skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He is King because he was descended from Isildur

Perhaps before critiquing someone else's understanding you should make sure yours stacks up. Aragorn is careful to avoid being proclaimed king because he wishes to demonstrate he is worthy of the title. Breaking the siege of Gondor and demonstrating that "the hands of a king are the hands of a healer" is how he does that.
There was a Commodore 65 project to make a 16 bit version with Amiga like sound and graphics chips. But it went nowhere.
"If you were smart"?

His results speak for themselves!
From what I've seen (I live in LA) it's much more driven by Silicon Valley companies opening up offices down here than by locally originated start-ups, though there are of course many exceptions.
Actually, you can't comment like this here. It's one thing to post inflammatory rants about flamewar topics (like a bunch of others have done in this thread); significantly worse to conjure up nasty things on others and gloat; but adding a personal attack element into the mix crosses into bannable offense. Please don't post like this to HN again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12536861 and marked it off-topic.
Show HN: A semi-perma death minecraft server
Oh no, he gave out 127.0.0.1! Surely hackers were all over that!
Is that possible to do on a Galaxy S7? I'm competent on the command line but never worked much with Android/ROMs/etc.
That's a fantastic initiative! Bravo!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/technology/12google.html
> If you are someone who is dreaming big—really big—it helps to be in an environment where other people are dreaming big.

And you would think that if you were dreaming big, it would be better to be in an environment with people who know how to make big dreams come true.
Yes. A talented person does not necessarily feel compelled to achieve maximum career success.
I think that's a bit of a simplistic generalisation. It's probably more accurate to say that there are aggressive and "dangerous" ideas that have taken hold among some groups of people, including among native westerners. And I agree that some of these ideas are inimical to free discourse and enlightenment ideals.

However, other than the pathological power-seekers that cynically exploit such ideas for their own benefit, most followers (those that are more inclined to support simplistic and extreme positions) are not much different across ideas. There is more in common between a neo-Nazi and a fundamentalist Muslim than either would care to admit. Both are fear-driven, exclusionary, apocalyptic, conspiratorial, and inclined to violent remedies. Both regard typical western centrists (both progressive and pale-conservative) as weak.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but surely some elements of a successful strategy must include education, focusing on unifying similarities, and forging alliances of moderate groups across religious, cultural, political and national boundaries. All of which take generations of sustained effort. There are no quick fixes, contrary to what demagogues would have us believe.
Not-creepy would be a good start. :)

I am happy "enough" with OSX and Windows, in that they are sufficient for my needs. Maybe a 7/10 or 8/10. I am looking forward to that 10/10 experience. A perfect, painless experience. A system that does not cripple its ambitions with backwards compatibility, but rather boldly attempts to lead a new path. Is it even possible? I don't know. :)
I had dual 1080p external monitors for my 2013 MBP for quite a while. It always worked perfectly.

Recently, I upgraded to a single 4K monitor and that did require some fiddling (using switchResX) but it still works nicely.
I'm sure that's true. The world is not a technical problem. It just happens that the folks I know in that position more than deserve it from a technical perspective.
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Can this article please stop conflating San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
Politics.
How the Father of Claymation Lost His Company
from his perch in Hidden Hills?
Reading these comments, it's hard not to agree with the sentiment that being transparent about salary data is of dubious value to a company.
> Abstractions are the enemy of performance. You can't get high performance through many layers of abstraction. This relates to my previous point.

This depends on the kind of abstraction. Layers and layers of crap will never be fast. The correct stack of abstractions, which map well to your problem space, will usually make your code faster because they will make it easier for you to see higher-level optimizations.

> Algorithmic complexity matters when dealing with large data sets. Abstractions can hide the true complexity. (e.g. the famous string append example from IIRC Joel Spolsky).

Very true. Abstractions are a tool to help understand the problem space, not an excuse to avoid understanding it.

> Measure properly and optimize.

A+. If you can't measure it, you can't control it. It boggles me how many people don't get this. "I replaced all the floating point math with integer math because integer math is faster." Really? IS IT? How do you KNOW? Did you benchmark it? "No but..." ahem sorry, I've had this argument too many times. :P
It's easy to armchair quarterback and say that. But the reasons and incentives behind web page bloat are complicated, and saying "Just make your page load faster! Just get rid of the ads and trackers!" is about as useful as abstinence-only sex ed. AMP is theoretically a way to have your cake and eat it too: all of the revenue from these ads and trackers, without the bloat. And it's at least somewhat open, compared to Apple News and Facebook Articles. It's not hard to see why publishers would gladly jump on board.
"The Lord of The Rings" is the most incredible book and the most well done I ever read.

