skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is actually something different with these 80s movies for kids _and_ adults. Part of it was some true courage in the story-telling, for what movie studio of today would allow a character like "Sloth" from the Goonies to end up in a movie? Darkness along with the light. And sincerity in both rather than vapid "sarcasm." These movies have soul and heart.

Not saying that similar movie magic is impossible now or in the future, but in the current world of profit-driven decisions on creative direction it seems unlikely for the foreseeable future.
We don't have clear, culturally relative definitions (nor would we want any) of "intelligence", "empathy", or what is "cultured" other than those that the most psychopathically inclined conquerors of civilizations past brought us, however the display of those characteristics seems to be the most valuable social signifier today, and the people behind Pixar (one them was Steve Jobs, a known psychopath) have been the most ruthless accumulators of this level of trust regardless of their individual intentions.
As a developer, I do my best to engineer it into my product.
This was the textbook for the AI class I took last year at my university! I found it very well written.
One lawyer’s (sarcastic) take on the FAA’s recreational drone registration FAQ
TANK Magazine: Winter 2015 Travel
Will the real RESTful API please stand up
So let's say it was the NSA who did it. You think they haven't already sent Juniper an NSL telling them to cease discussing this incident?

Personally, I'll be rather surprised if we hear any more about this from Juniper than we already have.
But....young...female....billionaire.
Nothing. I think they'll keep pumping out successful versions of their current products for a long time, but I don't see anything fundamentally new. That's not necessarily a bad thing, of course. Most companies can't even reinvent themselves once. Apple managed to do it two or three times. But I can't see anything more coming, as there just isn't space for anything more that fits them. A TV makes no sense, a car makes no sense, and their traditional consumer electronics/computing market already has an Apple product in all the important categories.
I read the FVP post [1]...I'm slightly incredulous: it's just a list. That you scan and pick things from. I'm not sure if I should be impressed or underwhelmed at the simplicity.

There are no categories, no contexts, no markers, no due dates...

I'm not sure what makes this is a "system". What's odd is that the author seems to have had previous incarnations/systems, that were actually more complex, e.g. had separate lists with review periods, curation, etc., but he seems to have evolved (which I really appreciate continual improvement) to "fuck it, just use one list".

I know I'm committing an error of logic, but his FVP stats seem to indicate he's basically retired/in a low stress environment [2], so perhaps all the regalia of GTD (which fwiw I don't practice) are more applicable in the corporate environments that spawned it.

However, if it works for you, that's great. It's been awhile since I've poked around in the "productivity system" space. Interesting stuff.

[1]: http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2015/5/21/the-final-...

[2]: http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2015/5/27/a-day-with...
Unified threat management
I have a problem with that statement too, but for different reasons.

Costs affect prices because if companies can't make a profit, they stop doing business. Under (near perfect) competition, prices tend to be a bit over cost. Supply and demand may be the mechanism, but costs do indeed come into it.

In many cases though, advertising lowers prices because if you can sell more products, the average cost can be lower because of economies of scale.
I remember there was another machine learning textbook being drafted on the web. I can't remember the name, author or url though. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Any other resources would be appreciated, too.
Are we really "raising our kids to be consumers"? I mean, you have to really go out of your way to not make them consumers. I don't even know how it's possible. I recall you have a daughter -- does she not go on and on with the 'let it go' song? When she goes to a store does she not by her own accord beg you to buy her Elsa and Anna themed toys?

If not, what are you doing as a parent to not make them consumers? Lots would like to know!
Star Wars invented and perfected the tie-in. That was George Lucas' real and major contribution to movies as a business.
You just need to use the 3-fold rule. If the study wasn’t double blinded and the effect is not at least 3-fold then it is most likely to not hold up over time.
What, a country with two official languages with no common ancestry isn't a homogeneous culture? Say it ain't so!
What's the evidence? All I've seen is speculation and rumor. But I haven't followed it very closely, so I certainly could have missed a lot.
I wonder if these superhero CEOs would be willing to be scientifically tracked for a few months to see how well they really perform. Because what is described is either a bunch of lies or something pretty amazing. I've never met anyone that could function like this for sustained periods and be useful in any way.

