skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
8MB flash is pretty good too, that was the limiting factor on the 703n's
Wait, Yudkowsky is considered worth skipping Wittgenstein for?
As the Wikipedia article notes, it also got beat to the punch by the Solar Challenger in 1981.
My thoughts exactly. Especially damning is "Nor would I personally want to talk at my students day in and day out" - I'm unsure as to why this person chose to become a teacher of any sort in the first place.
Thinking about hard questions absolutely requires history, particularly in a field like economics. Studying macroeconomics without knowing the history of political economy is useless.
I really wish AMD would promote this type of thing more heavily in general (having advanced features that Nvidia restricts to their high-cost cards). I seem to remember a similar thing with AMD being fantastic for Bitcoin mining and from memory it's because Nvidia gimped certain features that were on the cards, while AMD did not.

(on that note, I'm constantly annoyed that despite it being Nvidia specific, everyone supports CUDA for everything cool).

I understand companies have to do this to segregate their products and that it's impractical to have separate fab lines for a chip family for this kind of difference. It's still something I think AMD has a competitive advantage on though and they really need to push that alone (unless they just don't really want to - to sell their own high-end professional cards).

A worse example of this is Nvidia cards not running in systems that have AMD graphics cards in them. Which means, for example, you can't buy a low/mid-range Nvidia card to sit in your system as a dedicated PhysX/CUDA card. I'd consider such a setup for my system and I imagine there's probably others like me out there.
Depends on which is preferable to you:

- a smaller US economy that's 100% owned by Americans

- an economy that's larger (potentially more than 2x), but is 50% owned by foreigners
It's because Facebook, Google, and some others run generous bug bounties / white-hat programs. Without committing a crime, people can make a lot for disclosing it directly and confidentially. Vulnerabilities can pay 5-15k and there have been 30-40k payouts. Occasionally, you'll see a blog post explaining the process from detection to payment, like: http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/02/hacking-facebook-with-oa...

FB paid out 1.3m in 2014. http://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-bug-bounty-program-pai...
For those who don't know, he was recently responsible for a lot of the concept art for Blomkamp's Elysium.
> Most of the time 64 bit makes things slower

I am aware that this is strictly andecotal, but when I got my first AMD64 system, I first ran Gentoo/x86 on it, and eventually I reinstalled Gentoo/amd64. I did not notice any performance difference at all. Now, amd64 (x64, x86_64, whatever you may call it) has more registers than plain x86, so maybe the differences cancel each other out in this specific case.
Someone at Nvidia realized they were doing something non-evil by working on nouveau for tegra, and felt the need to restore balance.
I had completely missed this new form of insanity, which generation of cards did it start?
Rather than deleting it, you might want to edit it to make it clearer it's a thought experiment. It's clear from the reactions here that people took it rather more literally than i think you meant it.
Great reporting. Am grateful for Open's work in talking about often unspoken issues.
You can do a very simple, though somewhat permanent, modification to the dongle and receive DC-14MHz.
http://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-direct-sampling-mode/
One thing that should also be emphasized is that there is a great number of PhD candidates that never actually finish, in some universities that number is more than half.
Many of these, before quitting, teach to help pay tuition and do all sorts of tasks for their department/supervisor that are not related or help them finish their PhD.
Sorry, I'm not following your ad hominem nor how its related to the thread.
Maybe Tor Browser should try to match the user-agent to the exit-node.
How is PAE a "really awful hack"? As soon as your processor has a MMU there is neither any "hack" involved nor do you pay any performance penalty.

And if your app really needs more than 4GB of memory it might be sensible to fork() anyways since unix processes are dirt cheap. It also plays well with modern multicore architectures since it forces you to parallelize your problem.

The single most important performance issue we have today is really memory bandwidth and access time. If you carry 64 bit pointers around all the time you need roughly 30% percent more memory which is wasted on precious cache. So you have to either live with even more cache misses or you have to increase the cache size. And since cache is one of the major power and chip area consumer in todays processors increasing the cache is expensive in many ways.
I guess this article answers what will the people who can't maintain or service robots do when everything is automated :-)

So, we'll get three classes of workers - robots doing the hard work, humans who manage the robots and those who manage human relationships. That's still a lot of people getting f'ed, because not everyone can be a manager.
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My argument isn't that because something happens in nature it's OK. But rather it is closer to the argument that the Large Hadron Collider will not create a black hole that the whole planet will be sucked into.

In the case of the LHC, we know that particles collide at the speeds planned all the time, yet this does not lead to black holes erupting everywhere.

In the case of the gene transfers currently done, we know precisely what they are and they are already part of the environment, having been derived from other natural organisms. The risk of the current crop of engineered plants becoming super-weeds that choke the planet is not zero, but also not plausible from a biological perspective.

