skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a difference between supporting any illegal action committed by individual union members, and supporting the interests of the members as a whole. I'd think (hope?) that there is a degree of egregiousness where the union would realize that they are hurting the group as a whole by defending the corrupt individuals. By contrast, the defendants' lawyers are allowed to concern themselves only with their clients.
>a lot.

I guarantee you that engineers warned PM's about this kind of thing from the start.

>Also, those old timers were wrong about drive by wire, there is zero evidence that it's any less safe than physical linkages.

Let's distinguish drive-by-wire from FADEC (or what amounts to a poor-version of FADEC). An electronic throttle is fine. An electronic throttle that cannot be overridden by a casual user not. It's the implementation that's problematic.
I've been liking Google Play Music so far.
love the out-take videos!
> Lack of information on a runtime exception.

The -xc runtime option does just that, with a stack trace[0].

./app +RTS -xc

> Total lack of debugging tools

I wouldn't exactly say there is a total lack. To name a few:

Thread Scope: https://wiki.haskell.org/ThreadScope

Event Log: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/EventLog (capable of live monitoring)

GHCi Debugger: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_gu...

EKG: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ekg

I also consider type system features to be a very useful form of tooling:

Typed Holes: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_gu...

Deferring Type Errors: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_gu...

Partial Type Signatures: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_gu...

[0] - Can't direct link, look for -xc here: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_gu...
Index funds are typically meant to track the broad market, of which both Coke and Pepsi are parts.
The thing about saying "it just works" and attempting to hide everything from the user is that it is really, really frustrating when it doesn't "just work".

The amount of hardware and software bugs I've encountered in Apple products has been steadily increasing, to the point where I'm really only happy with my iPhone (and even that has some problems) -

- Connecting a wired keyboard to a Thunderbolt display that is connected to my MBP rarely worked after disconnecting/reconnecting my MBP. I'd have to change which USB port the keyboard connected to - until discovering that this was a common problem that connecting a USB extender fixes. It just works?

- We use Apple TVs in our conference rooms to connect our laptops to and project via a projector/tv. The Apple TVs routinely reboot, fail to connect, and drop connections. I've had my laptop lock up for several minutes trying to connect to one.

- iMessage routinely gets into a state where it shows ghost notifications that I have to clear by deleting conversations one-by-one until I find out which one is causing it.

- iMessage routinely reorders previous messages.

- Safari randomly uses the wrong favicon for frequently visited websites.

And so many more. It is really disappointing that I'm not really that surprised when something doesn't work or feels clunky. At this point, I trust my Windows machine more than I do my Mac.
Re: "And the requirement to maintain multiple versions of the same signal over time is a contributor to technical debt in its own right."

The authors don't elaborate on their reasoning here. Would someone care to comment on what they are getting at?

Now, how does one make the call if this would be technical debt? In my view, this question will answer the question: are multiple versions of a signal required while different parts of the system settle over different time periods? If so, then reality is intrinsically complex in that way, so I would not expect a system to gloss over that complexity. A system that simply reflects the inherent domain complexity is not adding technical debt, the way I see it. Am I missing something?
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This seems annoying but it's clearly still in progress - Amazon didn't tell him to fuck off, and are still working on a resolution. For the digital haters - houses burn down too.
Vanguard definitely uses its proxy votes:

https://about.vanguard.com/vanguard-proxy-voting/
My thesis: part of this feeling comes from the fact that more eyes are on the OS and the apps, but many issues existed before.

- I have some complaints about OS X: wifi, bluetooth, etc.

- I like iTunes as it is today (not considering the synchronization process)

- I struggle with the weakened "iWorks" applications
That's not always possible.
Ideally TFL would provide a realtime API of the number of Oyster card entrances and exits at each station.

I work just off Oxford Street and at roughly 6pm every day travellers can't get into Oxford Circus station because of overcrowding at the platform level. If we could get a realtime overview of the number of people entering a station and see that the number of people entering is unexpectedly very low an app could direct people to enter at Bond Street / Green Park / Piccadilly Circus
Because both companies are on the index that the index fund matches, and the whole premise behind index funds is that they're set up to require their managers to purchase stock of all companies in the index (managers not allowed to pick and choose).
It's combination of genuine ignorance, willful ignorance (serving one's political agenda), and subconscious suppression of truth (cognitive dissonance, serving one's preferred ideas about who the good guys and bad guys are).

Video is helping with the first, but as can be seen by many people's reactions to all this stuff, doesn't work as well as it should for the latter two.
Maybe so but the article only mention diseases both genres suffered from and that are DNA related (asthma, skin disorders, etc.) with almost identical links to genes.

