skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an Indian restaurant near my home and a bookshop - I really like both of them but I've been going there less and less. The restaurant added more tables, so during the buffet, it is impossible to walk 10 steps to your table. People give death stares, spill food etc. The bookshop added more shelves with books and now only one person can walk between shelves instead of two. What used to be a pleasant experience has now turned into an annoying one at both places. Result is I get my books from Amazon.

This might be a trivial and stupid example, but when everything is optimized for revenues and profits it really is demoralizing.
Pick your poison, locked down deps that you constantly change the x.x.1 version of, or the potential for the situation you describe.

That actually isn't supposed to happen, because semver means don't do anything breaking in a patch release (or a minor release). Not that the system works perfectly, of course.
Steve Hsu giving a talk @ Google on the topic, with myriad citations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62jZENi1ed8

Four studies cited on this handy chart:

https://jaymans.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/iq-heritability-...

It's very well-established science that you could have easily googled, but downvoting unpopular research, pointing and shrieking "eugenics!" is a better argumentation technique, I suppose.
The actual requirements start on page 8. Here's my summary:

> First, law enforcement officers must make reasonable efforts to minimize the capture of signals emitted from cell phones used by people other than the target of the investigation. [...] Moreover, law enforcement officers must not use a cell-site simulator when, because of the location and time, an inordinate number of innocent third parties’ information will be collected.

> Second, law enforcement officers must immediately destroy all data other than the data identifying the cell phone used by the target. The destruction must occur within forty-eight hours after the data is captured. [...] Additionally, the destruction must be evidenced by a verification provided to the Court with the return of the warrant.

> Third, law enforcement officers are prohibited from using any data acquired beyond that necessary to determine the cell phone information of the target.
>The free-market is the most effective way to distribute resources in an environment

What happens when a child would rather work for food now than go to school and improve future income potential? Government ensuring that children have food and can't work so that they will focus on increasing future earning potential results in a better society than one where there is no government intervention, and thus some number of children have to work now instead of focusing on future earning potential, meaning that throughout their lifetime they will contribute less to society than they could have.

This is one example where pure capitalism is not the most effective.
moxie marlinspike wrote a really good editorial to this point awhile back http://www.wired.com/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-hide-is-t...
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In case anyone is interested, I broke down the posts on HN by TLD in a blog post a couple months ago: http://blog.park.io/articles/hacker-news-posts-by-domain-tld...
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It's kinda weird seeing all the pull requests in the bugfix list.

Like, it's good to share progress, but it's sad to see it on a proprietary platform.
The name of the place didn't change, but that's not what the article said. The article said that the city was formerly known as "Peking." The same could be said of Mumbai, which was formerly known as "Bombay" but alway referred to as Mumbai by the Speakers of Marathi and Gujarati [0]. The purpose of this statement is to make readers, who may be familiar with both terms, understand that they are the same place, despite having two different names. And I think it's safe to say that a person unfamiliar with the origin of the name would count Peking and Bejing as two different names, since western speakers pronounce them differently. I think saying the spelling changed and not the name itself would be confusing to readers.

[0]http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
Thanks. I initially thought it was Valgrind.
Yeah, that's the problem with the article... it's just as biased as the people they're lambasting. Not to say that the parapsychologists have any results that stand up.
It also reminds me of incidents like http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3106555&cid=41288357

In fact, one of the reason I dislike anti-discrimination laws are because enforcement using things like statistical analysis was really only designed for unskilled labor and the like.
You speak as if he's playing any role in that money doing useful work. He's not, he's sipping drinks by the pool, while millions are doing all the actual work. He just happens to have his name written on the paper. That money would do the same work no matter what the name is - or indeed, without any name on the label. That's what differentiates someone doing useful work (e.g. Elon Musk) from all the fancy-drink-sippers no matter what their names are.

Beyond a certain limit, ownership is bullshit. It's really stewardship, but it's forgotten its true limits and purpose.

When you're touching so many people and resources, you're a steward, not an owner, period. What's lacking now is a mechanism for the bad stewards to undergo corrective action.
And the other 50% of woodworkers worth watching https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel
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On the contrary, the article is all about promoting formal methods and in particular Adacore's tools. I agree that including Tetris in the title (like the previous article did) could attract more people.
If unsweetened iced tea were already prepared and in pitchers in my office, I'd drink that all day instead of soda. It's me having to spend time preparing it that insures I don't end up drinking it that often compared to soda.
Its not sarcasm.

I come from a formerly socialist economy(India). Central planning is a scheme to create bullshit jobs which don't have to exist at the first place. This distract funds and human resources from other competing higher priority work.

