skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just wanted to say thanks for the thoughtful reply and taking time to sketch out your views comprehensively.

Your comment left the why part of my question a little ambiguous, but I'm assuming from your response that it's a combination of because everyone else is doing it, the US sort of has to in order to remain competitive because everyone else is doing it, because it's not prohibited, and because it's not in the public interest (assuming you mean US public's interest here).

I wanted to apologize for mincing your words a bit upthread - this comment makes more clear the distinctions you draw around misconduct, "legitimate" / de facto practices, and what's in the public interest.

Thanks again!
Because brick has become affordable for the common man and building techniques value speed? The average person building a house in 1915 would have a house built with wood siding because brick would have been out of his price range, even with the slave labor wages and lack of sufficient building regulations.
> a lot of academic CS celebrities seem to be active there
Would you mind sharing the list? I might start using Twitter to follow those people.
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Famous never should have been funded. Not because of lack of talent on the team, but because it's an inherently unprofitable idea. The responsibility of knowing that should fall on the team, not the investors. I think it was disingenuous to seek funding for this idea. GitTip or another OSS funding model would have been far more appropriate. A cross platform animation library should not have paid employees, and was an unfortunate choice for investors. (They burned 30 MILLION working on an open source animation library?!). It sounds like a few dozen people were lucky enough to get Bay Area salaries to meander around a broken idea. I don't think an investor would have the technical experience to realize the technology both would not work well, not solve the right problems, and not be marketable. They fired a dozen people? How many more are left?! Anything built by the remaining team should not be done under the Famous brand. It was disingenuous of the founder to pitch it as a fundable, profitable idea and use techno-speak to wow investors for something that many developers in the industry could see right through.
Firefox specific. about:config -> javascript.enable -> "false". Refresh. Reset to "true".
No mention of graphics programming or signal processing? High level syntax just gets in the way when you're trying to pack six pixels into two registers just right. Assembly language is still pretty much the right tool for the job.
If you attenuate digitally you bit shift things out. If you have data in a 16bit (-32k..32k) stream and set a low volume in software before you send it, then it will scale the samples to (say) -8k..8k which is basically now a 14bit stream.

With a 24bit stream you can easily give up a few bits without losing dynamic range.
Are there any filesystems that support empty names? If not, clearly the second is correct.
I think you might misunderstand my comments. I don't think you and I disagree much.

You seem to be reading a lot into my comment and the grandparent's, I'm not sure what agenda you might suppose we have. I don't intend to point out the (sure, we can call it superficial) use of # to denote a topic to decry Twitter in any way or glorify IRC. It's pretty devoid of any kind of emotional investment.

I'm not saying Twitter really owes anything to IRC, or that IRC is somehow a superior Twitter or even resembles it at all, nor do I think the grandparent did. I'm not saying that # denoting a topic is very profound.

I'm not saying that existing open/distributed/standard services that exist are obviously superior to the closed/centralized/proprietary ones that exist (in most cases it's pretty obviously not true).

Nor did I even espouse the opinion in this thread that given two theoretical services which are equal but that one is open/distributed/standardized and the other is closed/centralized/proprietary that the former is superior (that was the grandparent). That said, I do hold that opinion for reasons I feel are pretty self-evident. If we all communicate on fragmented channels that are owned by people with interests other than facilitating our communication, we aren't in very good hands, we miss out on lots of opportunities to communicate (there are friends I've fallen out of touch with because I've lost track of which instant messaging protocol they are most likely to respond on, I think most of us have some of these).

Communication apps and protocols and services backed by commercial interests will of course have better invested in user experience. Admittedly, user experience is a higher priority of mine than openness, so I use Slack and Hangouts and Skype like anyone. I'm not going to judge anyone for their choices here. I'm just not going to ignore the fact that in making that choice, I'm giving up something.
See http://www.salon.com/2013/11/11/vanity_fair_editor_is_a_loon...
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I think one thing is buildings are now are built closer to their required engineering tolerances. In the past many building were massively over engineered, while modern buildings seem to be built for their exact expected lifespan.

The one thing I really hate about most modern buildings here in Australia is the ceiling height has been reduced. A lot of modern buildings have ceiling heights around 7’ while old buildings will have ceilings of 10’ to 12’.
No, I would not agree. Guess I'll have to write the book in a year and a half.

/be
Forward vs. Deferred vs. Forward+ Rendering with DirectX 11
Where is the tl;dr version? I really am beginning to lose my appreciation and patience for this padded editorial stuff.
Except its much worse... it has always been so, you're just becoming aware of it.

