skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had to write bad code because sales and management usually dictate the timeline of the project.

As an example: sales promises new customer feature X in one month and we will lose money unless it's implemented.

My choice is to either: 1) Complete it the right way in double the time or 2) use hacks and cut corners to get it done on time. Since non-technical people just see the output and not what's going on underneath, they often times don't see the difference and when they explain to the boss that they might lose money, it's almost always option #2.

I hated being forced to do this so many times in my career, I started my own company.
There's a lot of voiceovers in these games, I detest them. Can you play through the game using subtitles?

Thanks.
As we put in the docs, to try this out:

gcloud compute instances create my-vm --preemptible --zone=us-central1-c

or just set the preemptible bool to true via the API (it's under scheduling). When you want to test how your system behaves on preemption, you can just do:

gcloud compute instances stop my-vm --zone=us-central1-c

which will give you the same 30 second timeout as when you're preempted. Most OSes have a fairly standard set of things they do on shutdown that will at least send all your running processes a signal (via kill), but if you need to add your own you can inject it via the new shutdown script support (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/shutdownscript).

We tried to cover this in the docs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible) any feedback on that would be welcome!
I know where it came from, I wonder why there's no evidence of Barack older than 10, i.e. Barack Obama.
... and energy in the developing world is much more expensive and dirty than it is in developed nations, making it doubly dicey.
But the Yishan Wong Reddit AMA fiasco showed that it does need to be fixed.
This is fascinating, I had no idea such techniques exist.

The last reversing project I worked on was to crack a BIOS setup password that had no obvious method of reset (I could dump the BIOS flash memory but not write to it). Having to write a brute force cracker at the end of such a joyous slog of disassembly, due to having no clue on how to pick apart what appeared to be a reasonably simple hashing function, was really quite disappointing.

I'll have to try it again soon using Z3 to solve. Thanks for such a inspiring blog post!
>> former pathology resident here

The implication being that you did not complete your training. I'm curious -- if you don't mind the derailment -- why not?
Any plans to support Forge?
> When companies without traction get acquired, it's typically a talent acquisition. The tech gets discarded.

Why would a big company want the "talent" that couldn't produce any useful tech even given the freedom working in a startup provides?
The Internet of Things-That-Are-Secretly-Robbing-You
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There are different varieties of poppies. Some are unsuitable for narcotics production as they don't produce the opiates in question.

Still, consider the following information which I had assumed to be an urban legend but is apparently true:

http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/poppyseed.asp
Great team, huge problem, and a great solution. Congrats
It sounds like this boils down to a codegen problem/bug with == / <>, mm? I recall a similar problem doing comparisons on some value types, perhaps it was DateTime (IIRC, this was before VS2010). The fix was to add another case to the operator to make it take the fast path (do a direct call to the compare method vs some crazy generic path). Rather than make the code more verbose to hack around compiler limitations, fix the compiler? Though:

if x == null then ... else ...

is about the same as:

match x with null -> ... | _ -> ...

That said, null checking was never a perf area nor anything I've really had to deal much with in years of working with F#.
Reading this I really didn't get the impression the chips would be generating actual bitcoins. Just currency-like tokens for doing resource management and proving that something occurred.
Of course you don't need a monorepo to solve the dependency problem. My point was that just using the latest version of all projects in different repos is not necessarily an acceptable solution.
Below you will find a list (in no particular order) of common trigger warnings. If discussing one of these things, it is considered common courtesy to put a simple “Trigger Warning: [Subject]” before a post.

Please note: This is a work in progress. If there are any triggers you feel are missing, please feel free to drop us an ask.

Swearing
Rape
Abuse (physical, mental, emotional, verbal, sexual)
Child abuse/pedophilia
Self-injurious behavior (self-harm, eating disorders, etc.)
Talk of drug use (legal, illegal or psychiatric)
Suicide
Descriptions/pictures of medical procedures (even if they don’t contain blood or gore)
Descriptions/pictures of violence or warfare (including instruments of violence, such as knives or guns)
Corpses, skulls or skeletons
Needles
Discussions of -isms, shaming, or hatred of any kind (racism, classism, hatred of cultures/ethnicities that differ from your own, sexism, hatred of sexualities or genders that differ from your own, anti-multiple, non-vanilla shaming, sex positive shaming, fat shaming/body image shaming, neuroatypical shaming)
Any time slurs are used (this includes words like “stupid” or “dumb”, which are still widely considered to be socially acceptable)
Trans* degendering, or anti-trans* views of bodies
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Kidnapping (forceful deprivation of/disregard for personal autonomy)
Discussions of sex (even consensual)
Death or dying
Spiders
Insects
Snakes
Vomit
Pregnancy/childbirth
Blood
Serious injury
Trypophobia (Link is safe.)
Scarification
Nazi paraphernalia
Slimy things
Anything that might inspire intrusive thoughts in people with OCD

