skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're absolutely right. But the CEO is the person that is in regular contact with the board members and fund managers that the company is ultimately answerable to when they overspend and frighten them with the prospect of how much the share price would drop if they voted down the new proposed compensation scheme and replace him[1] with the sort of lesser CEO that would accept a mere $10M pension. That's a lot of negotiation power, especially when the CEO walking away generally will dent that share price.

Whereas if the CEO is considering taking $32M out of the R&D team's budget, you can guarantee that (i) nobody on that team will get anywhere near the company owners to persuade them that this could jeopardise the company's future and (ii) if the CEO is sufficiently keen on that cost saving the company's preferred management consultants will produce an impressive-looking Powerpoint that "independently" argues the cost savings are necessary and efficient.

[1]Not always "him". But nearly always "him"
The problem with this scheme is that it still involves trusting the ad platform, the advertisers (some still show), and the ad strategy of the website. Trusting them to not serve anything nasty, trusting them to account for our money correctly, trusting them to show moderation in the number of ad 'slots' they try to fill.

Ad blockers remove that trust. The industry has shown they are untrustworthy, overall (i.e. there are some that are trustworthy, but you have no way of identifying if a particular site will have only them showing, or even if it will be the same next time you visit).

I adblock. I also back a range of Patreons, and regularly support some other sites. For example, I support BoardGameGeek. I'd support more content creators if that were a possibility. But I'm not going to do it via the proxy of the advertising platforms.
So you are occupying a seat/space on a train longer than you absolutely need to? You are therefore adding passenger-miles to the system, reducing availability for others.

I don't suggest ill intent but if people are using anything other than the most efficient route, the route that gets them out of the system at their destination most quickly, that is an inefficiency to address.
Because they're slightly different cases considering how they begin. The GM and Toyota cases are that they screwed up. They failed to design a safe system. Meanwhile this VW case and those financial cases are that they designed the system intentionally to screw up other people. It's like accidental homicide vs murder.
>Patriarchy is a gendered term that implies men are in control.

It doesn't even do that. It is an equivalent of 'God did it'.

Men get better treatment: Sexism by the patriarchy.

Whoops, findings were wrong, women are actually getting better treatment: Reverse sexism by the patriarchy.

It is like talking with a creationist.
> Turns out, the amount of work that has gone into making JavaScript awesome surpasses every other language.

I still don't see a Ruby on Rails, Symfony, Spring etc.-like framework for JavaScript in terms of maturity. Sure they are some frameworks, however most of them crash and burn when you want to upload a 1GB file or parse large JSON data arriving via HTTP... or try to extend it.

And I didn't even mention NodeJS's multiple loading and memory limit problem.
If VR is going to matter for movies and tv it's only going to be on devices like this that everyone can participate on economically. Streaming game services will also close the gap between this and an expensive dedicated gaming rig per headset.
Wow, that's really interesting then. Pretty neat strategy.
Pascal does count because people wrote real software in it, it was better than C, Pascal/P was one of the best portability hacks ever, UCSD P-system used it, and Modula-2 built a real OS with a lot of same features. That said, if people counter Pascal, we can remind them of its purpose as you did if the limitation was due to that purpose. Modula-2 is my goto reference in these discussions because it's closest to C's niche: resource-constrained, system programming w/out garbage collection. And better than C w/ successors that were all better than C. :)

"As for the statement of only C being usable without Assembly, check the B5000 from the Burroughs Corporation, developed in 1961."

Good call. First great, overall system as I see it. Might also remind them that Wirth's and Jurg's Lilith workstation ran on Modula-2 and assembly. Most comparable to UNIX in terms of hardware and personnel constraints. Shows even constrained teams could do better than C or UNIX. The Oberon systems used Oberon and assembly, as well, with a GC'd OS and software. That helps in another recurring debate about OS's in "managed code." ;)

So, yes, that C is necessary for systems programming is a long-running myth refuted by examples which were better because they didn't use it.
I wonder if this will work with a Nexus 6, or if it only supports Samsung phones.
We are a 7 year old company. I have only ever had one candidate find a problem similar to the point you are making. Most understand that the risk profile makes a world of difference for a profitable company now versus 7 years ago where skipping payroll for the co-founders was common.

Your math is slightly off in assuming that the .1-.25% carries for the bulk of the ten, but your point valid all the same as a potential concern for individuals.

We often struggle with being labeled a startup due to our age and risk profile, but due to our size, we accept it! Ha.
It just finished 10 minutes ago on the livestream - http://www.twitch.tv/oculus - so it should be posted somewhere soon on YT.