Every thing is state planned starting from detergent to air planes. All services are mediocre and everything is in a state of stagnation and slow decay.
> It seems by default it's less strict than paredi

Yes, but there is a strict mode you can turn on. Personally, I use the default with a couple binds that make it a bit more strict, which actually make it very pleasant to use, such as:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-<backspace>") 'sp-backward-kill-word)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-d") 'sp-kill-word)

And these in modes derived from `prog-mode`:

(local-set-key (kbd "<backspace>") 'sp-backward-delete-char)
(local-set-key (kbd "C-d") 'sp-delete-char)
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Marking my calendar!
> it's going in a trajectory that will settle into a shitty local minimum

It's very hard to find evidence to support this point of view. You might hypothesize some future change in trajectory sure. But looking at the current trajectory? Pretty hard.
Reminds me of this[0] talk by Guy Steele where he explicitly defines any word outside of a given set before he can use that term in his speech. Interesting language exercise, definitely worth a watch!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0&feature=youtu.be
I agree that this study is probably 99.9999% wrong, but ...

Were is the mistake? Do someone have access to the original paper and can explain the experimental flaws?

First I thought that 4 pairs of subjects was too low, but with this experiment I'll be surprised to get successful 1 pair that can be tested by independent experts in high controlled situations (i.e. Randi)

They say that they tested with 6 EM patterns. If they used more than 6 (for example 20) it's easy to get a p<0.05 result and filter most of the unsuccessful patterns. https://xkcd.com/882/

Did they repeat the experiment? (I think so.) Did they get the successful result every time for the 4 pairs or after using the average?

Was it a double blind experiment?

Without the original paper is difficult to know.
www.unrealtournament.com ALPHA is looking for community development support if anyone's interested in getting started.

UT4 is very polished for an Alpha state.

Forum: https://forums.unrealtournament.com/forum.php

IRC: http://webchat.globalgamers.net/?channels=UnrealTournament,U...
Interestingly, the assassination of Dollfuss caused Mussolini to almost go to war with Nazi Germany. One might wonder what would have happened if tensions remained such that Italy stayed out of the Axis and the war in Europe...

"Hitler will create an army, Hitler will arm the Germans and make war- possibly even in two or three years. I cannot stand up to him alone. We must do something and we must do something quickly." - Mussolini, 1934
Conlon Nancarrow, who was mentioned at the beginning of the article, challenged those limitations pretty hard. In his home studio, he had two player pianos physically synced, and the felt hammer heads replaced with steel hammers. There was sometimes so little paper left on the rolls that they would shred and jam while playing.

Despite the busy approach, though, Nancarrow's music tends to be joyous and delightful. It reminds me much of Duke Ellington's orchestral compositions.
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What you can't learn by failing
Haskell-native spreadsheets
1991 is just yesterday to me.
All of the claims of ARM vs x86 performance are based on Geekbench and Javascript benchmarks. This seems woefully thin data to make real comparisons, especially against platforms with active cooling.

1. How does an A9x fare with long endurance workloads? Bursty benchmarks are one thing, but what's performance like after 30 minutes of active use? None of the A9x benchmarks do any kind of battery rundown throttle tests.

2. How does A9x fare with large workloads? Loading up small streaming kernels into the CPU is one thing, but what about workloads that lean more heavily on the cache, memory architecture, and branch prediction units?
Kickstarter wouldn't be here without the 'monoculture'.

In 2011, they've raised 10 million dollars. They should thank the Fed and abundance of capital.
I don’t understand this. To the extent that parapsychology studies are well designed, the scientific community should be open minded enough to try to reproduce the results.
Maybe it's "agile" but certainly not "Agile".

You seem to have a total misunderstanding of how Agile methods work in practice. Not saying that Scrum is great but the points you are raising make no sense in this context.
Nature Climate Change recently published [1] a comparison of the language in the IPCC climate change executive summary versus the seminal scientific papers by Einstein and Hawking. Einstein and Hawking's writings are significantly easier to read. (Easy to read doesn't imply easy to understand, but it doesn't hurt either.)
[1] http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nc...
Yeah, it appears they did remove it from the front page manually.
No trick left unused.
Carl Sagan wrote a design doc for a video game based on his work
Especially since a huge portion of those apps were malware of various kinds (why does a flashlight app need permissions for your location and address book?). I see Google finally adding a flashlight to the base Android as mostly an anti-malware mitigation measure, more than an actual feature addition.
You could have made the same invalid argument for Apple and Microsoft over the past 3 decades. If you're trying to make a living from a little app that could be "Sherlocked" you don't have much of a business model.
There was a previous discussion here on HN that covered this in depth. You may find it interesting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9784008

In short, top-voted strategies include:

- Try to find out "hotspots" in code using some scripting (e.g. https://github.com/gilesbowkett/rewind). According to user tessierashpool on the last thread:

> we tend to view files in a list, but in reality, some files are very central, some files are out on the periphery and only interact with a few other files

So, finding out where most things happen in the project is a good way to get up to speed.

