skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question, is it possible for a large and dominant system to innovate without competition ? or does the position makes it short sighted since all it's intrinsic indicators are in the green. Basically the perception of the world for said system makes it impossible to detect issues, that would be devoting energy to try to kill yourself, without someone pulling the rug and endangering you again.
I'll take a stab at it (fools rush in where professionals fear to tread):

The biologist says "another new species to categorize!"

The mathematician says "I don't see how the foobar follows from the rest of the proof."

The computer scientist says "that variable is badly named", and renames it.

The biologist mourns another species lost to extinction.
The employee equity relationship today is, I would suggest, quite different than even 20 years ago.

EDIT:

I refer you to the "The three-class society" section of this essay: https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/y-combinator...
This comment seems to be missing a "for example". I don't doubt that it's true, but it seems that you have thought about the idea, so I would like to hear your complete thought :)
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> Sticking with the ASCII representation does have one real thing going for it: it visually represents the way you type it.

IMO, this is more of an issue with special symbols being tricky to type. I used to be symbol-phobic like that until I learned how to configure how the Compose-key behaves in my system. Now all the symbols I commonly use (greek letters, funny arrows and some math stuff) are very easy to type. I went ahead and replaced the latex macros in my thesis with their unicode equivalents and things became immensely more readable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key
https://github.com/hugomg/xcomposer
Maybe a lot of us (as I did, to be honest) thought that Mac resources went away with the advent of NextStep/OSX.
Me too! I plan to setting this up at my new company :). I really believe in being a small part of something big vs being a big part of something small
I'd love to see this paired with your https://gethttpsforfree.com/ which was very easy and pleasant to use (loved the: This website is static, so it can be saved and loaded locally. Just right-click and "Save Page As.."! at the bottom of the page).

I guess this tool is what's needed next to get the auto-renewal crontab
>The problem is the increasingly long span of life when people are not working but still consuming, possibly requiring expensive personal and medical care. The goods and services consumed have to come from someone working somewhere.

This seems like a Lump of Labor Fallacy. Productivity-per-worker-hour has been growing for decades, while we've kept work-weeks and retirement ages the same (or even, in some countries, increased the retirement age). If people work the same amount and productivity keeps growing, there ought to be more goods and services to distribute to the retired as they live longer. And indeed, the per-capita GDP has been growing.

Of course, the generation ratio (retirees to workers) is rapidly becoming problematic, but given the sky-high youth unemployment rates, I don't really trust that's driving the supposed inability to fund pensions either.
Oops. Yes, my bad.
Wouldn't it be cool if Apple just picked up a standard file system from somewhere else? Ext4 for example.
I am not trying to defend Verizon, but the goal of the FCC is to move off of copper lines. However the rules state that phone companies cannot do that if any service is interrupted which also apparently means if a customer doesn't want to move off of copper they don't have too. So which is it? Do we move people to fiber? There are many who hold on to copper lines because they have a central power source whereas fiber does not.

My other concern is, why should they pick up the tab for maintaining connections on an obsolete system if the new one will serve the area?
>That said, I agree, it's a horrible design - but it's existed for 20+ years already.

Actually there's absolutely nothing horrible about resource forks/extended attributes in theory.

We use way worse ideas like "sidecar" files and metadata stored centrally for the same use cases, which are worse ways to handle the issue.

The real problem is the lack of agreement/interoperability in handling them across FSs (and perhaps tooling).
On the one hand, I see how this might be necessary to continue a welfare state.

On the other hand, really? A person is institutionalized from a very early age (school), proceeds to follow orders from a boss (work-life for most), and now policy makers want to limit even the small part of life that a person has to himself (retirement). Might it not be a better option to impose a wealth tax on the very rich and use that to fund retirement?
Samsung agrees to pay Apple $548M for copying its iPhone designs
Defend "Working spectacularly well".
Oracle's ownership was not the problem (it was actually Sun's at the time Apple was working on it); NetApp's patent lawsuit was.
Yeah that makes sense. I like to consider work as being a more of a means to an end as opposed to an end itself so it isn't the work itself that brings fulfillment but rather the things it allows me to do that bring fulfillment (help provide for my family, have customers that are happy, etc).
The crazy thing to me is: 1) the fact that employees are granted options instead of shares is an artifact of tax law, and 2) the fact that there's a 90 day exercise window is also an artifact of tax law. Yet, companies constantly come up with post-hoc justifications of why only giving a 90 day window is fair. There is big resistance to change on this point. Even Ben Horowitz and Sam Altman don't think it's a clear decision! http://genius.com/B-horowitz-lecture-15-how-to-manage-annota...

