skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked with a CRT monitor for a while (design job at a non-profit; I had 2 CRTs and a several year old Mac Pro—it held up very well though) and it was actually quite nice.

- Non-16:9 aspect ratio. Photoshop is much nicer on 1600x1200 (relatively common CRT resolution) than on 1920x1080. CRTs are frequently 16:10 or even 4:3, so if I had a particularly nice one I'd be hesitant to replace it (4:3 LCD or LED are really hard to find).

- Higher refresh rate. 60Hz is nice enough, but 96Hz or higher is very pleasant. CRTs have a higher refresh rate than LCDs due to how they work (and if they didn't, you'd get quite a headache because there's no backlight).

High-end LCD screens have more or less caught up by now, but it took them a long time and they're still expensive (granted, high-end CRTs are at least as expensive now, but if you've had one for a while there's no real rush to replace it).
Then I'd like to know in which part of EU "porn is nothing" or whatever is the meaning of this. Because I live in Europe and I don't know any EU states that doesn't tons a laws about pornography.
This is an optional feature we're talking about, isn't it? You won't be forced to use it.

It's been in C# for a few versions, and you do find there are places where it always makes sense to use (foreach loops), and there are places where you want to use some judgement. Of course all variables still have a type, it's just not made explicit in the source code, so you can get your IDE to tell you what it is (e.g. by hovering).
It's fine for corporations to own patents, they should be however nontransferable so only that corporation can ever bring a lawsuit to enforce it. And if the corporations is bought or sold or dissolved or rearranged, it loses the patent. That sort of limits the scope of how the patent can be used. Which would still be an improvement than now.
Their custom behaviour in the JS apis for HtmlMediaElement come to mind.

Half of which plain don’t work, and the other half work on mobile only in onClick handlers.
I loved this article, but I do have to disagree on one point: your productivity matters.

Lots of teams have someone who is not pulling their weight but the boss doesn't want to have to fire them.
List of patents used as prior art:

5,077,660

5,199,066

5,291,598

5,509,070

5,956,505
>But it you're turning off your logic in casual conversation, expect to get burned. Detecting fallacies should be an always-on feature, like HTTPS.

I don't suggest turning off logic in casual conversation. Rather I suggest that one doesn't put it in autopilot -- as if fallacies (or their lack thereof) are the ultimate judgement of an argument.
That's my problem. YOU can't tell. You cannot just look and see what is going on.
I did some work with Charles Forgy, and if I remember correctly, the challenge with RETE was that it scaled very well with a large number of rules (as you note), but it scaled very poorly with the size of the data set against which those rules were applied. He subsequently developed versions of RETE that addressed some of the weaknesses in the original algorithm, but the subsequent versions were not released in the public domain. For example, RETE3 (early 2000s) is now owned by Fair, Isaac.
Yes. And not only business leaders, but also the economists who've been giving these business leaders intellectual cover (and advising presidents) for decades now.

It seems that today's high ranking economists, who are highly influential and defend their intellectual turf aggressively, rely on models which ignore/omit Mr. Grove's industrial policy insights.

US consumers get cheaper manufactured goods if the US economy just simply outsources all orders for these goods to factories in East Asia. And that seems to be about as deep as these economic analyses go.

But where is the economic analysis that recognizes and quantifies the cost of losing so much domestic manufacturing capability?

When I see how long it takes Indiegogo and Kickstarter hardware makers to actually create their finished products -- because they have to travel to China to meet with part suppliers and manufacturers -- I wonder how much US innovation has been crippled by the policies top US economists have confidently articulated and defended for the last 30 or 40 years.
I vote for val - immutable reference/value.

Java needs easy syntax for immutable, while having inferred mutable is questionable.
Maybe it's me but after working with Java for a while I don't mind the verbosity of variable declarations especially when looking at someone else's code.

