skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fact: IRC doen't persist chat messages on the server, so to view old messages you need to install a bot that provides you with the last n messages... and you have to manually query the bot for them. No thanks. Have you people heard of this thing called "mobile"? Spotty connections are the new normal. Having the last N messages autoloaded when I view a channel is a necessity.
His complex, Two Nine North, likely chose the lowest bidder
68K, actually, and MIPS. Different platforms, same damned OS bugs. Let's hear it for portability :-)
There is no reason to use a binary web format if your only concern is fast web loading...
I have merely presented a core ethic of mine. If you want to delve into the particulars (I certainly don't in this thread), then I'd suggest reading other works by the OP. Answering your questions from my perspective would require introducing and applying concepts such as "ownership" and "property." (Although, others may not consider these necessary.) These words are so heavily overloaded that it's useless trying to use them in an online discussion forum.

I note that most of the questions you have raised are a result of my simplistic formulation. Consider, for example, that I handed you the US constitution and said, "this is the law, use it." It is also a simplistic formulation, with respect to the body of law in the US today. Many of the questions you raised in your comment would be good questions to raise in this case too. The practice of this Constitution (or "ethic" in my case) will, in the process, answer lots of questions. I don't see any reason why this process doesn't apply in my case either.

If all else fails, look to the current system in the US (or most other Western countries) for answers to your questions. With respect to case law, it's a reasonable approximation to my ethic.
Both. Apple is infamous for its anemic marketing budgets; e.g.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/04/apples-advertising-budget...
The one constant thing about science over the history of science is that almost all science has been disproven over time. So the odds that current science is correct are almost nil. Science.
That's true. Is there a value to refusing to do work, even though it might not be able to stop something from being built in spite of it?

If you know, a priori, refusing to work on something you consider to be unethical will have /zero/ effect on the overall project, but negatively affect you, is it then ethical to do the work, or are you required to fall on your sword?
Up to 1.2gbps and up to a 100km link.
I don't think you can get both.
According to the paper, the parameters fit on one GPU (or at least that one GPU was able to train the model). It was just too slow, so they trained on 8 GPUs in parallel. But those GPUs were still on the same machine (one node, multiple GPUs).
Same way you aim a Satellite dish to a satellite that's at least 35,000 km away.
Don't you think there is quite some gentrification driving the social dynamics in Berlin? It is at least so here in Stockholm.

But anyway, I totally agree, the suburban dense architecture fails because there is no social cohesion at all and the anonymity is total. Also, a lot of people with anti-social behaviour lives there...

Some personal anectodes, but I think they are telling something about our cities:

Now I live in a small house in a nice (low density) area where I know everyone by name.

When I lived in the city, I did recognize a few. One neighbour eventually died because of heroin - but this was considered a very nice area. The man was really nice and polite, or apologetic rather, when I tried to help him.

When I lived in a cheep flat in a suburb, I didn't even knew my neighbour in the flat next to mine. A man was stabbed to death outside my house the second evening after I moved in. The drug users were not polite at all... I tried to help no one.

Some interesting reading is Phil Zimmerman and "The Lucifer effect." It has a chapter or so regarding this.
> ...the point I am trying to make is that the Homejoy team was exceptionally talented and did amazing things...

> Homejoy was led by two software engineers. Both wildly talented humans...

> Homejoy and ‘fail’ have gotten tethered together in the tech headlines recently but for myself and many of my colleagues Homejoy will always be more synonymous with success than failure.

The entire post describes a litany of horrible business decisions and mistakes that are hard to reconcile with the author's compliments of the Homejoy team.
Here are some arguments from the guys who did something like this before for Oberon: ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/cis700/public_html/papers/Franz97b.pdf

To summarize:

1. Much smaller representation, which will mean faster download times
2. More control-flow structure retained, which means less needs to be rebuilt by JIT-compilers.
3. As a corollary of #2, we get easier and more helpful 'decompiling' of code blobs
4. Another corollary of #2: easier analysis for safety properties
It will play 2-3 in a row without any user interaction, but if you haven't taken any action in a while it'll stop and give a modal "Continue Playing?" message
Those who don't know why regulations were created are doomed to reintroduce them.
I'm not sure what you're expecting here because all the BBC could do is fire him. And I don't see what the problem is with any other company hiring him because he's actually worth it. The guy led the way for the biggest show on the BBC and that's no small feat. He still has all his skills, experience and following.

