skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if this (and other things like it) is just a product of human beings being very prone to ideological influence/groupthink and the internet providing an effective medium to transfer that?

Consider a publication with 2m+ hits per month on their website that posts about how outrageous it is that people "Never Wonder Why Tampons Aren’t in Men’s Restrooms"[1]
and the crowd cheers. The question I wonder is "How did these people get where they are now, to be outraged by this?", and I think the answer is incremental internet influence.

[1] http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/11/common-examples-cissexis...
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It uses android 4.4 instead of 5.x or 6.0

that's too bad :(
Does Apple deliberately slow its old models before a new release?
> I think the theory the article puts forward is that the cost of advertising has been bid up by venture-backed advertising companies.

I don't think that's the path the money takes. The path the money takes is that maybe some venture backed companies buy advertising to advertise their products. If that capital dries up then that particular segment will diminish but it will certainly not cause the industry to implode (though it definitely has challenges to deal with all its own).
I've been running ad campaigns for about 10 years. The market seems to have done a fairly good job of balancing out inventory costs. If a publishers hammers their audience with ads they lose them. In the short term, people throw up their hands, but eventually those users move to greener pastures. There is a damn good reason the most dominant parties in advertising - Google and Facebook - have the tiniest, and most targeted, ads.

There has yet to be a point at any time in the past decade where I said, this doesn't work, and shut all of the ad campaigns off. There definitely are issues that exist. There is a problem with mobile app ad quality. There definitely are bot traffic problems. The ad exchanges will be pretty brutal on inexperienced advertisers, but this was the case pre-exchange too. One "bubble" point is I suspect many of the adtech companies involved in exchange inventory may fine themselves on the line for the bot traffic. It will be enough to wipe out the investor equity. This follows based on class actions Google, Yahoo, and others have had to settle in the past and Google especially has always been aggressive about this stuff (although less so in the past two years.)

I read the original blog post and the writer doesn't seem to make a very good case outside of things that happen in normal capitalism. Lots of middle men, tools, and supply chains attempting to add value along with investors dumping in a ton of money in an attempt to gain some return -- possibly more than they will ever get back out. Sounds like a healthy marketplace to me. Some ideas are terrible, some are good, some are amazing but will never return their investment. That is ok.

The bigger problem is for small publishers and likely medium sized ones too. Ad inventory and the users online has ballooned many times over over the past decade. It also is a problem for traditional media companies like radio stations, newspapers, and television channels. I don't need to extrapolate on that one.

Advertisers need to be sophisticated. They had to in the past too but few had access to tools that told them they sucked. I'm not sure that is any more extraordinary than asking a commodity traders purchasing cocoa beans to know what they are looking at and know how to be sure that is really what shows up at port.
Is it locked to a prepaid carrier? If so, then it's probably being sold at under cost.
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> The huge touchscreen is pretty cool

When I saw one last year, I laughed my ass off (and dinted my head against the too damn low ceiling – are the back seats made for dwarfs?). Whatever they're running on it, the UX is woefully outdated and looks like our one-week demos made in 2011.

Not really an improvement over other car manufacturers, IMO.
Is there any way to handle message histories that survive the XMPP server (ejabberd) being restarted?

At the moment all the MUC room histories vanish if I need to restart ejabberd which is a farce in a cloud world...

And message carbons work, but since ejabberd only seems to support a single auth token meaning that if users connect with multiple devices they can't actually log out of only a single one without pulling the plug on all connected devices.

Are these only ejabberd issues or issues in the XMPP specs?

BTW this is for realtime chat on for an app, nothing federated... I'm open to non-XMPP options too.
Yeah it's like when Dawking wrote the Selfish Gene. He spend some time talking about that the genes weren't in fact selfish it was just that they acted as if they were.
There's this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection_microwave , but I'd rather stick to flavoring my food in some way other than generating a bunch of carcinogens like acrylamide.
I second that, especially for the bonus point part. You'll need note anyway, one day or an other, and writing them on the wiki/knowledge/whatever of the team rather than on a sheet of paper, will also permit you to have some double check from your team members, which may clarify even more your comprehension of the subject.
I've seen this movie before. In the seventies I had a birds eye view here in Michigan as the Big 3 totally missed the Asian threat.

Now the same smug group makes jokes about Tesla (and Apple) and when it rises up to smite them they will be caught totally unaware. This time a trade embargo won't allow them to regroup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
Is that 10 dollars as in 10 dollars, or 10 dollars plus a 2-years contract for phone and data that sums up to something like 500 dollars (as it is with the iPhone)?