There's obviously plenty of boilerplate in Java that can be rather painful to deal with at times but again I don't mind it when declaring variables.
They filed an official dispute 11 hours ago.
> Mostly I'm confused why a nearly 15 year old, poorly-written journal article appeared on HN today with no comments.

Agreed, some context would be nice, and also agreed that it is poorly-written. I appreciate it much more when a paper I see on HN has some context from the submitter.
Both. Well, I think focussed individuals with 1 area of expertise are fine. But you need someone who is at least a a very good computer scientist, has some formal background in probability theory and ideally grasps genetics quite well (which is far from trivial as it's a moving target).
I meant the YouTube devs sabotaging it for Firefox, not the Chromium/Chrome devs doing something.
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A panopticon allows the inmates to be viewed but not know if they are being viewed at any given time.
Read the readme. Trader is not profitable (yet). Unless if you don't include fees in profitability calculation, which is clearly not a calculation based in a real use case.
(I accidentally upvoted you, but wish to explain why I wanted to downvote you):

That’s just an attack that doesn’t really contribute.

Java’s concept is more about backwards compatibility, and compatibility with generated code.

Which, btw, is why a lot of the tasks that should commonly be done by a compiler can be done by a compiler in the Java world as well.

Look at what JavaPoet and Lombok can be used for.
Exactly. When things are this fucked up at a company, you are under no obligation whatsoever to perform adequately, or act ethically otherwise (with regard to normal strictures against, say, taking phone calls or long "lunch breaks" to look for work on company time).

You'll probably want to cover your ass at least, and not be too obvious about it. But bottom line, you owe nothing to them by this point -- and you owe it to yourself to find yourself a better future, as soon as you possibly can.

Good luck.
Isn't that what he was getting at though, even if someone is NOT productive, the boss has a list, figure out where you stand and act accordingly.
Porn is sensual? Yeah ok... better visiting motherless.com than reading this kind of bullshit.

// @TODO: fix this downvotable comment, might result in bad karma
Gone fishing in a fluid trial
Immutable data-structures are useful, but also it is quite a lot of work to transform a codebase written with mutable data-structures into one with immutable ones. This is because mutability is a "viral" property.
Steve Wozniak Still Doesn't Quite Get Why Steve Jobs Was a Genius
Do they grade all congress persons and their opponents?
Generating Factoid Questions with RNNs: The 30M Factoid Question-Answer Corpus
The issue is more with "reading code from other people written like that" and less with "understanding your own code".
I don't see how without an IDE you could do that.

Something doesn't just stop being a problem because an IDE helps you avoid it.

The explicit nature of Java is what makes it great. What you type is what happens.
I use LetsEncrypt and ggssl.com. Simple. Free/Cheap. Nice customer support.
I don't think they can do it with Generics because of an architectural problem. And while var is probably the best approach to having type inference, I don't even think that's a particularly important feature if you're comparing Java to C#. Having async/await and async IO basically be the default as it is in C# now would be huge. Trying to make things asynchronous in most Java web projects is considerably more difficult than it ought to be. Play framework isn't bad, but given that it's a Scala framework, there's a different set of issues when you're trying to use it from Java.
Microsoft meets with private equity over Yahoo deal
No harm done, node itself has 'gyp' which is a racial epithet for gypsies in most of Europe.
What about when you have an exception thrown in a library you started using. You open up the library on github or whatever code hosting system they use. You see a bunch of var this var that, and you have no idea how to follow through the code yourself.

You have lost a huge debugging technique, using your eyes, for your lack of patients for writing a variable type.
Any competent lawyer authoring the settlement agreement on behalf of the patent owner would provide for a release against future claims should the patent turn out to be invalidated.

Such terms would be accepted by the payer, because at the time of payment, the assumption is that the patent is valid "enough" to settle.
If it is made available it will be used. That's kind of a golden rule: build it and they will come.

If this is widely adopted, I'd say that there will be a lot of problems that stem from it. That's why I say this shouldn't be a feature.
Scheme is like untyped calculus.

