skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's not really deconstructing the word hacker in the sort of semiotic tradition that Derrida did in that he doesn't seem too concerned with what "hacker" itself actually means (or what meaning even is, etc), more so who has interest in redefining it in the way that it has been over the past 30 years.

For what it's worth, I think a similar study of the flattening of hippy culture into a one-dimensional caricature, could be quite relevant. A counter-cultural segment is stripped of elements critical of the mainstream and repackaged, undermining the validity of the original movement.

That said I think the author does sort of mix and match between the mainstreamification of a counter-culture for profit and the role technology plays in extracting huge amounts of wealth from the reformation of commerce and funneling it into the hands of relatively few.
This is kinda weird. I mean what is the point of shaming people into not selling their stock?
The keyword pass is used in place of an empty body. Explicit better than implicit, etc.
>people who are not you are confused by it and don't understand it

This is the history of computers and users. So many technologies that seem completely intuitive now started out just like this. being confused by it and don't understand it is only a problem if stays that way like shortcut key combos. Hamburger menus are like "right click". it's not that bad and when people have seen it a few times it won't be some confusing.
Bill Gates and Others Pour $120M into Revolutionary Gene-Editing Startup
Oops, maybe I unwittingly had access by being on work VPN. Sorry bout that! Thanks for the open link, jacquesm.
In these cases I suggest saying "we are being severely affected by an Amazon outage"
>This webpage is not available

Heh.
Walking Dead: How Wasp Overlords Control Spider Zombies
What tool is that?
I've been looking at the history of specialized hardware for running neural networks. Starting with Intel ETANN, every single chip initiative has failed. The reason has typically been the same - "silicon steamroller", meaning that general purpose hardware is always progressing fast enough to make any specialized chips not attractive enough in terms of cost/performance ratio, when they finally hit the market (which was always later than planned).

With Nvidia throwing all their weight behind acceleration of deep learning applications, they're advancing on multiple fronts: Tegra X1 claims 1 Tflops @ 10W (half precision). That's what they're shipping today, what about 2016?

Aside from rapidly improving GPUs, you now have rapidly improving FPGAs. For example, Altera has put thousands of hard multipliers on their latest Stratix 10 chip. They claim 10 Tflops SP, and 80 Gflops/W:
https://www.altera.com/products/fpga/stratix-series/stratix-...
Microsoft is already using them to power Bing search (apparently they use NN based algorithms for that).

What makes you think your chip - if it's actually out in 2016, which can easily slip to 2017 - can compete with Pascal chips from Nvidia, or the next gen FPGAs from Altera/Intel or Xilinx?

Who is your market exactly?
> Can there be any new, technically difficult means of communication?

I'm assuming you meant "technically different"?

Either way: I can't think of any, but given the last few millenia of progress, it seems unlikely that we've reached the peak.
My use of an adblocker is not an "approach" to the problem. My suggested approach is to find a sustainable business model, which could keep them in business.

The business model is their problem - not mine. Even if I'm the cause of why their business model is failing, it's not my problem to solve.

Companies with better business models will eventually replace the companies that go out of business. If an ad-supported site goes offline, I do not care. A site with similar content and a more sustainable business model will replace them. If their content was valued enough - a donation funded site will replace it.
Interesting idea.
One thing that you can think about is to describe your product better in less writing. It shouldn't need more than a few sentences at most.

Good luck!
for anyone testing web sites, I built a chrome extension that makes things like this available in the right-click menu [1]
the code is on github, so it can be easily extended [2]

[1] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bug-magnet/efhedld...

[2] - https://github.com/gojko/bugmagnet
Looks like it could use some rate-limiting / blocking / votekicking.
Suggest you change your name before you gain traction and get sued.
I don't think this is a solvable problem, especially when people just don't care. There are plenty of resources from websites to youtube videos to teach users how to be more computer literate. But instead of learning, people would rather watch someone unbox candy on youtube.
This person should not be a doctor. Not with this "profound left-right confusion". People with severe diabetes are not allowed to drive commercially. People with sea sickness don't usually captain boats.

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Edit: Apparently I'm at my limit on my work laptop, but can read it on my phone.

Unlike other NYTimes articles, this link takes me directly to a paywall. I don't even get to see a blurb, abstract, teaser, or dateline. Going directly from Google also puts me at a paywall.
It's not disk size that we care about, it's memory size. Reducing the space that the "parsed" code takes up in memory will reduce the amount of memory used by the engine.
Thanks for clarifying. If you're using that definition, it's no longer enough to say "look, that's the law"; you need to demonstrate public support for it as well. If politicians pushed it through without broad public support, then it's not a sign of societal ethics.
The trouble is that so many software developers in particular use this argument to justify every single silly notion they come up with. "Users just hate change, they'll get used to it and then they'll love it" is not a good engine for UI design.
I might be missing something but the first Facebook example used in the article seems wrongly applied to this problem. They just transferred the menu bar to the bottom. All the icons, which were at the top, are now just located at the bottom. They are now easier to see - the text doesn't hurt also, and probably easier to use (no conflict with the phones top-bar), which could be the explanation for the observed results. The only difference I can see is the switch of the hamburger at the top with a search icon.

