skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like solid work all around. But if we could weigh it relative to the advancements in C++ the last decade, it wouldn't even show up on the scale.

Red Hat could pay someone to do exactly what you're doing in many other languages with the exact same results. The only difference would be that the language in question would show up on the StackOverflow list of "most loved" or "most wanted" languages. Rust shows up in 50th place with less than 0.2% share and OCaml doesn't even make that list (TIOBE 9/2015).

Sounds argumentative, but is a genuine question: why have you chosen OCaml for this? What is so remarkable about it for this use case that 50+ more popular languages wouldn't do it?

Obviously there are downsides, so what is the upside?
See rwmj's reference [3].
Apple or Google announcing new flagship phones every year
vs Pebble announcing a new watch in a matter of months ?
Can't exactly draw parallels here.
Something similar would be Apple announces iPhone 6S now and iPhone 6S+ in 3 months.
I think the VW software actually checks to see if it was in test mode, and altered emissions.

Varying emissions based on load is perfectly reasonable.
This is highly situational. I would love if the best of "X" type employee out there were all hunting for 2-5M valuation (or whatever you consider low) startups - but that isn't as common. Many people are risk averse.

I think part of this scenario is that companies raising tens or hundreds of millions at billion++ valuations are hiring "scaling talent".

Scaling as in hiring many good to great people, but lots of them, some of whom overlap. Multiple product managers, many great engineers, great heads of sales/ HR/ operations.

Oftentimes they are focused on becoming huge, scalable, consistently growing revenue generating operations.
Is that last paragraph supposed to be ironic, considering the first?
There are groups working to fix this.

Around the world there are several breeding programs that are doing genetic and trait testing of wild varieties of our food plants and trying to use selective breeding plus dna testing to breed traits back into our proverbially cross-eyed knock-kneed commercial seeds, not unlike how the man who 'saved' the Irish Wolfhound crossbred mastiffs and Danes to strengthen the inbred bloodline.

I know there's a group working with carrots, and another one that's looking at wild rice to breed a more nutrient dense and drought tolerant rice strain, to answer questions like "could we have gotten vitamin A into rice without using transgenic techniques ('golden rice') to do so?"

There are also groups trying to breed biennial and perennial grains, to improve net yields (food minus fuel and labor inputs) and reduce topsoil degradation.

You just have to know where to look and who to cheerlead for.
Not surprising that print journalists in the publishing hub of the US are rooting for print.
Hmm, so this is an oddly-timed launch. I was just wondering if I should replace my ks-edition pebble with a pebble time, and now here I'm wondering about the pebble round time or whatever. The new round watch probably looks nice, although I'm worried about the bezel size and it not being waterproof. It does look a lot thinner and more watch-like than most other smartwatches, even before you get to the 7-day battery. My first gen pebble has about five days between recharges, despite being in constant use since I bought it.

That said, I think I'll stick with my regular pebble for now - I love the notifications I get on it, but that's its primary job and while the time(round)? is an improvement to display I don't see any of the features as must-have at this point. Seems like a great watch to get if you don't have one yet, but I'm not sure I want to spend $200+ there, especially since my ks model pebble is industrial orange, and they don't have that color anymore.
Hum, OWebl doesn't exist. The author made some buzz because he's decent at marketing (and much better at it than the rest of the OCaml community, clearly), but it doesn't mean it's a thing.

There are other (good) web frameworks in OCaml (ocsigen, opium).
Yep, or GPU benchmark cheats back in the early 2000s
It's not for authentication, it's for background checks. These fingerprints are used to check for criminal connections in the past and future.
There's at least 9 different tracers for Linux, but only 3 built-in.

- perf_events (the "perf" command), which is intended as the official end-user profiler/tracer. It's great at PMCs and sampling. It can do dynamic tracing and tracepoints.

- ftrace (currently being renamed to "trace", to bring its ambiguity on-par with doing an internet search for "perf"), which is really a collection of custom lightweight tracing capabilities, developed to aid the real time kernel work.

- eBPF, which is an engine that both perf_events and trace could make use of.

I talked about the more here: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2015-07-08/choosing-a-linux...

So you could say that the plan is there is one: perf_events. There's already work to bring eBPF to perf. perf already has a Python scripting interface, so it's not inconceivable that one day bcc will become part of perf.

Some (f)trace capabilities could be rewritten/improved in eBPF, which could mean some cleanup. But the ftrace implementation wasn't bulky to start with.
> Of course, not. Stop trying to change the argument.

I'm not trying to change the argument. I'm taking your statement literally, and showing that it's entirely unworkable in practice. I'm not saying he shouldn't be fired or have to step down, but to presume that he personally, definitely knew is quite the leap. I can think of several scenarios where he didn't know and is entirely innocent which are quite plausible.

