skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are two constraints the GPU would impose on the CPU:

1. Static resource contention—i.e. how many transistors are allocated to a task.

2. Power/Heat contention: assumably the CPU can run at full force without the GPU. When the GPU is also cranking, it's unclear how the processor divvies up the power. Optimally, it would not affect the other, but with so much money going into power management and conservation research vis-a-vis phones, it wouldn't shock me to find that it cut into the CPU significantly: I would suspect the GPU is a much more recognizable piece of quality hardware to most consumers. My Moto E is an impressive, cheap piece of hardware, but still chokes hard on lollipop animations.
We have quite a bit of COBOL and are seeing a similar challenge recruiting and maintaining COBOL developers. We're in talks to partner with a local workforce education center to put together some training for potential or existing employees who might be willing to transition into a COBOL role.

I'm imagining that these folks would be non-programmers who are identified as having good reasoning and structural thinking, and who could receive a pay bump by moving into a development position. I don't expect that existing developers would want to move away from their current skillset trajectory and I think that route is probably not a fruitful one to pursue.

It remains to be seen if this will be a successful endeavor.
react canvas renders at 60fps

https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas
Sexual selection can be much more powerful than ordinary survival selection (see: peacock tails).
There is very little difference between arms and modern industrial chemicals. Without arms, we can still kill large populations by destroying their water supplies and crops. Even if you managed to rid the world of every weapon more advanced than a knife, if/when conflict arises, we can kill populations at a grander scale than ever before.
Would it be better to target 'RunC', as the open container standard?
Most freelancers only work part of the year, but only a small percentage of those freelancers do so because they choose to. For many its due to lack of work.
I'm not sure why transpiling away COBOL [assuming it hasn't been modernized like C++] wouldn't make the most sense.
Yes, sorry. I know there's still a decent number of people using Mavericks but with El Capitan coming out later this year it's doubtful I'll add Mavericks support.
If people tend to tip 10.3% of profits vs 20% with a traditional fund, how do you attract talent? Higher volume, some kind of efficiency gains, a generally more attractive work environment, etc
Profit + No personal consequences = WIN
California Grown Coffee Starting to Percolate
Assuming I wanted to pick up COBOL and land a contract gig, what else do I need to know? A language is syntax but also libraries, patterns, and ecosystem. For instance it's hard to do Rails without knowing Git, Bash, Linux, SQL, Javascript, CSS, RSpec, Capistrano, Devise, MVC, etc. Do COBOL apps typically talk to relational databases, or is everything stored in fixed-width flat files? Do COBOL programmers use git? Am I going to need to keep an AS/400 running in my garage?
Head of Product at ZeroCater
We’ve built the #1 way for companies to feed their people. ZeroCater is a marketplace that connects companies with great local restaurants and caterers. We’re feeding hundreds of companies, ranging from newborn startups, to the Fortune 100.

We’re here to build something people love. We’re a scrappy company that’s scaled to tens of millions in yearly sales on little funding.

We’re based in San Francisco and backed by investors like Y Combinator and the creator of Gmail. We’re looking for people with an ownership mentality who want to work with like-minded folks to build something great.

The roles we're hiring for:

-Head of Product
-VP of Engineering
-Full stack engineers
While I don't have great advice to solve this, I'd like to point out a few things:

1. Don't project your desires on to her. You said she likes to talk on the phone, keeping in touch might be her favorite thing. Whereas something you value like some game/tech/hobby means very little to her. Talk openly with her about what she values in life and that's the best guide to what she can do for enjoyment.

2. People have to want to get out there themselves, they can and should have help, but ultimately it should be their desire. I'd say have a frank talk about her if getting out and meeting people is something she even wants (if she's not too sick to do so). Perhaps she's more interested in deepening her existing relationships.