Nobody ever asked me - for obvious reasons, because I might be blind - but I'm partial to an icon where you have a + sign ("additional" items) on top a V ("directional clue"; could be pointed in other directions for a pull-up menu for example) to form some sort of arrow.
That's how people used to view "imaginary" numbers...and the field of complex analysis laid dormant for 200 years. When a valid geometric interpretation was found that backed up the algebraic existence of these numbers, the field blossomed.

We're humans, we can't understand equations without knowing what they "mean."
Definitely could use kicks and bans
A war in space would be utterly disastrous for human civilization - the resulting cascade of orbital debris would confine us to Earth for a long time, not to mention destroying or disabling the satellites on which so much of our infrastructure depends.

A recent edition of BBC Horizon highlighted the problems of space junk: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0656dbj
It's something I've seen working in a few places, but I'll take your recommendation and review the slides for a better approach. You're right that this approach does lose some of the benefits of version control but then typically the SP schema changes are very closely linked to table schema changes anyway.
Ask HN: Free domain names?
Hi. Does anyone know if there are more services similar to the likes of DotTK that offer free domain names without having to pay for them? (http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en). Google yielded nothing, but then Google also yielded any number of coupon-code sites where affil marketers drowned any such hope of getting a domain for free. Don't get me wrong, I own my own domain portfolio, but have made a conscious effort to not buy any more domains. In the true spirit of the web, you would think there would be more alternatives to the likes of DotTK...Anyone?
I have been involved in a number of informal discussions on this topic, things like the Kessler effect effectively denying access to space is a possibility even without malicious action (all you need is an asteroid to fly close enough to bat some of the geosyncronous satellites into a crossing orbit with the rest of the LEO stuff.

A number of scenarios start with just that, something happens and suddenly the space around the earth is so full of junk flying every which way that a new sort of "debris" belt prevents launching new Geo satellites or even people into orbit.

At which point the country that can build a space "tank" a hardened satellite which is designed to deflect damage from collisions wins.

Alternatively the ways in which things can be de-orbited can be increased. The laser idea has some good press going for it, I am partial to conductive tether tugs, but it is probably not going to be people up there taking out the trash.

And of course if someone does this deliberately how much of the US' military inventory is suddenly worthless? Predator drones, cruise missiles, gps guided bombs, auto-pilot features, iridium sat phones, gps laser designators, lots and lots of stuff. Not the kind of change that leads to extended space use.
I think the GUI application paradigm completely broke the unix way. You used to be able to pipe programs into eachother. This means that if you used programs enough you'd eventually pick up programming skills.

I'd like to make modern GUI stuff work a bit more like that. I'm imagining a state synchronized pseudo filesystem. Instead of storing files, it stores hierarchical C data types. A folder, with an array of vertexes and faces, inside another folder that contains textures and metadata. They're not folders, just nodes, but hopefully you get the idea.

You can use your image editor to edit those textures, and the changes would show up in real time in your 3D scene editor. Small applications that do one thing well, because the "file types"(data structures) are standardized enough.

Programs subscribe to changes in a file, sometimes over a network, using a state synchronization protocol. Think rethinkDB, but optimized for very fast read/write, not querying data. If you wanted to query the data like that, you'd have a daemon watch the folder, and index the data. The point is to focus on speed above all else, so you can watch real movies or stream real content in it, and then build your indexing a layer above that.

Of course there are a whole lot of problems with that approach, and it's well beyond me. But I'd hire some C tutors, and the guys who make btrfs, and see what could happen.

In my heart of hearts, I know this is probably just because I want to live in a world with a real metaverse, and I think this will get us one step closer to the kind of collaboration you'd need to get real work done in a virtual environment. But I still think it's a pretty good approach.

I do find there's an advantage to hanging out and working with people in a real space, and I'd like to break that down a bit more.

See:

#Problems in unix design, the art of unix programming, Eric S Raymond

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch20s03.html

>#A Unix File Is Just a Big Bag of Bytes

>A Unix file is just a big bag of bytes, with no other attributes. In particular, there is no capability to store information about the file type or a pointer to an associated application program outside the file's actual data.

>#File Systems Might Be Considered Harmful

>Was having a file system at all the wrong thing? Since the late 1970s there has been an intriguing history of research into persistent object stores and operating systems that don't have a shared global file system at all, but rather treat disk storage as a huge swap area and do everything through virtualized object pointers.

