skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He does not go into detail to the referenced articles. Those are peer reviewed observations that do NOT fit. For example the huge Quasar cluster found in the 90s where many astronomers clearly state: this thing is old, very old, 50 to 100 billion years old. How does this fit 13 billion years timeframe ?
The Brightness Surface does not match the distance: pleas explain that.
The Li concentration does not fit the age of the stars,...
The list goes on.
He does not explain any of the phenomena, just attacking unsubstantial.
If the Redshift is a comsological phenomena, and the Background temperature a signature of the Zero Point Energy (exists an QM as well), absolutely nothing speaks for the Big Bang Theory anymore.

I found BSM-SG the most logical model I have seen so far, so, I stumbled about nothing that does not fit into this model.
We have a 2 major errors in our physical model that made the whole standard theory so utterly complex, non logical understandable (mathematical logic != classical logic) (common view under Theoretical physicists) and hardly explaining edge cases.
From my experience nearly nobody sees it, because they work in a very narrow field...
That thing is ludicrously expensive.
This is "the low end of 64 bit CPUs", though, MIPS is already competitive, along with ARM, in low end 32 bit CPUs, and Intel's still in that space along with I don't know who else.

So what's worth the jump to 64 bits? And note Loongson/MIPS has competition from ARM as well (aren't their 64 bit ARM cores in iPhones now?), and maybe RISC-V, they're working on an out-of-order microarchtecture now (it's an open core, $0 IP to use).
That's what I told myself when becoming 32 earlier this year: "no longer an hexadecimal teenager, now I'm finally a 0x20-something"
That is true. I assumed I would eventually go into business for myself and see no reason to use C# - besides Kotlin is very young, there is still plenty of time to get in on the ground floor so to speak.
Such a great comment.

My happiest times were from a startup where we worked 80 hours a week.

Another startup we were in the process of selling, was such a hostile place it literally gave me work related PTSD and I was only working 40 hours per week.
New law implies thermodynamic time runs backwards inside black holes
Got it. Yeah, I figured. I suppose the only time this could be an issue is through word-of-mouth. I tell someone its 'awesomedomain.co" and they'll type in "awesomedomain.com" after a couple of days - but hopefully they'll just type it into google anyway.
Could more intensive farming practices benefit tropical birds?
Children live a life of pure fiction. My two year old in the last day has believed himself to be a Jaguar hunting our chihuahua, a pirate sailing our living room couch, a bear eating ravioli, and countless other tiny dreams.

All of them are fundamentally narratives about power. Children incessantly dream of having more strength than they currently do. Why that is the case should be profoundly obvious.

It may not seem like meaning to us because of its naive purview, but to children their own narratives about their power are all-encompassing epics detailing a hoped-for relation to the world.

And why should the season matter? Outside of its aesthetic attributes, attributes we project upon it, it is merely a small change in temperature as the angle of the sun's rays move in relation to the crust of the Earth, followed by some shifts in the flora and fauna populations -- beings which are themselves merely carbon-based machines arising from the repetition of simple chemical processes over very large time scales.

Those things that we find interesting are so because of what we project upon them, not as a result of what they fundamentally, physically, objectively are. The very idea that something should be "interesting" implies a subjective witness to project their own feelings onto the meaningless physical trivia of the universe.

If your goal is to live a life without lies, you'll be living a life without meaning. There is no meaning outside of the beautiful, nay, holy fictions we tell ourselves.

The beauty in childhood isn't that it's all truth, it's that its all lies. They don't yet have a concept of truth and lies, and so are free to live entirely within their dreams. We, on the other hand, are in some ways shackled to reality by our experiences of materiality.
The study was for the US, and never claimed to be otherwise, nor am I claiming otherwise. If you start talking about other countries, you're changing the parameters of the analysis. Get the numbers for your target market and run the analysis.

And yes, of course you have to be prepared to adjust based on conditions. You shouldn't just blindly withdraw 4% every year. Withdraw what you actually spend, and one of your many backup plans should be to spend less.

