skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is fascinating. The dilemma he poses at the end is something i have thought about a lot -

"How far can the empirical debunking of human moral nature go? If science tells
me that I love my children more than other children only because they share my
genes (Hamilton, 1964), should I feel uneasy about loving them extra? If science
tells me that I’m nice to other people only because a disposition to be nice
ultimately helped my ancestors spread their genes (Trivers, 1971), should I stop
being nice to people? ... It seems that one who is unwilling to act on human tendencies with
amoral evolutionary causes is ultimately unwilling to be human. Where does one
draw the line between correcting the near-sightedness of human moral nature
and obliterating it completely?"

The more I overthink and let the "cognitive" part take over, the more the question nags me. The kind of cognitive detachment it takes to ask these questions and digest philosophy is why most people avoid philosophy. Its not healthy to be too detached from your emotions. So it seems like by asking that question, empiricism and rationality have already gone too far.
That's not fair; I invested a substantial amount of good-faith effort challenging this story on the merits. Its alleged GamerGate origins merely explains its weirdness to me.
We'd need artificial neurons without those limitations.

For example, just a few days ago a team from UCSD announced something like that called 'memprocessors'.
> "Why the hell would anyone give out loans in first place if they are going to get zero to negative interest rates?"

Good question, ask the ECB - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/115...

> "you simply demonize EU and Banks"

Wow, after all your Greece trash talk you accuse ME of demonizing? This is no longer a rational conversation.
I did something very similar for work last summer and we basically realized the same thing - null-delimited fields seemed like the only way to really be safe.
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So long, Reddit
The Sun's New Trans-Neptunian Planet (1930)
So if I read the linked story correctly, the Amazon bro brigade called in the patriarchy to destroy Seattle for the real natives. They are also responsible for an increase in prostitution and associated drug crimes. Hate crimes are somehow their fault too.

It has nothing to do with progressive anti-growth policies enacted by the state and city governments. What I really love is the appeal for more progressives in government to fix the problem.
NPR had an episode on the Chicken Tax, which had some effect
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/06/12/414029929/episo...
Man o man I have sat at that table...
How about a ship that carries ships?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ShjJW85S7E
Ask HN: Why Is Sam Altman a Big Deal in Silicon Valley
I Understand he runs ycombinator and is barely 30. What makes him so influential? Is it his knowledge of startups? Is it his ability to see trends on or past the horizon ? Or is he just Henry knowledgeable when it comes to entrepreneurship? Just trying to understand the person who is at the center or a lot of money and opportunities that make or break young entrepreneurs.
The Astronomer Who Looked Inside Trees
I'm in no hurry.

I spent 2 years on the Pan-American from Alaska to Argentina because I wanted to. There is no rush.
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Depending on what you mean by processing performance, the increases did slow down, significantly, around 2004-2005. At least for non-numerical single-threaded workloads. Had they continued at the same rate, CPU performance would be anywhere between 5 to 10X higher today.

This is a commonly used motivation for a lot of modern computer architecture research, here's one such plot: http://liberty.princeton.edu/Projects/AutoPar/
People will beg the government to come in and save them from themselves.

So the question, I suppose, is what could trigger the actual occupation? My guess is that it will be austerity measures that will come through widespread municipal bankruptcies. Pensions and disability checks will stop coming. Services will stop being provided.

There is a whole section of the population that subsists on government provided benefits. Multiple generations, below the poverty line, directed acyclical graphs of income where the last person to have worked is a generation or two ago. When that lifeline goes away, then we will see unrest. Then the government will come in and occupy, providing basics. Give us your guns and we will protect you. Take this rice and this water and go home and watch TV.
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if the source code is relevant and useful, that could be worth the price in itself... like Google/Facebook buying companies just to get the employees.
For classic asp you can avoid this when accessing files via the command line by using a extended file path format:

notepad \\?\c:\inetpub\wwwroot\com1.asp

http://localhost/com1.asp

This also has the hilarious result that "normal" windows tools can't delete the file without using the extended path.
Library that provides support for our image processors at Cloud6
Actually, No I would not since he seems to go outside his knowledge base, gets political, and make some false statements. Check his validated Twitter feed for some examples. Now if Feynman was still around, I would trust him since he had a record of giving honest opinions.
Previous submission was flagged to death: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872149
I have my mother on a Moto G on freedompop, since she rarely uses her phone. So it was about $55 all things considered to get her on a $0 a month phone plan with a great Android device. Insane value.
Maybe because it's good marketing? If someone reads about it on the Washington Post, they're more apt to believe and contribute than someone who sees a random Kickstarter campaign with nothing but a Youtube video.
My intent was to describe newsroom practices, not to express an opinion about the NYT's rewrites. It is commonplace for important stories to be extensively rewritten and amended. I don't know enough about the Reddit saga to discuss it intelligently.

