happening at the end of the pipeline depend on what's happening at the beginning. At 4GHz the best-case scenario the wavelength is 75mm, and the 1/4 wavelength is thus 19mm, on the order of the size of the die!

What the Mill does is push the reordering and dependency checking to the compiler so that the hardware itself is "dumb" at least insofar as not doing all the checking for OOE and multiple dispatch, etc. Further since the instructions are ordered as blocks and that blocking is done by the compiler, the processor doesn't even need any logic to assign instructions to functional units; that's done at compile time.

I agree that fast and power efficient silicon is a challenge, but again because they're not mixing execution with reasoning about execution (OOE, multiple dispatch, commit engine, etc) it's much, much easier to make the layout fast. I believe that instructions and data will flow through the Mill in a way that makes regular CPU architects envious.

I still suspect that a huge amount of the delay is due largely to the general weirdness of the architecture; it's not like an x86 to ARM port because those have a lot of the same basic assumptions baked in and the only difference is the instruction and data encoding. On the Mill few of the assumptions are the same and so you might have to re-write a LOT of code to boot a Linux kernel.
At what point does the stress of making an absurd rent payment eclipse the benefits of living in those areas of CA?

I would have to make 2-3X my current salary to live out there, and maintain my standard of living. Insanity.
Which further promotes the idea that making decisions based on culture/gender/etc is totally acceptable if they benefit the "right" groups.*

* Depending on whoever is the "right" group at the moment.
> safety is top priority

yet they didn't go full https till early 2015 - when do we get to start pointing this shit out? Sidejacking attacks have been around for years (Hamster [1] is from 2007), and the millions of other reasons to do it just keep growing. I feel like at some point you can't say "safety is top priority" just for implementing HTTPS sitewide.

[1] http://blog.erratasec.com/2007/08/sidejacking-with-hamster_0...
so what is it that makes antiworkers so successful? luck? market-fit awareness?

what special skill or trait do you need to become a successful antiworker?

I have this growing uneasiness about capitalism that its really about capital, not special skill, not some super insight, but mainly luck and/or capital. Not brains. Not muscles.

To me this realization throws the entire concept of working hard. It's easy to see that capitalism is not based on exploiting yourself or peddling your ass for wages. In fact the people who claim that hard work is road to success are the very people who benefit it.

It might be that this has become a widely accepted falsehood that was started by no good factory owners since the industrial age, that is being perpetuated to this day.

I honestly feel like I've been lied to all my life. Your startup or business failed, not because you were dumb or it was all your fault, a lot of it has to do with luck. Luck comes in many forms, sales, market timing, product fit etc.

I almost feel like you are almost entitled to spend some time without accomplishing much with antiwork but when you stick around luck will eventually come to you.

In the past month I've completely stopped trying so hard. I just tuned out and let business happen. it was the best month I've had so far.
> cherry picked in a way to support his thesis.

1000 pages is a lot of cherry picking. And let's face it, at least his thesis is declared and we can interpret his data selection in that light. Gray offers no quantitative evidence. As far as I can tell, he's trying to cow the reader with a lot of "I read way more political philosophy than any a' y'all." Taleb offers a statistically oriented critique, but again offers no data, and apparently no proof-reading.

If anything, the evidence we have from Gray and Taleb is N=2: 2 ostensibly smart fellows found enough grist in Pinker's work to write a publishable response without gathering any data themselves. That alone suggests Pinker's thesis has merit.
>Our UK experiment provided data that showed a small percentage of users had problems logging in after the migration. We pinpointed this to Safari users, which allowed us to start investigating the root cause.

Sounds like they don't really know much
The answer isn't just sprawl, it's "lots of housing", which can mean more tall apartment buildings on a little land instead of individual homes on a lot of land.

Unfortunately, San Francisco proper is very very hostile to real estate development for a variety of reasons and is trapped in a steadily worsening local maximum. A large part of that is policies like rent control, which bestows a sort of quasi-ownership of an apartment that may be even more effective than real ownership at spreading around the benefits of what the article calls a "tax by the haves on the have-nots, and by the old on the young."

Building out the suburbs could also be an answer if you could trust the region's government agencies to provide decent transit options, whether public transit or highways. You can't. At least if you're commuting to work in Manhattan you have a cheap $2.50 subway ride into town from many places that are much further away than you do in San Francisco.
Are you required to disclose evictions to future landlords? If so, having one on your record could make it harder to rent in the future, especially given the competitive nature of the SF housing market.
...Which Taleb in turn responded to in the (updated) version of the rebuttal:

Pinker’s Rebuttal of This Note:
Pinker has written a rebuttal (ad hominem blather, if he had a point he would have written something 1/3 of this, not 3 x the words). He still does not understand the difference between probability and expectation (drop in observed volatility/fluctualtion ≠ drop in risk) or the incompatibility of his claims with his acceptance of fat tails (he does not understand asymmetries-- from his posts on FB and private correspondence). Yet it was Pinker who said “what is the actual risk for any individual? It is approaching zero”.
I really like kingpin [1] as well.