3. Try various things, maybe it's hiking one week or for some months, maybe after that it's gardening or some classes. Maybe it's caring for a pet, there's just no way to know without trying some things. Finally it might be that a support group for her illness is best, perhaps it takes up most of her mental energy and sharing those concerns would lighten her up.

4. Talk to her. Open frank communication might take time, but I have a feeling it'll get the best results.
I can't imagine that Firefox on iOS will actually be that useful. Half the usefulness of Firefox is the extensions which I think would violate the store rules on iOS wouldn't they?
Show HN: A Slack bot to post a inspirational quote a day
I freelanced for several years then went back to a "regular" job for 3 years and couldn't take it so I am back freelancing for almost 2 years now. It's the best thing ever.

I got very lucky and found a great opportunity that lets me have the benefits of a full-time job and the freedom of freelancing. Basically, 40+ hours a week, steady work, 1099 setup, no benefits and the best part is that it is 100% remote. I don't have to worry about finding work since I always have work. The drawback is obviously I don't have any benefits so you have to pay for all that out of pocket - but if you do the math, it ends up being the same thing with the freedom of being 100% remote.

A few months ago, I decided to use my contacts to setup a consultancy and have 5 people billing now - if you are a developer and want 100% remote and steady work, you can reach me at eibrahim at gmail or you can fill out the online application at https://devcamp.wufoo.com/forms/fullstack-developer-netnode/ - there is no gurantee I can place you right away but I have a ton of work coming my way all the time. It's mostly full-stack dev work but lately I have been getting more and more mobile opportunities.

ps: right now this is for developers in the USA and Canada only but occasionally I get clients/opportunities that don't care about the geography.
Thanks for the post! Founder here, happy to answer any questions about Roomblocker.
I still want the ability to add a destination en route to another destination, e.g. "Ooh, I need to find [cheap] gas on the way to my next errand". It'd also be nice to be able to plan out e.g. "I need to go 4 places, figure out when they all close and what the optimal route is between them all". These are currently very manual and pretty tedious.
The only thing I'm worried about is how would it affect performance. Does it mean the UI itself would be rendered using Gecko Engine?
That probably fits better in Cargo.toml, where it's also a lot less work to add later.
It's not not the first step.

That's not the primary driver of this plan. But it might be a happy side effect.

Servo is still in early stages, we aren't making product plans around it.
I might code COBOL for a defined benefit pension, but not just for more pay.
No one really knows the reality of the situation. It may well be that everyone is just vying for more power and Reddit's management is just useless cruft that does little and is sort of irrelevant. It's like why are you doing anything, you do nothing around here, you are no one. You should not have any power to affect anything, including firing people in the community doing whatever they are suppose to. Just get out of our way and let us do whatever we want.
I feel lucky not to have given money to Star Citizen. When it started out, I was hoping for something that included deep space exploration - but it appears that it's basically just a really expensive combat sim. If there are plans for that, I've certainly not heard about them and everything about the ship design so far points toward a combat sim only.

In the meantime, I see $400 dollar ship models and have to wonder: who buys this stuff?
My words to betrayed guy: it's bad to lose friends, it's good to lose whores.
That's not really a logical reason to be upset since we don't know the reasons behind her termination. Even if it was a heartless business move, that's still not a very good reason for all the crazy levels of anger directed at Pao. She might be bad at her job, but a lot of it was way over the top.
WebSQL is deprecated in both the latest versions of Chromium for Android and in iOS 9.
Ah, I imagine that problem is worse for that area. "Seattle" is pretty much just "Seattle".
I started a CS-degree some 10 years ago. Focused more on the partying then the studying. Got my shit together. Took a COBOL class and my entry salary is way higher then full fledged masters in CS is. And the job requires no overtime at all. None of the risks you sign up for with a startup. Great benefits in lower interests on mortgages, great pension plans, lower retirement age and job security. And things I learn today will be just as relevant years from now. So no need to keep up with stuff on my spare time.

