skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you could if you preserved all intermediate counts.
But the graph I used has 362 layers each of which can have up to 363 billion nodes, so I had to recycle the space used for the counts (4TB per layer).
Also, I didn't even compute with full counts. I reconstructed them using the Chinese Remaineder theorem from 9 separate modular counts.
So, yes it's possible, but highly impractical...
It's also a bad hypothesis because the article is talking about changes that occurred over the last 10 years, and childhood obesity rates (including teenagers) have stabilized over the last 10 years.
This appears to be a reboot of Yahoo Answers.
I'm sorry, I can't help it: "Salmon Rushdie archives"? Literally laughed out loud.
I feel like this is at least the third article that's showed up here recently making the claim that "cities are more important than countries for economic development" with no real argument behind it.
While pirating music or movies, one may try justify ones actions, but deep down it feels wrong.

This doesn't even feel wrong. These parasites had it coming.
When they hit limits of monetary policy and stop digging into the hole they are in. Japan is the closest to such a limit. It has relentlessly pumped money into stocks and bonds and now all the JPY does is move up.
I mean, if he gets there first, I just feel that's fair.
Given that musk wants to fund the mars colonization program from the profit margin on commercial launches probably prices won't drop as far as they could. There's likely not going to be an all-out price war.
Got any URLs where you're seeing this with Google Fonts (or any other non-JS webfont situations)?
Researchers have been (illegally) helping each other out with paper access for years. I used to hang out in the neuroscience group on livejournal years ago, and about half the posts were people asking "Does anyone have access to Foo et al 2012?" and then having it passed along to them by email.
They may have started servicing a need in the beginning as simply setting up some servers, and serving as a central repository, which I do not understand why this wasn't just setup by some other part like a university or research foundation for public use, but Elsevier have turned that into holding publicly-funded research hostage. You know when you are debating with somebody, and their logic runs out, they start floundering and emoting? That's what the comments from Elsevier are starting to sound like.
I have no problem with them making some money from Ads to help their monthly server hosting and maintenance costs, but they have a weird, self-strangulating business model that is headed nowhere real fast.
"In the public interest" is a very debateable term. I consider the way Google handles privacy and their cloud push very against the human interest. Of course, Google would argue offering free services that connect and inform people is in the public interest.
Building Failure into Your Process
Brits have an expression, "Safe as houses."

It may be that they have a cultural preference for investing in residential real estate.
Then you have to diligently add every adult friend to that list forever, and there will be a gap between when you request their friendship and when you are friends with them and are allowed to put them on a restricted list.

Blacklists don't work in the Facebook model.
Free speech cannot be used to protect people who commit crimes against the economy. See for example scammers Kevin Trudeau, who was imprisoned for selling false information. These market manipulators could be convicted in a similar same way.
Does this suggest that publishing companies like Reed Elsevier plc (RELX group) will eventually be starved of revenue from papers? Or have they figured out an alternative business model to adapt to the changing times?
Sure, but from what I understand by occasionally reading some electronic stuff, many commercial compiler vendors are not even C++03.

For example TI.
Glad it's not just me who had this reaction. :)
Interesting - What browser / OS is that file meant for?
But they'd have to pay for it with their own money. They can't use Apple's cash to pay for Apple. When Apple buys its own shares back, it effectively increases the ownership percentage of its remaining investors -- who still own all of Apple. Spending all of Apple's cash on buybacks wouldn't fundamentally make it any cheaper for anyone to take Apple private.
My old boss said, "Million dollar ideas don't come for free." I stopped giving mine away.

If the business thinks it needs to funnel money up and away, hire product people who take the credit, then why should I as an engineer care?