I read it recently, I knew it first time because the movie. I read it in English, and it improved my language skills a lot (even the listening, to my surprise).
Approximately the mish-mash of status-seeking claims you'd expect from someone who includes in the text of their essay that they were "simply smarter than most people in college" and "even at Accenture I basically just had more horsepower to throw at problems than most", while in NYC they're "constantly around people who are at least as smart as I am, if not smarter." [em: mine].

One gets the sense that had they moved to Toledo, instead of reading about Zuckerberg we'd be reading about the vital importance of Works Progress Administration architecture.

Influence in industry and culture doesn't scale linearly with city population. That's a banal observation. But not a single HTML tag can be left unspent in the quest to generate the thinkiest think-piece pretending instead that the observation is clever or far-reaching.
If you had put it in the form of years, then more people would have caught on.
How does Transit compare with Moovit? Should I switch from Moovit to Transit? (Moovit is at $81MM in funding according to Crunchbase and works better than Google Maps in my experience in SF)
Why I Rent a Tiny Apartment Rather Than Buy a Big Home
It does explain similarity of words for familial relations, but not for things like "nose". Babies don't randomly say "nose", or something that sounds similar, while pointing at their nose.
I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry. Who in the market for a Fi competitor would trust Comcast?
This is the right answer (on my belief).
"As one might guess, Engineers discussing a $25 version of a successful $300 product, did not impress Motorola management. Conversely, Management’s failure to pursue obvious improvements to their chip did not impress Motorola’s engineers. When Chuck received a formal letter from management telling him to stop working on a cost reduced version 6800, he saw an opportunity."

That is the essence of advancing technology, right there.
I experienced this in the DC area. Few people I met were motivated. Everyone has an easy paycheck from their government contracts. Sure, great, smart, motivated people are there but I found them to be rare.

It's a comfy life, but if you have dreams bigger than being a project manager for a large defense contractor then it's not a great place to be.
Maybe include this sort of clarification in the blog post?
Yeah, gotta say I dread banking on my Nexus 4.

Open app...
Switch to 1PW keyboard...
Manually entered long vault PW...
Search for site because 1PW doesn't recognize the app for some reason...
Select site...
Click form fields to fill various bits...

Ugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikkRm0Y6yLE
Thiel's point is interesting when juxtaposed against the fact that the vast majority of population growth in the US is happening outside New York and San Francisco. New York grew 5% from 2010-2015. Atlanta grew 10%. Austin grew 18%.

If there is an increasing concentration of big thinkers in New York and San Francisco, then what you're really seeing is a geographic stratification of the country. The elite are moving from the population growth areas and consolidating where the other elite already live.
Well, that's completely and totally awesome — frankly, Cristoferides's algorithm is even cooler than Euler's. I wish I had it at hand last time I was in Europe.

I wonder what other algorithms could make my life better, if only I knew of them!
The Rise of China and the Growing Demand for Consensus-Based Security
Running your own servers isn't rocket science, I'd hardly call it shocking.
I think San Francisco is used here as a synecdoche for the Bay Area at large.
there are plenty of people in si who dont have dick to show for their years there (other than real estate nowhere near their place of work)
i can only imagine that a pretty video thats had each frame run through this would come out incredible looking. you could probably get away with each frame being pretty low quality render too.
Sounds about like my life path.

Agree that startup scene in Chicago isn't that awesome. I mean groupon back in the day realllly wanted to talk to me, but the business model wasn't so great.

The cool tech that I found in Chicago was finance.. the finance scene was pretty cool... but maybe not the ideal industry to spend your life in.
In case anyone is doing anything in Matlab and is considering macOS Sierra, watch out this incompatibility with some non-US locales:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/303757-is-mat...
I think a lot of folks are misreading the author. The author isn't saying that people in Chicago are dumb. He's saying that talented people who move for ambition are moving primarily to New York and SF, and this is causing concentrations of intelligent and ambitious people to reside there.
I see you playing it smart. Good for you! :)
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Honestly, they shouldn't re-prompt IMHO — they should only do that on a reload — rather, they should just display the page as it was, which is what I expect when I hit back.
I take your point.

I also believe the stated reasons for the project—to make the mobile web faster–are genuine. I believe that is the sincere motivation of many of the engineers working on it.

But the ultimate purpose of this project is to preserve the status quo around ads and tracking. Bloat has made the current situation on mobile devices untenable, and people are turning to blockers as a solution. AMP is a way to get rid of the bloat without getting rid of the surveillance. Google bets (correctly, in my opinion) that people won't care about being monitored if the performance problems go away.

Controlling the platform that does this will be useful to Google in the long run. For example, Google will be able to blacklist ad networks that don't meet their specifications. And Google can be sure theirs will always be the fastest game in town.
Chicago (and the surrounding area up to Milwaukee) has a long history in manufacturing and machining, and I think we're squandering that advantage. That, or the expertise has been laid off and/or evaporated and it's just not available any more.

