skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it was a science experiment bottom-placed villa were certainly able to provide the control group, appointing a board largely at random and then letting them ignore the manager and pick players on the basis of, well nobody's sure, but they might have liked the names. It seems like the application of statistics works!
Imagine I live in Canada and one day drive to the US and purchase a House of Cards DVD, which I take back with me to Canada. Would you consider what I just did piracy?

No? Then why is it piracy if I do the exact same thing by different technical means? (Streaming the content instead of buying a physical disk)
I doubt that number of comments ever mattered, except that a comment also acts as an upvote.
"Consider the MicroTAC, one of Motorola’s first cell phones. It did not sell well."

It was nothing to do with the MicroTAC being £3,000? No, it was the direction of the flip. Right.

The later MicroTACs with LCD sold loads. At the time, most people seemed to prefer them to the early StarTAC.
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"Four big clubs -- Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal -- have won all the titles in the past 20 years", but they "all had appalling seasons: Chelsea, [...] Manchester United [...] and Liverpool, the other big club, is seventh."

Er, so Man City and Arsenal are not "big clubs", apparently. Nice "submarine" insult there.

EDIT: another gem: "All teams have always counterattacked, but few have based their game so completely around it."

That's utter drivel. Go read up on Italian teams of the 60s, which were pretty successful at doing exactly that. With all due respect to Claudio Ranieri, he's not really close to the genius of Nereo Rocco or Helenio Herrera.

The innovation of Leicester City is that they used statistics to identify players who could fit this style better than the average, and they recruited a manager who knows how to manage this style of play better than the average. Whether this combination was an accident or not, I think it's still open for debate -- they had a very successful run of games with the previous manager as well.
https://github.com/wting/autojump/issues/353 - Yay I'm mentioned in one of the github open issues (Which actually isn't a issue anymore). Wonder how many such open issues are present, which are worth closing!
So they rather pay for image hosting, in order to control their content?

Sounds like a smart move. I'm surprised they have ceded control to Imgur for so long.
Isn't this because deep pagination is really costly? I've seen other production systems (especially using elasticsearch) where this limit is in place.

From Elastic:

>Deep Paging in Distributed Systems

>To understand why deep paging is problematic, let’s imagine that we are searching within a single index with five primary shards. When we request the first page of results (results 1 to 10), each shard produces its own top 10 results and returns them to the coordinating node, which then sorts all 50 results in order to select the overall top 10.

>Now imagine that we ask for page 1,000—results 10,001 to 10,010. Everything works in the same way except that each shard has to produce its top 10,010 results. The coordinating node then sorts through all 50,050 results and discards 50,040 of them!

>You can see that, in a distributed system, the cost of sorting results grows exponentially the deeper we page. There is a good reason that web search engines don’t return more than 1,000 results for any query.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/...
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Perhaps it's not economical to produce totally bug free software.
This is highly geographic specific, there are no absolutes.
Not sure why there are all the down votes (if OP is asking why they don't support parquet as an input format). If Google support avro, why not parquet? JSON isn't exactly efficient if it's about efficiency.

We dump the output of spark jobs into BQ for exploration and having to produce JSON in addition to parquet is an irritating (and expensive) overhead.
99% of what unit testing does you get "for free" with a strongly-typed language like OCaml.

That developers insist on using unsafe languages like Javascript speaks volumes.
The citizen and resident registration system in Japan has already become electronic. The online system has little to do for the fraud, since you need human staff to check if the online record match the reality anyway (unless you implant chips in citizens and monitors them mechanically).

The government inefficiency comes not from the technology, but the complicated rules and ambiguous responsibility between sections.

Note also that the "missing" has different nuance in Japan and in US (I only lived these two countries, so I can only tell about them). In Japan, every resident must register his address to the city or county office; if someone doesn't live in the registered address, the person could be technically "missing" for the purpose of statistics or census (police investigation or other official matter uses more strict definition of "missing", off course.)
> If a fifty year old connector has been essentially flawless all this time

3.5mm jacks are honestly not that great. Not enough surface area and all the important contacts on the plug are exposed and subject to corrosion and abrasion. It has lasted because it's good enough, not because it's flawless.
So documentation is an additional feature worth investing time over fixing bugs?

It may sound silly to some but I'm really interested in what people think about this.
>HN deliberately tries not to be as popular as Reddit.