Source: http://privilege101.tumblr.com/triggers.html
It was a bad approach to the problem.
Related discussion from last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9537691

Maybe we can have "smart" electrical outlets that steals back any Bitcoins you mine off of someone else's electricity.
Is Dark Matter Made of Tiny Black Holes? (2014)
My comment for a similar thread about Intel manufacturing Bitcoin mining chips (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9537691):

I think you just landed on the "Free" version of future electronic devices. Imagine a terrible reality, not unlike today's videogame market, where every device, charger, lamp, TV, and box fan comes in "Free" and "Pay" versions - most manufacturers will have a mail back program, so you can return a broken "Free" item for a brand-new "Free" item. The "Free" items will mine Bitcoins and return all profit to the manufacturer.

Meanwhile "Pay" items will still be widely available from numerous online vendors. These devices will require you to enter your personal Bitcoin address, so they can credit you with their mining.

And thus the world will continue to be dominated by Whales, so named for the size of their bank accounts. The rich will be able to keep the entirety of their revenue, while the poor must subsist not only on the charity of the State, but also the charity of the Corporation.
You also get this one and other online discussions about the article. The author has shown his lack of empathy and judgement by putting somebody on the spotlight for no good reason whatsoever.
What was the commit message?

"Issue #27" is terrible. Something like (in C#/VS) "Execute CodeMaid against solution" would be perfectly fine.
Sounds like he lost the local repo, and only the actual final state of the files was backed up. Thus, a single new commit representing everything at once.
> Because there were no trees on the island, furniture had to be made of stone and thus also survived.

Kind of makes me think how they cooked? Also in other regions where there is no wood available like in Petra.
"In fact, we [USA] autopsy less than 5 percent of all deaths."

Coming from a country (Finland) where about 25% of all deaths are autopsied, this was a surprise, that not all developed countries have a similar level.
It's a worry that's been around for a while:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Plague

http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Moral%20Virologist

(and probably plenty of others I'm forgetting)
Imagine if someone made the opposite of this device, an energy generating device which could supply you with revenue [after the subsidy is paid off] and was not restricted to any particular currency ecosystem.
Money quote seems to be:

> So you have to be very careful to reset any masked signals before starting a child process

I don't see what this has to do with signalfd. That statement is true generically. Non-default Unix signal handling and subprocess management have never cooperated cleanly. The point to signalfd is to provide a simpler mechanism to integrate signals (which are a legacy API in almost all cases) with existing synchronization and event handling architectures, not to magically make them not suck.
It sounds like you forgot to copy the .git folder that had all of the commit information.

If you make a commit, it would copy over with that, because it's written in that folder.

I'd wager that you simply copied the main files over and tried to re-commit.
Let's keep front end outside of Ruby
This doesn't use time of flight, it's simple "lighthouse was at this angle when diode triggered".
> I don't think it's controversial in Western societies that freedom of expression, especially in spoken or written form, is one of the most important rights of a free society, and as such is worthy of protection.

I'll say that even given only my real world experience with hearing local opinion on the matter, there is in fact quite a controversy around the concept. This isn't even taking into account the similar opinions coming through in forms of media that aren't real-time, in-person conversation.

That freedom of expression is even an important principle is not something where there's clear-cut agreement. There exists dissent aplenty.
> There is nothing in the universe that implies life was ever meant to be anything but a struggle to keep surviving.

"Meant to" implies some intelligence other than our own guiding life and the universe, I think. Do you posit such a thing? I happen to believe in one, which may have something to do with assumptions and attitudes I've expressed.

So, are you one of the ones that considers death worse than "struggling to survive"? Why?

> Simply wishing it weren't so won't change it.

True on some levels, and yet I'm arguing we are the most empowered we have ever been, to actually change it. If we achieve the "Star Trek" future of cheap food replicators etc. we will be even more so. Would you argue we shouldn't look forward to such things, because "life is meant to be a struggle where most people barely survive"?

> I'd be frankly shocked if we could even manage the basics like "No one should die of diseases we cured in the 1800s".

That's one of the things we can change. I'm not going to argue about how realistic that is, or how it should be done. I guess the essence of the differences between you and me/others, is that you seem unwilling to even give it much consideration. Why do you refuse to entertain the possibility of aligning "the world as we might wish it to be" with "the world as it is"?
This points to a more general problem of the lack of accountability of judges.
http://reddit.com/r/mcpublic

In Minecraft, go to your multiplayer options and add these addresses:

p.nerd.nu - Player versus Environment. It's normal mode minus PvP

s.nerd.nu - Player versus Player. Full on PvP.

c.nerd.nu - Creative mode.
Google's cloud pricing is really terrible. Other competitors are intentionally driving prices down to dominate the market, so Google's prices kind of come across as a joke.
Not sure why this got downvoted. I am serious. It is easy to seat at your keyboard and demand for people to invest time to write articles/posts etc but why would they? Wouldn't they be better off learning new things, spending time with friends/family, working for money?
So alpha convert your names to whatever you like. I don't know how to do it namelessly in Javascript without Chuch encoding the pair.