The slightly more honest ones might be conflating a weeks of effort to a single day. This is the kind of "white lie" I could almost see myself doing (but not to this extreme). So perhaps one day this week they got up at 4:30. Or perhaps twice this week they did a navy seal workout. But in their reporting this is all a "normal day".

Or, since appearence is everything these days maybe they are just saying what they think they need to say. Results don't matter, it's how much effort you appear to be putting in. This is what is valued. CEOs need to appear like they are valuable. Imagine the CEO that was honest and said "I get up at 9:00am and relax with coffee and a newspaper while I get ready for the day." People would deride them. So like all people who make it to the top they play the part, and lie.
Calling a function exactly once after a group of operations have completed is a pretty common pattern in Node.
Microsoft wrote down its entire purchase of aQuantive for 6B.
Was curious to checkout http://www.radian-lang.org/

It gets me a server error. Is it still online ?
I often find the sponsership messages less tolerable than ads, at least when talking about public TV.
> when it turns out they weren't doing any of that

Except for the part where they had all 200 tests going through lab review... Is the doubt that they'll move on to getting more tests FDA approved once the first one passes full review?
I think self-challenge is a great thing, but I never understood CEOs whose understanding of self challenge is basically confined to the physical realm - training like Navy Seals, motorcycling, climbing difficult mountains, doing an ultra marathon, etc... You can challenge yourself on a lot of levels, but it always feels a little brute when it's only physical stuff.

Of course to truly broaden yourself, to grow in the deepest, meaningful ways, you won't have time to do it if you're a CEO.
Are you talking about this one http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/
Yeah I remember it was an interesting thought process. I put so much energy into rooting the system, and after a short celebration when I got a root shell, it was a "well now what?" moment.

We debated intercepting the trafic to the game server and retransmitting (a man in the middle), initially. Then I wanted to run a hidden process (with some system looking like name) that have injected java byte code into the running server to give our team an advantage, but that proved too difficult, so the idea to just change the source in the repo that the TA kept on the same machine, was kind of a boring and un-exciting conclusion. It didn't seem very clever at all and felt like giving up.
Seriously? ANY pixar film puts those to shame in terms of depth. The entire back story of UP was about a widower; Finding Nemo, same story - talk about darkness and light. How about The Incredibles, Wall-E, Monsters Inc, all fantastic story telling and incredible depth. It even goes further back than 80s, to movies like The Sound of Music with the Nazis.

Again, your biases are only fuzzy nostalgia and it seemed bigger to you then cause your brain couldn't contextualize it as well.
So don't try to convince. Just give us some alternatives to consider.
Breaking My Heart
...and we know this because every single article about the company comes complete with a video or photo shoot of the CEO.
Engineers tend to over-engineer. Law makers tend to make too many laws. Medical professionals tend to over-medicate.

There is data aplenty that suggests an over abundance of psychological diagnosis, and we can infer medicating for these potentially bad diagnosis.
Exactly. Advertising usually leads to more volume and availability which has a much greater effect in actually reducing the price of goods.

The cost of marketing (which includes advertising) is usually a small fraction of the overall cost of production for most products and services.
This shouldn't be downvoted. Apple has hired a lot of interesting people in the last year:

