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If you mean Windows 3.1 running over Novell Netware and Trumpet Winsock then it did indeed bring networked ease of use computing to the masses :)
He already has a job at a VC firm. If new offer is lower, keep on looking. If the offer is higher, then take the job and grind for a minute until a better offer comes along. It's not like he wasn't doing that before. For someone who is VP at a VC firm, he sounds like he's whining for no apparent reason.
Transpilers are compilers... The term is usually used for a compiler which compiles between languages at about the same level of abstraction.
I think being stranded meant, there are no other jobs in the sector to be had.
Probably a lot of this is Android users, who can't trust apps.
You did not address the question as it pertains to hip-hop. I'll make it even larger: are you ok with members of the black community (around your area, i know it is not some monolithic club) using the terms, "nigger" and "bitch" constantly? I just moved to North NJ and i must say i am not OK with it. But if i bring it up i am some kind of 'bigot' that just doesn't understand 'culture'.

To reiterate: do you only decry white racism?
Nvidia and a few other tech companies used to have big teams in that region (raleigh/durham/chapel hill). Lots of biotech in the area, cheap cost of living (relative), tons of colleges, moderate climate. Not a bad place, but a bit slow/small-towny for my taste.
I don't think anyone doubts that we'll continue to make improvements in process technologies until the sun explodes, the main questions are pace and benefits.

Yes, we can create shorter channels using more/different materials. Yes, we can get stronger gate fields using more/different materials. Yes, we can start building vertically and cool the chip using microfluidics. But, all of these things take more time than previous scaling efforts, and are going to have quantum scaling benefits instead of the classical scaling benefits that we had before.

Even now, companies have a difficult choice when switching to 16nm - is it worth the cost and effort? The rules for designing chips have double width each new generation too, making it harder to physically design in addition to the less-manageable transistors. We now have a bad combination of high supply and low demand - new processes double supply due to shrinkage, but reduce demand due to design cost & difficulty.

edit: Newtonian => classical
You still do not have it right. Saudi arabia will not be head of the human rights council. They will be head of one of the panels within the human rights council. Their bid to head the entire human rights council failed.

It is still a very bad idea, of course, but it is important to be correct.
People say that but I've never seen the number that moves the needle much.

For one, capital gains are voluntary, and sellers more or less choose when to accrue them (and time them against losses in portfolio to minimize the impact).

For two, bulk of the money in the market is paying capital gains tax of 0%, as it belongs to a retirement account, charitable foundation, pension fund, foreign entity, university endowment, trust fund or some other tax-exempt structure. US-affiliated taxable accounts are not the majority in the market (source on this is Ken Fisher's Debunkery http://www.ken-fisher-debunkery.com/ published in 2011, I'm not sure whether situation changed since then).
There is currently no system that can provide perfect anonymity against a global adversary (someone who has wiretaps on all links and can possibly inject data as well), and it's not clear if it is technically feasible to build one.

There is also no feasible way of mathematically proving that complex hardware or software does what is supposed to do, which means that you need to trust the authors, and isolation against bugs with security impact is required.
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If I may play devil's advocate, one can argue that this is called "hacker news" and therefore, you would expect things to be new :)
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In the broadest sense a compiler is any program that translates between different representations af a program. In that sense one can also consider a decompiler as a compiler.

Also we usually use the term compilation (or more specifically Ahead Of Time and Just In Time compilation) for when we translate bytecode into machinecode.
This is true. However, if you look at the chips in average consumer laptops, I don't think they have increased in performance in line with Moore's Law.

Today's consumers are being sold cheap laptops that often have Celeron and Pentium chips, which are branded versions of the Atom design. Most of them are slower than an Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 from 2007. The big difference is that that had a TDP of 65W where a modern Atom would be more like 8W.

That dramatic reduction in TDP has been driven by ultra-thin laptop designs, which has also affected faster Core designs, especially the 4.5W Core M.

So yes, a lot of consumers are getting laptops that haven't increased dramatically in performance, and may have declined (as rated by Passmark benchmarks (1)). But they are getting thinner laptops with better battery life, and they are paying a lot less for them (maybe $200).

(1) Real-life performance is also affected by things like built-in H264 decoding, hardware acceleration in operating systems etc.
I love Julia for its expressiveness but I am somewhat confused about its dynamic typing and its powerful type system. Are we to write mostly Python-like function and rely on multiple dispatch and JIT code generation for speed? Duck typing is one reason I stopped using Python for technical computing. I tried Julia out a few months ago and found that type inference has some holes that make type annotation brittle for function parameters. I finally gave up when I found out functions have no return type in Julia.

