skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historically, languages that have tried to move from automatic memory management to opt-in manual memory management haven't had a lot of success in doing so. Java direct buffers don't let you do anything more than simple flat heap allocations, and you can't really get away from GC. D hasn't been able to shed a practical dependency on the GC, despite years and years of work. There was some early work to try to use Go in places where GC isn't acceptable, but in practice you can't really avoid it. And so on.

Interestingly, the reverse is also true. C++ does not make very good managed language: despite the occasional claim to the contrary, the lack of memory safety and the library ecosystem mean you can't just use shared_ptr "for everything" and forget about memory management in practice. Rust is also in a similar situation: borrowing is front and center, and the language doesn't really try to make managed programming palatable: you have to explicitly clone reference counted pointers, and you need Cell/RefCell if you want to mutate their contents.

A lot of this has to do with the library ecosystem. Even if the language supports manual memory management, if the package ecosystem doesn't you can't really program with it in practice. I don't know of any language (with one possible exception below) that has effectively subdivided its package landscape into managed and unmanaged ecosystems.

Objective-C is probably one of the few exceptions where you can really mix and match the two worlds. That's because there are effectively two library ecosystems: the C/C++ ecosystem on one hand, and the native Objective-C system on the other. It's a special case because Objective-C/Objective-C++ basically mashes two popular languages together while maintaining full compatibility with the existing C/C++ library landscape. I don't know if you can replicate this without source-level C and C++ compatibility (which Swift drops).

The upshot of this, in my mind, is that assuming history repeats itself, multiple languages are probably going to thrive. There won't be one language to rule them all, and large software stacks will mostly continue to consist of components written in multiple languages. Which is, of course, great for us compiler developers, and programming language innovation in general. :)
Not trying to start a flame, but what difference does it make that they're male or female? The difference is as you said "some important school".
This is always my question - also, remember that colleges and universities are moving more and more classes to adjunct professors (i.e. contractors without any tenure track), further reducing their costs.

Why is it that education has been able to steadily increase their costs 7-8% per year forever? I get it when people say that the loans enable this - but my question is, like yours, "where is the money going?"

I'd love to see a reporter do a complete audit of 10-20 educational institutions over a period of, say 5 years, to understand what the money is covering.
> I always remember who proposed it and that alone discourages me from ever using it.

And, uhm, who was it? Is it supposed to be common knowledge?
Show HN: Figlefy API for getting ascii art strings
I get the opposite problem: stuff I delete periodically comes back. Google has less incentive to fix that due to their business model. ;)
I would have if it served my needs, because those others required special hardware and/or hefty licensing costs.
KING LEAR:
O, if you were a feeble sight, the courtesy of your law,
Your sight and several breath, will wear the gods
With his heads, and my hands are wonder'd at the deeds,
So drop upon your lordship's head, and your opinion
Shall be against your honour.

https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

There goes Shakespeare
Kaluza-Klein Partners – Why? (2012)
Steal a Credit Card, Buy a Hoverboard
> And I don't understand why they wouldn't to make more.

In the long run, the industry as a whole might make more money, but it's certain that each individual company wouldn't.

As you say, investigations into collusion and price fixing are substantially more rare than they should be. If Big Media loses the ability to refuse to grant parts of their catalog to one distributor or another, enough distributors to matter can easily band together to force reductions in media licensing fees.

> I'm looking at it simply from perspective of potential creator.

Ah. Well, that (in all seriousness) is a useful and valid conversation to have, but you asked why a site that streamed media controlled by Big Media wouldn't do the obvious thing and let you download what you stream. The answer is that Big Media won't let them; sometimes under any circumstances, other times unless the site pays a lot more than they pay for just streaming rights.

I agree that the state of Big Media's licensing regime is really rather bad for society overall, but it's fantastically good for Big Media.
Chrome user profiles does the trick for me.
I have a cheap lamp pointed at the wall behind my monitors that helps immensely with the eyestrain[1]. I like f.lux, but when my schedule gets into full-on night mode, I end up turning it off - especially when working with video[2] or graphics - and forgetting to turn it on it by the time I get back to something more "normal".