[1] https://github.com/alecthomas/kingpin
Hrm, that's an interesting concept I hadn't heard of before. I use px because that's what Chrome's responsive view uses, and because that's what viewport uses. I think 'big text' is generally going out of fashion in favour of proper zoom (though we should really get some numbers on that).
"Another reason is that inflation in housing – so taboo when it comes to other commodities – has since the 1980s been celebrated by governments and encouraged by policies on taxation and borrowing."

Right. Rising house prices are just runaway inflation. If inflation indexes include housing (which, in the US, they did until the 1980s) inflation is much higher.
I don't actually use Ruby so I have never tried JRuby+Truffle. Just general news and information about Graal/Truffle in general would be great though.
Well, I guess they're making the assumption that the tenant doesn't want something like that on their credit history[0], and the landlord would have cause to take the tenant to court to collect the ($8900 + $12500) per month * X months for the time the tenant is living there without paying...

0: https://blog.creditkarma.com/credit-101/credit-report/how-do...
Khan Academy: Journey into Cryptography
Science Friday did a good podcast on a related project:

http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/11/21/2014/would-you-tr...

They discuss "Amy" from x.ai. Turns out that x.ai needs to employ an "AI trainer" (discussed at 7min in) to handle all the situations that the algorithms can't.
As a side note, I don't generally like anti-discrimination laws. I am proposing to allow EEOC or anti-trust to impose restrictions on specific companies on discrimination if necessary instead.
Author here: You can download iOS/Android app too. It supports upvoting.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn
Algorithm Clones Facial Expressions and Pastes Them onto Other Faces
What is the battery life?
I see your point, but the text is still text on canvas.

Rather than trying to change the world to not use canvas, how about screenreaders get fixed to read fonts off canvas?
You are correct. I assumed MS Office put it there, not even considering that Comic Sans would be on OSX by default. Hah! It's an even more sublime statement now, as only the untainted free distributions out there don't see it.. and it's also directed at web hipsters, but the result there appears to be unintentionally ironic.
We also had HUGE problems with OwnCloud. It's a very heavyweight application and we ran into some of the same problems mentioned in one of the sibling posts. But probably the worst thing about OwnCloud is that we had files come up missing seemingly randomly. Unfortunately we were already several months into a site installation before we figured out what was happening. You're probably reading this and wondering why we couldn't just retrieve a copy from somewhere else, and the answer is that when OwnCloud eats your files, it syncs that state to all of the clients. This is incredibly insidious and as it turns out, this is an open secret among the OwnCloud developers and its community. Just Google for "OwnCloud file missing" and you'll get pages of results. You are really tempting fate if you use OwnCloud for anything non-trivial (which is probably the very reason you want it synced). It's like the dryer that eats your socks, except that it's your business documents.
The term you're looking for is "efficient." Equal returns but lower risk means the fund or allocation is more efficient.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_frontier
They're probably not as feature-rich, but I find the plugins available for Atom and Sublime Text to meet this need.
Watching mailing activity has a chilling effect on your 1st Amendment rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association. As does the general trend to watch everything.

Poindexter called it TIA: Total Information Awareness. He was probably told to promote it because it was already being done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness
Yes. Main problem is scrolling is not smooth. I told Mozilla mobile folks, but they think its smooth.
Despite all the criticism in this thread, I do think this (or some form of it) is going to be the future of CVs for web devs. A creative way to stand out from the crowd, and be different from other simple portfolio websites.

To really make a point, CSS 3D websites are even cooler :) some of you might remember acko.net [1]

[1] http://acko.net/blog/zero-to-sixty-in-one-second/
The kernel patch?
Big-O Misconceptions (2012)
i had the same problem and was looking around for a new notebook. ihad some performance issues with my previous one, lackness of gpu proccessing and couldn't run multiple monitors at the same time for a long time, i wasn't able to calculate molecular foldings and handle very big chunks of data at the same time with it, by the way that machine had a first-gen i5 and nvidia gt330m (1gb of anciency). so i ought to buy a new laptop; my little goliath.

anyway this is what i am trying to say: define your needings then go shopping, or ask with that way.

my needings was as yo can figure, was listed above. so i bought an lenovo a z5070 < http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/z-series/z50/?sb...: >

you know there is a huge scandal and they are trying to cope with that with giving huge discounts! i think it is a good time for buying a lenovo, if only you'll run it as a linux box. by the i hate windows and i'm so lucky they don't care. i think windows should be a keyboard company, their keyboards are definitely awesome. < update was for keyboards >
I'm using Chrome 42 on a non-retina MBA and it's blurry for me too.
Not aware of any direct comparisons. Perhaps I am engaging in hyperbole :) The reason I said that is I thought RPython is mostly for speeding up Python, and wasn't aware of HippyVM. There are tutorials on how to use Truffle for other languages and some apparently useful implementations though.
And frankly, MS and Intel basically made it this way.