More to the point, fine, if you don't think it's safe, have other backups in place. Work a few more years, or have access to means of part-time work, or build supplementary incomes, or any number of other solutions. What's your alternative proposal? "This doesn't work perfectly in all life circumstances, so give up and plan on retiring at 65"?

Make plans to retire sooner than 65, and be prepared to adapt based on conditions. If you make a plan to retire at 40, and something goes wrong, maybe you'll retire at 45 instead. Oh no, you're only retiring 20 years sooner than everyone else; woe is you.

I'm not making optimistic assumptions; I'm making tentative assumptions and estimates that I can adapt over time.

For my particular case, for instance, it helps that while I'm saving like someone who wants to retire in my 30s, I don't plan to quit when I get enough to retire. I plan to keep working indefinitely, because I'm enjoying myself doing so. But it's sure nice to have backup plans, and to build a substantial excess for charitable purposes.
FreeBSD Security Advisory, BIND remote denial of service vulnerability
Some very good observations.

Otherwise a few points, from the copy here (clearly a 1st ed): http://cs.upm.ro/_users/cursuri_on_line/Alte_documentatii/C%...

"void didn’t exist in the book (although it did exist at some point before C89; see here, section 2.1)"
-> There are many occurrences of void in the document above.

"It appears that stdio.h was the only header that existed"
-> From the document above many other headers are available (string.h, math.h, etc.)

"Note that return 0; was not necessary." (on the main function)
-> return 0 is not necessary in Standard as well (even if the semantic of omitting it is different between C89 and C99).
fzf is cool, but I am used to

ctrl-r (find something) enter (execute)
ctrl-r (find something I have to change) home/end (change, then enter)

with fzf ctrl-r and selecting always gives me just a string where I then have to press enter, it just behaves like dmenu for the console basically if you look at the bash bindings, which unfortunately is a bit less flexible unless I am missing some option that would allow this
Visualize move, protection and threat status in chess
Don't agree.

- CEO - analysis wrong, see http://www.forbes.com/sites/christianstadler/2015/03/12/how-...

- CFO - the analysis is confusing accounting with corporate finance.

- CMO - role depends on industry and B2C vs B2B. For strong brands, CMO (if exists) is almost as strong as CEO. Otherwise this could be a strong sales role - and never try to mess with the guys who bring in the money.

- CIO vs. CTO - not all all tech business is IT, think aircrafts and power plants. Mobile networks are now mainly IP, but there is still radio transmission (CTO) vs. protection of credit card number (CIO)

- CSO (Strategy) - will more likely move on to CE, see https://hbr.org/2015/06/the-c-suite-needs-a-chief-entreprene... and https://medium.com/@AlexFranzAT/fire-your-ceo-and-hire-a-chi...

- COO - role is actually undefined. It's a running mate for the CEO and complements whatever the CEO lacks

- CISO - confusing role, and introduced as band aid, not because there is a real need for a C-role. Frequently either reporting to the CIO (so not really C-level), or a different name for CIO (if CTO take care of all other digital stuff)

- CSO (Sales) - whether this is the same as CMO depends on the type of business. If there is a separate role, this person is most likely managing sales representatives and stores. So really no change.
According that stat counting the top 10, NoSQL databases account for 12% popularity. Given that this is talking about website mentions, job offers, twitter mentions and not actual installs that number isn't indicative of much success. 10% is actually pretty impressive but not equalled or slightly surpassed.
Yep, land has a vertical supply curve. Although, valuable land is what is truly in high demand. There's lots of land, but not a lot of valuable land. But the lack of a commons of any quality is quite concerning. One cannot just exist without owning land or paying rent.

We pay the biggest chunks of our income to the gatekeepers over that valuable land, which you need access to in order to get a job or do business.

Let us just be thankful that these landowners worked so hard to produce this land, ex nihilo.
RNAs Galore
Let's not count our chickens.
K&R C has a beautiful, elegant simplicity to it, which later ANSI C has lost --- the idea that everything is a machine word unless specified otherwise means that you get to do things like this:

add(a, b) { return a+b; }
fib(a) { return (a <= 1) ? 1 : (fib(a-1) + fib(a-2)); }

That's totally valid K&R C. The lack of boilerplate makes abstraction really cheap, conceptually --- Forth programmers will recognise the advantage here. You can write real programs out of tiny one-line definitions like the above.

