skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem with a job-centric economy is that it's based on the need of humans rather than the needs of the economy.

Society is made up of humans. The economy in your case is the tail wagging the dog.

The problem with your train of thought is that it isn't sustainable. When people get fed up and start burning ubers, the folks betting against people will be the ones finding their backs on he wall.
This wouldn't be complete without mentioning the enhanced CGA version a lot of Europeans experienced via Amstrad/Schneider PCs in the 80s (they tended to be the cheapest way to get a PC here, back then).

"The Amstrad used an "enhanced" CGA graphic mode, which could display 640x200 pixels with 16 colors (or grayscale)."

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=183&st=1

http://www.nostalgianerd.com/amstrad-pc1512

There were probably at least five pieces of software released which supported this mode. :)

The PC1512 came bundled with the GEM windowing system from Digital Research, including a paint program: http://www.reenigne.org/computer/gempaint.gif as well as a fairly state of the art graphical BASIC: http://www.reenigne.org/computer/basic2.gif, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDL8w_Mi49A (video in EGA though).
Good points. They are certainly not making out after the fines. Now I wonder, if the fine is tax deductible?
Much appreciated I had not thought of this route and you saved me a google search.
> and the common "solution" with tagging/labels are just single-level folders in disguise....

Tags are best when used to complement the hierarchical-folder-based system; as an extra layer of organization, not as a replacement.

Tags effectively let you keep a single file in multiple "folders", because the reason you're looking for a particular file is not always the same.

For example, my girlfriend is a concept artist and we're both fans of anime, so we trade a lot of reference and "reaction" images back and forth. Without tags, we'd be limited to keeping each file in a single folder, usually the name of the series OR a single character, but we're often looking for images depicting specific emotions, such as "Happy", "Shocked" and so on, and most images usually have multiple characters. With tags I can just save the image under the folder for a particular show, and just tag it with the characters' names and emotions. Keeps everything tidy for the OCD in me and makes searching for anything a snap as well. :)
Awesome work in less than 1 MB! Red could be a very interesting platform for iOT and embedded systems.

Red works also pretty neat with Wine. Just the shell cursor is not in sync with the input (usually one char ahead).

Is there way to run a GUI script without the shell popping up? Compilation of a script takes many seconds. Is that normal? Is there a FFI?
I would argue that crunch is at the root of good software development practices.

I've spent time in the industry and its behind in practices, wages and quality of life. There may be some smart, motivated people but the industry as a whole has not grown well.
3D Touch/Force Touch actually currently works on OS X on the 2015 MacBook Pro and the new MacBook. The touchpad doesn't move, it's just pressure sensitive and provides haptic feedback so you feel like you can depress it even more after clicking. OS X provides a dictionary/lookup popover when using it in Safari and some other apps.
This is horseshit. Evolution also says you're supposed to die in your 30s, wracked with parasites and diseases. But my guess is you "argue against evolution" every goddamn day when you brush your teeth. Two obvious problems:

One is your indulging in the naturalistic fallacy, aka the is-ought fallacy. What exists tells us nothing about what's right. If it did, then change would always be wrong. It's a big philosophical mistake, especially in one built around creating technological change.

The other is you're creating the sort of evolutionary "just-so story" that Gould called out as early as 1978. You have a personal fantasy that in our evolutionary environment each child was actively raised by a mother and a father. Is this based on careful examination of hominid fossils? No. It's based on very particular Western late 20th-century ideals of what a "family" is.

What you're doing isn't science. Its dressing your unconsidered prejudices up in a lab coat. And then using the authority of science to push a particular social agenda that involves keeping women at home. That's 100% horseshit.
Because it is better... it is just big.

CRT advantages over the LCDs I have here:

1) Greatly better contrast, in fact it is what made me switch back to CRT (all my LCDs have extremely poor contrast, in some of them is impossible to watch "Game of Thrones" for example because in dark scenes you see just everything gray, except for the teeth of the actors).

2) Greatly better colours (LCD not only has colour shifting as you move around, it has less colours overall too).

3) Greatly faster response time. (even to do normal stuff, like using normal programs, with LCDs I misclick a lot).

4) I can use whatever resolution I want... I can play old games in low resolution can play new games in high resolution, can play widescreen games letterboxed or stretched, can play GPU-intensive games in low resolution to make them faster without losing quality due to upscaling, etc...

5) It feels much easier on my eyes for some reason, I am not sure what.
What are the real reasons for successes and failures? You left me hanging...
I think most server machines are probably pretty loud. They're designed to go in data centers where noise is not a factor. They put a lot of components in a somewhat small space, then they put passive heatsinks on the CPUs and blow air through the whole case, including the passive heatsinks. The fans are really loud because they are both small and powerful.

