skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compilers did use the shifter. I don't know if this is exactly what he was referring to, but one oddity with the SH4's dynamic shift instruction is that it only shifts to the left (there are also a limited number of shift-by-small constant (1,2,8,16) amount instructions). To shift to the right, you have to first negate the shift amount, then preform a left shift. So if use did a right shift by a non-constant, you would always see a negation of the shift amount before the shift. My guess as to why it was implemented like this was that since the SH4 had a fixed length, 2-byte instruction set, running out of possible instructions for future expansion was a real hazard, and not encoding both directions was done to save space.

On the original SH4 implementation, under certain conditions, there had to be one cycle in-between when a shift-amount was generated and when it was used, otherwise there would be a one-cycle CPU stall. A real right shift would avoid the need to schedule around this stall. This isn't necessarily something that needs an extra instruction to fix, the implementation could be designed to not need the stall, but it might difficult to work around. I don't to circuit design, but dynamic shift instructions typically look at as few bits in the shift amount to simplify and speed up the design of the shifter. The reason for the delay in the original SH4 is probably because it analysis and tags each register with information for the correct shift direction and amount, and certain units won't have this information ready for the shifter in time, hence the stall if the shift is too close the shift amount generation. (I've read this certain CPU implementations have done similar work in tagging if a register is zero or not, in order to help keep branch-on-zero/not-zero instructions quick.) If the instruction talked about is a dedicated right shift, it could be defined in a way that doesn't need a negation and extra tagging, would be much more compiler friendly, and faster.
VCs don't arrange soft landings out of affection or "butt sniffing". It's about control and power.

VCs like to say, "failure is OK, get up and try again" but the truth of the matter, in the Valley, is that you're completely fucking screwed post-faceplant unless the VCs are willing to help you out and place you. You're completely reliant on them for your career and reputation, because they will be the ones who decide (and I use the word decide rather than judge because it really is up to them) whether you failed in good faith or were incompetent and shall become untouchable. This means that you can't buck them, even if they decide to fire you and even if they decide to kill your company (to suit the needs of a competitor that they're also funding, and that they've already picked as the winner over you).

In other words, the soft landings aren't about affection but control. They want an ecosystem where unless they extend something that sorta looks like an out-of-band favor ("sorry that it didn't work out, but my friend is looking for a VP/Eng Post-B, 250k and 3%") the founder is completely fucked.
Google cache/mirror as the site seems to be down: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6Zb24tu...
I got this wrong, but oddly enough my first attempt was a No. I tried, "6, 1, 8"

After that, I went with doubling and it worked 3 times with various sizes of number, so I went with that.

Double bonus points if you can guess what I was testing with the first sequence (which the given numbers do satisfy).
Why isn't Greece now suing everyone who's ever taken a photo of the Acropolis for damages? That's the only vaguely useful application of this silly law i can think of.
When I hear people say that Craigslist hasn't changed in 15 years, I have to wonder how much they actually use Craigslist.

The functionality has changed (improved) dramatically since 15 years ago. For example there is now a map view for many search results. Searches of "for sale" listings now default to a gallery view. In fact the entire infrastructure for accepting and displaying images is new; Craigslist launched as a text-only website, and embedding images was a messy hack for years.

In general the data structure has been enhanced to collect more and more finely grained pieces of information by which searchers can filter their results. To name on example I've used, selling a boat on Craigslist now has its own set of dedicated fields for attributes like length, manufacturer, model, power source, even the number of hours on the engine.

The one thing that hasn't changed is the visual aesthetic. It's still plain-Jane HTML. But there are plenty of ugly-but-functional websites that do very well: Wikipedia, Google, and even Facebook are boring designs on top of really rich server-side content.
"a few of them end up just enjoying themselves"

The studies about people that win money that I've seen paint a different picture: 75% lose it all within 5 years by not spending wisely. It's the same with professional sports players and it's gotten so bad, they have started getting them mandatory professional money managers. I believe there is a Netflix documentary about it called "broke".

People that inherit money also end up losing their money at crazy rates unless they already had good money management skills/work for a living/were taught these skills by their parents.

I don't see how this would be any different with a basic income. Not to mention the inflation caused by it. For starters, all businesses will have their prices raised automatically to pay for the new taxes imposed on them.

In the very beginning, it might be okay in terms of economics. However, as the years go on, more and more people will start relying on this basic income and we will have entire generations of people depending on it to live.

Costs will only increase and there will be less people actually contributing to the tax base, so the only way to continue to pay for it is tax increases on the middle class and everyone else making a living. It's basically just another wealth transfer scheme to people that never earned it.

The sad fact is that the vast majority of people never really appreciate things they haven't earned and although a basic income sounds nice in theory, it's a flawed idea that is doomed to fail.
All I remember on our S/36 were the first chapters of each manual. "How to read this manual". And amazingly, those 20 some pages were needed. At least for me they were.

