skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said yourself in another post that you cannot assume that the productivity gains seen are evenly distributed. So I would propose that there is definitely an informational advantage for the company that currently employs Bob, because they know how much value Bob produces over his cost. How is another company supposed to gain this information, short of hiring Bob and finding out themselves? In which case, they rationally can really only be willing to pay Bob at some sort of expected average productivity.

The only information leak is how much Bob is currently paid. So in some ways it's actually to a company's advantage to basically average out the wages across a level based on the level's entire productivity, because it hides the truly productive from other companies. And this is exactly what we see with modern pay grades and scales.
Talking about "side effects", "transformation" or "emergence" seems to assign properties to mathematics that I can't really wrap my head around. I thought that all we could be certain of when it comes to math is that it is a self-consistent set of axioms and rules. A set, of infinite size or not, that would be static and fixed.
I see what you did there!8-))
proprietary. not free. not standard web tech for use in browser. requires a DRM (with bittorrent client) spyware to be always running.

yeah, not even close i would say.

but the use of JSON is nice.
HTML! And you get to do it once for both...
Some great stuff here! The 'personal projects' are a nice touch: I've been using Goji (https://github.com/zenazn/goji) for a while now as my 'go to' router+context combo for Go web services. Small, extensible and compatible with the other tools out there.
> There was also some discussion on HN about whether I thought NBL was JavaScript. Yes indeed I did, and said so on stage at OSCON

NBL?
You can't win if you're not going to reward companies for good behavior.
you can still run a demo off github pages without the multiplayer.
> Anyway, consider the following scenario. Bob makes $10 an hour, and produces $100 of value. Obviously, this is a great bargain for Bob's employer. So much so, that another employer should be perfectly willing to offer Bob $11 to lure him away. Another sweetens it to $12 and Bob moves again. Rinse, repeat until Bob is making $100 minus the opportunity cost.

Except if the companies in question are Google, Apple...
>NBL?

Next Big Language
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So I took out all the "__unsafe_unretained"'s I inserted and indeed, with optimizations enabled in my release mode, the calls were removed. However, my no-optimization debug build is unbearably unusable like this so I cannot justify making this change.
The API was originally about SHAs, rather than refs, but for protecting branches trees make sense. (You can retrieve statuses by ref, but are required to set them by SHA). Since a SHA can be uniquely resolved to a tree, we're doing this under the hood rather than make a breaking API change. It also just makes more sense; nobody thinks in terms of trees day-to-day.

Thanks for you comments about per-commit linting. We'll give them some thought.
Agreed that Urbana-Champaign might not be the best place to start a company but that doesn't mean students can't start ventures while on campus and then move them elsewhere after graduation. We've been seeing that a lot recently.

Additionally, there are some benefits for startups that stay in town. Rent is extremely cheap (you can get your own bedroom in an apartment for ~$300/month) and you get access to a lot of talented students coming out of the university.
I think that anyone that doesn't remember the iPhone as being a wild crazy success was just not paying attention - and the numbers back that up.

The 3GS was when it exploded but it was already a big success by that point.

What people have to remember is the success of the iPhone is practically unprecedented in terms of adoption. It's incredibly rare to come out and dominate an industry like that when you're a new entrant into the space.

Even if the iPhone had continued it's July-September sales curve it would have been a success. It just got even more-so when the other versions came out.
That's unlikely, because the current model of money is basically reified politically power. And there is no theory of economics which starts from that POV - not even Marxism.

In fact money isn't reified political power - we simply treat it as if it is, unconsciously, because we've never considered the alternatives.

The real drivers of economic activity are collective intelligence and organisational ability. Politics is a subset of organisational talent, but it's typically a toxic instantiation of a principle that has many other possible expressions.

I think useful models are going to have to work back from that. By the time they're done, contemporary models of economics will have gone the way of phlogiston and epicycles.
Drugs die for all sorts of reasons other than being ineffective. A major one is the cost of getting a drug approved is now so expensive that you can’t make money off it. The vast majority of diseases are effectively beyond treatment because the market for them is not large enough to support the cost of developing a new drug for them.

The other major reason for failure at Stage I/II is that the preclinical models we are using are not a good match for human disease. This means that a drug that works in a mouse model can’t ever work in humans because the mouse model does not reflect the human disease (Alzheimer's is the classic for this). We are using preclinical models we know are useless and are then surprised when the drugs found using them don’t work in humans.
on my deck hacks i use proper data structures but on the initializer for the deck i have `suit = i % 4`.

which has the advantage of working with any size of deck. important since in brazillian truco you leave most of the numbers out ;)
Tell that to the NATO and Warsaw Pact armies and all of the plans, materials, and infrastructure they built around fighting the Next Big European/Asian war. Huge amounts of money and piles of weapon systems were developed by both sides with an eye towards fighting that war.