I'd venture to guess HS would have spread with or without Neanderthal genes.
Information can no longer die - CDs, DVDs, libraries - a new dark age will be mercifully short.

And as for cheap energy - there are plenty more, better sources than oil.
Well take this with a HUGE grain of salt but:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

Also : http://langpop.com/
Is the biggest risk to national security the Apple Watch and Fitness Bands?
Route 53: Why you should consider migrating your DNS to AWS
I believe there is a fundamental distinction between URI schemes that are dynamic but centralized (meaning they require some form of coordination, to handle mutability), versus schemes that are static and decentralized (for example, they are defined by a hash algorithm that anyone can run independently). If you go the dynamic/centralized route you end up with something like the World Wide Web, which already works very well for that use case. Content addressing will never be useful for things like online shopping, where your requests are basically remote procedure calls. Instead I think it's good for publishing, sharing files, and things like that.

I do have a plan to build mutability on top of StrongLink eventually, using diffs like Git. I think it's important to have a clean separation, so that the sync protocol stays simple and impossible to get wrong.

The initial application for StrongLink is notetaking, which I find much easier to do with immutability. It's like writing in ink.
> I gather that Dart transpiles to a huge lump of mostly useless code.

It transpiles your code to a small lump of useful code. It also includes a runtime library which takes up a chunk of space. That ends up being a large fraction of the overall result when the application in question is "hello, world!", but in a real-world app, it's a relatively small piece of the pie.

I'll also note that the Gist is from 2012. Dart is twice as old today as it was when that Gist was published.

Here's what the output looks like today [1]. We have two compilers right now:

dart2js is designed to produce output that runs as fast as possible and is as small as possible. You can think of it as "-O3". Optimize all the things at the expense of readability. The dart2js output on the simple example is 170 lines, or 5K of JS (before gzip). Still kind of big, but like I said, most of that is runtime library that amortizes better in large programs.

dev_compiler, or "ddc" is for producing human-readable, debuggable output. It's like "gcc -g". No optimizations or minifications, fast compile times, maximum readability. Its output for this is 29 lines. This does not include the runtime library, since it compiles that to separate (also readable) files. The output uses ES6 and looks like:

dart_library.library('simple', null, /* Imports */[
"dart_runtime/dart",
'dart/core'
], /* Lazy imports */[
], function(exports, dart, core) {
'use strict';
let dartx = dart.dartx;
class Simple extends core.Object {
Simple(name) {
this.name = name;
}
greet(who) {
return `Greetings ${who}, I'm ${this.name}!`;
}
}
dart.setSignature(Simple, {
constructors: () => ({Simple: [Simple, [core.String]]}),
methods: () => ({greet: [dart.dynamic, [dart.dynamic]]})
});
function main() {
let s = new Simple('Flyn');
core.print(s.greet('Program'));
}
dart.fn(main);
// Exports:
exports.Simple = Simple;
exports.main = main;
});
//# sourceMappingURL=simple.js.map

Pretty readable, I think, especially given how young ddc is. The team is still hard at work on it.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/munificent/bde42b3d02c563fb4a9c
We've been struggling with metrics for awhile now. We're hitting all the "enterprise" plans with our sessions + mau, and just can't afford it. Seems silly to build and maintain our own metrics, so glad we finally have Amplitude for all our needs.

The dashboard api is amazing. We only need a few simple numbers, and the API works fantastic.

Thinks like custom dashboards are cool, but we're able to just grab the numbers onto our own that we have melded with other services as well.
"...In my opinion, Yosemite is the worst non-beta Mac OS release I’ve ever used – and I’ve used everything other than the public betas of 10.0 ..."

???

Personally I find Yosemite AND Windows 10 to be wanting in most every respect. But I think there is a bit of a tendency to view the past through rose colored glasses.

There is no way that Yosemite is worse than 10.0 or 10.1. I know I'm going to date myself a bit here... but 10.1 on that Titanium powerbook, that sagged like rubber if you held it from one end by the way, had to be the single worst computing experience of my life. That INCLUDES waiting for time on the mainframe, punchcards in hand, in the basement of the computer science building at the University of Wisconsin.

"... While I didn’t run into any data loss issues or anything particularly catastrophic..."

That right there should tell you it's better than early OSX. Thank who- or whatever you deem divine for Perforce... because I once lost an entire Solaris build of the Photoshop engine to early OSX. And it waited until I had fixed quite a few bugs to make the engine work on BSD before it crapped on me too.

AWESOME times!!! No actually it SUCKED!!!

Maybe I'm just being harsh on 10.0 and 10.1, or maybe harsh on Titanium powerbooks??? I don't know. Maybe other people were not as annoyed as I was with the crashes and slowness. But it was BAD!!! HORRIBLE actually. I think Vista was a sack of crap... but even Vista gave a better experience than the early OSX versions. Though Vista and early OSX probably are neck and neck for worst desktop OS experiences to date.

