skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the shootout benchmark codes, right ? Are you seeing charts there too ?! The website caches aggressively so it could be that I am seeing stale data. Let me check.

Edit: Ah! they are here http://felix-lang.org/speed/ in their individual directories
A redesign was speculated and I started seeing this around 5:30pm, but I don't see any other mentions. Is anyone else seeing this? Looks like a pretty significant redesign.
Absolutely right. Parse is only good for prototyping. Especially prototyping the UI part of the App, without dealing with data.
Any readers who hit this point in the discussion are invited to read the judgment themselves. The degree to which RMC is taking the ruling out of context speaks adequately to his goals.

> The UK legal system says...

Section 153 is quoted out of context (it is a response to Section 129, not a finding of guilt). Sections 124 and 125 also state clearly that the only things being considered are whether the allegations may constitute parallel crimes. Objections on factual grounds (the woman was not asleep, provided consent, relationship context, etc.) "are matters of evidence which would be highly relevant at trial. But it is not for this court to asses whether the allegations may fail." (Section 125)

> one of which is the charge that[1]:

Note the sleight of hand. There have been no charges.

> Is he guilty? I don't know, that's up to the Swedish courts to decide.

The Swedish courts are not involved until Assange is charged. Until he is charged he will be imprisoned and face indefinite detention. This inconvenient point is of course ignored.

If RMC was honest and believed Assange should face trial he should be demanding that Assange is actually charged with a crime. Instead, his defense of prosecution either makes him corrupt (for demanding prosecution without reasonable evidence of wrongdoing), an obvious fool (for believing Assange will incriminate himself) or an apologist for what is clearly an abuse of due process, basic human rights and the welfare of the British and Swedish taxpayers.
May I ask how you did that?
They're looking at the HTTP referer [sic]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer

Most newspapers don't show paywalls to users coming from a search engine, as part of a compromise with Google to prevent them from being penalized in rankings.
Not wizardry. Checking referer.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer>
You should talk to people who have done this IRL, not on HN. This is a difficult thing to pull off, and like any complex decision, there's a lot of trade-offs. Without knowing your specific situation, it's fair to say that volume helps out Netflix a lot, and you won't get anything close to the unit costs they have.

The major thing that sways people to one side or the other is the kind of problems they want to build an organization to cope with. Do you want to build an engineering team that can handle a whole availability zone in Amazon going out, or do you want to hire one that eeks performance out of bare metal? Do you want a sales organization that has to go to the mat over security details, or a marketing organization that has to cope with justifying why "you're not a cloud company, you don't use the cloud" in their brand? There's going to be bumps either way.

Source: I used to sell monitoring software, so I got to talk to a lot of people making this decision. We tended to find big opps when people made the move.
FreeBSD's packages being so up to date is literally one of the reasons I switched to it from Debian.

I don't understand this change, nor why it's the default. Actually having up-to-date packages was one of BSD's biggest selling points. Sick of distros with package systems so out-of-date they might as well not exist.
We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year
As a libertarian, basic income seemed quite against everything initially. However, if basic income were to completely replace the current entitlement system and all it's defects, I would absolutely support it.

It would cost considerably less and thus higher taxation would be less of a concern (as a way to stifle more money from the rich to the poor).
it shows the article if the refer(r)er is google
Isn't it just referer headers?
The United States funds research into medicines and treatments for conditions that people in the United States have. We do it in the form of direct government support for research, and also in the form of high royalties paid to drug and medical companies. Most other countries don't spend nearly as much on medical research. They "free-ride" on the advances that US companies make. For example, a lot of medicines that are expensive in the US are distributed in India at a very low cost that would not allow the drug companies to recoup their research investments.

How about some gratitude for the advances that we've already made, and the billions that people like Bill Gates are already giving to the third world?

The politics of envy and blame is an ugly thing. If we work together, perhaps we can arrive at a real solution like wiping out the particular mosquito species that carries malaria (before you post, no, I don't mean all mosquitos... just that one).
Yay, I hope you can influence Altium in a positive way. CAD is changing so much and some of the old school guys want to get back to the old days of $25,000 "seat" licenses and what not but that horse has left the stable. Octopart has been my go to source for finding parts (and datasheets given the crap that is the datasheet web spam) for many years.
In a strong labor market workers are able to demand some of the generated productivity surplus as compensation. Wages have been somewhat flat because employers are paying workers in (untaxed) health and retirement benefits instead of (taxed) wages.

