skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This 1908 paper he wrote in the journal 'Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy' is a little bit clearer on his meaning:

http://www.ditext.com/mctaggart/time.html

But it still comes across as a bit too much like 'woo' or maybe I just don't understand his way of explaining his idea.

From a university lecture slide note:

"His central philosophical conviction was that reality was
fundamentally spiritual; and his central aim was to show this by deriving contradictions from the assumption that the material world exists"

https://www3.nd.edu/~jspeaks/courses/2009-10/20229/LECTURES/...
When we chose this name we were certain that we won't have any troubles.
18 cores seems to be the best that Intel does. Which is fairly decent. http://ark.intel.com/products/84683/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-...

In laptops, there has been a trend for thinner, lighter and long battery life. So the easiest is to lower power demand. If you increase the number of transistors (by adding more cores), power consumption wouldn't go down enough.
Ask HN: Stupid Question – How to undo accidental upvote/downvote?
It's such a basic thing, but I'm not sure how to do that on HN. Call it old age, but sometimes I accidentally click upvote when I had to click downvote and vice versa. How can I undo that? It hides both the icons as soon as I click on any of them, and I don't want people to feel bad about my mistake (And there are studies which show downvotes affect more downvotes)

Edit: There might be some answers saying the Karma points don't matter. If that is the case, we should just remove the voting system altogether. It's more about not making the comment writer feel bad, than the Karma points (and I know you feel bad on downvotes).
I'm more than upset that we can't treat a topic seriously without someone sidetracking on an personal offense for "mandays". The OP didn't even suggest another word, nor does the industry have another established gender-neutral word.

Besides, women programmers are often quickly promoted, so yes there's only men left at the bottom level.
Study: Smart Phones Accurately Detect Depression
> If we could ultimately shift the conversation away from why there are so few Blacks and Latinos in tech and instead talk about why there are only 3% graduating from some high schools, then I think we stand a real chance of addressing this issue head on.

I don't think "shifting" the entirety of the conversation to that is a good idea simply because focusing on the first 13 years of education [Kinder-12th] is going to take 15-17 years to show significant impacts. It simply is too long of a period for a political solution to be practical in the near term [which, lets be honest, no politician is willing to commit to a 15+ year program to fix the education system and actually champion it for that long].

Raising the enrollment numbers in college is a 2-4 year issue that neatly fits in a politician's term where they can show results on their next campaign "LOOK WHAT I DID FOR YOUR KIDS?! DO YOU SEE THESE NUMBERS?!".

Anything longer than the 2-4 year window is simply too long for anyone to care in politics.
Don't say no.

Counter with a realistic timeline of deliverables and justify your quote.

When you tell people your rate is 60/70/80 pound an hour they laugh because they themselves most probably earn less as a full time employee. What they don't know is that this money has to cover the likes of sickness, holidays, hardware etc. you need to let them know that.
Decision Making Under Uncertainty: An Introduction to Robust Optimization
I apologize in advance for the deck being weird. The HDMI adapter at the conference didn't work properly with my computer, so I had to use someone else's, and in the scrambling from the podium to make it work, I went with a version that was a few hours old.

But I think the point is still pretty evident. :-)
I'm actually using this data for some pricing decisions for online products that we sell.

I've actually made my own version that provides a bit more explanation and it targeted towards marketers and the likes
http://www.bigmacindexconverter.com/
I'll also be adding a JSON API shortly
You don't. It is not considered necessary for you to correct downvotes.
Mocking AI Panic
I hope Intel uses this pause to implement things like DJB's suggestions for the Intel instruction set:

http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140517-insns.html
Regarding SQL, have you noticed any increase in the usage of "window functions" (how important do you find them for your work?)
You can try to reach the usergroups we have here. Like https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ruby-sp is the official group of Ruby Developers in São Paulo. You can also look for public universities, here in Brazil they have the best courses of CS and IT related in the country.
that is exactly my point. And even when you have a single professional webdev/design team, you have no power over legal restrictions (EU cookie widget) or contractual obligations boss signed (ads must appear next morning). Real world just goes forward. Users have more power with adblockers over their UX than UX designer.
'Cause it is "sticking it to the man". The Rich taking from the Rich is not a populist story.
I agree completely. Language is, although defined, still up for interpretation and can be very vague. That's why we have to communicate more when there is some misunderstanding. And also why some of us spend an inordinate amount of time pruning our writing and speech. I hate to lose people just due to miscommunication. I don't want to offend anyone, because then my message is never sent. I get - Protocol error, do not resend!
We could just send him to Guantanamo Bay, or start a prison colony somewhere.
I'd assume decades of anti-gun propaganda.

As a gun owner and sometimes instructor who's not a drone hobbyist, I don't like this because it's very hard for it to avoid violations of Rules 2-4 (3 unless the fire signal as well as button are very very well protected, e.g. encryption):

1. All guns are always loaded. Even if they are not, treat them as if they are.

2. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy. (For those who insist that this particular gun is unloaded, see Rule 1.)

3. Keep your finger off the trigger till your sights are on the target. This is the Golden Rule. Its violation is directly responsible for about 60 percent of inadvertent discharges.

4. Identify your target, and what is behind it. Never shoot at anything that you have not positively identified.

Hmmm, and modern handguns are designed and built to not unintentionally fire if dropped in normal circumstances, i.e. from hand to concrete floor. A drone could subject a gun to greater stress.
A picture of me from when I was 28 comes out as 41.
The HTML rendering of the source code at https://2ton.com.au/library_as_html/hnwatch/textify.inc.html is broken due to the inclusion of markup delimiter type characters in the source.
We do have 8, 12 and 18 core CPUs made by Intel. They're just expensive and not made for the typical consumer. My PC at work has the 12 core Xeon. It's nice for compiling large projects, but at home I'm content with a 4 core i7.

http://ark.intel.com/m/products/75283/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E...

http://ark.intel.com/m/products/81061/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E...
Telerik has been following Microsoft and going down the road to lighter, and more modern designs.

They still have a ways to go mind, but they have been gradually at least talking the talk. (Though I think most of their revenue remains in integrated stuff).
YC has funded many international companies, Theres no harm in applying to YC but you need to make a case for how you're better than hipmunk and ITA
Tall Trucks, Low Bridges, and iOS Geofences
Ah yes, Molly. Heard that one too. The heroin is apparently still being sold as cocaine in Amsterdam. I was posters about this on stores a couple of months ago :/
When a company delays a product launch, it's usually because they have too much work to do, not not enough.
I view it as dangerous because it spits out a definitive answer without clear explanation of the model used to generate the estimate. If you look at other cost estimation tools (even closed source tools) will explain the model and assumptions used to generate the estimate. You can then make the determination if the model and assumptions apply to you.

It also doesn't indicate the kind of application (which is probably a largely stand-alone application). You can't stop some clients from going on to these sites and looking up a cost and not understanding what goes into an estimate. What would be even worse, in my mind, is to have other developers use a tool like this to generate a cost and then fail because they grossly underestimate complexity.
Smaller die areas have complications of its own -- heat has less space to travel. It's not as simple as "half the die area, double the cores" -- if you do that, you will end up overheating.

But I think the main issue, as you mentioned, is multi-thread programming. Everyday users spend most of their time in a browser, running Javascript which is mostly synchronous. There are web workers, etc, but the vast majority of sites are still running single threaded JS.
Researcher Receives Copyright Threat After Exposing Security Hole – TorrentFreak
Antineutrino Detectors Could Be Key to Monitoring Iran's Nuclear Program
I'd be curious if it also qualifies the person who found the bug for their million mile lifetime membership programs.

http://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/account/lifetime.asp...
Re sex scenes, have you ever seen a French movie. If not, I have news for you.

