skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that these discussions of "to comment and like" or "not to comment and like" always misses the mark. Both sides of the discussion have solid arguments and I find it hard to imagine the discussion ever resolving itself to anything thereby keeping a status quo noone is really satisfied with.

The problem is that most peoples frame of reference when talking about comments and "likes" is the facebook, reddit or [insert some publisher] model. That is all fine and dandy as a starting point, but let's not forget that all of those models are specifically engineered to keep people posting and liking as much as possible rather than focusing on like and comment quality. There is no reason, or at least i don't see it, why a different model focusing on like and comment quality could not be engineered. Furthermore, if such a model could be engineered well enough, I don't see why a comment and like section of arxiv could not contribute to furthering science as a whole. With that in mind a much more fruitful and positive discussion could be had about "how do we create a comment and like section where everyones interests are protected?" rather than the old back and forth discussion of easing barrier of entry vs quality.

As others have noted much better starting points for the above discussion could be the stack-overflow model or something similar.
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Actual article : http://allenchou.net/2016/05/a-brain-dump-of-what-i-worked-o...

Interesting comment : "Yes. We don’t have specific titles and do whatever is needed."
> “We are trying to best meet the needs of our community despite budget cuts in the last few years, the greediness of commercial publishers, and the weak Canadian dollar,"

Money's short, thus expenses have to be cut somewhere. Very understandable.

> UdeM Libraries will renew access to 150 of the 2,266 journals included in this collection. The price we will pay for these individual subscriptions in 2016 is the same we were willing to pay for the entire collection.

So... you save literally zero zilch nichts, except you now hold 85% less things. In other words, this whole action is meaningless.

Also,

> A survey conducted recently with the university community established that only 256 titles (or 11.6%) within the Springer collection are needed for research and teaching at UdeM.

That rubs me in a wrong way, you don't know wether you can use a paper for your own research or teaching until you've read it, meaning until your need for it has been satisfied. (edit) Lucky stumbles do happen, and I generally don't like the idea of scaling a scientific library down. Strictly speaking, UdeM's library actually continues to grow, only at 15% of the previous rate, since old issues aren't being thrown out. But we seem fine relying on (economic) growth as an accurate measure of well-being, so why not apply it here? Then remember the non-existant economic advantage (which should be around an 85% payment cut), and the whole thing stops making any sense.

Depending on which and how many branches a university has, 256 journals can mean a whole lot or ridiculously little literature about each subject. I don't know UdeM, so I can't judge them.

Add the little sentence

> Springer’s articles end up being 225% more expensive at UdeM compared to Elsevier’s.

and this whole move starts stinking like there's no tomorrow.

(edit) That last sentence may be a bit harsh, but I do believe this should not be taken at face value (something's missing).

(rewordings)
Babbage invented the concept of the programmable computer, Zuse built a programmable electronic computer, which could later be shown to be turing-complete. Those things are pretty subtle, and the 'national' version is always the least subtle, I guess ;)

Leonardo da Vinci also invented tanks and helicopters, and then it took a couple of hundred years to build some.
>>if you use an Oracle product, you've paid for it, you are safe.

Clearly you have never dealt with Oracle Licensing.....
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Additional comments

- Developed in China

- Supports cloud syncing (default - Wiz cloud; they encourage devs to add backends for other cloud providers)

- Source code - https://github.com/WizTeam/WizQTClient

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with them or their partners
(Disclaimer: anecdata.)

Unreasonable, for sure. I may not be in the several hundreds of tabs open at any given time, but definitely around a hundred. I gave up on Chrome for this specific reason, it'd just kill my battery in no time, whereas I can go an entire work day with Safari and still have battery left for an episode of SV. I routinely have ridiculous amounts of tabs open (for no good reasons) and Safari so far has been the only browser able to cope without draining my battery in no time.

My main reason for ditching Chrome in favor of Safari, aside from the fact that Safari is ridiculously fast, is that Chrome is a memory hog. The way I browse, with so many tabs open and lots of flipping back and forth, Chrome routinely eats around 4gb of memory in total, whereas Safari uses somewhere in the vicinity of 50%-75% of that. (Looking at it right now, it's at 1.86gb.)

I don't think Safari is the perfect browser by any means, but it's the best one I've used so far.
Some of these treaties and conventions are enforced by the international community. The US agrees with the treaties, and so signs them, but disagrees with the enforcement and so does not ratify.

(Rhis is just my impression! Maybe I'm totally wrong).
I think the phone industry just didn't think it possible that real ground breaking innovation in their industry was at all possible. They imagined a phone must have a physical keyboard, couldn't run a decent web browser and Microsoft was already selling the best mobile OS it was possible to make.