As far as IPL's I can't remember a more breathtaking moment when I had to IPL the system and it would come up successfully. And the more horrific event when the 10" floppy used to IPL went bad. LOL, good times.......
Thanks for the detailed followup. Is there any case precedent for prosecuting money laundering like this? It seems to me that the path can still be rebuilt. I guess the criminality depends on the crime and the jurisdiction? (And the law. Obviously I'm not a lawyer, lol.)
How to apologize properly
You can use a whitelist, which is what the Mac solution is anyway.
The Wordpress ecosystem is where it's at. People making plugins, themes, blog posts, education, etc, etc, etc. The Ghost ecosystem feels anemic at best. Go look at the templates. The list barely changes from month to month, and a significant number of themes are released then completely abandoned by the developers. I don't know why, but it feels like Ghost has not been able to get the community activated in an effective manner.
this is heartbreaking :(
The STS was purposely designed not to do that due to political reasons, pilots didnt want to feel like they were passangers, emergency restrictions, etc. Eventually those restrictions were lifted and was fully autonomous at a certain point, I don't remember which models have the full autonomy suite, but the capabilities varied as these things were built out.

Considering the Buran has never put a person into space, its still fair to call it an experimental and a failed project. The STS was doing all these things and more. Its an interesting bit of Soviet trivia, but all the attention it gets on the internet is fairly amusing for whats essentially the poster-boy in mismanaging a spacecraft project and what essentially became a Soviet "make work" jobs program, as the higher-ups knew early on that this thing would never be put into production due to a variety of factors including cost and technical issues.

I find it interesting that these things haven't been turned into scrap yet. There's something to be said about how overly prideful and nostalgic Russians are about the USSR. I think Putin put one of the Burans indoors after it was discovered to be sitting out amongst the elements. Most governments would just recycle failed capital projects. Unless they're bringing this thing back, it seems weird to have it sitting around in various corners of their launch complex.
Actually the Python C API is part of the Python language, so part of Python is actually C.
I was more agreeing with the parent comment than disagreeing with you. Money, marketing, and discipline probably should be bigger parts of my life (definitely in the case of marketing). Getting to see your thoughts and that front has contributed to the gears turning there, and I already sent the article to some of my copywriting/editing freelance friends.
It probably has something to do with tourism. The thinking must be that if you see the Eiffel Tower's picture online (I believe this new law threatens the whole EU) you won't want to go see it in person anymore.

And using the typical "copyright math", they must also think one picture view = one lost tourist, so their studies probably already show that picture taking is "costing the EU trillions of euros".

Kind of like this absurdity here:

http://www.businessinsider.com/piracy-cyber-crime-game-of-th...
No, partial updates of materialized views it seems like.
IANAL, but from what I remember of the Wired reporting the evidence and involvement of this officer was left out of the prosecution.
> gold rush that happens to use computing as its backdrop, which is overwhelmingly heading towards web-based media companies.

Yet Gates' and Jobs' gold came from edge clients, not web media. Clients have never been more powerful, why is there no modern gold rush in client software? Is it merely that SaaS/hosted software does not suffer from piracy?
Finding bugs in tarsnap
Every nytimes.com page displays that in the JS console.
Also, random bold, underline and italics all over the place.
It rendered the phishing HTML, but you can't interact with it. I guess it's because the script is stopping the render of facebook after the request has been made (hence the www.facebook.com site), providing another security layer, as you can't be phished with an unresponsive website.

And I don't think javascript would make a difference.
Nexus 6: Google dramatically cuts price of flagship phone
Harvard Hacked
> It becomes even stranger in some cases. For example, you can share a photo of the Eiffel Tower because of its age – but only if it is taken during the day. If the photo is at night, the lighting is considered a separate installation and falls foul of Freedom of Panorama.

Wtf? what is the justification for this?
Twitter Pushes Ads with a New Button Atop Mobile Users’ Profiles
I have seen this stat from a few studies.

EX: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/06/kids_are_normal....

Higher income > more kids, Higher education > fewer children.

This seems fairly obvious as people are less likely to have children and stay in school. But, as I understand it the effect is larger than that.
Crowdfunding the world's first underground park
I think he's right except you don't have to believe that humans are fundamentally equal at all to want democracy. Humans are in no way equal. If humans were in fact equal, they wouldn't be able to evolve as evolution requires variability which is just another word for inequality. So when you want to promote cooperation over competition and you know that humans as any other DNA based life forms are fundamentally unequal, what you do is you give them equal deciding power so that noone can rise above the others.
Actually, these scenes run in realtime at 30FPS in the worst case, and upwards of 100 FPS on some (like the beach scene)

https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?58385-Koola-s...
The whole facility (and the shuttles actually) are owned by Kazakhstan as far as I'm aware. Ownership of it was "transferred" during the breakup in the 1990s. That being said large portions of the active section of the base are actually `run` by russians.
I don't see how that is fair.

