skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the biggest factor of the isolation of an idea is how long the person thinking it has be isolated from other similar ideas, or how long they have sat and thought about their ideas without interruption or critique.

A wild child (never knowing culture or language) is going to have truly unique ideas, but will be unable to communicate them. A 9 to 5 'er with an average number of children, pets, cars, etc with a nose down to the grindstone ethic... they might be a fabulous person, but the chance they have isolated ideas is minimal. Now, somewhere in the middle, someone that's a little out of the ordinary, someone that has a hard time connecting with others, they might have that rare isolated idea. But probably not for very long as that's actually a sizable demographic.

We're talking network clusters here. No idea can ever truly be isolated. Unless you're talking Lovecraftian Gibbering horrors types of ideas. But that was more of a literary technique (or crutch).

And in an increasingly connected world these more independently formed ideas, I think, are becoming rare.

Speaking of Einstein, he was famously a patent clerk. That's a lot of time sitting and thinking. I'm sure someone else would have discovered the things he did, it might have just taken a few more decades and not come from one person in the same decade.
That's an interesting one. Let's say copyright was cut down to maybe 10 years. How much software that's running the world right now would be out of copyright protection? I suspect a significant percentage of the fundamentally important code for our economy is at least 10 years old.
> If find it hard to fathom how they can charge that much. $20/year I could understand...but $60?

I look at it the other way. Products don't usually charge enough to survive. Charge more, and survive, or die quickly from freeloaders. Shut up and take my money!
For some reason, I laughed at "pilot tube" (it's "pitot tube". I guess I'm tired.

Interesting concept, though.
The article seems to be fishing for a post-hoc justification for a lifestyle choice the author already made. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, but it was not what I was expecting.

As an semi-related aside, there is a side of vegetarianism that the article does not touch on [1]. If a vegetarian diet really does increase the incidents of mental illness it becomes a trade off between our health and the wellbeing of the animal.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3466124/
I can imagine an OSX Time Machine style interface to Git that would be quite cool.
I like the idea of declaring war on innumeracy. That totally works as a metaphor for improved teaching.

I'm not sure people need to know the 12 x 12 table, so much as knowing how percentages and compound interest work.

How long will it take someone to pay off a credit card debt if the APR is 39.9% and they can't afford to clear the balance every month? If they don't understand why the answer is "Probably forever unless they get lucky with an inheritance" they shouldn't be using a credit card.
Yup, that would be great to know, when doing hex.

Really, if I could have come out of school with the 20x20 table memorized, I wouldn't mind now at all.
It's not that Zuckerberg went to Harvard.

It's that he went to Phillips Exeter Academy.

A high school that costs over $36,000 a year (tack on more than $10k more if you're boarding there).

Zuckerberg is rare among these creatures in that he likes programming and wanted to build something. Most of them are the kind of parasites you can see in a documentary like "Born Rich" (it's on Youtube), who will live luxurious lives off the profit they expropriate off of those of us who do work and create wealth.

They are not people like you, spending months of drudge work going over BSD code back in the mid-1990s to find rfork holes and such, who two decades down the line might see a little payoff due to the efforts of their labor.
> a stereotypically racist American/English misspelling

I think the author of the bug was British. If you look at the user agent line at the top of the bug, the culture is "en-GB", and the phrase "who knows a bit about computers" sounds like British (or possibly Indian) English.
If someone's a mild jerk, saying "Hey, you were kind of being a jerk back there, seemed unnecessarily mean, knock it off" isn't being sensitive, it's asserting yourself. Sure, pick your battles, obviously. Nobody is suggesting violent jihad against the author.

"Hey, this reads as a bit racist to me" isn't really "crying to mommy/daddy", it's expressing an opinion on the text. Legislating what is and isn't an appropriate (ie, "not oversensitive") opinion on a text is counterproductive.
The problem is that most AAA games that are benchmarked on Linux vs Windows are 3rd party ports for a tiny minority among the customers. They put as little resources as possible into the ports, that's just enough to deliver something that is well playable.

Once you can compare an engine/game that has been optimized for OpenGL with equal effort than for D3D, then you can make a fair comparison.

But it's true, OpenGL drivers are often worse. Not just on Linux. Look at what happened when RAGE came out. Presumably that's also only because drivers for D3D are optimized and hacked on much, much more because there are so many AAA games that use it.

That there are already cases where AAA games run at times better on Linux than on Windows, even through a wrapper, is a very, very good sign for the performance to come if only a little more effort is put into the drivers and ports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZYIa-6UooM

That said, Unity and Unreal are the engines that matter most for VR right now. Both have linux versions. Unity 5.3 was recently released and they have updated their OpenGL backend significantly. I've not seen benchmarks yet...
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How would you compare it to Cassandra?
And it's not a very complicated circuit either.
Simplified version? The entire argument one of an economic simpleton.

