skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sheer lack of interest in both Go and Rust has become somewhat of a curiosity for me as of late. Trying to figure out what it is that has made both of these languages dead-on-arrival for me has become an idle game. It's not helped by HN being the only place I really ever see either language mentioned.
I have used them for a side project, no issues.
The big reason for me moving from DO to them that I didn't see mentioned is because they have actual private networking.
And also the option for servers with HDD instead of SSD.
What makes you think you cannot use it for car rentals or rooms??? That's not factually correct at all. Nothing to prevent points here as well.
Patronage has existed for a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronage#Arts
if you take away the parentheses from Lisp you end with a Forth
The "A" in ARC is a bit of an euphemism. You basically move the coding of your memory management into the type signatures, which don't write themselves automatically either. The amout of thoughts you have to make during development is the same.
Most of the complexity of a good malloc (jemalloc/tcmalloc) is going to be in its thread-local caches and in its placement heuristics, both of which are also necessary for a good GC (for the tenured generation, in the latter case). Accounting necessary for the tenured generation is also comparable to accounting for a malloc implementation. Fragmentation also isn't much of an issue anymore with modern allocation schemes. When you add in the complexity and overhead of tri-color marking and write/read barriers, the overhead often isn't in GC's favor, compared to a well-tuned program that uses the stack where possible and a good malloc implementation for long-lived objects only.
Found some publications, the theory is called The Visceral Theory of Sleep, spearheaded by Ivan Pigorev.

Intro:
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/271920141_The_Viscer...

Cortical visual areas process intestinal information during slow-wave sleep:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nmo.12052/abstrac...
"Here then, ta-da, is the current draft of pre-fascicle 6a (318 pages). This is revision 1, dated 08 July 2015."
Just going through the statements here that are not correct - to clarify for you, this is a corporate debit program that would not require reimbursement. So you are not liable so long as the company approved you and empowered you to make such a purchase.
There's a great op-ed by Stanford's Jonathan Mayer and Princeton's Ed Felten explaining this problem.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/12/13/nsa_surve...

Their two labs also wrote a solid academic paper on the topic.

http://randomwalker.info/publications/cookie-surveillance-v2...
I've been using "the server's on fire".

For when you need a bit of whimsy on being woken up at 3am.
Can't stop reading this as Linux Tux Racer.
MySpace lost to Facebook, partly by not matching what became popular features on Facebook, such as "The Wall"

That is a gross over simplification of why MySpace lost to facebook. One of the main reasons I think MySpace lost was that they never seemed to have a grand vision like Zuck and fb seemed to have developed around '06-07. Not to mention, MySpace was an offshoot of a super shady marketing company, not a technology company. That became more and more apparent as MySpace suffered constant performance and security issues.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9825421
Wow, 7 nanometer is incredible! I wonder how small they can get silicon / silicon-germanium based chips before we have to resort to other techniques such as light processors (since light can be closer and even cross each other without issue). 10 nanometers that they're introducing next year is also incredible, at least to me since I'm not a hardware engineer and can't imagine how difficult manufacturing these are.
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I don't know about suicide, but many people theorized at the time that crime would rise during the Great Recession in the US. However, counter-intuitively, crime continued its decades-long decline. Why this happened is the subject of debate.
The IBM 1401 restoration team found some corroded germanium transistors that seemed to show memristor-like behavior: http://ibm-1401.info/GermaniumAlloy.html#CommentsGarner (scroll to the p.s.) If anyone can explain this behavior, they would be grateful.

To change topic, progress on memristors seems painfully slow. In comparison, it took just 10 years from the invention of the transistor until IBM's president forced the company to give up tubes and switch to transistors. And it was just 4 years from the invention of the first IC until NASA decided to use them in the Apollo Guidance Computer and landed them on the moon a few years later.
The EFF might not like it, and most internet users might not like it either, but being able to track users pays for most of the free content we consume on the internet. Thats just the reality.

Less pragmatic people might argue "micro payments" or some such idea, but the fact is people have never really paid for news. News has always been subsidised heavily by advertising. Almost everyone who argues this is running an Adblocker.

Also third party cookies (and ads) are something any internet user can disable in a few clicks.
No mention of Intel anywhere in the article and how far along they are. Also 7nm blows my mind. I mean current CPUs already blow my mind with how tiny the transistors are getting.

And specially stabilized buildings? "NOBODY MOVE! WE'RE ETCHING!"
They use germanium.
Actually Intel was mentioned and its struggle with the 14 mm node.
That's .... brilliant.
I've been reading slashdot for over a decade and I just wasn't feeling this... honestly not sure if Slashdot can be rescued at this point. SourceForge is in the same boat.
An open letter to the Virginia SCC (bout some BS)
If I understand the article correctly Microsoft isn't doing away with phones, only reducing the offering to 3-6 models updated yearly. Something like this seems to work very well for a certain fruit company.