Hopefully Julia can work out all the language features and mature into a good technical language. It would also help if there is a guide about the canonical programming style. I prefer static typing but thought using type annotation I could come close to static typing while still retain the freedom of quick-and-dirty code. I believe for the current Julia I was wrong.
"Stop using new technologies, let's go back to the old ways", said every older generations ever.
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Did they really have to drag the Dutch east India company into this by using that logo? It's going to make things... complicated around here.
Glad to hear, that's exactly why we open-sourced it.

We want to prevent everyone from doing the same work over and over again and provide a basis to work from if people so desire.
Since No Child Left Behind was passed, there has been heavy focus on testing. Because of this schools have been slowing removing everything from the curriculum that doesn't appear on the standardized testing. That includes things like recess and P.E. even though the research suggests that physical activity helps kids learn better (http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/recess-makes-kids...).

I suspect that school superintendents would agree that play and exercise is important, but they are under tremendous pressure to squeeze in more learning in an attempt to raise test scores. The result of that is a slow nibbling away at recess and P.E. even though it's most likely counterproductive.
There's an app for that.
This is really impressive, much more work went into the CPU & GPU on this "s" generation than previous years. I can't wait to see what people, smarter than I, do with it.
> They live off capital gains from selling stocks and bonds.

That is also not entirely true. Sales of publicly traded stock by large shareholders is public information, and as an example, Mark Zuckerberg, sold a $2.3 billion chunk of shares in 2012 post-IPO when he became eligible http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/19/facebook-m... and has not sold a single share ever since https://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=fb except for a disposition (charitable contribution). He probably doesn't need to either, there's a long wait before that bank account gets depleted.

It does not make sense for 1% to be transacting heavily in the assets they own, and if they're company officers they're frequently sending negative signals by doing that.
Mason jars can't nest inside of each other so they take more storage space than beer glasses. A nestable Mason jar would be ideal.
>might actually be hurt
>I think should be made to feel welcome
>He is unwell
>he is abusive
>look at the demographics [presumably of the tech industry]
>abusive behavior
>doesn't seem unreasonable or oppressive to me

>I am not saying suppress the story, that this story should not be here, just that we shouldn't pretend that awfulness isn't there.

How i wish the immediately above statement were applied liberally to the US culture, as opposed to just EuroAmericans and just Males.

All the other quotes are the big markers of a highly subjective point of view being flogged as the only objective point of view. But that's just, like, my opinion man.
This is an incredibly common move for startups that reach a certain size. Once you have about 50+ customer service reps the math makes sense. In some companies the customer service department is 50% of total headcount.

One thing to keep in mind, turn over in customer service is pretty high. You could open another office and with natural attrition make the move without layoffs in ~18 months.
This is insanely full of value, and if you apply just a little bit of effort, can be made widely applicable to $your_field. Listen to Philip, he's smart and has wisdom to share.
If you're interested in graphic novels, Fatale by Brubaker and Phillips is a noir/Lovecraft tropes mashup. Really well done.
A term that I only started seeing after the crazyness to compile to JavaScript started and a part of my major was compiler design.
Very interesting. I kinda figured my explanation wasn't that accurate, but I think it conveyed the point pretty well that sometimes we can't get to new optimal states because every path to that state is worse than the current optimal state.
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>That was not willful deception

No? They realised a fault in their cars were actively killing people and opted to not do anything about it. Thats closer to murder than wilful deception really. As for the deception part - they silently redesigned the part but kept the old part number so that it would fly under the radar.

Neither VW nor GM's behaviour is acceptable. Just pointing out that various car manufacturers have a history of sketchy behaviour & I'd expect the fine for this instance to be broadly in line with previous examples.

>cancer due to the carcinogens released by a 40x increase in pollution

I don't think N2O is significantly carcinogenic. The primary risk is greenhouse effect risk as far as I understand. As I understand it the other pollutants all made it below the thresholds without software sorcery, though frankly who knows at this stage.
Good to see a startup (unicorn?) taking costs and expenses seriously.

The biggest let down to employees is running the company into the ground burning your money all the way. Good job Lyft!
The parent failed to add a link, so I did. That's why it's staying up.

The way it sounds maybe partially, but I'm going to go with downvote frenzy for the rest.

Never mind, an upvote frienzy around another comment of mine is keeping me afloat.
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A fun and fascinating resource for anyone interested in artificial languages is Mark Rosenfelder's Language Construction Kit [1]. And if you want to get extremely into it, I highly recommend Paine's Describing Morphosyntax for a detailed tour of diverse grammatical systems from across the world [2].

