skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The marine corps passed on big dog as "too loud" at the end of 2015, that killed a potential customer for that product."

That was apparently a subcontractor failure. The prototype BigDog was powered by an off the shelf constant-speed gasoline engine driving a generator and hydraulic pump. This was inefficient, but good enough for the R&D version. The LS3 militarized version was supposed to have a quiet variable-speed Diesel plus some battery backup. (The US military is all-Diesel now. Gasoline tankers have no place in modern combat, where there are few secure rear areas.) So there was a subcontract for a small custom variable-speed Diesel engine with hydraulic pump and generator, with stringent noise and weight limitations. That apparently didn't work out as well as had been hoped. Quiet, tiny Diesels are hard.
Proof of evolution that you can find on your own body
Every morning I sit at a few red lights where I watch zero cars cross the intersection. It's infuriating.
>> That would totally suck for pedestrians and cyclists. Optimizing for cars and not for pedestrians and cyclists is what gave us the awful suburbs of America. No thanks.

One thing I keep coming back to is a separation of pedestrian and vehicle traffic. The idea of having sidewalks right next to the roads is just as stupid as having opposite direction traffic side by side.

Imagine a long high density urban area with pedestrian areas down the middle, and roadways around the outside. This is speculative of course, but the idea is to start with high level concepts like: keep the people away from the cars, make sure traffic doesn't cross, use only high density construction (because it makes public transit work). You get lots of conflicts, but I think we could do a lot better than what exists today.
Thing is, there is a sense of entitlement which is just not realistic with billions of peoples.

(And down-voting doesn't change that ...)
IntelliJ doesn't have the Scala plugin installed by default. However, that is true that you could combine the 'Install IDE' and the 'Install Scala IDE plugin' steps by installing the Scala IDE.

Even if you do combine those steps, there are still further steps a user would have take after they install everything. You described the set up as just being as simple as "Push the button, choose the scala template, give it a groupId and artifactId, done". However, I don't think it is that simple. As far as I'm aware, no IDE will give you a Scala project with a Maven POM. You can choose to create a 'Scala project' or you can create 'Maven project'. You can't create a 'Maven Scala project'. So you will have to figure out how to add Scala support to Maven manually. Also, you may have to figure out how to let your IDE know that your project is both a Maven project and Scala project.
I routinely drop into the console and say document.body.style.margin = '20%' on disastrous layouts like this.
https://support.google.com/docs/answer/1272900?hl=en

Yes, it can.
Yeah, same thing is happening here in Venezuela. Chavistas now want the new Assembly to fix what chavismo has been destroying here (still is) for 18 years.
It's really impressive that it can handle these many container placements.

But, honest question, what's the value of determining how fast can we schedule a million containers? This question is not just for Nomad but other cluster managers as well that have recently published similar benchmarks.

I see the value of scheduling thousands to perhaps hundreds of thousands of containers across many nodes, but millions seem excessive.

I think that is more valuable to measure what happens after you have 1 million containers running on your cluster. Such as:
- What is the overhead keeping track of that many containers?
- How do they impact the responsiveness of other API calls (list, delete)?
- What happens when nodes go down and suddenly you lose a considerable amount of containers, can it recover quickly?
- How does it impact the performance of running containers in the cluster?

Also, there are other important factors to test for:
- what about image size? How does it impact scheduling time when non-cached?
- container density per node
- number of nodes
- what about scheduling other workloads that Nomad support, like VMs and runtimes?
Even more confusing: it's not been updated since Summer of 2014… why post it now?
The author may have some good reasons not to want any publicity at this stage.

On the other hand, it is hosted on a public Github repo. This is not the place to publish your work if you want to avoid attention.
I do doubt his candid explanation was correct, because his statements include several things that are just factually wrong.

ULA faces a big threat from SpaceX right now. If SpaceX's reusability plans work out, if SpaceX can get their reliability up, and if SpaceX can work on their delays and start launching on time, ULA is going to be in a world of hurt. They had a long time as a sole-source launch provider for the government, and suddenly they're being undercut by a factor of five which could soon turn into a factor of ten or fifteen. Now, that's a lot of "ifs" up there, but ULA can't be complacent if they want to still exist in a decade or two.

If I was the CEO of ULA, I'd want my upper management to consist of people who understand this situation, who recognize the threat, who take it seriously, and who will work to keep ULA competitive as they go from having guaranteed business to needing to fight for every launch contract. And this fellow does not sound like he fits that description in the least.
Their arguments are just as valid as then. Web interfaces will never be as rich as desktop ones. Cloud connected desktop applications will gain a lot of momentum going forward.
> but it still feels so crufty from its origins as a newspaper server.

