skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire metric system is broken top to bottom.

Wobbleblob wrote about the joy of learning, I feel the same, although I get my fix listening to audiobook lectures for the last quarter century or so. A lot of people like wobbleblob and I write about the joy of consuming quality educational resources. Nobody writes about the joy of assignments and exams. If you think its unusually rare that I'm listening to a university lecture series about Russian Literature on my commutes right now, imagine how even rarer it is to find someone who enjoys writing exams about Russian Literature. You might get a hundred thousand people like me to sign up for the good parts, the lectures. Good luck getting a thousand of us who are really bored to jump thru the hoops.

That's the fundamental problem with the MOOC market now, the metrics for success are things the consumers don't care about. I enjoyed the Scala class videos from a couple years ago, learned a little too. Unfortunately the metrics for success on the corporate side are meaningless such as how many signed up, how many jumped thru all the hoops in the limited amount of time, and the ratio of the above. Until the consumer goals and the corporate metric goals align, if ever, there will be endless hand wringing articles about how awful the metric results are and why won't the consumers cooperate?

There is an even worse problem in that a good class sabotages its own metrics. If my lecture series is any good at all, if its motivational, inspirational, exciting, when I'm done listening I'm going to read some Dostoevsky, not fill out some boring quiz or write an exam essay so someone can get a good metric result and I can get ... nothing?
The original web 1.0 where each state had an url and was rendered sequentially from scratch was actually arguably much better than the stateful event-driven UI mess we have now.

Moving from raw native ui frameworks very similar to todays js UI libs to HTML pages was a big paradigm shift, but was IMO better for most standard apps.

I've been thinking for a long time that it would be a good idea to build a client-side library where each state has an URL. Essentially just take the classic backend view rendering technique and move it to the client. Could work out really well I think. Event-driven techniques can then be reserved for really interactive apps like games.
IQ tests are somewhat ridiculous to begin with. The first tests that eventually became IQ tests were not intended to measure intelligence. They were intended to measure school readiness of rural children whose birthdates were often not known with certainty. The lack of clear birthdates meant an age cut off could not be used and rural children faced cultural differences from kids in the big city (namely: Paris) that created inherent challenges to them fitting in and doing well in school.

Intelligence is neither well defined nor well understood. It is fairly controversial stuff.
UX is not design. The fonts, colors, and silly features like emoji are gravy.

UX includes the cold experience. If you sign up with just one user, Slack creates a couple rooms and has a bot talk to you.

UX includes history management. Slack makes everything searchable and is good enough that most people can find what they want.

UX includes ways to level up your proficiency with the tool. Slack doesn't force integrations, defaults to 1-click OAuth integrations, and lets you explore writing code to integrate, without getting in your way before you're ready.

I don't think it's perfect, but having recently switched from Hipchat and hated on IRC-for-companies for years, they've done a lot of things right.
Interestingly, FreeBSD is well along in resolving remaining issues such that nosh can supplant the init/rc.d tools in use for ~15 years. See [0].

Haven't yet learned about nosh in detail. It does appear to be well thought out, and obviously it's been around for quite a while reaching some state of maturity. While I've not noticed particular difficulties with the current init system in FBSD, my system is relatively straightforward. I can see how dependency complications can arise in complex situations.

Given the notorious controversy over systemd, it's curious that at least some Linux distributions haven't adopted nosh as an alternative to systemd. Perhaps such distributions exist, though if so not well publicized.

[0] https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.h...
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For even more smallessnes I'd use a CHIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx1uTWF7qRA (watch the video, just for the team groovy spirit)
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The revenue was lost.
Look at legal web sites. There is a specific vocabulary.
The language you are using is from what I call "Mcadonalds Journalism" sites who have a vested interest in vilifying anyone who infringes. By politicising the language, these sites use emotive language to sway your views.
I'm sure these are articles on this. It's similar to yellow journalism.
I have one too. Been thinking I should power it back on now winter is coming.
This sounds to me as an overestimatation of populism as a political force against against defenders of vested inteterests and capital.

Political institutions can and do decay but not all of them so this is not a general rule. As an example, Britain, Sweden, Switzerland have quite old governmemts and they are among the most prosperous countries in the world. When speaking of redistribution of wealth sweden has taken it as far as it can in economic terms and they seem to be going strong ahead - it seems they balance social and business needs quite well.
In the short term, as someone running without Google Play Sevices, I'm curious to see whether this just gave me access to the functionality of TextSecure again or broke RedPhone.

Regardless of which, I'm optimistic about the long term support for my own use, and I think the unification is going to be good to help the program spreading. Now for the people who don't really get the point of protecting our privacy but are just going along anyway I'll be getting calls and messaging for one round of persuasion. Much rejoicing.

Thank you Open Whisper Systems!
> it's not exactly a good choice for embedded systems.

I don't develop embedded systems, but systemd is actually popular in that space because of its watchdog capabilities and its inclusion in projects like GenIVI and Tizen.

