skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a bit slow still. Jitsu[1], which starts unikernels is fast enough to do per request image booting, but Amazon seem to have a 1s cold start which is just a bit slow.

[1] https://github.com/mirage/jitsu
While reading the article I looked a bit randomly at two video clips of Andreessen to see how he came over and on both he seemed slightly nutty. The first was saying 'obviously he's a traitor' about Snowden which I'm not sure is obvious and the second on why not invest in healthcare he said 'Healthcare, Oh my God, everyone complains that robots are going to kill all the jobs' which I think is inaccurate in that few people complain about that particular issue. It makes me take his views with a pinch of salt.

(health http://fortune.com/2015/04/10/brainstorming-with-marc-andree...

traitor http://www.cnbc.com/id/101733893)
>Evolution has trained you to enjoy reproducing? Well really you just enjoy the act of sex. And actually not even sex per se, it looks like we can stimulate you with a few visuals and something touching you... porn becomes one of the biggest industries that exist.

And then get flattened because it turns out that you can get the same stuff for free.

But I digress. Porn isn't a replacement for sex, it is just easier.
Condoms do allow you to have sex "pointlessly", ie. with no resulting children, does that make condom manufactures "wrong" somehow? They distilled sex down to a better version (sex without chance of kids or STDs), but it is unnatural, right?

However if condoms are okay, what puts the limit on porn? How is porn materially different from sex without kids? Aren't they just really points on a continuum?
>From what I understand, there are some markets (outside the US, particularly in the developing world. E.g., http://dazeinfo.com/2014/10/28/1-5-million-engineering-pass-...) where there's a glut of talented people.

Just because you have an engineering degree does not mean you actually know anything you were supposed to learn.
I get the same error with Firefox 37.0.2 (Win7).
This is multiprocess, but not process-per-tab. There is still a single rendering process for all tabs, at least for now.
Goodbye RAM :) Or better for RAM, since I can now selectively kill and resume processes?

Oh, I see it's not one process per tab. So does anyone know how I can more easily survive on 2GB with many tabs, other than by constantly killing processes?
I really hope Mozilla keeps NoScript alive. .. Please help the maker get it ported to support Multiprocess Firefox.
How many 10 year olds do you think watch the West Wing or C-SPAN?

And you do realize that most politics is local. You need to watch local access cable of town meetings, not C-SPAN, to get an idea of what most politics is like. Bartlet never walked in the local city parade, mingled at the 4th of July town pancake breakfast, nor had to listen to the local kook make a complaint.

Watching West Wing for an idea of how politics works is like watching a documentary on Einstein. Even if completely accurate, it's still a very unusual example.

Similarly, most actors are not celebrity actors. Wil Wheaton's blog, for example, doesn't match what little I've read from the tabloids, and Wheaton is one of the more well known actors.
> "The state name was specifically added in 1969 because no one could tell it was the flag of Illinois, because it is hopelessly generic. As opposed to the Chicago flag, the stars on which were designed to look like no star that had ever appeared on a flag before, by an expert in the history of flags."

Ok, how is the Chicago flag any different. If you didn't tell me what it was a flag for, I would never be able to guess that it was Chicago's. How is some white bars, two blue bars and 4 red stars not "hopelessly generic?"

Without labeling, any flag could be from almost anywhere until you're told otherwise.
Hersh's story is not well sourced, contradictory, and mostly wrong. From a simple verification perspective, it is difficult to keep track of how many anonymous sources he has, and which has made which claim. However, the chance that they are well placed enough to know all of the details they claim to is highly unlikely, especially with the compartmentalization of information. While ad hominem attacks are certainly not the correct approach, he has stated the information he heard from his sources with an excess of confidence, assuming that they have no agenda. He then places it in a narrative which

I only have direct experience with slices of the information about the events in the story, but it directly contradicts the narrative.