I am sad to say I care more about my coworkers and learning abstract concepts than the business model because I feel I have been cut out of it.
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11588553
That reminds me of the whole talk around "open standards" that you have to pay for to legally acquire (ANSI, ISO, IEEE, etc.), although in that case the situation is slightly different. Also, the "free software" vs "open source" distinction.
Report: FBI paid less than $1M for tool to unlock San Bernardino iPhone
Guerrillas and Rebels Do for Oil Market What Producers Couldn't
Housing prices used to be factored into the CPI but were removed in 1983. The CPI is supposed to measure only consumption but housing is both consumption and an investment. It was replaced with owner equivalent rent which is represents just the consumption component of housing.

In 1983 the Federal Reserve chairman at the time (Volker) also likely found the change convenient because it gave him more room to raise rates in the face of crushing asset deflation while reigning in inflation from the 70's.
The Makerbot Obituary
Not in my experience.
I knew it - he's the German Claude Shannon!
I'm sad Aaron Swartz did not live to see this unfolding. He might have been in prison now, but he would still be a world-class hero.
You have a very unusual definition of tragedy, if you feel <something bad has happened so it can't be a tragedy>.
You are missing a very important data point: ULA receives nearly a billion dollars a year just to exist. They don't have to deliver a single vehicle. Free tax-payer money being gifted to the highest bidder.

THAT has to end. Then let's see them compete.
Haxe is one of the best kept secrets of the programming world. Created by none other than the author of curl, it's A C-ish, javascripty, but strictly typed language with almost infinite portability. It "compiles" to many different target languages, from PHP to Java to Python to C++ and more. It's fast, has a beefy standard library, well-documented system interfaces, and just feels fun. A remarkable accomplishment.
When you load web fonts asynchronously, you’re allowing the browser to render the page without them. Since your site is very light, Chrome is able to perform the first render practically immediately (like within 100ms), so the FOUT is very noticeable.

Btw, once the CSS `font-display` property becomes available, you’ll be able to control web font rendering to some extent, but as of now, this type of FOUT is the best approach, since, if you went with FOIT, you’d risk up to 3 seconds of whitespace in case your fonts experienced network congestion.
It does seem bad for open sourceness, there's a rationale section in the proposal for this feature:

https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/2775-b...
Have you considered a personal assistant for it?

If the output would be the same whether it was done by you or someone else... well, why not explore not doing it yourself?
Then Go would stay out from any vendor selling commercial desktop software or tooling for other developers.

Those vendors will just keep using tools whose vendors are more understanding of businesses needs, like C and C++.
Got really excited when I thought this was FAUT (Find As U Type) like Firefox has
Elsevier believes they have United States law on their side. And they're right; they do have US law on their side. That just doesn't mean much anymore; it's been worn away by decades of conspicuous corruption, and lost most of its respect. In principle, this should be addressed by the US legislature. In practice, academia has effectively voted no-confidence and bypassed the legal system entirely.
> the first explanation I'd gravitate toward is universal, easily-accessed, high-quality pornography

Also games and social networks - they drive teens crazy and tempt them to lock themselves in their homes for much of their free time. When you stay at home, you get less sex.

On the whole, teens are replacing sex with more computer time.
Hmm, I actually find them to be pretty lousy computing devices, since it's so difficult to type on them. You can poke around and read email or news articles, and take or look at pictures, but actually doing anything with a touchscreen phone is... well, I generally don't spend more than a couple of minutes trying, because it rarely works and it's less frustrating to just wait until I have a real computer at hand.

They have some decent hardware in there; shame it's so difficult to make it do anything interesting!
I think about that a lot (have a number of friends publishing papers in academia). Really sad.
The basic math in this article seems questionable. If Americans worked an extra 1.9% and output was up 1.9% then that doesn't mean productivity was flat, because the marginal labor is unequal.
I recently wanted to read a five page paper on graph theory from 1977. The company entrusted with it 40 years ago is charging $38 for it. It is just absurd. I can't imagine that the author, now long dead, would have wanted his work to be so difficult to read.
Flaws in Scrum and Agile
Or maybe "productivity growth" will have to stop at some point; even at 1% year over year, that makes 1000x growth in 700 years.