You can go much further than this. The following operation

ap<A, B>(pf: Promise<(a: A) => B>): (pa: Promise<A>) => Promise<B> {
return (pa: Promise<A>) =>
pf.then((f) => pa.then((a) => Promise.resolve(f(a))))
}

can be used to extend the previous idea as far as you like.
> Upcoming

> Code and more results will be published soon.
You brain still has all of "you" when you're legally dead though, at least for a few hours, probably longer if cooled properly. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-theoretic_death
You mean something like solar panels?
It feels the same way to me. To a large percent of users the internet is Facebook rather than the largest compendium of human knowledge in existence, but lucky for us that use it for the latter reason that value of such a thing will always be evident.
This is great, wish this was around about 6 months ago. I'm going to go over this and fill in some knowledge gaps.
>This means any vendor can take a chip performing a normal function (say video decoding or networking), add 21’s BitShare technology, and thereby enable the chip to continuously generate revenue simply by being connected to power and internet.

I'd be interested in any estimates they have for how much this would generate if, say, included in a wireless router, or nest thermostat.

Also, the deal is either: you pay extra for a router that also mines you bitcoin, or you pay less for a router that mines bitcoin for someone else. In the first case, you have to then sell the bitcoin -- causing a lot of friction for a not-so-technical person to get a few bucks. In the second case, your device isn't your own -- you have a section you're not allowed to access.
Though now a day you could use Common Crawl to get the dataset and use existing tools to extract such files, right? (I've no idea if that's a practical thing to do or not.)
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> The main reason we do fewer autopsies is because of better diagnostics while the patient is alive.

The article claims that "About 15 to 30 percent of the time, the diagnoses at time of death are wrong".
I've been blown away by the thoughtfulness on this thread. For those who are interested, here is the first in a series of follow up posts about the same period of time in my life that gets into some of the very fair issues raised in this thread (namely, that Dustin really should have given me this feedback long before it got to the point of nearly getting fired)

http://boz.com/articles/give-hard-feedback-fast.html
Interesting! Would love to hear more. What are the classes of firewall properties you can express in Z3?
This sounds like a really evil item. Are the devices going to be labled as "subsidized by Bitcoin" or is Qualcom going to secretly include it with every SoC? Are we going to be able to turn that thing off?

I really don't like the direction technology is going. It all looks scary and downright depressing.
An iPhone 5 battery is about 5 watt hours, ten percent of this is 0.5 watt hour. [0]

The most efficient mining chip I could find information about is the BM1384, which consumes 2.058W at the lowest power bracket. [1]

We would exhaust our 10% allotment in 15 minutes.

In those fifteen minutes our speed would be 8.25 gigahash per second, which would produce 0.000003542 BTC per day [2].

Our total income for 15 minutes of mining would be 0.00000003689583 BTC. [3][4]

At $237.7/BTC our 10% iPhone 5 battery life has been exchanged for $0.000008770 USD.

Assuming 0.17 USD power cost in the United States, the power cost would be 0.000085 USD. [5]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_5

[1]: https://www.bitmaintech.com/files/download/BM1384_Datasheet_...

[2]: https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

[3]: This number isn't even representable in Bitcoin, which maxes out at 8 decimal places of precision.

[4]: The reward halves in 62 weeks though.

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing#Price_comp...
Maryland governor allows Tesla to sell directly to customers
[Capitalism] got us to where we are today.

What got us here today was a kludge of many different things. Often proclaiming to be one thing while being something different. Markets arise everywhere where there is demand and supply. So there was always some capitalism even if it was outlawed or frowned upon. At the same time, families are everywhere and the ones I know follow planned socialistic economies.
If this many-core, multiple cluster architecture implements HMP then you can theoretically run all cores across every cluster.

I think we need a broader discussion about what mobile apps will use many-core/multi-core processors. If we are talking video processing, then why do it on the CPU, if you have a dedicated video encoder/decoder already there?

One situation where you might want to use a mobile CPU for video decoding is for small window, low-res preview modes (some browsers and mobile apps use it) but even then, do you really need eight or ten CPUs to do the job?
Um, like every single game made in the last 10 years allows you to turn on subtitles
MAME is going open source to be a 'learning tool for developers'
I'm with you on this, not for huge sites but if even 1% of sites used this behavior malicious bots would be forced to honor robots.txt
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If I want to run a processing job that takes a 1000 core-hours and have the results today, I can do that on their VMs for a couple dollars per run. Being able to do that on owned hardware or dedicated hosts would be orders of magnitude more expensive.