I don't know... I could be wrong. I mean... I also think Windows XP has probably delivered mankind the BEST desktop OS experience to date. So what do I know ???

Anyway... Yosemite is bad... but for those too young to remember... BELIEVE me when I say... early OSX was FAR, far worse.
I think (hope) it was a joke.
This is great for companies without a lot of data yet. Often times a big hurdle is the large price tag based on volume, when a company may have no clue as to their actual volume benchmarks because they haven't gotten as far as tracking their event data to the level they could/should. So a salesperson asks how many events they would have, and the response is "how the hell should I know?"

Your growth discovery engine feature looks pretty cool, as does the event path report. This looks similar to conversion path reports I've seen in GA's attribution data.

Unfortunately, a lot of times those reports look nice but don't help much because they fail to provide meaningful insights when dealing with any sort of user volume. I've always wanted some sort of zoom out view that lets me view color-coded patterns or something like that so I can visually get a sense of what is going on and let my brain's pattern recognition abilities go to work to spot clusters. This is what in turn informs the questions to feed into your growth report, since your customers may not know the right questions to ask yet. Providing tools to give the answers isn't enough, you have to provide tools that spit out the questions ;)
"Analytics is often the single largest infrastructure expense for a company." I'm interested in seeing some supporting evidence. Listed references do not refer to any study or real evidence. This may be true for companies that entire strategy is analytics or ad-based. (See Deloitte 2014 CIO survey -- lots of companies not even doing analytics or feel they are not spending enough on analytics.)
Yep, it means the tech is probably in the "Trough of Disillusionment" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
It's a partnership between Apple and IBM. Apple has basically acknowledged that they sucked at Enterprise support.
Improved data bindings for ReactJS
Not to mention Kdenlive, which is being actively developed again and has been the most capable and stable of the free video editors I've used this past year (including Openshot, Pitivi, and Flowblade)
Are you Safe Harbor compliant?
Mozilla's Command Line Options
> Well, consumers shouldn't be much worse off, otherwise it creates an arbitrage opportunity.

Only if the industry has a low barrier to entry.
First person games as they exist today don't transfer well to VR. The issue is the locomotion problem: Moving the player in the virtual world but not the real world causes motion sickness, since they're not getting a matching input to their vestibular system. Oculus' system today is suited more for cockpit games or 3rd person games with gentle camera movement. Valve are also targetting room sized first person experiences, where the user has enough physical space that the play area can be mapped 1:1.
Phonagnosia
"One man high on the drug used his hands to stop an electric saw being used by police to open a door ... leaving him covered in blood."

Um, wow. That's some drug.
It's interesting to note that Dan Weber appears to feel the 'defend all actions' is obviously correct, while you say your community feels that it is obviously wrong. Presumably he would say the opposite about his community. I don't know either of you, but I wonder if there is less consensus on this issue than either of you believes. Or are you two in fundamentally different communities?
That's a direct quote from the linked paper http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2632024
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Kind of a clickbait headline. It's not iTunes in particular, it's any software that can rip CDs. It also covers the backing up of any computer that has copyrighted content on it, which would now apparently be illegal.
In this case the house was burned down by the owner( company ) because someone broke in.
It's shocking that so few people in a forum that is basically dedicated to the business of information technology have such a blind spot to the economics of our industry. Yours is the only mention of the word "economics" out of many dozens of comments.

You'd think by now that we'd have a way to treat digital media as property that can be bought and sold on a marketplace. This price discovery would then make a great entry in to a book of accounts.

The current info-economic system is mainly selling advertisements to pay for nothing more than servers and other operation costs. The content itself is worthless, not because it doesn't have costs in making it or is something that consumers don't value, rather because we've purposefully kept it out of a marketplace.

These VC funded information technology companies only have one business model: create and exploit a private monopoly. Control identity. Authorize the use of any and all interactions with data.

I'm not going to discuss my thoughts how to fix this because my opinions on the matter are incredibly unpopular on HackerNews and frankly, I'm sick of feeling like crap after getting a bunch of silent downvotes after I've spent time writing something thoughtful.
The down votes are not because the opinion is unpopular, it is because it is so easily demonstrated to be incorrect. The rehash of the "mac tax" arguments (e.g. claiming that a $250 HP laptop is in any way equivalent to what you could get for $2K at Apple), misunderstanding how enterprises discount capex, anecdotes about support requirements, etc. The companies that are mainly Mac-based know what they are doing and what works at scale.
Any knowledge or experience of System 76 laptop computers as Linux machines?
MergeLane accelerator focuses on women-led companies
I think the 'performant code' is not so much as a must have for those - like me - that are more interested in the logic rather than the code itself.