* Paul Furgale - Deputy Director of Autonomous Systems at Swiss FIT

* Steve Zadesky - Ford Executive

* Robert Gough - Autonomous safety systems for Autolive

* David Nelson - Tesla Engineer

* Pete Augenbergs - Tesla Product Manager

* Hugh Jay - EMCO Gears Transmission/Mechanical Design Engineer

* Lauren Ciminera - Tesla Recruiter

* Jim Cuseo - MIT Motorsports/Ford Chief Powertrain Engineer

* Mujeeb Ijaz - CTO/VP at A123 Batteries / Fuel Cell Vehicle Engineering at Ford

* Rui Guan - Ogin Drive Train Engineer

* Sawyer Cohen - Concept Systems Control Engineer

* Dillon Thomasson - General Dynamics Lead Design Engineer

* John Morrell - Segway Engineer
@shoo Have you seen http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/?
Also, message me if you want to collaborate on an environmental advocacy platform. http://writegreen.org/ Unfortunately, it's not currently working because I need to migrate the app to Cedar 14 on Heroku. I haven't been hacking since 2011 (http://mbahacks.com/), so not feeling confident I could successfully migrate myself. Here is the old writegreen site that talks about the idea a bit more: https://writegreen.wordpress.com/problem/ . The Nature Conservancy and NRDC were interested in the tool, but I wasn't able to invest any more time into it at the time (I had a family to feed).

Anyhow, I'm looking to get back into trying to make a dent on this topic. Would love to connect with others to collaborate on something. Writegreen, or otherwise. I'd like to leave this world to my children better than I found it. Right now, it's not looking that way. You can message me directly via ed dot castano at gmail.com
SAP India CEO who used to be proud of doing only 4-5 hours of sleep a night , and was an avid marathon runner died of cardiac arrest at 42.

http://www.transitioning.org/2009/11/20/what-killed-ranjan-d...
Ask HN: Why do coding interviews always contain Dynamic Programming problems?
Read what I wrote:

> I'm not going to go around telling the plot of a movie to people (that's a dick move)

I have let other people decide what they care about. I'm just voicing my opinion about it. I'm not "spoiling" anything here. And, fine, my opinion is that anyone that cares about "spoilers" has first world problems. I have been yelled at (literally yelled at, like I'd just punted a puppy across the room) because I said something as obvious as "The Titanic sinks in the end", and often from movies of similar vintage.

Seriously, don't read reviews, don't watch trailers, and don't ask people their opinions of movies if you don't want "spoilers". Most of us aren't dicks, we won't go around telling you what happens in a movie unprompted (at least, not a recent movie, maybe as a way of explaining our references to older movies).
That's not runtime though. Apart from some functions which may be delivered and inlined by GCC (it's not necessary however), the result does not require GCC code.

Ruby code requires the whole ruby runtime.
Donations rarely work. They certainly fail any game theoretic model.

A rationally self-interested person would not donate, because in most cases, their donation would not give them as much benefit as the cost.

The way you'd measure benefit is the value received from the site, times times the chance that their donation makes the difference between the site existing and not existing. That chance is typically a very small number.

Naive articles like this don't bother factoring in what the chance is that your donation will make a difference....in other words they ignore the fact that most people would rather be a freeloader than a sucker.
is there a simple workaround for the economist paywall ?
I don't see how this is even a question. If you go through pilot training for a single engine land license (basic flight license) you go through all of the different categories and their restrictions.

One of such restrictions is that unless you have a Commercial license, you can't take compensation for the flight[1]. Even so far as to have a passenger pay for a "$100 hamburger." [2]

[1]FAR 61.113(a) states that "no person who holds a private pilot certificate may act as pilot in command of an aircraft that is carrying passengers or property for compensation or hire; nor may that person, for compensation or hire, act as pilot in command of an aircraft." The legal definition of "compensation" is broader than just meaning that money was exchanged. If the pilot gains any economic advantage, it could be considered compensation--for example, the acquisition (and thus building) of flight time, or the fostering of business goodwill, and excessive reimbursement of flight expenses, including payment for meals or lodging.

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$100_hamburger
> The assumption that the only way for websites to make money is via ads or paywalls is completely pervasive and it's simply not true.

Really? Not true because why? You haven't actually provided any real counterexample of a 3rd and better option.

Payment is either direct (funds transferred) or indirect (attention monetized through ads). The podcast you mentioned is just direct (donations, selling books, selling tickets, etc). In fact they seem to make money doing other things for direct payment and do the podcast for free, so it's not even a real business model but rather just a hobby.