The question is not what you think about Seymour Hersh, the question is what you think about the motives of his supposed sources, and what that might indicate about their veracity.
Yeah, being a child sucks. Unless you're in Romania (and perhaps even then).

Every day I am happy I'm not a child anymore. I don't have to "study". I can have what I want. I can choose. I work on meaningful things.

And I know it could be a lot worse.
I've always understood it to be this:

A lexer is for a regular language (in the formal sense), whereas a parser is for a context-sensitive (or context-free) language.

Or, for a less formal description. A lexer's transformation is one that can be expressed as a function of <<input symbol or end of file>, position in file, state> -> <<some finite number of output symbols (including zero)>, <state or done>>, where state is finite. A lexer can work without backtracking or arbitrary memory usage. Whereas a parser potentially requires either arbitrary (but finite) backtracking or arbitrary (but finite) memory usage.

The boundary gets a little fuzzy, though. For instance, constants, at least for any language that allows arbitrary-sized integers.
> He simply claimed a few high ranking generals were members.

He also claimed that JSOC was passing around "crusade coins" as part of their religious "crusade".

I don't know how he got 'crusade coins' from something completely benign (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_coin) but that's the kind of "journalism" we've been receiving from Hersh in the past few years.

Besides which, if your interpretation of Hersh's comments were true then they simply wouldn't be news at all. "Some members of a typically-conservative organization are also members of a separate typically-conservative organization" is hardly worth a mention at all.

On the other hand the implied story "Opus Dei secretly in control of (or heavily influencing) America's special operations arm" would be news, Sy Hersh-winning-a-Pulitzer kind of news... if it were true.

The comment you replied to wasn't claiming anything sinister about Opus Dei, that honor goes to Hersh himself.
Is there also any limit on machine resources that a single request can use? I'm curious about cases in which requests might need non-trivial amount of computational power.
Of course the name in the title should be 'McCarthy'. Also, I think that the rest of the title is misleading; the paper seems to be about what McCarthy sees as the challenges to the subject, rather than about his personally challenging the subject.
A DAWG can be even better, at the expense of considerable setup cost.

Though a naive Trie can be converted to a DAWG incrementally and on-the-fly relatively easily. If you're careful, you can even do this on another thread in the background.
Back in 2013 the increase from one process to two processes were 10MB.

https://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/multiprocess-...
I don't think this is even a controversial statement. Gen William Boykin was the former head of Delta Force and has been pretty unequivocal that the US is at war with Islam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Boykin#Religious.2FP...
Ah true I am incorrect on the lexer as a map. Had I thought on that half a second more I would have saved myself some embarrassment. :)
But the ultimate plan seems to be to have process-per-tab. The article states: "In future iterations, we expect every browser tab to run in its own process."
Interesting -- I figured a multiprocess Firefox would only arrive once Servo was finished. Or are these two projects complementary?
New multiprocess mode is a big pain for add-on developers. More details https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Working_with_mul...
It is not only making something people want, you need to make something people will pay for, either directly or indirectly.
I have a rather ominous feeling that the removal process was triggered by automated scanning picking up certain keywords like "sniffer". In today's environment of security paranoia, unfortunately it's not hard to imagine something like that being interpreted the wrong way...

Also, I think "unwanted software" is a bit opaque; what they really mean is software Google doesn't want, not necessarily the user.
Multiple things at once are still ordinary monads, and you can implement them without using transformers. Transformers are merely the realization that one can put (certain) monads together in a compositional way.

An example of a monad in Haskell that is not put together via transformers, yet provides all their functionality, is RWS, being a combination of Reader, Writer and State in one hard-coded type/instance.
Show HN: Rust Calculator
Who is behind organic brands?
I'm sorry to say (as someone who has worked at Wired two different times) that this is not one of Wired's most convincing pieces.

