skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not literally an identical criticism, that’s just an analogy. The point is that both epistemic critiques are similarly “political”, in the sense that they are about professional norms and goals and are abstracted from the precise details of the work in question.

Anyway, his primary point isn’t about “mathiness” per se, but rather about the way (he claims) a particular group of economists refuse to admit that their theory turned out to be wrong when put to real-world tests. The “mathiness” part is just one of the ways he thinks they try to deflect criticism through confusion/obscurity.

(Note, in my comments here I’m not judging the validity of any of these arguments one way or the other.)
LMGTFY

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-autistic_economics
Extremely wow-biased article. All those points look like excerps from tv series or from some fiction book.
I don't think that is true of the last biotech boom in 80s when recombinant DNA tech was developed. Amgen, Genentech, Biogen, etc, were outsized winners. Just b/c biotech has gone to more of a 'single drug asset, build and flip to a BigPharma' model in recent years doesn't mean it is some permanent law of the industry.
I think the device only needs one HDMI chip.
http://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-...
Which is great, because San Diego is too hot & sunny.
For one thing, there's one less car being manufactured. How fast (in time) it wears out is irrelevant.
Mortgage rates are much lower than they were 10 years ago, though, meaning overall affordability of a 30 year mortgage hasn't changed that much. The tough part is that rates are so low now, prices are on very shaky ground of rates start to rise, even a little bit.
One less car is manufactured. He said he does take public transportation. Down vote.
an Inspire 1 is hardly a toy, it's a professional drone.
Hey, thanks for that! I did not know that they had implemented that yet.
Article taken down to DMCA. Heres a mirror link: https://web.archive.org/web/20150801183904/https://ukiahcomm...
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We use so much water that the amount to make fuel out of would have next to no difference. And it would cost barely any more to use desalinated water.

Not that I think hydrogen is better than batteries.
The guy is basically right about both Soylent and this energy thing and yet elicits so many haters. What gives?

Sure, you don't have to live like he does. But I find it pretty interesting and actually sort of wish I was in a position to try it out (sans family).
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Or the other way around, Google could cut them off or penalize them in their app store in retaliation, citing them as bad customers.
Which is also why the federal highway trust fund is broke. Not just figuratively; it is literally out of funds.
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Are you guys entertaining remote developers?
There's the possibility that total electronic surveillance is real and that it's no good at countering the kind of threats it supposedly is used against.

If you want conspiracy, consider this: what impact did the #occupy movement have on the world order? That certainly was more dangerous to the establishment than someone scaring the population with terror attacks.

Or if you believe the official story: who are all the people assassinated with extra-legal (from an international law perspective, anyway) drone strikes in Yemen? Are they enemies of the US?
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More plugging unashamedly: I wrote a guide for what is probably the quickest and simplest way to get started with a private pypi instance - just Apache with directory autoindex, and wheels that are manually-uploaded to the server:

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Unfortunately, I think I lost a bunch of those. Too much stuff to track. I did dig up these I found over past year or so.

Complete translation of unsafe native code to safe bytecode 2004 Alliet and Megacz
http://www.megacz.com/research/papers/nestedvm.ivme04.pdf

The memory pool system - thirty person-years of memory management development goes open source Brooksby and Barnes
http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/doc/2002-01-30/ismm200...

Cyclone Programming Language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_%28programming_languag...

CCured - type-safe retrofitting of legacy code
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~necula/Papers/ccured_popl02.pdf

SoftBound - highly compatible and complete spatial memory safety for C
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/acg/papers/pldi09_softbound.pdf

Watchdog - hardware for safe and secure manual memory management & full mem safety
http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~santosh.nagarakatte/papers/isca12...

SAFEcode - enforcing alias analysis for weakly typed languages
http://llvm.org/pubs/2006-05-12-PLDI-SAFECode.pdf

Architectural support for a memory-safe C abstract machine
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~dc552/papers/asplos15-memory-safe-c...

