skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should have known better than to expect HN to have any respect for humanity, art, or subjective experience.

Bigger point, the human ear is one of the most varied and wildly inconsistent of our senses, while at the same time being highly accurate and able to discern tiny details fairly well. It tricks us, and as such it's difficult to stick to science alone to describe what we "hear" because "hearing" is a whole lot more complex than simply "accurately reproducing." And that should be celebrated.

In other words, I feel sorry for all you heartless computer minds, even as a computer scientist myself; you have no humanity in your unabashed technocracy, and you are the worse for it.
This one is to workaround coders stupidity, despite winapi having functions to give windows version numerically, lots of coders just used regex on windows name... and the regex for "windows 9*" is extremely common
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Well... maybe? SourceForge was always a really terrible experience for me, using it in say 2004/05. Loads of ads, interstitials and other general bad behaviour. It's not exactly surprising.
Not everyone can learn math. I my self had brilliant and great math tutors that my parents hired for me. I event went to special private math classes with brilliant math teachers and i tried to the best of my abilities to get good at it and pass the advanced math courses in highschool. Still i suck greatly at math and i always will.

I am very grateful for all the help my parents provided for me without it i would not pass even the first math classes in highschool.
Reading the tea leaves on this one early we can probably assume there's a good chance the high vulnerability does not affect libressl, which forked before the 1.0.2 codebase. We'll find out about the low.
Exactly. I'd rather see how WebStorm compares to Visual Studio Code which has pretty great debugging for Node dev.
Nice. I own the ycombinator.news domain and was planning to do a similar thing but never got to it. If you want it, I'd be happy to give it.
Falcon was indeed awesome. I remember taking the manual to bed with me since it was such a great read.
That creates a really significant free-rider problem. In your hypothetical, companies have a strong incentive to start in countries that have strong infrastructure and services (safety nets to reduce risk for founders and early employees, higher-education to ensure a supply of educated workers, etc), then move to a low-tax jurisdiction once they are successful.

Imagine if investors in startups couldn't take equity, but were limited to taking a percentage of current profits. That would create a huge disincentive to be an early-stage investor, and a huge incentive to be an investor that could come in with the cheapest rates at the last round of investment for a company that already had established growth and revenues.

In the alternate, consider the hypothetical of tax rate auctions at the time of birth. I.e. what tax rate would people bid in order to be born and try to become successful in the U.S. instead of somewhere else?
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Personally, I don't think the income tax for corporate entities makes sense. The scale and complexity of these organizations makes compliance and enforcement ridiculously expensive and unfair.

Most famously, General Electric has hundreds or low thousands of IRS employees on-site performing audit functions continuously. It's a waste of everyone's time.

IMO, it makes more sense to apply excise taxes, consumption taxes or taxes on corporate treasury balances. Or not to tax them at all.
> Why is it corporations only pay taxes in one country anyway?

They don't. They pay taxes in pretty much every country where they operate. Pfizer may move to Ireland, but they'll still pay US taxes on their operations in the US.
Vim's macros are super easy to record and play back, repeatedly. It's the one thing I'll still use evil mode for.

Emacs isn't that much worse, vim is just faster and easier.
not sure about "better", but i'm curious what was crippling back then? using them nowadays is a breeze and you get practically full functionality at your disposal.
I am 42.

The reason it was bad was because it was illegal.

Tens of thousands of innocent people die in Mexico almost every year because of drugs being illegal.

Make it legal and you remove the very foundation these drug cartels are based on.
If you read the original article[0] it did very well on the speed/size bench (5/5) but took a big hit on ease of writing (1/5) ending up with 48 between C# (47) and Haskell (49) and the following summary note:

> Everything would be incredibly fast, but getting new contributors would be very difficult due to the learning curve. There’s a risk of crashes as the library is not entirely memory safe, and there are likely to be changes ahead to the language. Probably writing the whole thing in ATS would be too much work for anyone.

ATS didn't make it to round 2[1] on grounds of use difficulty and difficulty of separating memory-safe and memory-unsafe code.

That seems prescient as the original ATS1 (ATS/Anairiats) was replaced by ATS2 (ATS/Postiats) a few months later, I don't know how compatible the two are but the FAQ puts ATS1 and ATS2 in different categories[2]

[0] http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2013/06/09/choosing-a-python-r...

[1] http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2013/06/20/replacing-python-ro...

[2] https://github.com/githwxi/ATS-Postiats/wiki/ATS-implementat...
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Yeah, but it does seem like interesting tech that was kept under wraps gets a comeback tour once patent protections run out.