[1] http://www.zompist.com/kit.html

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Describing-Morphosyntax-Guide-Field-Li...
Obviously Heinlein had not encountered Facebook where no random thought is too minor to be broadcast to all your 'friends' :)
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I have't used TextBlob but I found this interesting regardless (I'm very interested in NLP). Thanks for the read! Slightly off topic but I don't see very many NLP libraries for C++ as I do Python; are there any notable ones?
This article seems to be ignoring a new dynamic, in my eyes, which is that of "outsourcing" innovation to third level institutions, and the facilitation of commercial innovation by third level institutes, for industry. It has the effect of shifting innovation from being a fixed costed cost-centre, to being a variable cost with more potential for profit. As we can see from Uber's announcement that they want to buy university robotics departments, innovation can be reincorporated if it has a potential return. It's definitely a change in the innovation landscape.
This is a good point, for those who might be interested enough by the hoopla to be trying to see it through someone's telescope. Full moon is the worst time to view the moon through a telescope. Everything is washed out and lacks shadows that give the terrain a 3-D perspective.
Is there any progress when it comes to the slow package loading times of Julia? That made it quite unusable as a data exploration language when I last tried it about 1 year ago, but perhaps there was progress in that regard.
Room and board for a year at UC Berkeley is $14,388. That's for nine months (June, July & August you have to vacate, IIRC). So, that's about $1,600 per month.

On the other hand, I lived in a fairly spacious apartment with one flat-mate; my half of the rent was $700. I don't remember how much I spent on food, but it was probably around $200 per month; utilities another $100. The apartment was a 20 minute walk from campus.

So, off campus expenses for a living far more comfortable than cramped dorm life was about $1000 per month.

Over the course of the three years it took me to complete my degree, that means I saved about $16,200 ($600 saved per month, 9 months per year, for three years). [That's "thousands and thousands".]
> And why do kids text so much at school? Because they are bored to death by mind-numbing subjects and teaching that doesn't actually teach. Texting is the symptom, not the disease.

Actually there is plenty of evidence that texting and social media offer a similar kick as several other addictions like smoking, etc. it's akin to blaming teenage smoking on boring classes. Further, the teenage mind is susceptible to getting easily bored and to addiction.
If you'd like to know canonical programming style, you should read the code in Julia Base. Learning how to write good Julia is somewhat difficult because the language occupies an unfamiliar position between traditional static languages and traditional dynamic languages.

Can you provide some concrete examples of the functionality you're looking for? What exactly does "quick-and-dirty" code look like to you?
Cool idea. Tried Crimson and Sage but didn't see results
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That issue is largely resolved in 0.4. Some functions are still a little slow, but most packages will now load much more quickly.
Julia 0.4, already in the RC phase, has precompilation thanks to Jameson Nash's work. It has been enabled for several packages, and gives sub-second load times.
3d printing and VR.
This can be very useful. I wonder what the plans are for supporting C apis, given that a lot of Python core libraries depend on C, in my neck of the woods numpy and scipy being the first contenders. There are long running projects http://www.jython.org and http://www.jyni.org, which, to the best of my knowledge, have not yet managed to fully support Python C extensions on the JVM.
I am sympathetic to this author. I wrote this a while back on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9883769

I am nostalgic for the land before internet. While there are many technological divides and revolutions between generations, not sure many in history compare to the dramatic change to global society and behavior as a result of the internet, and by its extension, the mobile era.
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> Even if you rent you are still paying the property tax implicitly via higher rents.

There's a conundrum here where higher property tax rate decreases the rental's attractiveness to potential landlords purely by biting into the cashflow, which then creates a negative impact on the property price and the base it's taxed at.

US states with higher property tax rates (typically those with low or no income tax rates) do not generally have higher rents, and countries with higher property taxes (Germany) do not typically have significantly higher rents than their counterparts https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/why-your-rent-is-so-high-a...
The inversion of 0/1 for true/false is common in good C APIs. 0 as true and 1 as false makes a lot of sense from a perspective of error handling. 0 means everything's okay, while nonzero means it isn't. Various forms of nonzero can then represent different kinds of fail. Variations on this theme are common enough in programming that the inversion is reasonable, and it does no harm in the simple boolean case.

The architecture is no more esoteric than Unix, C, C++, or a submicron-scale polished turd like HTML5+CSS+JavaScript+React+JSX+NodeJS or most other "stacks."

