skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Saying simply "unneeded memory is not being reclaimed" is not constructive.

Yes it is. It's a description of a problem your monitoring tool has reported that needs investigation.

> Why is it not being reclaimed?

That's the first step of the investigation of the memory leak.
"I really wish I could use bump mapping on this div" - No one ever
Perhaps just look for the median employed person's income as a rough yardstick?
This was exactly my experience. I was at college, walking to the bookstore to buy a 286. There was a guy from Creative Computers with table set up demoing an Amiga. I couldn't believe what I was seeing - it looked so much better than anything else at the time. I bought one the same day, and struggled to find a decent word processor for the next 4 years. But the games made it worth it.
RedHat people did not write Linux. They did contribute to it, provided support, but they did not write most of the code.

The people who _did_ write the code were not directly compensated for it. Indirectly - perhaps.

This is my point. It is not [currently, in its present form] sustaintable, due to the fact that people and corporations who use open source software do not [generally] pay for it.
And it can use Asm.js to run LLVM code.
But if there's no government intervention, then why are incomes so low, and why is there so much violence?
Problem is phone manufacturers have a vested interest in making the web experience sub-optimal (and even limit developers' means of building a proper mobile browser, like Apple).
Not 100% on topic, I find Cory Doctorow's essay "Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia"[1] addresses certain shortcomings of his vision quite well.

[1] http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm
"World's craziest democracy" - that really made me smile :)

I don't think the Indian Government's competancy in IT (and many other things) come close to that of China; but hey atleast we don't have a muzzle over our mouths (that's partly a lie).

Wasn't the "ban" actually a DNS entry removal ?
Installing Ghost in Ubuntu with apt-get
The trends page is very similar to those subreddits. Tags associated with a post on trends can lead you to scanning tools, best practices, tutorials and cve/cwe pages, etc.
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Werewolves. For vampires you usually want to stake them through the heart.

Mixing those up is a good way to get a vampire or werewolf to laugh at you.

Source: I asked a werewolf one time while he was drinking a Pina Colada at Trader Vic's
> However, another way of writing your question is "if you removed the features of make that ninja doesn't have and then optimized the remainder for performance, wouldn't they match?" and that is maybe tautologically true -- that description is roughly what Ninja is, after all.

Not exactly. I'm asking if an implementation of the portable subset of Make people actually use (pointedly excluding GNU Make extensions) could be made nearly as fast as Ninja. That would have the advantage of running existing makefiles, as long as those makefiles weren't written specifically for GNU Make.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-154

Is also a popular trijet. Not only that but one of the fastest passenger civilian aircraft. It is on its way out and in limited operation.
DRA MARTHA ANDREA CASTRO NORIEGA: Most Beautiful Bicycle First Week of April
Probably true to some extent. Most of the issues have to do with phone calls. As an example, when your father in law calls you to prank you that invariably turns into a 30 minute conversation. At that point you are completely out of flow and it takes you another hour to get back to the same mental state.
High Fidelity Open Alpha
Actually it has WebGL renderer.

Famo.us is the only JavaScript framework that includes an open source 3D layout engine fully integrated with a 3D physics animation engine that can render to DOM, Canvas, or WebGL.
Chrome OS gets sticky, as new Chromebooks emerge
"Vogon-type": that's mind-bogglingly accurate!
InfiniBand Too Quick for Ethernet to Kill
Does it have an implanted back door? I don't know. Can it give one to Microsoft and say push it out as an update for these individuals and if you say anything you'll end up in prison? That is the problem with secret courts.
Right, but what is the upside of using XXX->BTC->YYY instead of XXX->USD->YYY? In the instances where there is no liquid market of XXX or YYY to USD, it is highly unlikely that there will be a liquid market of XXX or YYY to BTC. If conversion between XXX and USD is illegal, then BTC is essentially being used to avoid local laws, and falls under the "illegal" category the author described.