If you wanted, you could take the top off the case and then put bigger, quieter fans in, or perhaps put larger, quieter active desktop heatsinks on just the CPUs. I think this would be okay, I don't think the rest of the motherboards usually require the fans, but I could be wrong.
Exactly right. Too often I've seen people commit to a schedule where the milestones were of unknown difficulty. When cutting through a new jungle, you have no idea what is between you and your goal, so really all you can say is that the best you can hope for is X if this jungle happens to be like previous ones.

This is especially true in startup situations where you are learning technologies that may themselves not be complete, with people who are learning their own new things, to achieve a result which is only hypothetically possible. It drove my CFO nuts but rather than commit to a schedule for a big deliverable I would walk backwards from the end point and say, "These are the stops between where we are, and where we are going. We measure our progress by getting to each stop, but like a subway map there isn't a known amount of time between stops, only what the stops are." And he would come back with "well we only have money to get to this date, will it be done by then?" and then we would talk about the uncertainty between each of the milestones. At some point you can reach a common understanding of what the unknowns are and how discovering their value will inform on the difficulty of the next step.

That said, I've met managers who just say "Oh we will be done by %x date." and then basically worked the problem the same way I have.

If you're agile you can break down the intermediate stops as sprints but estimating the backlog is still the killer step.
Just curious to know why you, or anyone else, need 100+ tabs open. Especially when you say you can have up to 400. Can you remember what's in each? I'm not judging, just trying to understand because it's so different from how I use browsers. When my tabs start to become so small that I can no longer see the titles on them I start to clean up by either bookmarking them or close them. I rarely need to bookmark so I don't have a million bookmarks.
Right? I really don't like that point of view, because it gives the incumbent power structures a legitimacy they don't deserve. I think it is folly to criticize dissenters for dissenting too hard instead of falling in line. The lesser of two evils is still evil. It is not right to judge someone negatively for rejecting two choices they find unacceptable.

Ralph Nader and Bernie Sanders are not responsible for the flaws of the system they choose to operate inside or outside of.
If you want a progressive party to exist, someone has to step up to try to lead in that direction. Sanders and his supporters are trying.
I found the Games Outcome Project to be much more rigorous(and anonymous) on the what practices help and hurt gamedev:

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/PaulTozour/20141216/232023/The_Ga...
If.

I created a twitterbot network, delivering generative text to twitter users, for my master's thesis. Have you heard of it?

Given that a sizeable number of twitter accounts are bots[1] and a large portion of tweets are 'pointless babble'[2], without the help of the braindead marketing executive who pushed this into the news, no one would have discovered the owner of the account until Tay was 'swatting' people's houses and selling bootleg Nike sneakers on the Silk Road.

[1] -http://www.techtimes.com/articles/12840/20140812/twitter-ack...

[2] - http://pearanalytics.com/blog/2009/twitter-study-reveals-int...
I wish I had experienced that era. What a legendary platform.
The concept of a revival of American manufacturing is a myth promulgated, for the most part, by one company: Boston Consulting Group.

(pdf warning)

http://www2.itif.org/2015-myth-american-manufacturing-renais...
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Outsourcing outside the U.S. for federal contracts is typically illegal unless explicitly allowed by the Contracting Office most times, especially for defense work where all contractors must be U.S. citizens. Exceedingly rarely do federal agencies allow outsourcing outside of the U.S., both for security and political reasons. This mostly applies to services, but some products are also affected. The biggest exception to this, at times, is in the case of Overseas Contingency Operations such as in a warzone or other hostile areas where local contractors and companies might be used.

However, there have been instances that bypass this in a sort of "gray area". For example, I knew a company that was outbid on a job by over $200k to convert 11,000 documents to web pages and re-design an entire series of agency websites. The government themselves acknowledged it would take about 3 full time people (developers) 9-12 months to do the work, but the winning bid for the whole thing was from an outsourcer who bid less than $60k total. The agency in question turned a blind eye to the minimum wage requirements for technical labor categories written directly into the contract. Had this been a larger procurement with more money at stake, it would have easily been overturned and resulted in legal action against both the agency and the winning bidder (the outsourcer).

There is also the whole "buy American" thing written into most contracts nowadays, but which mostly applies to construction.
I'd love to read more about that, is there any public document about your work ?

ps: it seems like another point for polymathy.
The irony is that Nader does not even admit his culpability in this equation. Leaving aside the disastrous Bush v Gore thing, Nader destroyed the Green Party's chance at creating a 3rd party movement that could have born fruit about now. He took all of the money that the Greens had socked away for their bottom up strategy, and set back 3rd party aspirations by 20 years.
They probably are.
>Although a valid concern putting "job creation" as a goal for governments can (and in a lot of occurrences in recent history, did) backfire spectacularly.