It wasn't that they doubted Apple's commitment, they just didn't have the imagination. To be fair to them, Apple timed things perfectly. Even a year earlier SOCs weren't powerful enough to run something like the early iOS. They did in software what they did in hardware much later with the 64-bit transition. They pulled off a superbly executed technological coup just at the point when it became possible to do it at all, beating everyone else to the market by years.

If they're planning to do the same with cars, we have interesting times ahead.
Minimal hardware + even more minimal software stack means that there's little except Chrome that can drain power. That already helps a lot.
The article makes it sound like he waterboarded him, but that's probably just because the word 'interrogate' has become so unpredictably uncivilized in recent usage.
Not nearly as much fun as YouTubers would have remaking his promo videos :)
The problem to me seem to be that Git is too powerful. It has many features built in and my guess is that the average dev uses a tiny fraction of them.

https://xkcd.com/1597/

The XKCD comic is true, because for most people downloading a fresh copy is far easier than working out how to use git properly.
Lets compare to a similar situation but without this being about men vs women. Two co-workers go to a bar, and gets into a physical fight. During the fight, one of them call the other something really inappropriate like n__gger or s_ut.

Do you fire both instantly the next day? Physical fights and insults are both unprofessional, and as a zero tolerance policy, that means they need to be let go instantly. Do you only fire the insult throwing employee? Do you talk to either one of them before issuing the boot?
>To be precise, many journals do have a comment section, but nobody uses it.

GitXiv[1] also has a comment section and voting features, and nobody uses it.

I know it has a small user base compared to ArXiV, but I think that its format resembles what ArXiv might look like with comments, votes and reproducible code.

[1]: http://gitxiv.com/
I have a v800 and v650 and m400 will test it on all ;)
Eclipse / Pydev have at least two of these available (for some reason different project I have use different graphical git plugins).

They are nice for the easy stuff (push, pull, create new branch), but the simplified menu of command means that I don't actually know what git command I am executing if I select some of the options. As a result I stay away from them.
The Wisdom of the Aging Brain
The problem is the First Circuit gets ALL patent cases nationwide, so with this precedent in place anyone wanting to claim copyright infringement on a API will toss in a Patent claim as well to ensure it goes only to the First Circuit

With the high court refusing to address the issue, we will never see another court get one of these cases.
Got my GF an M400 for her birthday that arrived yesterday. Looks like she'll be having a crappy birthday!
> You are comparing across industries.

That's the whole point. The argument is that Apple is pivoting into a different industry.

% of revenue spent on R&D would not tell you much here. If a company with $10m revenue spends the same % revenue on R&D as VW, does that mean it's possible for it to bringing out a new line of cars? Setting up to manufacture a car costs a large amount of absolute $, so comparing absolute spend makes sense here.
I agree it sucks, and that the candidate is in a bad position.

I'm just saying that lying about your previous salary in order to get a higher starting salary is pretty clearly fraud. While it's unlikely to ever be prosecuted it is probably grounds, as has already been said, to withdraw the offer or to fire someone.
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I currently really like the site as-is. Useful links to useful PDFs :) The article says it's a physics site, but I use it more for Mathematics and Computer Science.

The HTML is small and loads fast and automatically works on mobile because it's just simple HTML.

I hope the reboot won't mean huge bloated HTML+JS, and then a "mobile" version that has less features than what it has right now.

P.S. the wired article talks about arxiv.org but doesn't have a single clickable link that goes to it??!!
Yap, this is what I thought. The easy way to go to that court is tossing a patent claim
That is nice to hear. Is there a model that measures heart rate from the wrist? The chest bands are cumbersome.
Isn't autopilot appropriate name? Like autopilot in planes doesn't just fly the whole plane and do everything needed.
If you want just the science and the meditation without any mumbo-jumbo, I'd recommend Sam Harris' Waking Up.
http://www.amazon.com/Waking-Up-Spirituality-Without-Religio...
Minor trivia - one of the TRON: Legacy writers confirmed to me on Twitter that the character "Zuse" was indeed named in honor of the gentleman in question.
Works for Hire and the No Moonlighting Clause
On the Lookout for Angular 1’s Future
It's not perfect, but E2E crypto does make it significantly harder to get to the plaintext. A backdoor will always leave some kind of paper trail (if you know what to look for), whereas intercepting the plaintext on the server cannot be detected by users at all. Legally speaking, compelling a company to intercept messages that they have access to sounds different than compelling them to develop and sign a backdoored version of their product - that's essentially the Apple vs. FBI case.