Those are the one's C focused. Much of my collection is about non-C languages given it's inherently hard to protect or prove correct. Most good finds over past year or so are hardware enhancement to improve safety/security. Also, the SCOOP memory model & associated research papers (Google them) are smashing concurrency problems to pieces. Worth porting over to C if possible. Then SVA-OS for hardware interface. CompCert modifications for compiler. Maybe some linker work. Big picture mostly done at that point. :)
I won't go down the pharma IP rathole, but I don't think this problem is intractable. There are many inventions that aren't CRISPR where TLO is happy to have the student who invented it run with it. Funding is a much bigger limiter than IP in my experience.
People were buying Hondas, Toyotas and Datsuns in the '70s. Part of that was mileage, some of it was price, part of it was ... a sort of rebellion. There was interest.

The US automakers were just downright bellicose. No real surprise; they're huge organizations and turning a thing that large takes forever. This was so profound that Roger Smith of all people started the recently defunct Saturn marque. GM remains cast in the same shape today.

Outside of electronic engine control and the stupefyingly dumb leaded gasoline, most EPA style "improvements" made cars less efficient and would have been unnecessary for properly tuned vehicles. I suppose it's lost for all time now, but Robert Pease had a great story about his Beetle not registering any emissions and his trouble with that ( an aircooled Beetle has a high enough exhaust gas temperature to theoretically emit no carbon monoxide ).

Regulation is extremely difficult - I think of it in terms of Brian Kernighan's "debugging is twice as hard" maxim but with a higher multiplier.

I think if you want clean air, $10 a gallon gasoline is a good start. This will be very disruptive. I have never seen proof, but I have heard many times one reason Reagan was popular was because gas prices dropped during his tenure.

The sad part is that we mostly use cars to subsidize land use patterns that could be taxed. Commuting is the least efficient thing ever devised.
I would say that a lot of the time software just keeps getting slower as developers care less about efficiency.

I'm not talking about stuff you can't get to run faster. If people had the same kind of care they had in the 80s and 90s, the software would be incredibly fast. But these days they can be more careless.

Sometimes it's a good thing, as things ship faster and frameworks are more expressive. Other times, though, it's a PITA. Like when half the time we upgrade just to run the ton of bloatware from different vendors on the web / multitasking OSes at a decent speed. Chrome is usually the biggest hog on my machine. Or like when Apple's iOS keeps making the iPhone slower with every version, until you're practically forced to upgrade. Is it really that hard to make an OS which hardly does any major multitasking from getting slower and slower with every release? One almost wonders if they do it on purpose ;-)
> Yet another measure of pay, compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, shows wages are accelerating. Hourly pay for a typical employee rose 3.2 percent in June from 12 months earlier, according to the Atlanta Fed. While that is double the annual pace of 1.6 percent in February 2010, it is still below the pre-recession levels of about 4 percent.

Eh. Its still below the norm.
I'm getting sick of the this sort of sardonic racism on HN, and it never gets called out.

I'm from Europe and I can see what's happening. China starts making progress so US starts jeering every twist and turn. Give it a rest already. Same happened way back with Japan and all the jokes made back then.

Here's a story from 2011 about the Chinese building a supercomputer based on its own tech. Name me how many countries have done that? So, can I just ask HN comment people to please stop with the comments like this, it's gone beyond tiresome to annoying.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/world/asia/china-unveils-s...
If by "restrict" they mean "prohibit", then this unilateral action just destroyed most of the world's hobbyist & prosumer UAV trade flows, which were driven by Shenzhen factories big and small.
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That last idea, encrypting data before it gets sent out, seems vulnerable to fingerprinting or other leakage. What kind of encryption would give evil.com no information about the plaintext?
The 0.1% don't need paychecks.
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What bothers me is the bad reaction the backers are expressing. The builders, for whatever reason, have decided a refund is in order. You are entitled to be disappointed, but not upset considering you have lost nothing. The insults and such are completely out of line considering the honesty of the project creators. I never thought I 'd see the day when people were UPSET about getting a full refund. Talk about entitled attitudes.
I'd credit most of that improvement on electronic engine control, and that really kind of had to evolve somewhat after 1980. You could see good improvement in cars from that time frame just by replacing the coil system with an SCR based ignition.

