skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also: I still haven't heard (from either you or the previous parent poster) how journal impact factor can possibly be justifiable as a metric for relevance.

Anyone surveying the actual citation distributions at major journals will immediately note that a metric assuming near-normality cannot possibly summarize non-normal distributions of citations. The latter describes nearly all journals, thus even if JIF were not manipulable by stacking, self-citation, and negotiated exclusion of items to decrease the denominator, it would still suck.

https://quantixed.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/the-great-curve-i...

Look carefully at the details! This metric is among the most frequently emphasized by researchers who comprise study sections, and it is objectively terrible.

I'm not whining "just because" -- many of the lines in my CV end with NEJM, Nature, or Cell (no Science paper yet). I'm saying that at least one of the commonly accepted metrics for individual investigators is broken. That sort of detail corrupts the entire rest of the system.

I'm also not saying that a direct public-facing system wouldn't have huge potential problems (although it is nice to see attempts like experiment.com seemingly doing OK, and the funders realizing, hey, there are a lot of shades of gray between "utter bullshit" and "exactly the right experimental design for the question being asked").

One of the nice things about talking directly with folks at NIH, for example, is that they recognize there are serious issues with the incentives in place. If they are willing to collect the data and evaluate (publicly, e.g. in Chalk Talk postings) the findings, doesn't that suggest room for the current system to improve?
Why is it amusing? Australian states can be quite large and this allows all of South Australia to share a common time, even though they span two (arbitrary) "time zones". India does the same.

Russia tried to do what China does (one TZ) but it is pretty hard -- people like to be awake when the sun is up.
That linked story about Michigan's -5:32:11 offset is hilarious https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/master/northamerica#L979
> All you're really saying is that Go is not great for web apps. I admit, it is not. So is C.

C is 30 years old, so it has an excuse. Go has none. The fact that it's extremely difficult to write a classic, complex webapp in Go is a proof that this language has serious flaws.
It still kills me to see everyone using 192.168.1.0/24. IMHO, there is only one reason not to use 10.0.0.0/8 and it's because that can sometimes conflict with the address space commonly used for work VPNs. If that's an issue, an arbitrary /16 from the 172.16 - 172.32 range would be a good bet. I haven't really been using cheap consumer routers with their stock OS in a while (maybe 10 years), but is it still common for them to be stuck on 192.168.x.0/24 for the LAN side? I kinda assumed this was more of a problem from like 10 years ago, but I could be wrong I guess.
I'm curious why you didn't just use something like Redis for managing concurrent state and pair that to any of the various web apps that are good at concurrent connections? You could still use Go to serve the web requests/sockets/etc.
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I have issues with this 'longform word doc' format of design documentation in general. It's tedious, no-one bothers to do more than skim read it, it conveys method but not intentions, etc.
compatibility, same as the first one

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4942#c4

> Per https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popula..., this syntax is still seen on the web, and any such pages would be broken by this change.

https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/issues/260
s/isn't possible to write correctly/is difficult to write correctly cheaply in non-trivial applications/

and you pretty much have it. Building higher-level abstractions has historically been a good thing, unless your day job is punching in opcodes.
They arrogantly based it on UTC+1. Might have been useful of it was sane
The pen is mightier than the sword only because the pen can create ideas that inspire and guide a lot of swords.

Ideas without physical actions don't cause any effect. Ideas only outweigh actions to the extent that they result in larger actions.

If you start with any historically impactful idea and carefully trace its impact, you will see quite a lot of mass and energy moving around along the way.

And what is a sword without an idea? It lies there, inert, no threat to anyone. So when people talk about "the pen vs. the sword," what they're really talking about is a competition of ideas. Behind every sword there is thought--and pens can help change thought.

But none of this means that thought and ideas are non-physical. The relative impact of competing ideas might be non-linear and unpredictable, but physical systems can be non-linear and unpredictable.
> Does the GC use GC?

Think of the Go runtime as like the kernel of an operating system. It doesn't have to follow the rules of a user-land process.
Suspect the parent may be talking about CRIU support? I think it's a way off, but it is definitely worth thinking about how this would work in Kube world.

I blogged about this here:

https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2015/10/11/docker-migrati...
Porter's Competitive advantage is generally considered the bible in this area (value chain and competition).

On supply chain, just look for operations research, a lot of it came from the military and industrial research, but can be applied everywhere, say, dimensioning servers for concurrent users.