I will stipulate that the NYT editorial board has lectured Silicon Valley on diversity, though it is not diverse itself, and its female executive editor made less than her male predecessor: http://www.aei.org/publication/silicon-valley-gets-stern-lec... http://www.businessinsider.com/nyt-explains-female-editor-sm...

As for the rewrites, changing the lede graf to "entrenched sexist culture of Silicon Valley" is significant. It replaces neutral reportage -- "a week of ceaseless criticism" -- with the newspaper asserting as fact that Silicon Valley represents a more "entrenched sexist culture" than, say, the NYT newsroom itself. It's intended to frame the story in a typical high-level next-day NYT fashion by injecting the author's, or editor's, perspective. It's excellent journalism when it's accurate, but creates the type of controversy you see here when it's not.
Knotlink app release
This is the newest (2010) one I know of, and probably the one everyone's seen (I think it was HN back when it was first posted: http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/5/17/7-lessons-learned-...
I'd imagine they wouldn't be very sweet.
Indeed, thank you. The NSF video definitely needs more exposure. This is the one I prefer.

Computing is not all about having job, earning money, hiring, starting corporations, making money, employment, etc, as the Code.org video would make you believe.

There's so much more passion, and interesting knowledge, and actual world changing in the NSF video. It definitely needs more exposure.

And as a girl toward 4:10 of the Code.org video said: "I think if someone had told me that software is really about humanity, that it's really about helping people by using computer technology, it would have changed my outlook a lot earlier". She should have watched the NFS video! Instead, the Code.org video, and the general message, is that programming = employment, money, power. Dull!
> They are indeed premium priced, but that's a marketing choice.

Isn't this exactly the problem? Apple has good build quality but a terrible quality/price ratio. In a situation where money is no object and pure quality is the only measure then Apple might very well win out depending on how the customer weighs the value of build quality vs. performance.

But Apple would not be the most profitable company in the world if they were only catering to those types of customers. For the average person a minimum of quality and value are the most important metrics, which Apple would not be winning if it weren't for their marketing and brand, especially in the laptop market.
If the water is coming from desalination, why not desalinate and feed a surface greenhouse? The only advantages are the co2 and temperature.
>Exactly. They seem to forget that she's part of a ponzi scheme, slept with married men to get ahead, etc.

For god's sakes, stop it. This blatant sexism and double standards is disgusting. If Ellen were a man, never in a million years would they be expected to bear responsibility for their spouses' misdeeds or attacked for who they slept with (indeed, they'd be getting high-fived for being a "womanizer" or "stud").
I'm an anti-censorship extremist. So I think it's OK that hateful asses have a place to hold forth. So as long as that's all a minor part of a site's business, I probably wouldn't take the same approach.

I feel differently, of course, when it's more central.

The closest I can come to judging this based on how speech affects me personally is that several of my great-grandparents died in the Nazi concentration camps, yet I would be pleased if Nazi hate speech were decriminalized in countries that I admittedly don't live in and rarely visit. Also, I read aljazeera.com even though Al Jazeera TV is at times badly anti-semitic (I'm referring to cases in the Arabic version that are extremely likely to have been accurately described.)
I'm going to go with "because the loudest people who chose to adopt the label 'GamerGate' also managed to spoil the word 'ethics', so that in discussions of interest to 'GamerGaters', readers have to be cautious about whether there are actual ethical concerns, rather than fig leaves used to promote misogyny."

Whatever you might think of the issues "GamerGate" advocates for, another indisputable fact is that its troll faction very definitely turned the words "ethics in journalism" into a punch line. So much so that simply saying the words "ethics in journalism" is very effective code for "this is really about misogyny".
Then you get the option. Today you have a much more pronounced choice between cheaper more power hungry AMD parts or expensive power efficient Intel ones.

In 2020 we will very likely have the choice between 7nm expensive high end CPUs and 14-16nm midrange parts, and budget phones / tablets/ low end cpus will be shipping 20nm. And we will still be using todays 24/28/32/40/45nm plants for various other circuits.
Another good one is Lapis (leafo.net/lapis/)
This is a pretty comprehensive article hitting all the important points, providing decent depth, without turning into the monster that DSP can be as you plunge a bit deeper into each thing like hamming windows or fourier algorithm implementation. Kudos.
Steam powered machine shop
I know, I've been here three years now. I just assumed there was additional context for this article.
To maybe phrase the other comment's concern more formally, the argument of whether or not to abort is filled with case-by-case circumstances, and saying that humanity is better for the contributions of a person without taking into account the extent of the person's or their parent's suffering is far too reductive to stand as an argument.
"If all life were to end in Spira, all suffering would end. Don't you see? Do you not agree?"