#The Verse 2 Protocol

http://verse.github.io/
What is the reason for the huge fluctuation in the search results from one week to the next for something like BBQ? As in one day a restaurant shows up on the first page, and a few days later it was buried 6 pages deep? This observation correlated with the business owners refusing to pay Yelp's cold call sales team has nothing to do with the article you mention.

Looking at the search results for pizza sorted by the "best match" algorithm is mind boggling.
I was around during the fateful February in 2011 where Nokia shut down the meamo/meego division in Ruoholahti, Helsinki.

I was surrounded by insanely talented and passionate individuals, and while I get the impression a lot of talent dispersed and "went home" (it was a very diverse atmosphere in terms of culture) there were a few that banded together and made `Jolla`.

Which, I don't hear much of these days, but I hope they eventually carve out a small chunk of the market at least.

Nokia is pretty well known in Finland for hiring a _lot_ of contractors/companies. So layoffs can be quick, severance can be avoided but the downshot for them is increased salaries.
Before the hamburger menu, people were complaining about the MS Office style ribbon. Design fads are an endless cycle of "ops, just froze my thumb!" -> "wait, I'll just put your hand on fire to solve that" -> "ops, my hand is on fire!" -> "wait let me freeze your arm", and so on.

Just like the ribbon, there are plenty of things wrong with the hamburger. One of them is that people can not even find it on a large screen. Both can be used well (look at AutoCad 2010 for a good example of ribbon; there are plenty of good examples of the hamburger on phone apps), and both are widely abused. But I'll just disagree that almost everything needs it. Almost nothing on a desktop of tablet needs it, it's a phone thing.
> I wouldn't say it gets coopted. I'd say it has historically gotten appropriated, and then the public has been too ignorant to tell the difference.

That's exactly what coopting is. See definition 2b here:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/co-opt
I've consumed enough CSV data to be wary of CSV data that was generated in ten minutes - including the unit tests. Are you sure you already have the data 'in the right format', for example? Maybe the data that's presented on the page has already been formatted for localization, so when you use that in your CSV export you put out dates in US or european format depending on the user's preferences, creating some hard-to track-down integration bugs later. Or maybe it only includes the display name for the status code, not the status code itself, so when three months later you change the display code from 'cancelled' to 'removed', all your clients' Excel macros break.

And once you've done that ten minute job on this page, how long will it take you to add it to the other 25 pages which also have tables of data that need CSV export? And when the table format changes to add another column, does the next developer also have to adjust your CSV output code?

Sure, YAGNI, but... there's no excuse to just throw a bunch of CSV-export logic inline into a page that previously had shown no interest in knowing how to format CSV files. Take a little longer, think about where to put the logic. There's a middle ground here.
A free service where I can connect with doctors, medical professionals to talk about health issues. Nothing formal but more casual information discussions.
I gotta say, that is quite the title.

Without reading the article thoroughly, I'd have a really hard time discerning that the practical application is to look at a series of static raster images of still video frames, in order to try and discern distict physical objects, and track their motion across frames.

The article itself is great, but it would really benefit from at least one example of some actual full-motion video, juxtaposed with those Adobe Flash graphics, to drive home the premise of the article.
Worth it to utilize password generator sites? We think they can be handy
... and errors started up again at 1:00 PM.
Pilot wave theory: the "weird effects" that QM displays are really just the result of space time being a thing that vibrates in a wave-like pattern influenced by mass.

And the reason this is cool is because when you put everyday objects in situations like that stated above, they exhibit quantum interference and everything else.
Or in short: Having a single, minimalistic hamburger icon doesn't convey enough information to be useful. It may be possible to improve engagement metrics by using informational icons and titles. None of these statements are particularly controversial.

So, should we web developers start ripping out hamburger icons on our sites. NO. Avoid groupthink. Implement and test layouts that produce measurable results. Removing hamburger icons is no panacea. What are the users doing? What does the data say? If cargo cult thinking produced an over-reliance on a single navigation icon, we aren't going to solve anything by snapping back in the other direction.

Also, there's a difference between a hamburger icon and a drawer menu. On mobile devices a drawer menu is still a fantastic way to reveal additional navigation options without a page reload over a (potentially) slow network connection. Stuffing a navigation list into drawer menu is an easy solution. But it may produce poor results.
http://www.appneta.com/products/traceview/
One of the best explainers of the term is William Lind.

http://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness...
I'd always heard Tennessee Williams, but impressive due diligence. It's interesting that Cleveland only gets tacked on as the butt of the quip when it has problems and white-flight in the mid-1970s.
> Answering that question is the very reason for pausing to investigate its purpose.