1. PG claims he was joking, and doesn't actually believe what he said.

2. The article quotes him as if he truly believed this, when in fact he believes the opposite.

3. You claim that if PG's argument for why he doesn't believe it is wrong, then the quote is likely to be true even if PG didn't mean it, and therefore it's accurate to quote PG as if he did mean it. That last part makes no sense.
iOS programming in Rust
Veritasium video on the same thing

https://youtu.be/vKA4w2O61Xo
The filler problem: Why Grand Theft Auto is wasting your time
I feel it's a little disingenuous for the author not to mention up front that the fake page can't be interacted with, because it completely changes the severity of the vulnerability.
There's no appeal to authority in my comment. While I believe systemd is a step up, I here merely pointed out that most distro managers disagree with him, but that this also only precludes him from using those distros - nothing stops him from forking one, or finding some suitable niche distro.
That is an interesting tactic I would not have thought about, and not necessarily untrue. I love my co-workers and the work, so hoping the raise thing works out. Thank you!
Awesome app, been a user since the beginning. Amazing UX.
I wanted to answer "Probably" to the last question about having seen a similar question before.

I don't specifically recall seeing one, but it is likely that I have.
Oh yes -- weird it's not prominent on the initial story. I've edited myself.
Anti-game-violence legislator pleads guilty to racketeering
Maybe, but there's strong evidence (from the field of macroeconomics) that allowing people to just receive money (rather than payments in kind) makes them even better off. Although you may fret about people using the money for bad things, in reality mostly they don't, but they are better at allocating resources than a central planner. Think of it this way, to the citizen who actually wants to be better off, would you rather be able to cut your spending in order to make a smart investment or not be able to do so?
In the XML PowerPoint format (.pptx), it's a line break (inserts an <a:br> element between the two lines). There's no vertical tab character saved out to disk (who knows what PowerPoint does internally, though).

I don't have the time or the initiative to figure out what the old .ppt format does here.
Just thinking a little bit about this problem, there is an easy to code, precise and top performance algorithm for solving the following two problems:

1) finding the points Pi within a certain distance d0 of a fixed point P0 in your database

2) finding the nearest point Pmin to P0, with Pmin in your database.

I will keep it for myself, but as a hint here are two steps:
first: read the John Cook article about deriving the distance formula, and second: think and easy way of avoiding unneeded computation.

It took me just a minute to realize the correct way to solve the OP, so it shouldn't take you long to solve it.
The horse blinders industry must be behind this.

Insane!
Do a thought experiment. Imagine that the entire UK were walled in by an impenetrable barrier enclosing the country out to the boundary of its exclusive economic zone, and every record and memory of ownership were wiped away, such that no one could be entirely certain who owned what. Stimpson J. Cat pushed the History Eraser Button.

On the morning following the event, some boffins assemble and work out an emergency plan for re-establishing a workable economy, on the assumption that one existed before everyone forgot what it was.

Now, with no memory of the past, does the UK have the land, labor, and capital to completely provide for the needs of its people? If that costs £X per year, can the people of the UK produce £X of economic output per year, and with the correct proportions of goods and services?

(For your reference, the UK represents approximately 4% of the global economy.)

I reached my own conclusion as a result. It is completely workable mathematically. It just doesn't work within the existing legal tradition. That's the one that respects property and contracts--the one we all like because it's what we rely on to assure ourselves that the car we drove to work will still be there when we knock off for the day, and the house we go back to won't be full of grubby squatters when we get there.

But as much as we like it, those with more wealth, who lack the will or the imagination to spend what they earn--to keep the production-consumption economy circulating efficiently--like it more. It keeps the grubby middle class from building ugly-but-productive anthills and beehives within sight of their beautiful-but-inefficient homes, yachts, and luxury resorts. And that is what stops the socialist schemes to erase poverty--we just don't have the stones to commit armed robbery to do it. The middle class largely pays for itself, and no more, so the only available source for the necessary resources to haul the lower classes out of poverty is the rich, including the synthetic rich people better known as corporations.

So you swallow your lofty free-market, shalt-not-steal ideals, abandon your pipe dreams of one day being in the upper class, and you tax the rich at near-extortionate rates. Naturally, they would want to flee such a tax regime. Let them. Just stop them from taking the productive capital with them as they go.

It might work out like France. It might work out like Venezuela. It might work out like the USSR. But if it doesn't work out, it won't be because it is a mathematical impossibility. It will just be because someone made a wrong assumption in one of the thousands of possible places to make a mistake when trying to re-engineer an entire national economy.
Easy Haskell Development Setup with Docker
There was a Python web framework which used \v to separate between code and HTML.. Does any of you remember the name?

