skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and it's a large part of the conversation in this interview.
Related video, Feynman can't explain magnets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8
But that takes some time to realize, because there's nothing in the context of the word to suggest the vowel be pronounced short rather than long, and neither is predominant in American English usage.
Medicine does seem like a good possibility, though I'm not very familiar with the problem space.
> Would you want to live in that world?

Depends... if that amounts to a central agency micromanaging every aspect of economy, then certainly not. We all know how that ends.

But if it means there is a central intelligence (democraticly controlled, like by a parliament and not a dictatorship!) that can override individual business decisions in important corporations, then sure.

It is well known in economics that decisions that make sense for individuals (corporations, persons) can be detrimental to society as a whole. A pareto-optimum by no means has to be the "best" or "most desirable" optimum.

It would be nice if someone could say, after appropriate research and debate, "Hello Amazon, it is great that you are running so well and expanding so much. But we as a society have decided that we can live without further delivery speed improvements in this year. OTOH, we think your workers deserve a bit more money. Please reallocate $N to their salaries."

Or, "Dear energy companies, after reviewing all the facts, we have decided that technology X (nuclear, fracking, ...) is not worth the risk to us. We'd rather accept a loss of 3% or stagnation for N years in wealth. Please reallocate resources to build more Y (solar, wind power, ...)"
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I know this is slightly OT on this topic as it's about cameras but...

I'm genuinely not sure what to do now. My Nexus 6 has a crack in its screen, which is expensive to replace, so I was looking at a new phone. Google were supposed (dammit), supposed to release a new phone with cutting edge software, almost-flagship hardware and at a mid-market price. Instead they've gone straight for the high end of the market, and they've made the screens smaller, and not included wireless charging, something I've grown to like a lot.

So now my choices seem to be a galaxy note 7 (I prefer vanilla android), or... That's about it for phones with a good size, good res display that support QI. Without QI there's the P9 Plus and Oneplus 3, but both have comparatively low res screens. The moto Z has no QI, the LG V20 hasn't surfaced yet... Is there another phablet that can tick all the boxes?
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I agree that slowing down the upgrade cycle would be one way to regain the trust,

And at the same time people are complaining that OS X rarely has any new features. I agree that iCloud sucks. But I haven't seen a clear trend up or down since I started using Macs in 2007, except perhaps fewer hardware issues.
As someone who bought a Nexus 6P with the tagline 'Always New' and the full belief that I'd be receiving Google's latest and greatest software as soon as it was ready, I'm also hesitant. Being locked out of the new launcher, assistant and various other niceties simply because a phone with 'similar but slightly higher specs and a new name' has been released feels like a kick in the teeth to a long-time Nexus fan (I've had the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 5, Nexus 10 and Nexus 6P). Until 2 days ago it was Google's flagship model; now I'll probably get the new functionality later than iOS users.
C++ is far more prone to undefined behaviour and even compilation across systems with the STL.
I've got to disagree with you. I'd say MailChimp has elevated the perception of email marketing.

MailChimp has pretty strict standards when it comes to sending emails. If you send emails to a list that has a 20 percent or more bounce or unsubscribe rate, they'll freeze your account.

Other providers let you upload a CSV with emails and blast out campaign after campaign to purchased lists without repercussions.
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I don't see why this is a surprise. From my observation, there are typically two types of startups out there.

1. Startup with a clear revenue model created by generating tangible value for businesses.

2. Startup without a clear revenue model that is doing something interesting and will probably be acquired if successful.

The first is a successful business like MailChimp that can grow itself from it's own revenues and doesn't need funding. The second is the type of business that needs funding because they are essentially investing in building technology to sell to a larger company OR are building a large pool of users to sell to a larger company.
I've owned a couple of those; when I say "this space" I mean top-of-the-line smartphones with great cameras. Those Samsung & Sony phones fulfilled only one of those parameters.
A set of features shared by many other, safer, system programming languages.