- "Deep-diving": starting from a high-level point (say, the moment you type ssh-keygen on your terminal), go down the subroutine rabbit hole. You're likely to cover a lot of ground this way.

But really, read the previous discussion, many many great strategies shared - many of which I already used before reading that discussion and some I've incorporated since.
Holy shit that is gorgeous. It's like the song is its own visualizer when played back this way. Those rotating rainbows...
I wonder whether people these days don't receive a definition and education about "capitalism" akin to that I which I and my contemporaries received -- average though it may have been and dim as it is in my mind, these many years later.

"Capitalism" emphasizes (take this as a principle, or principal -- regardless of truth) the primacy of capital in production -- and, by extension, ownership. Labor, et al. are not capital. Land, factories, machinery: Those are capital.

What happens when capitalism becomes unmitigated and ownership concentrated? Only those who have the capital, can produce. And the more capital they control, the more production they control -- the more power they have.

And for some, that power, and being at the pinnacle of the hierarchy, are more important than the absolute progress of the community.

(Understand, too, that this is not simply some cartoon-esque "power for power's sake" quest. It leads, overall, to better life, greater health, and better outcomes for one's offspring and friends.)

There are many people with much potential and many good ideas, who are not allowed the resources with which to pursue them.

This is where that community needs to curtail unbridled capitalism.

(The "rising tide that lifts all boats" may lead to a better collective outcome. To greater absolute progress. But also, perhaps, to less control, advantage, and security at the top.)

And this is why you never want all of your resources, production, and knowledge to reside under the control of a single authority, nor anything overly approaching such.

We aren't all equivalent (i.e. the same, as opposed to some qualitative assessment of "equal"). And we do enhance our abilities by forming organized structures. But no absolute hierarchy has demonstrated the ability to maximize potential -- neither in us nor in biology.
No doubt that big ships turn slower, but this rule also applies to small groups and even individuals. If you aren't brushing your teeth as often as you'd like, "try harder" will not help. You need to re-architecture your space and habits. If a lot of sales leads aren't being followed up on, "try harder" will not help. You need to change the systems and processes that the sales team is using. Those changes can be much faster.
> "that's not an option, period".

That is the answer we get from customers. Dev machines are managed by their IT.

My preferences are the customer preferences.
I was working with a vendor from Austria for the last two weeks and he said sometimes people arrive there by mistake instead of Australia.
ESR's takedown of Linus in 2000 is a recapitulation of this.

http://www.vanadac.com/~dajhorn/novelties/ESR%20-%20Curse%20...
Because the null hypotheses are supported by our current understanding of physics, which has a ton of evidence for. Our prior for this type of study should not be not "50/50", but rather "all of physics so far vs this guys".
I live in Austria, and I hear this line time and again. It has not faded at all.
I've subscribed to IPO notifications in E-Trade and they usually invite me to participate in some unknown IPOs. They've never sent me any invite to participate in any high profile IPO, which to me means whatever they send could not find enough interest. Couple of days ago I received E-Trade email telling me I can participate in Square's IPO. Putting this together and the fact that you got the invite as well, I suspect they are having trouble filling up IPO as there is just not enough interest from high profile investors. Clear sign to stay away.
I thought I had it figured out like you described until the cycles were no longer evenly divisible into 12.

From my (naive) point of view, the rule looked like when n=1 there are twelve evenly spaced bags around the table, when n=2 there are piles of two bags evenly spaced around the table, n=3 three bags evenly spaced, and so on but then you get to n=5. You can't put 12 bags into 5 even piles.

That's when the whole example broke down for me.

If I had to guess (keeping in mind I'm remarkably dense), I'm fixating too much on the piles. Maybe I'm supposed to be looking at superimposed circles.

It might be less confusing to think about them unrolled into a line. When n=1, I have a line twelve months long and I put the bags evenly spaced along that line. Wrapping that line into a circle shows twelve evenly spaced bags.

When n=2, I have a line 24 months long. Putting the bags evenly spaced along those 24 months, and then wrapping that line into a twice-looped circle would put the bags into piles of two.

At n=5 the line is 60 months long. The bags are evenly spaced along that line and the line is wrapped into five circles, putting the bags into a wonky sort of arrangement, but that's just how it goes.

I think that's what I'm looking at. Hard to tell without a marker and some yarn.
That exact screen is available to anyone.