Other countries find coitus for non-procreational purposes to not be a bad thing!
If it's changed, won't you have to convert all the numbers too?
Flagged.

What a remarkably low-quality article...author lazily attempts to lump SJWs in with whatever authority figures they don't like. Yuck.
https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/Benchmar...
I assume data science is often used in place of astrology. People just want to have something to cling to, to get over their fears and insecurity. So if you can generate some reassuring graphs, who cares if they are based on solid statistics or not?
This is not a unique thing for that country and current government. It's illegal to challenge the validity of government-provided statistics and even the "Big Mac Index" is manipulated by forcing McD to sell something called "Big Mac" at a lower price. Basically, the IMF and other institutions were using unofficial data to make their estimates since the official data was so obviously bogus. The government responded by cracking down on those reporting the unofficial data. (As an aside, Argentina is also selling inflation-adjusted bonds, so it kind of makes sense to promote large underestimations of that number).

So when the government put forward a voting machine, it became illegal to question the validity of its workings.
The Magnus Effect Is Why a Ball with a Bit of Backspin Goes Like This
I enjoy that they added the dataset for download this year, and some other changes. But the dataset's not available at the moment. And it's in .xls format when it should just be a csv.
This Dictionary Will Get You Ready for “Talk Like Silicon Valley”
Take Shodan results with a grain of salt. When you look at the entire IP4 space, you will find a little of anything.

In a decade of doing pen tests in a mix of professionally capacity and informally for friends, I have never seen echo or daytime, and saw QOTD once on a test box on the CS department of a university.

Of course, working with organizations who sought out someone to do a pentest probably self-selects out networks which would have this kind of nonsense. Reducing attack surface by turning off services or blocking them at various firewalls has been standard operating procedure for IT for at least 2 decades.
You can't but you can always let the person know, and then if you really want to undo your mistake, look at their profile and find a few recent submissions/comments and upvote TWO to 'undo' your mistake.
Neo-Nazies Publish All German Refugee Housing Units on Google Maps(in German)
I like the direction of your thought. However, the practical future may bring more of personal complex of intelligent browsing agents, pre-fetching info for the user, stripping out 'cruft' to make web useful again and ....m consumable after all. Good example is Safari Reader feature and Readability plugin for Chrome. Those are just the beginning.
One way you can avoid the need for an EU cookie widget is by not setting unneccessary cookies.
Couple thoughts.

If "got asked from a reputable university" means the client is a university, in USA at least universities and non-profit institutions tend to pay less than for-profit.

Generally, I avoid firm fixed price contracts and quote an hourly rate and a non-binding estimate of hours. The reason is it is usually very hard to accurately predict how long a software project will take. Sometimes if it is something very cookie-cutter that you have done several times before, you can make a fairly good estimate of how long it will take.
> Non-atomic objects are not illusions: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2896

Quite right! It's the folk-theories of those objects that are illusions, in the sense of providing intuitive but false causal explanations for the phenomena in question.

>The word "illusion" ought to be all but struck from philosophy, in my opinion. It seems to lead philosophers down a road of reductionism until they explode into a paroxysm of reductionism so complete that they won't even admit subatomic particles "exist".

The word should be doubly struck-out because the same philosophers, in the attempt to get out of that paroxysm, tend to start reifying more and more concepts into metaphysical "existence", until they wind up claiming that reductionism just doesn't really work and we were bloody idiots to try it in the first place. Reversing idiocy doesn't get you accuracy.

>It remains a current theory that time is not an atomic element of our universe, and that it may arise from something else (entropy? the connections in loop quantum gravity? something something holographic principle?), but regardless of what the truth is, "time" as a useful concept won't go anywhere.