So you answer the question and determine the fence is there because of adverse possession. And then everyone else you present your findings to says, "that's not a good reason, so clearly you're not using Chesterton's fence and we shouldn't make any changes." See the issue?

Chesterton's fence and/or the Principle of Charity only have the potential to lead you to a good answer if the other party is putting in a good faith effort. But as soon as that's not the case, these cognitive rules of thumb basically become tools of oppression. And if you've ever watched congressional testimony where the parties are forbidden by rule from criticizing each other, it's easy to see that lots of people purposely take advantage of this.

Also, in the context of business the PoC means assuming that people are acting in their self interest, but in the context of politics or whatever it means assuming that people aren't acting in their self interest. As a rule of thumb for improving your thinking then these sorts of ideas probably make sense, especially for things like entrepreneurship or software engineering, but at an epistemological level the phrase "not even wrong" comes to mind.
Not that unusual. In fact the planned architecture sounds exactly like HotSpot: a fast assembly based interpreter that profiles the code, with tiered fast/slow compilers producing machine code for hot spots, with deoptimization support to allow more speculative optimisations.

It actually seems a bit of a shame that V8 and Nashorn are competing despite heading towards very similar architectures.
"along with social media postings, have become a driving factor in the FBI’s uptick in arrests of people suspected of ties to al-Qaida and the Islamic State."

We did this to ourselves. So many people have had their lives ruined or been fired from their jobs for merely stating an opinion on social media. It's not really that surprising that the government is now using this data to
determine if you are a security threat.

We've create a culture where you are guilty if enough people on social media think you are guilty. Even if scientific evidence comes out proving the contrary.

It's fine when it's against someone you don't like, but when the same exact data is used against you, it's now a problem????

Maybe we should be thinking about the freedom of speech for all instead of only for a specific group of people that fit the political narrative of day.
Labellio: Scalable Cloud Architecture for Efficient Multi-GPU Deep Learning
> Think how much harder it was to communicate visual design principles when this story occurred.

How so? Pencil and paper were readily available in '82, what else would you need?
We saw a short burst of 503s a short while ago, but we have not seen any since. Hopefully we do not see any more though.

Also, for the record, S3 has been very stable for us otherwise. We have been rather happy with AWS overall.
> My current company spends a few hundred dollars a month on S3. I certainly couldn't match S3's uptime at that budget. Maybe I could do it at 2-3X the budget, but with that budget it might be easier to mirror my files across multiple S3 regions.

Exactly. Build multi-region support into your app(s), enable S3's replication so objects in your primary region are replicated to another region, and then properly handle loss of a region (go read-only or write to another region and restore consistency later).

You'll still be spending less than attempting to maintain a highly durable object store yourself across multiple datacenters or geographic areas.
We're all just huddling in us-east-1 waiting for the day us-west-2 falls into the ocean...
Is it because you've hit your free article limit for the month? What happens when you go incognito?

(I'm a subscriber so I'm logged in...however, going in incognito or with another browser works fine for me)
Same, though just as I write this we see another spike of errors.
we have bans... but the rules are: only when ppl tend to spam

(btw: if there is no mod in ur channel, in ?programming there are some most of the time)
The major features of the katana are the blade cross section, which is concave on either side of the cutting edge, and the tempering process that made the core of the blade into strong, resilient steel while the cutting edge remained a more brittle type that could better retain its sharpness.

These two properties, combined, made the blade a good cutting weapon against unarmored opponents.

Meanwhile, at that time, Western swords had largely abandoned cutting and bludgeoning in favor of stabbing. Generally speaking, anyone you really wanted to wound with a sword wore armor--unarmored opponents were typically killed by other types of weapons. And the easiest way to get through armor was ramming a point through a weak spot. When firearms became more cost-effective than swords, the state of the art in blades was simply frozen and romanticized.

Practically anything you can make out of the right modern commodity steels (1060, 5160 spring, 9260 spring) is as good as or better than historically accurate reproductions using era-appropriate manufacturing. If you take the leaf spring (5160 spring) from an old car and re-forge it into a sword, you can do better than a katana. You simply have access to better metal.

And likewise, if you stamp out a few hundred identical pinky-sized stainless steel bits and used wire to make lamellar out of them, you're probably going to be better armored than the best-equipped knight was before the gunpowder age. And shinier.

Like most military technologies, swords were "perfected" only after they became obsolete. As such, the best sword ever made is probably one that was made this year, as a movie prop or display piece, and it will never be used in actual combat. But if you took it back in time to 1000 AD....
never said democracy was good. A benevolent dictator externally motivated by serving his subjects is a much better government.

for example, Jesus.
We have also seen a higher rate of port scans/attacks today. I wonder if it is AWS wide causing system overload issues.