skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AMD fate is a little dramatic. The ATi merge wasn't pragmatically useful, but a financial burden. The idea of having CPU/GPGPU in one SoC was good[1], but AMD couldn't flip the market with their products at that time, they put a lot of efforts swimming against the mainstream, and now the mainstream is going their way, they lost steam while Intel seems unstoppable[2].

[1] AMD SoC architecture reviews showed originality and value, but you needed a different software stack to take advantage of it. Without that, it's just slower, hotter silicon. I think that's how mantle started. Again, it's not a competitive advantage anymore now that Vulcan is a standard.

[2] I may be wrong, but I don't think ARM SoC are really a threat to Intel. They did eat a nice chunk of his lunch though, but Intel's IP and assets seem so huge...
In this case, the goal was to attack GitHub. If you only use clients in one country, the target would have the option of simply having their edge routers drop traffic from the entire country. Using international clients removes that option and likely makes the attack more successful because it generates more traffic closer to the target.
Sounds like a Fantastic Four viral campaign (Victor von Doom).
Larger transactions have higher execution costs. Larger funds have larger transactions. It probably isn't the case that there is a linear correlation between fund -> transaction -> execution cost but it is a close enough approximation that everyone is mostly happy.
I see lots of diy cheap standing desks on here. Is there a market for high end standing desks? I work for a small casegoods manufacturer that builds wood furniture to order. I'm just curious if I should bother taking a shot at designing something? Sourcing a flexible electric sit/stand leg seems like a tall order.
I think it's typical for a good smartphone to have to load it every day. I recharge my S4 at night and then still have to boost it up at work. Mobile data is a power hog.
5:30 AM Spin Class Monday, Wed, Fri
Calorie tracking with MyFitnessPal
Fresh fruits and snacks available at work

Several months in, I have a lot of energy and am really enjoying the physical changes.
I'd add to this list:

* Avoid all foods with artificially added or high sugar content.
I can design, architect and build scalable, performant and maintainable systems. I've been doing so for over 15 years. In a professional setting, I might be "the guy" you go to with the problems nobody else can solve.

Put me in a room with a couple of people, a not-real-world problem, a compressed timeframe and tell me to go, and it's a different story. After that time is up, you'll swear I don't know the first thing about technology and go to the next guy.

Why is this? Interviewing psyches people out sometimes. In my case, the act of being judged by my peers gets me to the point where I actually do blank out.
Low carb HIGH FAT.
Eating a lot of animal fat (with average portions of lean meat) and almost zero carbs has helped me a lot.

Nevertheless I touched a plateau so I went to exercise, just a little, and then I became much more lean.
If the whole thing is about disability, wouldn't the best solution be in stem cells research?

PS: At least in Shadowrun you only get 6 units of Essence.
A strongly typed version of CLOS generic functions would look a lot like Haskell typeclasses, right?
Let's not use HTTP over TCP for mobile apps anymore
Any recommendations on where to buy the Note 4G? I got mine at pandawill, but I'm curious about other places. It was my first time buying from a Chinese e-retailer.
> You admit to running red lights, but won't admit you're wrong? Okay...

I admit precisely to sticking to the rules and paying dearly for it:

>> I did; and that landed me in the hospital twice.

> I wonder how motorbikes could be polluting "dozen times more than a car"??

https://www.google.com/search?q=moped+pollution+microparticl...
>> strange little saucers appeared on my telephone poles a few months ago..

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Why should you start outsourcing?
Most teens rely on smartphones to go online, study finds
This, except 4x a week and doing a modified 5/3/1 (but Starting Strength is better for a beginner).
Yeah, I like the way you describe the three qualities.

> I don't think the problem is hopeless though. Usually when I see this, it's either because the problem domain is just that complicated, or because the system is actually too flexible for the scope of the problem.

I don't think it's _hopeless_, but I do think it is one of the intrinsic challenges in software engineering. That I think deserves more attention, including in training.