First, the pro-seasteading folks are not "letting go" -- as far as I can tell, they're in it for the long haul and have said for the better part of a decade that they intend to take small steps to learn about the engineering requirements for a blue-water seastead. Here are articles I wrote on the topic when they were saying that back in 2009: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/next-frontier-seasteading-the-oc... http://www.cbsnews.com/news/seasteaders-take-first-step-towa...

Second, the reporter talks about startups "benefit[ing]" from regulation. But it doesn't mention how government agencies have targeted drones, genetic tests (23andMe), 3D printing (DD), Uber and Lyft (in some states), Tesla (dealer sales), Airbnb (in some cities), Bitcoin (FinCEN), etc. The reporter mentions Spotify and Netflix as companies that benefit from regulation, which is false; they benefit from copyright law. The thing is you can have copyright law without FCC/SEC-style top-down rate-setting regulation (US copyright law predated the FCC/SEC by over a century).

Third, the reporter mentions Balaji Srinivasan of Andreessen Horowitz, but neglects to say whether he changed his mind and is "letting go." I heard Srinivasan speak three days ago in Palo Alto, and I suspect he hasn't. The reporter quotes YC's own Sam Altman as speaking dismissively about seasteading, but never said he's changed his mind (as far as I know Altman always held that opinion). You might as well quote Democrats talking about Hillary Clinton one day and Republicans the next and claim Americans are "letting go" of that presidential candidate.

Maybe seasteads will never happen, maybe the darknet will never be robust, maybe we'll never get to Mars, and maybe there's a case to be made that Silicon Valley is "letting go" of these dreams. But this article failed to make it.
Please read the book Rocket Fuel if this is really your current situation. It might just be that your co-founder is a visionary with the wrong responsibilities and you're the perfect integrator. Or your co-founder might just be an asshole period. If that's the case, jump ship now.
It's uber for the waste management business.

Instacartage.

Asbestos. Redefined.

Or something.

For those of us that lived through the first dotcom bubble this is all getting more and more familiar.
I feel like the truth is somehwere in between. The Pakistani civilian government has a tenuous grasp on power. The military and ISI can do whatever they want. The government has been cooperating with US drone strikes while also publicly denouncing them. I can totally believe that 1) the ISI was harboring Bin Laden without the approval of the PM 2) the government facilitated the raid on the condition of no one knowing about it 3) Obama is willing to lie about it to protect his relationship with Pakistan cuz nukes.
People can very easily remember things that didn't happen.
And learning all they taught in school well enough to pass the tests doesn't mean you can actually do a job in that field.
Latex paint can usually be disposed of in normal garbage. Just open the cans and let the paint dry out first.
> I don't think I saw a focus on how "those girls were sleeping to the top" over the more general issue of "look at how those guys would trade sex for undisclosed favours".

I want to be perfectly clear, though, that neither of those things ever happened. The story that various writers accepted sex from Zoe Quinn in exchange for good reviews was the founding event of the Gamergate movement, and it is 100% false.
More likely they will sort out the good stuff and give the rest to the non-profits.
You pay for request time too, measured in 100ms increments. And you pay more for more CPU/RAM.
The multiprocess feature was one of the main reasons, I switched to Chrome in the first place. I think, it is just a good idea to keep the things separated, so one tab can not stop the whole browser.

Today, the browser more and more becomes that, which was called "operating system" some years ago. Many applications today run just from the browser and instead of switching apps, you switch the tabs....

So, it is just a good idea in my opinion to upgrade the security of the browser to a higher level.

I am not sure about the memory consumption, but since Chrome seems to have solved this topic, also Firefox should be able to, and maybe it's also time for me to switch back?
I thought Hersh made a great point when he was on On the Media last week. If he's even partly right it means that the main media got the story very wrong and didn't do any real research into verifying the administration claims.

So either the media has to admit that they, as a whole, massively screwed up the story (not unlike the WMD stuff) or they can just attack Hersh and not seem to lose any credibility.