Startups, ie Innovation, is of course good, it is almost entirely responsible for economic growth (simple population growth being the other).

The inequality question is about how to distribute the benefits.
Especially with tech startups the benefits have gone disproportionately to the founders or early investors.
Particularly when these startups "disrupt" an existing industry that employs many, then that is clearly problematic. Additonally, capitalism itself delivers the most gains to those who already have.

Of course some degree of inequality is entirely fair, but much larger taxes on the rich (preferably in the form of pre-distribution) do not stop the rich wanting to do what they do, but if handled properly, can vastly improve the lot of the poorest and give a helping hand to those who want to advance themselves but can't afford it.
That sounds funny, but when you put this together with the known increasing costs of supporting suburban infrastructure, it's possible that that whole style of life will be outcompeted and put out of business in most places.

Or it will become a poverty trap.
Parrot’s Newest Drone Has Wings
The experience with credit card deregulation should put the lie to the idea that selling across state lines results in meaningful competition and better products.

After the Supreme Court ruled that credit cards could be issued across state lines, the issuers migrated to states with the weakest consumer protections. As expected, this was followed by a series of abuses: credit card issuers would raise rates without warning, hiked late and overlimit fees, and buried key information in fine print to obscure the true cost.

It fell to the federal government to impose stronger consumer protections, via the CARD Act.

Much of the ACA was concerned with strengthening consumer protections by ending policies like rescission, lifetime limits, or denial for pre-existing conditions. If we were to repeal the ACA and allow selling across state lines, we should expect the re-introduction of these policies and worse.
Perhaps new software is part of the goal.
Wouldn't be too hard or add too much bulk
It rubs me wrong that nobody here considers that maybe the guy is really called Achmed.

But then the joke is on you I guess
> The problem with the Devops market is that good people get snatched up for north of 200k

Thanks for pointing this out, it helps immensely as a devops to have a comparison point (to current compensation/benefits).
http://www.afar.net/tutorials/900-mhz-versus-2.4-ghz/

900Mhz does not buy much for distance, however it works better under difficult line-of-sight situations comparing to 2.4Ghz. For real long-distance 4xx/3xxMhz might be better, or even the frequency we used for FM/AM radios.
from TFA:

> For 2016 and beyond, the penalty will be $695 per adult or 2.5 percent of household income, up from $325 per adult or 2 percent of household income last year.

The difference is that health care costs in the US are nonsensical. So high that it's really hard for the penalty to be less than the cost of insurance, until you have a six-figure income. If you make low-six-figures, you very likely get good health insurance through your employer (which ends up being priced much more reasonably because the group includes mostly healthy people).
I'm curious how they'll mock apps that have web requests. Like, on a website I work on we give testers a button to "create to users"--- it fills in the account signup form with the visa 4011 number and gives them an email/username/password based off of two randoms words from wordnik. (My favorite combo was: townwide-giardia.)

Would future users always get the same two words? Would they record the network request a couple of times?

If a web game had an endpoint to verify a solution, but the webrecorder only ever recorded the successful interaction, would it give success to any solution on the webrecord?

I suspect that a quick answer would be: "we won't mock apps with web requests", but that would painfully ignore how commonly 3rd-party apis are used.

//edit also you can play with webrecorder here: https://webrecorder.io None of my records are showing as Replays, but maybe that's because I'm an anonymous user.
45 minute flight time is awesome! going to be so much fun to fly this around with fpv goggles.
The main feature of Spacemacs over just plain evil is that it has a number of "layers" for different languages, utilities and emacs things, which introduce consistent, vim-friendly keybindings. With plain evil-mode, you'd have to tinker with every package you wanted to use and come up with some good vim-style keybindings.

The Spacemacs layer setup does restrict you to what it supports, unless you want to do things manually.
I hope Rhizome archives this thread.
We have a winner of this discussion!
TI etc has those decent 9xx/4xx/3xxMhz chips for long time, it's just that they were not wifi-certified.
"For example, instead of attacking economic inequality, we should attack poverty."

This is such an anemic statement in the face of the reality of corporate fraud such as, "HSBC escapes action by City regulator following Swiss tax scandal" [0]

The biggest fault in the essay, in my view is not acknowledging and exploring the externalities in economics described. While the big end of town scams its way to profit, what hope has an individual?

Creating tech startups is one way to profit from this imbalance.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/04/hsbc-escapes...
If some country reached a point where the majority of businesses were "startups" for some reasonable value of that word, then such a country would likely be quite democratic. If startups could proliferate and create enough wealth to sustain such a condition, then it follows that the economic incumbents would not be exercising enough power to enforce the status quo.
Does your IDE not?
Five Questions with Howard Lindzon
> if its very rich people you can not equate with,

oh, so you mean stealing is OK as long as it's from people you're jealous of?