Their OSes didn't had a C ABI, rather an ESPOL, NEWP, Modula, and so forth ABI.
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Barcelona is a village comparing to other big cities of the world

Compared to what? It has 1.6 million people. Counting metropolitan area, you have nearly 5 million people. And, unfortunately, spanish cities are quite dense (compared to other european cities at least)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona
Yep - Still running an Early 2011 Macbook pro just fine here - had a motherboard failure but was repaired by apple under an extended warranty for that particular issue. Other than that, no issues.
> [SPAs] look great on a modern browser with good internet, but take away either of these two, and they're a pain in the neck.

You don't even need to do that. Just try to open a part of the web page in
another tab. Most of single-page apps fail this simple test, which is a very
important way I interact with web sites.
The very large population earning $30-$50 a week work for companies or individuals who will never report that salary in order to avoid paying taxes on it. This means any statistics related to this issue are going to be hard to trust namely, the situation looks better than it is and thus why so many desperately want to cross the border. It's not like Mexican companies don't make money, they make tons of it. They just don't share or invest it.
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Yeah, I do web development. I've worked with javascript, PHP, and, sigh, classic ASP.

There's bad code everywhere. Some languages make it a bit easier, but it's really not the languages fault.
I'm not saying the whole presentation is null and void I'm saying that graphic is plain wrong. You don't get to lay out data on a line like that and plot every other phone the correct relativity apart and then put your phone out further than the +4 gain when your phone only has +3 gain. This presentation wasn't slapped together by some intern there is no excuse.
I am impressed with the 100% code coverage [1] of your project. It would be cool to have the installation instructions [2] in a Vagrant or Docker script, or as someone else suggested, a Heroku button. I like the website, very clean and most possible questions regarding the license, security, tests, and such are addressed in an easy-to-access section, very good, something that many other HN featured projects lack. Thanks for your work.

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[2] https://cypht.org/install.html
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>In fact, it’s possible to create a huge tech company without taking venture capital, and without spending far beyond your means. It’s possible, in other words, to start a tech company that runs more like a normal business than a debt-fueled rocket ship careening out of control.

The author, Farhad Manjoo, is romanticizing a bootstrapped business as "good" and (via his prosaic examples of restaurants and dog walking) dismissing the VC-backed businesses as "bad."

It should be obvious that the opposite can be true: a bootstrapped business can also be dysfunctional and a VC-backed firm can be disciplined with its money.

Bootstrapping is great strategy especially if you're company that doesn't benefit from "network effects" such as Mailchimp/Sendgrid. You acquire customers one at a time and offer a good enough value proposition for them to subscribe or pay. A lot of SaaS/enterprise companies and lifestyle businesses can grow that way.

Venture capital is really helpful when you need to deliberately grow exponentially faster than bootstrapping will allow because you're trying to build a giant footprint for the network effects. Snapchat is a good example of this. It wouldn't make sense to try to sell the Snapchat app on App store for $4.99 each so it can be cashflow positive and pay for programmer salaries. The first users of their apps were teens in high school and they can't just purchase an app like that without their parents' permission. If Snapchat charged money for the app, they wouldn't even know that teens were the leading edge of that trend. In that case, you need to wisely use vc funding to pay the bills while you grow the audience. Hopefully, Snapchat will end up profitable like Facebook instead of losing money like Twitter.

If you're a "network effects" startup that insists on bootstrapping as the only funding, you will be beat by the competitors that are willing to live with $0 revenue for a few years while their equity financing allowed them to build their user base faster.
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When was Apple's decisive lead in camera quality?

Nokia was the clear leader until 2014. Not coincidentally Apple hired Nokia's camera development leader around that time [1].

Since then, Apple has been roughly at parity with Samsung's flagships.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/09/ari-partinen-joins-apple/
C helps you think like a certain 1970's abstraction of a computer.

I really hate the "C is how a computer really works" argument in favour of learning C.
They didn't test the iPhone 7 Plus yet. The camera there could be better.

And while it's of course great that they built such a good camera, it's the least of what people expect. Cameras seem to be the last domain where phones differentiate. Software is similar, speed is similar, shape and size anyway.
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It's just http://zombo.com/, but yeah :P
I always click "the emails are spam and should be reported" (is that Mailchimp? not sure) when given a choice. Not sure if it really does anything.
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> “why was my Comodore64 more responsive than a PC i bought in 2016?”

