skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ub Iwerks is one of the most under appreciated innovators of our time. He also was the creator of Mickey Mouse.

Much like the programmer/innovator today who does the work, the bizdev guy Walt got all the praise because he was seen and out there (also funded it), he also sold the dream.

They were a great team, I just wish Iwerks got more recognition.
I've heard similar. Also with family members being taught how to use the morphine IV dripper, and what a fatal dose looks like.

The alternative is for patients to refuse food and water until they die.

I'd been thinking about this a lot because my father was diagnosed with a terminal illness 3+ years ago. We'd discussed euthanasia, and he definitely didn't want to spend his final 6-12 months suffering.

Because he didn't die, the docs took another look and realised he'd been misdiagnosed (and yes, we got 2nd & 3rd opinions after the initial diagnosis).
I would say making a move like be did brought him into laser focus, and into more contact with like-minded individuals that only amplified his knowledge and commitment. We can all grow our minds if we apply ourselves.
Tyler Cowen writes: "You sometimes hear there is no evidence of automation putting people out of work, but arguably the automation of manufacturing, plus IT-enabled foreign competition, are significant factors behind this trend."

See the graph here:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/02/the...

Male participation in the wage economy peaked right before the recession of 1958. We have now seen 57 years of decline. Women's participation in the economy peaked in the late 90s. How many decades of decline would you need to see before you feel you seeing a crisis?
If they do, let me know ;) I'm just about there too.
Haha I like that detail in the logo.
Oh, I never noticed this as I use an app to read HN (forgot the name).
Yeah, but only because I thought there was something to it, and also it was a Friday night :-)

It did lead to some interesting discussions, so I'm not criticising - just a little disappointed!
thrived once on board, yes. It's the filter at the top of the funnel that's screwing them.
I became an admirer of this man's software aesthetic when I first discovered and compiled libero.

In my opinion, this is a great loss to the world of programming.
https://www.nccgroup.trust/globalassets/our-research/us/whit...
Is that really an issue for folks? Just about every commercial software package seems to have an "about" screen listing all the libraries they are using, mobile phones have menu entries for it etc, and it doesn't seem to be that big of a deal as long as it is one of the standard licenses.
I didn't know about this instance, and it just convinces me further that there's very little structural change that can be made to dislodge this. What I read in that article is essentially material evidence of subversive tactics to force compliance with an encroaching govt. This is probably another "nothing new", but the phrasing of "might find difficult to get future contracts" reeks so much of the old fashioned "would be a shame if something happened to you" that it strikes a harder tone; and I am even now having trouble reconciling (morally, not logically) how the _object_ of this behavior is the one who endured jail time for it.
Just a terminology mistake on my part. I don't know what to call the virtualized OS I'm remoting into. We just refer to it as VDI, but that's more general.

What's the term for the instance I connect to? I guess I should have just called it the VM. My VM only has 4GB of RAM and one core and I'm supposed to write and test (deploy) decent sized applications on it.
Thank goodness for the Wayback Machine!
-The scaling issue is settled.

According to who? Bitcoin overlords?
I've yet to see a product of any sort I can buy with a credit card or purchase order. Would also like to know if anything comes of it.
I think a major part of happiness is overcoming the basic drive humans have towards mimetic desire - if one six month old grabs the toy fire truck, the other one will instantly want it.

Not only are you less consumed with it, it frees up money for what you can do to actually improve your lot in life.
Languages do exist with gender-neutral pronouns. Is Hungarian full of "sjw" crap? Adding a gender neutral pronoun to English isn't a crazy idea- "sibling" is a gender-neutral 20th Century invention and it fits in fine. I'm partial to "they" as the easiest option (it has a long history of being used in the singular) but constructed pronouns would work too.
> The biggest privilege these kids have is that their parents care about their education. Money does not provide much of an advantage.

Since when did school quality and neighborhood income stop correlating? When did private schools become free? When did after school tutoring and test prep programs become free to attend and provide free transport to and on demand?