Both freaked when the netbook first hit. Intel because they could make for a passable citrix client and so undermine their lucrative ultraportable segment. MS because it was Linux on a off the shelf product.

So what we got was some very stringent spec requirements from the two to make a underperforming mini-laptop running Windows XP (remember that MS was trying to sell Vista at the time).

What looked like a interesting experimental market (one early model had a thumb sized touchpad sitting near the screen hinge rather than a touchpad below the keyboard) ended up another pile of rebranded clones.
POSTing from Angular to Django (adding middleware)
> We identified and mitigated many technical challenges in the discovery process of the migration.

Turning on HTTPS is not a one-step migration.

Turning on CSP has also proven to be very difficult for nearly every site who wishes to turn it on.

Where I work I am dealing with production issue with one of the security features, which by enabling it we observed redirection loop. I am not saying this is an excuse but there are challenges.
> If you make a good product, customers will come back to use it again and again. They won't just forget about a product that worked wonders for them.

Ehhh I can turn that around. If you make a good product, customers will have enough confidence in that product to not want to consciously have to make a payment on a recurring basis. I'd suggest it's not something necessary for your product to succeed, but it's something your customers will probably want.
Bluetooth LE is a good thing. It means that the keyboard will pair quickly and consistently, which has not been my experience with older bluetooth keyboards. Worse, because power consumption is significantly higher, those keyboards tend to go idle and unpair themselves frequently, which means when you start typing, it takes a few seconds you generally lose a few keystrokes while the keyboard repairs.
Randomness is an easy way to ensure you're not doing something systematically wrong.
I'm not saying it's easy, but if "safety is top priority", it shouldn't take this long.
"When asked about the poor, the Market Economy raised one finger of the Invisible Hand and whispered.. fk the poor"
youtube.com/watch?v=eBuC_0-d-9Y
UK too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail_Price_Index

For most purposes, the UK now uses a measure (CPI) which excludes housing costs. However, RPI is still used when calculating changes to the state pension.
A close up (Google Maps) https://goo.gl/maps/IE3NH
There are some pictures in the imagery at the bottom of the page. If you explore the map you'll see the channel from the Tiber river to the sea the article writes about. It's used as a harbour for sailboats and motorboats.
Yeah i remember the UMPC push. Was way more interesting designs flying around back then. Now it is all "multitouch".

One example: http://www.tabletpcreview.com/tabletreview/samsung-q1-ultra-...
Real Jailbreak iOS 8.3 with evasi0n8.3 Cydia download
If you have a requirement for self-hosted evernote alternative then I believe either you have very large number of notes and each note exceeds large size or just for plain privacy reasons and your notes are very secretive (because evenote is a simple note taking/syncing app)

You should look into https://owncloud.org/ it is like open source version of dropbox which will sync more than just notes for you across multiple platforms
There's a lot of things that the RBI is doing that the US will do shortly. For example the Chip-n-Pin implementation in India (and Europe) will soon be adopted in the US By Oct 2015.

We have an additional liability requirement (I wont call it safety, since what it essentially does is pass on liability) of Two-Factor auth for online payments as well - which means that most Indian credit cards work only with some difficulty on international ecommerce sites.

That said, the RBI has been progressive in P2P payments - for example a lot of people do not know about IMPS (Immediate Payment Service) which takes place over phone SMS to transfer money instantly ... without needing a smartphone.

I think the RBI is fairly intelligent in understanding payments, and is trying to learn from the mistakes made elsewhere.

I feel this pain particularly accurately since my startup (shameless plug: RedCarpetUp.com) is trying to disrupt offline payments and trying to build an "Uber-like" wallet for hyperlocal retail. We have had to overcome serious regulatory challenges, but still have some way to go.
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Recruiters don't know shit
It reminds me of the circular port of Carthage which was build hundreds of years earlier.
+1 we need a better cross platform bookmark manager
> Which means that people who are naturally political end up with all the power

I am socialist/anarchist and that's exactly why I am against flat structures. The solution is so simple - democracy. It's pretty much a one rule, which is prescriptive - everyone gets the same amount of power. So it doesn't matter what you do, if you do politics, or do something technical, useful or not, at the end of the day, we clean the tables and have the same amount of power again. Then there is not much point in politics, if you can't amass power.

