skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with him in principle although I agree with a lot of the other counterpoints made here too.

The biggest reason that other features get added to languages to make them ubiquitous is because in MANY cases companies marry their infrastructure to a particular language. With that infrastructure commitment you end up with an investment into doing everything with that particular language so if you have a feature or methodology in another language that would be good for a particular use case, your existing investments prevent you from being able to EASILY introduce a new language just for that feature.

Microservice architecture goes a lot way toward countering those investments. Heroku actually does a great job of removing language specific infrastructure investments from your process that make it easier to introduce language-per-purpose approaches.

Wrote a bit article on it for Codeship a couple of months ago. http://blog.codeship.com/exploring-microservices-architectur...
American cars are bigger. We have bigger cities, bigger roads, more parking, gas is cheaper, Americans are fatter. Most American cars are above 2.0L, with some popular base models of foreign cars being 1.8L-2.4L.
I think she even might make a great CEO, but not at Yahoo. They've had a very difficult problem to solve, and there might be a handful of people capable of righting the ship.
Yeah I was just looking for something like this for my Pi 2 so thanks!
The article's conceit is that apparently she should have bought Netflix in 2012 which suggests some future article ideas for the author that practically write themself: maybe Wang Labs could have been turned around by buying out Microsoft in the 80's; maybe the railroad barons could have bought out Ford right as the model T was going into production, man we could do this all day!

It's easy to be a visionary with 3 years of hindsight.
> Next steps would be adapting the regenerative braking technology, like that on the Porsche 918, into regular vehicles.

Virtually all hybrids already do that…
Startups' advice on getting into the startup scene
It's much easier to simply download the portable version (without malware) from FossHub.

http://www.fosshub.com/FileZilla.html
A Discussion on Container Security with Twistlock CEO Ben Bernstein
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So I sort of agree with you here, but only as a partial converse:

> If all the formal semantic models for a language are unwieldy then you've probably got a non-simple language.

Now, "simplicity" is a mental construct, a language UX construct. To handle this, I think of "unwieldy" as a bit of a technical term. What does it mean to be unwieldy? It means that there is significant non-ignorable complexity.

Significant here must be defined almost probabilistically, too. If there is significant complexity which is ignorable across 99/100 real-world uses of a language then it really should win some significant points.

Ignorable complexity is also an important concept. It asks you to take empirical complexity measures (you mention Kolmogorov complexity; sure why not?) and temper them against the risk of using a significantly simpler "stand-in" semantic model. I accept that the stand-in model will fail to capture what we care about sometimes, but if it does so with an acceptable risk profile then I, pretty much definitionally, don't care.

Now that I've weakened your idea so much, it's clear how to slip in justifications for really terrible languages. Imagine one with a heinous semantics but a "tolerable" companion model which works "most of the time".

From this the obvious counterpoint is that "most of the time" isn't good enough for (a) large projects (b) tricky problems and (c) long support timelines. Small probabilities grow intolerable with increased exposure.

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But after all this, we're at an interesting place because we can now talk about real languages as being things with potentially many formally or informally compatible formal or informal semantic models. We can talk about how complexity arises when too few of these models are sufficiently simple. We can also talk about whether or not any of these models are human-inelligible and measure their complexity against that metric instead of something more alien like raw Kolgomorov complexity.

So here's what I'd like to say:

> Languages which hide intolerable complexity in their semantics behind surface simplicity are probably bad long-term investments.

and

> Languages which have many "workably compatible" semantic models, each of which being human-intelligible, are vastly easier to use since you can pick and choose your mode of analysis with confidence.

and

> Value-centric semantic models (those ones with that nasty idea of "purity" or whatever) are really great for reasoning and scale very well.

In particular, I'm personally quite happy to reject the assertion made elsewhere that value-centric semantics are not very human intelligible. On the other hand

> Simple operational semantic models are also pretty easy to understand

I just fear that they scale less well.
3 billion devices and a Sega Genesis Run Java
You can't con a honest man.

