skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As tired as it may sound, I think there just might be a convenient time for the Hurd to rise, albeit in an unconventional way.

You already have a de facto GNU OS at the moment in the form of the Guix System Distribution (GuixSD), what with it letting you configure the entire system in Scheme, perform transactional upgrades, system state rollbacks, it has its own init daemon and service scripts in Scheme, etc.

At the same time, we've been seeing some efforts in creating tiny builds of the Linux kernel [1] that go as far as to reduce syscalls, VMM algorithms, capabilities, character devices and so forth. There's also the recent Linux libOS effort to create a network stack in userspace as a shared library, though that seems about the extent of it. NetBSD then gives you a userland driver framework with rump kernels.

So what one can do is build a really stripped down Linux kernel, write a Mach IPC compatibility layer, run the Hurd servers on top of it and plug in the resulting product with GuixSD. And you now have the complete GNU system. As far as you'll ever get, anyway.

This has already been discussed before [2], but it's not something that has ever been given any priority. With the current climate, it might be worth a shot.

As to why anyone would want to do this... well, for one you get a full OS that is entirely configurable in Scheme with all of its services running as userland file servers (translators) in a sort of Plan 9-ish way, all the while supporting the Linux API. That's still pretty ahead of GNU/Linux. The Hurd also has features like running multiple instances of itself in user mode (subhurds) that can serve a similar purpose to containers.

It's obvious no one's going to port the Hurd servers away from GNU Mach, so this is the best shot anyone has. Any Hurd or Guix devs in here to comment on this?

[1] https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/linux_as_the_k...
It also works with SoundHound. Thanks for that, I didn't expect that song, that really made me laugh.
I heard of 3x, and that seems to be about the price/BOM ratio for Apple phones, according to the teardowns published when new models come out.
Maybe if the likes of Intel and IBM had decided to put their employees on Hurd instead of Linux, the story would be different.
Pity it doesn't depend on anything external. It would make such a beautiful dependency fractal.
26% of women in prison are there for drug crimes. 66% are there for violent and property crimes. So you still have the problem of what to do with their kids.
I'd specifically point to the Hero vs Angry Mob motif and the quote "bullying, harrassment[sic] and ugly behavior are out of control on the web," which implies that they must be brought under control. Obviously within the context of the overall spin towards sexism as the sole cause we discussed over there -> (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9871281)
I think Erlang was a last drop in a bucket, so to say. Learning it made me finally realize two things: that there are many very different languages and that there is some common, underlying structure to even the most diverse languages.

It sort of went downhill from there :)
What's interesting to me is that Apple products generally don't have margins anywhere near this large. Apple's products aren't generally built the 'easiest' way possible for fast assembly and such. The optimization/cheapness on these is amazing.
GSMArena's redesign
Posting content behind a paywall should be forbidden here on HN.
Or shifting most devices to using some form of ECC memory
I would absolutely love being able to subscribe to a feed of changes to a story, and/or be notified as additional stories related to the subject story were released. For example, if I subscribed to this story for both changes and for related stories, and there's a revision to that article or there's another big reddit story a year from now, I would love to get some notification.

This is there news organizations can really add value in the digital age, by being more interactive with their user's wants and desires. I expect the NYT to report on most things worth a national audience. I would trust subscribing to them for additional info in a way I couldn't with some smaller news source.
Austin's First Electric Streetcar Era (2013)
Try Sennheiser HD280 or Sony MDR7206. Both easily accomodate a large head. The Sony for accuracy, the Senns for bass.
> Feminist (blogs and news agencies)

> (Feminist blogs) and (news agencies)

That you assumed one of two equally appropriate interpretations of this (admittedly awkward) phrasing and jumped to conclusions is even more revealing.
Good point.

Although if you're doing analysis on the body column itself, it'll use the majority proportion of the data set, of course.
I can also to see the Chinese (Loongson[1]) and Russian (Elbrus[2]) processors start to approach state of the art process technology with progress slowing down. It's interesting how the developed world closed the 20th century with such a big lead in technology. It seems that the rest of the world is now quickly closing the gap.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus_(computer)
How does Shazam work to recognize a song?
I believe reddit comments are made under a CC license
The Secret Weapon Most Job Hunters Don't Know About – #Volunteering
Moxie Marlinspike: The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
What do non-windy areas do at night for power? There is no renewable solution that currently addresses this. There might be in the future, but today, outside of specific areas with favorable wind conditions, it most definitely is not possible to replace fossil/nuclear with wind/solar.
You misunderstand racism if you think Asians in tech are not subject to it.
In the following scenario:

origin: A-B-C
local: A-B-D

What is the recommended action?
git pull --ff-only will fail, right? So should I be using git pull --rebase?
For a spaceflight revolution?