Also, keep in mind that supply and value chains are very different. Let's take online mobile ads:

- Supply chain: advertiser -> agency -> ad exchange -> website -> viewer

- Value chain: website -> ad platform -> hosting service -> internet connection -> device -> OS -> browser -> viewer -> advertiser

If someone controls the entirety of any of the links, they will hold an excessive market power, and will be able to extract excess profits. Let's say for example iPhones were the only smartphones in existence, Apple would be able to control what through them (unless the government took action in some way), extracting disproportionate profits.

Now if there are 1000 smartphone manufacturers, competition between them would lower prices, pretty much killing excess profits from that link, which could be captured by other links in the chain.
but try living UTC 24 yourself. Change all your own clocks. I did awhile ago and I'll never go back even though I live in Los Angeles. Everyone can do this as well and be liberated from time.
I think that's true, but I don't like that it's true. What does that say about programming as a profession? Yuck.
Accuracy of railroad watches is a fascinating subject in itself: "a technology program that would require a level of innovative engineering that would not be seen again until the moon landings", to quote this excellent article: http://everything2.com/title/Antique+railroad+pocket+watches
If you often wonder about such things, I highly recommend the book "Advanced programming in the UNIX environment" by Stevens/Rago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Programming_in_the_...

It covers a lot of stuff in an authoritative way. For example, how one should implement a daemon properly (e.g., chdir to root to allow for unmounting the disk the program originally ran from, lots of stuff like that). I'll actually doubly recommend it, because it's so good.
Because there's a finite pool of money.
You are putting way too much effort into this discussion and care about this way too much. 7 posts in this thread in the last hour, geez. Just drop it and move on. You're being silly.
The final piece to the JavaScript puzzle is ES7's async and await. Whilst this is awesome news, if it included async and await then the circle would be complete.
At the risk of too much me-too-ism, this is almost impressively bad as a showcase of a framework. I don't have much interest in debugging this, but disabling the 92 XHR invocations prevents this for me.

For anyone not seeing the issue: https://i.imgur.com/nT1YoBp.gif

The hot-loading of code is a very nice feature to develop with, but I'm curious to see it in action. Sometimes it feels like Clojurescript's Figwheel won't be topped in this regard (certainly the case with some of the React/webpack tooling).

Nice to see some advancement in Julia, oftentimes I don't hear anything being made with the language and only hear of development in the language itself. I don't see any compelling reason to switch yet but perhaps this will drive cross-pollination in other, similar projects (Jupyter for instance).
I feel like both of those things have very clear advantages (ie, paper maps are large and cumbersome, I can store much more data on a server, I don't want to bring a boombox on the subway).

I'm all for people doing what they want as long as it's not extremely selfish, but I cannot myself see a clear advantage to a magnet implant, other than:

A. Party tricks
B. Telling people I have a magnet in my finger

I think it probably comes from a wish for ill-thought out sci-fi tropes with the less than adequate technology at hand.
I've never had a paper rejected from a conference, and I've seen some pretty shitty ones at conferences. I think this statement is pretty field-specific.

That said, in the CS and EE fields at least, the use of 10-12 referees for a short, dense conference paper is a really good idea. It would appear that this works primarily because of... drum roll ...the social norms and incentives in place within these specific fields.
What do you mean when you say we had problems with motion control though? Because Nintendo certainly made a killing on it. It's not so popular now, but it was hardly a failure
I imagine that will be up to the individual operators. This is a hardware platform.
Sometimes you have clues from poetry (and discussions of poetry) or song.

In addition to other comments: sometimes you are lucky, as when someone figured out that Copts speak ancient Egyptian. It was also a semitic language like Arabic.

Of course none of this can be "authoritative" in a substantive sense: not only must Arabic pronunciation have influenced Copt, but you need only look at contemporary time to see how accents etc can vary widely in short geographical distances much less over time. These variations extend to contemporaneous usage of dead languages: I learnt Latin pronunciation in school which apparently is different from usage in the USA, so I can't even make Latin puns with certain people!

So in the end it's just a general idea and a consistent usage so scholars can communicate with each other.
The reference architecture is just below the subscription thing.
"I get that it's meant to fight abuse but I'd prefer to have an easy way to waive these rights."

An easy way to waive those rights would mean that effectively no one would have those rights. Quite frankly, it is better to err more on the side of caution in these things. Work will still be there tomorrow.
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Already in the works, somewhere.
I've discovered this bot recently and started using it quite often.
It's simple yet helpful features allow myself to keep track of the things I have to do.
It would be great to see more features such as the ability to write down breakpoints in the task.
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Well, we may as well extract what value we can from the opened code.
I was more poking fun at the hyperbole that it's not possible to hire anyone who writes C at a reasonable rate.
" there are still many things need to be fixed and enhanced on both projects"

I can think of a couple of minor improvements, but overall for Windows and Linux desktop and database development in Lazarus (which is all I do) I have not really seen anything that needs much in the way of fixing and the code it is producing is pretty efficient and has been in my clients production systems for over 12 months now.

