skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course your points are valid. Perhaps I should have put this into context. The matrix given as the main example was assigned to me as a homework problem in an undergraduate optimization class. I decided to solve it using a graph and wanted to share.
Let's write like the Guardian
I was think more on the lines of: given a supervisor that'll restart the process on any kind of trouble, isn't the entire optimization redundant anyway?

Anyway, that's a great wake-up call to improve the supervisor.
Why not both? Choice is good, and unless there is a good reason for only being able to choose one, I'd say offer devices is various price ranges.
"gave way to capitalist corruption"

Those anecdotes read like someone who never read "Fire in the Lake". The article anecdotes sound less corrupt than BAU in in the urban areas during the war.
The phones sold last quarter were not branded Nokia.
You know it is a recent snippet because it mentions currencies that havent been in use for over a decade..
Musk is terrified that Google CEO will accidentally create 'evil' robots
I'm not disagreeing, though, I feel the law profession's more of an exception, not a counter-example.

Law uniquely aligns with lock-step (like consulting) because... 1. the workers are homogenous (i.e. 3+ years of law edu)
2. the tasks are homogenous (similar to consulting)
3. the end-game is identical (i.e. partner-track/shareholder)
System76[1] laptops come with Ubuntu out of the box. Historically Thinkpads have had pretty good hardware support, too.

[1]: https://system76.com/
Like the ACM?
Sadly, they aren't really living up to that point.

Firefox OS works basically like AOSP - it's up to vendor to provide you unlocked environment (or not). It's not even on a requirement list when you want to market your device using Firefox OS brand. Phones like ZTE Open often came with blocked bootloader you had to "jailbreak" to upgrade FxOS by yourself - seems familiar, doesn't it?

Some time ago I tried to compile Firefox OS to GTA04 - a hardware upgrade for Openmoko Neo Freerunner. It's pretty much the most open mobile phone out there these days, allowing you to run basically any GNU/Linux distro you'd want on it. I failed - available documentation is lacking; or actually, it focuses on something completely different. It assumes that you either have a Android phone and goes to great extent describing how to extract non-free binary blobs from your current system and apply them to FxOS, or you have a great knowledge of Android build system and you can handle everything by yourself. GTA04 isn't Android based - while there is Replicant build working on it, it's still closer to standard PC way than Android phones when it comes to stuff like booting etc. Not having much experience with Android from developer side, I simply got lost in all those clearly Android-based instructions.

You'd at least think that Gonk, the hardware abstraction layer of Firefox OS implemented on top of Android base system, would be just a compatibility measure for dealing with vendors that only provide Android support. It's not the case - even though Honk (a Gonk reimplementation based on standard GNU/Unix way of how systems work) exists, it was contributed as a part of experimental Raspberry Pi port and is not really maintained ever since. It makes me sad, cause Firefox OS had the potential to actually move smartphones in general towards being a little more open platforms, which is always close to my heart as a long-time Openmoko and OpenPhoenux supporter and contributor, but sadly this aspect got basically ignored by Mozilla itself and they went with pragmatic "let's just make it work, even if it means having non-free low-level androidware under our free OS layer" :(
Perhaps Charter could pull it off? They are the one broadband ISP I have no experience with.

Charter cable and internet seem pretty solid. Their business phone service has had terrible growing pains over the last year [maybe two years? my memory fails me], with multiple, multiple-hour outages during the middle of business days. Our sales guy told me they've recently decided to implement rolling switch restarts after future emergency outages, instead of trying to restart every switch in their network at once and getting their shoelaces tied together. I told him that sounded like a good idea, so good that perhaps they should have had it from the very beginning.
Available volume? Forex is the most liquid market in the world.
This reminded me of the transparency thing they had going at Buffer (https://open.bufferapp.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buff...), but it looks like they're moving away from it now (to "self-managed salaries" https://open.bufferapp.com/buffer-in-march-5-9m-annual-reven...)
Metascala – A JVM written in Scala
You might need to update your about section on HN:

> "In an attempt to avoid losing my entire life to this website, I no longer comment as often as I used to, and, when I do, unless it is related to a topic (iOS jailbreaking) where it is part of my "job" to respond, I make it something of a policy to not look at things people say in response until at least a month later."
There was a detailed writeup of a different Gameyboy Emulator in Javascript:

http://imrannazar.com/GameBoy-Emulation-in-JavaScript
Vitesse means speed in French :)
Can we determine ,by looking at papers if a research is replicated ?

Can Google determine that ?

If so , adding a Google Scholar search filter for replicated, proven research could be useful, and might even make verified works more citable, hence improving incentives somewhat.
1) There's still finite volume at a given price, and the arbitrages, when they do happen, typically involve small volumes.