The academic environment literally has no idea how to integrate with this community, especially UIllinois. That comes with a bit of a bias - I'm an alumnus - and I honestly feel UI, especially Champaign/Urbana, is a basket case when it comes to outreach with industry. Or ask pmarca if you don't want to believe me.
Yeah, that would definitely be nice. The result quality has definitely gone down noticably, well, at least until I throw quotes on everything. Used to be able to just use "+" in front of terms but of course they killed that too! Still better than duckduckgo with or without though.
I phrased it poorly.

What I meant is that, given a hypothesis that is not currently testable or falsifiable, we cannot use current scientific knowledge to prove that it will never be testable or falsifiable.

To your point, the way I wrote it above, it sounds like I believe nothing can ever be tested or falsified. Obviously we have tested and falsified many hypotheses.
Vue is really nice, but React having React Native is a massive advantage. It isn't as beginner-friendly, but it's a massive ecosystem and I don't think Vue is ever going to topple it for the top framework.
Congrats to the CouchDB team! I remember playing around with writing a NodeJS driver for it all the way back in 2011. Sadly, I decided to use and make a driver for MongoDB instead simply because it was easier at the time. Despite that choice, I have always admired CouchDB for pushing the frontiers on stuff like Offline-First with PouchDB way ahead of its time (and also what inspired me a little bit for our Open Source Firebase alternative http://gun.js.org/ ).

I am particularly really excited to see the announcement of the Mango query language, since querying Couch was one of lesser-easy things to do back then. I'm also very excited to hear about performance improvements, as this has been particularly interesting to me as I've been tracking various system's performance as I have worked on our own (Mongo with Wired Tiger, Cassandra, Redis, and even Chrome V8 engine as we have built towards 30M+ ops/sec, see https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/100000-ops-sec-in-IE6-on-2... ). However clicking through on the performance links didn't lead to any numbers or benchmarks. I would love to see that!

Really happy that Couch is on the homepage of Hacker News. I really feel like they made lots of correct decisions that got passed over by the NoSQL craze, and have lately not been receiving the type of attention as it should compared to (what I biasly think) unfavorable but hyped up Master-Slave systems. People should really check into Couch's Master-Master replication!
Just wanted to say this is really awesome. Nice work!
San Francisco is a pit, go south into the Bay Area. Much Better.

I pick my locales by homicide rates. Chicago and Sf both suck.
My interpretation of the significance of the study this article is about was that it is a very longitudinal study, demonstrating the patterns you mention across thousands of languages.

Anecdotally speaking as a multilingual person, I've noticed some of the same patterns - but untested, anecdotal comments aren't worth much; I find it significant and interesting that (at least some of) these trends seem to hold across thousands of languages. This isn't my field, though - is my impression of the significance here correct?

A second question: isn't it the currently held theory in linguistics that there is more or less a single "super parent" language - which my memory of my intro to linguistics class from ten years ago identifies as Proto-Indo European - and wouldn't that common linguistic ancestor provide a plausible alternative explanation for this common sound symbolism?

A question tangentially related to the above: the sounds you mention are all vowels, which are easier for infants to make and which infants tend to learn to make first; it seems to stand to reason that sound symbolism tied to sounds made earliest by infants would be more likely to be unchanged over time. Is there anything that rules out this perspective? Building on this, I know that there are some patterns to the development of abstract reasoning in children; has there any work been done on correlating abstract reasoning development timescales with the development of phonetic production skills? Perhaps this sound symbolism has to do a parallel in the developmental timelines of these two?
English: mom, dad

Arabic: ami, ab

Chinese: ma, ba

Zulu: umama, ubaba
On the bright side, this means that I can get a half decent used Mac on eBay for a steal!
Is anyone else bothered by the mis-use of the term "zero-day" in the media?
Which ones have offices in LA? Do you recommend any of them? I'm looking to move down there myself.

I know Google and Amazon do but LinkedIn, Uber, Square, and Facebook don't.
Four reasons not to go to a technical Meetup
I wonder if people are voting the story up without reading it, mistakenly thinking it must be related to the broker.
It shouldn't. People need to realize that, geographically, San Francisco is not a valley.

Not only that, but most of the tech companies in SF that are known for being in SF are selling web services and apps, not computers and hardware.

The term Silicon Valley comes from the South Bay region where there are a number of enormous hardware and computing companies.

SF should be called "App Hills". That would actually make sense.
Yeah... no kidding. Everyone on his list didn't work out of SF.
Now I want to hook up a markov chain generator to some sort of a multiarm bandit setup and test each word individually.
Fascinating concept!