'The design comprises a single combined cycle rocket engine with two modes of operation.[4] The air breathing mode combines a turbo-compressor with a lightweight air precooler positioned just behind the inlet cone. At high speeds this precooler cools the hot, ram-compressed air leading to an unusually high pressure ratio within the engine. The compressed air is subsequently fed into the rocket combustion chamber where it is ignited with stored liquid hydrogen. The high pressure ratio allows the engine to continue to provide high thrust at very high speeds and altitudes. The low temperature of the air permits light alloy construction to be employed which gives a very lightweight engine—essential for reaching orbit. In addition, unlike the LACE concept, SABRE’s precooler does not liquefy the air letting it run more efficiently.

...

The combination of high fuel efficiency and low mass engines permits a single-stage-to-orbit approach, with air breathing to mach 5.14+ at 28.5 km altitude, and with the vehicle reaching orbit with more payload mass per take-off mass than just about any non-nuclear launch vehicle ever proposed'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_(rocket_engine)
You'd think Adobe would at least have an auto-update tool by now.

But no, every time, we have to goto their download page, uncheck Mcaffee bundleware and run through the installation wizard every time.

I think it's time to completely disable the plugin..
The framer's intent, as far as I know, was to make it such that the populace would be well-armed before it gets to that point. You are correct that laws would mean little to someone standing up to the government, but availability of firearms would mean a great deal at that point.
Maybe make the gearbox out of mirrors and the "shaft" out of light. Suspend the whole thing in a magnetic field.
Yeah NYT trying to make reddit look like a ally of sexism is a new low for them.
Ha! At first I thought it was going to be a job site...took a sec to figure out that you meant "a place to sit your butt down with your laptop and work." :-)
Have you ever noticed that the app has links where you can purchase the song that it found for you?
On the other hand, by the same argument, why not have that slightly improved acuity applied to pedestrians, cyclists, and road signs, all of which are on the right when driving on the right side of the road?
I regularly drive on both sides. The only difference I find is that the order of the pedals in a manual car makes less sense for left-hand drive. In right-hand drive you can put your left (gear) foot to the side and your right (throttle) foot locked against the side, which is more comfortable than putting your left foot underneath and keeping your right foot up.

The differences in priority rules tick me off way more than the side of the road.
I really like how New Girl handled the issue. If my memory is correct, it didn't really mention anything about their relatively large black cast, until they was explicitly highlighted this fact in one of the final episodes.
If you want to make some wine, there are plenty of sour grapes for the picking here!

It's actually an enjoyable read, but the idea that a site with some movie reviews on it is so much more high brow than Viralnova is hilarious. It wasn't that long ago movies were considered the lowbrow medium and I imagine some writer was whining about how opera was no longer getting its due.
Here are some details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_(rocket_engine)

In summary, cooler air is more dense than hot air, leading to a high (desirable) compressor pressure ratio. It also allows to make the engine more lightweight due to reduced heat tolerance requirements, making it possible to reach orbit.

"I'm not a rocket scientist", but to me this sounds like it would be a leap forward in the "rocket equation" department. Anyone care to comment?
where do they mention how light gets to the plants?
It's probably a single sketchy ad network if not a single sketchy ad. Most torrent sites use the same few networks; there aren't a lot of choices if you're a torrent site.

I don't understand the commotion - the warnings look typical, I'm glad google provides them, and they're easy enough to bypass (at your own peril esp. if you use Windows.)

I resent this story for forcing me to say something nice about google. There's a multitude of better reasons not to use Chrome.
F2POOL Generates Largest Bitcoin Transaction Ever Recorded
Will Self-Driving Cars Forever Change Humans’ Biological Neural Networks?
I, I’m the author of the article.
In fact I also did the same when I did my prototype of Shazam.
When I wrote the article, I hesitated to add a sub chapter in the Shazam chapter when I would have put a well-known music and its fingerprinted version so that everyone can hear what it sounds like but I didn’t do it because I feared copyright lawsuit.
Hacker News Data Dump Up to May 2014
The guys at Reaction Engines are trying to build a jet engine that will operate at very high speeds. In order to make this work the incoming supersonic air has to be slowed to subsonic speeds and compressed. This has the unfortunate effect of also making the air very hot and much less dense than it might otherwise be. This limits the effectiveness of the engine. This cooling technology can be used to cool the hot air before injecting fuel for combustion. This can increase the maximum speed at which the jet engine can operate.

The reason Reaction Engines is working on this type of jet engine is because they want to use it for an airbreathing single-stage-to-orbit re-usable spaceplane. (Technically, the Reaction Engines design is a hybrid that switches to a pure rocket mode at higher speeds.)

Some further reading:

Precooled jet engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precooled_jet_engine

SABRE (rocket engine): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_%28rocket_engine%29

Single-stage-to-orbit: Airbreathing SSTO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-stage-to-orbit#Airbreat...