You really need to bone up on your history...

http://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-people...

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]
"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/...
Most physicists have not read the Principia. But the contents of it have been deeply ingrained in every physics curriculum in the world.

When work truly is foundational, it actually becomes the foundation of curriculums, and it's not necessary to read the original to learn its material. It is perhaps interesting, or even enlightening, but not necessary.
Definitely not by an economist. Statements like

> Economics is divided into many schools, in turn leaning neoclassical, heterodox or other

are a pretty big tipoff because

1: non "heterodox" economists do not care enough about heterodox economics to mention it as a "school."

2: "heterodox" economists almost certainly don't think that "more formal math, like mainstream economics" is a good recommendation for any field.

(I am an economist, don't agree with the article.)
I would imagine that well-built buildings are not evenly distributed; well-off individuals and businesses, who could presumably therefore afford to build nice buildings, would likely congregate near each other.
Ad hominem with a smiley doesn't make you less of an asshole ;)

> A hashtag is a way of grouping messages together

Like IRC channels.

> not a discrete conversational area with its own topic, access rules, and administrators.

And?

> Can I reply back to an RSS feed? No? Then I guess that's not identical either.

I never made any such claim.

> Can I access usenet without clunky, ancient software?

Uh. Yes? That's the beauty of RSS, IRC, and Usenet. You get choice in the clients that you use.

140 character limits and SMS aren't clunky and ancient?? Really???? The article even mentions the torture of posting links. Such modern software, that crumbles under the mighty URL.

> Is it mobile friendly at all?

Of course Usenet is "mobile friendly". You fetch news when you have internet and can read it off-line at your leisure. If anything, it's the most "mobile friendly" protocol in existence.
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It's not called the dismal science for nothing.
TIL. I had no idea Caviar was a product of Square.
"This is why using more bits does not mean you can "reproduce music with a bigger dynamic range" - not without turning the volume up, anyway. What actually happens is that the maximum possible volume of a playback system stays the same, but quieter sounds are reproduced with more or less accuracy."

You are slightly confused. (It may help to remember that a decibel always refers to a ratio, so the setting of your volume knob is not important.) Greater bit depth does allow for greater dynamic range, this stems directly from the definition of dynamic range. 16-bit audio has a theoretical dynamic range of:

10 * log10 (2^16)^2 ~ 96dB

24-bit audio has a theoretical dynamic range of:

10 * log10 (2^24)^2 ~ 144dB

For reference, a quiet recording room has a noise floor of ~40dB SPL and the loudest amplified music rarely exceeds 115dB SPL. This gives a dynamic range of 75db, which indicates that a well-recorded 16-bit master should be more than adequate.

The idea that having bits in excess of this amount will somehow result in the perception of a smoother or more accurate sound is fallacious. Even at maximum playback volume, this information will exist well below the noise floor and will simply not be perceived. In fact, this information will likely exist well below the noise floor of the recording studio and thus, in some sense, will not even be recorded.
In general I agree, but my own experiences (mostly with FreeRADIUS) show that sometimes a very "direct" maintainer can scare away most of the nagging riff-raff that this article describes. An inclusive community is great, but it seems like some companies might see that as an opportunity to take advantage of the project.
Innovating in a World of Patent Lawsuits
Generally agree, but "theories ... have mathematical proofs behind them" doesn't distinguish computer science from economics. And I think you'd be surprised at the level of mathematical sophistication of a lot of econ. (This is usually not cited as a selling point in critiques of economics, btw.)
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Perfecto Is a Marketplace for Bikes That Are Not Stolen
The glitch was also an anomoly to the nasdaq system as the typical ipo behavior was usually to buy up shares.

Rather in FB's case, there was a flood of order cancellations (in response to the news) entering the system that would reset the ipo book, preventing the ipo from going off.
China to Green-Light IPOs Again by Year End
lets try to snoop around!

http://justcapital.com/ uses the same privacy policy (word for word)

edit: Their webmail is chinese, makes Apple quite unlikely http://webmail.faradayfuture.com/

edit2: faradayfuture.net was also registered at the same time and has a different whois (still cloaked, but more chinese)
Unrelated question I've been wondering about for a while now: I read a lot of "Unix-ist" writings growing up, and one constant target of hate was VAX/VMS—comparing it, usually, to something like an overwrought 747 cockpit where everything is automated and shiny and nobody can really understand what's going on underneath.