Keep up the great work chaps :-)
"It's probably hindered a bunch of people from starting companies in the region"

I very much doubt it. If you were really wanting to start a company, you're not thinking, "I'd do this totally awesome thing! If only it wasn't so hard to fire people!"
Obviously the easy way to prevent cancer is to just stop aging. We just need to unlock the means to micro-manage the cellular mitosis of all the trillions of cells in our bodies. Easy.~
I hadn't heard of this book before, so I found it: "FreePascal from Square One".

http://www.copperwood.com/pub/FreePascalSquareOne--08-06-201...
I'd been programming for nearly 20 years when I made it to University, everything about the way they taught programming was pretty much hilariously wrong* (not the language choices or any of that, that's just noise in the grand scheme of things) but the approaches and the way they explained how to decompose a problem, write it, test it etc.

Not helped by lecturers who'd either always been lecturers or lecturers who'd left industry 15 years earlier (this was 2005 so they'd have left in 1990).

It was still a valuable experience since a lot of the other stuff was valid but I took all the programming stuff with a massive pinch of salt.

* Except Charlie, Charlie was an ex-telecomms C/Unix God he didn't like the way a lot of the programming stuff was taught but he did point us all to where we should be looking.
Hmmm... MRI's Pellets, Bullets, and Shrapnel http://www.mrisafety.com/SafetyInfov.asp?SafetyInfoID=192
> And the article that actually was posted makes for a very workable entrée into all of the above, especially if you take the time to follow links from it or otherwise investigate.

I would not consider the article a "workable entrée" into any of those topics. Yes, I could do my own investigation into each of those things, but this article doesn't help much with that, nor does it manage to make me interested in any of those things. You can't expect people to read a bad article and then say "well, that was boring, but I bet if I follow every link here I'll eventually find something worth my time".

> You're right! But that's excused by the fact that it's an uninteresting article about an interesting person, who sheds light on an interesting culture, about whom and about which probably everyone who's commented in this thread previously knew nothing. In light of that, it strikes me as odd it'd be so divisive.

I don't agree. A poor article is not excused by having an interesting subject. A poor article will make a subject seem uninteresting, which is what happened here.
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there was a talk about the state of luakit recently and the original author has created its dedicated organization and migrated the codebase. So there's some new interests in developing it future, adding webkit2 supports etc. this fork at https://github.com/aidanholm/luakit has seen some new developments on the webkit2 front.
https://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=2517...

"Conclusions and Relevance: In nonobese adults, [calorie restriction] had some positive effects and no negative effects on health-related [quality of life]."
If the numbers include older people who undergo the usual loss of near sight vision, it isn't so hard to believe. I think a lot of web developers are young and forget that older people use the internet and that older users may have a hard time seeing the small font some webpages use.
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You can get much of the same "sixth sense" by wearing a magnetic ring instead of an implant... No worries of rejection or infection, and you get to loan the "feeling" out when you talk about it.

Example: https://supermagnetman.com/collections/magnetic-wedding-ring...
Some great points in there! "Communication" should be right up the top in bold. Bad communication has ties to many disasters like founder breakups, team disconnect, ownership & performance issues, company direction et al.

However one that stands out as unnecessary: "Senior People: In the early days, hiring senior people is usually a mistake."

The best people I hired in the past were senior. Ton more experienced and older than I. Of course they didn't come from corporate backgrounds but from fast paced tech cultures/environments. With all the equality talk in the valley around gender and ethnicity I'm surprised age discrimination is still so loosely thrown around. The key here should be "hire experienced people fit for the stage of growth". Burning time teaching / hand holding inexperienced people is a drag on the company's speed to execute and culture.

Any views on holacracy?
Not in all climate zones.
I disagree on the "daily packet of stuff" bit from the standpoint that I don't think Amazon is really great at the "we'll pick which specific product/brand you should get" part yet.

Part of that is the rise of 3rd party sellers and fake reviews has really impacted my (and many others I've spoken with) trust in Amazon. To continue the battery example, I could totally see some knockoff brand arriving that blows my remote up down the line because they were cheap, poorly made no-name batteries (possibly expired) that happened to have great margins for Amazon.

I just don't have that trust there. But maybe that's been my experiences and personal preference to research things to death.
I'm disappointed to see this downvoted. This stuck out at me as feeling off too.

I get it, and in the context of just the best people going away for the weekend I can see it working too. Having said that, I have a family, including kids. If the company mandates that I go away for the weekend, it's my wife and kids that pay for it.