More detail is in this post from an embedded systems developer here:
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoroni...
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It sounds like you've had specific bad experiences with systemd, would you mind sharing what they were? A lot of the criticisms I've seen of it were philosophical and many hadn't actually ever used it, so I'm curious to hear some practical complaints. Personally, I've been using it for a while and it's been pretty good to me, so it is interesting to hear from people who have been less fortunate.

I've also used SMF a bit and thought it was pretty decent.
This is an excellent post, and I'm in agreement. I particularly like the counterintuitive point that if NO unicorns go bust in the next 2 years, that's more indicative of the existence of a tech bubble than if one or two do go bust [1]. That's contrary to the inevitable media portrayal: I expect that the first unicorn to blow up will be heralded as the harbinger of end times.

What I would like is for Sam to expand on what he thinks are some of the pitfalls of this new debt-like financing world. For instance, in the old equity-only world, it was well known that you could "never do a down round". This is because down rounds distort incentives to the point where the company might as well be dead. I suspect[2] that one downside of this "debt-like" world is that there are "implicit nonzero interest rates"[3] on all these debt deals. In the old equity-only world, having a flat valuation was bad but not a disaster. Only the down round was a disaster. I wonder if in this new debt-like world, the expectations have risen. In this world, even rising valuations could misalign incentives. I also wonder what those implied interest rates are at.

[1]: Since NO unicorns going bust means that capital is far too accessible, when statistically you'd expect at least a couple unicorns to fail.

[2]: I would prefer more expert input because I have low confidence in my suspicions.

[3]: I put that in quotes because it's somewhat an abuse of terminology.
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This is exactly the counter-argument that Jordan & co constantly have to battle.

"I've never had this problem!"

Networking: not what I said

Cron: Cron is terrible. Paul Vixie says so himself. Get over it. (everyone, not directed at you)

Config files: you're inferring the wrong thing

HUP: I shouldn't have to HUP a process to make it learn new things. It should be able to learn them automatically by listening for an event.

Please, take a listen of exactly the scenarios Jordan lays out in the latest BSDNow podcast. It makes sense. If we want to be able to build really cool reliable non-kludgey things in the future we need these kinds of features.

If your Unix is a server that never moves or changes this is going to sound uninteresting and overkill. But I want the future to allow us to be able to do really awesome stuff. I envision being able to live migrate servers from my basement to Amazon to Vultr to Digital Ocean and not have a single process puke because of changes (network interfaces, IPs, hostnames, etc)
Buy AOSA and Amnesty International gets a rather large cut
Nope, just contemporaneous memory, and by then I'd learned a lot about manufacturing by working at LMI, so it was something I paid attention to. Try e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+cray+injection+molding... which got me these two top hits:

ftp://ftp.cray.com/announcements/product/OLD/Moldflow_Partnership.930408.txt

http://www.clock.org/~fair/computers/sgi-cray.html

The latter should be authoritative, Eric Fair was an Apple sysadmin in the '80s or thereabouts (and son of the Fair in Fair Issac, the inventors of credit scoring).

And there were quite a few more links I didn't check out.
This is the business model of the company that put out the $1m bounty on the remote iOS 9.1 and 9.2b jailbreak:

Bekrar and Zerodium, as well as its predecessor VUPEN, have a different business model. They offer higher rewards than what tech companies usually pay out, and keep the vulnerabilities secret, revealing them only to certain government customers, such as the NSA.

Can anyone explain why iOS jailbreaking info would be worth more than $1m to the NSA? Also, isn't it weird that we are funding the government's ability to jailbreak iPhones? It's like a double slap in the face.

I would imagine that Apple would be willing to pay at least $5m (~0.000025% of cash reserves) in order to buy the exploit and patch it in order to protect their image as one of the last "good guys" in the fight against government surveillance creep.
Apple is not a friend and never was. They're just creating an illusion of a relationship because that is what the market seems to want and so that is how they make money.

Thinking a company can be a friend is no less wrong than thinking a prostitute (as in: someone you actively pay for sex) can be your romantic partner. You're paying for a fake relationship and both parties should be conscious of that. If you think it's real, feelings will get hurt -- or worse (just ask a sex worker about creepy patrons who mistake them for friends just because they paid for sex).

EDIT: Actually it's worse. At least prostitutes actually are real people (well duh) and have a real identity outside their job allowing them to have an actual relationship with someone. Corporations don't even have that.
Is it really open source in spirit if message auth relies on a hosted, closed source, proprietary application like github?
I was thinking that observing properties could be useful for hooking on to changes to some internal state that a third party library maintains, but doesn't provide a callback for (for instance, for persistence and/or synchronization).

Is there a more idiomatic way to work around this in JS other than Object.observe if you don't want to resort to dirty checking or patching the library to provide a callback?
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Well, the community here basically discussed the topic in detail 2 days before, when Gavin announced the 1.2 release[0].

Now, on why things are the way they are currently, here are a couple of reasons.

