skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I almost feel like a genre has to "die" at some point in order to live (i.e. gain relevance) again. Something that stays in the public consciousness past its prime gains association with being "something your parents like" and eventually "something your grandparents like", and these are bad associations if you want something to get wildly popular.

A lot of brands that have carpet-bomb "get everyone hooked at once" marketing campaigns, like Old Spice, end up with this effect where nobody wants to use the product since it's what their dad uses, and they don't want to smell like their dad. So Old Spice has set upon the strategy of letting its marketing go quiet for a few years, and then, pretty much once per generation, running a new fleet of ads claiming that Old Spice is "not your dad's deodorant", but is in fact best associated with buff 20-something men.

The same happens in clothing (look at e.g. 80s clothing coming back into fashion just as everyone's mom had finally stopped wearing it.)

Now, I've never seen anyone cite explicit evidence of it occurring in music as well, but it would fit the general mechanism. It might be why e.g. disco has mostly stayed dead (it's survived in the public consciousness with the image of the aging, pervy "uncle", a white guy with an afro wearing white suede and rollerblades, trying to retain his relevance); while genres like jazz are perennial (getting once again associated with being "young and cosmopolitan" at each turn of the clock.)

If rock can truly die—if we can let go of "classic rock" music stations and dads sporting worn-to-dishrags "rock concert" tees—and allow the ground of the genre's image to lay fallow for a bit, we might be able to sew something new there.
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I mean, yes, there are a few physicists who have turned into science popularizers, but they're no longer at the forefront of scientific research (e.g., Michio Kaku, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene).

I do quantum chemistry research. Do you recognize any of the names: Colbeck, Renner, Alavi, Booth, Kohn, Sherrill, Gill, or Pople? Colbeck and Renner are about as philosophical as you're going to get for scientists who currently perform actual research (Tegmark and Baez are in categories of their own).
> but it strikes me as more than a little ungrateful to pretend that the experiment was scientifically worthless.

For better or worse, the amount of information you could extract from an experiment through Bayesian analysis is much larger than what would be allowed as "kosher" science. Regular scientific process is safer because it plays safe - but that's also the reason why you aren't organizing double-blind studies when your application crashes. You can move faster by careful inference and in case you get stuck or it leads you wrong, you can always revert to a "by the books" scientific method.
Popular genres change overtime. Right now EDM is filling arenas. That doesn't mean rock is dead and if you think it is you're not looking hard enough. There are LOTS of great rock bands - they're just playing clubs and theatres.
WRT the decline with age, I've always felt like a lot of it is 'ego based', for lack of better terms.

I've found that as time goes on, people are far more concerned with doing things by the book, projecting an image, etc. rather than just 'being', enjoying life in the moment, doing things just because.

I've certainly been guilty of this to some extent because it seems impossible to avoid.

Personal anecdote: At age 16 it was fun to hang around at a bus stop or street corner or whatever and just chat bollocks. Move forward a bit and in college we'd hang out in someone's dorm room or flat or equivalent.

Now everyone is off at work, spaced out all over the place. You might be able to get one or two people to do something, but it'll probably mean some sort of sanitized commercial experience (go and get pizza at a restaurant, pay to commute there, pay to commute back, etc).

And it's all because we've sort of decided that working all the time is more important than being social.

I think that's sad. I often wonder if it's how we end up with such warped political environments. No-one just relaxes, any more, it's all 40 hour weeks and 'scheduling appointments' months into the future.

You grow up, and what were 20 kids, become a banker, a lawyer, a janitor, a policeman, a nurse, a dropout, a homeless guy, and so on. And it just doesn't work, because of all these rules we've made up, status games, location, whatever. Why can't we just go to the park again?

And no, this isn't just about childhood friends moving away. It's the same story up and down the scale, in my experience. Everyone is busy, everyone is pushing.

The community takes a back seat to economic needs, it seems. Something like that. I'm not sure. I know we still got stuff done back then, I have a bit of paper with a hologram on it that proves it. But it wasn't all consuming, somehow.
For all the negative things folks have been saying on here about SF (expensive, etc.) there's a huge positive that overshadows all of it for me:

I've made more new friends in the last 3 years since I moved to SF than, I'd honestly say, my previous decade living in NYC. I'm 37 now and feel like I have more of a community than in college.

I think the key to finding real friends and friendships is to be in a place where you're going to be surrounded by the kind of people you WANT to be friends with. It doesn't involve over-thinking or forcing it: I'm a 30-something dude who loves tech and being outside. There are a LOT of people like that in SF. I figured that out within a week of visiting 3 years ago, so I moved here.