It's easy to say that in hindsight, but given all of the tension around the Iron Curtain and all of the times the US and USSR came very close indeed to going to war despite how likely total nuclear destruction was, it seems short-sighted to just brush off the idea of that war actually happening if neither side had any nuclear weapons.
> If there is always someone out there willing to take a job at breakeven (paycheck to paycheck living), worker pay will never go up.

Which is why you don't compete on price, but on service. If you can do for the business what other people cannot, your pay will keep going up and to the right for as long as you want.

Mind you, this could be as easy as rephrasing "I know Ruby" to "I use Ruby to increase revenue".

For instance, I am right now hiring a copy editor. I've spoken to plenty of people with a variety of hourly rates. Some said "I am really good at grammar and I am diligent and very detail oriented". Some people said "I can make your writing clearer".

Who do you think I liked more?
I have to check these things. All too often brain drain is presented as if the people leaving are traitors or similar.
Not really following your point. What I described could be implemented by a post-update hook that just ran "git rev-parse HEAD" and stuffed the result into a database somewhere. If anything it's significantly easier to implement than an authorization model.
There are some linguistics papers going into a notion of probabilistic type theory.

It's definitely an interesting area to think about. After all, Homotopy Type Theory has been teaching us that types are spaces, with topological structure. So hypothetically, how would you construct probability measures over those spaces? Could you then take points/proofs/programs as samples? What would the samples tell you about the overall measure?

What would it all mean?

Well, the probability monad already gives us a way to compute with distributions, and thus do probabilistic programming, but I'm not sure that really tells us anything type-theoretical, since the distributions are all over preexisting data types.
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Of course you can - what you do is grant approval conditional on you showing that they are effective once on the market (this is already done with Stage IV trials). With technology it would be much easier to track all patients using a conditionally approved drug and we would get far more useful data too.
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Christopher Alexander's A City is Not a Tree is another great essay on systems thinking.

http://www.bp.ntu.edu.tw/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/06-Alexa...
You can employ a lot of janitors for the cost of running a fleet of Roombas. It's the classic case of tech being 90% there. You still would need a janitor to do the side jobs that the Roombas missed, and to keep an eye on them. Also things they can't do, like wiping down doorhandles etc.

Easier just to pay the janitor to mop the floors.

You could do away with Janitors if you designed the space specifically for the robot cleaning technology. But that would be designing with the object of robot cleaning in mind, which would mean ensuring no inaccessible corners, wall-hung furniture, charging/storage points. Maybe that will happen in the coming years.
Selection bias is a thing but I don't understand the core analogy of picking a road. Every single time I pick a road less traveled I end up driving alone with not a car in sight for hours. Until i get scared and retrace my path to where there are people.

maybe if you want a road that is not congested you pick both the road and the destination less travelled. nobody wants to go there, ergo you get the road alone.
More likely, it will bid down the value of the output to $10.
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sqlx (https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx) is my go-to as well. mgutz/dat (https://github.com/mgutz/dat) and dbr (https://github.com/gocraft/dbr) are also more ORM-like alternatives if that's what you need—query builders with the option to use raw SQL for more complex queries. I also lean on purse (https://github.com/smotes/purse) for keeping my SQL in separate files, but I'd love to see something like Clojure's yesql.

I think the likelihood of seeing an ActiveRecord-style ORM in Go is slim: ActiveRecord is a core part of Rails and can therefore make a lot of safe assumptions about its environment. Any ORM for Go can't do that to the same extent, and big Rails-style frameworks don't gain much of a following in Go.
It's a neat idea, but I hope nobody uses it for anything actually sensitive until the crypto is fixed:

The app uses counter mode encryption with no nonce. In counter mode, the encryption process uses a stream of pseudo-random bytes generated by encrypting an incrementing counter with the secret key. The message is then XORed against this keystream.

For this to be secure, you need the keystream to be different for each message. Otherwise, if you have multiple messages where the plaintext is XORed against the same keystream, you can take the XOR of any two ciphertexts, and you have:

C1 ^ C2 = (P1 ^ K) ^ (P2 ^ K)
= (P1 ^ P2) ^ (K ^ K)
= (P1 ^ P2) ^ 0
= P1 ^ P2

And now you can break that by statistical techniques, or just trial and error.