I think this is a case of perfect being the enemy of good. If a state actor wants access to your messages, you're probably screwed anyway, unless your OpSec is top-notch. E2E crypto means that they'll have to really want your messages, at which point they're probably better off just stealing your phone or using a $5 wrench.
Supercritical CO2-cooled micro modular nuclear reactor
This somehow reminds me of the Encyclopedia Galactica from the Foundation series.
> Call it a reflex.

PTSD? :) Use local topic branches for everything to avoid unpleasant surprise merges. Once you are ready to merge, pull the shared branch, merge/rebase onto that and push/submit/whatever.

I sometimes keep separate branch for each thing that I intend to become a master commit. This way I can use as many small and ugly commits and swearwords as I please and later squash them for publication after all bugs are ironed out.

This helps with remembering why particular commits look the way they do, especially in high latency code review environments where it can take days or weeks and several revisions to get something accepted.

> Git's problem was precisely "oh, we can't push to that repository because we might have to mess with the working copy without Bob's knowledge," and it's a totally unnecessary problem.

Actually Bob's working copy isn't modified, it's just that if his branch was allowed to suddenly stop matching his working copy, he would probably have some fun committing (not sure what exactly, never tried).
> What is there really for them to offer in that space?

Electric cars. Yes, there is Tesla, but not much else. And, as Tesla proved, there is significant demand for an electric car done right (ie, powerful, long range, not expensive). Throw in the brand name and a really nice cockpit design, and you have a hit.
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Is there an Nginx version already? If not, I'm interested in building one.

This is a great idea!
On a related note, I have a hard time understanding the layout of the Linux graphics stack as a whole. You have MESA, DRM, DAL, Gallium3D, etc... All these acronyms and systems that somehow relate to eachother.

It seems like there are many layers, and there aren't many good references that really explain it "from the beginning".
There's also Euro NCAP where Tesla does well but not #1 http://www.euroncap.com/en/ratings-rewards/latest-safety-rat...
D does.

auto greeting = "Hello" ~ " World!";

immutable x = 9 + 99;

auto:immutable::var:val
I agree with you that they are just 2 very different language in philosophy and usage. To my mind Go is about boring technology used to make interesting and very popular products while Scala is about exploring cutting edge in PL theory.

One can see most work on Scala in git commits is done either by few people at a research institute(EPFL) or at a consulting company(lightbend) whereas Go has quite varied committer profiles and there are far more committers.
I can highly recommend a visit there. Not only you can see an original Z4 and a replica of the Z3, but also lot's of more science and history related exhibitions. Don't miss the Enigma!
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The problem is that their newer standards are "too standardised" leaving very little room for the frameworks to differentiate themselves. Add to that the drama that comes with any PHP related development and you can understand the outcome.
umm, it would be like, some teens have not much to say anymore?
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Practical C++ value categories
Using a reverse proxy with LE is pretty nice as you can have the proxy centralize everything for both local and downstream hosts (I presently do this with the OpenBSD tools). You get a single cert with all the domains used over the entire system. You use the reverse proxy to redirect the challenge location to the local system. LE thinks it is challenging a bunch of different systems but it is just going to the same place over and over again.

Some things don't work all that well behind a TLS proxy. For those systems you need to generate a new outgoing TLS session. You don't need to check the validity of the certificate in most cases and can just use something self signed. I use a never renewed LE cert for convenience.
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In reality you still have many sites, that infringe on copyright and display ads by Google. And some of them have done so for a long time. Having a policy is one thing, implementing it another.
Zuse is an interesting example of history being written by the victors. Ask any German who invented the computer and they'll tell you it was Konrad Zuse, but he is almost completely unknown elsewhere.

Turing did brilliant work, but Zuse did the job of Turing and Tommy Flowers, working in isolation with very limited resources.
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In reference to employee titles / roles.
Me too.

It seems like AMD is really trying to do well by the open source community. I do realize that this isn't out of the kindness of their heart, but rather the fact that they're the underdog, but still, it's good for the community.

I really think things are going to turn in their favor within the next 2 years (at least in the graphical side of things).

Every single one of the major game consoles are using AMD chips, and consoles are usually first priority for game developers. I am guessing this could have some advantages when it comes time to do a PC port.

Also, with the new APIs such as Vulkan and DX12, the amount of optimization "games" you can play inside the driver is reduced since they are apparently much closer to the hardware. This could wash away some of the lead that NVidia has (as is proven by many recent DX12 benchmarks).

Finally, I think the recent rise in popularity of Apple computers (last 5 years or so) could be a good thing for Linux gaming since they will both rely on the Vulkan/OpenGL APIs which could give more incentive for developers to do the port.
This exactly what I think when people suggest removing code comments and keeping them in git commit messages instead.
This is far better advice than the OP.
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> To my mind Go is about boring technology used to make interesting and very popular products while Scala is about exploring cutting edge in PL theory.