Barring space travel, it's hard to even imagine 1000x growth over the next 700 years in any real sense (as opposed to just adding zeros to currency), and completely absurd to imagine 1 million times growth over the next 1400 years.
> Studying the judicial history of these laws, you quickly realize that law enforcement only applies them after it’s identified the journalist or protestor that it wants to arrest. The pattern is that authorities will find the offending speech and then choose the law that can be interpreted to most closely address it. The system results in a rule by law rather than rule of law: the goal is to arrest, try, and punish the individual—the law is merely a tool used to reach an already predetermined conviction.

Thanks for the reminder about how laws against "offensive speech" will be used in practice.
Elsevier and others can go something themselves.

Their behavior over the last two decades has been little more than reprehensible rent-seeking. Whatever goodwill they had disappeared as they sapped with increasing ruthlessness the dollars of students and non-profits. See, e.g., one of many such figures: http://www.lib.washington.edu/scholpub/images/economics_grap...

It is absurd and dishonest to call Sci-Hub "piracy", given that all of its contents were originally created and given away with the express goal of wide dissemination.
The publishers are either given the material for free and readers have to pay, or the researchers pay the publishers on the order of $2k per page to have their research published as open access. Not great in either case.

http://openwetware.org/wiki/Publication_fees
"enterprises" that want to "leverage cloud" is where all of the money is. AWS is chasing that dragon too. There is way more money selling cloud stuff to Coca-Cola and GE than to software companies.
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Copyright Deadlock
FWIW, I saw a flash of unstyled text on Safari for Mac.
ULA was formed at the end of 2006. The United States had no rocket reliability problem at that time. (Not counting rockets in development, of course.) The Enhanced Expendable Launch Vehicles (Altas V and Delta IV) had good track records when they were merged into ULA—each already had several flights under their belts at that point.
Although the reality is that it is about nepotism :

Katehi's husband is a chemical engineering professor at Davis, while her daughter-in-law works as chief of staff to the vice-chancellor for student affairs. Her son is a graduate student in epidemiology.

a raise of over $50,000 and series of promotions the daughter-in-law received over 2 ½ years

the academic program where Katehi's son has a paid research position was put under his wife's supervision
Cute Sleeping Baby Captions
Multiroles like the F-18, F-16 (excluding the original worthless LWF proposal), Su-30, Su-35, (today's, though not the original) MiG-29 and Su-27 variants, Typhoon, Tornado, Mirage, Rafale, and nearly every fixed-wing fighter employed by every air force today definitely do not have bad histories--some less stellar than others, but none bad.

Multirole capability is primarily a function of the weapons an aircraft can employ. This wasn't true in the 70s when targeting pods were binoculars and effective employment of aircraft in strike roles required decent performance in low-and-slow flight regimes, but we've been living with pods and PGMs coming out of our ears for 25 years now. Design tradeoffs for multiroles today are primarily those of cost and maintainability. You can pay out the ears and get larger twin-engine multiroles that strain logistics and wallets, opt for a single-engine F-16alike multirole that'll do everything nearly as well except for flying really high and really fast, or inexplicably go Eurocanard to pay F-22 prices for sub F-35 capabilities. Anyway, the point is that it's next to impossible not to make a multirole these days even if you're trying; if you can employ weapons with your jet, you're multirole.
How to fix? Getting rid of it is probably the only way. Especially software patents. The trouble that the EFF faces here is that the only correct move is one that is politically unpalatable. They're giving advice on how to make an unfixable system a little less broken, but there is no happy path for that strategy that leads to a healthy software patent system. Such a thing cannot exist in an industry where the cost to invent is lower than the cost to patent, and where the spread of knowledge has nothing to do with what is patented.
I agree completely! ... Well, almost agree completely.