The problem I have with that is that it's a foot in the door[1]. You begin with taking from ultra-rich people, expecting me to be ok with that. And then you take from slightly less rich people, and then even less rich and so on until you claim it's ok to take from anyone who's less poor than you.

So no, I don't want to let envious poor people rob rich people, no matter how rich they are.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-in-the-door_technique
here's some context from the founder at a self-funded startups microconference: https://vimeo.com/95653848
For $6/item they should offer more choices on how it is to be wrapped. I would say at least 6-12 different kinds of paper.
Much easier than having to stay within easy reach of the computer's power switch at all times. Though I suspect that there are a very limited number of people in the world that actually face a threat of police coming into their home with a flask of liquid nitrogen to try to do a key recovery of latent data in RAM. This is probably the same set of people that are worried that someone will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars with an electron microscope to try to recover data from their hard drive.

I'd bet that most people that think they are in this risk category do not have strong enough security practices to prevent data from being cracked by other means.
"They're not usually focused on CEOs specifically, but the main argument is that wealthy people use their wealth to give them political influence, which helps them pass laws that "unfairly" benefits them. (Or, if you don't want to bring fairness and morality, we can just say that wealthy people pass laws that make it more likely for them to remain wealthy, regardless of whether other people are impacted badly by this)."

This is a straw man, not an argument. Poor people have political influence too. With the popularity of Twitter and social networks, everyone does. If you don't like what a politician is doing, go out on Twitter and start a #hashtag campaign against them.

It has gotten many political figures, CEOs, and even regular employees fired.
What Didn’t Happen
What I've seen for much larger items (projector) is a big blue bag.
Ok, I know message queues[1] are not the most popular part of System V IPC, but was it really necessary to overload the name?

(I mean ActiveMQ et al overloading "message queue" in general, not you pipecat project)

[1] http://beej.us/guide/bgipc/output/html/singlepage/bgipc.html...
You can write TypeScript without a big framework around it.
I live in Arizona. My employer only offers high deductible health plans with a pre-tax health savings account. So, I pay ~350 USD per month for the plan to cover my wife and I. Then I also contribute to this health savings account, my employer kicks nothing in. For this, we get basic vision and dental completely covered. That is, routine checkups, cleanings, basic prescription eyewear. Everything is else is subject to a high deductible, ~10,000 USD. The insurance covers something like 20% of certain kinds of expenses until we hit the deductible, then it covers 80-100%, per year.

A few weeks ago I had an asthma attack and went to see a doctor. The office refused to tell me in advance what I would be charged, or even what my insurance would be charged. I ended up being charged $200 after insurance, and then an additional $100 for prescriptions.

Because I had not previously selected a primary care physician, it was difficult to see a doctor in a reasonable amount of time. The doctor I did find gave wrong instructions for one of the prescriptions, and forgot to call or even write down the other.
It sets an important precedent.

Also, that you accepted it tells a lot.
It wasn't defensible 30 years ago, either.

I say that - may be I led a charmed life. Sigh.
You could... return it? I thought they were very clear it wasn't refundable and there were some discussions in the forums about it with some negative quotes from the customer support...

> I won't send them more money unless they're going to support Linux.

Careful, they already said they support linux with the dk2 and we know how that went. Don't rely on what they say they "are going to do". Only buy it when they demonstrate complete and fully working linux support, not earlier.
At least in retrospect, this doesn't surprise me. If Kafka had been a 21st-century American, he probably would have written a novel about medical billing instead of The Trial. An incomprehensible cost structure represents, in some sense, infinite risk. Why wouldn't people be hesitant to engage?
Why the 2012 non-Retina MacBook Pro still sells
It's a bit ironic that there's a longer comment describing why the code shouldn't be removed than there are comments describing what the code _actually does_ or _why_ inline.
The part you're missing is what you bring to the table? Why would an experienced programmer choose to spend their time helping you? It's obvious what's in it for you, but what about the other side?

I've mentored a lot of people. And I'll be honest - most people I've mentored eventually stop contributing to the relationship once they get what they want out of things, be it a new job, opportunity, etc.

So now I coach, and I charge money for it.

So ask yourself, why would someone want to invest their time, which is their most valuable commodity, in helping you reach your goals?

If you network, and find the right person, you may discover exactly what that is.

But if you're just looking for someone to give you guidance and advice, consider paying a coach. :)

However, if you want to get over the awkward factor, try "Hey, I have always wanted to know more about [something they know about.]. Could I pick your brain over a beer/coffee?"

