skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, exactly. Maybe an example that's easier to visualize is when you learned to do arithmetic as a child. If I gave you a bunch of numbers to add like 57, 9, and 318 the first thing you would do is right justify them all. For any math operation, you start at the least significant digit and work up. This is ultimately equivalent to the int32/int16 example you gave -- if you are trying to operate on numbers of different length you have to first ensure that their LSBs line up. Little-endian is like writing your decimal integers right-justified on the blackboard.

So little-endian is (slightly) more convenient for machines and big-endian is (slightly) more convenient to humans reading memory dumps.

The unfortunate thing is that "network byte order" is big-endian so it's still the traditional endianness to use for wire protocols or on-disk formats. In my own designs I've switched to specifying fixed-width integers as little-endian which makes more sense for 99.9% of computers today.
This should really come with a waiver from Google for any submitted patent to be never ever require any royalties or fees (whatever the terms are in patent world).
If you do a lot of traveling in the EU from the US, T-Mo is about the best option short of buying a sim while in the EU. Unlimited texts, data[1] and very cheap calls are awesome. I never think about my phone with traveling now and just use it like I'm in the US. The only downside is there are some countries in eastern EU not yet on the plan.

[1] The data isn't 4g, but for travel related items like TripAdvisor, maps, etc... it has always worked fine for me.
Yeah, this is like the chapter out of "Drive" where they tried paying people to give blood but ending up decreasing the number of blood givers... they'd rather feel charitable then earn money
OpenBSD's new file(1) is now priv-separated
No one's saying that. My comment simply mentioned that cinder blocks were apparently being thrown at firefighters by some protesters. I fully support peaceful protests as they are an effective way to enact change, but violent acts really only harm innocents and turn public support away.
Ask HN: New job is having me switch from Linux to Mac – how do I cope?
I've been using Linux over 15 years, and since 2005 I've been at startups where I controlled my destiny and ran whatever the heck I wanted on my work computer (typically Linux Mint Debian Edition on a Lenovo.)

Well, I took a new job and it starts on Monday (5/4). And part of that job is using the machine I'm given. As is. Which means a MBP running OS X.

Any real world tips that you can give me to ease the change?
New Materials Could Make Star Wars-Style 3D Screens
Peter Hamby Leaving CNN for Snapchat
given their eroding core business - nope.
Graphene champions the next generation 3D display technology -

http://www.swinburne.edu.au/media-centre/news/2015/04/graphe...
Actually, it's risk / reward that drives people.

Low percentage returns aren't anywhere near as sexy as high ones are. Right?

But then again, a sure thing carries a lot more weight than it does sex appeal.

The people making blockbusters won't be happy with that, but the people telling stories totally will. Serial programming that pays consistently is attractive to those people wanting to tell stories in exchange for a nice life.

IMHO, if we actually did go down this road, we might be surprised at what people would pay for and why.
Living in Switzerland, which is tiny country surrounded by EU countries (CH is not part of EU, its citizens had a public vote and decided cleverly to not join), my crappy operator Lebara charges me when going to France (+- 2km from my home or work) - 42 CHF (aka 40 euro) per single MB! Calls usually stick to the range of 2-4 euro/min, incoming also charged. SMS cost 0.8 euro.

Pretty obvious I never used their data services abroad, but being offline when traveling is actually a big plus for me.

(just to explain, it's one of very few pay-as-you-go operators @ Suisse, for people like me who don't use their smartphones that much and have offline maps for navigation)
Define cultured? Say you're an average European. Hop into your (rented) car and drive 4 hours in any linear direction? Who are you going to see? Chances are someone from a different culture and history and probably one who once warred with you. I jump in my car and drive 4 hours, I'm at my state capital. I drive another 4 hours, I'm in Georgia.

America is a huge country. We were the EU before unioning was cool. The "countries" (states) we interact with are all the same. Nothing but Sun Glass Huts and McDonalds coast to coast.