Daniel Stenberg is the author of curl:
https://daniel.haxx.se/

Nicolas Cannasse is the (main) author of haxe:
https://medium.com/@ncannasse

Both are awesome in their own right.

I wrote the Lua target announced here, and am happy to answer any questions.
Okay this is a logical explanation. I am probably wrong then.
> The whole rationale given in the proposal [1] is that some users have worked with vendors who do not want to share their source code, since they've purchased some sort of library product. In my opinion, that's likely more harmful than beneficial for software as a whole.

I'm not sure why that's "likely more harmful". If you're purchasing enterprise software or specialized hardware that comes with libraries that interact with them I can understand companies not wanting to simply hand over the source code to such things (this is how it's done with many existing products outside of the GO ecosystem).

There is nothing wrong with giving people the option to deploy either way and it will help the GO ecosystem gain more enterprise like users.
"They should know 'the web'" - what!? I thought we were talking about software development in general here, not about web development specifically.
cURL was created by Daniel Stenberg, Haxe was created by Nicolas Cannasse. (EDIT: beaten)

My favourite Haxe feature is compile-time macros. This leads to massive meta-programming and language extension capabilities. My least favourite aspect is that it does not strictly unify or abstract every target language & runtime, so you end up writing in that language's semantics but using Haxe as syntax sugar. (Good for C++, less useful for other targets.)
Colin Furze Flies a Working Homemade Hoverbike
Survivorship bias. The vast majority of companies die. The vast majority of tech companies die.
The UI kept getting worse, but I stuck through it. It was the culture that eventually drove me away from /.
Actually I think its apps in store apps without the need of installation need may.
https://medium.com/@ramwert/bots-wont-replace-apps-apps-runn...
Or stumbleupon. That site/pligin failed after UI changes.
What exactly is the benefit of Elsevier for researchers? Is there no free way to publish papers?
> Central planning clearly works fairly well internally for millions of corporations

Can you describe the difference between leaving a broken corporation (as a consumer or employee) and leaving a broken nation state?
hack until it works (3m50s) ~ https://youtu.be/soxxPyaAT1k
The Faithful
Sure, snappier on older hardware is a plus. But we've got a 4 year replacement cycle, and a slight increase in snappiness isn't what I'd call a major upgrade.
I've been hearing reports of increased FOUT lately and noticed it myself. I just so happened to use someone else's computer this evening tonight and did not see the issue. Turns out that I am seeing FOUT on every page load with Typekit fonts in Chrome 50, but not Chrome 49 or Firefox.

Are you getting the results from your tests in 49, 50, or both? It seems like Chrome 50 was the catalyst for the issue.
> bad hires often aren’t bad employees because they’re stupid, obstinate, or insubordinate but rather because they are “miscast.”

I dare you to find a product manager who can actually put this into practice without losing his/her job. The entire means of production and bureaucracy are founded on excluding the "mad" and "unreasonable."

If you want to treat people fairly, we'll have to go through our prisons with a fine-toothed comb.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11591928
Absolutely must separate. One reason: controlled access to prod. You cannot let any arbitrary untrusted device on your corporate network connect directly to prod instances. You rather need a VPN or other jump host in the middle.

Same rules don't apply in dev and are counter productive there.
If your product falls apart when you leave the office for a week, I'm not sure I'd call you a "successful" product manager.
In the case of a press release, it's paid for by the company releasing it to the press, so end recipients shouldn't also have to pay as if they were getting an originally produced story.
Corporations have pretty excellent feedback in the form of profits that result from voluntary transactions with customers. The success of a state is measured in many ways, many of which are disagreed upon and/or take decades to measure. On top of that, no one interacts voluntarily with a centrally planned state in the sense that if the state supplies all of something that is necessary, people will buy it, regardless of the government's prowess in delivering the goods. A corporation will quickly go out of business or change tack if it can't sell goods profitably. I'd say to make your analogy work better we'd have to have central planning where citizens can opt out pretty easily and that opting out causes the government to actually change.
The EFF is broken. They started as a First Amendment organization. Now they've become a front for the anti-patent lobby.