Obviously in the latter case the money is made on the contract, not on the phone.
"Advertising is very bad and unsustainable and it's going to bring about the end of the universe because of evil venture capitalists. Is this what you want? No! So if you want to save your soul, you can repent now and start using sustainable, ad-free services. Like mine. Only $11/yr."
What exactly do you mean by that? I'm really curious.
How can the 99th percentile latency be lower than the 90th? That must be a mistake or the result of multiple test runs?
I have problem with this study because it assumes CO2 and green house gases are the only form of pollution.
Surely the API Response Time for the 99th percentile should be larger than that of the 90th?

Percentile	API Response Time	Scheduling Delay
50th	150ms	230ms
90th	250ms	400ms
99th	200ms	400ms
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Coca-Cola makes art that is pleasing to the eye and valuable in its own right. For example, I own a classic Coke machine and think it's quite a beauty. This is commonplace with Coca-Cola equipment and marketing stuff. And who doesn't love the little Santa bottles they make for the holidays?
So Web Components become the C of the MVC triad, with invisible RPC over the network to Escher for the MV running in Julia? I really like that idea, particularly if the RPC protocol falls back gracefully from WebSocket to long-polling to polling.

Do you know of anything using Escher for public web-facing applications yet?
It's a TracFone so you pay by the minute - no contract.
The best selling car in America is the Ford F-series pickup truck. I can't wait to see competing trucks from Tesla and Apple.
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Well jezebel declared someone that read during Donal Trump rally a hero for the act of reading. I guess hero is not an extremely hard to obtain status nowadays.
My everyday purchasing decisions are mostly driven by opening my cupboard and checking if there is enough muesli left for the next three days. I haven't seen advertising inside my cupboard yet but any day now...
It would be interesting to see an analysis of the models inferred by this method, to see what kinds of approximations they're learning.
> Is there a non-political reason that someone should choose Java over Clojure (or possibly Scala)? Where does Java shine?

If you are stuck with a group of developers who have no interest in learning anything new and wish to use Java until they retire then Java is the only choice. Other than no new learning required I can't think of many reasons to pick Java as a first choice. Java tends to be popular because it's the oldest, most familiar default for the JVM rather than any particular strength.
I know you're probably thinking "Dailymail, ew" and "Betteridge's Law", but the evidence presented is fairly damning. It shows that people seem to collectively notice a slowdown in their apple phones when a new one comes out, and the effect is not there with the natural control group (people that own samsung phones). This implies that Apple does indeed sabotage their older models with software updates.
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Wow. I think to myself "npm is slow" several times every working day, no exaggeration. I am currently on HN because npm has been busy for about 5 minutes. Maybe we use npm very differently.
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Most probably, an uncontrollable and too aggresive male dolphin (caused by forced isolation and a wrong training) is put down after the experiment. Cause of death "suicide".
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On "Detroit Muscle", they don't review products. They show how a product fits in with building a project car. For example, they'll show how to do a suicide door conversion, including what specialty parts to use and where to get them, and sometimes how to modify those parts for custom effects.
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If one mentally redefines what a "car" will become, it can inform (and also mislead) predictions.

Several industry writers have jokingly observed that a car like Tesla is really a "laptop with wheels".

If we extend that reframing to say that future cars are really "robots with wheels", it doesn't look so preposterous that Tesla, Google[1], and Apple (rumoured self-driving car) could dominate Ford, GM, Toyota, etc. It seems possible that a 75% or more of a future car's R&D costs will be the sensors + computer algorithms + petabytes of cloud data integration instead of things like the tires, paint formulations, suspensions, etc.

To riff on a phrase from CEO Reed Hastings, "The Goal Is to Become HBO Faster Than HBO Can Become Us" ... it seems reasonable for Tesla/Google/Apple to acquire competencies in assembling chassis with wheels faster than Ford/GM/Toyota to acquire competitive knowledge in robotics+algorithms. Time will tell.

[1] robotics company acquired by Google: https://www.youtube.com/user/BostonDynamics
I don't know what it is with node.js but people seem to want to reinvent everything with it.
If he was a multinational corporation this would be called awareness-raising sponsorship
>Cissexism is pretty much unchecked cis privilege or an otherwise shoddy awareness of the social monopoly on binary gender.

rolls eyes

Fuckin' Poe's law.
What he says is that publishers, who rely on ads, will suffer from the bust. His service is in no way related to publishers. He also doesn't directly link to his service on the page.

I think your accusation is completely spurious, frankly.
It depends. Are you using aio? O_DIRECT? write(2) gives you plenty more options and these days, it's no less efficient than mmap.

The whole idea of system calls being expensive is obsolete now that we're not using heavyweight software interrupts to implement them.

What the fuck do you think happens when you write to a mmap(2)ed page anyway? The kernel has to know the page is dirty somehow so that it can remember to flush it later. It learns about page dirtying by initially mapping the page read-only, letting the CPU fault when you try to write, marking the page dirty, and letting the write proceed.