Skylon (spacecraft): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_%28spacecraft%29
The liquid oxygen is mixed with liquid hydrogen and burned directly by the rocket as fuel. It's highly reactive and combustible so it makes a pretty good one.
alias todo='grep "FIXME" * ; grep "TODO" * ; grep "XXX" *'

Shows up all the things I still need to work on in a given project (assuming of course that you annotate your code...).
"Funny how people who own guns seem to end up in dangerous situations so often."

You implied it.
Nothing is new.
http://www.exilpen.net/neuigkeiten/texte/vampire.html
They recently changed the rules for download sites doing that - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9502026
Great argument for privacy. A someday hostile government cannot use information it doesn't have
Here is one article about partnership with WMG:

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobil...
Check out Lua Missions[1] for a quick tour of basic Lua.

[1]: https://github.com/kikito/lua_missions
I don't have a citation. It's more a vibe I get from listening to npr interviews. They have interesting guests with some neat theories about things -politics, economics, social justice, climatology, sexuality, etc. I would love for them to prod the guests for evidence and methodology rather than take what they say at face value.

I want to know why something might work not simply feel good that something might work. Let's take the minimum wage. From a layman perspective I think a higher national minimum wage would be welcome and adjust it to inflation. But I'd like for this opinion to be validated, not simply presented as unquestionably good.

I mean, let's say we standardize at 15 or 20 or a speculative $30hr. What would the impact be. Will it lead to more automation? So higher pay for those with jobs but more unemployed? Who becomes the undesirable and unhirable (the inexperienced)? If it leads to higher unemployment (speculation) what are our responsibilities as a society and who has preference (citizens vs non citizens)? Do we train?
This is fascinating, would this be considered a crime if it were a public company?
I think we found a feminist blogger news reporter.
I couldn't agree more! Although biased, I think that Opa is the easier of those technologies to learn and master for developers. And we also have more flexibility due to our compiler (vs frameworks). We have been rightfully compared to Ur/Web since the beginning. Adam Chlipala is an outstanding scientist and his work is definitely of high quality, maybe more academic.

Note that we have other experimental backends available, although not in the open source release (yet). I am also interested in compiling to MirageOS -- we have all the mechanisms in place in Opa to do that easily, namely one called the "Bypass Standard Library" (BSL). I just uploaded one draft paper written at MLstate about the BSL: https://www.scribd.com/doc/271277920/Opa-BSL-Bypass-Standard...
You're right! I didn't read his response to my comment very carefully; I missed the italicization, and thus his point. And: yep, that's pretty revealing about me, too.
I, I’m the author of the article and I already know that. The big difference between Roy van Rijn and I is that I only put algorithms whereas he put “ready to use” java code. On paper I should be bulletproof to any lawsuit since this article is nothing more than a very detailed version of the confounder Shazam paper (+some unexplained algorithms).
Wow, that is much, much, smaller than I thought it would be.

Anyone have a recent link on Reddit's infrastructure? Given the small size I would think it easily fits in memory so I'm a bit curious how they handle it.
There was a post a month ago on how to write an app to measure serve speed using computer vision:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9611298
Pakistan ahead of the curve with self-driving camels. Eat your heart out Google.
> Do you have a link for this? It seems hard to believe given how relatively low the numbers of those vehicles are

In 2013, HGVs were the cause of approx. 65% of all deaths of a cyclist (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25080427).

* 2010: 10 deaths, four involving HGVs

* 2011: 16 deaths, 12 involving HGVs

* 2012: 14 deaths, five involving HGVs

* 2013 so far: 14 deaths, nine involving HGVs

In fact, it looks like every cyclist death this year (up to 9th April) has been from a collision with a HGV (http://www.london24.com/news/cycling/london_cycle_deaths_201...).

I've not read the 2014 report from ROSPA, so I will take a look! Thanks for posting the link!
The article doesn't saying bullying is out of control. The article says that the Pao incident will renew charges that bullying is out of control. And: Pao's resignation demonstrable did renew those charges!
You have to be careful determining the nature of a certain comment algorithmically.

I saw one analysis of subreddits that checked for negativity. /r/PathOfExile came in as one of the most negative subreddits, which could easily be turned into a narrative about gaming culture.

To a person familiar with the context it seems far more likely that game concepts were skewing the data. Discussions involved killing, physical damage, life leech, killing, dying etc. Not to mention creature names themselves Devourers, Plummeting Ursa, Miscreations,
>That's how bad beats is.

No they're not. About the only bad Beats headset was Solo (1st edition). It just sounded too harsh and V-shaped. Solo2 is one of the best headsets out there and it's also one of the most popular ones.

But don't take my word for it, read what Tyll over at Inner Fidelity says [1]. He trashed Solo but loves Solo2.