(Obligatory crypto challenges link: http://cryptopals.com/sets/3/ )
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>The detailed inner workings of a complex machine intelligence (or of a biological brain) may turn out to be incomprehensible to our human minds—or at least the human minds of today".

Did he really say that?

I probably should avoid talking right now.

Ahaha. Ahahahahaaaa. Oh boy.

I mean, the mind isn't that hard to crack once you start conceiving of exactly what problems it was designed to solve, what functions it was designed to perform. We don't have complete theories yet, but generative causal inference in Turing-complete domains gets us into replicating "psychological" behavior and explaining cognitive-psychology experiments, so hey.

And then we've got solid overviews of how you'd go about combining concepts into theories into worldviews, and such.

There are a bunch of open problems remaining, but not nearly as many as people think.
"...you can get financing for such a business plan..."

"Hello, this is EZ-Financing And Venture Capital. How may we give you money?"

"Hi, this is Bob, Entrepreneur Extraordinare. I have identified a great opportunity that I need financing to exploit. You see, I've discovered eighteen or twenty really bright, competent people who are either unemployed or underemployed."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, there's Bill, who discovered the gene for florescence and is currently working as a pick-up-and-drop-off driver for a car dealer [that one's true], and Frank the MIT PhD mechanical engineer who lives in the ally behind Wal-Mart. There's a bunch more."

"So, what's the nature of your opportunity?"

"I have nothing specific in mind, but I'm sure if I get this group in a room, they'll come up with something brilliant!"

("Oh, and I spell my name Danger."

click

"Hello?")
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But I hope you wouldn't be amazed that a book written in 1978 made reference to common technology at the time.

The whole point of this post was the original K&R C, so why wouldn't they reference/assume teletypes?
>At least with AI, you don't have a system that has been fine-tuned by eons of evolution to manipulate people at least partly against their own interests.

As a smart person, I actually find this remarkably insulting. Not only do I have little desire to manipulate others, I have little ability. I'm much better with computers than with manipulating people.
AMD blew Intel out of the water in every possible way, except sales. They had trouble selling chips to mainstream OEMs because the OEMs had questionably-legal deals with Intel that penalized them for buying processors from anyone else. In some cases AMD literally couldn't give them away. And in the long run that killed them - without the income they simply couldn't keep up.
I doubt scientific altruism is just as exploitable as religious dogma. I think the abysmal record of religion in such fields as education, race relations, gender equality, human rights, slavery, genocide, rape, the outright fighting of scientific advancements including stem cell studies, etc., can stand as its' own negation of your statement.
> The territory is never observed other than through maps, and the maps are all math.

Be careful with words here. The universe is observed through other means than maps all the time. In fact, it is what everyone is doing all the time.

The universe is described using maths. It is also often described by neuron firing patterns in brains or less accurately using English or Russian. Just like territories are described by maps or less accurately using English or Russian.

> But the more detailed you make the description of something, the less of a distinction there is between the description and the thing! At some point, the description must be the thing. (If it isn't then just alter whatever is different between the two and patch the description; then repeat.)

That doesn't follow. At the limit to infinity, the description is the perfect description. There is no reason to believe it becomes the thing itself.

The line segment representing the radius of a circle perfectly describes a circle. That does not mean a line segment is the same as a circle.
There aren’t any. The FDA and it’s related regulatory authorities around the world are responsible for killing more people than any other organisation that has ever existed (conservatively in the hundreds of millions).

You might wonder how this could be. Basically the cost of getting a drug approved is such that large sections of the human population (poor people especially) have diseases for which we have no treatment or no cheap treatment. We need to get the cost of drug development down to the level that pharmaceutical companies can make a profit developing and selling medicines to poor people or people with what are considered rare diseases.
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Guys, the IQ scale becomes statistically meaningless and undefined past 160. Stop.
I'm assuming this is essentially a wrapper around WKWebView, as per Apple's rules?
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You seem to be conflating the perpetual licence, which is what we have currently and will stop being available in November with the new subscription. If I do not move to the subscription model, I can continue to use my current version of PHPStorm, in perpetuity.

However, I cannot subscribe under the new terms, and keep using the software if I decide to stop subscribing. Earlier in this thread you suggested that we could subscribe for a month and keep using the software afterwards. This is incorrect. Once you stop subscribing, you lose the rights to use the software
Thanks for the reference. From the essay:

1.In the real universe it is always some present moment, which is one of a succession of moments. Properties of mathematical objects, once evoked, are true independent of time.