I think what you're looking for is criminal charges for his actions but it looks like the other guy didn't choose to file them nor did any prosecutor so that's that.
No more so than any other science. Difference being that in nutrition you're playing with people's health, so the examples stick out.
Well, you add the google docs integration, or the dropbox integration, or the box integration, or use the Zapier integration to tie things together.

Slack isn't a file sharing platform, it's a communication platform. As such, they try to make communicating about, discovery and grouping of files in dedicated file sharing platforms easier.
> it seems you want to take a snapshot of private property ownership /now/ and claim that it is right and just

I don't actually. I don't see anything black & white about property. Instead, I view it as a means to attempt to resolve conflict over scarce resources peacefully. I do not believe this requires moral authority or coercive government.

I mean, the presence of coercive government doesn't really resolve any of your criticisms either. Where does it get the moral authority to apply coercion come from? 51% of the population? Why does 51% of the population have a moral authority over the other 49%?

I'll say this to re-emphasize the message I'm trying to convey: I really don't care much at all about property or ownership. Sure, I do believe they are useful constructs to reason about interaction between actors in society, but its particular formulation isn't a sticking point to me. What I care about is: are you trying to justify coercion? If so, then it isn't OK with me. If you have some means of satisfying your "moral authority" without the use of coercion, then great! Let's do it.
> Passion is what you can't not do ...

That's the thing I've never understood about following your passion. If you "can't not do" it, once people figure that out they will stop paying you, secure in the knowledge that you will keep doing it anyway.

Perhaps the secret to wealth is that your passion has to be money?
Walking from San Francisco to Yosemite in the footsteps of John Muir (2006)
> Ukraine is a temporary state with no history

Not to follow along with propaganda, but how much of an independent history Ukraine have in these new borders in last 1000 years? Specifically around Crimea and so called People's Republics.
This study shows that the aggregate causes of sea level rise may be different from what we had guessed. However, it remains an amply demonstrated fact that global temperatures and sea levels are rising, even as the Antarctic ice sheet continues to grow.

Why do you think that the former is a good reason to ignore the latter?
> How do some developers fail to rise up to this level of problem solving?

It does seem to solve the problem of how to set up a channel log in IRC but I sort of find this quite a narrow redefinition of the problem. The problem could also be:

* What is the best technology to use for collaboration?

* What kind of software and tooling is in line with our project philosophy.

I don't find either this comment, nor the one it is in reply to something that can be applied more generally. This is, at best, solving a problem that is a component of a much more expansive problem.
> as near as I can tell he's a sociopathic asshole [...] the completely worthless piece of shit that he absolutely appears to be

We've banned this account for egregiously breaking the HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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This epitomizes the arrogance and drowning self-absorbedness of Bay Area startups. And it does it in a Medium post.

And wow, there are some real gems in this post. For example:

"Customer interactions happen inside of their homes (anything that went wrong was grossly amplified)"

What did you expect? THIS IS WHAT YOU WERE SELLING.

"Client expectations vary wildly"

Yup, different people like different things. News at 11.

"High cleaner turn-over when product quality demands consistency"

What did you expect? Any warm body off the street can be trusted to go in some stranger's home?

"I could go on, but the point I am trying to make is that the Homejoy team was exceptionally talented and did amazing things given how punishing the industry was."

Oh I'm sorry. What you were trying to do was hard. That's because you were doing it wrong in the first place.

"To be fair legal constraints did throw a wrench into some of our plans."

For serious? To be fair? Fair to whom?

"Given what I’ve taken away from Homejoy I don’t look at it like a failure. I think there’s a morbid curiosity about what went wrong with a failed startup."

I don't give two shits about your failed startup. You failed for patently obvious reasons. You trivialized the problem which, for a company founded by so-called two engineers, is the ultimate sin of engineering.

"Homejoy will always be more synonymous with success than failure."

Delusions of grandeur.
The ANGLE shader compiler used in most WebGL implementations already does enforce that loops terminate. The problem is that GPUs don't / didn't have HW interrupts to allow switching between tasks.

It's not easily solvable by a super-powered compiler either. Sure, you could write your own compute-driven preemptive graphics pipeline and break execution after every X billion simulated instructions & random memory accesses. You'd have to do reanalysis on every frame too, due to changing shader inputs.