Of course, ANSI C is better in just about every other way, but I still regret losing the stripped-down simplicity of K&R C.
Here is the documentary if you don't want to read the blog post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuGI6pQFZC0
I agree on the out-of-/in-order commentary. But to paraphrase, with great performance comes great power consumption.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9330/exynos-7420-deep-dive/5

I perceive the situation on binary translation in a slightly different way. I think the aim here is to perhaps ensure that some legacy code written for x86/ARM also runs alongside the apps written for MIPS. So they are not trying to compete, but ensure they have a broad(er) ecosystem.
Peace of mind is a really important feature you are discarding with this model.

Not every compelling feature is implemented with code.
We have over 10 licenses and I think they lost us as a customer with this move. They should have tried to maintain a dual track for a few years.
Yeah.

http://www.cradlecloud.com/top-level-domains-tlds-that-you-m...

Interestingly .biz and .co which were designed for businesses are heavily blacklisted.
It was probably overshadowed in most people's minds by the DEC Alpha, which was also introduced in 1992.
What’s in my Chrome extensions bar • Anselm’s Blog / All things web design/dev
Absolutely free data recovery app for windows
Does rent control work? No, it actually increases rent prices for most people
JavaScript: from alert() to Machine Learning
He moved to a Thinkpad X60: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
Every DEFLATE compression block can either supply its own Huffman table or compress using a fixed table. You can emit a DEFLATE-compatible compression stream without ever emitting a custom Huffman table or depending on previous data. And you'll still do better than nothing for many types of data.

Given this, I wonder why HPACK invented a new compression scheme rather than just carefully using DEFLATE.
I'm not saying don't test... you can write modular code in JS... in fact you can export a single function as a JS module via node/browserify... take babel and you get es6/7 features. Use mocha/chai/sinon/proxyquire and you can inject dependencies into your modules for testing, without having to write weird interface abstractions in your code...

References are consistent and one-way, you no longer have to deal with searching for where a given dependency is coming from... Or where the implementation is... references are always direct this way.

C#:
using MyOrg.Base.Interfaces;

public class Foo {
public IBar Bar {get;set;}

public string Baz() {
//wth is IBar.Baz implementation come from?
//damn, now I need to search the project for IBar
return this.Bar.Baz(this);
}
}

JS

import bar from '../lib/bar';

export default function baz(context) {
return bar.baz(context);
}

In the JS case, you know where the implementation of bar comes from when looking into code, trying to resolve a bug. You can also use proxyquire in order to test the module, replacing bar with a shim for the purposes of testing... in the JS case the code is still clean, and you don't have a couple of layers of indirection abstracting you away from finding the next piece in the puzzle. And it doesn't limit your ability to test.
Well in fairness he actually is an amateur and is learning on the job. I think he's done something pretty incredible myself. Zenefits really is one of those incredible outliers that is going to the stratosphere. Even an experienced CEO might have some things go wrong in such an extreme example.

He made a public spectacle out of something small and he paid the price in bad publicity. But I've seen worse, by so-called pros. Sometimes people let their ego get the best of them. But that doesn't mean that every decision they've made is invalid.
Show HN: Learning Swift by building a BTC price tracker for OS X menubar
Amazon acquires Elemental
Gradient Descent with Backpropagation
I would look at alternative names that you can get the .com for. A .com is like the "The" badge on Amazon or a "Verified" check on Twitter: it also gives you much better odds of not having to deal with trademark disputes.

For some tips on naming, see my Trello board of notes on naming and domains: https://trello.com/b/TekvQe5x/naming-and-domains
Dang, someone wanting to replace C++ with J... I'd love to say you could do this, since I am a big fan of J, but if you need to squeeze the last bit of efficiency out of a machine on a problem that can't be parallelized, C++ is probably a pretty good idea. If the "expensive in write time" logic isn't expensive in calculation time, you could wrap the expensive pieces in some verbs which call out to C.