I think you are absolutely right about one of the main pitfalls being when "the system is actually too flexible for the scope of the problem" -- the trick is understanding the true scope of the problem, and how much flexibility is really required -- and it's not usually really a "how much" question, but a question of flexible _where_ and _how_.

In open source software, it sometimes can mean saying "No, we can't make this flexible to your desires exactly, because those desires are outside of our principle goals, and we haven't yet figured out how to accommodate them without ruining understandability."

Although sometimes you can find a clever way to introduce the right hook point to support that flexibility without turning your software into an over-engineered monstrosity... sometimes you can't. Which is about the problem domain, about your understanding of the problem domain, and about your craftsmanship.

Another paradox or irony or tension is that 'design patterns' are intended as discovered templates for flexibility with simplicity, but 'design patterns' applied willy-nilly, cargo-cult, carelessly, without sufficient grasp of the true problem domain, or to excess -- result in lost understandability, and sometimes lost reusability and malleability too!

Many of us have a natural inclination to maximize flexibility always as an unalloyed good, instead of dealing with the inherent tension as constraint to catalyze good design.
> But if China chose to, they could simply require all Chinese websites to use government-issue certificates, forcing the world to choose between allowing Chinese MITM monitoring and losing access to China.

The more likely outcome of that gambit would just be that the CA would be restricted to .cn domains, possibly with some sort of install-on-demand warning.
Easier to do ogran-transplant than whole body. What we'll need is brain+body backup and we're set (but you have to test backups to know that they function..).
The bare minimum for me is:
- 5 sun salutations (does wonders for your back)
- 1 mile run
- 5 minute meditation

This is the very basics of my MUST do. I strive for more, but I tend to get sick if I don't do at least this.
and that there are a great opportunity for open source community to make it better. It's a great piece of software in terms of usability.
1) This is the first time they publicly use it, part of the objective was probably to gauge world reaction. Dropping an atomic bomb on a fishing village is different from sending a few gunmen to that same village.

2) the limitation to external users might be a technical requirement (i.e. where traffic can actually be intercepted) or it might be a political choice to allow for deniability in front of internal public opinion.
The specs on that Xiaomi are really nice value. I'd been looking at the 2nd gen Moto E or G for my parents, but the Xiaomi beats it, although at a higher cost.

It just amazes me how cheap tech has become. The other day I was looking through the Microsoft Store, saw a $90 ish tablet that had various discounts at times bringing it down to an absolutely ridiculous $60-70 range. I checked out some reviews and they were glowing (in terms of value), it actually runs windows 8 and comes with a year of Office 365 and an hour of Skype minutes every month. I can hardly imagine anyone buying Office 365 for a year at $70, instead of just buying this tablet instead haha. Of course it's no Mac Pro, but it surprised me.

HP stream 7 was the name. I just sat there grinning while watching the reviews on this device, computing is truly becoming completely and totally ubiquitous this decade, even consumer computing is becoming a cheap commodity.
It's no better in Java. A fairly literal translation of the code [1], using the new Random::doubles method [2], gets counts like so:

166808
332743
500449

If anything, this is even weirder than the C++ results. :rage1:

The doubles method makes each value "as if it's the result of calling the following method with the origin and bound':

double nextDouble(double origin, double bound) {
double r = nextDouble();
r = r * (bound - origin) + origin;
if (r >= bound) // correct for rounding
r = Math.nextDown(bound);
return r;
}

Which is the naive approach that Artur has been struggling against.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/snippets/twic/qqEe

[2] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Random.h...
That's not entirely fair to modern forms of government, which to a large extent anticipate the problems. The Bill of Rights is a list of things that government power should not be used for.

(Yes, I realize that it is easy to come up with abuses of the Bill of Rights, my point is that the Bill of Rights was not written based on the sad idea that you mention there, it was written for pretty much exactly the opposite reason)
Did anybody say it doesn't?