You can certainly fool one.
CPython 2.7.x performance over time
It's a significant car because it currently holds the lap record in Nürburgring for a supercar.
This is like trying to improve the buggy whips when the cars first appeared. Make them faster, cheaper, lighter - and ultimately pointless.

EVs will dominate new car sales within 10-15 years. And that's the more pessimistic view.
You can possibily prespool turbo chargers so that the turbo pressure is already there from start RPMs. Techniques to do that is either electric or compressed air.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_turbocharger
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1094807_volvo-reveals-450...
Two decades of Java: A timeline of the notable events
That's true, but saying "It's fully customizable, so you should still be able to do whatever you want with GraphViz" is like saying "it's a Turing-complete language, so you should still be able to do whatever you want with $PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE" - technically true, but in practice, not so much.
Tax Deductions Blunt Impact of Large Corporate Settlements, Report Says (NYT)
"Scientists at Newcastle University have shown the disease is caused by fat accumulating in the pancreas and losing less than one gram from the organ can reverse the life-limiting illness and restore insulin production."

Wait... I thought type 2 diabetes was caused by too much insulin in the blood leading to insulin resistance in the rest of the body, weight gain, metabolic syndrome, etc. Am I confused?
Yep, our cars are very overpowered.
And how does a columnist get away with writing that sentence without mentioning IBM?
How to get featured by Apple
If your PG setup leaves writes sitting in the buffer cache after transaction commits, it's not working right.
A new chair isn't created - the legs, seat, and back of the old chair are re-used with new screws.

If you want to replace a leg, you still need to disassemble the chair and reassemble it with new screws.
Ad Declaration Will Soon Be Required for All Android Apps
Well for her as the CEO, it seems a slow death might be favorable as she continues banking her $1 Million a month.
I don't think shared hosting is very common with tor hidden services, especially sharing the same hidden service address. There are probably examples of it, but they're rare.

A likely use of hidden-service-deanonymisation is finding the server that runs a drug market (silk road-style). Those are overwhelmingly likely to be on their own server.

Another commenter already linked to the tor project's response, which suggests that this kind of website profiling attack is less accurate in the real world than their introduction would suggest.
You're mis-remembering or something... There's no such thing as a "Core Networking Utilities" package on Windows (never has been) and ftp has been a command line tool since at least Windows 95.

I don't particularly like the built in FTP command line utility (even with scripts). But it has existed a very long time indeed.
Thanks for the archive. Super hard to read the text, though.
> Why mailing lists are still quite massively popular in 2015?..

IRC is still an underused tool in my opinion. The ability to just talk about one issue in a Mail List and keep track of the communication is great. I can't think of another tool that manages communication as well as a mail list (Forums are just not as good in communication notifications like a mail list.)

P.S. I still hate Mail List and don't use them anymore but nothing does it as well right now.
That doesn't make the brakes interesting in comparison to the system on a Prius (or whichever earlier car you want to pick).
Renault even has a Clio with a 0.9 liter engine that's fun to drive.
> quantitative managers asking for promises of real profit before committing to cleaning up technical debt

I obviously can't speak for your experience in having these discussions, but I've found that the "debt" metaphor is extremely helpful in explaining this value to the business side (and, having worked in finance, it's actually more appropriately referred to as an unhedged call option which is much worse[1]).

1: http://higherorderlogic.com/2010/07/bad-code-isnt-technical-...
Why is any critical feedback is being down voted? Is HN now just full of myopic mob mentality? Seriously?
Exploring Johannes Kepler's 'Somnium', the first science fiction story
Except that she's probably going to be fired anyway.
[L-Theanine] has no known toxic dose.