>In the most reductive analogy it creates incentive for the government to create "hole diggers" and "hole fillers" type of jobs that, in aggregate, generate very few useful work while fulfilling this basic goal of job creation.

>I believe this "job creation as priority" approach is inferior to both the "laissez-faire" capitalist alternative and the "basic income" social democratic one.

There may be another way, that is not mutually exclusive with the other approaches. It may take longer to have an effect but could be also more permanent or effective: supporting and encouraging much more local and small self-employment and small business. (And by encouraging I mean by concrete methods, not just hand waving and "moral support" kind of stuff).

It has the effect of giving the dignity and money you get from work, without the artificial hole-digging-and-filling provided by the government (which method doesn't have the dignity if you know the work is made up just for you).

Gandhi and E. F. Schumacher (Small is Beautiful) were talking about and doing this decades ago.

There are many ways in which it can be done.
I just did a clean install of OS X El Capitan and within an hour it was obvious that Chrome was better at managing memory. [extensions: UBlock Origin, Ghostery]

Personally, I think the browsers actually do beat each other in performance every couple of months. i.e. Chrome Version 49.0.2623.87 (64-bit) is better than (current firefox version) but next month it'll be the reverse.
cyan-red-grey was the composite output mode, and I agree it was FTW.

I also liked 2-scanlines-per-character text modes used to hack up graphics modes
24 Charts: Chaotic China
Your scenario may be applicable in other cases, but in the particular context of semiconductor industry, it sounds rather silly. Intel isn't a family farm raising chickens, and its competitors aren't exactly hiring subsistence farmers to draw silicon diagrams in a dim factory building 16 hours a day.

E.g., even though I'd be the first to say that Samsung is as corrupt as fuck, its fabs aren't exactly spewing toxic gas into the neighborhood (probably not any more than silicon valley companies did in the 60s), and it still (sadly) remains a choice opportunity for job seekers in Korea.

Also you have to factor in that the existence of a strong consumer class in other countries (those pesky workers in Samsung) allows many American companies to hire more people than they could if they only had the American market.
> How is this unreasonable. "We will not support your conference if you give the podium to a famous and vocal racist who calls for the enslavement of black people."

Citation needed for the claim that Yarvin has called for the enslavement of black people.

I've seen him say that black people made better slaves than, say, Native Americans, but that's quite different from saying that they should be slaves. See this discussion from his recent AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4bxf6f/im_curtis_yarv...
I really don't like var/val definition. My issue is that it makes it nearly impossible for someone who is not familiar to the language or to the code base to jump in and start fixing.

Could someone please tell me the following: How do I tell the type of x?

var x = callSomeRandomFunction()

We have to go look in callSomeRandomFunction, don't we? Now how easy will it be to do that if you have 15 variables and calls to different functions?

How do you know what types are iterable and what types aren't?

What I love about the way explicit definition works is that you are almost guaranteed that in a function you have the type that you are looking for.

If they kill that, they kill one of the greatest parts of Java: the parts that make it not only easy to write but easy to understand.
Okay, that makes sense. I saw the orange cloud was available for other CNAME records and was unsure about that. I have a client that I believe currently has the orange cloud enabled on a CNAME pointing to MaxCDN but was probably done before this change was put in place. I was curious how that was setup as I couldn't do it under my account but it all makes sense now.

Thanks again for both of yalls input.
>semantic and syntactic purity, simplicity, and consistency

Who wants simplicity? People learning the language, so they have less to learn and a lower cognitive overhead when starting out. People teaching the language, so they have less work. Language implementors, so they have a much shorter period of time between prototype and release of a language implementation.

Who doesn't want simplicity? People who've already learnt the language and are proficient with it and use it regularly, having grown accustomed to the features it provides that can't be properly added afterwards as macros or libraries.
From what I got from the article, there were two steps to the process. The first being the scanning, which the company seemed to do correctly, the second being the indexing, which gets you 36% of the work if you count each card in indexing and scanning.
And honestly, this is why people say Chrome is slow or Chrome is a memory hog. There's so much non-web-browser stuff in Chrome it's just become tremendously heavy. That doesn't make it bad, and Google has recently done things to lighten it (like removing the feature of mirroring Now cards in Chrome), but it's the truth.
To be honest, this isn't true.

Chrome Packaged Apps allow developers to build alternative browsers using Native Client.

Just no one has bothered to do so because it wouldn't make much of an impact, plus alternate browsers wouldn't be able to set themselves as the default browser.
Recently released FreeNAS v9.10, based on FreeBSD 10.3: http://www.freenas.org/blog/freenas-910-released/
I had one and I learnt low-level programming on it. I recall my befuddled confusion when my stuff looked totally glitched on other ‘CGA’ machines.
When I get no response from a company, I always fax a letter to the company CEO and without fail I get action.
You're conflating the idea of broadcasting and advertising. One is the other, but the other is not the one.