I'm often surprised though; a naive implementation of wavelets in J was quite comparable in runtime performance to a naive implementation of wavelets in C.
> You make this sound like a common occurrence.

No, that anecdote plus the fact that the USA has a disproportionate number of people in jails compared to other developed countries makes it sound like a common occurrence.

See this recent HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10091586

From the submission's referenced paper:

The incarceration boom is unprecedented
in American history, and unseen anywhere else in the world; traditionally
indistinguishable from its peers, the United States is now the world’s largest
jailer, both in absolute numbers and in rate. Home to only five percent of the
world’s population, it now houses over twenty percent of its prisoners.
Life is a highway.
I'm not making an analogy between AI and flight, I'm refuting an analogy between 'evolving' and 'inventing' solutions using flight as a counterexample.
with great performance comes great power consumption

Heh. And I suppose that's intrinsically true, with the added shadow registers and logic to drive it all?
Unless his looks, fitness, and social skills are also lvl 1000. Why not? Doesn't seem far fetched for a designer baby. In fact, giving him the perfect jawline is probably way easier than giving him 1000 IQ.
I especially like the concept in that video:

"A building is not something you finish, it is something you start"

This is no more truer than with software. Anyone who has had to write in-house software will appreciate that sentiment!
ContentWatch is hiring a Software Developer in Utah (netnanny.com)
1. My statement on the ethics of ads was very clearly made in the context of modern advertising, which is the topic of this HN thread. Context matters.

2. My assertion that advertising was historically a minuscule part of civilization and played little to no role in most people's lives is entirely correct.

3. It was misleading to suggest that you were even technically correct. I never claimed advertising didn't exist, nor would I ever. I could point to ancient sources of advertising much older than your newspaper clipping.

4. I already replied to you, clarifying that I believe "In some cases advertising may have been a net positive but I think the future can do entirely without."
What about architecture? There are plenty of buildings which have lasted over 100 years.
> I personally employee two 60+ folks on my team, and they're great resources. I wish other companies would view them in this way. It seems there is something which could be done...even if it's a company which distinguishes itself by making a point of hiring senior, aging folks for solving problems which require that level of experience.

We have a late 50's engineer who we're constantly trying to keep from retiring. The guy is just so experienced and so good that we're able to do things that we'd otherwise not be able to do. I see the silver ceiling as a niche thing. There might be areas were fast young and cheap will win, but there are certainly others where having a bunch of highly skilled 60+'s is a competitive advantage. After all, this is intellectual work we're talking about, not basketball or something.
Glad you noticed the easter-egg on the logo :p
> The average annual precipitation is less than 12 inches (300 mm), resulting in a borderline arid climate.

San Diego would be uninhabitable without environmentally destructive and ill-conceived federal irrigation of the southwest.
I think he's being overly harsh on himself. As he said in the original rant "the predictions themselves don't matter! Most of them are probably wrong. The point of the exercise is the exercise itself, not in what results"

Imagine someone in 1850 making the prediction that "by 1950, everyone will have a horse". Though they say "horse", they really mean "everyone will be able to afford their own personal transport", as a reflection on the changing socioeconmic something something. And they would be right. Sure the horse is mechanical, isn't shaped like a horse, and consumes petrol, but your prediction is correct, even though you didn't know exactly how it would play out.

The same is the of Yegge's XML DB prediction. If he was saying that XML is going to be amazing, then he's wrong. If he's saying the RDBMSes have problems, then he's right. And actually he's saying "RDBMSes suck, so something will replace them, and XML is big enough that it will be XML". So that looks like a 50% score to me.

With Apple, he's basically saying "apple is shiny, and shiny will win". That prediction has been 100% correct. The fact that iPads disrupted the laptop model means he's more correct than if they had just sold more Macbooks. 100% score here, IMO.
I started using cloud9 IDE for a few free/open source projects and I have to say, it's awesome. I have 3-4 computers that I work off of and it's a god-send to be able to just fire up a browser and continue where I left off without worrying about managing the environment setup for each machine.