I am sure I didn't.

But claiming that Python's implementation of sets "lacks fundamental features" is unfair, wrong, and making the world a dumber place. Some might want to live in that place. I don't.
> Ah, actually that's not true at all and is a foundation of this debate. If an individual had a machine that created infinite bread for free the person, under the current market, could restrict access and distribution all they like. I think in practice this (not the bread thing) is what will happen with certain goods where marginal costs go to zero.

Funny how the optimists throw out all the law of conservation of energy and the 2nd law of thermodynamics to make their points. Quite an interesting kool-aid you drank there...
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You make some great points; I had not previously connected those dots...
Twitter Up 3.5% on Chatter About Fending Off Takeover Bid
It's not about you. It's about having multiple users within the same band. In crowded places you might have full 3G signal and the internet will still be shit because of how many people are using it. With 4G it should be better, it's not all about top speeds.
I'm hopeful, will be glad to consider it when it's available in the US.
Are Microservices the Next Big Thing?
I don't like the underlying assumption in all these articles that the Chinese government was behind the attacks, as if we had proof for anything.

Apart from the rather blurry technical analysis this particular article claims:

In recent public statements, China has deflected questions regarding whether they are behind the attack

But when you follow the actual citation[1] it refers to this rather underwhelming exchange, taken place on a chinese press conference:

QUESTION: [..] a report says that a US website was under
hacker attack, and the source of the attack was from China.
How do you respond?

ANSWER: [..] it is quite odd that every time a website in
the US or any other country is under attack, there
will be speculation that Chinese hackers are behind it.
I'd like to remind you that China is one of the
major victims of cyber attacks. [..]

So the chinese press lady gave her standard boilerplate response, to a less than specific inquiry (which she probably hears on every press conference), in between handling questions about illegal fishing in Somali waters and the Arab League Summit's commitment to a joint Arab military force.

And this is now "compelling evidence" for China being officially behind the Github attack?

[1] http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/251...
Yoga for 30 minutes every morning. Cut out the sugar and bread and noodles. Been doing it for a month already and I feel great!

I also have been using a standing desk for about 2 years - which has significantly helped my back (and with the Yoga even moreso).
- eating almost always vegetarian food
- rock climbing 2x a week
- commuting on a bycicle
- internal martial arts
- chan meditation

Most important point is starting a new habit, even if you have to try a couple of different things until you get what works for you.
If I tell you....
There's another scenario for life-supporting lonely planets. Caltech Astrophysicist David J. Stevenson has proposed a form of gas giant that can have a liquid water ocean:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v400/n6739/full/400032a...

Looks like some follow-on work/speculation has happened, too:

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/237427218_Possibilit...
I put in months on a startup when I could set my own hours, so I stopped using an alarm clock. I'd usually get a coding burst from 9pm-1am, go to bed, get up around 8:30 the next morning.

I took a dayjob to help make ends meet for a while, and had to go back to using an alarm. It's been very, very bad for me. I need to get to bed earlier, but that's not always possible. The exhaustion and pains are coming right back.

A natural sleep schedule. That made a huge difference in my health.
Intel has spent over $7bn subsiding chips for tablets and chromebooks (about $50 per device!) The subsidies are being phased out now. You'll want to check what happens when there is no longer the subsidy for actual levels of Intel support.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/11/16/after-losing-apple... (there are many articles from other publications saying the same thing)
I love how they use Shanghai to represent the whole of China. A few rich cities don't make for very interesting data points. Education in most of Asia is even more dysfunctional than in the states and definitely europe. Even Japan and Korea have mostly horrible schools focused on high stakes testing, outdated teaching methods, and suppressing as much creative thinking as possible.
78B does seem fairly large. For comparison:

NYC (pop. 8.4M): 78B
Los Angeles (pop. 3.8M): 8.1B USD
Toronto (pop. 2.8M): 10B CDN
Chicago (pop. 2.7M): 9B USD

I expected the city's budget to be in the double-digit billions, but in the 40 - 50 billion range.