1: blinking is a big deal, and I tend not to blink much when tired but focused. Eye drops help.

2: spent a few years working with a company where video is everything.
I have what I believe to be an old AT&T radio tower less than 100 yards from my house. It was so overgrown with brush you cloud barely see the building, but just yesterday they cleared the brush off. It's located in Gaffney, South Carolina, and it's the only one I've ever seen that looks similar to the ones from http://long-lines.net/ website, but it's not listed as one on their website; South Carolina actually isn't listed on their site at all.
There's no ghost in the shell: the person is the ego
How well does this material resist water damage? Recently on British TV there have been loads of programmes about people building cheap houses (eg [1]). They tend to be prefabricated off-site from softwood and quickly assembled on site. I wonder how long such buildings will last if the roof ever leaks.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bjqk4
I would like to recommend Mnemosyne [1] as an alternative to Anki. It uses a very similar algorithm for spaced repetition (based on SM2), but has a simpler and cleaner UI.

[1] http://mnemosyne-proj.org/
A lot of these appear to stem from inexperience -- the founder/CEO/CTO doing and saying what they think they're supposed to do or because "that's what successful people do."

I'm going to be slightly reverse-ageist for a moment: I'm at a startup where the average age is over 40, the founder is deeply experienced as both an engineer and a manager, and I can honestly say that NONE of this stuff happens. I took my reading these anecdotes to appreciate how nice (and apparently rare?) this is.
> Had an EU grant covering our costs during that period. In 2015, I invested about 200h into it (mostly answering support emails and dealing with taxes) and made about 20k€ this year.

How is it that the EU gives grants to for-profit companies? Is it to encourage business growth so the GDP goes up?

I'm talking about a "grant" which seems to imply gratis, free money, as opposed to a loan that has to be paid back, which is available in most countries.
There are plenty of technologies/companies that have no clear 90:9:1 ratio. Databases, programming languages, consoles, portable consoles, laptops, games, game developers.

The "90:9:1 ratio" is a specific case of a zipf curve. Popularity is always fluctuating, but generally follows a zipf curve for distribution.
Dialogue designers replace graphic designers when creating voice interfaces
It doesn't seem like they would explain all of it. U Phoenix is a bigger one and collects ~$3 billion a year in tuition:

http://biz.yahoo.com/e/151022/apol10-k.html

Which still fits in under cashing in, but there must be more to the story than for profits.
The remark on selling, suggesting that selling can't be taught, was not right:

E.g., I have an uncle who taught his sons selling, right, not for, say, P&G, GE, GF, UGE, IBM, but for his own business.

The son's business? Private label industrial floor cleaning supplies, major supplier for all of on US state. Why private label? Because the basic supplies are from a stable, old industry. The main issue is the one on one selling of those supplies to actual customers who actually use the supplies. So, the old industry that makes the supplies to fill some train of railroad tank cars is plenty eager to put the supplies in 55 gallon barrels or just 10 gallon buckets for the selling, with private label, my cousin did.

I have a childhood friend whose father taught him about selling. The father's business? Leading wholesale supplier of beer for about 1/4 of a US state. The son got an engineering degree, but he found that by far his best career opportunity was to take over the family business and use what his father taught him about selling, e.g., to small grocery stores, bars, restaurants, vendors at sporting events, etc.

I have a friend whose father taught him about selling. The father's business? Killed about 5000 hogs a day, chilled them overnight, cut them into pieces, put the pieces in boxes, put the boxes in 18 wheel refrigerated trucks, drove the trucks from the US Midwest to the US east coast. The selling? The father sat in his office in the Midwest with a head set and a spiral bound notebook and did the final selling. How to teach the son? For a start, when the son was 16, gave him the keys to a nice car and a credit card and sent him, alone, on a selling trip to each of the customers. Later the son started a business and was really good at selling.