Does that make us uncultured? No, it makes us so cultured that we can get along with 25% of the worlds economy. Just some historical things to think about.
I have not done this myself, but know this from a guy who used to work there: They have a portal where you can submit ideas, which they will evaluate and offer to acquire if they like. Of course, they say "ideas", but they're really looking for well developed technologies that haven't been patented yet. I imagine they want fairly detailed technical submissions, maybe a published paper. Something along the lines of "do X on a computer" probably won't do as well.

Edit: I don't know how they actually "acquire" it, but I'm guessing they offer payment and a portion of future royalties for exclusive rights. But you do bring up a good point - since there is no patent, the scope of the rights being acquired is legally undefined.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/04/11/th...
Much of the opposition to GMOs isn't related to the science, but to the business practices of GMO companies and the farming methods involved in the industry. I'm totally on your side about the anti-science nature of many anti-GMO activists, but there's more to it than that.
Bethesda did get something. They got my purchase of the original game plus all of the DLCs. All at initial sale prices to boot.

Do they deserve more than that?
Absolutely. Encoding byte order and swapping or not swapping dynamically is a silly solution to a problem no one had in the first place.
I meant that as a response to crusso. When protesters throw things, it's a blight on all protesters, but when cops throw things, it's just an incident.
Is there a need to twist what I said? I didn't generalize the cops or the protesters.

The poster to whom I was replying stated that the cops "helped start the riots" by throwing objects. I pointed out the problem with that argument, but I'm not excusing the police categorically.
Roundup-ready crops are generally sprayed with fewer herbicides than conventional crops. Conventional crops are generally sprayed with a cocktail of selective herbicides -- one to kill broadleafs, another to kill wild oats, et cetera. Roundup-ready crops are sprayed with a single broad-sprectrum herbicide (aka Roundup).
Apple moves Siri back-end to open-source Mesos platform
^ this.

If anyone is interested in building it, send me a note, I'd love to be involved (but totally lack the skills to do it myself).
If you make a Mickey Mouse sequel, it doesn't require users to first buy a copy of the original movie.

Using a mod does. These two things are in no way comparable.
I curious what a double-blind experiment would mean in the context of particle physics. The particles don't know about the experiment?
14 governments banning GMs (while not banning vaccines and other scares) suggests that dismissing the anti-GM crowd as 'anti-scientific folk' might be unreasonable.
Well, if Bethesda gave the game away for free and wanted a source of revenue from mod makers, sure. But it's quite established that a strong mod community results in continuing sales for the game beyond a normal product lifespan. In some cases, the price of product remains higher than normal because of the strong sales due to the mod community. Bethesda has already made money on the backs of mod makers.

A proper response to this is to give all the remaining money after Valve's cut to the mod maker as a thank you to the community.

But this doesn't even address the other problems that people have been pointing out.
Interestingly enough, I've been a very vocal proponent of GMO labeling here in Oregon. When the labeling issue made the last ballot, and of course I voted FOR it, my ballot mysteriously got pulled and I had to prove that I was the one that submitted it (based on my signature). I was told that Monsanto lawyers were staked out in the counting offices and demanding that particular ballots be pulled for further "authentication".
> One of the two most common causes of runaway projects is unstable requirements.
Requirements errors are the most expensive to fix during production.
Missing requirements are the hardest requirements errors to correct.

Hmm, doesn't this conflict with the idea of "rapid prototyping", where new requirements are thrown in whenever necessary?
This insistence on terminology is sadly incorrect, and should be: multitasking isn't parallel processing.

Concurrency and parallelism are very general, vague terms that mean approximately the same thing: processing of some unspecified kind happening simultaneously.
Sorry, it wasn't Python. It was a system component that crashed as consequence of my Python code using DBUS.
NASA Launches Project to Help Search for Alien Life
Here is the long version of that point:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1939651
I was writing real-time signal processing software for POWER as recently as three years ago. I'm not even aware that was IBM's position, and they were our partners on the venture.