Of course advertising has a use, but without advertising it's not like you would "have to research the 85 sushi restaurants" in your neighbourhood.

Put it this way: I use adblock, I do not watch TV nor go to places which actively advertise. My life is fine, and I don't have to "actively research" anything unless I specifically want to. In fact, compared to people who don't avoid ads, I tend to spend my money a lot better... something to think about.
Right, that's the advantage to Comcast Business. It only costs a bit more, and when something does go wrong, you get faster, better-informed service from more knowledgeable people.
My experience has been that the thought process involved in creating accessible designs results in systems that are easier to use for people without disabilities. For example, curb cuts were designed to benefit people in wheelchairs, but they make life easier for delivery people with hand trucks, people with strollers, etc.

It's the same for UX design. Features designed to increase accessibility, such as better contrast, reasonably large fonts, etc. seem to make software more usable period.
A marketplace is a tool, and it alone does not automatically bring freedom to people or ensure fair resource allocation.

There are complicated factors for the differences in the countries you mentioned.
I'm running Gallium an a Samsung Series 5 chromebook. It's a real pleasure to be honest. I had crouton running before, but chrome os updates often trashed the install and it was a pain to get running again.

Only thing I would like really is better battery life - I get somewhere in the region of 3 hours, but my chromebook is pretty old so...
New KBO might add more evidence of Planet Nine's existence
That myth was debunked long ago.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/6/1260721/-The-Nader-M...

http://www.cagreens.org/alameda/city/0803myth/myth.html

http://disinfo.com/2010/11/debunked-the-myth-that-ralph-nade...
TDD might not apply well to games because they are used by big corporations for 15 or 20 years. It makes more sense when you're working with old legacy code and you want to add features to it. Unit tests are definitely not a all-around solution but they have their use cases.
> How should I best let consumers know that my product is different because of its features, or the craftsmanship, or whatever. Should we all live in universes bounded by the speed of chatter, so that HN's pure market sensibilities can be satisfied? Should I just wait for customers to stumble upon the right keywords to make my product show up in their ad-free search results?

the problem is that there's a conflict of interest between the seller of a good and the buyer of a good. Every seller wants to claim that their product is better, regardless of actual reality, while every buyer would like to actually know which product is better

As you rightly point out, the buyer doesn't want to do a lot of research to find this out, but.. the problem with advertising is that advertising does not give the consumer a good idea of what is actually best because of the aforementioned conflict of interest.

I think if we are talking about reality, we mostly rely on the law here; E.g. if I go to the corner store and grab a gallon of milk, it probably won't poison me, because there are 'minimum milk' standards (my area has yet to legalize unpasteurized milk for human consumption) So I can buy the cheapest milk in the store, or the milk advertised to target my demographic, and either way, little harm is done. Worst case I spend a little more money than I'd need to.

The right answer to the research problem is something like consumer reports (though really, I think it'd work better if it integrated with cooperative retail... e.g. I'd go to the store and only the top 2-3 products in each catagory are there.)
I still have it installed. Otter is a good modern alternative for those of us who love Opera 12. It's still missing features but it's getting there, and it's blazing fast.
The fight against food fraud
>It's absurd to put together hedge fund managers making $30 million a year with the established doctor who works two blocks from your house making $250k.

There will always be problems when trying to draw these lines.

Of course putting someone who makes $30MM vs $250k is absurd. What about $1MM vs $250k? $300k vs $250k?

There's an inordinate amount of conversation about this subject on HackerNews, which has some irony, since I'm sure the demographics here skew "wealthy". Everyone wants to believe they're in the "99%", but the fact is the vast majority of the population in America, and more so the world, would consider people here the 1%. $250k is more than most people need, in terms of sharing the wealth, even in a household. If there's a populist shift, your doctor may find some empathy for that kind of salary; the guy who coded the latest photo app won't.
We don't need brand advertising to achieve any of those functions.It has negative value for consumers.

So maybe some form of advertising is useful, but it would look totally different if what drove it was consumer benefit and not producer benefit.
Note that the website you linked doesn't have any sharp black on white.
The EFF mentioned BLM in passing, right after the f'ing Tea Party. The commenter upthread doesn't want to talk about the EFF. They just want to talk about BLM on HN.
The entire purpose of the modern political machine is to take your general discontent and channel it toward individual people, in this case Bush II, so that you will forget the true scope of your oppressors.

Gore, having lost, gets to go down as the better world that could have been. Obama, having won the position of being salesman for the status quo, gets labeled the disappointment. But you'll have forgotten this in 4 years, when it is pressingly important that $REPUBLICRAT not be reelected.