You're entering the kernel either way.
Java shines by the number of java professionals available on the market.
Seems a bit buggy. I just tried `show` on a plist file and got

&lt;dict>
&lt;key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion&lt;/key>
&lt;string>English&lt;/string>
&lt;key>CFBundleIconFile&lt;/key>

(Actual contents obviously are):

<dict>
<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
<string>English</string>
<key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
The fact that people are living with only a single brain hemisphere (or less) with relatively little difficulty has always been enough to make this real for me. I can easily imagine a hypothetical scientist slicing half of my brain out and transplanting it into another body, and that body acting as a new individual.

It's only the constant feedback and proximity of my parts that makes me feel unitary.
Yes that's a very good point - the freezing of the blades is due to temporal aliasing, not rolling shutter. Here's a link to a post I made about this that includes a video showing both temporal aliasing and rolling shutter in action: https://plus.google.com/+ChrisMiller/posts/iAfeK4D7E9B
> I don't know how Amazon decided that visitors to a programming site wanted to look at Batman ads.

Machine learning/recommendation systems?
Most of these could be written as bash aliases, so not really a great win for node...
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Read and write, most of the time.

It's funny how code written by masters tends to look a lot like code written by novices, while intermediate-level code is full of baroque architecture and clever tricks that don't work. The difference between master code and novice code is that a master knows when he can get away with simplicity.
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Exactly. Denis Noble wrote a perfect counter to the trap of thinking that this metaphor often leads to (although not in Dawnkins himself). In The Music of Life[1] he invert the metaphor: instead of us being "lumbering hulks, slaves to our genes", our genes are captives of our bodies, depending on our choices to keep existing. Noble's point was that you could neither prove nor disprove one to be more accurate a metaphor than the other, despite having the total opposite interpretation.

I'm not saying kmonad's explanation is wrong, just that it's dangerous to not be aware of the underlying metaphor.

[1] http://musicoflife.co.uk/
You purchasing the product should have fired a "conversion pixel" which would now exclude you from being a valid user for seeing the product ad(s) in question. The advertiser is just wasting money if they're not using a conversion pixel.

(Unless you meant just clicking "I bought it" to get rid of retargeting ads in general, not that you actually bought the product)
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>According to Jewish history Josef stored grain in the year 1532BCE, but the pyramids were mostly finished by 1759BCE, more than 200 years earlier. If you are going to base a belief in the Bible, maybe actually know what it says first?

Well, if you're going to base a belief in the Bible, why take an outside estimation (the 1759BCE number) into account at all?
To me the biggest viewpoint shift was moving the CPU onto the FPGA instead of the other way around (which was the way we thought it would go for quite a while).

Putting one or more ARM cores on an FPGA is mostly matter of including some lines in a specification file. Putting an FPGA onto a CPU requires a lot of capital and minimum orders that are simply scary.

See also: soft-core vs hard-core FPGA CPUs.
There is a certain 'rub' when people compare two pieces of technology.

While it's certainly true that the cpu/memory are faster or better than an iphone was 8 years ago.. and at such a low price.. when people compare specifications they always lose perspective on build quality.

It's very hard to quantify that from a product data sheet, but if this thing was built like a early 00's Nokia, then it would be worth a lot.

But for $10, do you need a smartphone at all? why not grab one of those "burners" that have a battery life of 2 months which additionally can survive some abuse?

I understand that for $10 people should curb their expectations, but the title is comparing apples to oranges.

"$400 smartphone from 8 years ago with high build quality vs $10 phone now with unknown build quality"
It's nice to get your thoughts into form in a decently ergonomic shell like Fish and then port it afterwards to nasty old Bash. So definitely worth learning a better scripting language.
No, it is still Ad. No ads are appeasing, because they are, by their nature, distractions and freeloaders, no matter how appealing their disguise might be. I am more than happy to skip all coca-cola ads that shown before movies, even they look OK, but I don't need them.

But after all, those ads leave an impression on me, that coca-cola is still there, in a red glassy bottle/can, and people seem happy drinking it. That is the reason I might choose it as my go-to soft drinks other than some unknown small brands. So that is advertising works, laziness.
The car industry is a lot larger than 'the big 3' (or really, the big 2 1/2).
What I've noticed personally is that searching/researching for some very specific purchasable term (e.g. Love sac furniture) triggers the targeted advertisting. The thing is, the ad agency does not know whether I've made the purchase or not. Usually, I'll start researching something 1 day to 2-3months before purchasing depending on how large of a purchase it is, so the ads are useful up to the point I use the ad to make the purchase. Unfortunately, after the purchase is done, the ad just becomes irrelevant and annoying.