The computation done is roughly (number of vertices * vertex shader compute time) + (number of pixels falling under the vertex primitives * fragment shader compute time). The shader compute times are the sums of instruction execution times + data fetch times. Then take into account early exits, data access patterns and cache sizes (otherwise the compiler'll think that e.g. a simple greyscaling fragment shader is going to cause a random memory access for every pixel and take forever to run, causing the compiler to spread the shader execution across multiple frames and kill performance dead.)
I wholeheartedly disagree with this article...

I firmly believe that if you're passionate at something, it's extremely easy to become extremely knowledgeable and/or highly skilled at it to a point that it's valuable to the world. Then it's just a case of applying your ingenuity to figuring out how to make your passion relevant. Once you make it relevant in today's ever changing market, it's then just a case of positioning it effectively to make it profitable.

I refuse to believe otherwise... every passion is worth something and makes a difference. If it didn't, then why are we genetically predisposed to them? What would be the purpose in this? Why aren't we all just worker bees, all genetically predisposed to doing the same few tasks?

Of course, the article is just one person's opinion and I suppose in many ways as relevant and valid as my own...
Oh, I knew you liked the arcane stuff: it's why I replied. :) Real mode I don't have as much on but segments are powerful in right hands. Even on Atom, they do in 2 cycles what paging isolation takes 8 to do. Called "descriptors" in capability book I referenced so definitely check that out or the dedicated chapter on descriptor architectures. The high-assurance GEMSOS kernel used segments when ported to Intel 286:

http://aesec.com/eval/NCSC-FER-94-008.pdf

Note: Mainly see design, layering, and assurance activities.

The most modern use of them is CHERI processor and CheriBSD at Cambridge.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-864.pdf

Note: Paper references quite a few past uses of them in detail.

A great, modern example in software is Code Pointer Integrity (see 2014 paper link):

http://dslab.epfl.ch/proj/cpi/

So, there you go for tonight. Have fun. :)
The Ludwig von Mises institute is certainly not apolitical by any stretch.
Looks like more propaganda from the "Austrian Economists" (you know, those people who eschew data and prefer philosophy as an economic model.) This report decides to classify all spending which is "incentivized" by the tax code as a social expenditure - kind of crazy unless you are looking for some way to justify crazy theories. At least they admit that the US is actually quite low on spending if you ignore their biased definition of "social expenditures".
Finally catching up to Firefox 1.5, eh? :) https://brendaneich.com/2005/09/python-for-xul-scripting/
Please make sure your loops converge. I read and modified this paragraph 3,984 times and then crashed.
As usual, I'm (not) surprised by the downvotes but no real exposition here. What's the collective freakout over what Slack is going to do? So the features and user experience aren't worth it? Why isn't everyone on IRC then?

If some basic programming chat about an open source project isn't safe then we should all throw away our phones and turn off the internet immediately, but I don't see that happening. This is basically bikeshedding on how to run open source projects.
The interesting thing about AirBnB is by going down the unregulated hotel route is it opens up an opportunity for competitors to come in offering a real home sharing experience.
Why was this downvoted? I found this quite informative.
Oh, it was a sidelong comment on the use of business jargon like “incentivize,” when a perfectly good word like “encourage” already exists.
Is vimscript translated to lua or is that still WIP?
After a few (3?) episodes, Apple TV pauses the stream and asks if you are still watching.
Even if you're writing fully managed code you should still fuzz. It can help find logic errors in the code which can cause erroneous program states or crashes.

The fact that the code is managed helps prevent against some nasty exploits, but it doesn't necessarily mean the code always does what the programmer intended.
Well, then, there you go. AirBnB are profiting by violating law.

Good, bad, or otherwise, the owner/dealer distinction clarifies this. Eventually the site simply becomes one-stop shopping for atty's g'l intent on enforcement.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Civil Procedure (2011)
That's a really misleading conference talk title. Nothing is really mentioned about ruby and the first 20 minutes is a general intro to NN.

Not saying it's a bad talk, just probably mislabeled.
> "The core illusion: that there is a magic job out there that's right for you"

This is where it falls down for me... jobs are by design a cog in an existing machine where you either fit or you don't... or can make yourself fit for a while, but if you don't fit perfectly, it wears you down, emotionally, physically, mentally etc.