All of these things take money, and all of them a positively correlated with achievement, and quite out of reach of poor people.
Hey, you don't think that all of my personas would profess the same gender, do you?
Large sport bikes have governors. Want to guess the limit? 186 mph.
> Last week, Apple’s iBooks Store and iTunes Movies were shut down in China, just six months after they were started there... then a regulator, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, asserted its authority and demanded the closings

Unsurprising. China has a habit of allowing foreign services to operate for a bit. Then they come out with their own version.
I just don't understand "selling all your time and energy." I just don't see that happening. Maybe it's because I've been in all-consuming projects before and a regular 9-5 just seems simple to me now. But even when it was all-consuming, there was plenty of slack time.
Wondering if an idea like this would work:

Bundlers like Webpack already import JS in a modular structure. I'm wondering if we could do some profiling into popular npm module combinations (I know many people using React + Lodash + Redux Router, etc), bundle them up, and have Webpack load in those combos from a CDN via <script>?

Now this would probably require some work on webpack's end (the __webpack_require__(n) would have to be some sort of consistent hash), but at least everyone who blindly require('lodash') will see an improvement?
"I’m curious if you or others wouldn’t mind sharing what you dislike about the i3, hopefully I haven’t completely lost my sense of style."

I live in the SFBA and therefore see a lot of these in person.

It's not that, by itself, it's a bad design - it's that it follows in a long, almost comical line of "things that look like electric cars" - sort of like the Mercedes B class. As I say, if you were mocking up a typical electric car for the onion, you'd come up with basically that.

The model S has, in my opinion, a LOT of design shortcomings, but what is notable about it is that it's just a car. It's not a future car or a weird car or a thing that looks like an electric car - it's just a normal car-looking-thing.
You're not understanding the argument. Can a person with no instruction and a kazoo and a person with years of training and a Stradivarius both make music? Sure. But the second one is going to win the prize at the county fair.
>For example, that's certainly the case with Microsoft Surface Pro [1,2,3,etc.] computers as MS made it clear that the design life of the battery was about 3 years (and isn't user replaceable).

That the "design life of the battery is about 3 years" and it isn't "user replaceable" doesn't mean the device become obsolete -- just that you need to go to a shop to have the battery replaced.
"Underlying social value" is oh so much harder to measure. whose social; whose value?
How has she escaped being fired yet?
>The development officially began in Summer of 2012 and we set end of January, 2013 as the release date. Because the vision was so grand, we needed even more people. I hired consultants and couple of remote developers in India.

Well, that's already a warning sign. If you don't have the talent to do the rewrite, consultants and remote developers in India are only going to make things worse.
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That was my immediate thought as well. Just one of the many things which makes HK my favorite city in the world.
"Convicted monopolist" really doesn't have much of a ring to it.

Especially when the only thing his company was ever found guilty of was bundling a web browser with the OS...
It's surprisingly hard.
You know, I feel sorry for you that you never found your way. In a way, you are right about "insane preachings". There has been so much twist and turmoil to messages long gone. And a stranger is left with the bits and pieces if he wishes to put it all together. And if he tries, he hardly ever comes up with the absolute truth unfailing in every situation. That is what absolute truth is, unfailing, and such truth is always ONLY a result of the divine.

Regardless, your "protocol" is hardly a protocol for the majority of people. It only holds true for the emotionally numb and autistic minds. In fact, every sentence you expressed only comes from an autistic person. I am in the same boat now as you were when you enjoyed talking to strangers. I too love philosophical debate. We could have shared a lot had I the chance to know you. Thank you for sharing your personality. I relate to it. And I am glad to know I am not weird for being that way.

In return, I wish to share with you just one request and message: Please look into Islam and the Quran before you close your book forever! The message is simple: One god/creator/lord-of-all-things/ONE, His Last messenger, the last messenger's miracle (Quran) in a time transcending form. Please shun away every textbook reasoning you may have against religion, against God, just for a moment. Please lose your belief in the superiority of the self. Please lose your complacency that you have it all figured out. Please look into Islam like a person just born with so much to learn. Sorry if this offends you, but I beg you, please!
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While I don't agree that "the 'privilege' narrative is overplayed," you're right to point out that this article started with the barrier of a form that then magically evaporated midway through the article. Presumably they signed it, otherwise the child wouldn't have been able to compete in the fair. So the argument of privilege kind of falls apart with respect to the form.

But the argument that the kids with the most connections to real labs and real scientists win, is pretty solid. That totally jives with my experience judging regional science fairs. The top kid in each division was inevitably a professor's kid that did the experiments in the university lab. (e.g. "I then used the gas chromatograph...")
> this array stops being a functor?