2) There is more to arbitrage than Forex markets
I'm not saying that you won't get a single molecule of water going into solution, but if you add a small amount of liquid to ice that's well below freezing, you really can get effectively zero melting. It will equilibrate to a temperature that's still below the freezing point of water.
Oh, well, that's very interesting. I guess there was hope after all. I'm glad I tricked you into giving up the details :-)
I don't get that. I would pay more for official Ubuntu support. Like, $150 more.
Yes! Car keys are so big nowadays, it doesn't make sense to have them on your "main" keychain. It's also bad in a crash situation, because your knee or another body part can hit this area, so having a bunch of ornaments or a key collection like the high school janitor is not a good idea. I keep every vehicle key on its own keyring, with only a tag and its remote if applicable. This also means my "I feel naked without it" primary set of keys is smaller since I am not carrying around giant car keys and remotes when I am just wanking around the farm.
Yes. I only use a laptop when work requires me to travel. The vast majority of its life it spends turned off and locked up in my desk.
Well, he said "developers first" which I agree with. It only makes sense to use windows or mac os if you are developing for the said platforms. Most of the server market however is dominated by linux, so I'd say it makes sense to use linux if you're developing for linux. I personally have converted maybe a dozen devs who develop for linux servers using windows or mac.
Yes. But if your arbitrage pattern is only 3 pips profitable, and you are exchanging millions at once, you might expect that the amount of available orders matching your path may actually matter.
Functional programs are amazingly easy to factorize. Anybody
who tried to factorize C++ code can testify to how hard it is,
and how long it takes to iron out all the bugs introduced
by factorization. With functional code, it’s a breeze.

Is it really "with functional code" or more "with toy problems that never had performance related changes made to it?"
For those looking for a quality read of something Soviet I suggest Soviet science fiction writers.

Take a look at works of Ivan Efremov, Alexander Kazantsev, Kir Bulychev.

Kazantsev is especially Soviet in the sense that he looked forward to the worldwide communism and the greater good it would provide to humanity. Once you get over the overabundance of "tovarisch" his works are truly epic, full of adventures and immensely enjoyable to the former teenage me. "The destruction of Faena" is easy to google. I don't know about any other English translations.

For an easy way in read Bulychev's "Those Who Survive". Bulychev is famous for writing SF books for children but this story is more than that. Read it.

I read just a couple of short stories of Ivan Efremov and I cannot say much about him except for the fact that he has some highly regarded SF novels.

There are also Strugatsky brothers who I think are well known in the West.

Somehow I thought that Stanislaw Lem belongs to the list. His works felt closer to Soviet SF than to the western SF. He was a brilliant Polish writer.

Want a good laugh? Read Ilf and Petrof's "The Twelve chairs".

As you see I am mostly a SF guy. I don't find the prose of the Soviet period interesting maybe because it mostly covers the consequences of the wars and revolutions that Russia had to go through. These events seemed to overshadow everything else in the mind of a Soviet writer. If you want to read about the heroism of the Soviet people during and after the WW2 and atrocities of the revolutions there are a lot of books to chose. My grandmother lived through the WW2 and read and reread the books about it many times.

As for the topic the West praises the works of art that depict only how tough it is to be Russian and live in Soviet Russia. Who wants to intentionally read and study propaganda and counterpropaganda anyway?
It existed in the sense that the Confederate States of America existed. A bunch of politicians unhappy about the countries government went into rebellion, coincidentally in the south, and then the fireworks began. But as a cultural concept, neither the CSA nor South Vietnam existed before their respective political rebellions aka they weren't "real countries". And after the rebellion was crushed they don't exist anymore in any real cultural/political fashion. If they won, they would have developed into real distinct countries eventually, but they never got the chance.

As far as invaders go, both sides invited so many vistors and advisors its hard to say who that is.
Having a look here, looks like the more esoteric (for most workloads) data types aren't supported: http://vitessedata.com/vitesse-x-doc
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

In short, they try to save the Internet from being run by a few corporations or governments. So, minus cape, they're trying to do superhero things that are often at odds with the biggest companies in the world. Whether they succeed in that with any given project is up for debate, of course.

So far, Firefox phones have been a flop. Personally, I want one, because I care about privacy and I care about the open web, but I don't really want a shitty $25 phone. This news is good for me, but I don't know what it says for Mozilla's vision in the mobile market.

I've heard people suggest that Android took a while to catch on...but, it really didn't. By the time Android had been on the market for a year, it was clear (to me, anyway) that it would become the dominant player for many of the same reasons Wintel became the dominant desktop platform. Firefox OS doesn't have much to show for the time they've been on the market. It was never even clear to me I could buy a "real" phone (i.e. not developer phone) in the US running FxOS.
Not an endorsement of Dell or Ubuntu, but Dell appears to offer 8 (mostly lower-end) laptop models with Ubuntu pre-installed: https://www.dell.com/us/p/laptops
Early TextDrive (& eventual happy Joyent customer) here.