That said, it really didn't matter because all our software had to build and run on x86-64 anyway, so all the endian-specific code was wrapped in preprocessor directives. We could have changed the endianness with a single makefile change.
I agree. Personally, my concerns with GMOs lie more with environmental factors (contamination of surrounding areas for example) and concerns about gene/seed patenting by "big agro".
The Nexus for Exoplanet System Science, or NExSS, will take a multidisciplinary approach to the hunt for alien life, bringing together experts in Earth science, planetary science, heliophysics and astrophysics to get a better understanding of life might emerge and develop around distant stars.
It is a complicated matter... as long a science advances and is accesible to all, we all gain more power. That enables everybody to be dangerous. I can go anywhere in the world, access a huge amount of information, purchase and have sent home lots of things very cheaply, etc.

We crave power, both in the sense of ability and energy, and it seems to grow monotonically (Freeman Dyson proposed searching for efficient star-energy-capturing devices as a way to find ET life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere).

But I agree, it seems that it is not very easy to prevent new science to be discovered. We are a curious species, and even if we go back to the dark ages, even if we move up or down the knowledge scale randomly, this brownian movement will end up jumping too high, and giving too much power to someone.

So at least we should incorporate an element of respect to such power in our education, our ethics, and try to prevent it from being lost. In my opinion, this kind of thing is most efficiently managed through religion, but current religions do not advance very quickly nor are amenable to "improvements", whereas the idea of scientific religion, to us, now, seems abhorrent and oxymoronic. I believe this might change in the future, though. If science "just works" (and it is indistinguishable from magic), I could picture someone stripping out the "scientific inquiry and skepticism" part, and building a religion on top of the huge building of true scientific facts that we faithfully take for granted.

So in my opinion we have to focus on education. Sorry for the rambling :)
I've learned that there's at least two hard rules when it comes to money for digital services

1) It's almost impossible to start charging for something that was free

2) It's almost impossible to go from one time payment to subscription model.

If you want either model you better start out with them or you're going to have a vengeful mob after you. I've seen this repeated time after time with catastrophic results. I was actually surprised that Adobe got away with it.
Source? In my personal experience, usage of roundup-ready seeds decrease herbicide use. It allows the replacement of a cocktail of several selective herbicides with a single broad sprectrum one.
Well that phenomenon must go back thousands of years, given the fact that many pre-modern civilizations involved such things.
Revisiting the Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering (2008)
Why are you being forced to use OSX? Why not just install your distro of choice on it?

Other than that, use iTerm2[0], Homebrew[1] and Cask[2], this'll kickstart your CLI env in the right direction.

[0] http://iterm2.com/
[1] http://brew.sh/
[2] http://caskroom.io/
Linus is mixing together two different performance issues.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1939651

kdbus is solving an "architecture" issue that would affect any binding, while his profile is essentially of the gdbus binding.
I don't think it is this. Anecdotal, but I have been raised in a hispanic household and lived in some South American countries.
Well, despite Kong is still on highly development mode[1], the documentations[0] is well written. I'm impressed.

[0] http://getkong.org/docs/
[1] https://github.com/Mashape/kong/releases
Another Free.fr, didn't know about that. Do you have any link?
Starlog (May 1988): Will They Kill Denise Crosby?
Square-cube law. That is all.
I could see how that viewpoint seems valid from the perspective of a Japanese engineer. But those of us from America know that our government is far too incompetent to pull off something like this intentionally. The far more believable (and frankly, more American) response is that we created a bunch of hysteria and outrage over nothing. As this article shows, we have done this with our domestic car manufacturers as well (though I'm surprised nobody else commented that this was a Malcolm Gladwell article).