No they/we don't. They might like to pretend that, because, after all, it's cool to be an "exclusive club". But this is just another internet forum that happens to have content you/I like.
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As a Windows phone refugee living in Androidland (seriously MS, was it so hard to make a worthy successor for the 930 along with not completely abandoning the rest of the range?) live tiles is the feature I miss the most :(
You are free to acquire capital much as both beggars and kings are free to live under bridges. Acquiring capital isn't easy. Why should it be?
Oh yeah, I know about the 2016 MacBook, but I'm guessing they could lay the groundwork for the 2017 MacBook with their other products this year.
This article's attempt to contribute Leicester's success this season to "statistics" is just painful. As if every other team in the Premier League and three tiers down don't use extensive analysis in every aspect of selection, performance and scouting. Ranieri's style isn't bizarre or unseen-before. This isn't Moneyball.
Nah, you don't want to automatically override safeties (this week it's 30 years since the Chernobyl disaster, hint hint).

What I was trying to say is that it makes sense to first set up a self-contained transaction, and then a single universal "button" to push it into the world, instead of firing off single commands, one at a time. (Especially at the latencies involved in cross-galaxy communication)
San Francisco and China only? That's disappointing.
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This is an incomplete description of what is happening here. The world of academic research is undersupplied in funding, but massively oversupplied in researchers.

There is no need to add more researchers; we can't fund the ones we already have. Efforts like the one you describe are demotivating people from training in a function that we don't need more of, which is a reasonable thing to do.
I do this from day one since DirectWrite was introduced in FF. And I strive to always use web fonts in my web pages (avoiding the default GDI font families) for exactly the same reason.

BTW, it is enough to just clear the GDI font families list (set force_gdi_classic_for_families to an empty string), you don't have to change any other options to achieve the same effect.
Isn't this a subset of http://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orange... ?
Hey, we lived just fine 50 years without sound, we can live again without it if there is not a DRM solution with it - Random Hollywood Exec
i don't know if i maybe missed something, but it does not seem like the inequality argument has been contested by anything in the text. in fact, the author states that in Japan, like elsewhere, despite a struggling economy, the rich are still getting richer. if all the other possible explanations do not work, then Japan is perhaps the best example of what Piketty wrote about.
I have been watching the bazil project for a while - it's exactly the system I want. Still very alpha right now, so I don't (and one shouldn't) trust it with irreplaceable data.
No, he's saying that neither Arsenal or Man City are having appalling seasons. They're both doing pretty well.

The funny thing is that Spurs are also having a fantastic season, if it wasn't for Leicester this article could have been written by a Spurs fan about their amazing rise up the league.
There are a lot of people who won't buy a used phone. And last year's model is not $249 brand new.
I noted that, also the 7 years between the two phones is disregarded completely, despite the large overall growth between 1989 and 1997.
Absolutely spot on. That's one of many examples of why millennials are doomed to economic illiteracy.
See also the orange/blue or teal/orange color correction often used in modern movies: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OrangeBlueContras....
> Alphabet, the parent of Google, said its first-quarter net profits soared 20 per cent to $4.2bn, but adjusted earnings of $7.50 a share missed estimates of $7.96. The group’s overall sales jumped 17.3 per cent to $20.3bn however it reported sales excluding the costs of acquiring traffic of $16.5bn, below Wall Street estimates of $16.6bn.

Once again WHY do we have this crazy market system that a company climbs 17.3% in sales year to year and it drops billions?
Chrome compatibility isn't a major goal, IIRC. WebExtensions are based on the Chrome API but will neither necessarily implement all Chrome features, nor be restricted to the set implemented by Chrome, AIUI.
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> It also bothers me that they didn't just use the GPLv2

Maybe they want people to be able to easily distribute binaries of the software via BitTorrent. Apache allows this, the Vim License allows this, GPLv2 does not[0].

[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#BitTorrent
>>If you implement a VFS, you have to either implement the WAL subsystem yourself

It's pluggable in the sense that it maps the the shared memory calls for WAL to your calls. But yeah, figuring out how to emulate shared memory across a cluster is on the implementer.
See above about flooding the front page with Haskell stories. That was a real thing that happened. And yes there was a post from pg at the time actually asking people to make the site seem unappealing to newcomers until the traffic surge from TC died down. It is a very deliberate attempt to limit the growth rate to a manageable amount and maintain a certain type of culture.

It's not because we're an "exclusive" or "elite" club, it's just that with a broader community there would be a need to appeal to broader, more general interests that would eventually drive away the people who originally came here for the tech-business related content.
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Who are incidentally top of the league by most metric other than the one that matters most.
http://up-for-grabs.net/ attempts to make contributing easier for new developers but it still falls flat IMO, there are few really bite-sized issues you can tackle and even those are going to require you to read a lot of project code and discussion to figure them out.
I wonder if Apple is going to find a new market with the potential for massive growth any time soon. So far smartwatches don't seem to be such a market.
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Many do sell software. Google is a major software provider. However, it is things like Google Apps for Work and Google Apps for Education, for example. The famed buzzword: software as a service. More and more people are paying monthly for software. There's also a lot of software being sold to companies for their work - B2B rather than business to consumer.

