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I just went spelunking in the HN archives and discovered this interesting war story about the Tcl Wars from a different perspective: https://web.archive.org/web/20100405014350/http://basiscraft...
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Surprisingly, one app that is changing this paradigm for video is snapchat. Publishing content in a short series of clips that are skip-able with one tap is an enjoyable user experience.
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But how is this different from coding in, say, Django?

In Django you write a "view", which is just a Python function that is started when an HTTP request is received, and terminates by returning an HTTP response object. Then there are models, but these are just a translation layer between the Database and the view function, they don't keep state either.

I don't see how a Django view isn't a "microflow". It seems to me that the architecture is exactly the same, it's just that you don't get to choose the web framework.
>Google is an advertisement company.

FTFY
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nope - stuff you mention has different architecture (so you have to program for specific CPUs), different hardware (memory constraints, overall performance to get and maintain adequate FPS) and so on.

this has same base PC, just displayed differently. It is another layer of complexity compared to displaying it on LCD screen, but not THAT big. games can be relatively easily developed to work well for both platforms, and many will be. this is about content locking and competition between companies.
Likes stealing, though :)
An exam-question a german lawyer told me to illustrate how layman's understanding of law and expectation of logic therein often doesn't apply:

"Your employer tells you to break into an opponent's office and steal something. You do that, jump out of the window and break a leg. Is your workplace insurance legally obliged to cover the medical cost?"
> TVs are all nearly the same. Currently VR headsets are not. If you disagree then I suggest you head on over to the reddit Oculus or Vive forums.

Don't they have both have very similar specs and hardware (ignoring input for now)? Also, the whole point of drivers/SDKs is to abstract hardware differences away so software can work on a variety of hardware. It doesn't strike me that they are so different the drivers/SDKs can't cope with the differences. Given Revive lets Vive users play Oculus locked down games and both the Oculus and Vive are supported on Steam it's clear their hardware differences isn't a huge deal.
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Presumably that's why OpenTable went towards POS.
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Yes, i accept that the media is a distorting lens, that is why I specifically put this in as a disclaimer, but not living there it is the only lens I have available. I'll give you Sanders as a point in showing at least an attempt at curbing extreme neo-liberalism, but Trump seems (to me) like the front runner in the race to 'idiocracy'.
Cross-platform support, lack of GC, direct C ABI interop.
We have had the telephone, email, cell phones, video chat, and yet, the trend is still towards people moving in to cities.

Is 3d projection really going to change that trend?
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What I can't figure out is how you get around menus, does everybody use a tablet? I know Chili's has something a little like that these days, but seriously, I don't want to hold a tablet at dinner.
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>> The 2010s, in contrast, are a terrible time to not be brainy.

That sums it up. Intelligence doesn't matter, rather the appearance of intelligence gets one ahead. Appearing "brainy" counts more than actually being brainy. TheBigBangTheory is part of that trend. Intelligent people are expected to project a particular image. IRL that never happens. Many very smart people couldn't care less for trek, comics or any of the other stereotypes. And conversely, there are many absolutely not-smart people who do very well by simply dressing the part. I say bring on the standardized tests. Let us separate the smart from the fashionable.
> Swift as well as Crystal can be used in here too

Can you elaborate? I don't know of any way to compile Swift or Crystal code into a library that exposes a C-compatible ABI, and I can find no documentation as such.
At least with respect to 2005 and 2015, that increase looks to be in line with private undergrad tuition increases.

Of course, the top private undergrad institutions give much more in the way of financial aid than their legal graduate school counterparts.
> Deep ingrained anti-intellectualism, idolization of stupidity and love of the brazen and the rich.

You're saying Donald Trump's support is evidence against those things? It seems like exactly the opposite to me, on all counts.
I have a pet theory that the articles about HFT are actually placed [0] by big financial interests. I have personally seen a trader at a bank feed a story to a reporter in a different product. That article was pretty fair, but it was on an uncontroversial topic.

I don't think the goal is to be deceptive, but the biases of the source are going to come through. Traders at banks are going to much more charismatic and gregarious than traders at HFT firms so it's not surprising that their story rings louder.

[0] I'm not talking about explicit quid-pro-quo arrangements, but something along the lines of http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I disagree. Citing a few labels is easy, Hollywood and popular culture have stereotypes for every kind of person. Everybody thinks they are the persecuted group. I think the opposite.

America most certainly worships intellectuals, who control public education. So starting at age 5-6 kids are brainwashed into thinking that they are 'stupid' if they can't do arithmetic in their head, or remember all the inane rules of the english language in their writing or what have you. It is ingrained into their skulls that if they don't go to college and take out loans to get what is basically now a glorified high school diploma++ they are failures.