I also think that regardless of whether he personally had knowledge of exactly what was being done or not, he still created a work environment which rewarded the shortcut and the cheat over the right thing and needs to go. But that's an entirely different line of reasoning than "he must have known!" as a justification.

> He would know that VW cars are getting better scores than other cars. These are numbers that CEOs and other managerial positions live for. He would know why. Though he may not understand the technical details of why.

No, not necessarily. You're making an awful lot of assumptions and none of them are even superficially argued, much less backed up by verification. This isn't CO2 where you can draw a pretty clear line correlation between fuel efficiency and CO2 emissions. This is NO2 emissions which are highly variable and depend on a great many factors. So it's entirely possible that for the same CO2 emissions one car might output far more NO2 than another.

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-diesel-exhaust-contain-more-n...

I'm very sympathetic to the notion of "if you get to claim credit for the good, then you're also going to be held responsible for the bad" argument, generally I agree with it. This is not an exceptional case. But to argue that because this is a reasonable course of action, that the person in charge of a 500k employee company must have known a particular detail of a particular subsystem? Not reasonable. Not defending the person, the company, the actions, or anything like that but I am attacking your reasoning.
You misunderstood him. You can't die from alzheimer's at 80 if you died from malaria at 72, is what he's saying.
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it is crazy to think that a bottle of drinking water could have 1100mg/l of sodium, aside from the price I am surprised also that it was considered the hands on favorite by the article writer!
I'm not sure how a likeness comparison would work with a hashed fingerprint. Perhaps it would if a specific subset of the finger scan is always used to compare with the hashed subset.
Thanks for the h/w comparison link. A bit relieved.

But still wondering why they didn't give this option during their Kickstarter.
I am sure many people would've bought a circular one, but they wont now because their Pebble Time is still new (2 months old).
Man that article started out so good and then got so bad. Really unfortunate that someone so passionate is just another idiot.
Somewhat related: I've heard that devices with fingerprint access control are designed such that software can't get the fingerprints out; the fingerprint reader is a self-contained black box. If I wanted to verify this, how would I?
Yeah, totally. It needs more time to bake in general. I was just mainly referring to the fact that it's current requirement of CAP_SYS_ADMIN is kind of a non starter for more general use at the moment.
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This thread seems to have been round-filed, but I think you have identified part of the problem. Significant portions of the public do not like nuclear power. It's interesting to consider the implication, that private investors are more responsive to this preference than the government that, in theory, the public elects.
500k in the US, 11M worldwide.
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I know someone who recently bought a sportwagen with the urea system. They said it was a $300 service once a year to refill the tank. Though you are probably right that it can be done much cheaper yourself.
A mutual fund manager is not the same as a private wealth manager. Robo-advisors are replacements for private wealth managers. For example, a robo-advisor could recommend a human-managed mutual fund, or a human wealth manager could recommend a low cost index fund. You are confused about the two roles.
This article literally says that "your business will die" if it isn't using Go. I think we can all agree that's a little over the top.

Go has hit a bit of a sweet spot in some ways. Static compilation, a good stdlib, decent performance and good tooling have all contributed to that.

It's also quite a shitty language in other ways. Dependencies are a mess. The lack of generics and associated functional primitives makes some code stupid and repetitive. Magical builtins like append() and delete() are a bad smell. Error handling is quite poor. There are others - the outcome being that it can be quite an irritating language to develop in.

It's obviously been successful in the areas cited because it's better than the other available options. Nobody really wants to use C(++) for things like devops tools, nor Java, Ruby or Python. That's a great use case.

I'm optimistic that some of the worst parts of Go will slowly be fixed as it develops, and will make it much more pleasant to use. Until then, I'm not confident it's going to dominate outside of those areas it's currently used. Of course, I could be entirely wrong… I guess time will tell.
Liquidation preferences are a hugely important term that protects investors from being screwed over by founders. Without it, nothing stops an unethical founder from raising 800k at a 8M cap, and turning right around and letting the company get acqui-hired for 4M a month later, pocketing $3.6M and leaving the investors with half their money.

With a liquidation preference; investors get their money back, the founders take their $3.2M, and nobody walks away feeling screwed over.

[Note: this example works exactly the same if you multiply the numbers by 100.]

As an investor; I don't invest unless I have 1x liquidation preference and pro-rata rights. These terms are standard because they're fair and they're critical for protecting the investor.
Ad networks at the moment seem to mostly provide the service of showing me pictures of things I have bought, just in case I forgot that I already own them.
It was one programmer that put in the code. Interesting read here but I still buy the one engineer theory.

http://allthingsd.com/20120501/google-releases-fuller-fcc-wi...
The concern I have is that failures in the control software or mechanical failure would have grave consequences. Maybe that's a solved problem and the cable capstans have mechanical arrestors that kick in, etc but the setup looks inherently unstable unless under active computer control (due largely to the crossed cable attach points).