Watch this channel at 1pm for John Carmack's lecture.
There was recently a study in the news paper that showed men receiving worse discrimination in pay raise than women in relation to the time spent home with children. One suggested explanation to this is that women's wages are per-discriminated with the assumption that they will spend some amount of time home with children, but men spending time home with children doesn't fit the social expectations and they are instead judged as lazy.
"The most startling finding: Only 20 percent of the campaign’s “ad impressions”—ads that appear on a computer or smartphone screen—were even seen by actual people.

“The room basically stopped,” Amram recalls. The team was concerned about their jobs; someone asked, “Can they do that? Is it legal?” But mostly it was disbelief and outrage. “It was like we’d been throwing our money to the mob,” Amram says."

Every time I see an account of an advertiser seeing a viewability metric, it reminds me how scare tactics always work to drive sales. Viewability tech is very nascent and is often just guessing because there are so many variables out there that can give it both false positives and false negatives.

However, giving such numbers to advertisers drives sales of your tech big time, even if the number cannot be verified because it's such a scary number.
Power was far greater correlated with wealth than with being male. So while society was more of a patriarchy than a matriarchy, it really wasn't either.
That is true, but the CV1 (consumer version) headset will have 2 separate screens that can be moved independently, which is something you can't get with a phone attached to a headset.
Those organisations have paywalls, yes, but they still depend overwhelmingly on ads for funding. If they lost it all tomorrow their paywall earnings would come nowhere near filling that hole.

And you seem to be ignoring cause and effect here - the reasons many newspapers have much smaller staffs these days is because the bottom fell out of the ad market and left them with no money.
I've worked with Laser cutters and, unless they have fixed things, you really don't want to be cutting items--especially paper and cardboard--without industrial "shop" ventilation. And many times I've set my work on fire.
I don't think the situation has reversed at all, and in fact open source has grown tremendously. There's more open source and free software, of higher quality, than any other time in the past. Commodity software like operating systems and web browsers are now dominated by open source.

My point is that despite the growth, there are still many, many areas where the open source offerings are pretty lame and noncompetitive (if they even exist). Open source has never been very competitive in any of the areas I mentioned.
No, actually, men used to hold legal privileges that women did not. Legally, a poor man had more rights than a rich woman, and though he may have less power in society than a rich woman, he had far more power than his own wife or daughter.

Important note: that is no longer the case. It hasn't been for years. I'm just saying that this actually existed, the Patriarchy was a real thing.
That's actually really interesting.

If this is the case, then I'm not sure Oculus was worth the money Facebook paid for them - Samsung seems to own all the relevant IP and it's not clear what Oculus provides that couldn't be replicated by another company in short order. If Oculus Gear takes off as a product, it seems like Chinese manufacturers would start churning out knockoffs and commoditize the product space.
Beyond per-impression charges, every advertiser is paying for probabilities - that a certain percentage of their targeted users will click the ad, or that a certain percentage of their target users will convert.

They're not interested in your specifically. Nobody is. It is well-known that something like 80% of all people that even see ads on the internet will never click on any ad in their life. But that's fine, because it's all a matter of probabilities.
There is a language that has largely taken over the "not compiled" segment but it's not JavaScript it's python.

It's everywhere at this point.
It's actually completely compatible with logic:

Source X claims Y.

I know very little about Y.

I know a fair amount about X, and what I know indicates that X is an unreliable source.

Therefore, I will not significantly alter my beliefs about Y until a more reliable source than X comes around.
Here is the timeline of the largest accelerator ever built to date: http://timeline.web.cern.ch/timelines/The-Large-Hadron-Colli...
Approved in 1994, completed in 2008, only recently ramped up to full design energy. And that does not include the many years of planning and design which preceded it (it was being worked on already in the 80s).

Let's say you are 23 now and contemplating going to grad school to do particle physics. The hypothetical 100 TeV collider is not even at the stage the LHC was in the late 80s, but let's be very optimistic and assume that it will be ready to light up in only 25 years. You'll be 48 by then, and most likely long gone from academia (since there are next to no jobs). That should answer your question.
Who cares, seriously if you can't stand social pressure you're just not cut out to be a leader.

The entire point of leaders is to do things that are unpopular that benefit the group. You don't need leaders to do popular things, they just happen.

Fundamentally if you want to make omelettes you're going to have to break some eggs, if your friends say breaking eggs is bad you have two choices, tell them off, or don't break eggs. Those that are willing to break eggs are allowed to be chefs.
Yes this is dealers fighting for territory not users shooting each other.
You can have both a class system based on economics/birth and a gendered power dynamic. Society is complex.
It's a real shame that DRM once again stifles progress and limits the video resolution to 480p in this VR app.
How Border Drones Were Born During the Vietnam War
I've got a Full Spectrum Hobby 5th gen (20"x12" bed). I'm very happy with it, but the build quality is not as good something you'd get from Epilog. Of course, it's a significant fraction of the price, so it's worth it for me.
The TL;DR is that she was part of creating a toxic environment within the company, shipped a product they knew was defective (Makerbot fifth generation), misled the shareholders (of Stratasys) and ultimately cost Stratasys hundreds of millions.