2. The universe exists apart from being evoked by the human imagination, while mathematical objects do not exist before and apart from being evoked by human imagination.
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Someone fill me in - is React now the accepted awesome way to build front ends for single-page apps?
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I think it was more luck than judgement that we escaped annihilation. There were any number of times where a wrong call would have meant Game Over. And the probability would have been much higher if someone other than Gorbachev had been the last Soviet president.

History isn't over yet. The risk is probably higher now than at any time since it peaked in the mid-80s.
It is rather hard to take a drug if the company won’t give it to you.

Pharmaceutical companies are very reluctant to even give drugs to desperate patients because the FDA requires them to report all adverse side-effects even though they have no control over the conditions in which the drug is used. You can actually kill a totally fantastic drug by letting people use it outside of a controlled clinical trial.
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Seems like a similar thing in quorums of agents playing lots of rounds of The Prisoner's Dilemma. Where Tit-for-tat is the optimal strategy in one on one. But when you have groups of agents that can communicate before rounds and coordinate defaulting instead of cooperating the groups as a whole can score better than tit-for-tat.
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7) The mobile/wireless/handheld market is still at least 5 years out. Nope, it was 3 years out. iPhone came out in 2007. Pretty easy to calculate this one. Score: 0.6

Well, when he made the prediction the smartphone market was already there, it just didn't appeal to consumers. The year of his prediction the Treo 650 was released which I would argue was the first fully-fledged smartphone (that I know of, anyway) similar to those we use today. There were also earlier models of the Treo lacking mobile data. Kyocera made some similar devices as well.
Because Microsoft keeps me employed and making money.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=fica

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=culo
He's in Chicago.
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> full replica of the oval office to play around inside
I was sure you were being facetious, but wow. It is actually a real thing.
Leave. Come to New Zealand.

We love the Irish, you'll fit right in and we have an abundance of Dev. jobs.
Yup!

https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios

http://www.myce.com/news/mozilla-working-on-firefox-for-ios-...
Ah! So it's my fault…
You also might want to take a look at PollPub: (http://pollenpub.com)

Discussed here on HN previously: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10030585)

This reinforces some ideas that have been percolating in my brain for about two years. Between Gibook, PollenPub, and now Madoko it is now apparent that for the first time in its existence LaTeX is getting some competition.

What LaTeX gets right is that it produces beautiful structured academic-type (references and figures and such) documents. What it gets wrong as Gruber's Markdown has shown us is that the basic units of text should look like text and trigger markup through whitespace and intuitive but ultra-minimal markup such that without a processor it looks like an anally retentive writer produced the document. It codifies ascii practices. It's one of those ideas that until it happens you'd never think of it but afterwards you're going, "of course!". Besides Python and Markdown, do any file formats work this way?

I'm not going to make a Steve Yegge type predication but if I were I'd say that some form of scholarly markdown with multiple toolchain implementations (with git integration) is going to oust LaTeX as the structured document tool of choice. Be interested in what others have to say on the matter.
I've started several companies over the years. And yes, I'd love to find and hire those underpaid overproductive workers. I'd hire one today if he/she could convince me I'd make back double her/his salary. I know quite a few businessmen who'd do the same.

I've never gotten a phone call inviting me to join the secret cartel of employers holding wages down. :-)
I had some problems in believing that C99 says that main() implicitly returns 0, so for future reference: It says so in 5.1.2.2.3, even including wording concerning the closing "}" (which seems to me as slightly quirky way to describe what it is describing).

As for stdio.h being only header: it makes sense, as headers like stdlib.h and string.h contain mostly function declarations, which you don't strictly need in K&R. Some of 80's UNIX C code examples in books I've seen don't include anything (and there are even some that declare things like FILE and errno directly without including it from anywhere).
I wish I could - but my wife is a American to the very core, refuses to leave! :(
Huh? Wrong thread maybe?
He is being perfectly fair and accurate, which is probably a first for anyone making futurist predictions, so kudos to him.

This is exactly why all futurists are full of shit (see Kurzweil) and predicting the future is impossible. Getting some aspects of your prediction right is virtually guaranteed if you generalize when you re-interpret later.

You'd have to make spectacularly bad predictions that are overly detailed and specific NOT to do half decently if we're going to allow post-hoc retrofitting of which broad trends kind of fit the original prediction.
Not to mention a number of "smaller" tech companies like Zillow, Expedia, and Tableau that would love to hire all the ex-Amazon employees, should Amazon ever have mass layoffs.

My concern is a downturn in the whole tech industry. We have Starbucks, Costco, and Nordstrom so we might be better off than Silicon Valley, but that's not saying much.
It was probably about a year ago. Glad to hear they've simplified the story, I'll take another look.