Not because of C; that's for sure. The two biggest reasons are:

1) Your Commodore 64 is doing at least a couple orders of magnitude less actual work. This has less to do with language choice than it does with a programmer who is fully in touch with the problem to be solved and can identify unnecessary work to eliminate.

2) Your Commodore 64 is effectively designed in a way that prioritizes latency over throughput. Pipelines and buffers are small-to-nonexistent. When you read the joystick port, you sample the state of that joystick at that very microsecond; you're not asking one microcontroller to ask another microcontroller to start thinking about sending the input it sampled 10 milliseconds ago. The worst-case latency from changing the video data to seeing it on screen is measured in lines, not frames (assuming a low-latency display like a dumb CRT). Virtually nothing is asynchronous. Systems aren't built that way anymore because we want to be able to push massive amounts of data through subsystems that can't all run in lockstep to one fast master clock, and that means lots of buffering and burst transfers.
I love C with all my heart, but minimal in the syntactic sugar department it ain't. Other languages of its day like Fortran or Pascal would not let you write an atrocity like

while (*++targ = *++src)
;
I'll never understand the fascination that governments and companies have with top-down modeling of demand. It just doesn't work when you really get down to it. You get gluts or shortages when chasing demand which leads to waste like what we have in clothing and electronics. Also, it's built around the idea that everyone should act like rabid consumers all the time (leading to the problems I mentioned). Ultimately, the right answer is to not have the kind of global market but rather multiple markets where some global trade does occur to cover shortages or to allow specialization in production. Things like Cybersyn and it's modern corporate equivalents just promote booms and busts and other nasty things like pollution.
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Sure it means something. Both Windows[1] and OS X[2] have easy ways to do it, and the task list in the Linux kernel is just a linked list that could be easily atomically copied. Obviously a lot of the metadata associated with the processes couldn't be easily accessed in a consistent way, but the number of running processes, their pid, basic info like the command line and process image is totally knowable to the kernel at any given instant.

The fact that you can't get that info easily on Linux makes a lot of tools harder to write than they should be, and often give misleading/incorrect information.

1. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...
2. https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Dar...
I have a Surface Book and a 2013 MacBook Pro. Hardware wise, both are are what I would consider to be best in class. Software wise there is absolutely no comparison in terms of reliability. I generally like Windows 10, but I'd have a really hard time depending on my Surface Book as my only computer.
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We moved to using uWS for deepstream.io 1.0 release and had great feedback from the community. To literally quote a user in production: 'After we upgraded to deepstream 1.0 we are seeing that the resource consumption is about 50% of what is was before so we still have growing space on our servers'. This was for the 0.7 release so I'm excited to see if 0.10 reduces this even further.
It is at least meaningless from a data loss prevention/mitigation perspective.
My experience is the exact opposite, I've received hundreds of MailChimp emails, and I HAVE signed up for every single one of them.

I have no doubt that some people do use MailChimp to send spam, but it seems to me that the majority of MC's customers are just sending to legit lists.
I was in Charleston, SC. We literally had firewood for years afterwards. The storm itself was bad, but no power for almost 4 weeks was really rough.
Providing tools for small-businesses ultimately means you're providing easy-access to people with few barriers

I think places like MailChimp are pretty easy to abuse for that reason. Compare that to an enterprise service provider where I need to commit to tons of upfront money in order to access the service and I need to manage my own reputation of my sending domain.
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Android OEM's need to start standardizing bootloader and driver support. Phones are a mature product, and anything I buy I expect to be able to upgrade for a good while longer than 2 years. If it's too much work for component manufacturers to maintain the updates, they need to take it out of their hands.
Interesting.

My "ive-done-nothing to-any-settings" email prevents me from spam in my IN box. So I suppose I never get any MC email.

Edit. Spam does not bother me any more. I only open email when I expect something. The only "interruptable" technology for me is a text. I have to look at it in my mind.
The sensor is probably $1 each when bought in trays anyway, so even if they increased their prices 100%, manufacturers would just soak up the cost.
I'm in the same boat as you with my Nexus 5. I was excited for the Pixel but at $1,000 CAD for the 32GB that does nothing particularly special I cancelled my pre-order.