If you were to derive how to think about employee ownership of a company as a form of compensation from first principles, you'd never come up with options and you'd never come up with a 90-day exercise window on top of that. Those are both artifacts from tax law yet it's become the standard form of compensation!
Is it? How so?
Well duh.
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>Compared to much older places like London, which obviously predates the automobile, New forms of transportation were taken into account when zoning regulations and other things were made. As an example, all of our major roads are spaced 1 mile apart and are at right angles to each other in a nice grid.

There's a difference between designing streets wide enough to accommodate cars--no windy medieval footpaths that eventually got paved in Phoenix--and forcing businesses and all new housing to provide free parking spaces to drivers. One is taking cars into account, another is forcing them on everyone.

It should be noted, however, that Phoenix is old enough it predates cars and its wide streets and grid layout are for other reasons. Grids are efficient, allowing someone on foot to cover a larger area in a given time period than would otherwise be the case. They also allow for efficient navigation; if you name your streets like DC's or Manhattan's, it's easy to get between any two corners. They also minimize property disputes. Streets were wide to allow wagons and the like to turn around easily and for aesthetic reasons.

That this happened to be useful for cars is an accident.
At issue here is _not_ whether this one instance (Zuck) is a tax coward or a much needed 21st century philanthropist. Instead this is about whether our tax-code can raise tax rates on business-owning millionaires and billionaires to arbitrarily high levels and capture the desired revenue.

Economic historians have documented this type of tax avoidance in previous era of high taxes. When an executive was taxed 90% of his income, his salary was greatly decreased and instead got 2-weeks time on the company's (pre-tax) yacht.

These type of "global charities" are very disturbing at this moment when it is becoming clear that tax rate will need to be increased substantially in the future to pay for our growing deficit. Which means it will become increasingly desirable to be employed or make deals with one of these shell corporations (zero tax), while all the boring but actually essential things like construction will face huge tax burdens.

Ultimately, the big fear is that it will become completely rational to spend more effort trying to game the IRS then it will to do IRL value-add. (see Michael Lewis's piece on Greece in the run-up to '08 to see what this looks like)
It's not just learning a language. It's a tool to allow you to build computer applications. Some people simply aren't interested in building apps, just like some people aren't interested in playing music or throwing/catching a football.
I hope you're not right. There are so many wonderful filesystems already out there, many of them already Open Source.

I'm not against research, but I'd rather have Apple fund one of these existing efforts.
Looking at their android app store page, Multi Brians LLC has built over a dozen Uber clones https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=592351321420775866... . The UI is very similar between the apps and I assume the backend is shared so there's not much dev cost for an additional app.
Researchers claim they've built the first 3D color hologram
During WWII, we engaged in all-out war against Japan and Germany, and devastated both countries to the limit of our technical ability. Had the Japanese government not surrendered after the atomic bombs, we would have continued dropping them until there was no one left. We were already fire-bombing cities at that point, despite the huge number of civilian casualties.

After the war, Japan still had a functioning government which the US had a stranglehold on for years during reconstruction. Germany's government was wiped out and replaced with two puppet states for a long time as well. We were truly imperialistic then, having invaded and taken control of those countries until they were stable enough to run themselves. (Or couldn't be held anymore, in the case of East Germany.)

We didn't do it that way in Iraq and Afghanistan. Years of bad outcomes with cold-war-era puppet governments got us away from that approach, and instead we tried to set up locally-run governments that were allies but not subservient. But that didn't work so well either. Maybe we let them go too soon, or maybe the population wasn't beaten down enough by the war, the way Germany and Japan were, to just accept any government so long as it stops the devastation.
The problem is that you assume people who feel their country and its core values are being pulled are necessarily 90 IQ rednecks. There are a lot of intelligent socially conservative people. One who can't admit that is brainwashed.
Of course they did.
How long did it take to get comfortable with that? Do you feel completely fine all day? No hunger, low energy?
I honestly don't understand how nuclear is supposed to be the solution when it is so much more expensive than solar/wind. In addition, nuclear is getting more expensive, while solar/wind have been getting cheaper exponentially (although the wind price improvements have started slowing now).
The money already came from the sale of the medallions. It isn't a yearly fee, which is good, since at 150m taxi rides per year, that would increase the price of each ride by at least $100.

Though medallion sales also aren't worth anything near $15b, anyway -- the 1.2m figure is what medallion sales peaked at. Most sold for significantly less in the past.