My only reason to prefer my Z3 over Lumia was the water protection and if I could get a waterproof Lumia it would be on top of my list I guess.
Prior discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806513

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9815455
I will try it, but am always leary of algo driven and curated news feeds. It will have to really be good to replace RSS and the skimmability factor that RSS provides before Feedly is booted. Maybe the News app is not exactly for power users though. I'll try and have an open mind with it.
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"tl;dr what you described is possible, I guess, but so incredibly unlikely it's not even worth thinking about."

How would you rate it, in terms of "worth thinking about", relative to USB keys picked up off of the ground to infect industrial controllers to make centrifuges wiggle the wrong way ?

Where would you stick that in, you know, in your "worth thinking about it" spectrum ?

Just curious.
There is an existing baseline before Slack was released that you can take as a rough baseline.

It's true though - Hipchat was caught napping. Atlassian backburner'd it at exactly the wrong time, and by the time they starting fixing things, it was too late.

This being said, Atlassian isn't really a 'startup' anymore. Hipchat is a side-product of a suite of gorilla products.
Given the way we're going, I wonder how soon it will be cheaper and easier to build a cpu plant in orbit...
I honestly believe Slack got big so fast because of their awesome awesome campaign advert. Just like the dollar shave club ad too.

Some startups forget that the first impression and cool factor still play a big role in creating a huge buzz about your app.
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Hey, I've been trying to look into this a bit. Which OS (or OSes?) do you see 10-15fps on? Because so far on Mac I'm not seeing any differences compared to Chrome, but I may just be missing it...
"If the threat model posits an attacker with an exploit for Amazon S3"

No, I'm not talking about an "S3 exploit". In fact, quite the opposite. I'm talking about an exploit for the web server that serves static S3 sites (and yes, it is a web server) which would serve arbitrary content instead of the underlying S3 content.

The end user doesn't care that you injected the defaced content vs. altered the underlying content - defaced is defaced.
How to start a live video streaming website and mobile app?
I am convinced that GC can cause issues with object lifetimes and pauses (at least without a pauseless GC).

Like sanjoy points out though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9856234 RC could involve atomic increment/decrement. I haven't seen any macro benchmarks about ARC performance vs manual memory management and/or GC.

I've seen anecdotes like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12527286/are-there-any-co... or microbenchmarks (from the same page) but nothing at a larger scale.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9818310
Great talk that describes how modern (as of 2011) computer chips are manufactured: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
And occasionally it still can be - the odd nugget of outside analysis and opinion from anyone but "Tyler," mainly. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Zero Hedge these days too, but mainly for entertainment value than anything actually insightful.
> The big problem -- in the U.S. anyway -- is that there are huge companies with a vested interest in maintaining something like the late-ish 20th century copyright regime.

Agreed. For a poster-child of this one need look no further than the Disney corporation. By US copyright laws existing up until 1978[1], "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" should have entered into the public domain sometime around 1993. Now? It's locked up until at least 2032 and will likely be "protected" by further copyright law modifications.

1 - http://www.ivanhoffman.com/expiration.html
I wouldn't be so sure. Slack was just a better product overall, offering a clear interafce and much better integrations than Hipchat. Hipchat being slow did not impact them as much as having a mediocre product to begin with.

About Yammer, I wouldn't really put it in the same bucket as Slack, as it really tries to be a Facebook for your company, not a group chat.
Return of the PowerPC Mac?
Very interesting. Good to see that the article points out that going from working transistors to commercial viable industrial process is also a big challenge. There are a lot of technologies and industry players that need to solve big problems before the node can start deliver. But that is what ITRS is for.

Also, interesting to see how things like e-beam litography is pushed once again at least a node into the future. We (as in they) are still able to tune and optimize on the same infrastructure.
Why my request for a TL;DR got downvoted? I thought, if you had that much to say, it could be am interesting opinion, but I didn't have enough time to go through it all.
What are the chances that imgur is throwing this image as an exploit prevention technique? Maybe there were 3000+ times the author triggered the rate limit, or some other metric?

The next one called "White Line" appeared 2000+ times too, maybe doing the same job.

In early days of reCAPTCHA at CMU, Luis von Ahn did a similar thing. There are a lot of sweatshops to type in CAPTCHAs, they detected that, and instead of blocking them, they threw at them longer (sometimes entire sentences) CAPTCHAs to get their help digitizing text.
Linode?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9852245
Could not agree more on Lyft. In a winner-take-all market where an all-out land grab is critical to the long-term success of the marketplace, moving quickly and being the first to reach that golden scale of monopolistic ownership of supply and demand is absolutely key.