Since "time" as we talk about it really means causal ordering, I can't see how any of those other things can replace time. It's not exactly a radical statement to say, in a post-relativity physics, that time isn't a real scalar but instead a more complex causal ordering that happens to look like a real scalar when you work at Newtonian scales.
For criminal cases, that probably depends on the interest and repayment terms. If its means-contingent repayment without usurious interest, the incentive to plea guilty to avoid the cost of defense would be minimized, though the public expense would, correspondingly, be greater. OTOH, the expense would be going to assure that the guilty, and only the guilty, were punished and the government was less able to get away with punishing the poor-but-innocent to prevent a public image of dealing with problems while failing to actually get the guilty, so there is a public benefit (in addition to "protecting the rights of the accused") that comes from that public expense.
I don't buy that Android is less than iOS for development, unless it's reflecting some shared work.
> Brazil had the most overvalued currency in the world a year ago[1] according to the Big Mac Index, but today it's undervalued by 10.6%.

According to the adjusted index, it's still the world's most overvalued currency.
No, no, they're totally disrupting the field of statistical analysis. That's why they need a new name.
Interesting. Is there an existing standard for what everyday goods are used in determining inflation? I understand the usefulness of a "quick 'n dirty" gauge like this big mac index (or the iPod index you mentioned), but I'd be surprised if there isn't some standard set of goods which are watched as general indicators of inflation.
What if you just want to get paid well to play with interesting tools?
Coding tricks of game developers (2012)
I'm appalled that this wasn't taken care of 20 years ago. It seems like such low-hanging fruit.
Yes, I would word the paradox like:

You have 100 lbs of Martian potatoes, which are 1/100 water by weight. You let them dehydrate until they're 1/50 water. How much do they weigh now?

Now the answer is staring you right in the face.
i really dont think it will be a problem, delta is an airline but also a common word.
They already have. The upcoming AVX-512 extensions [1] introduce the VPMADD52LUQ and VPMADD52HUQ instructions, which add the high or low 52 bits of a 52x52-bit multiplication to a 64-bit integer. Presumably this is done via the preexisting double precision floating-point multipliers.

[1] https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/0d/53...
We do see 8 and 16 cores.

Newegg currently lists 10 different 8-core desktop processors and 120 different 8-core server processors. There are also 10-, 12-, 14-, and 16-core processors available to purchase right now.
OpenTable Research Reveals What Diners Actually Want from Technology
> A common denominator is the only way to make things fair.

This is how you destroy civilizations. The Soviet Union and Cuba come to mind as places that tried to make society more fair by equally distributing poverty and oppression. You make society better by pulling the bottom up, not by pushing the top down.
Reminds me of the guy who found the starbucks gift card exploit and decided to test it live. That got him the lawsuit.
Data errors implicated innocent people – watchdog
Honestly, I found the way he used [1] to be easier to parse even though it's the only link and at the end of the sentence. I appreciated it.
PEPS: Claim your privacy back with end-to-end encryption
But on the other hand, getting less sleep gives you more time when you're young.
I loved reading that in a controlled study simply writing at the top of a PHD level maths paper "This maths paper has been tested to be gender neutral"[1] caused the scores of women to magically change to be equal with men.

Never underestimate social conditioning of outcomes.

[1] I wish I could remember or find a reference for this!
yes, its a joke. vendors take a long time to respond, sometimes :-)
IIRC, upcoming to Xeon Skylake processors not mainstream ones.
In many cases to determine its necessity you set a cookie. Seriously, can you name a mainstream news site in Britain that does not set a cookie?
The point of using volatile is to make sure not to put the variable in a register or use a cached value; it hits the memory.
The logic in your comment seems sound. However -according to the article in the OP- when this program was first created bank loans had very high interest rates. I can't verify the truth of this statement, so I have to take it on face value.

Also, don't forget that the low end of the lifetime unlimited flights program cost between $600k and $700k, and the high end (flights for two) cost a little more than one million USD in inflation-adjusted dollars.