What about typed calculus?
Second paper in particular is pretty fascinating. I'm sure you see the parallels to convolutional neural networks. Thanks for posting.
Australian here too, first time since heard it was when Michael Jackson used it in a song.
True, but not really in context. I mentioned them only because the claim is that three-strikes somehow streamlined the court system.
Well, yeah. All social platforms (Facebook, Instagram, etc) would be glad to kill/replace the internet. Some just half-heartedly embrace it because they don't have a choice (Twitter).
Uniloc may be a troll, but the issue of patent lawyers entirely--not just a little bit--writing their experts' "opinions" for them is a real one. Only the PTAB allows this; federal courts take a very different view.
I was arguing against the below statements specifically, which I don't think are accurate based on my experience. I've been at companies that let slide non-productivity because it's easier than firing, until times are tight. Then, since they have to layoff someone, they layoff the unproductive since they don't hurt their departments that way.

"You may argue that this doesn't take into account productivity, but I believe that's irrelevant. If you're at a company that values productivity, then everyone will be productive; the idea that there's a 10x difference between top and bottom is a myth"
> Maybe they don't want to raise millions of dollars and spend years building a business

But see, this is the valuable part! This is what we should be rewarding! The idea is worthless without execution. The concept that someone who simply had a relatively trivial idea should be able to extract rent from someone else who had the same idea but actually spent years executing on it and building a real business that benefits actual customers, taking on significant risk to do so, is repugnant.
Layer's pretty much world wide, have some form of 'local certification' in the form of 'Passing the bar', or equivalent local requirement. Its not that the skills are specific to a locality, its that in order be allowed to practice law in a jurisdiction you must complete the local requirement.
A sign of a health economy is production. Consumption is a secondary effect. It arises from production: you cannot consume without it being produced first, and you never really need to induce consumption. I know they say it a lot, but it is crazy. The human desire for stuff in unquenchable, but getting somebody to produce is always the hard part.

The Veil of Money was used to describe the question of whether money was important to the real economy, and it brings up how money can confuse and hide.

Money is just an accounting mechanism, literally an IOU -- a claim on future production. Remove the money and see what happens: The chef and I down the clean exchange services and we agree on an equal exchange, one hour of her time for one hour of my time. She cooks for me for 5 hours, but she doesn't have any need for my help yet, so I write her an IOU saying I'll help her with her stock portfolio when she needs me. She decide to die in a horrible fire, taking with her the house and IOUs. Now I have 5 hours of free cooking and the world is no worse off for her not consuming. In fact it is much better.

If somebody worked and produced so much more than anybody else in the entire world and produced half or everything but never spent a penny and one day burned everything, yes, the dollar would double in value overnight -- fewer dollars chasing the same amount of good, deflation. All the government would need to do is produce the little green pieces of paper or double everybody's bank accounts overnight, and the world would now have all that stuff for free.
Making patent ownership non-transferable would have no significant effect. Patent troll companies would simply contract with the inventor and sue "on behalf of" the inventor. Same dollar amounts would change hands, the contracts would just be written differently.
A closed system can grow as long as consumption becomes more efficient over time.
Do you mean Chrome on the desktop? Because Chrome on iOS is actually Safari, skinned.
Interesting, I always worry about how companies may be able to twist the law if they see someone reporting a data leak and they loose money because of bad publicity.

http://www.dmlp.org/blog/2013/government-responds-dmlp-amicu...
http://www.wired.com/2013/03/att-hacker-gets-3-years/
Redistribute if you want. I'm just saying do it though different tax mechanisms. Capital taxes are the worst possible way.
I often thought that CGA could have been much better with very little change at the hardware level.

If the colour displayed onscreen had the red level inverted the options would have been much more erm... palatable.