- an antagonist in Final Fantasy X
so many beliefs people have about morality rest on assumptions: my beliefs must be rational, founded on evidence, or else they are invalid. this insistence is highly destructive.

there is certainly a form of validity granted by axiomatic reasoning, but we have rejected things we can't axiomatize and generalize, as if anything uncomputable were not worth thinking of.

=========

in this article I explain a common (most likely false) assumption in most moral thinking:

http://markpneyer.me/2015/06/25/morality-and-the-subjunctive...

and this is a series of articles explaining a model of emotion and why it works the way it does:

http://markpneyer.me/2014/10/19/a-model-of-emotion/
Could those who have flagged this blog post (here or the previous submission) please explain the reason they chose to do so? I can understand vigorously disagreeing with the article, but I don't see how it is inappropriate for discussion.
Ask HN: Why the “So long, Reddit” Post Removal? Just Curious
It seems to have made a few good points on monetizing a community driven site along with caveats and all the other things that come with it including ethics associated to what's being monetized. This is a facinating topic and it should not be squelched.

I don't think we should pretend the underbelly of the net does not exist.

I noticed the "child porn" post was not removed from HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9868352

Original "so long reddit" article http://braythwayt.com/2015/07/11/so-long-reddit.html
Stop it. Woman do not somehow have to share the blame for their husbands alleged misdeeds. Seriously, this is 2015, not the middle ages where they'd burn a woman at the stake for something her husband did wrong.
Links to the last two posts which have both been flagkilled:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872386

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872149
thing is, you can deploy node.js or io.js, and they largely work according to the description or the documentation. Having seen 4 sequential openstack deployment failures and rollbacks, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
DIY objects mapping and use Zebra for unified way to inject mappers
Your comment shouldn't be grey. I didn't downvote you. I assumed, unfairly, that you were being casually racist (or something; "racist" isn't the right term). Sorry about that.
It's plausible; I've been at a talk where they suggested checking the local cache and requesting it across the network in parallel. I'd thought maybe they were talking about, say, both people on a fast network, but digging into it, that's not the whole story.

Wikipedia [1] has 5,400rpm hard drives having average
rotational latency of 5.56ms.

AT&T's real-time latency charts have a few spots with under 5ms latency, and that chart's just the average, I think, so these might be beatable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive_performance_ch...

[2] http://ipnetwork.bgtmo.ip.att.net/pws/network_delay.html
Java autoboxing performance
> But if I call myself "privileged" in this instance then all of a sudden people would be whining about social justice warriors or something like that

No one has ever managed successfully to divorce the concept of privilege from the implication of blame, so saying that someone has privilege (or, worse in this context, is privileged), is tantamount to saying that they're a bad person and they should feel bad. Is it any wonder there's pushback?

Whether privilege and blame should be so inextricably linked is a separate discussion, and one I've seen from time to time in progressive circles. But, to people who aren't deeply enough immersed in such circles to be familiar with all the theory around the concept, that's how it comes across.
"RTFM" is not the suggestion proffered there. The link to the Go spec was an aside.

I'll probe once more, since you totally ignored the question: did you run that test program through the compiler? The result is evidence of magnitudes more friendliness than anything that anyone could possibly write in a comment.
Throttle methods with Spring AOP and Guava rate limiter
It's a good question, but I think there's a pretty clear distinction between propaganda and trolling that is not just intent but has to do with the 'spin' of the information. The same vagaries that would allow the US to block a 'troll' from Russia - if they could not tell that it was propaganda - would cause them to block similar misgivings from the American population. This isn't the case. They can attribute propaganda to its progenitor. They use the label 'troll' and 'spam' for political reasons and reasons of civil affairs. However these terms are dishonest.
If I had to take a guess, there's more than a few people that are tired of reading about reddit's staff shuffling this week, especially on sites that aren't reddit. It only takes a few people flagging a submission to kill it.
I would argue that it's due in large part, if not totally, to the size of our VC/Angel funding system.

2013 VC investment Stats:

US: 33BN

Europe: 7.4BN

China: 3.5BN

http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/Global_venture_capi...
I think I find issue with a hyperbolic title designed to get a rise out of people, followed by a dozen paragraphs describing a brief work history without any substantial self-realisation that ends with a contradiction of the original point. when taken together, it just sounds a bit like whinging.

Plus there are no winners on the internet...
> The problem is that as soon as you draw such a line

The line needs to be drawn, though. As the saying goes, "Your freedoms end where my freedoms begin."

At some point, hate speech most definitely infringes upon the reader's rights. The canonical example is yelling "FIRE! FIRE!" in a crowded movie theater and causing a stampede; your right to free speech doesn't trump everybody else's right to be safe.
So LA is out of luck in both trips?
I don't think these were removed by a moderator. Rather, they are [flagkilled] because enough individual users flagged the article to pass some threshold. While it's possible that Dan has reviewed and approved this, I think it's more likely that he is off duty for a bit, and that original post will be reinstated when he's back. But we'll see.