You keep saying this like it means something. Even _water_ has a toxic dose:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1770067/

It really makes me wonder whether you have adequate human subject protections in place or if you just hand-waved those away by assuming L-Theanine was completely safe.
How come the labels are sideways in left/right position? It feels like it defeats the purpose.
Why Use Make (2013)
The Mazda 3 has an option for a regenerative braking system. I'm not really sure how that works in a non-hybrid TBH. Just used to charge for accessories, electric compressor, steering, etc so you can use a clutched alternator and minimize accessory loads? Just a guess.
As mentioned in the article. Turbos don't help MPG much. Several examples in the article who larger engines with on turbos having similar MPG to smaller turbo engines.

Sure they increase peak HP, but they also increase exhaust backpressure.

Seems like the main achievement of turbos is cheaper/smaller engines.
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One thing that Yahoo highlights is the importance of why you need to take care of your share price.

I've seen a few people here ask why a company would care about their share price after they've gone public. It affects your company both internally and externally.

Having a rising share price means you can play a different game than the rest of your competitors.

Internaly it helps hire and retain good employees. Ask anyone who started at Microsoft in 1990 and worked their for a decade, or Google from 2004 until 2014. I'd bet most of them would have gladly given up their salary for more option grants.

Externally it means Facebook can pay 15 Billion for WhatsApp. I'm sure Yahoo was very interested in WhatsApp, but

1) couldn't justify paying 15 Billion almost 1/2 of their value for the app

2) Who in their right mind would take Yahoo stock over FB stock?

Sadly everything is going wrong for Yahoo,

- Alibaba's shares have dropped since they went public

- it now looks like they are going to have to pay around 20% of their Alibaba holdings in tax ( about 7 Billion).
- Anyone who is going to buy some of their assets is going to have to pick up some money loosing businesses to get a deal done, which will make negotiations much tougher and probably mean the teams that get picked up are going to be cut down

My new favorite theory that is floating around is that Alibaba actually acquires Yahoo's Alibaba stake and Yahoo's front page. Microsoft still acquires the search assets and mail. Google acquires Flickr and the fantasy sports and finance are spun out into a new company./
No, those aren't standard. The 3.5 V6 and 6.2 V8 are the high end engines usually sold in the sport packages of those cars.
No need to be dismissive - simple financial instruments are only obscure to those who willfully remain ignorant.

Your parent post's statement is a reference one of the basic financial models in asset pricing literature, the "Merton model" (Merton RC. 1974. "On the pricing of corporate debt: the risk structure of interest rates." J. Finance 29:449–70)
Let's Encrypt Public Beta Begins Today at 6 PM GMT
How do you add text to these labels?
Ending Philanthropy as We Know It
I don't know. The debt level is relative to the national average, and it ranges from -100% (zero loans) to over 700%. It's not like they fabricated many 'high' levels, the distribution just has a long tail.

I think a diverging color map displaying continuous values would be more appropriate, but I'm hesitant to label it 'lying with statistics'.
Hum, this is a good point. We need more info about blubber thickness and sex of the death whales. Is a very interesting problem.
Sounds like Tox might be for you then.
Is that still the case? As of 2012, the Chevy Cruze is a 1.4L turbo, and it's not even Chevy's smallest car. It's a pretty standard low-mid-end sedan.

I have no data, just my anemic Cruze :-) (seriously, the turbo lag is terrible)
Link to the study
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2015/11/29/dc...
I agree with your trend and think it's a good one.The first consideration on the medical differential for sleep anormalities is poor sleep hygiene, as in caffeine in evening, poor environment for sleep, change in daily schedule, acute stress, etc.

Doctors who jump to pushing pills first do not do so because they are doctors, but because they are bad/lazy doctors. The non-medical holistic supplement camp has created a false dichotomy in care considerations to win market share. Functional medicine appears to be a means of reversing that trend, but with its branding and endorsement of things like detoxifixation I start to worry.