Given that even Linux is now used in HPC scenarios, are the "true mainframe" OSes really still so different, either in architecture or in average sysadmin experience? Or did the microcomputer OSes effectively converge to have all the same features?
Wouldn't you expect brick for ornamental purposes to look prettier than brick used for functional purposes?
US officials fine leaking classified surveillance info when fits their narrative
I thought that single bit flips was all that ecc memory protected against [1].

It is not flip errors per say that causes kernel panics (it is not going to cause any problems if a section of unallocated memory has a bit flip), but the probability of an uncorrected bit flip in a critical memory location. I am certainly willing to be corrected, but if don’t see how increasing the amount of non-critical memory increases the chance of a kernel panic.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory
> I try out servo EVERY day

Cool, thanks for helping out! I hope you're helping them by reporting bugs when you find them.

> it will take a long time until this will be stable

Sure, it's a WIP. That's to be expected. Expecting otherwise is unrealistic.

> It's not ACID1, ACID2, ACID3 compliant

https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2014/04/17/another-big-mil...

> and JavaScript feature's

Maybe DOM bindings, but Servo ships with bindings to SpiderMonkey, the JS VM used in Gecko, so all of the Language JavaScript should be there.

> I just think that it should have more people so that the Innovation could be faster

Check out the top story on proggit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3rqqvu/mozilla...
Perhaps the Snowden leaks prevented Sauron from reclaiming the One Ring. There's no evidence for that theory, either.

So, all we have to go on is "Trust us! And don't verify!" - from people who lie through their teeth at congressional hearings.
Hence "rule of law" being such an essential challenge/opportunity facing so much of the developing world.
Thanks for the info.
I went through their FAQ:
How does Flutter run my code on Android?
they say JIT there while in IOS says AOT.
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Why can't I downvote posts? This is a baseless attack on programmers. He just claims that we can't reason. Its obviously bullshit (colorful language intended and warranted).

I personally think economics may not be a science at all, since it is mainly based on models with very little physical evidence to back them up. Which I would hesitate to make a statement like that, or a rant with many of them, because obviously it is unfair and offensive to economists.
Agreed. I am puzzled not so much by its popularity, but by the claims that it is some kind of revolutionary change, and especially that companies are willing to pay that much per user in order to put their data into someone else's vault. I've been using HipChat for quite a while, and don't see what more Slack provides. I've recently been trying out Ryver and like it better than Slack.

But if I'm going to pay for something, it's going to be an app designed for project management. Basecamp costs less than the cheapest 5-user Slack plan. You can have an email conversation (others don't even need a login and don't have to know anything about Basecamp) and it is automatically included as part of the conversation.
The straightforward headline would be "Security flaw in commons-collection deserialization". The anti-java snark really isn't welcome.
> I've also never demanded this. It would be nice, but it never happens

Perhaps you should start asking then.
This is quite frightening considering how people try to set government policies based on them.
The FBI would be recording and I would have access to those recordings. Miranda right #1 I believe.
I laughed that you have MySQL under growth marketing.
Clearly you are using an inferior low-flush toilet. I have a 1.2 gallon model (American Standard Champion 4) that has never once failed to work in a single flush, and a _lot_ of toilets fail me. Including the monstrously high-volume ones they have in the British Isles.
> Race is deeply ingrained in their world view in a way that would anger PC-conscious Americans.

What's worse is that it's not even only about race. There's Japanese prejudice towards occupations (anything related to death, meat prep, and so on) and even about places where people are born and where they live
Yes, kazinator replied to a post that happened to have NSURL but he made a very generalized sounding piece of advice: "Typing strings to solve bugs is the epitome of an anti-pattern."

It is not unreasonable to interpret that sentence as some kind of "universal" advice. If he meant it in specific circumstances, he might have said, "solve that kind of bug" instead of "solve bugs". (It's not even clear if kazinator felt that NSURL is a bad example of string-but-not-really-a-string. NSURL is an object with well-defined structure and not a pure string. It therefore doesn't fit the criticism of the Alan Perlis epigram)

If I went off on a tangent, then I felt the door was opened by kazinator's (seemingly) universal statement which expanded the scope of discussion. Whether kazinator meant it universally is irrelevant because that's how I read it and that point in time is long gone. All my subsequent replies flowed from that (mis)interpretation. In any case, writing universal replies to posts with specific examples is not uncommon on HN or any forum for that matter. It's typical ebb & flow of discussions.