For the slightly longer version the class action lawsuit conatins a lot more detail: http://www.adafruit.com/pdfs/makerbot/classaction.pdf

You can also check out Glassdoor reviews: http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Makerbot-Reviews-E480203.ht...

I can confirm that the Makerbot 5gen is a defective product. We have one at the office gathering dust after trying to make it work for a few months. It is beyond hope.
If pain is measured in keystrokes, then yeah.. functional C# might be somewhat painful.

If you haven't tried it you might consider using F#. It seems to have the best of both worlds. It's got a static type system with functional features, but also a very lightweight and beautiful syntax (heavily influenced by OCaml, fwiw).
Then presumably it's OK to block ads?
But you're making your point with an unsupported allusion, and also implying that a man being generally expected to walk alone is somehow a problem.

In reality, most adults are expected to walk alone most of the time (where are the parking lot attendants?). Sometimes women get a pass on this expectation, which is primarily a benefit, although not necessarily a wanted one.

To the extent this culture encourages women to be weaker and not self-actualize, how significant is this one specific thing compared to the onslaught of commercial advertising doing that exact thing to everyone in every aspect of life?

Are car companies oppressing me by tell me I have to drive everywhere? And the culture which reinforces that expectation? In a sense yes. But it's counterproductive to dwell on it rather than simply filing these messages in the "fuck off" bucket.
Forested Overpasses Allow Animals to Cross Safely Over Highways
The police use violence to protect the regular market. One could just as easily say that violence is market related.
China is fucking shady.
Agreed. Super inspiring, and that's definitely how it feels working in VR these days.

Also very cool to see such a sweeping overview of the ongoing engineering challenges we face.
Not sure that feature will justify a $200+ price difference for most people. Plus, you will upgrade your phone every year or two anyway and get all the benefits (faster, better screen, improved features, etc) associated with that, while the CV1 will require a separate purchase to get new features.
I work in a lab which has approximately a 50/50 gender split. I personally have never felt uncomfortable with or been confused about working with people of the opposite sex, and I haven't heard any negative stories regarding inter-sex conflict or awkwardness from colleagues. As long as everyone acts like a professional, which isn't really that difficult, then I don't foresee many problems arising in a mixed gender workplace.
Is not always an option, for example with certain people on your job.
Hillary Clinton Is Stuck in a Poll-Deflating Feedback Loop
You could always find a reasonable case to screen felons, but the first step to reintegrating people into the society is trusting them. It does involve risk.
Only 2015 Samsung phones.
I work for Red Hat in the Openstack group. I can spend part of my time working on SQLAlchemy upstream as it is a core component of Openstack. But we still take donations!! http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ :) :)
Power dynamic is vastly dominated by wealth, one wonders why a disproportional focus is given on the vastly less influential gender dynamic.
I wouldn't be surprised if they sold this at breakeven or a slight loss in order to try and get some market share back for their phones.
> I don't know why you would expect to find npm modules that can get the job done 100% for you all the time?

Get the job I'm doing done 100% of the time, do the job they are supposed to do 90% of the time I'd like that, constant version churn, API changes, strange incompatbilities between things that are supposed to work together not to mention stuff like browserify/watchify which when they work are great and when they don't a complete pain.

Also makes me chuckle whenever it throws a ENOENT not because I don't know what it is but that a high level original browser dependent language is throwing it and not "No such file or directory" or anything friendly.

npm/node reminds me of the implementation of a server side scripting language implemented solely in JavaScript written by people who have only ever heard other server side scripting languages described to them on a broken radio.
That was true when the incentive was for vulnerabilities to be disclosed and fixed for the good of all, but sadly today, vulnerabilities are extremely valuable and so the incentive is for them to be sold to the powerful.
I mean, that's kind of the root of it for me, this implied bargain - you get this stuff for free, just let us pitch our stuff to you for x% of the time - that's over, I reject it entirely.

Happily for me I no longer have the to make the choice of either putting up with it or not funding the content when it comes to most media.
> Or you simply believe that the rapid growth of ad blockers will taper off fairly quickly and never constitute a significant threat. Possible but I think pretty naive.

A third option that I think is the most likely (because it's already begun to happen): Programs & plugins for websites that serve ads up natively from the local website. This means there's no call to a third party. It means there would be nothing to block and the ad gets through.