The funny thing about passion is that invariably, there is no magic job, because if you're passionate about something, you're probably not cut out for a J.O.B., you probably want to be carving your own niche...

So the illusion isn't that there's no magic job, it's that you're falling into this industrial revolution way of thinking that someone else needs to provide you with the job instead of you making your own job.
A binary format can help tremendously with fast web loading:

1. Code size can be significantly smaller, reducing download time (even with gzip; tests show a 30% win).

2. Parse times for a binary format can be much faster than for code as text, by a very large margin.
Nobody is claiming that climate change is "completely wrong".

On the other hand, the claim that rising CO2 levels are responsible for a majority of the changes in the earth's temperature could be "completely wrong".

... and in what sense is "the sun is the center of the universe" not completely wrong?
Using Topological Data Analysis to Solve Complex Problems (2013) [video]
Apparently Slack has become the new BitKeeper!
If the measure is moral rectitude, how is Firefox a "fuzzy memory", while Chrome isn't despite Google being "basically Skynet"?

Your whole line of argument is confusing.
If that were true, we don't cities enforce this? I hear occasionally about issues with private (individual) tenants violating their leases, or conflicting with local hotel laws, but I never hear about purposeful crack downs on multi-listing power AirBnB users.
This definitely is true. If the other party had the same information they would have sold or bought at a different price point. (or maybe not at all+) That has to be because that's the attraction of insider trading, I know something that will cause you to misprice the trade in a way that benefits the insider trader.

+ Consider the person trading in insider information, namely that Cogswell's Cosmic Cogs has agreed to buy Spacely Space Sprockets at $12/share. Someone with stock in Spacely Space Sprockets would likely chose not to sell at the current market rate of $9.25/share if they knew that.
So your trying to say this thing does a better job?
Unless they want someone to do the passionate thing more and better in which case they will support you - the Patreon / fanbase model.

Or the passion is limited unique items (artworks) in which case they will buy it - if you become popular and supply is limited this can be self reinforcing like fine-art as investment.

Or they want the passionate person to work for them, so Google hire a passionate programmer so they can patent their work - knowing that the passionate programmer will improve in their off-time.

Or game companies who hire the young and passionate as they know they are invested in the end product and are less likely to bail if times are tough or they get a better offer (this can be exploitative and is closer to what you suggested).

Quite often things that become valuable are because people perceive qualities such as passion as 'honesty' in art and work this has value.

If people perceive someone is just in it for the money then they may less inclined to invest in their development as they could stop at any time and somehow the end-product seems less honest, a passionate person will do the best they possible can, some-one in it for the money will do just enough to get paid (hyperbole but it can be a perception).

True passion can be a very valuable quality - but it can also as you suggest be a crippling impediment to success, some are too passionate and unwilling to compromise so die poor ( e.g. Vincent van Gogh).
There's a tracking bug here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=752264

Current status seems to be working on packaging of dependencies first, since some of neovim's dependencies are either missing or out of date in Debian. A few of them have since been done (unibilium and libtermkey are now in Debian, libuv is updated), but a few are still in progress.
You confuse "can't not doing it" with "can't not doing it for you"...

There's many things that make me who I am, things I can't not do, but if you're not going to pay me to do them, I will do them for myself and sell them to someone who will pay for them, or I will go do those things for someone who will pay for them.

I don't disagree with the secret to wealth being (or at least partly being) money though... those that don't care about the money are more likely not to be destined to have more than they need to provide what is important to them.
As laudable as the goal of improving performance is, I hope this never takes off. Why? Because it will take about 5 minutes from 90% of the web to go from open, transparent, easily reverse engineerable source code to essentially giant blobs of secret binary code. People will pay lip service to performance but 99% of the reason that web sites will implement this will be to cover up their code, keep secret their implementation techniques and technologies, hide poor code and poor security.

I honestly think that one of the key ingredients to the success of the web is that just about any web page you can see, just about anyone with modest knowledge can trivially work out how it was done. It is only an accident of history that it worked out that way. But the effect has been to spread knowledge far and wide and it has greatly contributed to the success of web technologies. Furthermore, I can easily look at the source code for my bank web site or any web site I want to trust and get a good idea of how solid their implementation is. Yes I can't inspect the back end, but a whole slice of front-end security issues are easy for me to check for myself. This kind of scrutiny will get a good bit harder if web assembly becomes adopted.