BTC would be a great intermediary currency if there wasn't one already in the form of USD. I just don't see any advantage that BTC would offer over USD, even in the presence of high levels of BTC liquidity (assuming nothing catastrophic happens to the USD, of course).
No but https://github.com/bwalex/tc-play is.
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Given the shift in ownership of Atari, it does make sense. Atari was basically the old Commodore owners.
Ask HN: Udacity nanodegree worth it?
so I'm looking at the nanodegrees, trying to determine if there's any legitimacy of having such online course degrees.

wondering if anyone on HN have experience with it and if it has landed you gigs.

I'm interested in the full stack nano degree but really tempted by the data analyst nano degree as well.
Many reasons that hinder condom usage can never be fixed, even with free, plentiful, good feeling condoms:

The ability to go from foreplay to sex without stopping

The ability to switch between oral and penetrative sex
Or Microsoft's colors for that matter.
Only one point to nitpick: let's stop spreading the "RSS is dead" meme. It's not. RSS/Atom are alive and well.

Google reader != RSS.

These standards are open and simple enough for everyone to implement on their site/blog, and they'll only die if we all start acting like they're dead because one company decided to phase out a product that was not even living up to its full potential. I use https://www.newsblur.com/ on a daily basis and it's a far superior piece of software.
CeBIT 2015: All things development for Big Data, IoT and security
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Supports Targeting Linux
Not sure if sarcasm, or extreme sense of entitlement.
>YAPF is not an official Google product (experimental or otherwise), it is just code that happens to be owned by Google.
I can't help but notice that the skeleton's head is thrown back as in the somewhat-mysterious "death pose"[0] that dinosaur fossils are typically found in. It's mouth isn't open and I don't know about the tail, but the head position...

Basically, I'm wondering if this indeed the same phenomenon, and what that indicates about why this occurs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_pose
Babel 5.0 Released
It is interesting to see that the techniques they used were in many cases quite similar to techniques that were in use decades ago by game devs who had to struggle with much worse hardware.

For example they discussed how they achieved 60 FPS with a pipeline that essentially works on 3 frames in parallel: 1 frame of logic, the next frame of graphics, and the the next frame in GPU rendering phase.

I remember reading a really interesting book by a dev who had worked on RTS games like Total Annihilation, and Age of Empires and this was a technique that he talked at length about as essential to the performance of those games on the hardware of that time. I learned a lot from that book, including how to make efficient path finding, AI, etc.

It's nice to see that fundamental techniques like that are still useful to this day.
The peculiar pleasure of earplugs
When was the last time a United States automobile manufacturer started and lasted for longer than a decade?

Of the major US manufacturers, none were started after 1925 (though some had brands that began after that - like Saturn, which operated from 1990 to 2010); of the minor ones, only Tesla and DeLorean could be considered household names - and only one of those is manufacturing new automobiles.

Most of the minor manufacturers are niche (e.g., racing / supercar; off-road; golf cart; single-part mfg; kit; etc) oriented. Of the modern minor manufacturers that are or are planning to sell actual automobiles to consumers:

* Tesla produces ~700 vehicles per week, and has a global cumulative sales of 46,948 units through Sept '14.
* Fisker has delivered ~1,800 vehicles (ca 2012)
* Detroit Electric (revived in '08) has yet to deliver a single automobile
* Aurica doesn't even have a prototype
* AM General is primarily a military outfit, manufacturing HMMMWVs

Frankly, I'm impressed that a non-military-contractor has been able to even begin producing at the levels TSLA has been able to (~37,000 units per anum).

For a new automobile manufacturer, their sales numbers are anything but insignificant: they're larger than any other minor US manufacturer, and larger than a lot of foreign minor manufacturers.
You really need to get some of this basic info up there, I'm not going to sign up for something with no idea of pricing or commitment required.
I've been working with golang for too long. Everytime I watch stuff like this it just looks like they're re-inventing goroutines, channels, and the go scheduler.
First, great design! It's nice to see startups bringing good design to the ed tech space, I remember how much I hated the design and UI of Blackboard products when I was a student.