I liked using PyCharm and WebStorm and I love emacs and I've been using Atom lately, but the convenience of an always running virtual machine with a pretty good text editor is hard to beat.
Very neat! Mind if I borrow some of the CSS for my cards trick[0]?

[0] http://cluecode.com/cards/
Coinkite processed a quarter BILLION (US$250M) worth of Bitcoin last quarter
Again, both of these classical economists are assuming perfect markets and non-sticky rent. In a perfectly rational world where prices are constantly updated as the landlord and tenant are perfectly rational beings who evaluate how much the land is worth to them on a minute-by-minute basis, then yes this theory holds.

In a world where there are significant search and movement frictions, where subsidized housing exists, where landlords and their tenants have relationships beyond renter/rentee, where a home/building has value beyond its ability to be slept in, these theories will not hold.

My hypothesis is that if an LVT was levied in SF, rent would go up by at least 50% of the value of the LVT as a direct effect of the tax.
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Shit, I would probably build out an entirely separate build system and then just call it with MSBuild if I had to.
I wonder to what extent neuroscience could be cited to argue the opposite.

That's a great point. Often, in brains and bodies in general, the same mechanism causes more than one result. Sometimes even the absence of the mechanism causes the same result too. Biological understanding has a high number of latent variables we may not even know exist. (plus, arguing "because biology" is just a few steps away from arguing "because quantum" when motivated by vague optimism.)

The best overall insight from neuroscience is: AI, as envisioned by the 1950s pioneers, is possible. Brains are complex, but not irreducibly complex. Just slam some gametes together and a new brain appears. We can, at some level, eventually, get it all working digitally.

The best useful insight from neuroscience seems to be: the never-ending a/b test of natural selection converged on neurons+synapses as a universal computation system. But, neurons+synapses aren't quite enough detail to replicate a brain—that's like saying our computers use transistors, so all we need is transistors to build a CPU. Sure, that's important, but the structure and topology and interconnections are what make the magic happens.

What's the end result? More design or more brute force? Our GPUs are still Moore's Lawing themselves every few years. We are in early days of experimentation-at-scale here.

Since we will always need an overwhelmingly higher number of model parameters than data, we can't intricately tune models by hand (alternative: make an ANN to optimize ANN architectures). One breakthrough we don't really have is a minimum-description for ANN architectures. If that were to come about, we could have "ANN DNA" then 'breed' ANNs together so their topologies and functions merge to generate a (hopefully) more fit offspring. Then just keep repeating until they rise up and destroy us all.
Anybody who's interested in improving innerText's standing in the world should check out the WICG discussion on [standardizing innerText][1] and [CSS Plain-Text Conversion][2].

[1]: http://discourse.wicg.io/t/standardizing-innertext/799

[2]: http://discourse.wicg.io/t/css-plain-text-conversion/976
Ah, the innocence of youth.
CERN+closure?world+safer+-+YouTube
Back? Doesn't look like it. I mean, one post, right? Or am I just not seeing any more?
1) All mathematical objects exist abstractly and independently of minds (mathematical Platonism)

Without a mind to understand, interpret, and define mathematics, does it exist? This is a core philosophical problem at the intersection of science and feeling. Without observation, no mathematics exists (for the observer). By proving it exists, you must also have an implicit observer.

2) The mind is a computational process (The Computational Theory of Mind or CTM)

Pretty big assumption, considering we still have no idea how the mind works (e.g. quantum fluctuations that lead to patterns and thoughts, the origin of which are not known to us or predictable by us.)

3) The universe behaves according to laws of physics which are expressible mathematically (metaphysical naturalism)

What about where those laws break down, such as inside a black hole or at the beginning of the Big Bang? Do those places and times extend beyond our Universe? If so, where exactly do you draw the line between where our Universe ends and something else exists?

These arguments feel quite tenuous to me, another attempt by an intelligent person to say, "Ah, I've figured it all out, THIS is how everything is."