As was famously said a few years ago "Software is eating the world."

Even traditional software companies with on-premise licensing rarely send CDs nowadays.
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What a terrible name. It sounds like a portmanteau of "Rectum" and "Flatulence"!
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I'm not sure what you mean. He's saying there are 5 big clubs. 4 of them (Man Utd, Chelsea, Man City, Arsenal) have won all the titles in the last 20 years, but all 5 (including "the other big club" Liverpool) had appalling seasons. I don't think he was insulting anyone.
Author states that he is a Leicester fan, but insults the team by saying that other teams haven't been at their best.

Other teams haven't been as great as they were last year, but isn't that because of Leicesters success?
Luck probably has played a role, but you'd expect teams like Spurs (perhaps), Man City (definitely), and Arsenal (who really should have done better having been the only team to beat Leicester twice this season) to be winning the league this year given the poor performances of Chelsea and Man U.

The article doesn't mention that Jamie Vardy is the third-highest scorer in the league, which combined with brilliant individual performances from Mahrez (just awarded the PFA award for player of the season), Kante, Drinkwater, Huth, Morgan and more, has seen some superstar performances that have made a real difference against teams that would have been seen as superior last season.

I'd suggest that Ranieri's success as manager has been as much to do with man-management as tactics. He was very careful to get the team focused on staying up, on getting 40 points to survive. It was only in the past few days that he told his squad to go for broke and push for the title. They responded by beating Swansea 4-0, despite being without their top scorer.

The Leicester tale is magical, and incredibly unlikely, but I would challenge anyone who said that they don't deserve it.
Plus one for Elixir, it's what my smart friends who would learn Scala 5 years ago are doing now.
Apples/oranges?

Reddit caters to, essentially, everyone, by allowing users to create separate topic groups, while HN is a single collective forum for tech-y/science-y/thing-of-general-interest-y type news.
Many people have written about markets without capitalism; this book includes a nice collection of writings on that topic: http://distro.libertarianleft.org/for/bookshelf-of-the-liber...
It's hard for experienced people, too. The issue is more about the lack of structure in some open source projects and the time availability to teach "noobs" a codebase. One thing that has worked for me in t he past is to join the development mailing list, try and understand what they are talking about and go look at the code to try and figure out the issue. Then trace back all the discussion to try and find if any of my questions/suggestions have been proposed. If not then I make a very simple case for the solution. If yes then I keep quiet and only comment when things need clarification. Slowly you will pick up the project and be able to contribute.

If the project lacks any kind of communication channels and is hosted on some online repo then by all means open an issue and ask about contributing. Make sure to ask about what are the most important issues ton fix and which are the smaller ones but most annoying ones. Offer yourself to document the project too.

It's not easy but it is fulfilling once you get underway.
You don't think that Google search enjoys being on hundreds of million devices?

Remember 1999-2001 when Google unseated Yahoo from the king of search? It was a feat that seemed impossible when you had established search engines like Lycos, Ask Jeeves, Excite, DogPile, etc. all competing in the space.

As with most industries and its enterprises, you'll always have an event horizon and then singularity until markets are saturated and the industry becomes irrelevant to the consumer.
Sure. $100,000 US Teslas for everybody.
Actually, you'd be surprised how many teams "three tiers down" still work in very old-fashioned ways. One reason is budget, which falls dramatically from the Championship down; another is that the Premier League is simply at the forefront of scientific development in football the world over.

Source: I have a brother working in the space.
Define "abuse".
The StarTAC also came out seven years later. The market for $1000 mobile phones was a bit bigger in 1997 than the market for $3000 phones in 1989.
I don't have concrete examples, but in general:

For one, the build system/dependency system is much more easier to handle. Rust uses the cargo package manager, and depending on an external library is as simple as adding a single line to the Cargo.toml config file. Likewise, building, running, documenting and testing is all a build-in matter of calling `cargo [build|run|doc|test]`, which makes prototyping and getting started way easier than my experiences with C++ so far.