It's kinda like dating. Worst thing that can happen is they say no. And the answer is always no unless you ask.
Looks like it's almost double in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

Anecdotally, waiting to see a regular old doctor was faster in Italy than in the US. Some specialist visits involved longer waiting times in Italy. Going private in Italy was generally both fast and cheap: something like 100 euro for a chest X-ray done the next day.

Canada's health care system is good, I guess, but it's generally not ranked quite as highly as places like France and Italy, IIRC. More comparisons tend to be made with Canada and the UK because of the common language.
Ah, but we still disagree on the point that economic inequality inevitably worsens a society, and a decrease in inequality does not correspond to a decrease in the ability for people to make startups.

I think this is a philosophical disagreement that won't be solved by clarification of ideas.
What do you think about Ember's mobile performance problems?
HTTPS Bicycle Attack [pdf]
Haste also generates reasonable output (it can be debugged, though it is nothing like as reasonable as purescript) and has a runtime that is only 500 lines of straightforward javascript. It had pretty haskellish runtime semantics (purescript doesn't) I was able to use my existing tools like hdevtools, and have what (with just a couple ifdefs) functions as a single code-base for client and server. But its community is just too small, its updates too sporadic. I couldn't see building a business on it. Purescript or Typescript would be the only compile-to-javascript languages I would consider for serious work.
I agree, the wink hub already ships with something like 5 different radios. Also this doesn't look like it supports mesh networking. What advantages does it offer over z-wave or zigbee? And will it be better than Insteon's or Lurton's protocols?
Except in this case, when the comment was written http hadn't been invented yet :)
I kinda use it as my resume. I still send my resume to companies, but having it 'out there' makes everyone being able to look it up and come up with opportunities that I wouldn't have gotten if I wasn't visible.

Other than that I don't really see a lot of value in its networking capabilities. I usually approach people through email anyway.

Edit: just wanted to elaborate a bit more: I can often see that potential clients have looked me up on LinkedIn. I wouldn't normally send them my resume so they would just have to 'trust me'. But because they can freely lookup my background info and see that people endorsed me for things, it gives me some credibility.
On a fast i7 and a 50 megabit connection I get:

* A flash of unstyled content

* No text on first load for 5 seconds

* A one second delay switching between pages on the docs page.

Bring back text/plain.
Not sure I agree. In a north eastern accent "ahnest ackmed" has a bit of a rhyme to it that has a hint of sleezy used car sales. Also interesting is that people took issue with the name _potentially_ eluding to a cultural (names dont imply race in this instance) stereotype instead of the _direct_ stereotype about the uncles.

EDIT: To be clear I'm not condoning casual racism. It's just that while I wasn't aware of a middle eastern stereotype about sleezy used car sales, I was aware of the one no one mentioned about the uncles which was pretty much direct.
Hacking a 433MHz Remote Control
Agreed. Let's take another examples: do you know how many thousands of tommes of 19th century/early 20th century books we have but we don't give a fuck about and we don't digitize/preserve?

Even if we have digitized them and had access to them, how many would even care? Heck, most people don't even read the books of their own time -- heck, 50+% read 1 book a year (if that). And those that read are already overloaded with stuff.

So why assume people in 100,000 will give much fucks about books and data from 2015?

Apart from some archeologists, that is -- and even them would have tons of higher level descriptions of our century, in the forms of history books, movies and documentaries, so they wont care much about the hundreds of thousands of individual artifacts we have produced.
His comment on being edited made me think of something that is a bit of a tangent. I like the way he writes on his blog. He has personality. I wonder if more lay people would read tech writing if more of the personality of the writers came through. So rather than discouraging it, should editors encourage it?
Hence: "cherry picked". You don't have to pick ALL the parts if you don't want. You can still compare a full framework and the 2-3 items you cherry picked though as methods of getting web apps done.
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I like to solve hard problems from the ground up with small teams that really care about what they are working on.
The average person's car is somewhere between messy and a pigsty.

Give people an economic incentive for keeping a neat car, then you're going to see neat cars. This is clearly true for the current Uber and Lyft fleets.
The unsung heroes of scientific software
Another question: is the old code even valid in any sense compared to the current code? Since the original was written before 1985, then 99.9% of the people running Emacs will be running it on an OS that did not exist in any form in 1985 (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Android, etc) and the rest will be running on OSes which have changed substantially or been replaced entirely since then (SunOS->Solaris).
>> Use parens (...) for fluent APIs
> I don't like that.

And I can't stand '/' line continuations and much prefer the paren style. Quite happy to agree to disagree but you did start your post with "This guy got a bunch of things wrong" - so you should maybe be stricter about the distinction between what you truly regard as 'wrong' and what you just respectfully disagree with?
I think the issue might be that you replied to the wrong comment, so it didn't quite make sense in context.