So there's probably a significant number of people where targeted advertising is able to get the click that leads to the purchase. In reality, it's probably just taking organic traffic that would have purchased anyway and counting it as a targeted advertising win versus an organic purchase.
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On the other hand "+" is not happening, please stop.
Apple times the new iOS release to coincide with their next iPhone release (usually slightly prior). Therefore many users upgrade to the latest iOS at pretty much precisely the time of the new release.

It doesn't mean that they deliberately slow down iPhones. New software is usually more bloated. Apple often does improve performance in the minor releases that follow, however.

Leaving aside the fact that Android users barely get updates, they don't usually coincide with new releases. I'd like to see how slowness questions coincide with Android software updates for corresponding phones.
The most important thing: don't worry about it.

You will probably feel overwhelmed on your first day, probably in your first week too. That's normal. It takes time to get used to how the company works, how the codebase is structured, who's responsible for what in the organisational structure.

If it's a good company, there should be someone who you will be able to ask anything you need, no matter how often you need it. I've run multiple projects with perhaps a dozen programmers, and I try to make it very clear to new recruits that they are never bothering me. They don't usually believe me at first, but I mean it! Any significant codebase has a huge amount of knowledge and structure known only to its developers, and new guys save so much time if they can just ask a quick question than dig around for themselves. So don't be afraid to ask questions incessantly. Definitely form your question sensibly, but don't sit around feeling stuck.

Honestly, I feel the most important thing you can learn in your first day/week is who is the best person to ask about each part of the code that you'll be using, and a bit about the general structure of the code. You shouldn't expected to produce anything straight away.

Also, have fun! I still really enjoy programming after doing it full time for 15 years and hopefully you will too!
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I also hate the sqlite "feature". Lightroom does the right thing, has the best features and it's not even that expensive, however, I will never submit to that creative cloud crap. Just let me buy the damn thing, and no .pkg installers either!
One advantage would be for a market like inner city Detroit where a majority don't have smartphones and 40% lack broadband access at home.

http://detroitography.com/2015/11/13/map-detroits-digital-di...
The posterchild for categorization failure is 'species'. The closer you look at what a species is the more nebulous it becomes.
Out of stock unfortunately.
electric cars are potentially more environmentally friendly than vanilla cars, but still pretty bad compared to a decent public transport system.

here's an energy-consumption versus speed plot from MacKay's "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air" book:

http://www.withouthotair.com/c20/page_128.shtml

i reckon "everyone needs their own car" is nonsense. sure, a nice aspirational goal for the middle-class consumer world, but increasingly irrelevant as we update our thinking to match reality

edit: to give a tiny personal anecdote, i live in a city with decent public transport and haven't owned a car for over 5 years, and don't plan on getting one any time soon. i don't use taxis / uber either, it isn't necessary.
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Many people have a gut-level aversion to dynamically typed languages.
Surprisingly, C# does natively support multimethods, thanks to 'dynamic'.
Well, you're definitely in for a treat with NPM 3. And I don't mean that in a good way.
Protest was once a thing that was mostly practiced on a local level, within the family and church, and subject to the constraints of small groups. It is now fully secularized and pushed into the hands of the masses. There is a subculture for everyone.

And this works against "strong and silent". Strong and silent is not particularly noble in practice - it's a self-sacrificing game theoretical strategy. To take the upper hand in social situations, you avoid showing vulnerability and instead consistently display strength. For any problem someone cares about, you will show that you don't have to care, that you'll soak up the consequences rather than try to help. For any threat presented, you shrug it off or escalate until they cave in. Then everyone else has to bend to your wishes if they want your cooperation.

The ideal strong and silent person is psychopathic. Most people trying to follow it tear themselves up to do so.

The alternative is to allow the small complaint, to whine a little bit about how something wasn't right today. Because you have a subculture to validate you, your feelings become "reality" in that you can have an ongoing conversation about it instead of being told to shut up. On balance, a good thing for every underrepresented idea under the sun.

What we don't know how to deal with yet is when this turns into a social media mob; the new face of the manipulator is someone who points the subculture at a target and says "their fault; go get 'em." But - my conjecture is that eventually, most people burn out on this kind of radicalization.

So then, are we getting better? Will Endless September come to a conclusion? Stay tuned, I guess...
I love clojure, but on a large code base I find good refactoring tools to be extremely helpful when trying to evolve how things are implemented. In that respect Java wins hands down just because of the tooling around it. It also may be easier sometimes to use Java for working with particular libraries.

There are however areas where I'd use clojure every time. Luckily the JVM is really good for doing mixed language work on, so you don't have to work entirely in one language.
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The original paper was published in 1992 (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=157525) but doesn't seem to be freely accessible anywhere in PDF format.
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