An individual array, as a runtime object, isn't, never was, and never will be a functor, as the term is used in this discussion. Rather, the functor is the type constructor of arrays itself (to be pedantic: the type constructor and the `map` function). In the grammar of most programming languages, type-level and value-level terms are kept separate, so not even in principle could you conflate a type constructor (a type-level entity) with a runtime object (a value-level entity).

<rant>

This is a very common problem. Most programmers are only used to reasoning about runtime objects, like “lists”, “sockets” and “windows”. Inasmuch as they talk about entities that don't have a runtime manifestation, like “types”, “preconditions” and “invariants”, these words are merely used as shorthand for things they want to say about runtime objects.

Understanding how concepts from abstract algebra and category theory are applied to programming requires a change of mindset: the subject matter is no longer “what happens to this individual object”, but rather “what is the structure common to a large class of objects” and “how can this structure be used as the backbone of our algorithms”. This requires a new vocabulary in which abstract structures (which describe or constrain the representation of runtime objects, but don't have a runtime representation of their own) are first-class entities, so that you can say “the type constructor of immutable arrays is a functor” just as easily as you can already say “this runtime object is an array”.

</rant>
If a monad is like giving some additional context to a value:

Maybe a: "Either it's a value or nothing"
[a]: "The value was obtained from a list of possible values"
IO a: "The value was obtained from a database somewhere"
Except ErrorType a: "The value is either an error message or a real value"

, then a monad transformer takes an existing monad and augments it with even more context:

ExceptT ErrorType IO a: "this value was obtained from a database somewhere, and also maybe there was an error message"
StateT ConnectionPool IO a: "this web server response value was calculated using a connection obtained from the server's stateful connection pool, and a database connection"

Most monads like State are actually defined as the monad transformer applied to the Identity monad, which has no special context at all:

State stateType returnType = StateT stateType Identity returnType

Additionally, IO is very common to bury at the bottom of one of these stacks, so there is 'liftIO' to run an IO action in a monad transformer stack. So your web server can just do:

liftIO $ putStrLn "Hello World"

if you need a quick log message. You need liftIO, because 'putStrLn "Hello World"' is of type IO (), and the web server needs type 'StateT ConnectionPool IO ()'.

Note: IO does more than just databases, of course.
Even if Microsoft was evil, Gates is still an inspiration to me.
“Whaling” emerges as cybersecurity threat
But that is the stuff of Adam Curtis' sad, hollow laughter in his films. It is like Harlan Ellison's favorite trope; we've killed all the old gods and can't remember how to make new ones.
The thing that's infesting the net is the kind of dbag comment you just posted. You apparently don't even understand the purpose of gender-neutral pronouns, and yet you feel the need to express your opinion about an irrelevant subject.

You should try to stay on topic around here, and take that kind of vitriol elsewhere.
Web pages shouldn't need JS at all, except for the basic eye candy it was originally used for, and most importantly shouldn't break without it. A web page that doesn't work without JS is broken.

Web apps are another deal though.
We began early April and we had more FT in-house developers than remote resources. The only reason we got remote workers because it was next to impossible to find good developers.

We initially had a terrible experience with remote workers and it didn't work out at all. But we learned from our mistakes and made it work later on. When I left the company, 100% of its development (i.e. maintenance) is done offshore.
Probably because that would accomplish nothing. From the initial refusal to publish details for review, and then the repeated delays, I'm guessing the "Edison Machine" is just snake oil.

Theranos probably has no product.
Wasn't the rewrite was a technical success despite warning signs?

The customer simply didn't want to adopt the shiny new software.
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> If you don't have the talent to do the rewrite, consultants and remote developers in India are only going to make things worse.

I don't think this is necessarily a given, but I see where you're coming from with the overall perspective.

To get closer to the point of the post: unless there are truly solid and unavoidable blockers, e.g. substantial architectural defects that just can't be resolved without a major rework, a rewrite of any capacity should probably be off the table.

Although I'm sure there are others that I have no insight into, the only "successful" commercial rewrite I can think of would be Windows Vista, and that only made that version of Windows somewhat releasable. Even then, that wasn't a total reboot even of the project; it was a partial rewrite off of a different codebase with as much code salvaged from the original project as possible (the initial Longhorn builds on top of the XP codebase were a total trainwreck, driving the partial reboot on top of Server 2003's codebase instead). They still needed two service packs to make Vista stable, and it took an entire subsequent major release (7) to right the ship, so to speak.
Does this "work" for cross origin requests? If I plant a `target=_blank` in my website, user clicks it, goes to my second website, do I have control over the website the link came from? If not, I don't see the security issue. Of course you can XSS yourself, what have you.
I have had the privilege of working with someone who grew up very poor. But he had a fully intact, loving, extended family, and as a result, he always knew who he was. His family was also relatively high status and that afforded him opportunities for seeing leadership up close.

