skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Seems like it might be useful for a print style sheet. Haven't seen it used to good effect on a screen though.
Speaking of madness, James Hague drives me a little crazy. I get it - people tend to focus too much on performance. But it seems like his blog is a series of repeated arguments that nobody needs maximum performance out of their machine. Try compiling your web browser or operating system with -O0 and then tell me the performance is satisfactory. Or your video encoder. Or VMware. There is a huge market for high-performance software where performance comes from more than a few inner loops, and optimizing compilers, while complicated and huge and occasionally buggy, are necessary for the user experience we desire.
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Yet again more immigration related propaganda that is soft on the facts from NYT

"While naturalizations generally rise during presidential election years, Mr. Trump provided an extra boost this year."

Zero proof is provided to back up this claim.
A solution for this problem will be general libraries which you can build blockchains with. But I agree on that maintaining a blockchain needs governance as well.
I can see that now. Certainly anyone who worked with the HTML-based iOS components Facebook had back in the day was in for a shock later. I don't recommend using any iOS libraries you aren't prepared to upgrade/replace later -- and this includes Apple code too! Plenty of Apple APIs change every year, so... I'd hope somebody takes up the cause of updating this for as long as the API proves useful. :)
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Is there a good reason for this? I can't think of one.

I think a lot of such nonsense is going to go away very soon.
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To add to this, performance is very important in certain domains.

Take game development for instance, if your code runs a bit faster that's more frames you're rendering per second. This can mean the difference between a laggy, unplayable mess and a good gaming experience on an average machine (a laptop, or a non-gaming rig).
Yes but can we say human memory is not also (at least in part) a product of timing? Conceivably memory is mediated by synchronizing activity of certain neurons, after all, phase coupled neuronal signaling[0] is an element of brain functioning. Perhaps the bacteria encode information about their environment using low-level phase coupling. Probably not like that at all, it's just a thought.

[0] http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/1/81.long
Can you give an example? From a real science, not psychology or economy.
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Interesting points. One observation I'd make: The New York Times is not the Commons; it's not a shared public good like a public park. It's a business, owned by some people in particular who are responsible for it.

They do provide a public good, but so do GE, Hacker News, politicians, and a hot dog vendor. (I happen to particularly value the NY Times' goods.)
I've been blogging since 2008 [1]. I think blogs are the least 3rd party reliant outlets for personal/pro content. As long as you can keep your domain, you have control over how, where and when your content is accessible. You control your URLs, whether you want ads or not, layout, etc.

Simple web pages (as opposed to walled gardens of social networks) are search engines' best friends.

As for mine, I actually wrote a static blog generator from scratch in 500 lines of python and all the articles are in pure HTML. Runs on S3 (can move away in a heartbeat), fast as a Ferrari and I wouldn't give it up for the likes of Medium in the long foreseeable future.

[1]: https://blog.oxplot.com/
Some of them are good. Some - not so much. Aside from my universe my rules:

The first colonies will be either mining or agriculture. The whole point of colonies is resources extraction. If we build installation inside the moon the odds of it working a billion years from now are not that low. Any space engine that is manufactured en masse will be simple to operate and safe for the observer - we have good example - the ICE.

A lot of the stupid stuff are actually problems that we will have to solve for cross galactic space flight to exist at all.
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Apple would appeal a $1,000,000 court case until and unless they expected to lose more money by fighting it than by just paying the fine. And essentially, $500mil is more than enough money for keeping on some lawyers for half a decade.

Still, it's worth comparing to how much money they make. So, a half-billion fine once in the last few years, and they made $18billion this quarter:

http://moneymorning.com/2016/01/26/q1-apple-earnings-2016/

I honestly don't see Apple being seriously hurt by this.
I agree it's not really an argument, but I think the implementation of the Go compilers is evidence towards his point. The compilers were straightforward and didn't use fancy representations or optimizations AFAIK (being based on old Plan 9 compilers).

And with that philosophy, I believe it was within 2-3x of C++ in most benchmarks, despite being in a higher level language (though no doubt it's much slower on some benchmarks).

That said, they continue to optimize the compilers (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9099744). People obviously do want speed; 2x slower isn't acceptable in many cases.
Not true. I could make the comeback "any network throttling that only works on a single OS is honestly worthless," since people browse on non-Apple OSes. Though I will agree the prefpane is a cool tool if you can find it on the Apple Dev Downloads site. It can even run on iOS, for any app, not just the web. The Chrome solution will work on Windows too, though, or use Fiddler. More such tools can be found at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3536249/simulating-slow-i...
However, Spotify still stores its music files on AWS and uses CloudFront for content distribution. They're only gonna use Google Cloud for analyzing customer data. They won't ditch AWS...

http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/02/spot...
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'Cunt' isn't so bad when it comes to banter and jest in the UK. Typically male banter. Many females seem to take an offense to it no matter the context.
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Nice but the sliders are really hard to use on mobile. Also when the "drawer" slides out in the demo, panning on mobile still pans the main page
SELECT DATEPART(month,GETUTCDATE()) ? Either you are using a very old version or not using SQL Server at all cause I pretty much do everything you are complaining about on a daily basis and on a very large set of data.
"If you get any of this wrong, even in an edge case, the user is presented with non-working code for a valid program, and the compiler writer has failed at his or her one task."

Perhaps languages could be designed so as to make this task easier?

In language design we end up torn between making things easier for the programmer and making things easier for the compiler-designed-for-performance. Doing both things well is perhaps something that language design will be able to improve upon in the future.
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So this article says that optimizing compilers are unreliable? I don't think this is the case.

Compiler bugs are pretty rare, a bigger problem are insane language standards that have undefined behaviour lingering behind every corner.
Eh, speak for yourself. I found it helpful.
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What you can do is get wheel packages for all your dependencies and install them from a local "wheelhouse":

pip install -r requirements.txt --no-index --find-links=/path/to/wheelhouse

If for each requirement in `requirements.txt` you have the corresponding wheel file in `/path/to/wheelhouse`, this will not touch the network and complete. I have been using this approach the past 2 years with great success.

You can learn a bit more about wheel in this very good article:
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/27/python-on-wheels/
Now a detail in compensation practice will get you three-plus months in jail

How is it merely a "detail"?

If, on March 31 of a given year, you hand someone a stock option, you don't get to pick "today" as the lowest price the stock has had in the interval of March 1 thru March 31.

That's not a "detail". That's not just a small problem with the paperwork. That's nothing but obvious fraud.

IMO. IANAL. But I've had stock options given to me. And the price was set for that day, not for some date that was clearly a lie. And this all happened 20+ years ago, long before these sordid SV practices came to light.

Edit: One time my stock option grant was worse than "today". What happened is we were a small company, the BOD met a few days earlier and approved grants, my manager didn't give me my grant for a few days. So it was something like this:

manager: "Here's your stock grant for $20 a share".
me: "but the stock closed today at $18 a share. So I'm already 10% underwater".

Such were the perils of working at a small company that wasn't trying to game the system.

Not that there weren't ways to change employee compensation. In 2009 (and I'm sure at various dates before that), many companies went to their stockholders to ask them to approve re-pricing because employee options were way under water.

I don't recall the converse ever happening. I'd like to hear of a company going to its stockholders and asking for approval to tear up grants in the other direction. Something like this: "we gave out employees stock options at $10, but the stock is now $30. We want to take back those grants and give them new ones at the current price". Nope, that doesn't happen.

I.e. there are already many ways companies can legally "cheat" without having to commit obvious fraud.
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And a good compiler doesn't only optimize for speed. It also optimizes for code size, memory usage.

I do however agree with underlying premise of this post: Code that works 100% of the time is better than higher performant code that explodes in your face every once in a while.
There would be no data truncation if you enable strict mode (sql_mode = 'STRICT_ALL_TABLES'). Indeterminate results appear only if the column values in a group are different. SQL standart doesn't allow such selects at all (even if the values in the group are the same) so you have to write longer queries.

MySQL is not that bad, it was used in facebook and wikipedia.
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> That's a whole server if you have 100 servers. People are not desperate, but do want an additional server for free.

Renting an extra server costs practically nothing comparing to wage costs for a tech company.

So I'd say they'd care more about the compiler being reliable and predictable.
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Most software is not games or scientific computing. Most software is not speed critical. This is why most new software is not written in C.
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Backbone is not maintained at all, and no, cosmetic commits aren't maintenance. Backbone led to messes bigger than jQuery messes, it's full of useless stuff and frankly should be retired and deprecated. What's the point of backbone model? it's useless so one has to use relational. What's the point of the router? it's too basic so people have to use a better one, the view? the view never did anything relevant, Backbone is like an unfinished framework the only reason it became popular is because it came at a time when rubyists were influential. That time is over. People shouldn't use Backbone, AT ALL.

> As others have pointed out, having a stable API is a wonderful thing for a vast majority of projects

Well obviously it didn't change the sad state of backbone ecosystem. Having good API to build things upon is more important than the stability of an API. Backbone is dying because the core libs aren't good enough in 2016.
Compiler bugs are not rare, quite the opposite, and this is often because of premature optimisation.

For example, GPGPU compilers are awful:

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~afd/homepages/papers/pdfs/2015/PLDI...
Good move. It's just late.
Besides, it only optimizes the non recurring user case - 10x improvement is only for the first time visitor, which may or may not be a minority or even then may or may not have the font in cache from other places, which is not unlikely especially if he used a font from the most common cdns.
The qualifier to note is "same" not "big restrictions".

No sane developer agreement[1] would require the modification/usage and all other associated confidential IPs to be disclosed. Or it would suffer heavy market share just like GPL. Ofcourse this does not mean such proprietary softwares does not exist but they would be abandoned once another competing product without such restrictions comes to market, just like GPL.

[1] Or even EULAs if the software is likely to be used as building block such as Photoshop/Unity etc.

[2] I am assuming here. I would like to know if such softwares exist.
This is speculation but...the company was founded in 2003....13 years ago and no product out yet...I have an awful feeling Holmes felt desperate, took on more than she could chew in order to compensate for the decade she lost, and now all the shortcut taking is catching up to her....

It's starting to look very ugly for what started out as something overreaching, and I think she will fight even harder to keep the house of cards from falling but pretty much this unicorn will be the first to go in 2016.
Languages and compilers actually do have constructs for programmers to make things easier for the compiler.

"inline" and "register" are two very known examples.
Other examples are function attributes in gcc:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html
Interesting! That immediately made me think of the fabulous independent movie "Star Wreck: In the Perkinning" and the "P-fleet".

Well worth watching by the way, it's a humorous take on Star Trek and Babylon 5. The effects were made by a render-farm of PCs in their kitchen whilst a bedroom was set up for blue screen work. It was even shown on Finnish national television.
The publishers were all connected through Apple and agreed to charge a normalized price for all their eBooks, and inflating that price across the board. Remember, eBooks were first as expensive as normal books, then a lot cheaper, then suddenly expensive again.

Competing suppliers agreeing on anti-competitive acts is what collusion is.
A degenerate case is my project, which makes people write assembly, but in a very safe way that it can check. You lose the expressivity of conventional HLLs, but still get their safety benefits.

https://github.com/akkartik/mu
It's a product and they sell it. That way they get to run their business. No one questions a software developer's remuneration model.
There's finally a good use for the “100% arabica bio” coffee substitute we have around here.

Very cool.
I disagree with the title - I don't think this is a sad state at all. This looks very healthy to me. Backbone clearly had a purpose some years ago and it is unequivocally deprecated now. To me, this is a javascript library aging gracefully and opening the way to newer, better libraries. By removing itself from the list of relevant libraries to choose from in the current year, backbone has helped to reduce decision fatigue.

I hope other Javascript libraries and framework follow this trend until we find a handful of "winner" libraries in the same way that each language has its own "winner" MVC library.
>The law is not like programming, if something is 'technically true', it's probably false as far as the law is concerned. The law is much more concerned in this area with what is 'practical'. It is not 'practical' to fork Android, and operate as a business with it.

I've never heard anyone say that, that's really insightful. Can you say some more stuff about law?
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> The programmer using such a system will write his beautifully-structured, but possibly inefficient, program P; then he will interactively specify transformations that make it efficient.
Even worse is the tendency to give every subproject a non-descriptive name. E.g. Safari on iOS/OS X

This just raises the mental burden and lowers discoverability.
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I run into so many compiler bugs. Examples: g++, ghc, booc. I remember one time playing around with Unity3D, and for some reason decided to use the Boo language to write my code. I ended up having to patch booc to work around about a dozen different bugs.

There's also the time I caused a kernel panic on CentOS 5 by running g++ on my code. It did so reliably, so I moved development to CentOS 6.

Older gdbs on CentOS 4 will segfault if you run it on a binary compiled with ghc and ask for a backtrace.

One time, I wrote a Perl module that unintentionally trashed the Perl interpreter's error tracking information. So if the module compiled, it worked fine. But if you had even a single variable mis-spelled or missing semicolon, all you'd get from perl is the error "Unknown error".

Or even something as simple as writing a negative integer literal bugs out ghc:
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9533

Compilers are absolutely riddled with bugs.
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Native objects are probably as close as you come in most implementations. Windows Scripting Host does have a more general ability to call foreign code from inside JScript (the Microsoft implementation of ECMAScript). I used to write quite a bit of JScript code that called out into windows executables and DLLs.
" Surveys like this are standard practice in the industry."

So, how does one exploit this apparent bad practice? I.e., how does one make a profit from others making this mistake? The answer is, of course, one doesn't - otherwise others would've done so. So what does this tell us about the state of affairs? Is it that bad sampling doesn't matter for practical purposes, or that marketing research is useless? I don't know, and I'm not trying to be belligerent here. A situation similar to this shows up in dozens of places every day - more often than not, it doesn't matter if things are done 'right', there are large margins within which 'good enough' is indistinguishable from 'right'.

This bothers me greatly, but it's hard to argue against this conclusion, empirically. How to deal with this cognitive dissonance? I mean this is the exact topic at least half of the blog posts that make it to the HN front page deal are fundamentally about.
First year, so I'll let you know. We've grown horseradish for years, and that grows like a weed - it's almost invasive.
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I understand your point, but it does happen. For example, commercially available LED lighting that is more efficient than compact fluorescent. The blue LED was invented in the early nineties and you just knew it was a matter of time before we would get efficient white-light light.

The problem is that for every person who says, "This is 20 years away", there are unrealistic people who are saying, "This is 5 years away". And there are pessimistic people who are saying, "Oh, this is just going to go on for ever. They don't really know how long it's going to take".

Will you ever be able to read popular news articles and reasonably expect the predictions to be accurate? I doubt it. Are there people in the world who have a pretty good idea how long it will actually take? For a great many things, yes.
In this case, money you should pay for bread at a supermarket can be considered a "paywall and discrimination against the poor".

There could be couple of reasons why instinctively we think about paying for bread as a mutually beneficial exchange of goods for money, and about paying for internet articles as a "paywall that discriminates the poor":

(a) Articles used to be free, and many (in other publications) are still free.

(b) There is a very little incremental cost to WSJ if a single article will be read for free by someone, as opposed to the supermarket example above where an incremental loaf of bread has a very real economic cost.

But that doesn't change the fact the WSJ article is a real good that cost a lot of money to produce and therefore should be paid for.

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It was not ceded. It was annexed by Austria-Hungary. Annexation was not covered by the Treaty of Berlin (1878).
Presumably, this is what he is referring to: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/austria-hungary-a...
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You're pretty sure, but I think you're not seeing the bigger picture.

Most of those bands that have enhanced the lives of everyone (society) over the years? Really high..

Would the world still be around if it weren't for the cultural revolution of the '60s - during the height of the cold war, with slogans like "make love not war" and "Imagine" ? Possibly not.

The Internet ?

Did you know that Doug Engelbart and many other engineers working on the ARPANet were also participating in LSD experiments ? Look it up, it's out there on the Internet.

The Internet could have been another secret military technology, you know... It took some acid heads to imagine the whole world "turned on and tuned in".
So there was Steve Jobs and his team of psychonauts who jumped in to make that vision real.

Check out Google's first ever doodle. Do you notice the Burning Man logo in it ? I guess Larry and Sergey were so inspired by the psychedelic festival that they decided to use it as their startup's logo.

3D animation, Pixar, ILM, Virtual Reality ? Damn hippies.

That's the most interesting part about psychedelics is that the trip never ends.. Once you take it, it changes you forever - you might be sober, but the psychedelic experience goes on - in what you say, what you do, what you sing...

I could go on and on, but again - you can look these things up yourself.
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I am not sure if I understand you correctly, you do not like the syntax of acbuild or you there is something else?