Secondly, there is no particular reason wages should track productivity. Productivity is output / workers. If output increases due to capital (e.g. automation), there is no reason for wages to go up.
Indistinguishible form magic
I think you're right. If not right now, some time in the future. I think at this time outsourcing and off-shoring are dampening wage growth --but in the future it will be automation which puts the kibosh on it. For sure higher minimum wages will accelerate the obsolescence of low-skill low productivity jobs.

The one question about guaranteed income is who is qualified for it? Anyone and everyone? What do rich countries with high automation do about illegal immigrants, send them back? If minimum income is offered to everyone, why wouldn't everyone for whom the guarantee is above their own incomes want to come and undermine everyone else's income?
Same for me. It must be the ad-blocker (uBlock)
> which doesn't deserve to use the word science

Why not? You don't think the outcomes of the presented solutions were evaluated using scientific method? It would be nice if you could elaborate.

I understand your point, but if we were fair then software engineering shouldn't be called engineering either. Just like in social sciences, there is a lot of normative judgement and opinion compared to observation and experimentation. But I think both are getting better with time, and as we continue discourse, we employ empiricism more and more.
Difficult in what way? (I ask as it's possible my unique mix of interests made it more accessible to me.)

I'll take a look at your other books. Also, do you have an email address? I'd like to chat more. Mine is in my profile.
I was wondering about that. Open Connect was significant in the disagreement between Netflix and Comcast that spurred the net neutrality debate. Unless I'm mistaken Netflix ended up agreeing to the peering fees, though after negotiating down a bit. So does using AWS for mundane traffic actually save them money by avoiding the CDN bandwidth that Netflix has to pay ISPs to use?
I've never understood why so many companies are comfortable giving Amazon such leverage over their business infrastructure.

Could someone explain why this is a good move in spite of the risk that Amazon could jack their prices up in the future?
Low budget productions can still reasonably rent a RED.
They could still open source the first system's firmware code. FOSS doesn't imply easily modifiable, does it?

E.g., rms says he used a Lemote Yeeloong because of its free BIOS, but AFAIK he couldn't have reprogrammed it unless he removed the BIOS chip from the motherboard.
> A person does have to say something in many scenarios. Like the one I gave. Or the result can be very wrong.

Rejecting unwanted advances can take the form of silence. Especially over text message. It's a pretty common way to reject someone without creating an awkward situation. If one party can't take the hint then they are more likely being wilfully ignorant (don't want to accept rejection). And even if they aren't, it's not an excuse to harass.

> If I was making her very uncomfortable and she felt unsafe around me because she was afraid of me [...]

Women do not make a binary choice between either "being afraid of you" or "being attracted to you." If you are a friendly and reasonable person then you shouldn't have a problem.

If you ask someone out and they say "I'm busy" a few too many times, maybe you just take the hint and move on, no?

The argument that "I'm too ignorant to know when women don't want my attention" is nonsense.
Maybe Microsoft should make it painlessly easy instead?

I depend on Waze every day and its issues are nothing compared to value it provides. Unfortunately it's not
integrated into my Model S so sometimes I drive with both
the "native" Model S GPS (= Google Maps) and Waze so I can
benefit from the greater maps on the 17" screen as well as
the better directions from Waze. It's mighty confusing
though.
Fascinating. I bet they are running their own CDN to prevent Amazon from having full access to their traffic volume/streaming demand. Would be huge competitive advantage for amazon streaming if they could see per-title demand.
There is at least the suggestions that this will roll out in the next few weeks to a subset of Tesla owners (not to call them beta testers... but beta testers).
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/627040381729906688
I like the basic income idea, but from what I've read it would cost considerably more than our current entitlement system, if it provided anything like the same level of benefits. The big reason, as I understand, is the number of young, low-income men who currently receive no support at all, but would under a basic income system. (Many low-income young women, by contrast, are already eligible for support, as they have children.)

Do you still like the idea if it's more expensive rather than less?
Maybe my needs just aren't that exotic? I'm currently using daemontools at work and so far I have a slightly unfortunate handful of bash scripts that repeat in different projects with minor variations.

I've also used launchd (OSX) for Serious Things That I Don't Want to Fail, and it was easy. One config file with a few details. Completely watertight abstraction, as far as I could tell.
That's great! I've been an Octopart-Arena user for nearly 2 years. I've had good experiences with their support and APIs.

I hope this will allow for a better implementation of compliance linking -- I've been waiting for a good RoHS and REACH tool, and I think Octopart has a great start.
I'm on FF without adblock extension, so at least for me it wasn't. I'm in Japan however, so I'm probably completely irrelevant to the operators of that webzone. "What are you telling me, Johnny? There's people outside the US who have access to the intertubes? Getoutofhere!"
> That money would otherwise be flowing into business investments & consumption, charity, and civil society, the natural institutions of free people.