It's also difficult to explain how brittle a 1980 car's fuel handling system was. Now, having both controlled by the same computer leads to much improvement.
Looking further, the problem isn't so extreme: http://www.suasnews.com/2015/08/37585/china-tightens-control...

"From August 15, manufacturers of certain powerful drones and computers will have to give technical details to the authorities to obtain a licence prior to export, Xinhua news agency says.

The new regulations from the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs are aimed in particular at drones which can fly for more than one hour and at heights of more than 15,420 metres."

So basically, drones powered by internal combustion engines need to be design-certified.
Actually, I took a tour of their SF office (across from the Ferry building) and it seems like a really cool place to work. If anyone gets the chance, I'd check out the little museum they have there which is open to the public. I had always just associated Autodesk with the old 2D AutoCAD software, but they're actually doing really interesting research at the company. I was really impressed. One example I saw was simulations relating to self-assembling machines/structures. And their engineering and industrial design influences make it a nice art/science mixture.

Although not necessarily intended for kids, it's a place I would have loved to visit as a 8+ year old kid.
"Despite our initial traction with revenue and customers, we realize that we still have a long way to go and trying to optimize for ownership now is like hoarding monopoly money — it’s worthless!"

Yeah, this wouldn't work for me. I've owned 30%+ in all of my companies. I'm not going to put my life into a company with no assurance legally that I will own my share when It actually becomes successful.

Money and success change people. All too often, I've seen founders get booted out of their own company because they signed the wrong contract.

This happened to a friend of mine a few years back. He was essentially turned into an employee. The CEO even took his name off the website as a founder.
The claim that "risk tolerance is higher" is almost insulting to, well, just about every other class of entrepreneur in the country.

The modern startup ecosystem involves people with six-figure jobs starting companies with money that isn't theirs, and should they fail they fail back into even higher-paying six-figure jobs.

As opposed to the rest of small business America where people routinely take out large personal loans to finance their ventures and put their homes on the line to do it without the comfort of a Plan B should things go south.

Which isn't to belittle tech founders, but let's have some perspective here and not get lost in the smell of our own flowery prose.

The abundance of funding has certainly made founding a business easier - it has also made it tremendously less personally risky. Saying that the Valley somehow has more stomach for risk sounds nice, but is it actually true?

If anything Silicon Valley has devised a highly efficient system by which ideas can be tried at extremely low personal risk, and that in fact aversion to personal risk is what has made it so successful...
Penalize them in search results too. Wonder what chunk of Google's ad revenue comes from movies. Might be small enough to loose for a short time. Do it before a blockbuster release. Unlikely to happen.
Back in the token days, they used to collect the toll box fares the same way the collect the station garbage. Hence "money train". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_train

Side note, on a desperate night have you ever found yourself wondering "maybe I can bribe the orange vest dude to let me ride the trash train because waiting here sucks."
Very neat project, will be keeping an eye on it to see how it grows and progresses.

I love the idea behind this project. The clean and intuitive project structure and layout is exemplary.

At present the emitted go code is quite nasty looking [for human-readable purposes :D]. Not meant as a complaint, just an observation.

For an example of what the outputted go code looks like check out https://github.com/hraberg/cljs2go/blob/master/cljs/core/cor...
How is that racism?
There has been steady progress in automation since the industrial revolution. It both created and destroyed jobs.

The overall level of unemployment has never been dictated by automation, only by aggregate demand. When wealth pools at the top, demand is kept artificially low.
But we have good unemployment numbers right? I cant help but think that right now might not be the best time to expect everything to line up perfectly.
Probably because the existing inventory of ICE based rolling stock has something like a half life of 20 years.

It'd also be nice to have some time in on good carbon sequester techniques in large scale.
Good point. Good and bad depending on how one looks at it.
What we should all be concerned about aren't the exports. It's the "imports" -- drones invading our airspace, built by no-name manufacturers and launched by anonymous people, for who knows what purposes.

Even without nefarious goals, a drone can simply malfunction and drop on someone's head, which is already dangerous. But if 1 out of 1000 drones is programmed to do something malicious, how would our legal systems address it? Do we even have a system that could prevent something like that? We've never had to deal with autonomous robots roaming among people before.