TextDrive was incredible for hosting Textpattern (anyone else missing Textile?) which at the time was a nice and quite loved alternative to Wordpress.

Eventually it also became great for hosting Ruby and Ruby on Rails apps as well as Django apps at a time where other hosting companies struggled with it (outdated ruby versions, bad support for anything non-PHP). The people at TextDrive even helped a lot of us scale our apps.

Some early customers hold a grudge against the company because it had a strong community aspect and very openly shared ideas and plans for future features and products (some of which weren't delivered as is imho completely normal if you are open about your plans).

Tech being "fine/not fine" obviously is hard to argue about. I just wanted to add another pov.
Check out the Tech and Company pages as well as the slides from the recent South Bay PostgreSQL Meeetup:
http://goo.gl/Mtg2W6

The founders both have strong academic and commercial experience and the advisor is Prof. Joseph Hellerstein (he has both an excellent academic reputation and good experience in industry/tech transfer).

Note that TPCH is a "decision support benchmark". There are other technologies for helping postgres with these workloads as well: a column-store approach like https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw, or the recent work on parallel sequential scans in Postgres core (http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2015/03/parallel-sequential-scan-f...), etc.
Some people say HN has no sense of humor. It's not true! Original nerdy jokes are appreciated, even as one-liners.
one doesn't get tarred and feathered and lose their jobs when they call it an association.

for example:

* screen actors guild
* nhlpa - national hockey league players association
So much of that guy's work is just great. I love the DOM Christmas tree especially (even if it's not the cleverest or prettiest thing of his): http://hakim.se/experiments/css/domtree/
Well some engineer noticed the problem, a change order was issued to manufacturing, new production continued with no new part number was issued, so someone seemed to want to conceal this from not only the public but the rest of the enterprise.

As an aside, wasn't this done in "The Old GM" which had its name changed and liquidated into the new company known today as General Motors?
Very cool, I actually run an extremely similar service (https://pocketga.me/) for NES, SNES, game boy, GBA, and master system. I hacked up many of the emulators myself to support state saving. It was a fun project to work on but I found that most of my users were not interested in paying for the service due to their young age group, so I'm only able to basically break even off the ads
At least you forgot one: Angel

http://riscv.org/angel/

https://github.com/riscv/riscv-angel
Virtual Reality Can Make You Feel. Can It Also Make You Think?
Checkout Elementary OS [https://elementary.io/], ubuntu based, osx look and feel *live boot from usb will not touch your data
The bad reputation is mostly well deserved, even to this day.

That said, there are nice companies out there. Just forget all "software-factory" types (specially the ones who actually call themselves that, or that won "great place to work" awards).
Hm. Very good intro to the topic.

One nitpick: Part I says "Thanks to the fact that we are in an abelian group, we can write P + Q + R = 0 as P + Q = –R" I'm pretty sure abelianness is not necessary. P + Q + R = 0 => P + Q + R + -R = 0 + -R => P + Q + 0 = -R => P + Q = -R
World without end
would be better as a webcomponent
Steve Jobs and Woz Recalling Apple's Early Days Video
And Echelon and Room 641A were widely known before Snowden.

And when the Boston Bombers struck (not long before Snowden), the public was complaining about "How did the government not stop them before they did it? They see everything on the Internet!". People were pointing out that the government couldn't do anything because they were just two guys who didn't talk about it on the Internet, not because the government wasn't watching.
I call bullshit on this. I followed the OilPrice.com link and found this statement on their disclaimer page:

"In no way is the information contained on OilPrice.com to be considered factual or complete."

http://oilprice.com/disclaimer
(I did not downvote you)

Downvote to disagree is embeded in HN culture. It is bound to happen - it happens everywhere that has post voting.

Better would be to upvote any post that you think is unfairly downvoted. (Most people have upvote privs. Few people have downvote privs.)
I get that and thought I would like it, but I guess I still use the (web) apps and the web browser quite differently. I hope further refinements change my mind!

More specifically, I tend to open and close a lot of tabs, which involves more steps now, and I want new tabs to open in the background.
So, mobile devices are an aspirational purchase in many of the developing nations Mozilla was reportedly targeting with these devices. People buy phones that look like high end phones in the US, because that's part of what they want from a phone.

I'm not saying low cost phones in developing nations aren't a good goal. That's a wonderful thing, and I think I can understand how the people at Mozilla, who almost always prioritize doing good over doing well, would make the mistake of thinking that building a phone that is good for people in the developing world would be a good way to start their mobile effort.