Again, we're not talking marketing and sales for some business worth $100 billion but selling for some life style, family business.

Is there something to teach that is teachable and valuable? Darned right. E.g., in the first case, the son came home and told his dad that he had the order signed but, still, lost it. Why? Once he did get the order, trying for good customer relations, he stayed around the customer's office for a few minutes making small talk. Suddenly the guy who signed the order had some second thoughts. Lesson: When have the signed order, go away, go away nicely, but definitely go away, essentially ASAP.

Another lesson? When selling, emphasize your really good customer service. So, for the first order, have something wrong with it, say, some missing parts. When the customer calls, make a heroic effort, maybe drive all night and get there at start of business the next day, and hand deliver the missing parts with apologies. It worked.

There's lots of this stuff. If the father is really good at such selling, then there's lots of stuff he can pass down to his son that will work, well enough to be a big help in having the son have a nice standard of living and, e.g., pay full tuition for his children at some B-school where the professors circumvented the challenges of selling by being professors of marketing and sales at a B-school, and I used to be a B-school prof!
Good riddance. Firefox OS was a technical disaster. It was vulnerable by design as it had no capabilities for updating Gecko. I had hopes for it, and I will happily continue to use my first generation ZTE (70 bucks) FxOS phone, but I am happy they are no longer sold.

Distribution of the OS was a reckless debacle and, from the perspective of a non-technical customer, fraud, if you ask me.
But I have to share all of my flashcards with you? Not gonna happen.
Isn't this article just a reformulation of the Debian Wiki?
"the only product that has ever been advertised on Google’s front page"

The Nexus One and 7 were too:

* http://searchengineland.com/surprise-googles-home-page-promo...

* http://www.cnet.com/news/googles-nexus-7-tablet-pops-up-in-r...
I advocate taking it further with clustered filesystems on inexpensive nodes. Good design of those can solve problems on this side plus system-level. Probably also need inexpensive, commodity knockoffs of things like Stratus and NonStop. Where reliability tops speed, could use high-end embedded stuff like Freescale's to keep the nodes cheap. Some of them support lock-step, too.
I am merely a user, not a contributor yet. But I would say a solid base, and not a full implementation of your wanted features list, is in OpenKeychain.

http://www.openkeychain.org/

Projects like this are why I continue to use Fdroid, Cyanogen AOSP, and believe the open source movement on mobile is worth the hassle. Oh yea, that and Password Store.

https://github.com/zeapo/Android-Password-Store/
"According to internal Stripe documents obtained by BuzzFeed News, online hoverboard purchases are plagued by fraud."

"Documents show that as of Dec. 7, Soulja Boy’s Stripe account held a balance of $-174,440.08. Between June 30, 2015, and Dec. 7, according to the same documents, more than 75% of all orders associated with that account were disputed after the fact."

I find the fact that someone at Stripe is leaking financial documents/information of customers (presumably for some sort of personal gain) to be HIGHLY disturbing. Maybe it's time they reviewed who has access to what sensitive information there.
Ah, this is in the neighborhood of what I'm after, thanks. Personal testimonial is good, but what I'm looking for is evidence that a significant number of people are paying up for this experience and continue to do so.

As an example, consider 3D movies and television sets. For a while, many vendors were touting them as the next big thing, and you could find plenty of people who'd talk about well done 3D as an amazing experience. But now it's the rare movie that bothers with 3D, and manufacturers have mostly given up. There just was never the significant consumer enthusiasm that there was around, say, color film and color television.
I had this exact situation - and I told him it felt "off" and was scolded for not being a community leader. Oops!
I use ssh -D to cheap VPSes, and dynamically use the proxy based on Firefox's FoxyProxy to route different URL requests through different networks.

Handy for anything from region locked websites (extremely common in streaming video) to local censorship (increasingly common in Western countries, especially around torrents).