What do you think the gov't does with it, burn it? 5 of the 6 startups I worked for wouldn't have happened without government assistance (DARPA-funded university project spinouts, SBA, government contracting.) Consumption is spending money. They government spends it, or give it to people who do (that seems to cover consumption and charity.) What is more civil than banding together to take some of the variance out of life?
I know it's a minor thing, but why do people keep coppying this annoying Haskell/ML pattern where I have to type twice the name of a function if I want to explicitly define it's type?

current :: IO String
current = ...

(yeah, it's a minor issue compared to the uber-annoying problem of 'name clashes in record fields' https://wiki.haskell.org/Name_clashes_in_record_fields ...but still)
Thanks. I was looking at it from the power, cooling, and square-footage perspective—didn't even consider the sysadmin portion—but I see the massive savings that could be had by uncoupling metal pizza boxes and one-off hardware requirements from the applications that run on them
I love the cross-eyed ghost-monsters. I wonder what his original plan was for those.
I think you're neglecting fabrication yield.

What's the marginal price on a part you can only make successfully one time out of ten?
Basic income could absolutely create a better minimum for the poor (and everyone, really) if it replaces the current entitlement disaster. It would most likely be cheaper (edit: it might not be, depends on the details) and become much more efficient considering you're sending a cheque that would ideally have no conditions associated with it.

When large quantities of manual labor jobs or easily automated jobs are replaced, basic income, I think, would push that class of folks to a livable standard. Not much, but just enough. You'll have more people transitioning off the streets and into normal lives.

(Even as a libertarian, I say this, which at first, might be at odds with the philosophy but there are good arguments that make it perfectly compatible.)
It's really hard to tell "negative effect" and "no effect" apart, I got two of them switched.

Besides, I would consider both of those failed programs, not even sure if there's a point in distinguishing.

I got 7/10 right, only one successful program I got wrong.
I've always wondered what it would be like to start a startup... Guess now I'll have the chance to find out.
The free market is the basic guarantee Netflix is counting on.[1] If Amazon 'jacks up it's prices', Netflix will simply move to another provider. Amazon is also unlikely to make sudden moves which disadvantage its customers, as any such moves will come at a tremendous cost of reputation, and many customers will leave and never come back (; as Amazon has no power to compel customers to purchase their services). In a market, no one has leverage, everyone simply has a position and an offer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market
> And why does society fall for it every-time?

Who says we are falling for it ? Most people think: "What are we going to do about it ?" And that's actually a rather good question. At this point the best solution are avoiding buying from abusers, and voting better (if that is a choice where you live).

The alternative are mobs/pitchforks/revolutions. But that's a bit like war, you only start one (well any sane person/country anyway) if it's (one) of your last resorts.
Total guess on my part, but I'd imagine Netflix has locked-in long-term pricing. Of course, there's the opposite danger of the rest of the world getting cheaper...
launchd is an ad-hoc hell of its own, as I've written about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9924879

Pretty much all of the new school init systems, loosely starting from 2004 onwards (Upstart, launchd, Solaris SMF, systemd) have glaring structural deficiencies in one way or another, from my observations.
I think your comment is a bit cynical, but I can't disagree. There are many ways to make money and if the gov't decides to tax one more highly, the money just shifts to the low tax routes. The gov't eventually clamps down and the process starts all over again.

Hell, the reason the US has employer sponsored healthcare is because there were wage caps during WW2. So what did companies do? Compensate with something other than wages.
> I've always had trouble understanding why the nuclear reactors weren't powering their own pumps.

They do in normal operation, but they can't (obviously) if they're shut down. That's what the backup generators are for, to power the pumps so coolant flow is maintained for decay heat removal if the reactor has to shut down. Newer reactor designs don't require pumps to keep running after shutdown for decay heat removal; but those designs didn't exist when the Fukushima reactor was built.
Void Linux uses runit, which is very similar to daemontools as its init system.
The question is, do you need as much elasticity as Netflix does?
AFAIK Amazon charges more for bandwidth than the greediest ISP, but I admit I haven't looked at the EB/month transfer tier.
Or because it's cheaper.
Jesus, you act like we haven't made any progress at all. In the late 1800 more than half of the US had malarious areas.[1]

[1]http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/elimination_us.html
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Not like in "I had a surge in traffic of millions of visitors"

But yes like in "Some hardware failed, but yeah that's not my problem anymore!"
As with anything, details matter. There are no single definition of what basic income would entail. For example, would it truly be unconditional, regardless of income? I doubt those who make $200,000/year want a basic income cheque.