That someone could engineer a super weed is of course possible, as would be engineering the flu virus to produce cholera toxin. So, precautions should indeed be taken when releasing engineered organisms.
What YC earnestly wants you to believe is that if you just have a really good idea and nothing else, you should apply because they might be able to help you get started.

What it means in practice is that they'll receive probably tens of thousands of applications but only be able to accept 20 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9917491), so your competition will be fierce.

(BTW, see also this note from sama: "We will be slightly more open to solo founders because we think at this stage you still have a good chance of finding a cofounder. But the bar will still remain higher for solo founders given all of our historical data.: -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9917470)
Phaser is the perfect framework to get started making HTML5 2D games. I can't wait to look into this new release!

If you want to learn more about Phaser, you can check out my Flappy Bird tutorial here: http://blog.lessmilk.com/how-to-make-flappy-bird-in-html5-1/

I also wrote and self-published the first book about Phaser: https://www.discoverphaser.com/

Let me know if you have any questions! :-)
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The article touches on the major areas:

- Jobs where we need someone to be responsible. You may have fancy diagnostic computers and automated scalpels, but you are going to want a doctor somewhere. A NLP algo might be faster, more accurate, and better at recalling old cases than a judge, but you're not going to be satisfied in a society where you open a website to find out whether you're going to jail.

- Jobs where interacting with a human is the whole point. There are things where humans are baked in.

- The oldest profession is not going to be replaced with robots until those robots are mistakable for humans, as in Blade Runner. Therapists and hairdressers are probably safe, too.

- Watch any major sport. They talk about where the players grew up, what kind of mentality you need to succeed, etc. You show up at the stadium to watch gladiators, not robots. You exercise your tribal nature by buying the jersey and screaming like an idiot. You want to see John Terry crying after missing the penalty. Emotion just isn't the same without people.
The article claims a problem is that there aren't enough mid-tier positions, for those who have just acquired a PhD but aren't yet suitable for a professorship.

What sort of solution could one imagine? Outside of post-doctorate positions, there's neither funding nor desire for the kind of research that you need to further an academic career.
If someone comes up with a better system, it will be adopted. It is very hard to determine who has the capacity to be a Professor. The current system works fine most of the time. It is true that crackpots get through on occasion, but the vast majority of professorial appointments are reasonable.
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Yeah, I was reading an article about how a police officer was forced to shoot an attacker... in the foot. It was kinda funny, which was sad.

The guy had a knife and charged towards the officer, he fired off a warning shot in the air and then shot him in the foot.

And he was very apologetic about it. Not the usual "I feared for my safety so I put 5 rounds in his center mass" we see from American police.
Exposing criminals.
Isn't this restriction only related to using the card both in a multiple VMs and/or the host OS at the same time?

I'm pretty sure you can (if you have a vt-d capable cpu) use the intel IGP for Linux and a nvidia card dedicated for the vm using kvm and vfio-vga drivers.

Unfortunately I can not test this myself as I have a 4770k cpu in my gaming computer and it does not support vt-d.
It's also paywalled...
You might find dokku or dokku-alt interesting.
> The whole contributor base – everyone contributing to ffmpeg

The project leader is also a contributor, so clearly not 'everyone'.

> So these people forked ffmpeg – or rather, they took all the repos (which they owned), took all the CI servers (which they owned) and would have also taken the name ffmpeg, but the project leader owned that name.

There are people that consider Linus to be 'an asshole' and I'm really happy that he at least has the Linux name as a trademark.

To me, looking from the outside in and reading about the whole sage they're all assholes. You keep your dirty laundry inside and you do what you can to present a unified front to the world. As soon as you fail to do that you are failing your project in the most important sense that you can fail it: continuity.
Except the libav idea of "better" is still unsafe.
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Indeed a typo :).

One example: In my parser I use tag embeddings. There are roughly two possibilities to do this (since Caffe does not have a lookup table a la Torch yet, though there is a pull request for this):

1. You train the embeddings on a large corpus and give them as part of the input.

2. You train the embeddings while training the classifier. You basically encode each tag (at various positions in the parser configuration) using a one-hot vector and direct this input to a linear layer (per position) that has the number of neurons corresponding to the requested embedding size, sharing weights between all such tag layers. After training, the n-th float of the embedding for the m-th tag is the m-th weight of the n-th neuron.

If you want the best of both worlds (train tag embeddings on a large corpus, finetune while training the classifier), you set up the topology for (2) and then you initialize the weights of the linear layer yourself by putting the learned embeddings as the initial weights.