Say what you will about monoculture, but it sure made it easy and fun to find a community of people I liked (and vice versa).
Do you have a lot of experience with vigilante exposers?
Police in most cities don't give a damn about property crime. I heard that some (non-wealthy) Seattle neighborhoods hire private security because the police never show up, and thieves operate with impunity.
Thats true, but in a typed, structured language, you generally build some kind of data structure to deserialize responses into. With REST endpoints, each response can be translated to a specific predefined object in a client library. GraphQL seems to, by design, ignore this kind of usage in favor of the "heterogenus untyped dictionary responses"... do I really have to write custom data types for every single different query?
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The they will not hire you for writing spaghetti code. You can't win! :)
I can't agree more with your second point, given the time I spent trying to explain various "disappointing" results to digital marketing people.
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Or, from another field: it might look like some stock investors are "hot" or "cold", but that doesn't mean that investing with a currently-"hot" investor will give you any better odds. The variance in the market is high; sometimes people get a streak of wins without that being any more than luck.

(Some people, like Warren Buffet, do more; but if you know enough about their strategies to differentiate between the people getting lucky and the people "playing smart", you know enough to do your investing yourself.)
Exactly, couldn't say it better! MS has a history of decisions which were meant to strangle the competition, one way or the other. Interoperability was never one of their strong suits.
Nevada is only allocated 4% of the flow from the river. The other 96% is allocated downstream. I don't think Las Vegas is the problem here.
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I found that going to talks and events to meet people can be extremely effective. I love living near a university, for example, to go to public colloquia and talks — you meet the most interesting people there, who often share the same interests as you. Going to a Papers We Love talk [0] can be a great opportunity as well.

Of course, this is really only available to people who live in a large metropolis, particularily if you live in the Bay Area (if you're interested in science and technology in particular).

[0] http://paperswelove.org
Building a fab costs ~$8bn now, does Intel spend that in research? They report (like everyone) R&D, but I bet the majority is D. Delivering a product is very different from making a component (like a platter) - the safety testing, reliability engineering and all the other elements of development are expensive and labour intensive.
This is more of a problem if you use a weak definition of replication such as: "statistically significant effect in the same direction". If instead the effect sizes need to be similar to each other (+/- some uncertainty), then a correspondence between the multiple results means much more.

Of course, if people will just game this system to only publish results that fit whatever criteria then you will get a biased literature. Requiring a more precise range of results to qualify just makes it more difficult.

I don't see how people gaming the system is a consequence of replicating each others results though. That seems like it is due to deeper cultural problems.
Here's my tl;dr:

1. Interix/SUA subsystem was not developed by Microsoft. It was acquired from a company called Softway. It was used internally to transition Hotmail from FreeBSD to Windows. It is believed some important MS customers also made use of Interix and possibly came to rely on it.

2. How to explain MS seeming ambivlance toward a POSIX layer on top of Windows? Idea: Windows API is so complex (convoluted?) as to exclude competition. See Joel On Software reference. He marvels at Windows' backwards compatibility - being able to run yesterday's software on today's computers. Yet he also admits MS strategically developed software that would not run on today's hardware, but only on tomorrow's. (Not intending to single out MS as I know other large companies in the software business did this too.)

Complexity as a defensive strategy. Who would have guessed?

Many years ago, I gave up on Windows in favor of what I perceived as a more simple, volunteer-run UNIX-like OS that was better suited to networking.

As it happens, unlike Windows, _all versions_ of this OS run reliably on most older hardware. Although it was not why I switched at the time, I have come to expect that by virtue of the UNIX-like OS, my applications will now run on older as well as current hardware. I rely on this compatibility.

Unlike Windows I can run the latest version of the OS on the older hardware.

Windows backwards compatibility is no doubt worthy of praise, however the above mentioned compatibility with older hardware is more important to me than having older software run reliably on a proprietary OS that constantly requires newer hardware.

The 2004 reference Reiter cites on the "API War" suggests people buy computers based on what applications they will be able to run.

Unlike the reference, I cannot pretend to know why others buy certain computers. Personally, I buy computers based on what OS they will be able to run. Traditionally, in the days of PC's and before so-called smartphones, if you were a Windows user this was almost a non-issue. It was pre-installed everywhere.

At least with respect to so-called smartphones it appears this has begun to change. Maybe others are choosing to buy computers based on the OS the computer can run? I don't know for sure.

As for the "developers, developers, developers" and availability of applications idea, since switching to UNIX-like OS, being able to run any applications I may need has been a given. In fact, I have come to rely on applications that will only run on UNIX-like OS!