Not a perfect comparison given Lyft was founded 2 years after Uber and therefore was already at a disadvantage, but had they grown faster, they might have been able to overtake Uber's position.

In any case, the outcome of the Uber / Didi battle in China should be a great data point for this question.
Another common thing, it also had its own computers, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace
I wish there were more of these little experiments being done! What with just a little more time and resources, imagine what other weird quirky discoveries are out there.
I can't speak for the other applications, but have you used Hipchat? It's really poor in comparison to Slack.

I preferred Skype instead of using Hipchat, that's how bad it was.
Looks neat. For those looking for this functionality in a more mature framework, check out Ember FastBoot: https://github.com/tildeio/ember-cli-fastboot
Another shameless plug -- Go has been an officially supported buildpack on Cloud Foundry for more than a year, based on the same buildpack which Heroku have now adopted as official.

You can try it on Pivotal Web Services or BlueMix.

Disclaimer: I was seconded to the Cloud Foundry buildpacks team for ~7 months.
Whatever you think of advertising, it doesn't have to enable government spying. Moving ads to HTTPS would solve the eavesdropping problem. Google has already announced it's doing just that.

Also, it's not that simple for an Internet user to stop tracking or advertising. According to an academic paper from a few years back, there are dozens of ways to track a user, and many protections aren't very effective.

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/files/publication/files/tracki...
That's not true. The open source version of Qt is under the LGPL.

So if you dynamically link, then you can probably do your usual proprietary stuff. (Albeit dynamically linking C++ exposes you to a whole bunch of ABI fragility depending on your platform and compiler chain.)

If you statically link, they you have to make your source code available, which still could be acceptable for some commercial companies.
Ignore the technology and do some research to find out if there's a market for what you want to build.
This book inspired me quite a bit as a teenager.
Nice surf move there
> Youtube became exactly because of pirated videos in its early days.

I think this is the quintessential definition of "Quid Pro Quo"[1].

1 - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quid%20pro%20quo
One covered in lead to protect the lito from high energy particles. This might be the time when pushing an asteroid into one of the Lagrange points and hollowed out would be useful. Go SF dreams, go! (Where is Musk when we need him?)
Ask HN: What features would the ideal news reader app have?
Which one is best news reader for you (Flipboard, Feedly, Nuzzel, Pulse, Google News, Trigger...)?

And, What features would the ideal news reader app have?
Process names have little to do with actual feature sizes any more. I think 130nm was the last where the name had any correlation to the actual physical dimensions.

(Ex.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45_nanometer#Example:_Intel.27... )
http://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2127682
Ha, not likely. But because IBM and GF will manufacture for 3rd parties there's at least hope for AMD now if they get a better design.
It's silicon-germanium (so still has silicon in it). I'm curious what comes after :)
How is proposing a solution for an acute problem "less pragmatic" than proceeding as if nothing changed?

It's true that we never payed for news, but news isn't what it used to be either. News is written by your friends these days, not companies (I'm exaggerating, but still). Micro payments seem to be the best replacement we currently have. They're not just useful for blogs an the like, but also open source software development — and with Bitcoin around, we might not even need services like Flattr all together.

The pragmatic thing to do is to give micro payments a fair shot.
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Yes in OS boot loaders. FreeBSD uses it, and I think Apple uses it for OSX. Possibly iOS.
The last time I checked, diamond looked promising.
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More security issues?
Has anyone seen actual performance of Weathfront portfolios? You would think people would publish their results, but they've been hard to find.
Before it was sold, Slicehost tools and documentation were better, and their customer support was incredible. You would get answers in minutes, even if you only rented a $20 VPS.
It's mentioned at the bottom of the page and in a Github issue[0]

0: https://github.com/clusterinc/skit/issues/4
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Sorry, I'm wrong regarding OSX and iOS. OpenFirmware is used at numerous places, but Apple is not one of them.
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This is an old story.
The answer is: this is a test image used in integration tests of Imgur itself.
MapQuest. They achieved the marketing Holy Grail of reaching the Verb Status ("Let me MapQuest it") only to lose it. It was stale in features while Google pushed forward rapidly.
Accuracy in spam filters is a difficult thing to measure, particularly if you don't have access to internal metrics on filter performance.

The primary limiting factor for most blacklists is not scale, but simply the fact that most of them have no more than a few data sources - most commonly spamtrap data. It's useful, but it's not a comprehensive enough data point to accurately evaluate mail.

Having dozens or hundreds of data points available - things like how many recipients open a message and spend time reading it, how quickly they seek out a message when initially opening their inbox, or a sending domain's pagerank - gives Google a considerable edge in assessing overall mail quality.