There are also a completely different example for image recognition here:

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/BVLC/caffe/blob/dev/examp...

Edit for clarification: Caffe is quite different from the other libraries --- you do not set up a network programmatically, but specify the topology as data (via a protocol buffer file).
Here you are:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/SecurityTool/Security...
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/SecurityTool/Security...

After reading the source, I think that you must put the binary in `/usr/bin/leaks`.
Its a one off. They wont make them after they run out of old chips.
Forking a project should be reserved for when a project becomes - by some objective criteria - abandoned and there is enough support for the project to continue. Then and only then should a project with a large amount of traction be forked.

What about Hudson/Jenkins and OpenOffice/LibreOffice? And egcs?

I think criticizing forking is misguided; the fork is a consequence of the problem, not the cause, and it can often be the best resolution of a bad situation.

Consider what would have happened if it was impossible to fork ffmpeg: the developers who created libav would still have a problem with how ffmpeg was developed, and they could very well simply leave it. That would mean a loss to ffmpeg itself (which used the libav patches), a loss of the libav developers, and for what?
FT recently has been using Greek ”kathimerini” so its probably another hoax.
Reduce the number of graduate programme places so the over supply is less, either by reducing the number of places reasonably evenly across the system or by closing marginal doctoral programmes altogether. There are a lot of universities that graduate Ph.D.s who have virtually no chance of a decent academic position. The first tier universities graduate more than 5 times as many Drs. each year than are necessary to replace their own staff, some much more than that. You need to be an extremely strong second tier graduate to have a chance of getting a position at the same level, never mind going up. Third tier or below are basically exploited for teaching and research labour and then gradually eased out of the system. People should not enter these programmes expecting to get an academic job. Those who enter those programmes would be better off getting a J.D., which is damning. A J.D. is a horrible idea for most people but at least it only wastes 3 years and less than $200K. Most people who enter a Ph.D. programme drop out, in most disciplines, and some people who do graduate take up to ten years.
Ask HN: Is anyone looking for a team of coders?
I run a growing company with an office full of software professionals in the EU (Portugal). We create custom software for clients using (any combination of) Django/Python, HTML5 (diverse frameworks), Java (diverse frameworks) & Xamarin.

Most threads about work / projects here are for individuals looking for gigs or jobs; I hardly ever see anything for companies or teams. We are working with US companies already and I am flying over in august to meet up with some of them; I was wondering if anyone here would be interested in our services in the US/EU.

Or more generally; is there any board/thread/etc for (small) companies regularly looking for projects/team hires instead of individuals looking for jobs? If nothing like that exist maybe this could be a start as i'm sure more people are looking for that here.
I'm exaggerating of course. But I'm sure it did make a massive difference.
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It seems like Mass Effect 2's Omega was inspired by this: http://i.imgur.com/4QsK0RQ.jpg
Edit: As a source is missing it seems like this is a genuine Mass Effect Concept art piece that the uploader mixed into the Syd Mead gallery. Of course the artists of Mass Effect drew a lot of inspiration from Syd Mead.
Yeah, it seems this is becoming more relevant than FPSs on a game nowadays
Can form original thought.
There is no "inside" in an open community. What you're advocating is for an elite of the project making the decisions among themselves and presenting the decision to everyone else as a fait accompli. I think that's a very unethical way to act - users and less prominent contributors deserve a voice too.
> I don't agree that determination is personal

Love and passion are as personal as it gets.

> It boils down to love really

And "what's love?" You don't choose who you love or what you're passionate about while determination is deliberate effort. I agree that love helps you do things that are hard but it's so whimsical and out of your control that I think it's not enough. Say you love video games and programming, is that enough to make a successful game? Unless you try tens of games, throw away all but one, debug the hell out the performance and manage to market it in such a crowded market, you'll always fall short I think.

> when we must go pee. We do whatever it takes

Not very convinced by your analogy. Starting a company is a long-term effort. And usually, there aren't many road blocks on your way to the bathroom.
No, unfortunately I have a useless brick of a GTX 680 Lightning laying on my desk as we speak and an R9 Fury in the mail because that's not the case. I have a separate, basic PCI-E graphics card in the machine as the host GPU, but nothing you do will get an nVidia to pass through. I haven't tried KVM, but I have tried Xen and ESXi, and my reading tells me the same is true for KVM. I'm using an older AMD/ATi HD 7790 in the meantime, it passes through just fine. (Hint/Note: don't pass through the on-board HDMI, that'll give you BSODs and kernel panics to no end.)
So it was political, like I said.

Not to kick 'em while they're down but it certainly wasn't on technical merit.
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How plausible is the scenario where dictator (or may be benevolent) low tech regimes simply end up killing all birds in secure areas..
As a start, remove the bureaucratic administrative layers which have grown wild due to managerialism?