This is quite a bit different than a more typical hydraulic setup where an unpowered/uncommanded state simply leads to the platform settling in a stable configuration.

Having said that: I still want one. :D
> Why is it in 2015 that people are suddenly having a moral panic about an optional program started in 2006 that still exists in 10?

Snowden happened. Also many would be pleased if those "metric gaining features" would be opt-in and mean it, not having to hunt it down through the system to disable it.
I just have to take issue with his claim about privacy being a luxury good:

In this world, privacy becomes a luxury good. Mark Zuckerberg
buys the four houses around his house in Palo Alto, to keep
hidden what the rest of us must share with him.

What nonsense! The neighbors still live there and pay him instead of a bank. He did it to prevent a developer from forcing him to move, essentially.

And no one forces us to give our data to him. Don't abuse language. Only the state can legally use force, and they often do it illegally as well.

I don't exactly have warm and fuzzies about Mark, but there's enough truthful appalling material out there to support your claims about the lack of privacy.
> it doesn't really matter. ;)

Best way to start a flamewar on IRC: "the difference between emacs and vi doesn't really matter"

Luckily, this won't happen here xD
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The correlation mentioned in this article is interesting. Yes, statistically some 30% or so of us in the world have tinnitus of one form or another, but it's not really life threatening and its annoyance is such that it often doesn't get studied. The idea that tinnitus has anything in association, much less potentially things in common, with other lasting conditions like chronic pain, chronic anxiety, and depression, that certainly lends hope that maybe it will get studied a bit more and possibly more likely someone might cure it someday.
I still have not received a response
>>but I have the confidence and experience to know that 'let it ride' is the right strategy about 90% of the time.

Truth, that was an expensive lesson for me. First bitcoin took about $3,000 USD from me in exchange for that lesson.

Then since apparently I didn't learn it enough the first time, I sold my Facebook stock at $16..... oh what could have been... c'est la vie...
Well, with an Audible subscription, that book is 1 credit, which is somewhere in the neighborhood of $10.

Speaking of which, I'm disappointed that audiobooks weren't broken out in the story - anecdotally, I know more people that listen to Audible/audiobooks regularly than use a Kindle (somewhat naturally, since most people carry a phone everywhere). So I sort of question the implication that people are returning to paper when a rising category has been excluded.
While I agree with your premise, Apple did do something similar when it launched the iPad 3 in May 2012 and the iPad 4 5 months later in October 2012.
Quoting from [1]:

Pebble Time Round is splash resistant but not waterproof. Incidental exposure to water–like unforeseeable rain–won’t ruin your device, but submerging the watch is not recommended. Pebble’s leather bands are not water resistant.

[1] https://pebble.com/buy-pebble-time-round-smartwatch
Physical books still trump e-books for me, though I use both.

There is something nicer about a physical book which my e-reader is not able to replicate or replace.
From the EPA's description: "The 'switch' senses whether the vehicle is being tested or not based on various inputs including the position of the steering wheel, vehicle speed, the duration of the engine's operation, and barometric pressure. These inputs precisely track the parameters of the federal test procedure used for emission testing for EPA certification purposes."

Somewhere I saw a description of the EPA test procedure. It is not just a simple small set of test points. It is a long sequence of operations, calling for specific speeds and durations and rates of change simulating a variety of operating conditions ranging from a wide open freeway to a New York City traffic jam. I believe I read that the order of the various test segments might change from test to test, but each segment's parameters were very strict.
Apparently in the VW case, this was their specific intent. Also, limits are limits. You can't have the software allow violations of emissions limits because the driver wants to go faster at a particular point.

That isn't to say that the CEO is at fault, nor would it be expected that the CEO of an enormous company with thousands of engineers would know about or direct specific engineering decisions (and in fact he denies that he knew). More likely than not, he issued unrealistic directives to the engineering team, who met the demands in the only way they could at the time. That doesn't make it right by any stretch, but that appears to be what happened.
Please remember that if you're going to have a video on your website to explain _what_ your site does -- use subtitles/captions!

You'll reach a whole lot more people by doing that. You can even translate the subtitles. They're also a good way of making a video into meta-data.

Use the Amara project. It's as easy as linking your video, writing a line or three, and then passing it around until it's done. Then someone else could come and translate it. Video i18n!

Example using Amara wrapper http://pleasecaption.me/example/my_face_is_burning.html

Then an example using video.js with link to a srt file: http://pleasecaption.me/example/

(Amara, http://www.amara.org)
Yoga only existed as a religious practice until the 80's when the physical part was separated. It's not a surprise that people who grew up before the 80's don't automatically think of the non-religious version. It's hardly "ancient".
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I completely agree! It doesn't matter if this particular CEO knew about this particular detail, because ultimately they're responsible for the culture, the work environment, etc. If they made a bad work environment at the top, and that trickled down to someone deciding to go the cheat route rather than the honest route, that's a problem.