Consumer 3D printing is an interesting case, because the wealth of extrusion deposition products came after the patents ran out. Same thing now with interesting developments in SLS. Patent runs out, some enthusiasts rig up their own, exchange knowledge over the web, and turn industrial technology into open hardware products.

I think the thing here is that companies owning these patents just never thought about the consumer and hobbyist markets. But their patents prevented people selling and innovating in these spaces, thus letting these markets lie fallow. What happens to markets when the legal monopoly stops selling?

Now consumer electronics is a field where there's a lot of motion. But imagine the Smartphone(tm) was patented, and the owner of the patent decided to do industrial PDAs instead and abandon the consumer market. They still prevent others from selling to the consumer market, even they don't loose anything from that except some vacuous "potential revenue".

Trademarks elapse when they're not used, and names can be used in different markets when there's no chance of confusion (Nissan Motors vs. Nissan Computers). Patents (outside of I think 2 renewal dates) don't quite work that way. The question is, do they prevent technology from jumping into different markets by virtue of their broadness?
So if a woman can "survive" the business environment, she's more likely to become a CEO. To me that says: if she can survive through the bias/discrimination, she's probably much more qualified than her male counterparts.

That women are driven away by bias/discrimination is the true failing of our workplaces.
I wonder why people persist in speculating about OS unification. Chrome OS is great on cheap laptop form factors where Android would suck.

A web UI isn't good for a touch-only configuration. The web grew up with pointing devices, and "mobile web" apps haven't been competitive with native apps on touch-first devices. A web tablet would suck, too.

Microsoft has been banging their heads against this unwise unification until they missed the whole mobile market. You can't drag Windows into a touch-first world, and your ISVs will never get to where their apps work well in a touch-first world. It just ends up being a not-quite-getting-there mess.

Another way to look at it is: Try using a Google web app on a touch convertible. They're terrible. Not even trying to get touch right.
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"If you like somebody's work just go and see them. However, don't ask for their autograph. A lot of people came and asked me for my autograph and it's creepy." -- Marvin Minsky (https://youtu.be/qJZ_1a-t_sA?t=1543)
Any time a CEO of a company this size has to make a last-minute forced integration between groups in their company to catch up with a competitor, it means the CEO failed at their real job: anticipating their competitor, and being prepared with a response.

If CEOs are micro-managing tactics like this, it means they are failing to hire and delegate.
I personally moved to visual studio code (from WebStorm ) which has a good debugger for Nodejs and a few features that are really handy ( support for .d.ts definitions for node modules ... ). I usually don't use MS products but they did an impressive job with that IDE, no question.
It is a long article but a one well worthy of the time spent reading. It is not a "on my way home" type of read.

I specially enjoyed the last paragraphs where Minsky describes how he envisions A.I. development in the future. That he is not seeking a single unifying theory of human brain, but rather, several smaller theories that in the end will create a complete picture of how human brain functions.
It doesn't matter whether it was unknown. What matters was that it wasn't sold legally. This is what makes the whole difference here.
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> Remarkably, he’s probably still alive

_probably_? Surely it's only remarkable if he is?!
> hg clone . ../CloneForCoworkerInvestigation

This is way, way better than CVS. Some people complain about how this doesn't work in place, like git or shelve, but I prefer I don't have to change anything in my main repo, like regenerate IDE files, dependency caches etc.

In any event, I've always like how this worked.
In the US I have seen it only once: from people who got them free from Google I/O. But they still sell a lot of these devices. The target market are people who just need a browser or for schools.

Go read some sysadmin posts about Chromebooks, they are highly loved by schools. They are cheap, interchangeable between students with little issue (since it is all cloud based), and have great admin tools when you have a fleet of them.
Tim O'Reilly's response to PG's piece about income inequality
Why do we care if a company is nominally American or not? It just seems odd. Nominally being Irish or Swiss does not mean a majority of your employees are in those countries.
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U.S. tech salaries saw the biggest year-over-year leap ever, up 7.7 percent
One of the must-read papers in this area is a very short, very readable piece by Chris Achen called "Let's Put Garbage-Can Regressions and Garbage-Can Probits Where They Belong." [0]

The basic idea is that if your data experiences non-linear coding errors due to some external process before it gets to you, then as related to the true causal relationship between your variables, you're actually fitting a (possibly) non-linear transformation.

If you do this and still use the classical cook-book t-stat / p-value stuff, you can run into big problems. As the paper shows, even for an extremely simple data set where there is merely a non-linear coding error, the coefficient can be very statistically significant (t-stat magnitude > 2) and yet it will have the wrong sign.

