skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a kobo ereader over a kindle not too long ago, precisely because it supported this font. I tend to prefer Comic Sans[0] over it a bit though, and use Pointfree[1] on all my code editors. None of those make reading completely smooth experience of course, but they do provide a noticeable improvement over traditional serif text.

I'd say having a large line spacing, an unjustified text layout, and a darker/lower-contrast[2], all help more than the font choice itself, but any tiny optimization is helpful.

[0] as a former graphic designer, it actually took me a while to get comfortable with the idea that I found Comic Sans useful for anything, lol

[1] http://www.dafont.com/pointfree.font

[2] https://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2012/text-customization/r11
BBC iPlayer to require TV licence for access in future
Wrote a post where I ran into (and fixed) this problem with streaming uploads through nginx: http://killtheradio.net/technology/nginx-returns-error-on-fi...
It's a great plugin :)

I would really love if that plugin has some options. For example never detect 1 or more than 8 spaces.
I am happy to be proven wrong if the data supports it. I am also not ashamed to make speculations which are backed by logic; which is what I have done. If I am wrong then so be it. But I don't think this supports the discrimination hypothesis. In fact I think you are the one with subconscious bias, and I'll explain why. What I essentially state was "hey I have a hunch that this is the way things are, but I am not certain." You, on the other hand, have jumped to a concrete conclusion based off of a single NY times article that happens to align with your preconceived notion. That is the kind of bias that results in discrimination today. You have jumped to a concrete conclusion based off one article. Re-read my post and see how I specifically use language like "probably" and "I'd bet." The difference is I form opinions and hypotheses, but do not jump to premature conclusions that I think are absolute certainties (unlike what you have done). I keep my mind open and moldable, never stating things with 100% certainty unless there is sufficient evidence. You confidently state "Nope. Male nurses still make more..." -- which in my opinion, is premature to conclude based on a single NY times article.
Do you have your iPod configured in iTunes with "Enable disk use"? Sounds like Spotlight is trying to index it or something...
This is anecdata, but I'll tell you something from my experience. All the way until my studies, I met one girl who was interested in programming (more in general tech, but let's limit this to programming). During 5 years of studies I met the next 4. That's compared to probably ~200 guys. That was only around a decade ago.

Nowadays, I see tens of young girls joining local raspberry jams for fun in the UK. My friend's daughters are playing with electrical circuits and installing switch&lamp circuit between beds to chat in Morse code. And none of this comes from pushing for forced equality-in-numbers. This is just kids getting excited about stuff, because nobody is stopping them.

I think the stereotypes played a big part for a long time and we'll see a slow rebalancing of candidates' genders. I think (and hope) the situation will be very much different in ~15 years when current kids finish universities. But I don't believe much active support can change anything for near-future graduates.
How is a 6 MB file, with only 34,000 lines, considered "large" these days?

Smartphones from a couple of years ago already had multi-core, multi-GHz processors, and 2 GB or more of RAM. A 6 MB file would fit into memory well over a hundred times, even assuming lots of overhead.

Any moderately reasonable text editor should be able to handle a file of that size with total ease, at least for the basic operations.
> ...which is not economically valued or rewarded...

Some might say that the freedom of not having to pursue a job while raising kids is sufficient economic reward.

Some also say that not everything that is valuable can, or should, have a price tag.
> I live by myself and barely even speak out loud at home.

Not sure how other people feel about talking out loud at home, but as someone who also lives alone (in a 250 sqft apartment) and always wears headphones, I can't really imagine talking out loud. Just seems weird for some reason. I never use Siri either.

Wonder if that's a living alone thing, or a small apartment thing, or ...?
But how could they lose?! Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy! The triumphal tone throughout indicates there's clearly no stopping the cluetrain; it's obviously inevitable.
I don't see that presupposition. They don't mention any differentiation between 'genetic' vs 'cultural' explanations. I think you are reading that into the use of the terms 'innate' and 'natural'.
To me "playground" above implied elementary school. Is that really the time/place to be rocking kids' worlds with divisive controversies?
John Urschel: From the NFL to MIT, Working on Ph.D in Mathematics
Then they can keep the "showdead" option, make it behave like it does now, and the whole site will still get more intuitive for people who don't know about "showdead", to the point where 'dang will never have to explain it again.
It takes 8 hours 20 minutes to write 15TB over 500MBps. Why would you want to stick one of these in a RAID though?

..it would be more like Redundant Array of Prohibitively Expensive Drives.

(I'll show myself out)
I don't see any support in The Fine Article for exaggeration being "the most likely explanation". It's an explanation, sure. In assessing its likelihood, you went from tl;dr-ing to editorializing.
I have a mild suspicion that my 4 year old niece may be dyslexic.
She can read and write all the letters and their sounds, but she can't seem to tie the sounds into syllables, not even the simplest ones.
She is not being pressured into reading, she just liked it up to this point.
Is there any tell-tale sign I should be aware of ?
> It would also be possible to take a look at the hardware design and determine the linkage between the "mic mute" button light being on and power going to the mics.