Care to elaborate?
Very interesting. The gender data for AP tests in particular, as it seems to suggest that there's a strong self-selection bias at work years before people start applying for tech jobs. Identifying the reasons behind that and persuading otherwise seems like a particularly important area for women in tech groups to focus on.
What about templates for C? Has this been proposed before? I'd love to write function templates, and templated structs would make implementing generic code so much easier and cleaner.
It might have, but I don't think it would have been the right type of attention. I think outing would have been wrong, and even if I didn't feel that way, I think a lot of tech folks would have really come down hard on me in the future. The tech world is amazingly small and insular in my experience, and as someone trying to break into that world, the last thing you want to do is give everyone a reason to never take your call.

I somewhat regret the appearance of a conflict of interest on my part there (that would not have been present if I had put it on Medium, for instance), because it really did look like a growth hack on my part, and I can't stand when people do things like this for traffic. It was certainly nice to see the traffic, but that's not why I did it.

Syrah - the site that it's on - was sort of an engineering proof of concept for me. I wanted to design something a little like Medium so I could better understand what was involved, and that's what it is. It was a pretty major effort to do it all on my own and I definitely learned a lot. I wanted to take that experience and use it for another, much larger project, where we built a CMS that could power websites, apps, etc, and let people white label it for their own use (sorta think Wordpress, but for more than just websites). Ultimately YC didn't take us and I ended up falling into another project that I'm working on now. I'd love to revisit someday, but for now, I just use Syrah to write things because I put so much time and love into it. Sometimes they are large (I broke a lot of the Tango issues: https://syrah.co/joshdickson40/565f62f40eaac8b79f519b17), sometimes they are not (https://syrah.co/joshdickson40/56aead844b23e3498c0392a1).
Cory Doctorow published an book called "Content". I'd never thought of it until he wrote it, but the idea of 'content' does suggest the presence of a container.
http://craphound.com/content/Cory_Doctorow_-_Content.html#1
I've been working with Django for years and I can't think of any way in which it is not flexible.
Revenue is not everything. There are things on the internet, old as country roads, operating on minimal revenue, still alive; while younger things which believed revenue is the way to go, are long forgotten.
Serious question: Does TechCrunch receive any payment for these types of articles?

On the face of it, the article fails to address any of the concerns raised throughout this thread / elsewhere on the internet.
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It's more probable that the knee pain was related to your running habit :)
Not really - their search product is optimized to be better for advertisers - not for consumers. If it wasn't about advertising, search would put a lot more advanced capabilities for analyzing the index and the results into the hands of users.
There are both opinions and facts in there. A person is entitled to his own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.
Occam's Razor: 1. Revenue Problem or 2. Neo-Luddite Problem?
Obviously old and feature-full libraries aren't going to benefit much from type-hinting. More than anything, I see it as a way to encourage new projects to re-think how they design their APIs - i.e. keeping it simple. That huge polymorphic argument example just seems like convenience was picked over API design by the Requests authors, and if you decide on that order of priority, type-hints aren't going to be useful to you.
> Microsoft couldn't beat Intuit Quicken with MS Money but they did crush Netscape with IE.

Microsoft tightly integrated IE with Windows, leveraging their OS monopoly in order to beat Netscape. I don't believe MS built a superior product.
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Previous discussion of Hylas-LISP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6633286
>If you think that some students just aren't "wired" to program, you as a teacher are unlikely to do as much to help them learn. //

So, is true but you mustn't think it? Or you have to pretend it's not?

I don't think their conclusion necessarily follows either, seems a possible outcome but some teaching is all about enabling the least "gifted" (and this can tend to fail at stretching those who appear to have a natural propensity).

Of there really no genetic element to intelligence?
Wait--it's a fountain?
A real time game using websockets e.g.
The implications would be far greater than that if he were right. An efficient algorithm for an NP complete problem would mean that you could find global optima for general non-linear functions. That would very likely lead to superhuman AI.
Here is some speculation on my part, perhaps totally incorrect.

The three social platforms with non-chronological timelines now: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, may all be seeing diminishing engagement from critical demographics (16-21.) Users log in less, so by "rewarding" them with the stickiest post when the do happen to log in, it appears to increase the retention of those cohorts.

Power users are following/friends with a lot of other users. If 1,000 - 2,000 people are followed there is a lot of noise. This also presents opportunities to completely bury the less sticky content, which also results in increasing ad revenue from publishers who got addicted to the free traffic (with "sticky" ads being rewarded with cheaper clickthroughs.)

The chronology complaint is interesting because reddit & hacker news have a similar sorting algorithm (voting, but with other complexities thrown in.) You log in, look, and log off. A compulsive user may check hourly.