"My own knowledge comes from universities, both in the United States and Britain. In both countries, the last thirty years have seen a veritable explosion of the proportion of working hours spent on administrative tasks at the expense of pretty much everything else. In my own university, for instance, we have more administrators than faculty members, and the faculty members, too, are expected to spend at least as much time on administration as on teaching and research combined. The same is true, more or less, at universities worldwide." http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-decl...

Articles like this indundate the reader with chart upon chart. High-res pictures with a scope too narrow to find serious solutions. What do these charts leave out?
You need to have a hobby that has nothing to do with the software industry, make you sweat and go outside. Mountain biking, hiking, running, backpacking are some examples I can think of. You'll also get healthier.
Ahhh Flickr, that was SO cool in 2005 ;-)

Seriously, with the policies that has now been passed in the UK, /anyone/ can declare your image to be fair game after a little while and use it commercially for free; so I stopped posting images online (apart from the odd snap) a loooong time ago!

That makes more storage available for cat pics for everyone else ;-)
Probably, but I am not convinced it would work. According to their article their smallest drone category is the size of a small child.

That means the crazyflie (https://www.bitcraze.io/crazyflie-2/) is entirely outside of what they are considering. Which is too bad because it is pretty fast, computer controlled and absolutely tiny. Yes its take of weight is only 42 grams meaning you can pack about 15g of c4 on that thing and land it on somebodies head.

Now I am not sure 15g is enough to do any serious damage, and I don't know if you can alter it to use frequency-hopping jamming-prof radio but I do know this: technology only gets better, faster and smaller.

And it would really ruin my day if I was to hold a speech and 15g of c4 went of right over my head - especially since the attacker has a real chance of getting away with it.
I might be interested. How can you let me know more about it?
I was totally with you until the last sentence. I suspect our definitions of rational ethics may differ. Quick, to the philosophers, they can solve this!
Stopping docker containers gracefully when running from bash
I usually take unmodified potato starch[1]. It took me about a month to get used to it, in terms of gas/bloating, but definitively, it is doing something in my brain (much less hunger)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Bobs-Red-Mill-Potato-24-Ounce/dp/B004V...
They are assembled back before they leave the VPN. This step makes the latency higher.
AMD didn't expose the necessary features for good SHA256 performance on their GPUs either, for a while you had to hack their SDK to get them.
Exactly, robots are designed for productivity and robust-ness; humans are 'designed' for adaptability and creativity.
A performance penalty and kernel memory management complexity comes from peripherals and kernel's inability to directly address all memory and resulting need for bounce buffers. Liked it was with ISA dma 16mb limitation and Linux in the bad old days.
LHC's website states: "Whatever the LHC will do, Nature has already done many times over during the lifetime of the Earth and other astronomical bodies."

This case is not analogous because in this planet's history there have been 6 different extinction events. So in order for it to be analogous, they would have to say that we know a few times in the past this has caused a black hole, but this is totally different.

Passing genes from one thing into another can very easily have unintended consequences as they do in nature. The link above is an example of what can happen. By the time you figure it out, perhaps it will be too late. The effects might be local or they might be global, there is no way to predict these things and we can not say with certainty that they don't happen, because we have more than one example of where they do. In fact human intelligence may be an accident of horizontal gene transfer. These are not games that are worth playing in my opinion. You are what you eat. If that stuff it in your food supply, it just might end up in you and the bacteria and other life that lives in you.

Another really big problem is dependence. Once you come to depend on these things, just like we are now with carbon producing technology, you can not pull the plug. Even if you know that it's causing harm, the social mechanism needed to pull the plug don't exist in free society and if they do they are very slow moving. That's another big reason to not go down this road, because it's impossible to turn back because of all the people that will die because you can't produce the expected crop yields.
No, it's based on some hand-waving about "terror threats" due to us helping NATO alienate people in the Middle East. The "threats" are classified (but really dangerous, ok, trust us, wink-wink) -- and no one's tried to explain how moving the handguns from lock-boxes in the police command cars to the hips of random patrol officers are supposed to help counter these "terror threats".

I was recently at a music festival with some ~3000 people -- and a couple of police officers with handguns. I have a hard time divining a scenario where those guns are going to help. If the aim was to be able to shoot attackers, at least some snipers at an elevated vantage point with low-power ammunition might have had a chance at taking someone out without endangering the crowds too much.

On the other hand, if the crowd went mad an rioted, you can be sure that the end result would've been that someone in the crowd would've ended up in possession of those guns.
Would you care to give an example? The only thing I can think of is the typeless-ness.