- so far, the ceylon team focused their efforts on the language itself and less on the available platforms, and that's why there are no clear getting staring guides for basically anything: web, android, etc.

- the language itself has a very distinct feel: from the way you publish your api (using the shared annotation), to the way union types affect the language (new way of handling errors, etc) to the way you use iterables {String*} instead of lists. These are all great features, but until you get the hang of it, they feel different. For me, this is just a problem of documentation.

- There is a very strange misconception, for lack of a better word, that just because JetBrains is building a great kotlin IDE, the ceylon IDE is somehow lacking. Which is not true at all. The eclipse plugin works great, and they'll also have an Intelij plugin soon.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10463464
Reading this made me consider the possibility that people with anti-government sensibilities have intentionally gotten themselves into critical government roles and employed these, or similar, techniques. The procedural productivity killers seem like they would be extremely effective, and easily passed off as incompetence or a simple proclivity for bureaucracy.

Wouldn't it be interesting if the slow moving, budget draining, enthusiasm killing bureaucrat were really a subtle and effective anarchist?
I looked around and found a nice writeup on Kotlin:

https://medium.com/@octskyward/why-kotlin-is-my-next-program...
Strange that CBS is going to be putting this only on streaming (CBS All Access). I'm not sure if that's a brilliant bet on the future or a foolhardy miscalculation.
It's a hard requirement of the next FreeNAS/TrueNAS release. So it's going to exist in production on many machines.

We need competition and I urge him to continue but this dismissive attitude is not healthy.
Is there a way to bank user data to measure progress of users / trends / etc? This data would be great to weed through.
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> Directly talking to the notify socket is not considered using systemd internals.

Then -according to digi_owl's report- it sounds like the documentation for the signalling lib should be fixed.
Resharper: https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ that should do the job; and if you need both, well that's part of the reason for the licensing change.
Realistically Slack's market share of the "IM technologies used by teams" world isn't that high anyway. I'm willing to bet that they remain well behind IRC even in their own market.

All of this is a response mostly to buzz. Slack looks great, and is absolutely popular. So we (the open source community) want something "equivalently buzzworthy" while forgetting that we are, in fact, the entrenched monopoly already.

I'm not losing much sleep, nor will I be retiring my IRC client or pastebin links any time soon.
Exactly it. I don't have time to manage an IRC server. I don't have time to help people figure out IRC when they first join the team. I also don't want to waste time on something that adds zero value to the products we're building. I use Slack for the same reason I own a dishwasher. I could hand wash dishes and it might even be slightly better, but then I'm spending time washing dishes rather than using the time for higher value activities.

This rubbish about people worrying about Slack having access to your internal communications is just that -- rubbish. It's paranoid nonsense. The last thing anyone at Slack wants to do is read through 80 million lines of emojis and notifications and some private conversation about adding a counter cache to the Products table.
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other thread fell off the frontpage already? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492824
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What does libdispatch have to do with nosh or launchd? libdispatch is already in FreeBSD, are you saying it'd be removed if they switched to nosh?
You're not entitled to speak to a large audience. And I'm not saying to completely ban political donations. I'm saying to severely limit them. Let every citizen donate $500/year to political causes, no more.

The budgeting problems of campaigns are not my concern. The ability of a few wealthy elites to completely dominate the political conversation simply by having more money, and therefore more speech, is.
Here's the split of votes per country: http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-follow-up-to-the-european-p...
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You'd be lucky to find 1 in 1,000 to donate money out of kindness, even if you published an entire book on the Web and continued writing on matters of interest.

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"No one seems to fervently believe tech valuations are cheap, so it’d be somewhat surprising if we were in a bubble."

Is this a typo?

s/cheap/expensive/ would make more sense, no?
Reading those comments, it strikes me that this could be read more as well crafted general anti-bureaucracy propaganda aimed at your own populace rather than actual agitation for sabotage.

Or maybe it's a twofer.
Produced by Alex Kurtzman who was also the producer of Michael Bay's Transformers , Star Trek remakes which are basically the lowest common denominator action movies, and Scorpion the series about incredibly incorrect portrayal of hacking and hackers.

This is going to be action schlock, a series like TNG will never be made again.

I don't want too sound too depressing, just letting you know to adjust your expectations.
Clearly it's the fault of those pesky engineers again, how else could you explain the same type of cheating across multiple divisions of the company. They only other explanation would involve Management, and obviously that's not it.

Though the fact that none of the other manufacturers spoke up about the violation of emissions standards when when they must have done their own tests to see how VW managed to get emissions so low, seems to point to the fact they they were all doing it to some degree. Perhaps not as brazenly as VW, but still no one wants to rock the boat they are in.
but there was revenue stolen.

1.) If the item is being given away for free, there can still be infringement.

2.) If a person would never purchase an item at the available price (due to the law of supply and demand for example), that person might still infringe. No revenue was lost or gained since the transaction would never have completed at the existing price.

In either of those cases, no revenue was "stolen", but infringement still occurred. These are some of the many reasons that stealing isn't a good way to describe copyright infringement.