It's just unfamiliar because it's new, and that's okay, because it is not making any pretensions about not being new or about being a baby-step hack on top of our existing heap of hacks. If you're going to try to reinvent the OS and the platform, then go full Yoda and do or do not.
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Good point. It's a good thing that rewriting a commercial tool to adapt it to your needs is so free.
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This is why you should always be careful about black-box devices that you connect to the internet. It's convenient but extremely risky.

I just discovered that AstroBox runs their web service as root!
Did people start reading newspapers in the middle of conversations with others? I don't think the analogy entirely holds.
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Gravitational waves contain (are?) energy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bead_argument

Since they contain energy, they in turn have mass, and a gravitational field of their own.

Which is quite an interesting implication, because since they travel at the speed of light, they can't slow down when interacting with mass, instead they must do some sort of "blue shift".

It also means that when the waves are bent by traveling near a large mass, those waves emit daughter waves of their own.

And one part of the gravitational wave is attracted by another part of it.

I suspect that a combination of those processes adds so much noise that there is no detectable signal left.
> Frankly, it's hard to see how you can come out of this alive.

If you can't see how VW will going to come out of this alive, then I'd stay away from prognosticating. Also: clean off your glasses.
Not a Go fan, but yeah in that case there is actually something interesting about the whole thing. Now it just does something that we already saw before.
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i agree, albeit by that rationale you'd better get a Rafale - its the same kind of plane as the F35, minus a few nice features but much cheaper. Which is exactly why the only nations getting an F35 are US allies not making their own aircrafts. others either:

-make their own (Eurofighters, SU35S, PAK, etc.)

-get get older planes (F15s in particular)

-French Rafales.
Reminds me of 'traceroute xmas.futile.net'
Agreed, I like to see simple fun stuff on here as well. It's just that this is not interesting anymore (to me at least) because others already did it. I'd rather like to see a repost of the old, informative article instead of a new implementation of the same thing. Worse, the new thing doesn't even explain how it was done or contain any information I might be interested in.
The term is usually used by people that don't know what compilers are.

Snark aside, I think this is actually the case. I bet there are a LOT of CoffeeScript/Javascript developers who have never worked in a compiled language.
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I like this one http://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/
Only comment here that gets my like.
Oh yeah, I remember stumbling across the Language Construction Kit years and years ago. What sticks with me is that all the language stuff on his site was fascinating, and then I looked at the rest of his site and it turned out he was more or less batshit insane. I guess maybe that's not unusual for someone super-dedicated to a hobby.
It punishes living in today's homes at today's prices. Downsizing to a smaller abode or choosing between owning vs renting in a retirement community is part of retirement planning.
Correct, and these discussions have been happening forever and are always the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9683971.
The Ribbon backfire is pretty well known, but fuzzy search is completely orthogonal to "legacy" UX. You don't need to remove or change anything to give access to a real-time filter of all the menu "namespace".
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10286068 and marked it off-topic.
CPUs grok numbers. This would be inefficient.
That's one reason, but it doesn't need to be new. Articles from 1998 are fine by me if they're interesting. It's more that someone did something, someone else copies it years later (I guess after everyone has forgotten it) and then it's a hype as big as if Windows 11 was announced to become web-based. The old implementer at least explained how to technically do it, this bad.horse thing doesn't give me anything interesting.
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Why can't the immediately compelling be something that you have been focusing on for years?
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A link to Gowers' blog post from 17 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10197152

There wasn't much discussion, just 5 comments.
In addition to advertising and the engineering required around that Twitter has many data product offerings and has recently pivoted to end simple data products to partners (such as selling direct access to the firehose) to more complicated data analysis product offerings (consider the purchase of Gnip last year). Lots of engineering required around building these products.
I read some years ago about a social dating app in Japan that matched users and when encountered in the wild (or was it the metro ?) the app would trigger some kind of msg or interaction to incite users to get to know each other (based on their dating profile). It used bluetooth.
> Why should we talk if you don't have something more interesting to say than my phone?

I don't think that valuing relationships by how useful they are to you "right at this moment" is a very good way to go about life.
"And why do kids text so much at school? Because they are bored to death by mind-numbing subjects and teaching that doesn't actually teach. Texting is the symptom, not the disease."

You seem to have missed a main theme of the article, which was in first paragraph: "Now they use it when they want to be both with their friends and, as some put it, 'elsewhere.'"
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Can we please stop comparing any activity that our brain learns to enjoy to drug usage by saying that some neurotransmitter is involved?

I'm sure one could just as easily say that getting the mail is like other addictions, because I chronically get excited at the thought of my latest online order arriving.