(Caveat: outbound filtering is often more difficult than inbound filtering - perhaps in part because there are fewer data points available when assessing outbound mail.)
When I read this response about bitwise NOT operator it definitely felt like an impatient and dismissive RTFM response. A patient and welcoming answer could've been much shorter: "hey, we use ^ instead of ~ for that".

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/A9mCgLwy...
From gamedev perspective:

Every time I've prototyped something on a GC'd language (java, actionscript, javascript, ..) I soon find myself optimizing memory allocations and not making the game because the GC causes too much overhead and/or causes too long pauses and therefore makes the game feel miserable. It doesn't matter if there are some theoretical GC models which have < 1ms pauses with gigabytes of heap data, as the current implementations don't seem to be anywhere near that.

Nowadays I prefer to use C not because I like malloc, but because it makes handling different memory allocation schemes trivial (unlike C++). Furthermore, in this semi-real-time case the performance of malloc is irrelevant because when you want to be fast and low-latency, you pre-allocate everything and use lightweight functions to further distribute memory from those blocks.

In conclusion, I've found that manual memory management lets me focus more on the task I have in hand while GC don't.
I could be wrong, but I think optical processors would have serious diffraction problems with a 7 nm feature size, since the wavelength of blue light is somewhere around 300 nm.

As far as fabrication, one problem is that obviously you aren't using visible light to etch features on your wafers. The x-rays must be fun to work with... Not to mention, your photoresist would have to resist x-rays. Getting x-ray-resisting photoresist on and off your wafer must be tricky. Since 7 nm is about the size of several atoms, your wafer probably needs to be almost perfectly pure, which can't be easy, either.
Have they moved beyond vapor ware phase yet? Working silicon?
I believe advertising based on tracking users across websites is more of a recent phenomenon. I don't really have a problem with a contextual ad based on what I'm currently looking at. I have a problem with ads that are contextual based on everything I've been visiting for the past month.

I doubt the effectiveness of the ad is drastically improved in the second case. But even if it's improved only by 10%, the ad industry would rather aggressively violate users' privacy to get that extra 10%.
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> Make sure you use a secure domain registrar

AWS now resells domains from a selection of TLDs (generally the most common ones). They've partnered with gandi.net, who does the backend registrar stuff, but you can do it all from the Route53 AWS console. Means you can keep everything all in one place.
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> A single-atom transistor is theoretically possible.

How do you mean? How do you pack three distinct components into one atom?
Our burn rate is about ~$200/day (not month), half of it for datastore ops.
Hi author here again. You are the second person to have posted this to hacker news in the last week. To be honest I don't expect Coils to any traction as it is just a framework I built for myself, and it only supports databases instead of NoSql systems. But I am happy someone likes it! Thanks
Many of the mobile components are under commercial license, like payments, QML native compiler (you really need it), charts,...

Personally, I wouldn't be doing those from scratch just to avoid paying.
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All of this outrage at Facebook doing what Youtube already did[1] is difficult to fathom. Don't get me wrong, Facebook is not a site I use, am affiliated with, condone, or recommend.

But screaming bloody murder because they are doing to the site what that site did to others seems a bit of a stretch.

If hating on Facebook needs to happen (probably does, BTW), how about it's done for reasons such as their laughable "Terms of Service"[2] and how it blatantly states they instantly own anything passing through them without any consideration?

Now that's a bitterness I can get behind.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._Y....

2 - https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms
Doubtful: You can't really dope it n-type.

Diamond has the interesting property of having it's conduction band above vacuum level, so that free electrons would (in principle) fall out of the material. (Surface physics gets in the way of that.)

It's the reason that diamond is used for cold-cathode emitters btw.
That is a very weak argument. If anything I'd argue it's a net negative and not a positive that the code is closed from a security POV.
I agree that a code of conduct is a great idea but I'm really bummed to read that the Django CoC is going to be adopted by golang.

1. The Django CoC uses very vague language on what it is forbidden and explicitly tells you that "this isn’t an exhaustive list of things that you can’t do" just to be extra vague in what constitutes unacceptable behaviour.

2. It does not define what process will be used to address CoC violations, being ejected from an OS project for violating the CoC can be a serious thing with personal and professional ramifications but an accused is not given the right to face their accuser nor the right to an impartial jury (which would be hard to do anyway since the accusation could be something like "he's making me anxious")

3. It overextends itself "violations of this code outside these spaces may affect a person's ability to participate within them" which means that not only you are under the scrutiny of the kangaroo court when you are posting on golang spaces but everywhere else: ycombinator, reddit, your personal blog, etc. Honestly I feel like just writing this criticism is painting a target on my forehead, talk about safe spaces.

I wouldn't be making this comment if CoCs hadn't already been used in bad faith to attempt to character assassinate OS contributors (for exmaple the Kubuntu debacle or this [1])

[1] https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/