I wonder if it's something in how the headline numbers are calculated. Toronto splits out its operating and capital budgets, and there are some services like social housing that are (used to be?) cost-shared between the provincial and municipal government.

That said, most people just don't realize (or take for granted!) all the services that cities provide: police, fire, paramedics, garbage/sewer, water, roads and public transit - many of which are highly labour intensive.
External regulations spiced with internal lawyership.

There are no laws of course that forces you to disclose anything but then of course corporation may reject your services if you refuse to follow their rules.

It's more like take it or leave it situation.
I literally don't know anyone who doesn't charge daily (wake up, take it off charger, put it on the charger around 11:30 PM same day), except my dad and me as we use our phones on stand-by and just for calls, and a little bit of messaging. I work from home so I do all my smartphone stuff on my computer, and when I go out I'm with friends, not on my phone. And even then, we tend to charge every 2-3 days.
Think about who your ideal user is, then identify companies or people that fit that model and invite them to try out your software.
I had my blood analyzed and discovered a severe Vitamin D deficiency - so I take supplements.

I also bought a treadmill and try to watch TV only while running or at least walking on the treadmill. It's less boring that way and gives me a little less of the feeling that I'm just wasting time when watching TV. I know there's a bit of a 'treadmill desk for programming' fad right now (since Linus announced his), but I find that idea terrible.
I started counting calories on my mobile, to lose weight. I eat whatever I want but I record everything. Over time certain aspects of eating like frequent snacking and eating in ignorance get annoying. So you stop doing them.

Somewhere in there I remembered swimming and got a tape and learned to swim laps.

There's a silver bullet for you, diet and exercise.
i would also add that strength or at least the appearance of it is a deterrence against a lot of bad things that people do to each other, especially in dense cities which a lot of us live in.

it's the difference between being an easy mark and being someone bad people completely avoid.
Starting strength is OK, but I feel like the best start for strength training is to start by training your grip with http://www.ironmind.com/ .. And then I would get a kettlebell and do 1 handed swings, goblet squats, and turkish get ups. Specifically, do up to 5 sets of 5, with 5-10 minutes of active rest in between. Active rest meaning you can shake your muscles you just worked out in a relaxed way. I'll jump rope sometimes. Never push yourself to failure. Always leave something in the tank.

But I got all of that from Pavel Tsatsouline on a Tim Ferris podcast titled The Science of Strength. Been practicing that and so far I have had some good results. Grease the groove as Pavel says..
http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/01/15/pavel-tsatsouline/
I don't think that anybody could reasonably read top speed being a function of heat as top speed only being a function of heat. I wouldn't really associate that idea with the Pentium IV era either since the problem then was that most people weren't thinking about power use at all.

Even that equation you gave says that if you increase P you will be able to increase f, though the interplay between f and V means that your increases are sub-linear.
Ok, ordered. Crappy ordering process though, you have to pick a password without any particular reason to (don't ask your customers to make an account if you don't actually need one...), the certificate they use is invalid and they drop you on a page in Spanish after an English language ordering process that does not even bother to confirm you just made a purchase.

Let's hope the phone shows up :)
It's also good to think /why/ Marcus wrote the things he did, why they meant so much to him that he felt it necessary to do so.
Chemotherapy. :(

Before I had cancer, I got heavily involved in weight-lifting. Honestly, the time between ages 27-29 were the best years I've ever had in my life, health-wise.