> The Internet is quite expensive because of ads.

The internet is incredibly free, open, democratic and accessible because of ads. If you had to pay for the same amount of content consumption your monthly bill would likely be in the hundreds of dollars per month.
"I cycle to work every day, 70 miles! Both here and here are as red as a FIRE ENGINE."
> We were unable to identify this backdoor in versions 6.2.0r15, 6.2.0r16, 6.2.0r18 and it is probably safe to say that the entire 6.2.0 series was not affected

this sounds fishy, like Juniper trying to push users to upgrade from _non affected_ builds to a new firmware with a fresh set of NSA backdoors.
There's Model Based Machine Learning: http://www.mbmlbook.com
a bigger culprit is a lack of first-class functions. Objects in Java basically exist to be structs and to hold onto methods.
Hopefully...in your "want to be remote full stack developer" you realize that you will need to work 1-3 years on a team before going "remote".

It looks like a good beginning...keep going!
There are lots and lots of open source web applications out there. I like to read code to see how things are being done. Can you point to any web application out there, with source code available to read, that is built in the way that you are describing?
They have a lot to lose if they keep quiet -- customers, credibility, future business, etc.

What are the powers of NSL, can they be given to any entity / person / company for any reason at all and also gag them from discussion getting the NSL? What are the penalties for a company breaking the NSL silence? Jailing the CEO? NSA sending it would also reveal quite a lot and jeopardise their future operations, it seems they'd want to have plausable deniability of some sort.
Failing at the Basics in Intelligence and InfoSec
The problem with the current FAA rules is that even commercial pilots are banned from taking part in a service like this.

In fact, even pilots with the highest possible certification (Airline Transport Pilot) cannot provide transport unless operating under a company with a Part 119 Commercial Air Carrier license.
Amusingly, you're probably thinking of this book. It's been linked to many times here, probably at this URL:
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/dlbook/version-07-08-20...
Decent summary of the contemporary German identity. However, I find it futile to debate the effect of publishing Mein Kampf when everyone who is interested can download it from the internet.
I'm not referring to Steve Jobs, I'm referring to the Pixar "Brain Trust": http://www.fastcompany.com/3027135/lessons-learned/inside-th...

Fundamentally, these people are artists.
> ... a general von Neumann x86 won't come close to being able to packet switching at those speeds.

Hmm, really? The highest end Netscreen (550, IIRC) only has 4 x 1 GbE interfaces. Linux or FreeBSD can't keep up?
After the demise Google reader, pretty much everybody I know started building their very own RSS Reader. We also made one for the Relevant app. It's beautiful card called RSS Reader that you can add it from the library. Then just paste your rss urls in the back of the card and it works. (Currently iOS only). http://relevant.ai/
I think part of it is a greater social bias towards capitalism. You used to be awesome if you made art, now you're awesome if you make money.
(WSJ Paywall): How 'Hoverboards' Epitomize Our Broken Patent System
The book that completely changed my view on Hitler was 'Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning' by Timothy Snyder. It explained a lot of the inner logic of WWII and the Holocaust.
If it were just "cult" I'd wonder where the meetings are being held, what the initiation rites are, and if there are cool-looking robes worn at them.
Reposting a comment from the article :

At the core of these habits are important avenues for self fulfillment: exercise, healthy relationships, and non-work pursuits. We should certainly aspire to include some of them in our lives.

The issue for me isn't how exaggerated or true these claims are, but how they are being used by C-suite executives to justify their pay scale, power, and prestige.

The goal of these image obsessed executives is to build a myth of superiority both inside and outside of their organization that they are fundamentally different and better (and willing to sacrifice more) than the lowly ones who don't make it to the top. Further reinforcing this is the difficulty us mere mortals have in achieving a good paying job, financial solvency, healthy lifestyles, and strong relationships, but these people do it breathlessly easily. What choice do us mere mortals have but emulate these super-people with ever increasing amounts of our time in working to keep up?