Unfortunately, as you mentioned, there do appear to be too many docs pushing pills to get people in and out quickly, and for those shitty docs the dichotomy is not very false.
P. Jay Sidney’s Crusade to Integrate TV
Bill Gross on Central Banks: They’re ‘Casinos’
Does anyone know if they support HTTP/2 on the backend side too ? They didn't with SPDY and I think it would help to multiplex connections all the way.
Thanks for this. Matthew Cannon wrote one of my favorite songs, Megamusic. http://csdb.dk/sid/?id=5626
A cautionary tale of relying on demographic projections
If the censorship is based on the government being able to make some sense of what you're communicating, XORing with a PSK will not work, because they will see meaningless garbage and block it. The reason I suggested cat pictures is because the censors will see actual cat pictures and (hopefully) consider the protocol not worthy of blocking.

s/cat pictures/whatever you want/
I suggest looking at the apps and tools developed by the Guardian Project https://guardianproject.info/code/

There was an encrypted note-taking app but it's not developed any more.

The generic solution is to use GnuPG.
This appears to be the paper:
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2015/11/29/dc...

I tried reading it but couldn't figure out which panel corresponded to what group in figure 2B/C so I stopped.
It's not faulty; I've tried with a couple super-cheap/no-name cards, and they're all insanely slow (even a few class 6 or class 10 cards).

Reading up on the flash industry, it looks like most manufacturers use flash from one or two main producers, and each smaller company uses the discarded/slower/cheapest parts, resulting in worse performance and reliability in the lowest rungs of the scale.

[Edit: I've also updated the numbers in the post]
That's completely true, and my point. It's just that some people don't agree with that train of logic, they want the quick cash now.
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The linked thread is from 2015-04-20. SourceForge has been bundling adware with Filezilla since then and continues to do so. Here's a VirusTotal analysis of the current installer: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/16e0ecda06ed98f835e449e1e...

If you want clean software you must not install directly from Sourceforge.
Those page load improvement numbers seem ridiculously good (factor of almost 2 versus HTTP 1.1). Are they really expecting that to hold up in real world cases?
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Not right now. We are currently experimenting with Server Push because we think it will help with the end user experience more than HTTP/2 to the origin server. You can see that running on the experimental server https://http2.cloudflare.com/

The question is... does HTTP/2 on the backend help that much. We aren't restricted like a browser in terms of bandwidth, latency or number of connections we can open. Greatest benefit for HTTP/2 is between browser and us, but origin HTTP/2 hasn't been forgotten.
"people really don't want to hear that being fat is bad in the sense of greatly raising the risk of all common age-related disease and reducing life expectancy."

Surely there are very few people denying these risks. Do you have evidence that this is a widespread trend, or have you just taken that viewpoint by choice?

Any attempt to deny fat risks could be construed as a misguided strategy by fat people to be treated with respect. If they explain away the health risks, then they're less open to shaming. Anyway, this is the empathetic viewpoint I choose to take on the issue, and I suspect it's better for everyone. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/0...
Unplanned stoppage of publishing maybe the right term.
Those applications don't have the huge volumes that the vehicle market does. Ford is going to sell 1 million turbos this year, what industrial market for engines approaches that?

As to the relevance of turbos in the future, they increase peak power more than anything else, so I would expect them to continue to be useful in parallel hybrid configurations (if it enables a smaller ICE, it's probably a win).
That listing doesn't give any indication of small-file performance, so for my usage, it's near worthless. If you deal with media files mostly, it's plenty helpful, but for most things I use the Pi for, 4K read/write is the most important statistic.
CAFE standards have been forcing an average downward push for a while. But it's still easy to get an absolutely enormous engine and vehicle.
> (I think it's implemented as a macro set on top of Clojure?)