For an output of (1-r,g,b) you would get some lovely options http://i.imgur.com/rMAr9mU.png

If done at the Digital level flipping the R line of the RGBI You would remain in the standard 16 colours but with better combinations

http://i.imgur.com/2AWs9E7.png

You get a nice blue gradient palette and an earth tone palette (brown,black and green).
I have a friend who works for a big aerospace conpany, and he keeps an eye on his team members. One in particular is "the buffer". This person is apparently not that good at tasks.

If "the buffer" ever gets laid off, my friend has to be concerned. Until then, "the buffer" is a source of comfort to my friend.
The birds have spoken. [1]

[1] http://i.imgur.com/kRciqdc.png
You certainly can't make it perfect, but in this case, where the submitter is effectively anonymous and they're not paying for the service, you should be able to justify the occasional false positive.
Interesting that the soundbite could be "zoning laws kill cities" but much of what Jane Jacobs said in her book seems intuitively true for a lot of people. Nice to have some data to back that up.
Laying single-mode fiber with emacs?
for some context, this was released by ANSSI, which as far as I can tell is a French government communications and computer security organization. They've done a lot of interesting work with security and OCaml as well: http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/agence/publication/lafosec-securite-e...
No ethical headhunter would make a deal like this. Recruiting costs should be the responsibility of the employer, with the implicit understanding that not all employees will stick around (especially if they're abused), and the employer bears that risk.

You might want to consult a lawyer to find out if this kind of contract is legal or enforceable in your state.
Since the market economy is supposed to search for Pareto optimality (local optima) why not view the lottery as a way to find a better global optima by randomly kicking the system out of its local optima. Similar to how annealing [1] uses random jumps.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing
Do you really not understand that there are failures other than "the chat bot chatted so its ok"? Do you not realise there might be other requirements for software than "it kind of appears to do roughly what someone asked for"?
Better headline: Writer Still Doesn't Quite Get What Wozniak Values.

Also, some unfair cherry picking here, like:

"Woz got his facts slightly wrong--it's not only the watchbands that differ from a less expensive to more expensive Apple Watch, it's also the case itself. In the more expensive editions, it's made of 18-karat gold"

Woz's comment was speaking specifically to the products priced from $500 to $1100. The gold case watches are $10k+.

Just an odd article for me. It's not news that Woz is technically focused, and not terribly impressed with things like aesthetic design. There's also many other documented reasons he might not think Jobs was a genius.
They might often buy an inferior product instead.

If there were no advertising, not many people would know about—let alone buy—video games. But dollar for dollar video games are much better for them than alternatives like drugs.
Yes, I think that's exactly the reason. Which is also why I'm a critic of SV.

There definitely are great things that come out of the ability to quickly identify and create helpful apps/sites, but these days I'm wondering if the nuance of those who needs help is far more nuanced than app developers think. Or that maybe they they're aware, but they think "good enough" will inspire others to create their own, better/helpful service.

In my personal experience again, the problem happens when the need for wages and time (jobs, unemployment, family, health, etc etc etc,..., etc) completely de-mantles that motivation. It's these sorts of things that make basic income seem to make sense.. as in, if addressing socioeconomic nuance is solvable only time and motivation, the only limiting factor is money on an individual level.

My cynic side wants to call this "wage slavery", despite fucking hating that phrase.

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For what it's worth, the hackathon winners created an app for reporting DV by hiding it as a calculator with a passcode. It was neat, but after having dated someone VERY technical and someone who's NOT technical, these sorts of things would fall flat on their face. It's surprising how far their technical thoroughness went in both cases.

non-tech girl: "My friend told me how to look at DNS cache and you were clearly looking at porn earlier."

tech-girl: "I sniffed my ex's AIM traffic to find out he was cheating. Don't cheat on me."
Yeah, I'm only a couple years off from forty and I'm pretty sure my vision is not nearly fifty percent dimmer than twenty years ago. Certainly my glasses prescription has changed slightly, but that is more about redirecting the light.
Wow, ghetto bird PR. "Predictive policing" using the data about where you usually arrest people to figure out where you should idle until you find somebody to arrest is functionally equivalent to what they always did.
Sorry for getting back to you so late on this. It seems to be an issue specific to Opera (using version 34.0.2036.25, Feb/2016). Just tried again in Opera and get the same warning.