Contrast this to people of affluence I've known who've stopped even having a reflection in the mirror. Their identity just disappeared.
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Why is your OP getting downvoted? Are we assuming they're an SJW because they informed us of the popular meaning of those words?

I knew what those words meant and would have shared as well, despite how much I detest the SJW movement.
OS X tells me my battery needs to be replaced on my 15" rMBP, it's apparently at under 80% charge capacity now.

According to "System Information", I've done a mere 359 cycles - and according to their website, "Your battery is designed to retain up to 80% of its original capacity at 1000 complete charge cycles." [0]

Of course their warranty on defective batteries conveniently runs out after just one year. I've been meticulous about only charging it with genuine ($80+) chargers, including at home, at work, one in the car, and one in the carry-on. Someone should tell them about this new tech.

0: http://www.apple.com/batteries/service-and-recycling/
They is the easiest, and already fully adopted, option. Why bother trying to add another?
Lifetime value also depends on the rest of the device. Many devices also become obsolete at about the same time their battery reaches the end of its life. If the battery lasts 10 or 100 times as long as the rest of the device, the effort expended to extend its life may have been wasted.
Well I just had an "Oh sh*t" moment thinking about all the websites I built over the years at my old company that had target=_blank to commentors sites... Aw crap.

Not my problem anymore, but I never even considered this.
Yes, it says so lower down the article.
I think there's a kind of naive reductionism that runs throughout CS.

You can avoid complexity by ignoring it in the proverbial Dunning-Kruger kind of way - where you don't know what you don't know, but you try to turn your toy misunderstanding of some domain into code anyway.

Or you can avoid it by creating over-systematised technologies that try to barricade "impure" unpredictability behind a big wall of abstraction and insider-only jargon.

They're both defensive moves against the messiness of the real world.

There may be other approaches that trade off accessibility with useful results in other ways.
It's even harder than with a normal application for a user to verify that you didn't change the code to one with a backdoor.
You must not have been alive long. There was a time people in the States were being jailed and having their rights rescinded for possibly, maybe, being communists.
This is a pretty old bug, I think I reported it a few years ago to Google.

EDIT: 2013 to be exact.
‘Physics isn’t what I do; it is what I am.’

http://dailynexus.com/2016-04-22/ucsb-professor-and-nobel-la...
Nissan GT-R's have (at least in Japan, where it is as far as I know mandatory, not sure if they are removed in international sales) limiters that deactivate when they are on a white-listed race track.
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Ths is a problem for Browsers, not developers. target=_blank is too embedded into the web.
FYI, the article links to a Chromium issue from 2013:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=168988

which links to another issue from 2012.

Edit: My purpose was to confirm the bug has been "known" for awhile, not to take away credit for you reporting the bug years ago. Congrats for independently discovering it before many people (such as myself) became aware of it.
This is like IdeOne [1]. But, this is very cool because open source. IdeOne is not open source project.

[1]: http://www.ideone.com
Tangentially, I prefer the Spivak pronouns sets. They feel more "natural" to me than spiking the distributions of X and V.
Ask HN: What is your most favorite programming language ever?
And what tools do you use it with?
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The rewrite was a technical success. But we missed real business opportunities and completely underestimated the effort of building a new system while maintaining the legacy one in parallel. In short, we didn't prioritize and miscalculated big time :-)

The customer confidence in us had eroded because we weren't responding to their new feature requests in the legacy system. Plus their management didn't want to take any risks since the new system offered to new features to them and only benefited us.
People fail to understand the difference between innovation driven monopoly and government enforced monopoly.

The former is commendable, indicating that a company has developed a product so useful that it becomes so widely adopted as to become a monopoly. Nobody is forced to buy the product - people just find it so useful that the it dominates in the marketplace. And there is nothing preventing the rise of a competitor other than the monopolist's success. Got enough smarts and money to beat them? Then go for it.

That's quite different than when a company uses regulatory capture to get regulations passed that maintain their monopoly and block competitors.
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