Normally very few new medallions come up for auction; the city knows their value is in their scarcity. Though the current budget[1] accounts for some $400m per year from medallion sales, mostly from the continuing rollout of green/boro cabs, which, if coming from the rest of the system instead, would still be a pretty significant fare hike per ride.

1: http://council.nyc.gov/downloads/pdf/budget/2015/taxi.pdf
Amazon buys thousands of its own branded truck trailers
In 15 years of working with Macs (as a programmer and as a semi-pro DAW/NLE user), I've never been confused once by them.

So it sure might be confusing (and I see how) but it's absolutely not very common.
Don't forget to exercise, just in case.
Is is possible that some just don't like living in tight urban quarters? I'm not exactly sure why the race card must be played. I know plenty of folks who simply want big houses with big yards in which to spread out. It might even be innate human nature to not wish to live confined.
Not quite. It was decided in 2000 to stop building new plants and phase out the existing ones. In 2010, the phase-out period was increased by 8-14 years. Then, in 2011, this increase was undone again. So it was mainly about how long the remaining plants are being kept online.

(see here (German) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomausstieg#Deutschland )
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Any downsides you can see? Does it hinder muscle building if you work out before 5?
What's wrong with quoting best practice and pointing the why in your framework of choice documentation that explains the best practice and the why?
The purpose is to maintain the same amount of retirement as life expectancy goes up. Perhaps it would be more fair to split the difference. But the point is that the 'old' retirement age shouldn't be static as life expectancy rises, because of the costs of state-sponsored benefits.
They would still keep something like resource forks. Most modern filesystems have them. Here's the man page for Ext4 and co on them:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man5/attr.5.html
In markets where incumbents collude on prices to achieve unreasonably high margins there are usually opportunities for new entrants to enter the market, lower prices, and rapidly capture market share. Government's job is to make sure that there are no artificially high barriers to entry. Sadly, when Government is corrupted it can collude with incumbents and increase barriers to entry to the detriment of consumers.
You could only go for the $500 MRI if someone gave you the choice though. If the market will bear a $1500 MRI the two or three hospitals you might have a choice between don't have any real incentive to lower prices. Neither hospital is likely to believe there's a huge untapped market for MRIs that will make up for the loss of profit and an extra $1000 per MRI of profit means they'd have to at least quadruple their volume to make up for the smaller margin.
How can I dynamically connect LightTable to an external browser from console
Took me about 2 weeks. Then it became easy. A little hunger, but you get used to it. Helps that you can look forward to a bigger dinner meal.
Does your cparser cover the entire c spec?
Debian stable (jessie) and oldstable (wheezy) both have python 2.7, which supports the {} syntax. Why are you still running Debian oldoldstable (squeeze) or older? The standard security support ended long ago, and even the LTS security support ends in February 2016.
Did you even read the article? It makes while not directly opposite pretty close argument to that. It literally says that software development is a less respected industry than it should be and that aptitude can be anywhere not just the few well off privileged elite.
because there aren't enough service fees on tickets already?
The New Global Anti-Uber Alliance: Ola, Lyft, Didi Kuaidi, GrabTaxi
Equity has no intrinsic value and I'm glad you recognize you can't pay rent with it. Founders who try to claim otherwise are being deceptive and I wouldn't work for them either. Much worse if you get insulted and called an idiot for trying to negotiate.

However, equity is a significant form of compensation, not just at startups, but at large companies as well. You're missing out if you don't take some time to understand it in early stage startups.
and more verbose as well which was the concern of person to whom I replied.
> The only time you should actually override __iadd__ is for mutable objects

What would the rationale be for such a rule?

the docs don't mention anything like that https://docs.python.org/2/library/operator.html and I've never heard it before. In Python, neither integers nor strings are mutable and both support the "x += y" syntax.

The __iadd__ method works the same for both mutable and immutable objects AFAIK
OpenBSD errata
Thank you for providing detail into the stench of your experience.
Not to mention case insensitivity... Ugh!
You may enjoy The Master Algorithm: http://www.amazon.com/Master-Algorithm-Ultimate-Learning-Mac...
If suburbs were about crime, people would merely have moved to them, as they existed (just using transit, not cars).

They wouldn't have set up command and control economy experimental land use policies and subsidies that had never been done before if they just wanted breathing room or to be away from the city. That sort of life could already be had, but that wasn't enough.

Those other people could flee crime too since they could afford a train ticket, and you wouldn't want one of those others in your neighborhood, would you? Of course not. We've got to set things up so they don't follow us. What don't they have? Cars. If we build a new society that forces everyone to have cars, 'they' can't follow us.
I prefer the less verbose version:

"Don't just do something. Stand there."