It would be nice to be able to check out class content without having to make an account. I also missed the light red bar at the top that says "you need to join the class", so I kept clicking on the button to open a section and thought the link was broken and just snapping the page to the top of the screen (as in when someone leaves <a href="."></a> as a placeholder)

Overall a very cool concept, and something teachers definitely need! Best of luck with it!
VuWall Technology - http://vuwall.com - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - Front-End / Javascript Expert

We are a cutting-edge startup with clients that include NASA, FIFA and CTV. We create collaborative video wall software that caters to a number of different verticals (e.g. air-traffic control, digital signage...).

We are currently seeking an expert JavaScript / Front-End Developer to create a next-generation user interface, either full-time or on contract (we don't mind). You will have a lot of autonomy, scope for creativity and be part of a great team and working environment. We have pretty dynamic requirements so we would prefer to not have you work remotely for a large part of the time.

Salary is dependent on experience and whether you come on contract or full-time.

We look forward to meeting you, thank you for your interest!
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Jay Miner was one heck of a designer. I do wish there was a book that focused on the forgotten hardware designers of that era.
because this has been right around the corner for longer than I would expect. The big problem here is that AMD is fighting against a moving target. If they don't move and get the thing out the door soon, Intel will be out with a new chip, which will raise the bar further. Like a year and a half ago, when I was trying to get myself a dev kit, it looked like a really nice piece of kit that would provide a real advantage (above and beyond the novelty) over competing x86 offerings from intel, but that was before the v3 intel chips.

I mean, from a shallow evaluation, I think that if these things came out at the "couple hundred dollar" price point, they would be competitive right now. at $300 per for board+cpu, I'd buy 20 right now. But I'm not at all sure that will be true a year from now.

(Note, I'm entirely ecc, so we're not talking about atoms. There is a huge opportunity here because intel stunts it's e3 line to 32gib ram. AMD needs to get in and exploit this while the getting is good. Yes, the 4xxx CPUs don't have any such limit, but compared to the E3, they are pathetic. These ARM boards would give AMD a chance to offer a reasonable compute per watt in a package with a ram footprint that can crush the E3.)

But... it's a year and a half later, and I still see no sign of AMD actually selling the things, other than as engineering samples at engineering sample prices, and meanwhile, intel is improving their x86 lineup.

Maybe I'm just impatient, but I just don't have a lot of hope that by the time it is out it will be able to compete with virtualizing a big xeon box.

I mean, yes, there are some applications where you really want your own server, and the A1100, if it does ship before Intel releases the ram limits on the E3, could compete in that niche, but for ARM to really take off in the datacenter, it needs to be cheaper per unit work done than a big xeon box. E.g. I need to be able to replace one of my giant dual xeons with four or five of these puppies, and it needs to cost less over the life of the hardware.

I'm paying California prices for power, so it shouldn't be that hard, but I'm just really frustrated by the slow progress of the AMD ARM server (and ARM boards that support ECC in general.)
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Agree, except that the underpinning is about about the freedom to improve and share, which generally means there's a freely available version on the internet, but by no means means you can't or shouldn't buy electronic or paper copies for money to support the author. ie. the gnu make manual: http://shop.fsf.org/product/gnu-make-version-381/
Bit of a tangent but, I don't know if a segfault should be considered a consequence of a "naive" implementation. Seems more like a consequence of a broken one.

A simple if (!A) goto err_free; would turn that segfault into a "Failed to parse file"

Also, it looks like qsort is implemented on his system as qsort_r:

http://osxr.org/glibc/source/stdlib/msort.c

Qsort_r appears to allocate O(n) extra memory when the data fits into 1/4 of physical memory. The comments suggest that the regular qsort is slower.
The US doesn't track for four reasons.

* The US is obsessed with race, and tracking makes it too obvious black kids aren't doing as well as white kids.