I would strongly disagree with the implication that Scala isn't used to make interesting or popular products (e.g. Spark or twitter), or indeed that it's "exploring" anything "cutting-edge"; it is very much a production-quality language (backed by theory sure, but theory that's been established for decades now), and I don't see that it contains anything more novel or experimental than e.g. Go's concurrency model. It's a decent platform for doing research in, but that's mostly just a question of being a good language.

> One can see most work on Scala in git commits is done either by few people at a research institute(EPFL) or at a consulting company(lightbend) whereas Go has quite varied committer profiles and there are far more committers.

We're talking about a factor of 2-3 in number of committers, not that I have any idea what that number is supposed to tell anyone. Certainly Scala has substantial industrial support and a wide base of contributors.
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if they broke the law during that time then yes, otherwise no.

the last part about "you just have to trust me" is pretty funny - there are several movies and documentaries on Netflix/HBO/Amazon (and youtube!) about how jet fuel can't melt steel beams. or you just have to trust me.
Wow. If they were going to be that lackadaisical about it, it really should have been 100% idiot proof.
Ask HN: Resources for Front End JavaScript with Priority on Performance and Power Saving?
Hi, HN, what is the best way to develop JavaScript frontend stuff with a priority on performance and power saving ("save cpu cycles first" as an advancement of "mobile first")?

After doing some research in this field it looks like performance for most js library creators is not important, jquery is a good example - there are alternatives like velocity.js, but it looks like the mainstream developer still does not care about performance.

Also many charting libraries are catastrophic - even the "industry standard" ones are really bad on performance and power saving.

Maybe a reason for this is the lack for good performance oriented JS literature and resources, even in the most guru-ized books about JS there is not a lot to be found about performance and power saving, also I was not able to find these:

* a comprehensive performance and power saving oriented guide for JS frontend developers that teaches about best practices.

* a good tutorial on how to implement constant debugging for performance and power saving into your workflow (think of a "gulp perf-profile" task).

* a good collection of performance and power saving optimized frontend libraries - (an "awesome js performance and power saving" github repo would be a good start).

If you are in the know of the secret sources, please tell us, thanks!

Also any hint on this issue is welcome, thank you very much and have a nice day!
I don't have a macroexpand function and the self-imposed limit on the number of primitive functions (32 language-related + 16 OS-related) has already been reached! Having a whitelist for macros whose expansion should be traced would be good as there's a lot of noise.

"Non-intrusive" tracing of any expression can be done, using an @ prefix, based on this:

(extend-parser
"@"
(mac (x)
`(let once ,x
(seq (eprintln "TRACE: " once)
once))))

e.g.

(def third (div 100.0 3.0))
=> TRUE

(add @(mul third 2.0) third)
TRACE: 66.66666666666667
=> 100.0

That's a good point that you mention tracing needing to be toggleable - it'd be nice to be able to leave all the @s in code. I guess the macro for "@" could either be conditionally replaced with an effective no-op, or it could internally check for the existence of (or truthiness of) a global tracing-enabled definition.
The Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin has a reconstruction of the Z1.

http://www.sdtb.de/Mathematics-and-Computer-Science.1256.0.h...
Sensationalism? Although there is a bit of sexism in the mountaineering community.
If you say that Apple has more relevant experience, then why doesn't Audi, BMW, Daimler, Ford, GM, Google, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Renault, Tesla, or Toyota beat them both? All of these have more relevant experience than either Google or Apple, because industrial design is not really what car is about.
Is there a write up on how this is implemented? I want to find out more about this model of delivering content.
No, dotnet CLI is coming along for sure.

I was watching the community stand-up on Tuesday where Scott Hanselman and Damien Edwards discussed the reasoning in a little more detail.

They were pretty clear that they wanted to make sure they adapted and kept all the things they liked about project.json

And then rattled off a list.

I'm sure the single-file for multiple frameworks would be on the list of things they want to keep.

The shift to CSPROJ for them actually sounded (relatively) simple.

The current project.json becomes a PropertyGroup and they put everything inside that.

So they switch the mustaches for triangle brackets, but they did mention wanting to keep it "light weight"

I also know that Damien said something to the effect of "we loved project.json probably MORE than many members of the community, but the choice had to be made"
Ha, I just did this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11682622

Ask HN: Resources for Front End JavaScript with Priority on Performance and Power Saving?

Please lets collect some perfomance and power saving JS resources!
The wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_graphics_... has some somewhat helpful graphics at least explaining the relative abstraction levels of the different entities.
Nevermind. I should have googled first. https://medium.com/@okonetchnikov/long-term-caching-of-stati...