But, and as much as I hate to say this because it reveals a crass consumerism that has infected the world and patient zero is the US, the reality is that modern phones are luxury items that need some of the trappings of luxury...even in developing nations, where they look to the west to define their fashion and trends. If Mozilla can't win a developed world market, they won't be able to convince people in developing nations that what they've built is worthwhile, especially when there are knockoff Android devices that only cost a few bucks more, which are much closer to what people in the developed world are using.

I could see how it might even seem patronizing to the poorest folks.

I don't know what Mozilla should do; I'm not a mobile mogul. But, I want a Firefox phone. I've wanted one since they announced they were making them. I want one a lot, actually. But, I don't want a shitty phone that's less powerful than my last three Android phones, no matter the price. It's also never been clear to me, as an American, where I can even buy a real FxOS phone. There are dev phones, but they seemed to always just be "sign up for our waiting list" or whatever, which is not something I really do.
Because it's really difficult to get a whole bunch of people together who collectively pretty much have the best deal of anybody in the current economy and try to get them to collectively negotiate an even better deal.

Maybe y'all in Silicon Valley can be under the delusion that programmers somehow have a terrible, terrible job, but I live in Michigan, and that delusion is not available to me. I try not to talk about the details of my job too much with our friends... it's... discourteous.

That is not to say that it's all hunky-dory or that if one could get over the step of organizing that a better deal might not be available; see the recent lawsuits over salary collusion, for instance, which is strong evidence there is at least some "better deal" theoretically achievable. I mean exactly what I said in my first paragraph, not as an attempt to slide in another point quietly... it's really difficult to get anything organized under these circumstances.
As a brazilian IT worker i agree with all of that, working in IT here in brazil is a constant pain in the ass.
If you have "showdead" turned on you get to see the comments of users who have been algorithmically killed.

Check their post history before telling them that their posts are dead.

Putting your email address in the "about" box is useful.
If you can forget the 70s and 80s, GM isn't really shit. At least not as shit as Chrysler. I held onto this 'They're Shit' opinion I formed because of their 70s/80s production, when Japan was actually beating their ass, and was really surprised when I started taking apart newer models and found a lot of technology and engineering thoughtfulness in them.

While this ignition switch mess - the lack of a recall - is clearly the result of wrongdoing, I'd say it's not characteristic. OTOH, Toyota recklessly developed software that caused loss of human life, even when well-designed examples had been on the market for years. As software isn't like hardware manufacturing, isn't that "worse?"
If your definition of "Linux on the desktop" is "I see it everywhere I go" then your metric is well behind the early adopter curve.

If, however, your metric is to look at influencers and early adopters, it's clearly happening.

I think back to 04 when I switched to a Mac (from Windows). The idea that Macs were "happening" was inconceivable to many. Forget finding mainstream software. Forget drivers for hw support. Forget file exchange. Forget networking with anyone doing real work at your company. It was all uphill and hard. That was just 2004.

Back then it was generally either hold outs from the dark, pre OS X days or early adopters switching over (or back) to a Mac. If you had your eye on the market, I think in hindsight it's clear that there was a groundswell of interest in the platform (from passionate early adopter switchers, etc). But at the time, nothing was obvious and early adopter advocacy to just "buy a mac" fell on usually deaf ears.

We're in a not dissimilar situation today with Linux. The early adopter segment is different and much more dev oriented, but that's not a bad thing. Add to this that there are some fundamental and very important technology shifts happening that I think are going to make a positive impact on the desktop linux experience over the next several years (wayland, systemd, container/virtualization improvements, packaging and distribution rethinks).

It's happening because people like me are using Linux on the desktop every day for real work, and for many of us it's eminently preferable to any other OS out there. It's happening because we, the early adopters, are not "on the fence" about Linux: I no longer think "Linux is nice but OS X just works". It's happening because a shift to the web has made app lock in on a specific platform less of an issue. It's happening because vendors like Dell are throwing actual resources at the market. Small though it may be, this market is made up of influencers that are the thin edge of the adoption wedge.
I have wanted these phones for the longest goddamn time.

The LG or KDDI Fx0 was the coolest looking phone I have seen in the last 5 years. But it was unreasonably priced at nearly 400 USD

I recently stumbled across the geeksphone revolution which actually seems to be a high-end phone and at a nice pricetag of less than 200 USD.
You could try using C2BF[1] in an attempt to make it self hosting. :)

[1] http://esolangs.org/wiki/C2BF
"Lamda" is the modern pronunciation, while "lambda" is the ancient one, apparently. However, for the letters Μ and Ν they use the ancient Mu/Nu, instead of the modern Mi/Ni, so I fail to see the logic.
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