* Parents all believe their own child is above average regardless of the mathematical implications, and they get very upset if you hint the possibility little Johnny might not be the most intelligent child in his class. Clearly he just doesn't do well on tests.

* Children tend to live up or down to expectations. Obviously you can't make a dumb kid smart by expecting him to be smart, but you can influence the amount of effort he puts into school.

* People have looked at income statistics and decided if we send every child to college they can all be doctors and lawyers, and the toilets will magically clean themselves.
If you were into video at the time, the Amiga was most definitely the more productive machine.
> YAPF is not an official Google product (experimental or otherwise), it is just code that happens to be owned by Google.

Just in case anyone thought "by Google" meant "a Google product" like me.
It's really too bad that he doesn't own a computer with a charging port. Imagine what he could have made!
Much of the downsides of burying engines in the wing versus in the fuselage (below the H-tail) are irrelevant because the engines are not in a cantilever loaded portion of the structure. A beam has zero bending moment at a free end, and we may treat the fuselage as a long beam with free ends, like a see-saw balanced on a fulcrum in the middle (the wing in this case; we are neglecting the downforce from the horizontal tail). Placing the engines at a far end of the minimizes the bending load they must withstand. Placing engines at a wing root means putting them at the location of maximum bending moment due to the lift acting on the wing.
I don't know about that - I've been following the Oric scene for a while and my perception is that there are indeed old programmers returning to the systems of their youth with renewed vigour, but also a better understanding for how to organize their project - and sources - in a way that makes more sense. 30 years of optimizing code does tend to turn you into a better developer, and when you return - for no reason other than the pure joy of it - to these old systems, often things are done in unique ways. Twilighte found a new video mode for the Oric-1 which inspired him to write games that were a bit more modern in their sense of quality and playability - I think the machines that came after the Oric inspired him quite a bit.

It also helps that the toolchains are far superior to what we used to have .. I never would have thought, in my youth, that I'd be writing C code for the Oric-1, but indeed the OSDK has a C compiler that makes the effort of packing code into 48k a lot more fun than it used to be!

But in the end, you don't write software for these old machines unless you have a lot of passion, and that's what counts, I think. There is a lot of passion for the Oric-1 these days, that is for sure .. at least in the small scene that keeps the machines alive.
Good for you for starting the project.

The only problem I have is that I have no idea what you're trying to do (meaning I don't know what you're building)

Besides, displacing people from the communications applications they've grown accustomed to is a tall order.

Good luck.
> Condom designs don't change every year? Neither do penises.

This misses the point by a mile. Particularly for someone complaining about the article having too much unnecessary information, it's bizarre that you missed the ~3 paragraphs following this that describe _why_ it's a problem that they haven't changed: low rates of satisfaction and usage for something that has considerable public health implications (particularly in the developing world).

> Medical gloves (whose technology derives from condom manufacturing) haven't changed much for decades either.

....and if more than 50% of doctors weren't using medical gloves (regulation aside) due to evidently significant issues with comfort and convenience, this would be a cause for complaint too.

> The basic problem is that condoms work well enough for most people and so there isn't that much economic incentive to launch different kinds

This is a particularly ignorant claim, even if you hadn't read the article. Low rates of condom use in situations where they're extremely important is something that any informed person is aware of (again, this is most dramatically true for things like AIDS crises in developing countries like many in Sub-Saharan Africa). As the article establishes, usage isn't great even in the developing world:

"5 percent of men and 63 percent of women who’d most recently had sex with a “new acquaintance” hadn’t used a condom. More alarmingly, 75 percent of women who weren’t using a back-up birth control method reported not using a condom the last time they’d had sex. Adults who’d had anal sex in the past year—the highest-risk sexual act with regard to HIV transmission—said they’d used condoms only 20 percent of the time."