As far as the actual language goes it basically behaves like C++ and has a similar feature set, so you get the same sense of how given source code will end up in the compiled binary, and can write fast efficient code with, for example, features like pointers. The big distinction there is that Rust is memory safe per default, (including pointers in form of safe references) and upholds this invariant with compiletime checks and explicit language barriers (needing to encapsulate "unsafe" operations in unsafe {} blocks), so per default you are protected from whole classes of bugs that are possible in C++, like dangling pointers, memory races, iterator invalidation, etc.
In computer science, your criticisms are very very valid for graduate students: they make ~30k/year when they could be making ~200k/year at, say, Google, and they usually have less autonomy than a professor. But they don't really apply to tenure-track faculty. If grad school is already a sunk cost for you, (or it was valuable to you in other non-monetary areas), a tenure-track position can actually be quite a lucrative choice.

Firstly, CS professors make a decent salary. A professor at Berkeley (all salaries are publicly available for California state schools) make ~160k/year. Someone like Michael I. Jordan makes ~300k/year. And if you work in a field directly applicable to industry, such as machine learning, this figure does not include the substantial consulting/advising revenue that is available to you.

Furthermore, tenured faculty can go do a startup and then come back at any time for their old job.

Granted, a professor in CS could probably be making millions per year in finance or something, but my point is in absolute terms you can make a lot of money.
Solar is cheaper than coal in many parts of the world. From earlier this week on HN: http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/04/18/solar-is-now-che...

There are many stories out there documenting the rapidly falling prices of renewables across the world. The problem isn't economic, it's political.
For software with variable-sized inputs, performance never stops being relevant. Higher performance increases the maximum size of inputs you can handle. For a text editor, the lower the footprint, the larger the files it can edit and the more of them can be edited at once.
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> on a major subreddit?

That you realise that that's a necessary qualifier implies the solution. Yes, you're not going to have good quality discussion on a major/default subreddit. Unsubscribe from them and ignore them. There are a lot (iirc ~10^6) of subreddits, including many perfectly civil communities in there for various niches.
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Plug sockets are about the only thing in my flat which aren't based on obsolete standards - general consensus is that the blocks were lashed up by cowboys. Which makes it a right bugger when you want to replace a bathroom tile (can't - they stopped making that size about 25 years ago); replace the oven (no-one makes them that narrow any more); replace the toilet (cistern is in another room); etc. etc.
Very interesting considering WebKit is moving away from prefixes: https://webkit.org/blog/6131/updating-our-prefixing-policy/
Well, it sounded like a major goal in their announcing blog post:

We would like add-on development to be more like Web development: the same code should run in multiple browsers according to behavior set by standards, with comprehensive documentation available from multiple vendors. To this end, we are implementing a new, Blink-compatible API in Firefox called WebExtensions. Extension code written for Chrome, Opera, or, possibly in the future, Microsoft Edge will run in Firefox with few changes as a WebExtension.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-dev...
Funny enough this was posted just a month before "Her" was released in the US, I remember that had a really warm feel to everything.
Robert Smith gave a nice presentation involving using the MOP for defining abstract, final and singleton classes. Then he goes down a rabbit hole of user-defined JIT compilation:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/734346/JIT-Compilation-o...
You've just given me an example with two machines. ;-)
I think you might be missing the point of the article. The metric for measuring a game's success is how fun it is to play. You can't plan fun, that only comes from having a playground and tweaking things until the game play feels satisfying. Note I use words like fun and satisfying - words that are all highly subjective, and can only really be ticked off when you have the game in front of you and can agree it was fun to play.

The metric for measuring the success of software on the other hand is directly proportional to the amount of functionality it implements, as defined in the requirement spec. These totally different goals for development are the reason the industries are so different, and why one is harder to plan for than the other.
> there's probably [sweet fanny adams] anyone can do about it

That's a pithy defeatist statement. Personally I got a job at a renewable energy company. There are many avenues you can take to help tackle climate change.
Well, then we better make sure that the risk never is worth the gain. Maybe give courts the option to nationalize a corporation when the law violations are big enough? As in, immediately displace entire management layers and void all publicly held stock?
Perhaps might be worth asking Aston Villa fans how the 'Moneyball' philosophy has worked out for them.
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FBI and Federal Prosecutors are so aggressive.

As my friend is close to being indited by the FBI and a "Star Witness" just plead guilty for bribery, tax evasion and bribery. The FBI released one recording where my friend was pissed at a company and the "Star Witness" who was wired was the one saying he would do illegal activities. Also FBI "You will find that (my friend) did not have direct contact with other people and kept himself separated from other people who did illegal activities.

So far the "Star Witness" has brought down 6 people after he got caught for tax evasion.
I know. I write web-apps for such people.

It still bothers me that things are getting so big :D