I think the difference would be in the efficiency and simplicity of such a system. Currently, the U.S. spends over a trillion dollars on state and federal welfare programs (spread across 126+ programs). However, the government spends it quite poorly and in many indirect ways. Giving them a cheque would certainly be better.

You're right in that it could actually be more expensive. I'm not sure what my stand on the subject would be in that case. Even with my libertarian beliefs, (and there are good arguments that basic income is perfectly compatible with libertarianism) I have to keep in mind of the realities related to the surging amount of poverty and that it's unsustainable.
Yes, exactly. A basic income would both make sense for the ideal future we're trying to create (but which the parent correctly states is a long way off) and also for many of the issues of the present.

I'm personally pretty skeptical that it would indeed cost less than what we have. (I'm in Canada, but basically the same arguments apply.) I expect there would have to be a significant tax hike, which could be structured so that it cancels out the basic income somewhere in the middle class range, leaving the poor better off and the wealthy nominally paying more.

However, it could also achieve so much more than the current minimally effective (if that) safety nets. People would not be forced to take a job just to survive. They could instead pursue work that they enjoy, and most likely end up making a greater contribution to society. This would apply for the middle class as well. Rather than being so focused on compensation, people would have more freedom to pursue the job that gives them maximum satisfaction, again benefiting all of society. Sure, some few would just milk the system, but it's ingrained in human nature both to produce something of value and to try to better one's state in life, so I expect that would be the minority.

Even though I wouldn't directly benefit financially from a system like that, I would love to see it seriously explored.
> Which likely has lead to the dismantling of state funded schools

I disagree this is a necessary outcome. It may as well happen that backward states will take notice and improve their higher education system in various ways.

But I think what you are saying is a fair point and I actually mentioned it. What I would add to my comment is the common solution to this is called "principle of subsidiarity" and it's used EU and Switzerland (which is another example of a federation that often tests different law variations in smaller scale first).
This appears to be just an ad for Red cameras.
just another study on ketosis
I love my Chromebook w/4G. Put Linux on it. Take it everywhere with me. It has replaced my Macbook and I haven't used Windows personally in years. It can do everything a Windows or Mac can but its so much faster. I hope people are seeing this.. Chromebooks were underrated for a long time. I got my mother a Chromebook almost 3 years ago and it's still running as fast as the day she got it. She was prone to downloading malware.. got her credit card stolen at least twice... but I have peace of mind.. she uses it to check her email and go on Facebook. That's all she needs a computer for.. and its been amazing. As for myself.. everything and anything from programming to shopping to blogging. Amazing OS.
is completely suboptimal for creating long structured documents

I actually saw many science students work very well with MS Word. They knew how to use it and liked it, whereas I completely despised it as I was never able to fit an image properly for example. To me, LaTeX seemed completely logical and superior to MS Word, but I have seen long documents typeset using Word also.

The people who liked MS Word had no programming knowledge, if that's an indicator ;)
I'm just looking at the data. In 2010, the top tax rate was 35%. The nominal tax rate for 1% earners (over $1.4M) was 20% [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_State...
I certainly agree for trials for treatments for specific ailments. But insurers, hospital administrators, and others have always been making decisions that balance clinical outcomes and cost of care without patients knowing such a decision has been made. The experiments I refer to are similar to those choices and typically the funding will go testing choices that haven't been made because they are more costly in the short run.
I'm going to regret clicking this link tomorrow.
I run the ShareLaTeX open-source version and it renders a PDF each time I want to see the changes I made. With ShareLaTeX I can exactly see how the end product will look, something you can't do with this app. It's much less responsive, but having a PDF is a bigger advantage to me.
You the owner? HAHA you are NOT the owner, GM is.

>'In Copyright Dispute, GM Attorney Says Customers Just License Vehicle Use'
http://www.autoblog.com/2015/05/20/general-motors-says-owns-...
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That's what I thought immediately while reading the article.

Frequent reading on a smartphone must be really horrible for the long-term eye health. Especially on smartphone, not a tablet. And as far as I know that is actually the reason for the existance of e-books: the e-ink technology makes reading on them similar to reading a book regarding the eyestrain. So if you read in a well lit environment, you should be okay. And I am not sure you can say that about a smartphone screen.

I have had a Kindle Paperwhite for several years and have been really pleased by my reading experience so far. The only negative for me is that it is sometimes kinda slow in drawing pages (especially during interface navigation), I don't know whether it is caused by slow firmware, hardware or it is just because of the e-ink technology that causes the interface rendering to be slow; this makes me feel that the device is unresponsive sometimes.
What do you want to learn about Meteor?
>if you are convinced that is IS a wrongful arrest, you may legally resist arrest,

this is crazy wrong (in the US) and profoundly dangerous.