Also, IMHO a high level abstraction would be preferred when porting/coding said logic to another programming language.
7 Lessons on “Systems Thinking” That Can Improve Personal Performance
That is total bullshit and you know it. This whole culture of self-loathing was cute at the beginning, but it's descended into absolute absurdity. You are patently out of your mind if you actually believe what you wrote. You don't, of course, but what's a little hyperbole when you're posturing for imaginary geek cred points on a website amirite?
My view is that LA is not necessarily that much better. Grass is greener...
Fine, but who is eluding the discussions ? PHD in european universities ? The media ?

Is research on the subject tabooed and not encouraged ?
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No, not always possible, but it is very much so the rule, rather than the exception. The many wonders of the modern world are, by and large, the result of capitalist forces.
On the same token, more indexing will insulate losses by creating an implicit demand based on market cap.
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You're welcome. :)
Dwindling customers - numerically speaking, sure. But volumes they seem to be ok on. Especially when you consider all of the last mile work they are doing for UPS & Fedex.
> As much as Apple screws up, could you imagine using a watch + phone + PC + tablet from some other vendor, and it being better?

I use a phone, watch, tablet, TV dongle, and PCs from a combination of 5 different hardware and 3 different core software vendors (on all but the watch and TV dongle, not the same vendors for both on the same device), and I have a pretty good experience working across them for the things that need to work across them.

Perhaps Apple's ingrained culture is less well adapted to dealing with diversity than those of vendors who are used to having to deal with it because they don't control all aspects of the experience.
I'd love to hear Giles Bowkett do another dramatic reading, for this essay. The first one was an instant classic: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2015/06/let-other-95-of-rea...
Double the FPS requirement to 120 because people have two eyes.
In almost all cars there are in fact two CAN buses - a high speed, low security bus that connects the radio to the entertainment system and so on, and a low-speed, high security (in terms of components, not actual security) but that connects the brakes to the ECU and so forth.

The issue is that frequently systems like OnStar sit on both buses, because they are used for things like engine diagnostics. If you investigate you'll notice that every single one of these car hacking attacks starts somewhere, pivots to an OnStar like system, then can control the car.

Doesn't really make your point less true, but fits perfectly in the features over security mindset.
index allocation as a % of total assets will keep rising, but total assets will also keep rising.. That means individual stocks will still have price discovery despite a futuristic scenario where 99% of all money is indexed. The mechanism for how this leads to collusion is unclear.
There's a difference between natural monopolies and government-backed/tied monopolies.
lol, yes.
at least someone gets me!
Shameless perhaps would be a more suitable word for it?
Clearly, this is the rise of superheroes.
Just signed up. this is good enough that I'm willing to move away from Mixpanel, I love Mixpanel, but with this type of offering and what seems like a much more refined UI, I'm sold!
I dunno, I just don't use Apple produced software on my Mac for the most part and the experience is mostly fine. I use Windows at home and Mac for work, so I probably spend a bit more time on my work Mac.

I loath finder with a passion that would reduce stars to quarks, but that's just because its poorly designed, not particularly buggy. And outside of the OS, that's pretty much all the Apple software I tend to use on a day-to-day basis. I learned a long time ago to just stop trying to make their software work, and I don't know why people keep returning to it after years of dealing with increasingly bad software. Just avoid it.

My day pretty much consists of Chrome, iterm2, MS-Office and a handful of other apps, and things work mostly fine. I could probably have an absolutely equal day on a Windows laptop since most of what I use is cross-platform or has an equivalent.

My only real gripe is that I wish the screen animation and updating was more "snappy" like in windows. It always feels like it's just making the little graphics hamsters work a little extra hard to do things like scrolling quickly.

I think the larger point here is that the apps apple makes all have better replacements in their segment. I can kind of see that for a terminal application or whatever that's tossed in with the OS, but for other kinds of applications, ones you pay good money for, Apple really should be more neck-and-neck with the competition.

There's also really little excuse these days for the huge ecosystem of addons and patches that unfuck missing and broken core OS features. Bettertouchtool, for example, shouldn't actually need to exist. But there's something like half a dozen applications kind of like it, and zero support for what it does built in OS X. People don't really complain about it too much because once you install and set these little widgets up, you forget about them. But the user should never have to install this stuff in the first place.

This seems to me like a combination of a lack of focus, lack of dedicated teams, lack of product ownership and vision, and lack of attention to detail in the software development practice at Apple vs. the software design teams.
Cruise (YC W14) is hiring systems engineers to help build autonomous vehicles