What I'm most afraid of is the arms race of drones. It will happen before the AI arms race that Hawking and Musk warn about: http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/27/artificially-assured-destru...
True, though there need to be controls on this sort of change. That's why we have things like tariffs. If you just open the flood gates on cheap imported labor, you'll decimate the domestic economy and then everyone loses. It's like over-cutting wood for fuel. If you impose restrictions, then forests have time to recover and you have more wood in the long run. If you don't, then forests die out and no one gets any wood. The "wood", in this case, is the money large companies are taking from domestic workers and giving to foreign workers (which they then go and spend in foreign economies i.e. the money is not spent in the economy that supports the large company and said arbitrage bites them in the butt).
>best time to expect everything to line up perfectly

When is, if not today. Certainly not... tomorrow.
It's Chinese. Here's the (google) English translated link

https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y...

"This article simply grilled steak exploit a program."

note: Translation is not 100% accurate steak.
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9985943
> These jobs are becoming increasingly scarce and hard to obtain, especially with competition from out of country talent.

I doubt the accuracy of this statement. For example, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts 8% growth in the near term for Computer Programming jobs[1].

[1] http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/c...
For me tiresome usually supercedes annoying. Oh, and how exactly is this sardonic racism? Genuinely curious.
Thanks for the insight!
Any chance to change the license over to GPL?
So it is impossible for house prices to rise so high that "nobody" can afford them, although the job categories that can afford them might change.

500 million not-so-Red Chinese looking for a place to park their new money beg to differ...
If this specific attack on the power of labor were matched with a corresponding attack on the power of capital, it wouldn't be such a problem.

Unfortunately, intellectual property rights are only getting stronger. Land rights are only getting stronger. Taxes on wealth and unearned income are only getting lower. Employee and union rights are only getting weaker.

Thus the effect of immigration on the downward pressure on wages is magnified.
discussion from 570 days ago with some good comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7036315
So..... Could someone help me understand how we are simultaneously seeing a Seed Surge, a Series A Crunch, and a surge in $ filtering into "startups" from rich investors looking to increase ROI due to low interest rates? In other words, why are we seeing an hour-glass shaped funding environment and not a Series A Surge concomitant with the inflation in valuations?

Or more simply, why have Series A funds plateaued considering all other stages have experienced increased competition? What is unique about Series A that is creating this lack of VC competition?
I have to admit I come from the opposite side to you. I learnt emacs at University almost 15 years ago and have been using it ever since. I've tried using Eclipse a few times in the past but I never really learnt the 'proper' way to use it and found it utterly uncompelling. I always end up going back to emacs. I write C code mostly though not sure if that is relevant.

I think I'm one of those grumpy set in his way types now so I'm unlikely to change my habits.
I went to U of I. There were a number of founders from Waterloo in the last batch.
Well the EFF isn't pulling any punches with this press release. Particularly interesting are: "It [the subpoena] also appeared to be served in retaliation for Google’s refusal to comply with the Attorney General’s prior demands..." and "Later documents suggest that the MPAA and Attorney General Hood were working together to plan an anti-Google smear campaign."

I quickly read the amicus brief and they do not make any such allegations (that I could tell) in the brief. While unsavory, if they allegations are true, would this indicate unlawful behaviour on the part the the attorney general?

Similarly, would the attorney general have a case for libel if the allegations are untrue? I assume that if the EFF had enough information to show collusion that they would include it in the amicus brief, but perhaps I'm wrong.
Very good points. We proposed a way to deal with DOM manipulation in
the paper [1], but Stefan omitted this in the blog post. Specifically,
Section 4 of the paper (the "Page access" paragraph) briefly describes
this. (Sorry for referring you to the paper, but our wording in the
paper is probably better than my attempt to paraphrase here.)

Of course there are other ways malicious extensions can used to leak
data---pick your favorite covert channel. But the idea was to propose
APIs (and mechanisms) that are not overtly leaky. (We are early in the
process of actually building this though.)

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos15/workshop-program/p...