I have around 15 different cans of various manufacture and I do enjoy Beats especially for energetic music. When I listen to classical, I still prefer my AKGs or Sennheiser HD 800.

[1] http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/time-rethink-beats-solo...
It's been a while since I read about the sabre engine so someone please correct me.

One of the most promising developments in aviation and (one day) rocketry are ram jets and scram jets which breathe in atmosphere for fuel oxydizer instead of keeping it on board along with the fuel. Scram jets operate above the speed of sound so the air rushing into any intake will essentially be superheated which is a problem since the fastest you go the more fuel you need to burn and thus you need more and more oxidizer the faster you go (meanwhile, your intake air is explosively expanding). A passive supercooler aplows you take in more air, compress it, and feed the oxygen to your engine.

Considering that the space shuttle booster rockets used a 6:1 mass ratio of oxydizer to fuel, air breathing engines powered by these supercoolers can change the economics of rockets.
> storing a pointer in a DWORD variable (very common on 32-bit Windows)

Is it? I mean, if you're lucky it won't cause a compiler warning on x86, but the sane thing to do is to use the types which the API docs specify. Which would usually be things like LPVOID or HANDLE.

That's basically how I managed to port a service and several drivers to 64-bit Windows many years ago with almost no changes.
Beyonce's Publicist is on it!
I have a browser. I tell the browser to go to a site. The browser refuses to go to the site. This is clearly an issue with the browser.
https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history/port_to_another_mi...
Not really, your ability to contemplate alternatives is reduced significantly, impulsive people and people with EF deficits by definition have a lowered ability to mentally represent alternate outcomes and are more prone to drinking, you cannot tell them to not drink because of how their brain processes choices and the economy of outcomes, if these people take an uber there and back they will be good and saved.

I have plenty of defenses, it is yours that is weak.
I don't know about you, but for me that's really irrelevant. And honestly, why is this the top comment? Why should the gender of a person contributing code, of all things, matter?

I know that I'm not living in an ideal world and I know what kind of discrimination, both overt and covert, women go through in all walks of life. I also understand that it takes a lot for any group of people, not just women, to succeed when they are being discriminated against.

However, I feel, that giving someone a pat on the back just because they are from a discriminated group is demeaning. Why not instead comment on the code? Commend good code, suggest code improvements. I would rather appreciate the output than make any comment on their gender, because finally, that is the true achievement and that should speak for itself. And in my opinion, that is what that person is looking for - to be judged not because of who they are or where they come from but for what they have done.
With the coming of WebAssembly, I think Lua might become a popular choice. I've only dabbled with it, but it seems impressive. Thank you for the heads-up on this. I plan to check it out.
I support the right of folks to do either drug if they want, but I don't think it is fair for nicotine to be portrayed as safer than it is... it fairly well understood to be an addictive cardiac nightmare.

I miss the neurostimulant effect badly... if you are right about nicotine being exonerated, I'll jump for joy and
pick some up that day.
Tolerance sets in very quickly when constantly exposed to reality.

Alternatively, those who are unacceptably different to the majority are exterminated. I don't think I like that.
I wish psychedelics were more like that for me. They (at least psilocybin) usually just make me feel uncomfortable, and I have to grit my teeth through the whole experience. Sometimes though… I can get really lost in vivid images and colours.
As a student of semiotics one tends to notice the disuse of the word "Europe" and the reversion to "Germany" and "Greece" in all of the language that I see used on the media coverage of the story. This is really the beginning of the end of the EU and will continue with the next global downturn combined with long term demographics.
I'm not claiming the hatred for my hypothetical white male CEO would follow the same narrative pathways. I'm claiming that it's easy to imagine reddit hating a white male CEO as much or more than Ellen Pao.

I won't disagree that race and gender were used as part of that hatred, that's obviously the case. I think, though, that it's easy to mix up whether things are tools that people use to attack someone they already hate vs. reasons for hating them in the first place. I don't honestly know which it was in this case, but it's not hard for me to imagine that it was the former.
Not a crime per se but he could have been sued for maligning the company/board I think.
Sam Altman's response https://np.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the_...
Thanks. 28% is a good start, I don't see how to improve the rest other than the suggestions in the article.
I'm not paying to read an article.

I feel that climate change is more of a danger than terrorism right now. Most terrorists are in the Middle-East and that is where a lot of their victims are located as well. Very few make it to the west and spread terrorism. Our security is so incompetent that if they wanted to do something they'd do it already. TSA failed 95% of the time in detecting contraband. http://time.com/3904473/tsa-security-test-breach-fail/
It says that the greenhouses are transparent. At 20 feet down that would mean something like 25% of the sunlight is left [1]. I'm surprised that strawberries will grow in that little light, since they don't do as well in the shade.

[1]: Rough estimate based on http://oceansjsu.com/105d/exped_briny/13.html.