It should go without saying that economic incentives aren't a panacea for reaching global optima: Sometimes you end up in local optima, as in this case where the risk of doing research to potentially tap into the vast market of non-condom users may not be worth it. That's not to mention the systematic under-emphasis that economic incentives have on externalities, as in this case where the public health effects of more universal condom usage wouldn't all be captured by condom manufacturers.
Seems like you need a MIT certificate.
So Scala or Clojure it is? Honestly, I am starting to learn Java as a very amateur programmer and this is over my head.

Are the other JVM languages actually doing better as they were architected differently from their core, the models for parallelism and/or concurrency is different, both? I would love to hear comments from those more educated than I in JVM esoterics (although I would say the money involved it is worth knowing).
Indicator RVs are introduced on p738 & used all over the book. But on p788, he proves Markov without mentioning indicators. Typically, you create an indicator for the (R>=x) event, compute its expected value & voila Markov! Somewhat atypical.
Well, I would agree with you if this opportunity could not be exploited by malicious organizations.
thanks primitivesuave!

Great feedback. The first modules are previewable without joining. Will be improving the notification views.

Cheers!
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It sounds like there's at least some "cheating" going on. The article talks about "mappers" which were embedded into the cartridge to take advantage of extra memory included in the cartridge. Back in the 80s, that form of cheating allowed the cartridge to double the amount of memory, but on today's hardware, you could use the same technique to get considerably more memory.
I got an Amiga in 7th grade! It was a hugeee step up from my previous computer (an Apple II.)

It felt truly amazing for the time (late 80's).
When the brouhaha about TrueCrypt started, I wrote a zsh wrapper for "mounting" GPG-encrypted tarballs as directories: https://gist.github.com/gcv/b7d72023a851f2edf951

It works well as a TrueCrypt replacement for me personally, but has a couple of warts. Secure rm is slow on cleanup, and the user needs to be careful about the hidden files it uses to keep track of volume metadata.
We're using Opsworks/Chef for managing deployments and server configuration. I hate the resulting tight coupling between applications and the servers that they run on. In some cases, we have great utilization (where the application needs to auto-scale based on load and exceeds the capacity of a single box). However, in many other cases, we have significant underutilization (where the application uses a tiny fraction of the box's capacity).

Multi-tenancy (multiple apps on a single box) could alleviate our underutilization. It is possible with Opsworks/Chef, but it isn't a first-class feature.

Finally, we have a rather sad story for our batch/cron jobs. We have a single server and a master crontab for that server. Because of the various types of batch jobs we need to run (shell, python, java, php, node etc.), the cron server needs have runtimes for all of those.
Blocking the Property of Persons Engaging in Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities
Make Your CFO Your BFF
It goes like this:

NSA: "Hi, can you please let us see your source code."

(The conversation below happens in your head):
<thought-bubble>

"Do I want to spend the next 15 years and all my money and life trying to stay out of jail?"

"Do I want the IRS to know about trips to the Cayman Islands?"

"Do I want my wife to know about my mistress?"

</thought-bubble>

Me/You: "Sure no problem!"

I know its nice to think about that we would the moral high ground.

Try doing it alone with just a nice government official.
Let the record show it's CRYPTOGRAPHY that requires faith, not the enshrined powers of the IRS.
We're testing various homepages at the moment. The classes are free to make and to join at the moment (with eventual pay to join coming down the road).

Thanks for the feedback!
Yeah, makes me want to cuddle my Pet Rock till I feel better.
You dont see a chilling effect when the choice is either host your content on github or be blasted off the internet?

Was there any doubt about China's ability to blast sites much bigger than Github off the internet to begin with?

They're the second largest economy in the world. They don't need to play painfully obvious MITM tricks on their own infrastructure to carry out an attack - which then doesn't even have enough oomph to make a dent on a large but probably not particularly hardened site.

Lets not forget this wasnt an easy thing for github to handle.

That doesn't change the message that this random, half-assed neck-slap sends.

If this was really done by Chinese authorities and if I was a Chinese dissident then I'd be thrilled rather than chilled. Who knew keeping my stuff online could be as easy as uploading it to Github!
Which iPhone 6s Features Would Compel Us to Upgrade?