Why can't it be done during the week? Does the company fall apart when the top people are out of the office? If so, maybe it's worth looking at why that is / how to fix it.
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I think that Stanford tries to be trendy, since it's located in Silicon Valley and surrounded by startups.
A PRD is not really required with a single team. A URS (user requirement spec) is mandatory, which goes from the PM to the dev team.

A PRD might be useful with multiple, possibly remote teams. Esp. India or China, because with problems they usually play hardball down to the spec and nothing more. Right so.
But it's the dev team management job to come up with that.
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Reminds me of the Scala web framework Akka. Perhaps that's where it got it's name?
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Aren't some wildcards? such as app/users/<username>
> While I wish they had these things, these are not JavaScript features and not relevant to the article.

Do you mean "not relevant to the title the submitter chose"? The "article" is the release notes for the entire browser.
This is the correct feeling
For hysterical raisins only: Maghreb were French colonies at the time when this name took hold, whereas Egypt was British.
www.wufoo.com has a free form

http://www.wufoo.com/pricing/1/
not really

https://github.com/overleaf

Some parts of it are (duh?) but overall the system is astoundingly transparent. I think they ended up charging for the sync-to-git option, but if you look at the above repos, it appears that this feature can actually be pulled on the user end rather than just pushed from Overleaf.

Overleaf integrates nicely with existing journals and with preprint servers to some extent; I've bugged them for some time to support MarkDown (I don't care to use LaTeX for manuscripts which don't have much math) but as yet they have not implemented it. It may be an issue with the backend, although even that should be surmountable.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Winter_Olympic_bid_scan...:

"A Salt Lake Olympic Bid Committee member complained about competing with the Japanese bid committee for the 1998 Olympic Winter Games: "We were giving out saltwater taffy and cowboy hats, and they were giving out computers. IOC members who came to inspect Nagano were put up in ritzy hotspring resorts, where they washed down expensive sushi with sake poured by kimono-clad geisha. They went home laden with souvenir gifts and expensive paintings." A senior member of the Japanese bid committee, Sumikazu Yamaguchi, ordered that accounting documents for the Nagano bid be burned because they "could cause unpleasantness to [IOC members]." The Melbourne bid committee for the 1996 Summer Olympics discovered the quid pro quo expectations of IOC delegates when they received requests from six African IOC delegates for new cars and sexual favors from local brothels. They denied the requests and the 1996 Summer Olympics went to Atlanta."
I used to be firmly in your camp, and then I read this: https://qntm.org/abolish

For the tl;dr crowd, pulled from that article (although I highly recommend you just read it):

Abolishing time zones brings many benefits, I hope. It also:

- causes the question "What time is it there?" to be useless/unanswerable

- necessitates significant changes to the way in which normal people talk about time

- convolutes timetables, where present

- means "days" are no longer the same as "days"

- complicates both secular and religious law

- is a staggering inconvenience for a minimum of five billion people

- makes it near-impossible to reason about time in other parts of the world

- does not mean everybody gets up at the same time, goes to work at the same time, or goes to bed at the same time

- is not simpler.

As long as humans live in more than one part of the world, solar time is always going to be subjective. Abolishing time zones only exacerbates this problem.
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How about a mechanical low-pass filter?: A vertical tube connected to the tank via a tiny hole would not be affected much by sloshing, but would slowly drift towards having the same level of fuel as the tank has on average.
I remember that CouchDB used SpiderMonkey before switching to V8.
How about that Timezone with offset +13 hours.

So much crazyness in the world of Timezones.

Or Morroco Timezone which does the DST dance 4 times a year rather than just 2.
It was on Android's Google Maps app using 3G
Silicon Valley S3 I noticed PiedPiper is proposing a P2P design like Streembit
at least three of the above are in fact supported by experiment.com backers, although largely as a "bridge" to more traditional scholarly outlets. That said, if you go out and get extramural funding for your work, generally that is the definining characteristic of a successful PI, so...
After a fall in a pretty remote area, I activated my emergency beacon and I knew my lung was collapsing. I snapped one of my hollow tent poles and jabbed myself in the chest cavity so I wouldn't suffocate (it was going to take them 30+ mins to get to me). A lot of after-care on that one, stabbing yourself with a dirty tent pole doesn't make for nice infections.

Have had to give myself stomach and intramuscular injections for various medical reasons too.

Have had to remove foreign metal form my leg, clean and stitch up the wound which was relatively shallow but long. Another accident, car crash in a remote area.

Always have a first aid kit handy! And probably don't hang out with me too much away from civilisation..
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