Unfortunately, I think they've tailored it for larger users and it does little to sway newcomers or even regulars with modest audiences.
While making life-long friends growing up is great, there are many problems and inconveniences caused by sharing your living space with other people.

Hence nowadays when people have a choice, most choose to live in their own apartment as opposed to share with others.
They said they only allow echo and reply, not drop them.
Considering it is is 30-300x slower as its nearest competitors, ram is your smallest problem ;-)

(see http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html)

Note that sadly, decompression is equally as slow, so it doesn't even make a lot of sense for something that is "compress once, distribute billions of times".
Marc Andreessen sells nearly half his Facebook stake
Good thing risk-free interest rates are 0%.
Android has over 80% market share. I think you have it backwards. Google has the near monopoly.
Oh, yeah, I worked at a startup at the same time whose founders were super brilliant technical people. We went to go see the movie when it came out (we'd all left the company by that point IIRC), and we recognized a lot of common experiences with what we saw on the screen.

I don't know about Groupon. Group buys have been very successful in China but I have the sense that Groupon has institutionally evaded the accountability to its product buyers that is required to make a group buy into a net-positive interaction, let alone a win-win.

(Amusing sidenote: in Groupon's heyday I met a US spy (who of course didn't admit she was a spy) here in Argentina whose cover story was that she was coming here to open up a local presence for a more exclusive Groupon-like company called Theliste, which turned out not to exist. We had a good time at dinner talking about Arabic grammar and morphology, which she had been studying at a language school in Monterey, California; her boyfriend and my wife were unfortunately a bit left behind by the conversation.)

Pumping money around can contribute and create value — consider Bitcoin, where the question is not whether Bitcoin creates value, which it clearly does, but rather whether its potential to destroy civilization (through prediction markets and tax evasion) is more or less significant than the value that it creates.

Also, there are plenty of great successes that are outright scams. The British East India Company, for example, or the Congo Free State, or the police department of Ferguson, MO, or Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, or the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, or the divine right of kings, or the sale of indulgences. Heck, we could even include those guys who robbed me on the train a couple years back.
Do you guys not use pip, and stuff? I'm surprised by all the confusion on this point. Package managers are part of modern programming platforms. Repos only need to have your code, not everyone else's.
Based on the rut that most poor people in developed countries are stuck in.
This is such awesome news!!! It was the sole reason I last jailbroke my phone.

They're even letting people install it from source so you get it before it gets on the app store: https://justgetflux.com/sideload/
Maybe he meant that the building itself and the land it was on, rather than the business of the branch, was the asset.
What I don't get about this argument (and others similar to it) is that the US seems to have a pretty good turnover of money. According to Forbes' billionaires list, "[f]ully 1,191 members of the list are self-made billionaires, while just 230 inherited their wealth"[1]. The top 3 richest people on the planet at this point made their money themselves, and 2 of them (Gates & Buffett) are not going to pass their wealth down the family tree.

We're less than 100 years from one of the richest people of all time, JD Rockefeller (net worth ~$300+bn). His family is essentially dedicated to giving that money away at this point, and I believe the family's net worth at this point is in the $15bn range--not peanuts, but hardly growing.

Money doesn't last, but there are always rich people. Paris Hilton, trust fund baby, has made more money from her own businesses than she'd ever inherit from her grandfather. Same with Julia Louis-Dreyfus. But after a couple of generations, the old money is usually gone. As much as people like to complain about "the rich", there really aren't as many generationally-rich people as some make it seem.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2015/03/02/inside-th...
Any specifics on why the gp's quote was misguided?
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The TPP is a big, complex thing, and I could see being opposed to it despite being in favor, generally, of globalization.
Depending on the dialect spoken, the phonetic translation is going to be different. For example, my dialect pronounces the city name as "Buck Gen" (hard g).

From Wikipedia:

An older English spelling, Peking, is the postal romanization of the same two characters as they are pronounced in Chinese dialects spoken in the southern port towns first visited by European traders and missionaries. Those dialects preserve the Middle Chinese pronunciation of 京 as kjaeng, prior to a phonetic shift in the northern dialects to the modern pronunciation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing
Is there a particular reason you would bet against it, or do you just saying that you wouldn't would bet for any implementation without proven theoretical properties?

(As an aside, it's probably just my lack of familiarity, but considering how simple the algorithm is I find the syntax surprisingly hard to follow. Is this modern C++?)
I really appreciate the work of Peter Follansbee, who makes reproductions of 17th-century oak furniture, spoons and bowls with hand woodworking tools https://pfollansbee.wordpress.com/
Hate to say it, but this is what patent protection was intended to be for.