EDIT: found it, it's called Aspen (http://aspen.io/simplates/). They actually were using form feed (^L or \f), but apparently have switched to an ASCII combination to separate code from presentation.

From the web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20110412072653/http://aspen.io/p...

There's an old HN discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2410221
Would liquid nitrogen trigger the float switch?
> I feared that Instapaper development would stagnate after Marco sold it.

Unfortunately "not stagnating" and "developing a lot of new features" these days usually means you will in fact soon start seeing tweets, related articles and what other people think besides your texts.

Which is a shame, because I too love the minimalistic approach of Instapaper.
Upsert, oh well. CRUD becomes CRUDUM: Create, Read, Update, Delete, Uperst, Merge.

Instead of 4 orthogonal concepts we now have 6 overlapping. Because the majority voted for it. That's progress!
> […] Venture capital still relies heavily on referrals. “Show me another industry where the way you find your customers is to wait for your friends to introduce them to you,” Mr. Bahat said.

The deep irony of the consumer-focused venture industry—for all its talk of technology and transparency—is that it still operates with the shrouded obscurantism of a medieval guild.
18 Extraordinary Lessons Learned from Interviewing the World’s Top Entrepreneurs
Lightweight ETL for Ruby
No, no, the Acropolis is too old. What they need to do is install some dramatic lighting, and claim that the new combination is copyrighted. See also: Eiffel tower
I've found that sometimes its due to the programmer not wanting to try and figure out a good name for the variable. It sounds like a simple problem, but it is actually quite hard! Good variable names provide meaningful context that improve readability.
you get a space program. YOU get a space program. EVERYONE GETS A SPACE PROGRAM!
What woman should be on the new $10 bill?
Is SEO the only thing that matters in a website?
http://www.tarful.com/blog/is-seo-important-in-a-website/
He missed a critical option: you can write those loops in python and JIT them to C fast LLVM with numba: https://github.com/numba/numba
Just for info, the scene runs at 1080p30 with really high tesselation, with something less overkill it run at 1080p60 (on a gtx970).
If I could talk to the bomber, I'd want to know- why actually use explosives? At the moment the main explosion goes off, your plot is over and your bomb is useless. At that point, you're not getting any money, and it's now a question of "will you get caught by the feds". And if you do get caught, having used dud explosives can only be to your benefit.
I agree with SCTP removal
http://blog.ipspace.net/2009/08/what-went-wrong-sctp.html

SCTP it's not so adopted as TCP replacement for a few reasons
http://stackoverflow.com/a/20290710/66242
Response time is critical for e-commerce
It's not just the UK, it's the entire EU, right?
Yes, this is exactly the hard/interesting part to implement. Facebook uses their own graph databases which lets you specify access control rules. You'd need something similar on top of SQL.
Something I've been meaning to find out for a while: we've all played with tearable cloth simulators in Javascript or HTML5. Surely game engines are more powerful than these, yet even modern games have cloth that doesn't move, stops bullets and can be stood on like it's concrete. Is it just not a priority/not worth the cycles?
> the JVM for a long time and many people have bad experiences with it

And the only reason for this is that people don't have to maintain 15 yo Go code bases yet. But Go is verbose and will be a hell to maintain just like any other language that becomes 'enterprisey', just like big nodejs code bases, big rails code bases or big JEE code bases give people 'bad experiences'.
Bing Doesn't Support SNI, Causing Sites to Disappear on Bing
I read somewhere that it's because of the lights on the tower being done more recently.
Annihilators in Scala: An Example of Type Class Design
First of all, these are not OS-native to any OS I know. So it's not native GUI. "Native" refers to the OS, not to the hardware.

Second, the GUI looks atrocious. What is wrong with designers nowadays that they think we live in a cartoonish world?
SOH is also important in the FIX protocol --- and the fact that FIX relies on ASCII arcana causes security problems.

I think the article is right: eliminate \v.
I can see that there are about an equal number of negative and positive comments to the post, and an even higher number of neutral ones.

Overall I definitely cannot see where the "bashing by HN community" is.
"I know you say publicity like it's a dirty or cheap word"

No, I don't. You should not have read it like that ;-)
I thought because you are a freelancer you were looking for publicity. The big number is a bit cheap, but if it works... So the congrats was actually a real congrats. Not that many people managed to get on top of HN.

Weird thing is, i received so many points on my initial "bashing" comment. I thought i would have ended up with -10 at least. I expected the comment above to receive 1 point but it ends up in the -. Ah well.

All in all it is quite amazing how differently the same thing can be interpreted.
Thanks so much for this summary. I've always wondered why USSR used a similar design. Based on this, and other comments, it sounds like this was a good design for the mission at hand and that it's debatable that the mission at hand was a worthy endeavor.