Having to set up individual port mappings for arbitrary URLs (whose actual hosts may change on an arbitrary basis) is not a viable alternative, IMO.

Maybe I misunderstood you though. Is there an easier alternative approach that makes ssh -D superfluous?
> It is not a force, since at the particle level forces have carriers that are exchanged between particles so that momentum and energy change.

In other words, we couldn't fit it to model of quantum fields and carriers and it fits perfectly other model where it's not a force.

Gravity could be described with same exact words.

Although I agree that exclusion principle superficially looks much less like a force than gravity does.
Still, gravity is exactly same as forces that come from choosing accelerating frame of reference ... are there plans to look for carriers of those forces as well? Or should we expect gravitons popping up once we accelerate that don't exist for stationary observer?
Yeah, that's a common error among Markdown writers. It's too easy to forget the last bracket, especially if you are putting a link inside a parenthetical comment in the first place.

Fortunately, it's easy to detect programmatically. I have a little shell script which flags problems in my Markdown files: http://gwern.net/markdown-lint.sh

In this case, you can use Pandoc | elinks -dump to get a rendered text version, and then simply grep in the plain text for various things like "-e '(http' -e ')http' -e '[http' -e ']http'"
What about termites?
Good summary of the situation. It's why I fought out-of-order execution at hardware and OS levels as much as I could. Even went out of way to use processors that didn't do it. Market pushed opposite stuff into dominance. Then came the inevitable software re-writes to get predictability and integrity out of what shouldn't have problems in the first place. It's all ridiculous.
Almost certainly yes a warrant could eventually have been obtained. UK law (well English and Welsh law at least -- I can't speak of Scottish law) tends to err on the side of "catch the bad guys" rather than personal freedom. Most people here argue that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear and would not object to a police search of their own property.

EDIT
Also I see that the article says that two of the men were arrested whilst (driving?) with some of the loot. I'm not sure of the current status of stop and search but I'm fairly sure that the police have rather broad powers that don't require a warrant to search people outside of their home.

Usual disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I'm definitely not your lawyer. If you are looking for legal advice then hire a solicitor.

Other disclaimer: I'm in the minority that thinks that everyone has something to hide -- even if only their bank details.
They'd love full-time; it's just not offered.

One is taking classes at the community college, but the classes are apparently very poor quality and still around $3500 a semester (her annual income is ~$9000 / year). I told her to take Computer Science classes, but is that even good advice, anymore?
Anki has many features but I found it too complicated and I didn't like the UI, nor having to sync across devices. So I decided to develop a basic, simpler alternative, a web app that can also be installed in the home screen of an iOS or Android device, https://omnimemory.com
Have you used an HTC Vive or Oculus Touch controller?
Yes, it is to encourage growth. The grant was gratis (ie. we didn't have to pay it back) but did come with a lot of administrative bullshit (maybe a third of one man lower over the course of two years).
ouch, thank you ... shouldn't have relied on auto correct to guess the right physicist
ZFS on Linux[0] doesn't use FUSE.

[0] http://zfsonlinux.org/
Hells to the no. In my experience, if you see a useless young male intern, he's probably the nephew of the dumbest investor.

But the pattern holds in one way, because to keep up appearances, we're supposed to put the useless male intern on coding projects. So he's more of a net negative.
Remember that you read it here first, there will be a unicorn built on the concept of SRS. I use Anki daily and love the application but there's a learning curve and you have to build your own workflow to make it work. Someone is going to take the concept and make it accessible to the masses.
I think we may be seeing the beginning of that proof in the way the Gear VR sold out in hours.
Here's a picture: http://imgur.com/HTSdbdN
We allow for private content, but that's a premium feature since it's against the ethos of our platform.
Seems like the federal student loan idea misses the point of putting degrees "within reach" of everyone. First of all, why are interest rates 5%!? A properly state-subsidized loan would have an interest rate that makes it a net zero affair for the government. The current Swedish central bank interest rate of zero (actually slightly less) means my student loan interest rate for 2016 is 0.6%.
Also, student loans don't count as debt in the sense of credit scores.
Surprised to see it here, as I assumed that everyone on HN would know already how to use ssh proxy.