What my current plan of action is to find something of last-gen and ride it out for another year. I'm okay spending $300-$400 on something that I'll probably flash a custom ROM into and recycle in a year's time when another round of flagships are announced. Unless there's some segment of the market that's eating the Pixel up the general reception I've been seeing hopefully clues Google into what people were looking for (Nexus iteration)
What's the problem here? If the wireless alternative is available, it's used. Otherwise, the copper phone line is repaired.
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Well, that's up to you whether you write that way or not.

Kinda like with everything else related to C!
> The physics model is more advanced too: I believe halo/lissajous orbits are possible, it has lagrange points & more.

There's mod for KSP for that: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/62205-w...
>"What the paper is saying, is as a whole their basket of terms performed better than random strategies."

This is a totally meaningless metric unless they took measures to blind themselves to the validation data. Did they do that, or did they try out a bunch of different things, do interim analysis on the performance, etc (as is almost always done in academia)?

If the latter, all this "test" amounts to saying you checked if A=3, but consciously set A=5. Disproving such a hypothesis has zero value...

https://www.kaggle.com/wiki/Leakage
From the photos, it looks like bollards would have solved most of these? It's not really a dedicated lane if drivers can just wander into it.
More like HTC+Google
>Would you trust a computer to map out every dependency in the economy, down to the factory floor? Would you want to live in that world?

Computers already do that, for the most part. Computers also don't lie, humans do.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150209-the-network-that-ru...
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Writing C++ is three times as fast?

Perhaps so, but reading it back takes 5 times as long.
Even if you signed up for the mailing list in the first place? It's only spam if you never signed up for it in the first instance. If you sign up and then want to leave the list because the emails aren't relevant any more or too regular then that's just bad email marketing, not spam.
What do you mean when you say ws? Isn't uws just a library for ws?
Yes, but at-grade light rail isn't an alternative to subways, it's an alternative to buses. The M23 et.al. barely hit ten mph.
Do people really like that aliased look? Every picture has very obvious aliasing. It's the first thing I noticed, within less than a second. And aliasing is an especially bad artifact because image processing algorithms assume band-limited data. There's no way to get something natural looking from those images.

It seems almost unbelievable to me that a camera supposedly focused on quality would do this, so I wonder if DXOMark, despite claiming to be "The reference for image quality", actually destroyed image quality with terrible downscaling. I know people like sharpness, but if you insist on pushing it this far, ringing is far less objectionable than aliasing.
I would rather worry about the non-replaceable battery and the missing microSD card slot.

You can upgrade a 3.5 year old Galaxy S4 to over 128 GB storage (~35 € for a microSD card) and a fresh battery (~10 € for a new one). And with custom ROMs you can also run Nougat (I'm personally still running Marshmallow on mine though).
Wow, thanks for the kind words! I submitted this last night hoping to drum up some support for the project. I never dreamed it would be on the front page when I woke up!
>Rising house prices are not really a reason for longer commutes, except on individual level.

Individuals acting en masse are no longer just individuals. There's no rational reason why people wouldn't respond to prices.

>They both are symptoms of the same thing: population growth

They are symptoms of four things:

* Population growth

* A political decision to drive up the price of housing (described as "the wealth effect" by central bankers).

* Wealth inequality - when Roman Abramovich occupies a house in central London he takes up 30-60x as much space as the average person.

* A political decision to give favorable tax treatment to land ownership leading it to be treated as an asset of a similar class to gold. Meaning it is hoarded. Meaning row upon row of empty new build housing in central London.

* Defunding local councils (Happened under Thatcher) meaning they couldn't afford to and eventually stopped building council housing.

The forces that created these conditions were neither impersonal or inevitable. They were the result of a succession of more and more right wing governments (both Labour and the Tories) implementing deliberate policy.

Zoning is only part of the problem. It's the most promoted problem because it gets in the way of land developers turning a profit. They don't give a shit about wealth inequality or the "wealth effect" and they'd prefer land kept it's favored tax treatment so they can effectively keep selling bars of gold to foreign investors.