I seem to encounter the same problem on one or two other random https sites using Opera. I'll have to track the sites and report the issue to Opera.

Tried using other browsers and no issues accessing this site.
Any numbers for "enormous performance boost" when over-riding componentShouldUpdate?
One practical reality of this rule would be that only wealthy inventors could secure effective IP rights. A patent without the ability to finance a lawsuit (about $2 million, min) is an empty threat, and sophisticated parties know this and will refuse to license your IP. Contingency fee lawyers used to fill this void, but recently patent suits have become so unprofitable that, at least anecdotally, very few firms are taking contingency cases. Private equity will step in occasionally for patents with a pedigree, in a strong portfolio, but it's rare.
Much like the folk putting echos into find and wildcarded shell commands to check the output, I'll often start manual sql updates by doing 'SELECT something FROM database WHERE...' and check the output rows match my expectations before hitting the up arrow to replace the SELECT with an UPDATE.

For bigger tables, I use COUNT(something) if I expect it to be long but I have an idea of rows affected, or LIMIT if that's going to give me an idea that it's doing the right thing.
Have you been in one? I have. It is not something I would want to do, but it is not as bad some low paying jobs in the US.

Sweatshops exist in China, but the top electronics manufacturers (mostly Taiwan-owned) have relatively good conditions.
Hope is an optimistic word for this. I think it would be more accurate to say idle thrill. Passive daydreaming about going from nothing to millions overnight (due to external factors you can't even influence except by buying a ticket) doesn't really count as 'hope' in my view. It's a bit like saying drinking helps people to avoid problems. I mean, technically it does...
I'm sure a network of experts in IP management would step up in such a hypothetical world, and these people would be more than happy to 'build the business' around patents on behalf of the inventors, in exchange for money of course. Pretty similar to the current system on the face of it. But the nuances may have some greater merit.
I've worked on a fairly complex web app with advanced graphic effects. It used Angular, and I can confirm anything this article says, and more. For instance, it's extremely complex to get a CSS animation perform reasonably well on Android, compared to old iPhones.

I don't think V8 is a problem per se, it's the whole browser that underperforms on mobile. The only positive point is that at least it updates quickly. Sometimes minor versions of iOS introduces bugs that you don't ever know when they will be fixed.
Bitcoin's automatically adjusting difficulty rate means that if fewer people are mining, then it becomes more profitable for them, which guides the system into an equilibrium.

Also, mining profitably requires special hardware built specifically for Bitcoin mining.
If we ignored the value of the idea, then those with the means to scale up production quickly could easily steal ideas from those who are trying to find the means to scale up production.
You make a good point. I hadn't heard about Foursquare in a very long time, so I had no idea that they were trying to do something similar to monetise it.

Like I said though, it costs us practically nothing to run and it's been a great learning experience so far - I don't see any reason to give up just yet.
It makes more sense when you're working with old legacy code and you want to add features to it.

No!!

Testing is not merely about future proofing (although it's a really nice benefit), it's about proving that your code actually works now. By writing tests and verifying that they pass you can be sure that the code actually does what you think it does. Furthermore you can ensure that when other parts of the code changes your code still does what you think it does, which might be an issue tomorrow, next week, or in ten years.

\* note: Testing does not prove that your code is correct, only that it satisfies the conditions of the test. As with all engineering testing is only effective as the person implementing it.
There'll be a plugin for that.
Speaking of CGA... did you know that an IBM PC 5150 (4.77 MHz Intel 8088) with a CGA card can display full framerate video?

http://trixter.oldskool.org/2014/06/19/8088-domination-post-...

This is accomplished by compiling the video into branch-free code that sends minimal updates to the CGA.