Being in shape is so much better than being out of shape. Your entire life changes for the better.
I'm 29 but already seeing some negative effects from sitting in an office for the last 10 years. I was recently asked to switch to being a remote employee since we are running out of office space and I have a killer commute (4-5 hours round trip). I'm taking full advantage of it. I'm currently on a keto diet and down from a high of 300lbs to around 280lbs right now. I have two cheap Ikea tables that I used for a standing desk. I stand until my feet hurt and/or just sit until my laptop is about to die. Which usually is about an hour when I'm running VMs. I'm going to the gym each morning and walking 30 minutes on an incline before lifting. I lift 4 days a week using a split routine. Then I take 20-30 minutes at lunch to do some more walking on the treadmill and catch up on The DailyShow. If the weather ever gets nice in Ohio I plan on starting to bike on the weekends and maybe takes some walks with my wife in the evenings. We used bike about 30 miles on weekends and I'd like to get back to that a little bit. I also want to get my weight below 250 and my body fat below 20%. My fitbit scale claims I'm 38% body fat and I'm not happy with that.
This book is very interesting. It is taking me eons to read because of its density, but it is well worth it.
Now just make the lies obvious and you have Fox News! Fascinating how a privately owned channel can be indistinguishable from propaganda in all respects except supporting its government. If the US annexed Crimea under a republican president, you can bet Fox would try to whitewash it.
VPNs aren't secure end-to-end. You can still have your connection spied upon and/or hijacked in the link between the VPN gateway and the website servers (including by the VPN operators themselves!).
Strength training (e.g. lifting weights). I will be anecdotal and tell my own story. I started at about 30, having virtually no experience in the weight room. I was very intimidated, but took it as a challenge. That was generally unfounded and I have found people in the gym to be (while reserved) generous and non-judgmental. I still go in the morning, though, because having a crowded room throws me off.

After beginning to lift, minor pain that I was experiencing in my wrist and back disappeared. I'm now focusing on my posture a lot because I realize I'm basically too weak to sit or stand up straight all day. It has also taught me basic things like how to pick something up. I cringe every time I see some one bend over at the waist and arch their back. People can throw out their backs picking up very light objects.

I highly recommend the book The New Rules of Lifting. Supplement by watching you tube videos about particular motions. Start off slowly. If you can afford it, consider a trainer. But I am a DIY type, as I imagine many here are.

Eat right (I generally ignore weight lifting diet advice and try to follow the advice in Eat Drink and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide, which generally advises a Mediterranean-style diet and is based on aggregating data from several of the most long-term studies of diet).

Make sure you are sleeping well.
I live in an area of the country that gets some of the lowest amount of direct sunlight. I asked my doc about Vitamin D deficiency and he said it's not worth testing. I got tested anyway and it was low even with me taking 2000iu a day. I think I take 8000 now.
being Ubuntu is it not going to be a fair bit easier to hack things onto it yourself?
> ...who have been sitting at their computers...

> ...sitting down all day...

I am 32. I noticed after years of sitting down that my back and hips began to ache and my body started feeling oldish.

So I recently (two months ago) switched to a standing desk and feel really good. Back pain went away and I feel engaged and on point all day long. I do sit down for lunch and do a couple stretch breaks to break things up but in general I am sold and dont plan to 'sit at a desk all day' for a long time.
I think there are a few simple things that can help. Avoiding junk food, light but regular exercise (walking, cycling, swimming), stretching. At work, you can try to work on your posture at your desk, and force yourself to take short breaks.
Sounds like you aren't listening to your own advice about timing the market. Just put the money back in and know that 20 years from now it will(more likely than not) be worth more than it is today.
Many programmers don't like indentation blocks.

Can't tell why. I think it's awesome. Languages like Ruby suddenly seem like they got a bunch of strange ends dangling all over the place.
Absolutely.

Digital surveillance is a two-edged sword. As the abuse moves more toward digital, it becomes more possible for weak individual citizen-victimss to turn the spotlight/sword around.

The government trump is they have guns and jails, and they police themselves.
Oh, ok, so Hackpad which is a fork of an open source software is now open source (again)? Wanna cookie for this?
That would not necessarily prevent attacks like the GitHub attack, which used embedded analytics JS from Baidu, IIRC.