If the CEO did things right and made a good work environment but hired a bad exec, and they applied pressure to people to cheat, and this all got done, again, can be traced back to the CEO.

If the CEO did the right thing and hired a seemingly great exec and that exec hired a bad manager, well, perhaps the CEO didn't do such an exceptional job.

Ultimately all organizational failures like this are failures of management, and the CEO is the top manager so it's all on him (or her) when things go sideways.

But just because it's all on them doesn't mean that we can all safely conclude that they definitely had firsthand personal knowledge of the problem and gave their approval, explicit, implicit or otherwise.
I'm guessing that the cars with urea injection will be fine. It will be tested by the EPA and CARB if you are in California to make sure. Since the urea injection is there specifically to deal with the pollution this issue is causing, the only cheat I would imagine would be to lengthen the amount of time to change the urea tank and if that is the case, VW will be required to cover the added service costs.
It says "A second reason for the delay in adopting modern automation is the effect on union jobs."

However, the Port of Rotterdam also has a union. For example, http://www.porttechnology.org/news/dock_workers_suspend_rott... mentions a 'three-week campaign of rolling wildcat strikes at the APM Terminals container facility' in Rotterdam in 2012.

Why could Rotterdam become more automated with a union while Oakland has not?
Apple recently updated their privacy policy. Warrant canary removed. They now "cooperate with the law and protect their consumers" AKA we don't give a shit about you, we're selling your data.

I don't know how to find it since Google's keywoards are gamed so heavily by newer sites now, but a while back a programmer found GPS logs from his phone when he was using zero GPS apps.
Wearables, Wellness, and Privacy
EDIT: My post is wrong, see replies.

IMHO it has one killer feature the Moto 360 doesn't - e-ink (which brings with it always-on display, bright-light readability and power savings benefits). For that reason alone I'd be way more likely to pick up one of these than a 360. I also like the design a lot more (huge bezel and all), but that's even more subjective.
... which is about 10 times slower than the LuaJIT compiler used by OpenResty.
Not a big fan of Apple launches either :)

Still a proud owner of a 5S and by current estimates, will be till 7S+ or something like that :D
I hold fairly different opinions, though I agree that digital reading sources can make sense for completely new books read for pleasure.

As a longtime physical product, paper has a lot of benefits. My dad can give me a book he read in college, just grab it off the shelf. I can go buy books extremely cheaply secondhand, sometimes free. I can't imagine paying $10 for an ebook when I can go to a used bookstore and pay $3, and then I own it forever. Additionally, once I own it I can share it, give it away, write in the margins, dog-ear pages, leave post-it notes, etc. I also can't imagine a world where 20 years later I can trivially give my old Kindle eBooks to my children.

On the other hand, I much prefer having searchable digital technical reference books. I find the flipping and index/table-of-contents referencing to be very "immersion-breaking" when I'm programming. For example, it's much quicker and easier to Ctrl+F for "XCHG" than it is to dig through the intimidating multi-thousand page Intel x86 Instruction Reference. When I was taking an OS course, I had to do this all the time, and I much preferred the pdf reference over the physical one.
Last government technical document I read (not federal level) mandated passwords be stored using encryption. Not hashing, encryption. Security by bureaucracy is one of the few things worse than security by obscurity.
I chatted with a D. Edward Jones advisor years ago, shortly after I got a full-time job.

My expected wealth accumulation % increase for a while would be eaten up by his fees(and he was selling only one line of funds, to boot). I nodded politely, then at home, I did some studying signed up for ETFs based upon my financial needs.

When I have a large sum of wealth, I will have a lawyer, wealth adviser, and accountant on retainer in order to design appropriate strategies. I suspect that this will be > 1M USD.
Go Pro Has Crashed: Will Drones Rescue It?
Is it cheaper than the downtime?
Respect the player, hate the laundry.
I leave my fingerprints everywhere I go, so it's one of the least worrying things to have stolen.
I'm thinking the 25% drop in stock prices might've had more to do with it.
Keep in mind though that this is same watch internals in a differently shaped case. It doesn't take a year to do that.
It's not just very old out-of-print books. There is a whole class of, for example, 10-20 year old fiction for which print copies are often readily available from Amazon sellers for the cost of shipping/handling ($3.99) or just a little more while the Kindle copy is still $9.99 or more. The thing is that I would much rather have the digital copy because I end up reading most of my books on planes or otherwise while traveling but it really bugs me to pay a big premium to do so.