When I see this I feel the need to ask: Shouldn't this have been built on Racket? Lisp family languages are great for these things but Racket was made specifically for building languages.
Most people shouldn't need both cert.pem and fullchain.pem, because fullchain.pem is "full" because it also contains a copy of cert.pem (unlike chain.pem, which doesn't). (I chose these names for the structure of Let's Encrypt's certificate storage.)
Friends have been reporting that the ground floor of their homes are 3/4th submerged.
I follow your blog. I'm a month from 40 and agree. After several years working mostly in Clojure, Scala, and F#, I am finding myself most productive in traditional languages even though they're less interesting. And am finding projects more interesting than implementations, which is probably the way it should be.

I'm finding now that OOP is actually a pretty good model for most things. Loops and mutation reflect reality: you do a task N times and write down each result; you don't take the first N results from an infinite seq of tasks. IoC is useful. In addition having a much larger set of things to copy/paste from github/stackoverflow is nice.

That said, most (all?) of my paid work is pretty banal, nothing that's really begging for functional style. And for whatever reason I've never had much success with REPLs. Getting them updated correctly with the code and dependency changes, typing in what I want to test, then running it always seems to take me longer than just executing the app and testing changes directly.
I'm not convinced betting the farm was even necessary. What would be wrong with continuing business as usual whilst attempting a larger initiative that could deliver long term growth?
Dithering is seen so often in 90's 256-color images, but why so rarely in the ugly banding of 24-bit RGB images?
You are right. An ASCII version is here http://pastebin.com/axGrNhAk
What specific agreements require the US to place faith before science?
I wonder if this accounts for some of the EVO+ speed gains over the Sandisk Extreme... in the past larger cards within the same range were faster.

It may not of course.
Can E-Commerce Deliver? (1999)
Quite right. It's sad I can't edit even slightly old comments.
>If we accept that, then simplicity alone is not a desirable goal

Or maybe simplicity in terms of the formal semantics is a desirable goal, but not the simplicity of the language alone.

At the end of the day, what determines mental load is the complexity of solving a particular problem using a particular language.

I don't think this simplicity follows from the simplicity of the language itself. There may not even be the slightest correlation.
There is nothing notable about the regenerative brakes in the Porsche 918. Other hybrids have been using regenerative brakes for years and years now.
As for a Nürburgring "record" I dont see the relevance in this conversation
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What are the big rocks in your life?
Do you have evidence or are you just smearing people and groups for the sake of your argument?

"Gangs commit crime" is sort of a truism, but for the others... that's going to take some evidence.
"[...] and is known to promote relaxation without sedation. It appears to be effective at this as well as reducing stress at standard dosages."

I would read that as a medical claim, it doesn't matter if you quote another site or not.

The claim about stress seems to be based on experiments in rats and a single study with 12 participants.
FYI, if you don't want to install all the dependencies of the official letsencrypt client, I made a <200 line python script that automates issuing and renewing certificates. Love the Let's Encrypt project, but really don't want to install all those dependencies on my server just to get a free cert.

https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny
There's also no proof (or even evidence) that the universe is not discrete.
> As a technical contributor, I've been on-and-off frustrated my whole career by quantitative managers asking for promises of real profit before committing to cleaning up technical debt.

Agreed; though this is changing. More companies are starting to optimize their tech organizations for flexibility rather than low cost. The cost difference usually isn't that much (no more than 25%) but the focus is on building and maintaining a technical product development capability. All products today are technical products, and if non-technical companies don't develop a technical competency, they will wither and die (then their brands will be bought by whoever DOES have a technical competency).

This is a strategic move, and strategic moves shouldn't be based purely off of numbers. They should be backed up by numbers, but market positioning and brand play into it a lot more than financial projections.
Or probably about $50 for a VPS...

The amount of bandwidth used per month isn't mentioned but when the Snapchat database was leaked I hosted it on a server of mine and snapchatdb.info was pointed at it. Bandwidth over the first three days was just over 27 TB and didn't cost a dime extra (I work for an ISP and my servers are housed in our cages in datacenters but I pay very little for them).

What's 27 TB cost on AWS?