If you are having a conversation with someone and they ask where you went to college, and you reply that you dropped out or didn't go there is always an awkward moment. If you are making a good living or you hit it big, you are the exception. You slipped through the cracks thats all.

Don't get me wrong As someone who grew up with his nose in a book, I know you ridiculed. But getting made fun of by a bunch of insecure children/teenagers is one thing. All major modern institutions of any importance exalt the intellectual while debasing anyone who hasn't been blessed.
This also doesn't mention the horrible inflexibility of the H-1B once you have it. Once on an H-1B, you literally have ZERO days of unemployment between jobs. If you are fired, laid-off, or leave your job for any reason at all (say health reasons), you technically are out of status and can be deported at any minute. There is an unofficial grace period of about 30 days, which is really not enough to do any kind of a decent job search (and its unofficial, so technically you could be deported at any minute). So the only realistic avenue for H-1Bs is to find a job before leaving the current one - works for most people, but again, if you are laid-off or need to take time off for any reason, its simply not an option. Its a horrible system.
In practice, how many games opt out of the DRM, and for would one still be able to play those games should their steam accounts be cancelled?
How exactly is Facebook better positioned? CTR for Facebook ads is abysmal compared to that on Google search.
> How much have legal costs to the client been reduced due to this increase in efficiency?

It's pretty hard to answer that one as it depends on the type of legal services. Anecdata only...

My experience is from a UK based perspective. Over the last decade I reckon the likelihood of using an external firm for standard commercial work (sales contracts/standard employment) has dropped dramatically (80-90%). There are lots of reasonably trained lawyers coming out of the large firms, so you can hire an internal resource or use a boutique firm. They can do almost all that work.

International work remains the bread and butter of the large firms. Where you're dealing in jurisdictions that you're uncomfortable or your internal resources are not trained for. Super large deals where (frankly) the insurance from the law firm is worth it. Or specialist matters (complex IP) where the business risk is too significant.

Litigation is a different matter. No fundamental difference there in my experience. Perhaps on the administration side, but that's often a rounding error compared to the costs of the partners/counsel.

Someone said earlier that 'commercial management' has improved. As a non-legal specialist managing lawyers that is definitely a cultural change that the legal profession is embracing but still adapting to.
From what I've read, about 96% of google's revenue comes from advertising. So they are kind of marginally diversified. Some cash comes in from Google Apps I suppose.
But there are plenty of glass ceilings that can only be breeched via formal education. If you want to be on a board of directors some day, you better either be a billionaire or have a masters or better, preferably more than one.
While I agree mostly with what you said initially. IMO if you think your "smart" or "dumb" based on the results of standardized tests then either way you are just a gullible fool. Standardized tests are designed to sort people based on what they can remember/understand at a given moment in time. A very crappy measure of 'intelligence' (whatever that word really means) indeed.
It's not 'going back'. The semantic-markup-with-no-presentation-classes approach is just one way to do it and there are good arguments against.

Recommend reading: http://mrmrs.io/writing/2016/03/24/scalable-css/
Facebook has infinitely better targeting and signal about their users.
Goggle has some income from cloud business, but yes, it is an ad company in the first place.
It's funny because you look at these figures, you look at real estate prices, you look at stock prices, and you think, wait we are in a double digit inflationary environment!

Actually what is inflationary is the activities of the middle/upper-middle class (college, housing, stocks, etc), which are of course underrepresented in the CPI indices. The combination of the never ending debt bubble and quantitative easing has created a very localised inflation.
There's very little doubt that Trump is an extremely smart person. Also, see http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberali...
Yes, Google is mostly an advertisement company relying on search.

In 2015, Google's revenue amounted to 74.54 billion US dollars. It was largely made up (90%) by advertising revenue, which amounted to 67.39 billion US dollars in 2015. [1]

A rough estimation is that 80% of Google's advertisement revenue comes from search. [2]

1: http://www.statista.com/statistics/266206/googles-annual-glo...

2: http://www.statista.com/statistics/343191/googles-digital-ad...
See [1] for arbitrary block size during compression, [2] for the requirement of a decompressor to handle arbitrary block size.

The 32K back distance just limits how far back to use the duplicate data from the current cursor. It doesn't really limit the block size.

The last I looked, it's really difficult to find the boundary of a Huffman block since the Huffman alphabet code is not on 8-bit boundary. Walking the bits to find the end code symbol is basically decompressing the whole block.