And now it seems MS is going to make running UNIX applications on Windows easier. Why?

As with Interix, will the reasoning behind this successor POSIX layer remain a mystery?
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historic plate, chain and other armors (including helmets) had significant padding, layers of it, underneath. This both stops arrows, spikes from reaching the skin and cushions spreads impact out.

Impact weapons were rare when hvy armors were in use. OTOH, heavy chopping polearms/swords (to get through joints in armor), and anything to knock plate wearer on ground (to then poke them in between armored bits) were developed and become more popular as heavier armors came about.
Well, 1/100 the cargo and 1/10 the speed means you need 1000 solar planes for every kerosene plane for the same route revenue. If we assume they cost the same to buy since they are the same size. And that doesn't take into account night flying etc...

Much better to have the solar panels on land and do synthetic kerosene for planes.

Ships go half the speed of Solar Impulse, but they have a lot more payload per dollar invested.
I agree, handing out the same static "secret" key to millions of New Yorkers would make no sense at all.
I have found that "giving" with the expectation of getting something in return is just wrong headed. Give because you want to give. Of course you have to be careful of the takers. Friend of mine for many years was moving, he called me and asked me to help. I said "Roy, you are worth 10 million bucks, go pay someone to help you!" and he did.
There are endless supplies of good people in the world. But it takes effort, and sometimes you are rejected. Live with it and move on.
According to Wikipedia, "The Little Man Computer (LMC) is an instructional model of a computer, created by Dr. Stuart Madnick in 1965." [0]

LMC Documentation and User's Guide: [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_man_computer

[1] http://www.povinelli.org/teaching/eece2710/lmc.html
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Flagrantly flouting the law and thumbing their nose at the police eventually causes the police to come into disrepute if they consistently show they don't care about theft.

The police force can only really enforce the law because society gives them permission to do so. The instant that you have mobs of Bike Batmans the police will act because now you have increased vigilantism - and people taking the law into their own hands.

This sort of thing can escalate very quickly. If bike batman works well, then why not murderer batman, or rapist batman? And then there is the escalation of enforcement. What if bike batman decided to really get serious and use a gun to get the bike back?
Interesting discussion from a previous posting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8561080
"Deep C Secrets" is quite good.

http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Programming-Peter-van-Linden/dp...
Yes, agreed. It's impossible to be totally comprehensive. That was meant as an example of the types of things you should not persecute people for.
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BTW, HN does nothing special with underscores, but matched asterisks are converted to italics.
Rock and roll lives on in a much more potent, pure form in basements and bookstores and independent venues all over the world. Arena rock is dead, because it's bland, diluted, and controlled by corporations.
Don't ignore the majority of New England, there really is no significant threats to most of Connecticut, Massachusetts, or Rhode Island, the northern half of New England might be a bit cold but it's not bad.

Similarly most of the eastern seaboard is fine, and the intermountain west is similarly inhabitable with minimal meteorological issues.

I don't know where this trope that there are so many issues everywhere comes from.
We've actually never used the words "safe space" to describe ourselves, fwiw. It's an extremely polarizing term that has evolved to mean very different things to people, and the image it triggers in most people's minds of SJWs and crazy trigger warnings all over the place and no dissension allowed ever is not what we're trying to build. Those were the author's words.
Or rand_s(), which wraps CryptGenRandom() with a more convenient API:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sxtz2fa8.aspx
I was expecting this to be D3O gel armor. It's a new material that is gel-like and flexible but turns rock hard on impact. It is used in motorcycle protectors as well as industrial and defense applications.

I'm waiting to get equestrian protective vests from this material but I've only found some very expensive competition jackets. The motorcycle protectors don't have adequate protection to the sides for when you've fallen and get hit by hooves.

http://www.d3o.com
Good idea. I signed up for fun. No one else in my group yet though. Too bad the network effect is so hard to overcome.
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Are you saying HTTP/2 're-implementing multiple connections on top of a single TCP stream' is a bad thing?

Not necessarily; I'm saying that it is another layer of multiplexing on to of a layer of single connections, that is on top of multiplexing, which is on top of a single connection, etc. I'm saying that the main reason HTTP/2 exists is because of the limits we had to put in place in HTTP/1.1, like connection limits, and the uphill battle it is to get standards changed like how TCP window size works or how to deal with slow start.

Eventually, we'll come full circle le when someone uncovers an optimization that occurs when you make multiple TCP connections to a server, all running HTTP/2 over them.
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When I clicked through, what I was hoping for was an e-ink tablet without the battery, where you have to hold it close to an inductive charging surface each time you flip the page.