Well I had some work experience as a developer from a startup doing web stuff.
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I'm working on a JavaScript editor. But doesn't understand. Can you be more elaborate!?
I think this thread, but to my eyes, the discussion remained civil: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9044805
There is a relatively seductive and possibly correct argument that stability and predictability trumps human rights.

It's the reason Russians can be nostalgic for Stalin, etc. Revolution is messy. If the activists who were pressuring Assad for reforms had known that his reaction and the counter-reaction would lead to 250k+ deaths and the destruction of their country, would they have pushed as hard? Would they have been content with a phased approach, even though that would mean continued violations of their human rights?
How Ingestible Sensors Will Become the Future of Wearables
Thanks for the link, chuckcode. Skimmed a bit and added to the "read before bedtime" pile.

There's a lot of interestingness around anonymity vs. pseudonymity. From what I've read and experienced, it comes down to how much you value a particular identity in a particular context; from there, it's all about framing incentives around the identity that you value. Violentcranz didn't value the online persona enough that online incentives mattered; when he was outed by a journalist, he valued the real life incentives enough to stop the online behavior.
We have had a similar issue getting good talent in regards to RPG (RPGLE) on the iSeries. One issue is the language has progressed a lot and that leads to having to bring otherwise qualified candidates up to speed. Throw on that having to adjust to our standards and idiosyncrasies. We do maintain a decent amount of COBOL on the z at the same time.

Take both languages and their similar platforms and throw web interfacing, transformation, and such, and you can end up training even those who know the basics. With RPG the advantage it has and disadvantage is that there is no standard; its all IBM and their developers who determine its course. Modern RPG can look at lot like C/Pascal with no fixed columns and the like.

Schools tend to focus on whats cool or strictly PC centric languages but there are many sources of skill, all over seas. Some are contracted out and some come across and take positions that could have gone to local talent if they had received exposure. Large machines will never truly die out and business logic that has a great deal of investment behind it is not easy to part with.

One area of COBOL and RPG; and similar older languages; is their well developed handling of business math. You know exactly what to expect.
I think that's worth filing an issue for.
I'm always happy to read good articles about hedge funds so I'd hate for this comment to come across as a dismissal - it's not. That being said, the uninitiated should be a bit wary of this line, which is a good example of a class of hedge fund commentary that appears a lot:

hedge funds have consistently underperformed the market in recent years: last year the average hedge fund made 3.3%; S&P 500 index gained 11.4%.

We're in the late stages of a bull market in equities. Hedge funds are traditionally set up to protect assets or even generate returns in downturns; one of the things you trade away for that safety is full participation in market gains. So I'd expect a canonical, 'good' hedge fund to underperform a bit in an upswing but be flat or potentially even positive in a down market.

The article talks a bit in the second half about how hedge funds achieve this - where the 'hedge' comes from - so the insight is there if you think hard about it: you have to pay for the hedge somehow, and it comes out of your upside participation.

The reason hedge funds are falling out of favor is more to do with a surfeit of crappy funds, which again the article hints at but is too polite to explain. A lot of that collective underperformance post 2008 is down to a huge population of 'me too' equity long/short funds all following rote strategies. That statistic conceals the limited number of cleverly managed, fast moving funds which were able to take contrary positions in the credit bubble and protect their investor's money by shorting CDSs.

All of which is to say, the industry needs a shakeup and maybe this variable fee structure has a role to play. Good luck to them.
Instavest could use a few visualizations for the hedge fund investors like this:

http://54.149.66.250/sp500/sp500_visualizations.html
> "Grain silo" and "fish pond" are exactly-precisely compound nouns.

Eeeh, not exactly in English. English does make some distinction between fully compounded words and noun phrases, especially in rules of production. In a newer phrase like "wind farm", you can swap in more or less any noun you like, even if it doesn't make a lot of sense: "mud farm", "rock farm", "hair farm"... there's some rule like "substance + farm = a farm that produces that substance". With a word like "bedroom", you can get "bathroom", but not so much "deskroom"; there's no general rule like "furniture + room = room where that furniture is found". The space (in cases where it's pronounced) is kinda your hint there.