Lastly, I looked at your history of posts and you're just a generally argumentative type of communicator. The mods have asked people to read posts with a charitable interpretation but you don't seem to follow that spirit. I'm fine with debate but I'll ignore your posts with needless hostility. Regards,
Do a google search for site:https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.hipchat.com/ , Atlassian does the same thing, and hasn't really addressed customer questions about it for a long time. https://help.hipchat.com/forums/138883-suggestions-ideas/sug... is a long running Atlassian support ticket for this.
Not really sure why investors shouldn't be expected to be able to do due diligence on the startups they invest in.
Hover doesn't work on mobile, so I'm not surprised it's disappearing.

One trend I miss is the textured, paper-like backgrounds. It seems like they were everywhere a few years ago, and then they disappeared. I think Stripe had a background like that until just recently, and I thought of them as one of the last hold-outs.
Economics is mostly microeconomics. The stuff you read in the newspapers is not what most economists do. And of course most people who aren't economists, or don't know economists, think that economics is little more than astrology.
Honest curiosity: which exceptions make it hard to use the ISDS against the US government?
If I write the software for those devices in ASM, do/can they still look through it?

Is there some kind of formal engineering practice they require manufacturers to adhere to?

How are their staff qualified to read the vast variety of languages out there?

I cite these as immediate, obvious roadblocks to verification, regulation, because they're easy and many PLs are something that the vast majority of the software industry are not used to.
I'd just like to say thanks for saying what I wanted to say better than I would have done myself.
It stills screws everyone who is dumb enough to buy at the IPO price and the general public who is dumb enough to believe its real. They paid the Aug 2013 price to get Facebook in 2012.
>Spare us the bootlick.

Wrong assumption. Never worked or met Garry. Now if you follow his posts and interactions, you will understand the messages above..
Been travelling for half of my lifetime here.
Kyoto, and most places in Japan are hella clean.
One that shocked me the most was Manhattan and how dirty it was.
As the other response said, this isn't really a propaganda piece. Unless you are reallllly overanalyzing it, which it seems you are. Based on your comment it seems like your own beliefs and opinions were also hard at work projecting themselves on the intentions of the author. Maybe income inequality pieces are appealing so some populist yearning of the middle and lower class. But it is also frustrating because your comment seems to be linked with some underlying belief that socialism is an inherently bad thing. Which, IMO, belongs on a facebook thread of the uneducated and unthoughtful.
> Perhaps it's time that software grew up and became something closer to a real engineering discipline?

Filled with red tape, inaccessibility, limitations?

No thanks. I think we've done a very decent job of self-regulation, licensure and review have fared well for most* life-threatening software systems.
Tangent: I wish more (any?) high-level languages were capable of expressing self-modifying code safely. A lot of values are variable at compile time but constant within a significant block of computation at runtime. If compilers were designed to emit self-modifying code, they could propagate constants through the block and replace register/register instructions with register/immediate instructions, freeing up registers for other variables. This is the promise of JIT compilers but in practice the popular jit-compiled languages have too many other performance issues to be popular for serious CPU-bound work. Plus the jitter has to do a lot of analysis at runtime. It would be cool if you could mark a block of C code with `#pragma jit`, making the compiler emit a binary that contains some compiler IR and a peephole optimizer to make the code as tight as possible given the conditions at runtime.
NuScale Power, sorry (mobile typo). UPower are making a reactor but some sources have incorrectly called it a battery. There are no laws in the U.S. (or any nation I'm aware of) that make small reactors or nuclear batteries illegal. My only argument so far is "Nothing about nuclear fission requires startup capital to be large", which is trivially true.
> "With the rarest of exceptions, there is no "survivorship bias"."

A lot of UK housing built circa 1900 - 1930 was not well built at all; Building regulations as such hardly existed and there was a lot of trial and error. Buildings did indeed fall down.
That's structural brick covered in stucco, which was pretty common in American cities in the 18th and 19th centuries. You see it a lot in areas with low-quality clay, since the resulting brick is porous and brittle, necessitating a stucco covering to protect it from the elements and not look awful. It might not be poor construction, just ugly because it's not intended to ever be seen. Of course, by design the stucco needs to be replaced every few decades, so who knows if it's been kept up.

That contrasts with the article's 1891 example of a building where the brickwork was both structural and decorative, requiring maximum attention to detail.
And I could just as easily say that it's typical to focus on later sources and ignore the fact that there are earlier ones :) The Codex is just everything gathered together: the items gathered were much older.