There are definitely problems with dynamic sorting. Noisy producers may become more noisier because less of their stuff is being shown. Other users may not bother posting at all because they don't expect anyone to see what they posted. That audience is going to feel comfortable if another platform offers them a place they feel they are being heard.

Whatever the numbers show right now, the longer term retention cohorts have yet to be seen by anyone.

Despite monster ad revenue I am not convinced that Facebook has made a "slam dunk" on social media and will be the last man standing.
Great point re filtering categories, that would be great. For the data example, it could be that that the entity "Russia" didn't make the top 100 entities mentioned by Norwegian publishers this day or that the news happened after todays date cut-off. Thanks for the feedback!
Because technology gave us levarage, and lowered the cost. Lynne's pay is ultimately set by the market. Lower her pay and see if she leaves to make more somewhere else.
That's a great story with some valuable lessons learned, but I can't help but wonder how this forms the basis of someone's driving passion straight out of college: "Our mission was connecting millennials with smart, thought-provoking articles."
I think they're saying Reddit's another Excel-like competitor for your startup, not a competitor for Facebook.
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Honestly displaying misogyny seems like it should be discouraged.
Search is not a product for Google since they do not sell it. No matter how much everyone in the world might (including Google) categorize it as such. Products are sold. The only product they sell in relation to their search engine is an advertising platform. That is by definition the product.
More generally, I really wouldn't trust centrally planned "knowledge progress" or socialization or whatever tasks any more than I'd trust most other centrally planned control of a society's lives. Whether it's a good idea or not, there's nobody I'd trust with that power.
I've been using org-mode in various capacities for a little over a year now. I've tried other tools but keep coming back. As far as complexity goes, I feel like I'm barely scratching the surface. I like what Neal Stephenson has to say about emacs (which applies just as much to org-mode):

In the GNU/Linux world there are two major text editing programs: the minimalist vi (known in some implementations as elvis) and the maximalist emacs.
I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor. It was created by Richard Stallman; enough said. It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. It is colossal, and yet it only edits straight ASCII text files, which is to say, no fonts, no boldface, no underlining. In other words, the engineer-hours that, in the case of Microsoft Word, were devoted to features like mail merge, and the ability to embed feature-length motion pictures in corporate memoranda, were, in the case of emacs, focused with maniacal intensity on the deceptively simple-seeming problem of editing text. If you are a professional writer – i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed – emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish. [1]

A few things for newbies that might help:

1. A lot of org-mode 'power users' post their workflows and all of the attendant emacs lisp code [2] [3], and many new users feel like they have to customize their org-mode experience to that level to get any use out of it. DO NOT DO THIS! Start completely fresh with a clean install, just use it as a braindump outliner, and SLOWLY start adding new features as you go, based specifically on what you need for your individual workflow (the most useful first thing to learn for most people, after basic outline creation and folding, is probably the agenda view). This way you 'grow' the program to fit your own needs organically, rather than trying to shoehorn yourself into someone else's idea of a perfect workflow.

2. One customization thing I will say you should do immediately is to change the theme to match your preferred UI style. It will make a huge difference in how you 'feel' while you're using it. I love emacs but I hate, hate, hate the default UI look-and-feel. I will plug leuven-theme [4] as my current go-to for org-mode, but also dig the sanityinc tomorrow themes [5].

I will also throw in a compliment to the awesome community around emacs. It's happened to me many times where I've encountered some shortcoming or 'missing' feature of my existing setup, thought to myself "if only I could do X and Y," and discovered after 5 minutes of Googling that someone has already written something that does exactly what I'm looking for...

[1] from 'In The Beginning Was The Command Line' (1999)
[2] http://pages.sachachua.com/.emacs.d/Sacha.html
[3] http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html
[4] https://github.com/fniessen/emacs-leuven-theme
[5] https://github.com/purcell/color-theme-sanityinc-tomorrow
In the UK, we call that "doing a Ratner".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner
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It's candid, but not benign because the truth isn't benign. People in this person's position are not supposed to say the truth about the intersection of the government and his business. We're supposed to pretend it's all competitive or whatever.
I guess if it's all Open Source they have a problem.
well... disused well of youth http://doublestealth.blogspot.com/2014/07/my-treadwater-desk...
The misogyny
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Still a fan of OS/2!
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I'm noticing a lot of politics in non-political threads lately.

Some story is posted which has both political element and a non-political element, and the comments focus entirely on the political side.

Case in point: Spike Lee posts his movie list. Roughly 5% of the comment thread is dedicated to talking about the movies. 95% of the thread is about how terrible it was for people to criticize Spike Lee for not including any female directors.