How would the mics listen for the wake word if they aren't always on?
"For a while the lack of wages could be compensated with cheap consumer credits. I guess that's maxed out too."

Yes. Rising house prices powered the boom up to 2008. It was called the "wealth effect", but it was just inflation.
That didn't end well.
Perhaps a parallel question might be: Does the publication of psychology (or medical, etc.) studies have the net effect of producing a body of reliable knowledge?
There have been a couple folks on Facebook reporting that the H1-B folks they trained are staying while they are let go (ala Disney et al).
I agree the VIN thing is a red herring. Seems to me the bigger problem is this (emphasis mine):

"I have confirmed with our technical department who advised that to access the software download site the BMW Customer must provide the 7 digit VIN and accept the usage rights agreement. Part of the usage rights agreement states that the software is protected by copyright and BMW is the sole owner. So in this case it is not subject to the requirements of a "Public" licence."

They're denying that their software is even GPL and imposing extra restrictions on use. That's a problem, if it does indeed include GPL code.
His point as I understand it is that the people who would be doing the fixing are unlikely to agree that the defects he is reporting are actually defects, and that reporting them is therefore futile, absent a shift in consensus on the topic of undefined behavior. The paper exists in order to help promote that shift.
article says 1200MBps.. so more like 3.5 hours.
A real device that instantly uploads skills to your brain like Neo in Matrix
It's the consequence of their bet everything on services approach while the global economy stalls out. Simultaneously they gutted the technology side of their company and vastly under-invested in R&D/innovation, instead choosing to focus on financial engineering to fake earnings per share growth.

They should have been at the forefront of cloud services, with a business as large as what AWS is. Instead, they spent their resources on buying back stock and lying to investors about the future. Their financial engineering was so good, they even snookered Warren Buffett, likely ultimately costing his shareholders billions in losses.
Amazon removes encryption support in FireOS
I've been a .net dev for years now and it's such a joy to see stuff like this come out of MS. I'm a heavy VS user and haven't had the need to switch to VSC yet. I might check it out for angular/js apps.
Parental leave only after women entered the workforce in such large numbers, and we've seen (and felt) the negative consequences from trying to outsource child-rearing so completely. Parental leave was not as necessary because there were more stay-at-home parents; and before early 1900s it was more common for both parents to work from home (i.e. on a farm).
IBM layoff rumors have been around for awhile:

http://www.cringely.com/2015/01/26/ibm-right-gadfly/

I'm not sure what to make of this one.
True. But from about 9 months you could both work say 3 days a week if you wanted.

Mind you if you have another child you'd have to do that again.

But good luck getting well paid 3 days a week work for both of you.
When those gender roles are all but constant across countless independently developed cultures existent over tens of thousands of years, with distribution of visible physical traits to match them, it's pretty safe to assume that they're baked into our DNA and not some random whim of western culture.

Imagine how long a tribe with male caretakers and female warriors (who it cannot be argued are not on average significantly smaller and weaker than men) would survive against a tribe of male warriors and female caretakers.

There are species with much less divergence in biology between males and females. We would not have evolved to have such divergence if it were not useful for our fitness to have distinct fighter/protector and caretaker roles. Indeed as K-strategists that take a very long time to mature, having dedicated caretakers was an extremely useful evolution.
I read this without a problem as I scrolled to the right... when I was done, all the text was still moving. Great eye/mind trick!
While I don't know anything scientifically established about childhood development, from my extensive and recent exposure to 4 year olds this sounds 100% normal.
it is very dubious whether he has any standing to request the source code

That may be, but this tidbit is somewhat alarming to me:

[the user must] accept the usage rights agreement. Part of the usage rights agreement states that the software is protected by copyright and BMW is the sole owner

There's two red flags here for me:

- asserting copyright through an EULA

- additional "licensing" requirements for obtaining the source code
I've been working on a webRTC application as a full-time job for 1 and a half year now, and I've never faced cross-browser communication issues. The main problem at the moment is Chrome's implementation of the datachannel, it's terrible … (huge performance issues when having too many open connection, complete browser crash when using unreliable transport (fixed now, but it took almost one year), no support for Blob binary type …)
As the article says, doing Chrome-only webRTC in 2015 and 2016 is really a strange decision …
This is entirely true, but at the same time:

Compiler vendors are people, and in fact, if you don't like that set of people, there are plenty of vendors who have forks :)

IE if you don't like gcc 4.8's treatment of behavior, it's not like there aren't 50 different arm forks from different vendors you can use, with or without their SOC's.

Yet none of these vendors have apparently heard enough from customers that they have made what are pretty simple patches.
Sort of relevant. Paul Graham tweet on IBM patent trolling: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/705416252563419136
How GitHub works
> 15.36TB
> sequential read and write speeds of up to 1200MBps

~4 hours to read/write a whole drive ain't too bad. Of course there might be other bottlenecks in your raid, or you only reserve so much speed for rebuild, but the drives size is not the problem.
This is not an effective way, at all, to promote such a shift, of course. It's also not like this is the first paper. There are plenty of papers (he even cites a bunch) saying the same thing. So i'm not sure why anyone would think this would do much ...

Convince any of the 100+ vendors producing gcc forks to do it, have their customers sing their praises, and others will follow.

yelling about it on the internet is not likely to do much :)
A Flag for No Nations
I thought RAID and SSD were a terrible combination. As if both drives do exactly the same writes at the same time, chances are they will fail at the same time. Plus most RAID controllers don't support TRIM.

Has the thinking changed?
The second I walk in the door when I come home work, my toddler expects - as if it were some inviolable law of the universe - that we take turns chasing each other through the house. This made me chuckle :)
Great thing about poor vision is I can read this without problem
Too me a big problem with traditional psychology studies (at least in educational psychology) is generalizability (or what is called external validity), not so much reproducibility. A typical study “includes participants [like freshmen psych majors] who have no specific interest in learning the domain involved and who are also given a very short study time”, often mere minutes. When researched in real-world settings or even just real classroom settings, the effects might not only diminish but even reverse.

Most of the popular books on learning now suffer from this, emphasizing strategies that work fine for short-term rote memorization tasks (like memorizing random word lists), but have little impact on or can even hurt higher-order learning and understanding.
There seems to be a gap between your rhetoric around "The next Amazon" and the actual paper.

In particular, the definition of success (selling for more than $10m) seems a bit low for VC-backed startup companies and is a huge gap between that and Amazon-sized economy changing companies.

Maybe I'm stuck in the HN bubble, but $10m seems like a small amount for anyone who has taken post-seed funding, and those activities (registering in delaware, filing for patents, etc) seem totally expected if you're taking funding.

I guess the question I have is: are there a large chunk of non-venture funded companies who fit their criteria? Do those have any indication of leading to huge growth? If not, then these indicators seem to be just another way of finding those companies that took funding.
Only mentioned D for being Object Oriented with classes.
Device with a microphone always on from a an NSA affiliate company.

Interesting.
I just email myself a copy, so I can search. dead simple
There's three to four minutes of reading in this article, possibly less if you're familiar with the concepts.

It would be great if users were required to click on the actual article and wait a certain length of time before commenting.
I'm happy to help you improve your Cypher queries. Email is in my profile.
A fair point. I guess what I'm getting at is whether the creative process is an "action" that the government can compel, or "speech" that cannot be so compelled. Is it constitutionally allowable for the government to force someone to design something?
Announcing Docker Cloud: One big failure.
i agree. and this goes both ways. some people start from the axiom that racism/sexism don't exist and modify their interpretation of the data to match that. "There's no pay difference".

others perceive racism/sexism everywhere and only read that the 95 percentile and unweighted pays are different.

We can get off the political topic and start with other axioms as well. IE some believe more women need to be involved in tech, while others want less competition in their respective field (lower vs higher salary).
> So how is it that you get to make the decision for all of society, such that it must be a one-size-fits-all law, and people aren't allowed to negotiate for the terms that make the most sense for their own personal situation.

Yeah, societal decisions are generally one-size-fits-all laws because it's virtually impossible to make it any other way. In short: tough luck.
What if the vowel sounds are isolated and elongated: iiii, eeee. Does that sound the same?

If someone is using the wah-wah pedal with an electric guitar to change the timbre of a note, can you tell?

Is it really about sound? Or is it just that the "phonetic analyzer" isn't distinguishing the phonemes?

If you can consciously hear the acoustic difference in timbre, how can you then not use that to tell the words apart (even if slowly/inefficiently)? As in "I just heard something that may be pin or pen; now I have to concentrate on what I heard. Hmm, the vowel sounded like a band filter tuned toward a higher frequency so it must be pin, rather than pen."
> (Plus, you know, he's kind of a dick about it all)

It's called tongue in cheek. Like so: you dick :P
also look at men committing almost all violent crimes, this seems pretty emotional and not rational to me.
> There is one caveat to all this. Apple won’t allow a newer Mac to download versions of OS X that aren’t compatible with that Mac, so on a 27-inch iMac with Retina display, for instance, the App Store app refuses to let you download Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.

It's an edge case, but it's still annoying that I can't do this. What if I'm trying to get a non-functional older Mac running again? Stopping all users from doing this does mitigate incompatibility support issues, but it hobbles power users.

To allow this, I don't think they need to add a switch to preferences. I'd be happy with a defaults invocation.
Downvotes? I can understand not liking the humor, but it's a well researched video full of arguments for the subject matter. Better arguments in fact that several comments.
Maybe I'm not understanding your comment, but according to Forbes[1], IBM is prominent in cloud services and exceeds AWS in revenue. It sounds as though IBM's doing things right, at least in this space. It may be that in other markets, they've fallen behind or failed to innovate, e.g. the vast mobile market.

1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2015/04/27/move-over-...
Gotcha, that makes sense. I'm not sure it is possible to have it and know that your info is private, which I'm assuming you feel as well given you don't have it. I have it for the benefits and accept that my info probably isn't private.
I've worked on what I think could be called a "distributed monolith" and its not bad, services and clients can share interfaces, common build and deployment infrastructure for everything etc.. You still get the benefit of being able to scale out, separate failures and deploy components easily, w/ the benefits of standardizing around one language.
The biggest problem with Boost isn't simply the number of headers - it's maintaining the built libraries against your compiler.

"Let's upgrade to MSVC 2015!"

"Oh nuts, our code now links against msvcrtp13.dll and our built boost_filesystem.dll still links against msvcrtp12.dll. Time to rebuild all of our libraries!"

This is especially bad on Windows where MS's dev tools team just didn't 'get' that developers just don't care about new CRT optimizations if it means rebuilding all of our 3rd party libraries. But even on OSX there's been the whole libstdc++/libc++ pain.

Anything that can get folded into the standard library and maintained by the same jokers who rev msvcrt*.dll every couple of years (rub their noses in their own mess) is good.
> they are usually less productive per week/month/year.

You have evidence that this is true? If so, do you have evidence that the lower productivity is caused by (not simply correlated with) people being less stressed and happier?

> "you are begging the question by assuming that people want to work less

I am not. I said "if we want this".

However, I think I would have a much easier time backing up the assertion "people want to work less" than you would have backing up " happier and less stressed people often (but not always) have higher specific productivity (output/hour), but they are usually less productive per week/month/year" as a causal relationship.
I believe that's illegal, and doing so en masse is going to spark Congressional hearings.
I agree. But i don't see how you can go from that to assuming women are necessarily more emotional. You kind of need some data to back that up. Note that men murder and kill and rape at a high rate due to their emotions.
This is only allowed under GPLv3, iiuc. Under GPLv2, you are obliged to distribute (host) the sources yourself even if it's an unmodified upstream version.
Cringely has always been very critical of IBM. I'm unaware of how often his predictions have been right.

Disclosure: IBMer, speaking for myself.
This is our experience too for Epishow. It's not that we couldn't get it working, it's that we focus on one platform (chrome) then expand outward (web at large, which for now means ff).
* YARVI https://github.com/tommythorn/yarvi (the oldest non-Berkeley implementation)

* https://github.com/VectorBlox/risc-v

PULPino is sure making a lot of noise, but it's far from the only option out there despite the impression they seem to want to create.
Code Retreats
This is Anton's view of the situation, and not an actual one AFAICT :)

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53073

What really happened: It was diagnosed, and they produced a fix for the spec source code.
SPEC said it does not plan to offer the fix.
So they then went and said "okay, i guess we'll try to add an option to give people a chance to have this random crap work".
The flag was added to disable this assumption so people could use it if they need it.

I'm not sure what better response you want from developers than that.

Nowhere, in any of the bug report, will you see someone say "yeah, we gotta make sure this still works because it's a benchmark".

They treat it like any other undefined behavior bug, and say "that's undefined behavior".
you can look through the bug database and find literally tens of thousands of cases where they say that, benchmarks, non-benchmarks, etc. They do it whether it's important for optimization or not.
It's really pretty consistent.

So taking this example and extrapolating that the only reason it was done is because it's a benchmark is, well, pretty typical of this author :)
At this point in time, having the software available would do more harm than good, considering that 90% (or more) of software development in the auto industry seems to be done by electrical or mechanical engineers with little to no training in software development, and even less knowledge about security and vulnerabilities.

The auto industry does have a plethora of coding standards and software processes, but not enough institutional knowledge and foresight to produce secure software for connected devices. The fact that it hasn't been too catastrophic so far is more a testament to the technical limitations of the bus systems and ECUs than real security, but that is rapidly changing with the advanced hardware being put in cars today.
That might be part, but there are even simpler explanations. Taller people make significantly more money per inch. Why that is, who knows, but just by itself it can explain around half the wage gap - before correction. In other words, after correction, if you also correct for height, then women make more than men.

Of course no one should make more money just because they are taller, but that's the reality. No one seems interested to try to correct this, though, because it's not obviously tied to any popular political movements.
It is 100% illegal, but Disney got away with it so other big firms are following suit.
Note that a combined diagnosis of schizophrenia and biopolar, has very high rates of suicide (over 10% if left untreated).