Furthermore, I'm not sure there's a whole lot of difference between domestic and foreign auto manufacturers at this point. The domestic auto companies still build parts overseas, and the foreign manufacturers still do manufacturing in the US. Also, large parts of domestically manufactured autos are either licensed or purchased directly from Japanese auto companies -- so a recall of a faulty part in a Japanese car would likely lead to recalls of American cars that use the same part. This was the case with the Honda airbag recall -- Chrysler used a lot of Honda-made airbags in its cars, and had to recall them as a result.
How to Choose a Killer Domain Name in 5 Simple Steps
Apple takes 30% of app store purchases, in-app purchases, and iAd revenue. Google takes 30% of Google Play purchases and in-app products. 30% is a reasonable share for the maintainer of a network to take.

As for the 25% to the author of the mod, that does seem unfair, but I don't think that was Valve's decision. I think they left that up to the game producer, Bethesda in this case. Bethesda chose how to split the remaining 70%.

As an aside, Valve's income per employee is totally irrelevant. Their 30% fee is set by market forces. If they lost billions of dollars this year or if they hired 10,000 people to handle support calls, the "fairness" of a 30% fee is not affected. It wouldn't become more fair just because their income per employee ratio changed.

That 30% is set by market forces. It's what we've all generally agreed a marketplace can charge for operating the infrastructure. In this case, Valve has a challenge, because there are multiple parties splitting the remaining 70%. So they might need to lower their fee to let the game producers and the modders take larger slices of the pie.
Yep. Way back in the day, I happened to setup the Open Source OGLE DVD player software. I think it was Mandrake Linux, running on some PC with a Matrox G400 card --the one with nice 2D, and great DVD support.

Insert disc, press T, then P, and you are watching the movie, no BS. Took maybe 5 seconds tops after disk mount.

Turned out to be popular, so I bought a real DVD player for the family, and we hated that thing.

"Aladdin" is talked about a lot, but it's true! Every single time the kids wanted to watch that thing, it was something like 15 minutes of previews for all this other cool stuff, over and over.

That was the first DVD I ripped. Couldn't stand it. And once setup for that, I ripped 'em all, and also got the benefit of younger ones not destroying fragile media at some considerable expense all the time too. That and losing it, or swapping with friends...

For a number of years, I replaced that "real" DVD player with OGLE setup to just play the movie no matter what.

Was great OSS advocacy. Suddenly, a whole bunch of people knew who a "geek" and "hacker" was, what software was, how it can impact lives, and all sorts of other good things just because DVD media producers just HAD to annoy the crap out of people. Funny that!
I have a hard time believing that the whole web uses ArrayBufferViews.
Ask HN: Reddit vs. HN
Specifically /r/programming vs HN.

Is the user-base different? Is it just differences in karma/downvoting mechanics? Am I right to irrationally dislike reddit?

[Disclaimer: I am an avid HNer who has barely touched reddit]
> Confusing the two concepts can lead to people trying to do HPC work with Erlang.

You're right that Erlang is not the best choice for HPC, but you're wrong about the motive. There's nothing inherently inefficient about the actor model. Erlang's low performance comes from unrelated technical choices (bytecode running on a VM, shitty string handling, etc.).

Look, you can implement the actor model using MPI for inter-actor communication: https://github.com/poconbhui/mpi-actor

And hard-core HPC people are talking about the actor model in Cray's Chapel language: http://chapel.cray.com/education/cs380p-actors.pdf
The bit of Italy I live in is pretty, but Umbria (where the company is located) is - in my view - one of the most beautiful places in the world. I can't help but think that makes you happier, whoever you are, rich or poor.
I like the idea of listing analogies of existing economic models.

How about minecraft? Tee shirts, lets play videos, outright donation buttons, last but not least advertising encrusted download sites.

Something not discussed here, that did arise in the MC community discussions about the valve store, was synergy, which usually is a four letter corporate word, but it actually applies this time where a modpack project like feed the beast has 115 mods, and the compilation is stronger than the linear combination of any individual mod. Also if each FTB mod charged a modest $3 that means a working FTB modpack would be about $345, which suddenly isn't so modest. Its basically impossible to get an individual mod designer out of Ramen Noodle territory without making modpacks expensive enough to destroy them.
Show HN: Execute, share, and rate arbitrary JavaScript in-browser
2016 Candidates Are United in Call to Alter Justice System
Oh god, "victims"? This isn't a sex crime, it's a fucking office layout.