Is it that much different than the Pharaohs and Emperors who fed the myths of their own super human or divine heritage to justify their privilege and power? The truth is that these CEO's retain an ever larger piece of the organization's surplus to spend on nannies, maids, and every other service imaginable while we in the middle class must work longer and longer hours to retain our salaried positions, leaving little if any time left to pursue a balanced and healthy lifestyle.

When will we realize these CEO's don't deserve these sky high salaries, CEO's need us for these organizations to function, and force them to return some of the surplus to their employees? They have no monopoly on aspirations or working hard to achieve them.

http://www.economist.com/comment/2974172#comment-2974172
>>Because what is described is either a bunch of lies or something pretty amazing. I've never met anyone that could function like this for sustained periods and be useful in any way.

Probably a lie. The article mentions "pre-dawn sex" as a way of connecting with their spouse, but a lot of these high performers are either divorced or single. Elon Musk is a good example.

This isn't a value judgment, by the way. It's just that the types of high performers described in the article rarely have time for family.
It's a tasting menu. The point of it is to taste good. You don't get to pick and choose, the restaurant picks everything. If they don't do a good job of pairing wine with the food on a tasting menu, customers won't be satisfied. If the restaraunteur responds to customers not liking the wine pairings by blaming them for posting bad Yelp reviews rather than changing the wine pairings, well, there's some natural consequences to that.
You've got an equivocation [1], three red herrings [2], and one begged question [3].

Equivocation:

You used "we" to mean government ("trillions on wars"), then private citizens ("hundreds of billions on sports..."), then back to government ("a few billion on producing knowledge"). "Our" war spending is certainly not related to "our" watching ESPN.

Red herrings:

War spending, lining corporate pockets, and private entertainment are unrelated to whether -- and to what extent -- fundamental physics should be government-funded. In fact, one may be a peace-loving socialist and still not believe that this research is the best investment for a nation's finite resources.

Begging the question:

You've assumed that research into string theory, multiverse theory, etc. produce knowledge, which is the very question being debated here. Knowledge is generally regarded as justified true belief [4] (albeit with qualifiers [5]). At issue here is whether one's scientific beliefs are adequately justified without empirical support -- i.e., whether we're producing any knowledge at all regarding this issue.

As a disclaimer, I was a researcher at a government lab for 5 years. In many cases, I believe scientific research is worth funding. That said, we should take care to present sound arguments regardless of the topic.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief#Justified_true_belief
5. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/
People don't like to pay when they can get things for free. This is human behavior. Donations are also not reliable or viable for a real business.

You're not going to change human behavior so donations instead of ads means 99% of the content out there disappears.
> 6 years ago, I rewrote 30 000 lines of C++ code in 1000 lines of Ruby.

(...)

> Code bloat is indeed a recurrent problem.

But in your example, you're still depending on thousands (millions?) of lines of BIOS, OS, library, runtime code.

It's so many orders of magnitude different than the point Moore is making -- and also, more subtly different: it's not like Forth system don't have library/OS code -- but eg. fitting a rich editor/IDE and OS on a floppy is quite different from eg: Ruby. It's a completely different mindset.

Even if something like Ruby does a lot of things out of the box, if you were to strip it down to a subset that only allowed to be used as a caluclator repl, it'd still be quite complex compared to a Forth system (just think about all the code need to handle keyboard input, and talking to the monitor over VGA/HDMI etc).

None of that invalidates your point, that code bloat is a problem, I just think it highlights that there are different kinds of bloat.

Somewhere between colorForth and developing in in a "traditional" language with a "traditional" IDE on a "traditional" OS, we find things like Project Oberon and Smalltalk-80. Or VPRI's recent effort to create a full drivers-through-gui-up-to-and-including-applications system in 50kcloc total, making aggressive use of DSLs to manage the complexity.