Similarly, if you're running hosted app that on most hours doesn't overload a single server, on peak hour fills three hosts, but on a large advertising event or accidental viral link takes fifty hosts for a day, and then goes back to normal - then you don't want to run it on VMs where you have to pay for them by month.
None of their bullet points seem to make sense. I guess their "secret" is "Crucial to this is the idea that bitcoin generated by embedded mining is more convenient — and hence more valuable — than bitcoin bought at market price and manually moved over to the site of utility." I don't know whether that will turn out to be true.
Well, that just devolved into chaos immediately. The idea is to continue the animation, not to make random scribbles! I guess that's the internet for ya.
This isn't that complicated, and would be crazy expensive if it was. The modulation is just a way to identify your light house and filter out others. Ir remotes use 40kHz or so, this uses mhz, probably with some sort of digital scrambling and filter, or boring channels. You would only need to have a few channels.
i found this game to be very aesthetically pleasing - as well as having an emotive and thought-provoking story. it's good to see a game that pushes the creative boundaries of rendering, rather than focus on what seems to be a slow drudge toward photo-realism. not wishing to suggest that HR was somehow deficient in terms of "realistic" qualities, however!
Thanks for this great idea. I will be reaching out to the local community college today and may follow up with the local high school as well.
this is fantastic! I was looking for something like this to get started. Thank you so much for putting this together. I am taking some machine learning courses next semester and will use this to get familiar during the summer.
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apt-wrapper
Was this discovered by an autopsy?
I can't see how this make sense. Even if you assume that it's useful for a device to have some bitcoins available, it seems much more efficient to either supply them when the device is created or download them on demand. The cost of building a mining chip into the device plus the expensive power consumption plus the difficulty of maintaining a network connection to access the mining pool seems way more than the cost of just providing the device with bitcoins.

A key point from the article is: "Crucial to this is the idea that bitcoin generated by embedded mining is more convenient — and hence more valuable — than bitcoin bought at market price and manually moved over to the site of utility." I just don't see that, especially if you assume bitcoins mined on the device are going to be much more expensive (because of less efficient mining and because of 21's overhead.)
The physics and engineering of light are not something I'm very knowledgeable about, so forgive me if this is naive. Couldn't you reduce the latency further by running the x and y scans in parallel, and using something (e.g. different modulations) to tell them apart? It seems kind of a waste to run the x and then the y in sequence.
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Well, it is postmortem by definition. I don't get the argument in favor of it being treated otherwise.
A casual google search tells me that there are about 1k coal mines in the US. The number of oil/gas wells that use fracking seems to range somewhere between 50k and 1.1m.
" (..) but if it's a promise there's special behavior. And for no good reason either."

Just because you don't know the reason doesn't mean there isn't one. This is especially the case with a community-driven spec like PromiseA+.
Amazing! I had no idea at all!

Is it real? Why are there no movies?

Talk about heroic....
This is an exceptionally poor premise. It's hard to believe the writer of this article missed the obvious.

That CEO pay chart tracks the value of options granted.

What it almost perfectly aligns to is the S&P 500 chart.

Here, I did a crude overlay, it's blatantly obvious.

http://i.imgur.com/S2hN29F.png

It wasn't Monday Night Football or any other ridiculous notion. It was the greatest stock market boom in the US since the roaring 1920s, which sent the value of options soaring.
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My computer has a problem that causes it to fail to shut down. Will this script fix that? ;)
I am at a loss as to how you decided that was the "money quote". I saw it as an incidental aside as long as he was in the area, in a large post about signalfd, as evidenced by the, you know, 22 instances of the term "signalfd", including one in the title.
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Oh, I actually didn't know that by signing such a document the employee would sign away their right to full unemployment benefits.

That's a very good point. I've just checked and, in France (where he is from originally), when an employee resigns, he's not eligible to unemployment benefits. I actually come from France but I haven't really worked there so I didn't know...
Your family will likely want ceremonies to help them grieve and deal with your loss. Maybe just bury an empty casket.
Congrats! I always see these guys working, working, working. Even during the time we were hanging out they'd be on sales calls, sending out emails, etc. Keep killing it.
I don't want to be overly dismissive -- I'm sure this is a huge engineering achievement -- but I just don't get it. A mobile phone, where battery life is precious and a big differentiating factor between devices, seems like the absolute last place you'd want to mine bitcoin. Manufacturers have spent years optimizing for battery life - why would they want to shoot themselves in the foot? What consumer in their right mind would buy a phone advertised as, "your battery will die much sooner, but hey, you don't have to use your credit card as much"?

Perhaps I'm wrong, and I'd love to be corrected. But I don't see the point.
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