Tar doesn't compress data. It just packages files into an archive. Gzip then applies compression on the resulting archive. Tar works well with gzip because both can stream data. It just pipes the archiving data to gzip for on the fly compression.

Adding an index table for file metadata at the end of the archive is a good idea, but then that's what zip does, so might as well use that. That's why we end up with two popular formats: gzip for streaming, zip for random access.

[1] https://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/RFC-1951#overview
[2] https://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/RFC-1951#formatcompliance
Quote from the article:

"You can't really base the financial system of the future on computers rather than humans, on trusting to immutable code no matter what happens. Financial systems are supposed to work for humans. If the code rips off the humans, something has gone wrong."

Isn't that what HFT is doing all the time ;)?
>> Human worth is intrinsic and absolute.

Do you have a citation?
>> Do recent grads teach first year law classes?

No. Not at any reputable school. Getting a job as a law prof usually requires a degree above the normal law degree. And you better have gone to a top-tier law school. It's a real commitment.
That's not true. The only way to get VAC-banned is to cheat in online games, and it only affects the game you cheated in and--for Source or GoldSource games--a few other multiplayer games that use the same engine. Source: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7849-RAD...

That's no different from what you'll get in non-Steam games. You cheat, you get banned.
Canadians and Europeans love to look down on Americans, we already know this. Thats all your comment adds is an example of that. People and movements (including the Trump supporter movement which you are alluding to) are very complex. And frankly you just don't understand.
I did not mention it, in my other comment, but that was another key aspect which put me off. When I was single I could have gone along with it reluctantly, as worst case I could come back home and sleep on a couch of a friend if needed, but now that I have a family dependent on me, no way.
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Um, I thought the article would at least provide some real-life examples, i.e. add some value to what's available in the official docs. But the code snippets are copied verbatim from https://tip.golang.org/pkg/testing/#hdr-Subtests_and_Sub_ben... (with no attribution) and the text around them is mostly just reworded. The only thing it adds is maybe exposition; though for this I'd personally argue that the following link is even better: https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.7
Yes. But the shortcuts are not consistent between different web-applications. Inconsistency is he death for muscle memory. Also simple copying and pasting is not always doing what I think (e.g.: in Google docs) (it is partly my fault as I prefer safari and they did not have yet implemented all of the necessary APIs to make it work). Another advantage of Electron apps is that they do not have a concept of back and forward by default. There is no losing work in a text editor because one has unfocused the text field and pressed backspace
This is reliant on people continuing to use Facebook as their primary social networking tool.
Google has context. You search for something, chances are you're interested in buying it. Placing an ad in the search page has better ROI for advertisers. At Facebook you can build loyalty which is a different beast altogether.
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The Startup Visa[1] is designed to tackle the issue of visas specifically for founders of startups rather than having founders jump through hoops to fit into the existing visa categories.

Even though it enjoys bi-partisan support, it seems to get stuck in various committees every time it's introduced in Senate and left to expire.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_Visa
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Become Valve-like. Still not sold-out, still privately held, and "crushing it". Not coincidentally, they probably[1] didn't have VC-appointed board members making "exit" decisions for them.

1. I have no idea if Valve took any VC funding. I think Gabe Newell was pretty well-off already from his Microsoft gig.
Android and GCP seem not to contribute enough yet.
So is it safe to say that Google is better for acquiring hot leads, while Facebook is better for branding?
...and what happens to advertising budgets in a downturn? People who would buy google stock now would be very brave or not believe we are close if not past peak of the stock market. Though google's ad revenues are probably more resilient than traditional advertising companies. I would assume a lot of their clients rely on google traffic to survive.
Because the fees on signature transactions are higher.
Right. So is the correct "fix" for this situation perhaps for googlebot to stop sending this referer?
Eh, literally everything can be a buzzword. "Email" has been a buzzword in the past, as has "Internet" and "mobile phone" and so on.
"based on a candidate having a critical skill or two and on soft factors such as eagerness, appearance, family background, and physical characteristics..."

I don't know if the author is trying to make this sound _better_ than today, considering "physical characteristics" often meant "white and male".
lucrative is also a relative term

I'm familiar with the sum($)/sum(hours) =< minimum wage arguments. We're also talking about the top 1% of 1% of wage earners in their age bracket. You might be able to get there via other means with better quality-of-life, but by all means -- absolute or relative -- $160K/year base + bonus is lucrative.
> Mendelsohn went further, suggesting that stats showed the written word becoming all but obsolete, replaced by moving images and speech. "The best way to tell stories in this world, where so much information is coming at us, actually is video," Mendelsohn said.