In the meantime, could those who flagged either of these posts please explain their reasons?
Now I'm even more curious.
This argument is pretty easy to deflate: a defender of "absolute free speech" most certainly would not be okay with people walking up to them in the street, following them home and verbally threatening them. So, everybody has an arbitrary line.... somewhere.
Bit of a nitpick, but technically the sizes of int, long, etc are implementation defined, not undefined. Undefined behavior has different implications in C.
This was one of the top-rated posts for a while, I'd imagine it spurred enough people to flag it that it got flagged:

>Karunamon 1 hour ago

>The practical reality is that Reddit seems to have overtaken Stormfront as the world’s largest White Supremacy community.

>Are you kidding me? Flagged. And shame on whoever thought it was a good idea to bring this insulting garbage to #1 in the first place.
Agreed that signal processing can be a big topic. I thought it was well done to hit on the Nyqvist frequency to show why certain frequencies are used for sampling. Acoustics and audio processing are pretty good applications of some of this theory.
Don't forget to mention that the malware used was "extremely sophisticated".
It's just really not interesting.
That was certinaly not the import of the write-up and I think most would agree. The meat of the article addressed an underlying management and ethical issue with any community driven site.
I didn't flag these, but I do tend to flag posts that are just more coverage of already well-trodden ground on topics that tend to promote a lot of ideological debate, just for example pretty much anything promoting "basic income" and most Tesla advocacy.
> What is so special about this chip?

It's basically first real confirmation that 90nm can be produced in Russia. In past there was a lot of press and talk, but noone ever seen actual chips.
>The fuss is that even if you have absolutely nothing to hide the ‘privacy is dead’ crowd seems to miss out on the fact that privacy by itself is considered important enough to make it into the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 12

Ive seen this mentioned twice now.

When did `a piece of paper says X` become a leading argument?
Perhaps I'm being hyperbolic, but I generally found that most of the recent Reddit related submissions have served no real purpose other than give people another channel to complain about Reddit, the closure of the subreddits, Pao's actions, etc.

Any counter-opinions or questioning of the behaviour of the community, particularly those comments and actions which are now being identified as bigoted, receives downvotes or flags.

This might not be the time, or HN the place, to have a constructive discussion about Reddit's future.
Damn, those grapes are sour.
I don't understand why you rail against the 'German establishment'. Aren't they just implanting the wishes of the German people? Same for the Finns, Latvians, etc.
Exactly the article I was thinking of, and if you think of the way music is produced today, that's probably pretty useful and valuable data.
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This is disappointing because I think you're smarter than this.

A running joke, "ethics in journalism", by detractors and the very same "journalists" being criticized for ethical transgressions is not effective for anything, besides perpetuating the "this is really about misogyny" meme.

If one is "cautious", one can certainly do their due diligence to investigate this matter and learn that reporting on games, tech and all sorts of other journalism really are cause for ethical concerns.

I'm aware you don't care about games or game reportage, but I'll cite a few examples anyway: take corrupt "journalists", such as Nathan Grayson (http://www.deepfreeze.it/journo.php?j=nathan_grayson) or Jenn Frank (http://www.deepfreeze.it/journo.php?j=jenn_frank) who collude, fail to disclose relationships and give favorable coverage and reviews to friends.

By the way, trolls and shit-stirrers are not the "loudest people" nor do they represent a label. No amount of Twitter reweets, likes and favorites will make that a reasonable argument.
Universities.
> Sadly, I find, most of them rely on gut, opinion and lack rigor.

> I don't have a citation. It's more a vibe I get from listening to npr interviews.
surely bailing out Greece when primary exposure is French/German/UK banks is sharing the bailout costs amongst the whole EU in particular poorer countries subsidising richer ones.

I agree part of this bailout has already taken place. The second phase is ensuring life in Greece is so bad that other larger countries don't want to default.
Honestly, you'd pay $4 to $8 per month per user for a password manager?
NewsBlur (newsblur.com) automatically diffs everything I think. Mostly just grammar updates.
WP has always had an uphill climb. That's not going to change anytime soon. MS shouldn't give up on it either. I've been an early adopter and continue to use it to this day. I'm not an apple fan and don't like google either. Mobile needs MS to give an alternative in the market.

I'm primarily a MS stack dev (former MS). I hear these same old MS is dying rants every few years. I don't see things going away, let alone changing anytime soon. In a few years from now their market share (desktop) may be a few percentage points lower and cynics will continue to rant. I enjoy working on the Azure/Windows platform. Most issues I've had were self inflicted.
No one said the data was the cause of the genocide.
If suffering doesn't matter, then neither does anything else.
Could be... but there are many non-US places to get 90nm chips made. This is 10 year old technology. The only explanation that makes sense to me is that they needed not just a non-US source but a domestic one. I can't think of any mainstream commercial use for a chip of this kind.