Anyway... I still don't believe in grammar, but y'all have mounted a spirited defense of the traditional analysis. I'm sorry I tried to say everything's an adjective :)
I think it's public information that we worked together for some time, however I was never part of the new company "Hacking Team", so any claim of involvement would be far fetched :-) Btw I'm not a fan of eavesdropping on citizens, but I can see how you could use this kind of software to fight organizations like Mafia and other known criminals. So the software they provide is a tool that can be used in a good or bad way. However if they sold to people which are not known by high standards of ethics... and where it is likely there is a freedom-killer use of the software, I think it is not wise to sell to them (not wise or... really bad, actually). Moreover to be truly honest, I'm not a fan for any use of using zero-day security bugs to break into other people systems. I still have this romantic view of security researchers as people that share their findings so that bugs can be fixed.
XUL is already rendered using Gecko.
I too took CS61AS in scheme and AI in python, but my experience was different than that of your friend. I didn't find it difficult to pick up python, and learning it after scheme made me appreciate python all the more.

Unless one plans on developing mostly in python during his or her career, I think its beneficial to be forced to learn multiple languages.
Slavoj Žižek on Greece: This is a chance for Europe to awaken
I would guess that the effect is marginal, though real and positive.

Empiricism, however, is a stronger basis for policy making than personal anecdote and untested theories.
It already is. XUL is rendered via Gecko.
PSVita Update on native homebrew launching
The primary usefulness I would see is syncing your browser history, bookmarks, etc. across devices. I use Safari and I have pretty much every extension I feel like I need.
Like pcwalton said, we already use Gecko to render the UI. But we're using a less well-optimized, less well-maintained corner of Gecko.

Improving performance is an explicit goal of this work.
Best practice for multiple Git repositories
I agree with you on all these points, even if I haven't experienced them myself in SF. I used to take the T and used the bus system in the greater Boston area for a couple of years and had similar experiences. Quite a few people drank beer out of gatorade bottles for breakfast, etc. One guy nearly threw up in my lap.

The point I'm trying to make is that public transit can be made much better and more enjoyable. Instead of saying "well, it sucks now" we should say "it sucks now, let's make it better". The budgets currently devoted to maintaining roads, traffic police, etc. could be used to improve public transit instead. Motorized walkways could double or triple your walking speed (something you say you already do) in lots of places.

I grew up in Kharkiv, Ukraine, a city with roughly 1m people and several public transit options: subway, tram/light rail, commuter rail, taxis, and buses. While some of these got to be somewhat gross, the subway specifically was always great: always clean, always air conditioned, marble floors and walls. By contrast, Boston's T/subway/metro is always looking like there is either construction or rodent extermination going on, and it is incredibly hot at all times. It's also incredibly noisy because of the wrong size chassis on some of the train. I believe that if a country like Ukraine can have nice public transit, the US should be able to figure it out too.
Alabaster: a Sphinx theme
All COBOL shops have developed what could be called their own frameworks from scratch over the years. Learn COBOL and DB2/SQL. If you end up working on mainframes. JCL as well. If on AS/400. RPG and ACL. Most developers don't really have to know much else then COBOL. Just type in a editor, run commands, done.
This email represents an intention to start investigating moving away from XUL/XBL. There are a number of areas to explore here like how to properly handle L10N, add-on overlays, and where to go native vs markup. At the same time we're actively moving over to e10s (electrolysis / per process tabs). There will be followup communication about who is doing the work and what work is being done but now is the time to add your concerns and comments or offer support.
I read somewhere that NASA uses a Request Tracker system for managing activities. Perhaps that database would contain references to the appropriate documents?

https://www.bestpractical.com/rt/
The Fairest Way to Split Anything into Thirds
Handdrawn pictures and a surprisingly involved procedure: http://randomdirections.com/splitting-thirds/
It already is, only the UI is written in XUL.
I loved that in contrast with the other Material Design Toolkits, this one uses only CSS for its animations.
This is slightly off topic, but when my dad couldn't install his printer, he called a random tech company online....