I wish more honest technical people (or those who don't want to be involved in politics) understand that. I don't know, sometimes I tend to think that majority of people simply want politics and the power hierarchies.
Please do not use OwnCloud if the files you are storing are important. There is a discussion elsewhere on the page with an explanation. TL;DR It eats your files.
Bluetooth LE is indeed a good thing when you have it. The opportunity to support "vintage" hardware would have cost next to nothing. If you had even one non-LE device, wouldn't you rather it could fall back?
Possibly, in that the PC was "open" while these new devices are more and more locked down.

Just look at Android. Now a days a app can't really get direct access to the filesystem. Everything has to go through the "media storage".

The way i see it, these "post PC" devices are Big Media's wet dream. Now they can get the DRM enforcement built in that before they had to attempt to "hack" in (Sony's rootkit, anyone?).
Serious question: Why? All we really know is that the US is dragnetting as much data as they possibly can. Have there been any solid exposures as far as actual misuse of the data? Not just hypotheticals (as realistically scary as they are), but real abuses which have already occurred?
They're working on real generics for the JVM, but it's a lot of work, especially to preserve compatibility (which is why it wasn't done beforehand). If you throw out compatibility it's still a lot of work though, plus you no longer have any of the libraries.

I guess if you mean by "not any good" they're slower/less featureful than the original HotSpot JVM, then, well, yes..... you get what you pay for (in terms of resource usage).
People praise OS X's keyboard shortcuts for being consistent across apps, as opposed to e.g. having a different "find text" shortcut per app. They are also very strict about using CMD as the primary modifier key, as opposed to mixing up Ctrl vs Alt. This too is function, and it's something that immediately grates when you go to Windows from Mac.

What you are doing is praising Windows for letting you operate things by keyboard that are normally designed to be operated by a mouse, such as that "context menu" key they added to keyboards and which practically no-one uses on purpose. This is something that Apple minimizes by default, but which you can enable through accessibility settings and such. The fact that many Windows users expect this to be turned on by default has lead them to conclude that Macs can only be operated by a mouse.

Furthermore, "form over function" is what a lot of Windows UI looks like to me. On a Mac, a file icon in a window's titlebar is still a full reference to the file, and you can drag it out and do things with it. A file downloaded in Safari has a progressbar on its icon, and you can copy it to a different machine and open it to resume. The Windows equivalents of these things are just dead icons and broken file type associations.

The two OS'es have a radically different philosophy. But personally, I can't use Windows anymore once I realized how dumb "Ok" "Cancel" "Apply" is, as opposed to just being able to tick off a checkbox on/off and seeing the entire UI update immediately.
Paul Ceglia – Facebook fraud suspect disappears
fyi asciidoctor allows using markdown syntax inside your asciidoc file.

citation: http://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-syntax-quick-reference/...
This finger-mounted camera turns any book into an audiobook
Makes me wonder how well a updated Fujitsu U1010 would do today.
We don't think about sorting specifically, but we do think about performance and the structure of data all the time. How data is stored very much effects how quickly it can be retrieved. This is pretty universal – Twitter needs different storage then Google – you'll be surprised how often you think in these terms.
It's security theater to encrypt everything. If you have to let some content delivery network decrypt your HTTPS sessions, you've created a central wiretapping point at the CDN. If you only encrypt login pages and such, and have a server with higher security handling them, you're at least protecting passwords and user identification. If decryption has to be moved out into the CDN to support encryption of cat pictures, security has been reduced.
I'm always amazed to see New York City banks with employees sitting at street-level, and computer screens in-view of the sidewalk. Simply parking a car outside their office with a powerful video camera aimed at their screen must be able to yield something of value.
I have not listened to it but http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/ is a podcast about machine learning. It was posted on HN some time ago.
Looks pretty good. Their configuration could use a larger DHE parameters (2048), replace RC4 with 3DES and enable OCSP Stapling. But it's already in the top 1% for TLS quality!

$ ./cipherscan pinterest.com
................
Target: pinterest.com:443

prio ciphersuite protocols pfs_keysize
1 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 TLSv1.2 ECDH,P-256,256bits
2 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 TLSv1.2 ECDH,P-256,256bits
3 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2 ECDH,P-256,256bits
4 DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2 DH,1024bits
5 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 ECDH,P-256,256bits
6 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 TLSv1.2 ECDH,P-256,256bits
7 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2 ECDH,P-256,256bits
8 AES128-GCM-SHA256 TLSv1.2
9 AES128-SHA256 TLSv1.2
10 AES128-SHA TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2
11 AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2
12 AES256-SHA256 TLSv1.2
13 AES256-SHA TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2
14 ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2 ECDH,P-256,256bits
15 RC4-SHA TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2

Certificate: trusted, 2048 bit, sha256WithRSAEncryption signature
TLS ticket lifetime hint: 300
OCSP stapling: not supported
Server side cipher ordering
Google CFO retires with a candid memo about work/life balance
Uber investor needs to spread FUD about driverless cars already