Nevertheless, in my experience Firefox works astonishingly bad with it. From time to time (probably, as some connections expire or whatever: I'm pretty sure it depends on network configuration at your location) Firefox just stops responding to user actions. It doesn't really freeze: buttons are clickable and you can open a new tab, but clicking on a link or entering a new url does nothing. No errors, simply nothing. I never filled a bug report, as I cannot actually work out what happens or how to reproduce it, but that thing happens to me only when Firefox is working through SOCKS 5 via ssh and it's frustrating as hell.
Great, so what are those things? Let's break them out so we can discuss whether they're a good deal and whether there are more affordable alternatives. Some people do just want a good education.
One specific type of advertisement comes up repeatedly in this article: link syndicators, like Taboola and the like. They're responsible for a lot of the most deceptive and lowest quality advertising content on legitimate sites.

These advertisers often claim to be recommending "related articles" or syndicating content from "around the web", but this is simply not the case. Their "sponsored content" is almost always very low quality fake news articles that would have a hard time buying advertising through any other outlet -- many of them are for outright scams, like make-money-at-home schemes, win-a-free-product schemes, or dubious dietary supplements.

The Internet as a whole, and especially news sites, need to stop working with these advertisers. Their advertisements masquerading as content are bringing disrepute to the sites running them, as well as to advertising in general.
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> Plenty of meaningful results have been derived from effective QFT (Hawking radiation for instance).

You mean unobservable (yet?) predictions?

> The model does break at a certain scale, but that is true for models without gravity too.

That's kind of deal breaker when it comes to gravity.
At some point the cost of scanning a long file will overcome the cost of doing log(n) seeks. On short files, it really doesn't matter what you do, searching will be fast regardless.
I'm always a bit disheartened when I see misinformation and negativity spiral like this.

The work trial is no longer required, but it is an option since some candidates really enjoy working with us to get a better sense of what it is like before deciding.

I think it served us really well in the early days but you're right it doesn't work for all people (especially more senior folks). And of course we offer to pay people for the time.

In terms of overall comp, we pay more than 7 out of 10 comparable companies (sub 200 employees, tech, in the bay area) across both cash and equity according to http://conneryconsulting.com/ who we hired to help us with this.

Overall, our hiring process (especially in the early days) was weighted toward not making a bad hire, so this means we missed out on some good people occasionally, but ended up with a stellar team. Given the chance to do this over again, I'd make the same choice.

Finally, I'd suggest reading some of Paul Graham or Sam Altman's advice on this topic, for example: http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire

"Have people audition for roles instead of interviewing for them"
"A single bad hire left unfixed for long can kill a company."
etc

We definitely didn't have it perfect early on, and still don't, so apologies if you had a negative experience. It is something we are always working on.
It is much easier to create large numbers of cards on desktop than mobile. There are also a large number of third party add-ons available for desktop https://ankiweb.net/shared/addons/
Star Wars vs Star Trek?
My biggest issue with an off-schedule is trying to maintain a routine. So many dietary, exercise, or prescription recommendations are based upon a time-of-day routine. Intermediate Fasting seems to be based upon skipping breakfast, which doesn't jive well with sleeping twice a day. A "morning run" doesn't make as much sense at 3am, depending on where you live. Same goes for prescriptions.

I've had a few relationship troubles in the past - in-part because my hours were too weird to cope with over time. Fortunately I've married someone who not only understands, but appreciates my schedule. I'm definitely worried about what it'll be like when we finally get a family started.
If you have no glasses with you, make a tiny hole with your hand and look through that. It only works with sufficient light, but should give a fairly focussed impression, eg for when you want to check the clock in the pool.