This is going to go down in history alongside the mythical "640K ought to be enough for anybody" and the guy who thought the internet was just a fad.
For me, the interesting part is that the creators of Ethereum have decided that the owners of the address in question have committed a "crime" and to change the way the blockchain works in order to punish them specifically. Sure, users can "vote" by choosing whether or not to accept the fork in the code that does this, but because of the way it's set up, the community isn't going to take it that way. I'm afraid that this sets a precedent that would discourage development (what if we change the way the entire internet works every time someone hacks a website?) and also allow powerful entities within the system an unfair advantage (would we do this for everyone who used a contract of which they didn't understand the full implications? Or is this only in the case of the DAO because of it's high profile?).
At first, I thought 'Yeah me too, text is so much more efficient', but then I realized something. Maybe it's only me, but for learning more complex things video lectures work wonders for me, probably because they force me to slow down and process information calmly and in order; while with text, I tend to hastily jump all over the place, skipping the more boring bits and missing important things.
Are banners/sponsored posts more efficient than purchased keyword? I would have thought someone searching on google wants to click, that's why he is on google for. Someone checking what their friends are up to on facebook is merely annoyed by unrelated content.
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>> Standardized tests are designed to sort people based on what they can remember/understand at a given moment in time.

Maybe the knowledge-based tests such as the SATs, but there are plenty of aptitude tests that are not based on memorized knowledge.

I also think it is naive to assume that there is some testable form of intelligence completely devoid of cultural knowledge. Someone may be very smart, but if they lack the basic tools to express themselves within a culture then those smarts are behind a real bottleneck.
He meant to write "Dearest Father, whose knowledge is incomparable, what is Kubernetes?"
First, FB assimilated Wikipedia (just text, few images). FB also assimilated IMDB.
Then, they discovered that most links aren't Wikipedia anymore but it's youtube. So they assimilate a video service so that they will be quoted when another hyped video comes up and not youtube again.
Aaand facebook will continue to assimilate. Google's AI features should be at their next aim.

Facebook is Borg. Faceborg.
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a. In RST you must have a blank line between parent bullet and child bullet.
I don't think that's correct, this works:

# Remove the spaces at the start to put in a file (HN rendering)

* Bullet 1
* Sub-bullet 2
* Bullet 2

# Both worked fine:

$ rst2html --verbose test.rst test.html
$ pandoc --output test.html test.rst

b. In RST you must indent child bullets exactly to the indentation level where the text starts in the parent bullet.

Also untrue as far as I can see. Vim does do automatic indents for me so they have to be consistent AFAIK, but not to the `exact` same level as where the text starts in the parent bullet.
"stats showed the written word becoming all but obsolete, replaced by moving images and speech."

Obsolete would be a stretch however for many the web is all about consumption. Mobile devices cement this point. And videos are a very efficient way to consume information:

- Read the book VS watch the TED talk.

- Go to the recipe site VS watch this Tastemade video.

- Read the Foreign Affairs article on the complexities of the Syrian war VS Watch this cool graphic filled Vox video.

And even with the written word, text is becoming more terse:

- Read this article vs Read this set of tweets

But people will never stop writing so perhaps all Facebook is saying is that the written word will become less relevant to their business model as they slowly turn into something resembling Snapchat
> This contract, with this much money, needed NASA levels of QA.

Well, if the fork plan goes through I'd say you're wrong because it could clearly be rolled back when there was a problem. You cannot easily do that with a space shuttle.
>> The research also found that among the billion-dollar startup companies, they have collectively created more than 65,000 jobs. Immigrants clearly play a significant role in job creation, entrepreneurship and the startup ecosystem in the U.S.

Can we please get over this idea that founders conjure jobs out of thin air. Startups and the jobs they create fill a niche in the economy. That niche is the product of the wider world, not the whim of a founder. Even where a startup does create apparently "new" jobs, they often result in other jobs disappearing elsewhere (see uber v. taxis). Bringing in foreign investment is great. But we don't need to treat well-funded founders as a special class beyond the numerous advantages that already come with being well-funded.

I would hate to be the new hire at a "startup" which turns out to be an immigration dodge, a means of getting a group of founders the necessary documentation. There are already other visa categories for such things (EB-5).
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> and 88% of H-1B's are from India.

I'm sure Tata abusing the system has nothing to do with it
I don't understand this, either. If there is a glut of lawyers, why are their rates so high?
The phrasing of this makes it sound like he wants to paint it as though he's doing community service or something. But...Defense Digital Service? At the Pentagon? That's not exactly curing cancer or solving poverty.
I have quite a bit of doubt about that.
I'm not so sure about facebook - historically social media companies just "run out of fashion".