Although the "scoped" chat feature is only an ancillary addition to the larger idea, it is something I've felt is much-needed in the experience of not just Minecraft, but multiplayer games in general. Imagine how much more intense a capture-the-flag style strategy game would be if you could only hear your teammates' voices when your in-game character was within in-game shouting distance. Going further, one could explore the capabilities of surround-sound headsets that could "project" your teammates' voices into your ears from the direction they are standing relative to you in-game.

We are all so excited about the recent progress in visual virtual reality, but the untapped potential in our auditory VR experience (especially in a social sense) is worth reckoning.
I suspect no: you can sign cookies, but hopefully cookie only carries a session identifier. You'd still need to obtain a valid admin session..
Rebol and Red are both interesting to me for their given purposes. My desires for a language are somewhat self-contradicting.

On one hand, I want a language as simple as possible, with as few paradigms as possible, and as close to the metal as possible (or at least the ability to compile it down to something with C-equivalent performance). This would encompass the core of the language.

On the other hand, the language would have a wide variety of built-in libraries for UI, access to graphics hardware, networking, input, etc. The language's paradigms would also be easily extensible, perhaps as an added layer of compilation / meta programming.
Spoiler alert: Euler
We've been using the tool for around 5 months, but the same approach/triggers for over a year. I wasn't aware the IF/ELSIF trigger approach had potential advantages over EXECUTE, but will definitely look into it.
Retracing Original Object-Oriented Programming
I somewhat agree; TL;DR can seem dismissive and certainly discards most of the value of the actual article.

In this case I did it because the title made me wonder if this was the article I read years ago about implementing an ARM emulator for AVR to boot linux. I clicked through, confirmed it was, and that it was a 2012 article. I figured I'd leave the TL;DR as a shortcut for others to confirm they've already read it, not as a replacement of the article for those that haven't.
Hey, if it works for you, go for it. Everybody has to make their own choices to fit their own circumstances, as best they can.
The Chicago tech scene is simply smaller than the Valley and New York scenes. Theres plenty of pockets of talent and ambition.
Ugh! 'Pirl', 'pirl'! What a nasty tinny sort of word.

But I do wonder how much of the similarity they're talking about here is accounted by phonoaesthetics, and how much of it might be simply due to some inevitable coincidence (like Zipf's law being applicable to gibberish texts). I mean, common concepts seem more likely to be referred to by short words, and there are only so many short words that can be formed with a given number of phonemes.

Shouldn't some repetition and similarity be expected from that alone?
I've never understood why View Source would do anything but show me the source of the page I'm looking at - not the source of the page as it is "now," which could be seconds, minutes or hours later. If I'm looking at a page, the browser has or could have a copy of the original stream sent from the server, why not just display that?
How to Grow a New Website to Over 100,000 Organic Visits per Month
Is he? Did I misread the section about how he was smarter than most people at Indiana University, and only now that he's arrived amongst his kind in NYC does he feel himself adequately matched by his peers?

Wait, I forgot, he's an admirer of Thiel's. Maybe it was just an aside about the pointlessness and futility of college.
PouchDB is my best guess
Just thinking out loud: if a program can check the correctness of another program against a formal spec, can't it just write the checked program from the spec?
I think this is largely just "location, location, location." For some reason there is this innate draw to major population centers of a certain "type" and it's forms a self reinforcing feedback loop. I think the term for it is network effect.

What I think is silly is people fall for it every time. Do a large number of successful startups come out of SF and NYC? Yes. Does everyone who moves there get to participate in one? No.

Even if you are a super-genius, with good looks, a good sales pitch, and ooze charisma, you still may not make it.

Yes, ambitious people go to these tech "Meccas" but I don't think it really increases any one individual person's chance of making it big.

I think the saddest part of it all, is even whilst living in the most connected age that has ever existed, we still find location so important.
encryption is for homosexuals and pedophiles, the largest hacking leaks and bugs reported are always to do with encryption.

we the Internet does not need homosexuals nor encryptions.

encryption slows the internet, kills cats
Depends on what you consider "ordinary". A giclee printer can fill a room and cost many thousands of dollars. e.g.:

http://www.adorama.com/iesp20000.html?gclid=CNz7x4-in88CFQqE...
> Ruby on Rails was built by engineers from Chicago

Interesting, but do you have any examples of positive contributions to the tech world?
"Yes, ambitious people go to these tech "Meccas" but I don't think it really increases any one individual person's chance of making it big."

How can this be true if you admit a large number of startups come out SF or NYC?
It's kind of disturbing to see (what I presume to be) a member of one of the best compensated demographics in one of the richest countries in the world suggest that while it's OK for a cashed-out founder to buy houses with their money (at least that's personal), before any of that money goes to a worthy charitable cause, other software developers should get dibs on it.

I feel like you could not have fully thought this statement through.
The last day of hot metal press before computers come in at The New York Times
listen, fuck you nazi negger
Maybe if you didn't live in Chicago, you could figure this out!