In other words, it's in their best interest he's wrong even if he's right. It was a very good interview.
I have to disagree. The article is an unambiguous criticism of the media reaction to Hersh's article.

In the context of the media trying to control the narrative regarding Hersh's story, editing the title here really appears to be more narrative control.

While I can appreciate not wanting to tell HN readers what to think, this piece is an editorial and a criticism and deserves to be treated as such.

That said, thank you for your transparency and taking the time to respond.
Cool story. Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 have similar problems. Windows 7 becomes slow with huge uptime. Windows 8.1 has countless bugs.
Newton's Flaming Laser Sword (2004)
Nothing would ever get done if nobody jumped to conclusions.
Just drop them off at Best Buy, they claim to recycle them...
These things already exist. Check out Seedrs for example
What's happening with search? Is using Cortana mandatory? What's up with always using web search? Why can't I turn this web search off? Do I absolutely must block off bing and all Microsoft services at the network level to stop this?
Thank you for the link! ;)
There is a reason for all these regulations. While I am generally pro- deregulation, letting unsophisticated investor put money in start-ups is highly dangerous. While it would make it easier for genuine companies to raise money, the problem is it makes it much easier for scammers.
Chromium circa 2008?
Some cities have a household hazardous waste disposal location where one can drop off used chemicals, paint, etc. They will separate stuff that can be reused and properly dispose of the rest. The one in our city, we just backup our car and they take out the stuff while you sit in the car and complete the paperwork and show an id.
This really could be Uber for trash.

I pay something like $50 a month for trash collection services, or around $12 a week. That includes yard waste and recycling.

If I can fit my trash and recycling into two bags per week and find something else to do with my yard waste, I'll save money by using GoodAndTidy for weekly trash pickup.

I like their website and the idea, but it seems like a service that may have trouble becoming profitable based on their $5/bag fees.
Tell that to the CIA.

Diane Fienstein accused them of committing crimes in order to suppress the torture report.[0] A little lying about how Osama was killed seems pretty innocuous next to that, doesn't it?

Military operations are routinely "framed" in a light that makes for the most positive PR spin. See the Jessica Lynch story for a good example of this.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/opinion/the-cia-torture-co...
.NET Native is a .NET AOT compiler to be released as part of the next .NET version.

It uses the same backed as Visual C++, known as C2, generates static binaries and also makes use of SIMD and auto-vectorization.

C++/CX is not managed. Developers outside Windows keep mixing it up with C++/CLI just because they share the same extensions.

It is just syntax sugar for COM.
I said private law, not purely anarchic examples. I could give more anarchic ones if you liked but it's revisionist history so you'd have to do a good bit of reading to really discuss it.

Iceland is an example of polycentric law fairly close to what anarcho-capitalists advocate. You didn't really address that or the other points.

The first big difference between the Lex Mercatoria and present-day law is the source being jurisprudence and not bureaucratic legislation. The second would be cases being torts with an identifiable victim versus today's with victimless "crimes against society".

For why legislation is awful and for a hint at solutions under an eminently human system of law in a free society see these:

https://www.mises.org/sites/default/files/11_2_5_0.pdf

http://www.walterblock.com/wp-content/uploads/publications/b...
That's one of the problems with this story. Most everyone was glad for the hunt just to be over, a lot of people wouldn't want to question it even if they thought it wasn't entirely aboveboard. Easier to say "it's finally done" and move on. The fact it took that long was embarrassing enough.
>> "Interpreted languages need a virtual machine to run..."

>> What? This doesn't seem right.

The interpreter itself is the virtual machine that runs a program written in the interpreted language, just like JVM is a virtual machine that runs a program written using byte-code.
Define it as the limit as n goes to 0 from above of the sum of abs(act - expected)^(n), i.e. of Ln. No need to muck about with zero to the zeroth power directly.
I said around children, not having children. The two are completely disjoint. I know lots of people who have children but are not actually around them and are miserable. Conversely, I know people without children who are surrounded by the happy little critters and have a deep sense of fulfillment.