It's great that people are choosing layouts that work for them, but this isn't some sort if victory for social justice. Private offices aren't even always good (not everyone is an introvert). Polarizing this into an open office versus private office struggle will only detract from the real solution, which is to understand the needs of your team rather than laying out your team based on a hypothetical team that is statistically average.
The 8 million people of 1801 England is more than double the current population of Uruguay. Uruguay has won twice as many FIFA World Cups as England. [1] This may be because its "super athletes" are often found on the streets rather than in schools and academies. The English sense of sport leads them to vilify ruthless competitors rather strive for their level of passion.

Training hard is a way for a person to achieve their maximum potential. A person whose maximum potential is 140% of average and who trains to 80% of it will outperform someone whose maximum potential is 110% of average who trains to 100%. If the 110%'ers are winning it's a sign that access to the competition is limited.

Fletcher was better than his peers and that is why he was given an opportunity, but that opportunity was reserved for him and his peers. Once people could make a living from track and field, English gentlemen mostly ceased winning elite competitions for largely the same reasons that they are disappearing from the world's top footballing clubs.

[1]: And four fourth place finishes versus England's one. Uruguay's success has been consistent.
"Computers are good at reading bytes in swapped order. I suck at it."

Byte endianess is about binary content, which isn't supposed to be read by humans. Humans read only interpretations of the binary data. You shouldn't come nowhere near to the question of if you are or aren't good at reading binary.
"Forced" might be a strong word, and I'm new to non-startups so I don't know what kind of admin lock down is on the box. So I'm trying to do as I'm told until I have a reason I can't...
Your sarcasm is misplaced.

In fact, America has seen a lot of protests and riots, for example in Brazil and Mexico.
The British MOD's Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment at Dounreay in Caithness in the north of Scotland used to be known as HMS Vulcan [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dounreay#Vulcan_NRTE
I think "consensus" is a term we should all be wary of no matter what the argument. In order to discover merits of an argument one needs to really dig into the evidence on both sides regardless of so called consensus.

I recall about over 15 years ago how all my peers and many experts in the industry said the "consensus" on building web services was to use SOAP BPEL and develop using waterfall methodologies. At that time Agile development and REST services might have been considered quackery.
> What about the other students: those who didn't cheat, those who didn't spread rumours, those who didn't contribute to an unsafe atmosphere, and those who met the educational goals of the class? There's no possible way the whole class deserves a blanket fail.

As a faculty member, I can understand someone wanting to fail an entire class - some classes are just bad, and some students are bad people - but you just can't do it. If someone is disrupting the learning environment, they have to be removed. You're performing when you enter the classroom, and you have to deal with the hecklers and the critics.
POWER != PowerPC. POWER processors through the POWER4 generally implemented the PowerPC ISA, but were not "PowerPC" chips. Also, there is a 64-bit PowerPC ISA; that is what the POWER4 implemented. It just doesn't get much use in embedded contexts because it isn't necessary and costs more.
> unless it's backed up with a big financial stick

If there's something the EU have shown, it's that they're willing to use big financial sticks.
That's not quite the same. That game involves two people trying to figure out who gets what from a pot of money they did nothing to deserve receiving. Mod makers did work that may deserve compensation. One example is a possible bonus for the people involved, the other is a possible shafting for the people involved.
Just stick with HF, it's more fun anyway :)
Here is the link (in french): https://mobile.free.fr/assistance/677.html

And the limit is 35 days, not 7. I used this in Italy and it worked perfectly well.
Success is a habit
If the point is to have Android style IPC, why not just pull a version of Binder into the mainline kernel?
Little-endian also feels more natural for big integers: the byte at offset x has weight 256^x.

Contrast with a big-endian representation, where the byte at offset x would have weight 256^(length - 1 - x).