Here: there's lots of fascinating discussion to be had about the current state of the space launch industry, how legacy players will respond to upstarts, rocket reusability, etc. But the whole discussion is about how terrible it was that this guy was fired for what he said.

Could everybody cut it out? It's annoying!
The funny thing is until you said this it never occurred to me for a moment. My impression was much more of someone that couldn't help themselves. More as if he was terrified of even a moment's silence.
Here I thought it was referring to the Spark programming language.
What I found really baffling is that he apparently said all of these things to an audience of college students at his alma mater. How could anybody make it to a high-level position and be so clueless about what you can say to what audience? This isn't like somebody snuck a recorded into a secret meeting, this is a perfectly predictable consequence of discussing confidential business details with random college students.

Especially when you're a C-level executive of a major corporation, there are certain things you just don't ever discuss frankly other than behind closed doors with a very select audience. Even if this hadn't been recorded, it would have been felony stupid to say those things to that audience. The consequences are entirely predictable and well-deserved.
Not all "collateral damage" is accidental, though.
If you want Americans to reenter the manufacturing workforce, you need to convince everyone that manufacturing is a decent path to a good wage and lifestyle. And then you need to make it actually happen.

Unfortunately, over the last 25 years the US has decimated vocational education in the high schools while simultaneously convincing families that a 4-year college degree is the only way to a viable lifestyle. So we cram college-prep and AP classes down everyone's throats while we auction off the drafting tables and auto shop tools.

It's for the best, since there's nowhere for a voc-ed student to go after graduation other than community college. Meanwhile we've moved on to dismantling unions and apprenticeships and all the other things that tracked workers into the factories and guaranteed them living wages.

I'll let our European friends explain how they don't have this same problem.
Atom adoption among SO developers increased from 2% in 2015 to 12% in 2016. VS Code is at 7.2% and it's not even out of beta.

Both Atom and VS Code are built on Electron so it seems that web tech for building code editors and IDEs is getting really popular.
Not particularly convinced by this.

All the article is saying is "no studies have confirmed that standing desks are correlated with positive health effects."

Given that standing desks are a relatively new thing, and as they mention there are no good studies either way, that's not very surprising.

And the evidence that sitting a lot is bad for you is still there.

So the hypothesis that not sitting all day is a good idea still looks pretty valid, and sit-stand desks seem like a decent way to achieve that.
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That may have been @arr - David Thorpe (edit: you were right actually)
> Undefined behavior allows the compiler to handle those cases as errors (e.g. print stack trace and crash). Or to perform static analysis. Or, to do something predictable.

In practice, no existing compiler that I'm aware of issues a stack trace on undefined behavior at runtime.

Instead, the compiler reasons from the perspective that if a section of code would have undefined behaviour under some set of circumstances, it will assume that those circumstances will never occur, and optimize accordingly (with sometimes surprising results).
Not really. Before Bing had 20%, Yahoo had 20%. Now Yahoo search is powered by Bing. MS pretty much bought the marketshare with the Yahoo deal and Yahoo was happy to have someone else do the heavy lifting on search. I believe Yahoo search is also the default on Firefox now.

IE defaults can only take you so far.
Yet another reason basic income would be useful. By leveraging existing capital to establish a more stable floor under that progression.

E.g. "Why would I do that for that much? I don't have any driving physical needs pushing me to poison/injure myself performing a dangerous menial tasks for minimum wage." Which puts a floor on human desire to do basic jobs. Which helps continue to support investment in improving automation/robotics. Which makes the world a better place.

Which actually sounds a lot like a carbon tax and the struggles alternative energy sources have gone through. Call it a self-aware employment tax.
He may be factually wrong, but it is his honest view of the situation.

If you take any company, and ask all of the VPs about their candid take about the tactics of their current situation, you will get a tremendous amount of variety on their perceived views of the situation.

As to if that aligns with the CEO's vision, I don't know. And his firing is not an indication either way, because he would be fired regardless for his indiscretion.

If you believe he is factually incorrect in the specifics of his analysis, I don't doubt you, and I'm not defending it.
making food shouldn't have ever been a job for a proper adult?
> Facebook.... <story is yet to be written>

That WhatsApp acquisition ($19 billion) must have been made exactly because Facebook was thinking that WhatsApp really could have been their Facebook (for Google), their Google (for Microsoft) and their Microsoft (for IBM).
> separation of pedestrian and vehicle traffic

I have an anecdote to support this. The bike path to my place of work runs along a river, far from traffic. There is a wide area for pedestrians as well. The difference between riding on this (think peaceful) and riding in a bike lane on the shoulder (life threatening) couldn't be any larger.
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