To speak to your first two paragraphs:

It could be argued that AA could have discontinued the program in the 1990's or so... maybe they should have, I have no idea. But that would not have freed them from their existing obligations.

To speak to your third paragraph:

AA is being rather dishonest when they use the retail price of services to demonstrate the impact of this program. They really have to quote the actual cost, which -I'm sure- can be difficult to determine.

If one is attempting to stir up sentiment for one's decision to renege on a lifetime contract, I suspect that one would want to do as little honest analysis as possible. :P
You're right my bad. Didn't stop and think twice, after all Marx, Engels, a girl I was in love at the elementary school, Schumacher, U2's drummer, Nietzsche, the BMW X6, B. Brecht and Goethe are Germans (or German-made)!

But it has been common on HN, having commentators from Germany making similar remarks.

UPDATE: Fixed. :-)
Perhaps some of the money spent on transitioning her would have been more profitably spent on legal defense?
You could launch most of this stuff with reusable Falcon 9 rockets or equivalents. You just have to divide the building blocks to about ten tons a piece. A large portion of mass is just propellants which is very easy to divide. Space assembly, docking, arm capture, berthing and in space refueling are all quite routine concepts nowadays.
When you don't need the SLS, a lot of missions become a lot cheaper and also flexible.

Example: you have a reusable 10 ton vehicle and you need to send a 150 ton mass to orbit. You fly once per week for four months and it's there. After that the vehicle/capability can be used for something else.
Think of it as renting a standard truck. It's cheap since there's a large supply because of a large market. Their utilization rate is relatively high, meaning when you use them, you only need yo pay a small portion of the investment and upkeep. You can rent many for long periods of time if you need to.
On the other hand large custom moving equipment is expensive and not always even available. And they can stand idle for long periods of time.
Funny how not sleeping is still considered a badge of honor -- a demonstration of strength. As a new parent, I've let go and will happily go to sleep at 8PM if the opportunity arises.
Two things I can think of: for consumers, applications don't currently make the best use of multiple cores. There just isn't enough work to do on them. For gaming at least, DirectX 12 will remove a limitation that only one CPU core can control the GPU at a time. That may push demand for more cores upwards over time.

Second is that cache coherence gets really ugly the more cores you have with a single shared memory. From what I understand, this is a limitation of assumptions in the x86 architecture. A completely new architecture might sidestep the problem, and indeed I've heard of 1024 core machines etc, which I doubt have just brute-forced cache coherence.
Google Prodding Devs to Use Go
There is solipsism, the idea that nothing but your mind exists. And it is a valid idea because you can not be sure that anything exists. The entire universe, everything you think you see, hear, smell or feel might just be an illusion created by your mind. The idea that things change with time or that time exists, that you can move your body through space or that space exists or you have a body to begin with, all this may just be an illusion of your mind.

But while this is an interesting idea to ponder about it is also not very helpful. If true you are lost and there is nothing you can ever learn about the world. Maybe you can explore the illusion created by your mind but even this only if your mind behaves nicely and does not randomly decide to completely change the illusion or whatnot.

It seems to make a lot more sense to assume not everything is just an illusion, believe that there is a real world accessible by your senses and then explore this world. And once you have decided that there is a real world it no longer makes sense to ascribe a special role to you or your mind because that is part of the position you just left behind.

it is made from neural correllates of consciousness. Your brain basically runs this gfx.

This is also inconsequential - you say that time is an illusion created by your brain but that still requires that your brain exists in some reality and that it is doing things which prerequisite time because doing means change over time.

It might of course be the case that there is a time in the real world that allows things to happen and your mind might create an internal representation of that, the thing we call time, that is a poor representation of the true nature of time, but that does not mean time does not exist, it means there is the real thing and the thing we perceive.

And this may actually be the likely scenario because there are hints in physics that neither time nor space are fundamental things but are the result of something more fundamental in a similar way that atoms are made out of quarks and electrons.