If the ad is a simple image or gif file, an ad blocker would have no way to tell what it is. It wouldn't know if it's a picture of a cat with a piece of bread on its head or an ad for denture cream. This is because the picture is coming from the website you're visiting and could have a name like cute-cat.jpg. It basically nullifies the host file for ad blockers.

That's what I think is going to happen. All the big ad companies (cough, google) need to do is revamp their ad network slightly and ad blockers become significantly less useful overnight.

I'm not saying it would make ad blockers 100% obsolete, far from it. They'd still be useful. But a lot, and I mean a lot more ads would get through that wouldn't have before. If even 40% more get through, that's still a huge number.
Javascript could be versioned. If Javascript is changed to be more static and less "forgiving", browsers could ship with one engine to run legacy ES6 code and another to run new code.
>Seems like the question of naturalness or "knowability" speaks more to the nature and limits of the human mind than of the universe itself.

Certainly, the apparent fact that we can only know our own perceptions (images of observations) severely limits what we can know about the larger universe that may contain our perceptions. It would be foolish to believe that you know the ultimate reality; we already know that it is impossible to know since we can only ever access perceptions of the projections of "reality". Either all that exists is our perceptions, or we can never know the ultimate reality.
If Google thought there was a problem with intrusive ads, they would penalize them.
Please don't post passive-aggressive comments intended to control how I choose to interact with the community here. The upvote and downvote arrows are the correct method of expressing approval or disapproval.
> White male landowners also passed great wealth [...] down to their daughters

No they didn't. The money went to the sons. The daughters were kept by their husbands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primogeniture
Working with Objective-C and Swift on the Same Project
Just about to say the same thing.
> I am surprised it can cut paper without causing ignition.

As a kid, I had a lot of difficulty trying to ignite paper with lenses under the sun (white notebook paper). I then gave up and used the lenses for cutting instead. So I'm not that surprised.

To this day I wonder what would be the correct set of conditions that would make it easier to combust. I remember trying black paint - that only made the cutting part easier.
For another perspective, here is a comment by @bpinto (OMF creator I think?) which @bucaran deleted from https://github.com/wa/wahoo/issues/95 :

http://dump.thecybershadow.net/7ff5a1088842959fb4d8d4be7d3ab...
When is one thing equal to some other thing? (2007) [pdf]
> The NSA isn't an independent agency, it's a part of the US military chain of command under the Department of Defense and hence is under the direct control of the Command in Chief.

The NSA's existence, as well as some particular details of officers that it must have and its functions and duties, are mandated by Congress in Statute; see the National Security Agency Act of 1959 (and subsequent amendments thereto.) That it is within the military chain of command doesn't change this; Congress's power to do direct the structure of the military is an enumerated power in Article, Section 8. The designation of the President as Commander-in-Chief does not make the President unreviewed dictator of the military, it simply restricts Congress power over military organization such that the Congress cannot place authority to command the military within the regulations adopted by Congress in some other person than the President.

Congress's power to direct the existence, function, organization, and funding of agencies -- and the President's lack of Constitutional power to disregard Congress's directions on those matters and disband statutorily-mandated programs and agencies -- is not, contrary to your description, restricted to independent agencies. It absolutely does extend to federal executive departments, including the Department of Defense.
Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?
What are your favorite tech and non-tech podcasts?
Writing Go benchmarks
Did this work for anyone? I tried it and saw no change, even on the websites they suggest on the checkout page.
Your argument reads to me to be a stronger reason to continue blocking ads.
My experiments so far (with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Exploding Cookies, and Random User Agent all on) suggest no. It seems like you'd have to do some extra work to whitelist sites so that they could get paid. It isn't clear what GOOG will do with my $2 if they can't attribute my visits...
It has a direct impact on the resources the state has available to it.
> There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

-G. K. Chesterton
Brands are pressed into our brains by constantly pushing them in front of our eyes. And then, when you think of a need, you remember the brand.

Nobody ever went to a bank just after reading the ad in the newspaper. But they remembered the brand.
Yep, that's where I heard it. I doubt many people listened that far into the video which is why I came back and posted it.
I agree that there actually used to be a patriarchy. Only for a subset of society though. During much of this time period, males slaves couldn't vote or own property either for example.

Regardless, that's not how society works anymore. Trying to redefine patriarchy to "traditional gender roles" strikes me as disingenuous.
iPhone 6s Annihilates Android Smartphones in Single- and Multi-Core Benchmarks
> The Kylin name—an odd English rendition of qilin—comes from ..

... comes from the obvious unacceptability, to the Chinese, that this word is already known to English speakers as "kirin", by way of the via the Japanese language.
Well, then start a business and give all your equity away, it worked for Bobs Red Mill.

It's like people who complain about how much garbage men/some other shitty job make but then don't become garbage men.