This is a really remarkable thing. By just jittering your data a bit, you can obtain a result that passes the usual, simplistic significance tests but for which the effect size is negative when it should be positive (or vice versa).

I remember when I worked in quant finance and we were using a terrible, shamefully bad automated framework for frequentist model fitting, the sense of dread was huge. If the data we used had been jittered by the data vendor, or if there was a slight bug in the code that did variable cleaning, outlier manipulation, or scoring, or any of a hundred other steps where tiny non-linearities could be introduced, then it would be entirely possible for us to see "significant" results that pointed in the opposite direction from the truth.

There are many other papers which point out the pitfalls of naive dump-it-all-on-the-right-hand-side regression models, but I think this one from Achen is unique in that it is extremely short, extremely simple to follow, and yet it is fully devastating to this entire technique of modeling.

[0] http://www.columbia.edu/~gjw10/achen04.pdf
Have to increase my list now...

React.js

http://hackernews.azurewebsites.net

React.js

http://hackernewsmobile.com

Vue.js

http://vuejs.github.io/vue-hackernews

jQuery

http://hackerbra.in

jQuery

http://hckrnews.com

Vanilla

http://ihackernews.com

Ionic

http://codepen.io/lamogura/pen/QbGXrg

Angular 2

https://hswolff.github.io/hn-ng2
Right wing isn't gaining in Denmark. Not sure where you have that from.

DF is gaining because ordinary people are seeing their jobs being outsourced or underbid by eastern european citizens. In fact this is today the primary reason for why parties like DF gets more and more power. They are the only parties who actually takes peoples concern seriously. There is a much much bigger fraction of the western society who do not stand to benefit from technological progress, multicultural society and globalized workforce.

If anything what is happening right now is a national conservative trend where people who aren't benefitting will vote on the parties that are sceptic to progress.
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It's clearly red.
The journal article referenced in the OP actually seems to use more than just Markov chains. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.03313v2.pdf
If you're going to downvote me for repeating the opinion of his own legal representation and several other legal experts commenting on the case, you could at least explain why.

(Although I did mess up parole vs probation)
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It will limit some angel investing, but otherwise won't hurt tech
It will limit a lot of initial investing and some unicorns that need money won't get it. But, tech will, otherwise, be unhurt.
Otherwise deserving startups will see their funding dry up. Unicorns that are overvalued will flop. Maybe some layoffs in the big Cos...
It's 2001 all over again.
It's going to be worse than the last recession and tech is poised to take it in the kidneys.
Great Deprssion 2.0, here we come...
Well yeah but clearly the tax savings are enough to justify the expense of the legal time behind it and the logistics/admin overhead of the move, they wouldn't be doing it if it left them in the red.
Also, licensing issues. Map data for commercial projects is not cheap.
This is the first honest article I've read on the subject of serotonin and neurotransmitters in years. It basically concludes what very few people seem to be aware of: that we do not know what causes depression or anxiety nor do we know how SSRIs, SSNRIs, or other similar chemicals work. There are, at best, hypothesis, generally untestable. The idea of chemical "imbalances" in the brain is, as it has been since its inception, complete and utter bullshit. The reality is current medical science simply doesn't know, the marketers make the rest up, and for some reason, most doctors play along. That's how you get to the popular and completely wrong idea that serotonin is the "happy" brain chemical. (Of course, if you're aware of the lack of capability in most people to process complex ideas, you could easily guess that such a simplistic idea has to be wrong simply from the number of people who talk about it like it's real.)
And how is what we are doing now not barbaric? Which is actually more barbaric? It turns out people sometimes see the barbarism in others while missing their own.

There is a reason public executions happened for so long (and still happen in vast swaths of the world). Partially to serve as warning and as a deterrent and maybe partially so society feels they are participating in punishment (or revenge if you prefer). Is it effective? I would assume to some extent.

Maybe we need to revisit some of the concepts of public shame (ok..maybe old school hanging is a bit extreme.. but jut to throw ideas around) rather than hiding offenders behind bars at the hands of sadistic guards and fellow inmates in some grey bureaucracy. Which is my estimation not only doesn't really work but is even more barbaric.
Depending on my state of mind, I agree perfectly with you.

Really, the point of things like this is to be a spectacle, to be "wrong" and take no shame in being so AND...

...to create enough of an emotional debacle that it lures people into dreaming of the right way.