They basically requested full access to his computer, for about $99, and set up his printer, but they also installed a bunch of software, one of the things they installed was Qihoo 360.

This wasn't requested, and it made me wonder whether or not Qihoo pays a bounty for each install to these random companies.

It made me really suspicious of the software.

Has anyone had any experience with their tools?
Adults are just kids with money.
Reddit CEO Ellen Pao resignation petition reaches 150,000 signatures
How others deal with breakups
and article with nice overview here:
https://medium.com/google-developers/introducing-material-de...
I believe that's already the case, although it uses XUL-specific code paths in Gecko.

In terms of performance -- there is no deep reason for it being slower, but of course the code might end up being a bit less optimized compared to stuff that has been battle-tested for 15 years. On the other hand, getting rid of XUL could deliver dramatic results. It's all speculation really, but there is no real technical reason for "XUL-less FF" to be incredibly slower than current offering.
Because cultures and their beliefs can be stupid, and religious/cultural dogma can perpetrate a system that doesn't work. Humans tend towards efficiency only where there is no ideological dogma to hinder this.

Take the example of sacrifice. In dozens of cultures spanning ((in some cases) hundreds of) thousands of years, people have believed that the sacrifice of <insert species here> will stop the rain/volcano/thunder & lightning/etc. we now know this to be completely false, even though many of these cultures have writings and other 'empirical evidence' that says it does work.
Fair enough -- "exactly" was overreaching. But depending on circumstance, you may not need to distinguish adjectives from articles. For example, if you're writing something that turns text into an internal semantic model, then "the" gets lumped in with "large" as something that modifies a following noun.

It's still a judgment call whether they properly belong in different categories, and situation-dependent, so it's really not something that merits the "point and laugh" treatment.
Yeah, Twitter's not exactly a medium that promotes civility.
https://github.com/google/material-design-lite/issues/739
Considering 90% of my Uber usage is for commuting, this could take significant market away from Uber.
You mentioned filtering attempts, one that someone posted earlier I've found works well, even if I only browse out of curiousity: http://whereis-whoishiring-hiring.me/
Is+Greece+A+Ploy+For+a+Massive+Share+Grab+By+The+Elite?
I think they failed at being transparent on what they were doing like being arbitrary about bans/shadow banning ect.
The Firefox (Desktop) UI is already rendered using Gecko. It has been that way since the beginning.

Mozilla spends much more time optimizing HTML and other Web content tech than it does optimizing XUL and XBL. I wouldn't worry too much about this project slowing down Firefox. It might even speed it up a bit.
What are Ellen Pao's qualifications for running a site like Reddit?

edit: what's up HN, this is a genuine question. I see that she's made a couple of mistakes that I'd qualify as 'tone deaf' but on the whole she could do a lot worse. What I am wondering about is how a position such as CEO of Reddit (which is first and foremost a community effort) is picked, it would seem to me that you would make a short-list of people with experience running communities and I miss the connection between Pao and Reddit on that front.
I've asked people who work in these fields those same questions. Answers were along the lines of "someone else will do it if I don't" or "it's less violent than the actual violence the government would use otherwise." The reality of it is that you have to stop caring about the effects of your actions at some point: all the stuff we use daily is a product of exploitation and suffering of others with a dash of ruining the planet for future generations, yet we don't have a problem looking ourselves at the mirror.
"Bot fighting is not illegal! Betting on bot fighting -- that's illegal. But... so lucrative!"
Do you have any proof, or do we have to believe the word of someone who belive's the word of someone else, who in his turn is unknown?