The EFF's own data on demand letters exposes their false claims about "patent trolls". [1] Only six patent holders on their list have sent more than two demand letters. There was one big patent troll who sent out hundreds of demand letters, and he lost in court years ago. With that one lawyer out of the picture, the "troll" problem went away.

Their legislative proposals are terrible. Allowing "independent invention" as a defense encourages companies to lie. A five year patent term is so short as to be useless; it takes about 3 years to get a patent issued.

Stop the EFF before they kill invention.

[1] https://trollingeffects.org/patent-owners
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It's like Math: necessary, but that doesn't mean everyone does it well (or at all).
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Two things:

1) In this piece, Joel Hirst makes a reference to Ayn Rand as though she had something relevant to say about Venezuela, civilization, or for that matter, anything. That alone raises a red flag for me. He's declaring himself on the side of the Objectivists. Who is John Galt? The embodiment of selfishness and much of what is wrong with capitalism.

2) Joel Hirst is a "Fellow in Human Freedom" at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. http://www.bushcenter.org/people/joel-hirst.html I'm not sure there is a single title in America that denotes greater intellectual fraudulence or moral bankruptcy than that. You can trace a straight line from Kissinger, the Argentine Junta and Reagan's Contras down to George W. Bush and his fellows in human freedom. So Joel is firmly on the side of oppression in Latin America. Remember that when you read his fairly shallow analogy between Venezuela and fallen civilizations.

I do not support Chavez or his politics, but I do recognize that America and US allies have presented very few palatable choices to the peoples of Latin America, and the Joel Hirsts of the world will not save the Amazonian peasants with their visions of John Galt.
> The internet can act as a social lubricant of sorts which is valuable

Whether or not this is true depends upon the ability of the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street to exact change. Things are not looking empirically good for "internet society."

Although I think it's safe to allow for the possibility of an immanent "death of Facebook" which could give rise to the social lubricant you're describing, since I don't think Facebook served the Arab Spring very well.
> Barring space travel, it's hard to even imagine 1000x growth over the next 700 years in any real sense

Why not? 700 years ago most of the things that people produce today weren't even conceivable, and any sort of comparison of functionality is going to end up involving large factors of improvement. For example, how much more functional is a smartphone with the ability to dial anywhere in the world and connect to the Internet, compared to writing a letter that would travel by horseback or sailing ship, which was the best known communication technology 700 years ago? I have no problem at all saying that the smartphone is at least 1000 times more functional, which means that productivity needs to have gone up by a similarly large factor for smartphones now to be about as ubiquitous as letters were then.
Hey folks, some of you asked about Dev Tools, so I wrote a response here: https://medium.com/@samrye_enspiral/good-point-shihab-uddin-...
> honestly I think the social lubricant is actually pseudonymity, empowered by the network.

Conversely, intoxication is its own kind of real-life pseudonymity! :-)
Like I said, I think there is a zero percent chance this happens, but I am trying to explain why other people are suggesting. The piece you seem to be missing is that the value of the company overall goes down during a buyout, it is just that the outstanding shares decrease meaning the value of existing shares go up.

If the market cap of Apple is currently $500 billion and they have $200 billion of cash on hand it means the market thinks the company is worth $300 billion. While spending $200 billion on the buyback will put upward pressure on the price of the stock, offloading that cash will put a downward pressure on the stock. Since the ratio of cash to market cap is so high for Apple, the stock really wouldn't see a huge rise in a buyback. The end result would be anyone who didn't participate in the buyback would now owns a larger piece of a smaller pie. The assumption is that the "internal" stockholders would be in that group. The reason it would never happen is because those investors would have to buyout enough people to amass 51% ownership in the company. That means they would need over $150 billion of the $300 billion post buyout value in cash and stock.