Such a thing sounds stupid at first blush, but in combination with ubiquitous inductive charging mats (imagine them on e.g. every desk in an office), it could make for extremely cheap, thin and light e-ink devices—to the point that they start being more like documents than readers: flimsy laminated 'paper' sheets that happen to be able to update themselves.

Heck, if you didn't expect to use them outside of the installation (if they were for displaying internal manifests in a warehouse, or patient charts in a hospital, etc.) then you could externalize all the "document reader" electronics, and just make the device into a dumb framebuffer that hardware in the mat can push images to. (Though you might not need to do this; we can fit some pretty complex logic inside e.g. a credit card, so we might be able to fit all the storage+firmware chips for a full e-reader inside a piece of paper without that making it less piece-of-paper-y.)
I laughed out loud the first time I heard the 2010-era Old Spice tagline:

"The original. If your grandfather hadn't worn it, you wouldn't exist."

Random word trivia: you want "sow" in the last line.
You could also embed it in the steerer tub and have the antenna in a lockable headset cap.
But I want my house to listen and sense me. The advantages far outweigh worries. Besides what makes Big Brother isn't the existence of surveillance it is the lack of control over it, who uses it, and how. So fight for open source, transparency, end of advertising/marketing. Not against technology.

I want my house to know what room I'm in (for lights, environment, music following, to adjust temperture when I'm active or too hot, to answer alexa like queries, to announce alarms reminders, to tell me the kitchen is hot and smokey cause I forgot beans on stove, to give me alert someone pulled into my drive, stopped in front of my house, to call 911 if my heart stops.
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Christ, in some ways, this thread makes me want to just like, teleport some people from HN into the local park with some beers.

I think we'd have a great time. No vi vs emacs, mind.
Likewise, I would have to search the web a lot and multiple click my way to what I want.

This. And this is what I want from Siri, too. I find it funny that the Siri examples are always so stupid. "What's the weather in $MYCITY?" You know, clicking on the weather app is actually faster than this.

What I cannot do fast and what Siri is apparently incapable of doing yet, is something like chaining information:

"Where can I buy snow chains on the way to Lake Tahoe with the least detour from my current route?"

"Where is the next Starbucks along my route to Amsterdam?"

I hope this comes soon. This would be incredibly helpful.
I've only dabbled in SCA heavy — it takes a pretty big time commitment and I got really busy with my consultancy. It's a great time and a good way to get exercise. If you stick with it and train consistency, you'll be in good shape.

Most of the sport — at least where I am — is focused on 1:1 battles, but these large field battles are really fun to participate in.
Is that actually more likely? Sometimes statistical "streaks" are real. Given that "celebrity culture" really kicked off in the modern way we have it now in the 1960s, so the number of celebrities from that era is far higher than previous eras, and that those celebrities are now of the age when people typically die, I don't think there's anything illusory happening. It's likely to be a very real, and very easy to explain, phenomenon.
The article isn't terribly clear if they are targeting the telomeres or use it just as a marker to see if whatever they tried to do actually did something.
The amount of music easily available today is overwhelmingly larger than it was thirty or forty years ago, and the path to fame for a new band is radically different. As a consequence, we have more music nowadays but we won't get many more of those larger-than-life stars that dominated public culture in decades past. Justin Bieber might look like a big thing, but he doesn't hold a candle to e.g. Michael Jackson in the 80s.
In what way do you feel you "have to engage with this"? Moreover, isn't University the perfect place to confront things that are hard to think about?
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Nice. Unless it was some clever wordplay on the old tshirts mentioned ;)
Most of the eastern seaboard is vulnerable to serious hurricanes and winter storms like Sandy.
> eleport some people from HN into the local park with some beers.

Park runs are fun (for various values of fun) and probably a good way to meet people.
Seattle's fine until Mount Rainier next erupts.

http://geology.com/usgs/rainier/
Hayes 9600 baud? VT220? Geez, kids these days...setting your (directly attached) ADM-3s to 1200 bps in order to smooth over the task-switching jerkiness of your PDP-11 ;-)

Back to PowersShell. When I first looked at it, it seemed like just the right answer, but on closer inspection...not so much. Being able to customise: yes. Having to customise right out of the gate to get an even barely usable experience: not so much.

It is obvious that the task is difficult, but PowerShell shows many interesting direction and some ways to not solve it.
> "I fail to see what laws he's broken."

Take a look then...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-are-the-charges-again...