--Marvin Minsky
IMO the biggest reason to be optimistic that this will get this fixed is VR. GearVR had to rely on its own audio stack, but if VR takes off in a big way then I'm sure Google will want to support in stock Android, and that'll only work if they re-architect the Android audio stack to support low latency audio. This could end up fixing the issue for desktop Linux too.
"Dead equity" is a tricky problem. On one hand, you've granted ownership and ownership is supposed to have significant upside for exactly the case where the company goes gangbusters like this. On the the other it still somehow feels unfair.
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That would have completely destroyed backwards compatibility for a large number of Mac OS users' files.

Remember that you could run Mac OS Classic apps on the first few iterations of OS X, and even after you couldn't any more, Carbonized/Cocoized OS X Apps still could open old files you created, many of which heavily used resource forks.
This is really great! The 90 day window is bad for employees. I'd like to see this become the new standard. (and I hope the IRS doesn't give any trouble!)
Is this new or just 'new mainstream enterprise practice' I was under the impression that hackathons had been subverted as a tool of corporate exploitation of young devs for some time now.
Because our intuition about local minima is wrong in extremely high dimensional spaces. In two and three dimensions, local minima are common. In a million dimensions, local minima are rare. The intuitive explanation is that for a local minimum to exist, the function must be curving up (first derivative = 0, second derivative >= 0) simultaneously in every dimension. It makes sense that as you add more dimensions this becomes less and less likely, and for a million dimensions it's vanishingly unlikely.

What you get instead of local minima are saddle points, where some dimensions are curving up and some are curving down. Saddle points can also be problematic for optimization but they can be dealt with using fancy optimization techniques. For a more rigorous explanation, see http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2572
My experience is that there are some "weird" effects of equity comp once one gets into the calculus of incentives:

1. Payoffs are too small to be consequential. If you own 0.01% of a company and are personal-profit-maximizing, then you are indifferent between (a.) Increasing the company's valuation by $1M and (b.) Getting $100.

2. Growth makes "rest and vest" a reasonable strategy. If a startup does well, then an employee's initial equity grant typically dwarfs all subsequent compensation; does it make sense to work hard for a $5k raise when your equity is worth $500k?
This is likely just my ignorance speaking in regards to the deeper workings of filesystems, but having used OS 7-9 and OS X since release, the issue brought up in the article has never been an issue for myself, my colleagues and friends as we sent data back and forth, or even something I was aware of as I used various Macs.

Is there a specific reason that this becomes problematic to even most power users outside of specific files being read differently by older tools? Reading the Linus rant on HFS+ I can understand to some degree and appreciate where this becomes a problem, but it just seems like the author found a small outlier issue with how an old font was handled with HFS(+) and condemned the entire system.
It makes sense to be conservative in valuing equity, but if you think it's never worth anything, you shouldn't be considering startups in your job search.

(Your criticism still partially stands; it's common for founders to over-value the equity they offer employees. Way past the last funding round, for example. It's invariably a short-sighted decision. Used wisely, equity can be a great motivator.)
The problem is that they refuse to build out fiber in areas where they are unlikely to sell a lot of high-dollar, high-margin TV packages.

In rural and low-income areas, Verizon wants to let the old copper infrastructure rot, but they are uninterested in building out a real replacement. Instead, they push low-margin customers to grossly inferior wireless services.
The argument that stack traces are easier to debug when functions are named is always brought up when talking about the issue of naming functions. However, I don't quite understand why it's such a big issue. Whenever I get a stack trace the issue is almost always easy to debug. That has been my experience working with JavaScript full time for two and a half years.

And every difficult to debug bug hasn't been related to knowing which functions are in the stack, but are instead related to figuring out why frameworks do something or race conditions and so on.

I just find it surprising that people are having problems with anonymous functions in stack traces, when I've never seen that.
I'm wondering about that, too... but I'm beginning to suspect that this is the wrong question to ask. It sounds a little too much like sexual objectification, and a little too much like eugenics; it's probably the wrong way to go about dating and marriage...

Not that this is an endorsement of the "transient, lawless, chaotic sexual desire will find a way" ethos of rock-and-roll, of course.
At one point it was a significant bullet point in the list of features being added to OS X Server. It was a big deal. I'm sure he was aware of it.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-announces-zfs-on-snow-leo...
I understand it. Obviously, I want more equity. But it doesn't act as a replacement for salary, like some people seem to think. It's a bonus, like free snacks and ping pong tables. It might pay out, but it probably won't, and you shouldn't base your life around it.