So in a way, we've falling directly into his trap. :)

Of course, it can get tedious when projects like this insist they are correct, but at least this guy states specifically below the video "Whilst not providing definitive answers, this experiment aims to provide a point of departure for fresh thinking."
There are oranges which have that color, but I wouldn't buy one.
The author is actually just using Emacs macros with vim-style keybindings. Emacs macros are still probably more powerful.
This is strange - original blog post is not searchable through google. All I see is pages that point to wiki.hackerspace.pl.
Vendoring through tarball dumps of GOPATH I can understand, but how do you deal with the dependencies of your dependencies when vendoring through forking?
Speaking of clones of whatever's popular, which came first The Weaver or Strata[1]

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.graveck.st...
Not true in practice.
I enjoyed this video, but couldn't help but think about the irony when he started talking about this being "$40" project compared to Oculus + PC ($600 + $2000) while his entire project still required a $600 iPhone and a $2000 Mac book
>Assuming inequality is constant - then yes.

Variables rarely remain constant in the real world in the way that they do in ceteris paribus thought-experiments.
Actually for me, this is much more important:
"Symbol and definition lookup is another great feature of WebStorm. While Emacs can find symbols and definitions in a single file via Tern, WebStorm can actually inspect your whole project and find a definition, or at least give you a very pruned list of candidates to choose from."

not being able to Ctrl-click a variable or function really reduces my efficency (especially with code that I did not write entirely on my own).
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From the conclusion:

It is most implausible to suggest that giving birth and caring for young children is the predominant reason why female executive managers, who average 50 years old in our sample, quit. Other unobserved factors leading managers to attrit could include more un-pleasantness, indignities, and tougher unrewarding assignments at work, examples of factors that reduce the attraction of work without necessarily affecting productivity or human capital acquisition. Perhaps women are subject to this form of gender discrimination. Another hypothesis is that women acquire more nonmarket human capital than men throughout their lives, and hence find retirement a relatively attractive option.
Internal tools should be sold or killed
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Ask HN: UK salary survey?
I've seen a few HN posts about salary recently, but they've all been talking about the USA. I thought it would be a good time to discuss salaries in the UK.

What can a developer reasonably expect to make here? I understand it's an open-ended question, but any anecdotes, thoughts or opinions would be welcome.

Bonus question: I've posted before about how low salaries are for juniors [0]. Has this situation changed at all?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8550251
That pushes people to buy goods and services overseas. AKA, why buy a US yacht and pay an extra 20%.

The real solution IMO is to tax US companies for world wide profits and have punitive taxes on foreign companies to keep US companies from pretending to move offshore.
Completely off topic, but I was surprised that this article has ads. Presumably WashPo cashed in nicely on this little spoke.
Late reply but noted this now.

We disagree. Perfect clock obviates the need for protocol based consensus mechanism. Paxos & friends have substantial latency costs. Secondary effects of protocol based approach include NAK storms, reduction of available bandwidth (consumed by the chatty consensus protocol packets). Tertiary effects include triggering of congestion control mechanisms.

There is zero question that a distributed system built on high fidelity clocks will mop the proverbial floor in terms of performance.
VAT is, unfortunately, a flat tax. Moving to a VAT-only system without any offsets would be the biggest redistribution of wealth (upwards) since the Bush tax cuts.
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> I'm still pretty sure that calories-in/calories-out theory is more-or-less correct.

From where do you derive this certainty? There's plenty of anecdotal evidence indicating significant variance among individuals. Simply less efficient absorption of ingested calories would obviously make a huge difference, and I don't think there's any reason to think everyone absorbs calories with identical efficiency is there?
Fairly major correction, but nothing that will prompt a depression or collapse or a bailout. China has been propping up their economy for years. Overall, this might be good for the US economy in the longer run.
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Your logic involves quite a few jumps to conclusions that aren't remotely proven by the contents of the paper.
There's a kernel of truth here, but you have to be careful about comparing _numbers_ of white/black people killed/jailed. You need to look at the per-capita (percentage) killed or jailed. There are way more "white" people so of course there are more of them killed/jailed/whatever! But when you look at the percentage then you see the injustice. "The country is about 63 percent white and 12 percent black... death rate due to legal intervention was more than three times higher for blacks than for whites in the period from 1988 to 1997."

Source: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/aug/21/...
BBC Article on AI Pioneer Marvin Minsky
Vim's macros are certainly more quickly composable. I still use them in emacs via evil using execute-kbd-macro:

;; select the current graph
(execute-kbd-macro (kbd "ma{y}`a"))