Being around children teaches you a compassion for others and yourself, something your comment points towards a desperate need for.
Artificial Intelligence redefined as a social construct
This is one potential outcome of AngelList syndicates[0], which is I think one reason they have been vocal[1] about the SEC's implementing regulations of the securities reforms (including crowd-funding) that Congress called for in the 2012 JOBS Act.

[0] https://angel.co/help/syndicates
[1] https://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-06-13/s70613-37.pdf
Isn't that true of almost every flag? Even the most iconic flags - Japan, the UK - carry little intrinsic meaning.
There's some interesting talk about that in mozilla.dev.platform: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform...
Ask HN: What's the microservice you wish were built/easy to use, but isn't yet?
The two projects are independent; work on Electrolysis (multi-process Firefox) actually predates Servo. Old versions of mobile Firefox used Electrolysis, for example. But converting desktop Firefox and supporting its whole add-on ecosystem is a huge project, and was also put on hold for a long time.
Link to the priceless Slate interview, for anyone who missed it: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...
For historical perspective, this is the underlying idea for Haskell's IO Monad Types and what allows it to be purely functional from the perspective of the compiler. At least according to Simon Peyton Jones in this interview:

http://www.se-radio.net/2008/08/episode-108-simon-peyton-jon...
ICMP can be used to affect routing on insecurely configured hosts. That might be an exploit vector? Circa 1995-97 there was the ping of death....but that was 20 years ago.

Most of these security best practices are like building code. They get written down and are never updated. For example, showers need a 2" drain pipe but tubs only need 1.5". The theory was that a backed up drain would flood a bathroom with a lower shower rim very quickly. It would take much longer with a tub (higher side wall). No one ever bothered to update the regulations once we stopped allowing 5 gpm showerheads. There's no reason put into it. Just "nope it says 2" required b/c we've always required 2"." "Why?" "Because that's how it is."

Same way with computer security.
In between e10s, Servo, and the new developer theme in the current Nightly, I feel like Firefox is finally starting to become more competitive to other browsers again. I switched to Chrome because it seemed like Firefox was becoming more and more dated in comparison, both in terms of technology and UI. I still have some gripes with Firefox at the moment, but I'm beginning to seriously consider switching back.

This is obviously anecdotal, but both e10s and the Nightly in general have been remarkably stable during the time I've tested them.
Uninstall plug-ins like Flash, and Java or at least set them to block by default. Get µBlock¹ to block unwanted content. Find better sites to visit.

You could also try one of the BarTab extensions² and Tab Groups³ to only keep the sites you use loaded.

1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock/

2: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=bartab

3: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-organize-tab...
This was what motivated me to switch to Chrome several years ago.
Bringing up Zuckerberg calling his users "dumb fucks" is so, so, sooo weak. Remind me never to make any self-deprecating comments around you.
As everyone else said, the correct answer here is very situational.

Adding dependencies to your program should not be taken lightly. Rewriting something that you can get in "a few lines of code" from an existing framework should also not be taken lightly.

In general, I lean towards using existing code where possible because it lets you spend your time writing new functionality for your own code, whatever it is. However, I never want to pull in a dependency just for one function---dependencies have their cost so I want to be sure I'm getting a lot of value as a result.
> The future is now, and it's using AWS Lambda

How is this different from what Azure Mobile Services and many others have been offering for the past 2 years? To me it seems the author is proclaiming Platform As A Service is entirely new (look, no spinning up AWS instances!) while this has been around for quite some time, just Amazon is getting into it more seriously recently.
It is a commonplace that "you can't keep secrets in Washington" or "in a democracy," that "no matter how sensitive the secret, you're likely to read it the next day in the New York Times." These truisms are flatly false. They are in fact cover stories, ways of flattering and misleading journalists and their readers, part of the process of keeping secrets well. --Daniel Ellsberg - Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers