skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The declaration right in the title that they, the enlightened ones, are condescending to offer "clues" to the clueless (us, their benighted readers), and proclamation that their opinion piece is a "manifesto" tells me that the writers are a little too invested in the campus radical romance of heroic revolutionaries standing above the peasants preaching their utopian vision for me to care much about their talk about hyperlinks subverting hierarchy and such silliness.

That doesn't mean it's all wrong. There are some good comments in TCM. It's just that I find collections of simpler articles combining charts of data over time with admitted speculations about what it might mean and, if so, what the implications could be, to be far more useful and, yes, "enlightening" than any "manifesto" I've ever seen.
Ford announced an Alexa integration at CES this year.

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/ford-working-on-amazon-echo-int...
Not yet, but you can synthesize a few of them on FPGA boards which you can buy today, and I believe the lowRISC team in particular is working towards Pi-like boards IIRC.
Yes I was sort of exaggerating because it is the main complaint that people have of intellij.

We too use intellij as well jrebel and these tools pay for themselves fairly quickly.
This is correct and I agree with it, but my statement goes a step further. I am saying that women should be strongly encouraged to be part of these occupations, in the same way that men are strongly encouraged to take paternity leave and help with child rearing.
I think I have a mild form of dyslexia, and I am the same way. I can type the wrong word correctly, but thought the right word. I can repeatedly swap some words for each other, like it for he, and he for it. Spell checking works very well for me, but if I picked the wrong word it didn't help. I also make many of the classic mistakes like there and their. Also use of apostrophes if I am not careful.

I don't think it has seriously held me back, but I think I have begun to notice a more subtle way it has held be back.

I am mgrennan's son.
"I completely agree, this is a consumer economy that has been actively killing off consumer power and wondering why growth/demand is over."

Thanks. I point out this occasionally. I don't claim to have an solution. But I think I've described the problem correctly. We have insane amounts of productive capacity compared to previous generations but that doesn't push up the standard of living by much.

Too much political economic talk starts with a desired solution and tries to justify it. That isn't working.

The original article looks at this from a finance perspective. Finance is supposed to be a service function, like water supply. It's not supposed to be in charge. Especially in a capital glut.
I ordered it originally purely on the "Oh, cool gadget!" factor, and I was willing to part with $99 for it.

I really didn't have a particular use case in mind at the start, but I was (and still am) impressed by the sound quality from such a small speaker. It's nice to be looking in the fridge and say "Alexa add X to my shopping list" or when my hands are covered with flour say "Alexa set a timer for 30 minutes" or whatever. And for those things it's worth the cost to me.

Most of the features that have rolled out just seem gimmicky, though. Take the news briefing: It either provides too little info to be useful, or it drones on and I get annoyed by the voice which, while it sounds natural compared to Microsoft Sam, still feels cold and artificial. In general I like having more control over my internet actions. I'll never use it to order a pizza or anything from Amazon because I don't know what happens if it misinterprets me or I make a mistake. And the third party apps are clunky ("Alexa, ask X to do Y").

To sum it up, aside from the very basic features I've used since day one it just feels like a toy.
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That's great unless people want to shop in multiple browser tabs or anything like that. The real solution here is to use the fact that we have POST which is specced as non-idempotent and not depend on the very small set of technologies that purposefully disobeys the spec.
I agree that 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.

I also agree that companies should focus on increasing work output rather than hours worked, and many books have been written on this subject (by people like Deming). Indeed, productivity has increased, though I am sure we are all aware of deficiencies; this secular increase in productivity has been responsible for the improvement in living standards over the last few hundred years.

Increasing demand for desirable and attractive jobs is a laudable end-goal, and I agree that we should pursue system-wide reforms to facilitate this, though we probably disagree on which policies would achieve greater prosperity and better options for workers.

My greatest disagreements with you are that you are begging the question by assuming that people want to work less, and that you believe that we can improve total output by reducing total input.
Apple supports security of devices, and in all cases that is good. Security and privacy are different things. Security can be used to enable privacy. Also, if Apple's phones are secure what harm is giving details to the Chinese government? It won't help break into a truly secure device.

What is missing from most of the discussion is that strongly secure phones are good for the government. If the US government can ask Apple in the US to open a phone, then the Chinese government can ask Apple in China to open a phone. That means that every phone is vulnerable to theft and transport to a jurisdiction that agrees to the 'lawful' access to the contents.
The article was a bit misleading, but that is not what it is about at all.
Especially if you consider national flag swapping and the like to be breaking an information system (or at least abusing a weak auth system).
Mitt Romney slams ‘phony’ Trump: He’s playing ‘the American public for suckers’
> Bottom line for me is that women are doing more unpaid work than men in all cultures.

This is true.

> ...whatever the pressures are on men, women have it systematically worse.

I have no idea how that conclusion is drawn. Men, for example, are significantly more likely to get killed in the course of their work. For example, men accounted for 92% of all workplace fatalities in 2014[1]. To me anyway, getting killed sounds at least as bad as, if not worse than not getting paid for your work.

Overall, my opinion is that men and women face different kind of pressures to conform to traditional gender roles. What addresses one must address the other.

[1] "Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Summary, 2014" http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm
I'm also interested if there is some sort of test. I find myself doing many of these things when I read long passages.

One other thing that is very common for me, but I'm not sure if it is related to dyslexia or not, is that I will frequently either forget the next word I was about to say or say the wrong word without noticing. An example of the latter would be if I am filling the dishwasher I'll say that I finished the laundry, or I'll refer to shaving in the morning as mowing. These happen to me on an almost daily basis.
So is any `we live in an <x> society' claim like the one that preceded it.
Github has special rendering for Markdown and CSV files. Would be awesome if they did the same for Lilypond and/or MusicXML and made such files playable.
"Testagons" is even better, a jewel. Testa (= Head) + Gone

This is a word that wants to be discovered. Practical example: "Hi, we call from the medicus mundi hospital, some of your damned testagons are bombing us again". Pure gold for journalists.
It's great how Haskell and friends keep spreading, isn't it? Here is an OO book I like: http://www.erights.org/talks/thesis/
Just wanted to give you kudos and respect for this post. I wish I saw this sort of acknowledgment more frequently in internet debates.

I think most of us here understand that it's easy to sometimes enter a discussion with an overly antagonistic tone. It's a lot harder to recognize that mistake after-the-fact.
That's very interesting, because (anecdotally) the women I know prefer male bosses. The reason being that in their experience male bosses prefer to manage by objectives ("I want you to do X") whereas female bosses try to manage their subordinates emotions ("I want you to feel Y"). The latter seems to lead to greater workplace tension.

If this is indeed a broader phenomenon, I makes me wonder if the same forces (genetic or environmental) that lead women to be more empathetic (which we might judge to be a good thing) do not also lead to the aforementioned emotions management. Of course, this is all highly speculative.
They presuppose that if there is an evolutionary explanation for gender rules it's genetic rather than cultural.
What was missing for you in Atom?
Transcript: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/us/politics/mitt-romney-sp...
It's not so much they "couldn't", it's that things like global presence, reliability, and scalability are just part of the service. With Kafka, you can potentially design a system that has these properties, whereas PubSub gives you this as a service.
Mixture of Evernote, iOS Notes and physical moleskin notebooks.
While his tone may be unwarranted, I think his claims are more reasonable than you suggest. I'm not sure where the actual bug reports are, but here's a long but excellent thread on comp.arch where Anton makes his point more fully: http://compgroups.net/comp.arch/if-it-were-easy/2993157

Edit: In another comment, you say "The whole thing is like complaining that people follow the law, instead of the spirit of the law." I think that might be accurate. Impractical as it may be, there are many (including me and presumably Anton) who believe that society benefits if individuals hold themselves to a higher standard than obeying the letter of the law and flaunting the spirit.
What does this person realistically expect to gain by contacting Tier 1 customer service about an issue with -the source code and licensing of an in car entertainment computer-?

Now in theory, CS should be "empowered" or able to escalate, but this is juvenile, to me, the very briefest of exchanges and then off to HN and elsewhere with "time for a lawsuit!".
At most companies I've worked for, there are no set hours. Be there for meetings, but beyond that, you're an adult.
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If, for sake of a convenient number, half of the original studies had methodological errors that would make the result irreproducible — irrespective of whether the study's hypothesis was correct, mind! — and half of the studies attempting to reproduce the results of the original study committed some form (possibly even the same form) of methodological error as well, then just on that basis, we should reasonably expect to see a whopping 25% of studies being successfully reproduced.

Whatever the actual error rates turn out to be, something like that is going to cut pretty deeply into measured reproducibility rates, isn't it?
Define 'emotional'. The sum of emotions (can you measure that)? The lack of rationality? The presentation of emotion?

I'd love to see these studies, as I'm pretty sure it is not 'known'. A common HN refrain is the lack of validity in most social science research - to what degree that is true remains to be seen, but on this point of emotionality it seems apt to point this out. Perhaps it is only college students in the US that exhibit some crude measure of this. Even if it is demonstrated we would then have to prove this is biological, not just a cultural adaptation.

Btw some counter evidence for your point are that:

* women run businesses tend to have better success rates, which is quite a rational context.

* Micro lenders in the third world prefer to (or exclusively) lend to women, because they handle finances better and are more likely to repay.

* boys tend to have less emotional control than girls growing up, and many of girls interests such as STEM participation change only after puberty hits (a time in child development when personal interests give way to the desire to fit into the dominant culture)

It is known, indeed.
> dang, where is he being uncivil or unsubstantive in the parent post? I simply don't see it.

That's because the comment has been edited.
It's in my interest as a member of society that there's a well-stocked pipeline of healthy well-adjusted well-educated kids coming up so that my old age is not some kind of hellscape.
Yeah, I am not a Vim shortcut aficionado at all, but not having . be repeat command was such a deal breaker for me.
Impressive. First question that pops into mind is how long the rebuild time would take if one of these failed in a RAID. I can imagine it'll take a while.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But in some sense, it doesn't matter.
They are the ones defining C. If people don't like it, they should create Cgood or whatever.
This has been tried before, and it has never caught on.

I'm not worried. If the programmers in the trenches really hate it so much, C will eventually die off in favor of something better :)
Cyber geeks are going to school to become less nerdy
What's wrong with this code? I don't see it.

(disclaimer: I am a programmer, not a compiler)
Cultural evolution definitely does occur, but just like can happen with genetic evolution, and on a greater level because of the faster pace, its progress can have negative effects. A civilization can evolve culturally, and that might allow it to function more effectively than it did prior, but it could also be worse off in other ways. For example the rate of depression could increase.
I like the idea of the auction because it is essentially where the company says "We are importing the best talent and we are willing to pay extra for it" and it also says "Local candidates are so inadequate that it would cost more to train one." in a way that's simply useless to lie about.

The current system encourages my boss to buy extra lottery tickets at the lowest price so he can be surprised later when productivity, morale of local employees, and quality ratio to labor cost is at rock bottom.

Now about being unfair to startups... If the auction somehow doesn't account for offering ownership/equity (which seems like an obscure rare situation anyways), that's clearly a better problem to have than a market flooded with cheap labor that still needs regular training, in addition to language training and cultural training.
You don't get to be rude because you misunderstand someone—if that were the rule, we might as well not have it.

> Nice that you don't allow different opinions

Half the people who break the rules here resort to that self-flattering defense (the other half simply correct their behavior), and one needn't read much of HN to see how false it is.

> All I did was point out the reality of religion.

That's what every religious flamewarrer says. You can't do it here.
From speaking to people that have gone to Oxford and Cambridge, they are definitely not necessarily letting in just the brightest minds. Nor do I think they truly are trying to find them - there is a definite "fit" for these places. If I had to characterise it, I'd say "smart, and very academic/scholarly". They all seem to have a deep appreciation of some subject or topic and it seems like their admissions process is very good at uncovering it.

The other thing everyone from there talks (whines) about is the sheer volume of work they are expected to complete, and for that, exams seem like a good (albeit imperfect) proxy for gauging this.
I don't disagree with you, but I also think there are situations where (particularly if you aren't privy to the big picture) it's a good idea to have some kind of sounding board to run things off of before diving/jumping in, though that may be a bit tangential to the point at hand.

Maybe more to the point, I don't think my behavior at the time was an attempt at pushing the risk up the chain as much as it was a manifestation of fear/anxiety that I'd somehow be outside of company expectations/norms or would end up spending a bunch of time working around/fixing something that had already been solved in a way that I, as a newer employee, just didn't know about.
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No, I'm pretty sure it's Apple's DRM that got us into this mess.
The author doesn't understand the market demands for a compiler:

1) Customers who want their text-size to be as small as possible so they can shave $0.0015 off their BOM by using smaller ROM parts

2) Chip vendors who have 7 figure sales that will fall-through if they can't show a 0.7% higher Dhrystone MIPS (yes Dhrystone, the benchmark that was obsolete 20 years ago).

3) Managers who make buying decisions purely based on a set of their own pet benchmarks, with no regard to anything in this paper.

Damn right a compiler will take advantage of every optimization opportunity afforded by the standard. Good compilers will have ways of being much less aggressive about optimizations; I bet with gcc and clang each you have some -f flags that will disable certain optimizations (not to mention just good old -O0); I know most commercial compilers do.

[edit]

I would like to see some less-optimizable C standard catch on, so that there could be a mode common to multiple compilers that makes programmers happy. Unfortunately attempts to create such a dialect have failed to get off the ground.

[edit2]

Part of this is because there is less of a consensus on what are optimizations* and "optimizations" than the author would believe.
Awesome jobs. It has been a long time, but in high school I was on nationally competive drumline and spent a lot of time with [Finale](http://www.finalemusic.com/products/), [Sibelius](http://www.sibelius.com/home/index_flash.html), [Forte](http://www.fortenotation.com/en/), and [Noteworthly](https://noteworthycomposer.com)

Great to see the evolution to web. Struggle a bit with triples, specifically quarter note. The editor always wants to insert sixteenth note triplets.
Where I work they're trying to combat this by creating tighter, more objective definitions of levels and putting people in those. The salary bands within a level are relatively small.

This cuts out a lot of the crap. You can still negotiate but not outside of band.
Then you must be from super developed country where every recruiter is techie. I am not, I have seen this many time. They ask MS word format resume. These days I email them both PDF and Ms word.
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The (expected) last iteration will try to access d[16] (which is UB) in the statement dd=d[++k].
I think there is something to say to how the media is portraying bloody rivalry between tech companies. I'm sure most of them don't have the same tension we have in media, and they are all hang out with each other.

As an anecdote, I know that Steve Jobs used to hang out a lot with Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt, and I also know a few Microsoft employees who are really good friends with Apple and Google employees.
Nice! I haven't used rust yet, but I'm really excited about it. I think Mozilla Research is doing some of the most groundbreaking work in CS lately.

The best part about rust is seeing the equally incredible work being done by the Servo team. To get a glimpse into some of their best work, here's a video where they talk about using the GPU to get better performance rendering a DOM than most native GUI toolkits can achieve on a sophisticated layout:

https://air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016/#...
I'm glad I bought a few in November 2015 for $35 each then... I was able to install CyanogenMod without too much trouble and I got rid of ads and increased performance in the process.
> I’ve never heard an engineer wanting to say “You know what, I don’t want to care about database schema design.”

I simply can't believe he's telling the truth here. I mean networking, sure, but databases are another story.
Exactly. I'm stuck maintaining a legacy Django 1.3 system and its not ideal. I'm using Django 1.9 for other systems and it makes me a bit sad to work with the older version. I'd happy maintain a legacy system but it gets harder as security fixes become non-existant.
I'm a hobby pianist with occasional paid gigs. I'd love to use this to play along with scores. Here is my feedback purely from a playback perspective. I haven't tried entering / editing any scores yet.

Some issues:

- Vertical page scrolling is not as intuitive. Could the pages be moved into place from the right? (horizontal scrolling).

- Scrolling is not at all smooth and just far too slow throughout (regardless of the mode used).

- No support for multiple systems per page. In other words, if the page could fit more measures, the next measures should be wrapped.

Feature requests:

- Consider allowing a no scroll mode - just skip to the next page.

- Also, allow configuring of page turns X beats ahead of the playback location. For example, I prefer folks to manually turn my pages 1-2 measures before the end of the page as I will have memorized the remaining measures.

- Could you provide an option for the score to resize to use the maximum available vertical space?

- Landscape page mode?

- Hide entire instruments (therefore reducing the system height).

- Support multiple systems per page (line wrapping of measures).
Whether his claims are warranted or not, his vitriol is still directed at the wrong place. If the behavior he claims is so easy to define is so easy, obvious, and beneficial, as he claims, he should just submit defect reports and get it fixed. Blaming the compiler authors is just silly (in the sense that it will never change anything, and is not effective)

As for folks "holding themselves to a higher standard", it's not really a sane thing to do here, because there is no universally agreed upon, or heck, even "precisely defined"set of "bad things" that they should not do. Depending who you ask, you will find differing answers on what people think should not be taken advantage of.

IE despite his claims, it's not even clear what this "higher standard" is supposed to look like.
This is true. I tried to do something with Piston, but I couldn't figure out what the type of anything should be, because I could inspect functions to see what their parameter and return types were. I could follow examples, but they tended to use inline functions, which don't need to specify types.

In Swift you can just Cmd+Click to do this (assuming SourceKit hasn't crashed) and it's very useful for that kind of exploration.
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But they only change their mind for this particular code, because it is part of a benchmark, which is the kind of code they supports instead of useful one.
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To be fair Cgood doesn't catch on because no compiler vendors implement it, and the C standards committe is at least somewhat beholden to the compiler vendors because if the compiler vendors en-masse decided not to implement their standard, then the standard isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
Just use a more defined language than C..
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